Director's Welcome
Welcome to CUSP! The home for first-year and pre-major students at UW Bothell. We are here to assist you with all of your academic advising needs, workshops on student success , directing you to campus resources, and to give you a friendly space to land as you begin your college experience and move toward your major. We have a terrific academic advising staff, all of whom are here to help you on your way.
CUSP courses are created to provide you with the skills to be successful in the 21st century workforce and to make creative contributions to your local, regional, and global communities. The Discovery Core, a sequence of required courses designed specifically for first year students, will increase your capacity for active learning, for critical and creative inquiry, for encountering diversity of all sorts, and for quantitative and writing skills, interdisciplinary practices, and communication across different media platforms.
All of these are oriented toward addressing vital issues of the contemporary world outside your door and inside of your lives. We will learn, together, about the connections between biology and business, mathematics and literature, geography and anthropology, psychology and economics, computer science and the arts, and, in this process, come to know ourselves and each other in more articulate ways.
Our only goal is to provide you with a terrific learning experience and we need your feedback and ideas to accomplish that goal. Tell us what you need; tell us what you want. Come by and see us in UW1-080 and get connected with as many people as you can. Welcome to Bothell!
All best,
Gray Kochhar-Lindgren, Ph.D
Director: CUSP: Center for University Studies and Programs
Professor: Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences