UO Disability and Ageing: Diversity and Discrimination
UndergraduateUSA-WELF30252025
Course information for 2025 intake
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 30 Mar 2025
- Entry requirements
- No ATAR needed, No prior study
- Duration
- 10 weeks
- Start dates
- 7 Apr 2025
- Price from
- $2,300
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- FEE-HELP available
UO Disability and Ageing: Diversity and Discrimination
About this subject
By the end of this 10-week course, you’ll be able to:
- Examine key historical and contemporary theories and concepts of ageing, disability, diversity and discrimination, particularly as they emerge from critical ageing and disability studies.
- Apply knowledge of key policies and acts related to disability and ageing, discrimination and human rights.
- Identify how dominant ideologies of `normality' and `normalcy' work to produce and maintain social regimes of ableism.
- Compare the impact of non-ableist theoretical perspectives, concepts and methodologies that promote and value the well-being, inclusion and the diverse knowledges of people living with disability and/or who are ageing.
- History of Services and Supports for People Living with Disabilities and Those Experiencing Ageing
- Ableism or Enabling and the Tyranny of Specialness
- You Can't Ask That, or Can you?
- Do International Treaties and Conventions Along with Local Legislation Influence Practice?
- Valued Roles for All
- Media and Influencers
- Community Development versus Locate and Plonk
- Service Models in Disability
- Service Models in Ageing
- Leadership, Managing Change in Human Services and Inclusive Research
This course will enable you to critically analyse discourses of ageing and (dis)ability, legal rights of redress, elder abuse and related violence against the aged and those with disabilities.
You will develop a critical understanding of the discourses of ageing and (dis)ability, examining media representations of disability and ageing, medical
and social models of disability and ageing, social activism, the Disability Discrimination Act (Australia), and disability, and ageing and socio-economic
status. You will evaluate the impact of ableist discourses on understandings of disability and ageing in different national and international contexts.
UniSA Online’s 10-week short courses give you the flexibility to upskill in a certain area, stay current with developments in your field, diversify your knowledge,
or even explore a new direction in your career – without having to commit to the time and cost of a full university degree.
This is a third-year course from UniSA Online’s Bachelor of Community Health degree.
Delivered 100% online, you’ll be able to study where and when it suits you. Access online academic and student support seven days a week, fit study around work and life commitments, view learning.
- Written (Critical Analysis, Case Study) (60%)
- Written (Reflection) (40%)
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Entry requirements
No entry requirements
Additional requirements
- Other requirements - Students must be aged 17 or older by the time teaching commences for their course of study, in accordance with UniSA’s Selection and entry to programs policy.
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- 0.125 EFTSL
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