Public Space, Public Life

UrbDP 498A / 598A

(MSW students should register for 598A; BASW for 498A)

Summer full-term, 3 credits, T/Th, 10-11:50a
Open to all students

Instructor: Peter Dunn (ptdunn@uw.edu)

This class introduces students to the concept of public space, its role in the city’s social and political relations, and the tools for intervening in public spaces. How are public spaces democratic? How d
o people present themselves, view others, and interact in these spaces? What are the rules of behavior, and how are they enforced? Who belongs there? Is a mall or a coffee shop a public space? Does it matter if everyone is looking down at their screens? How can physical design or programmed activities change the character of public spaces? This class will explore these issues in two ways. First, we will use foundational readings and exemplary case studies as a basis for class discussions on how public spaces have been theorized, created, and studied. Second, we will use Seattle spaces as our own case studies for students to practice looking at, inhabiting, and intervening in public space for their own creative projects.

To all students interested in health equity and social justice:

·               Do you see things in the communities you work with and/or are a part of that you wish were different?

·               Do you want to help change the systems that produce health disparities?

·               Are you ready to take action?

Join experienced Sound Alliance community organizers and students from across the Health Sciences this fall in UCONJ 624. We will develop your skills in advocacy and community organizing for health equity. Participate in different campaigns that work upstream to address the social determinants of health.

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Public Space, Public Life

UrbDP 498A / 598A

Summer full-term, 3 credits, T/Th, 10-11:50a
Open to all students
Instructor: Peter Dunn (ptdunn@uw.edu)

This class introduces students to the concept of public space, its role in the city’s social and political relations, and the tools for intervening in public spaces. How are public spaces democratic? How do people present themselves, view others, and interact in these spaces? What are the rules of behavior, and how are they enforced? Who belongs there? Is a mall or a coffee shop a public space? Does it matter if everyone is looking down at their screens? How can physical design or programmed activities change the character of public spaces? This class will explore these issues in two ways. First, we will use foundational readings and exemplary case studies as a basis for class discussions on how public spaces have been theorized, created, and studied. Second, we will use Seattle spaces as our own case studies for students to practice looking at, inhabiting, and intervening in public space for their own creative projects.

Summer 2018

The list of classes below are suggested classes that are being offered this summer. Permissions and space available in outside departmental classes are determined by the instructor and/or Student Services equivalent office of the department you are wanting to take a class in. The UW directory search for Seattle campus can help you locate instructors’ email addresses in order to ask them for permission to take a class.

Students can take 3 credits outside the department for elective credits without needing approval first, as long as the course is 500 level or above and is related to social work.

Students will need approval for 1) requesting 400 level classes to satisfy elective requirements 2) requesting 4-6 credits of outside the department to count towards elective requirements. For approvals, students should send the course description, number of credits, and course number to Lin Murdock or Kelly Hoeft.

In addition, we ask that students email Lin Murdock in order to pull outside departmental classes into your degree audit after you are registered for the class.

L Arch 598A: Readings The Elwha: Exploring Social, Cultural, and Biophysical Transitions in the Elwha Watershed on the Olympic Peninsula. (4 credits) Week camping trip. Refer to Time Schedule

Soc 476: Miscarriage Justice (5 credits)
MTWTH 9:40-11:50

URBDP 598D: Accessibility & the Built Environment: Just Design?
F 12:40-3:20 (3 credits)

UCONJ   413  Current Issues in Aging
TBD (PCE course) Contact PCE; Only acceptable for EDP HMH students. MGCFE or MG students CANNOT take this class for credit as overlapping content in Practice classes.

NURSE 540A (2 credits)
(fully online) Health Care Provisions in Rural and Medically Underserved Communities

PUBPOL 598B: Citizens Behavior Change: The Social Marketing Approach. (1 credit)
W 10:20-1:00pm – See Time schedule for specific meeting dates.

