Time to sign up for priority enrollment in Spring IntroSems! Check out the seminars next quarter and sign up for priority enrollment in the IntroSems' VCA now through February 14th.

IntroSems quarters and schedules subject to change--check back often. Visit Re-Approaching Stanford for the latest updates on Academic Year 2021-22.

All Ways Seminars

Course Title	Instructor	Quarter	Notes	Fulfills:
Aardvarks to Zebras: The A to Z of Animal Anatomy	Kerriann Casey, DVM	Winter		WAY-SMA
Accessing Architecture Through Drawing	John Barton	Autumn Spring		WAY-CE
Aerodynamics of Race Cars	Charbel Farhat	Spring		WAY-AQR
After 2001: A 21st Century Science Fiction Odyssey	Melissa Stevenson	Spring		WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
And that’s why cats should never eat garlic!	Jose Vilches-Moure	Spring		WAY-SMA
Animal Archives: History Beyond the Human	Alison Grace Laurence	Spring		WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
Animal Behavior: Sex, Death, and Sometimes Food!	Joseph Garner	Autumn Spring		WAY-SMA
Animal Poems	Denise Gigante	Spring		WAY-A-II
Art in the Metropolis	Charles Kronengold	Spring	This IntroSem has a special application process and deadline due December 1 (not in the IntroSems' VCA). See the bolded section in the course description on the seminar's page for details and links.	WAY-A-II
Behind the Big Drums: Exploring Taiko	Stephen Sano, Linda Uyechi	Spring		WAY-A-II
Being Reasonable	Krista Lawlor	Spring		WAY-A-II
Belonging in a Diverse Society	Greg Walton	Autumn		WAY-SI
Bird Brains and Monkey Business	Cynthia C. Flores	Spring		WAY-SMA
Black Panther, Hamilton, Díaz, and Other Wondrous Lives	Jose Saldivar	Autumn		WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
Blood and Money: The Origins of Antisemitism	Rowan Dorin	Winter		WAY-SI, Write-2
Busting Energy Myths	Anthony Kovscek, Channing Robertson	Autumn		WAY-SMA
Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy	Michael Boskin	Spring		WAY-SI
Catching up with Traditional Ecological Knowledge	Tadashi Fukami	Spring		WAY-SMA
Causes and Consequences of the Rise in Inequality	Luigi Pistaferri	Autumn		WAY-SI
Challenging Sex and Gender Dichotomies in Medicine	Marcia L. Stefanick, Ph.D.	Spring	SOMGEN 150Q will be offered in Spring Quarter, instead of Autumn.	WAY-ED, WAY-SI
Character	Esther Yu	Autumn		WAY-A-II, WAY-ER
Chemical Engineering for Sustainability	Shari Libicki	Winter		WAY-AQR
Chemistry in the Kitchen	Richard Zare	Winter	There are four section offerings of CHEM 29N in Winter Quarter. Students are admitted to one section plus the weekly orientation to the class activity. Be sure to review the class schedule for each section on this webpage, in the right sidebar. Then, sign up for the section with your preferred section day/time in the IntroSems' VCA.	WAY-SMA
Childish Enthusiasms and Perishable Manias	Scott Bukatman	Autumn		WAY-A-II
City, Space, Literature	Ato Quayson	Winter		WAY-A-II
Clean Water Now! Urban Water Conflicts	Alexandria Boehm	Winter		WAY-AQR, WAY-SI
Coming-of-Age Movies	Karla Oeler	Spring		WAY-A-II
Comparative Fictions of Ethnicity	David Palumbo-Liu	Winter Spring	Due to Sophomore demand, COMPLIT 51Q will be offered a second time in 2021-22, in Spring Quarter!	WAY-A-II, WAY-ED, Write-2
Conservation Photography	Susan K. McConnell	Winter		WAY-CE
