CELE Center Opportunities for 2024-25

Opportunities for 2024-25 with the UW Community Engagement and Leadership Education (CELE) Center

America Reads Work Study Tutors: UW students tutor weekly for the school year at target schools in Seattle. Tutors focus on reading skills with elementary school students and build strong relationships with youth by making a commitment to their tutoring site for two consecutive quarters during the academic year (Fall or Winter quarter start). Tutors support the Seattle Public Schools’ effort to promote educational equity for all students, with a focus on under-resourced schools. Tutors must be work-study eligible. Accepting applications for the 2024-25 academic year.

College and Career Readiness Assistants (CCRA): The UW Dream Project is hiring undergrads to serve as CCRA interns at local high schools and middle schools for the 2024-25 school year.  CCRA interns will work directly with middle and/or high school students to support post-secondary preparation & planning including but not limited to working with students on: college applications, financial aid, scholarship searching, and career exploration. This is an academic year long paid internship through federal work-study. CCRAs work at their school placement site for 10 hours/week, attend bi-weekly professional development sessions, and meet with a graduate mentor.  Accepting applications for the 2024-25 academic year. First round applications will be reviewed after June 7.

Jumpstart Team Leaders and Corps Members: Currently hiring several leadership positions to help us in our mission to prepare preschoolers for kindergarten during the 2024-25 academic year.  Members have the opportunity to inspire young children to learn, serve in a local community, collaborate with others on a team, and build professional skills. All members receive high quality training to help them implement Jumpstart’s outcome-based program, promote children’s school success, and build family engagement. Open until filled.  

Neah Bay Telling Our Stories, Imagining Our Futures: Through this year-long program, UW undergraduates work with Neah Bay Elementary School students in the Makah Indian Nation where they explore pathways to higher education and career paths where they can live, lead and thrive in Neah Bay after graduation. Accepting applications for the 2024-25 academic year.

CELE K-12 Tutors & Mentors for Autumn 2024: Passionate about educational equity and interested in gaining experience working with K-12 students from diverse backgrounds?  Tutoring and mentoring are rewarding experiences and a great way to engage with the local community.  Enroll in EDUC 260 and 401 in Aut23 to learn about K-12 educational equity issues while tutoring in a K-12 Seattle Public School classroom or mentoring high school students in post-secondary planning.

 LEAD 100 for Autumn 2024: Are you looking for a unique course to help you develop your own leadership potential and make a positive difference in your communities?  Through exploring contemporary leadership theories with a critical lens and engaging in activities to translate theory into practice, LEAD 100 (Learning Leadership in Theory and Practice) aims to give students the knowledge and tools to practice authentic and socially responsible leadership.  This course is designed as the first of three required courses for the Minor in Leadership. Offered M&W 3:30-5:20 p.m.  SLN: 17860 

NextGen Civic Leader Corps: NextGen is a growing community that aims to spark, hone and recognize a deeper commitment to public and community service for undergrads. This is a great opportunity to meet other Huskies as well as students across the country who are interested in public service as well as explore government, non-profit and social venture careers. Students can learn about NextGen events as well as join the community by filling out our Interest Form. Open to all.

ECON Summer Courses Open for Non-Majors

400-level ECON courses in Sum24 Open for Non-majors with Prerequisites

ECON 300A Intermediate Microeconomics (SLN 11134)
MW 3:30-5:40pm – Full Term
This course will run asynchronously except for quizzes and exams, which will be held synchronously.

ECON 301A Intermediate Macroeconomics (SLN 11135)
TTh 3:30-5:40pm – Full Term
This course will run asynchronously except for quizzes and exams, which will be held synchronously.

ECON 400A Advanced Macroeconomics (SLN 11137)
MTWThF 1:10-3:20pm – A Term
This course will run asynchronously except for quizzes and exams, which will be held synchronously.

ECON 422A Investment, Capital, Finance (SLN 11138)
MTWThF 10:50am-1:00pm – A Term
In-person

ECON 424A Computational Finance & Financial Econometrics (SLN 11139)
TTh 5:50-8:00pm – Full Term
This course will run asynchronously except for quizzes and exams, which will be held synchronously.

ECON 432A Empirical Industrial Organization (SLN 11140)
MTWThF 10:50am-1:00pm – B Term
In Person

ECON 482A Econometric Theory & Practice (SLN 11141)
MW 8:30-10:40am – Full Term
This course will run asynchronously except for quizzes and exams, which will be held synchronously.

ECON 485A Game Theory (SLN 11142)
TTh 3:30-5:40pm – Full Term
This course will run asynchronously except for quizzes and exams, which will be held synchronously.

Composition or Writing Credits in SPR24

Need Composition or Writing credit in Spring 2024? Check out these Program for Writing Across Campus (PWAC) courses that are still open. PWAC offers small discipline-linked courses that offer students lots of instructor contact and intensive support for writing in progress.
ENGL 198 A/B (SLN 14070/14071)  Linked with Psychology 101

ENGL 297 C (14124) – Linked with Cinema and Media Studies 270
ENGL 298 C 14127 – Linked with Sociology 250
ENGL 299 B (14129) & C (14130) – Linked with Nutrition 200
ENGL 297 A (14122) – Writing in the Humanities

AND…

The English Department Program in Writing and Rhetoric has several open sections of 131 Composition (5 cr). Sections with availability:

131   B     14021 M-TH  9:30 AM     10:20 AM    MUE 154

131   C2    14031 M-TH  3:30 PM     4:20 PM     LOW 116

131   G3    14039 M-TH  2:30 PM     3:20 PM     MEB 243

131   H     14043 M-TH  11:30 AM    12:20 PM    CMU 243

131   I       14044 M-TH  8:30 AM     9:20 AM     CHL 021
131   J      14045 M-TH  12:30 PM    1:20 PM     LOW 113

131   T     14051 M-TH  1:30 PM     2:20 PM     CHL 105

131   Y     14055 M-TH  2:30 PM     3:20 PM     CHL 105
131   Z     14056 TTH   6:30 PM     8:20 PM     MGH 082A

The course uses a variety of texts across genres to study writing as social action and language as tied to identity, culture, and power. Centers students’ language resources and goals in developing rhetorical and research skills for composing ethically and critically across different contexts and genres. Prepares students for writing to audiences both within and beyond the university. Questions? Contact pwr-admin(at)uw.edu.

Spr24 CELE Center Courses to Tutor Local K-12 Students

Tutor Local K-12 Students and Earn UW Credit in SPR24
CELE Center Courses

*** Great opportunity to list on resume and/or grad school applications! We’ve had AMATH majors do this — highly recommended!
Interested in educational equity and gaining direct-service experience working with K-12 students? The Community Engagement and Leadership Education (CELE) Center is offering opportunities for UW students to engage with local schools and earn credit!
–  Spring 2024 courses are variable I&S credit, count towards the Education and Leadership minors, and are graded CR/NC.
EDUC 260*: Equity Issues in K-12 Education (1 cr)
meets Mon 1:00-2:20pm
* Pre/co-requisite course for EDUC 401
EDUC 401A/B: Practicum in Community Service Activity (1-6 cr)
A section meets biweekly Wed 11:30am-12:50pm 
B section meets biweekly Wed 4:00-5:20pm
– EDUC 401 A and B are CELE community-engaged courses designed to prepare UW students for an academic tutoring or mentoring relationship with K-12 students at local partner schools. Students will be matched with a volunteer site, or can choose their own site, and will volunteer on a weekly basis. Tutors will build teaching and academic support skills through coursework and in-person volunteering. EDUC 401 classes are meant for tutors to reflect on their direct community engagement experience. Credit is earned through attendance, assignments, and the completion of required service hours (to be fulfilled through tutoring at schools and professional development sessions).
*Co-registration in 260 required for all first-time 401 A/B students.

Questions about enrollment or curriculum? Email celecenter(at)uw.edu.

SPR24 Course on Math Culture: CHID 325 (SSc, W)

Spr24 Course for SSc & Writing Credits: Math – Practice & Power

CHID 325B: Math – Practice & Power (SSc, W)
Spring 2024 (SLN 12295)
Mon/Wed 2:30 – 4:20 p.m. in THO 231
Instructor: Jayadev Athreya, Director of Washington eXperimental Mathematics Lab (WXML)
– Introduces the cultural, historical, artistic, political, and scientific resonances of the practice of mathematics.

Check out other CHID courses to fulfill your DIV, A&H, and Writing credits:
CHID 222: Biofutures (A&H, SSc, NSc)
CHID 250C: Art, Memory, and Violence in Latin America (A&H, SSc)
CHID 250E: Religions and Horror Films (A&H, SSc)
CHID 250G: Grunge is for Losers – Seattle Alternative Music Scenes, 1964-2024 (A&H)
CHID 260: Rethinking Diversity – Southern Queers, Southern Fears (SSc, DIV, A&H, W)
CHID 270C: Motion and Movement (A&H, SSc)
CHID 480: The Unconscious, Online, Dreaming Without Algorithms (A&H, SSc, W)
CHID 480C: Decolonizing Soviet Cinema – Films of Resistance and Desire (A&H, SSc)
CHID 480E: Border Stories: Seminar in Public Writing – (SSc, W)

Sum24 Courses at UW Labs at Friday Harbor

APPLY for Summer 2024 Courses at Friday Harbor Labs

Come spend five weeks on beautiful San Juan Island exploring the tide pools, learning in a hands-on lab environment, and “diving” into lectures about the diverse life found in our ocean. Friday Harbor Labs offers a unique classroom setting for marine science course work and allows students to learn research techniques and field skills. We host research focused courses where students can actively participate in projects to explore the subjects they are passionate about and grow as early career scientists.  

Students from everywhere are welcome! Price of the term is the same no matter where you are coming from, AND scholarships are available! Check out the UW courses offered this summer and APPLY NOW.

Questions about courses, scholarships from FHL, or living on San Juan Island can be directed towards Maia Kreis at fhlstudents(at)uw.edu.

Wellness & Resilience Courses in SPR24

Are you struggling with their mental health, the stress of university life and expectations, or just need to boost your skills for navigating life as a Husky personally and academically? Do you need SSc or Writing credit?

 EDUC 215 Wellness and Resilience for College and Beyond
Section A (SLN 13849): Thu 2:30-5:20pm (SSc / W) – fully in-person lectures w/1-hour in-person quiz section on Fridays
Section B (SLN 13857): Tue 11:30am-2:20pm (SSc / W) – fully virtual lectures w/1-hour virtual synchronous quiz section on Fridays
– Asynchronous accommodations for lecture can be coordinated (synchronous participation in the one hour quiz section on Fridays is required).
– Students learn skills to enhance their well being in college and in their life in general. Particular focus is paid to skills that help students withstand common difficulties in life, like a disagreement with a loved one, tolerating doing work you don’t want to do, and managing negative emotions in a healthy way. Skills will include but will not be limited to mindfulness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills. Students will also learn about research underlying stress, resilience, and related skill areas.

EDUC 216: Thriving on the Path to Happiness
Wed 2:30-5:20pm with 1-hour quiz sections on Fridays (SSc / W)
– 5 credit seminar that will follow the same format as EDUC 215 and build on the skills learned in the first class to help students experience more joy, build stronger relationships, cultivate a growth mindset, and increase opportunities for success and development in personal and professional endeavors.

EDUC 317: Emotion Regulation: Dialectics and Application
Tue/Thu 8:30-10:50am (SSc / W)
– NEW 5 credit seminar for students who have taken EDUC 215 and 216
– Deep dive into the biological and experience component of many different emotions and think about how to skillful manage them in the context of different professional settings.

EDUC 381: Interpersonal Effectiveness and Coaching in Social Emotional Learning
Tue/Thu 11:30am-1:50pm (SSc / W)
– 5 credit seminar for students who have taken EDUC 215 and 216
– Learn how to teach and coach others in building their own social-emotional skills while also maintaining our own wellbeing so we don’t burn out.

** All four classes will also be a part of the new Education Studies open enrollment, minimum requirement major starting in AUT24.

SPR24 Course on Grad School Preparation: GRDSCH200

Are you a junior or senior curious about, or planning to attend graduate school?  Spring course GRDSCH200: Preparing for Graduate Education (2 cr) allows juniors and seniors to explore their interests and learn first-hand from faculty and staff involved in graduate admissions how to find a good program fit and how to prepare effective application materials.  The course will be offered each quarter (including Summer).

GRDSCH200: Preparing for Graduate Education
Spring 2024 (SLN 15092)
Mondays, 1:30 – 3:20 p.m.
NAN 181

The 2-credit  CR/NC course seeks to engage students in determining the right “fit” for their individual graduate education goals through three primary objectives:
Investigation:  What is your desire to attend graduate school?
– What you need to know about the graduate school experience
Revelation:  What do graduate school admission committees actually expect?
– Demystify the process
– Personal statements, resumes/CVs and letters of recommendation
Preparation:  How does investigation and revelation lead to finding a “good fit,” and how do you chart a course of action?
– Why do you want to go? When do you want to go? Where do you want to go?
– What do you want to do? How can you do it?

