Hello all,

This winter I’ll be teaching a course, LABOR 480, that focuses on providing opportunities for students to work on collaborative and individual research projects benefiting local unions and worker organizations. Students will further develop research skills that can be utilized in and outside of academic spaces – including in doing research and policy support for unions, think tanks, and more. 

The course description is below and the MyPlan course overview is  linked here. I’ve also attached a flyer with more information.

Course Description

How do our labor and the labor of others connect us to our communities? How can working people create plans to mobilize for social change? How do we understand who has power, and what that power means for working people and our communities?

Through this course, students will explore how labor research contributes to broader worker-led movements. To do that, we will examine power in working relationships, how policy impacts working people, and how workers can collectively claim power while participating in projects to support unions, worker centers, and other labor-focused organizations.  Continue reading →

CC@E is offering two courses this winter to help students achieve their career goals.

Plan For Your Post-UW Life in ENGR 202

A great career starts with great planning. ENGR 202 is a 2-credit,  hands-on class that will help you navigate your unique academic and career plans through readings and class discussions. You will be able to identify the opportunities in which you are most interested and create the materials needed to pursue that experience. 

Register: ENGR 202, Section C: Wednesdays 12:30 – 2:20pm, 2 CR/NC, SLN: 14434

Questions can be directed to engrhire@uw.edu

Receive Credit For Your Internship with ENGR 321/601

Do you have an internship during winter quarter? ENGR 321 (undergrad) and ENGR 601 (graduate) is practical on-the-job experience that applies classroom theory in the engineering field. Internship credit for undergraduate students as approved by the Engineering Career Center and may be applied to the undergraduate degree requirement, as determined by each department.

Visit https://www.engr.washington.edu/current/careercenter/intern to submit your internship information so we can register you.

ENGR 321 / 601 is required for international students for CPT purposes. 

Students,

Spring term 2024 course applications for classes at Friday Harbor Labs are now live! 

Come spend ten weeks on beautiful San Juan Island exploring the tide pools, learning in a hands-on lab environment, and diving into lectures about the diverse life found in our ocean. Friday Harbor Labs offers a unique classroom setting for marine science course work and allows students to learn research techniques and field skills. We host research focused courses where students can actively participate in projects to explore the subjects they are passionate about and grow as early career scientists.  

This spring we are offering advanced courses targeted towards junior and senior science majors as well as introductory courses for pre-science major students.

Click here to learn more about the programs we are offering this spring, or see attached flyers. 

Spring course applications can be found here.

Any questions about courses, scholarships from FHL, or living on San Juan Island can be directed towards Fiona Curliss at fhlstudents@uw.edu.

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Dear Students,

ENV H 448 / 548 Community Air Pollution

This 3-credit course uses a lecture/seminar format, and makes use of local air pollution management resources, to provide a comprehensive overview of community air pollution. Topics covered include: 1) air pollution sources, chemistry and meteorology; 2) effects on human health and the environment; 3) climate change; 4) air quality standards, monitoring and management; 5) air pollution control technology; 6) indoor air; 7) special topics, including wildfire smoke, environmental justice and alternative fuels.

Instruction is at the level of upper-year undergraduates and graduate students in health-related or related technical fields; there are higher expectations and more requirements of graduate students including an introduction to using the R programming language for summarizing air quality data. While a relatively comprehensive survey of air pollution topics is provided, there is a clear public health orientation. 

Learning objectives

At the end of this course the student should be able to:

1. 1. Classify and identify major sources of outdoor air pollution.
   2. Outline the features of National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS).
   3. Describe how meteorology affects air pollution using qualitative and quantitative approaches. 
   4. Describe the atmospheric chemistry involved in the formation of secondary air pollutants.
   5. Identify primary health effects associated with criteria air pollutants.
   6. Compare identified health effects of the different air pollutants.
   7. Contrast the scientific methods and study designs used to learn about the health effects of air pollution.
   8. Differentiate the welfare effects of air pollution from human health effects.
   9. Propose effective strategies for controlling air pollution emissions and for reducing community exposures.
   10. Distinguish criteria air pollutants from hazardous air pollutants and compare their respective air quality management approaches.
   11. Describe how air quality contributes to environmental injustice and social inequality.
   12. Identify the pollutants, including greenhouse gases, that affect climate and describe how they contribute to climate change.
   13. Describe the major activities of the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency (PSCAA).
   14. Describe community-based air monitoring and contrast this approach to regulatory monitoring.
   15. Explain sources of indoor air pollution and describe the health effects of each.
   16. GRADUATE STUDENTS: Evaluate and synthesize quantitative impacts of air pollution.

Looking for a W course in WIN24?

I’m writing to let you know that Writers on Writing (ENGL 285) will be back this coming winter quarter, and is a fun way for students to earn 5 A&H credits. This coming winter, for the first time, all students enrolled will also earn W credit.

This is a great class for your majors who harbor a secret—or not so secret!—love of reading and writing, or those who are just curious about how poets and novelists create their work. In past years, I’ve had students from nearly every major and ranging from freshman to senior. I’ve enjoyed working with all of them!

This winter, the class will meet in person, although some of our visiting writers will join us over Zoom. This large class will be broken into smaller pods to provide a sense of community, to share and receive feedback on their own experiments in writing poetry, fiction, and memoir, and to discuss issues raised by the assigned readings. On their own time, students will watch recordings of a wide variety of writers lecturing or reading from their work, read widely, and participate in online discussion forums.

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Students,

(ATM S 212) about air pollution, its societal impacts, and solutions

The course is offered by the Department of Atmospheric Sciences and it’s a course with 5 credits in SSc/NSs areas:

(FYI — a 2xx-level, asynchronous online class in atmospheric sciences)

Looking for an AUT23 Technical Elective/E&S Elective that also covers your DIV requirement?

Look no further than Julian Marshall’s CEE 498:

  >12171 C  3       TTh    830-950    LOW  220      Marshall, Julian

                        TOPIC: ENGINEERING FOR JUSTICE,                            
                        EQUITY, DIVERSITY, AND INCLUSION                      

If you are interested in this course, please email ceadvice@uw.edu and we can help get you registered.

There may also be an opportunity to offer this course at another time so please let us know if a conflict is preventing you from registering.

Course details below.

CEE 498: ENGINEERING FOR JUSTICE, EQUITY, DIVERSITY, AND INCLUSION                      

Objectives

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