OPEN TO STUDENTS
Join this 1.5 hour workshop, which teaches interactive design skills alongside neuroscience content.
The Design Studio is located on the 4th floor of Riverside Church. Ask the attendant on duty for location if you need further help.
About
Compared to peer institutions in New York City and other Ivy League universities, Columbia lacks a focus and research in the discipline of Disability Studies (DS). To this end, we recognize a need to educate DS students and further diffuse misconceptions about disabilities through a formalized structure. Developed by two neuroscience students registered with Office of Disabilities (ODS), we propose an affective neuroscience-based course whose curriculum touches on the topics of mindfulness, positive psychology, the development of the brain, plasticity and more. Comparable to Stanford’s “Design Your Life” course, Yale’s course on happiness, and Barnard’s own Science of Well Being course, this class focuses on inclusion, identity, and helping students with disabilities develop, design and understand their own minds.