All-Approved

**Course titles and numbering change over time. If you took a course that now has a different number or name than what is listed here, but was a primary texts course, your credit will still apply. Please notify the director if you think you have taken a qualifying course not listed here.

This is a list of courses that can be counted toward the Certificate in the Study of Arts and Sciences through Primary Texts. Honors courses not listed may be available for certificate credit for students in the honors program. Please consult with the director to determine which courses are offered in the upcoming semester.

Art

ART 695: Topics in Art History (instructor permission-see Dr. Johnson

 

Arts & Sciences

DAS 300: Primary Texts Core Course

 

Communication Studies

COMM 330: Rhetoric in Western Thought (II, 1 section per year)

COMM 545: Communication and Democracy (Dr. Steffensmeier's section only)

COMM 425: Theory of Organizational Communication

COMM 535: Communication in Leadership

COMM 730: Classical Rhetorical Theory (spring semester, in even years)

 

Economics

ECON 710: History of Economic Thought (1 section per year)

 

Education

EDSEC 428: Social Studies Colloquium II (Dr. Brad Burenheide's sections only)

 

English

All English Literature courses are approved, with the following exclusions:
English 100-229; 300, 400, 415, 417, 430, 435, 461, 463, 465, 469, 476, 485, 490, 510, 516, 562/662, 604, 661, 663, 665, 685, 700, 759, 761, 762, 763, and 771

 

Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies

GWSS 410: Feminist Thought

GWSS 450: Stories of a Young Girl

GWSS 480: Women & Environmentalism

GWSS 500: Global Literature & Culture

GWSS 500: Top/Global/World Lit Women

GWSS 550: Women & Pop Culture

GWSS 700: Top/Transnational Feminism (S. Roshanravan)

GWSS 700: When: Sexuality Studies

 

Geography

GEOG 300: Geography of Tourism

GEOG 360: Sustainability Concepts & Issues

GEOG 370: Environmental Justice

GEOG 490: Problems in Geography (instructor permission-see Dr. Johnson for more information) 

GEOG 500: Geography of the United States
GEOG 510: Geography of the American West

GEOG 600: Mountain Geography

GEOG 602: Computer Mapping and Geographic Visualization

GEOG 722: Seminar on Geographies of International Conservation

GEOG 725: Geography of Water Resources

 

History

HIST 101: Rise of Europe

HIST 102: The Modern Era

HIST 111: World History To 1450

HIST 112: World History From 1450

HIST 155: U.S. Military History Since 1775

HIST 311: Race and US Foreign Policy**

**US Multicultural Diversity Overlay

HIST 330: History East Asia Civil

HIST 504: Intellectual History of Early China

HIST 522: Religion America History

HIST 525: Colonial History

HIST 526: The American Revolution

HIST 527: The Early National Period

HIST 529: Civil War and Reconstruction

HIST 534: Social History of Medicine

HIST 558: History of Kansas

HIST 565: History and Culture of Greece

HIST 566: History and Culture of Ancient Rome

HIST 567: Europe in the Middle Ages

HIST 572: 19th Century Europe

HIST 578: Central Eur/1500-1914

HIST 579: The British Isles to 1603

HIST 585: Medieval Christianity

HIST 586: AdvSem/History

HIST 593: The Vietnam War

 

Honors Program (Honors Students Only)

Honors Introduction to the Humanities I (1 section per year)

Honors Introduction to the Humanities II (1 section per year)

**Other honors courses may be available. See Dr. Johnson for more information.

 

Horticulture

HORT 650: Agrarian Traditions--Literature Shaping Modern Food Movements

 

Management 

MANGT 421: Introduction to Operations Management (Daniel Minick's section only)

MANGT 541: Management of Quality (Daniel Minick's section only)

 

Mathematics

MATH 570: History of Mathematics (II, 1 section per year)

 

Modern Languages 

MLANG 399: Honors Seminar in Modern Languages

MLANG 507 : European Literature in Translation (recently revised by Dr. Peter Arnds)

CHINE 300: Chinese 3

CHINE 301: Chinese 4

CHINE 501: Chinese 5

CHINE 502: Chinese 6

CHINE 599: Chinese Advanced Reading

CLSCS 501: Love and Lust: The Classical Novel in Translation

LATIN 101: Latin I - Introduction to Latin

LATIN 301: Intermediate Latin Prose

LATIN 501: Classical Literature in Translation

FREN 501: Readings in French *formerly FREN 516

FREN 502: French Literature in Translation

FREN 520: Introduction to French Literature I (I, 1 section year)

FREN 521: Introduction to French Literature II (II, 1 section per year)

FREN 530: Topics in French Literature and Culture

FREN 709: Medieval French Literature (varies, 1 section every other year)

FREN 710: Sixteenth Century French Literature (varies, 1 section every other year)

FREN 711: Seventeenth Century French Literature (1 section every other year)

FREN 713: Eighteen Century French Literature (II, 1 section every other year)

