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Course Descriptions

University of Washington Course Descriptions

The UW Course Descriptions are updated monthly during the academic year (Last updated August 28, 2008.) All announcements in the General Catalog are subject to change without notice and do not constitute an agreement between the University of Washington - Seattle and the student. Students should assume the responsibility of consulting the appropriate academic unit or adviser for more current or specific information.

For an explanation of the symbols and abbreviations used in the Course Descriptions, select the Glossary link on this page or any of the Course Description pages. The University of Washington - Bothell and University of Washington - Tacoma Course Descriptions are also available online.

Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Programs

• Program on the Environment (ENVIR)
• Quantitative Science (Fisheries and Forest Resources) (Q SCI)

College of Architecture and Urban Planning

• Architecture (ARCH)
• Architecture and Urban Planning
  • College of Architecture and Urban Planning (CAUP)
  • Built Environment (B E)
  • Community and Environmental Planning (CEP)
  • Strategic Planning for Critial Infrastructures (SPCI)
  • Urban Planning (URBDP)
• Construction Management (CM)
• Landscape Architecture (L ARCH)

College of Arts and Sciences

• American Ethnic Studies
  • Afro-American Studies (AFRAM)
  • American Ethnic Studies (AES)
  • Asian-American Studies (AAS)
  • Chicano Studies (CHSTU)
• American Indian Studies (AIS)
• Anthropology
  • Anthropology (ANTH)
  • Archaeology (ARCHY)
  • Biocultural Anthropology (BIO A)
• Applied Mathematics (AMATH)
• Art (ART)
• Art History (ART H)
• Asian Languages and Literature
  • Asian Languages and Literature (ASIAN)
  • Bengali (BENG)
  • Chinese (CHIN)
  • Hindi (HINDI)
  • Indian (INDN)
  • Indonesian (INDON)
  • Japanese (JAPAN)
  • Korean (KOREAN)
  • Sanskrit (SNKRT)
  • Thai (THAI)
  • Tibetan (TIB)
  • Urdu (URDU)
  • Vietnamese (VIET)
• Astrobiology and Early Evolution (ASTBIO)
• Astronomy (ASTR)
• Atmospheric Sciences (ATM S)
• Biology (BIOL)
• Botany -- See Biology (BIOL)
• Center for Statistics and Social Sciences (CS&SS)
• Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology (CSDE)
• Center for the Humanities (HUM)
• Chemistry (CHEM)
• Classics
  • Classical Archaeology (CL AR)
  • Classical Linguistics (CL LI)
  • Classics (CLAS)
  • Greek (GREEK)
  • Latin (LATIN)
• Communication (COM)
• Comparative History of Ideas (CHID)
• Comparative Literature (C LIT)
• Computer Science (see Computer Science and Engineering)
• Dance (DANCE)
• Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS)
• Drama (DRAMA)
• Earth and Space Sciences (ESS)
• Economics (ECON)
• English (ENGL)
• General Studies
  • General Studies (GEN ST)
  • General Interdisciplinary Studies (GIS)
• Genetics -- See Genome Studies under School of Medicine
• Geography (GEOG)
• Geological Sciences -- See Earth and Space Sciences
• Geophysics -- See Earth and Space Sciences
• Germanics (GERMAN)
• History
  • Ancient and Medieval History (HSTAM)
  • History (HIST)
  • History of Asia (HSTAS)
  • History of the Americas (HSTAA)
  • Modern European History (HSTEU)
• History and Philosophy of Science (HPS)
• Honors (H A&S)
• Humanities (See Center for the Humanities)
• Jackson School of International Studies
  • European Studies (EURO)
  • International Studies (SIS)
  • International Studies (African Studies) (SISAF)
  • International Studies (Asian Studies) (SISA)
  • International Studies (Canadian Studies) (SISCA)
  • International Studies (Comparative Religion) (RELIG)
  • International Studies (East Asian Studies) (SISEA)
  • International Studies (Jewish Studies) (SISJE)
  • International Studies (Latin American Studies) (SISLA)
  • International Studies (Middle Eastern Studies) (SISME)
  • International Studies (Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies) (SISRE)
  • International Studies (South Asian Studies) (SISSA)
  • International Studies (Southeast Asian Studies) (SISSE)
• Law, Societies, and Justice (LSJ)
• Linguistics
  • American Sign Language (ASL)
  • French Linguistics (FRLING)
  • Linguistics (LING)
  • Romance Linguistics (ROLING)
  • Spanish Linguistics (SPLING)
• Mathematics (MATH)
• Microbiology (MICROM) -- See Microbiology under School of Medicine
• Music
  • Music (MUSIC)
  • Music - Applied (MUSAP)
  • Music Education (MUSED)
  • Music Ensemble (MUSEN)
  • Music History (MUHST)
• Near Eastern Languages and Civilization
  • Akkadian (AKKAD)
  • Arabic (ARAB)
  • Aramaic (ARAMIC)
  • Egyptian (EGYPT)
  • Hebrew (HEBR)
  • Near Eastern Languages and Civilization (NEAR E)
  • Persian (PRSAN)
  • Turkic (TKIC)
  • Turkish (TKISH)
  • Ugaritic (UGARIT)
• Neurobiology (NBIO)
• Philosophy
• Philosophy (PHIL)
• Values in Society (VALUES)
• Physics (PHYS)
• Political Science (POL S)
• Psychology (PSYCH)
• Romance Languages and Literature
  • French (FRENCH)
  • Italian (ITAL)
  • Portuguese (PORT)
  • Romance Languages and Literature (ROMAN)
  • Romance Linguistics (ROLING)
  • Romanian (Romance) (RMN)
  • Spanish (SPAN)
• Scandinavian Studies
  • Danish (DANISH)
  • Estonian (ESTO)
  • Finnish (FINN)
  • Latvian (LATV)
  • Lithuanian (LITH)
  • Norwegian (NORW)
  • Scandinavian (SCAND)
  • Swedish (SWED)
• Slavic Languages and Literatures
  • Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian (BCS)
  • Bulgarian (BULGR)
  • Czech (CZECH)
  • Polish (POLSH)
  • Romanian (Slavic) (ROMN)
  • Russian (RUSS)
  • Slavic (SLAV)
  • Slavic Languages and Literatures (SLAVIC)
  • Ukrainian (UKR)
• Social Sciences (SOCSCI)
• Sociology (SOC)
• Speech and Hearing Sciences (SPHSC)
• Statistics (STAT)
• Women Studies (WOMEN)
• Zoology -- See Biology (BIOL)