Questions? Contact Katy DeRosier at katyd2(at)uw.edu

Spr24 Course on Ultrasound Imaging

BIOEN 449 Ultrasound Imaging in Spring 2024

SLN 11263, Mon/Wed 9:30-11:20 am in BNS 115
Instructor: Mike Averkiou PhD, Professor, Bioengineering
The course provides undergraduate and graduate level engineering and science students with fundamentals of acoustics and ultrasound relevant for ultrasound imaging. Ultrasound imaging continues to gain popularity in clinical imaging and imaging research. Seattle is an ultrasound hub with many ultrasound imaging companies present in the area. Target audience: Engineering or physical science students. Students interested in working in medical ultrasound industry in the Seattle area or elsewhere or currently performing research that could utilize ultrasound during their graduate studies.
Prerequisites/Recommended Background:
Basic math and physics typically covered in the first years of engineering and science majors. Some basic signal processing knowledge is nice to have but not a requirement. Basic mathematical programming tools such as Matlab will be used, although other languages/tools are acceptable and not a requirement
Specific outcomes:
By the end of the course, students will demonstrate the ability to:
1. Identify and explain the basic principles and fundamentals of ultrasound necessary for diagnostic ultrasound imaging
2. Explain the main aspects of focused sound beams and the acoustic field produced
3. Identify types of ultrasound transducers, arrays, explain array beamforming
4. Use basic mathematical models and tools to describe ultrasound imaging
5. Use basic ultrasound equipment to take acoustic measurements in the lab
6. Identify the main imaging modalities in diagnostic ultrasound
7. Use diagnostic ultrasound devices to image various parts of the body and measure
blood flow

For further information, contact Mike Averkiou at maverk(at)uw.edu or Kalei Combs at kaleic(at)uw.edu or Eric Wang at ew1(at)uw.edu.

SPR24 Course for DIV Credits: ATM S 100

Spring 2024 Course to Earn DIV Credits

ATM S 100: Climate, Justice, and Energy Solutions
SSc/NSc, DIV (5 cr) – SLN 10592 (plus sign up for a Quiz section)
MTWTh 11:30 AM – 12:20 PM (Synchronous Online)
– Presents visions of the future when the climate crisis is solved. Describes paths towards reaching these goals. Solutions include building a resilient society with clean energy, sustainable agriculture, climate justice, and a just transition for workers.

AMATH 490: New Course for Spring 2024

Spr24 Course AMATH 490 Special Topics:
Mathematical Theory of Information Entropy and Data

SLN 10214 (3 cr) – TTh 1100am-1220pm in ECE 003
Special Topics for Undergraduate and Graduate Students
Instructor: Professor Hong Qian
This course may be used towards the AMATH major elective requirements.

Motivation. There is no doubt that entropy is a fundamental yet highly elusive concept in science and engineering. It is the foundation of Information Theory. The notion first appeared in thermal physics in connection to heat (1865), which we now know represents the random motions of atoms and molecules. The word acquired a new dimension after Claude Shannon’s probabilistic/statistical theory of communication (1948). Since then, questions such as whether these two concepts are the same or different, how are they related or merely a coincidence of naming, have generated endless debate in various communities across a wide spectrum of fields. It is now possible to better understanding the concept of entropy as a mathematical one. Drawing materials from recent progresses in applied probability and stochastic thermodynamics, this course is designed to introduce to students a mathematical understanding of the concept of entropy using undergraduate-level college mathematics. There are wide applications of this mathematics. Beside refining and helping understanding its roles in thermal/statistical physics and engineering theory for communication, one expects it to become an essential element in the upcoming development of a Data Science.

Course Description. The course first introduces the concept of probability distribution of a recurrent nonlinear dynamical systems. Logistic map will be used as a key illustration. I shall show how statistical counting data with “identical distribution” can be used to construct an empirical statistics, which in the limit of “big data” gives the probability distribution. With the statistical data from “identical distribution”, we discuss the identical and independently distributed (i.i.d.) statistics. Based on the theory of probability, the law of large numbers, central limit theorem, and large deviation theory will be introduced as limit theorems. Most importantly, the concept of an entropy function will be established. Entropy function is a measure of the information of an empirical data ad infinitum with respect to a prior probability assumption. Therefore, the concept of information entropy is essential to applied mathematics when one is interested in observables (random variables) and observed values (data). Generating function is a powerful method for dealing with counting statistics. Introducing generating function method to the above entropy theory gives rise to the concept of energy representation, as the “transformation variable” to empirical statistical counting. Again in the limit of big data, Legendre-Fenchel transform appears. When only partial observables are possible from data, the large deviation theory dictates the principle of maximum entropy; and correspondingly in the energy representation, this becomes a “dimension reduction”. Energy is an alternative representation of information in data w.r.t. a prior probability assumption.

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War in the Middle East Lecture Series on Tues in Win24

War in the Middle East Lecture Series (W24 Course & Free Events)

War in the Middle East Lecture Series
– Course is JSIS 478D (2 cr) — Tue 5-6:20 pm in Architecture 147  (SLN 16037)
– Some guest lectures are free and open to the public.
A series of talks and discussions on the aftermath of Oct. 7, the war
in Gaza and responses worldwide.
Moderator: Reşat Kasaba
– Weekly from Jan 16 to Feb 27
– Jan 22 lecture will be held in Kane 210

Questions? Contact jsisadv(At)uw.edu

UW eScience Institute for Students in non-STEM Fields

UW eScience Institute Win24 for Students with Limited Background in Data Science: APPLY by Thursday, January 4, 2024

The UW eScience Institute 2024 Winter School is open to students and lecturers in Global/Public Health, Public Policy, Social Sciences, Social Work, International Relations and Business Management departments who are interested in developing basic skills and knowledge of the tools used in data science. Gaining literacy in topics such as Python, R, Jupyter, and reproducible environments can be beneficial beyond STEM.
– There are no prerequisites to take this course. UW Faculty, undergraduate students and graduate students are welcome to apply.

Questions? contact escienceadmin(at)uw.edu

WIN24 Courses for DIV Credits: AAS 206, AES 151, CHSTU 101

Fascinating Winter 2024 Courses to Earn DIV Credits

All courses count towards the Diversity Minor and may count towards the Areas of Inquiries (SSc) and Diversity (DIV) requirements! If you’re looking for Writing credit let the professor know at the first week of classes.

AAS 206A: Contemporary Issues of Asian & Pacific Islander Americans
SSc/DIV (5 cr) – SLN 10096 
MW 3:30-5:20 PM in SMI 120 (plus sign up for a Quiz section on Fridays)
– Critically examines contemporary Asian and Pacific Islander American issues, ranging from the Cold War era to the present-day America. Topics include ethnic enclaves, community-building, civil rights, identity problems, family conflict, social organizations, political movements, and immigration. Contact instructor Connie So at ccso(at)uw.edu with questions.

AES 151A: Identities, Culture, and Power Across American Ethnic Groups
SSc/DIV (5 cr) – SLN 10160 
TTh 2:30-4:20 PM in KNE 110 (plus sign up for a Quiz section on Fridays)
– Provides an introduction to the major theories, debates, and issues concerning the study of identities and cultures of American ethnic groups as they are constituted through relationships of power. Contact instructor Oliver Rollins at orollins(at)uw.edu with questions.

CHSTU 101A: The Chicano/Mexican Ethnic Experience in the U.S.
SSc/DIV (5 cr) – SLN 12437 
MW 3:30-5:20 PM in SMI 205 (plus sign up for a Quiz section on Fridays)
– Examines the Chicano/Mexican American experience, with a focus on past and contemporary issues of race, ethnicity, and socio-economic status. Contact instructor Oscar Rosales Canañeda at oscarr(at)uw.edu with questions.

WIN24 Writing Studio Course: ENGL 115

ENGL 115 in Win24: Writing Studio Course to Cultivate Language

ENGL 115: Writing Studio
Credit/No Credit (2 cr) – Two sections available
ENGL 115 A / SLN 14204 / TTh 1230-120pm in SWS  036
ENGL 115 C / SLN 14206 / MW 130-220pm in LOW  112

This C/NC writing studio class from the Program in Writing and Rhetoric is designed to give extra support for students in thinking through the language aspect of their writing: grammar, rhetorical choices, understanding complex texts, revision strategies, and ways to navigate cultural and linguistic differences. Multilingual students in a C or W course this quarter should consider taking English 115 alongside their writing course. While this course has traditionally been provided as a service to students who self-identify as multilingual and international students, we encourage all students interested in further cultivating their language and revising skills to consider enrolling in this low-stakes studio course.

WIN24 Course for DIV Credits: ATM S 100

Winter 2024 Course to Earn DIV Credits

ATM S 100: Climate, Justice, and Energy Solutions
SSc/NSc, DIV (5 cr) – SLN 10624 (plus sign up for a Quiz section)
MTWTh 9:30 AM – 10:20 AM in ARC 147
– Presents visions of the future when the climate crisis is solved. Describes paths towards reaching these goals. Solutions include building a resilient society with clean energy, sustainable agriculture, climate justice, and a just transition for workers.

AUT23 ECON Course: Data Science for Game Theory & Pricing

Aut23 ECON 487A: Data Science for Game Theory & Pricing
W 3:30-7:20 pm in THO 125 (SLN 14225)

– ECON 487 is currently restricted to Econ majors, but anyone who is interested can email the instructor to request an add code: Jacob Lariviere at jlarivi1(at)uw.edu.
– If you don’t have the prerequisites but have experience with regressions, the instructor will provide you with an add code.  No prior coding experience required.

– Econ 487 directly teaches applied ML and econometrics coding in R with real datasets like those data scientists work with at large tech companies.
– Instructor Jacob LaRiviere is an executive Director of Economics and Data Science at Amazon.  Prior to Amazon he managed the Economics and Data Science functions at Microsoft Research.  The course is taught so that Jacob would be willing to hire top performers into his and his partners’ groups at Amazon.  He has over eight years of experience with hands on data science and economics work at both Microsoft and Amazon and has demonstrated experience and proficiency in identifying important business questions- such as pricing questions- then using data science and economics to answer them in practical ways while maintaining scientific rigor.
– Students will work with data hands using R applying modern ML tools used at the largest and most sophisticated technology companies in the world.  Examples covered include LASSO/Ridge, Trees/Forests, Light GBM, Debiased Machine Learning, DR-Learners, causal inference and Lifetime Value (LTV) calculus.
– Guest speakers have included the Director of Pitching Analytics for the Seattle Mariners and other Tech executives.

AUT23 Honors Course on AI for A&H/W Credit

Aut23 Honors 394C for A&H & W Credit:
Could ChatGPT teach this class? Exploring the ethical implications of AI 

MW 3:30–5:20 pm in MEB 248 (SLN 23522)
ChatGPT could not teach this course…or rather, it should not. But that doesn’t mean that we don’t have a lot to learn from and about artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI like ChatGPT. The recent explosion of genAI apps and platforms is of course not the beginning, or the end, of the diffusion of AI into our daily lives. Nor are the public debates surrounding the development and public release of this technology ‘new’ exactly. In fact, AI and machine learning (ML) are ubiquitous elements of our 21^st century world – both in digital platforms and IRL. At times, it seems that the trajectory of AI development is outpacing the ability of global societies and citizens to both understand the technology and grapple with the ethical challenges it presents. Yet, we have also been actively debating many aspects of AI ethics for decades – in academic and policy circles, in news and public arenas, as well as through literary and cinematic explorations.

This course takes our current public discussions as a starting point for confronting the complexities of an AI-‘powered’ world. Beginning from some current debates – for example the impacts of genAI in the spheres of education and digital art – we will place these issues and concerns within the context of evolving fields of AI ethics, responsible AI, and AI policy. At the same time, we’ll consider the importance of key concepts from critical social theory (i.e. feminist, critical race, post-colonial, and queer theory) as tools to think critically about difference, inequality and social control. We will read, watch, and listen to a variety of materials – from news articles and policy papers, to academic research and TedTalks, to podcasts and documentaries. The course also includes a unit exploring AI ethics through fictional representations of AI. Across these sources and our class discussions, we will consider many questions, including: How do we weigh the potential benefits of AI against the potential risks and harms that AI magnifies, accelerates, or introduces? What is new and what’s familiar about the power dynamics surrounding the development and deployment of AI systems? What is the current state of AI awareness/AI literacy? How can regulations around data privacy and AI help to prevent harm and protect individual rights?

The course will be discussion driven and students will be expected to be actively engaged in classroom & online discussion spaces.

Interesting AUT23 Courses for A&H or DIV Credits

Autumn 2023 Courses to Earn A&H or DIV Credits:

GWSS 235: Global Feminist Art: A&H/SSc, DIV
T/Th 11:30a-1:20p (5 cr) – SLN 16150 (plus sign up for a Quiz section)
Can art move you to understand the world in different terms? How have feminist artists and critics looked power in the eye? Feminist art challenges norms, embraces multiple media, and exposes inequities rooted in gender, sexuality, race, class, and nationality. It proposes alternative ways of seeing the world. This course takes that premise to the global level, to explore how social categories are constructed across cultures and how the work of feminist art responds to these powerful formations.

GWSS 374: Intro to Transgender Studies – Hybrid: SSc, DIV
T/Th 1:30-3:20p (5 cr) – SLN 16165
What does it mean to look beyond a simplistic binary of “man” and “woman”? With definitions of sex and gender as a starting point, we blur these contested categories, complicating them with sexuality, race, class, ability, history, and location.

SUM23/AUT23 Course on Grad School Preparation: GRDSCH200

Are you a junior or senior curious about, or planning to attend graduate school?  Summer and Autumn course GRDSCH200: Preparing for Graduate Education (2 cr) allows juniors and seniors to explore their interests and learn first-hand from faculty and staff involved in graduate admissions how to find a good program fit and how to prepare effective application materials.  The course will be offered each quarter.

GRDSCH200: Preparing for Graduate Education
Summer 2023 (SLN 11612)
Mondays, 1:10 – 3:20 p.m.
PACCAR Hall (PCAR), Room 295

Autumn 2023 (SLN 16131)

Fridays, 12:30 – 2:20 p.m.

