AFRICAST 235:
Designing Research-Based Interventions to Solve Global Health Problems (AFRICAST 135, EDUC 135X, EDUC 335X, HUMBIO 26, MED 235)
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, evaluate, and scale social ventures. Using TeachAIDS (an award-winning nonprofit educational technology social venture used in 78 countries) as a primary case study, students will be given an in-depth look into how the entity was founded and scaled globally. Guest speakers will include world-class experts and entrepreneurs in Philanthropy, Medicine, Communications, Education, and Technology. Open to both undergraduate and graduate students.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-4
ARTHIST 364A:
Technology and the Visual Imagination (ARTHIST 164A, FILMSTUD 164A, FILMSTUD 364A)
An exploration of the dynamic relationship between technology and the ways we see and represent the world. The course examines technologies from the Renaissance through the present day, from telescopes and microscopes to digital detectors, that have changed and enhanced our visual capabilities as well as shaped how we imagine the world. We also consider how these technologies influenced and inspired the work of artists. Special attention is paid to how different technologies such as linear perspective, photography, cinema, and computer screens translate the visual experience into a representation; the automation of vision; and the intersection of technology with conceptions of time and space.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
ARTHIST 405A:
Graduate Pedagogy Course
This course is designed for graduate students in Art History and Film Studies preparing to work as teaching assistants in the Department of Art and Art History. The seminar will focus on a range of theoretical and practical concerns pertaining to the successful conceptualization, organization, and execution of class lectures and discussion sections. Students will be exposed to a variety of perspectives and strategies related to quality teaching at the college level.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2
BIO 290:
Teaching of Biology
Open to upper-division undergraduates and graduate students. Practical experience in teaching lab biology or serving as an assistant in a lecture course. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-5
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Barton, K. (PI);
Bergmann, D. (PI);
Berry, J. (PI);
Block, B. (PI);
Block, S. (PI);
Boggs, C. (PI);
Crowder, L. (PI);
Cyert, M. (PI);
Daily, G. (PI);
Denny, M. (PI);
Dirzo, R. (PI);
Ehrlich, P. (PI);
Endy, D. (PI);
Feldman, M. (PI);
Fernald, R. (PI);
Field, C. (PI);
Fraser, H. (PI);
Frommer, W. (PI);
Frydman, J. (PI);
Fukami, T. (PI);
Garza, D. (PI);
Gilly, W. (PI);
Gordon, D. (PI);
Gozani, O. (PI);
Grossman, A. (PI);
Hadly, E. (PI);
Hanawalt, P. (PI);
Hekmat-Scafe, D. (PI);
Heller, H. (PI);
Heller, R. (PI);
Jones, P. (PI);
Khalfan, W. (PI);
Khosla, C. (PI);
Klein, R. (PI);
Knope, M. (PI);
Kopito, R. (PI);
Long, S. (PI);
Lowe, C. (PI);
Luo, L. (PI);
Malladi, S. (PI);
McConnell, S. (PI);
Micheli, F. (PI);
Mooney, H. (PI);
Morrison, A. (PI);
Mudgett, M. (PI);
Nelson, W. (PI);
Palumbi, S. (PI);
Petrov, D. (PI);
Red-Horse, K. (PI);
Rosenberg, N. (PI);
Sapolsky, R. (PI);
Schnitzer, M. (PI);
Seawell, P. (PI);
Shatz, C. (PI);
Shen, K. (PI);
Simon, M. (PI);
Simoni, R. (PI);
Skotheim, J. (PI);
Somero, G. (PI);
Stearns, T. (PI);
Thompson, S. (PI);
Tuljapurkar, S. (PI);
Vitousek, P. (PI);
Walbot, V. (PI);
Wang, Z. (PI);
Watanabe, J. (PI);
Watt, W. (PI);
Collins, J. (GP)
BIO 291:
Development and Teaching of Core Experimental Laboratories
Preparation for teaching the core experimental courses (44X and 44Y). Emphasis is on lab, speaking, and writing skills. Focus is on updating the lab to meet the changing technical needs of the students. Taken prior to teaching either of the above courses. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: selection by instructor.
Terms: Aut, Win
| Units: 1-2
| Repeatable
for credit
BIO 459:
Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Biosciences (BIOC 459, BIOE 459, CHEM 459, CHEMENG 459, PSYCH 459)
Students register through their affiliated department; otherwise register for CHEMENG 459. For specialists and non-specialists. Sponsored by the Stanford BioX Program. Three seminars per quarter address scientific and technical themes related to interdisciplinary approaches in bioengineering, medicine, and the chemical, physical, and biological sciences. Leading investigators from Stanford and the world present breakthroughs and endeavors that cut across core disciplines. Pre-seminars introduce basic concepts and background for non-experts. Registered students attend all pre-seminars; others welcome. See http://biox.stanford.edu/courses/459.html. Recommended: basic mathematics, biology, chemistry, and physics.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
for credit
BIOE 273:
BIODESIGN FOR MOBILE HEALTH (MED 273)
This seminar examines the emerging Mobile Health industry. Mobile Health is the provision of health services and information via mobile technologies such as mobile phones and wearable sensors. Faculty from Stanford University and other Academic Institutions and guest lecturers from the Mobile Health industry discuss the driving needs, opportunities and challenges that characterize the emerging Mobile Health innovation landscape, and present an overview of the technologies, initiatives and companies that are transforming the way we access health care today.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1-2
BIOHOPK 290H:
Teaching of Biological Science
Open to upper-division undergraduates and graduate students. Practical experience in teaching lab biology or serving as an assistant in a lecture course. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.nn (Staff)
Terms: Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-15
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Block, B. (PI);
Crowder, L. (PI);
De Leo, G. (PI);
Denny, M. (PI);
Gilly, W. (PI);
Goldbogen, J. (PI);
Lowe, C. (PI);
Micheli, F. (PI);
Palumbi, S. (PI);
Thompson, S. (PI);
Watanabe, J. (PI)
BIOHOPK 323H:
Stanford at Sea (BIOHOPK 182H, EARTHSYS 323, EESS 323)
(Graduate students register for 323H.) Five weeks of marine science including oceanography, marine physiology, policy, maritime studies, conservation, and nautical science at Hopkins Marine Station, followed by five weeks at sea aboard a sailing research vessel in the Pacific Ocean. Shore component comprised of three multidisciplinary courses meeting daily and continuing aboard ship. Students develop an independent research project plan while ashore, and carry out the research at sea. In collaboration with the Sea Education Association of Woods Hole, MA. Only 6 units may count towards the Biology major.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 16
BIOS 213:
Scientific Illustration and Animation
Techniques of presenting big picture ideas and detailed experiments as simple cartoons. Mixed lecture/lab course culminates with students producing figures and animations for an introduction/conclusion of a research presentation. Covers basic design principles to help produce figures useful for broad and focused audiences. Includes static illustrations, Flash style, and stop motion animation.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1
CEE 200A:
Teaching of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Required of CEE Ph.D. students. Strategies for effective teaching and introduction to engineering pedagogy. Topics: problem solving techniques and learning styles, individual and group instruction, the role of TAs, balancing other demands, grading. Teaching exercises. Register for quarter of teaching assistantship.nn 200A. Aut, 200B. Win, 200C. Spr
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Baker, J. (PI);
Barton, J. (PI);
Billington, S. (PI);
Blake, C. (PI);
Boehm, A. (PI);
Borja, R. (PI);
Clough, R. (PI);
Criddle, C. (PI);
Davis, J. (PI);
Deierlein, G. (PI);
Fischer, M. (PI);
Fong, D. (PI);
Freyberg, D. (PI);
Fringer, O. (PI);
Hildemann, L. (PI);
Jacobson, M. (PI);
Katz, G. (PI);
Kiremidjian, A. (PI);
Kitanidis, P. (PI);
Koseff, J. (PI);
Krawinkler, H. (PI);
Kunz, J. (PI);
Law, K. (PI);
Leckie, J. (PI);
Lepech, M. (PI);
Levitt, R. (PI);
Linder, C. (PI);
Luthy, R. (PI);
Masters, G. (PI);
Meehan, R. (PI);
Miranda, E. (PI);
Mitch, W. (PI);
Monismith, S. (PI);
Orr, R. (PI);
Ortolano, L. (PI);
Rajagopal, R. (PI);
Reinhard, M. (PI);
Spormann, A. (PI);
Tucker, A. (PI);
Woodward, J. (PI)
CEE 200B:
Teaching of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Required of CEE Ph.D. students. Strategies for effective teaching and introduction to engineering pedagogy. Topics: problem solving techniques and learning styles, individual and group instruction, the role of TAs, balancing other demands, grading. Teaching exercises. Register for quarter of teaching assistantship. May be repeated for credit. 200A. Aut, 200B. Win, 200C. Spr
Terms: Win
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Baker, J. (PI);
Billington, S. (PI);
Boehm, A. (PI);
Borja, R. (PI);
Clough, R. (PI);
Criddle, C. (PI);
Davis, J. (PI);
Deierlein, G. (PI);
Fischer, M. (PI);
Freyberg, D. (PI);
Fringer, O. (PI);
Fruchter, R. (PI);
Griggs, G. (PI);
Haymaker, J. (PI);
Hildemann, L. (PI);
Jacobson, M. (PI);
Katz, G. (PI);
Kiremidjian, A. (PI);
Kitanidis, P. (PI);
Koseff, J. (PI);
Krawinkler, H. (PI);
Kunz, J. (PI);
Law, K. (PI);
Leckie, J. (PI);
Lepech, M. (PI);
Levitt, R. (PI);
Linder, C. (PI);
Luthy, R. (PI);
Masters, G. (PI);
McCarty, P. (PI);
Miranda, E. (PI);
Mitch, W. (PI);
Monismith, S. (PI);
Ortolano, L. (PI);
Rajagopal, R. (PI);
Reinhard, M. (PI);
Spormann, A. (PI);
Tabazadeh, A. (PI)
CEE 200C:
Teaching of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Required of CEE Ph.D. students. Strategies for effective teaching and introduction to engineering pedagogy. Topics: problem solving techniques and learning styles, individual and group instruction, the role of TAs, balancing other demands, grading. Teaching exercises. Register for quarter of teaching assistantship. May be repeated for credit. 200A. Aut, 200B. Win, 200C. Spr
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Baker, J. (PI);
Billington, S. (PI);
Boehm, A. (PI);
Borja, R. (PI);
Chui, M. (PI);
Criddle, C. (PI);
Davis, J. (PI);
Deierlein, G. (PI);
Fischer, M. (PI);
Freyberg, D. (PI);
Fringer, O. (PI);
Hildemann, L. (PI);
Jacobson, M. (PI);
Kiremidjian, A. (PI);
Kitanidis, P. (PI);
Koseff, J. (PI);
Krawinkler, H. (PI);
Law, K. (PI);
Leckie, J. (PI);
Levitt, R. (PI);
Linder, C. (PI);
Luthy, R. (PI);
Masters, G. (PI);
Miranda, E. (PI);
Mitch, W. (PI);
Monismith, S. (PI);
Orr, R. (PI);
Ortolano, L. (PI);
Reinhard, M. (PI);
Spormann, A. (PI);
Tabazadeh, A. (PI);
Vikesland, P. (PI)
CEE 227:
Global Project Finance
