AUTUMN 2021

• CEP 301 Idea of Community: Theories of community and communal rights and responsibilities. Experience building a learning community within a major. Explores struggles for community in every sector of life

• I believe this class’s intent was for exploration of the different types of communities that can and do exist. I believe it was also designed to allow the students to build and experience community within the classroom.

• CEP 400 Governance: Emphasizes personal and collective leadership, democratic decision making, and learning through direct action and reflection. Explores and develops students' personal skills as doers and leaders, while also learning how to form and function as effective groups.

• I chose to join the Outreach and Admissions committee because as an older transfer student who merely stumbled upon CEP, I wanted to contribute to the major by helping make it more accessible to students of all backgrounds.

• CEP 300 Retreat: Focuses on planning analysis assessment and development of the major. Opportunities for community building and all-major policy deliberation and decisions. Workshops for skill building in consensus, facilitation, and for major-specific activities such as developing individual study plans and study abroad experiences.

• The retreat was a great opportunity to meet my whole cohort and get to know everyone better. It was a great introduction to how CEP is a student run major and how it truly is our major in that sense.

• CEP 498 Planning Practicum: Systematic study of specialized subject matter.

• I got the opportunity in this class to contribute to a feasibility study for the development of a housing shelter in the U-District in conjunction with the Elizabeth Gregory Home. It allowed me to learn more about the severe homelessness crisis in Seattle and all the systemic problems with how Seattle does not help those experiencing homelessness.

• URBDP 498 Special Topics: Carbon Neutral Cities: Systematic study of specialized subject matter. 

• Every class of the quarter we explored cities from all over the world and their Climate Action Plans. I learned about the importance of climate justice and the importance of adaptation not simply mitigation when addressing climate change in tandem with climate justice. Additionally, I spent the whole quarter conducting a research paper into the comparison of San Francisco and Seattle’s’ Transportation Climate Action Plans.

WINTER 2022

• CEP 302 Environmental Response: Explores issues of environmental crisis and societal responses. Readings and reflective analysis from a broad selection of authoritative sources to develop grounded perspective in ecological literacy and consciousness. Concurrently, experiential education in challenges and practical responses to building sustainable society through participation in community-based environmental effort.

• CEP 400 Governance: Emphasizes personal and collective leadership, democratic decision making, and learning through direct action and reflection. Explores and develops students' personal skills as doers and leaders, while also learning how to form and function as effective groups.

• I chose to join the Outreach and Admissions committee because as an older transfer student who merely stumbled upon CEP I wanted to contribute to the major by helping make it more accessible to students of all backgrounds.

• GEOG 342 Geography of Inequality: Geographies of social, political, and economic inequality. Focus is usually on North American cities. Examines the theoretical underpinning of inequality. Explores topics such as the spatial distribution of wealth and poverty, the geographies of exclusion, and discrimination in paid employment and housing.

• My intent with class is to further explore inequality in the United States. I hope to use this class to cover my diversity credit while also contributing to my minor in Urban Planning and Design.

• L ARCH 361 The Human Experience of Place: Interdisciplinary approaches to exploring the reciprocal relationship between people and the landscapes of everyday life. Through readings, discussion, in-class activities and mini-projects, students study place attachment, relationships to nature, environmental attitudes and perception, personal space, territoriality, urban public space, diversity, participation, and the politics of space. Open to nonmajors.

• I hope to explore place making and the design within the public realm with this class. This credit will count towards my minor in Urban Planning and Design.

SPRING 2022

• CEP 303 Social Structures and Processes: Investigates use of formal and informal social structures and processes within context of community and environment. Look at patterns and institutions of social organization and relationships among different sectors. Issues of interrelatedness, citizenship, knowledge, and communication. Instructors: 

• CEP 400 Governance: Emphasizes personal and collective leadership, democratic decision making, and learning through direct action and reflection. Explores and develops students' personal skills as doers and leaders, while also learning how to form and function as effective groups.

