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Quarter-long course in Health, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit
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...
Location:
Stanford
Open to:
Graduate Students
When:
Spring
Course Date:
March 31, 2025

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; weekly participation in discussion forum. (Cardinal Course certified by the Haas Center)
Location:
Stanford
Open to:
Undergraduates
When:
Spring
Course Date:
March 31, 2025

Quarter-long course in Education & Youth Development, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit
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.
Location:
Stanford
Open to:
Graduate Students
When:
Spring
Course Date:
March 31, 2025

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 Technology & Engineering, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit
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...
Location:
Stanford
Open to:
Undergraduates
When:
Spring
Course Date:
March 31, 2025

Quarter-long course in Technology & Engineering, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit
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...
Location:
Stanford
Open to:
Graduate Students
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 course in Technology & Engineering, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit
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...
Location:
Stanford
Open to:
Undergraduates
When:
Summer
Course Date:
June 23, 2025

Quarter-long course in Technology & Engineering, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit
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...
Location:
Stanford
Open to:
Undergraduates
When:
Summer
Course Date:
June 23, 2025

Quarter-long course in Health, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit
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...
Location:
Stanford
Open to:
Undergraduates
When:
Summer

Quarter-long course in Health, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit
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...
Location:
Stanford
Open to:
Graduate Students
When:
Spring,
Winter,
Summer,
Autumn
Course Date:
March 31, 2025

Quarter-long course in Technology & Engineering, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit
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...
Location:
Stanford
Open to:
Graduate Students
When:
Winter
Course Date:
January 6, 2025

Quarter-long course in Technology & Engineering, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit
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...
Location:
Stanford
Open to:
Graduate Students
When:
Spring,
Winter
Course Date:
March 31, 2025

Quarter-long course in Technology & Engineering, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit
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...
Location:
Stanford
Open to:
Undergraduates
When:
Spring
Course Date:
March 31, 2025

Quarter-long course in Technology & Engineering, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit
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...
Location:
Stanford
Open to:
Graduate Students
When:
Spring
Course Date:
March 31, 2025

Quarter-long course in Education & Youth Development, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit
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...
Location:
Stanford
Open to:
Undergraduates
When:
Spring
Course Date:
March 31, 2025

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 Health, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit
The first psychiatric hospitals in the world were established as early as the 8th century during the Islamic Golden Era. Despite the emergence of a highly sophisticated and interdisciplinary system of understanding the human psyche in early Islamic history, most students of modern psychology are unfamiliar with this rich history...
Location:
Stanford
Open to:
Undergraduates
When:
Spring
Course Date:
March 31, 2025

Quarter-long course in Education & Youth Development, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit
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.
Location:
Stanford
Open to:
Graduate Students
When:
Spring
Course Date:
March 31, 2025

Quarter-long course in Education & Youth Development, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit
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...
Location:
Stanford
Open to:
Undergraduates
When:
Spring
Course Date:
March 31, 2025

Quarter-long course in Environmental Sustainability, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit
This course will engage students in the founding of an on-going interactive public memory project exploring the intersection of history, environmental and climate justice and community action in the Bay Area, in collaboration with the Humanities Action Lab (HAL), based out of Rutgers University. HAL develops collaborative public memory projects...
Location:
Stanford
Open to:
Undergraduates
When:
Spring
Course Date:
March 31, 2025