COIL Fellows

COIL Fellows: Supporting Faculty in Developing International Course Collaborations

In 2014, UW Bothell spearheaded a UW-wide effort to deepen global engagement of students in the classroom - without requiring travel abroad - by implementing online collaboration with international partners. The initiative was launched with seed funding from the UW Jackson School of International Studies. The COIL Fellows Program, now run jointly by UW Bothell Global Initiatives with UW Tacoma Office of Global Affairs and UW Seattle Office of Global Affairs, supports faculty in developing Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) courses.

COIL is an approach to fostering global competence through development of a multicultural learning environment that links university classes in different countries. Using various online communication technologies, students from different countries complete shared assignments and projects, with faculty members from each country co-teaching and managing coursework. 

COIL Fellows participate in community of practice meetings to deepen learning and facilitate the sharing of ideas, resources and strategies, and submit written documentation of their partnership. Participants are awarded a stipend for course development and implementation. The program is facilitated by a team of global office staff, learning technologists, and previous COIL Fellows.

2024 COIL Fellows

Faculty of all ranks and from all schools, who teach at the UW full-time and are interested in developing a course collaboration with an international partner during 2024 or 2025, are invited to apply for the next cohort of COIL Fellows. We hope to have participants from across the tri-campus system. The Call for Proposals is expected to be announced at the beginning of Autumn 2023, with a mid-November deadline. In the meantime, review the 2022 Call for Proposals and view a recording of the info session.

Congratulations, 2023 COIL Fellows!

Five UWB faculty representing three schools and FYPP are participating in course development workshops during Winter and Spring 2023 and will begin implementing their COIL courses in Autumn 2023 and beyond.

• Tyson Marsh (SES) - B EDUC 502 - Identity and Reflective Practice and B EDUC 504 - Enacting Agency for Social Justice, with a partner in Mexico
• Alka Kurian (IAS) - BISGWS 301: Critical Gender and Sexuality Studies or BISCLA 380: World Literatures, with a partner in Morocco
• Jed Murr (IAS) - BIS 379: American Ethnic Literatures, with a partner in Slovenia
• Maureen West & Sunita Iyer (SNHS/FYPP) - BCORE 107/Discovery Core I: Mental Health & Student Life- Integrating Well Being & Academics, with a partner in Portugal

2022 COIL Fellows

Five UWB faculty representing three schools and FYPP completed the course development portion of the program and are implementing their COIL courses in 2022 and 2023.

• Ashley JoEtta (IAS/FYPP) - B WRIT 134: First Year Composition
• Deborah Hathaway (IAS/FYPP) - BCORE 117: Front and Center: Images of Women in Theatre and Film
• Jeffrey Kim (STEM: CSS) - CSS 360 Software Engineering, CSS 350 Management Principles for Computing Professionals
• Santiago Lopez (IAS) - BES440: Remote Sensing of the Environment
• Yue Bian (SES) - Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), BEDUC 441 or BEDUC 444

2021 COIL Fellows

Five UWB faculty representing three schools completed the course development portion of the program and are implementing their COIL courses in 2021 and 2022. 

Name	Affiliation	Theme/ Title of COIL Project	Partner Institution, Country
Salwa Al-Noori	STEM: Biological Sciences	History & Philosophy of Science	University of Al-Qadisiyah, Iraq
Hoa Appel	NHS: Health Studies	Behavioral Health	University of Leon, Spain
Chiyoung Lee	NHS: Health Studies	Disparities in Health and Health Care	Seoul National University, South Korea
Georgia Roberts	IAS: Culture, Literature & Arts	Social Movements & Popular Music	Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Avery Shinneman	IAS: First-Year Program	Water Availability and Quality	American Center for Mongolian Studies, Mongolia

2020 COIL Fellows

Five UWB faculty from three schools are implementing COIL courses during 2020 and 2021.

Name	Affiliation	Theme/ Title of COIL Project	Partner Institution, Country
Ching-In Chen	IAS: Creative Writing and Poetics	Ecojustice: Writing the World	Tianjin Normal University, China
Steve Collins	STEM: Mechanical Engineering	Sustainable Energy	Ehime University, Japan
Jin-Kyu Jung	IAS: Environmental Studies	1. Smart City Seattle 2. Mapping Communities	1. Pusan National University, Korea 2. Catholic Kwandong University, Korea
Kosuke Niitsu	NHS: Nursing	Resilience and Mental Health	Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan
Geetha Thamilarasu	STEM: Computer Science	Cybersecurity Principles and Ethics	Mainz University of Applied Sciences, Germany

2019 Introduction to COIL Learning Community

Five UWB faculty representing four schools participated in the Introduction to COIL Learning Community to begin exploring ideas for a COIL course.

Name	Affiliation	Theme/ Title of COIL Project	Partner Institution, Country
Deanna Kennedy	Business: Management	Project Management	Czech Republic (TBD)
James Reinnoldt	Business	Cross-cultural business, CSR or ethics	Thailand or Cambodia (TBD)
Mo West	NHS: Health Studies	Women's Issues Globally	Tianjin Normal University, China
Min Tang	IAS: Media and Communication Studies	Introduction to Journalism	MediaAid Foundation, Liberia
Salwa Al-Noori	STEM: Biology	History and Philosophy of Neuroscience	In progress for 2021!

2018 COIL Learning Community

Eight UWB faculty representing three schools participated in the COIL Learning Community, under a new umbrella of the Teaching and Learning Center. The group consisted of COIL practitioners with diverse levels of experience, who supported each other in continuing existing COIL courses and developing new ones, and was facilitated by Greg Tuke and Natalia Dyba.

