Honors Coursework
Lovework (Honors 394)
Honors Lovework: An Unfinished Syllabus was one of the most impactful and inspiring classes I’ve taken at UW. The course allowed me to engage with the material in a personal and reflective way. Through readings, conversations, creative projects, and assignments centered around relationships, music, community, and care, I began to understand love not simply as a feeling, but as an intentional practice rooted in compassion, responsibility, presence, and action.
The class challenged me to think more critically about how I move through the world and how I show up for others and myself. Whether reflecting on love through conversations with my roommates, connecting music and yoga to self-love, painting my home as a representation of community care, or examining public health through the lens of empathy and trust, I began to see how love exists in everyday practices, relationships, and spaces. It reinforced a major shift I’ve experienced throughout university: focusing less on “what I want to be” and more on who I want to be. This course reminded me that care, creativity, connection, and intentionality are values I want to ground both my personal life and future career in, and that love can shape not only relationships, but the way we create, communicate, and care for our communities.
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science as deeply connected to human behavior, ethics, fear, and uncertainty. One of my biggest takeaways was that science does not always provide certainty, but instead teaches humility and comfort with the unknown.
My final presentation explored whether empathy and morality can be pharmacologically modified through substances like SSRIs and psychedelics. Researching how drugs influence emotional processing and ethical decision-making allowed me to connect neuroscience, psychology, ethics, and public health in a meaningful way. This class helped me see science not just as technical knowledge, but as something fundamentally intertwined with human values and the way we understand ourselves and others.
Science of Human Values (Honors 221)
Science of Human Values reshaped the way I think about science and its relationship to society. I often viewed subjects like biology and chemistry as isolated from culture and everyday life, but the course challenged me to see
Safety Net Hospitals in the US: Past, Present, and Future (Honors 230)
My Honors class, Safety Net Hospitals in the US: Past, Present, and Future, deepened my understanding of the American healthcare system while also pushing me to think critically about health equity, accessibility, and the structural barriers faced by historically marginalized communities. Through topics ranging from immigration and discrimination to cultural competency and public health policy, I learned how healthcare outcomes are shaped not just by medicine itself, but by broader social, political, and economic systems. A few projects I’ll highlight on this website explore the importance of ethnic subgroup research in creating more equitable healthcare, as well as the intersections of migration, discrimination, generational trauma, and healthcare access within Sikh South Asian communities. These assignments challenged me to think beyond generalized narratives and recognize how culturally informed, community-specific approaches are essential for truly equitable care.
