Students reveal unique perspectives regarding politics, culture, community and science
Drawing from their research and fieldwork conducted around the world, 20 seniors in the University of Washington Tacoma’s Global Honors program will present what they’ve learned at the culmination of their academic career, the annual Global Honors Colloquium, May 18.
The Global Honors Program is the University of Washington Tacoma's interdisciplinary upper-division honors program.
Each student is allowed 10 minutes to present his or her project in the day-long colloquium, held in Carwein Auditorium on the UW Tacoma campus, from 9:45 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Students, who major in a variety of academic programs, use video, music, photographs, charts and various media to present their research. The public is welcome to attend all or any of the presentations.
The students’ subjects range from torture to tourism, from theory to observation, and from one end of the world to the other. The projects are invariably interesting and thought provoking.
This year’s topics include:
- Liberia, Sierra Leone and Uganda: A Study of Peace and Justice
- How NGOs and Companies Help Close the Institutional Void Surrounding Child Labour in India
- Muslim Women in the West: Transcending Polarizing Discourse
- North and South Sudan: Conflict Resolution
- Pol Pot’s Genocide: An Attachment Theory Perspective
- Aquaculture and the Environment: Impact Perspectives and Suggestions for Remediation
- Terrestrial and Transcendent Tragedies in Othello
- The Impact of Tourism on the Environment
- Examining Online Child’s Play: A Study of Children’s Virtual Game Space
- Free Trade, Poverty and Human Trafficking
- Israel in Tacoma
- The Torture Debate: What the Intellectuals and the Scholars Are Saying
- Schizophrenia in India: Insight into Course, Outcome and Community Intervention
- Hungarian Nationalism, Roma Transnationalism and European Integration
- The Feminization of Labor
- Community Culture, Groundwater Governance and Sustainability
- Localization Lessons for Small Developers
- International Perspectives on Mental Health
- Pen Pals: A Study of Global Interactors
- Pathways to Global Remediation: A Study of Group Identity and Global Consciousness
Media contact: Beth Luce, Communication Services, 253-692-4881
