3.1 Investigating a Professional Perspective (LS) Due Oct. 28
Chose a professional identity. The identity you choose will serve as a key part of your final individualized research project determining the approach you take towards your subject and the primary audience that your research will speak to a. This is a great opportunity to begin exploring your actual professional, academic and/or personal aspirations, so choose a professional identity carefully and remember you will be spending quite a bit of time on this project so it might as well be something you really are interested in.
Once you have chosen your identity, write a 250-500-word blog post reflecting on the nature of that profession and your interest in it and how disability might relate to it. Some questions you might consider include: what does this professional identity involve? What kind of work would you be doing? What audiences might you be regularly speaking with from such a position? What communities and constituencies would you be involved with through such a position and relatedly who would your work be affecting? Once you have established some sense of what this professional identity entails you want to consider how disability might relate to it. This consideration can take a wide variety of forms, from meditating on the possible inclusion of people with disabilities into the profession to suggesting how members of this profession might encounter disability. The point is not to come up with one definitive way, but rather to think about the diversity of ways disability might relate to this profession.
Once you have chosen your identity, write a 250-500-word blog post reflecting on the nature of that profession and your interest in it and how disability might relate to it. Some questions you might consider include: what does this professional identity involve? What kind of work would you be doing? What audiences might you be regularly speaking with from such a position? What communities and constituencies would you be involved with through such a position and relatedly who would your work be affecting? Once you have established some sense of what this professional identity entails you want to consider how disability might relate to it. This consideration can take a wide variety of forms, from meditating on the possible inclusion of people with disabilities into the profession to suggesting how members of this profession might encounter disability. The point is not to come up with one definitive way, but rather to think about the diversity of ways disability might relate to this profession.