Meeting materials has all the materials we have available to share
The course Canvas site is where we have participation and homeworks recorded
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
Primary Advising Collaborator: Cassie Tyrrell-Davis, ugrad-adviser@cs.washington.edu, she/her
Head TAs: Chloe Recupero and Adi Gollamudi
Each student is in a "group" with two of these wonderful TAs:
Group 1: Aiden Dharmawan and Raquel Pedraza-Blanco
Group 2: James Larson and Samyuktha Krishnan
Group 3 : Dhruv Avadhanam and Karen Zhang
Group 4: Salamatu Samu and Xander Terry
Group 5: Abdul-Raqib Islam and Dhanasri Prabhu
Group 6: Flora Yasmin and Harry Cheng
Group 7: Aditi Dewangan and Akash Thorali Nagarajan
Group 8: Luke Prasarttongosoth and Shiloh Dhasan
Group 9: Emily Phan and Leo Carlin
Group 10: Taneesha Sharmin and Yutao Cai
Group 11: Caleb West and Elsa Gui
Group 12: Cory Vo and Samantha Autrey
Group 13: Hanbyul Kang and Jenny Hoang
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.