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At the heart of every great university is a college that serves as its academic center. The College of Arts and Sciences is the intellectual heart of Kansas State University.

The College of Arts and Sciences contains more than 20 departments and offers a number of special programs and secondary majors. With more than 7,000 students, it has the largest enrollment of any K-State college. It also offers approximately 85 percent of all freshman courses and 65 percent of all credits taught.

Encompassing studies in the natural sciences, social sciences, humanities and fine arts, the College of Arts and Sciences gives you an exciting range of options. You can choose from more than 115 degree programs, study abroad experiences, and pre-professional options.

Arts and Sciences professors are committed to the art of teaching. They combine lectures, labs, and small-group discussions so that even the most complex theories will be within your grasp. And your class projects will test what you’re learning–from painting a self-portrait to setting up your own psychology experiment to writing a news report that airs on campus radio.

Our professors are also internationally recognized researchers and scientists, building such world-class programs as a NASA Specialized Center of Research and Training and the Macdonald Laboratory particle accelerator. You can work with distinguished scholars on exciting projects in ecology, gravitation, atomic energy, laser technology, numerical analysis, and cancer research using state-of-the-art facilities and equipment.

Arts and Sciences grads go on to great things. Our students have built an outstanding record of winning prestigious scholarships and gaining acceptance into professional and graduate programs at rates far above the national average. And they have achieved success in careers ranging from medicine to playwriting.

The Arts and Sciences experience, with its provocative courses, respected faculty, and opportunities for individual research, will enable you to follow your interests and pursue your career ambitions.
 

Courses

Art

• ART 529 - Color Printmaking Workshop: Creative Process and Investigation

  Credits: 3
  
  Individual and collaborative studio work in intaglio (etching), lithography, relief printing (woodcut), screen printing, digital, or monoprint printmaking processes. Emphasis on multi-color intermedia print development through creative process and material investigation.
  
  Repeat for Credit
  Repeatable for maximum of 12 credits
  
  Requisites:
  Prerequisite: ART 335
  
  Typically Offered
  Fall, Spring
  
  
• ART 692 - Drawing Workshop II

  Credits: 3
  
  The senior capstone course, dedicated to refining individually determined drawing portfolio.
  
  Repeat for Credit
  Repeatable
  
  Requisites:
  Prerequisite: ART 572 or ART 599.
  
  Typically Offered
  Fall, Spring
  
  

Dean of Arts and Sciences

• DAS 507 - Senior Research in Latin American Studies

  Credits: 3
  
  Independent research project under supervision by director of Latin American Studies.
  
  Typically Offered
  Fall, Spring, Summer
  
  
• DAS 525 - Senior Research in International Studies

  Credits: 3
  
  A research paper or project on an international topic.
  
  Typically Offered
  Fall, Spring, Summer
  
  
• DAS 550 - Advanced Topics in the Humanities (Study Abroad)

  Credits: 0-18
  
  This is an umbrella course for numerous individual courses offered to students in the Humanities in Italy program and other study abroad experiences.
  
  Repeat for Credit
  Repeatable
  
  Requisites:
  Prerequisite: Permission of the director of the individual study abroad experience.
  
  Typically Offered
  Spring
  
  
• DAS 555 - Themes in Nonviolence Studies

  Credits: 3
  
  Explores nonviolence from a national and global perspective, with particular emphasis on emergent techniques and themes in nonviolence studies with particular emphasis on conflict resolution, peacekeeping and peacebuilding, and intersections of gender, race, class, ethnicity, and religion. 
  
  Requisites:
  Recommended prerequisite: DAS 355.
  
  Typically Offered
  Fall, Spring, Summer
  
  
• DAS 575 - Peacebuilding

  Credits: 3
  
  Explores how social problems, violence and war are generated and how people are working to build conditions that produce peace.  Students will analyze peacebuilding efforts at home, in communities, in countries, in regions, and in the global social system. 
  
  Typically Offered
  Fall, Spring, Summer