Arts and Sciences Overlays—2025-2026

Students in the catalog year 2024-2025 or later are required to fulfill three overlays: Ethical Reasoning, U.S. Multicultural, and Global Perspectives. These courses are expected to be used in another part of a student's degree plan (K-State Core, program requirements, or free electives).

Below are the 2025-2026 lists of courses eligible for the three overlays, updated April 2, 2025 (download PDF). The 2024-2025 overlays are archived at the bottom of the page.

Ethical Reasoning Overlay

  • GWSS 240 Activism and Social Justice
  • PHILO 130 Intro to Moral Philosophy
  • PHILO 135 Intro to Social and Political Philosophy
  • PHILO 185 (previously 385) Engineering Ethics
  • PHILO 295 Introduction to Environmental Ethics
  • PHILO 330 Moral Philosophy (more in-depth for majors/minors; no prerequisite)
  • PHILO 335 Intro to Social and Political Philosophy (more in-depth for majors/minors; no prerequisite)
  • PHILO 365 Medical Ethics
  • PHILO 595 Environmental Ethics
  • POLSC 155 Introduction to Political Thought

U.S. Multicultural Overlay

  • AMETH 160 Introduction to American Ethnic Studies
  • AMETH 300 Intercultural Competence in Institutions
  • AMETH 351 African American Perspectives
  • AMETH 352 American Indian Perspectives
  • AMETH 353 Latina/o Perspectives
  • AMETH 354 Asian American Perspectives
  • AMETH 370 Politics of Women of Color
  • AMETH 450 Comparative Ethnic Studies
  • AMETH 461 Transformative Thought
  • AMETH 499 Senior Research Project in American Ethnic Studies
  • AMETH 501 Recitation Leadership
  • AMETH 556 Multicultural Psychology
  • AMETH 560 Topics in American Ethnic Studies
  • AMETH 660 Independent Reading and Research in American Ethnic Studies
  • AMETH 700 Advanced Topics in American Ethnic Studies
  • ANTH 312 Museums, Cultures, and Collaborations
  • ANTH 513 Immigrant America
  • ANTH 515 Creativity and Culture: The Anthropology of Art
  • ANTH 516 Ethnomusicology
  • ANTH 605 North American Indians
  • ANTH 710 Writing Cultures: Ethnographic Methods
  • COMM 434 Rhetoric and Social Movements
  • CRIM 463 Gangs in American Society
  • ENGL 285 Introduction to American Ethnic Literatures
  • ENGL 384 Multicultural Children’s Literature
  • ENGL 385 Selected American Ethnic Literatures
  • ENGL 386 African American Literatures
  • ENGL 387 American Indian Literatures
  • ENGL 388 Asian American Literatures
  • ENGL 389 Latina/o Literatures
  • ENGL 476 American English
  • ENGL 655 Readings in American Ethnic Literature
  • GEOG 370 Environmental Justice
  • GEOG 510 Geography of the American West
  • GWSS 105 Introduction to Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
  • GWSS 325 Queer Studies: Concepts, History, and Politics
  • GWSS 345 Women & Aging: Looking at Multicultural Female Aging – Dropped from approved list as it has been inactive since 08/01/2018
  • GWSS 350 Gender in American Film
  • GWSS 365 Reproductive Rights and Wrongs
  • GWSS 375 Disability Justice and Gender
  • GWSS 435 Race/Sex/Science
  • GWSS 560 Intersections of Violence and Resistance
  • GWSS 570 Gender and Food Justice
  • HIST 311 Race & US Foreign Relations
  • HIST 537 History of the Indigenous Peoples of North America
  • HIST 539 African-American History
  • MC 612 Diversity in Media
  • MLANG 120 Multilingualism in the U.S.
  • MUSIC 173 Music as Protest and Propaganda in the United States
  • PHILO 180 Introduction to Philosophy of Race
  • PHILO 380 Philosophy and Race
  • POLSC 360 Race, Ethnicity, and Politics
  • PSYCH 556 Multicultural Psychology
  • PSYCH 557 The Psychology of Ethnic Humor
  • SOCIO 510 Social Welfare as a Social Institution
  • SOCIO 541 Wealth, Power, and Privilege
  • SOCIO 545 The Sociology of Women
  • SOCIO 570 Race and Ethnic Relations in the USA
  • SOCIO 647 Sociology of Work
  • SOCWK 300 Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging in Social Work Practice
  • SOCWK 510 Social Welfare as a Social Institution
  • SPAN 531 Professional Spanish: Health and Human Services
  • SPAN 560 Cultures of the Spanish-speaking World: U.S. Latinx
  • STRAN 550 Practicing Social Justice
  • THTRE 672 American Ethnic Theatre