FREN 714: Romantic French Literature

FREN 715 Realist French Literature

FREN 716: Contemporary French Literature

FREN 720: Seminar in French

FREN 721: Francophone Literature and Culture

GRMN 503: German Literature in Translation

GRMN 521: Introductory Topics in German Literature and Culture of the 18th and 19th Century

GRMN 522: Topics in German Literature and Culture of the 20th and 21st Century

GRMN 700: Topics in Medieval German Literature and Culture

GRMN 701: Topics in 18th Century German Literature and Culture

GRMN 702: Topics in 19th Century German Literature and Culture

GRMN 703: Topics in early 20th Century German Literature and Culture

GRMN 704: Topics in German Literature and Culture since 1945

GRMN 705: Topics in 20th and 21st Century German Literature and Culture

GRMN 729: Open Topics Seminar in German Literature and culture

RUSSN 504: Russian Literature in Translation

RUSSN 508: Russian Literature in Translation: The Soviet Period

RUSSN 552: Survey of Russian Literature

SPAN 550: Introduction to the Literature in Spanish

SPAN 560: US Latino Literature and Culture

SPAN 567: Introduction to the Literature of Spain

SPAN 568: Literature of Spanish America

SPAN 730: Medieval Literature

SPAN 731: Early Modern Literature of Spain

SPAN 732: Cervantes

SPAN 734: Eighteenth Nineteenth Century Spanish Literature

SPAN 735: Twentieth Century Spanish Literature

SPAN 736: Spanish Poetry

SPAN 750: Spanish American Literature from its Origins to the early Nineteenth Century

SPAN 751: Spanish American Literature: Late Nineteenth Century to Early Twentieth Century

SPAN 752: Contemporary Spanish American Narrative

SPAN 755: Spanish American Drama

SPAN 757: Spanish-American Poetry

SPAN 760: Hispanic Literature and Culture in the US

 

Music, Theater, and Dance

MUSIC 405: Music Elementary Teachers

MUSIC 511: Music/Schools K-6

THTRE 370: Dramatic Structure - Fine Arts

THTRE 572: History of Theatre I (II, 1 section per year) - Fine Arts

THTRE 573: History of Theatre II (I, 1 section per year) - Fine Arts

 

Philosophy

All Philosophy courses are approved, with the following exclusions:
Philosophy 305, 320, 365, 385, 390, and 510, no matter the instructor.

PHILO 399: Honors Seminar in Philosophy: KSU in Italy (Dr. Tanona) (Study Abroad)

PHILO 385: Engineering Ethics

 

Physics

PHYS 620: Teaching University Physics (only offered once every four semesters)

 

Political Science

POLSC 155: Introduction to Political Thought (I, II, 2 sections per year) *formerly POLSC 301

POLSC 250: Environmental Political Thought

POLSC 343: American Foreign Policy (Michael Flynn's section only) *formerly POLSC 543

POLSC 401: Top/Politics of Sports (Dr. Birkhead)

POLSC 524: Political Islam

POLSC 540: Global Security Threats (Machain's and Martinez's sections only)

POLSC 601: Topics in Political Science - Top/Islam and Politics (Sabri Ciftci's section only)

POLSC 601: Topics in Political Science - Top/Comp Political Institution (Must seek approval for your topic from Dr. Johnson)

POLSC 605: American Presidency

POLSC 607: Administrative Law

POLSC 608: Political Participation in the United States

POLSC 614: Constitutional Law I

POLSC 615: Constitutional Law II

POLSC 622: Latin American Politics

POLSC 628: Civic Engagement

POLSC 630: Pol Russia/Sov Union

POLSC 642: International Conflict

POLSC 643: Global Human Rights

POLSC 655: International Relations of Latin America

POLSC 661: Political Thought: Classical to Sixteenth Century (I, 1 section every other year)

POLSC 663: Political Thought: Since the Sixteenth Century (II, 1 section every other year)

POLSC 667: American Political Thought (varies, 1 section every other year)

POLSC 670: Law, Politics, and Literature - Social Sciences

POLSC 671: Modern Political Thought (varies, 1 section every other year)

POLSC 672: Ideologies (varies, 1 section every other year)

POLSC 675: Religion and Politics

POLSC 731: Comparative Civil Military Relations (1 section every other year)

 

Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work

ANTH 315: Introduction to Medical Anthropology

ANTH 516: Ethnomusicology (Falcone's section only)

ANTH 560: Archaeological Fact or Fiction *formerly ANTH 503

ANTH 602: Anthropological Theory - Social Sciences

ANTH 612: Ethnohistory

ANTH 618: Religion in Culture **Same as SOCIO 618

SOCIO 214: Intro to Sociology (Honors section - Dr. Dana Brimon only)

SOCIO 431: Comparative Social Theories

SOCIO 618: Religion in Culture - **Same as ANTH 618

SOCIO 710: Systematic Analysis of Social Theory (1 section per year)