Jackson Hole Education

Education Opportunities Abundant For Jackson Hole Real Estate Owners

Jackson Hole's higher and extended study options take many different forms. As a start, Jackson Hole's Teton County Library’s 110,000 volumes, with newspapers from around the nation, offer the chance to stay in touch. Databases give Jackson Hole patrons access to scientific and scholarly journals and a national library of medicine. The library hosts speakers including scientists that broach subjects from global warming to avalanche awareness. Renowned writers come to speak each year. Past successes have been Frank McCourt, Billy Collins, Daniel Woodrell, and the locally cherished Terry Tempest Williams. The library walls consistently host in-depth, geographically themed exhibits, while the auditorium stays booked with all varieties of speakers, focus groups, and even global outlook forums that have covered topics from India, to China, to the home front.

Central Wyoming College’s extended studies program has a comprehensive quarterly schedule for bona fide life-long learning. Offering both credit and non-credit classes in all disciplines – English composition, microbiology, art history, criminology, money management, ceramics, creative writing, guitar, Spanish and meditation just to name a few. The University of Wyoming Outreach School employs video conferencing, correspondence study, audio teleconferencing and the Online UW internet classroom to bring further accredited study options to the Jackson Hole area.

For music, dance and visual arts, Jackson Hole's Center for the Arts delivers year round. Try glass blowing, silver-smithing, pottery throwing or oil painting. Rev up the system with a ballroom blitz workshop, or African dance and salsa lessons. Acting classes for all ages, a play reading series, and theater camps for kids add character to the mix. Stimulation and new hobbies come easily in well-cultured Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

In addition to Central Wyoming College and Center for the Arts, there are outdoor leadership camps for the kids and the Teton Science School has supported learners of all ages for over 40 years. Now with two campuses and a Conservation Research Center largely devoted to open space, field science, and human-use impact studies, the school’s pro-active approach uses nature as a tool for learning. Classes, often affiliated with Elderhostel, range from botany, to geology, to understanding the ecological community. In fact, their year-round Wildlife Expeditions include a natural history component and secured the area Travelocity’s accolade for a top eco-travel destination. On the other side of the Tetons the Targhee Institute runs similar youth and adult programs with its eye on the greater Yellowstone ecosystem and a philosophy of “Discovery Through Doing”. //