{"id":19563,"date":"2021-03-08T18:11:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T18:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/?p=19563"},"modified":"2024-05-07T17:12:49","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T17:12:49","slug":"the-art-and-politics-of-walking","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/premajor\/first-year\/discovery-core\/autumn-dcx\/the-art-and-politics-of-walking","title":{"rendered":"The Art and Politics of Walking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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a Discovery Core Experience<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

May be taken as BCORE 107 (Social Sciences)<\/strong><\/strong> or BCORE 104 (Arts & Humanities)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>

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About This Course <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Walking, like eating, breathing, and sleeping, is for many of us an unremarkable part of being alive, something we do without much thought or socio-cultural critique. But walking is a medium that can give us perspectives on society, nature, and ourselves. This class will examine the relation of walking to human evolution, health, cognition, contemplation, spirituality, place-based knowledge, environmental protection, urban design and wild trail networks, pedestrian rights, citizenship, public space, protest marches, social movements, and more. In addition to rigorous intellectual engagement with ideas about walking we will attend to a practice of walking consciously and deliberately, both in solitude and in groups, on and off the Bothell campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Should I Take This Course? <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The class exposes students to ideas about walking through contemporary research, literary traditions, and social practices such as marches and protests. But it also offers students different experiences in arts of walking on and off the UW Bothell campus, in parks and urban cores, with classmates and with the professor as a guide. You will learn to slow down, de-stress, and take in the places you inhabit in all its intricacy and magnificence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Will I Study? <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Walking seems simple, but upon closer inspection it is really complex. We will examine the relation of walking to human evolution, health, cognition, creativity, contemplation, spirituality, place-based knowledge, environmental protection, urban design and wild trail networks, pedestrian rights, citizenship, public space, protest marches, social movements, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selected Texts & Films<\/h3>\n\n\n\n