February 14, 2024
Summer Course Offering: MORE-THAN-HUMAN WORLDS: The Poetics & Politics of Life
WHAT BECOMES POSSIBLE WHEN WE DECENTER THE HUMAN IN THE
ARTS AND HUMANITIES?
HUM 498 A/B – 12 CREDITS – JUNE 20-AUGUST 16, 2024
This course aims to cultivate an appreciation of the more-than-human-world —from plants to
animals to water to rock—as agentive, animate, and inextricably entangled with human lifeworlds.
To this end, the course will introduce frameworks and methods ranging from Indigenous
epistemologies to critical animal studies to multispecies ethnography, while reckoning with
histories and present realities of racial formation, settler colonialism, extractive industries, captivity,
war, and other forms of violence.
Selected Students Will:
- Engage in intensive, mentored research projects on UW’s Seattle campus
- Earn 12 academic credits
- Receive a $6,000 scholarship and be named a Mary Gates Research Scholar
- Present in the 2024 SIAH Symposium
If you are interested, please apply here: https://www.washington.edu/undergradresearch/summer-institute-home/