IntroSems quarters and schedules subject to change--check back often. Go to Re-Approaching Stanford for weekly updates on Academic Year 2020-21.

Check out the Spring IntroSems that still have Space Available and enroll yourself in Axess before classes start on March 29th. Sign up for Summer IntroSems in the IntroSems' VCA beginning April 9th.

All Ways Seminars

Course Title	Instructor	Quarter	Notes	Fulfills:
2020 Election: Understanding the National, Participating in the Local	Michael Rosenfeld	Autumn		WAY-SI
3D Printed Aerospace Structures	Debbie Senesky	Spring		WAY-AQR
A Comparative Exploration of Higher Education in Jamaica (Anglo-Caribbean) and South Africa	Chad O. Coates	Winter		WAY-ED, WAY-SI
Aardvarks to Zebras: The A to Z of Animal Anatomy	Kerriann Casey, DVM	Summer		WAY-SMA
Accessing Architecture Through Drawing	John Barton	Autumn Spring		WAY-CE
American Greed: From Gold Rush to Silicon Valley	Nicole Martin	Winter		WAY-SI
An Artist’s Life: Diverse Voices and Changing Contexts	Terry Berlier, Camille Utterback	Autumn		WAY-CE
Animal Behavior: Sex, Death, and Sometimes Food!	Joseph Garner	Spring	Class schedule: Tue 12:30 PM - 2:20 PM; Thu 12:30 PM - 1:50 PM	WAY-SMA
Animal Poems: The Fascination of What's Different	Denise Gigante	Spring		WAY-A-II
Beethoven	Stephen Hinton	Winter	Effective December 9th, MUSIC 33N will be meeting online instead of in person.	WAY-A-II
Behind the Big Drums: Exploring Taiko	Stephen Sano, Linda Uyechi	Spring		WAY-A-II
Being Reasonable	Krista Lawlor	Winter		WAY-A-II
Belonging in a Diverse Society	Greg Walton	Spring		WAY-SI
Black Panther, Hamilton, Díaz, and Other Wondrous Lives	Jose Saldivar	Autumn		WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
Building Trust in Autonomy	Mykel Kochenderfer	Winter		WAY-AQR, WAY-SMA
Busting Energy Myths	Anthony Kovscek, Channing Robertson	Autumn		WAY-SMA
Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy	Michael Boskin	Spring		WAY-SI
Causes and Consequences of the Rise in Inequality	Luigi Pistaferri	Autumn	ECON 22N is CLOSED to enrollment in Axess with a waitlist. To be added to the waitlist, contact the instructor who will send a permission number to the next waitlisted student when space is available in the class. Students cannot enroll without a permission number. 9/1/20	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
Comparative Fictions of Ethnicity	David Palumbo-Liu	Summer		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
Democracy in Crisis: Learning from the Past	Thomas Ehrlich	Spring		WAY-SI
Digging for Answers: 5 Big Questions of Our Time	Ian Hodder	Winter		WAY-SI
Documentary Film: Telling It Like It Is?	Jan Krawitz	Autumn		WAY-A-II
Does Science Have Culture?	Duana Fullwiley	Spring		WAY-ED, WAY-SI
Does Social Media Make Better Physicians?	Dr Michael Gisondi	Winter		WAY-CE
Dramatic Tensions: Theater and the Marketplace	Amy Freed	Summer		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
Energy Options for the 21st Century	John Fox	Autumn		WAY-SMA
Energy, the Environment, and the Economy	Frank Wolak	Summer		WAY-SI
Engineering the Built Environment: An Introduction to Structural Engineering	Sarah Billington	Autumn		WAY-AQR
Environmental Regulation and Policy	Shari Libicki	Autumn		WAY-AQR
Ethics for Everyone: Democratizing Ethics with Discrimination, Inequality, Injustice, and Technology in Mind	Susan Liautaud	Spring		WAY-ER
Exploring the Critical Interface Between the Land and Monterey Bay: Elkhorn Slough	Christopher Francis	Spring		WAY-SMA
Family Drama: American Plays about Families	Peggy Phelan	Spring		WAY-A-II
Family Stories	Brittany Perham	Spring		WAY-CE
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	Spring Summer		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
Harmony and the Universe	Hirohisa A. Tanaka	Summer		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 Learn Mathematics - and everything else!	Jo Boaler	Autumn		WAY-SI
How to Make a Racist	Steven O. Roberts	Winter	Effective December 7, PSYCH 21N will meet online and remotely in Winter Quarter (not in person).	WAY-ED
Howard Zinn and the Quest for Historical Truth	Sam Wineburg	Winter		WAY-A-II
Human Origins	Richard Klein	Winter	BIO 8N has moved from Spring to 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	Summer		WAY-SI
Indigo	Hideo Mabuchi	Summer		WAY-A-II
International Organizations and Accountability	Erica Gould	Autumn		WAY-SI
Intracellular Trafficking and Neurodegeneration	Yanmin Yang	Winter		WAY-SMA
It IS Rocket Science!	Andrew Barrows	Autumn		WAY-AQR, WAY-SMA
It's the Freakiest Show: David Bowie's Intertextual Imagination	Tiffany Naiman	Spring		WAY-A-II, Write-2
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
Kī hōaʻlu: The New Renaissance of a Hawaiian Musical Tradition	Stephen Sano	Summer		WAY-CE
Laboratory Mouse in Biomedical Research	Claude M. Nagamine	Autumn		WAY-SMA