COMMUNICATIONS Building (CMU), Room 120

The 2-credit  CR/NC course seeks to engage students in determining the right “fit” for their individual graduate education goals through three primary objectives:
Investigation:  What is your desire to attend graduate school?
– What you need to know about the graduate school experience
Revelation:  What do graduate school admission committees actually expect?
– Demystify the process
– Personal statements, resumes/CVs and letters of recommendation
Preparation:  How does investigation and revelation lead to finding a “good fit,” and how do you chart a course of action?
– Why do you want to go? When do you want to go? Where do you want to go?
– What do you want to do? How can you do it?

Questions? Contact Katy DeRosier at katyd2(at)uw.edu

ECON 400-level Courses Available in SUM23

ECON 400-level Courses Available in SUM23

If you’ve been wanting to take ECON courses but they’re always full during the academic year, check out their Summer 2023 400-level course availability. Plus, ECON 424, 482, and 485 are being offered online to better accommodate student schedules. ~ Check prerequisites!

ECON 400: Advanced Microeconomics (Term A – In person)
MTWThF 1:10-3:20pm (5 cr) – SLN 11172

ECON 422: Investment, Capital, Finance (Term A – In person)
MTWThF 8:30-10:40am (5 cr) – SLN 11173

ECON 424: Comp Finance/Financial Econometrics (Term A – Online)
TTh 5:30-8:30pm (5 cr) – SLN 11174

ECON 454: Cost/Benefit Analysis (Term A – In person)
MTWThF 10:50-1:00pm (5 cr) – SLN 11175

ECON 482: Econometric Theory & Practice (Full Term – Online)
MW 8:30-10:40am (5 cr) – SLN 11176

ECON 485: Game Theory (Term A – Online)
MTWThF 3:30-5:30pm (5 cr) – SLN 11177

Online SUM23 ESRM Intro to Business Courses for Non-Business Majors

These Summer 2023 Courses require no prerequisites. A student can take one or both courses from a remote location (NO in person attendance is required ever). Both courses are structured similarly and use the same required textbook.

ESRM 320 Marketing and Management From a Sustainability Perspective 
TTh 4:40-6:50pm (5 cr) – SLN 11410, Term A

ESRM 320 explores two of the four primary business foundations: marketing and management. Learning objectives include:
– Explain marketing, management, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability.
– Describe how markets are segmented, targeted, and products positioned to satisfy consumers’ needs and wants.
– Compare techniques for creating value-added products; valuing environmental and social externalities and managing traditional pricing; developing distribution strategies and “greening” the supply chain; and creating and implementing promotion campaigns.
– Define managerial and leadership styles and theories of motivation.
– Summarize the human resource process of recruiting, interviewing, hiring, training, motivating, and evaluating employees.

ESRM 321 Finance and Accounting From a Sustainability Perspective
TTh 4:40-6:50pm (5 cr) – SLN 11411, Term B

ESRM 321 explores two of the four primary business foundations: finance and accounting. Learning objectives include:
– Explain finance, accounting, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability.
– Summarize what money is, counterfeiting deterrence, and financial institutions.
– Explain the functions of the US Federal Reserve System and its monetary policy tools.
– Describe stock markets, investing strategies, and socially responsible investing.
– Analyze financial statements (e.g., balance sheets, income statements) and define corporate financial management.

Interesting Spr23 Courses for A&H Credit

These Spring 2023 courses from the Slavic Dept are fascinating and a good way to earn your A&H credits! No prerequisites for either.

POLSH 320: Community, Gender, Politics: Food in Polish Contemporary Art (A&H or SSc) MW 12:30-2:20pm (5 cr) – SLN 19168

Instructor: Agata Stronciwilk
Why does food appear so often in Polish art? What are the cultural/symbolic meanings of food?  In this class we will discuss the relationship between food and politics, using American and Eastern European artists for context, with work that is thought-provoking and sometimes controversial. We will also design a virtual exhibition connected with the course topic. Bon Appetit! Smacznego!

RUSS 424: Other Voices in Russian Literature (A&H or SSc)
WF 12:30-2:20pm (5 cr) – SLN 19646

Instructor: José Alaniz
TAUGHT IN ENGLISH. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has launched a profound reassessment of how we in the West engage with and teach Russian history, literature and culture. We will examine authors in the Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet empires who speak from outside of or in resistance to its imperialist ethos, many of them representing non-Russian ethnicities, including Chechen, Georgian, Kazakh and Kyrgyz. We will spend a significant portion of the course on contemporary Ukrainian authors and how their works reflect the ongoing tragic conflict sparked by Russian aggression, and discuss what a post-colonial Russian literature might look like. All readings in English translation.

Honors Spr23 Courses Open to All for A&H/W/DIV Credits

You may find these Honors Spring 2023 courses interesting and a good way to earn your A&H, Writing, or DIV Credits! These small, discussion-based seminars are available to all students for registration, and have no prerequisites.

HONORS 394 A: Feminisms in the Borderlands (A&H/SSc, DIV, W)
TTh 1:30-3:20pm (5 cr) – SLN 15323

– Course examines the forms in which Chicana and Latina feminist practices of the art of solidarity are embodied, including theoretical texts, poetry, music, & other creative works. We consider how feminist theory has transformed and been transformed by intellectual, poetic, and aesthetic traditions as it moves throughout the U.S. borderlands and across Abya Yala (known as North, Central, and South America). Each meeting consists of a brief lecture, discussion break-out groups, a mid-way break, and a viewing/listening to relevant film, media or audio texts, guest speaker, or assignment workshop. This quarter is linked to the Sound Collaboratory Symposium and Yale University Professor Daphne Brooks’s Distinguished Katz Lecture. Brooks is author of Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound.

HONORS 232 C: The Ecology of Urban Seattle (SSc, W)
MW 10:30am-12:20pm (5 cr) – SLN 21296

– Through classroom and field experiences, examine the social, design, political, and ecological factors in urban systems that promote healthy urban neighborhoods and the integration of urban communities and ecological realities. Use these interactions to gain a deeper awareness of how these systems function in relationship to each other, to social and economic diversity, and to growth management and climate change. Use a Race and Social Justice (RSJ) screen as a key element in evaluating how communities are shaped.

HONORS 232 D: Locating Race and Racism (SSc, DIV, W)
MW 1:30-3:20pm (5 cr) – SLN 21308

– Course is an immersive class intended to increase awareness of events that have both shaped and disrupted systems of racism and oppression in the U.S. We will examine historical context, engage in opportunities for self-reflection and dialogue, and explore how to take action and make contributions both personally and professionally.

HONORS 391 A: Climate Change: An Interdisciplinary Perspective: Science, Art, and Activism (A&H/SSc/Nsc, W)
TTh 12:30-2:20pm (5 cr) – SLN 15322

– Course investigates the science of climate change in the context of social and political constraints. It further explores the role of art and activism in communicating climate impacts and catalyzing change. Students gain knowledge of key atmospheric and ocean science principles including the impact of science and uncertainty on social change and the climate crisis. We use our understanding of climate science to explore how scientists, artists and musicians connect climate science to emotional engagement and activism. Climate change has social justice ramifications for communities and nations, as well as the scientists doing research. In studying climate change, students will develop skills for critically evaluating the popular portrayal of scientific concepts and their role in policy debates as a way to gain a deeper appreciation for the complexity of developing sustainable and just adaptations to the climate crisis.

Spr23 Course ECON 432 Empirical Industrial Organization of interest to AMATH/CFRM

Spr23 course of interest to AMATH/CFRM majors:

ECON 432 Empirical Industrial Organization
MW 9:30-11:20am (5 cr) – SLN 21338

– Interested students who may not meet the prerequisites but feel they would be qualified to take the course can email the instructor: Yuya Takahashi at ytakahas(at)uw.edu
– Course covers core topics in industrial organization, such as competition and market structure, product differentiation, entry and exit, cartel, and consumer dynamics.
– Course also discusses several empirical and numerical methods used in economics and then applies them to the analysis of recent antitrust issues. Specifically, we learn
estimation of demand and supply, and computation of equilibrium of oligopolistic models. Then, we apply these methods to simulating mergers, which were recently proposed or already took place in the US and Europe. We evaluate the welfare impact of these mergers.
– While we will be using STATA to perform some analysis, this is not a STATA focused course and prior knowledge of STATA is not required.
– There is no required textbook for this course.

Bird Friendly UW Research Project Needs Volunteers for Spr2023

Bird Friendly UW Research Project Seeks Wildlife Monitoring Volunteers
SIGN UP to Assist Researchers in Spring 2023

The Bird Friendly UW project, funded by the Campus Sustainability Fund, monitors bird collisions with buildings on UW’s Seattle campus, in order to support a long-term goal of finding design-based solutions and identifying which species in the area are most vulnerable to collisions. Volunteering is a great way for students to practice bird identification, while also gaining experience in a research setting.

– Volunteers will walk the perimeter of a set of campus buildings on a route of less than 90 minutes, and record details about birds that have collided with a glass surface.
–Volunteers can sign up for one or more routes per week and start monitoring at the start of Spring quarter.
– Students and community members are encouraged to volunteer. No prior experience is required!
– In Spring 2023, project organizers will offer ARCH 499: Conservation Design – Preventing Bird Building Collisions (Wed 6:30-8:00pm) for students interested in learning more about preventing bird collisions, sustainable architecture, and urban conservation efforts.

Questions? Contact Research Assistant Anya Gavrylko (annagavv(at)uw.edu) or Project Lead Judy Bowes (jbowes2(at)uw.edu)

Physics of Life Summer School 2023 at Princeton: Apply by 3/31

Physics of Life Summer School 2023 at Princeton University
APPLY by Friday, March 31, 2023

– Intense 2-week summer school for undergraduate students
– Held on Princeton University campus
– From June 19-30, 2023
– No cost to students. All local expenses will be covered.
– Primary target is Physics majors in  the second half of their undergraduate program, but a wide range of students have attended and enjoyed the course.

The school is sponsored by the Center for the Physics of Biological Function (CPBF), and NSF Physics Frontiers Center, which is a partnership between Princeton and The CUNY Graduate Center. Bringing the physicists’ perspective to the beautiful and complex phenomena of life is exciting, and we have a large group of faculty who will be communicating this excitement to the students with lectures, seminars, and hands-on exercises. At the same time we try to reinforce and fill in background material, both in physics and in biology. Examples will be drawn from a wide range of biological systems, across all scales from molecules to animal behavior, and this diversity of topics is tied together by the search for underlying physical principles.

Interesting SUM23 Courses for A&H or DIV Credits

You may find these Summer 2023 Courses interesting and a good way to earn your A&H or DIV Credits!

CMS 297 Special Topics (A&H) in Sum A term
MTWTh 9:20-11:20am (5 cr) – SLN 14150

This “Seattle Sound: Musical Media in the Pacific Northwest” course explores responses to punk rock across visual and sonic media in the Pacific Northwest in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Through objects like zines and records, we will track the emergence of a strong regional DIY (do-it-yourself) culture in alternative or underground media. We will study the independent media infrastructure this culture fostered, giving rise to legendary “indie” record labels like K Records and Sub Pop. In the second half of the course, we will examine the role this infrastructure played in defining the so-called Seattle Sound, or grunge, and reevaluate the mainstreaming of this style in the 1990s, when bands like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Soundgarden came to dominate the national airwaves. Email markrodg(at)uw.edu if you have questions.

DRAMA 491 Puppetry (A&H) in Sum A term
MWF 9:40-11:50am (5 cr) – SLN 11127

– Puppetry is very much alive in the world – and it is not just for children!  This class will explore modern puppetry in live performance.  You will learn about the field of puppetry from readings, interviews, video clips and entire films.  You will read, analyze and write about puppetry, as well as designing, building and performing with puppets.  Some of the forms we will explore include shadow puppetry, toy theatre, hand-and-rod puppets, and bunraku-style puppets.

MUSIC 120 Survey of Music (A&H) in Sum A term
MTWTh 8:30-10:40am (5 cr) – SLN 12443

– Online course, with lectures offered synchronously, but recorded and available to students. Studies in listening, with emphasis on the changing components of Western art music. Illustrated lectures, laboratory section meetings, and presentations by guest artists.
– Questions? Contact Leann Martin at lwheless(at)uw.edu. Contact instructor for add code: Stephen Rumph at srumph(at)uw.edu

AAS 392 Asian American and Pacific Islander Women (DIV, SSc)
MTWThF 10:50-1:00pm (5 cr) – SLN 10021

– Offered jointly with GWSS 392
– Explores the intersection of race, ethnicity, gender, class, and sexuality in the lives of Asian American and Pacific Islander women. Examines how forces such as immigration, colonialism, sovereignty, labor, family, gender roles and relations, community, war, homeland politics, transnationalism and social movements shaped and were shaped by these women.
– Questions? Contact aesadvising(at)uw.edu

TAGLG 134 Intensive Basic Tagalog (A&H)
MTWThF 9:40-1:00pm (15 cr) – SLN 13803

– Want to learn Tagalog and earn 15 credits A&H? Intensive introduction to the Filipino language and culture. Uses language through speaking, listening, reading, and writing at the novice level. Explores language structures, appropriate forms of address, and vocabulary for communication.
– Questions? Contact aesadvising(at)uw.edu

SWA 134 Intensive Basic Swahili (A&H)
MTWThF 9:40-1:00pm (15 cr) – SLN 13627

– Want to learn Swahili and earn 15 credits A&H? Learn to read, write, and speak in basic Swahili. You’ll learn more words than “Simba” and “Hakuna Mattata” from Lion King. Yes, we’ll even plan to sing, dance, and learn about the people from Eastern Africa where Swahili is spoken.
– Questions? Contact aesadvising(at)uw.edu

Interesting SPR23 Courses for A&H or DIV Credits

You may find these Spring 2023 Courses interesting and a good way to earn your A&H or DIV Credits!

