About

The First Year & Pre-Major Program (FYPP) is home to our first and second year (or pre-major) students at UW Bothell. We host student success workshops, direct you to academic and student campus resources, and strive to give you a friendly space to land as you begin your college experience and move toward your future major. We are eager to help you find your way!

Our mission

The FYPP mission is to support the successful transition to college of first year and pre-major students and to provide the foundation on which they will continue scholarly and professional development.

The Discovery Core Experience

These FYPP courses are designed to equip you with the skills needed to succeed in the 21st-century workforce and to contribute meaningfully to your local, regional, and global communities. The Discovery Core (DCX)—a required sequence of courses for first-year students—will strengthen your capacity for active learning, critical and creative inquiry, engagement with diverse perspectives, quantitative reasoning, writing, interdisciplinary thinking, and communication across multiple media platforms.

Addressing vital issues

All FYPP courses focus on vital issues shaping the contemporary world and your everyday life. Together, we will explore connections between fields such as biology and business, mathematics and literature, geography and anthropology, psychology and economics, and computer science and the arts. Through this process, we will not only deepen our understanding of these subjects but also discover more about ourselves and one another.