printer friendly pageEFSLANG 693A: Listening Comprehension
This course focuses on strategies for effective listening to university lectures and other academic content, such as seminars and group discussions. It extends beyond listening for main ideas and details, providing practice in identifying discourse markers common in academic settings and in recognizing and accommodating implied information, hesitations, and reduced forms, such as contractions. It also covers challenging areas such as processing numbers and adapting to unfamiliar vocabulary. Listening practice is complemented by instruction in effective note-taking and study strategies to retain and review comprehended information. Additionally, the course has a significant discussion component, giving students the opportunity to interpret what they hear to develop a deeper and more critical understanding of the content and to link that understanding to their own spoken English production and interaction. Materials include recorded lectures from Stanford faculty and other relevant sources.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1-3
Instructors:
Lockwood, R. (PI)
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)
Instructors:
Geda, K. (PI)
;
Lockwood, R. (PI)
EFSLANG 695A: Pronunciation and Intonation
This course provides training in recognizing and practicing American English sounds, stress, and intonation patterns in connected speech in order to improve comprehension and enhance intelligibility in a variety of settings. After receiving an individualized analysis of speech patterns, students engage in directed practice both with online software and in class, receiving immediate feedback. Through these in-class activities and practice assignments, students will improve their ability to pronounce English clearly and to self-monitor and self-correct. The instructor will meet with students regularly throughout the quarter for one-on-one tutorials. Enrollment limited to 12.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 1-3
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 6 units total)
Instructors:
Wang, D. (PI)
EFSLANG 697: Gateway to Graduate Writing
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
| Repeatable
for credit
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. May be repeated once for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| 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. May be repeated once for credit.
Terms: Win
| Units: 1-3
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 6 units total)
Instructors:
Geda, K. (PI)
EFSLANG 698S: Writing Academic English
Strategies and conventions for graduate writing. Emphasis is on fluency, organization, documentation, and appropriateness for writing tasks required in course work and in producing research papers. Fulfills the requirement for
EFSLANG 698A.
Terms: Sum
| Units: 2
Instructors:
Silveira, A. (PI)
ENGR 202W: Technical Communication
To be effective as an engineer or scientist, you must communicate your cutting-edge research and projects effectively to a broad range of audiences: your professors, your fellow students, your colleagues in the field, and sometimes the public. ENGR. 202W offers a collaborative environment in which you will hone your communication skills by writing and presenting about a project of your choosing and working on your CV/resume. ENGR202W is a practicum (supervised practical application) that helps you build toward a complete skillset for technical communication in the twenty-first century. Through interactive presentations and activities, group workshops, and individual conferences, you will learn best practices for communicating to academic and professional audiences for a range of purposes.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Harrison, K. (PI)
;
Modifica, L. (PI)
GSBGEN 367: Problem Solving for Social Change
Stanford graduates will play important roles in solving many of today's and tomorrow's major societal problems-in areas such as education, health, energy, and domestic and global poverty-that call for actions by nonprofit, business, and hybrid organizations as well as governments. This course teaches skills and bodies of knowledge relevant to these roles, covering topics such as designing, implementing, scaling, and evaluating social strategies; systems thinking; decision making under risk; psychological biases that adversely affect people's decisions; methods for influencing behavior; and pay-for-success programs. The large majority of the course will be devoted to students' working in teams to apply these concepts and tools to an actual problem, with teams choosing whatever problem interests them.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Brest, P. (PI)
MGTECON 383: Measuring Impact in Business and Social Enterprise
Businesses are increasingly expected to have a positive social impact, as evidenced by the rapid growth of impact investing. Yet, even as the impact investing market has taken off, impact measurement has lagged, undermining the credibility of the sector. Impact measurement is also critical to individual firms, not-for-profits and governments, as they face increased pressure to generate quantifiable results. How can we measure impact? What are some of the most effective frameworks, tools and approaches for impact measurement? How does one choose the most appropriate measurement tool based on factors such as the size, maturity and sector of an organization? Can impact be distilled down to a single monetary measure, such as a dollar? These and other questions will be explored in considerable depth, through analysis and discussion of case studies as well as hand-on use of impact measurement tools. This course is a good match for students interested in impact measurement, impact investing,
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Businesses are increasingly expected to have a positive social impact, as evidenced by the rapid growth of impact investing. Yet, even as the impact investing market has taken off, impact measurement has lagged, undermining the credibility of the sector. Impact measurement is also critical to individual firms, not-for-profits and governments, as they face increased pressure to generate quantifiable results. How can we measure impact? What are some of the most effective frameworks, tools and approaches for impact measurement? How does one choose the most appropriate measurement tool based on factors such as the size, maturity and sector of an organization? Can impact be distilled down to a single monetary measure, such as a dollar? These and other questions will be explored in considerable depth, through analysis and discussion of case studies as well as hand-on use of impact measurement tools. This course is a good match for students interested in impact measurement, impact investing, profit-with-purpose businesses or the role of business in society. The course will be co-taught by Matt Bannick, who led the impact investing firm, Omidyar Network, and served as the President of PayPal and of eBay International, and Neil Malhotra, Director of the Center for Social Innovation and an expert in the statistical measurement of impact.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
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