[Histmaj] Seats remaining in Honors Spring 2022 courses

[HISTORY UNDERGRADUATE ADVISORS]

We have seats remaining in a few of our Spring 2022 Honors courses, which are now available to all students for registration! They are all small, discussion-based seminars without prerequisites that provide VLPA / I&S, DIV, and W credit. If you or your students have any questions, please reach out to uwhonors at uw.edu<mailto:uwhonors at uw.edu>.


HONORS 212 B: What Does Art Do?: Understanding Caribbean and Gulf Coast Embodied Oral History and Performing Arts Expressions through the Humanities (SLN 15311<https://sdb.admin.uw.edu/timeschd/uwnetid/sln.asp?QTRYR=SPR+2022&SLN=15311>)

VLPA, DIV, W

Tuesday & Thursday, 1:30-3:20 p.m.



This course will guide students in the skill of interpretation, by presenting performance arts emerging and that have emerged from the Gulf Coast and the Caribbean.

We will take a perspective that locates the past and future in the present, to better understand and convey the immediacies and embodiments of performing arts. Understanding performance art as oral history in its broadest definition will provide students with entry into how people express and embody historical experiences, engage in arts as activism, compose music within and despite inequalities, live with hurricanes, and contribute to widely known culinary practices.

Students will engage with examples of specific performing arts from many genres through music recordings, representations of dance, theater and Carnival performances, literature, film, storytelling, foodways, and representations of funerary practices and other expressions.

Arts will instigate our interpretations within interdisciplinary humanities frameworks to discuss race, experiences of history, aesthetics, religious studies, what art does, folklore studies, ethnomusicology and cultural anthropology. We will reflect on artistic expressions that travel beyond a cultural or geographical area, and on how some producers thereof often embody and make place.

Students will be asked to have fun, to actively participate, and to regularly produce their own syntheses of humanities theoretical frames with interpretations of Gulf Coast and Caribbean artistic expressions, including in a digital storytelling project.

HONORS 232 A: Multisector Collaboration for Societal Change (SLN 15316<https://sdb.admin.uw.edu/timeschd/uwnetid/sln.asp?QTRYR=SPR+2022&SLN=15316>)

I&S, DIV, W

Monday & Wednesday, 10:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m.



In today’s world organizations in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors must interact well for the sake of their own organization and societal needs, but they face many challenges in doing so. Students in HONORS 232:Multisector Collaboration for Societal Change will have the opportunity to explore the dynamics of interorganizational, multisector collaboration in a discussion-based seminar. Students will participate in discussions, develop communication strategies for interorganizational interactions, and analyze real-world instances of multisector collaboration.

The centerpiece of the course is a 5-week simulation in which each student has a role in a (mock) multisector community task force– situated in a fictional mountain town– that negotiates the creation of a proactive, wildfire mitigation plan. Through the simulation, students will apply knowledge gained from course readings, and develop skills in assessing other stakeholders’ needs and motives, building alliances, communicating constructively through disagreements, and developing multilateral agreements for the collective good.

Because this is a synchronous discussion-based seminar, participation in the discussions is essential to succeeding in this course. There will be no lectures, and class discussions will not be recorded. The technology in the classroom does not support simultaneous interaction between in-person and remote students, so it will not be possible for individual students to participate remotely.



HONORS 394 A: Ways of Meaning (SLN 15322<https://sdb.admin.uw.edu/timeschd/uwnetid/sln.asp?QTRYR=SPR+2022&SLN=15322>)

VLPA / I&S, DIV, W

Monday & Wednesday, 2:30-4:20 p.m.



The key questions this course addresses are How do people talk to each other in different languages? Does the language we speak determine who we are? What is the relationship between language and thought, culture, national identity? We consider crosslinguistic differences and similarities with respect to conceptualizations of Moral Concepts, Friendship and Love, Freedom, Homeland, Politeness and Rudeness and Gender. Students are required to write 2 commentaries and a final term paper. Honors students are expected to write a longer, more in-depth final paper and do one additional commentary in which they reflect on universal vs. culture-specific aspects of language and how their understanding has changed during the course.


Best,

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NADRA FREDJ

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Academic Adviser / Counseling Services Coordinator

UW Honors Program, Undergraduate Academic Affairs

Box 352800 / Mary Gates Hall 211 / Seattle, WA 98195

fredjn at uw.edu<mailto:fredjn at uw.edu> / honors.uw.edu<http://honors.uw.edu/>

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