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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
Animal Behavior: Sex, Death, and Sometimes Food!	Joseph Garner	Autumn Spring		WAY-SMA
Art in the Metropolis	Charles Kronengold	Spring	This seminar has a special application process and deadline. See bolded section on seminar page. Note new instructor and updated class meeting times, Fridays, 2:30pm - 4:20pm.	WAY-A-II
Batman, Hamilton, Díaz, and Other Wondrous Lives	Jose Saldivar	Autumn		WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
Behind the Big Drums: Exploring Taiko	Stephen Sano, Linda Uyechi	Spring		WAY-A-II
Bioengineering Materials to Heal the Body	Sarah Heilshorn	Spring		WAY-SMA
Black and White Relations in American Fiction and Film	Christina Mesa	Winter		WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
Blood and Money: The Origins of Antisemitism	Rowan Dorin	Autumn		WAY-SI, Write-2
Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy	Michael Boskin	Spring		WAY-SI
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 the seminar page, in the right sidebar. Then, sign up for the section with your preferred lab time at VCAIS.stanford.edu.	WAY-SMA
Climate Change Ecology: Is It Too Late?	Tadashi Fukami	Spring		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	The Spring Quarter offering of CS 45Q has been cancelled.	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 the seminar 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
Diamonds	Wendy Mao	Spring		WAY-SMA
Digging for Answers: 5 Big Questions of Our Time	Ian Hodder	Winter		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
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	Winter		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 of Sports	Juliana Bidadanure	Autumn		WAY-ER
Ethics, Morality, and Markets	Barbara Kiviat	Winter		WAY-ER, WAY-SI
Exploring the Critical Interface Between the Land and Monterey Bay: Elkhorn Slough	Christopher Francis	Spring		WAY-SMA
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 Multigenerational Novel	Austin Smith	Winter		WAY-A-II
Franz Kafka: Literature and the Modern Human Condition	Amir Eshel	Winter		WAY-A-II
Frontiers in Theoretical Physics and Cosmology	Savas Dimopoulos	Winter		WAY-SMA
Functional Materials and Devices	Yuri Suzuki	Autumn		WAY-SMA
Gardens and Sacred Space in Japan	Michaela Mross	Autumn		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	Autumn Spring		WAY-SMA
Globally Emerging Zoonotic Diseases	Stephen Felt, DVM, MPH	Spring		WAY-SMA
Harmonic Convergence: Music’s Intersections with Science, Mathematics, History, and Literature	Paul Phillips	Winter		WAY-A-II
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 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	Winter		WAY-SI
Howard Zinn and the Quest for Historical Truth	Sam Wineburg	Autumn		WAY-A-II
Human Origins	Richard Klein	Spring		WAY-SMA
I Bet You Think You're Funny: A Workshop in Humor	Edward Porter	Autumn		WAY-A-II, 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
Intracellular Trafficking and Neurodegeneration	Yanmin Yang	Winter		WAY-SMA
Kangnam Style: K-pop and the Globalization of Korean Soft Power	Dafna Zur	Autumn		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		WAY-ER, Write-2
Learn to Intervene, Wisely	Greg Walton	Autumn		WAY-SI
Linguistic Meaning and the Law	Cleo Condoravdi	Winter		WAY-FR
Mad Dogs and Englishmen: Archaeology and the Ancient Near East	Alice Petty	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
Maps in the Modern World	Kären Wigen	Autumn		WAY-SI
Mass Atrocities and Reconciliation	Pawel Robert Lutomski	Spring		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		WAY-CE
Modern "Meanings of Life": Aestheticism, Perfectionism, Ecstasy	Mark Greif	Winter		WAY-A-II, WAY-ER
Neuroforecasting	Brian Knutson	Winter		WAY-SI