PUBPOL 598C: The Role of Military in International Development and Humanitarian Crisis Response  (1 credit)
W 5:20-8pm B-term

HSERV 556: Tobacco Health Disparities (2 credits)
(online course)

 

UW Tacoma

T HLTH 480: Death and American Society (5 credits)
M 5-8pm + 2 hours online weekly; hybrid online and in-person class

UW Tacoma Social Work classes – contact Lynn Hermanson, lynnherm@uw.edu if there is a class that interests you.

My name is Savannah Johnson, and I am the research study coordinator supporting the Evidence Based Practice Institute.

I wanted to let you know that we still have some seats available for the Psych 571 spring course on CBT and TF-CBT. If you could let your departments know as well as students who might be interested that would be great! I’ve had the instructor, Won-Fong Lau Johnson, prepare a description of the class below. Please send out as you see fit.  It is open to all disciplines, but they do need to email Dr. Johnson directly for approval to register.  Class will be Thursdays, 1-4:50pm.

*CBT for Children and Adolescents with Anxiety Related Disorders. The upcoming PSYCLIN 571 course for Spring 2018 will provide students with an in-depth, hands-on introduction to evidence-based, cognitive behavioral *treatments (CBT) for children and adolescents with anxiety-related disorders, with an emphasis on treating child traumatic stress.  The course will highlight specific components of treatment that are common across most cognitive-behavioral interventions, with specific training provided in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT).  Students will learn the fundamentals of how to assess and treat anxiety and trauma in children.  The course will also focus on adaptations to match client presentation, ethnicity, culture, socioeconomic status, and treatment setting. This course will include an integration of theory and practice. The cognitive and behavioral techniques that compromise most of evidence-based treatments for children and families will be presented in assigned readings, via the web-based training program, and modeled during class meetings.  A significant part of the course will involve opportunities for practice (e.g., role-plays, modeling in the classroom in a fun and supportive atmosphere. Practicing skills as homework will also be encouraged.  A goal of the class is for students to achieve competency on a subset of the skills via in-class skills demonstrations, and feedback from both the instructor and students will be given.  Students will also be required to complete the TF-CBT Web online training program in TF-CBT. Still have questions? Please contact the course instructor, Won-Fong Lau Johnson at fongj8@uw.edu.

NSG 432B Infants and Toddlers: Risk, Resilience and Relationships

Spring 2018: 5 credit hybrid course (meets Thurs, 8:30-10:50 AM)
Using an infant mental health framework, this course (SLN 17751) emphasizes biological, psychological, & cultural factors that affect developmental trajectories the role of early relationships in supporting competencies and mitigating risks how your experience being a child impacts you as a professional and a parent research-based principles and practices to support families, teachers, and professionals who work with young children & their families

Instructor:

Miriam Hirschstein PhD is a psychologist and senior research scientist in Family and Child Nursing at the University of Washington. She directs an evaluation partnership with Educare, a model of center-based early childhood education implemented in Seattle and 22 other sites across the U.S.

COM 597 M: Digital Transformations of Organizations (Kirsten Foot)

Mondays, March 26th-June 4th, 6:00-8:50pm, CMU 302

**Please note that this class meets only 3 hours a week, but is a 5-credit course. The professor has designed the course to require weekly observation and interview sessions outside of class that are equivalent to an hour of class time each week. The course has a prerequisite: a Memo of Understanding signed by the student and his/her organizational liaison is required to receive an add code for registration in the course. Please read the full course description below for more details.

The process of transforming organizations– whether for-profit companies, non-profit organizations, or government agencies– is often complex, even more so when digital information and communication technologies (ICTs) are involved. There are many reasons why organizational leaders or members initiate change, why technology adoption fails, why people resist the introduction of new tools, and why new tools often have unintended consequences and effects. Managing technology change within organizations or being a “change agent” is rewarding yet extremely challenging work. This course prepares students to take on such roles. Using a case study approach, students in this class will learn how to identify potential roadblocks to change and develop analytical lenses for assessing digitally-mediated changes in organizations. Together we will examine several aspects of such changes including innovation cycles, change leadership, technology breakdowns, resistance to ICTs and/or organizational change, and collaboration.

