All Ways Seminars

Course Title	Instructor	Quarter	Notes	Fulfills:
Accessing Architecture Through Drawing	John Barton	Autumn Spring		WAY-CE
Animal Behavior: Sex, Death, and Sometimes Food!	Joseph Garner	Autumn Spring		WAY-SMA
Animal Planet and the Romance of the Species	Haiyan Lee	Winter		WAY-A-II, WAY-ER
Art in the Metropolis	Ivan Lupic	Spring	Deadline extended and instructor change. New sign-up deadline December 10 (5:00 PM). If you apply for this Spring IntroSem by its special deadline, it counts as one of your three Spring Quarter selections in the VCAIS. Seminar rank cannot be adjusted in the VCAIS once status is released for this class and the selection cannot be deleted from the VCAIS.	WAY-A-II
Batman, Hamilton, Díaz, and Other Wondrous Lives	Jose Saldivar	Autumn		WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
Beethoven	Stephen Hinton	Winter		WAY-A-II
Behind the Big Drums: Exploring Taiko	Stephen Sano, Linda Uyechi	Spring		WAY-A-II
Bioengineering Materials to Heal the Body	Sarah Heilshorn	Autumn		WAY-SMA
Building Trust in Autonomy	Mykel Kochenderfer	Winter		WAY-AQR, 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
Chemistry in the Kitchen	Richard Zare	Winter	There are four offerings of CHEM 29N in Winter Quarter. Be sure to review the class schedule for each section on this page, in the right sidebar. Then, sign up for the section with your preferred lab time at VCAIS.stanford.edu.	WAY-SMA
Childish Enthusiasms and Perishable Manias	Scott Bukatman	Autumn		WAY-A-II
Climate Change Ecology: Is It Too Late?	Tadashi Fukami	Spring		WAY-SMA
Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of Mammals	Donna M. Bouley	Winter		WAY-SMA
Comparative Fictions of Ethnicity	David Palumbo-Liu	Winter		WAY-A-II, WAY-ED, Write-2
Computers and Photography: From Capture to Sharing	Hector Garcia-Molina	Autumn Spring		WAY-CE
Contemporary African Politics	David 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	There are two offerings of CHEMENG 90Q in Autumn Quarter. Be sure to review the class schedule for each section on this page, in the right sidebar. Then, sign up for the section with your preferred class time at VCAIS.stanford.edu.	WAY-ED
Democracy in Crisis: Learning from the Past	Thomas Ehrlich	Winter		WAY-SI
Dramatic Tensions: Theater and the Marketplace	Amy Freed	Autumn		WAY-A-II
Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Disease in a Changing World	Erin Mordecai	Spring		WAY-SMA
Eight Great Archaeological Sites in Europe	Michael Shanks	Winter Spring		WAY-A-II, Write-2
Eloquence Personified: How To Speak Like Cicero	Christopher Krebs	Winter		WAY-A-II, WAY-CE
Energy Options for the 21st Century	John Fox	Autumn	Open to first-year students and sophomores.	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
Environmental Regulation and Policy	Shari Libicki	Autumn	Class will meet in Shriram Center, Room SB33.	WAY-AQR
Exploring the Critical Interface Between the Land and Monterey Bay: Elkhorn Slough	Christopher Francis	Spring		WAY-SMA
Family Drama: American Plays about Families	Margaret Phelan	Autumn		WAY-A-II
Family Stories	Brittany Perham	Spring		WAY-CE
Family Trees: The Multigenerational Novel	Austin Smith	Winter		WAY-A-II
Famous Last Words	Lea Pao	Autumn		WAY-A-II
Fashion and Photography	Elizabeth Kessler	Winter		WAY-A-II
Food and Global History	Aron Rodrigue	Winter		WAY-SI
Frontiers in Theoretical Physics and Cosmology	Renata Kallosh	Winter		WAY-SMA