Public and private sources of finance for large, complex, capital-intensive projects in developed and developing countries. Benefits and disadvantages, major participants, risk sharing, and challenges of project finance in emerging markets. Financial, economic, political, cultural, and technological elements that affect project structures, processes, and outcomes. Case studies. Limited enrollment.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
CEE 251:
Negotiation (CEE 151, EARTHSCI 251)
Students learn to prepare for and conduct negotiations in a variety of arenas including getting a job, managing workplace conflict, negotiating transactions, and managing personal relationships. Interactive class. The internationally travelled instructor who has mediated cases in over 75 countries will require students to negotiate real life case studies and discuss their results in class. Application required before first day of class; see Coursework.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
CEE 275K:
The Practice of Environmental Consulting
Class consists of eight interactive two-hour seminars with discussions, and will cover the evolution of the environmental consulting business, strategic choices and alternative business models for private and public firms, a review of the key operational issues in managing firm, organizational strategies, knowledge management and innovation, and ethical issues in providing professional services. Case studies will be used to illustrate key concepts. Selected reading materials drawn from the technical and business literature on the consulting business. Student groups will prepare and present an abbreviated business plan for an environmental based business. Enrollment limited to CEE MS and PHD students.
Terms: Win
| Units: 2
CEE 377:
Research Proposal Writing in Environmental Engineering and Science
For first- and second-year post-master's students preparing for thesis defense. Students develop progress reports and agency-style research proposals, and present a proposal in oral form. Prerequisite: consent of thesis adviser.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-3
Instructors: ;
Barton, J. (PI);
Billington, S. (PI);
Blake, C. (PI);
Boehm, A. (PI);
Borja, R. (PI);
Criddle, C. (PI);
Davis, J. (PI);
Freyberg, D. (PI);
Fruchter, R. (PI);
Haymaker, J. (PI);
Jacobson, B. (PI);
Jacobson, M. (PI);
Katz, G. (PI);
Kiremidjian, A. (PI);
Kitanidis, P. (PI);
Krawinkler, H. (PI);
Leckie, J. (PI);
Luthy, R. (PI);
Masters, G. (PI);
McCann, M. (PI);
McCarty, P. (PI);
Miranda, E. (PI);
Monismith, S. (PI);
Orr, R. (PI);
Reinhard, M. (PI);
Spormann, A. (PI);
Tabazadeh, A. (PI);
Walters, P. (PI)
CHEM 299:
Teaching of Chemistry
Required of all teaching assistants in Chemistry. Techniques of teaching chemistry by means of lectures and labs.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-3
| Repeatable
for credit
CHEM 459:
Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Biosciences (BIO 459, BIOC 459, BIOE 459, CHEMENG 459, PSYCH 459)
Students register through their affiliated department; otherwise register for CHEMENG 459. For specialists and non-specialists. Sponsored by the Stanford BioX Program. Three seminars per quarter address scientific and technical themes related to interdisciplinary approaches in bioengineering, medicine, and the chemical, physical, and biological sciences. Leading investigators from Stanford and the world present breakthroughs and endeavors that cut across core disciplines. Pre-seminars introduce basic concepts and background for non-experts. Registered students attend all pre-seminars; others welcome. See http://biox.stanford.edu/courses/459.html. Recommended: basic mathematics, biology, chemistry, and physics.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
for credit
CHEMENG 296:
Creating New Ventures in Engineering and Science-based Industries (CHEM 196, CHEM 296, CHEMENG 196)
Open to seniors and graduate students interested in the creation of new ventures and entrepreneurship in engineering and science intensive industries such as chemical, energy, materials, bioengineering, environmental, clean-tech, pharmaceuticals, medical, and biotechnology. Exploration of the dynamics, complexity, and challenges that define creating new ventures, particularly in industries that require long development times, large investments, integration across a wide range of technical and non-technical disciplines, and the creation and protection of intellectual property. Covers business basics, opportunity viability, creating start-ups, entrepreneurial leadership, and entrepreneurship as a career. Teaching methods include lectures, case studies, guest speakers, and individual and team projects.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
CHEMENG 410:
Public Communication of Research
Develop skills for communicating complex science to the public through writing, video, and public speaking. Learn how to work with the media to explain scientific discoveries without overselling the science. Work in small groups and one-on-one with writers and guest speaker; develop a short written piece and video explaining own research; develop skills that will translate to future scientific projects. Open to graduate students in the biosciences, chemistry, and engineering. Enrollment limited to 20.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1
CHEMENG 459:
Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Biosciences (BIO 459, BIOC 459, BIOE 459, CHEM 459, PSYCH 459)
Students register through their affiliated department; otherwise register for CHEMENG 459. For specialists and non-specialists. Sponsored by the Stanford BioX Program. Three seminars per quarter address scientific and technical themes related to interdisciplinary approaches in bioengineering, medicine, and the chemical, physical, and biological sciences. Leading investigators from Stanford and the world present breakthroughs and endeavors that cut across core disciplines. Pre-seminars introduce basic concepts and background for non-experts. Registered students attend all pre-seminars; others welcome. See http://biox.stanford.edu/courses/459.html. Recommended: basic mathematics, biology, chemistry, and physics.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
for credit
CHEMENG 482:
The Startup Garage: Design (SOMGEN 282)
(Same as STRAMGT 356) The Startup Garage is an experiential lab course that focuses on the design, testing and launch of a new venture. Multidisciplinary student teams work through an iterative process of understanding user needs, creating a point of view statement, ideating and prototyping new product and services and their business models, and communicating the user need, product, service and business models to end-users, partners, and investors. In the autumn quarter, teams will: identify and validate a compelling user need and develop very preliminary prototypes for a new product or service and business models. Students form teams, conduct field work and iterate on the combination of business model -- product -- market. Teams will present their first prototypes (business model - product - market) at the end of the quarter to a panel of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, angel investors and faculty.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
CHEMENG 484:
The Startup Garage: Testing and Launch (SOMGEN 284)
(Same as STRAMGT 366) This is the second quarter of the two-quarter series. In this quarter, student teams expand the field work they started in the fall quarter. They get out of the building to talk to potential customers, partners, distributors, and investors to test and refine their business model, product/service and market. This quarter the teams will be expected to develop and test a minimally viable product, iterate, and focus on validated lessons on: the market opportunity, user need and behavior, user interactions with the product or service, business unit economics, sale and distribution models, partnerships, value proposition, and funding strategies. Teams will interact with customers, partners, distributors, investors and mentors with the end goal of developing and delivering a funding pitch to a panel of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, angel investors and faculty.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
CLASSICS 396:
Humanities+Design: Visualizing the Grand Tour (DLCL 396, HISTORY 336E)
Study of the eighteenth-century Grand Tour of Italy through visualization tools of the digital age. Critical readings in both visual epistemology and current Grand Tour studies; interrogating the relationship between quantitative and qualitative approaches in digital humanities; what new insights in eighteenth-century British travel to Italy does data visualization offer us? Students will transform traditional texts and documents into digital datasets, developing individual data analysis projects using text mining, data capture and visualization techniques.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
COMM 277C:
Specialized Writing and Reporting: Environmental Journalism (COMM 177C, EARTHSYS 177C, EARTHSYS 277C, ENVRES 277C)
(Graduate students register for COMM / ENVRES 277C.) Practical, collaborative, writing-intensive course in science-based environmental journalism. Science and journalism students learn how to identify and write engaging stories about environmental issues and science, how to assess the quality and relevance of environmental news, how to cover the environment and science beats effectively, and how to build bridges between the worlds of journalism and science. Limited enrollment: preference to journalism students and students in the natural and environmental sciences. Prerequisite: COMM 104, ENVRES 200 or consent of instructor. Admissions by application only, available from thayden@stanford.edu.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
COMM 282:
Social Media Issues (COMM 182)
(Graduate students register for COMM 282.) Students will take away from this course a set of conceptual tools, a vocabulary, and an analytical framework with which to recognize, understand, and more effectively manage new social practices online, together with a familiarity with the literature regarding social media and identity, community, collective action, public sphere, social capital, networks, and social networks. Students will also develop skills at using online forums, blogs, microblogs, wikis for research, collaboration, and communication. Limited enrollment. Prerequisite: instructor consent. Please see http://comm.stanford.edu/faculty-rheingold/ for application instructions. Contact instructor at: howard@rheingold.com
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
COMM 301:
Communication Research, Curriculum Development and Pedagogy
Designed to prepare students for teaching and research in the Department of Communication. Students will be trained in developing curriculum and in pedagogical practices, and will also be exposed to the research programs of various faculty members in the department. Required of all Ph.D. students.
