We often think of the arts (for example, literature) as the opposite of science. But what happens if you use literature to understand mental illness? Read a medical case file as a work of literature? Study bio-chemical responses to art? This CAT community looks at the intersection of the arts and science.

How does science shape our understanding of the arts? What can literature and art teach us about science? This section is exclusively for students enrolled in the "Breaking the Art/Science Divide" CAT Community. See "CAT Community" section below for full details.

How can we make the world more sustainable and just? What responsibility do humans have to the natural environment? How does race, class, gender, and global location intersect in environmental issues? In this class we explore how food, sustainability, and environmental action intersect with gender and learn the actions you can take to make a better, more sustainable, and just world.

Learn about the world of sustainable fashion and how to navigate it. In this course, students explore how garments are produced, why the fashion industry is currently problematic for ecological and social sustainability, and how we can rethink fashion for the future.

Explores music's transformative role in protest movements and as propaganda during conflicts across the globe. Curated playlists from Jazz, Country, Soul, Hip Hop, Rock, Folk, Rap and more encourage students to analyze sociopolitical issues through historical and contemporary music.

This section is specifically for students at K-State Salina

Do you want to be a leader? Today’s leader needs a strong understanding of various leadership techniques. This course will explore servant leadership foundations and philosophies which support a management style that focuses on the growth and well-being of all team members. Active dialog, scenario discussion, and practice implementing the goals and mindset of this leadership style are important elements of the course.

Instructor consent required.

Smith Caldas, Herren

Smith Caldas

No permission required (a change from prior years). Description from the Division of Biology: "In this laboratory-based course, you will collect a soil sample and use virology techniques to isolate a virus that infects bacteria. You will then purify, amplify, and name this virus that will be part of a virus bank. This course is a lot of fun!"

No permission required to enroll. ENGL 210 can substitute for either ENGL 100 or ENGL 200.

Speculative fictions like science fiction and fantasy encourage us to enjoy a game of reading carefully and learning deeply about imagined worlds. These texts flaunt the “fictional” or “not actually existing” element of stories in order to pose “what if?” and “what does it mean?” questions from unfamiliar perspectives. In this discussion-based course, we’ll study the genre characteristics, narrative strategies, and philosophical and ethical ideas in contemporary science fantasy, weird fiction, and science fiction. Texts may include The Fifth Season, by N.K. Jemisin; Stories of Your Life and Others, by Ted Chiang; Annihilation, by Jeff Vandermeer; and All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries, by Martha Wells. During the semester, students will write and revise three essays in addition to several shorter assignments.

MATH 350 (along with MATH 351 in the spring) will form the second-year Calculus sequence for students in the Mathematical Scholars Program (MSP). However, students do not need to be in the MSP to take the course. Math 350/351 will provide an integrated approach to linear algebra, multivariable calculus and ordinary differential equations. Students will learn conceptual and computational techniques of linear algebra first and find immediate applications for ordinary differential equations and multivariable calculus. Topics include vector spaces, linear transformations, solutions to matrix equations, dimension, rank, eigenvalues, inner products, Sylvester's Theorem, multi-linear algebra, vector valued functions, vector fields and general ordinary differential equations. Applications to three dimensional geometry and ordinary differential equations will be made throughout.

Messer, Alberto

Messer, Alberto

Messer, Alberto

Messer, Alberto

Some seats in Section A reserved for CAT Community students.

Sections A and B meet August 21 - December 8. Section ZA prerequisites are admission to teacher education and concurrent enrollment in EDCI 318, EDCEP 315, and EDSP 324.

Matlock

Matlock

Lady Gaga insists, “I want your love, and I want your revenge / You and me could write a bad romance,” evoking passion and betrayal, intimacy and notoriety. We will explore classical texts and their afterlives attending to these topics and asking why anyone would want to get “oh, oh, oh / caught in a bad romance.” Likely readings include the Arogonautica, Medea, and Beloved, and The Illiad, Troilus and Criseyde, and The Song of Achilles. As this list and the topic itself imply, we will address difficult even traumatic material in this course. Because of this, the assignments for this class will offer a variety of choices, so that students will have opportunities to respond creatively to readings, present research as a team, and pursue an extended project that lines up with their interests.

Matlock

In “What Is an Author?” Michel Foucault posits, “An anonymous text . . . probably has a writer—but not an author,” and in A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf speculates, “I would venture to guess that Anon . . . was often a woman.” Anonymity, thus, inspires modern theorists to ask what it means to be a “major author,” but most premodern works have no known author. This class will consider authorship in anonymous works such as Beowulf, The Táin Bó Cúailnge, The Owl and the Nightingale, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and The Assembly of Ladies. What pronouns are most appropriate for these writers? Is it even correct to refer to them as having an author? The most canonical works on our list have been translated by famous authors like J.R.R. Tolkien and Simon Armitage. Is it literary merit or the “author function” or something else entirely that makes these “major” works? Assignments will include regular reading responses, a team presentation, and a final research project. ENGL 660 fulfills the pre-1800 overlay for English majors.

TU

Duke

TU

Duke

MWF

Kocher

*Section C is reserved for participants in the Menard Family Scholars program.

Wilkinson

Pettay