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Everything we do in our seminar toward one of these goals, which we have developed based on our experience and passion helping students thrive in the Allen School and the entire field of computing. These are in no particular order.
Academic Success: Improve academic skills and adapt study habits, academic integrity, and broader academic engagement to college and the Allen School.
Career Preparation: Broaden knowledge of career paths for Allen School students and develop skills and resources toward pursuing them.
Personal Growth and Well-Being: Identify key self-care needs related to mental health, confidence, time management, communication, and happiness in college.
Inclusive Behavior and Responsibility: Learn best practices for working in diverse and inclusive teams as well as how technological innovation can be a tool for or against existing biases and marginalization.
Community Building: Feel socially connected to other Allen School students and an empowered member of the broader Allen School community.
Extracurricular Opportunities: Identify co-curricular and extracurricular activities of interest to complement academic pursuits.
Impact: Learn some of the many, even surprising, ways that computing, including research in the Allen School, can positively impact humans and society while being mindful that technology can also have negative impact.
Knowledge Building: Learn some of the jargon and pragmatics of “life in computer science and engineering” that can seem obscure or off-putting to newcomers.
To reach the entire staff, please create a private thread on the course discussion board. This is the preferred way to reach the course staff so that any of us can respond to your question and the rest of us can see the response. If you do need to reach out to just the instructor, feel free to email him.
Instructor: Dan Grossman, djg@cs.washington.edu, he/him, office hours by appointment
Head TAs: Kianna Bolante, Shreya Sathyanarayanan
Each student is in a "group" with two of these wonderful TAs:
Group 1 / ☕: Aagney Iyer and Grace Brigham
Group 2 / 🍩: Akashdeep Bhattacherjee and Jessica Massey
Group 3 / 😀: Akriti Shrivastava and Johnny Lee
Group 4 / 👓: Arshdeep Mann and Sarah Chen
Group 5 / 💜: Ashley Peris and Niyati Trivedi
Group 6 / 💡: Deepayan Sanyal and Heer Patel
Group 7 / 🔒: Elvin Fu and Jasmine Zhang
Group 8 / 🍄: Eric Han and Khushi Khandelwal
Group 9 / 🐧: Ethan Shen and Yanni Hou
Group 10 / 🍕: Jason Guo and Katherine Palevich
Group 11 / ⚽: Jonathan Shu and Juliette Park
Group 12 / ⭐: Siham Mohamed and Yufei Zhang
Group 13 / ⌚: Ethan Bai and Swetha Puvvada
This seminar is a real team effort, especially with substantial contributions from the spectacular Allen School Undergraduate Student Services Team. It builds on the experience from prior years, including the amazing work of TAs from prior offerings. It fundamentally relies on a wide range of presenters and activity-leaders.