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Misinformation is everywhere. These scientists can teach you to fight BS.
The world, according to UW professors Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West, is awash in BS. So begins their popular course, which trains college students to identify and call out misinformation.
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Health & Fitness Issue 2019: Dance is all about connections, community and expression
Mike O'Neal, a current part-time lecturer and alum from the Department of Dance at the UW, explains how movement can be reflective of who we are.
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Character: Comedian Howie Echo-Hawk is happy to make you uncomfortable
Columns interviews Howie Echo-Hawk (BA, American Indian Studies, 2018).
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The Surprising History of Musical Theater
A new course highlights how disenfranchised communities created a distinctly American art form.
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5 Cool Courses for Autumn 2019
Why not sign up for something unexpected during autumn quarter registration? Consider these intriguing offerings.
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5 Cool Courses for Autumn 2019
When registering for autumn quarter courses, why not sign up for something unexpected? Consider these intriguing offerings in the College of Arts & Sciences.
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A University of Washington Course Gives Design Students Real-World Experience
UW's collaboration with Seattle-based company Hightower challenged undergrads to create workspace pieces from concept to prototype and present their final projects to industry experts.
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Putting Poetry on the Map
Students in the Department of English have created an interactive map of site-specific poetry in Washington state.
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A Puget Sound Language Returns
The Southern Lushootseed language, once spoken where the UW now sits, is finding new speakers through a UW course.
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UW teaches students Inuktitut through funding prompted by Sputnik launch
Learn the fascinating history behind why some students at the UW's Canadian Studies Center are learning Inuktitut.
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Faculty Friday: Lotta Gavel Adams
UW Scandinavian Studies Department's Lotta Gavel Adams unfolds the evolution of trolls in literature from fearsome forest-dwellers to friendly beings—and back again.
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The Trouble with Sympathy
A Germanics course explores how sympathy can be used for good but can also serve a darker purpose.
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Unearthing Seattleās Deeper Histories through Art and Humanities
Students expose layers hidden beneath the city's staggering wealth, using "dark tourism" to find reasons for protest and celebration--sometimes both at once.
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A Summer of Indigenous Cultures
In an introductory American Indian Studies course, students left the classroom to learn about Indigenous cultures.
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Artists and Writers, by the Book
Art and creative writing students collaborated on artist books through an interdisciplinary course.