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A COMPLETE LIST OF CHID CORE COURSES ARE AVAILABLE AT THE CHID OFFICE, PDL B102 OR CALL 543-7333.
Enrl Sect Crs Restr SLN ID Cred Meeting Times Bldg/Rm Instructor Status Enrl/Lim Grades Fee Other ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? |
CHID 101 INTRO TO CHID |
>12382 A 2 W 130-320 PDL C101 Anderson,Cynthia M. 19/ 18 CR/NC CHID MAJORS & MINORS ONLY CONTACT CHID(AT)UW.EDU FOR ADD CODE |
CHID 230 INTRO DISABILITY ST | (I&S,DIV) |
>21843 A 5 TTh 230-420 SAV 131 Woiak,Joanne 12/ 13 J EMAIL JWOIAK@UW.EDU TO BE ADDED. |
CHID 250 SPECIAL TOPICS | (I&S) |
12383 A 5 TTh 1030-1220 SAV 264 Childs,Mary Open 38/ 40 "UTOPIAS GONE AWRY: CONFLICT AND PARADISE IN THE BLACK SEA REGION" (VLPA) THIS COURSE INTRODUCES STUDENTS TO THE HISTORY AND POLITICAL DYNAMICS OF THE BLACK SEA REGION THROUGH CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE, ART, FILM, MUSIC AND FOOD. WE WILL LOOK AT THE MULTICULTURAL MAKEUP OF THE COUNTRIES SURROUNDING THE BLACK SEA - BULGARIA, ROMANIA, UKRAINE, RUSSIA, GEORGIA, AND TURKEY - AND INVESTIGATE WHY CONFLICTS PERSIST IN THIS BORDER AREA BETWEEN EAST AND WEST, EUROPE AND ASIA. IDENTIFYING PATTERNS OF TURBULENCE, GENDER POLITICS, AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION, WE WILL ALSO EXPLORE POSITIVE CULTURAL CONTINUITIES IN THE REGION. IN THIS SEMINAR STYLE COURSE, STUDENTS WILL CONTRIBUTE THROUGH REPORTS, DISCUSSIONS, AND CREATIVE PROJECTS. |
12384 B 5 MW 830-1020 SMI 405 Knapp,Caleb Byron Open 32/ 40 "RACE, CRIMINALIZATION, AND BIOPOWER" (VPLA) THIS COURSE INTRODUCES STUDENTS TO THEORIES OF POWER OVER LIFE ITSELF - WHAT CONTEMPORARY THINKERS OFTEN CALL "BIOPOWER." IT PAYS SPECIAL ATTENTION TO CRIMINALIZATION AS A FORM OF BIOPOWER AND EXPLORES HOW DISCOURSES OF THE "CRIMINAL" PRODUCE AND PATHOLOGIZE RACIAL AND SEXUAL DIFFERENCE, MARKING SOME PEOPLE AS "DEVIANT" AND THEREFORE SUBJECT TO PREMATURE DEATH. THE COURSE TRACES A GENEALOGY OF THE THEORY OF BIOPOWER IN CONJUNCTION WITH READINGS OF LITERARY AND CULTURAL TEXTS. EMPHASIS WILL BE PLACED ON DEVELOPING THEORETICAL UNDERSTANDING IN AND THROUGH THE EXAMINATION OF PARTICULAR HISTORICAL MOMENTS ACROSS A RANGE OF PERIODS AND GEOGRAPHIES. ASSIGNMENTS INCLUDE SEVERAL SHORT PAPERS AND A FINAL PROJECT. |
