Catalog – College of Western Idaho Pressbooks

Communication and Web Design

CC BY (Attribution) English

Author(s): annadaly

Subject(s): The Arts

Last updated: 2025-11-17

This textbook offers a clear and practical introduction to how communication principles and web-design techniques intersect in the digital environment. It guides readers through topics such as visual design, site structure, writing for the web, HTML & CSS fundamentals, responsive design, SEO, branding, and accessibility. By combining theory with hands-on examples, it equips students with the tools they need create web content that is both usable and accessible.

Introduction to Journalism

CC BY (Attribution) English

Author(s): annadaly

Subject(s): The Arts

Last updated: 2025-11-14

This text offers a clear and engaging overview of how journalists report, write, and produce news across today’s media landscape. It introduces students to the foundations of journalism, including its purpose, ethics, storytelling structures, interviewing techniques, AP Style, and the role of the press in a democratic society. Through practical examples and step-by-step guidance, the book prepares students to create accurate, compelling news for print, digital, and multimedia platforms.

Introduction to Public Relations

CC BY (Attribution) English

Author(s): annadaly

Subject(s): The Arts

Last updated: 2025-11-14

This text offers an introduction to the field of public relations, exploring its history, foundational theories, ethical and legal considerations, and modern practice in a digital age. It guides students through writing, media relations, crisis communication, measurement, and branding. This gives them the tools to think strategically and act with purpose in a dynamic communication environment. With a strong emphasis on real-world applications and professional standards, it prepares readers to engage audiences, manage reputations, and build mutually beneficial relationships in the PR field.

Huma 207: Exploring the Arts and Culture of the World

CC BY (Attribution) English

Author(s): Karen Brown, Michal Yadlin

Editor(s): Karen Brown

Subject(s): The Arts, The Arts: art forms, History of art

Institution(s): College of Western Idaho

Publisher: College of Western Idaho

Publication date: 2024-08-12

Last updated: 2025-11-12

Pathways to College Success

CC BY (Attribution) 10 H5P Activities English

Author(s): CWI 101 Leaders

Editor(s): CWI 101 Leaders

Last updated: 2025-11-07

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.

ARTS 101: Art and Architecture from the Prehistoric World through the Medieval World (Old URL)

CC BY (Attribution) English

Author(s): Karen Brown

Editor(s): Karen Brown

Subject(s): History of art, The Arts: art forms, Architecture

Institution(s): College of Western Idaho

Publication date: 2025-02-05

Last updated: 2025-10-17

ARTS 101 is a chronological survey of the visual arts in Western Europe, North Africa, and the Eastern Mediterranean from the Prehistoric era through the Late Gothic period.

Introduction to Philosophy: Logic

CC BY (Attribution) English

Author(s): Bahram Assadian, Matthew Knachel, Cassiano Terra Rodrigues, Michael Shaffer, Nathan Smith, Benjamin Martin (Book Editor), Christina Hendricks (Series Editor)

Editor(s): Benjamin Martin, Christina Hendricks

Subject(s): Philosophy, Philosophy: logic

Publisher: Rebus Community

Publication date: 2020-11-18

Last updated: 2025-07-20

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.

College of Western Idaho Journal of Undergraduate Research and Writing

CC BY (Attribution) English

Author(s): Ryan Randall, Liza Long

Editor(s): Liza Long

Subject(s): Interdisciplinary studies, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Research and information: general, Teaching of reading, writing and numeracy

Institution(s): College of Western Idaho

Publisher: College of Western Idaho

Last updated: 2025-07-19

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

Anthology of Earlier American Literature: College of Western Idaho

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike) English

Author(s): Joel Gladd, Ph.D

Subject(s): Biography, Literature and Literary studies

Last updated: 2025-07-13

Revised Fundamental Methods of Logic

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial) English

Author(s): Matthew Knachel, Sean Gould

Editor(s): Sean Gould

Publication date: 2022-08-03

Last updated: 2025-07-10