• I chose to join the Outreach and Admissions committee because as an older transfer student who merely stumbled upon CEP, I wanted to contribute to the major by helping make it more accessible to students of all backgrounds.

• CEP 300 Retreat: Focuses on planning analysis assessment and development of the major. Opportunities for community building and all-major policy deliberation and decisions. Workshops for skill building in consensus, facilitation, and for major-specific activities such as developing individual study plans and study abroad experiences.

• The retreat was a great opportunity to meet my whole cohort and get to know everyone better. It was a great introduction to how CEP is a student run major and how it truly is our major in that sense.

• CEP 473 Digital Design Practicum: Uses digital technologies for mapping, drafting, modeling, and communication. Includes real-world case study projects that focus on urban design and planning issues.

• This class will cover my digital skills credit. My intent with this class was to further develop my GIS skills. I did not learn GIS.

• URBDP 498 Community Inclusion & Equity in the Changing Public Realm: Utilizing a framework of social justice, inclusion and equity, this course examines the underpinnings of urban place making/place-keeping in local communities. The course will bring together small interdisciplinary teams of students from the fields of social work and design + planning to conduct place-based research and create digital documentation of their findings

• This class taught me a lot about community, identity and place and the importance of it in urban planning. It showed me how to think more holistically and approach equity and inclusion through an anti-racist and anti-white supremacist lens.

SUMMER 2022

• Study Abroad: London and Amsterdam:  Integrate planning theory with best practices of sustainable urban mobility, within both urban and rural contexts in England and the Netherlands. England and the Netherlands provide unique opportunities to explore current and historic development of the built environment while simultaneously reflecting best practices of environmental stewardship.

• I learned from this experience that I love the Netherlands and I am not passionate about transportation planning. I have an appreciation for it, but this study abroad confirmed my lack of interest.

AUTUMN 2022

• CEP 460 Planning in Context: Examines theory against backdrop of practice for broad historical understanding of social, political, environmental planning. Critique from viewpoints, e.g., planning history, ethics, ecofeminism, environmental justice, class and capitalism, planning and global economy. Develop personalized history reflecting individual experience, professional experience, and philosophical heritage of the planning profession.

• I worked on the South Park community outreach project for Environmental Works. We focused on an affordable housing development project for South Park. We researched affordable housing in Seattle, we helped develop a survey and distributed the survey to South Park Residents. This was the most formative class I have taken in CEP.

• CEP 400 Governance: Emphasizes personal and collective leadership, democratic decision making, and learning through direct action and reflection. Explores and develops students' personal skills as doers and leaders, while also learning how to form and function as effective groups.

• I chose to join the Outreach and Admissions committee because as an older transfer student who merely stumbled upon CEP, I wanted to contribute to the major by helping make it more accessible to students of all backgrounds.

• CEP 300 Retreat: Focuses on planning analysis assessment and development of the major. Opportunities for community building and all-major policy deliberation and decisions. Workshops for skill building in consensus, facilitation, and for major-specific activities such as developing individual study plans and study abroad experiences.

• The retreat was a great opportunity to meet my whole cohort and get to know everyone better. It was a great introduction to how CEP is a student run major and how it truly is our major in that sense.

• CEP 490 Senior Project: Supports the conceptualization and planning of senior project/capstone work. Focuses on selecting a project, beginning a literature review, finding a mentor, and developing a plan.

• Senior project will be on researching better public restroom design for accessibility and inclusivity to help create a specific set of guidelines and policies for the College of Built Environments to implement.

• URBDP 423 Intro to Urban Design: Definitions and examples of urban design; heritage of urban design; theories of city building; the role of urban design in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning.

• This class gave me a better understanding of urban design. It also gave me clarity that I prefer urban policy over urban design and intend to continue to pursue policy with my education and career goals.

