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Humanities & Social Sciences

Course Offerings

C LIT 240: Writing in Comparative Literature

UW credits: 5

This course takes a comparative approach to literature and serves as a workshop in writing comparative papers in English. The emphasis is on cross-cultural comparison of literary works. Readings in English with an option to read selected texts in the original languages.

ENGL 111: English Composition: Literature*

UW credits: 5

This course uses narratives to study writing as social action and language as tied to identity, culture and power. This course centers students' language resources and goals in developing rhetorical and research skills for composing ethically and critically across different contexts and genres. This course prepares students for writing to audiences both within and beyond the university. Students must earn a 2.0 or higher to receive the UW Composition credit.

ENGL 131: English Composition: Exposition*

UW credits: 5

This course uses a variety of texts across genres to study writing as social action and language as tied to identity, culture and power. This course centers students' language resources and goals in developing rhetorical and research skills for composing ethically and critically across different contexts and genres. This course prepares students for writing to audiences both within and beyond the university. Students must earn a 2.0 or higher to receive the UW Composition credit.

G H 101: Introduction to Global Health: Disparities, Determinants, Policies and Outcomes

UW credits: 5

This course provides an introduction to global health, including the burden and distribution of disease and mortality, the determinants of global health disparities, the making of global health policies and the outcomes of global health interventions.

PSYCH 101: Introduction to Psychology

UW credits: 5

As a survey of major areas of psychological science, this course focuses on topics such as human social behavior, personality, psychological disorders and treatment, learning, memory, human development, biological influences and research methods. Related topics may include sensation, perception, states of consciousness, thinking, intelligence, language, motivation, emotion, stress and health, cross-cultural psychology and applied psychology.

PSYCH 206: Human Development

UW credits: 5

This course covers the theoretical perspectives and research methods in child development with an overview of historical and current works. Includes prenatal and biological development, the development of cognitive, linguistic, and social and emotional abilities. Prerequisite: Completion of UW PSYCH 101.

Sponsoring Departments

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Additional support for the global health course provided by the Center for Global Studies in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.

*Although the UW course catalog states that students can't take both English 111 and English 131, this restriction doesn't apply to students who take these courses through UW in the High School. UWHS students can earn credit for both English 111 and English 131.