U501 - Welcome to the Pacific Northwest

U501 is sponsored by the UW Graduate School and the Office of the Provost and the aim is to “flip” orientation so incoming graduate students bound for the UW Bothell, Seattle and Tacoma campuses can view online modules in Canvas containing text and videos with students, faculty and staff introducing key information before they arrive on campus.  The goal is to cover topics that apply to all graduate and professional students on the three UW campuses, allowing departments and programs to tailor information in their own approaches to orientation.   This is a sister project to U101 for undergraduate students which, now going into its third year, has proven to be very useful for incoming first year students on the Seattle campus.