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Course Overview for 2025 - 2026 Academic Year
Autumn 2025
Curriculum Group
Courses
HONORS 100/496
HONORS 100 A :Introduction to Honors HONORS 100 B :Introduction to Honors
Honors Arts & Humanities
Courses listed here may count towards the Honors Core and the Honors Electives.
HONORS 210 A :Art and Activism (A&H, DIV, W) HONORS 210 B :Artists' Books: Reading with the Mind and Body (A&H, W) HONORS 210 C :Situating Publishing in the Twenty-first Century - From Penny Dreadfuls to Booktok (A&H, W) HONORS 391 A :* The Art of Understanding Science (A&H / SSc / NSc, W) HONORS 394 A :* Critical-Creative Geovisualization: (Re-)Imagining the Creative and Critical in Mapping and Visualization (A&H / SSc, W) HONORS 394 B :* Environmental History and Justice in Seattle (A&H / SSc, DIV, W)
Honors Natural Science
Courses listed here may count towards the Honors Core and the Honors Electives.
HONORS 220 A :Storytelling in the Sciences (NSc, W) HONORS 220 B :Biology for Leaders (NSc, W) HONORS 220 E :Math That Lies: Communicating Why Some Quantitative Arguments Are Misleading or Bogus (NSc, DIV, W) HONORS 391 A :* The Art of Understanding Science (A&H / SSc / NSc, W) HONORS 392 A :* Values in Science (SSc / NSc, W)
Honors Social Sciences
Courses listed here may count towards the Honors Core and the Honors Electives.
HONORS 230 A :International Human Rights Advocacy (SSc, W) HONORS 230 B :The End of Empire (SSc, DIV, W) HONORS 230 C :Safety-Net Hospitals in the US: Past, Present, and Future (SSc, DIV, W) HONORS 230 D :The Power of the States: The People and Practices Behind the Programs and Policies that Impact People's Lives (SSc, W) HONORS 391 A :* The Art of Understanding Science (A&H / SSc / NSc, W) HONORS 392 A :* Values in Science (SSc / NSc, W) HONORS 394 A :* Critical-Creative Geovisualization: (Re-)Imagining the Creative and Critical in Mapping and Visualization (A&H / SSc, W) HONORS 394 B :* Environmental History and Justice in Seattle (A&H / SSc, DIV, W)
Honors Electives
Courses listed here may count only towards the Honors Electives.
BIOC 450 A :Honors Biochemistry (NSc) CHEM 145 A :Honors General Chemistry (NSc) CHEM 257 A :Honors Organic Chemistry (NSc) CSE 122 / CSE 390 HA :Introduction to Computer Programming II (NSc) CSE 123 / CSE 390 HB :Introduction to Computer Programming III (NSc) ENGL 182 K :Composition: Multimodal (C) ENGL 282 A :Honors Intermediate Multimodal Composition (C) GEOG 505 A :Spatial Dimensions of Chinese Development GEOG 541 A :Research Seminar: Feminist Geographies GEOG 595 A :Special Topics in Geography: Imperial and Anti-Imperial Formations HONORS 345 A :Writing Speculative Fiction from Life and Research (C, DIV) LAW 100 H :Introduction to American Law (SSc) MATH 134 A :Accelerated Honors Calculus (NSc) MATH 334 A :Honors Accelerated Advanced Calculus (NSc) PHYS 141 A :Honors Physics Mechanics (NSc)
Winter 2026
Curriculum Group
Courses
HONORS 100/496
HONORS 496 A :Integration of the Honors Curriculum HONORS 496 B :Integration of the Honors Curriculum
Honors Arts & Humanities
Courses listed here may count towards the Honors Core and the Honors Electives.
HONORS 211 A :Seattle Sounds (A&H, W) HONORS 211 B :Babylon Berlin: Gender, Identity and Sexuality Between the Wars (A&H, DIV, W) HONORS 211 C :Anthropology of Beauty: Normalizing the Disabled Body (A&H, W) HONORS 211 D :COLOR MATTERS: Phenomena, Pharmakon, and Code (A&H, W) HONORS 394 A :* Indigenous Dispossession & Racial Slavery: Twin Tools of US Settler Colonialism (A&H / SSc, DIV, W) HONORS 394 B :* Photography and Visual Arts in Latin America (A&H / SSc, DIV, W) HONORS 394 C :* Ways of Feeling (A&H / SSc, DIV, W) HONORS 394 D :* Lovework: an unfinished syllabus (A&H / SSc, DIV, W)
Honors Natural Science
Courses listed here may count towards the Honors Core and the Honors Electives.