Noam Chomsky: The Drama of Resistance	Rush Rehm	Autumn		WAY-ER, WAY-SI
Performing America: The Broadway Musical	Thomas Grey	Spring		WAY-A-II, WAY-CE
Perspectives on the Abortion Experience in Western Fiction	Paul D. Blumenthal, MD, MPH	Spring		WAY-A-II
Photographing Nature	Robert Siegel	Autumn		WAY-CE
Physics in the 21st Century	Chao-Lin Kuo	Autumn	Updated course description.	WAY-SMA
Place: Making Space Now	Thomas Beischer	Spring		WAY-A-II
Power, Prestige, and Politics in African Societies	Joel Cabrita	Winter		WAY-ED, WAY-SI
Predicting Volcanic Eruptions	Paul Segall	Spring		WAY-AQR, WAY-SMA
Prisons and Performance	Janice Ross	Autumn		WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
Proofs and Modern Mathematics	Lisa Sauermann	Autumn		WAY-FR
Psychology of Xenophobia	Rania Awaad	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	This seminar has moved to Spring Quarter!	WAY-FR, WAY-SMA
Queer Sculpture	Terry Berlier	Spring		WAY-CE, WAY-ED
Race and Gender in Silicon Valley	Cynthia Lee	Winter	CS 80Q postponed from Autumn to Winter Quarter. Therefore, only limited seats may be available.	WAY-ED
Riding the Data Wave	Chiara Sabatti	Autumn		WAY-AQR, WAY-FR
Russia's Weird Classic: Nikolai Gogol	Lazar Fleishman	Autumn		WAY-A-II
Sappho: Erotic Poetess of Lesbos	Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi	Winter		WAY-CE, WAY-ED
Savvy: Learning How to Communicate with Purpose	Francis Flynn	Spring		WAY-SI
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
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
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
Smoke and Mirrors in Global Health	Matthew Kohrman	Winter		WAY-SI
South Africa: Contested Transitions	Joel Samoff	Winter		WAY-ED, WAY-SI, Write-2
Sports Writing	John Evans	Autumn		WAY-A-II, WAY-CE
Technology in the Greenhouse	Franklin M. ("Lynn") Orr, Jr.	Winter		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 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 Conscience	Esther Yu	Autumn		WAY-ER
The Detective and the City	Frederic Stout	Spring		WAY-A-II
The Feminist Critique: The History and Politics of Gender Equality	Estelle Freedman	Winter		WAY-A-II, 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		WAY-AQR
The Global Warming Paradox	Noah Diffenbaugh	Autumn		WAY-SMA
The Missing Link	Jessica Riskin	Winter		WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
The New Wave: How the French Reinvented Cinema	Cecile Alduy	Autumn		WAY-A-II
The Soviet Union and the World: Views from the Hoover Archives	Norman Naimark	Winter		WAY-SI
The Video Essay: Writing with Video About Film and Media	Shane Denson	Autumn		WAY-CE
Theatrical Wonders from Shakespeare to Mozart	Blair Hoxby	Autumn		WAY-A-II
Thinking about Photographs	Terry Castle	Spring		WAY-A-II
Thinking About War	Mark Lewis	Winter		WAY-SI
To Die For: Antigone and Political Dissent	Rush Rehm	Autumn		WAY-ED, WAY-ER
Understanding Race and Ethnicity in American Society	C. Matthew Snipp	Autumn	No space is available SOC 45Q/CSRE 45Q and the seminar is considered closed to additional enrollment at this time. -IntroSems team, 09/23/2019	WAY-ED, WAY-SI
Understanding the Welfare System	Thomas MaCurdy	Autumn		WAY-SI
United Nations Peacekeeping	Bertrand Patenaude	Winter		WAY-ED
What Is Nanotechnology?	H.-S. Philip Wong	Spring	This seminar has an updated weekly schedule (W/F).	WAY-SMA
When Chemistry Meets Engineering	Matteo Cargnello	Autumn	This seminar meets in Shriram Center Room 368 on Tuesdays and Thursdays mornings. The mandatory lab section on Thursday afternoon is scheduled in Shriram Teaching Center Lab Room 132.	WAY-SMA
Women Making Music	Heather Hadlock	Autumn		WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
Write Like a Poet: From Tradition to Innovation	Michael Shewmaker	Autumn		WAY-CE
Writers' Salon	Keith Ekiss	Autumn		WAY-CE