Kansas Studies Courses Spring Semester 2013

Class will be lead by multiple Washburn professors A new Kansas Studies course, simply called Kansas Studies (IS 340), was approved at the General Faculty meeting on Monday, November 17. Over a year in the making, the course originated from suggestions made by the Kansas Studies Review Committee in the fall of 2013 as a way to increase minors in Kansas Studies. The course might be described as the ultimate multi-disciplinary course at Washburn as it will be taught by eleven Washburn faculty members, most of whom teach Kansas Studies courses. Fields of study include the arts, anthropology, archaeology, history, geology, geography, literature, politics, religion and urbanization. It is scheduled to be taught on Tuesday evenings in the spring semester. An advantage of the course is that it has received general education approval and so is