Spaces available in winter quarter:

Cross-Cultural Religious Literacy

JSIS 578 A (SLN 16031)

5cr; Mondays 11:30a-1:20p

Chris Seiple

Finding solutions to global challenges demands different perspectives, as well as partnerships among individuals and institutions who do not share the same values. How does one build unity without uniformity across sectors—each of which possess believers and faith-based actors—in order to effectively lead in complicated times? Through theory, case study and the practical experience of both the instructor and the students, this course understands and wrestles with the role of religion in context—at least as an underexamined analytic factor, and perhaps even as tremendous force for the common good – and seeks to teach the skill sets of evaluation (self & contextual), communication, and negotiation as a means to mutual literacy and respect across cultures and countries.

SEFS 550: Nature and Health

Description: Introduction and overview of evidence on the association of nature contact with human health. This includes a discussion of a variety of aspects of psychological and physical well-being, potential causal mechanisms, and explorations of the ways in which individual and population-level differences may moderate these impacts.

Thursdays 2:30 to 4:20 in ANDERSON HALL 304/306 2 credits SLN 19913

UCONJ550: Healthcare in Underserved Communities. We are getting the word out about this course and want to encourage enrollment by social work students.

UCONJ 550 Flyer 2020

COM495A Interorganizational Communication (Winter 2020, M/W 10:30am-12:20pm).

Course Overview: In today’s world organizations in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors must interact well for the sake of their own organization and societal needs, but they face many challenges in doing so. Students in COM495A Interorganizational Communication will explore the dynamics of interorganizational communication in a discussion-based seminar centered in theory and praxis. Students will participate in facilitating discussions regarding theoretical frameworks and concepts drawn from multiple disciplines, applying them to real-world instances of interorganizational communication, and developing communication strategies for interorganizational interactions.

The centerpiece of the course will be a 5-week simulation in which each student takes a role in a mock multi-organization community task force, situated in a fictional mountain town, that negotiates the creation of a fire-fighting safety plan. Through this 5-phase simulation, students will apply knowledge gained from course readings, and develop skills in assessing other stakeholders’ needs and motives, building alliances, communicating constructively through disagreements, and negotiating multilateral agreements for the collective good.

Registration for COM495B is by add code only. To enroll, email Erika  Samson [samsonej@uw.edu] with your student number, telling her that you are a graduate student– and cc me [kfoot@uw.edu]. Erika will enroll the first five graduate students who contact her into the course.

Leadership and Equity: Leading Self and Leading with Others (PUBPOL 598D)

Course description: The workshop will be an interactive series of three sessions focused on leadership, diversity, equity and inclusion. Students can expect to: develop a shared understanding of key definitions of diversity, equity and inclusion; examine dominant culture habits and how they show up in our leadership and in our work; engage in relationship building and cultural identity storytelling; and practice strategies (inquiry, empathy, giving feedback, naming an issue) that support communicating across differences of culture, social identity, power and privilege.  

The workshop will meet on three Fridays in Autumn 2019 (11:30 am to 2:30 pm on November 1, November 8 and November 15).  

You can find the course listed in our Autumn 2019 Time Schedule. For students with any challenges registering for the course, please reach out to our team at evansreg@uw.edu. 

URBDP 585 Introduction to Historic Preservation
Autumn Quarter
3 credits
Mondays & Wednesday 5:30 – 6:50 PM
Gould 440

Manish Chalana, Ph.D.; Associate Professor, Urban Design and Planning; Adjunct Associated Professor in Architecture and Landscape Architecture; Director: Graduate Certificate in Historic Preservation; and Co-Director: Center for Preservation and Adaptive Reuse (C-PAR).  Chalana@uw.edu

This interdisciplinary course integrates historic preservation with a diverse set of disciplines and engages themes of livability, equity and sustainability. The class will explore the history and theory of historic preservation, changing nature of preservation practice, and current and future challenges the field faces. Historic Preservation in the United States has evolved dramatically over the last four decades from a rather narrow, generally Eurocentric enterprise focusing on high-style monumental architecture, to a more broad based approach to urban design, sustainability, livability and place-making. Today the field attempts integrating discipline as diverse as sociology, museology, geography, anthropology, ecology, landscape architecture and planning. From its patriotic and nostalgic roots the field has become more socially conscious and self-critical, signaling the dawn of a new era of theory and practice

See attachment or email Manish Chalana at chalana@uw.edu for further information.

