{"id":1273,"date":"2012-10-23T11:00:55","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T11:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/?p=1273"},"modified":"2026-01-14T18:53:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T18:53:46","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/premajor\/about-us","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The First Year &amp; 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. 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The Discovery Core (DCX)\u2014a required sequence of courses for first-year students\u2014will 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.<\/p>\n\n\n    \n            <a class=\"bothell-link-block link-block-1 bothell-link-block--margin-top \"\n           style=\"color:var(--wp--custom--color--purple-300)\"\n           href=\"\/premajor\/first-year\/discovery-core\"\n                    >\n                            <span class=\"show-for-sr\">learn more about dcx courses<\/span>\n                <span class=\"bothell-link-block__label\" aria-hidden=\"true\">learn more about dcx courses<\/span>\n                                        <span class=\"bothell-link-block__label-icon bothell-link-block__label-icon--alt\">\n                                        <span class=\"bothell-link-block-dark-purple\">\n                        <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" aria-hidden=\"true\" viewBox=\"0 0 28.28 42.26\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\">\n  <path d=\"m5.4 42.26 22.87-21.27L5.18 0 0 5.71 16.97 21 .27 36.5l5.14 5.76Z\" fill=\"currentColor\"\/>\n<\/svg>                    <\/span>\n                <\/span>\n                    <\/a>\n    \n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-purple-300-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0a20a00f3caf7b156818e6007c171248\">Addressing vital issues<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact us<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>For general inquiries, please email us at <a href=\"mailto:uwbosas@uw.edu\">uwbosas@uw.edu<\/a>. 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