Available Classes

Tuesdays, 4-6:30 pm Pacific Time
First class: October 6

The 2020 Election promises to be among the most consequential elections in recent US history. This course follows select political campaigns in real-time from the month before election, Election Day, and its aftermath. Along the way, students learn about US political history, the mechanics of electoral politics, effective political communication strategies, and real-time grassroots organizing techniques.

Restrictions: Seats are limited
Section: COMM-4800 3
Credits: 3
Instructor: BJ Bullert, Ph.D.
Methodology: Online, 10/6 through 12/18, with scheduled synchronous online meetings Tuesdays 4-6:30
Level: Undergraduate

Wednesdays, 4-6:30 pm Pacific Time
First class: October 7

Community Voices develops students’ skills as storytellers, listeners, writers, and scholars. They gain basic technical proficiency in audio production while examining the power of media and its role in facilitating social change. Modeled after WYSO Public Radio’s highly successful Community Voices project, the ten-week course invites students to capture the stories of change-makers in their communities. They develop their abilities to conduct interviews and capture scenes using audio. As students report, produce, and post their work, they also learn about the strengths and limitations of electronic media and the art of engaging in civic conversations.

Restrictions: Seats are limited
Section: COMM-4800 13
Credits: 3
Instructor: BJ Bullert, Ph.D.
Methodology: Online, 10/7 through 12/18, with scheduled synchronous online meetings Wednesdays 4-6:30
Level: Undergraduate

Thursdays, 4-6:30 pm Pacific Time – PLUS two optional field trips: 10/10, 10/31 (Alternatives available for students not in the Seattle area or not comfortable with group field trips.)
First class: October 8

The purpose of this course is to engage a tradition that spans millennia and every culture: a human fascination with birds. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, we will explore birds through many lens and avenues. As naturalists, we will seek out birds in the wild, experimenting with different approaches to observation. We will consider common themes in the life circumstances of birds, as well as explore the impact of human civilization on the ecology of natural habitats. Further, we’ll explore birds as symbols of the human imagination as expressed through literature, art, and religion. We will also appreciate birds as metaphors mirroring ourselves and our interrelationship with the natural world. The reading will include scientific as well as literary texts. Led by an enthusiastic but far from expert birder, this will be a collaborative adventure in mutual inquiry. Access to a pair of field glasses is highly recommended, but not required; a creative imagination and desire to be enchanted by birds, a definite plus.

Restrictions: Seats are limited
Section: ENV-3030-3
Credits: 3
Instructor: Sue Woehrlin, Ph.D.
Methodology: Online, October 8 through December 18, with scheduled synchronous online meetings Thursdays 4-6:30 and two OPTIONAL field trips, 10/10 and 10/31.
Level: Undergraduate

Mondays, 7-9:30 pm Pacific Time
First Class: October 8

This course is for people who want to develop a personal understanding of white privilege and how it influences their choices, decisions, relationships, and mental health. Exploring multiple texts and considering their own multiple lenses, students will practice learning through weekly action items toward greater awareness of the ways in which behavior, words, thoughts, and conversations with others create opportunities for engagement in our multicultural world.

Restrictions: Seats are limited
Section: SOJ-4800-1
Credits: 3
Instructor: Sara Beth Lohre, Psy.D.
Methodology: Online, 10/8 through 12/18, with scheduled synchronous online meetings Mondays 7-9:30
Level: Undergraduate

Tuesdays, 7-9:30 pm Pacific Time
First Class: Sept. 29

This unique course is designed to provide students with a framework and tools to examine self-leadership characteristics for social justice. We will examine what competent, co-empowered learning communities and their self-empowered learners looks like. Next, we will compare world leaders; characteristics and their communities from this perspective. Students will work on identifying “an ideal self-empowered leader” in terms of characteristics they wish to see in a leader. They will develop their vision and mission statements for such leadership capacities and will create a presentation depicting their ideal self-empowering leader who works to empower their community in a socially-just way.

Restrictions: Seats are limited
Section: EDUC-6000
Credits: 4
Instructor: Derya Sunkel
Methodology: Online, 9/29 through 12/18, with scheduled synchronous online meetings Tuesdays 7-9:30
Level: Masters