Terms: Win
| Units: 1
COMPLIT 228D:
Introduction to Digital Humanities: Concepts, Technologies, Tools (COMPLIT 338D, DLCL 228)
In this course, we will explore the perspectives of scholars who have thought about what "digital humanities" means and the technologies and tools that are shaping new kinds of research, scholarship, and publishing. Topics will include history of the digital humanities, textual studies, electronic literature, computational and new media, and emerging work around text, image, and new media curation and visualization. This seminar is ideal for anyone interested in digital methods and digital in the humanities, teaching with new digital methods, or to learn about all the digital humanities projects at Stanford.nnThis course is organized as a mix of seminar and workshop and will be featuring a new platform called "Lacuna Stories," designed for Stanford students, that presents multiple platforms, media, and texts to digitally engage with narratives surrounding 9/11; active engagement by all participants is expected. Students may contribute to the field with a creative final project that they develop over the course of the quarter if they select the 3-unit option.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1-3
COMPLIT 338D:
Introduction to Digital Humanities: Concepts, Technologies, Tools (COMPLIT 228D, DLCL 228)
In this course, we will explore the perspectives of scholars who have thought about what "digital humanities" means and the technologies and tools that are shaping new kinds of research, scholarship, and publishing. Topics will include history of the digital humanities, textual studies, electronic literature, computational and new media, and emerging work around text, image, and new media curation and visualization. This seminar is ideal for anyone interested in digital methods and digital in the humanities, teaching with new digital methods, or to learn about all the digital humanities projects at Stanford.nnThis course is organized as a mix of seminar and workshop and will be featuring a new platform called "Lacuna Stories," designed for Stanford students, that presents multiple platforms, media, and texts to digitally engage with narratives surrounding 9/11; active engagement by all participants is expected. Students may contribute to the field with a creative final project that they develop over the course of the quarter if they select the 3-unit option.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1-3
CS 298:
Seminar on Teaching Introductory Computer Science (EDUC 298)
Faculty, undergraduates, and graduate students interested in teaching discuss topics raised by teaching computer science at the introductory level. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1
CS 183B:
How to Start a Startup
The course is designed to be a one-class practical MBA equivalent for engineers that want to start startups. We'll try to cover everything younneed to know other than how to build a product. Topics include: having ideas, getting users, company culture, fundraising, hiring, operations,nmanagements, and more. The format of the class will be guest lectures from experts in each subject. The class will focus more on practical advice than theory, although many speakers will also tell personal stories.
| Units: 2
CTL 221:
Practicum for fellows in the Stanford-SJSU Preparing Future Professors Program
Nine weekly one-hour sessions consisting of discussions of: (1) the previous week's SJSU shadowing experiences and (2) readings related to session themes.
Terms: Win
| Units: 1
CTL 231:
Preparing for Faculty Careers
For graduate students from all disciplines who are considering a faculty career of any type and at any of a broad range of institutions. Postdoctoral fellows may audit by consent of instructor. Begins with a methodology to help determine if a faculty career is a good fit for the values, interests and abilities of each participant. Progresses to an exploration of different types of faculty roles and different institutional contexts (e.g., tenure-track vs. non-tenure-track; research-intensive vs. teaching-intensive; large vs. small; etc.). Discusses how to identify and land a faculty position. Ends with concrete tips on how to thrive in such a role. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
for credit
CTL 297:
Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (EDUC 297)
This course is co-taught by Mariatte Denman, Associate Director of the Center on Teaching and Learning. It provides POLS students with an opportunity to focus on teaching and learning along with doctoral students from many disciplines throughout the university. Students watch and interview master teachers at Stanford, prepare a syllabus module for a workshop or class they might teach, and learn a range of effective pedagogical methods. Preparing an analytic paper is an alternative for those who do not want to prepare a syllabus module. The course is open not only to POLS students who expect to work in higher education, but also to students interested in K-12 education, and they may develop a teaching module for use in those schools.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-4
CTL 312:
Science and Engineering Course Design (ENGR 312)
For students interested in an academic career and who anticipate designing science or engineering courses at the undergraduate or graduate level. Goal is to apply research on science and engineering learning to the design of effective course materials. Topics include syllabus design, course content and format decisions, assessment planning and grading, and strategies for teaching improvement.
Terms: Win
| Units: 2-3
DLCL 220:
Humanities Education
Humanities Education explores issues concerning teaching and learning in the humanities, including research on student learning, innovation in pedagogy, the role of new technologies in humanities instruction, and professional issues for humanities teachers at all educational levels.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
for credit
DLCL 228:
Introduction to Digital Humanities: Concepts, Technologies, Tools (COMPLIT 228D, COMPLIT 338D)
In this course, we will explore the perspectives of scholars who have thought about what "digital humanities" means and the technologies and tools that are shaping new kinds of research, scholarship, and publishing. Topics will include history of the digital humanities, textual studies, electronic literature, computational and new media, and emerging work around text, image, and new media curation and visualization. This seminar is ideal for anyone interested in digital methods and digital in the humanities, teaching with new digital methods, or to learn about all the digital humanities projects at Stanford.nnThis course is organized as a mix of seminar and workshop and will be featuring a new platform called "Lacuna Stories," designed for Stanford students, that presents multiple platforms, media, and texts to digitally engage with narratives surrounding 9/11; active engagement by all participants is expected. Students may contribute to the field with a creative final project that they develop over the course of the quarter if they select the 3-unit option.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1-3
DLCL 301:
The Learning and Teaching of Second Languages
Prepares DLCL graduate students to teach first- and second-year foreign languages. Participants learn about second-language acquisition research and participate in the initial stages of Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) training.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
DLCL 302:
The Learning and Teaching of Second-Language Literatures
Focuses on the research on advanced level reading and writing in second language contexts with a special focus on upper-level cultural texts. Discussion of second language writing and reading assessment including a writing familiarization workshop. Participants will focus on their cognizant language and literature for the completion of their assignments. Prerequisite: DLCL 301.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1-3
DLCL 303:
Language Program Management
Administrative Internship in Language Program Management. Experiences can include, but are not limited to, the following: Shadow faculty and staff in select areas of administration and supervision within the Language Center and DLCL; Placement testing and student advisement; Technology in teaching and learning; Processes for teacher observation and feedback; Procedures in staff supervision and Human Resources; Course scheduling, budgeting, staffing, and searches; Interface with external programs (e.g. BOSP, Bechtel, CTL).
Terms: Win, Sum
| Units: 1-3
DLCL 311:
Professional Workshop
Meets regularly throughout the year to discuss issues in the professional study of literature. Topics include the academic job market and the challenges of research and teaching at different types of institutions. Supervised by the graduate affairs committee of the DLCL. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 1-2
| Repeatable
for credit
DLCL 396:
Humanities+Design: Visualizing the Grand Tour (CLASSICS 396, HISTORY 336E)
Study of the eighteenth-century Grand Tour of Italy through visualization tools of the digital age. Critical readings in both visual epistemology and current Grand Tour studies; interrogating the relationship between quantitative and qualitative approaches in digital humanities; what new insights in eighteenth-century British travel to Italy does data visualization offer us? Students will transform traditional texts and documents into digital datasets, developing individual data analysis projects using text mining, data capture and visualization techniques.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
EARTHSCI 5:
Geokids: Earth Sciences Education
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.