HONORS 221 A :The Science of Human Values (NSc, W) HONORS 221 B :DNA & Evolution (NSc, W) HONORS 221 C :The Scientific Toolbox: Using Scientific Technologies to Investigate the Natural World (NSc, W)
Honors Social Sciences
Courses listed here may count towards the Honors Core and the Honors Electives.
HONORS 231 A :Grand Challenges for Entrepreneurs (SSc, DIV, W) HONORS 231 B :Improving Population Health through Social Entrepreneurship (SSc, DIV, W) HONORS 231 C :Western Civilization and Global Public Policy (SSc, DIV, W) HONORS 394 A :* Indigenous Dispossession & Racial Slavery: Twin Tools of US Settler Colonialism (A&H / SSc, DIV, W) HONORS 394 B :* Photography and Visual Arts in Latin America (A&H / SSc, DIV, W) HONORS 394 C :* Ways of Feeling (A&H / SSc, DIV, W) HONORS 394 D :* Lovework: an unfinished syllabus (A&H / SSc, DIV, W)
Honors Electives
Courses listed here may count only towards the Honors Electives.
BIOC 451 A :Honors Biochemistry (NSc) CHEM 155 A :Honors General Chemistry (NSc) CHEM 258 A :Honors Organic Chemistry (NSc) CSE 122 / CSE 390 HA :Introduction to Computer Programming II (NSc) CSE 123 / CSE 390 HB :Introduction to Computer Programming III (NSc) ENGL 182 H :Composition: Multimodal (C) ENGL 281 C :Honors Intermediate Expository Writing (C) HONORS 345 A :Narratives of Self and Society (C) MATH 135 A :Accelerated Honors Calculus (NSc) MATH 335 A :Honors Accelerated Advanced Calculus (NSc) PHYS 142 A :Honors Electromagnetism (NSc)
Spring 2026
Curriculum Group
Courses
HONORS 100/496
HONORS 496 A :Integration of the Honors Curriculum HONORS 496 B :Integration of the Honors Curriculum
Honors Arts & Humanities
Courses listed here may count towards the Honors Core and the Honors Electives.
HONORS 212 A :Modern Japan Through Cinema (A&H, DIV, W) HONORS 212 B :Attention! (A&H, W) HONORS 393 A :* Music, Birdsong, and the Limits of the Human (A&H / NSc, W) HONORS 394 A :* Human Rights and Corporate Accountability (A&H / SSc, DIV, W) HONORS 394 B :* What is Democracy? (A&H / SSc, DIV, W) HONORS 394 C :* Asian American Racialization and Failure (A&H / SSc, DIV, W)
Honors Natural Science
Courses listed here may count towards the Honors Core and the Honors Electives.
HONORS 222 B :Natural and Cultural History of the PNW (NSc) HONORS 222 C :Evolution & Human Behavior (NSc, W) HONORS 222 D :Evolution & Human Behavior (NSc, W) HONORS 393 A :* Music, Birdsong, and the Limits of the Human (A&H / NSc, W)
Honors Social Sciences
Courses listed here may count towards the Honors Core and the Honors Electives.
HONORS 232 A :Ecology of Urban Seattle: Field and Classroom Experience (SSc, DIV, W) HONORS 394 A :* Human Rights and Corporate Accountability (A&H / SSc, DIV, W) HONORS 394 B :* What is Democracy? (A&H / SSc, DIV, W) HONORS 394 C :* Asian American Racialization and Failure (A&H / SSc, DIV, W)
Honors Electives
Courses listed here may count only towards the Honors Electives.
CHEM 165 :Honors General Chemistry (NSc) CHEM 259 :Honors Organic Chemistry (NSc) CSE 122 / CSE 390 HA :Introduction to Computer Programming II (NSc) CSE 123 / CSE 390 HB :Introduction to Computer Programming III (NSc) ENGL 182 G :Composition: Multimodal (C) ENGL 281 D :Intermediate Multimodal Composition (C) HONORS 345 A :Interdisciplinary Writing Seminar (C) MATH 136 A :Accelerated Honors Calculus (NSc) MATH 336 :Honors Accelerated Advanced Calculus (NSc) PHYS 143 :Honors Waves, Light and Heat (NSc)
Special Topics
Courses listed here may count towards the Honors Core and the Honors Electives.
HONORS 396 A :Pain (NSc, DIV) HONORS 398 A :The Brain and the Healing Power of Poetry (A&H) (A&H)