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Quarter-long course in Human Rights, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit

Considers purpose, practice, and ethics of service learning. Provides training for students' work in community. Examines current scope of human trafficking in Bay Area, pressing concerns, capacity and obstacles to effectively address them. Students work with community partners dedicated to confronting human trafficking and problems it entails on a daily...

Location:

Stanford

Open to:

Undergraduates

When:

Winter

Course Date:

January 6, 2025
Quarter-long course in Human Rights, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit

Prerequisite: HISTORY6W (FEMGEN 6W). Continuation of HISTORY 6W (FEMGEN 6W). Students will continue working on their projects with their community partners. Several class meetings and small group consultations throughout the quarter. (Cardinal Course certified by the Haas Center)

Location:

Stanford

Open to:

Undergraduates

When:

Spring

Course Date:

March 31, 2025
Quarter-long course in Technology & Engineering, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit

Adaptation to climate change will not only require new infrastructure and policies, but it will also challenge our local, state and national governments to collaborate across jurisdictional lines in ways that include many different types of private and nonprofit organizations and individual actors. The course explores what it means for...

Location:

Stanford

Open to:

Graduate Students

When:

Spring,
Winter
Quarter-long course in Identity, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit

(Same as HISTORY 5C. 105C is 5 units, 5C is 3 units.) Interdisciplinary approach to understanding the extent and complexity of the global phenomenon of human trafficking, especially for forced prostitution, labor exploitation, and organ trade, focusing on human rights violations and remedies. Provides a historical context for the development...

Location:

Stanford

Open to:

Undergraduates

When:

Winter

Course Date:

January 6, 2025
Quarter-long course in Environmental Sustainability, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit

Building off the work of the Stanford Coalition for Planning an Equitable 2035 (SCoPE), the just transitions policy lab will address transportation justice, housing justice, and labor equity concerns that have been identified by neighboring communities to Stanford and our service workers as part of local land use planning and...

Location:

Stanford

Open to:

Undergraduates

When:

Winter

Course Date:

January 6, 2025
Quarter-long course in Identity, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit

This seminar explores the intersections of language and race/racism/racialization in the public schooling experiences of students of color. We will briefly trace the historical emergence of the related fields of sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology, explore how each of these scholarly traditions approaches the study of language, and identify key points...

Location:

Stanford

Open to:

Graduate Students

When:

Spring

Course Date:

January 6, 2025
Quarter-long course in Education & Youth Development, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit

Focus is on classrooms with students from diverse racial, ethnic and linguistic backgrounds. Studies, writing, and media representation of urban and diverse school settings; implications for transforming teaching and learning. Issues related to developing teachers with attitudes, dispositions, and skills necessary to teach diverse students. Cardinal Course certified by the...

Location:

Stanford

Open to:

Undergraduates

When:

Spring

Course Date:

January 6, 2025
Quarter-long course in Environmental Sustainability, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit

Physical, chemical, and biological processes within soil systems. Emphasis is on factors governing nutrient availability, plant growth and production, land-resource management, and pollution within soils. How to classify soils and assess nutrient cycling and contaminant fate. Recommended: introductory chemistry and biology.

Location:

Stanford

Open to:

Undergraduates

When:

Spring

Course Date:

March 31, 2025
Quarter-long course in Environmental Sustainability, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit

Historically, discussions of race, ethnicity, culture, and equity in the environment have been shaped by a limited view of the environmental justice movement, often centered on urban environmental threats and separated from other types of environmental and climate advocacy. This course will seek to expand on these discussions by exploring...

Location:

Stanford

Open to:

Undergraduates

When:

Spring

Course Date:

March 31, 2025
Quarter-long course in Education & Youth Development, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit

This seminar will explore the impact and relative salience of racial/ethnic identity on select issues including: discrimination, social justice, mental health and academic performance. Theoretical perspectives on identity development will be reviewed, along with research on other social identity variables, such as social class, gender and regional identifications. New areas...

Location:

Stanford

Open to:

Undergraduates

When:

Spring

Course Date:

January 6, 2025
Quarter-long course in Environmental Sustainability, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit

Urban agriculture takes many forms in cities around the world and provides significant amounts of food and other resources and benefits for urban communities. This Earth Systems practicum explores the application of agroecological principles to the design and stewardship of urban farms and gardens. Students will explore social and ecological...

Location:

Stanford

Open to:

Undergraduates

When:

Spring

Course Date:

March 31, 2025
Quarter-long full-time in Health, Cardinal Quarter, Fellowship / internship

Through the Health Equity Summer Fellowship, a Cardinal Quarter opportunity, undergraduate students support efforts to address the health and well-being of underserved communities across the United States. Students can choose to work in a variety of service pathways related to public health, healthcare, or community wellbeing. This may include direct service...

