Program Overview

Program Overview

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Course Details

HDFS 315 - Disability Across the Lifespan and Culture

• Summer 2025
• Spring 2026
• 3 credits This course provides interdisciplinary perspectives to understand infants, youth, and adults with disabling conditions. It covers causes, outcomes, and intervention of commonly occurring disabilities and health conditions, with a global perspective on how disabilities interact with family, society, stigma, identity, media, government, and the physical environment.

Course Learning Objectives

1. Demonstrate knowledge of the history, philosophy, definitions, and rights related to disabilities and developmental disabilities across the lifespan.
2. Demonstrate understanding of and apply conceptual frameworks and tools for understanding inclusionary practices and services for individuals with disabilities across the lifespan.
3. Examine the causes, outcomes, and intervention of commonly occurring disabilities and health conditions.
4. Identify the interaction between disabilities and development across the major life stages.
5. Distinguish concepts related to independence, inclusion, choice and self-determination, empowerment, access, stigma, identity politics, and acceptance for individual differences as they relate to disability, life stage, and culture.
6. Compare societal responses to disability across cultures.
7. Analyze how environments facilitate or impede outcomes for individuals with disabilities.

Prerequisite

• HDFS 101 (Individual and Family Development) or PSY 100 (General Psychology)
• Sophomore standing

Textbooks and Materials

Please check the CSU Bookstore for textbook information. Textbook listings are available at the CSU Bookstore about 3 weeks prior to the start of the term.

Section Details

Section 801 (Online)

• Registration ends: Sunday, January 25, 2026
• Date: Jan 20 - May 10, 2026 (16 wks.)
• Time: Asynchronous
• Tuition: $1,470

Drop and Withdrawal Deadlines

• 100% tuition and fees refunded: February 4, 2026
• 50% tuition refunded with 'W' grade: March 23, 2026
• No tuition refunded and 'W' grade: April 17, 2026

Accreditation and Quality

The Green Quality Course seal of approval is given to an undergraduate course that passes our rigorous review process to ensure accessibility and design standards are met through an internal Quality Matters (QM) review, which evaluates course design.