News from the School of IAS

Category: Teaching

Teaching in the moment: The 2020 election

As the elections unfolded dramatically this year, IAS faculty members Min Tang and Camille Walsh combined their backgrounds in media, communications, law, economics and public policy to create their course, The 2020 Election: U.S Media and Politics. “We structured the class in a way that allowed students to talk about self-selected issues in a community that wants to have those difficult and rewarding conversations,” said Walsh.

December 15, 2020

Walking and thinking go hand in hand

IAS faculty member Jason Lambacher’s course The Art and Politics of Walking discusses walking as a vehicle to explore other topics — paying attention, mindfulness, politics, protests and environmental design. In the year of the coronavirus, Lambacher didn’t have to spend much time persuading students who have been cooped up at home to go outside and walk.

December 15, 2020

Supporting International Students course boosted by alumni

International students have unique needs and face different challenges than their counterparts. Prior to the pandemic, IAS staff members Jung Lee and Sakara Buyagawan received a UW Bothell Diversity, Equity, and Community Engagement Fellowship to explore support options for international students. Their efforts, however, became urgent when the U.S. Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) placed restrictions on international students’ visitor status, due to the COVID-19 health crisis.

December 10, 2020

Ching-In Chen was awarded Course Development Grant

IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen was awarded a 2020 Course Development Grant for their Autumn 2020 course, Breathing in a Time of Disaster (BISIA 311: Creative Writing Prose), from the Center for Global Studies at the University of Washington’s Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and the East Asia Center. The grant is an extremely competitive award that recognizes innovative teaching at the UW. This autumn ...

November 12, 2020

Becca Price publishes on collaboration with the Pacific Science Center

IAS faculty member Becca Price, along with Dr. Salwa Al-Noori in the School of STEM and Dr. Eva Ma from UW Tacoma, published an article about a collaboration between the UW and Pacific Science Center. Price is the Executive Director of STEP-WISE, a program in which postdoctoral fellows in scientific fields learn how to teach ...

November 4, 2020

Jin-Kyu Jung publishes “Teaching creative geovisualization”

IAS faculty member Jin-Kyu Jung has published a paper, “Teaching creative geovisualization: Imagining the creative in/of GIS” in The Canadian Geographer. This paper situates creative geovisualization at the intersection of geography, arts, and digital humanities with a particular emphasis on visualization and mapping that preserves, represents, and generates more authentic, contextual, and nuanced meanings of ...

October 27, 2020

Study abroad in India turns into virtual internship

Everyone on campus had to pivot when the coronavirus forced the University of Washington Bothell into remote operations, but one of the biggest twists may have been how a planned study abroad trip to India turned into a virtual internship program.

October 19, 2020

Alumni support virtual human rights seminar

While the pandemic has pushed most courses online, students continue to benefit from rich learning experiences like UW Bothell’s annual Washington D.C. Human Rights Seminar. When the 2020 D.C. Seminar went virtual, leaders Ron Krabill and Jung Lee enlisted the program’s vital network in a series of online dialogues. Several IAS alumni joined this cadre of experts and mentors, sharing their firsthand experiences with human rights and social justice. ...

October 9, 2020