Select sections of topic courses have been approved to fulfill the A&S overlay requirement. Only the specific topic listed, not the entire course, will be accepted as fulfilling the US Multicultural Overlay requirement.

  • ENGL 420 Topics in Film - Global Indigenous Film
  • ENGL 695 Topics in Literature - Multi Ethnic YA Lit
  • ENGL 710 Studies in a Literary Genre - Hip Hop/Lit
  • ENGL 725 Studies in Children’s/Young Adult Literature - African Am Childrens Lit
  • ENGL 745 Cultural Studies - Welcome to Apocalypse
  • GWSS 300 Selected Studies of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies – Queer Rights & The Law

Global Perspectives Overlay

  • AMETH 352 American Indian Perspectives
  • ANTH 200 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
  • ANTH 204 A General Education Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
  • ANTH 210 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Honors
  • ANTH 220 Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology
  • ANTH 260 Introduction to Archeology
  • ANTH 305 Cultures of South Asia
  • ANTH 314 Introduction to the World’s Religions
  • ANTH 315 Introduction to Medical Anthropology & Global Health
  • ANTH 505 South Asian Civilizations
  • ANTH 506 Central America: Its Peoples and Problems
  • ANTH 508 Asian Religions
  • ANTH 509 Cultures of Africa
  • ANTH 512 Political Anthropology
  • ANTH 515 Creativity and Culture: The Anthropology of Art
  • ANTH 525 Language and Culture
  • ANTH 560 Archaeological Fact or Fiction: Applied Critical Thinking
  • ANTH 604 Culture and Personality - Dropped from approved list as it has been inactive since 01/01/2012
  • ANTH 605* North American Indians
  • ANTH 606 South American Indians
  • ANTH 616 Anthropology of the Future: Apocalypse, Prophecy, and Hope
  • ANTH 663 Andean Archaeology
  • ANTH 665 European Archaeology
  • ARAB 501 Arabic V
  • ARAB 502 Arabic VI
  • ARAB 540 Special Studies in Arabic
  • ART 195 Survey of Western Art History I
  • ART 196 Survey of Western Art History II
  • ART 545 Twentieth Century Art History I: Post-Impressionism to Cubism
  • ART 550 Twentieth Century Art History II: Dada to Surrealism
  • ART 602 Twentieth Century Art History III: Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art
  • ART 603 Twentieth Century Art History IV: Conceptual Art to Contemporary Art
  • ART 612 History of Italian Renaissance Art
  • ART 613 History of Northern Renaissance Art
  • ART 622 Baroque Art History
  • ART 628 Foreign Studies in Art History
  • CHINE 501 Chinese V
  • CHINE 502 Chinese VI
  • CLSCS 501 Topics in Classical Literature in Translation
  • COMM 480 Intercultural Communication
  • DAS 507 Senior Research in Latin American Studies
  • DAS 525 Senior Research in International Studies
  • ECON 505 South Asian Civilizations
  • ECON 507 The Japanese Economy
  • ECON 536 Comparative Economics
  • ECON 681 International Trade
  • ECON 682 Development Economics
  • ECON 684 International Finance and Open Economy Macroeconomics
  • ENGL 280 Studies in World Literature and Culture
  • ENGL 580 Selected World Literature
  • GEOG 100 World Geography & Globalization
  • GEOG 200 Human Geography
  • GEOG 201 Human Geography (Honors)
  • GEOG 300 Geography of Tourism
  • GEOG 335 European Landscapes
  • GEOG 505 South Asian Civilizations
  • GEOG 620 Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean
  • GEOG 622 Geography of South America
  • GEOG 715 World Population Patterns
