Featured Programs

Upcoming UW Bothell Faculty Led Programs

Summer 2013

Germany, Switzerland, England - Urban Communication: Language, Image, Space
Program Type: Summer Term A
Program Director: Crispin Thurlow, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
Application Deadline: Closed
Overview: Participants embark on a scholarly and cultural journey whose main focus is the way human communication (e.g. language/s, visual images, social interactions) is organized in contemporary urban settings. The course will also consider the way different modes of communication are used to represent and construct these urban spaces.

Zambia - Student Centered Health Education and Outreach: A Story of Urban and Rural Community Development in Zambia
Program Type: Summer Term A
Program Directors: Leslie Ashbaugh, Interdisciplinary Arts & Science and Alison Greenwood, Student Life
Application Deadline: Closed
Overview: This 6-credit interdisciplinary course designed to introduce students from a wide variety of academic backgrounds to the socio-economic, political, and health challenges faced by Zambians who work hard to make a living in a contemporary developing nation. Through direct experience living and working in three separate field sites, the focus will be to collaborate with Zambian counterparts who are promoting health outcomes in capital city, small town and rural village Zambia.

Early Fall 2013 

Ecuador - Environmental Studies in the Ecuadorian Mainland and the Galapagos Islands
Program Type: Exploration Seminar
Program Directors: Santiago Lopez and Jin-Kyu Jung, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
Application Deadline: Closed
Overview: This seminar intends to expose students to relevant and current environmental issues in ecologically sensitive areas of Latin America such as the Amazon region, the Andes, and the Galapagos Islands.

France - Scientific Explorations of Art & Architecture in Paris
Program Type: Exploration Seminar
Program Directors: Andrew Abian, Science & Technology and Alexandre Barchechat, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
Application Deadline: Closed
Overview: The program examines two key concepts of modern mathematics, projective geometry and groups of symmetries, and applies them to art and architecture in Paris.

New! Japan - Lessons from the Japanese Experience with Nuclear Power
Program Type: Early Fall course
Program Directors: Matt DePies, STEM, and Aspasea McKenna, Division of Enrollment Management
Overview: The course explores the path to Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 and the subsequent development of nuclear power in Japan and around the world. The program combines a week of classwork at UW Bothell with two weeks in residence at Ehime University in Matsuyama, Japan, where students will participate in seminars, visit local cultural and historic sites, and engage Japanese students and citizens on questions concerning nuclear power, energy policy, and their social and cultural implications.

Thailand, Cambodia and the Challenges of Globalization
Program Type: Early Fall program
Program Director: James Reinnoldt, Business
Application Deadline: Closed
Overview: The 5-credit course will provide participants with the opportunity to apply what they have learned in the classroom to a very real-world global environment in a manner that blends lectures, case studies, site visits, discussions, and field trips.

Winter 2014

New! Globalization and the Societies of Southeast Asia
Program Type: UW Program Winter 2014
Program Director: James Reinnoldt, Business
Application Deadline: June 15, 2013
Overview: The 12-credit course will provide students with enrichment activities around Southeast Asia, including experiential study trips to Siem Reap, Cambodia, and Rayong, Ayutthaya, Samut Sakorn and Chiang Rai, Thailand. Students will get involved on a first hand-basis with development projects, cultural exchange activities with student peers, home stay programs, and visits to businsses, international institutions, and key historical and religious sites.

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