Course Details

Course offered Autumn 2014

Honors 220 A: Storytelling in the Sciences (NSc)

Honors 220 A: Storytelling in the Sciences (NSc)

SLN 15579 (View UW registration info »)

Oliver Fraser (Astronomy)
Office: PAB C324, Box 351580
Email: ojf@uw.edu

Credits: 5
Limit: 20 students

Clear and accurate science communication is very important as we seek to understand our world and its changes. In this course students will create and tell stories that reflect their own love and appreciation of nature and science, in the context of a larger world that needs their expertise.

The first set of stories will be drawn from Astronomy, Earth Science, and other fields that lend themselves to presentation in the UW’s digital planetarium. The remaining two story assignments allow students the freedom to choose the topic and media. Student’s will develop their digital storytelling skills through skill development assignments and work shopping their ideas in class.