Law and Drama	Branislav Jakovljevic	Summer		WAY-A-II, WAY-ER
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
Listening to Climate Change	Kirsten Paige	Winter		WAY-A-II
Love and Death	Patrick Phillips	Winter		WAY-A-II, WAY-CE
Medical Device Innovation	Joseph Mandato, Mr Ryan K Pierce	Spring		WAY-CE
Mixed-Race Politics and Culture	Michele Elam	Autumn	Mixed-Race Politics and Culture (English 52N/AFRICAAM 52N) is certified for WAY-AII and WAY-ED only (not WAY-SI).	WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
Neuroforecasting	Brian Knutson	Summer		WAY-SI
Noam Chomsky: The Drama of Resistance	Rush Rehm	Autumn	Updated class schedule - Wednesdays, 4:00PM - 7:00PM (PT).	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	Autumn		WAY-CE
Physics in the 21st Century	Chao-Lin Kuo	Autumn	Added to the Autumn curriculum on 8/17/20!	WAY-SMA
Psychology of Xenophobia	Rania Awaad, MD	Winter		WAY-ED, WAY-SI
Public Policy and Personal Finance	Gregory Rosston	Spring		WAY-SI
Quantum Information: Visions and Emerging Technologies	Monika Schleier-Smith	Winter		WAY-FR, WAY-SMA
Queer Sculpture	Terry Berlier	Spring	Required $100 course fee.	WAY-CE
Race and Gender in Silicon Valley	Cynthia Lee	Autumn		WAY-ED
Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Contemporary Art	Richard Meyer	Autumn		WAY-ED
Reading and Writing the Gendered Story	Valerie Miner	Winter	FEMGEN153Q (Write 2) is full and closed to enrollment in Axess. However, there is space on the waitlist for eligible Sophomores who have completed PWR1/WR1. Write to Prof. Miner to be added to the waitlist. vminer@stanford.edu	WAY-A-II, WAY-ED, Write-2
Religion, Ecology and Environmental Ethics	Ariel Evan Mayse	Autumn		WAY-ER
Resilience, Transformation, and Equilibrium: The Science of Materials	Yoda R Patta	Spring Summer		WAY-SMA
Riding the Data Wave	Chiara Sabatti	Autumn		WAY-AQR, WAY-FR
Russia's Weird Classic: Nikolai Gogol	Lazar Fleishman	Summer		WAY-A-II
Sappho: Erotic Poetess of Lesbos	Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi	Winter		WAY-CE, WAY-ED
Science in the News	Hans Andersen	Autumn		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
Sexuality and Society	Lisa Medoff	Autumn		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
State-Building	Stephen Krasner	Autumn		WAY-SI
Storytelling in Medicine	Lauren Edwards, Bryant Lin	Winter		WAY-CE
Surviving Space	Sigrid Close	Spring		WAY-AQR
Texts and Contexts: Spanish/English Literary Translation Workshop	Cintia Santana	Autumn	Updated weekly schedule - Monday Wednesday, 11:30am-12:30pm, remote synchronous. Newly cross-listed with Comparative Literature (look for COMPLIT 111Q)!	WAY-A-II, WAY-CE
The Aesthetics of Data	Jonathan Berger	Autumn		WAY-CE
The American Road Trip	Kai Carlson-Wee	Spring		WAY-A-II, 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 Ethical Gangster: How to be Moral, How to be Good—Mafia Style	Blakey Vermeule	Summer		WAY-ER
The Feminist Critique: The History and Politics of Gender Equality	Estelle Freedman	Autumn	New class schedule effective August 21--Monday Wednesday, 1:00pm-2:20pm.	WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
The Future Is Feminine	Shannon Pufahl	Summer		WAY-A-II, WAY-CE
The Global Positioning System: Where on Earth Are We, and What Time is It?	Sherman Lo	Summer		WAY-AQR
The Global Warming Paradox	Noah Diffenbaugh	Autumn		WAY-SMA
The Literature of Adoption	Peggy Phelan	Autumn		WAY-A-II
The Living Genome: Implications for Biology and Beyond	Jonathan Pollack	Winter		WAY-SMA
The Missing Link	Jessica Riskin	Autumn		WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
The Space Mission to Europa	Dustin Schroeder	Autumn		WAY-SMA
The U.S. Congress in Historical and Comparative Perspective	Gary Cox	Autumn		WAY-SI
Theatrical Wonders from Shakespeare to Mozart	Blair Hoxby	Autumn		WAY-A-II
Things About Stuff	Thomas Lee	Winter		WAY-SMA
Thinking about Photographs	Terry Castle	Summer		WAY-A-II
Thinking About War	Mark Lewis	Summer		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
United Nations Peacekeeping	Bertrand Patenaude	Winter		WAY-ED
Views of a Changing Sea: Literature and Science	William Gilly	Spring		WAY-A-II
Visible Bodies: Black Female Authors and the Politics of Publishing in Africa	Joel Cabrita	Winter	Effective January 11th, this class will be offered for variable units of credit, 3 - 4.	WAY-ED, WAY-SI
Were They Really “Hard Times”? Mid-Victorian Social Movements and Charles Dickens	Gabriel Wolfenstein	Spring	HISTORY 39Q APPROVED FOR WAY-SI AND WAY-ER EFFECTIVE MARCH 11, 2021.	WAY-ER, WAY-SI
Write Like a Poet: From Tradition to Innovation	Michael Shewmaker	Summer		WAY-CE
Writing Mystical, Spiritual, and Altered Experiences	William Brewer	Winter		WAY-CE
Zionism and the Novel	Russell Berman	Autumn		WAY-A-II, WAY-ED, Write-2