Humanities & Social Sciences
Course Offerings
ENGL 111: English Composition: Literature*
UW credits: 5
This course uses narratives to study writing as social action and language as tied to identity, culture and power. This course centers students' language resources and goals in developing rhetorical and research skills for composing ethically and critically across different contexts and genres. This course prepares students for writing to audiences both within and beyond the university. Students must earn a 2.0 or higher to receive the UW Composition credit. Students should be in 11th or 12th grade to enroll in this course.
ENGL 200: Reading Literary Forms
UW credits: 5
This course focuses on different artistic forms, such as poetry, drama, prose fiction, and film, to explore a theme and related humanistic questions. This course centers practices of close reading; writing to think through problems; and learning through discussion. This course guides students toward reading and writing with focus, curiosity and delight.
ENGL 131: English Composition: Exposition*
UW credits: 5
This course uses a variety of texts across genres to study writing as social action and language as tied to identity, culture and power. This course centers students' language resources and goals in developing rhetorical and research skills for composing ethically and critically across different contexts and genres. This course prepares students for writing to audiences both within and beyond the university. Students must earn a 2.0 or higher to receive the UW Composition credit. Students should be in 11th or 12th grade to enroll in this course.
G H 101: Introduction to Global Health: Disparities, Determinants, Policies and Outcomes
UW credits: 5
This course provides an introduction to global health, including the burden and distribution of disease and mortality, the determinants of global health disparities, the making of global health policies and the outcomes of global health interventions.
PSYCH 101: Introduction to Psychology
UW credits: 5
As a survey of major areas of psychological science, this course focuses on topics such as human social behavior, personality, psychological disorders and treatment, learning, memory, human development, biological influences and research methods. Related topics may include sensation, perception, states of consciousness, thinking, intelligence, language, motivation, emotion, stress and health, cross-cultural psychology and applied psychology.
PSYCH 206: Human Development
UW credits: 5
This course covers the theoretical perspectives and research methods in child development with an overview of historical and current works. Includes prenatal and biological development, the development of cognitive, linguistic, and social and emotional abilities. Prerequisite: Completion of UW PSYCH 101.
Sponsoring Departments
Learn about the UW departments that sponsor and support these courses:
Additional support for the global health course provided by the Center for Global Studies in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.
*Although the UW course catalog states that students can't take both English 111 and English 131, this restriction doesn't apply to students who take these courses through UW in the High School. UWHS students can earn credit for both English 111 and English 131.