Seminars by Interest: What can you design and build?

First-Year

Film and History of Artificial Intelligence in the United States and Latin America
Seminar Updates
First-Year

Pixels from the Past: Ancient Greece and Rome in Digital Media
First-Year

Genetics-First Psychiatry: From Rare Syndromes to Brain Development
Sophomore

Shakespeare, Playing, Gender
Sophomore

Philosophical Foundations of Statistics
First-Year

The Age of Romanticism: Painting, Literature, Politics
First-Year

Seeing Again: Unlocking the Epigenome to Rejuvenate Retinal Neurons
Sophomore High Demand + Lottery

Eight Great Archaeological Sites in Europe
Sophomore High Demand

Probability and gambling
First-Year

The Foundations of American Popular Music: Present Day Implications
First-Year

Just Data? Re-imagining Inequality Research
Sophomore

Cultivate a Compassionate Presence at the Bedside: An Aging and End-of- Life Care Practicum
Sophomore

California Dreaming
Home
First-Year

Electric Dreams: Technology, Politics, And The Modern Imagination
Sophomore

What is Gender-Based Violence (GBV)? Policies and Politics of Recognition and Prevention
First-Year

The Future of America's Healthcare Policies
First-Year

Gender Under Pressure: Identity and Politics, 1970-2025
First-Year

Ghosts, Zombies, and Cyborgs: More-Than-Humans in East Asian Literature
Sophomore

From the Foothills to the Bay: Perspectives on the Sacramento River & SF Bay-Delta
First-Year

Earth at a Crossroads: Negotiating the Politics of Global Environmental Governance
First-Year

Traditional Ecological Knowledge for Land Stewardship
First-Year

How to Predict a Super Eruption
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First-Year

The Data Scientist as Detective
First-Year

ALS: New Discoveries and Therapeutic Development for a Deadly Disease
First-Year

Japanese Arts: A Creative Exploration
First-Year

Perspectives on the Good Life
Open to All Undergrads

Art in the Metropolis

Special Deadline: October 24, 2025.
Sophomore

Democratizing Ethics with Discrimination, Inequality, Injustice and Technology in Mind
Sophomore

Getting ahead of Bias in AI Applications
Seminars
Sophomore

Picturing Americans
Sophomore

Mending a Broken Heart: The Anatomy, Physiology, and Psychology of Congenital Heart Disease
First-Year

Mapping Apartheid: Data, the Regina Twala Archive at Stanford & the Global Legacy of Racial Segregation
Jana Katerina Hunter

Assistant Professor of History
First-Year

Quantum Information and Computing, Entangled and Unscrambled
Sophomore

The Magic of Medical Imaging
Sophomore

Borges and Translation
Sophomore

The many wizards of Oz
Sophomore High Demand

Zionism and the Novel
First-Year

The Shakespearean Stage
First-Year

The Science of Diverse Communities
First-Year

The New Wave: How The French Reinvented Cinema
First-Year

Queer Sculpture
First-Year

Peregrinations with Trees
First-Year

Imagining the Universe: From Dante to Contemporary Cosmology
First-Year

How did you get here?
First-Year

Ethnicity, Race, and Violence: Anthropological Perspectives
Sophomore

Cancer: Biology, History, and Therapy
First-Year High Demand

A Taste of Quantum Physics
Dates and Deadlines
First-Year High Demand

How to Design a Space Mission: from Concept to Execution
First-Year

What is Called Living?
First-Year

Race, Identity, and Ethnic Formation
First-Year

Quantum Information: Visions and Emerging Technologies
First-Year

Maps in the Modern World
Sophomore High Demand

Making Sense of Strategy
First-Year

Computer Play: An Unconventional, Musical Introduction to CS and EE
Sophomore

Writing the Body: Medicine, Culture, and Self
First-Year

Wind Energy Explained
First-Year

Viruses in the News
First-Year High Demand

Why Games Matter: The Philosophy of Play
Sophomore

Unlocking the Mind: An Overview of Modern Psychotherapy Approaches
First-Year

Understanding the Welfare System
First-Year High Demand

Things about Stuff
First-Year

The US Congress in Historical and Comparative Perspective
First-Year

Think Before You Drink: Neurocircuitry of Alcohol Use Across the Developmental Lifespan
First-Year