Functional Materials and Devices	Yuri Suzuki	Autumn		WAY-SMA
Gardens and Sacred Space in Japan	Michaela Mross	Spring		WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
Gay Autobiography	Paul Robinson	Spring		WAY-ED
Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, Engineering, and Environment	Londa Schiebinger	Winter		WAY-ED, WAY-SI, Write-2
Genes, Memes, and Behavior	Scott S. Hall, Ph.D	Summer	Summer enrollment limited. Preference to rising Stanford first- and second-year students who haven't had the opportunity to take an Introductory Seminar previously. Summer Session IntroSems meet June 24 to August 2, 2019.	WAY-SMA
Globally Emerging Zoonotic Diseases	Stephen Felt	Spring		WAY-SMA
Great Inventions That Matter	Shan X. Wang	Spring		WAY-SMA
Growing Up Bilingual	Guadalupe Valdes	Winter		WAY-ED, WAY-SI
Hacking the Genome	Saumya Sankaran	Spring		WAY-SMA
Heartfulness: Mindfulness, Compassion, and Responsibility	Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu	Autumn		WAY-ED
Hormones in a Performance-Enhanced Society	Andrew R. Hoffman, M.D.	Winter		WAY-SMA
How to Design a Space Mission: From Concept to Execution	Simone D'Amico	Autumn		WAY-AQR, WAY-SMA
How to Make a Racist	Steven O. Roberts	Autumn		WAY-ED
How to Start Your Own Country: Sovereignty and State-Formation in Modern History	Steven Press	Autumn		WAY-SI
Human Origins	Richard Klein	Spring		WAY-SMA
Humanities Core: Dao, Virtue, and Nature—Foundations of East Asian Thought	Ronald Egan	Autumn	East Asia I	WAY-ER
Humanities Core: Great Books, Big Ideas—Europe, Medieval to Early Modern	Vincent Barletta, Marisa Galvez	Winter	Europe II	WAY-A-II
Humanities Core: How to Be Modern in East Asia	Haiyan Lee, James Reichert	Spring	East Asia III	WAY-A-II
Humanities Core: Love and Betrayal in Asia	Ronald Egan	Winter	East Asia II	WAY-A-II
Humanities Core: Middle East III—Future	Alexander Key, Burcu Richardson	Spring	Middle East III	WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
Humanities Core: Middle East II—Classic	Alexander Key, Ali Yaycioglu	Winter	Middle East II	WAY-A-II, WAY-ER
Humanities Core: Middle East I—Ancient	Alexander Key, Vered Shemtov	Autumn	Middle East I	WAY-A-II, WAY-ER
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		WAY-SI
International Organizations and Accountability	Erica Gould	Autumn		WAY-SI
International Organizations and the World Order	Phillip Y. Lipscy	Winter		WAY-SI
Intracellular Trafficking and Neurodegeneration	Yanmin Yang	Winter		WAY-SMA
Introduction to Conservation Photography	Susan K. McConnell	Winter		WAY-CE
It IS Rocket Science!	Andrew Barrows	Spring		WAY-AQR, WAY-SMA
Joys and Pains of Growing Up and Older in Japan	Yoshiko Matsumoto	Spring	There is a waitlist for this course as of Feb. 25. To be added to the list, contact the instructor.	WAY-ED, WAY-SI
Justice and Cities	Brian Coyne	Winter		WAY-SI
Kangnam Style: Korea's Soft Power in Our Globalized Economy	Dafna Zur	Winter		WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
Laboratory Mouse in Biomedical Research	Claude M. Nagamine	Autumn	The mandatory Friday lab meets from 1:30-3:20pm at RAF 1.	WAY-SMA
Law and the Biosciences	Henry T. (Hank) Greely	Winter	Class meets in room 283 in Crown Quadrangle, Law School.	WAY-ER, Write-2
Learn to Intervene, Wisely	Greg Walton	Autumn		WAY-SI
Linguistic Meaning and the Law	Cleo Condoravdi	Winter		WAY-FR
Living on the Edge: Language and Landscape of the Western Fringes	Elaine Treharne	Spring		WAY-A-II