School of Business Administration

• Accounting (ACCTG)
• Business Administration
  • Administration (ADMIN)
  • Business Administration (B A)
  • Business Administration Research Methods (BA RM)
  • Business Communications (B CMU)
  • Business Economics (B ECON)
  • Business Policy (B POL)
  • Electronic Business (EBIZ)
  • Entrepreneurship (ENTRE)
  • Finance (FIN)
  • Human Resources Management and Organizational Behavior (HRMOB)
  • Information Systems (I S)
  • International Business (I BUS)
  • Management (MGMT)
  • Marketing (MKTG)
  • Operations Management (OPMGT)
  • Organization and Environment (O E)
  • Program on Entrepreneurial Innovation (PEI)
  • Quantitative Methods (QMETH)
  • Strategic Management (ST MGT)

School of Dentistry

• Dentistry
  • Dental Hygiene (D HYG)
  • Dental Public Health Sciences (DPHS)
  • Dentistry (DENT)
  • Oral Surgery (O S)
  • Pedodontics (PEDO)
• Endodontics (ENDO)
• Oral Biology (ORALB)
• Oral Medicine (ORALM)
• Orthodontics (ORTHO)
• Periodontics (PERIO)
• Prosthodontics (PROS)
• Restorative Dentistry (RES D)

College of Education

• Curriculum and Instruction (EDC&I)
• College of Education (EDUC)
• Early Childhood and Family Studies (ECFS)
• Education (Teacher Education Program) (EDTEP)
• Educational Leadership and Policy Studies (EDLPS)
• Educational Psychology (EDPSY)
• Special Education (EDSPE)