HSTCMP 356A Black Freedom Movements in the 19th Century (DIV, SSc)
TTh 2:30-4:20pm (5 cr) – SLN 21686

– By engaging with the transnational dimensions of Black liberation movements, this course will explore both the local and global impacts and reverberations of distinct, yet connected, movements for Black freedom across the period.
– Course begins with the 1772 court case of an enslaved man named James Somerset that established the free soil principle in England and ends with Haitian and Dominican resistance to the U.S. occupation of Hispaniola in the 1910s.
– Each class highlights an individual movement for Black freedom during the century, ranging from the efforts that formerly enslaved people took to assert their right to natural resources in post-abolition Colombia to Ethiopians’ struggles against colonial encroachment that culminated in the First Italo-Ethiopian War. Students will be assigned readings by Black scholars and activists on the history and legacies of these and other liberation movements.

AES 212 Comparative American Ethnic Literature (DIV, SSc, A&H)
TTh 8:30-10:20am (5 cr) – SLN 10161

– Reviews selected texts by African American, American Indian, Asian American, Chicano/Latino, and Euro American writers. Includes a comparison of how texts envision and interpret a diverse American culture and social, political relations among peoples of the U.S. Explore the power of cultural agency in the creation of America’s literature.
– Questions? Contact aesadvising(at)uw.edu

SMEA 103 Oceans & Society (DIV, SSc/NSc): ONLINE
MWF 1:30-2:50pm (5 cr) – SLN 19703

– Offered jointly with ENVIR 103/JSIS B 103
– This online course explores the social and policy dimensions of the ocean environment and ocean management policy. Pays attention to how human values, institutions, culture, and history shape environmental issues and policy responses. Examines case studies and influential frameworks, such as the ocean as “tragedy of the commons.”
– Questions? Contact Michaela Miller at mcski(at)uw.edu

BE 211 Global History of the Built Environment II (A&H/SSc): IN-PERSON
MWF 10:00-11:20am (5 cr) – SLN 10883

– No prerequisites required
– Instructor: Babita Joy — bjoy(at)uw.edu
– This in-person course critically examines built environments from 1000 CE through today from a  global perspective. It encourages thinking about history in a transnational and transgeographical manner that challenges the canonical approach that has generally privileged Western material and master narratives. The course is broadly structured around the  concept of “time cuts” that allow for comparisons across regions and cultural formations.  It will address a diverse set of sites and structures in an effort to offer a robust  presentation of material from both Western and non-Western contexts. Architecture, landscapes, and urban plans constitute the built environments under consideration.

GWSS 290 A Special Topics in Women Studies: Body Politics (DIV/SSc)
MW 10:30am-12:20pm (5 cr) – SLN 15160

– No prerequisites required
– Introduction to foundational concepts in feminist inquiry by focusing on the socio-historical positionality of the body in terms of gender, sexuality, race, class, and disability. The course examines systemic power through which bodies are politicized and regulated. We further explore resistance and counternarrative embodied by groups and peoples historically and contemporarily held furthest from justice. How is something so intimate as the body shaped by political, economic, scientific, cultural, and community norms as well as resistance to normative politics? Through varied methodologies, this class examines how bodies are made through cultural systems and structures (e.g., media, medicine).

GWSS 490 A Special Topics in Women Studies: Queering CRT (DIV/SSc)
MW 1:30-3:20pm (5 cr) – SLN 15177

– Instructor video intro to course (Instagram)
– Recommended: either GWSS 200, GWSS 302, or previous coursework in feminist studies.
– This course grad/undergrad-level course explores intersectionality via contemporary (2020-23) cultural battles over Critical Race Theory (CRT) and gender in schools, healthcare, the family, and in state and local government. Race and gender co-create one another, they are not static; rather, social, cultural, and political mechanisms constantly construct, reinforce, and perpetuate them. Students delve into race and gender as ever-moving political processes queering the debates surrounding CRT and gender, disrupting the fictitious distance between the two. Queerly we ask, how do racism and cissexism continue to shape the U.S. sociopolitical landscape?

Spr23 CELE Center Courses to Tutor Local K-12 Students

Tutor Local K-12 Students and Earn UW Credit in SPR23
CELE Center Courses

*** Great opportunity to list on resume and/or grad school applications!
Interested in educational equity and gaining direct-service experience working with K-12 students? The Community Engagement and Leadership Education (CELE) Center is offering opportunities for UW students to engage with local schools and earn credit!

–  Spring 2023 courses are variable I&S credit, count towards the Education and Leadership minors and are graded CR/NC.
EDUC 260: Equity Issues in K-12 Education (Mon 11:30a-12:50p, 1 cr)
– required for first-time tutors/mentors in combination with EDUC 401A or EDUC 401B
EDUC 401A: Mentor Field Experience (meets biweekly Wed 11:30a-12:50p, 1-3 cr)
– support high school students with college access and post-secondary planning
EDUC 401B: Tutor Field Experience (meets biweekly Wed 4:00-5:20p, 1-6 cr)
– support K-12 students with academic tutoring

Questions about enrollment or curriculum? Email celecenter@uw.edu.

SPR23 1 cr Course on UN Sustainable Development & UW Research

SPR23 Course on UN Sustainable Development Goals (1 cr)
GENST 297A (SLN 14939): Tue 1:30-2:20pm in Gowen 201

Achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: Global Goals, Local Actions
The Office of Global Affairs and Population Health Initiative are partnering to offer this 1 credit General Studies course (graded CR/NC)  that will introduce students to the UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals, research at the UW aligned with those goals, and the role the goals play in improving population health, societies, and the environment, both locally and globally.

Through this course, students will:
– Describe the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
– Discuss current status of the SDGs worldwide
– Compare how the U.S. and Washington State perform on the SDGs
– Explore the multidisciplinary breadth of expertise, research, and programs that is required to achieve the SDGs
– Create actionable steps to learn more about the SDGs

FACILITATORS
Yen-Chu Weng, Program on the Environment, yweng(at)uw.edu
Anita Ramasastry, School of Law & Office of Global Affairs, arama(at)uw.edu
Arti Shah, Population Health Initiative, artishah(at)uw.edu
Taylor Jolliffe, Population Health Initiative, tjoll10(at)uw.edu

W23 CELE Center Courses to Tutor Local K-12 Students

Tutor Local K-12 Students and Earn UW Credit in Win23
CELE Center Courses

*** Great opportunity to list on resume and/or grad school applications!
Interested in educational equity and gaining direct-service experience working with K-12 students? The Community Engagement and Leadership Education (CELE) Center is offering opportunities for UW students to engage with local schools and earn credit!

–  Winter 2023 courses are variable I&S credit, count towards the Education and Leadership minors and are graded CR/NC.
EDUC 260: Equity Issues in K-12 Education (M 11:30a-12:50p, 1 cr)
– required for first-time tutors/mentors in combination with EDUC 401A or EDUC 401B
EDUC 401A: Mentor Field Experience (W 11:30a-12:50p, 1-3 cr)
– support high school students with college access and post-secondary planning
– mentorship event dates and times will vary and will fall outside of the EDUC 401A class time
EDUC 401B: Tutor Field Experience (W 4:00-5:20p, 1-6 cr)
– support K-12 students with academic tutoring
– tutoring hours will take place outside of the EDUC 401B class time

Questions about enrollment or curriculum? Email celecenter@uw.edu.

Population Health Research Course in Win23

GEN ST 391D: Research Exposed Population Health Course in Win23
Wed 12:30-1:20pm in PCAR 391: 1 credit (SLN 15307)

** AMATH majors: This could be a great way to get involved in current research as an undergraduate student assistant!
The Winter 2023 Research Exposed course will feature UW faculty from a wide range of academic disciplines who do population health-related work.
– This course may be taken for credit (1 credit/quarter, 3 quarters max.)
– Each lecture is open to interested faculty, students, staff, alumni, and community members.
– Check out the scheduled speakers and topics!

Research Exposed! is co-sponsored by the Undergraduate Research Program (URP), the Population Health Initiative (PHI), the Odegaard Undergraduate Library, and Undergraduate Academic Affairs.

Join UW Gospel Choir for A&H Credit During the Winter Months

UW Gospel Choir MUSEN 100 B
1 cr A&H / Mon 6:30-8:20pm / SLN 17976 

Do you need A&H credit, or love to sing, or who need balance in your Winter schedule?

No audition is required!  Just register, show up, and sing music from the African American Gospel tradition, under the direction of Phyllis Byrdwell.  The course is graded C/NC and can be repeated multiple times for credit. It provides an experience of an important, influential musical style within a welcoming community.  No prior musical experience required or expected!

Winter quarter can be hard for a lot of students.  Joining any UW ensembles can be a great way for students to form connections and community, which are so valuable during the dark months of the year.

Need GenEd Credits? Consider Landscape Architecture in W23

Landscape Architecture Courses in Winter 2023 for GenEd Credits
Open to All Majors

Contact Jennie Li, jencyli(at)uw.edu for add codes.

L ARCH 353: Histories of Modern Landscape Architecture
MWF 11:30-12:50 / SLN: 16438
(5 cr) A&H / SSc + Writing
This course explores landscape sites, systems, and symbols from the early nineteenth century until the present moment, stressing the intersections and entanglements of history with current politics, experiences and ecologies. We will interrogate historic narratives and examine both familiar and new landscapes, while re-centering global geographies and marginalized voices that help us make relevant the past in our Anthropocene “now.” Through creative exercises, diverse media and collaborative processes, we will critically examine the writing, production, and performance of landscape and its histories thematically through the diverse lenses of: power and ownership; memory and representation; knowledge and experience; labor and production; materiality and technological innovation; climate disruption and social change; identity and emotion; and race, class and gender.

L ARCH 361: Human Experience of Place: (Re) Thinking Urbanism
TTh 10-11:20 / SLN: 16440
(3 cr) A&H / SSc + Diversity
This course will examine the human experience of place in the context of urbanism(s). Urbanism(s) as the study of cities, a field of practices, and a way of living could shed some light to address not only the physical forms but also the social and political forces that shape the built environment and the complexity of cities. As a survey course, it investigates different paradigms and visions of urban space with contested meanings, the social and political processes of placemaking, and the everyday experiences and imaginaries. Through the idea of urbanism(s), this course explores the urban environment as a continuum of ideas, movements, processes, and change. Cases and design practices around the world are introduced to understand the various social and spatial forces that come into play in the contemporary urban environment.

L ARCH 498C: Perceptions of Nature in the Dense City
Wed 6-8:50 PM / SLN: 16448 (3 cr)
There is a current trend to design green environments and infrastructure in dense cities, which claim to be “Natural” or “representing Nature.” What is the “Nature” that designers and planners are referring to – and for what purpose? Is Nature a pristine condition in an untouched environment or can it be a hybridization of human and natural systems? How do such definitions and perceptions impact both professional approaches, and the public acceptance of new design idioms? Through lectures, readings and experimentations, this class will explore various perceptions and definitions of Nature associated with contemporary design projects of green infrastructures in the context of climate change. Independent research and case study will allow students to choose and investigate one particular aspect of these topics.

L ARCH 498D: Human Development for Designers
Tue 6-8:50 PM / SLN: 16449 (3 cr)
This seminar is designed to provide students with an overview of human development from birth to end of life. Providing future design professionals with a footing in human development and its relevance to built environments, from birth to end of life enriches design decisions by giving students a better understanding of how people grow and change throughout our lives, resulting in more thoughtful, adaptive, and inclusive designs. A final major assignment will be completed on an individual basis and weekly in class group work and information sharing will factor into the course structure.

WIN23 Courses for A&H, DIV, W Credit

Need General Ed Credits in Winter 2023?  Consider these courses!

ENGL 285 – Writers on Writing
T/Th 12:30 – 2:20 PM | OUG 136 | 5 credits
SLN: 14486; A&H
Great class for students of all majors who harbor a love of reading and writing, or those who are just curious about how poets and novelists create their work. In past years, I’ve had students from nearly every major and ranging from freshman to senior. Class will meet in person, although some visiting writers will join over Zoom. This large class will be broken into smaller pods to provide a sense of community, to share and receive feedback on their own experiments in writing poetry, fiction, and memoir, and to discuss issues raised by the assigned readings. On their own time, students will watch recordings of a wide variety of writers lecturing or reading from their work, read widely, and participate in online discussion forums.
Questions? Contact Prof. Maya Sonenberg at mayas(at)uw.edu

Course pairing offered through American Ethnic Studies and the Program for Writing Across Campus (PWAC) for students who are interested in social justice issues, who might thrive in a small learning community, and/or who are seeking to fulfill their Diversity or C/W credits. These two courses will explore how the memory of Japanese American incarceration remains a site of struggle in the present, because of what it means for national history and Japanese American collective identity, and because of its implications for current struggles over immigrants’ rights, Islamophobia, and mass incarceration.

AAS 372 – Japanese American Incarceration
T/Th 10:30 AM – 12:20 PM | HCK 132 | 5 credits
SLN: 10101; , SSc, DIV
This course surveys this history and explores the terms of political struggle and cultural memory that animate contemporary debates.

ENGL 298E – Writing in the Humanities
T/Th  2:30 – 3:50 PM | THO 331 | 5 credits
SLN: 22286; C or W
This course enriches these inquiries into AAS 372 course content through writing and research opportunities in a small, interactive, and well-supported class community.

