Seminars that Fulfill WAY-SI

Social Inquiry (SI)

Human beings are social animals. To understand human behavior and exercise responsible citizenship, you’ll need tools that allow you to explore and study the behaviors and propensities at the root of society as well as the ways in which those behaviors and propensities vary across space, time, and individual circumstances.

You’ll need to take two courses in Social Inquiry (SI).

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Course Title	Instructor	Quarter	Notes	Fulfills:
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
Democracy in Crisis: Learning from the Past	Thomas Ehrlich	Winter		WAY-SI
Energy, the Environment, and the Economy	Frank Wolak	Winter		WAY-SI
Food and Global History	Aron Rodrigue	Winter		WAY-SI
Gardens and Sacred Space in Japan	Michaela Mross	Spring		WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, Engineering, and Environment	Londa Schiebinger	Winter		WAY-ED, WAY-SI, Write-2
Growing Up Bilingual	Guadalupe Valdes	Winter		WAY-ED, WAY-SI
How to Start Your Own Country: Sovereignty and State-Formation in Modern History	Steven Press	Autumn		WAY-SI
Income and Wealth Inequality from the Stone Age to the Present	Walter Scheidel	Autumn		WAY-SI
International Organizations and Accountability	Erica Gould	Autumn		WAY-SI
International Organizations and the World Order	Phillip Y. Lipscy	Winter		WAY-SI
Joys and Pains of Growing Up and Older in Japan	Yoshiko Matsumoto	Spring	There is a waitlist for this course as of Feb. 25. To be added to the list, contact the instructor.	WAY-ED, WAY-SI
Justice and Cities	Brian Coyne	Winter		WAY-SI
Learn to Intervene, Wisely	Greg Walton	Autumn		WAY-SI
Madwomen and Madmen: Gender and the History of Mental Illness in the U.S.	Margo Horn	Winter		WAY-ED, WAY-SI
Making the Middle Ages	Rowan Dorin	Spring		WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
Maps in the Modern World	Kären Wigen	Autumn		WAY-SI
Mass Atrocities and Reconciliation	Pawel Robert Lutomski	Autumn		WAY-ER, WAY-SI
Neuroforecasting	Brian Knutson	Winter		WAY-SI
Noam Chomsky: The Drama of Resistance	Rush Rehm	Autumn		WAY-ER, WAY-SI
Public Policy and Personal Finance	Gregory Rosston	Spring		WAY-SI
Resistance and Collaboration in Hitler’s Europe	Jelena Batinic	Spring		WAY-ER, WAY-SI
Self Theories	Carol Dweck	Autumn		WAY-SI
Sexuality and Society	Lisa Medoff	Autumn		WAY-SI
Socialism vs. Capitalism: Russian and American Writers’ Responses	Yuliya Ilchuk	Spring		WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
South Africa: Contested Transitions	Joel Samoff	Winter		WAY-ED, WAY-SI, Write-2
Terrorism	Robert Crews	Autumn		WAY-ED, WAY-SI
The American Empire in the Middle East	Joel Beinin	Autumn		WAY-SI
The Economics of Immigration in the U.S.: Past and Present	Ran Abramitzky	Winter	REQUISITE - Completion of ECON 1 in a previous quarter; concurrent enrollment in ECON 1 in Winter Quarter; or, approved ECON 1 waiver on file with the Department of Economics. To request a waiver, the student must submit (1) a statement explaining why the waiver is warranted and either (2a) a copy of AP microeconomics and AP macroeconomics tests both scoring 5; or (2b) an IB higher level economics test with a score of 7. See Econ 1 Waiver - https://economics.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/econ_1_waiver_petition_2016-17.pdf.	WAY-SI
The Fourth "R": Religion and American Schools	Ari Kelman	Summer	Enrollment limited. Preference to rising Stanford first- and second-year students who haven't had the opportunity to take an Introductory Seminar previously. Summer Session IntroSems meet June 24 to August 2, 2019.	WAY-ED, WAY-SI
The Missing Link	Jessica Riskin	Winter		WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
The Most Rational People in the World	James Holland Jones	Summer	Summer enrollment limited. Preference to rising Stanford first- and second-year students who haven't had the opportunity to take an Introductory Seminar previously. Summer Session IntroSems meet June 24 to August 2, 2019.	WAY-SI
The New Longevity	Laura Carstensen	Winter		WAY-SI
The Roman Empire: Its Grandeur and Fall	Richard Saller	Autumn		WAY-SI
The Soviet Union and the World: Views from the Hoover Archives	Norman Naimark, Anatol Shmelev	Winter		WAY-SI
Thinking About War	Mark Lewis	Winter		WAY-SI
Understanding Children's Health Disparities	Donald Barr	Winter		WAY-ED, WAY-SI
Understanding Race and Ethnicity in American Society	C. Matthew Snipp	Autumn		WAY-ED, WAY-SI
Understanding the Welfare System	Thomas MaCurdy	Autumn		WAY-SI
What Counts As "Race," and Why?	Aliya Saperstein	Winter		WAY-ED, WAY-SI
What Didn't Make It in the Bible	Michael Penn	Autumn		WAY-A-II, WAY-SI