Courses

  • 2020: The Course

    Watch lectures online from the new interdisciplinary class "2020: The Course."

    12/01/2020 | Undergraduate Academic Affairs
  • Voting by the Numbers

    Think voting is simple? A new course co-taught by statistics and philosophy faculty explores the many complexities of the voting process. 

    October 2020 Perspectives
  • Zooming into Sex Ed

    A psychology course on human sexuality is the largest UW class — ever. Revising the content has been a journey.

    October 2020 Perspectives
  • A Recipe for Kitchen Printmaking

    The chair of UW’s Printmaking Program designed a popular new class during the pandemic, stamping out doubt about how effective remote learning can be.

    September 2020 Perspectives
  • Support to Study Race & Privilege

    With support from a Flip Wilson Scholarship, Communication major Darius Presley (BA, 2020) helped with an innovative collaboration exploring race and privilege.

    September 2020 Perspectives
  • Mixing Politics & Friendship

    Strategists on opposites sides of the political aisle co-teach a course on political campaigns.Good thing they're close friends. 

    September 2020 Perspectives
  • The Legacy of Ladino

    When a noted expert on Ladino — the endangered language of the Sephardic Jewish community — taught a UW course from Israel, it attracted students from around the world.

    August 2020 Perspectives
  • Students create videos, capping new UW class on music as a form of protest

    Students create videos, capping a UW class taught by anthropology lecturer Graham Pruss on music as a form of protest.

    UW News
  • “We Can’t Not Talk about It”: History Instructors Teach the Virus

    It's very intense to teach the history of another recent pandemic that's still shaping our lives right now with a pandemic shaping out lives in historically unprecedented ways.

    Department of History
  • Making Music — at a Distance

    They can't perform together on stage right now, but members of the UW Wind Ensemble are still making music. 

    May 2020 Perspectives
  • Cool Courses for Autumn 2020

    It's not too early to think about autumn quarter! Check out these cool Arts & Sciences courses to be offered this fall.

    04/30/2020 | College of Arts & Sciences
  • Cool Courses for Summer 2020

    Check out these cool Arts & Sciences courses for Summer 2020.

    04/30/2020 | College of Arts & Sciences
  • Field report: Honors course explores whether national parks are in progress or peril

    Nine and faculty seized the opportunity in this course to explore national parks, analyze their findings, and decide whether or not those parks are in danger.

    UW.edu
  • A Course on Plagues Hits Home

    Anthropology professor Steven Goodreau's "Plagues and Peoples" course took on heightened relevance when the coronavirus emerged.

    April 2020 Perspectives
  • Race and the Small Screen

    In a new course, Professor Stephen Groening explores the factors that have shaped Americans' experience of race on television.

    February 2020 Perspectives