For information on the Graduate Certificate in Historic Preservation see http://www.be.washington.edu/academics/college-wide-certificates/historic-preservation-certificate/

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We’re co-teaching an interprofessional course this fall and we’re trying to recruit 7-8 MSW students to join our 7-8 medical students for FAMED 527: Interprofessional Care of Urban Underserved Patients.

The course brings together medical and social work students to discuss inter-professional care of medically and socially complex patients in urban underserved settings. Students in the class work in small groups to review case studies, develop care plans, and list available resources. Each week we feature a practicing social worker and a physician who share their experiences, insights, and resources.

If you have students that might be interested, please feel free to forward this announcement and attached flyer. Or, if you have suggestions for listservs or other ways to publicize the course (I believe Lin Murdock has posted it on the SSW blog already), please let me know!

The course starts 10/7 so there’s still time to register, and folks can contact me for add codes, gshimkin@uw.edu

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There are still some spaces available in JSIS 578 – Special Topics: Congress and U.S. Foreign Policy this autumn.

This course examines the role of the U.S. Congress in shaping and driving U.S. foreign policy. Taught by a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives and a long-time House and Senate foreign affairs staffer, it explores both the statutory and political responsibilities through which elected representatives approach U.S. involvement abroad. Students will hone their skills in developing concise, compelling arguments on complex topics for both written and oral presentation. Course work will be largely driven by “mock Senate” floor debates, in which students will be required to confront notable foreign policy case studies from the perspective of their assigned roles as members of the U.S. Senate.

JSIS 578 E (5cr)

Tu/Th 10:30a-12:20p

Instructors: Rep. Jim McDermott (retired) & Celes Eckerman

There are still some spaces available in JSIS 534 – Legal Foundations of World Order this autumn.

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.

JSIS 534 B (5cr)

M/W 3:30-5:20p

Instructor: Rick Lorenz

CITIES on SCREEN: Film, Design, and the Built Environment “Black and White”

Fall 2019 College of the Built Environment

1-credit film seminar, 6 sessions, alternate Fridays 3:30-5:50 PM beginning September 27, Gould 322

BE 498 F (SLN 10991) | BE 598 F (SLN 10997) – Undergrads should sign up for 498, Grad students should take 598

Film offers insights into how we represent, document and navigate our built environments. At the same time, the virtual space of cinema influences our thinking,

and by extension, our experience and design of both complex ideas and real places. Fall quarter we explore the theme of “Black and White,” which denotes a film process and an aesthetic, as well as connoting confident assertions of certainty and more fraught attributions of difference. “Black and White” conjures binaries and blurring, of truth and deception, documentary and drama, identity and indignity, good and evil, and conformity and resistance; and imparts meaning and metaphor in the cinematic city around issues of race, gender and the so-called Other.

This film seminar features discussion and full-length viewing of selected films and is open to undergraduates and graduates in all majors and departments.

BE 498 l 598_Cities on Screen_Fall 2019

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.

• Learn the fundamentals of advocacy, organizing, and their ability to impact health.
• Apply skills, gain confidence, & collaborate around a community-driven goal.
• Work with local leaders to engage in community driven listening campaigns.
• Address the social & structural injustices that contribute to & perpetuate health disparities.

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There are still some spaces available in JSIS 578 – Special Topics: Congress and U.S. Foreign Policy this autumn.

This course examines the role of the U.S. Congress in shaping and driving U.S. foreign policy. Taught by a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives and a long-time House and Senate foreign affairs staffer, it explores both the statutory and political responsibilities through which elected representatives approach U.S. involvement abroad. Students will hone their skills in developing concise, compelling arguments on complex topics for both written and oral presentation. Course work will be largely driven by “mock Senate” floor debates, in which students will be required to confront notable foreign policy case studies from the perspective of their assigned roles as members of the U.S. Senate.

