Seminars by Interest: What is at stake in national & international affairs?
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First-YearDid Women Travel? A Digital History
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First-Year OversubscribedMaking at the nanometer scale: A journey into microchips
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First-YearIntroduction to Mechanical Engineering
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First-Year OversubscribedHow Can Generative AI Help Us Learn?
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First-YearFree to Choose Revisited
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First-YearAfter the Apocalypse
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First-YearMoving and Shaking in the Bay Area
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First-YearBooks to Bollywood
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First-YearOur Icy Oceans
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SophomoreThe Art of Medical Diagnosis
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First-YearEnd Times
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First-YearRace and the Making of American Politics
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First-YearHow We Talk Online
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Sophomore OversubscribedMathematics of Knots, Braids, Links, and Tangles
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First-Year OversubscribedElectric Dreams: Technology, Politics, And The Modern Imagination
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First-YearComedy and Power
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SophomoreTrans Stories
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Sophomore OversubscribedMedical Device Innovation
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First-YearThinking About Death
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First-YearUnderstanding the Welfare System
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First-YearJapanese Arts: A Creative Exploration
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First-YearLiterature and Belonging
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SophomoreBeing Human in an AI World
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SophomoreWar and Art
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First-YearThe Giving Tree
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First-YearNepotism: families, status, and wealth
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SophomoreSlums: The Dark Side of the Cities
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First-YearMedieval Ecologies
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SophomoreAmerican Hauntings
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SophomoreThe Politics of the Apocalypse
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First-YearArt Worlds: Museum, Studio, Gallery, Archive
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First-YearIslam and Water
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First-YearCan Computer Systems Keep Secrets?
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First-YearAsian Myths, Modern Retellings
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First-YearAsian American History: An Introduction
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First-YearPoems & Pictures
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Sophomore OversubscribedBecoming whatever you want to be: lessons learned from a stem cell
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Sophomore OversubscribedGendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, Engineering, and Environment
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Sophomore OversubscribedLaw and the Biosciences
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Sophomore OversubscribedZionism and the Novel
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Sophomore OversubscribedComparative Fictions of Ethnicity
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First-Year OversubscribedLove and Death
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Sophomore OversubscribedInside the Courtroom: Criminal Justice on Trial
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First-YearSappho: Erotic Poetess of Lesbos
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First-YearJust Data? Re-imagining Inequality Research
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SophomoreStorytelling in Medicine
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First-YearHow Bacteria Hunt for Food
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First-YearEye, Brain, Vision
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First-Year OversubscribedPathophysiology and Design for Cardiovascular Disease
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First-YearWorld War II in Asia
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First-YearWind Energy Explained
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First-Year Oversubscribed + LotteryScience of the Impossible
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First-YearSeeing the Invisible
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SophomoreJapanese Companies and Japanese Society
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First-Year OversubscribedDatathletics: Diving into Data Analytics and Stanford Sports
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First-YearBelonging in a Diverse Society
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First-YearThe Art of Chinese Poetry
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First-YearThe Inner Lives of Black Women
Amy Sherald, First Lady Michelle Obama, 2018, oil on linen, National Portrait Gallery. Photo by Victoria Pickering on Flickr. See image license info here.
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First-Year OversubscribedLife at the Extremes: From the Deep Sea to Deep Space
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Sophomore OversubscribedConsciousness and Self Psychology
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First-Year OversubscribedHow Beliefs Create Reality
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First-Year OversubscribedChemistry in the Kitchen (Spring Quarter)
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First-Year OversubscribedIntracellular Trafficking and Neurodegeneration
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First-YearThe Cultural Shaping of Emotion
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Sophomore OversubscribedProbability and gambling (Spring Quarter)
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First-YearViruses in the News
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First-Year OversubscribedThe Psychology of Stoked
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First-Year OversubscribedBeethoven
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SophomoreChemical Engineering for Sustainability
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First-Year Oversubscribed
Chemistry in the Kitchen (Winter Quarter)
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Sophomore Oversubscribed
Probability and gambling (Winter Quarter)
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First-YearPoetry: Wordsworth, Dickinson, Rilke
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First-YearThe Wireless World, and the Data You Leak
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First-YearNietzsche and the Search for Meaning
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First-YearAnts
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First-YearBuddha's Brain and the New Science of Mind
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First-YearThe Future of America's Healthcare Policies
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First-Year OversubscribedThe Roman Empire: Its Grandeur and Fall
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First-YearScientific Method and Bias
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First-Year OversubscribedLasers, lasers, nothing but lasers
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First-YearThe Data Scientist as Detective
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First-YearAI for Human & Planetary Health
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SophomoreCalifornia Dreaming
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First-YearOcean Conservation: Pathways to Solutions
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First-Year OversubscribedThe Global Refugee Crisis
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Sophomore OversubscribedSurgical Anatomy of the Hand: From Rodin to Reconstruction
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First-YearCharacter
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SophomoreClean Water Now! Urban Water Conflicts
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First-Year OversubscribedHow to Learn Mathematics
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First-Year OversubscribedEarth at a Crossroads: Negotiating the Politics of Global Environmental Governance
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First-Year OversubscribedThe Baby Wars: who should control our ability to reproduce – the mother, the state, the fetus?