Women in Science Society Registration Panel – 11/09

Women in Science Society Registration Panel
Wed, November 9, 2022 at 6:00pm in HUB 332

– Academic advisors from various STEM departments will provide advice and answer your questions about registration and navigating the school year
– Meet advisors and build connections
– Open to all!

 

Aut22 Course: Visualizing Seattle

Autumn 2022 Course GEOG 495 A: Visualizing Seattle 

Open now to students outside the Geography major! Are you interested in data visualizations and storytelling about Seattle?  The course is taught by a 2-time winner of the Department of Geography Undergraduate Students’ Award for Faculty Excellence in Teaching, Professor Gunwha Oh!  No prerequisites or prior experience necessary, but there will be projects that involve data wrangling, Python & JavaScript coding.

GEOG 495 A “Visualizing Seattle” (5 credits)
Instructor: Gunwha Oh
MWF 1:30-2:20pm with lab sections on TTh
Location: BNS 117
SLN: 16092
This is a creative geovisualization course and students explore more-than-Cartesian ways of representing human spatial experiences of flow, time, emotions, etc. as Seattleites. In the course, students will conduct four unique projects by exploring the city, collaborating, working with data, coding, creating a visualization, and telling a story of their findings.

Aut22 Course: Material & Cultural Bias in Algorithmic Systems

Are you interested in differentiating bias from datasets, posing questions about machine learning algorithms, and hands-on projects that bring your own discipline into your work?

Aut22: DXARTS 485 Material & Cultural Bias in Algorithmic Systems

*** Reach out to Afroditi Psarra apsarra(at)uw.edu directly for add codes. ***

DXARTS 485: Material & Cultural Bias in Algorithmic Systems (SLN 23298)
Mon/Wed 2:30-4:20pm in McMahon 8 (D062A)
VLPA credit — 5 credits — No prerequisites!
Instructor: Afroditi Psarra
This project-based course examines the merging of data science and arts and design practices. Drawing from a range of theoretical texts and artistic works, and weaving together textile and statistics, literatures, we will read, analyze, and theorize bias. This class emphasizes the mingling of ideas, multiple interpretations, and translations to critically represent, express, and challenge biased datasets and skewed machine learning systems.

Aut22 Course: Data Science for Game Theory & Pricing

CFRM Majors! Check out this Aut22 course:
ECON 487 Data Science for Game Theory & Pricing

*** The course is currently restricted to ECON majors, but interested CFRM/AMath majors can email the instructor the week before the A22 quarter begins to request an add code: jlarivi1(at)uw.edu.

ECON 487A – Data Science for Game Theory & Pricing (SLN 14230)
Wed 3:30-7:20pm in GWN 201
Instructor: Jacob LaRiviere
In addition to being an affiliate faculty in the Economics Department at UW, Jacob is a Director of Economics and Data Science at Amazon.  Prior to Amazon he managed the Economics and Data Science function at Microsoft in the Office of the Chief Economist.  He has over seven years of experience with hands on data science and economics work at both Microsoft and Amazon and has demonstrated experience and proficiency in identifying important business questions then using data science and economics to answer them in practical ways while maintaining scientific rigor.  In this course you will work with data hands using R applying modern ML tools used at the largest and most sophisticated technology companies in the world.  After the course, you will be very marketable to employers and graduate programs.  Previous students who have taken and done well in this course have gone on to jobs at places like Amazon, Microsoft, BlackRock, and Hulu and graduate programs like Columbia, Carnegie Mellon, U of Chicago, Cambridge and Oxford.  He has over 20 peer reviewed publications in Econ, Management and CS outlets and has co-edited top field journals in Economics and served on the program committee of conferences like ACM’s Economics and Computation.  He has also won multiple teaching awards.

AUT22 Courses for VLPA, DIV, I&S Credit

Need General Ed Credits in Autumn 2022?  Consider these courses!

AAS 401B – Asian American Literature To The 1940s
MW 1:30 – 3:20 PM | Condon Hall 101 | 5 credits
SLN: 23671; VLPA, DIV
This isn’t your grandma’s Asian American literature class! Actually, maybe it’s your great-grandma’s. But she and great-grandpa were a little wilder than anybody told you, back in the day. Early Asian American literature is full of hard-drinking radicals, sharp dressers, dreamy nonconformists, and dangerous, badass women. Expect some surprises!
Asian American literature from nineteenth-century immigrants to the 1940s. Emphasis on Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino writings detailing the experience and sensibility of first generation immigrants. Early twentieth-century writing focus on the development not only of Asian American community, but also of second generation American-born Asian American writers.

CHSTU 330A – Chicano/Chicana Autobiography
T/Th 10:30 AM – 12:20 PM | Chemistry Library Building 015 | 5 credits
SLN: 12817; I&S
This course is intended to examine the Chicana/o experience as portrayed in autobiographical texts. An introduction covering the history, antecedents, formal aspects, and development of both autobiographical expression, in general, and Chicano literature and culture will establish the theoretical framework for the course. Afterwards, analysis and discussion of the assigned texts will occupy the main focus of the class. Selected theory and criticism texts will also be read and discussed. The main authors to be studied are Oscar Z. Acosta, Ernesto Galarza, Cleofas Jaramillo, Luis Pérez, and Richard Rodriguez.

AFRAM 405A – Advanced African American Studies In Social Science – #BLACKLIVESMATTER in Historical Context
M 3:30 – 6:20 PM | Comms Building 243 | 5 credits
SLN: 10175; I&S, DIV
*Note: instructor prefers you complete AES150 or AES151 before registering for the course.
Advanced study of racial formation, Black cultural production, and resistance among people of African descent throughout the Diaspora. Social science theories and methods used to examine various topics, including social scientific analysis of political history; social movements; intellectual traditions; theory; and intersections with urban, digital and legal studies; race, science, and biopolitics; public health and environmental studies.

ENTRE 443 in AUT22: Environmental Innovation Course

Environmental Innovation Practicum (ENTRE 443, ENGR 498, ENVIR 495)
Tuesdays 4 – 5:50 pm in PCAR 391

This environmental innovation practicum is instructed by Chris Metcalfe [linkedin.com], president and co-founder of Korvata [korvata.com], a company he was inspired to create as a student in this class! Each week you’ll fill your toolbox with new skills and problem-solving experience while also engaging with guest speakers from multiple industries. This 2 credit/no credit course is open to all levels of undergraduates and graduate students providing a great opportunity for these groups of students to connect. An idea you work on as part of the class could even gain enough traction to do well in the Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge.

Questions? E-mail Lauren Brohawn at brohal@uw.edu.

Forage: Free Virtual Internships/Work Experience Programs

The Career & Internship has a new resource: Forage provides job simulations and employer challenges, mostly in business, tech, and law.

Virtual Work Experience Programs are online programs built and endorsed by leading companies. They contain a series of resources and tasks designed to simulate the real-world experience of starting a career.
– Virtual Internships are open to all students (no applications!)
– You can’t make any mistakes in a Virtual Internship (no pressure!)
– Virtual Internships are digital — you can complete them in your own time, from anywhere in the world

 

KPMG Data Analytics Virtual Experience Program

In this online program, you will learn what it’s like working at one of the world’s best data analytics team, and build skills required to excel as a analytics consultant.
–> Start a module in a core practice area. Get video instructions from KPMG supervisor. Complete task & upload work to platform. Compare your work with KPMG model answers.
1) Data Quality Assessment: Assessment of data quality and completeness in preparation for analysis
2) Data Insights: Targeting high value customers based on customer demographics and attributes.
3) Data Insights and Presentation: Using visualizations to present insights

SAP Technical Consulting Virtual Experience Program

Serving 440,000+ customers in more than 180 countries, including 92% of Forbes Global 2000 companies, you will practice leveraging industry, application, and technical knowledge to help SAP customers achieve their most ambitious IT goals. How do you learn to identify technical issues and develop system solutions for the deployment and ongoing support of cloud-based products? We will help you understand how to manage technical performance expectations and act as a trusted advisor. At SAP, we are looking for those who want to ensure customers stay on top of trends and thrive in the digital economy.
1) Assemble the Data: Choose the right data source(s) to help you solve the client’s problem.
2) Data Analysis: Build a dashboard to explore the data of Fond Rouge.
3) Present the Results: Demonstrate your findings in a video presentation.

Commonwealth Bank Careers in Tech Virtual Learning Portal

Learn what a career in technology might look like with one of Australia’s leading financial institutions. Throughout this program, you will experience some of the tasks that people with innovation and technology careers do in their everyday job.

Design (UI & UX)
1) Spot the bad User Experience (UX)

2) Design wireframes for an app

Software Engineering

1) An Introduction to Software Engineering & Mythbusting

2) Software Engineering – Website Coding

Cyber Security
1) Social Engineering: Can you be an ethical hacker? Test the security of a company against a social engineering attack.
2) Forensics: Ever wanted to be a digital investigator? Criminals and baddies leave traces – digital forensics is the art of finding them.
3) Reverse Engineering: Have a flair for code? Can you understand what a malicious piece of software is trying to do?
Data Science & Analytics

1) Using Data to Build a Successful Business

2) Ethics in Data Analytics: Understand the ethical considerations behind the collection and use of data.
AI/Robotics

1) Social Robotics: Design the gesturing and audio of a new customer experience robot for the bank.

2) Artificial Intelligence ChatBot: Write a program to help the banks new ChatBot respond to customers.

Accenture Project Management Virtual Experience Program

The Keeping Track project management virtual experience captures essentials that are paramount to project management (PM) roles. This course highlights the benefits of various PM methodologies and will teach you characteristics of an effective project manager.
1) Understand the approaches to PM: Associating projects to the most suitable project management approach.
2) Prepare a proposal for the optimal PM approach: Rationalize and create a presentation on your proposed approach.
3) Identify the key attributes of a good project manager or project lead: Analyzing the role of project manager.
4) Importance of communication in PM: Applying the skills of the role of a project manager.

Cognizant Artificial Intelligence Virtual Experience Program

As part of Cognizant Digital Business, Cognizant’s AI and Data Analytics Practice provides advanced data collection and management expertise, as well as artificial intelligence and analytics capabilities that help clients create highly personalized digital experiences, products and services at every touchpoint of the customer journey. During this program, you’ll learn how to perform exploratory data analysis, communicate results of a machine learning model, implement algorithm production, and review algorithm performance.
1) Exploratory Data Analysis: Exploring customer data to identify next steps
2) Data Modeling: Understanding relational data and framing a problem statement
3) Model Building and Interpretation: Building a predictive model and interpreting the results back to the business
4) Machine Learning Production: Developing machine learning algorithms for production
5) Quality Assurance: Evaluating the production machine learning model to ensure quality results

Data Visualization: Empowering Business with Effective Insights

You will gain insight into how our passionate multi-disciplinary experts solve some of the most complex business problems using data visualization solutions, such as Tableau and Power BI and create amazing stories which are hidden under the mountains of data generated. The program will show you what kind of problems are solved at Tata Insights and Quants on a day-to-day basis and will attempt to emulate the challenges you will be facing.
1) Framing the Business Scenario: Learn how to anticipate the questions your business leaders will need answers to
2) Choosing the Right Visuals: Learn which visuals are most effective in a given scenario
3) Creating Effective Visuals: Apply your under and create visuals based on business scenarios
4) Communicating Insights and Analysis: Effectively communicate your findings and explain how it relates to each scenario

Telstra Cybersecurity Virtual Experience Program

During this program, you will get the opportunity to step into the shoes of a Telstra team member and complete tasks that replicate the work that our Cybersecurity team does every day. You’ll learn how to communicate, mitigate and reflect on a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
1) Responding to a malware attack: An alert has come into the Security Operation Centre (SOC). Triage the alert and respond to the malware attack by contacting the appropriate team.
2) Analyzing the attack: Analyze the data of the malware attack to identify how the malware spreads. Find patterns used by the attacker so that we can prepare a firewall rule to stop the spread of the virus.
3) (Technical) Mitigate the malware attack: Using the patterns you’ve identified, use Python to write a firewall rule to technically mitigate the malware from spreading.
4) Incident Postmortem: Now that the incident has been resolved, create a postmortem to reflect on the details of the incident.

AUT22 Course TXTDS 267: Data Science & the Humanities

Interested in Data Science and still need VLPA credit?  This is a new Textual & Digital Studies course for AUT22!

TXTDS 267: Data Science and the Humanities (5 cr VLPA)
Mon/Wed 10:30am – 12:20pm in CDH 110B

Do humanistic questions have a place in the field of data science? Conversely, are methods from data science useful for the study of literary classics, famous works of art, or historical debates? And how can humanities approaches help us address issues of bias and exclusion in an increasingly technology-driven world? This course tackles such broad issues while offering an introduction to a range of approaches and methodologies within the growing field of humanities data science. Topics will include data bias, text digitization and encoding, digital archives and content repositories, data visualization, network analysis, and statistical modeling. During the course, we will work with and analyze a range of digital resources, including online libraries, digital editions, visualization and mapping platforms, text analysis packages, and creative projects.  The final project for the course will involve building a dataset or using a digital tool to address a humanistic question. This is an in-person, discussion-based class.

** Learn more about the new Minor in Textual Studies & Digital Humanities.

EDUC 215 & 216 in AUT22: Wellness & Resilience Courses

Have you been struggling with academics, shifting back from virtual learning, and/or all the challenges around the multiple pandemics?  Are you interested in growing your professional skills?  Do you want personal growth, to live your best life at UW and beyond?

