Courses

A new literature course focuses on Nobel Prize winners and the sometimes surprising factors that led to their win. 

Ana Gómez-Bravo created a class about Spanish food and culture as a way to teach the language, but found no appropriate textbook for the material — so she wrote one.

During a summer study abroad, students explored LGBTQ issues in the U.S. and Mexico.

Students in the C21 Story Institute get a jumpstart on becoming career professionals.

For students participating in a simulated negotiation about the Cyprus conflict, the simulation felt very real.

New program offers classes in marketing, management and accounting, both at the Seattle campus and at partnering tribal casinos and resorts.

A University of Washington seminar, promises to help students develop a BS detector — and it’s become a global phenomenon.

The class #BlackLivesMatter in Media and Popular Culture — offered this spring — is one of very few like it in the country.

Despite its historical importance, the classical language Ge’ez is taught at just three universities in the Western world — including the UW. 

A new online course introduces students to the humanities through A&S faculty's personal stories and favorite artifacts.

Extinction is usually treated as a scientific topic. The course "Cultures of Extinction" explores it with a humanities focus.

The very name of the class seemed to fire imaginations nationwide. Now the Information School's new course "Calling Bullshit in the Age of Big Data" is getting started.

The presidency of Donald Trump has vast implications for international affairs and even the internal politics of other countries — it could lead to geopolitical realignments on a global scale.

If your New Year's resolution is to deepen your skill sets, January is bound to give you a fast start to achieving that very goal.

In UW Biology we are fueled by what if. We are driven by curiosity and a belief in what's possible. And we believe it's possible to transform the way biological research and teaching are done.