--- Anja Lange, undated CU Boulder profile page (accessed 8 Jun 2024)
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Anja joined the Herbst Program in the fall of 2001. Since then, she has been teaching literature not only for its own merit but also as a vehicle for gaining insight into engineering and other fields. The problems in professional engineering will never be as clear-cut as those in the classroom, so Anja offers her engineering students literature as a playground on which to confront ambiguity and paradox. It might seem counter-intuitive, but Plato, Shakespeare, Voltaire, Melville, and T.S. Eliot can help Herbst students become better engineers by helping them engage in self-learning and interactive problem-solving. Anja believes that the synergy found in an interdisciplinary study helps one fully understand our civic responsibilities; these responsibilities are even greater for the engineer.