12385 C 5 TTh 1030-1220 PDL C101 HAZARD,JULY VINE OSKAR Closed 15/ 15 WJ "UNDERWORLD POETICS: WRITING FROM OTHER DIMENSIONS" (VLPA, NW, I&S, W CREDIT) VISIONARY POETS CAN STAND IN STRANGE RELATION TO THE WORLD. SOME COME FROM OR SPEAK FROM ANOTHER WORLD. OTHERS INHABIT WORLDS THAT ARE ILLUMINATED, HAUNTED, OR TRANSPARENT. SOME RECOUNT TRAVEL BETWEEN LAYERS OF REALITY, OR REPORT ENHANCED ENCOUNTERS WITH NONHUMAN BEINGS. THIS CLASS EXPLORES WAYS SOME WRITERS CROSS INTO AND WRITE OUT OF OTHER DIMENSIONS - INCLUDING PUNK CLUBS, GAY UNDERWORLDS, SUBWAY TUNNELS, FLEABAG HOTELS, OUTER SPACE, UNDERSEA CIVILIZATIONS, ANGELIC AND DEMONIC REALMS. CLASS WRITINGS WILL PROBE POETIC RELATIONS TO NATURAL AND SOCIAL ENVIRONMENTS, VIA AUTOMATIC WRITING, SOMATIC COMPOSITION, TEXT COLLAGE, AND OTHER EXPERIMENTS. STUDENTS WILL KEEP ILLUSTRATED JOURNALS OF THEIR OTHERWORLDLY ENGAGEMENTS, AND CONSTRUCT OR IMPROVISE UNDERWORLDS. |
12386 D 5 TTh 830-1020 GLD 435 Taranath,Anupama Open 15/ 16 J "LITERATURES FROM GHANA" **ADD CODE ONLY** (VLPA) JOIN US FOR AN EXPLORATION OF GHANA THE DECADES FROM THE 1960S TO OUR C FROM SHORT STORIES TO NOVELS, COMIC ENGAGE IT ALL TO BETTER UNDERSTAND COLONIALISM, ANTI-COLONIAL STRUGGLE POSTCOLONIAL REALITIES, AND A COMPL INFLUENCED A RICH TRADITION OF STOR DISSENT, AND REPRESENTATIONAL POLIT WE'LL FOCUS ON HOW ISSUES OF POWER, RACE, SEXUALITY, WEALTH, AND POVERT CONTEXTS AND MAKE CONNECTIONS TO OU AND BEYOND. |
12387 E 5 TTh 230-420 DEN 256 Simpson,Caroline Chung Closed 15/ 15 WJ "THE POLITICS OF WEIRDNESS IN CONTEMPORARY COMICS" (VLPA, W CREDIT) THIS COURSE WILL TACKLE A NUMBER OF RECENT COMICS THAT ARE DECIDEDLY WEIRD IN THEIR APPROACH TO VISUAL STORYTELLING. WHILE WEIRDNESS IN COMICS IS NOTHING NEW, THESE WORKS ARE DISTINGUISHED BY THEIR EXPLICIT EXPLORATION OF A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FORMAL EXPERIMENTATION AND POLITICAL/CULTURAL RESISTANCE. THIS CHAMPIONING OF WEIRDNESS IN THE LOOK, LINE, COLORING, AND LAYOUT OF VISUAL NARRATIVES IS A MEANS OF THINKING THROUGH SOCIAL DIFFERENCE AND ITS MANY PHENOMENA THAT CANNOT BE HAD IN THE SAME WAY IN WRITTEN TEXTS. CLASS WILL BE BALANCED BETWEEN CRITICAL READING, DEBATE, AND CREATIVE EXPERIMENTS. WORKS WILL INCLUDE: MY FAVORITE THING IS MONSTERS; ANT COLONY; BLACK HOLE; BITCH PLANET; THE SYSTEM; AND WHAT IT IS. |
