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 Winter IntroSems with Space Available. Sign up for priority enrollment in Spring IntroSems in the IntroSems' VCA between January 15th and February 12th at 8AM PT.
All Ways Seminars
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2020 Election: Understanding the National, Participating in the Local | Michael Rosenfeld |
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WAY-SI | ||
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3D Printed Aerospace Structures | Debbie Senesky |
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WAY-AQR | ||
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A Comparative Exploration of Higher Education in Jamaica (Anglo-Caribbean) and South Africa | Chad O. Coates |
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WAY-ED, WAY-SI | ||
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Aardvarks to Zebras: The A to Z of Animal Anatomy | Kerriann Casey, DVM |
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WAY-SMA | ||
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Accessing Architecture Through Drawing | John Barton |
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WAY-CE | ||
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American Greed: From Gold Rush to Silicon Valley | Nicole Martin |
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WAY-SI | ||
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An Artist’s Life: Diverse Voices and Changing Contexts | Terry Berlier, Camille Utterback |
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WAY-CE | ||
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Animal Behavior: Sex, Death, and Sometimes Food! | Joseph Garner |
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Class schedule: Tue 12:30 PM - 2:20 PM; Thu 12:30 PM - 1:50 PM | WAY-SMA | |
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Animal Poems: The Fascination of What's Different | Denise Gigante |
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WAY-A-II | ||
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Batman, Hamilton, Díaz, and Other Wondrous Lives | Jose Saldivar |
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WAY-A-II, WAY-ED | ||
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Beethoven | Stephen Hinton |
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Effective December 9th, MUSIC 33N will be meeting online instead of in person. | WAY-A-II | |
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Behind the Big Drums: Exploring Taiko | Stephen Sano, Linda Uyechi |
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WAY-A-II | ||
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Being Reasonable | Krista Lawlor |
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WAY-A-II | ||
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Building Trust in Autonomy | Mykel Kochenderfer |
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WAY-AQR, WAY-SMA | ||
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Busting Energy Myths | Anthony Kovscek, Channing Robertson |
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WAY-SMA | ||
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Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy | Michael Boskin |
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WAY-SI | ||
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Causes and Consequences of the Rise in Inequality | Luigi Pistaferri |
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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 | |
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Challenging Sex and Gender Dichotomies in Medicine | Marcia L. Stefanick, Ph.D. |
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WAY-ED, WAY-SI | ||
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Character | Esther Yu |
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WAY-A-II, WAY-ER | ||
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Chemistry in the Kitchen | Richard Zare |
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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 | |
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Childish Enthusiasms and Perishable Manias | Scott Bukatman |
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WAY-A-II | ||
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Comparative Fictions of Ethnicity | David Palumbo-Liu |
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WAY-A-II, WAY-ED, Write-2 | ||
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Conservation Photography | Susan K. McConnell |
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WAY-CE | ||
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Contemporary African Politics | David D. Laitin |
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WAY-ED | ||
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Cystic Fibrosis: From Medical Conundrum to Precision Medicine Success Story | Ron Kopito |
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WAY-SMA | ||
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Dare to Care: Compassionate Design | John Moalli |
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CHEMENG 90Q IS CERTIFIED FOR WAY-ED. There is an error in ExploreCourses where the Way is erroneously not showing. We are working to fix this as of Aug 28, 2020. | WAY-ED | |
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Democracy in Crisis: Learning from the Past | Thomas Ehrlich |
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WAY-SI | ||
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Digging for Answers: 5 Big Questions of Our Time | Ian Hodder |
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WAY-SI | ||
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Documentary Film: Telling It Like It Is? | Jan Krawitz |
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WAY-A-II | ||
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Does Social Media Make Better Physicians? | Dr Michael Gisondi |
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WAY-CE | ||
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Dramatic Tensions: Theater and the Marketplace | Amy Freed |
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WAY-A-II | ||
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Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Disease in a Changing World | Erin Mordecai |
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WAY-SMA | ||
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Eight Great Archaeological Sites in Europe | Michael Shanks |
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WAY-A-II, Write-2 | ||
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Energy Options for the 21st Century | John Fox |
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WAY-SMA | ||
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Energy, the Environment, and the Economy | Frank Wolak |
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WAY-SI | ||
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Engineering the Built Environment: An Introduction to Structural Engineering | Sarah Billington |
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WAY-AQR | ||
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Environmental Regulation and Policy | Shari Libicki |
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WAY-AQR | ||
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Ethics for Everyone: Democratizing Ethics with Discrimination, Inequality, Injustice, and Technology in Mind | Susan Liautaud |
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WAY-ER | ||
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Exploring the Critical Interface Between the Land and Monterey Bay: Elkhorn Slough | Christopher Francis |
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WAY-SMA | ||
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Family Drama: American Plays about Families | Margaret Phelan |
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WAY-A-II | ||
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Family Stories | Brittany Perham |