JSIS 578 E (5cr)

Tu/Th 10:30a-12:20p

Instructors: Jim McDermott & Celes Eckerman

There are still some spaces available in JSIS 534 – Legal Foundations of World Order this autumn.

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.

JSIS 534 B (5cr)

M/W 3:30-5:20p

Instructor: Rick Lorenz

Addiction Medicine Elective 

MED 569 Addiction Medicine

Fall 2019!

The course was developed to be holistic, multidisciplinary and applicable to pre-clinical topics and clinical clerkship skills, including ACEs and trauma-informed care, integrative recovery modalities, epidemiology and research, interviewing skills, policy and advocacy, case-based problem solving and other essential skills for patient care. It is designed for every future provider coming from all levels of knowledge, with the interest and drive to do better for their patients.

This elective also fulfills course requirements for both the Underserved Pathway and the Hispanic Health Pathway!

Enrollment will be limited to ~50 and open to most interprofessional health schools. It will be Tuesdays 6-8 PM in the T-500 wing. Out of class work is minimal and relevant to familiarizing yourself with the addiction and recovery services and community here in Seattle. If you are in the WWAMI region and are interested in taking this course, please reach out to discuss distance-learning options.

The course number is MED 569 and will be offered Tuesdays from 6:00-8:00pm. Students will need to email NERURKAR@UW.EDU for an add code or to learn more about the course.

This fall, the Evans School is opening a select handful of seats in its highly rated core and elective courses to encourage greater diversity in perspectives and spur richer classroom discussion. Courses will develop theoretical knowledge and hard skills in topics ranging from financial inclusion and poverty reduction to applied cost benefit analysis and public sector financial management and budgeting.

Students can find more information by visiting evans.uw.edu/academic-programs/course-listings or contacting my colleague Julianne Slate at evansreg@uw.edu. I hope you’ll share this information broadly with your students as a way of adding an interdisciplinary lens to their studies. A flyer with open courses is attached.

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Spaces available…

B H 562

Credits: 3

Title: Ethical Issues in Pediatrics

Day: TTh Time:

8:30-9:50

Instructor: Douglas S. Diekema, MD, MPH

Flyer: BH562flyer_20.pptx.pdf

This course provides a survey of contemporary ethical issues that arise in the clinical and research environment when children are involved, including the role of children and adolescents in decision-making, the limits of parental decision-making authority, and issues related to genetic testing, transplantation, research, and public health. Offered jointly with PEDS 562.

Send your add code request to bhadds@uw.edu

Please see the attached flyer with details about a new interdisciplinary section of a “Disasters & Public Health” course being offered this fall through a joint effort with the Department of Emergency Medicine and School of Public Health. This special intensive section will be run the week before fall quarter starts, and students will earn fall quarter credit. Graduate students from all UW health sciences schools are encouraged to register! Priority registration deadline: July 15, 2019

This interprofessional course provides an introduction to different types of public health and environmental health disasters, their consequences, and the role of public health agencies, healthcare organizations, public health practitioners, and clinicians in preparedness, response, and recovery. The course will employ an all-hazards, domestic perspective, and explore different types of natural, biological, chemical, radiological, nuclear, and other human-caused disasters. Through course lectures and readings, case studies, discussion, and debate, students will learn and understand the foundational concepts of the public and environmental health community’s role in preparing for, responding to, and recovering from disasters. Through in-course activities and assignments, students will learn to apply these concepts to real-world disasters, and identify, evaluate and synthesize information related to public health disaster response. The special, intensive section of the course is designed to develop proficiency in analyzing and evaluating the public health and healthcare response to disasters and identifying interprofessional solutions and methods for improvement.

Instructors: Stephen Morris, MD  (Emerg Med) and Nicole Errett, PhD (Env Health)

Open to graduate students across all UW Schools, Colleges & Programs

For more information, email Dr. Errett at nerrett@uw.edu

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Open to students enrolled in the UW School of Social Work and School of Medicine.

