NPTEL : NOC:Disability Studies: An Introduction (Humanities and Social Sciences)

Co-ordinators : Prof. Hemachandran Karah


Lecture 1 - Disability Definition: An Evolving Phenomenon

Lecture 2 - Medical Model of Disability

Lecture 3 - Social Model of Disability - Part 1

Lecture 4 - Social Model of Disability - Part 2

Lecture 5 - Stigma: A Universal Phenomenon

Lecture 6 - Stigma and Disability: What can we learn?

Lecture 7 - Ableism - Part 1

Lecture 8 - Ableism - Part 2

Lecture 9 - Disability Activism

Lecture 10 - Models of Disability Activism

Lecture 11 - Dependency

Lecture 12 - Interdependence

Lecture 13 - Blindness

Lecture 14 - Blindness as metaphor

Lecture 15 - Eugenics

Lecture 16 - Disability Pride

Lecture 17 - Disability Resilience

Lecture 18 - Disability Passing: The musings of the blue Jackal

Lecture 19 - Coming out: A performance in disability inhabitation

Lecture 20 - Assistive Technology: An interview with Prof. Madhusudan Rao

Lecture 21 - Disability and Ethnography: An Interview with Prof. James Staple

Lecture 22 - Schizophrenia: A Personal Account - An interview with Reshma Valliappan

Lecture 23 - Autism and the Indian Family: An interview with Dr. Shubhangi Vaidhya

Lecture 24 - Dyslexia and the Modern University: An Interview with Prof. Tanya Titchkosky

Lecture 25 - Gender and Disability: Interviews with Prof. Anita Ghai

Lecture 26 - Gender and Disability: Interviews with Prof. Nandini Ghosh

Lecture 27 - Lennard Davis, hemachandran karah, normal, normalcy, disability studies

Lecture 28 - The Normal and its End: Part 2

Lecture 29 - Literary Disability Studies: An Interview with Dr. Shilpa Anand

Lecture 30 - What is Deaf Culture? An Interview with Dr. Michele Friedner

Lecture 31 - Disability and Life Writing

Lecture 32 - Disability and Metaphor

Lecture 33 - Conclusion