These are only some examples of the video lectures for the above course at the American University of Sovereign Nations (AUSN).
Enrolled students of AUSN gain credit hours through active live participation in classes. A list of required and elective courses for each degree program are provided in the degree program descriptions. In addition, they receive the AUSN Video lecture Archive Sheet to record which videos they have watched for additional knowledge. For countries that do not allow Youtube access (Channel: American University of Sovereign Nations), an original file can be shared with enrolled AUSN students. Anyone can request to try out a live AUSN class for free by writing to Dr. Darryl Macer, Provost, AUSN; Email: provost@ausovereignnations.org
AUSN as an intellectual forum for intercultural dialogue upholds the value of academic freedom for all professors and students, and the views expressed in the videos are not those of AUSN. The videos are a selection of the total video archive of AUSN that supplements the contact hours provided by in-person lectures, group skype sessions, and other supervised contact at AUSN.
The course description and expected competencies for this course are provided below. Some students use these videos to prepare for the course examinations, which in AUSN are open book/open Internet exams, where students need to prepare written answers (unless there is some condition that makes an oral exam the only possibility).
Links to example video lectures from the ABST course
ABST1a, Prof. Gregor Wolbring, Ability Studies
ABST1b, Prof. Gregor Wolbring, Deafhood & Genetics: Sleepwalking into Eugenics?
ABST4, Prof. Gregor Wolbring, Disability studies and the future of disabled people
ABST19, Prof. Vincent Shieh , From the viewpoint of feminism and bioethics to inspect the implementation of Domestic Violence Prevention Act
ABST20, Prof. Ryo Takahashi, The Science, Philosophy and Bioethics of Gerontology in the Context of Our Future: An Individual and Community Journey from Japan
ABST12, Prof. Gregor Wolbring, From Disability Studies to Ability Studies
ABST13, Prof. Gregor Wolbring, Anticipatory Governance through an Ability Studies Lens
ABST14, Prof. Gregor Wolbring, Ability Studies and Peace https://youtu.be/R1Qe9ZPPwLg
ABST21, Prof. Taslima Monsoor, Empowerment of Women: A Perspective from Bangladesh
ABST22, Prof.Aruna Sivakami, Empowering Gender Class Ethnic Equality
ABST23, Prof. Darryl Macer, Reflections at the Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island
ABST24, Prof. Maria Keiko Yasuoka, Brain death and Organ transplantation as a cultural issues from Japanese donor families’ views
ABST25, Prof. Maria Keiko Yasuoka, Aftercare for organ recipients, donors and donor families in Japan: current efforts from individual to governmental struggles
ABST26, Prof. Darryl Macer, When Scientific and Social Breakthroughs Become Criminal Acts: Balancing thee Ethical Principles of Beneficence with Non-Maleficence in Gene-editing, End of Life Care, Quarantine and Colonialism
ABST27, Prof. Deborah Kala Perkins, The ART of Birthing Life in Integrity: From Bioethics to Politics with Assisted Reproductive Technologies
ABST28, Prof. Manuel Lozano Rodriguez, Diversity and Displacement: Exploring Ethical Approaches to Migration
Course details
Course Objectives: The objectives of this course is to introduce ability studies and ability equity and equality, ability ethics and ability and ableism governance.
Course Purpose: Ability Studies investigates in general how ability expectation (want stage) and ableism (need stage) hierarchies and preferences come to pass and the impact of such hierarchies and preferences. Ability Studies investigates: (a) the social, cultural, legal, political, ethical and other considerations by which any given ability may be judged, which leads to favoring one ability over another; (b) the impact and consequence of favoring certain abilities and rejecting others; (c) the consequences of ableism in its different forms, and its relationship with and impact on other isms. The academic field of disability studies investigates the negative consequences people experience whose body linked abilities are seen as not measuring up to the species-typical norm. However, although ableism was developed to make visible disablism (the lack of support and active disablement by the ones who see themselves as able) disabled people experience, the cultural reality of ability expectations (want stage) and ableism (need stage) goes far beyond how it is used within disability studies and by disabled activists.
Topics that are covered:
1) Ableism and disabled people
2) Discourses on Disability and Ability
3) How to promote the potential for all persons to excel
4) Ableism evident in health, medicine, and rehabilitation discourses
5) Nature and nurture in determining Ability
6) Gender theory and gender roles
7) Gender toolkit
8) Ableism and the Law
9) Ableism intrinsic to Ethics theories
10) Vulnerability
11) Ability Privilege
12) Eco-ableism; Ableism and the environment
13) Ableism and animals
14) Ableism and Indigenous People
15) Ability Security and Ability Peace through an ability expectation and ableism lens.
16) Science and technologies and their impact an Ableism
17) Ableism and Ability Equity and Equality
Competencies:
(1) Identify ethical dilemmas through different lens, including those of gender lens, ability studies, and the perspectives of indigenous communities.
(2) Create and scrutinize policies and practices in various settings.
(3) Engage in quality thinking, reflective processes and creative thinking.
(4) Listen well and communicate interest, respect, support, and empathy to involved parties.
(5) Educate involved parties regarding the ethical dimensions of the consultation.
(6) Elicit the moral views of the involved parties.
(7) Represent the views of the involved parties to others.
(8) Describe the roles of history, power, privilege and structural inequality in producing health disparities.
(9) Examine racial and ethnic disparities within the context of historic and contemporary social and economic climates.
(10) Recognize the causes of social and behavioral factors that affect health of individuals and populations.
(11) Understand the causes of disparities in disease risk, access and utilization of preventive and health care services and health outcomes.