The Residential FIG program builds upon the strength of the Freshman Interest Group (FIG) program by providing students with a unique first year living-learning experience. This year the Residential FIG Program will contain some of the most sought after courses for incoming freshman, including Chem 142, Econ 200 and Com 201. Residential FIGs provide social and academic support to bolster success during the first year at UW. Additionally, each FIG has a Residential FIG leader who is an advanced undergraduate student available to help form study groups, assist with registration, provide advising services and direct you to campus resources. We sit down with this year’s Residential FIG leaders, Marisa Hoge, Ben Drum, and Alex King.
Registering for Classes
Meet the Residential FIG Leaders!
June 9th, 2009 · Filed under: Academic Planning, I'm a Freshman, Registering for Classes, Student-to-Student
Enhanced Podcast [8:49m]: Foreign Language Proficiency Changes!
May 18th, 2009 · Filed under: Academic Planning, I'm a Freshman, I'm a Transfer Student, Registering for Classes
Kevin Mihata, Asst. Dean for Educational Programs in the College of Arts & Sciences, drops in to discuss the revision to the foreign language graduation requirement for the College. How does this requirement impact you? Listen in…
New Course Recommendation! HSERV 100
February 26th, 2009 · Filed under: Academic Planning, Registering for Classes
Sarah MacKenzie stops by to discuss her new course for Spring 2009, Health Services 100: “Wellness, Body, Mind, and Spirit”. Listen in as Sarah talks about the way she will personalize a broad issue like public health for students in her class!
Humanities 209: Ethics and Climate Change
February 9th, 2009 · Filed under: Academic Planning, I'm a Freshman, Registering for Classes
Human-induced climate change is one of the most important international problems facing the world today. Yet our scientific understanding of the impacts of global warming is just emerging. Projections of how much the Earth will warm under various energy-use scenarios are fraught with uncertainty. Far-reaching decisions on energy policy are being made on the basis of imperfect scientific knowledge. This course will explore a variety of scientific and philosophical questions: How serious is climate change relative to other pressing global problems? What are the scientific uncertainties around global warming? What can economic analysis tell us—or not tell us—about such long-term problems as climate change? How might we address global intergenerational issues such as climate change in a just way?
Ethics and Climate Change is designed to accommodate students of any background, from the committed physics or philosophy major to students whose primary interests are directed toward art, literature, history, language, or the social sciences.
The Danz Courses in the Humanities are made possible by the generous financial support of Fredric Danz, who attended the University of Washington and is a longtime benefactor of the humanities.
Humanities 207: Science and its Critics
November 13th, 2008 · Filed under: I'm a Freshman, I'm a Transfer Student, Registering for Classes
Prof. Phillip Thurtle visits the podcast to discuss his Winter quarter 2009 class, “Humanities 207: Science and its Critics.” In describing his course, he says, “we’re ALL going to need to know science at some level, in order to engage in science as the dominant belief system in society.” This is a team-taught course, with Prof. Maynard Olson (Medicine and Genome Sciences) and Prof. Phillip Thurtle (Comparative History of Ideas and History) engaging students in a stimulating examination of the position that science occupies in society. Does science have the answers for issues like global warming, hunger, and disease prevention and cure? What do we as a society expect of science?
The Danz Courses in the Humanities are made possible by the generous financial support of Frederic Danz, who attended the University of Washington and is a longtime benefactor of the humanities.
Online Learning
July 9th, 2008 · Filed under: Academic Planning, Registering for Classes
Emily Batlan from Evening Degree sits down with Kurt to explore the ins and outs of taking a class online at UW.
Foreign Language Proficiency Testing
October 24th, 2007 · Filed under: Academic Planning, Registering for Classes
What should I do if I speak a language that the University of Washington doesn’t teach or test for? Ann Trail, the Undergraduate Advising Center’s language specialist, talks about how students go about demonstrating that they are proficient in their language.
Fredric Danz Lecture Series – Meet Dr. Kiko Benitez!
September 25th, 2007 · Filed under: Academic Planning, I'm a Freshman, I'm a Transfer Student, Registering for Classes
How do people come to terms with difficult moments and events in history? How do we begin to tell stories about trauma and violence that we experience on an international scale? How do movies and literature shape our perceptions of history? Can we work today to have some of those difficult dialogs that are necessary to move forward as a people? Dr. Kiko Benitez joins us to talk about his course coming Spring 2008, “Violence, Myth, and Memory: Southeast Asia at the Crossroads of Modernity.”
Fredric Danz Lecture Series – Meet Dr. Shannon Dudley!
September 19th, 2007 · Filed under: I'm a Freshman, I'm a Transfer Student, Registering for Classes
Do you love to dance? Have you ever considered how the music you listen to every day has been influenced by the history of migration in the U.S.? Do you wish you could get credit for going to the Experience Music Project (EMP)? Dr. Shannon Dudley joins us to talk about his course that is coming up in Winter Quarter 2007, “American Sabor, American Flavor: Latinos in American Popular Music.”
Fredric Danz Lecture Series
September 14th, 2007 · Filed under: I'm a Freshman, I'm a Transfer Student, Registering for Classes
Find out what great things can happen when an extraordinary man gives to the University he loves. Kathy Woodward, the Director of the Simpson Center for the Humanities, talks about the unique, wonderful, rich array of courses that students can take through this series.