Terms: Aut, Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 2 units total)
EARTHSCI 251:
Negotiation (CEE 151, CEE 251)
Students learn to prepare for and conduct negotiations in a variety of arenas including getting a job, managing workplace conflict, negotiating transactions, and managing personal relationships. Interactive class. The internationally travelled instructor who has mediated cases in over 75 countries will require students to negotiate real life case studies and discuss their results in class. Application required before first day of class; see Coursework.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
EARTHSYS 277:
Interdisciplinary Research Survival Skills (EARTHSYS 177, ENVRINST 177, ENVRINST 277)
Learning in interdisciplinary situations. Framing research questions. Developing research methods that benefit from interdisciplinary understanding. Writing for multiple audiences and effectively making interdisciplinary presentations. Discussions with interdisciplinary experts from across campus regarding interdisciplinary research projects.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2
EARTHSYS 323:
Stanford at Sea (BIOHOPK 182H, BIOHOPK 323H, EESS 323)
(Graduate students register for 323H.) Five weeks of marine science including oceanography, marine physiology, policy, maritime studies, conservation, and nautical science at Hopkins Marine Station, followed by five weeks at sea aboard a sailing research vessel in the Pacific Ocean. Shore component comprised of three multidisciplinary courses meeting daily and continuing aboard ship. Students develop an independent research project plan while ashore, and carry out the research at sea. In collaboration with the Sea Education Association of Woods Hole, MA. Only 6 units may count towards the Biology major.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 16
EDUC 202I:
International Education Policy Workshop
This is a project-based workshop. Practical introduction to issues in educational policy making, education reform, educational planning, implementation of policy interventions, and monitoring and evaluation in developing country contexts. Preference to students enrolled in ICE/IEAPA, but open to other students interested in international development or comparative public policy with instructor's consent. Attendance at first class required for enrollment.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
EDUC 208B:
Curriculum Construction
The theories and methods of curriculum development and improvement. Topics: curriculum ideologies, perspectives on design, strategies for diverse learners, and the politics of curriculum construction and implementation. Students develop curriculum plans for use in real settings. Service Learning Course (certified by Haas Center).
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-4
EDUC 226X:
Curating Experience: Representation in and beyond Museums (AMSTUD 226X, CSRE 226X)
In an age when some 50% of museum visitors only "visit" museums online and when digital technologies have broken open archival access, anyone can be a curator, a critic, an historian, an archivist. In this context, how do museums create experiences that teach visitors about who they are and about the world around them? What are the politics of representation that shape learning in these environments? Using an experimental instructional approach, students will reconsider and redefine what it means to curate experience.
Terms: Win
| Units: 2-4
EDUC 239X:
Educating Young STEM Thinkers (EDUC 139X, ME 139, ME 231)
The course will introduce students to the design thinking process, the national conversations about the future of STEM careers, and provide opportunities to work with middle school students and K-12 teachers in STEM-based after-school activities and intercession camps. The course will be both theory and practice focused. The purpose is twofold; to provide reflection and mentoring opportunities for students to learn about pathways to STEM careers and to introduce mentoring opportunities with young STEM thinkers.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 3-5
| Repeatable
4 times
(up to 20 units total)
EDUC 280X:
Learning & Teaching of Science (PHYSICS 295)
This course will provide students with a basic knowledge of the relevant research in cognitive psychology and science education and the ability to apply that knowledge to enhance their ability to learn and teach science, particularly at the undergraduate level. Course will involve readings, discussion, and application of the ideas through creation of learning activities. It is suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students with some science background.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
EDUC 290:
Instructional Leadership: Building Capacity for Excellent Teaching
This course focuses on the role of leaders in designing, supporting and sustaining excellent teaching. How do leaders create the organizational conditions to focus attention on the technical core of instruction, curriculum and assessment. Course goals: 1) explore a variety of educational leadership approaches, 2) investigate the theory of action underlying these approaches to leadership and consider the implications for instructional practice and 3) develop understanding of the relationship between the leadership approach and the learning environment.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-4
EDUC 292:
Academic Writing for Clarity and Grace
Students will acquire helpful writing strategies, habits, and critical faculties; increase their sense of writing as revision; and leave them with resources that will support them in their own lifelong pursuit of good writing. Students will work on revising their own papers and editing papers of other students. Class will focus on exercises in a variety of critical writing skills: framing, concision, clarity, emphasis, rhythm, action, actors, argument, data, quotations, and usage. Course enrollment limited to graduate students.
Terms: Win
| Units: 2-4
EDUC 297:
Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (CTL 297)
This course is co-taught by Mariatte Denman, Associate Director of the Center on Teaching and Learning. It provides POLS students with an opportunity to focus on teaching and learning along with doctoral students from many disciplines throughout the university. Students watch and interview master teachers at Stanford, prepare a syllabus module for a workshop or class they might teach, and learn a range of effective pedagogical methods. Preparing an analytic paper is an alternative for those who do not want to prepare a syllabus module. The course is open not only to POLS students who expect to work in higher education, but also to students interested in K-12 education, and they may develop a teaching module for use in those schools.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-4
EDUC 298:
Seminar on Teaching Introductory Computer Science (CS 298)
Faculty, undergraduates, and graduate students interested in teaching discuss topics raised by teaching computer science at the introductory level. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1
EDUC 334A:
Youth and Education Law Project: Clinical Practice
(Same as LAW 660A). The Youth and Education Law Project offers students the opportunity to participate in a wide variety of educational rights and reform work, including direct representation of youth and families in special education and school discipline matters, community outreach and education, school reform litigation, and/or policy research and advocacy. All students have an opportunity to represent elementary and high school students with disabilities in special education proceedings, to represent students in school discipline proceedings, or to work with community groups in advocating for the provision of better and more equitable educational opportunities to their children. In addition, the clinic may pursue a specific policy research and advocacy project that will result in a written policy brief and policy proposal. Students working on special education matters have the opportunity to handle all aspects of their clients' cases. Students working in this area interview and counsel clients, investigate and develop facts, work with medical and mental health professionals and experts, conduct legal and educational research, create case plans, and represent clients at individual education program (IEP) team meetings, mediation or special education due process hearings. This work offers students a chance to study the relationship between individual special education advocacy and system-wide reform efforts such as impact litigation. Students working on school discipline matters interview and counsel clients, investigate and develop facts, interview witnesses, conduct legal and educational research, create case plan, and represent clients at school discipline hearings such as expulsion hearings. Such hearings provide the opportunity to present oral and written argument, examine witnesses, and present evidence before a hearing officer. If appropriate and necessary, such proceedings also present the opportunity to represent students on appeal before the school district board of trustees or the county board of education. The education clinic includes two or three mandatory training sessions to be held at the beginning of the term, a weekly seminar that focuses on legal skills and issues in law and education policy, regular case review, and a one hour weekly meeting with the clinic instructor. Admission is by consent of instructor. Beginning with the 2009-2010 academic year, each of the Law School's clinical courses is being offered on a full-time basis for 12 credits.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 4
EDUC 335X:
Designing Research-Based Interventions to Solve Global Health Problems (AFRICAST 135, AFRICAST 235, EDUC 135X, HUMBIO 26, MED 235)
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, evaluate, and scale social ventures. Using TeachAIDS (an award-winning nonprofit educational technology social venture used in 78 countries) as a primary case study, students will be given an in-depth look into how the entity was founded and scaled globally. Guest speakers will include world-class experts and entrepreneurs in Philanthropy, Medicine, Communications, Education, and Technology. Open to both undergraduate and graduate students.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-4
EDUC 374:
Philanthropy and Civil Society (POLISCI 334, SOC 374)
Cross-listed with Law (LAW 781), Political Science (POLISCI 334) and Sociology (SOC 374). Associated with the Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society (PACS). Year-long workshop for doctoral students and advanced undergraduates writing senior theses on the nature of civil society or philanthropy. Focus is on pursuit of progressive research and writing contributing to the current scholarly knowledge of the nonprofit sector and philanthropy. Accomplished in a large part through peer review. Readings include recent scholarship in aforementioned fields. May be repeated for credit for a maximum of 9 units.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-3
| Repeatable
6 times
(up to 18 units total)
EDUC 377C:
Strategic Philanthropy
(Also GSBGEN 381). Appropriate for any student driven to effect positive social change from either the for-profit or nonprofit sector, Strategic Philanthropy (GSBGEN 381/ EDUC 377C) will challenge students to expand their own strategic thinking about philanthropic aspiration and action. In recent decades, philanthropy has become an industry in itself - amounting to over $300 billion in the year 2012. Additionally, the last decade has seen unprecedented innovation in both philanthropy and social change. This course explores the key operational and strategic distinctions between traditional philanthropic entities, such as community foundations, private foundations, and corporate foundations; and innovative models, including funding intermediaries, open-source platforms, technology-driven philanthropies, and venture philanthropy partnerships. Course work will include readings and case discussions that encourage students to analyze both domestic and global philanthropic strategies as they relate to foundation mission, grant making, evaluation, financial management, infrastructure, knowledge management, policy change, and board governance. Guest speakers will consist of high profile philanthropists, foundation presidents, social entrepreneurs and Silicon Valley business leaders creating new philanthropic models. The course will culminate in an individual project in which students will complete a business plan for a $10 million private foundation.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
EDUC 386:
Leadership and Administration in Higher Education
Definitions of leadership and leadership roles within colleges and universities. Leadership models and organizational concepts. Case study analysis of the problems and challenges facing today's higher education administrators.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2
EDUC 391X:
Engineering Education and Online Learning (EE 396)
An introduction to best practices in engineering education and educational technology, with a focus on online and blended learning. In addition to gaining a broad understanding of the field, students will experiment with a variety of education technologies, pedagogical techniques, and assessment methods.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
EDUC 405X:
Teaching the Humanities
This course, designed for graduate students in the humanities and education, explores approaches to teaching the humanities at both the secondary and collegiate levels, with a focus on the teaching of text, and how the humanities can help students develop the ability to read and think critically. The course explores purposes and pedagogical approaches for teaching humanities through a variety of texts and perspectives. The course is designed as an opportunity for doctoral students in the Humanities both to enrich their own teaching, and to broaden their understanding of professional teaching opportunities, including community college and secondary school teaching.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
EDUC 213:
Introduction to Teaching
Key concepts in teaching and learning; teacher content knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge; student prior knowledge and preconceptions; cognition and metacognition; classroom culture, motivation, and management; teaching diverse populations; comparison of teaching models; analysis of teaching; standards, accountability, and assessment of learning; assessing teaching quality; online learning and teaching.
