Autumn Quarter 2016
CEP 300 CEP Retreat (1CR)
Description: Focuses on planning analysis assessment and development of the major. Opportunities for community building and all-major policy deliberation and decisions. Workshops for skill building in consensus, facilitation, and for major-specific activities such as developing individual study plans and study abroad experiences.
Application: This quarter’s retreat gave me a better understanding of what will be expected of me over the next two years and forced me to consider why I am attending the University of Washington in the first place. The best part of retreat was forming closer relationships with other CEPsters.
CEP 400 Governance Practicum (1CR)
Description: Emphasizes personal and collective leadership, democratic decision making, and learning through direct action and reflection. Explores and develops students' personal skills as doers and leaders, while also learning how to form and function as effective groups
Application: Governance comprises of my contribution to the structure of the major and will give me experience in democratic decision making which I will eventually be able to apply to a governmental career in the future. Being on Headlights, the policy committee, is giving me a better understanding of what goes into making and reforming policies on a smaller scale.
CEP 301 The Idea of Community (Core 5CR)
Description: Theories of community and communal rights and responsibilities. Experience building a learning community within major. Explores struggles for community in every sector of life.
Application: CEP 301 has challenged my way of thinking by asking me to look deeper into texts to understand what great philosophers are explaining. Reading an assortment of philosophy texts demonstrates how the idea of community has been transformed over time and causes me to question why things are the way they are today.
NUTR 412 (NUTR Elective 3CR)
Description: Offers a broad introduction to food and nutrition policies in the United States and their impacts on population health. Real-world controversies and debates used to illustrate policy principles, research tools, and policy analysis. Includes topics on public health nutrition, food policy related to population health, and food security.
Application: This course gives an introductory overview of the major food and nutrition policies in the United States. It gave me a broader knowledge beyond my specific food policy interests.
GEOG 205 Our Global Environment: Physical and Human Dimensions (ENVIR Natural Sciences 5CR)
Description: Explores environmental systems using a geographic perspective that emphasizes spatial patterns of phenomena, relationships between different places, and interconnections between people and environment. Evaluates causes, consequences, and solutions to environmental problems. Topics include climate, atmosphere, water, ecosystems, and soils.
Application: This course will enable me to relate my future food policy work to the environment. Learnings about the basic earth systems and how they interact with people globally gives me insight to what kind of policies may be necessary on a global scale.
Quarter Total Credits: 15
CEP 300 CEP Retreat (1CR)
Description: Focuses on planning analysis assessment and development of the major. Opportunities for community building and all-major policy deliberation and decisions. Workshops for skill building in consensus, facilitation, and for major-specific activities such as developing individual study plans and study abroad experiences.
Application: This quarter’s retreat gave me a better understanding of what will be expected of me over the next two years and forced me to consider why I am attending the University of Washington in the first place. The best part of retreat was forming closer relationships with other CEPsters.
CEP 400 Governance Practicum (1CR)
Description: Emphasizes personal and collective leadership, democratic decision making, and learning through direct action and reflection. Explores and develops students' personal skills as doers and leaders, while also learning how to form and function as effective groups
Application: Governance comprises of my contribution to the structure of the major and will give me experience in democratic decision making which I will eventually be able to apply to a governmental career in the future. Being on Headlights, the policy committee, is giving me a better understanding of what goes into making and reforming policies on a smaller scale.
CEP 301 The Idea of Community (Core 5CR)
Description: Theories of community and communal rights and responsibilities. Experience building a learning community within major. Explores struggles for community in every sector of life.
Application: CEP 301 has challenged my way of thinking by asking me to look deeper into texts to understand what great philosophers are explaining. Reading an assortment of philosophy texts demonstrates how the idea of community has been transformed over time and causes me to question why things are the way they are today.
NUTR 412 (NUTR Elective 3CR)
Description: Offers a broad introduction to food and nutrition policies in the United States and their impacts on population health. Real-world controversies and debates used to illustrate policy principles, research tools, and policy analysis. Includes topics on public health nutrition, food policy related to population health, and food security.
Application: This course gives an introductory overview of the major food and nutrition policies in the United States. It gave me a broader knowledge beyond my specific food policy interests.
GEOG 205 Our Global Environment: Physical and Human Dimensions (ENVIR Natural Sciences 5CR)
Description: Explores environmental systems using a geographic perspective that emphasizes spatial patterns of phenomena, relationships between different places, and interconnections between people and environment. Evaluates causes, consequences, and solutions to environmental problems. Topics include climate, atmosphere, water, ecosystems, and soils.
Application: This course will enable me to relate my future food policy work to the environment. Learnings about the basic earth systems and how they interact with people globally gives me insight to what kind of policies may be necessary on a global scale.
