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Black Lives Matter Collective Storytelling Project

CC BY-NC-ND (Attribution NonCommercial NoDerivatives)   English

Author(s): A University of Washington Tacoma cross-course collaboration between TSOC 265 and TCOM 347 courses.

Subject(s): Cultural and media studies, Society and culture: general, Sociology

Publisher: University of Washington Tacoma and University of Washington Libraries

Publication date: 2020-12-16

Last updated: 2025-10-21

Make Work Use Art

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike)   English

Author(s): HON211 UW 2021

Publisher: HON211 University of Washington 2021

Publication date: 2021-03-18

Last updated: 2025-09-25

Twenty students from a wide variety of majors, including the sciences, humanities, health and medicine, as well as engineering, architecture, and design comprised our vibrant and engaged learning community. We started the quarter by imaginary visits to two important art schools, the German Bauhaus (1919-1933) and the Black Mountain College, located near Asheville, North Carolina (1933-1957). The students co-created participatory collaborative exercises based on the experiential learning principles developed by and practiced at these schools.

Throughout the course, we considered craft and art not as nouns, but as verbs, related the practiced maker’s hand to the process aided by technological tools, and focused on the language of the materials, and the personal, cultural, historical narratives that they help to reveal. We contemplated how individual threads hold the fabric together and transform that, and how individual narratives coalesce into larger histories that signify and hold together communities.  We strived to explore and understand both the historical past and the innovative present and future by specifically focusing on needlework (sewing, embroidery, and quilts) during the 1920 and ‘30s (women suffrage movement), the 1970s and ‘80s (second wave of feminism, LGBTQ rights and HIV/AIDS crisis), and in the present. We also considered how new technologies, such as parametric design and 3D printing, introduce new paradigms for solving problems, designing, producing, and using objects. Of course, the effect of technology was inescapable for us in the class too, as it was for billions around the world during this global pandemic.

We made two projects. One, using needlework techniques and textile processes to tell a personal story of Waiting, and a second one, using Computer Aided Design (CAD) to create a Time Capsule which would be opened one hundred years from now. Throughout the quarter, the students researched a Bauhaus or Black Mountain College artist they had picked with the goal of reflecting on the artist’s work, biography, creative process, and ideas about making by drawing parallels to those of their own.

Supporting Multilingual Learners Course Book

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial)  2 H5P Activities    English

Author(s): EarlyEdU Alliance

Subject(s): Early childhood care and education

Institution(s): University of Washington

Publisher: EarlyEdU Alliance

Last updated: 2025-08-25

Modern Monsters

All Rights Reserved   English

Author(s): Sarah Moore

Last updated: 2025-07-25

Virtual REACH Program 2021

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike)  12 H5P Activities    English

Author(s): Dr. Kristen Clapper Bergsman, Dr. Eric H. Chudler

Editor(s): Dr. Kristen Clapper Bergsman

Subject(s): Neurosciences, Biomedical engineering / Medical engineering, Medical ethics and professional conduct

Publisher: Center for Neurotechnology, University of Washington

Publication date: 2020-06-01

Last updated: 2025-07-10

Child Development: Brain Building Course Book

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial)  38 H5P Activities    English

Author(s): EarlyEdU Alliance

Subject(s): Early childhood care and education

Institution(s): University of Washington

Publisher: EarlyEdU Alliance

Last updated: 2025-07-10

YSP-REACH 2022

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike)  12 H5P Activities    English

Author(s): Dr. Kristen Clapper Bergsman, Dr. Eric H. Chudler

Editor(s): Dr. Kristen Clapper Bergsman

Subject(s): Neurosciences, Biomedical engineering / Medical engineering, Medical ethics and professional conduct

Publisher: Center for Neurotechnology, University of Washington

Publication date: 2022-06-01

Last updated: 2025-07-10

Badass Womxn and Enbies in the Pacific Northwest Volume 2

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial)   English

Author(s): Badass Zine Machine

Subject(s): The Arts

Publisher: University of Washington Bothell and University of Washington Libraries

Publication date: 2023-06-10

Last updated: 2025-07-10

In the second volume of Badass Womxn and Enbies in the Pacific Northwest, we celebrate 21 individuals doing incredible work in their diverse fields. Organised into a timeline, this zine will take you through hidden histories to honor our inspirational badasses from 1870 to present. Led by Dr Shayne, librarians Penelope Wood and Denise Hattwig and peer facilitator John Emerton, undergraduate students from the University of Washington Bothell collaborated in a Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies class to present this fabulous zine!

University of Washington Behavioral Health Support Specialist (BHSS) Clinical Training Program Implementation Guide

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial)   English

Author(s): UW BHSS Clinical Training Program

Editor(s): Sara Ochoa, MEd, Melissa Farnum, MA

Subject(s): Care of people with mental health conditions, Educational: Health and social care, For undergraduate education and equivalents, Curriculum planning and development, Diversity, equality, equity and inclusion in the workplace, Primary care medicine, primary health care, Psychotherapy: therapies or techniques

Institution(s): University of Washington

Publisher: University of Washington

Publication date: 2023-11-30

Last updated: 2025-07-10

The University of Washington Behavioral Health Support Specialist (BHSS) Implementation Guide is designed for Washington state four-year undergraduate programs in psychology, social work, behavioral healthcare, and related degree programs. The guide helps educators identify areas of alignment between current curriculum and BHSS competencies. Further, the guide discusses the process for program self-assessment and decision-making regarding curriculum changes.

YSP-REACH 2024

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike)  12 H5P Activities    English

Author(s): Dr. Kristen Clapper Bergsman, Dr. Eric H. Chudler

Editor(s): Dr. Kristen Clapper Bergsman

Subject(s): Neurosciences, Medical ethics and professional conduct, Biomedical engineering / Medical engineering

Publisher: Center for Neurotechnology, University of Washington

Publication date: 2024-04-01

Last updated: 2025-07-10