| Units: 3-4
EE 204:
Business Management for Electrical Engineers and Computer Scientists
For graduate students with little or no business experience. Leading computer, high-tech, and Silicon Valley companies and their best practices. Tools and frameworks for analyzing decisions these companies face. Corporate strategy, new product development, marketing, sales, distribution, customer service, financial accounting, outsourcing, and human behavior in business organizations. Case studies. Prerequisite: graduate standing.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
EE 396:
Engineering Education and Online Learning (EDUC 391X)
An introduction to best practices in engineering education and educational technology, with a focus on online and blended learning. In addition to gaining a broad understanding of the field, students will experiment with a variety of education technologies, pedagogical techniques, and assessment methods.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
EESS 323:
Stanford at Sea (BIOHOPK 182H, BIOHOPK 323H, EARTHSYS 323)
(Graduate students register for 323H.) Five weeks of marine science including oceanography, marine physiology, policy, maritime studies, conservation, and nautical science at Hopkins Marine Station, followed by five weeks at sea aboard a sailing research vessel in the Pacific Ocean. Shore component comprised of three multidisciplinary courses meeting daily and continuing aboard ship. Students develop an independent research project plan while ashore, and carry out the research at sea. In collaboration with the Sea Education Association of Woods Hole, MA. Only 6 units may count towards the Biology major.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 16
EFSLANG 688:
Intensive English and Academic Orientation for Foreign Graduate Students
Goal is to prepare incoming international graduate students for full-time study. Academic orientation and instruction in academic writing, listening, discussion, oral presentation, and spoken usage. Enrollment limited to 14. Course may be repeated once.
Terms: Sum
| Units: 6
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 12 units total)
EFSLANG 688A:
Intensive Spoken English
For current graduate students. Includes work on listening, oral presentation, discussion, and conversational interaction. May fulfill any two of the following EFS requirements, subject to approval by the EFS Director: EFSLANG 690A, 690B, 691, 693B.
Terms: Sum
| Units: 3
EFSLANG 688B:
Intensive Academic Writing
For current graduate students. Focus on academic writing, with some work in reading and vocabulary development. Engineering, science, humanities, and social science students prepare a research paper; business students write one or more case studies. Fulfills requirement for EFSLANG 697 or 698A, subject to approval by the EFSLANG Director.
Terms: Sum
| Units: 3
EFSLANG 690B:
Academic Discussion
Skills for effective participation in classroom settings, seminars, and research group meetings. Pronunciation, grammar, and appropriateness for specific tasks. Feedback on language and communication style. Enrollment limited to 14. May be repeated once for credit. Prerequisite: EFSLANG 690A or consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-3
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 6 units total)
EFSLANG 691:
Oral Presentation
For advanced graduate students. Practice in academic presentation skills; strategy, design, organization, and use of visual aids. Focus is on improving fluency and delivery style, with videotaping for feedback on language accuracy and usage. Enrollment limited to 14. May be repeated once for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-3
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 6 units total)
EFSLANG 692:
Speaking and Teaching in English
For non-native speakers who must teach in English. Focus is on developing clarity, intelligibility, and effectiveness through weekly presentations simulating actual teaching assistant responsibilities. Enrollment limited to 14. May be repeated once for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-3
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 6 units total)
EFSLANG 693A:
Listening Comprehension
Strategies for effective listening in an academic setting, focusing on identifying key ideas in lectures. Practice in understanding words and phrases commonly encountered in classroom settings. Computer-based exercises for comprehension of rapid, natural speech. Enrollment limited to 14.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1-3
EFSLANG 693B:
Advanced Listening Comprehension, and Vocabulary Development
Listening strategies and vocabulary for understanding English in academic and non-academic contexts. Discussion and interpretation of communicative intent. Computer-based and video exercises across a range of genres; individual project. May be repeated once for credit. Prerequisite: EFSLANG 693A or consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-3
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 6 units total)
EFSLANG 693R:
Graduate Reading and Vocabulary Development
Strategies for improving graduate and professional academic reading comprehension and critical analysis. Focus on applying specific techniques for different reading purposes. Expansion of both general and field-specific academic vocabulary and idioms. Includes individual reading projects.
Terms: Aut, Win
| Units: 1-3
EFSLANG 694:
English for Business, Industry and Professional Life
For advanced graduate students. Task-based practice of language appropriate for professional settings in industry and related teamwork. Simulation of the roles of manager, applicant, subordinate, and coworker. Prerequisite: EFSLANG 693A, or consent of instructor. Enrollment limited to 14.
Terms: Aut, Win
| Units: 1-3
EFSLANG 697:
Writing Fundamentals
Focus is on improving grammatical accuracy and vocabulary, building fluency, and learning the structure and conventions of English correspondence, reports, and short academic papers. Enrollment limited to 14.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-3
EFSLANG 698A:
Writing Academic English
Strategies and conventions for graduate writing. Emphasis is on fluency, organization, documentation, and appropriateness for writing tasks required in course work. Enrollment limited to 14. May be repeated once for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-3
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 6 units total)
EFSLANG 698B:
Advanced Graduate Writing
Focus on clarity, accuracy, and appropriate style. For graduate students experienced in English writing and currently required to write for courses and research. Class meetings and individual conferences. Prerequisite: EFSLANG 698A. Enrollment limited to 14. May be repeated once for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-3
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 6 units total)
EFSLANG 698C:
Writing and Presenting Research
For advanced graduate students completing major research projects. Revising and editing strategies for preparing papers, conference abstracts, and poster presentations. Adapting content and style to different audiences. Students present their research with participant feedback. Enrollment limited to 14. May be repeated once for credit. Prerequisite: EFSLANG 698B and EFSLANG 691 or consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut, Win
| Units: 1-3
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 6 units total)
ENERGY 359:
Teaching Experience in Energy Resources Engineering
For TAs in Energy Resources Engineering. Course and lecture design and preparation; lecturing practice in small groups. Classroom teaching practice in an Energy Resources Engineering course for which the participant is the TA (may be in a later quarter). Taught in collaboration with the Center for Teaching and Learning.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
for credit
ENGR 103:
Public Speaking
Priority to Engineering students. Introduction to speaking activities, from impromptu talks to carefully rehearsed formal professional presentations. How to organize and write speeches, analyze audiences, create and use visual aids, combat nervousness, and deliver informative and persuasive speeches effectively. Weekly class practice, rehearsals in one-on-one tutorials, videotaped feedback. Limited enrollment.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 3
ENGR 202S:
Writing: Special Projects
Writing tutorial for students working on non-course projects such as theses, journal articles, and conference papers. Weekly individual conferences.
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
for credit
ENGR 202W:
Technical Writing
How to write clear, concise, and well-ordered technical prose. Principles of editing for structure and style. Applications to a variety of genres in engineering and science.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 3
ENGR 290:
Graduate Environment of Support
For course assistants (CAs) and tutors in the School of Engineering tutorial and learning program. Interactive training for effective academic assistance. Pedagogy, developing course material, tutoring, and advising. Sources include video, readings, projects, and role playing.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1
ENGR 311B:
Designing the Professional
How to Get a Life as well as a PhD: Seminar open to ALL doctoral students (Humanities, Sciences and Engineering). Apply principles of design thinking to designing your professional life following Stanford. Topics include: Introduction to "design thinking", a framework for vocational wayfinding and locating profession within life overall; tools to investigate multiple professional paths. Creation of personal "Odyssey Plan" to innovate multiple prototypes for post-PhD professional launch.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 3 units total)
ENGR 312:
Science and Engineering Course Design (CTL 312)
For students interested in an academic career and who anticipate designing science or engineering courses at the undergraduate or graduate level. Goal is to apply research on science and engineering learning to the design of effective course materials. Topics include syllabus design, course content and format decisions, assessment planning and grading, and strategies for teaching improvement.