Quarter Total Credits: 15
Winter Quarter 2017
CEP 400 Governance Practicum (1CR)
Description: Emphasizes personal and collective leadership, democratic decision making, and learning through direct action and reflection. Explores and develops students' personal skills as doers and leaders, while also learning how to form and function as effective groups
Application: Governance comprises of my contribution to the structure of the major and will give me experience in democratic decision making which I will eventually be able to apply to a governmental career in the future. Being on Headlights, the policy committee, is giving me a better understanding of what goes into making and reforming policies on a smaller scale.
CEP 302 Environmental Response (Core 5CR)
Description: Explores issues of environmental crisis and societal responses. Readings and reflective analysis from broad selection of authoritative sources to develop grounded perspective in ecological literacy and consciousness. Concurrently, experiential education in challenges and practical responses to building sustainable society through participation in community-based environmental effort.
Application: Environmental problems are one of my passions so I am excited to have the opportunity to combine my passion for the environment with my passion for community.
PubPol 403: Professional Leadership (Methods 4CR)
Description: Cultivates practical skills required to lead within various organizational contexts: managerial strategies for public, nonprofit, and business organizations are developed through case studies and guest speakers. Focuses on analytical and ethical approaches to problem solving and the communication skills needed for effective leadership in any career.
Application: I learned more in this course than nearly any other course at the University of Washington. I discovered a fear of failure that has inhibited me from taking risks and a tendency to view emotion as a negative when it actually prevents me from forming relationships. Through this class, I formed connections with other leaders on campus and held a Job Search Workshop for Zeta Tau Alpha sorority and Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.
NUTR 303 Neighborhood Nutrition (NUTR Core 3CR)
Description: Examines the food environment in the local community from the public health perspective. Explores where people get their food, what influences this decision and various aspects of the local food movement, including access to healthy food, urban agriculture, farmers markets, and farm-to-school programs.
Application: The environment that people live in is critical to the way that people consume food. What their peers consume, in addition to where they live with relation to accessibility, plays a big factor in what people it. This course will deepen my knowledge of location and food consumption in a way that will enable my future policy making to take this into account.
Quarter Total Credits: 13
CEP 400 Governance Practicum (1CR)
Description: Emphasizes personal and collective leadership, democratic decision making, and learning through direct action and reflection. Explores and develops students' personal skills as doers and leaders, while also learning how to form and function as effective groups
Application: Governance comprises of my contribution to the structure of the major and will give me experience in democratic decision making which I will eventually be able to apply to a governmental career in the future. Being on Headlights, the policy committee, is giving me a better understanding of what goes into making and reforming policies on a smaller scale.
CEP 302 Environmental Response (Core 5CR)
Description: Explores issues of environmental crisis and societal responses. Readings and reflective analysis from broad selection of authoritative sources to develop grounded perspective in ecological literacy and consciousness. Concurrently, experiential education in challenges and practical responses to building sustainable society through participation in community-based environmental effort.
Application: Environmental problems are one of my passions so I am excited to have the opportunity to combine my passion for the environment with my passion for community.
PubPol 403: Professional Leadership (Methods 4CR)
Description: Cultivates practical skills required to lead within various organizational contexts: managerial strategies for public, nonprofit, and business organizations are developed through case studies and guest speakers. Focuses on analytical and ethical approaches to problem solving and the communication skills needed for effective leadership in any career.
Application: I learned more in this course than nearly any other course at the University of Washington. I discovered a fear of failure that has inhibited me from taking risks and a tendency to view emotion as a negative when it actually prevents me from forming relationships. Through this class, I formed connections with other leaders on campus and held a Job Search Workshop for Zeta Tau Alpha sorority and Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.
NUTR 303 Neighborhood Nutrition (NUTR Core 3CR)
Description: Examines the food environment in the local community from the public health perspective. Explores where people get their food, what influences this decision and various aspects of the local food movement, including access to healthy food, urban agriculture, farmers markets, and farm-to-school programs.
Application: The environment that people live in is critical to the way that people consume food. What their peers consume, in addition to where they live with relation to accessibility, plays a big factor in what people it. This course will deepen my knowledge of location and food consumption in a way that will enable my future policy making to take this into account.
Quarter Total Credits: 13
Spring Quarter 2017
CEP 300 CEP Retreat (1CR)
Description: Focuses on planning analysis assessment and development of the major. Opportunities for community building and all-major policy deliberation and decisions. Workshops for skill building in consensus, facilitation, and for major-specific activities such as developing individual study plans and study abroad experiences. Prerequisite: Majors only.
Application: This course will give me the opportunity to further the community bonds within CEP through an interactive experience.
CEP 400 Governance Practicum (1CR)
Description: Emphasizes personal and collective leadership, democratic decision making, and learning through direct action and reflection. Explores and develops students' personal skills as doers and leaders, while also learning how to form and function as effective groups.
Application: Governance comprises of my contribution to the structure of the major and will give me experience in democratic decision making which I will eventually be able to apply to a governmental career in the future. Being on Headlights, the policy committee, is giving me a better understanding of what goes into making and reforming policies on a smaller scale.
