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College of Idaho

Studying at The College of Idaho is about more than just your major. With the College’s Coyote Core, you’ll explore diverse disciplines, embrace different perspectives, and develop practical skills that empower you to make a real impact on the world.

The Coyote Core begins with a first-year experience and foundational skills. It then helps you make connections in seemingly different areas of study, develop your own voice while generously listening to others and apply knowledge and skills to real-world problems.

The Coyote Core promotes curiosity and fosters agile thinking to prepare you to navigate and engage in a complex and ever-changing world. It’s the foundation you need to turn your dreams into reality and unlock endless possibilities.

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First-Year Experience

As part of your first-year experience, you will participate in a first-year seminar and a civilization course as part of a learning community led by a team of faculty from diverse disciplines. This two-course series helps you transition to college and engage with texts and ideas through writing and discourse.

Foundational Courses

Through Creative Expression courses, you will develop aesthetic and imaginative capacities as you learn to create through hands-on experiences in creative writing, theatre, music and art.

You’ll learn to read in the fullest sense of the word through the College’s Texts and Contexts courses. You’ll explore how ideas and the human experience are expressed through literature, music, film and the visual arts.

Self & Society courses are grounded in the social sciences where you’ll seek to understand and analyze human behavior. You’ll study individuals, groups, cultures, polities and economies that organize our social life and define human experience.

Through Scientific Reasoning courses, you’ll learn how to understand the natural world through the scientific method by developing hypotheses and testing them through experimentation and observation.

Quantitative Analysis courses in mathematics and statistics will help you analyze, interpret and visualize data and develop mathematical and computational problem-solving skills.

Connections That Matter

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Science & Society

Explore the intersection of scientific and mathematical knowledge in society through courses on human disease, bioethics, sustainability and more.

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Engaging Difference

Explore questions of power and privilege through the study of culture, literature, art, or music of marginalized or non-mainstream groups or individuals.

Engaging Difference

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Career, Calling & Community

Go beyond the classroom to apply academic skills in real-world contexts through internships, study away, research, applied learning and community engagement.

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Become a Yote!

Your innovative spirit has propelled you this far. What’s next? That’s for you to dream, make, live and unleash at The College of Idaho. Come see what awaits you here.

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