EDUC 215 Wellness and Resilience for College and Beyond (5 cr)

In-person lectures: Thur 2:30-5:20pm with 1 hr in-person Quiz section on Fri
OR…
Virtual lectures: Wed 11:30am-2:20pm with 1 hr in-person Quiz section on Fri
– Asynchronous accommodations for lecture can be coordinated (synchronous in person participation in the one hour quiz section on Fridays is required).

The class will be helpful for first year and/or transfer students to get started out with tips and tools to make the most out of their time at UW! It is also great for seniors as they prepare to graduate and enter the workforce!  In EDUC 215, particular focus is paid to skills that help students withstand common difficulties in life, like a disagreement with a loved one, tolerating doing work you don’t want to do, and managing negative emotions in a healthy way. Skills will include but will not be limited to mindfulness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills. Students will also learn about research underlying stress, resilience, and related skill areas.

EDUC 216: Thriving on the Path to Happiness (5cr)

Wed 2:20-5:20pm with 1 hr Quiz section on Fri

Already took EDUC 215 (formerly EDUC 200 for the 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 school years)?  The new course EDUC 216 will follow the same format as EDUC 215 and build on the skills learned in the first class to help students experience more joy, build stronger relationships, cultivate a growth mindset, and increase opportunities for success and development in personal and professional endeavors.

CSE Course Series Replaced in Autumn 2022

Allen School Announces CSE 121/122/123  to Replace CSE 142/143

The Allen School is moving their CSE 142/143 course series to CSE 121/122/123 starting in Autumn 2022.  Check out their info page for all the details.

This new 3-part series is set up in a way for students at all levels to find their place.  There is a self-placement exam students can take to find the course is best suited to their needs.  The full redesign of these courses will allow CSE to bring in a more modern and diverse set of problems motivated by societal and scientific needs in order to better motivate students and to demonstrate the wide variety of issues where programming can be a useful tool.

AUT22 Life Skills EDUC Courses Focused on Wellness/Resilience

Have you been struggling with academics, shifting back from virtual learning, and/or all the challenges around the multiple pandemics still ongoing?  Are you interested in growing your professional skills?  Maybe you’re interested in personal growth and living your best life at UW and beyond?  Then EDUC 215 “Wellness and Resilience for College and Beyond” or EDUC 216 “Thriving on the Path to Happiness” may be for you.  Check them out in the Autumn 2022 EDUC Time Schedule.

Particular focus is paid to skills that help students withstand common difficulties in life, like a disagreement with a loved one, tolerating doing work you don’t want to do, and managing negative emotions in a healthy way. Skills will include:  mindfulness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills. Students will also learn about research underlying stress, resilience, and related skill areas.

EDUC 215 (5 cr) – I&S credits
Two options on modality —
1) Section 14446A:  fully in person Thurs 2:30-5:20pm with 1-hr quiz section on Fri
OR
2) Section 23055C:  hybrid with virtual lectures Wed 11:30am-2:20pm and in-person synchronous 1-hr quiz section on Fri
Asynchronous accommodations for lecture can be easily coordinated (synchronous in-person participation in Friday quiz section is required).

Wait, did you already take EDUC 215 (formerly EDUC 200)?
– If so, you may want to take the new course EDUC 216: Thriving on the Path to Happiness. It will follow the same format as EDUC 215 and build on the skills learned in the first class to help students experience more joy, build stronger relationships, cultivate a growth mindset, and increase opportunities for success and development in personal and professional endeavors.

EDUC 216 (5 cr) – I&S credits – SLN 14455A
Wed 2:20-5:20pm with 1-hr quiz section on Fri

AUT22 History Courses – DIV & W credits

Do you still need DIV or W credits? The UW History Department encourages you to check out Autumn 2022 History courses and register soon.  A full list of courses is available in the AUT22 Time Schedule.  Some suggestions from History Dept. advisors include:

– HSTAM 111 The Ancient World (SLN: 16497) – I&S credits
– HSTAFM 152 Introduction to African History, c. 1880 – Present (SLN: 23352) – I&S and DIV credits
– HSTCMP 245 Exploration and Empire: The Art and Science of Global Power, 1300-1800 (SLN: 16522) – I&S, DIV, W optional credits
– HSTCMP 247 Global Health Histories: Colonial Medicine, Public Health, and International Health in the Global South (SLN: 16523) – I&S, DIV, W optional credits
– HSTAS 327 China and the West in Historical Perspective, 1500 – 1976 (SLN: 16511) – I&S credits
– HSTLAC 185 Race, Gender, and Class in Latin America and the Caribbean (SLN: 16538) – I&S, DIV, W optional credits
– HSTAA 110 History of American Citizenship (SLN 16468) – I&S and DIV credits
– HSTAA 231 Race and American History (SLN: 16476) – I&S and DIV credits
– HSTEU 402 The Reformation (SLN: 23432) – I&S credits

Contact History Advisors at histadv(at)uw.edu with any questions.

ENGL 208 “Data & Narrative” Course in AUT22

New AUT22 Course – ENGL 208:  Data and Narrative (SLN 23440)
Fulfills: W, VLPA, Data Studies course requirement for Data Science minor

This course examines the contexts and impacts of various data and the narratives created around them. Students will develop data literacies as they examine how data are communicated through narrative: the stories data tell for good or ill; the stories we tell about data; the harm and histories of various data; and the content data narratives obscure. In addition to learning how to critique data presented as objectively neutral, students will complete projects that critically examine methodologies and technologies of data collection, data representations, as well as the political, cultural, and social uses of data. They will learn how to use data strategically and ethically in their own work. They will discover how to identify and gather publicly available data; determine how it can be leveraged to serve their ethical and rhetorical purposes; and how to represent, narrate, and circulate it effectively.
Instructor: Kimberlee Gillis-Bridges

Learning Objectives:
– Describe key cultural, political, and historical contexts of data collection methodologies, platforms, and narratives.
– Identify how historical, political, and cultural contexts affect the creation and understanding of data narratives.
– Describe theoretical concepts within data studies, especially those that engage current and continuing critical questions.
– Engage competing approaches to data science methodologies, collection, and narratives.
– Integrate data into writing for a variety of purposes and audiences.
– Assess different kinds of data-based evidence, and interpret and identify patterns in its representation.
– Synthesize the ethical dimensions of data as they pertain to privacy and surveillance.

Satisfy DIV Credit in SUM22 with History Course

Summer 2022 History Courses that Satisfy Diversity Credits
Still with Seats Available – See Time Schedule for all Courses

HSTAA 110:  History of American Citizenship 
Instructor: Anna Nguyen
In-person, Full-term
TTh 12:00 – 2:10pm
I&S, DIV credits
SLN: 11750

HSTCMP 284:  History of Sex
Instructor: Laurie Marhoefer
In-person, B-term
MTWTh 1:10 – 3:20pm
I&S, DIV credits
SLN: 11763

 Questions? Contact histadv(at)uw.edu 

SUM22 Finance Summer Series for Undergrads

HIVE Diversity – First Flight into Finance Summer Series
July 19-August 4, 2022

First Flight Into Finance is a virtual, 3-week introduction to financial services, engaging with professionals from financial services companies. The program is open to any current college student (including May ‘22 graduates) who have not yet had the opportunity to complete a full-time internship in finance. Each week, participants will hear from senior executives at financial services firms. See the program schedule and list of participating companies. 

The program will run July 19 – August 4 from 6:00–7:30 pm ET on Tues/Wed/Thurs. Participants are encouraged to participate 3 nights/week, and are required to participate for 2 nights/week.

APPLICATION PROCESS:  Interested students and recent graduates must complete a HIVE Diversity resume. This is accomplished by completing the HIVE5 Process, through which in Level 1, Be Yourself, you’ll create a one page resume. Completing this process demonstrates commitment to our partners and ensures that you’re able to communicate who you are in all applications going forward.

BENEFITS
– enhanced knowledge about the financial services industry
– network of professionals as mentors and advisors
– lateral network of peers from over 1400 colleges who are part of HIVE Diversity
– prioritized consideration for future opportunities at the 27 Equity Collective firms

AUT22 Course on Undergrad Research: “Research Exposed”

Autumn 2022 Course: “Research Exposed”
GEN ST 391 I (SLN 15986): Wed 12:30-1:20pm in Bagley 154

Research Exposed offers undergraduate students an opportunity to learn about current, exciting research in a wide variety of disciplines. Through presentations by UW faculty, Research Exposed offers information on the process of discovery, how faculty design research projects, how inquiry is structured in the different disciplines, and how students can become involved in the knowledge-making process. This course is especially relevant for students who are new to UW and are looking for ways to build community and engage in experiential learning outside of the classroom. Check out the Speaker Schedule, organized by the Undergraduate Research Program (URP).

CNeuro2022 Summer School – Apply by 5/20!

Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience Summer School
CNeuro2022: In-person from August 14-21, 2022

Learning, Memory, and Decision Making:  Held in Basel, Switzerland and Beijing, China (lectures given in Basel will be transmitted to Beijing and vice-versa)   ~ APPLY BY FRIDAY, MAY 20! ~

– No registration fee!
– Lodging will be covered!
– A few fellowships are available to cover travel costs, but complete coverage of travel cannot be guaranteed.

The aim of this annually held one-week summer school is to introduce students with a strong quantitative background in Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, and Engineering​ to the emerging field of theoretical and computational neuroscience. Leading scientists in the field will deliver lectures, take part in small-group discussions, and share their personal experience and views on a range of research topics. (Last year, AMath’s own Eric Shea-Brown was a lecturer!)

 CNeuro places emphasis on the role of systematic mathematical theory for understanding the brain, in part by stressing the connections between neuroscience, statistics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. This year’s event will be organized around learning, memory, and decision making in brains and machines, and will examine its various facets, from neurobiology to circuit neuroscience to cognition to artificial intelligence.  For more info, contact info(at)cneuro.net

SUM22 Course on Grad School Preparation – GRDSCH200

Are you a junior or senior curious about, or planning to attend graduate school?  In Summer course GRDSCH200: Preparing for Graduate Education (2 cr), juniors and seniors will explore their interest and learn first-hand from faculty and staff involved in graduate admissions how to find a good program fit and how to prepare effective application materials.  The course will be offered each quarter.

GRDSCH200: Preparing for Graduate Education (SLN 11663)
Mondays 1:10-3:20 pm PDT – PACCAR Hall (PCAR), Room 293

The 2-credit  course seeks to engage students in determining the right “fit” for their individual graduate education goals through three primary objectives:
Investigation:  What is your desire to attend graduate school?
– What you need to know about the graduate school experience
Revelation:  What do graduate school admission committees actually expect?
– Demystify the process
– Personal statements, resumes/CVs and letters of recommendation
Preparation:  How does investigation and revelation lead to finding a “good fit,” and how do you chart a course of action?
– Why do you want to go? When do you want to go? Where do you want to go?
– What do you want to do? How can you do it?

Questions? Contact Mariah Corey at mdcorey(at)uw.edu

SPR22 Honors Courses Now Open to All Students

Interested in a small, discussion-based seminar without prerequisites to fulfill GenEd credits in Spring 2022 quarter?  UW Honors courses are now available for all students to register:

HONORS 212 B (SLN 15311) – VLPA, DIV, W credit
Tues/Thurs  1:30-3:20 p.m.
What Does Art Do?  Understanding Caribbean and Gulf Coast Embodied Oral History and Performing Arts Expressions through the Humanities 

This course will guide students in the skill of interpretation, by presenting performance arts emerging and that have emerged from the Gulf Coast and the Caribbean.  Understanding performance art as oral history in its broadest definition will provide students with entry into how people express and embody historical experiences, engage in arts as activism, compose music within and despite inequalities, live with hurricanes, and contribute to widely known culinary practices. Students will engage with examples of specific performing arts from many genres through music recordings, representations of dance, theater and Carnival performances, literature, film, storytelling, foodways, and representations of funerary practices and other expressions. Arts will instigate our interpretations within interdisciplinary humanities frameworks to discuss race, experiences of history, aesthetics, religious studies, what art does, folklore studies, ethnomusicology and cultural anthropology. We will reflect on artistic expressions that travel beyond a cultural or geographical area, and on how some producers thereof often embody and make place.

HONORS 232 A (SLN 15316) – I&S, DIV, W
Mon/Wed  10:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
Multisector Collaboration for Societal Change

Students will participate in discussions, develop communication strategies for interorganizational interactions, and analyze real-world instances of multisector collaboration. The centerpiece of the course is a 5-week simulation in which each student has a role in a (mock) multisector community task force, situated in a fictional mountain town, that negotiates the creation of a proactive, wildfire mitigation plan. Through the simulation, students will apply knowledge gained from course readings, and develop skills in assessing other stakeholders’ needs and motives, building alliances, communicating constructively through disagreements, and developing multilateral agreements for the collective good. Because this is a synchronous discussion-based seminar, participation in the discussions is essential to succeeding in this course. There will be no lectures, and class discussions will not be recorded. The technology in the classroom does not support simultaneous interaction between in-person and remote students, so it will not be possible for individual students to participate remotely.

HONORS 394 A (SLN 15322) – VLPA / I&S, DIV, W
Mon/Wed  2:30-4:20 p.m.
Ways of Meaning

The key questions this course addresses are: How do people talk to each other in different languages? Does the language we speak determine who we are? What is the relationship between language and thought, culture, national identity? We consider crosslinguistic differences and similarities with respect to conceptualizations of Moral Concepts, Friendship and Love, Freedom, Homeland, Politeness and Rudeness and Gender. Students are required to write 2 commentaries and a final term paper.

SPR22 Courses on Science, Technology, and Race

Need DIV or I&S credits? Check out these SPR22 courses!

