Category: Program Spotlight

Join this program to access independent social impact internships, immersive global learning, and a trusted pathway for academic credit and peer support.

Offered through a partnership with Omprakash — a Seattle-based global education nonprofit — this program connects UW students with voluntary opportunities in 50+ countries and provides a digital space for shared learning and mentorship throughout the experience. Students will engage in critical dialogue and reflection about the complexities of striving for justice while crossing differences of culture and power and will create a series of digital storytelling posts that document their experiences through lenses informed by our course themes.

The program combines the following elements:

• Volunteer internships with Omprakash Partners — grassroots social impact organizations in over 45 countries around the world, working in fields including education, health, human rights, migration, sustainability, and social enterprise
• Peer-to-peer learning and personalized mentorship within the Omprakash EdGE online learning ecosystem
• Curriculum ‘concentrations’ in thematic areas including Education & Social Change, Global Health, Environmental Justice, Disabilities in a Global Context, Human Rights, Migration & Borders, and Social Entrepreneurship & Innovation
• Periodic webinars and group calls to support community-building and critical reflection
• Digital storytelling to document your ongoing engagement; eventual creation of a digital portfolio to share with loved ones as well as future employers or admissions officers
• Ongoing dialogue and contemplation about your own location within global flows of power and resources — and the implications of this positionality and your current life trajectory

https://www.omprakash.org/

Study in the Heart of Rome

Imagine walking past the Pantheon on your way to class, stopping for a cappuccino, and walking up a marble stairwell to your classroom in a 15th century palazzo built on the foundations of a Roman temple to Venus.

Rome in Residence is UW’s campus abroad, hosted at the UW Rome Center, located in the ancient heart of Rome just off the Campo de’ Fiori. This new program allows you to complete general education requirements and choose from five 5-credit courses all about Rome, giving you an all-round and in-depth appreciation of the Eternal City.

Living and studying in the center of historic Rome will give you the opportunity to interact with the local community and discover some of the most important archeological, architectural, and artistic riches in Italy. You’ll learn from Italian instructors with fellow UW students, go on field trips, and build your Italian skills. And eat pizza. Really good pizza.

You will experience the inspiring food network of Lopez Island.

The program aims to empower students by connecting them to the people, places, and practices involved in growing food sustainably on Lopez. We will connect to the rich island life through our eating, living, learning, and working within this island-contained local food system.

The program focuses on reconnecting the roots of a food system to a specific locality, creating and navigating community, and supporting multifaceted well-being in a local food system. You will spend time learning from local farmers and food makers at the center of the food system and learn to trace the webs of relationship and food security as they interconnect. You will be supported to think creatively and critically about what it takes to be in reciprocity with these systems and how to seek out and work with local food systems wherever they are. There will be education and exploration of food and climate systems through air, land, and sea.

The program will include local land based foods learning, story telling, local farm tours and workshops, yoga classes, a Labyrinth walk, herbal medicine classes, community building, practical food harvesting, preparation and preservation skill sharing, education on climate health, and tangible actions for students implement that can support a healthy climate and a resilient food system. There will be a component of service work to give back to the community at the end of the program in the spirit of good reciprocity.

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