Award winning orientation
program, Prelude, Passages, and Perspectives. Puget Sound’s
new student orientation Prelude, Passages, and Perspectives is
an ongoing innovation in transition-to-college programs. Begun
in 1985 as a combination faculty-led workshop (Prelude) and outdoor
experience (Passages), the program now encompasses an even richer
array of academic, community-building, and resource familiarity
components that bridge the traditional orientation week and the
first six weeks of the fall semester, including a new component
for Fall 2002 called KLA How Ya (a Salish expression of “hello,”
“welcome” and “I trust all is well with you”).
Prelude is an introduction to the academic conversation of the
campus. Faculty-lead a daylong workshop session focused on critical
thinking, reading, writing, and discussion. Passages is the outdoors
component of new student orientation. Half of the 650-member freshman
class at a time goes to Camp Parsons on Hood Canal for a 2½
-3 day experience of personal challenge, community building, and
orientation to the Pacific Northwest-as-place. Perspectives is
the umbrella title for a collection of innovative and traditional
socializing and community-based events.
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