The course provides an overview on historical, contemporary local and international perspectives on deafness and on being Deaf. It introduces concepts as such as Deafhood (Ladd), the Sign Language Person (Jokinen) and Deaf ethnicity (Lane, Corker), as well as positioning Deaf community responses to challenges from liberal thought, the eugenics movement, as well as modern medical interventions. Delivered online in digital format by Deaf and hearing academics, the content is accredited as a 10 ECTS programme and is accompanied by multimedia content to support teaching and learning and a volume discussing key concepts in some detail.
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Dr Lorraine Leeson Centre for Deaf Studies School of Linguistics, Speech and Communication Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, 40 Lower Drumcondra Road Dublin 9 Ireland Dublin
(Ireland)
John Walker, Convener of Deaf Studies Centre for Community Engagement Mantell Building University of Sussex Falmer Brighton East Sussex BN1 9RF United Kingdom Brighton
(United Kingdom)