Tuesdays, 11:30am-2:20pm, offered remotely, 5 credits; SLN: 16027

This course explores how the U.S. Executive Branch formulates and implements foreign and security policy. Taught by a former Ambassador with extensive experience in Europe and NATO, the class takes a practitioner’s approach to examine the actual conduct of foreign affairs, from defining the national interest to medium-term planning and day-to-day international engagement. Using case studies from the recent past, the course will examine how the U.S. advances the national agenda using military, diplomatic, assistance and other means. Students will refine their analytical and presentation skills through a series of short briefings on breaking developments and concise policy memos addressed to decision-makers.

Email maais@uw.edu for more information.

Wednesdays (Even numbered weeks), 2:30pm-5:20pm, 3 credits; SLN: 18234

An interdisciplinary overview of community health prevention approaches focusing on the social determinants of health and health disparity reduction among vulnerable populations. Analysis of community and population preventive strategies across the life course. Roles of advanced community health nurses as prevention leaders and consumers of prevention information are emphasized.

COURSE OBJECTIVES
1. Understand the philosophy and value orientation of prevention frameworks used in community health
2. Examine prevention approaches for individuals and communities, including behavioral, educational, economic, environmental and capacity building strategies
3. Analyze the contribution of research to the theory development, intervention selection and intervention methodology of community health programs
4. Evaluate community health prevention research

Wednesdays (Odd numbered weeks), 2:30pm-6:20pm, 4 credits; SLN: 18240

Explores culture as it related to the program planning process, methods , theories, attitudes, and skills in health promotion and disease prevention through community engagement.

COURSE OBJECTIVES
1. Describe the modifications of traditional community health practice that must be made to plan programs across cultures.
2. Articulate and demonstrate attitudes and values most constructive for program planning with multicultural populations;
3. Compare and contrast models of community engagement with an emphasis on community-based participatory approaches with multicultural populations;
4. Discuss and demonstrate an understanding of the key components of program planning in health promotion and disease prevention with multicultural populations;
5. Analyze culturally appropriate community intervention programs to identify key components and activities;
6. Analyze approaches needed to translate theory and research into transculturally appropriate interventions;
7. Identify challenges in program planning with multicultural populations (e.g. availability of epidemiology data, racial misclassification, cultural differences in patterns of communication related to work in planning teams. cultural orientation/values related to implementation design, and cultural differences in evaluation design) and actions that may be helpful to address the challenges.
8. Demonstrate an understanding of attitudes, values, and skills relevant to cross cultural health promotion projects.

Tuesdays + Thursdays, 1:30pm-3:20pm, offered remotely; SLN: 15469

This course focuses on (a) designing, implementing, and evaluating health promotion interventions and (b) health behavior change theories.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
– Apply a 10-question process to the development of health promotion interventions;
– Describe and apply several theories relevant to health behavior change;
– Discuss health promotion interventions at each level of the socio-ecological model;
– Design a health promotion intervention and present it as a grant proposal;
– Access and use a variety of resources to inform health promotion efforts.

All graduate students welcome! Public Health students should complete HSERV 511 or PHI 511 prior to taking this course.

HSERV581_poster_Final

HSERV 511B – Introduction to Health Services & Public Health

Mondays and Wednesdays, 1:00pm-2:20pm; 3 Credits; SLN: 15454

This course provides an overview of the U.S. health care and public health systems, covering: 1) the many factors affecting the population’s need, demand, and utilization of health care services, 2) how health care is financed, organized and regulated; 3) the history, goals, and changing role of public health; and 4) the efficiency, effectiveness and equity of the health system. The course explores the role of the private sector and of government in the financing, provision, and regulation of health services, and in the protection of the health of the population.

