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    40 years ago, we founded an undergraduate program centered on student leadership, radical pedagogies, and public service. Today, these core values remain our north star.

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    Through engagement with local scholars, artists, political leaders, activists, and community members, our study abroad programs prepare students to engage with an increasingly globalized world.

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Featured Course

CHID 480 B: Beyond the Anthropocene: Permaculture and Poetry
Autumn 2018

Examines a different subject or problem from a comparative framework with an interdisciplinary perspective. Satisfies the Gateways major/minor requirement. Offered: AWSp. Learn more
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Study Abroad

History, Memory, and Human Rights in Central Europe

The CHID Prague Program, which is one of the oldest study abroad programs at UW (since 1996), offers UW students a unique and specific study abroad opportunity not available elsewhere at UW.
Quarter Offered: Spring 2019
Application Deadline: November 15, 2018

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News & Events

Alyssa Taylor reaching to grab a library book from a packed shelf
CHID Graduate Alyssa Taylor ('18) featured by @UWArtSci!
June 14, 2018
CHID study abroad program students and program directors in front of a store in Peru
CHID Peru 2017: The Politics of Blackness and Indigeneity in Peru
May 3, 2018
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