>21603 F 5 TTh 1130-220 ART 110 Paz,Dan 4/ 9 $50 J "MOBILITY, VISIBILITY, AND THE OTHER: RENDERING 2D ANIMATION" TAUGHT BY DAN PAZ (VLPA) THIS CROSS-DISCIPLINARY, PRACTICUM COURSE FOCUSES ON CONTEMPORARY FORMS OF DOCUMENTATION TO ANALYZE REPRESENTATIONS OF STILLNESS AND MOVEMENT AS IT AFFECTS INDIGENOUS POPULATIONS AND MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES IN THE WEST. BEGINNING WITH A CLOSE ANALYSIS OF INDIGENOUS MARK-MAKING, MOBILITY, VISIBILITY, AND THE OTHER: RENDERING 2D ANIMATION WILL EXPLORE ANALOG AND DIGITAL FORMS OF SEQUENCING THROUGH SLOW ANIMATION. THROUGH MATERIAL EXPLORATION, STUDENTS WILL BE INTRODUCED TO CULTURAL AND CREATIVE PRACTICES THAT PARSE OUT INDIGENEITY, THE GLOBAL SOUTH, RACE, GENDER, AND ETHNIC LINEAGE TO MAKE THAUMATROPES, GESTURAL ANIMATIONS, CONTINUOUS AND STOP-MOTION VIDEOS, AND 2D ANIMATIONS THAT REFLECT UPON THEIR OWN RELATIONSHIPS TO EMBODIED HISTORY. |
CHID 270 SPECIAL TOPICS | (I&S) |
12388 A 5 TTh 100-220 THO 101 Oehme,Annegret Closed 10/ 10 J "WITCHCRAFT" TAUGHT BY ANNEGRET OEHME. *OFFERED JOINTLY WITH GERMAN 298A. DUE TO THE "POWER TO CREATE LIFE", WOMAN HAVE BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH SPECIAL POWERS IN DIFFERENT CULTURES AND THROUGHOUT HISTORY. THIS CLASS EXPLORES GENDER CONSTRUCTIONS BASED ON HOW WOMEN HAVE BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH SPECIAL POWERS IN DIFFERENT CULTURES AND LANGUAGES WITH A SPECIAL FOCUS ON THE GERMAN MIDDLE AGES AND MODERN POP-CULTURE. THIS COURSE DISCUSSES THE DEMONETIZATION OF FEMININITY AS WELL AS THE FASCINATION WITH IT THROUGH THE CONCEPT OF ASCRIBING SPECIAL POWERS TO WOMEN. THE TEXTS INCLUDE GERMAN FAIRY TALES, ART BY ALBRECHT DURER AND HANS BALDUNG, AND MODERN POP-CULTURE APPROPRIATIONS SUCH AS "THE LAST WITCH HUNTER". |
12389 B 5 MTWTh 1230-120 DEM 104 Henry,Barbara Closed 10/ 10 J "UNDERWORLDS BOTH REAL AND METAPHORIC: SUBWAYS, COALMINES, HADES, AND HELL" THESE UNDERWORLDS ADDRESS PROFOUND QUESTIONS OF OUR LIVES: WHAT HAPPENS AFTER WE DIE? WHERE DO WE COME FROM? |
CHID 332 DISABILITY & SOCIETY | (I&S,DIV) |
12390 A 5 MW 230-420 SAV 131 Woiak,Joanne Closed 12/ 12 J "SEX AND DISABILITY" FACULTY: DR. KRISTEN JOHNSON |
CHID 390 COLLOQ HIST IDEAS | (I&S) | Prerequisites |
>12394 A 5 TTh 1230-220 CMU 243 Simpson,Caroline Chung 12/ 20 W "BAD ART" (VLPA & W CREDIT) AS A WORD, ART IS OFTEN SYNONYMOUS WITH A CULTURE'S HIGHEST AESTHETIC AND ETHICAL VALUES. INSTITUTIONS DEVOTE AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF TIME AND MONEY TO IDENTIFYING THE BEST ART, TO PRESERVING OR CATALOGING IT, ALL IN ORDER TO EDUCATE THE MASSES ABOUT