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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:
3D Printed Aerospace Structures	Debbie Senesky	Spring		WAY-AQR
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
African American Women's Lives	Allyson Hobbs	Winter		WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
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
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
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.	Autumn		WAY-ED, WAY-SI
Character	Esther Yu	Autumn		WAY-A-II, WAY-ER
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 class time at VCAIS.stanford.edu.	WAY-SMA
Childish Enthusiasms and Perishable Manias	Scott Bukatman	Autumn		WAY-A-II
Coming-of-Age Movies	Karla Oeler	Spring		WAY-A-II
Comparative Fictions of Ethnicity	David Palumbo-Liu	Winter		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		WAY-ED
Demystifying Pregnancy: Physiology, Policy and Politics	Sylvie Blumstein, Cynthia DeTata	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
Engineering the Built Environment: An Introduction to Structural Engineering	Sarah Billington	Autumn		WAY-AQR
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		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	Winter		WAY-ED
Hormones in a Performance-Enhanced Society	Andrew R. Hoffman, M.D.	Winter		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		WAY-A-II, WAY-ED, Write-2
Income and Wealth Inequality from the Stone Age to the Present	Walter Scheidel	Autumn	HISTORY 12N/CLASSICS 12N has been cancelled for Summer Quarter.	WAY-SI
International Organizations and Accountability	Erica Gould	Autumn		WAY-SI
Intracellular Trafficking and Neurodegeneration	Yanmin Yang	Winter		WAY-SMA
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	Winter		WAY-CE
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
Neuroforecasting	Brian Knutson	Winter		WAY-SI
Noam Chomsky: The Drama of Resistance	Rush Rehm	Autumn		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
Photographing Nature	Robert Siegel	Winter		WAY-CE
Physics in the 21st Century	Savas Dimopoulos	Winter		WAY-SMA
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	Required $100 course fee.	WAY-CE
Race and Gender in Silicon Valley	Cynthia Lee	Autumn		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		WAY-A-II
Science in the News	Hans Andersen	Autumn		WAY-SMA
Scientific Method and Bias	John P.A. Ioannidis	Winter		WAY-SMA
Sculpting with Sounds, Images, and Words	Jaroslaw Kapuscinski	Autumn		WAY-CE
Self Theories	Carol Dweck	Autumn		WAY-SI
Sensory Ecology of Marine Animals	Stuart Thompson	Autumn		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
Shakespeare, Playing, Gender	Patricia Parker	Winter		WAY-A-II
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 Detective and the City	Frederic Stout	Autumn		WAY-A-II
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 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 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		WAY-SI
To Die For: Antigone and Political Dissent	Rush Rehm	Autumn		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
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