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UW Bothell Course Descriptions
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TIAS 299 Classroom to Career (3)
Prepares students for professional goals after UW Tacoma. Develops career readiness skills through self reflection, research, and participation in tangible experiences related to career path. Clarifies the connection between personal values, classroom knowledge, and experience in order to enhance marketability for career or graduate school.
TIAS 305 Seminar in Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences (2, max. 10)
Provides experience in extracurricular intellectual discourse and exposure to current research in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences that distinguish the IAS Program. Credit/no-credit only.
TIAS 396 Internships and Career Development (2)
Explores the vital link between university learning and the working world through self-assessment, presentations by business people and non-profit professionals, and through an examination of what it means to be an effective professional. Students learn about the vital role an internship plays in a career pathway.
TIAS 485 Study Abroad in the Social Sciences (5-15, max. 24) SSc
Uses an interdisciplinary approach integrating a social science perspective and another discipline such as art, literature, history, architecture, philosophy, urban studies, etc. in this field study course. Taught on site and includes interaction with foreign scholars, local exhibits and sites, and local community experiences where appropriate.
TIAS 490 Special Topics (3-5, max. 15)
Advanced course offerings designed to respond to faculty and student interests and needs.
TIAS 491 Professional Portfolio Design (2)
Develops professional proficiency through the creation and revision of an electronic portfolio on a platform accessible to all, including users with disabilities, for future use in their intended career field. Refines analytical and reflection skills through careful selection, framing, and presentation of artifacts from students' programs of study. Credit/no-credit only.
TIAS 492 Independent Creative Project (1-5)
Produce advanced creative projects that build on or complement other major-specific coursework. Plan and carry out projects in consultation with a faculty adviser and write a reflective or analytical paper to accompany the creative work. Credit/no-credit only.
TIAS 494 Honors Thesis/Project (1-5, max. 10)
Research and writing of a thesis supervised by a full-time IAS faculty member on a significant scholarly topic for students admitted to the IAS honors option.
TIAS 496 Internship (1-15, max. 15)
Internship in the public or private sector, supervised by a faculty member. Permission based on approval of proposal submitted in advance of the internship. Credit/no-credit only.
TIAS 497 Senior Thesis (5)
A significant independent research project planned and carried out by the student under the direction of a faculty member on a significant scholarly topic selected by the student in consultation with faculty.
TIAS 498 Directed Readings (1-5, max. 15)
Faculty-supervised individual readings in areas of special need for students. Topics will vary.
TIAS 499 Undergraduate Research (1-5, max. 15)
Individual advanced research projects carried out under supervision of individual faculty member.
TIAS 502 Culture and Public Problems (5)
Analysis of how public problems are constructed and preferred solutions defined. Examination of how institutional, professional and political actors make claims about the nature of a problem, its causes and appropriate domains of action - e.g., medical or legal, private or public.
TIAS 590 Independent Study (1-10, max. 20)
Faculty-supervised independent study, readings and special projects for graduate students. Topics vary. Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
TIAS 596 Internship (1-10, max. 10)
Faculty-supervised internships for graduate students. Internships and projects vary. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Credit/no-credit only.
TIAS 598 Directed Readings (1-10, max. 20)
Faculty-supervised readings for graduate students. Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
TIAS 599 Directed Research (1-10, max. 20)
Faculty-supervised research for graduate students. Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
TIAS 605 Degree Project (1-10, max. 30)
By permission of instructor. Credit/no-credit only.
TIAS 700 Thesis ([1-10]-)
Faculty-supervised thesis for graduate students. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Credit/no-credit only.