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WAY-CE | ||
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First Chapters: Please Allow Me to Introduce My Novel | Tom Kealey |
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WAY-CE | ||
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Functional Materials and Devices | Yuri Suzuki |
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WAY-SMA | ||
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Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, Engineering, and Environment | Londa Schiebinger |
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WAY-ED, WAY-SI, Write-2 | ||
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Genes, Memes, and Behavior | Scott S. Hall, Ph.D |
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WAY-SMA | ||
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Globally Emerging Zoonotic Diseases | Stephen Felt, DVM, MPH |
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WAY-SMA | ||
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Government by the Numbers | Mark Duggan, Steve Ballmer |
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WAY-SI | ||
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Great Inventions That Matter | Shan X. Wang |
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WAY-SMA | ||
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Harmony and the Universe | Hirohisa A. Tanaka |
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Added to the Summer curriculum on 8/17/20! | WAY-SMA | |
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Heartfulness: Mindfulness, Compassion, and Responsibility | Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu |
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WAY-ED | ||
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Hormones in a Performance-Enhanced Society | Andrew R. Hoffman, M.D. |
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WAY-SMA | ||
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How to Learn Mathematics - and everything else! | Jo Boaler |
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WAY-SI | ||
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How to Make a Racist | Steven O. Roberts |
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Effective December 7, PSYCH 21N will meet online and remotely in Winter Quarter (not in person). | WAY-ED | |
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Howard Zinn and the Quest for Historical Truth | Sam Wineburg |
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WAY-A-II | ||
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Human Origins | Richard Klein |
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BIO 8N has moved from Spring to Winter. | WAY-SMA | |
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I Bet You Think You're Funny: A Workshop in Humor | Edward Porter |
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WAY-A-II, WAY-CE | ||
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Imaginative Realms: Writing Beyond Realism | Keith Ekiss |
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WAY-CE | ||
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Imagining Women: Writers in Print and in Person | Valerie Miner |
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WAY-A-II, WAY-ED, Write-2 | ||
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Income and Wealth Inequality from the Stone Age to the Present | Walter Scheidel |
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WAY-SI | ||
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International Organizations and Accountability | Erica Gould |
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WAY-SI | ||
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Intracellular Trafficking and Neurodegeneration | Yanmin Yang |
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WAY-SMA | ||
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It IS Rocket Science! | Andrew Barrows |
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WAY-AQR, WAY-SMA | ||
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It's the Freakiest Show: David Bowie's Intertextual Imagination | Tiffany Naiman |
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WAY-A-II, Write-2 | ||
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Joys and Pains of Growing Up and Older in Japan | Yoshiko Matsumoto |
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WAY-ED, WAY-SI | ||
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Kī hōaʻlu: The New Renaissance of a Hawaiian Musical Tradition | Stephen Sano |
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WAY-CE | ||
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Laboratory Mouse in Biomedical Research | Claude M. Nagamine |
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WAY-SMA | ||
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Law and Drama | Branislav Jakovljevic |
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WAY-A-II, WAY-ER | ||
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Law and the Biosciences | Henry T. (Hank) Greely |
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WAY-ER, Write-2 | ||
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Leaving Patriarchy: A Course for All Genders | Nina Schloesser Tarano |
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WAY-CE | ||
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Linguistic Meaning and the Law | Cleo Condoravdi |
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WAY-FR | ||
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Listening to Climate Change | Kirsten Paige |
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WAY-A-II | ||
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Love and Death | Patrick Phillips |
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WAY-A-II, WAY-CE | ||
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Medical Device Innovation | Joseph Mandato, Mr Ryan K Pierce |
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WAY-CE | ||
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Mixed-Race Politics and Culture | Michele Elam |
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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 | |
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Neuroforecasting | Brian Knutson |
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WAY-SI | ||
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Noam Chomsky: The Drama of Resistance | Rush Rehm |
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Updated class schedule - Wednesdays, 4:00PM - 7:00PM (PT). | WAY-ER, WAY-SI | |
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Other People's Words: Folklore and Literature | Gabriella Safran |
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WAY-A-II, Write-2 | ||
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Performing America: The Broadway Musical | Thomas Grey |
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WAY-A-II, WAY-CE | ||
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Photographing Nature | Robert Siegel |
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WAY-CE | ||
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Physics in the 21st Century | Chao-Lin Kuo |
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Added to the Autumn curriculum on 8/17/20! | WAY-SMA | |
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Psychology of Xenophobia | Rania Awaad |
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WAY-ED, WAY-SI | ||
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Public Policy and Personal Finance | Gregory Rosston |
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WAY-SI | ||
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Quantum Information: Visions and Emerging Technologies | Monika Schleier-Smith |
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WAY-FR, WAY-SMA | ||
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Race and Gender in Silicon Valley | Cynthia Lee |
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WAY-ED | ||
