Opportunities

This is a Cardinal Course certified by the Haas Center for Public Service. The Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) for Health course will focus on the theory, practice, assessment tools, and empirical best practices of CBPR. Via study of the literature, case studies, presentations by community-academic partners, interactive student-led presentations and...

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...

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; weekly participation in discussion forum. (Cardinal Course certified by the Haas Center)

Drawing on interdisciplinary scholarship, this course seeks to help students to critically interrogate the relationship between housing, schools, and place in cities and suburbs of the U.S. This is a Cardinal Course certified by the Haas Center for Public Service.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

Even where policy leaders are striving to center equity in rapid energy transitions, the pathways to clean energy economies are often described by techno-economic models that have limited ability to assess the distributional implications of different scenarios. This course focuses on methods to translate high-level, spatially coarse research findings into...

Even where policy leaders are striving to center equity in rapid energy transitions, the pathways to clean energy economies are often described by techno-economic models that have limited ability to assess the distributional implications of different scenarios. This course focuses on methods to translate high-level, spatially coarse research findings into...

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...

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...

This course explores the design and execution of deliberative polling, a method of public consultation, as a strategic tool to develop frameworks for AI governance, with a specific focus to be collaboratively determined with a community partner. Students will gain practical experience in organizing a deliberative polling event, partnering on...

Gov. Gavin Newsom's has promised 1200 tiny homes to help aid the housing crisis in California. Each tiny home costs a minimum of $18,900 to build without plumbing and $48,500 with plumbing. Given that California has an unhoused population of over 180,000, this would put the cost of building a...

This course, designed for musicians and non-musicians alike, introduces students to music-making as a tool for mental health and well-being. Partnering with a mental health-focused community organization, the course offers students additional support and insight into creative practices that foster emotional wellness. Through soundwalks, active listening, and mindfulness exercises, students...

The Cardinal Free Clinics (CFCs), consisting of Arbor and Pacific Free Clinic, provide culturally appropriate, high quality transitional medical care for underserved patient populations in the Bay Area. Students volunteer in various clinic roles to offer services including health education, interpretation, referrals, and labs. In clinic students are guided in...

Two-quarter project course. Focus is on real-world software development. Corporate partners seed projects with loosely defined challenges from their R&D labs; students innovate to build their own compelling software solutions. Student teams are treated as start-up companies with a budget and a technical advisory board comprised of instructional staff and...

Continuation of CS210A. Focus is on real-world software development. Corporate partners seed projects with loosely defined challenges from their R&D labs; students innovate to build their own compelling software solutions. Student teams are treated as start-up companies with a budget and a technical advisory board comprised of the instructional staff...

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...

In Sub-Saharan Africa approximately 600 million people lack access to energy; at the same time the Continent has tremendous solar potential. This class will explore some of the structural barriers to solar energy access while co-developing solutions with Ghanaian engineers and engineering students. We will explore how energy access is...

In Sub-Saharan Africa approximately 600 million people lack access to energy; at the same time the Continent has tremendous solar potential. This class will explore some of the structural barriers to solar energy access while co-developing solutions with Ghanaian engineers and engineering students. We will explore how energy access is...

This course is designed to support students planning to participate in community engaged research experiences during the summer 2023 term. Course materials and discussions will promote deep engagement with, and reflection on, the principles, practices, and ethics of community engaged research as a unique orientation to scholarly inquiry and social...

The mission of Fresh Lifelines for Youth (FLY) is to partner with youth to unlock their potential, disrupt the pipeline to prison, and advance justice in California and beyond!  At FLY, we interrupt the pipeline to prison and support youth on their path to healthy, free, and productive lives...

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...

Stanford Breakfast Club is an awesome time for students to come together to cook, serve and spend time with people at the Opportunity Center in Palo Alto. We get a chance to jam to sweet music while making breakfast at the Menlo Park Presbyterian Church. We then take the food...

StanfordVotes, which is a branch within Stanford in Government, works to increase the number of Stanford students registering to vote and participating in elections. Stanford students, faculty, and staff work together to build a stronger campus community around voter registration and engagement.The many volunteer opportunities include:staffing voter...