CU Boulder class inspired by da Vinci | CU News - Boulder Daily Camera

Right brain or left brain? Poet and philosopher or scientist and mathematician? by Katie Langford, Higher education reporter at Daily Camera.

University of Colorado Boulder Rishi Raj, left, helps Jet Taylor, put up a poster. Raj teaches a class called “In the Footsteps of Da Vinci,” which teaches students “the value of abstract thinking and then putting those ideas down in drawings with pencil and paper and with calligraphy.”

A University of Colorado Boulder professor created a unique course this year to challenge freshman students to choose both.

Professor Rishi Raj spends most of his time working with graduate students in mechanical engineering, but when CU Boulder leaders called for proposals for first-year seminars, Raj volunteered.

First-year seminars are small classes that help engage freshmen in communication, community-building and learning more about their interests...

Raj wanted students to explore how da Vinci is relevant in modern times using the same methods that da Vinci used — drawings and writings about all manner of topics, from anatomy to architecture. Da Vinci did thousands, Raj’s students did three.
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Source: Boulder Daily Camera