Courses

Coordinated Courses 

Once Upon a Time Again: Fairy Tale Retellings

Ever wonder what would happen if Cinderella didn’t fall for the prince? What if Wonderland were a paranormal alternate dimension and Alice were a Black vampire slayer? What about a Latinx retelling of Swan Lake (with a dash of Snow White and
Rose Red too) by a nonbinary Latinx author? What tales would YOU retell and why? Come down the rabbit hole with us!

Classes: After the quarter begins, you’ll select TWO of the following Courses:

• ENGL& 102 Composition II (Composition)
• ENGL 232 Young Adult Literature (VLPA)
• ENGL 151/152/153, Creative Writing (VLPA, Communication)
• HUM 105 Intercultural Communication (VLPA or ICS, Communication, US Cultures)
   

Prerequisites: Placement into ENGL& 101 
Credits: 10
Class Time: T/TH 10:00am - 11:50am - Hybrid
Instructors:  Diana Ma, Cathryn Cabral
Register For: INTS 100 CH1-LEC

From Hollywood to Hurricanes: Climate, Media, and Cultural Impact

From disaster movies to climate journalism, the media plays a powerful role in shaping our understanding of the environment. This interdisciplinary course cluster examines how film and news media construct narratives about climate change, extreme weather, and environmental justice. Students will explore Hollywood’s history of disaster films, analyze media framing of real-world environmental crises, and uncover how race, class, and power influence the way we experience and respond to climate change. Get ready for film screenings, deep discussions, and critical media analysis that may leave you with more questions than answers.

Classes: After the quarter begins, you’ll select TWO of the following Courses:

• ENVS 120 Weather and Climate (NW)
• HUM 110 Introduction to U.S. Film (VLPA)
• HUM 200 Media, Power, and Social Change (VLPA, US Cultures, Communication)

Prerequisites: Placement into ENGL& 101 
Credits: 10
Class Time: M/W 10:00am - 1:30pm - Hybrid
Instructors:  Cristóbal A. Borges, Caroline Pew
Register For: INTS 100 CH2-LEC

Spring 2026 LINKS

Technology and Socialization

This soft linked pairing of ENG&102 and SSC101 will have a theme centered on technology and socialization, with a specific focus on the way technology is changing the human social, intellectual, and material landscape. Writing for the class will be centered on analysis and research. Students will also develop critical thinking as applied to the research process by examining strategies for locating, evaluating, and using information.

Classes: After the quarter begins, you’ll select TWO of the following Courses:

• ENGL& 102 Composition II (Composition)
• SSC 101 Intro to Research Skills (ICS)

Prerequisites: Placement into ENGL& 101 
Credits: 8
Class Time: Online
Instructors:  Justina Rompogren, Ana Villar
Register For: INTS 101

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Course TBA (8 Cr) Fully Online 
Faculty: Dani Blackman, English, danielle.blackman@seattlecolleges.edu
Ana Villar, Library, ana.villar@seattlecolleges.edu

Classes: After the quarter begins, you will be enrolled in the following two courses: 

• ENGL&102 Composition II (5 cr) Blackman, online 
• SSC 101 (3 cr) Villar, online

Prerequisites: ENGL& 101 is required for ENGL&102.
Fulfills the following AA degree requirements: English 102,  Integrated Studies

 Coordinated Courses 

Learning Outside the Lines: Envisioning Education Through Anti-Oppression

How are equity and education connected? What can we learn about ourselves, culture, and society from diverse stories? How can learning anti-oppressive skills help us become fully human? And what would it be like if we could bring our whole selves to our learning? This course brings together the disciplines of Intercultural Communication, Composition, Literature in Society, and Social Psychology to examine ways in which traditional education has been built for a select few. We will explore how our intersectional identities shape our experiences and understanding of each other and reimagine how a transformative education can support us all.

Classes:  After the quarter begins, you’ll select TWO of the following 5 credit courses:

• ENGL& 101 Composition I (Composition)
• PSYC/SOC 245 Social Psychology (ICS, US Cultures)
• ENGL 265 Literature and Society (VLPA)
• HUM 105 Intercultural Communication (VLPA or ICS, Communications, US Cultures)

Prerequisites: Placement into ENGL& 101
Credits: 10
Class Time: T/TH 10:00am - 12:50pm - Hybrid
Instructors:  Diana Ma, Melissa Grinley

Storytelling as Resistance in Pop Culture

This interdisciplinary course explores how various communities use storytelling across media–including literature, film, music, and performance–as a means of survival, resistance, and cultural transformation. Drawing on media studies, ethnic studies, and English composition and literature, students will examine narrative as both an artistic practice and a form of cultural and political resistance. This course centers voices historically excluded from dominant narratives and considers how storytelling resists oppression, creates collective memory and a sense of belonging, and reimagines possibilities for liberation and social change.

Classes: After the quarter begins, you’ll select TWO of the following 5 credit courses:

• ENGL& 102 Composition II (Composition)
• ENGL 258 Literature of American Culture (VLPA, US Cultures)
• HUM 200 Media, Power, and Social Change (VLPA, Communications, US Cultures)
• AME 151 Identities, Solidarity, and Power (ICS, US Cultures)

Students also have the option to sign up for an additional two-credit course:  HUM 299

Prerequisites: Completion of ENGL& 101 with a 1.0 or higher.
Credits: 10-12
Class Time: M/W 10:00am - 12:50pm - Hybrid
Instructors: Terri Chung, Miranda Riley

Fall 2026 Links

Technology, Society, and Culture

Explore the political, cultural, psychological, and social dimensions of human engagement with technology through research projects of your own design.

