CHID 270: Witchcraft with Dr. Oehme CHID 270 courses are special topics courses that examine a different subject or problem from a comparative framework. This course, which I took the winter of my sophomore year, focused on the history of witchcraft. Specifically, the course involved learning about the history of witchcraft, analyzing a particular witch trial in 17th century Germany, and then understanding how witchcraft persists as an idea in our cultural framework. This class was one of the coolest I've had the opportunity to take at UW. It pushed me again to reconsider what topics should and are studied in academic settings. It was also fun to go to, at a time when I was buried under organic chemistry labs and biology exams. Ultimately I left this course with a passion for using interdisciplinary approaches to understand just about anything I cared about. |
Brochure for our final: an interdisciplinary museum exhibit
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CHID 390: Knowing the City with Dr. Harris CHID 390 is known as the junior year colloquium, one of the few courses that are required for all CHID majors and minors. This is a reading and discussion seminar that focuses on the theoretical and practical problems of interpretation and knowledge production. I took this course the spring of my junior year, online. In this version, we studied the relationships between knowledge, power, bodies, and urban space from a wide range of perspectives. Our readings and discussions this quarter revolved around the question, “how can one ‘know’ a city?”. It was an undeniably strange experience taking this course during the peak of quarantine, when I wasn't leaving my house. But this course also pushed me to reflect on how physical experience affects knowledge, and how I can continue to gain knowledge through other means. |
My final presentation for the course, focusing on streets as public space.
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