Sustainability Course Repository

Our topic is work, with reflection, analysis and research on these questions:  What meanings do we attach to different kinds of work?  How does work affect identity?  How does work shape the worker and the larger society?  What is the context of the minimum-wage debate in Seattle?  What are the conditions of work where the things we 'consume' are made, and how do those conditions affect us as consumers?

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This writing seminar helps students develop as college-level, academic writers. Students will engage, rhetorically, with the theme of class war in America to develop their abilities to participate in important academic discourses, understand and respond to the arguments of others, and develop and support their own positions. Through deep inquiry and revision, this seminar facilitates the habits of critical and creative questioning, thinking, and argumentation to help students become more profici...

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Courses in quantitative reasoning appropriate to students' major field. Essential goals include developing basic or more advanced quantitative reasoning skills (including the ability to manipulate expressions), evaluating probabilities, creating and interpreting graphs, using mathematics to solve problems, and making arguments with numbers.

Read more about UCOR-1200 : Mathematics of Epidemics

Courses in quantitative reasoning appropriate to students' major field. Essential goals include developing basic or more advanced quantitative reasoning skills (including the ability to manipulate expressions), evaluating probabilities, creating and interpreting graphs, using mathematics to solve problems, and making arguments with numbers.

Read more about UCOR-1200 : Multicultural Mathematics

Courses in quantitative reasoning appropriate to students' major field. Essential goals include developing basic or more advanced quantitative reasoning skills (including the ability to manipulate expressions), evaluating probabilities, creating and interpreting graphs, using mathematics to solve problems, and making arguments with numbers.

Read more about UCOR-1200 : Quantitative Literacy & Social Justice

Courses that engage students in both creating and understanding expressive works of art. Courses may represent a variety of arts disciplines, including: visual art, music, drama, creative writing, etc. Essential goals include: develop skills in creative thinking and expression; have direct experience in the process of creating original works of art in some genre; learn to articulate a vision through art and seek to share that vision with others; learn and be able to apply basic artistic techniqu...

Read more about UCOR-1300 : Fashion Lab

Courses that engage students in both creating and understanding expressive works of art. Courses may represent a variety of arts disciplines, including: visual art, music, drama, creative writing, etc. Essential goals include: develop skills in creative thinking and expression; have direct experience in the process of creating original works of art in some genre; learn to articulate a vision through art and seek to share that vision with others; learn and be able to apply basic artistic techniqu...

Read more about UCOR-1300 : Writing Seattle

Courses that Introductionduce students to the subjects and methods of inquiry of the humanities by engaging in focused study of one or more particularly important historical or literature-based questions arising from a humanities discipline. These courses Introductionduce students to key concepts, knowledge, and principles of the relevant discipline as they relate to the questions being studied in the individual section. They are not intended to be survey courses or broad Introductionductions to...

Read more about UCOR-1400 : Black Social & Cultural Movements

Courses that Introductionduce students to the subjects and methods of inquiry of the humanities by engaging in focused study of one or more particularly important historical or literature-based questions arising from a humanities discipline. These courses Introductionduce students to key concepts, knowledge, and principles of the relevant discipline as they relate to the questions being studied in the individual section. They are not intended to be survey courses or broad Introductionductions to...

Read more about UCOR-1400 : Climate Literature and Science

Consent is a central category of liberal thought. Since the Enlightenment, political philosophers have maintained that government derives its legitimacy from the consent of the governed. More recently, women have returned the idea to public discussion, causing us to rethink the role of consent in our everyday lives. What are the prospects for consent in a society pervaded by manipulative advertising, money in politics, concentrations of wealth & power, and where inequalities of class, gender, an...

Read more about UCOR-1400 : Consent: From Locke to #MeToo