FYIS 102E.  First-Year Seminar: Monsters in Movies: Disability in the Horror Genre   (3).

General education social and behavioral sciences course. Helps students critically examine how the horror genre contributes to bias against people with physical, mental, cognitive and social disabilities. Students are asked to reflect and discuss how promoting fear with villains and characters portraying characteristics of, and in some cases explicitly stated, exceptionalities can lead to unintentional bias, ableism and a lack of public acceptance. Students are also asked to read relevant scholarship on ability representation, exploitation of people with exceptionalities, and current debates/dilemmas. First-Year Seminars do not meet a divisional requirement in the pre-Fall 2024 WSU General Education program, and can only be used in Bucket 7 for General Education starting Fall 2024. Course includes diversity content.