Madwomen and Madmen: Gender and the History of Mental Illness in the U.S.	Margo Horn	Winter		WAY-ED, WAY-SI
Making of the Modern Woman: Robots, Aliens, and the Feminine in Science Fiction	Melissa Stevenson	Spring		WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
Making the Middle Ages	Rowan Dorin	Spring		WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
Man Versus Nature: Coping with Disasters Using Space Technology	Howard Zebker	Autumn		WAY-SMA
Maps in the Modern World	Kären Wigen	Autumn		WAY-SI
Mark Twain and American Culture	Shelley Fishkin	Autumn		WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
Mass Atrocities and Reconciliation	Pawel Robert Lutomski	Autumn		WAY-ER, WAY-SI
Mathematics of Knots, Braids, Links, and Tangles	Wojciech Wieczorek	Winter		WAY-FR
Medical Device Innovation	Joseph Mandato, Mr Ryan K Pierce	Spring	Recent addition to the 2018-2019 catalog!	WAY-CE
Modern "Meanings of Life": Aestheticism, Perfectionism, Ecstasy	Mark Greif	Autumn		WAY-A-II, WAY-ER
Neuroforecasting	Brian Knutson	Winter		WAY-SI
Noam Chomsky: The Drama of Resistance	Rush Rehm	Autumn		WAY-ER, WAY-SI
Other People's Words: Folklore and Literature	Gabriella Safran	Spring		WAY-A-II, Write-2
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	Lauren Tompkins	Spring		WAY-SMA
Political Poetry	Solmaz Sharif	Spring		WAY-A-II, WAY-CE
Prisons and Performance	Janice Ross	Spring		WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
Proofs and Modern Mathematics	Andras Vasy, Laura Fredrickson	Autumn		WAY-FR
Public Policy and Personal Finance	Gregory Rosston	Spring		WAY-SI
Race and Gender in Silicon Valley	Cynthia Lee	Autumn	CS 80Q/AFRICAAM 80Q is certified to fulfill UG req, WAY-ED. As of 9/14, this new information is still populating in the systems (i.e., ExploreCourses).	WAY-ED
Reading and Writing the Gendered Story	Valerie Miner	Winter		WAY-A-II, WAY-ED, Write-2
Religion in Anime and Manga	Michaela Mross	Winter		WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
Resistance and Collaboration in Hitler’s Europe	Jelena Batinic	Spring		WAY-ER, WAY-SI
Russia's Weird Classic: Nikolai Gogol	Lazar Fleishman	Autumn		WAY-A-II
Sappho: Erotic Poetess of Lesbos	Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi	Autumn		WAY-CE, WAY-ED
Science in the News	Hans Andersen	Autumn	Class meets in Keck 3 North Conference Room.	WAY-SMA
Scientific Method and Bias	John P.A. Ioannidis	Winter		WAY-SMA
Self Theories	Carol Dweck	Autumn		WAY-SI
Sensory Ecology of Marine Animals	Stuart Thompson	Autumn		WAY-SMA
Serial Storytelling	Michaela Bronstein	Winter		WAY-A-II
Sexuality and Society	Lisa Medoff	Autumn		WAY-SI
Shakespeare, Playing, Gender	Patricia Parker	Spring		WAY-A-II
Socialism vs. Capitalism: Russian and American Writers’ Responses	Yuliya Ilchuk	Spring		WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
South Africa: Contested Transitions	Joel Samoff	Winter		WAY-ED, WAY-SI, Write-2
Sports Writing	John Evans	Winter		WAY-A-II, WAY-CE
Technology in the Greenhouse	Franklin M. ("Lynn") Orr, Jr.	Spring		WAY-AQR, WAY-SMA
Terrorism	Robert Crews	Autumn		WAY-ED, WAY-SI
Texts and Contexts: Spanish/English Literary Translation Workshop	Cintia Santana	Winter		WAY-A-II, WAY-CE
The Aesthetics of Data	Jonathan Berger	Autumn		WAY-CE
The American Empire in the Middle East	Joel Beinin	Autumn		WAY-SI
The American Road Trip	Kai Carlson-Wee	Spring		WAY-A-II, WAY-CE
