Spring 2027

Belong, Explore, Become: Discovering Your UW Paths

A course on examining self, community, and liberal arts education through a major exploration framework, focusing on belonging, transitions, identity, and navigating UW resources.

offering recorded1 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Laura Stephenson

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.94 GPA, 96.0% A/AB (n=25 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.56 GPA, 83.1% A/AB (n=83 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=13 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Identify and summarize the core elements of belongingness.

  • Analyze and critique in a scholarly manner material related to college student transitions.

  • Identify and meaningfully engage in learning opportunities that explore interests.

  • Employ reflective practices to appraise own skills and monitor self-defined goals.

  • Design and create a project that demonstrates depth of knowledge and mastery of strategic exploration.

  • Examine and meaningfully engage with component parts of a liberal arts education.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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INTER-LS 139

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Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.94 GPA, 96.0% A/AB (n=25 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.99 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=34 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=13 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

LAURA STEPHENSON is recorded teaching in Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SEM 001Classroom Instruction0 / 200

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.94 GPA, 96.0% A/AB (n=25 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.56 GPA, 83.1% A/AB (n=83 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=13 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Belonging, transitions, identity, community, and connectedness
  • University schools, colleges, departments, majors, and resources
  • Strategic exploration and connecting coursework to lived experiences
  • Component parts of a liberal arts education

Skills

  • Critically engaging with concepts of belonging, transitions, identity, community, and connectedness
  • Exploring university opportunities and connecting coursework to lived experiences for strategic exploration
  • Employing reflective practices to appraise skills and monitor self-defined goals
  • Designing and creating projects demonstrating mastery of strategic exploration

Grades

Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

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Catalog & offerings

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INTER-LS 139 · Spring 2027

Belong, Explore, Become: Discovering Your UW Paths

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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Model & dataset provenance 
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