WINTER 2023

• CEP 461 Ethics and Identity: Examination of personal, societal, vocational, environmental, planning ethics. Readings and discourse on ethical foundations for public life. Individual and group readings on values, human potential. Develops understanding of ecological context, moral responsibility, self-awareness. Constructs a positive, diverse view of humanity, environment regardless of race, gender, ethnicity, beliefs. 

• This was a difficult class for me as ethics and philosophy are harder concepts to grasp. The structure of the class did allow me to develop a better understanding of ethics in the built environments.

• CEP 400 Governance: Emphasizes personal and collective leadership, democratic decision making, and learning through direct action and reflection. Explores and develops students' personal skills as doers and leaders, while also learning how to form and function as effective groups.

• I chose to join the Outreach and Admissions committee because as an older transfer student who merely stumbled upon CEP, I wanted to contribute to the major by helping make it more accessible to students of all backgrounds.

• CEP 491 Senior Project: Supports the conceptualization and planning of senior project/capstone work. Focuses on selecting a project, beginning a literature review, finding a mentor, and developing a plan.

• My senior project idea became finalized this quarter. I researched public restrooms and the context of Gould Hall restrooms. I decided to learn how the Gould Hall restrooms lack accessibility and equity through research, survey and stakeholder interviews.

• ANTH 376 Anthropology of Disability: Introduces anthropological perspectives on disability. Considers disability as produced through the interaction of bodily impairments with social structures, political economies, cultural norms and values, individual and group identities, institutional orders, medical practices, assistive technologies, and other factors. Considers ethnographic studies of disability in international as well as U.S. settings.

• This class will be very useful for my senior project. The baseline of my project is about the inaccessibility of restrooms in Gould and will be great to have this knowledge of the physical inaccessibility of the built environments from an anthropological perspective

SPRING 2023

• CEP 462 Community and Environment: Capstone quarter merges core seminars, disciplinary courses in major, community field experiences for mastery of personal knowledge and skills. Reflection and synthesis of themes in major; engagement with contemporary issues. Compares theoretical definitions of community and environment with individual philosophies and knowledge within thoughtful, applied context.

• This class provided necessary extra time to work on my senior project.

• CEP 400 Governance: Emphasizes personal and collective leadership, democratic decision making, and learning through direct action and reflection. Explores and develops students' personal skills as doers and leaders, while also learning how to form and function as effective groups.

• I chose to join the Outreach and Admissions committee because as an older transfer student who merely stumbled upon CEP, I wanted to contribute to the major by helping make it more accessible to students of all backgrounds.

• CEP 491 Senior Project: Supports the conceptualization and planning of senior project/capstone work. Focuses on selecting a project, beginning a literature review, finding a mentor, and developing a plan.

• My senior project idea became finalized this quarter. I researched public restrooms and the context of Gould Hall restrooms. I decided to learn how the Gould Hall restrooms lack accessibility and equity through research, survey and stakeholder interviews.

• CEP 300 Retreat: Focuses on planning analysis assessment and development of the major. Opportunities for community building and all-major policy deliberation and decisions. Workshops for skill building in consensus, facilitation, and for major-specific activities such as developing individual study plans and study abroad experiences. 

• The retreat was a great opportunity to meet my whole cohort and get to know everyone better. It was a great introduction to how CEP is a student run major and how it truly is our major in that sense.

• CEP 446 Internship: Connects core and individual courses with field work. Group and individual readings develop understanding of how students' internships and field placements constitute elements of community and environmental planning. Explores how what we do for a living is part of our lives as citizens and public service. 

• URBDP 300 Introduction to Urban Planning: Principles and theories of urban structure and institutions. Concepts and logic of planning as a community process and a professional activity. Evolution of planning ideas in response to changing social, economic, and environmental conditions within the American political framework. 

• This class will count towards my urban planning and design minor. My intent with this class is to give a solid introduction and foundation to the world of urban planning in the American context.