CEP 303 Social Structures and Processes (Core 5CR)
Description: Investigates use of formal and informal social structures and processes within context of community and environment. Looks at patterns and institutions of social organization and relationships among different sectors. Issues of interrelatedness, citizenship, knowledge, and communication.
Application: I am looking forward to this course because it will help develop my understanding of societal structures and the reasons people enter into specific relationships. It will give me a further sense of community within CEP, too.
NUTR 302 Food Studies: Harvest to Health (NUTR Core 3CR)
Description: Examines the many facets of the modern food supply from production and processing to distribution, marketing, and retail. Systems approach to foods studies considers geopolitical, agricultural, environmental, social, and economic factors along the pathway from harvest to health.
Application: I have been recommended by multiple advisors within the Environmental Studies department and Geography department that this course would be extremely beneficial to me. This course covers food, rather than nutrition, in its past from the fields to its contributions to human health. It gives me the health oriented perspective on the food industry that I want in order to have a broader understanding of the food system.
NUTR 406 Sports Nutrition (NUTR Elective 3CR)
Description: Covers the essentials of human nutrition that improve and sustain optimal performance for sport and exercise. Discusses the effect of eating disorders (in both male and female athletes), weight management, and sport nutrition resources.
Application: As I work to enhance my physical activity, this course taught me how my body functions when exercising. I learned about chemical and biological reactions in applicable ways while also learning how to eat foods that will improve my performance.
NUTR 411 Diet in Health and Disease (NUTR Elective 3CR)
Description: Discusses advanced topics in nutritional sciences. Includes nutrition and health, chronic disease prevention and management, and in-depth discussion of dietary patterns. Draws on current topics in the media, impacts of public health policy on diet, and the most recent nutrition research.
Application: One of the primary reasons I am focusing on food policy is to draw the connection between food consumption and health impacts. In America, this has long been overlooked and is taking a toll on our health, spending, and well-being. This course will enable me to understand how consuming specific foods can contribute to or improve illness.
Quarter Total Credits: 16
CEP 300 CEP Retreat (1CR)
Description: Focuses on planning analysis assessment and development of the major. Opportunities for community building and all-major policy deliberation and decisions. Workshops for skill building in consensus, facilitation, and for major-specific activities such as developing individual study plans and study abroad experiences. Prerequisite: Majors only.
Application: This course will give me the opportunity to further the community bonds within CEP through an interactive experience.
CEP 400 Governance Practicum (1CR)
Description: Emphasizes personal and collective leadership, democratic decision making, and learning through direct action and reflection. Explores and develops students' personal skills as doers and leaders, while also learning how to form and function as effective groups.
Application: Governance comprises of my contribution to the structure of the major and will give me experience in democratic decision making which I will eventually be able to apply to a governmental career in the future. Being on Headlights, the policy committee, is giving me a better understanding of what goes into making and reforming policies on a smaller scale.
CEP 303 Social Structures and Processes (Core 5CR)
Description: Investigates use of formal and informal social structures and processes within context of community and environment. Looks at patterns and institutions of social organization and relationships among different sectors. Issues of interrelatedness, citizenship, knowledge, and communication.
Application: I am looking forward to this course because it will help develop my understanding of societal structures and the reasons people enter into specific relationships. It will give me a further sense of community within CEP, too.
NUTR 302 Food Studies: Harvest to Health (NUTR Core 3CR)
Description: Examines the many facets of the modern food supply from production and processing to distribution, marketing, and retail. Systems approach to foods studies considers geopolitical, agricultural, environmental, social, and economic factors along the pathway from harvest to health.
Application: I have been recommended by multiple advisors within the Environmental Studies department and Geography department that this course would be extremely beneficial to me. This course covers food, rather than nutrition, in its past from the fields to its contributions to human health. It gives me the health oriented perspective on the food industry that I want in order to have a broader understanding of the food system.
NUTR 406 Sports Nutrition (NUTR Elective 3CR)
Description: Covers the essentials of human nutrition that improve and sustain optimal performance for sport and exercise. Discusses the effect of eating disorders (in both male and female athletes), weight management, and sport nutrition resources.
Application: As I work to enhance my physical activity, this course taught me how my body functions when exercising. I learned about chemical and biological reactions in applicable ways while also learning how to eat foods that will improve my performance.
NUTR 411 Diet in Health and Disease (NUTR Elective 3CR)
Description: Discusses advanced topics in nutritional sciences. Includes nutrition and health, chronic disease prevention and management, and in-depth discussion of dietary patterns. Draws on current topics in the media, impacts of public health policy on diet, and the most recent nutrition research.
Application: One of the primary reasons I am focusing on food policy is to draw the connection between food consumption and health impacts. In America, this has long been overlooked and is taking a toll on our health, spending, and well-being. This course will enable me to understand how consuming specific foods can contribute to or improve illness.
Quarter Total Credits: 16