Classes: After the quarter begins, you’ll be enrolled in the following two courses: 

• ENGL& 102 Composition II (Composition) (5 credits)
• SSC 101 Intro to Research Skills (ICS) (3 credits)

Prerequisites: Completion of ENGL& 101 with a 1.0 or higher.
Credits: 8
Class Time: ENGL& 102: Online | SSC 101 Online
Instructors:  Shireen Deboo, Brian Gutierrez

Coordinated Courses

Getting Graphic About Equity and Identity

In this 10-credit coordinated course, we will be “getting graphic” with issues of equity and identity as we examine some of the origin stories of our institutions, systems of power, discourses and languages, cultures and communities.  At the same time, we will reflect on our own origin stories and how they have been impacted by our experiences with and within larger social institutions.  We will also consider how our cultures of origin and/or mainstream culture inform the stories we tell ourselves about both ourselves and others. As part of this pursuit, we will read and analyze zines and graphic novels and explore what these mediums reveal about inequities in our society, the forms they take, and some ways to survive and resist them.

Classes: After the quarter begins, you’ll select TWO of the following 5 credit courses:

• English 102 Composition II (Composition)
• HUM 105 Intercultural Communication (VLPA or ICS, Communications, US Cultures)
• ENGL 116 The Graphic Novel (VLPA)

Optional 2 credit add-on: HUM 299 Independent Study

Prerequisites: ENGL& 101
Credits: 10-12
Class Time: T/TH 10:00am - 12:50pm - Hybrid
Instructors:  Terri Chung, Cathryn Cabral

Question Authority: Challenging Dominant Narratives in Science

Who do you trust and how do you decide what science information is credible? Today, what we learn is shaped by media, politics, economic interests, and technology, including artificial intelligence. AI is changing both how information reaches us and how environmental systems are impacted, from energy use to data infrastructure. In this course, we will explore how environmental information is created, shared, and sometimes distorted, and who gets treated as a credible expert and why. We will also examine whose knowledge, especially Indigenous and traditional ecological knowledge, has often been overlooked in global conversations. This coordinated studies course fulfills the Integrated Studies requirement of the AA Degree and includes SSC 101-Intro to Research Skills and your choice of one of the following TWO classes: ENVS&101-Intro to Environmental Science w/ Lab (NW, Global Studies) OR SCI 101 - Introduction to Science with Lab (NW). 

Classes: After the quarter begins, you’ll select ONE of the following 5-credit courses:

• ENVS&101 Intro to Environmental Science (Natural World with Lab or ICS, Global Studies)
• SCI 101: Intro to Science (Natural World with Lab)

AND also be signed up for the following 3-credit course:

• SSC101: Intro to Research Skills (ICS)

Prerequisites: ENGL&101, not open for credit to those who have already taken ENVS 150 or ENVS&100. 
Credits: 8
Class Time: Mondays and Wednesdays 1:00-2:50 pm, virtual class.
Instructors:  Caroline Pew, Ana Villar

Linked Course

TBA 

Coordinated Courses

You Are What You Consume: Health and Wellness in Contemporary American Media 

American media is saturated with narratives about health and wellness. News outlets have proclaimed American health epidemics, leading the current US Health and Human Services Secretary to proclaim he’s going to “Make America Healthy Again.” We’re also constantly instructed by media how to fix all these problems: social media influencers crowd our screens with tips and tricks while pop culture bombards us with assumptions about the ideal human body. But what does it really mean to be healthy or well? How does our media consumption affect how we understand health, wellness, beauty, sexuality, and identity? Does media leverage ideas about age, race/ethnicity, social class, gender, and ability in presenting to us what constitutes health and happiness? In this course, you will bring a more careful, trained eye to your media consumption, investigating how media consumption affects behavior, and how we can begin to reshape our habits and broader media discourse through direct engagement.

Classes: After the quarter begins, you’ll select TWO of the following 5-credit courses:

• ENGL&102 Composition II (Composition)
• HUM 200 Media, Power, and Social Change (VLPA, Communications, US Cultures)
• HEA150 Health and Human Sexuality (Natural World (non-lab))
• HEA160 Human Wellness and Fitness (Natural World (non-lab))

Prerequisites: completion of ENGL&101 with a grade of 1.0 or higher
Credits: 10
Class Time: T/TH 10:00am - 12:50pm - Hybrid
Instructors:  Trish Root, Erik Jaccard

Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms: Science and American History

Hiss, boom, sip, ahhh. Fermentation, combustion, and human consumption. See the processes -- historical, chemical, and technological -- that shaped the country that we live in today. Study some important historical examples of some key scientific principles. Learn history and science by using them both safely in hands-on ways.

Classes: After the quarter begins, you’ll be enrolled in the following two 5-credit courses:

• SCI 104: Intro to Physical Science (Natural World with Lab)
• HIST 150: Race and Culture: An American History (ICS, US Cultures)
• CHEM& 110 -- Chemical Concepts; 5 cr; NW with lab

Prerequisites: none
Credits: 10
Class Time: MW 9:00am - 12:00pm - Hybrid
Instructors:  Scott Rausch, Tracy Furutani

Spring 2027 Links 

This class will be a soft link combining SSC 101 Online (Zola Mumford) & WMN 250 Online (Deepa Bhandaru).
More information including class title and description coming in Spring 2026!