General Education Matriculation Courses
In December 2018, the State Board of Education instituted the implementation of a common course-indexing list for a core set of freshman and sophomore level curricula (100 and 200 level courses) called Idaho General Education Matriculation (GEM). It is designed to provide greater transparency of course articulation, seamless transfer for Idaho’s students, and provides greater consistency for recognition of equivalent courses with similar GEM designation across all state institutions in Idaho.
The following is a list of GEM categories in which courses are grouped. Each institution requires a certain amount of credits to be earned in each category. These GEM courses may change so please check with the Idaho institution advisor before registering for a course. For more information on navigating the transfer of credits across Idaho institutions, please see .
Below you will find a list of the ISI Courses that count towards Idaho GEM requirements:
General Education Matriculation Courses
State Level GEM
- ENGL 101: Writing and Rhetoric I - 3 Credits (go to course page)
- ENGL 102: Writing and Rhetoric II - 3 Credits (go to course page)
State Level GEM
- COMM 101: Fundamentals of Communication - 3 Credits (go to course page)
State Level GEM
- MATH 123: Math in Modern Society - 3 Credits (go to course page)
- MATH 143: College Algebra - 3 Credits (go to course page)
- MATH 160: Survey of Calculus - 4 Credits ( go to course page)
- MATH 170: Calculus I - 4 Credits (go to course page)
- MATH 1153: Introduction to Statistics - 3 Credits (go to course page)
State Level GEM
- ENVS 101: Introduction to Environmental Science - 3 Credits ()
- EPPN 154: Microbiology and the World Around Us - 3 Credits (approved for U of I degrees, )
- PHYS 1100: Essentials of Physics - 4 Credits ()
- PHYS 111: General Physics I - 3 Credits ()
- PHYS 112: General Physics II - 3 Credits ()
- PHYS 1152: Descriptive Astronomy - 3 Credits ()
- PHYS 1153: Descriptive Astronomy Lab - 1 Credit ()
State Level GEM
- ART 100: Introduction to Art - 3 Credits ()
- ENGL 175: Literature and Ideas - 3 Credits ()
- MUSI 100: Introduction to Music - 3 Credits (go to course page)
- MUSH 201: History of Rock and Roll - 3 Credits ()
- PHIL 103: Introduction to Ethics - 3 Credits ()
- SPAN 101: Elementary Spanish I - 4 Credits ()
- SPAN 102: Elementary Spanish II - 4 Credits ()
- THE 101: Introduction to the Theatre - 3 Credits ()
Institution Specific GEM
- HIST 111: United States History I - 3 Credits ()
- HIST 112: United States History II - 3 Credits ()
- HIST 461: Idaho and the Pacific Northwest - 3 Credits ()
- HIST 462: History of the American West - 3 Credits ()
- MUSI 100: Introduction to Music - 3 Credits ()
- POLS 101: American National Government - 3 Credits ()
Institution Specific GEM
- ID 300U: Women in the 20th Century - 3 Credits ()
Institution Specific GEM
- ART 100: Introduction to Art - 3 Credits ()
- HIST 101: World History I - 3 Credits ()
- HIST 102: World History II - 3 Credits ()
- HIST 180: Introduction to East Asian History - 3 Credits ()
- SPAN 101: Elementary Spanish I - 4 Credits ()
- SPAN 102: Elementary Spanish II - 4 Credits ()
- SPAN 201: Intermediate Spanish I - 4 Credits ()
- SPAN 202: Intermediate Spanish II - 4 Credits ()
Social and Behavioral Ways of Knowing
State Level GEM