College of Engineering

• Aeronautics and Astronautics (A A)
• Chemical Engineering (CHEM E)
• Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
• Computer Science and Engineering (CSE)
• Electrical Engineering (E E)
• Engineering
  • Engineering (ENGR)
  • Nuclear Engineering (NUC E)
• Industrial Engineering (IND E)
• Materials Science and Engineering (MS E)
• Mechanical Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering (M E)
  • Mechanical Engineering Industrial Engineering (MEIE)
• Technical Communication (T C)

College of Forest Resources

• College of Forest Resources (CFR)
• Environmental Science and Resource Management (ESRM)
• Paper Science and Engineering (PSE)

The Information School

• Informatics (INFO)
• Information Management and Technology (IMT)
• Information Science (INSC)
• Information Technology Applications (ITA)
• Library and Information Science (LIS)

Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs

• Biomolecular Structure and Design (BMSD)
• Graduate School (GRDSCH)
• Global Trade, Transportation & Logistics (GTTL)
• Individual PhD (IPHD)
• Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB)
• Museology (MUSEUM)
• Near and Middle Eastern Studies (N&MES)
• Neurobiology and Behavior (NEUBEH)
• Nutritional Science (NUTR)
• Quantitative Ecology and Resource Management (QERM)
• Quaternary Sciences (QUAT)

Interschool or Intercollege Programs

• Bioengineering (BIOEN)
• Global Health (G H)
• University Conjoint Courses (UCONJ)

School of Law

• Law
  • Health Law (LAW H)
  • Intellectual Property Law (LAW P)
  • Law (LAW)
  • Law (Taxation) (LAW T)
  • Law A (LAW A)
  • Law B (LAW B)
  • Law E (LAW E)

School of Medicine

• Anesthesiology (ANEST)
• Biochemistry (BIOC)
• Biological Structure (B STR)
• Comparative Medicine (C MED)
• Conjoint Courses (CONJ) (See School of Medicine)
• Family Medicine (FAMED)
• Genome Sciences (GENOME)
• Human Biology (HUBIO)
• Immunology (IMMUN)
• Laboratory Medicine (LAB M)
• MEDEX (MEDEX)
• Medical Education and Biomedical Informatics (MEBI)
• Medical History and Ethics (MHE)
• Microbiology (MICROM)
• Neurological Surgery (NEUR S)
• Neurology (NEURL)
• Obstetrics and Gynecology (OB GYN)
• Ophthalmology (OPHTH)
• Orthopaedics (ORTHP)
• Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (OTOHN)
• Pathology (PATH)
• Pediatrics (PEDS)
• Pharmacology (PHCOL)
• Physiology and Biophysics (P BIO)
• Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (PBSCI)
• Radiation Oncology (R ONC)
• Radiology (RADGY)
• Rehabilitation Medicine (REHAB)
• School of Medicine
  • Conjoint Courses (CONJ)
  • Medicine (MED)
• Surgery (SURG)
• Urology (UROL)

School of Nursing

• Nursing
  • Nursing (NSG)
  • Nursing (NURS)
  • Nursing Clinical (NCLIN)
  • Nursing Methods (NMETH)

College of Ocean and Fishery Sciences

• Fisheries (FISH)
• School of Marine Affairs (SMA)
• Oceanography (OCEAN)

School of Pharmacy

• School of Pharmacy
  • Medicinal Chemistry (MEDCH)
  • Pharmaceutics (PCEUT)
  • Pharmacy (PHARM)

Graduate School of Public Affairs

• Public Affairs (PB AF)

School of Public Health and Community Medicine

• Biostatistics (BIOST)
• Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
• Environmental Health (ENV H)
• Epidemiology
• Epidemiology (EPI)
• Public Health Genetics (PHG)
• Health Services
• Health Services (HSERV)
• Health Services Management (HSMGMT)
• Pathobiology (PABIO)

Reserve Officers Training Corps Programs

• Aerospace Studies (A S)
• Military Science (M SCI)
• Naval Science (N SCI)

School of Social Work

• Social Work
  • Social Welfare BASW (SOC WF)
  • Social Welfare (SOC WL)
  • Social Work (MSW) (SOC W)

University of Washington Course Descriptions
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Modified: November 21, 2007