What to Expect
Thinking about joining our program? Find out what you can expect as a student at UIC.
AHS Summer Exploration and Transition
Starting college can be daunting. Let us help with AHS:SET!
Applied Health Sciences: Summer Exploration and Transition (AHS:SET) meets once a week for five-weeks of summer to engage and prepare our AHS incoming freshmen.
In a fun and interactive format, you’ll get exposed to introductory academic course work, research, careers, and tools for navigating the rigors of an applied health sciences degree.
Sharpen your skills, make connections and learn the campus – all before your first fall semester.
| DHD 101 | Understanding US Society | 3 hours |
| DHD 102 | Understanding the Creative Arts | 3 hours |
| ENGL 160 | Academic Writing I: Writing in Academic and Public Contexts | 3 hours |
| Analyzing the Natural World course | 3-5 hours | |
| Elective | 3 hours | |
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AHS Student Resources
Helpful resources across campus that offer support for you as a student
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Association of University Centers on Disabilities Trainee Network
When you become a part of the Department of Disability and Human Development, you join AUCD—a national organization that supports and promotes a network of university-based interdisciplinary programs
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Chancellor's Committee on the Status of Persons with Disabilities (CCSPD)
The mission of CCSPD is to promote empowerment and inclusion of the faculty, staff, and students with disabilities at UIC. CCSPD recognizes that people with disabilities are a diverse group, including individuals with visible and non-visible disabilities. This mission is motivated by the belief that people with disabilities are assets to the university, not liabilities.
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Course Descriptions
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Disability Resource Center
Facilitating access for students with disabilities
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DHD Student Association (DHDSA)
DHDSA is an organization
devoted to supporting students within DHD, advocating for disability across campus, and navigating college
or graduate school and the job process. Each spring, DHDSA hosts the Chicago Disability Studies Conference at UIC. -
DHD Undergraduate Student Handbook
A useful reference for questions regarding program practices or policies
| ENGL 161 | Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research | 3 hours |
| Understanding the Individual and Society course | 3-4 hours | |
| Understanding the Past course | 3 hours | |
| Analyzing the Natural World course | 3-5 hours | |
| Additional General Education course | 3 hours | |
| Elective | 3 hours | |
| Exploring World Cultures course | 3 hours | |
| Additional General Education course | 3 hours | |
| Electives | 9 hours | |
| DHD 201 | Disability, Rights, and Culture | 3 hours |
| DHD 202 | Understanding the Individual and Society course | 3 hours |
| Electives | 9 hours | |
| DHD 301 | Disability, Research, and Interdisciplinary Methods | 3 hours |
| DHD 302 | Disability, Policy, and Law | 3 hours |
| Electives | 9 hours | |
| DHD Elective | 3 hours | |
| DHD Selective | 3 hours | |
| Electives | 12 hours | |