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

This course explores how certain religions--Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism--have addressed the ecological crisis, and how they might be drawn upon to address climate change in the future. Preserving the distinctiveness of each religious tradition, this seminar examines: the issue of religion as the cause of the environmental crisis...

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 Education & Youth Development, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit

Students at Stanford and students at a community mental health site co-learn theories and co-create songs in this community-engaged course. From memes to magazines, "psychoanalysis has returned" - perhaps partly in response to crises of the twenty-first century with no easy, rational answers. How do the participatory arts and music...

Location:

Stanford

Open to:

Undergraduates

When:

Winter

Course Date:

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

The Race, Ethnicity, and Language seminars explore the intersections of language and race/racism/racialization. This course will examine Black engagements with digital culture as sites for community building, social action and individual and collective identity formation, with a focus on how Black oral traditions are still alive and inform our digital lives. We'll...

Location:

Stanford

Open to:

Graduate Students

When:

Winter

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. This is a Cardinal Course...

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 Identity, 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

Course Date:

January 6, 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 course in Education & Youth Development, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit

Continuation of SPANLANG 11. 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 artistic projects with...

Location:

Stanford

Open to:

Undergraduates

When:

Spring,
Winter,
Autumn

Course Date:

September 23, 2024
Quarter-long course in Technology & Engineering, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit

This course is a required training for student leaders of the Seeds of Change initiative. This initiative takes an interdisciplinary approach to STEM education, infusing students' technical training with leadership training through a lens of gender inequality - bringing together key components of feminist pedagogy, service-learning, and experiential education to...

Location:

Stanford

Open to:

Undergraduates

When:

Spring,
Winter,
Autumn

Course Date:

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

Students will assist the client, the Hopi Tribal Appellate Court, in two separate tracks. Track 1: Law Clerks (6 credits) (max 6 students): Students will serve as off-site law clerks to the Justices of the Hopi Tribal Appellate Court in Arizona. They will assist in preparing for oral arguments and...

Location:

Stanford

Open to:

LAW

When:

Spring,
Winter

Course Date:

January 6, 2025
Quarter-long course in Law, Policy & Justice, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit

Under California law, landlords are under no obligation to accept back-due rent after expiration of a properly served "three-day notice to pay or quit." This very short timeline (known as "the cure period" or "the redemption period") makes it very difficult for tenants to stay in their homes following a...

Location:

Stanford

Open to:

LAW

When:

Autumn

Course Date:

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

Students in this Policy Practicum will advise the Stanford Provost¿s Office on the legal and policy issues raised by the doxxing of or by members of the Stanford community or otherwise related to activities on campus, and develop recommendations for how the University should respond. Areas of research will cover...

Location:

Stanford

Open to:

LAW

When:

Autumn

Course Date:

September 23, 2024
Multi-quarter part-time in Education & Youth Development, Environmental Sustainability, Cardinal Commitment, Student service organization

The mission of the Stanford Outdoor Outreach Program (SOOP) is to enhance interpersonal relationships, foster community and instill personal confidence in San Francisco Bay Area youth through facilitated outdoor experiences. Primarily we serve high school students enrolled in EPAA and in the Luis Valdez Leadership Academy; we do so by...

Location:

Stanford

Open to:

Undergraduates,
Graduate Students,
Coterm

When:

N/A
Quarter-long course in Environmental Sustainability, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit

This course uses the tools of multimedia production to address the crucial need for authentic community engagement and effective information sharing in solving environmental challenges. Students will develop and refine their skills in at least one of the following: photojournalism, documentary filmmaking, interviewing, and audio storytelling. Students will learn approaches...

Location:

Stanford

Open to:

Graduate Students

When:

Winter

Course Date:

January 6, 2025
Quarter-long course in Technology & Engineering, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit

As a society, we find ourselves surrounded by planetary-scale challenges ranging from lack of equitable access to health care to environmental degradation to dramatic loss of biodiversity. One common theme that runs across these challenges is the need to invent cost-effective solutions with the potential to scale. The COVID-19 pandemic...

Location:

Stanford

Open to:

Undergraduates

When:

Winter

Course Date:

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

Students develop advanced Spanish language proficiency through examination of issues surrounding current immigration and refugee crises. There will be class discussions of Central American contexts, international treaties, human rights, and U.S. immigration law. Class will include expert commentary from legal and mental health professionals, human rights specialists, migrants, and refugees...

Location:

Stanford

Open to:

Undergraduates

When:

Winter,
Autumn

Course Date:

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

Indigenous Ecological Knowledge refers to the Indigenous knowledge related to human beliefs, practices and experiences embedded in specific locations. There are multiple versions of such knowledge based on the unique relationships of individual communities with a focus on California Native Communities (Specifically the Muwekma Ohlone tribe). We will explore environmental...

Location:

Stanford

Open to:

Undergraduates

When:

Autumn

Course Date:

September 23, 2024
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 course in Human Rights, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit

This community engaged learning workshop is exclusively available to students who are concurrently enroll in SPANLANG 108SL. Within the HUMRTS 108 program, students will have the unique opportunity to apply their advanced Spanish language skills and their understanding of the US immigration detention system, acquired in the class, by volunteering...

Location:

Stanford

Open to:

Undergraduates

When:

Spring,
Winter,
Autumn

Course Date:

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

Race and ethnicity are often taken for granted as naturally occurring, self-evident phenomena that must be navigated or overcome to understand and eradicate the (re)production of societal hierarchies across historical, geopolitical, and institutional contexts. In contrast, this transdisciplinary course seeks to track and trouble the historical and contemporary creation, dissolution...

Location:

Stanford

Open to:

Undergraduates

When:

Spring

Course Date:

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

Race and ethnicity are often taken for granted as naturally occurring, self-evident phenomena that must be navigated or overcome to understand and eradicate the (re)production of societal hierarchies across historical, geopolitical, and institutional contexts. In contrast, this transdisciplinary course seeks to track and trouble the historical and contemporary creation, dissolution...

Location:

Stanford

Open to:

Undergraduates

When:

Spring

Course Date:

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

Race and ethnicity are often taken for granted as naturally occurring, self-evident phenomena that must be navigated or overcome to understand and eradicate the (re)production of societal hierarchies across historical, geopolitical, and institutional contexts. In contrast, this transdisciplinary course seeks to track and trouble the historical and contemporary creation, dissolution...

Location:

Stanford

Open to:

Undergraduates

When:

Spring

Course Date:

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

Race and ethnicity are often taken for granted as naturally occurring, self-evident phenomena that must be navigated or overcome to understand and eradicate the (re)production of societal hierarchies across historical, geopolitical, and institutional contexts. In contrast, this transdisciplinary course seeks to track and trouble the historical and contemporary creation, dissolution...

Location:

Stanford

Open to:

Undergraduates

When:

Spring

Course Date:

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

Solving the global climate challenge will require the creation and successful scale-up of hundreds of new ventures. This project-based course provides a launchpad for the development and creation of transformational climate ventures and innovation models. Interdisciplinary teams will research, analyze, and develop detailed launch plans for high-impact opportunities in the...

Location:

Stanford

Open to:

Graduate Students

When:

Spring,
Winter

Course Date:

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

Introduction to the field of conservation photography and the strategic use of visual communication in addressing issues concerning the environment and conservation. Students will be introduced to basic digital photography, digital image processing, and the theory and application of photographic techniques. Case studies of conservation issues will be examined through...

Location:

Stanford

Open to:

Undergraduates

When:

Winter

Course Date:

January 6, 2025
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