I found out about the course below from a friend who posted a link on Facebook. The course is studied entirely online by reading articles, following links to videos and joining online discussions. The course is presented by FutureLearn (https://www.futurelearn.com) who now send me an email with an exhaustive list of online courses (most of which are entirely free). It's like a whole new world that I didn't know about!

Disability and a Good Life: Thinking Through Disability

This course centres on disability and living a good life as it is often assumed that having an impairment means someone is not able to live a good life, particularly if the impairment is severe or complex. The course explores what actually stops many disabled people from living a good life, and suggests that it is as much about external attitudes and factors as it is about living with an impairment. Throughout the six weeks of the course the following topics are studied:

• Understanding disabling attitudes
• Who counts as disabled?
• Disability histories
• Disability across the life course
• The intersections of disability with other identities
• Towards a good life?

People have been asking what a good life means for centuries. The course brings ideas about living a good life and disability together. We look back at different philosophical approaches to a good life and invigorate them with new understandings of disability. The course ends with the question: How can a good life be enabled for everyone? This question was the starting point for the course I took next…

Disability and a Good Life: Working with Disability

In the first three weeks, the course explores disability as a dimension of human diversity and discusses the roles that belonging, inclusion, human rights and access play in enabling a good life. It investigates the provisions in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and considers what it means in a global context. In the remaining weeks the course explores debates around care and support, looks at the concept of contribution, and introduces advocacy and activism as ways of working towards a good life.