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Quarter-long course in Identity, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit
This community-engaged learning class is part of a broader Program on Social Entrepreneurship at the Haas Center for Public Service. It will use practice to better inform theory about how innovation can help address societies biggest challenges. Working with the instructor and three visiting nonprofit social entrepreneurs in residence, students...
Location:
Stanford
Open to:
Undergraduates
When:
Spring
Course Date:
April 1, 2024

Quarter-long course in Education & Youth Development, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit
The excitement around social innovation and entrepreneurship has spawned numerous startups focused on tackling world problems, particularly in the fields of education and health. The best social ventures are launched with careful consideration paid to research, design, and efficacy. This course offers students insights into understanding how to effectively develop...
Location:
Stanford
Open to:
Undergraduates
When:
Winter
Course Date:
January 8, 2024

Quarter-long course in Education & Youth Development, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit
The excitement around social innovation and entrepreneurship has spawned numerous startups focused on tackling world problems, particularly in the fields of education and health. The best social ventures are launched with careful consideration paid to research, design, and efficacy. This course offers students insights into understanding how to effectively develop...
Location:
Stanford
Open to:
Graduate Students
When:
Winter
Course Date:
January 8, 2024

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 8, 2024

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:
April 1, 2024

Quarter-long course in Technology & Engineering, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit
(Formerly GEOLSCI 118Y and 218Y) The complex urban problems affecting quality of life in the Bay Area, from housing affordability and transportation congestion to economic vitality and social justice, are already perceived by many to be intractable, and will likely be exacerbated by climate change and other emerging environmental and...
Location:
Stanford
Open to:
Graduate Students
When:
Winter

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:
April 1, 2024

Quarter-long course in Technology & Engineering, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit
Grand challenges of our time will demand entirely new ways of thinking about when, how, and under what conditions organizations are "doing good" and what effects that has. Focus is on the role of organizations in society, the ways that organizations can "do good," the challenges organizations face in attempting...
Location:
Stanford
Open to:
Undergraduates
When:
Winter
Course Date:
January 8, 2024

Quarter-long course in Technology & Engineering, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit
(Formerly GEOLSCI 118Z and 218Z) Students are placed in small interdisciplinary teams (engineers and non-engineers, undergraduate and graduate level) to work on complex design, engineering, and policy problems presented by external partners in a real urban setting. Multiple projects are offered and may span both Winter and Spring quarters; students...
Location:
Stanford
Open to:
Graduate Students
When:
Spring

Quarter-long course in Technology & Engineering, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit
(Formerly GEOLSCI 118Z and 218Z) Students are placed in small interdisciplinary teams (engineers and non-engineers, undergraduate and graduate level) to work on complex design, engineering, and policy problems presented by external partners in a real urban setting. Multiple projects are offered and may span both Winter and Spring quarters; students...
Location:
Stanford
Open to:
Undergraduates
When:
Spring

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:
January 8, 2024

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:
January 8, 2024

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
Course Date:
January 8, 2024

Quarter-long courseCardinal Courses, Courses for credit
The Community Public Safety Academy offers a comprehensive and immersive educational experience, designed to foster a deeper understanding of the critical facets of public safety and law enforcement. Over the course of several weeks, participants will engage in a series of interactive classes including topics such as criminal law, use...
Location:
Stanford
Open to:
Undergraduates
When:
Winter
Course Date:
January 8, 2024

Quarter-long course in Education & Youth Development, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit
The excitement around social innovation and entrepreneurship has spawned numerous startups focused on tackling world problems, particularly in the fields of education and health. The best social ventures are launched with careful consideration paid to research, design, and efficacy. This course offers students insights into understanding how to effectively develop...
Location:
Stanford
Open to:
Graduate Students
When:
Winter
Course Date:
January 8, 2024

Quarter-long course in Education & Youth Development, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit
The excitement around social innovation and entrepreneurship has spawned numerous startups focused on tackling world problems, particularly in the fields of education and health. The best social ventures are launched with careful consideration paid to research, design, and efficacy. This course offers students insights into understanding how to effectively develop...
Location:
Stanford
Open to:
Undergraduates
When:
Winter
Course Date:
January 8, 2024

Quarter-long course in Education & Youth Development, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit
Continuation of SPANLANG 12C. Sequence integrating 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, academic, and professional contexts. "C" content focuses on societal and cultural components of the Spanish-speaking world. Prerequisite...
Location:
Stanford
Open to:
Undergraduates
When:
Spring,
Winter,
Autumn
Course Date:
April 1, 2024

Quarter-long course in Education & Youth Development, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit
The principal purpose of this course is to support Habla tutors language coaches in developing lesson plans and strategies to implement during theircoaching sessions with English language learners. The course equips students with a foundational understanding of English as a second language, practical experience with developing educational materials for language...
Location:
Stanford
Open to:
Undergraduates
When:
Autumn
Course Date:
September 26, 2023