Contemporary African Politics	David D. Laitin	Spring		WAY-ED
Cystic Fibrosis: From Medical Conundrum to Precision Medicine Success Story	Ron Kopito	Spring		WAY-SMA
Dare to Care: Compassionate Design	John Moalli	Autumn	Both sections of CHEMENG 90Q will be meeting on Thursdays (NOT Tuesdays as previously advertised). Review times in right sidebar.	WAY-ED
Demystifying Pregnancy: Physiology, Policy and Politics	Cynthia DeTata, Sylvie Blumstein	Autumn		WAY-ED, WAY-SI
Does Social Media Make Better Physicians?	Dr Michael Gisondi	Winter		WAY-CE
Dramatic Tensions: Theater and the Marketplace	Amy Freed	Autumn		WAY-A-II
Eloquence Personified: How To Speak Like Cicero	Christopher Krebs	Winter		WAY-A-II, WAY-CE
Energy Options for the 21st Century	John Fox	Autumn		WAY-SMA
Energy, the Environment, and the Economy	Frank Wolak	Winter		WAY-SI
Exploring the Critical Interface Between the Land and Monterey Bay: Elkhorn Slough	Christopher Francis	Spring		WAY-SMA
Family Stories	Brittany Perham	Spring		WAY-CE
Family Trees: The Intergenerational Novel	Austin Smith	Winter		WAY-A-II
First Chapters: Please Allow Me to Introduce My Novel	Tom Kealey	Winter		WAY-CE
Functional Materials and Devices	Yuri Suzuki	Autumn		WAY-SMA
Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, Engineering, and Environment	Londa Schiebinger	Autumn		WAY-ED, WAY-SI, Write-2
Genes, Memes, and Behavior	Scott S. Hall, Ph.D	Autumn Spring	PSYC 54N will meet Online Synchronously in Autumn Quarter.	WAY-SMA
Globally Emerging Zoonotic Diseases	Stephen Felt, DVM, MPH	Spring		WAY-SMA
Government by the Numbers	Mark Duggan, Steve Ballmer	Autumn		WAY-SI
Great Inventions That Matter	Shan X. Wang	Autumn		WAY-SMA
Heartfulness: Mindfulness, Compassion, and Responsibility	Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu	Autumn	Effective 8/25, CSRE 47Q will be meeting in Autumn on Wednesdays from 1:30pm-4:30pm.	WAY-ED
Hormones in a Performance-Enhanced Society	Andrew R. Hoffman, M.D.	Winter	Effective 12/8/21, MED 71N will meet Online Synchronously in Winter Quarter.	WAY-SMA
How to Start Your Own Country: Sovereignty and State-Formation in Modern History	Steven Press	Winter		WAY-SI
Human Origins	Richard Klein	Winter		WAY-SMA
I Bet You Think You're Funny: A Workshop in Humor	Edward Porter	Autumn		WAY-A-II, WAY-CE
Imaginative Realms: Writing Beyond Realism	Keith Ekiss	Autumn		WAY-CE
Imagining Women: Writers in Print and in Person	Valerie Miner	Autumn	FEMGEN/CSRE 188Q meets online and has space available, but is not open for self-enrollment in Axes because PWR1/Writing 1 is a prereq. If you are eligible and interested in enrolling, please email the instructor, Prof Valerie Miner, at vminer@stanford.edu.	WAY-A-II, WAY-ED, Write-2
Income and Wealth Inequality from the Stone Age to the Present	Walter Scheidel	Autumn		WAY-SI
International Organizations and Accountability	Erica Gould	Autumn		WAY-SI
Intersectionality and the Politics of Ballet	Janice Ross	Winter		WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
Intracellular Trafficking and Neurodegeneration	Yanmin Yang	Winter		WAY-SMA
It's the Freakiest Show: David Bowie's Intertextual Imagination	Tiffany Naiman	Spring		WAY-A-II, Write-2
Jane Austen's Fiction	Alex Woloch	Autumn		WAY-A-II
Joys and Pains of Growing Up and Older in Japan	Yoshiko Matsumoto	Spring		WAY-ED, WAY-SI
