Master in Disability and Community Studies (MDCS) Degree Program

How to Apply

Fill out and submit the Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Application at:
https://www.gradapplication.ucalgary.ca/account/instructions.asp

Requirements

There are three components to the MDCS:

  1. Fundamentals
  2. Leadership and Innovation
  3. Specialization

Each component consists of four half-courses (3 unit per course), for a total requirement of twelve half-courses. Students will generally take fundamental courses in preparation for Leadership courses, but the Specialization options can be done at any time during the program.

Course requirements are:

  1. A minimum of six full courses, including four that are required
  2. At least one required course must be a full-course equivalent in research methods
  3. Two full-course equivalents in the student's area of specialization
  4. One of three possible MDCS exit documents:
    1. exit examination
    2. portfolio
    3. a professionally derived project. Project topics must be agreed upon by the supervisor and student and approved by the CRDS Director.

As part of the preparation of the MDCS exit document, and prior to its evaluation by an examining committee, students must present an early version of their exit document to their peers. This should be an open, interactive, face-to-face or technologically mediated forum, normally in the final term of a student's program. Although not an examination per se, the public presentation is a requirement for convocation.

A sample 2-year program of study is outlined in the following Table.

Sample two-year schedule of courses for MDCS

Required courses are marked with an asterisk (*).

Year 1

 

 

 

Year 2

 

 

 
January

CORE 603.01* Foundations (start)

.50

 W January

CORE 676 Program Evaluation (continue)

 

 W

 

CORE 641*
International Social Policy (Internet)

.50

 W

 

CORE 603.10* Social Construction

.50

 W

 

CORE 691.44
Bioethics & People with Disabilities (Internet Option)

.50

W

 

CORE 691.44
Bioethics & People with Disabilities (Internet Option)

.50

W
April

CORE 603.01 Foundations (completion)

 

 

 April

CORE 676 Program Evaluation (completion)

 

 

 

CORE 603.03* Life Span

.50

 S

 

CORE 624* Specialization Course

1.0

 S

 

 

 

 

 

CORE 603.10 Social Construction (completion)

 

 

June

Quantitative Research course*

.50

 P

 

 

 

 

July

Summer Institute –Option Courses

 

 

July

Summer Institute – Option Courses

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Sept.

CORE 676* Program Evaluation (start)

1.0

 F

Sept.

CORE 603.08 Law & Disability (Internet Option)

 

 F

 

CORE 603.11* Ethics

.50

 F

 

 

 

 

 

CORE 603.08 Law & Disability (Internet Option)

 

 F

 

CORE 691.44
Bioethics & People with Disabilities (Internet Option)

.50

F

 

CORE 691.44
Bioethics & People with Disabilities (Internet Option)

.50

F

 

 

 

 
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