Program Overview

Bachelor of Community Rehabilitation

The Bachelor of Community Rehabilitation program is designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the social, political, economic, and ethical issues impacting persons with disabilities and their families.

Program Overview

The program offers a range of courses that cover various aspects of community rehabilitation, including disability studies, research methods, and practicum experiences.

• CORE 205 - Introduction to Disability Studies: This course explores the social, political, economic, ethics/bioethical, technological, and advocacy issues impacting persons with disabilities and their families.
  • Instructor: Dr. Gregor Wolbring
• CORE 209 - Disability in Theory and Everyday Life: This course provides an overview of theories employed in community rehabilitation and disability studies.
  • Instructor: Dr. Meaghan Edwards
• CORE 435 - Social Research in Disability, Health and Rehabilitation: This course introduces students to research methods in community rehabilitation and disability studies, including design, analyses, and knowledge transfer strategies.
  • Instructor: Dr. Courtney Petruik
• CORE 475 - Disability and Aging: This course examines the theoretical and practical issues related to rehabilitation and community services for seniors with disabilities.
  • Instructor: Dr. Tiffany Boulton
• CORE 477 - Disability and the Law: This course explores the foundations of Canadian legal principles and practices as they affect community rehabilitation.
  • Instructor: Dr. Juliet Guichon
• CORE 487 - Practicum in Rehabilitation Practice: This course provides practical application of the basic principles of assessment, planning, and intervention with individuals/groups, supporting professional development tutorials in community practicum.
  • T01 Instructor: Dr. Alan Santinele Martino
  • T02 Instructor: Dr. Patti Desjardine
• CORE 510 - Critical Disability Theory: This course provides an overview of advanced disability theory, exploring topics through disability theory, social and political understandings of disability, power relations, and the centrality of the experience of people with disabilities.
  • Instructor: Dr. Meaghan Edwards
• CORE 553 - Disability and the Body: This course examines disability, impairment, and the body in social, cultural, and historical contexts, including biomedical understandings of the body, diagnosis, rehabilitation practices, and medical treatment.
  • Instructor: Dr. Tiffany Boulton
• CORE 594 - Practicum I: This course provides senior-level leadership, advocacy, and reflective practice in partner agencies, associations, and systems, with specifics negotiated with the student, and covers content on professional ethics.
  • T01 Instructor: Dr. Patti Desjardine
  • T02 Instructor: Dr. Glenis Benson
  • T03 Instructor: Dr. Tiffany Boulton

University Context

The University of Calgary is situated on land Northwest of where the Bow River meets the Elbow River, a site traditionally known as Moh’kins’tsis to the Blackfoot, Wîchîspa to the Stoney Nakoda, and Guts’ists’i to the Tsuut’ina. The university acknowledges and pays tribute to the traditional territories of the peoples of Treaty 7, which include the Blackfoot Confederacy, the Tsuut’ina First Nation, and the Stoney Nakoda.