Featured Programs

Upcoming UW Bothell Faculty Led Programs

Winter 2013

Brazil - Brazilian Rhythms: Music, Literature, and Political Economics
Program Type: UW Faculty-led Program (Winter Quarter)
Program Directors: Tasha Buttler, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, Chris Rothschild, UW Seattle Information School
Application Deadline: Closed
Overview: The program will have two main focuses: 1) Recent economic development of Brazil, with an emphasis on the role of both large international monetary institutions as well as regional monetary fund and lending organizations such as BancoSul, and 2) The role of literature and music in Brazilian culture and how they are influenced by politics and socio-economic development.

Summer 2013

Germany, Switzerland, England - Urban Communication: Language, Image, Space
Program Type: Summer Term A
Program Director: Crispin Thurlow, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
Application Deadline: Closed
Overview: Participants embark on a scholarly and cultural journey whose main focus is the way human communication (e.g. language/s, visual images, social interactions) is organized in contemporary urban settings. The course will also consider the way different modes of communication are used to represent and construct these urban spaces.

Zambia - Student Centered Health Education and Outreach: A Story of Urban and Rural Community Development in Zambia
Program Type: Summer Term A
Program Directors: Leslie Ashbaugh, Interdisciplinary Arts & Science and Alison Greenwood, Student Life
Application Deadline: Closed
Overview: This 6-credit interdisciplinary course designed to introduce students from a wide variety of academic backgrounds to the socio-economic, political, and health challenges faced by Zambians who work hard to make a living in a contemporary developing nation. Through direct experience living and working in three separate field sites, the focus will be to collaborate with Zambian counterparts who are promoting health outcomes in capital city, small town and rural village Zambia.

Early Fall 2013 

Ecuador - Environmental Studies in the Ecuadorian Mainland and the Galapagos Islands
Program Type: Exploration Seminar
Program Directors: Santiago Lopez and Jin-Kyu Jung, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
Application Deadline: Closed
Overview: This seminar intends to expose students to relevant and current environmental issues in ecologically sensitive areas of Latin America such as the Amazon region, the Andes, and the Galapagos Islands.

France - Scientific Explorations of Art & Architecture in Paris
Program Type: Exploration Seminar
Program Directors: Andrew Abian, Science & Technology and Alexandre Barchechat, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
Application Deadline: Closed
Overview: The program examines two key concepts of modern mathematics, projective geometry and groups of symmetries, and applies them to art and architecture in Paris.

Thailand, Cambodia and the Challenges of Globalization
Program Type: Early Fall program
Program Director: James Reinnoldt, Business
Application Deadline: Closed
Overview: The 5-credit course will provide participants with the opportunity to apply what they have learned in the classroom to a very real-world global environment in a manner that blends lectures, case studies, site visits, discussions, and field trips.

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