Sponsored by:

Haas Center for Public Service

Location:

United States

Open to:

Undergraduates

When:

Summer
Quarter-long full-time in Education & Youth Development, Cardinal Quarter, Fellowship / internship

The Andrea Naomi Leiderman Fellowship supports undergraduate students conducting research related to low-income youth in California. The fellowship provides a stipend expenses related to nine consecutive weeks of full-time service/research. Leiderman Fellows contribute to ongoing research projects led by Stanford faculty as part of the research-practice partnership between the Graduate...

Sponsored by:

Haas Center for Public Service

Location:

United States

Open to:

Undergraduates

When:

Summer
Quarter-long full-time in Civic Engagement, Law, Policy & Justice, Cardinal Quarter, Fellowship / internship, Grant / stipend

Students will be embedded within organizations operating in rural and remote places to examine American institutions in a rural context, expand understanding of American rurality, and develop skills required to engage constructively when encountering difference among people, politics, and places.Each undergraduate fellow receives a base stipend of $7000 to...

Sponsored by:

Hoover Institution

Location:

United States

Open to:

Undergraduates

When:

Summer
Quarter-long full-time in Identity, Cardinal Quarter, Fellowship / internship

A Cardinal Quarter opportunity co-sponsored by the Native American Cultural Center and the Haas Center for Public Service, the Indigenous Communities Fellowship is Stanford’s premier opportunity for students to pursue Indigenous service and community reinvestment within tribal/islander communities. This fellowship enables students to partner with a community-based nonprofit, government, or...

Sponsored by:

Haas Center for Public Service,
Native American Cultural Center

Location:

International
United States

Open to:

Undergraduates,
Graduate Students

When:

Summer
Quarter-long course in Health, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit

Students completing this course will walk away with a profound understanding of how to foster sustainable community partnerships. Through a combination of classroom instruction and service learning, students will develop an understanding of the complex causes and consequences of housing inequity, community-based case management, and community-driven solutions to the housing...

Location:

Stanford

Open to:

Graduate Students

When:

Spring,
Autumn

Course Date:

September 23, 2024
Quarter-long course in Law, Policy & Justice, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit

This practicum will prepare for, facilitate, and draw lessons from a multi-stakeholder Roundtable on the legal system's treatment of women accused of homicides that grow out of their experiences of intimate partner violence. The Stanford Criminal Justice Center issued a new report, Fatal Peril: Unheard Stories from the IPV-to-Prison Pipeline...

Location:

Stanford

Open to:

LAW

When:

Autumn,
Winter
Quarter-long full-time in Education & Youth Development, Cardinal Quarter, Fellowship / internship

Through the Education Achievement Fellowship, students engage in a summer practicum as part of a cohort in Boulder, Colorado. A group of 5-7 students is placed with I Have a Dream Foundation of Boulder County, an organization that works collaboratively in their community to implement innovative approaches to closing...

Sponsored by:

Haas Center for Public Service

Location:

United States

Open to:

Undergraduates

When:

Summer
Quarter-long course in Education & Youth Development, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit

Continuation of SPANLANG 3 or SPANLANG 2A. Identity and community. Sequence integrating community engaged learning, culture and language with emphasis on developing advanced proficiency in oral and written discourse. Targeted functional abilities include presentational and socioculturally appropriate language in formal and informal, community and academic contexts. SL content focuses on...

Location:

Stanford

Open to:

Undergraduates

When:

N/A

Course Date:

September 23, 2024
Quarter-long course in Health, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit

This course explores what communicative practices can enhance the inclusion of persons living in different life stages in a community. We consider how verbal or non-verbal interactions can contribute to transforming society into one in which marginalized persons such as older adults (possibly living with compromised cognitive conditions) can be...

Location:

Stanford

Open to:

Undergraduates

When:

Winter
Quarter-long course in Health, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit

This course explores what communicative practices can enhance the inclusion of persons living in different life stages in a community. We consider how verbal or non-verbal interactions can contribute to transforming society into one in which marginalized persons such as older adults (possibly living with compromised cognitive conditions) can be...

Location:

Stanford

Open to:

Graduate Students

When:

Winter
Issue Area Coordinators at the 2024 Cardinal Service Fair
Multi-quarter part-time in Education & Youth Development, Environmental Sustainability, Health, Cardinal Commitment, Leadership program

The Issue Area Coordinators Program provides our most committed students with training and practice in collective leadership.The Haas Center’s Issue Area Coordinators build partnerships among Stanford students, faculty, and Bay Area community leaders to address challenges around Affordability, Community Organizing, Education, Environmental Sustainability, Health, and Public Interest Technology.Talk...