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See attached flyers for more information.

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2018SPR_BIOST532_flyer

There is still time to register for The Graduate School’s new course for the Spring quarter entitled:

“Engaging with Microaggressions & Macroassaults- Equity in Praxis”.

We invite graduate students, faculty, and staff from all disciplines to participate in this interdisciplinary course which seeks to equip participants to critically engage with microaggressions and macroassaults- both the everyday insults and hostilities as well as the structural, large-scale policies and practices that perpetuate the oppression of marginalized populations. Inspired by Paulo Freire’s notion of praxis (the intersection of reflection and action), the course will work to empower participants to address, interrupt, and confront these forces in their personal and professional lives.

You may email Saejin Kwak Tanguay (gsdivra@uw.edu) with any questions.

Advanced Methods for Global Health III

SPRING 2018 | 4 CREDITS

TUESDAYS AND THURSDAYS | 11:30-12:50

& LAB WEDNESDAY | 2:00-2:50

The Department of Global Health is offering a new course to:

• Identify the quantitative issues linked with program evaluations
• Know and understand the main methods and standards of quantitative evaluation
• Apply key evaluation approaches to answer evaluation questions in implementation science
• Understand and compare the strengths and limitations of key quantitative evaluation designs and analysis approaches

Topics will include process evaluations, global health data systems, selecting appropriate study designs, cluster randomized trials/ extensions of common randomized designs, and quasi-experimental designs such as difference-in-differences, interrupted time-series, and regression discontinuity.

Please see the attached course flyer for more information, and please distribute widely across your department/unit.

SPRING 2018

Advancing an Eastside Food Innovation District in Tacoma (3 credits)

Meets on Tuesdays, 5:30-7:50pm

This course is part of the UW Livable City Year: Tacoma and aims to engage Seattle and Tacoma campus students.

Register now for a unique, community-engaged learning experience!  Contact your academic program advisor with questions about how the course will count toward your degree.

T URB 494 A, SLN 20352 (Tacoma campus students)

URBDP 598 N, SLN 21676 (Seattle campus students)

Healthy food. Longer lives. Jobs and business opportunities.

Studies have shown that a child raised on the Eastside of Tacoma is likely to live 7–12 years less than one raised in other parts of the city, and access to healthy food has been identified as a strong contributor to this disparity. Creating a local food economy will stimulate better access to healthy food as well as jobs and business opportunities. As part of UW Livable City Year: Tacoma, this course will engage students from both Seattle and Tacoma campuses and will identify a set of recommendations for advancing the objective of an Eastside Food Innovation District in Tacoma. The City has begun work on this project, but needs help understanding how to incentivize and recruit the types of businesses that make a difference in this area and how to ensure that a Food Innovation District can become self-sustaining and will improve the lives of people in this community. In this course, we will work directly with the City of Tacoma and spend significant time in the field. Please email conlin@speakeasy.net for more information.

There is still time to register for The Graduate School’s new course for the Spring quarter entitled:

“Engaging with Microaggressions & Macroassaults- Equity in Praxis”.

We invite graduate students, faculty, and staff from all disciplines to participate in this interdisciplinary course which seeks to equip participants to critically engage with microaggressions and macroassaults- both the everyday insults and hostilities as well as the structural, large-scale policies and practices that perpetuate the oppression of marginalized populations. Inspired by Paulo Freire’s notion of praxis (the intersection of reflection and action), the course will work to empower participants to address, interrupt, and confront these forces in their personal and professional lives.

Please see the attached course flyer for more information, and distribute widely across your department/unit.

You may email Saejin Kwak Tanguay (gsdivra@uw.edu) with any questions.

