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This open educational resource has been developed for use in a “first year experience” course at the College of Western Idaho (CWI 101). Our textbook remixes preexisting sources to fit a career pathways model of course learning. The purpose of a career pathways model is to provide a space for students to hone basic student success skills within the context of career exploration. Students who attend our college expect their education to be closely linked to their career goals and the career pathways model ensures that happens. We believe our model will foster more success for more students.

This book contains two type of resources to supplement the open textbook entitled Calculus Volume 1  from OpenStax.

• H5P activities: The activities are in presentation mode and contain a selection of checkpoint exercises from Chapters 2 through 6 of Calculus Volume 1.
• PowerPoint slides:
  • Calculus Volume 1: The slides for Chapter 1 list the main concepts and are intended as a review. The slides for Chapters 2 through 5 and parts of Chapter 6 contain the main concepts and the examples.
  • Contemporary Mathematics: The slides correspond to sections 3.10-3.11, 4.3, 5.1-5.2, 5.5, 6.1-6.12, 7.1-7.5, 8.1-8.8, 9.1-9.5 in the textbook, and there are also slides for Inductive and Deductive Reasoning.
  • Algebra and Trigonometry, 2e: The slides are for the Algebra portion and correspond to sections 2.1-2.7, 3.1-3.7, 4.1-4.3, 5.1-5.8. Trigonometry slides will be added in the future.

This journal collects student work in the following categories: first-year writing, critical analysis, literature-based research, and original research.

Chemistry is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the two-semester general chemistry course. The textbook provides an important opportunity for students to learn the core concepts of chemistry and understand how those concepts apply to their lives and the world around them. The book also includes a number of innovative features, including interactive exercises and real-world applications, designed to enhance student learning.

This lab manual was designed as an inclusive lab experience covering scope and sequence for the first semester general chemistry course at the College of Western Idaho. It includes hands on activities and prompts writing and data processing associated with varied general chemistry topics following an atom’s first approach and including measurement, light and energy, stoichiometry, solubility and activity, calorimetry, and gas behavior. The manual also includes a calculation and statistical analysis appendix, sample reports, and a guide to writing reports. Each lab in the sequence is organized with pre-lab questions, a safety overview, an historical and chemical background and lab instructions as well as lab reporting instructions.

Introduction to Philosophy: Logic provides students with the concepts and skills necessary to identify and evaluate arguments effectively. The chapters, all written by experts in the field, provide an overview of what arguments are, the different types of arguments one can expect to encounter in both philosophy and everyday life, and how to recognise common argumentative mistakes. The book aims to reach not only those who wish to learn logic to further their philosophical education, but also those who wish to gain the tools to better understand how to approach arguments in many aspects of their lives.