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- Courses for new freshmen
- Discovery Seminars
- Preparing for College Writing
- Courses for currently enrolled UW students
- Exploration Seminars
Early Fall Start offers students a wide variety of intensive courses and experiences.
Since courses will be kept small, you will get to know your professor and fellow students, and
enjoy more personalized instruction.
Courses for new freshmen
Discovery
Seminars
Discovery Seminars are intensive, five-credit, month-long classes designed to meet the needs of
incoming freshmen. Emphasizing interdisciplinary study, focused inquiry and writing, Discovery
Seminars give you the chance to jump-start your freshman experience the month before autumn
quarter begins. Discovery Seminar professors have worked together to establish shared,
stimulating goals and strategies for these special classes. The intense interaction provides both
a sense of belonging and responsibility as you confront the new rigors and opportunities of your
University experience. For more information and to register, click on the "Discovery
Seminars"
link above.
Read comments about Early Fall Start from
previous students.
Preparing for College Writing
GIS 140 Writing Ready: Getting a Start on Writing in College
What can freshmen new to the University of Washington but unsure about the quality of
their
writing skills learn that will enable them to perform more effectively in their college writing
courses? This course answers that question by offering students an introduction to a series of
reading and writing habits and strategies. That series includes:
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how to use writing to deal with difficulty in college-level readings,
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how to understand more fully the demands of different writing situations,
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how to develop writing-related critical thinking skills,
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how to assess your writing strengths, and how to build on those, and
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how to read one's own and one's peers' writing more productively.
The course will also help students learn to use writing resources like campus writing
centers, writing reference works
and grammar texts. Students enrolled in the course will also have access to a writing
center for additional support. This
course will count as an elective toward the 180 credits required for completion of a
bachelor's degree, but will not
satisfy either the University's English composition or W-course requirements.
To
register, click on the "Preparing for College Writing" link above.
Read about GIS 140, the
instructors,
and the experience of previous students.
Courses for currently enrolled UW students
Exploration Seminars
These month-long study-abroad seminars place learning into a global context. Designed as
5-credit, four-week
courses, these Exploration Seminars will offer you the chance to explore a topic intensively
within the focused inquiry of a learning community and separated from the familiarity of the
everyday. Issues and ideas become much more immediate in a totally new learning context and in
the give and take of on-going discussion. You will have the chance to gain flexibility of thought
by being offered the chance to think, work, and interact in unfamiliar settings while
experiencing the rich diversity of issues and approaches that our world has to offer. Now, more
than ever, it is time to learn about our world. For additional information, click on the
"Exploration Seminars" link above.
Participate in a unique learning experience
All of these engaging and innovative opportunities are offered during the four-week Early Fall
Start session, August 25-September 19. Regular autumn quarter classes begin September 24,
2008.
Early Fall Start opportunities offered as traditional courses will meet in the morning. Since
they are intensive, they will meet for two to two and one half hours each day. Experiences
offered as other than traditional courses will operate on their individual schedules.
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