FALL QUARTER 2019
MONDAYS 5:30-6:50PM
HEALTH SCIENCES T-474A
Contact gshimkin@uw.edu for add codes

 

A new section of JSIS 535: Technology, Society and the Future has recently opened up more spaces for this summer a-term course.

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.

Summer A-term

JSIS 535: Technology, Society and the Future (2cr)

Taught by James Bernard

SLN 14628

The Communication Leadership graduate program is offering some exciting classes in Summer 2019, and we are happy to open up available spaces to other UW graduate students. The classes below all currently have availability. Please note that Comm Lead is a fee-based program, so tuition and fees are paid per credit directly to UW Professional & Continuing Education and are not covered by any ASE or other tuition waiver. Summer 2019 tuition is $729 per credit.  Note from Lin – EDP students will pay their usual per credit fee (so no extra) for these credits and can use up to 3 credits out-of-dept toward their elective requirement (and may request up to 3 more out-of-dept credits by emailing Lin AFTER you’ve registered.)

Please contact Heather Werckle at commlead@uw.edu for add codes if you would like to register for one of these classes.

COMMLD 535: Foundations of Audio Storytelling

(Partnow) 5 Credits, Intensive, Monday-Friday, 6/24-6/28 | 9:00am-5:00pm | SAV 132

Whether gathered around a radio in a living room or walking plugged in with headphones, the medium of audio storytelling has always offered the opportunity to build mindset-shifting community around content. This course traces the evolution of audio storytelling from radio to podcasting that links to communities for various purposes: to educate, to entertain, and to inspire action — and the new golden age of podcasting that we find ourselves in means that audio storytelling has the potential for broad reach and powerful impact. Consideration is given to the core characteristics of strong storytelling, observed through an auditory filter. Class materials are twinned with a selection of cross-sector guest speakers who bring their own craft perspective. Students will experiment with designing their own short audio pieces.

COMMLD 530 B: Intensive Video Storytelling: Conceptualizing, Shooting, and Editing

(Keller) 3 Credits, Intensive, Wednesday-Sunday, 8/7-8/11, 9:00am-5:00pm | CMU 126

Media creation is a multi-step effort, with thoughtful decision-making involved throughout the process. How do the choices you make in the telling and delivery of your story affect the reception of your message? This course is aimed at expanding thought about how online media is affecting storytelling. Additionally, students will gain hands-on practice in producing online video stories. The skills-based aspect of this course is designed to familiarize students with the technologies associated with storytelling. Specifically how to refine, shoot, edit, and distribute their online video.

COMMLD 530 A: Storytelling and Communication for Mission-Driven Organizations

(Melograna) 5 Credits, Full Term, Saturdays 6/29, 7/13, 7/20, 7/27, and 8/10 | 9:00am-5:00pm | SAV 130

Nonprofits, NGOs, campaigns and social enterprises are driven by their desire to make the world a better place. As their storytellers, our job is to make sure their messages reach the right audiences and recruit those audiences to the cause. Keeping in mind that mission-driven organizations will often work on complex issues involving vulnerable populations, our job is to pursue this work within an ethical framework that centers the concerns and desires of the people whom our clients serve. Upon completing the course, students will be able to work with mission-driven organizations as their primary storytellers.

COMMLD 543: Leadership Approaches to Equity Initiatives in Organizations

(Ross) 5 Credits, Full Term, Wednesdays 6/26-8/21 | 6:00-9:50pm | DEN 258

This course challenges and supports students to develop deeper self-awareness, hone stronger skills for learning across difference, and prepare themselves as organizational change-makers for diversity, equity, and inclusion. For better or worse, organizational change initiatives impact individuals, groups, organizations, and ultimately societies. Thus, courageous leaders throughout organizations must learn how to improve their relevant knowledge, skills, and awareness iteratively, in order to contribute effectively to genuine change-making. The course is designed to meet students where they are and coach them toward significant growth in self-awareness, skills, and understanding. Students learn collaboratively together in order to explore interconnections among the dimensions of our intersectional identities. Those who complete this course gain confidence in their ability to learn about uncomfortable topics and expand their understanding of the roles of individuals, groups, organizations, and societal structures in making real system change.

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