Center for University Studies and Programs (CUSP)

First Year Discovery

DISCOVERY CORE SERIES

Discovery Core is a three-quarter sequence designed for freshmen that will begin fulfilling their UW General Education requirements, engage them in a process of ex-periencing the richness of integrated learning across a variety of academic disciplines, orient them to UW Bothell's culture, integrate and improve their academic skills, and develop a sense of belonging to peers and to the university.

CUSP Learning Goals

Inclusive Practices - Focuses on how best to deepen the richness of human experience- with its differences of race, gender, ability, religion, age, language, sexual orien-tation, and class.

Critical and Creative Inquiry - Joins reason and imagination to make, investigate, critique, and pursue meaning in the arts, humanities, and the social and natural sci-ences.

Ethics and Social Responsibility - Explores our connections with each other across cultures, languages, natural resources, and values.

Quantitative and Qualitative Literacies - Are complementary ways to understand problems, issues, and questions.

Communication - Is the process of written, oral, performative, and multimedia interaction that enables us to share ideas and practices.