Sponsored by:

Haas Center for Public Service

Location:

Stanford

Open to:

Undergraduates

When:

Autumn,
Spring,
Winter
Quarter-long full-time in Technology & Engineering, Cardinal Quarter, Fellowship / internship, Grant / stipend

Through the SILICON-Unicode Internship Program, a Cardinal Quarter opportunity, Stanford undergraduate students will spend the summer working in full-time positions with the Unicode Consortium and participating in the Stanford Initiative on Language Inclusion and Conservation in Old and New Media (SILICON). This program is a rare chance to contribute...

Sponsored by:

Haas Center for Public Service,
Stanford Initiative on Language Inclusion and Conservation in Old and New Media (SILICON)

Location:

United States

Open to:

Undergraduates

When:

Summer
Quarter-long full-time in Environmental Sustainability, Law, Policy & Justice, Cardinal Quarter, Fellowship / internship, Grant / stipend

Since 2017, the Stanford Woods Institute has identified leading not-for-profit organizations and key state and municipal agencies who are addressing pressing environmental issues to create exciting summer fellowship placement opportunities for Stanford undergraduates. The EPIC program has opportunities locally in the Bay Area and throughout California as well as...

Sponsored by:

Stanford in Government,
Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment

Location:

International
United States

Open to:

Undergraduates

When:

Summer
Wind turbines
Quarter-long full-time in Environmental Sustainability, Cardinal Quarter, Fellowship / internship, Grant / stipend

Regional-, state-, and city-level efforts are essential in our fight against climate change, especially in the field of energy. Stanford University is committed to helping by integrating its students into energy and climate ecosystems in the West through the Shultz Energy Fellowships program (formerly Stanford Energy Internships in California and the...

Sponsored by:

Bill Lane Center for the American West,
Haas Center for Public Service,
Precourt Institute for Energy,
Stanford in Government

Location:

United States

Open to:

Undergraduates,
Graduate Students

When:

Summer
Quarter-long full-time in Identity, Cardinal Quarter, Fellowship / internship

The Stanford Pride Fellowship, a Cardinal Quarter opportunity, strives to promote activism within the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities. Stanford Pride Fellows spend the summer working full-time for nine weeks with a supervisor/mentor in a domestic U.S. community organization of their choice. Each Stanford Pride Fellow receives a base...

Sponsored by:

Haas Center for Public Service

Location:

United States

Open to:

Undergraduates

When:

Summer
Quarter-long full-time in Affordability, Arts & Media, Civic Engagement, Education & Youth Development, Environmental Sustainability, Health, Human Rights, Identity, Law, Policy & Justice, Technology & Engineering, Cardinal Quarter, Fellowship / internship

Through the Haas Center Cardinal Quarter Fellowship opportunity, continuing undergraduate students design and implement a full-time service experience within the United States during the summer quarter. Students may serve across diverse service themes--from arts, education, and health, to racial justice, climate solutions, and public interest technology. Students are also able to...

Sponsored by:

Haas Center for Public Service

Location:

United States

Open to:

Undergraduates

When:

Summer
Cardinal Commitment

What is CSWS? The Community Service Work-Study (CSWS) Program provides academic year and summer employment opportunities for currently enrolled students who receive financial aid at Stanford. It allows them to combine the financial need to work with the personal goal of helping the community. Eligible students have the freedom to...

Sponsored by:

Haas Center for Public Service

Location:

United States

Open to:

Undergraduates

When:

Autumn,
Spring,
Winter
Quarter-long full-time in Affordability, Arts & Media, Civic Engagement, Education & Youth Development, Environmental Sustainability, Health, Human Rights, Identity, Law, Policy & Justice, Technology & Engineering, Cardinal Quarter, Fellowship / internship, Grant / stipend

Have you found an unpaid opportunity or internship and need funding? Let Stanford Career Education help. The newly named Rising Bird Fellows program, named for Dr. Tina Rising Bird '82 and Dr. Jeff Bird '82, MD '86, PhD '88, pays stipends of up to $6,500 for qualifying full-time summer opportunities...

Sponsored by:

Stanford Career Education

Location:

International
United States

Open to:

Undergraduates

When:

Spring,
Summer,
Winter
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Quarter-long full-time in Law, Policy & Justice, Cardinal Quarter, Fellowship / internship, Grant / stipend

Stanford in Government (SIG) is a nonpartisan, student-run organization dedicated to promoting political awareness, providing public service opportunities and fellowships, and assisting students in their search for quality experiences in the public policy arena. SIG's Fellowships Program provides highly qualified, ambitious students with meaningful exposure to the public policy process...

Sponsored by:

Stanford in Government

Location:

International
United States

Open to:

Undergraduates

When:

Summer
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