  • GREEK 301 Intermediate Greek-Prose
  • GREEK 302 Intermediate Greek-Poetry
  • GWSS 380 Global Struggles for Feminist, Queer, and Trans Justice
  • GWSS 405 Resistance and Movements for Social Change
  • GWSS 480 Seminar in Gender, Environment and Justice
  • HIST 111 World History to 1450
  • HIST 112 World History From 1450
  • HIST 250 Russian Culture and Civilization
  • HIST 303 Latin American History and Civilization
  • HIST 330 History of East Asian Civilizations
  • HIST 332 Introduction to China
  • HIST 501 Japan’s Samurai Age
  • HIST 504 Intellectual History of Early China
  • HIST 505 South Asian Civilizations
  • HIST 508 Introduction to Modern East Asia
  • HIST 509 Japan Since 1550
  • HIST 510 World War I
  • HIST 514 World War II
  • HIST 516 The Modern Middle East
  • HIST 517 Iranian People Since Antiquity
  • HIST 543 U.S. World Affairs to 1920
  • HIST 544 U.S. and World Affairs since 1920
  • HIST 545 War in the Twentieth Century
  • HIST 560 Latin American Nations
  • HIST 561 Colonial Hispanic America
  • HIST 562 Modern Mexico
  • HIST 571 Eighteenth-Century Europe
  • HIST 576 European International Relations to 1815
  • HIST 577 European International Relations Since 1815
  • HIST 578 Central Europe, 1500-1914
  • HIST 584 France and its Empire, 1815-Present
  • HIST 591 The Russian Empire
  • HIST 592 Twentieth Century Russia
  • HIST 593 The Vietnam War
  • HIST 595 French Revolution, 1789-1815
  • HIST 598 Topics in Non-Western History
  • ITAL 520 Special Studies in Italian
  • JAPAN 391 Culture of Japanese Communication
  • JAPAN 591 Japanese V
  • JAPAN 592 Japanese VI
  • JAPAN 599 Special Studies in Japanese
  • LATIN 302 Intermediate Latin - Poetry
  • MC 623 Communicating in Global Markets
  • MC 725 International Communications
  • MLANG 507 European Literature in Translation
  • MUSIC 249 Introduction to Music of the World
  • POLSC 145 World Politics
  • POLSC 341 Politics of the World Economy
  • POLSC 343 American Foreign Policy
  • POLSC 388 Latin American Politics
  • POLSC 390 Middle East Politics
  • POLSC 505 South Asian Civilizations
  • POLSC 511 Contemporary Chinese Politics
  • POLSC 540 Global Security Threats
  • POLSC 545 The Politics of Developing Nations
  • POLSC 549 International Defense Strategies
  • POLSC 623 South Asian Politics
  • POLSC 626 African Politics
  • POLSC 627 Eastern and Central European Politics
  • POLSC 629 Development Policy and Administration
  • POLSC 642 International Conflict
  • POLSC 643 Global Human Rights
  • POLSC 645 International Politics of Europe
  • POLSC 647 International Law
  • POLSC 651 International Organization
  • POLSC 652 International Politics of South Asia
  • POLSC 653 International Politics of the Middle East
  • POLSC 655 International Politics of Latin America
  • RUSSN 398 Intermediate Studies in Russian
  • RUSSN 551 Russian V
  • RUSSN 552 Survey of Russian Literature
  • RUSSN 553 Russian Conversation and Composition
  • SOCIO 363 Global Problems
  • SOCIO 505 South Asian Civilizations
  • SOCIO 507 International Development and Social Change
  • SOCIO 522 Community Engaged Research and Evaluation
  • SOCIO 535 Population Dynamics
  • SOCIO 618 Religion in Culture
  • SOCIO 635 Sociology of Human Trafficking
  • SOCIO 742 Society and Change in South Asia

*ANTH 605 may count for either U.S. Multicultural Overlay or Global Perspectives Overlay, not both.

 

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