CWI 101 — Connecting With Ideas (3 Credits, Fall/Spring/Summer)
This course is designed to help students become engaged members of the academic community at College of Western Idaho and cultivate the habits of mind for lifelong achievement and success. It encourages students to claim their education through learning how to learn. By linking critical and creative thinking with writing and discussion, students will explore thematic content in an effort to develop their own perspectives on learning and success. The course addresses academic expectations and strategies, college resources and services, as well as personal responsibility and engagement in an effort to prepare students for navigating college life and life beyond college. Although this course offers multiple themes of study, it may only be taken once for credit. (This CWI course meets the institutional competency requirements for Connecting with Ideas.) . (3 lecture hours, 0 lab hours, 3 credits)
Part of
- Agricultural Business, Leadership, and Education - Associate of Arts Degree (AA)
- Animal Veterinary Sciences - Associate of Science Degree (AS)
- Anthropology - Associate of Arts Degree (AA)*
- Automotive Technology - Associate of Applied Science Degree (AAS)
- Biology - Associate of Science Degree (AS)
- Business Administration - Bachelor of Applied Science Degree (BAS)
- Business - Associate of Arts Degree (AA)*
- Chemistry - Associate of Science Degree (AS)
- Collision Repair Technology - Associate of Applied Science Degree (AAS)
- Communication - Associate of Arts Degree (AA)
- Computer Science - Associate of Science Degree (AS)
- Criminal Justice - Associate of Arts Degree (AA)*
- Elementary Education - Associate of Arts Degree (AA)
- Exercise Science - Associate of Science Degree (AS)
- Fire Service Technology - Associate of Arts (AA)
- General Studies - Associate of Arts Degree (AA)*
- Geography - Associate of Arts Degree (AA)*
- Geosciences - Associate of Science Degree (AS)
- Health Science and Public Health - Associate of Science Degree (AS)*
- Heavy-Duty Truck Technician - Associate of Applied Science Degree (AAS)
- Heavy Equipment Technician - Associate of Applied Science Degree (AAS)
- History - Associate of Arts Degree (AA)*
- Media Arts - Associate of Arts Degree (AA)
- Mining Technician - Associate of Science Degree (AS)
- Philosophy - Associate of Arts Degree (AA)*
- Political Science - Associate of Arts Degree (AA)*
- Psychology - Associate of Arts Degree (AA)
- Registered Nursing - Associate of Science Degree (AS)
- Secondary Education - Social Science - Associate of Arts Degree (AA)
- Secondary Education - STEM - Associate of Science Degree (AS)
- Sign Language Studies - Associate of Arts Degree (AA)*
- Social Work - Associate of Arts Degree (AA)
- Sociology - Associate of Arts Degree (AA)
- Spanish - Associate of Arts Degree (AA)*
- Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) - Associate of Science Degree (AS)
- Studio Art - Associate of Arts Degree (AA)
- Surgical First Assistant - Associate of Arts Degree (AA)