Disability and Visual Culture

Examine how disability is represented, imagined, and produced by analyzing historical and contemporary visual culture, including in art, film, photography, digital media, architecture, and design. Understand and apply key concepts from disability studies. Evaluate how images and visual practices construct and contest norms of embodiment, sensation, and cognition (how human bodies *should* look, move, feel, and think). Discuss and debate the ethical implications of how the ideals of the 'normal,' the 'healthy,' the 'universal,' and the 'beautiful' circulate and shape visual culture. Engage with the ethics, politics and practices of disability justice to imagine how visual culture might enable and sustain access and foster interdependence.