The American Songbook and Love Poetry	Kenneth Fields	Winter		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	Spring	Moved to Spring Quarter!	WAY-A-II
The Economics of Immigration in the U.S.: Past and Present	Ran Abramitzky	Winter	REQUISITE - Completion of ECON 1 in a previous quarter; concurrent enrollment in ECON 1 in Winter Quarter; or, approved ECON 1 waiver on file with the Department of Economics. To request a waiver, the student must submit (1) a statement explaining why the waiver is warranted and either (2a) a copy of AP microeconomics and AP macroeconomics tests both scoring 5; or (2b) an IB higher level economics test with a score of 7. See Econ 1 Waiver - https://economics.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/econ_1_waiver_petition_2016-17.pdf.	WAY-SI
The Fourth "R": Religion and American Schools	Ari Kelman	Summer	Enrollment limited. Preference to rising Stanford first- and second-year students who haven't had the opportunity to take an Introductory Seminar previously. Summer Session IntroSems meet June 24 to August 2, 2019.	WAY-ED, WAY-SI
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	Seminar will be offered in Winter Quarter, not Autumn.	WAY-AQR
The Global Warming Paradox	Noah Diffenbaugh	Summer	Summer enrollment limited. Preference to rising Stanford first- and second-year students who haven't had the opportunity to take an Introductory Seminar previously. Summer Session IntroSems meet June 24 to August 2, 2019.	WAY-SMA
The Literature of Lost Identity	Christine Lee	Winter		WAY-A-II
The Missing Link	Jessica Riskin	Winter		WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
The Most Rational People in the World	James Holland Jones	Summer	Summer enrollment limited. Preference to rising Stanford first- and second-year students who haven't had the opportunity to take an Introductory Seminar previously. Summer Session IntroSems meet June 24 to August 2, 2019.	WAY-SI
The New Longevity	Laura Carstensen	Winter		WAY-SI
The New Wave: How the French Reinvented Cinema	Cecile Alduy	Autumn		WAY-A-II
The Operas of Mozart	Karol Berger	Winter		WAY-A-II
The Popular Culture of Abstract Art	Nancy de Wit	Winter		WAY-A-II
The Renaissance: Culture As Conflict	Ivan Lupic	Autumn		WAY-A-II
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, Anatol Shmelev	Winter		WAY-SI
The Space Mission to Europa	Dustin Schroeder	Autumn		WAY-SMA
Things About Stuff	Thomas Lee	Autumn		WAY-SMA
Thinking about Photographs	Terry Castle	Winter		WAY-A-II
Thinking About War	Mark Lewis	Winter		WAY-SI
To Die For: Antigone and Political Dissent	Rush Rehm	Winter		WAY-ED, WAY-ER
Understanding Children's Health Disparities	Donald Barr	Winter		WAY-ED, WAY-SI
Understanding Race and Ethnicity in American Society	C. Matthew Snipp	Autumn		WAY-ED, WAY-SI
Understanding the Welfare System	Thomas MaCurdy	Autumn		WAY-SI
United Nations Peacekeeping	Bertrand Patenaude	Winter		WAY-ED
Utopia/Dystopia in Chinese Literature and Culture	Chenshu Zhou	Autumn		WAY-A-II
What Counts As "Race," and Why?	Aliya Saperstein	Winter		WAY-ED, WAY-SI
What Didn't Make It in the Bible	Michael Penn	Autumn		WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
When Chemistry Meets Engineering	Matteo Cargnello	Autumn	Class meets in Shriram Center Room 052 on Tuesdays and Thursdays mornings. The mandatory lab section on Thursday afternoon is scheduled in the Uytengsu Teaching Center, Lab Room 132A.	WAY-SMA
Zionism and the Novel	Russell Berman	Autumn		WAY-A-II, WAY-ED, Write-2