Name	Affiliation	Theme/ Title of COIL Project	Partner Institution, Country
Anida Yoeu Ali	IAS: Interdisciplinary Arts	Global Agitation: Art & Activism	TBD
Michael Dean	IAS/FYPP: Pre-Major Program	Comics and Graphic Novels	TBD
Meghan Eagen-Torkko	NHS: Nursing	Maternal Health	Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland
Diana Garcia-Snyder	IAS: Interdisciplinary Arts	Dance and Movement	Universidad de Colima, Mexico
David Goldstein	IAS: Culture, Lit and Arts	Topics in the Study of Culture: Japanese Popular Culture	Toyo University, Japan
Martha Groom	IAS: Envi Studies	Conservation and Sustainable Development: Learning across Contexts	Universidad Católica de al Santísima Concepción (CIBAS), Chile
Susan Harewood	IAS: Cultural Studies	Cultural Studies	Barbados Community College, Barbados
Michael Stiber	STEM: Computing and Software Systems	Computer Science or Neuroscience	TBD
Ursula Valdez	IAS: Envi Studies	The Great Rivers of the World	Peru and Egypt

2017 COIL Fellows

Six UW Bothell instructors were selected to join the 2017 cohort of COIL Fellows. 

COIL Community of Practice meeting, May 2017. Photo by Todd Conaway.

Name	Affiliation	Theme/ Title of COIL Project	Partner Institution, Country
Gary Carpenter	IAS: Culture, Lit and Arts/ First-Year Program	Creative Activism: Inspiring Social Change through the Arts	TBD
Charlie Collins	IAS: Society, Ethics and Human Behavior	Community Organizing in an International Context	TBD, Ireland
David Goldstein	IAS: Culture, Lit and Arts	Topics in the Study of Culture: Japanese Popular Culture	Toyo University, Japan
Martha Groom	IAS: Envi Studies	Conservation and Sustainable Development: Learning across Contexts	Universidad Católica de al Santísima Concepción (CIBAS), Chile
Kristin Gustafson	IAS: Media and Comm Studies	Media and Communication Studies Core	University of Monterrey, Mexico
Sue Kraemer	STEM: Biology	Exploring Cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzyme genetic polymorphisms in West African populations	Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR), Ghana

2015-2016 UW COIL Fellows

Eleven UW COIL Fellows were selected from all three UW campuses and a variety of disciplines:

Name	Affiliation	Campus	Theme/ Title of COIL Project	Partner Institution, Country
Bryan White	STEM: Biology	Bothell	Cross-cultural perspectives on the science and ethics of personalized medicine	Kyodai University, Japan
Butch De Castro	Nursing and Health Studies	Bothell	Comparing Professional Nursing Practice Between the Philipinnes and the USA	University of Santo Tomas, Philippines
Charlotte Rasmussen	STEM: Biology	Bothell	Myth or Reality: Biological science and medicine in the movies	University of Rostock, Germany
Eduardo da Silva	CAS: Portuguese Studies	Seattle	Mapping Luso-Brazilian Cultures	University Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique
Erica Cline	IAS: Sciences and Math	Tacoma	Sustainable Agriculture	Farmer's cooperative, Costa Rica
Jed Murr	IAS: Cultural Studies	Bothell	Traveling Cultures: Cultural Work and the Politics of Location	Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India
Nektaria Klapaki	JSIS: Hellenic Studies	Seattle	Migration and Multiculturalism in the Mediterranean	University of Thessaly, Greece
Peter Selkin	IAS: Sciences and Math	Tacoma	Rock and Environmental Magnetism	Universidade Federal de Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; Institut du Physique du Globe, France
S. Charusheela	IAS: Cultural Studies	Bothell	Alternate Economies – Cultural Studies and Postcapitalist Futures	Ambedkar University Delhi, India
Vanessa de Veritch Woodside	IAS: Spanish	Tacoma	COIL Enhanced Elementary Spanish	Jefferson International School, Mexico; Universidad de Concepcion, Chile

UW attendees at the 10th Annual COIL Conference at SUNY Global Center, April 2016.

2014-2015 UW COIL Fellows

Congratulations to the inaugural cohort of COIL Fellows:

Name	Affiliation	Campus	Theme/Title of COIL Project	Partner Institution, Country
Michael Dean	CUSP: Pre-major program	Bothell	Comics and Graphic Novels: A Global Dialogue	American University in Beirut, Lebanon
Chris Demaske	IAS: Communication	Tacoma	Journalism	Moscow State University, Russia
Mabel Ezeonwu	Nursing and Health Studies	Bothell	Health Policies and Politics in a Global Context	University of the Free State, South Africa; Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, Nigeria
Wei Gao	CUSP: Chinese	Bothell	Chinese Cultural Heritage: From Ancient Virtues to Modern Visions	Tianjin Normal University, China
Eunjung Kim	Nursing	Seattle	Growth and Development through the Life Span	Swaziland Christian University, Swaziland
Ron Krabill	IAS: Cultural Studies	Bothell	Cultural Mediascapes in South Africa and the United States	University of Cape Town, South Africa
Amos Nascimento	IAS: Philosophy	Tacoma	Teaching Environmental Ethics and Climate Change around the World	University of Frankfurt, University of Essen, Germany; University of Medellín, Colombia; Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil
Ursula Valdez	IAS: Environmental Studies	Bothell	From The Andes to The Cascades along the Pacific Coast: Environmental issues in Peru and the Pacific Northwest	Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Peru