[Histmaj] Spring Arctic Studies courses -- spaces still open!

[HISTORY UNDERGRADUATE ADVISORS]

The following courses count towards the interdisciplinary Arctic Studies Minor and are still open for enrollment for spring quarter:
ARCTIC 401: Current Issues in the Arctic: Decolonizing Knowledge for Health Equity, Diversity, Inclusion: Health and Wellbeing in Arctic Indigenous Communities<https://myplan.uw.edu/course/#/courses/ARCTIC401> (3 cr.), M/W 2:30-4:20pm, Tram Nguyen<https://jsis.washington.edu/canada/people/tram-nguyen-2/>, 2022 UW Canada Fulbright Visiting Chair in Arctic Studies
This course provides an exciting new opportunity for students to ‘meet’ and engage in interactive discussions (via Zoom) with six Arctic Indigenous practitioners from the Alaskan and Canadian Arctic. Students will gain exposure and understanding of current issues and challenges facing Arctic Indigenous communities by directly connecting with Indigenous practitioners and thinkers in various health-related fields (disability research, mental health and wellbeing, stroke rehabilitation, etc.).
ARCTIC 498/SCAND 490: Literatures of the Arctic: Unsettling Encounters and Cultures of Resilience<https://myplan.uw.edu/course/#/courses/ARCTIC498> (5 cr.), M/W 12:30-2:20pm, Andy Meyer<https://jsis.washington.edu/canada/people/andy-meyer/>, Scandinavian Studies
This course will serve as a study of the way both Arctic communities and outsiders, Indigenous cultures and colonial cultures, have represented the Far North in their literatures. With an origin in the Scandinavian Arctic, students will study primary and secondary texts from a range of perspectives across the circumpolar North. Texts and films in the course will be drawn from Sámi, Norwegian, Inuit, and colonial North American traditions, including Sámi artists Nils-Aslak Valkeapää and Nils Gaup, Norwegian explorer and scientist Fridtjof Nansen, Grenlandic-Danish explorer Knud Rasmussen, Inuit artists Zacharias Kunuk, Zebedee Nungak, Tanya Tagaq, and others. The course will consider the various ways Arctic literatures engage issues like environmental health, colonialism, and cultural identity, resilience, and imagination.
HONORS 222 /ESS 490F: Calderwood Seminar in Public Writing: Science and Society in a Changing Climate<https://myplan.uw.edu/course/#/courses/ESS490> (5 cr.), Th 10:30am-1:20pm, Michelle Koutnik, College of the Environment

In this course students will read and think about Arctic and Antarctic ice loss due to climate change and then distill these scientific articles, reports, films, or books into pieces of writing for non-scientists. This is a critical practice for scientists, but also for anyone who wants to write for the public and communicate broadly. Effective communication of science is vital to society. We all need to understand the implications of declines in snowpack, coastal erosion, Arctic sea-ice loss, Greenland ice melting and instability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. The goal of this course is for students to gain experience writing in styles read by the public and on scientific topics that matter to everyone. Following the model of the Calderwood seminars, students will read, write, edit, and share perspectives about ice and climate change.

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