HOW BEST TO APPRECIATE IT. BUT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN SO-CALLED 'BAD ART' BEGINS TO INFLUENCE OR CHALLENGE THAT PROCESS OR VALUE SYSTEM? WHAT DO WE MAKE OF THE EMERGENCE OF EVERYDAY OR AMATEUR AESTHETIC PRACTICES THAT EXPLICITLY DEFY THE PRIORITIES ASSOCIATED WITH ARTISTIC VALUE: FORMAL SKILL OR TRAINING, RARITY OR QUALITY OF MATERIALS, ORIGINALITY OF TECHNIQUE? WE WILL CONSIDER: THE FORCES THAT PRODUCED AND RE-DEFINED 'FOLK' ART, THE PLEASURES OF CULT FILMS, AND THE INFLUENCE OF THE 'POOR IMAGE' THAT CHARACTERIZES MANY FORMS OF VISUAL PRODUCTION IN THE LAST FIFTY YEARS. |
CHID 399 INTERNSHIP |
>12395 A 5 to be arranged 0/ 10 CHID INTERNSHIP GRADED |
CHID 433 DISABLTY LAW & PLCY | (I&S,DIV) |
12397 A 5 MW 1030-1220 SAV 130 Johnson,Kurt Lewis Open 7/ 8 J DISABILITY LAW, POLICY, AND THE COMMUNITY |
CHID 459 NARRATIVE JOURNALISM | (VLPA/I&S) |
12398 A 5 TTh 830-1020 CMU 302 Underwood,Douglas M Closed 5/ 5 J NARRATIVE JOURNALISM VLPA CREDIT |
CHID 480 ADV SPECIAL TOPICS | (I&S) |
12403 A 5 MW 230-420 CLK 219 Weatherford,Alan-Michael Open 12/ 25 "COLONIAL CARCERAL LOGICS IN THE AMERICAS" (VLPA) THIS COURSE ANALYZES THE EMERGENCE OF THE CARCERAL STATE THROUGH A COMPARATIVE AND HISTORICAL FRAMEWORK. IT LINKS CARCERAL LOGICS TO COLONIAL PROCESSES ACROSS THE ENGLISH, FRENCH, AND SPANISH AMERICAS. TAKING UP FOUCAULDIAN THEORIES OF EXPULSION AND CONFINEMENT, STUDENTS WILL READ PRIMARY TEXTS BY CRISTOBAL COLON, HERNAN CORTES, JACQUES CARTIER, AND SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN, AMONG OTHERS, TO EXAMINE HOW COLONIAL MAPS AND LEGISLATION MEDIATE EMERGENT CARCERAL WAYS OF THINKING. WE WILL PAY SPECIFIC ATTENTION TO THE ROLES OF GENDER, SEXUALITY, CLASS, AND RACE. STUDENTS WILL IDENTIFY THE LIMITS OF NATIONALIST RUBRICS WHILE DEVELOPING COMPARATIVE FRAMES FOR THINKING VARIATIONS AND CONTINUITIES IN CARCERAL HISTORIES AND PRACTICES. |
12404 B 5 MW 930-1120 LOW 117 LEE,JONATHAN REY Open 11/ 20 "POWER - LANGUAGE: PHILOSOPHICAL GRAMMAR FOR A BINARIZED WORLD" TAUGHT BY JONATHAN REY LEE ACCORDING TO LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN, "A WHOLE MYTHOLOGY IS DEPOSITED IN OUR LANGUAGE." AGAINST THIS MYTHOLOGY, WE WILL COLLECTIVELY EXPLORE PHILOSOPHICAL GRAMMAR AS "A FIGHT AGAINST THE FASCINATION WHICH FORMS OF EXPRESSION EXERT UPON US." WEAVING TOGETHER WITTGENSTEIN'S PHILOSOPHICAL PROVOCATIONS, JHUMPA LAHIRI'S POIGNANT AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEDITATIONS ON LINGUISTIC DISPLACEMENT, AND OTHER THEORETICAL AND CREATIVE WRITINGS, THIS COURSE CONSIDERS SOME OF THE MANY WAYS OUR LANGUAGE SPEAKS SYSTEMS OF POWER INTO BEING. AND IT ASKS WHAT IT MIGHT TAKE TO SPEAK SOMETHING ELSE INTO BEING INSTEAD. |
