CHID

My attention was brought to this article by Phillip Thurtle, a professor at the University of Washington who teaches CHID classes. I took his course on the Cultural Impact of Technology, which was fantastic. I think it's nice that the Seattle Times recognizes that CHID is a great program and offers a lot to students and to the world they impact. I am still grateful for CHID and everything I learned (and am still learning!) from the professors, students, and staff. The most common thing I hear from other UW students - especially those who have participated in CHID study abroad programs - is that they wish they would have majored in CHID.

This Seattle Times article describes CHID as:
An intellectual's dream: Students ponder the interrelation of ideas and society, with the goal of sharpening critical-thinking skills and ability to see multiple points of view.


Link to the article:
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=collwebhotprograms&date=20071027&query=comparative+history+of+ideas

An excerpt from:
Notable in the Northwest
By Carol Tice
Special to The Seattle Times

College advisers often tell students to choose a school and not worry about picking a major right off, as most students will change their minds along the way — more than once! Students are encouraged to mull whether they would best thrive in small classes or large, a religion-based environment, or perhaps at a major research university.

But what if a graduating high-school senior already feels committed to a career path and wants to make sure a college has a strong program?

Or maybe a student wants to learn in a particular way — with foreign travel, or lots of hands-on lab work, or through community service. Then it's time to dig deeper and learn which colleges excel in your subject, and how different colleges present their programs.

We offer a list of notable undergraduate programs at four-year Northwest institutions, not as a "best of" roster but more as a sampler of unique, nationally acclaimed or otherwise outstanding regional offerings. In gathering suggestions from college experts, we tried to include a variety of fields and a range of college types, from small private to large public.

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University of Washington, Comparative History of Ideas. An intellectual's dream: Students ponder the interrelation of ideas and society, with the goal of sharpening critical-thinking skills and ability to see multiple points of view.

http://depts.washington.edu/chid/index.php

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