The Pop Cancer Phenomena: Media, Myths, and Medical Truths
First-Year

The Science and Ethics of Personalized Genomic Medicine
First-Year High Demand

The Roman Empire: Its Grandeur and Fall
Sophomore

The Personal is Political: Creative Writing for Reproductive Justice
First-Year High Demand

The Psychology of Stoked
Sophomore

The Art of Medical Diagnosis
First-Year

The Good Death
First-Year High Demand

The Baby Wars: who should control our ability to reproduce – the mother, the state, the fetus?
First-Year

The Inner Lives of Black Women
First-Year High Demand

The Global Refugee Crisis
First-Year

The Art of Chinese Poetry
Sophomore

Stress and the Social Brain
Sophomore

Studio 1: Architecture - Space, Light, and Movement
First-Year

The Archaeological Imagination
Sophomore High Demand

Surgical Anatomy of the Hand: From Rodin to Reconstruction
Sophomore High Demand

The American Road Trip
First-Year

Sustainable Adaptation
First-Year

Suing for Freedom
Sophomore High Demand

The Anatomy of Asylum law: Who Gets It and Why?
First-Year

Surviving Space
Sophomore

See the Unseen: How Radiology Uncovers Cancer
First-Year

Sensory Ecology of Marine Animals
Sophomore

Sports Writing
First-Year

Social Bias and Earwitness Memory
First-Year

Skepticism
First-Year High Demand + Lottery

Self Theories
First-Year

Seeing the Invisible
Sophomore

Storytelling in Medicine
First-Year

Roman Portraits and Persons
First-Year

Sappho: Erotic Poetess of Lesbos
Sophomore High Demand

Re-Imagining U.S. Border Law and Policy
First-Year High Demand + Lottery

Science of the Impossible
First-Year

Scientific Method and Bias
First-Year

Sculpting with Sounds, Images, and Words
First-Year High Demand

Secrecy
First-Year

Polio and Ethics: Past, Present and Future
First-Year

Playback Theater
First-Year

Poetry: Wordsworth, Dickinson, Rilke
Sophomore

Queer Stories
First-Year High Demand + Lottery

Public Policy and Personal Finance
First-Year High Demand

Pathophysiology and Design for Cardiovascular Disease
Sophomore

Ouch it Hurts! The Comparative Neurobiology of Pain
First-Year

Ocean Conservation: Pathways to Solutions
First-Year High Demand

Physics in the 21st Century
First-Year High Demand

Other People's Words: Folklore and Literature
First-Year

Mental Health in Context: Race, Identity, and Resilience
First-Year

Meditation and Arts in Zen Buddhism
Sophomore High Demand

Medical Device Innovation
Sophomore

Microscopy in Animal Disease
First-Year

Mark Twain and American Culture
First-Year

Metalheads of Modern Science
First-Year

Musical Dishonesty: Fakes, Forgeries, Counterfeits, Hoaxes, Deceptions, Illusions, and Artifice
Sophomore

Mathematics of Knots, Braids, Links, and Tangles
First-Year

Let's Talk About Love (Songs)
First-Year High Demand

Life at the Extremes: From the Deep Sea to Deep Space
First-Year High Demand

Making at the nanometer scale: A journey into microchips
First-Year

Man versus Nature: Coping with Disasters Using Space Technology
First-Year High Demand

Love and Death
Sophomore High Demand

Law and the Biosciences
First-Year High Demand

Law and Inequality
First-Year High Demand

Lasers, lasers, nothing but lasers
First-Year

Language and Power
First-Year

Languages, Dialects, Speakers
Sophomore

Japanese Companies and Japanese Society
First-Year High Demand

Intracellular Trafficking and Neurodegeneration
First-Year

Is Privacy Dead? Privacy, Surveillance, and Freedom in the Digital Age
First-Year