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First-Year OversubscribedChilis: Biology, History, Travels, Cuisine
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Sophomore OversubscribedEdible Materials: The science of texture
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First-Year OversubscribedGreat Ideas in Graphics
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First-Year OversubscribedThings about Stuff
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First-YearThe Shakespearean Stage
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First-Year OversubscribedIs Privacy Dead? Privacy, Surveillance, and Freedom in the Digital Age
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First-Year OversubscribedQuantum Information: Visions and Emerging Technologies
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First-YearPolio and Ethics: Past, Present and Future
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First-YearJane Austen's Fiction
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First-Year OversubscribedGreat Inventions That Matter
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First-Year OversubscribedDesigning Science Fiction Planets
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First-YearSocial Bias and Earwitness Memory
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First-YearThe Science of Diverse Communities
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First-YearPhysics in the 21st Century
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Sophomore OversubscribedI Bet You Think You're Funny: Humor Writing Workshop
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First-YearReligion in Anime and Manga
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First-YearPlayback Theater
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First-YearSkepticism
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First-YearBusting Energy Myths
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First-YearSculpting with Sounds, Images, and Words
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First-YearMark Twain and American Culture
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First-YearInequality in American Society
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First-YearWhen Chemistry Meets Engineering
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Sophomore OversubscribedSports Writing
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SophomoreThe Magic of Medical Imaging
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First-Year Oversubscribed + LotterySelf Theories
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First-YearQueer Sculpture
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First-Year OversubscribedQuantum Information and Computing, Entangled and Unscrambled
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Sophomore OversubscribedPhilosophical Foundations of Statistics
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First-YearMeditation and Arts in Zen Buddhism
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Gianluca Iaccarino
Robert Bosch Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Joseph L. and Roberta M. Rodgers Professor -
C. Matthew Snipp
Burnet C. and Mildred Finley Wohlford Professor -
Lester Kinker Su
Director of Undergraduate Teaching Laboratories -
First-YearSuing for Freedom
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First-YearBehind the Big Drums: Exploring Taiko
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First-YearEcosystem Restoration and the Carbon Cycle
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First-YearSustainable Adaptation
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First-YearBad Sounds
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First-YearMaps in the Modern World
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George Hilley
Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences -
Richard Vinograd
Christensen Professor of Asian Art -
First-YearSensory Ecology of Marine Animals
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First-Year OversubscribedLaw and Inequality
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First-Year OversubscribedEloquence Personified: How To Speak Like Cicero
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First-Year OversubscribedA Taste of Quantum Physics
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Brian T. Bateman
John Bunker, MD, Professor and Professor, by courtesy, of Epidemiology and Population Health -
Patricia Blessing
Associate Professor of Art & Art History -
Lamyu Maria Bo
Assistant Professor of English and, by courtesy, of East Asian Languages and Cultures -
Altair Brandon-Salmon
COLLEGE Lecturer -
Caitlin Brust
COLLEGE Lecturer -
David Camarillo
Associate Professor of Bioengineering and, by courtesy, of Neurosurgery and of Mechanical Engineering -
Gordon H. Chang
Olive H. Palmer Professor in Humanities -
Emma Dauterman
Assistant Professor of Computer Science -
Lauren Davenport
Professor of Political Science -
Gregory Deierlein
John A. Blume Professor in the School of Engineering -
Paula Findlen
Ubaldo Pierotti Professor of Italian History and Professor, by courtesy, of French and Italian -
Anna Grzymala-Busse
Michelle and Kevin Douglas Professor of International Studies and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and, by courtesy, at the Hoover Institution -
Robert Hawkins
Assistant Professor of Linguistics and, by courtesy, of Psychology -
Bernardo S. Hinojosa
Assistant Professor of English -
Nicholas Jenkins
Professor of English -
Roanne Kantor
Assistant Professor of English -
Ari Y. Kelman
Jim Joseph Professor of Education and Jewish Studies -
Marci Kwon
Associate Professor of Art and Art History -
Elaine Lai
COLLEGE Lecturer -
Emanuele Lugli
Associate Professor of Art and Art History -
Charlotte McCurdy
Lecturer -
Jisha Menon
Robert G. Freeman Professor of International Studies and Professor, by courtesy, of Comparative Literature -
Paula M. L. Moya
Danily C. and Laura Louise Bell Professor of the Humanities and Professor, by courtesy, of African and African American Studies and of Iberian and Latin American Cultures -
Teresa Phuongtram Nguyen
Clinical Assistant Professor -
Hae Young Noh
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering -
Judith Richardson
Senior Lecturer in English -
Theodore Roth
Assistant Professor of Pathology -
Manish Saggar
Associate Professor (Research) of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Interdisciplinary Brain Science Research) -
Cristian Felipe Soler Reyes
COLLEGE Lecturer -
Aaron F. Straight
Pfeiffer and Herold Families Professor, Professor of Biochemistry and, by courtesy, of Chemical and Systems Biology -
Tiziana Vanorio
Associate Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy and, by courtesy, of Civil and Environmental Engineering -
Kirsten Isabel Verster
COLLEGE Lecturer -
Meghan Warner
COLLEGE Lecturer -
Shannon Yan
Assistant Professor of Biology -
Daniel Zimmer
COLLEGE Lecturer -
Sinjin Lee
Adjunct Professor -
John Hennessy
President Emeritus, Shriram Family Director of the Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program, James F. and Mary Lynn Gibbons Professor and Professor of Electrical Engineering and of Computer Science -
Jana Katerina Hunter
Assistant Professor of History -
Charlotte Bøttcher
Assistant Professor of Applied Physics