COM 597 A: “Masspersonal” Health Communication Graduate Seminar (5)

Spring 2018, T/Th, 3:30-5:20, CMU 242

This course seeks to introduce students to theory and practice in the field of health communication from mass and interpersonal perspectives. Students will read and interrogate health communication models and apply them to understanding and addressing health issues that impact individuals and communities. The seminar will be co-taught by two communication scholars and researchers. Dr. Carmen Gonzalez is a media scholar who applies mass communication and technology theories to understand and address health disparities. Dr. John Crowley is an interpersonal scholar who investigates the physiology of communication messages, particularly as it relates to discrimination. Interested students are encouraged to contact Drs. Gonzalez (cmgonzal@uw.edu) and Crowley (jpcrow@uw.edu) for further information regarding this course.

Link to COM Time Schedule: http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2018/com.html

 

Dear Advisers,

Please remind students about online courses for this quarter.

Students may take some of the most popular online credit classes as part of their normal tuition load with an additional fee of $120 per class. These select online courses are offered in a group-start format, which means students interact with their classmates and complete the course during normal quarterly calendar. Below is a message that can be shared with students before registration begins:

Register Now for Online Courses

Enjoy the convenience and flexibility of the University of Washington’s online courses. As a UW matriculated student, you may take some of the most popular online credit classes as part of your normal tuition load and pay an additional fee of only $120 per class. These select online courses are offered in a group-start format, which means you can interact with your classmates and complete the course during the normal quarterly calendar. Online courses help meet graduation requirements and allow you access to the university when you need it. Check out the following courses on the Seattle Time Schedule*. Simply register as you would for any other class using MyUW.

*Online courses are housed at the UW Seattle campus. UW Bothell and UW Tacoma students should check with advising staff at their home campuses before enrolling in classes they expect to count towards their degree program. These courses do not count as residence credit; consult with your adviser if you have any questions.

The following courses feature the group-start format (and require the $120 fee):

Abbrev.	Number	Course Title	Credits	Instructor	General Ed Requirements	SLN
ARTH	272A	French Impressionism & Post Impressionism	5	Melanie Enderle	I&S, VLPA	10508
ASTR	101B	Astronomy	5	Oliver Fraser	NW, Q/SR	10585
ASTR	150E	The Planets	5	Nicole Kelly	NW, Q/SR	21482
DANCE	100A	Understanding Dance	5	Stephanie Liapis	VLPA	12938
DRAMA	103A	Theatre Appreciation	5	TBA	VLPA	13136
GEOG/JSIS	123A	Introduction to Globalization	5	TBA	I&S, DIV	GEOG: 14676 JSIS: 15641
JSIS E	113A	Modern Greek 3	5	Heracles Panagiotides		15799
MUSIC	116A	Elementary Music Theory	2	Kevin Baldwin	VLPA	17346
MUSIC	131B	History of Jazz	5	Matthew Carr	VLPA	17357
MUSIC	185A	The Concert Season	2	Anna Barbee	VLPA	17361
PSYCH	101D	Introduction to Psychology	5	Judith McLaughlin	I&S	18878
PSYCH	203A	Intro to Personality and Individual Differences	5	Jonathon Brown	I&S	18892
STAT	311B	Elements of Statistical Methods	5	Tamre Cardoso	NW, Q/SR	19829
ESRM	100A	Introduction to Environmental Science	5	Rob Harrison	NW, Q/SR	14102

G H 556: Global Mental Health (2 or 3 credits)

In person Monday class or Online/distance learning for either 2 or 3 credits.

Link to time schedule: http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2018/gh.html

G H 556 Global Mental Health (2-3) D. Rao
Examines the socio-cultural and political forces that impact assessment, manifestation, and treatment of mental illnesses worldwide. Students take a critical view of diagnostic systems and examine cultural differences in presentation of mental illness. Also reviews treatment practices in low resource settings, cultural-specific communication, and stigma. Offered: Sp.

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