News from the School of IAS
Category: Teaching
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
Masahiro Sugano’s “Competitive Filmmaking” Class Wins Top Prize in International Film Competition
The short film “Delirium” created by IAS faculty member Masahiro Sugano’s “Competitive Filmmaking” Class won at the 2020 ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival held in Berlin, Germany. In Spring 2020 when Washington State went into COVID-19 lockdown, IAS faculty Masahiro Sugano had the unique challenge of remotely teaching a new advanced level media production course ...
November 24, 2020
Ching-In Chen publishes “Improvising the World: a Breakout Session/Experiment in Pedagogy”
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s “Improvising the World: a Breakout Session/Experiment in Pedagogy” was published in Urgent Possibilities: Writing on Feminist Poetics & Emergence Pedagogies, an anthology of 17 saddle stitched pamphlets as part of the eohippus labs Annex Series.
November 16, 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
Cinnamon Hillyard connects student success programs
IAS faculty member Cinnamon Hillyard, who had been serving as associate vice chancellor for undergraduate learning, took on an expanded role this summer as associate vice chancellor for student success. Hillyard’s position was created to center on the academic life cycle of students, align resources, and ensure a consistent vision of student success.
September 14, 2020