International Relations in Science Fiction
First-Year

Ink and Resistance: Unraveling Latin American Narratives
First-Year

Improving Inclusive Higher Ed: Students with Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities at Stanford?
Sophomore High Demand

I Bet You Think You're Funny: Humor Writing Workshop
First-Year

How to make a tornado (and other flows in the atmosphere and ocean)
First-Year High Demand

How to Start Your Own Country: Sovereignty and State-Formation in Modern History
Sophomore High Demand

Inside the Courtroom: Criminal Justice on Trial
Sophomore

I thought I heard my name... Destigmatizing psychosis
First-Year

History Goes Pop!: Songwriting the Past
First-Year

Happily Ever After? German Fairy Tales and Their Afterlives
First-Year

How Bacteria Hunt for Food
First-Year High Demand

How Can Generative AI Help Us Learn?
First-Year High Demand

How to Learn Mathematics
First-Year

History in Images: Scenes from the Franco Dictatorship in Spanish Cinema
First-Year High Demand

How Beliefs Create Reality
First-Year High Demand

How to Make a Racist
Sophomore

Globally Emerging Zoonotic Diseases
First-Year High Demand

Great Ideas in Graphics
Sophomore High Demand

Gender and Media
Sophomore High Demand

Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, Engineering, and Environment
First-Year High Demand

Great Inventions That Matter
First-Year

Fibonacci's rabbits and Darwin's elephants: integer sequences for evolutionary biology
First-Year

Engaging with Music
First-Year

Eye, Brain, Vision
First-Year High Demand

Energy Options for the 21st Century
First-Year High Demand

Eloquence Personified: How To Speak Like Cicero
First-Year

Exploring the Critical Interface Between the Land and Monterey Bay: Elkhorn Slough
Sophomore High Demand

Edible Materials: The science of texture
Sophomore

Disentangling the world of quantum computing
First-Year

Dramatic Tensions: Theater and the Marketplace
First-Year High Demand

Designing Science Fiction Planets
Sophomore High Demand

Demystifying Pregnancy: Physiology, Policy and Politics
First-Year

Cold Truths: Understanding Climate Change in Our Polar Regions
First-Year High Demand

Conservation Photography
Sophomore

Clean Water Now! Urban Water Conflicts
First-Year High Demand

Chemistry in the Kitchen
Sophomore

Dare to Care: Compassionate Design
First-Year

Counterfactuals: The Science of What Ifs?
First-Year High Demand

Datathletics: Diving into Data Analytics and Stanford Sports
Sophomore

Connections between the sleep and awake worlds
Sophomore High Demand

Consciousness and Self Psychology
Sophomore High Demand

Comparative Fictions of Ethnicity
Sophomore

Chemical Engineering for Sustainability
First-Year

Black Panther, Hamilton, Díaz, and Other Wondrous Lives
Sophomore

Challenging Sex and Gender Dichotomies in Medicine
First-Year

Busting Energy Myths
First-Year

Character
Sophomore High Demand

Blood and Money: The Origins of Antisemitism
First-Year

Animal Cognition
Sophomore

Beethoven
First-Year High Demand

Big Ideas in Cryptography
Sophomore

Bioethics for the Modern Prometheus
First-Year

Ants
Sophomore High Demand

Becoming whatever you want to be: lessons learned from a stem cell
First-Year

Bad Sounds
First-Year

Behind the Big Drums: Exploring Taiko
First-Year

Belonging in a Diverse Society
First-Year

AI for Human & Planetary Health
First-Year

Animal Behavior: Sex, Death, and Sometimes Food!
Sophomore

Aardvarks to Zebras: The A to Z of Animal Anatomy
First-Year

And that’s why cats should never eat garlic!
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