Terms: Win
| Units: 2-3
ENGR 313:
Topics in Engineering and Science Education
This seminar series focuses on topics related to teaching science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) courses based on education research. Each year focuses on a different topic related to STEM education. This course may be repeated for credit each year. This year we will explore how to design assessments and give feedback to facilitate student learning through a series of discussions, in-class activities and guest lectures based on current STEM education literature. Throughout the quarter, there will be several opportunities for directly practicing and applying STEM education strategies to specific teaching goals in your field.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1-2
| Repeatable
for credit
(up to 99 units total)
ENVRES 200:
Sustaining Action: Research, Analysis and Writing for the Public (EARTHSYS 200)
Preference to graduate students and senior undergraduates in environmental, natural and social sciences, engineering, journalism. Students help produce and publish SAGE, an eco advice column, by choosing, researching, and answering questions about sustainable living submitted by Stanford alumni and the general public. Prerequisite: admission by application, available from instructor, thayden@stanford.edu. (Meets Earth Systems WIM requirement).
Terms: Aut, Spr
| Units: 3
ENVRES 380:
Collaborating with the Future: Launching Large Scale Sustainable Transformations
This project-based d.school class combines Design Thinking Processes, Behavioral Sciences, and elements of Diffusion Theory. Tools and theories introduced in class will be used to structure large-scale transformations that simultaneously create value on environmental, societal, and economic fronts. We encourage students to use this class as a launching pad for real initiatives. Primarily meant for Graduate Students. (Especially qualified/motivated Seniors will be considered). Admission to the class is through an application process which ends on March 3.nPlease find instructions and applications at https://dschool.stanford.edu/groups/largetransformations/.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-4
ENVRINST 277:
Interdisciplinary Research Survival Skills (EARTHSYS 177, EARTHSYS 277, ENVRINST 177)
Learning in interdisciplinary situations. Framing research questions. Developing research methods that benefit from interdisciplinary understanding. Writing for multiple audiences and effectively making interdisciplinary presentations. Discussions with interdisciplinary experts from across campus regarding interdisciplinary research projects.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2
ETHICSOC 278M:
Introduction to Environmental Ethics (ETHICSOC 178M, PHIL 178M, PHIL 278M, POLISCI 134L)
How should human beings relate to the natural world? Do we have moral obligations toward non-human animals and other parts of nature? And what do we owe to other human beings, including future generations, with respect to the environment? The first part of this course will examine such questions in light of some of our current ethical theories: considering what those theories suggest regarding the extent and nature of our environmental obligations; and also whether reflection on such obligations can prove informative about the adequacy of our ethical theories. In the second part of the course, we will use the tools that we have acquired to tackle various ethical questions that confront us in our dealings with the natural world, looking at subjects such as: animal rights; conservation; economic approaches to the environment; access to and control over natural resources; environmental justice and pollution; climate change; technology and the environment; and environmental activism.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
FILMSTUD 364A:
Technology and the Visual Imagination (ARTHIST 164A, ARTHIST 364A, FILMSTUD 164A)
An exploration of the dynamic relationship between technology and the ways we see and represent the world. The course examines technologies from the Renaissance through the present day, from telescopes and microscopes to digital detectors, that have changed and enhanced our visual capabilities as well as shaped how we imagine the world. We also consider how these technologies influenced and inspired the work of artists. Special attention is paid to how different technologies such as linear perspective, photography, cinema, and computer screens translate the visual experience into a representation; the automation of vision; and the intersection of technology with conceptions of time and space.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
GEOPHYS 205:
Effective Scientific Presentation and Public Speaking
The ability to present your work in a compelling, concise, and engaging manner will enhance your professional career. This course breaks down presentations into their key elements: the opening, body of the talk, closing, slide and poster graphics, Q&A, pacing, pauses, and voice modulation. We use clips from archived talks, slide sets and posters to illustrate the good, the bad, and the ugly. Each participant will use their upcoming conference talk or poster (e.g., AGU, SEG), or upcoming job talk or funding pitch, as their class project. The course will be 40% group meetings and 60% individual coaching. Everyone will come away a more skilled and confident speaker than they were before. Instructor: Ross S. Stein (USGS) nThe course syllabus is the third publication in http://profile.usgs.gov/rstein
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2
HISTORY 305:
Graduate Pedagogy Workshop
Required of first-year History Ph.D. students. Perspectives on pedagogy for historians: course design, lecturing, leading discussion, evaluation of student learning, use of technology in teaching lectures and seminars. Addressing today's classroom: sexual harassment issues, integrating diversity, designing syllabi to include students with disabilities.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1
HISTORY 336E:
Humanities+Design: Visualizing the Grand Tour (CLASSICS 396, DLCL 396)
Study of the eighteenth-century Grand Tour of Italy through visualization tools of the digital age. Critical readings in both visual epistemology and current Grand Tour studies; interrogating the relationship between quantitative and qualitative approaches in digital humanities; what new insights in eighteenth-century British travel to Italy does data visualization offer us? Students will transform traditional texts and documents into digital datasets, developing individual data analysis projects using text mining, data capture and visualization techniques.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
HRP 214:
Scientific Writing
Step-by-step through the process of writing and publishing a scientific manuscript. How to write effectively, concisely, and clearly. Preparation of an actual scientific manuscript. Students are encouraged to bring a manuscript on which they are currently working to develop and polish throughout the course.
Terms: Win
| Units: 2-3
HUMSCI 201:
Graduate Environment of Support
Psychosocial, financial, and career issues in adapting graduate students to Stanford; how these issues relate to diversity, resources, policies, and procedures. Discussions among faculty, advanced graduate students, campus resource people, and the dean's office. (Thomas)
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1
ILAC 309:
First Year Writing Workshop
This course enables students to develop the writing skills necessary in their academic careers. Course topics include writing in the discipline, critiques, and literature reviews.May be repeat for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 3 units total)
INDE 212:
Medical Humanities and the Arts
The interdisciplinary field of medical humanities: the use of the arts and humanities to examine medicine in personal, social, and cultural contexts. Topics include the doctor/patient relationship, the patient perspective, the meaning of doctoring, and the meaning of illness. Sources include visual and performing arts, film, and literary genres such as poetry, fiction, and scholarly writing. Designed for medical students in the Biomedical Ethics and Medical Humanities Scholarly Concentration, but all students are welcome.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2
INDE 230:
Topics in Scientific Management
Designed for postdocs and advanced graduate students. Reviews management skills necessary for successfully assuming leadership roles in scientific research. Addresses some of the most difficult aspects of developing, directing, and managing people and projects and running a research group, especially issues that new faculty have traditionally learned by trial and error over a number of years. Topics include: the faculty job search process and strategies, key elements in starting a lab, basic principles regarding legal dimensions of scientific activity (intellectual property, royalties, links with industry), team science, research ethics, communication and negotiation skills, and writing and securing grants.
