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UCOR 1600-18 Sex, Love, and Marriage

Course Type:

UCOR 1600 Inquiry Seminar in the Social Sciences

Faculty:

Johnston, Sally

Term:

Fall

Year:

2024

Module:

Module I

Course Description

This class provides students with the opportunity to develop a theoretically critical awareness of the relationship between love, sexuality, and marriage from a social scientific lens. The class will explore the relationship between sex, love, romance, desire, and intimate relationships in the modern world through a social scientific lens. Topics to be considered may include: the intersections between race, ethnicity, class, gender, nation, sexuality, and marriage; changing definitions of sexual respectability; prostitution and sex work in different contexts; sexual behavior and sexual ideals; transsexuality and transgender identities; the varieties of love; the meaning of marriage; state regulation of marriage and sexuality; love in popular culture, and historical shifts in constructions of affect and emotion.

UCOR 1600-19 Paradise Lost: Social Problems

Course Type:

UCOR 1600 Inquiry Seminar in the Social Sciences

Faculty:

Aldcroft, Julie

Term:

Fall

Year:

2024

Module:

Module I

Course Description

What is a "social problem""? In this course, we will step back to understand how social problems are socially constructed by asking what gets labeled as a problem, who gets to label something, how groups mobilize around what they consider problematic, and about the role of social policies in this process. We will cover a wide range of topics from affordable housing and homelessness to environmental degradation to race-based violence. The goal throughout the class will be to examining the public claims-making process of how people construct ideas about what is good and bad in social life. As we look at the process through specific examples, the course will pay special attention to how these issues are constructed in the city of Seattle and the Pacific Northwest.

UCOR 1600-20 Sex, Love, and Marriage

Course Type:

UCOR 1600 Inquiry Seminar in the Social Sciences

Faculty:

Donalson, Edward

Term:

Fall

Year:

2024

Module:

Module I

Course Description

This class provides students with the opportunity to develop a theoretically critical awareness of the relationship between love, sexuality, and marriage from a social scientific lens. The class will explore the relationship between sex, love, romance, desire, and intimate relationships in the modern world through a social scientific lens. Topics to be considered may include: the intersections between race, ethnicity, class, gender, nation, sexuality, and marriage; changing definitions of sexual respectability; prostitution and sex work in different contexts; sexual behavior and sexual ideals; transsexuality and transgender identities; the varieties of love; the meaning of marriage; state regulation of marriage and sexuality; love in popular culture, and historical shifts in constructions of affect and emotion.

UCOR 1800-01 A Sound Ecosystem (SUCCESS)

Course Type:

UCOR 1800 Inquiry Seminar in the Natural Sciences

Faculty:

Hainze, John

Term:

Fall

Year:

2024

Module:

Module I

Course Description

What threatens the health of the Puget Sound ecosystem? This course will focus on the ecosystem of the Puget Sound, the pollutants that can be found there, where they are coming from and how we can prevent them. Students will do their own investigations on effects specific chemical are having on animal health and how rain gardens and river repair programs can prevent pollution from reaching the Sound.

UCOR 1800-01 Stars, Galaxies and Cosmology

Course Type:

UCOR 1800 Inquiry Seminar in the Natural Sciences

Faculty:

Hughes Clark, Joanne

Term:

Summer

Year:

2024

Module:

Module I

Course Description

How did we deduce that the Milky Way is not the only galaxy in the universe? We use the physics of gravity and light to discover the properties of stars, which enabled Edwin Hubble to determine the distance to the Andromeda Galaxy in the 1920s. Soon afterwards, he proved that our home was only one of a multitude of "Island Universes," scattered throughout a vast, expanding cosmos, connecting his observations with Einstein's General Relativity. We use the scientific method to show how stars and galaxies formed, and explore the open questions about the nature of dark matter and dark energy.

UCOR 1800-02 A Sound Ecosystem (SUCCESS)

Course Type:

UCOR 1800 Inquiry Seminar in the Natural Sciences

Faculty:

Hainze, John

Term:

Fall

Year:

2024

Module:

Module I

Course Description

What threatens the health of the Puget Sound ecosystem? This course will focus on the ecosystem of the Puget Sound, the pollutants that can be found there, where they are coming from and how we can prevent them. Students will do their own investigations on effects specific chemical are having on animal health and how rain gardens and river repair programs can prevent pollution from reaching the Sound.

UCOR 1800-03 Everyday Science: Home Cooking

Course Type:

UCOR 1800 Inquiry Seminar in the Natural Sciences

Faculty:

Xue, Bert

Term:

Fall

Year:

2024

Module:

Module I

Course Description

In this course, students will investigate simple cooking concepts backed by scientific experiment to learn about how basic principles of biology, chemistry, and physics apply to cooking. Students will take that knowledge to criticize and suggest improvement to existing recipes.

UCOR 1800-04 Everyday Science: Home Cooking

Course Type:

UCOR 1800 Inquiry Seminar in the Natural Sciences

Faculty:

Xue, Bert

Term:

Fall

Year:

2024

Module:

Module I

Course Description

In this course, students will investigate simple cooking concepts backed by scientific experiment to learn about how basic principles of biology, chemistry, and physics apply to cooking. Students will take that knowledge to criticize and suggest improvement to existing recipes.

UCOR 1800-05 Health and Disease (SUCCESS)

Course Type:

UCOR 1800 Inquiry Seminar in the Natural Sciences

Faculty:

Bourns, Brenda

Term:

Fall

Year:

2024

Module:

Module I

Course Description

Should I change the way I eat and exercise or is everything pre-determined by the genes I was dealt so why bother? Daily we are bombarded by a myriad of “facts” attempting to convince us which product to purchase or which diet to follow. The scientific process will give you powerful a tool to assess evidence and critically evaluate it to inform your opinion on a topic.

UCOR 1800-06 Health and Disease (SUCCESS)

Course Type:

UCOR 1800 Inquiry Seminar in the Natural Sciences

Faculty:

Bourns, Brenda

Term:

Fall

Year:

2024

Module:

Module I

Course Description

Should I change the way I eat and exercise or is everything pre-determined by the genes I was dealt so why bother? Daily we are bombarded by a myriad of “facts” attempting to convince us which product to purchase or which diet to follow. The scientific process will give you powerful a tool to assess evidence and critically evaluate it to inform your opinion on a topic.