HSERV 511

WIN 2021/ Thurs 8:30-10:30am (remote), SLN 18204 (3 credits)

Students will gain a broad overview of T3/T4 research focusing on translation of effective interventions into practice and the community. Innovations in health services research will be reviewed including frameworks, appropriate study designs, methods, modalities, strategies and tools (formative, implementation, dissemination and communication). Prerequisite: Graduate level standing

NMETH 594A flyer

Tuesdays/Thursdays (11:30-1:50), 3 credits, C/NC

How do you interrupt bias in classrooms so that all students thrive? One evidence-based answer: by building practical skills in Theatre of the Oppressed, social change theater, and other arts-based pedagogies. These practical skills serve students from all fields, no matter what their professional goals.

In this online course, students practice using the language and methods of theater to challenge institutional oppression and advance community dialogue about power and privilege. These methods generate opportunities for collective problem-solving. The course culminates in an online student-generated theater performance and dialogue.

Co-instructors: Tikka Sears and Elba Moise

To see a full list of courses offered this year, please visit our CTL Graduate School Courses page.

JSIS 534: Legal Foundations of World Order
5 redits
Monday and Wednesdays 3:30-5:20pm
Professor Rick Lorenz

This course examines the legal foundations of world security and stability in a time of dynamic change in international relations. Some believe that international law is a charade; governments comply with it only when convenient to do so, and disregard it whenever a contrary interest appears. But legal “norms” can still have a major impact on a wide range of economic, political and security matters. Topics will include the Just War Theory, International Humanitarian Law (the Law of Armed Conflict) and its application to modern warfare, humanitarian intervention, terrorism, nuclear weapons, suicide bombers and robotic warfare, international environmental law, climate change and the Law of the Sea.

HSERV 552 Health Policy Development

SLN 16178, MW 10-11:20, 3 credits

If you’ve ever wondered how health policies are developed and adopted and about the role you can play in the policy arena, you can learn more in HSERV 552, Health Policy Development!

No matter what you do in your future career, policy will somehow touch your work. Health policy is pervasive – it touches transportation and workers’ rights, immigration and health equity, and healthy food access and agricultural practices. Policies offer the opportunity to improve health and improve health equity for the whole community by reaching many people. You will get the tools to understand who makes different types of policies and how, where they come from them and how to better influence them.

Explore about what policies are, agenda-setting, developing policy options, strategic communications, and policy adoption and advocacy, implementation and evaluation. Throughout the course, we will use real-life examples, feature various guest speakers doing this work in practice, and share examples from our own work as practitioners in the health care and public health policy fields.

For questions about the course, reach out to the instructor Molly Firth: mfirth@uw.edu.  If you’re interested in enrolling, please email hservmph@uw.edu for an add code.

JSIS A 504 Survey of Eurasia
SLN: 16846

This course provides an intellectual foundation for interdisciplinary study of Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia. Once part of a single political space, the region is now fragmented in many ways, yet legacies of the distant and more recent past remain. This course brings in a rotating cast of faculty from different scholarly disciplines to present on themes that define and unify the region. It is open to MA, PhD, and advanced undergraduate students interested in doing research on Eurasia.

For more information, please contact Dr. Scott Radnitz at srad@uw.edu.

JSIS 535: Technology, Society and the Future
TuTh 8:30-10:20am
Instructors: James Bernard and Scott Edwards
5 credits, Autumn 2020
SLN 24003

This course explores the intersection of policy, technology and society. Technology is rapidly changing the way that humans interact with one another, markets are formed, and information is stored, shared and utilized. While technology has held and does hold great promise for being a force for both economic and social change, it also has the potential to be used in ways that threaten civil liberties, national security and data sovereignty. Private sector and civil society actors, government and military leaders, and regulators must work together to understand how new and emerging technologies will drive change across a wide range of sectors, and they must develop policies to ensure that technology is used to help improve and enrich the lives of those across the socioeconomic spectrum.