AES 405: Biopolitics of Ethnicity/Race (5 cr) fulfills DIV, I&S
Tue/Thu 2:30-4:20pm  (SLN 10165)

Recent technological developments are transforming how we think about citizenship, boarders, and (bio)politics of difference. Who can participate in this new science of belonging, who gets left or forced out by these “borderland technologies”? Lectures cover lively, new, and pressing topics such as: the practice of family re-unification of separated migrant families using genetic ancestry testing or the development of “robotic dogs” as boarder surveillance tools. Thus, students will better recognize how new technologies governance and citizenship yield new (bio)politics of race/ethnicity.

AFRAM 498A: Science Technology and Race/Racisms (5 cr) fulfills I&S
Mon/Wed 10:30am-12:20pm  (SLN 10178)

Is there a racist brain? Are there racial dangers lurking in our algorithmic codes and everyday Google searches? Although, today’s scientific developments are supposed to demonstrate the field’s (anti-racist?) progress, this course explores how the challenges of race and racism still impact contemporary scientific practices and technologies. Our goal, then, is to better understand the various ways science and technology shape today’s social understandings of race.

Questions? Contact Instructor Oliver Rollins at orollins(at)uw.edu

SPR22 Course on Mindfulness Based Resilience

Spring 2022 Well-Being Course: GEN ST 297 G & J (1 cr)

Are you feeling stressed? Rundown? Not quite sure how to build up your stress tolerance? During Spring quarter, you have an opportunity to register for one of two classes taught by Kat Eli:

GEN ST 297 G (SLN 14960) 1 cr CR/NC Mon 10:00-11:20am
GEN ST 297 J (SLN 14963) 1 cr CR/NC Thurs 10:00-11:20am

At once a week, this 8-week course (no final) focuses on mindfulness-based resilience and well-being. The class will utilize cognitive behavioral skills and mindfulness and compassion skills through group discussions, partner activities, and guided contemplative practices. Carve out those 90 minutes 1 time per week to take care of you and your mental health.

SPR22 Courses for C or W Credit

Need ‘C’ or ‘W’ credit in Spring 2022?  Check out these ENGL Courses in
Global Health, Freedom Struggles, and Anthropology of Sport:
ENGL 198EFG / 298A / 298B (5 cr)

ENGL 198E (SLN 14118) is linked with Global Health 101
ENGL 198F (SLN 14119) is linked with JSIS B 180

ENGL 198G (SLN 14120) is linked with GEOG 180

5 credits Writing. Writing course is open to students who are either currently enrolled in the Global Health lecture, or who have taken it in a former quarter.

Tue/Thu 5:00-6:20pm
Instructor: Raymond Tyler Babbie

Questions? Contact iwpengl(at)uw.edu

ENGL 298A: Writing in the Social Sciences and Freedom Struggles (SLN 14168)

5 credits Writing. Open to all students. This course focuses on Japanese internment and incarceration in America.

Tue/Thu 2:00-3:20pm
Instructor: Carrie Matthews

Questions? Contact iwpengl(at)uw.edu

ENGL 298B (SLN 14169) is linked with ANTH 213B – Anthropology of Sport 

5 credits Writing. Available seats are reserved for students who commit to the writing link. Students must also be enrolled in ANTH 213B.

Wed/Fri 10:00-11:20am

Instructor: Sarah Ghasedi

Questions? Contact iwpengl(at)uw.edu

SPR22 Course on Big Data in Geospatial Technologies

Spring 2022 Course: ESRM 190 Digital Earth (5 cr)
Hybrid Format (SLN 14491) – Tue/Thu 12:30-1:20pm

Are you interested in addressing large scale problems by using big data from global to local levels across a spectrum of environmental applications? Skills developed in this course can be taken and applied to many fields, and introduces students to geospatial sciences.

The Earth is undergoing an era of rapid change, understanding this change and the impacts for life on Earth depends on systematically analyzing and interpreting evolving data, tools and theories that are highly interdisciplinary, yet need to be integrated into workflows capable of fostering understanding, knowledge and action. There is now a sizeable amount of remote sensing data (e.g. satellite imagery, aerial imagery, LiDAR) that has become increasingly accessible through platforms such as Google Earth, Climate Engine, and the Washington State Dept. of Natural Resources LiDAR portal.

Questions? Contact digitalearth(at)uw.edu
Instructor: L. Monika Moskal

Spring 2022 Courses for GenEd Credit – American Indian Studies

Still need VLPA, DIV, or I&S credits and searching for a 5 cr course in SPR22? These courses from American Indian Studies do NOT have prerequisites and provide an opportunity to learn about this region’s indigenous peoples. As a reminder, you can use the General Education Requirement Course Search tool to find other courses to satisfy requirements for your UW degree.

AIS 431 Topics in Indigenous Education (5 cr) –  I&S and DIV

Course Description: The purpose of this course is to provide an overview of topics surrounding Indigenous education, stemming from the original intentions of schooling in relation to Indigenous/ American Indian/ First Nation students to the current reform efforts to Indigenize the curriculum within public schools both nationally and globally. The course will cover theoretical, and culturally sustaining revitalizing pedagogies, and anticolonial/ decolonial praxis to situate Indigenous education. Using a critical lens provided from the course readings and materials uncovers coloniality that permeates in cultural, social, economic, and political domains within the public school systems that are not designed for minoritized students. To address these issues in public school systems, developed Indigenous education curricula in current school systems serve as the bases for starting to re/imagine, re/claim, and re/design what preK-12 teaching and learning could begin to look like. 
Instructor: Shayla Chatto

AIS 275/ART H 233 Survey of Native Art of the Pacific Northwest Coast
(5 cr) – I&S or VLPA and DIV

Course Description: Surveys indigenous art of the Pacific Northwest Coast from the Columbia River in the south to Southeast Alaska in the north and from ancient through contemporary times. Focuses on the historical and cultural contexts of the art and the stylistic differences between tribal and individual artists’ styles.
Instructor: Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse

AIS 310 Lushootseed in the Seasonal Calendar (5 cr) – I&S or VLPA and DIV

Course Description: This course begins with readings and research to build discussions pertaining to cultural connections of cultural calendars, historical ways of life and cultural sensitivities. Topics of research and study will include stories of seasons, the moon cycles, tides, commonly used language terms and a geographical study that demonstrates plant, food sources, and typical weather, all of which takes place during each season and month. The historical studies will provide the necessary connections that will build an understanding to what cultural aspects still continue today and aid in the production of a modern cultural calendar as each student will construct an individual calendar through their own research. Although not required, this course is an excellent avenue for additional study of the AIS 3-quarter Southern Lushootseed sequence.
Instructor: Tami Hohn

SPR22 Course: BIOEN 485 Computational Bioengineering

Spring 2022 Course Offered
BIOEN 485: Computational Bioengineering (SLN 11307)
MW 8:30-9:50am, plus W or F Lab

This 4 credit course is geared at students who want to integrate computational modeling with experimental research or design. The target audience includes experimentalists who seek to enhance their work with quantitative hypothesis testing or design, as well as students who prefer to focus on computational modeling, but plan to collaborate with experimentalists. Lectures, readings, discussions, and a weekly computer lab teach students to design, build, solve and interpret ordinary, partial, and stochastic differential equations models that can be experimentally validated and then provide new insights. Biochemical systems are emphasized, but electrical, mechanical and fluidic systems are also addressed. The final team project provides an opportunity to use these tools to solve a real problem brought by an instructor or another student. If you hope to integrate differential equation modeling into your own research, this is a great opportunity to get help from the instructors and the other students in the class!

Expected background: ordinary differential equations, programming, molecular and cellular biology or the equivalent. Statistics or partial differential equations is recommended. If in doubt, please contact the instructor, Wendy Thomas.
Learning Objectives: Students should be able to:
1. Design quantitative models that represent a problem by identifying appropriate assumptions.
2. Apply numeric methods and computational tools to solve ordinary, partial, and stochastic differential equations.
3. Identify and use tools to verify the mathematical correctness of numeric solutions.
4. Identify and use tools to validate the relevance of a model by comparison with experimental data.
5. (For graduate students in 585) Design an integrated plan to combine computational models with experimental data to address a biological or medical question.

Questions? Contact Instructor Wendy Thomas at wendyt(at)uw.edu or view the home page of the course website from last year.

MGMT450: Women in Leadership SPR22 Course

Spring 2022 Course:  MGMT 450  Women in Leadership

Mon/Wed from 3:30-5:20pm
SLN: 17320 (I&S/DIV credit)
Offered by Foster School — Open to non-Foster majors in Period 2.

Cate Goethals is a longtime Foster School lecturer and leadership development consultant whose MBA class “Women at the Top” was named one of the most innovative MBA classes in the country by Forbes. Dr. Laura Hamill is an organizational psychologist who specializes in well being, engagement, and organizational culture. Both are passionate about helping women rise in their chosen fields AND leading satisfying lives.

The course will use the lives and the experiences of local guest speakers to find personal
answers to the same questions, enhance skills, and create a personal vision.

– Interact with at least seven local women in leadership positions.
– Apply a leadership framework that has helped women around the world succeed.
– Build your appetite and comfort with the risk-taking that will help you excel.
– Create a personal vision board to picture your ideal career and life.
– Examine different ideas of work-life balance Practice your authentic leadership style to hone your most powerful voice and presence.
– Translate your strengths, values, dreams, and goals into a life and career worthy of you.
– We will use their lives and the experiences of local guest speakers to find personal
answers to the same questions enhance skills and create a personal vision.

QUESTIONS? Contact Cate at categ(at)uw.edu

Remote Four-Week Workshop on Quantum Computing

Remote Four-Week Workshop on Practical Quantum Computing 

– Quantgates remote course is designed for applied mathematics & computer science faculty, data scientists, researchers and PhD students. No background in physics, quantum computing, or quantum physics necessary.
~ Purchase course via Eventbrite.
– Course cost: $90
– Choose your own start date
– One month access to course content
– One month asynchronous training & remote technical support
– Flexible deadlines:  reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule
– Certificate of attendance
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Course Objectives:
Basic notions of Quantum Mechanics
Introduction to Quantum Computing
Quantum Gates and Quantum Circuits
Quantum Computation via Python and Qiskit
Practical Quantum Algorithm Design and Construction
Advanced Quantum Algorithm Implementations via Qiskit
Quantum Approximation Optimization Algorithm (QAOA)
Solving real world problems in diverse industries via IBM’s quantum computers

PHYS 217 “Energy Future” WIN22 Course

Physics 217  “Energy Future” Winter 2022 Course Still Open

Fulfills I&S/NW requirements
Section 19252 A  (5 credits)
When: Mon/Wed 1:30-3:20 pm and Fri 1:30-2:20 pm
Where: PAA  A110
Open to all UW Students

This course is not your traditional physics class, but a mix of science, history, politics, social and economics. We’ll address clean renewable energy resources and energy’s impact on society.  Students will discuss the use of energy in our daily lives and the world and how it is inextricably linked with impact on the environment, and global climate. We will discuss the history and future of energy, the politics of energy, the oil crisis in the US and the world, and Biden’s plan for a clean energy revolution and environmental justice. Our generation and the future generation will face the impact of climate change and global warming if we do not act to slow it down. This class will try to answer questions such as: Is climate change too expensive to fix? What is the new green deal?  

QUESTIONS? Contact instructor Amal al-Wahish at wahish (at) uw.edu

WIN22 ENGL 298D Course on Digital Geographies – W/C credit

If you need a “C” or “W” credit, this writing course on digital geographies (ENGL 298D) in Winter 2022 is now open to ALL students.

ENGL 298 Section D
Intermediate Interdisciplinary Writing – Social Sciences
Tue/Thurs 10:00-11:20 am in THO 231
SLN: 14360
Instructor: Natalie Vaughn-Wynn

Whether you were born programming with C or are exploring digital geographies for the first time, English 298 D will engage you with popular discourse and media within this field (i.e. Wired magazine, TikTok, etc.) giving you an opportunity to think and write critically about what it means to live in a digitally-mediated world. Over the quarter, you will develop technical writing skills, practice peer review, and produce texts that both prepare you for professional life and deepen your understanding of the fascinating intersections between space, society, and digitality.

There is also still availability in these writing courses / linked lecture pairings:
ENGL 198 A <–linked with–> PSYCH 101 A
ENGL 298 C <–linked with–> JSIS 201
ENGL 298 E <–linked with–> LSJ 200

WIN22 Course ENGL 115 Writing Studio Designed for Multilingual Students

Winter 2022 Course English 115 “Writing Studio”

Course designed for multilingual and international students enrolled in English composition courses!  This writing studio is a great opportunity for additional support.

– Credit/No credit support course for multilingual students who are taking a “C” credit writing class (e.g. 111, 121, 131, 182, 197, 198, 199, etc.)

– Ideal for students who want a small class (sections capped at 10 students) where they can get more specific feedback on the issues that are important for their primary writing class (e.g. citations, rhetorical analysis, complex claims, intertextuality, etc.)

** These sections currently have space available:
ENGL 115 B / SLN: 14220 – MW 10:30-11:20

ENGL 115 D / SLN: 14221 – MW 12:30-1:20

WIN22 Course ECON 488 Open to AMath Majors

Winter 2022 Course ECON 488 Causal Inference (SLN 13832) 

~ Lectures: Mon/Wed 5:30 – 7:20 pm in DEN 113
~ Discussion Session: Wed 7:30 – 8:20 pm in SMI 115
~ 5 credits; fulfills NW requirements

Course prerequisite is ECON 482 Econometrics or equivalent, but instructor may make allowances if student is qualified.  Time Schedule Notes state ECON majors only, but Economics Department has invited AMath majors to register.
**For course access, please email the instructor, Melissa Tartari, at mtartari@uw.edu. 

