Offered 100% online, the Disability Studies and Community Inclusion graduate certificate is designed to empower students with a deep understanding of the social, cultural, and political dimensions of disability.
What can I do with a Graduate Certificate in Disability Studies and Community Inclusion?
With an online graduate certificate in Disability Studies and Community Inclusion from Kent State University, students can explore a career as a postsecondary cultural studies teacher, also known as an area, ethnic, and cultural studies teacher.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’s Occupational Outlook Handbook found that postsecondary cultural studies teachers are growing at a rate of 4.9%, with 13,4000 jobs and $78,840 potential earnings.
Why Kent State Online?
The online Disability Studies and Community Inclusion graduate certificate prepares students to be leaders in promoting the inclusion of people with disabilities in all aspects of life and across the lifespan. The focus is to understand the nature, meaning, health, social and political implications and consequences of disability within the context of a diverse and global world.
Following guidelines from the Society for Disability Studies, the certificate is interdisciplinary – challenges the view of disability as an individual defect that can be remedied through medical intervention and includes national and international perspectives, policies, literature, culture and history.
Graduates of the Disability Studies and Community Inclusion graduate certificate will be able to:
- Describe the nature, social meaning, health, and power structure related to disability.
- Explain the social, political, and cultural implications of disability.
- Analyze the consequences of disability within the context of a diverse and global world.
For more information on the Disability Studies and Community Inclusion Graduate Certificate, visit https://onlinedegrees.kent.edu/degrees/disability-studies-community-inclusion-graduate-certificate.
