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Final Campus-Access paper: requirements and rubric

The final paper on “campus access” should be at least 5 pages in length (double-spaced; max 12-point font and max 1-inch margins). Papers that directly connect to course materials, ideas, and content will be scored more highly. Some components of this paper also require outside and/or online research. Thus, your paper also has to include a list of references (sources cited); these do not count towards the page length. Lastly, part of your grade will be based on overall knowledge and integration of course content, as well as writing quality/clarity and appropriate formatting (i.e., length, use of sources, etc). Note: you should use my “outline format” below to structure your essay (rather than needing it to flow like a traditional paper).

There is no additional rubric, but your paper should include the following sections:

A. CAMPUS ASSESSMENT
If possible, either take 5 pictures of campus that demonstrate disability access/rights, or a lack of access, OR use existing screen shots and online images, given that you may not be physically on campus. These can be anything or anywhere on campus; they do not need to be all on the same topic. Use these images and accompanying descriptions to illustrate what you learned this semester about disability access, culture, and the built environment. These will be assessed for factual accuracy, so you may need to do some online research to verify your claims (e.g., about existing architectural codes, the ADA, accessibility audits, etc). You will submit the images and descriptions as a separate file, then, here in the paper, use this space to talk about the pictures you took. Explain how your images and descriptions reflect what you learned this semester.

B. SOCIAL MODEL OF DISABILITY
Do you think these aspects of campus reflect a social model of disability, how so? Why or why not? (Bonus question: how do these aspects of campus help to construct disability?) This is obviously an important section of your paper!! So, DO NOT SKIMP ON IT. Be sure to define what a “social model” is and what that might look like on campus, given the features you identified above. Could any of those campus features be made to reflect the social model? What would that look like?

C. UNIVERSAL DESIGN IN LEARNING –
What is “universal design”? And, how can it be applied to education? What features might make higher educational content more accessible to people with a variety of body-minds? In this section, be sure to also identify AT LEAST two (2) different impairments that college students might have, and what kinds of “universal design” policies or practices that might people with those conditions might need in order to learn.

D. OTHER COLLEGES
What are other college campuses doing to reflect the social model, advance disability rights, and/or provide accommodations? Provide data from at least 3 different colleges (in the US or internationally) about aspects of disability rights or disability culture that we don’t have here at MSU, and which you think are innovative. This is an IMPT SECTION OF THE ESSAY & WILL REQUIRE ONLINE RESEARCH. Also, be sure to explain why you think these aspects would be beneficial to have. In other words, if we were to have these kinds of things at MSU, what difference would it make? How would they help people to learn better, be more included, or address some other goal of higher education?

E. HOW DOES MSU COMPARE? “DISABILITY CULTURE” ON CAMPUS
You may have found in your online research, that MSU has some accommodations that other schools do not have, yet is missing ones that seem common elsewhere. What “grade” would you give MSU on disability access, and why? How do we fair comparatively? Why do you think the items you mentioned in section D are not at MSU? Can you make an argument for bringing these kinds of accommodations to MSU, even if we have only a few disabled students and accommodations are costly? And importantly, what 3 specific suggestions do you have for “moving the needle” on disability rights on our campus? How can we promote more “disability culture” at our school? Be as specific as possible.

Note: You can use any style for citations, as long as you are consistent. Unlike your other essays for this class, this paper SHOULD include a work-cited or reference page, since you will be using outside research/reference materials.