Justice across Borders	Leif Wenar	Spring		WAY-ER
Laboratory Mouse in Biomedical Research	Claude M. Nagamine	Autumn		WAY-SMA
Law and the Biosciences	Henry T. (Hank) Greely	Autumn		WAY-ER, Write-2
Leaving Patriarchy: A Course for All Genders	Nina Schloesser Tarano	Spring		WAY-CE
Life at the Extremes: From the Deep Sea to Deep Space	Anne Dekas	Winter		WAY-SMA
Linguistic Meaning and the Law	Cleo Condoravdi	Winter		WAY-FR
Love and Death	Patrick Phillips	Winter		WAY-A-II, WAY-CE
Maps in the Modern World	Kären Wigen	Spring		WAY-SI
Mark Twain and American Culture	Shelley Fisher Fishkin	Autumn		WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
Mass Atrocities: Reckoning and Reconciliation	Pawel Lutomski	Winter		WAY-ER, WAY-SI
Mathematical Mindsets - The Interplay of Identity & Knowledge in Learning & Life	Jo Boaler	Autumn		WAY-SI
Mathematics of Knots, Braids, Links, and Tangles	Wojciech Wieczorek	Spring		WAY-FR
Medical Device Innovation	Joseph Mandato, Mr Ryan K Pierce	Spring		WAY-CE
Metalheads of Modern Science	Leora Dresselhaus-Marais	Autumn		WAY-SMA
Mitochondrial Transport and Function in Neuronal Health and Death	Xinnan Wang	Autumn		WAY-SMA
Neuroforecasting	Brian Knutson	Winter		WAY-SI
Noam Chomsky: The Drama of Resistance	Rush Rehm	Autumn	TAPS 180Q will meet Online Synchronously in Autumn Quarter.	WAY-ER, WAY-SI
Pathophysiology and Design for Cardiovascular Disease	Paul J. Wang, MD, Ross Daniel Venook	Spring		WAY-SMA
Performing America: The Broadway Musical	Thomas Grey	Spring		WAY-A-II, WAY-CE
Perspectives on the Abortion Experience in Western Fiction	Erica P. Cahill MD, Paul D. Blumenthal, MD, MPH	Spring		WAY-A-II
Photographing Nature	Robert Siegel	Winter		WAY-CE
Physics in the 21st Century	Savas Dimopoulos	Winter		WAY-SMA
Probability and Gambling	Gene Bernhard Kim	Autumn		WAY-FR
Psychology of Xenophobia	Rania Awaad, MD	Winter		WAY-ED, WAY-SI
Public Policy and Personal Finance	Gregory Rosston	Autumn		WAY-SI
Quantum Information: Visions and Emerging Technologies	Monika Schleier-Smith	Spring		WAY-FR, WAY-SMA
Queer Sculpture	Terry Berlier	Autumn		WAY-CE
Race and Gender in Silicon Valley	Cynthia Lee	Autumn		WAY-ED
Race, Blackness, Antiquity	Sarah Derbew	Spring		WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
Religion in Anime and Manga	Michaela Mross	Winter		WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
Resilience, Transformation, and Equilibrium: The Science of Materials	Yoda R Patta, Ph.D.	Spring		WAY-SMA
Resistance and Collaboration in Hitler’s Europe	Jelena Batinic	Spring		WAY-ER, WAY-SI
Russia in the Early Modern European Imagination	Nancy Kollmann	Spring		WAY-SI, Write-2
Russia's Weird Classic: Nikolai Gogol	Lazar Fleishman	Autumn	SLAVIC 77Q will meet Online Synchronously in Autumn Quarter.	WAY-A-II
Science in the News	Hans Andersen	Autumn	CHEM 25N will meet Online Synchronously in Autumn Quarter.	WAY-SMA
Scientific Method and Bias	John P.A. Ioannidis	Winter		WAY-SMA
Sculpting with Sounds, Images, and Words	Jaroslaw Kapuscinski	Autumn		WAY-CE
Secrecy	James R. Jacobs MD PhD	Autumn Winter		WAY-ER
Self Theories	Carol Dweck	Autumn		WAY-SI
Sensory Ecology of Marine Animals	Stuart Thompson	Autumn	As of Aug 11, this seminar has an updated weekly schedule of Wednesdays from 12:15PM–2:15PM.	WAY-SMA
Serial Storytelling	Michaela Bronstein	Autumn		WAY-A-II
Sexuality and Society	Lisa Medoff	Spring		WAY-SI
