AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT: LAW, POLICY, AND PRACTICE (3) (CON 275)

Professor Andrea Risoli

Explores legal, policy, and practical implications of the Americans with Disabilities Act as it applies to people with both physical and mental disabilities (with a significant focus on issues involving mental disability).The course will cover the wide range of disability-based discrimination that the ADA addresses, including questions of discrimination; access to services; access to the judicial system; institutional rights; and community rights. This is a predominantly on-line course, requiring students to participate in a weekly chat room and two live weekend sessions. The grade is based on chat room and seminar participation, a midterm paper and a take-home final.