Undergraduate Education

The College of Arts & Sciences is featured in this collection of video highlights produced by UW News in 2020.

Elena Campbell, associate professor of history, is teaching a new class on the history of mankind's relationship to the Artic.

Twenty moments from a year like no other — captured through the lenses of UW photographers.

Sutapa Basu, Director of the Alene Moris Women's Center, reflects on the life and legacy of board member, donor, and Making Connections program founder, Dr. Patricia Dawson.

Daniel Kuo-Ching Chen, director general of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Seattle, signed a memorandum of understanding of cooperation with UW President Ana Mari Cauce on Dec. 8. Based on the memorandum, the Taiwan government provided $1.8 million for the UW to strengthen its Taiwan studies program in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and launch a Taiwan arts and culture program.

David Bell, PhD student in physics, and Savannah Lomelli, art student, discuss how they're spending the holidays in the COVID-19 pandemic.

UW Tacoma alum Omari Amili speaks with formerly-incarcerated UW alumni and faculty.

Lecturer of American Indian Studies Tami Hohn and her students Victor Andy and Shelby Cross discuss their experiences teaching and learning Southern Lushootseed.

Watch lectures online from the new interdisciplinary class "2020: The Course."

“Washington state is now a national leader in providing financial aid to low-income college students, and at the University of Washington, we ensure that the cost of tuition is not a barrier for low-income students. But access and equity do not begin or end with college enrollment,” writes UW President Ana Mari Cauce.

ENGL 285, a unique creative writing class that features the expertise of professional writers, is highly recommended by its students.

The Native UW Scholars program, which works to “build community across the year and help students braid their academic and social lives on the UW campus and on local Coast Salish lands,” has continued and adapted to the online world.

Victoria Lawson, professor in the Department of Geography, director of the Honors Program, and adjunct professor of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies discusses social care and racial justice.

The UW has started offering a new STEM minor in data science, one of the first universities in the country to do so. Ben Marwick, an associate professor of archeology and director of the new data science minor, is quoted.

In this conversation, Associate Professor of political science and Adjunct Professor of law, societies Megan Ming Francis talks about mentorship, understanding the immense structures that shape our democracy and lives, asking important questions of our institutions and ourselves with the intention of making both better.