Shakespeare and Performance in a Global Context	Patricia Parker	Spring		WAY-A-II
Social Networks	Mark Granovetter	Winter		WAY-SI
Socialism vs. Capitalism: Russian and American Writers’ Responses	Yuliya Ilchuk	Autumn		WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
Sports Writing	John Evans	Autumn		WAY-A-II, WAY-CE
Stalin's Terror: Causes, Crimes, Consequences	Norman Naimark	Autumn		WAY-SI
Storytelling in Medicine	Lauren Edwards, Bryant Lin	Winter		WAY-CE
Texts and Contexts: Spanish/English Literary Translation Workshop	Cintia Santana	Autumn		WAY-A-II, WAY-CE
The American Road Trip	Kai Carlson-Wee	Spring		WAY-A-II, WAY-CE
The Art of Medical Diagnosis	Thomas Caruso, Samuel Rodriguez, MD, Lauren Toomer	Spring		WAY-CE
The Artist in Ancient Greek Society	Jody Maxmin	Spring		WAY-A-II
The Cultural Shaping of Emotion	Jeanne L. Tsai	Spring	Newly added to the Spring Quarter IntroSems curriculum!	WAY-ED, WAY-SI
The Detective and the City	Frederic Stout	Autumn		WAY-A-II
The Future Is Feminine	Shannon Pufahl	Winter		WAY-A-II, WAY-CE
The Global Positioning System: Where on Earth Are We, and What Time is It?	Sherman Lo	Winter		WAY-AQR
The Global Warming Paradox	Noah Diffenbaugh	Autumn		WAY-SMA
The Good Death	Anna Bigelow	Autumn		WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
The Immigrant Experience in Everyday Life	Tomas Jimenez	Spring		WAY-ED
The Living Genome: Implications for Biology and Beyond	Jonathan Pollack	Winter		WAY-SMA
The Neuroscience of Stress and Reward: Circuit Fundamentals of Emotional Arousal	William Giardino	Autumn		WAY-SMA
The New Wave: How the French Reinvented Cinema	Cecile Alduy	Autumn		WAY-A-II
The Personal Genomics Revolution: Focus on Mental Health	Laramie Duncan	Autumn		WAY-ER
The Roman Empire: Its Grandeur and Fall	Richard Saller	Autumn		WAY-SI
The Soviet Union and the World: Views from the Hoover Archives	Norman Naimark	Winter		WAY-SI
The Taboo	Lauri Dietz	Spring		WAY-ED, Write-2
The U.S. Congress in Historical and Comparative Perspective	Gary Cox	Winter		WAY-SI
The Video Essay: Writing with Video about Media and Culture	Shane Denson	Autumn		WAY-CE
The Worlds of Thomas Jefferson	Jonathan Gienapp	Winter		WAY-SI
Theatrical Wonders from Shakespeare to Mozart	Blair Hoxby	Autumn		WAY-A-II
Things About Stuff	Thomas Lee	Autumn		WAY-SMA
Thinking About War	Mark Lewis	Winter	HISTORY 10N will meet Online Synchronously in Winter Quarter.	WAY-SI
To Die For: Antigone and Political Dissent	Rush Rehm	Autumn	TAPS 12N/CLASSICS 17N will meet Online Synchronously in Autumn Quarter.	WAY-ED, WAY-ER
Understanding Children's Health Disparities	Donald Barr	Winter		WAY-ED, WAY-SI
Understanding the Welfare System	Thomas MaCurdy	Autumn		WAY-SI
United Nations Peacekeeping	Bertrand Patenaude	Winter		WAY-ED
Us and Them: The Psychology of Intergroup Relations	Nir Halevy	Spring		WAY-ED, WAY-SI
Views of a Changing Sea: Literature and Science	William Gilly	Winter		WAY-A-II
Were They Really “Hard Times”? Mid-Victorian Social Movements and Charles Dickens	Gabriel K. Wolfenstein, Ph.D.	Spring		WAY-ER, WAY-SI
Women Making Music	Heather Hadlock	Winter		WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
Write Like a Poet: From Tradition to Innovation	Michael Shewmaker	Autumn		WAY-CE
Zionism and the Novel	Russell Berman	Spring		WAY-A-II, WAY-ED, Write-2