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B E 210: Global History of the Built Environment I
Winter 2023
SLN: 10960
3:30 - 4:50 pm; Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays
MLR 301, In-person
5 credits; A&H / SSc
No prerequisites
Instructor: Babita Joy; bjoy@uw.edu
This course critically examines built environments from the First Societies through 1000 CE from a global perspective. It encourages thinking about history in a transnational and transgeographical manner that challenges the canonical approach that has generally privileged Western material and master narratives. The course is broadly structured around the concept of “time cuts” that allow for comparisons across regions and cultural formations. It will address a diverse set of sites and structures in an effort to offer a robust presentation of material from both Western and non-Western contexts. Architecture, landscapes, and urban plans constitute the built environments under consideration. -----------
B E 220: Cities, Health and Well-Being
Winter 2023
SLN: 10961
3:30 - 4:50 pm; Tuesdays and Thursdaya
OTB 014, In-person
3 credits; SSc
No prerequisites
Instructor: Shannon K. Tyman, skt8@uw.edu This course analyzes the ways urban built enivonrments bear on physical and mental health and well-being (material-economic resources, security, social relations, open choices). It focuses on how the practices and knowledge of built environment professions and disciplines interact with public health, engineering, and the sciences to understand and change cities. This is an excellent course for students considering a carrer in the built environment, including archtecture, construction management, landscape archictecture, urban planning, real estate, and urban design. Students in public health, engineering, social science, and the arts would also benefic from an understanding of the impacts and interactions of their fields with the urban environment.