Who Should Apply | Certificate Requirements | How to Apply

The Disability Ethics Certificate Program addresses traditional bioethics frameworks within the context of disability studies, critiquing and expanding current approaches in ethics practice, research, and conceptual analysis. The institutions jointly offering this program—UIC’s Department of Human Development (DHD) and the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC)—have international reputations in their respective areas. Program faculty and instructors include scholars from DHD and RIC, local medical ethics and humanities experts, and representatives from the local disability community.

For more information, contact:
Dr. Carol Gill
Department of Disability and Human Development
University of Illinois at Chicago
1640 West Roosevelt Road (MC 626)
Room 236
Chicago, IL 60608
Phone: (312) 355-0550
TTY: (312) 996-1233
Fax: (312) 996-0885
cg16@uic.edu

WHO SHOULD APPLY
Professionals who would typically benefit from this certificate program include allied health providers, nurses, physicians, social workers, counselors, chaplains, and students of public policy and disability studies. The certificate prepares individuals to be thoughtful about issues of disability ethics and to be good resources within their work environment.

CERTIFICATE REQUIREMENTS
Courses in the certificate program are part of the regularly scheduled curriculum of DHD. The required coursework consists of four, 3-credit-hour DHD courses taken sequentially over four semesters, beginning in Fall:

• DHD 401- Foundations of Disability (or an equivalent overview course)
• Disability Ethics I (currently in place as DHD 514 - Ethical Issues in Disability)
• Disability Ethics II (DHD 517 - Ethics and Disability: Contemporary Problems)
• Elective – e.g., a qualitative research course (DHD 546 - Qualitative Methods in Disability Research), an independent study, or an elective chosen in concert with the student’s certificate advisor