Are you a first year, sophomore, junior, senior, grad student or ACCESS student looking for a great 2 credit C/NC course this Autumn? Check out:

Lessons (not learned) from the Holocaust (JEW ST 289B)
2 credits I&S, C/NC; Tuesdays, 4:30 pm

Examine the history and context surrounding the Holocaust, and the factors that made (and continue to make) atrocities of this magnitude possible, in this remotely offered lecture course. Lectures are 35 minutes long, followed by Q&A.

Email Prof Ahuvia at mahuvia@uw.edu with any questions.

Advocacy for the Health Professions – UCONJ 646

• Autumn quarter 2020
• One Credit, CR/NC
• Wednesdays 5:30-7:30pm
• Online only
  Contact Leonora Clarke at clarkel@uw.ed for an add code or questions

• Learn from advocacy and topic specific experts about fundamental elements of health advocacy.
• Develop hands-on skills for moving beyond witnessing health disparities to upstream action rooted in community-centered advocacy.
• See flyer for details (attached and copied below

The School of Law will be offering “Germs, Globalization and Governance” this summer, taught by affiliate professor Dr. Allyn Taylor.

This course will examine contemporary global health governance, including the contribution of international law and international organizations to the protection and the promotion of world health, with a special emphasis on the international legal regime for infectious diseases control applicable to the COVID-19 pandemic. The course is designed for law students and students from other disciplines, and is meant to be an interactive experience, combining teaching with joint analysis of relevant cases and materials, discussions, hypotheticals and individual presentations.

Registration questions should go to mylaw@uw.edu.

The Embodiment of Risk, Health Disparities, and Stress Mechanisms (SocWl 594)

When:       Fall, TBD (possibly Mondays 2:00-4:50)

Where:      School of Social Work room TBD

Who:          Dr. Paula Nurius, Professor (nurius@uw.edu)

Open to:     Graduate students across disciplines with research interests related to stress

This interdisciplinary research-oriented course is designed for students with or without biological training who have interest in multi-level (neurons to neighborhoods) exposure to and health and development implications of stress. It provides an overview of theory and research methods targeting embodiment processes through which lifespan stress contributes to developmental, mental and physical health outcomes, with attention to vulnerable populations and outcome inequalities.

Guest speakers representing diverse disciplines and areas of expertise will participate. The format will include lecture, small group discussion, active dialogue among course participants, and application of concepts to studentsʼ own research interests. Designed to be interactive and foster transdisciplinary perspectives.

Contact instructor if interested; add codes will be needed when available.

EXPLORING AND UNDERSTANDING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

A new seminar featuring UW researchers, covering topics from testing and response measures to vaccine development and social & economic impacts.
Join us for this exciting new lecture series that is open to both UW students and the public. This series consists of six sessions, one per week from April 13 – May 18.

Are you a UW student interested in taking this course for credit?
This 1-credit course is available for UW graduate and professional students only. This course meets via Zoom Mondays, April 13 through May 18 from 4 – 4:50 p.m. In order to enroll for credit, participants must be able to participate live during the scheduled Zoom sessions. If interested, please register for GH 590 B (SLN: 21809)

Learn More

Are you a UW student not enrolling for credit?
Please view the recorded sessions here. You can view each seminar via video, which will be posted on that page every Thursday (starting April 16).

NSG 559 Prevention Effectiveness in Community Health

• Online Asynchronous Format
• No Weekly “Class” To Attend
• One Mid-term Check-In Meeting Arranged between Course Faculty and Individual Student
• Virtual Office Hours with Course Faculty Available
• 1 credit (CR/NC only) for Graduate Students at UW campuses

NSG 559 focuses on increasing effectiveness of organization- and community-level health promotion and prevention programs with multicultural communities.

Includes web-based tool-kits pertaining to:

• Cross-cultural adaptation of health promotion programs
• Mental health promotion in communities
• Institutional readiness to sustain prevention policies

For more information, contact

Jenny Tsai, PhD, ARNP, PMHCNS-BC
Associate Professor
School of Nursing
Dept. of Child, Family, and Population Health Nursing
Email: jennyt@uw.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers

← Previous Page — Next Page →