Course Offerings
Connect 4: Majors, Career, Disability, and YOU!
INTD 1800
The dream starts now. What will you do after college? Begin to answer this question as a student with a disability by learning the necessary strategies and skills to discover yourself and your future. This course is an introduction to the skills, abilities and problem solving processes needed for individual career development. You will gain insight into different major and career options through assessments of interests, skills and long-term plans. This course is the first part of the Connect 4 continuum offered by the Center for Students with Disabilities.
College: Ready. Set. Go.
INTD 1800
Ready. Set. Go: College Courses. Exams. Roommates. Engagement. How do I make it happen? Learn the tools and skills necessary as a student with a disability to navigate the transition to college. This course will present you with learning strategies to address studying, time management, organization, self awareness, and self advocacy.
Disability and the Media
INTD 1820
This course examines the role that various media types play in our perceptions of individuals with disabilities. By participating in this course students will be able to Develop an understanding of what a stereotype is as it relates to individuals with disabilities; examine the various stereotypes and misconceptions related to the disability community as portrayed by the media, both historically and presently, by analyzing movies, television, advertisements, etc.; identify and discuss the social implications these stereotypes have for individuals with disabilities; and explore the response of the disability community to these stereotypes and discuss ways the larger community can challenge these misconceptions.
Social Thinking?
INTD 1820
Where is the syllabus for that?
If I call you A "Friend" on Facebook, Are You Really a Friend?
How do People Magically Pop Into Groups?
Hanging Out, Hooking up—what’s Social Thinking Got to Do with It?
First you have to adjust to living on your own, getting up on your own, remembering to shower, go to class, do your work….and then you have to worry about making friends??!! You knew college would be difficult, but never thought it would be like this. If you feel like you need a little extra help navigating the social environment of being on a college campus, then this class is for you. Please email Christine Wenzel at christine.wenzel@uconn.edu or Philip Lohman at csdga4@uconn.edu for more information!
**Based on Michelle Garcia-Winner & Pamela Crooke’s Socially Curious and Curiously Social, 2009
Living Social
INTD 1820
More information to come.