[Ssnet_list] a course that might be of interest

[Leah M Ceccarelli via Ssnet_list]

See below for a summer course that might be of interest to students who study STS.

The course is ENGL 488 and GH 490/590, 10 credits total, taught by Josephine Walwema and Amy Hagopian.
Program Description

Uganda's capital city, Kampala recently suffered a catastrophic disaster when the build-up of garbage collapsed, burying hundreds of homes constructed on the edge of the site and killing scores of individuals, many of whom were still in their sleep. This landfill, which was established with funding from the World Bank in 1996, was envisaged to last 2010.

Given that this disaster occurred in 2024, the site’s sustainability had clearly exceeded its limits. Moreover, allocating large tracts of land to garbage disposal not only encroaches on otherwise fertile farmland in Uganda, but it also poses risk to water and air quality. The site's location offers students in this program the opportunity to study first hand the human and environmental effects of poor waste management.

Students get the opportunity to grapple with fallout from garbage that cannot be recycled nor reused as a public health issue. Given the rapid growth of waste quantities worldwide, proper and sustainable management of garbage disposal in cities and municipalities is critical for the future of humanity. This study might help students think critically about the place of garbage in urban planning and public health and to offer strategies for mitigating adverse health and socioeconomic impacts essential for ecological conservation. Students will be accommodated within the outskirts of the city. They will live and interact with the host community in a homelike environment, which means that during the course of their stay, they too will generate waste. They will be prompted to think critically about this wicked problem and to perhaps draw lessons for the United States, which itself has not found a sustainable solution to waste management.
Interested UW students are eligible to compete for a scholarship for the study abroad experience. The UW Study Abroad Scholarship does not require an additional application: https://www.washington.edu/studyabroad/students/resources/finances/scholarships/

Additional scholarships are listed on that page and we also have a lot of information about using financial aid for study abroad programs on our website:https://www.washington.edu/studyabroad/students/resources/finances/financial-aid/

There is no commitment in submitting an application, so you might as well submit it by Friday. We will continue to accept applications after that, but the scholarship opportunity vanishes.
Go to application<http://studyabroad.washington.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Students.AngularApplication&applicationId=163649>
Don’t worry about getting a recommendation by Friday, not necessary. Just list who you will ask.

There will be one more information session scheduled February 12 in Rosling room 112 at noon, or on zoom:https://washington.zoom.us/j/3285799782<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/washington.zoom.us/j/3285799782__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!nyY4YGwDhYH7IJcASYwRqNUEB4kUBbi2_SAL2JWY55LovhKeRL8NmDdmYQP5bToZ8D_F3fUUYJPB$>

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