Quarter-long course in Technology & Engineering, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit
Survey course on applications of fundamental computer science concepts from CS 106B to problems in the social good space (such as health, trust & safety, government, security, education, and environment). Each week consists of in-class activities designed and delivered by student instructors. Introduces students to JavaScript and the basics of...
Location:
Stanford
Open to:
Undergraduates
When:
Spring,
Winter,
Autumn
Course Date:
April 1, 2024

Quarter-long course in Environmental Sustainability, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit
This course examines the rhetoric, history and key case studies of environmental justice while encouraging critical and collaborative thinking, reading and researching about diversity in environmental movements within the global community and at Stanford, including the ways race, class and gender have shaped environmental battles still being fought today. We...
Location:
Stanford
Open to:
Undergraduates
When:
Autumn
Course Date:
September 26, 2023

Quarter-long course in Environmental Sustainability, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit
This course examines the rhetoric, history and key case studies of environmental justice while encouraging critical and collaborative thinking, reading and researching about diversity in environmental movements within the global community and at Stanford, including the ways race, class and gender have shaped environmental battles still being fought today. We...
Location:
Stanford
Open to:
Graduate Students
When:
Autumn
Course Date:
September 26, 2023

Quarter-long course in Identity, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit
Neighborhoods in the Bay Area and around the world are undergoing a transformation known as gentrification. Middle- and upper-income people are moving into what were once low-income areas, and housing costs are on the rise. Tensions between newcomers and old timers, who are often separated by race, ethnicity, or sexual...
Location:
Stanford
Open to:
Undergraduates
When:
Spring
Course Date:
April 1, 2024

Quarter-long course in Technology & Engineering, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit
Second course of two-quarter capstone sequence. Working in project teams, design and develop an engineering system addressing a real-world problem in theme area of pressing societal need. Learn and utilize industry development process: first quarter focuses on establishing requirements and narrowing to top concept. Second quarter emphasizes implementation and testing...
Location:
Stanford
Open to:
Undergraduates
When:
Winter
Course Date:
January 8, 2024

Multi-quarter part-timeCourses for credit,
Fellowship / internship,
Grant / stipend,
Leadership program
The Dalai Lama Fellowship at Stanford is a year-long opportunity for students to develop inner resources and skills to lead significant social change. Students learn how and why leadership might be best understood as a set of capacities that allow one to meet the world authentically—capacities such as self-awareness, courage, compassion, and...
Sponsored by:
Office for Religious & Spiritual Life,
Stanford Storytelling Project
Location:
United States
Open to:
Undergraduates,
Graduate Students,
Coterm
When:
Autumn,
Spring,
Winter

Quarter-long course in Technology & Engineering, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit
First course of two-quarter capstone sequence. Working in project teams, design and develop an engineering system addressing a real-world problem in theme area of pressing societal need. Learn and utilize industry development process: first quarter focuses on establishing requirements and narrowing to top concept. Second quarter emphasizes implementation and testing...
Location:
Stanford
Open to:
Undergraduates
When:
Winter,
Autumn

Quarter-long course in Technology & Engineering, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit
(Formerly GEOLSCI 118Y and 218Y) The complex urban problems affecting quality of life in the Bay Area, from housing affordability and transportation congestion to economic vitality and social justice, are already perceived by many to be intractable, and will likely be exacerbated by climate change and other emerging environmental and...
Location:
Stanford
Open to:
Undergraduates
When:
Winter

Quarter-long course in Environmental Sustainability, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit
Service learning through the Geokids program. Eight weeks of supervised teaching to early elementary students about Earth sciences. Hands-on teaching strategies for science standards-based instruction. Cardinal Course certified by the Haas Center for Public Service
Location:
Stanford
Open to:
Undergraduates
When:
Spring
Course Date:
April 1, 2024

Quarter-long course in Health, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit
This course aims to provide a firm grounding in the foundations of probability and statistics, with a focus on analyzing data from the health sciences. Students will learn how to read, interpret, and critically evaluate the statistics in medical and biological studies. The course also prepares students to be able...
Location:
Stanford
Open to:
Undergraduates
When:
Winter,
Autumn
Course Date:
January 8, 2024

Quarter-long course in Health, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit
This course aims to reflect on the COVID-19 pandemic and consider how our experience with this pandemic can reshape American healthcare and improve preparation for future microbial threats. We will discuss key moments in the COVID-19 pandemic and evaluate societal and economic impacts, effective responses and innovations, and lessons that...
Location:
Stanford
Open to:
Graduate Students
When:
Spring,
Winter,
Autumn
Course Date:
January 8, 2024

Quarter-long course in Environmental Sustainability, Cardinal Courses, Courses for credit
At the intersection of sustainability science and practice, the course provides master's students in the Sustainability Science and Practice (SUST) Program with an opportunity to apply and internalize the knowledge, mindsets, and skills learned in the program while leading change and advancing sustainability. Students identify and plan their own 80-hour...
Location:
Stanford
Open to:
Graduate Students
When:
Spring,
Winter,
Summer,
Autumn
Course Date:
January 8, 2024