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Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Contemporary Art | Richard Meyer |
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WAY-ED | ||
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Reading and Writing the Gendered Story | Valerie Miner |
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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 | |
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Religion, Ecology and Environmental Ethics | Ariel Evan Mayse |
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WAY-ER | ||
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Resilience, Transformation, and Equilibrium: The Science of Materials | Yoda R Patta |
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WAY-SMA | ||
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Riding the Data Wave | Chiara Sabatti |
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WAY-AQR, WAY-FR | ||
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Russia's Weird Classic: Nikolai Gogol | Lazar Fleishman |
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Effective August 24--Slavic 77Q will NOT be offered in Autumn Quarter. Russia's Weird Classic: Nikolai Gogol will be offered in Summer Quarter only. | WAY-A-II | |
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Sappho: Erotic Poetess of Lesbos | Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi |
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WAY-CE, WAY-ED | ||
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Science in the News | Hans Andersen |
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WAY-SMA | ||
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Scientific Method and Bias | John P.A. Ioannidis |
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WAY-SMA | ||
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Self Theories | Carol Dweck |
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WAY-SI | ||
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Sensory Ecology of Marine Animals | Stuart Thompson |
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WAY-SMA | ||
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Sexuality and Society | Lisa Medoff |
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WAY-SI | ||
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Shakespeare and Performance in a Global Context | Patricia Parker |
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WAY-A-II | ||
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Shakespeare, Playing, Gender | Patricia Parker |
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WAY-A-II | ||
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Socialism vs. Capitalism: Russian and American Writers’ Responses | Yuliya Ilchuk |
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WAY-A-II, WAY-SI | ||
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Sports Writing | John Evans |
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WAY-A-II, WAY-CE | ||
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State-Building | Stephen Krasner |
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WAY-SI | ||
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Storytelling in Medicine | Lauren Edwards, Bryant Lin |
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WAY-CE | ||
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Surviving Space | Sigrid Close |
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WAY-AQR | ||
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Texts and Contexts: Spanish/English Literary Translation Workshop | Cintia Santana |
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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 | |
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The Aesthetics of Data | Jonathan Berger |
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WAY-CE | ||
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The American Road Trip | Kai Carlson-Wee |
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WAY-A-II, WAY-CE | ||
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The Artist in Ancient Greek Society | Jody Maxmin |
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WAY-A-II | ||
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The Detective and the City | Frederic Stout |
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WAY-A-II | ||
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The Feminist Critique: The History and Politics of Gender Equality | Estelle Freedman |
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New class schedule effective August 21--Monday Wednesday, 1:00pm-2:20pm. | WAY-A-II, WAY-SI | |
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The Future Is Feminine | Shannon Pufahl |
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WAY-A-II, WAY-CE | ||
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The Global Positioning System: Where on Earth Are We, and What Time is It? | Sherman Lo |
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WAY-AQR | ||
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The Global Warming Paradox | Noah Diffenbaugh |
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WAY-SMA | ||
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The Literature of Adoption | Margaret Phelan |
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WAY-A-II | ||
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The Living Genome: Implications for Biology and Beyond | Jonathan Pollack |
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WAY-SMA | ||
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The Missing Link | Jessica Riskin |
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WAY-A-II, WAY-SI | ||
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The Space Mission to Europa | Dustin Schroeder |
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WAY-SMA | ||
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The U.S. Congress in Historical and Comparative Perspective | Gary Cox |
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WAY-SI | ||
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Theatrical Wonders from Shakespeare to Mozart | Blair Hoxby |
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WAY-A-II | ||
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Things About Stuff | Thomas Lee |
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WAY-SMA | ||
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Thinking about Photographs | Terry Castle |
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WAY-A-II | ||
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Thinking About War | Mark Lewis |
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WAY-SI | ||
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To Die For: Antigone and Political Dissent | Rush Rehm |
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WAY-ED, WAY-ER | ||
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Understanding Children's Health Disparities | Donald Barr |
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WAY-ED, WAY-SI | ||
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United Nations Peacekeeping | Bertrand Patenaude |
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WAY-ED | ||
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Visible Bodies: Black Female Authors and the Politics of Publishing in Africa | Joel Cabrita |
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Effective January 11th, this class will be offered for variable units of credit, 3 - 4. | WAY-ED, WAY-SI | |
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Write Like a Poet: From Tradition to Innovation | Michael Shewmaker |
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WAY-CE | ||
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Writing Mystical, Spiritual, and Altered Experiences | William Brewer |
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WAY-CE | ||
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Zionism and the Novel | Russell Berman |
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