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Academic advising at the UW

Our general advisers help students plan and shape their undergraduate experience at the UW. In addition to assistance with tasks such as choosing a major and planning course schedules, advisers engage in a broader dialogue with individual students to better clarify their academic and personal goals.

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Your UW degree

Every undergraduate degree will look different. Generally, degrees are earned upon the successful completion of at least 180 college quarter credits distributed between General Education requirements, a major, electives and optional minors.

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Plan your degree

Your adviser can help you with tasks such as choosing a major, planning course schedules, and help you to better clarify your academic and personal goals.

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Academic support at the UW

Our advisers can help you identify barriers to your academic success and connect you with resources to overcome challenges you may face as a student.

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Student Voices

“My adviser helped me solve a lot of questions about choosing courses and how to plan out my academic career. I have been meeting with my adviser consistently just to make sure I am on the right track at the UW, and also I got so much good advice about how to thrive in college.”

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(206) 543-2550  •  141 Mary Gates Hall  •  advice@uw.edu

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General education

Learn what components make up your undergraduate degree.

General Education

Majors

Your major consists of at least 50 credits and makes up about one-third of your bachelor’s degree program.

Majors and Minors

Co-curricular engagement

Learn how co-curricular activities can enhance your academic experience

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Alumni Spotlight

Hillary Homan
  2006, Comparative History of Ideas (BA), Communication (BA)  Peace Corp / Job Search due to COVID-19

I thought I would be a dentist, so I was taking lots of science classes. Later, after I realized I didn't want to continue studying science, I was taking a course about the history of science and religion that was co-listed with History, Anthropology, and Comparative History of Ideas (CHID). I met some CHID students in that course and it sounded like a perfect fit for me. I met with the CHID advisor and decided to do a double degree with CHID and Communication!

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