CHID 491 SENIOR THESIS | (I&S) | Prerequisites |
>12405 A 5 W 330-620 THO 231 Dwyer,Anne K 13/ 25 CHID THESIS CONTACT CHID[AT]UW.EDU FOR ADD CODE |
IS >12406 B 5 to be arranged 1/ 0 CHID THESIS |
CHID 492 SENIOR THESIS | (I&S) |
IS >12407 A 5 to be arranged 5/ 10E FACULTY CODE REQUIRED |
CHID 493 SENIOR THESIS | (I&S) |
IS >12408 A 5 to be arranged 4/ 10E FACULTY CODE REQUIRED |
CHID 495 CLOSE READINGS | (I&S) |
12409 A 5 TTh 230-420 THO 125 Diment,Galya Open 0/ 5 J READING: WAR & PEACE |
CHID 496 FOCUS GROUPS |
>12410 A 2 F 130-320 * * Thurtle,Phillip S 9/ 12 CR/NC DEATH AND DYING: A COMMUNITY JOURNEY |
>12411 B 2 M 430-620P * * Anderson,Cynthia M. 0/ 12 CR/NC TBA |
>12412 C 2 W 1230-220 * * Anderson,Cynthia M. 0/ 12 CR/NC FOCUS GROUP TBA |
CHID 497 PEER FACILITATORS |
>12413 A 5 to be arranged 0/ 25 PEER FACILITATORS |
>12414 B 5 to be arranged 0/ 10 CR/NC PEER FACILITATION |
CHID 498 SPECIAL COLLOQUIA | (I&S) |
>12415 A 3 T 230-520 MGH 278 Barr,Nicolaas P. 13/ 12 "NEITHER HERE NOR THERE: NARRATING YOUR EXPERIENCE ABROAD" (VLPA) THIS CLASS WILL PROVIDE STUDENTS WITH A SPACE TO REVISIT, RETHINK, AND SHARE STORIES ABOUT THEIR TRAVELS. STUDENTS WILL REFLECT UPON THEIR STUDY ABROAD EXPERIENCES AND COLLABORATIVELY CREATE A VOLUME OF CHID'S ONLINE STUDENT PUBLICATION ABOUT TRAVEL, NEITHER HERE NOR THERE. **IN ORDER TO ENROLL, YOU MUST HAVE STUDIED ABROAD. EMAIL NICKBARR[AT]UW.EDU FOR AN ADD CODE AND MENTION YOUR STUDY ABROAD PROGRAM |
21875 B 5 MW 930-1120 SMI 309 Marin,Ileana Open 0/ 5 J "ROMANIA TRANSFORMED" TAUGHT BY ILEANA MARIN *OFFERED JOINTLY AS ROMN 420A & C LIT 371A EXPLORES EASTERN AND WESTERN ARTISTIC TRENDS AND IDEOLOGIES IN ROMANIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE DURING THE LAST 100 YEARS. INVESTIGATES CONTRIBUTIONS TO SURREALISM, DADAISM, THEATRE OF THE ABSURD, AND PRACTICES OF RESISTANCE AGAINST COMMUNISM AS WELL AS WOMEN'S ROLES IN FORGING A POST-SOVIET IDENTITY. TAUGHT IN ENGLISH. |
CHID 499 UNDERGRAD IND STDY |
IS >12416 A 1-5 to be arranged 4/ 15E CHID INDEPENDENT STUDY |
>12417 B 1-5 to be arranged 0/ 15E CR/NC CHID INDEPENDENT STUDY |