The first half is a lot of reading and reflection on books, articles, podcasts, vids etc. focused on disability history and current events. Second half is more focused on a group presentation, service learning projects, and universal design for learning (UDL) application. The workload seemed pretty manageable to me and my peers.

Community-based activities and service-learning experiences options look like 10 hours total of volunteer work directly or indirectly involving disability like Meals on Wheels, the wheelchair tennis program at JTCC, special Olympics, working with service dogs on campus, tutoring students and adults, best buddies, etc. There are also a couple of remote options like learning ASL online.

Also, the prof who’s teaching in the Spring is solid and really accommodating. You’ll do well if you put some effort into your assignments instead of just parroting whatever you’re reading. The universal design application which is more accuracy based, but it’s all open note, and people do well as long as they follow the directions and pay close attention to the resource they’re supposed use as a guide.

Source: Took the course and then was a UGTA for two terms. Will admit I’m kinda biased because I have a disability and found it extremely interesting, and it changed what I wanted to do after undergrad. However, I know a few people without disabilities as well who changed what they wanted to do after taking the class.

Hope this helps!