– This course examines statistical methods for causal inference.  Causal inference focuses on uncovering causal relationships: the scientist is interested in quantifying the effect of a cause on one or more outcome variables of interest.  Methods of causal inference are widely used both in academia and industry to ex-post assess the effect of policy interventions, where the term policy is broadly understood to include any intervention of interest by public or private agents, or by nature.
– Methods covered are: matching (exact, nearest-neighbor, caliper, block, with regression adjustment, etc.), difference-in-difference, synthetic controls, instrumental variables and local average treatment effect (LATE), and regression discontinuity design (sharp and fuzzy).  Machine learning has recently been used to enrich the classical methods.
– By the end of the course, students will be able to approach problems of causal inference that are routinely considered at public and private research institutions and agencies, economic consulting companies, as well as in major technology companies and retailers.  This includes the ability to set up, run, and interpret the findings of the methods learned in class, through hands-on applications.

WIN22 Course NMETH 210 Explores Health Information & Technologies

Winter 2022 Course “Science, Evidence, and Health:
Mastering Health Information and Personal Health Technologies”

~ NMETH 210 (SLN 18257) fulfills NW, I&S, and DIV requirements
~ Mon/Wed 10:30am – 12:20pm in NAN 181 (project lab Wed 2-2:50pm)
~ 4 credits, plus optional 1 cr “project” lab for a total of 5 possible cr
~ Not tailored for pre-nursing or nursing majors

The course explores health topics:  cannabis, vaping, diet, exercise, health care, access, disparities and equity, COVID-19 and vaccines.  The goal is to help students develop skills and knowledge they need to critical consumers of health information in their daily lives.  The course is interactive and practical:  students will experience and analyze smartphone apps for health and behavior change, and review sources of health information like health blogs and health advice written by influences via social media, with a goal of critically appraising the sources of information students use to make their own health decisions.

Critical Feminist Data Studies Course Open in WIN22

GWSS 202 A: Intro to Critical Feminist Data Studies

Satisfies I&S GenEd Requirements
This GWSS course uses feminist principle to interrogate, analyze, and rigorously reimagine the collection, application, and purposes of data in the body, the city, and the world.

This course proceeds from the position that data studies and feminist thought are not just complementary, but necessary to each other.  Understanding data through feminist thought aims to visualize more equitable collective futures.  The course analyzes historical and contemporary data and reexamines their purposes at micro, meso, macro, and global scales.  By first examining the processes of data production and visualization, then analyzing how our experiences are presented to us again as data, we contest the decontextualization which constructs data only as impersonally authoritative descriptors.

While some technical discussions may occur, students are not required to have previous backgrounds in the data sciences: our discussion will take GWSS social sciences and humanistic perspectives as their foundation.  A set of relevant GWSS keywords will be developed throughout the course.

WIN22 Course CSE 373 Redesigned to Center Social Justice

CSE 373 (Data Structures and Algorithms)
Recently Redesigned to Center Social Justice 

Students typically take CSE 373 to fulfill STEM degree requirements and prepare for software engineering jobs.  The instructor’s goal in redesigning the course was to make space for the rightful presence of people who want to learn computer science toward the goals of peace, antiracism, and justice in the world.  This course is offered to all students interested in engaging with sociotechnical questions about data structures and algorithms.  Computer science needs all of us to ensure social justice.
– Prerequisite:  CSE 143

** Add CSE 373 on MyPlan or visit the course website
for more information **

Earn UW Credits Towards Education Minor While Tutoring K-12 Students

Do you need an extra credit or two?  Are you interested in tutoring K-12?
The Community Engagement and Leadership Education (CELE) Center offers seminar and volunteer opportunities and is looking for a range of participants!

The CELE Center is partnering this quarter with Riverways Education Partnerships (formerly known as Pipeline Project).  If you’re interested in educational equity and working with K-12 students, you can…

– Earn 3 I&S credits, tutor K-12 students 3 hours a week, and take one of these weekly seminars, which also count towards the Education minor.
– To get started, register on MyPlan. 

• EDUC 401 C: Financial Literacy (Mon, 1:30 – 2:50pm)
• EDUC 401 P: Return on (Personal) Investment: How Interest Drives our Learning and Education (Mon, 3:30 – 4:50pm)
• EDUC 401 B: Asian Critical Race Theory (Mon, 3:30 – 5:20pm)
• EDUC 401 L: General Challenges and Opportunities in K-12 Education (Mon, 4:30 – 6:00pm) *First Year students ONLY
• EDUC 401 T: Immigrant & Refugee Education (Mon, 6:00 – 7:20pm)
• EDUC 401 F: Racial Equity in STEM Teaching (Tue, 4:00 – 5:20pm)
• EDUC 401 J: Social Justice in Education (Wed, 3:00 – 4:20pm)
• EDUC 401 G: Teaching Multilingual Learners (10:30am – 11:50am)
• EDUC 401 E: Working with Students in ESL Programs and First-Generation Immigrants (Fri, 2:00 – 3:20pm)

Questions?  Contact riverways@uw.edu

Sustainability & Global Business Course: AUT 2021

* SPACE AVAILABLE in JSIS B 352: Sustainability & Global Business *

JSIS B 352 – Sustainability and Global Business: Leading in a Changing World (5 cr)
Autumn 2021

MW 4:30 – 6:20pm; SMI 404
Section A; I&S class; SLN 23543
Please email jsisadv@uw.edu for an add code

This course examines the new imperative for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) facing organizations of all sizes and descriptions planning to grow and compete in the 21st century and beyond.  The course will explore the relationship between business, sustainability and social responsibility, asking three core questions:
– Why should businesses care about sustainability and social responsibility?
– What can businesses do to help address these problems?
– How do we re-invent the traditional consumer-based business model of “make things, sell things, buy things”? 

Students will progress systematically through foundational concepts for business growth strategy and “going global,” while integrating management considerations and new requirements for business ethics, sustainability and social responsibility.  The class will expose students to the challenges and opportunities professionals and managers face when planning and conducting business internationally.

This JSIS course is offered in partnership with the Global Connections Study Abroad Program.  For more info, email Global Connections at globcon@uw.edu

Need Diversity Credit and Interested in Management of a Global Workforce?

* SPACE AVAILABLE in MGMT 407 – Managing a Global Workforce *

Still looking for a DIV credit for Autumn 2021?  Want to have an understanding of the challenges managers face when interacting with a multicultural workforce either abroad or domestic?  Since the last century, organizations are internationalizing their operations aggressively to take advantages of technology advancements and global resource accessibility in order to maximize their competitive advantages.  As a result, the number of enterprises conducting business across the national borders has increased exponentially.  Today, every manager needs the knowledge and skills to manage employees from cultures other than his or her own.  This course aims to provide students with a working knowledge of cross-cultural management, help them develop a global mindset, enhance their cultural intelligence, as well as equip them with theoretical and analytical tools to make sound management decisions in a multi-cultural setting.

MGMT 407 – Managing a Global Workforce (4 cr)
T/Th 1:30 – 3:20 PM; PCAR 295
SLN: 18561
I&S/DIV class
elective for the UAA Leadership Minor: https://leadership.advising.uw.edu/

New Leadership Minor Available Autumn 2021

Interested in developing leadership skills and earning a minor?
~ The new Leadership Minor may be right for you. ~

The minor is interdisciplinary and accessible to students across campus interested in developing leadership competencies influenced by their values, strengths, academic interests, career goals, and engagement in and out of the classroom.

If you’re interested in the minor, please enroll in the required LEAD 100 course in Autumn 2021.  If possible, students are encouraged to take this course within the first two years at the UW.

LEAD 100: Learning Leadership in Theory and Practice (5 cr – CR/NC)
T/Th,2:30-4:20 pm – SMI 120
SLN: 17554
Course description: Introduces students to contemporary leadership theories and frameworks. Emphasis on translating formal, academic study of leadership into practice. Highlights authentic leadership constructs and concepts that center the value of social justice and critical perspectives. Develops students’ leadership identity and confidence and sets the stage for continued leadership development.
Instructors:
Dr. Michaelann Jundt, Associate Dean, Undergraduate Academic Affairs
Dr. Francesca Lo, Executive Director, Community Engagement and Leadership Education Center

Questions about the minor?  Contact leadminor@uw.edu

New in AUT21! Business Minor Offered by UW Foster School of Business

Interested in the highly sought after business courses?  The Foster School is launching an OPEN Business Minor in Autumn 2021.

The Business minor is open and can be declared by any current UW student, and requires a minimum of 27 credits. The Foster School has created five core business courses (delivered virtually) designed for non-business majors.   In Autumn quarter, the following classes are offered (and still have space as of 7/07/21!):
MKTG 305: Essentials of Marketing & Sales (5 cr, prerequisite: 45 credits completed, offered virtually)
ACCTG 219: Accounting Essentials (4 cr, offered virtually)

** Still interested in applying to the Business Major? **  Please note…

The courses in the minor cannot replace the prerequisites to apply to the Foster School major and cannot replace degree requirements in the major.  These courses are specifically designed and only appropriate for non-business majors pursuing the Business Minor (some courses also apply to the Entrepreneurship Minor and Professional Sales Program).

QUESTIONS? Visit the FAQ section on the Business Minor website or contact the Business Minor advisor, Sarah Allex, at bizminor@uw.edu.

~~ Also, be sure to check out the Foster Business for Life digital badge option when you complete 3 Business courses for non-business majors!

Theoretical & Computational Neuroscience Summer School – Apply by 6/15

Are you intrigued by how mathematical theory is used in the emergence of theoretical insights and frameworks that identify unifying principles of brain function and guide experimental work?  This weeklong virtual course may be for you!

CNEURO 2021:  Theoretical & Computational Neuroscience Summer School (Virtual this year!)

The annual weeklong course runs from August 14 to August 21 and aims to introduce students with a strong quantitative background in ​mathematics, physics, computer science, and/or engineering​ to the emerging field of theoretical and computational neuroscience.

~ APPLY BY JUNE 15:  https://www.cneuro.net/

​

The course brings together leading scientists in the field who deliver lectures, take part in small-group discussions, and share their personal experience and views on a range of research topics. CNeuro places emphasis on the role of systematic mathematical theory for understanding the brain, in part by stressing the connections between neuroscience, statistics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. The summer school serves as a pedagogical introduction to some of the methods particularly relevant to exploring these connections.

​Each year, the organizers make every effort to recruit students from a diverse background, including all genders and ethnic groups. CNeuro2021 will be held in a virtual format, hosted by Tsinghua University and IOB.

Questions?  Contact info@cneuro.net 

AUT21 Course “Research Exposed” – GEN ST 391 I

Thinking about how Applied Math can be used alongside other disciplines?  This course might be your path to finding that connection!

Autumn course GEN ST 391 I: Research Exposed
Wednesdays 12:30-1:20 pm Pacific Time
SLN 16002 (1 cr)

Research Exposed offers undergrads an opportunity to learn about current, exciting research in a wide variety of disciplines.  Through presentations by UW faculty, the 1 credit course offers information on the process of discovery, how faculty design research projects, how inquiry is structured in the different disciplines, and how students can become involved in the knowledge-making process.  This course is especially relevant for students who are new to UW and are looking for ways to build community and engage in experiential learning outside of the classroom.

~ More information can be found here. 

AUT21 Course on Grad School Preparation – GRDSCH200

Are you a junior or senior curious about, or planning to attend graduate school?  Check out Autumn course GRDSCH200: Preparing for Graduate Education (2 cr).  

Juniors and seniors will explore their interest and learn first-hand from faculty and staff involved in graduate admissions how to find a good program fit and how to prepare effective application materials.  The course will be offered each quarter.

More details here about the Autumn course
GRDSCH200: Preparing for Graduate Education
Fridays 1:30-3:20 pm Pacific Time
SLN 16174

The 2 credit  course seeks to engage students in determining the right “fit” for their individual graduate education goals through three primary objectives:
Investigation:  What is your desire to attend graduate school?
– What you need to know about the graduate school experience
Revelation:  What do graduate school admission committees actually expect?
– Demystify the process
– Personal statements, resumes/CVs and letters of recommendation
Preparation:  How does investigation and revelation lead to finding a “good fit,” and how do you chart a course of action?
– Why do you want to go? When do you want to go? Where do you want to go?
– What do you want to do? How can you do it?

Develop Critical Literacy in the Sciences – ‘W’ credit SUM course

 Searching for a ‘W’ credit in the Summer Session?

“Critical Literacy in the Natural Sciences” in Term A

Check out the syllabus here.  This unconventional, creative science writing course was designed for science majors.

MTWTh 9:40 – 11:50 am PT  (will NOT meet synchronously every day)  SLN: 14377

This writing seminar seeks to develop students’ critical literacy in the diffuse but interlocking disciplines of the natural sciences. Through analysis and composition of a variety of texts, students will learn to become authoritative participants in scientific discourse while at the same time becoming familiar with the ways that Western values are embedded and centered (often invisibly) in the sciences and its related institutions. Through course content and culturally responsive, anti-oppressive pedagogies, this course will help students to interrogate these values as they enter advanced study in the sciences.

In this course students will work toward:

– Understanding the nature of science as contingent, contested, and situated.

– Engaging a diversity of ways of knowing and doing in science across cultures and nations, including identifying strengths and limitations of different approaches.

– Tracing the genealogies of ideas in circulation, as information moves through pipelines and networks.