| Units: 1
LAWGEN 115N:
Human Rights Advocacy
What are the origins of the human rights movement and where is it headed? What does it mean to be a human rights activist? What are the main challenges and dilemmas facing those engaged in human rights advocacy? In the space of sixty years, human rights advocates have transformed a marginal utopian ideal into a central element of global discussion, if not practice. In this seminar we will examine the actors and organizations behind this remarkable development as well as the vast challenges faced by advocates in the recent past and today. Together, we will learn to be critical of, as well as to think, and act, like human rights advocates. This seminar will introduce you to some the main debates and dilemmas within the human rights movement. We will consider and understand the differing agendas of western international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) and their counterparts in the frequently non-western) developing world, as well as tensions between and among rights advocates along other important dimensions (civil and political vs. economic, social and cultural rights; rights promotion through engagement of powerful actors vs. challenging structures of power, etc.). The seminar seeks to develop your ability: 1) to understand human rights and social justice issues as contested political, legal and cultural phenomena; 2) to review advocacy texts, videos and other interventions critically; 3) to appreciate the political dimensions of efforts to promote human rights; 4) to understand how recent history constrains and structures options and possibilities for social intervention to promote rights and justice. During the course of the quarter you will be required to submit several short reflection papers and develop a human rights advocacy campaign.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
LINGUIST 291:
Linguistics and the Teaching of English as a Second/Foreign Language (LINGUIST 191)
Methodology and techniques for teaching languages, using concepts from linguistics and second language acquisition theory and research. Focus is on teaching English, but most principles and techniques applicable to any language. Optional 1-unit seminar in computer-assisted language learning.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
MATH 355:
Graduate Teaching Seminar
Required of and limited to first-year Mathematics graduate students.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1
ME 206B:
Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability
Part two of two-quarter project course jointly offered by School of Engineering and Graduate School of Business. Second quarter emphasizes prototyping and implementation of specific projects identified in first quarter. Students work in cross-disciplinary project teams. Industry and adviser interaction, weekly design reviews; final course presentation. Prerequisite: 206A.n(Jointly offered as GSB OIT333B) Design Institute class; see http://dschool.stanford.edu.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
ME 231:
Educating Young STEM Thinkers (EDUC 139X, EDUC 239X, ME 139)
The course will introduce students to the design thinking process, the national conversations about the future of STEM careers, and provide opportunities to work with middle school students and K-12 teachers in STEM-based after-school activities and intercession camps. The course will be both theory and practice focused. The purpose is twofold; to provide reflection and mentoring opportunities for students to learn about pathways to STEM careers and to introduce mentoring opportunities with young STEM thinkers.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 3-5
| Repeatable
4 times
(up to 20 units total)
ME 236:
Tales to Design Cars By
Students learn to tell personal narratives and make connections between popular and historic media using the automobile. Explores the meaning and impact of personal and preserved car histories. Storytelling techniques serve to make sense of car experiences; replay memories; examine engagement; understand user interviews. This course celebrates car fascination, and leads the student through finding and telling a car story through the REVS photographic archives, ethnographic research, interviews, and diverse individual and collaborative narrative methods-verbal, non-verbal, and film. Methods draw from socio-cognitive psychology, design thinking, and fine art ¿and are applied to car storytelling. Course culminates in a final story presentation and showcase. Restricted to co-term and graduate students. Class Size limited to 18.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1-3
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 6 units total)
ME 366:
Creative Gym: A Design Thinking Skills Studio
Build your creative confidence and sharpen your design thinking skills. Train your intuition and expand the design context from which you operate every day. This experimental studio will introduce d.school students to fast- paced experiential exercises that lay the mental and physical foundation for a potent bias toward action, and a wider knowledge of the personal skills that expert design thinkers utilize in all phases of their process. Recent research based on this course curriculum show that performing these class activities will expand your creative capacity in statistically significant ways.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1
ME 368:
d.Leadership: Design Leadership in Context (MS&E 489)
d.Leadership is a course that teaches the coaching and leadership skills needed to drive good design process in groups. d.leaders will work on real projects driving design projects within organizations, and gain real world skills as they experiment with their leadership style while coaching innovation projects. Take this course if you are inspired by past design classes and want skills to lead design projects beyond Stanford. Preference given to students who have taken other Design Group or d.school classes. Admission by application. See dschool.stanford.edu/classes for more information
Terms: Win
| Units: 1-3
ME 375A:
StoryViz: COMMUNICATION REDESIGNED
StoryViz is about creating authentic & compelling communication in many media: this year's topics include sketching, video, visual design & performance. Fantastic guests and a bevy of assignments will prepare students to communicate their work and ideas genuinely, concisely, and with a keen sense of wit. Limited enrollment; application required; see http://dschool.stanford.edu/classes. Please see notes.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2-3
ME 377:
Design Thinking Studio: Experiences in Innovation and Design
Design Thinking Studio is an immersive introduction to design thinking. You will engage in the real world, with your eyes, with your mind, with your hands, and with classmates to learn, practice, and use the tools and attitudes of design. The fundamental goal of the class is to cultivate the creative, synthetic, and divergent thinking of students. This is a project-based class, asking students to take on new behaviors of work: collaboration, experimentation, empathizing, visualization, craft and inference. Field work and collaboration with teammates are required and critical for student success. Admission by application. See dschool.stanford.edu/classes for more information.
Terms: Aut, Win
| Units: 3-4
ME 378:
Tell, Make, Engage: Action Stories for Entrepreneuring
Individual storytelling action and reflective observations gives the course an evolving framework of evaluative methods, formed and reformed by collaborative development within the class. Stories attached to an idea or a discovery, are considered through iterative narrative work and small group research projects. This course will use qualitative and quantitative methods for story engagement, assessment, and class determined research projects with practice exercises, artifacts, short papers and presentations.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-3
| Repeatable
for credit
ME 379:
Fail Faster
Fail Faster will dive deeply into one of design thinking's key tenets: Fail early, fail often. Students will explore ways to: [1] become comfortable with uncertainty, [2] develop tools to navigate situations of failure, and [3] learn to turn failures into opportunities. This exercised-based workshop will examine the physiological impact of failure and practice the psychological traits and the power of resilience through hands-on activities. Participants will acquire techniques to help them navigate, bounce back, grow and even flourish in the face of their failures.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1
MS&E 245G:
Finance for Non-MBAs (ECON 135)
For graduate students and advanced undergraduates. The foundations of finance; applications in corporate finance and investment management. Financial decisions made by corporate managers and investors with focus on process valuation. Topics include criteria for investment decisions, valuation of financial assets and liabilities, relationships between risk and return, market efficiency, and the valuation of derivative securities. Corporate financial instruments including debt, equity, and convertible securities. Equivalent to core MBA finance course, FINANCE 220. Prerequisites: ECON 51, or ENGR 60, or equivalent; ability to use spreadsheets, and basic probability and statistics concepts including random variables, expected value, variance, covariance, and simple estimation and regression.
| Units: 3
MS&E 254:
The Ethical Analyst
The ethical responsibility for consequences of professional analysts who use technical knowledge in support of any individual, organization, or government. The means to form ethical judgments; questioning the desirability of physical coercion and deception as a means to reach any end. Human action and relations in society in the light of previous thought, and research on the desired form of social interactions. Attitudes toward ethical dilemmas through an explicit personal code.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1-3
MS&E 271:
Global Entrepreneurial Marketing
Skills needed to market new technology-based products to customers around the world. Case method discussions. Cases include startups and global high tech firms. Course themes: marketing toolkit, targeting markets and customers, product marketing and management, partners and distribution, sales and negotiation, and outbound marketing. Team-based take-home final exam. Limited enrollment. Admission by application.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 3-4
MS&E 273:
Technology Venture Formation
Open to graduate students interested in technology driven start-ups. Provides the experience of an early-stage entrepreneur seeking initial investment, including: team building, opportunity assessment, customer development, go-to-market strategy, and IP. Teaching team includes serial entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. Student teams validate the business model using R&D plans and financial projections, and define milestones for raising and using venture capital. Final exam is an investment pitch delivered to a panel of top tier VC partners. In addition to lectures, teams interact with mentors and teaching team weekly. Enrollment by application: http://www.stanford.edu/class/msande273. Recommended: 270, 271, or equivalent.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-4
MS&E 274:
Dynamic Entrepreneurial Strategy
Primarily for graduate students. How entrepreneurial strategy focuses on creating structural change or responding to change induced externally. Grabber-holder dynamics as an analytical framework for developing entrepreneurial strategy to increase success in creating and shaping the diffusion of new technology or product innovation dynamics. Topics: First mover versus follower advantage in an emerging market; latecomer advantage and strategy in a mature market; strategy to break through stagnation; and strategy to turn danger into opportunity. Modeling, case studies, and term project.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
MS&E 276:
Entrepreneurial Management and Finance
For graduate students only, with a preference for engineering and science majors. Emphasis on managing high-growth, early-stage enterprises, especially those with innovation-based products and services. Students work in teams to develop skills and approaches necessary to becoming effective entrepreneurial leaders and managers. Topics include assessing risk, understanding business models, analyzing key operational metrics, modeling cash flow and capital requirements, evaluating sources of financing, structuring and negotiating investments, managing organizational culture and incentives, managing the interplay between ownership and growth, and handling adversity and failure. Limited enrollment. Admission by application. Recommended: basic accounting.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
MS&E 277:
Creativity and Innovation
Experiential course explores factors that promote and inhibit creativity and innovation in individuals, teams, and organizations. Teaches creativity tools using workshops, case studies, field trips, expert guests, and team design challenges. Enrollment limited to 40. Admission by application. See http://dschool.stanford.edu/classes.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 3-4
MS&E 279A:
Entrepreneurial Leadership
This seminar explores a wide range of topics related to entrepreneurial leadership through class discussions, case studies, field trips, and guest speakers. It is part of the DFJ Entrepreneurial Leaders Fellowship, which requires an application during Fall quarter. Details can be found at: http://stvp.stanford.edu/dfj/.
