Foundations
Emphasizes skills, knowledge, and resources to be successful while focusing on well-being.
*IDS 101 Step into Cottey counts for both a foundation and an exploration requirement.
Well-being
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Expressions
Emphasizes how art and society are interconnected, allowing students to express ideas in creative ways and engage with different art forms.
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Communications
Courses that provide students with opportunities to improve the skills essential for effective collaboration.
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BUS 255 Entrepreneurial Lab must be taken four hours at one time to count for the communications requirement.
STEM Literacy
Emphasizes science, technology, engineering, and mathematics across disciplines and in everyday life. Courses provide students with experience in problem solving and ways of thinking within STEM disciplines.
Math
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Science
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Global Awareness
Emphasizes social, natural, and cultural contexts so that students become adept at working within these diverse local and global settings.
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Social Responsibility
Emphasizes sustainable thinking and ethical roles in relation to others (humans and nonhumans) as responsible communicators, engaged citizens, and living beings on this earth.
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Women and Leadership
Emphasizes women’s role in history and contemporary society while recognizing how gender influences local and global dynamics. Students become more self-aware and capable of problem-solving through collaboration while learning about, and engaging in, the leadership process.
Leadership
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Gender Focus
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Exploration
Provides students opportunities to engage with faculty and teaching staff members by exploring unique and exciting learning experiences that are focused on a variety of enrichment topics. Explorations are two-week courses occurring at the beginning of each semester. Students are required to pass one Explorations course for each semester they attend Cottey. Explorations courses are pass/fail.
Fall
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IDS 101 Step into Cottey counts for both a foundation and an exploration requirement.
Spring
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