This seminar is the
foundational entry course into the University of Idaho’s General Education curriculum.
The U of I General Education curriculum emphasizes a multi-year, broad liberal education.
It is a curriculum conceptually and pedagogically integrated, beginning with the ISEM 101 Integrated Seminars; then between their first and third years students bridge into the five skills and perspectives curricular components of Communication, Science, Math, Humanities and Social Science, and American Diversity and International; the integration is then reiterated with the ISEM 301 Great Issues seminars, and culminates with the Senior Experience. The Integrated Studies component of ISEM 101, ISEM 301 and Senior Experience is specially designed to be educational points of General Education integration.
Infused throughout this curriculum are the shared Learning Outcomes of the University of Idaho, which are reflective of the unique mission of the University of Idaho, and consistent with the Essential Learning Outcomes of LEAP (Liberal Education and America’s Promise; see http://www.aacu.org/leap/).
It is a General Education curriculum which complements and is cohesive with a student’s major field of study,
and not a standalone, ‘check-off-the-box’ educational experience.