Terms: Win
| Units: 1
MS&E 279B:
Entrepreneurial Leadership
This seminar explores a wide range of topics related to entrepreneurial leadership through class discussions, case studies, field trips, and guest speakers. It is part of the DFJ Entrepreneurial Leaders Fellowship, which requires an application during Fall quarter. Details can be found at: http://stvp.stanford.edu/dfj/.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1
MS&E 282:
Transformational Leadership
The personal, team-based and organizational skills needed to become a transformative leader. Case method discussions and lectures. Themes include: personal transformation; the inside-out effect, group transformation; cross-functional teams; re-engineering; rapid - non-profit and for profit - organizational transformation; and social transformation. Course includes a group project that is defined and approved during the first two weeks of class. Limited enrollment. Graduate students only. Admission by application. Prerequisite: 180 or 280.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
MS&E 284:
Designing Modern Work Organizations
This practice-based experiential lab course is geared toward MS&E masters students. Students will master the concepts of organizational design, with an emphasis on applying them to modern challenges (technology, growth, globalization, and the modern workforce). Students will also gain mastery of skills necessary for success in today's workplace (working in teams, communicating verbally, presenting project work). Guest speakers from industry will present real-world challenges related to class concepts. Students will complete a quarter-long project designing and managing an actual online organization. Limited to 25. Admission by application.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
MS&E 299:
Voluntary Social Systems
Ethical theory, feasibility, and desirability of a social order in which coercion by individuals and government is minimized and people pursue ends on a voluntary basis. Topics: efficacy and ethics; use rights for property; contracts and torts; spontaneous order and free markets; crime and punishment based on restitution; guardian-ward theory for dealing with incompetents; the effects of state action-hypothesis of reverse results; applications to help the needy, armed intervention, victimless crimes, and environmental protection; transition strategies to a voluntary society.
Terms: Win
| Units: 1-3
MS&E 450:
Lessons in Decision Making
Entrepreneurs, senior management consultants, and executives from Fortune 500 companies share real-world stories and insights from their experience in decision making.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
for credit
MS&E 452:
Decision Analysis Projects: Helping Real Leaders Make Real Decisions
A virtual consulting firm directed by professional decision analysts who offer advice and guidance as student teams help local organizations make a current business strategy or public policy decision. Projects for businesses, governments, or other institutions typically include start-up venture funding, R&D portfolio planning, new product or market entry, acquisition or partnering, cost reduction, program design, or regulatory policy decisions. Emphasis is on developing clarity of action and delivering insights to clients. Satisfies MS&E project course requirement. Prerequiste: 252. Recommended: 352.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
MS&E 476:
Entrepreneurship Through the Lens of Venture Capital: Venture Capital From Past to Present
Explores changes in the venture capital industry: rise of SiliconnValley and Sand Hill Road, investing in the dot-com bubble, incubatorsnand accelerators, equity crowd funding platform, and different modelsnof venture capital. Explores how companies are funded, grown, andnscale by meeting with individuals who have been at the forefront ofnthis change. See www.lensofvc.com.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2
MS&E 489:
d.Leadership: Design Leadership in Context (ME 368)
d.Leadership is a course that teaches the coaching and leadership skills needed to drive good design process in groups. d.leaders will work on real projects driving design projects within organizations, and gain real world skills as they experiment with their leadership style while coaching innovation projects. Take this course if you are inspired by past design classes and want skills to lead design projects beyond Stanford. Preference given to students who have taken other Design Group or d.school classes. Admission by application. See dschool.stanford.edu/classes for more information
Terms: Win
| Units: 1-3
ORALCOMM 215:
Voice Workshop (ORALCOMM 115)
Focus is on breath, voice production, expansion of vocal range and stamina, and clarity of articulation. Geared toward public speaking including presentations, lectures, and job talks. May be taken in conjunction with ORALCOMM 117. ORALCOMM 115/215 was previously listed as CTL 115/215.
Terms: Aut, Spr
| Units: 1-2
ORALCOMM 217:
The Art of Effective Speaking (ORALCOMM 117)
The principles and practice of effective oral communication. Through formal and informal speaking activities, students develop skills framing and articulating ideas through speech. Strategies for speaking extemporaneously, preparing and delivering multimedia presentations, formulating persuasive arguments, refining critical clarity of thought, and enhancing general facility and confidence in oral self-expression. ORALCOMM 117/217 was previously listed as CTL 117/217.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
ORALCOMM 219:
Oral Communication for Graduate Students
(Formerly CTL 219.) Graduate student speaking activities such as teaching (delivering lectures, guiding discussion, and facilitating small groups), professional presentations and conference papers, and preparing for oral exams and defenses. In-class projects, discussion, and individual evaluation assist students in developing effective techniques for improving oral communication skills.
Terms: Sum
| Units: 1-2
ORALCOMM 221:
STEM Speak: Oral Communication for Technical Fields (ORALCOMM 121)
This course addresses the principles and practices of effective oral communication and is tailored specifically to those students coming from STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) fields. Students will learn to speak about technical topics to a variety of audiences, will develop their own visual aids, will participate in multiple in-class presentations and will receive both group and one-on-one feedback throughout this course. Special attention will be paid to the effective presentation of data as part of an oral presentation.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
PHYSICS 294:
Teaching of Physics Seminar
Required of all Teaching Assistants prior to the first teaching nnassignment. Weekly seminar/discussions on interactive techniques for nnteaching physics. Practicum which includes class observations, grading nnand student teaching in current courses.
Terms: Aut, Win
| Units: 1
PHYSICS 295:
Learning & Teaching of Science (EDUC 280X)
This course will provide students with a basic knowledge of the relevant research in cognitive psychology and science education and the ability to apply that knowledge to enhance their ability to learn and teach science, particularly at the undergraduate level. Course will involve readings, discussion, and application of the ideas through creation of learning activities. It is suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students with some science background.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
PSYCH 271:
Writing About Psychology
Writing clear and compelling prose is a vital skill for any psychologist, but one that is often not formally taught. This graduate seminar will provide a chance for students to think systematically about writing for audiences within and outside of psychology, and to concretely improve pieces of writing that matter to them. The course will take the form of a "writer's workshop", in which each student will bring two pieces of writing¿one empirical, and one intended for a popular audience, to be discussed by the class. All class members will discuss each piece of writing twice, providing constructive feedback for the target student to revise her or his work. The workshop will be supplemented by general discussions of writing principles and examples of good writing in psychology.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
PSYCH 459:
Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Biosciences (BIO 459, BIOC 459, BIOE 459, CHEM 459, CHEMENG 459)
Students register through their affiliated department; otherwise register for CHEMENG 459. For specialists and non-specialists. Sponsored by the Stanford BioX Program. Three seminars per quarter address scientific and technical themes related to interdisciplinary approaches in bioengineering, medicine, and the chemical, physical, and biological sciences. Leading investigators from Stanford and the world present breakthroughs and endeavors that cut across core disciplines. Pre-seminars introduce basic concepts and background for non-experts. Registered students attend all pre-seminars; others welcome. See http://biox.stanford.edu/courses/459.html. Recommended: basic mathematics, biology, chemistry, and physics.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
for credit
SOC 300:
Workshop: Teaching Development
For first-year Sociology doctoral students only. The principles for becoming an effective instructor, adviser, and mentor to undergraduates. Topics: ethics, course organization and syllabus development, test construction and grading, conflict resolution, common classroom problems, and University policies related to matters such as sexual harassment. Technologies and other topics related to making effective presentations, and campus resources to improve classroom performance. Roundtable discussions with faculty and advanced graduate students known for teaching excellence. Students may be asked to give a demonstration lecture.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2
SOMGEN 275:
Leadership and Strategies for Health Care Delivery Innovation
Focus is on developing and leading innovations that will improve the value of health care. Particular attention dedicated to examining how leaders have overcome barriers to change and other management challenges on the journey towards achieving higher value care. Seminar topics include large integrated healthcare delivery systems, cutting edge care delivery strategy and processes, the role of entrepreneurship and venture capital, impact of health care reform, design thinking, and personal leadership journeys. Faculty consist of nationally-recognized leaders from these fields. The course is open to any member of the Stanford community aspiring to lead, innovate, and achieve high value healthcare delivery including graduate students, undergraduates, and postdoctoral candidates, as well as medical center residents and clinical fellows. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1-2
| Repeatable
4 times
(up to 8 units total)
SOMGEN 284:
The Startup Garage: Testing and Launch (CHEMENG 484)
(Same as STRAMGT 366) This is the second quarter of the two-quarter series. In this quarter, student teams expand the field work they started in the fall quarter. They get out of the building to talk to potential customers, partners, distributors, and investors to test and refine their business model, product/service and market. This quarter the teams will be expected to develop and test a minimally viable product, iterate, and focus on validated lessons on: the market opportunity, user need and behavior, user interactions with the product or service, business unit economics, sale and distribution models, partnerships, value proposition, and funding strategies. Teams will interact with customers, partners, distributors, investors and mentors with the end goal of developing and delivering a funding pitch to a panel of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, angel investors and faculty.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
SOMGEN 282:
The Startup Garage: Design (CHEMENG 482)
(Same as STRAMGT 356) The Startup Garage is an experiential lab course that focuses on the design, testing and launch of a new venture. Multidisciplinary student teams work through an iterative process of understanding user needs, creating a point of view statement, ideating and prototyping new product and services and their business models, and communicating the user need, product, service and business models to end-users, partners, and investors. In the autumn quarter, teams will: identify and validate a compelling user need and develop very preliminary prototypes for a new product or service and business models. Students form teams, conduct field work and iterate on the combination of business model -- product -- market. Teams will present their first prototypes (business model - product - market) at the end of the quarter to a panel of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, angel investors and faculty.
| Units: 4
