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How do I translate my interests, skills and values into a career in public service and social impact? This course will introduce you to a wide range of roles that help shape public policy and civic life, including government (Legislative, Federal, State & Local), nonprofits, social enterprises, media and the arts. It also will help you define the specific values, roles, and opportunities that interest you as you prepare to seek future internships, jobs, and graduate programs. "Pathways" can be taken for one or two-units. For one-unit, you participate in a weekly, interactive Speaker Series designed to give you a sense for what different public service careers are like. Each week, expert and high-profile professionals in the public service space describe their current organizations and roles, highlight key intellectual issues and policy challenges, discuss their career paths, and describe skills crucial for work in the field. Each session will include a moderated discussion with the guest speaker, followed by interactive Q&A. For a second unit, you participate additionally in a more participatory weekly session designed to help you translate this new knowledge into action. You will identify roles and organizations that might be a good match for you, build your network through informational interviewing, receive personal career coaching, and acquire the concrete tools you need to launch your job or internship search. This course is open to all students, not only those studying political science, public policy and other social sciences, but also those in the arts, humanities, sciences, or engineering. Course content will be relevant to both students soon entering the job market and those facing choices about future courses of study, fellowships and internships. It is co-sponsored by the Haas Center for Public Service, the School of Humanities and Sciences, the Program in Urban Studies, and Stanford in Government. Students taking the course for one-unit (Tuesday Speaker Series) must enroll in the -01 course listing and students taking the course for two-units (Tuesday Speaker Series and the Thursday seminar) must enroll in the -02 course listing.

'A book that never ends, an ongoing book to tell you what is true.' Thus one literary critic describes the strangest of literary innovations from the late seventeenth century: the periodical form. Between 1641-1700, periodicals made up fully one-fourth of printed titles. Authors more often recognized as practitioners of other forms (Daniel Defoe, Eliza Haywood, Jonathan Swift, Frederick Douglass) also headed up their own journals as editors. This course, which prioritizes breadth of exposure, will also consider the temporal rhythms that a literary form like the periodical introduces and alters. By situating journalistic time within a range of calendrical regimes from the medieval period onward (the seasonal, monastic, public, scientific and yes, academic), students should find resources anew to guide their own practices of recurrent writing.

Video games are inseparable from our larger culture. From the seismic success of video game adaptations like The Last of Us and Fallout to the use of video game technology in drone warfare to the overlap between movements like #GamerGate and American political elections, it is clear that video games demand our attention. This seminar serves as an introduction to the field of game studies by exploring the history of video games, their influence on our culture, and their status as works of art. As the anti-video game Senate Hearings in the 1990s and the "video games cause violence" debates in the early 2000s show, video games have been demonized as a degenerate, dangerous art form, and this reputation has not been entirely unearned, given the significant overlap between gamer culture and online harassment. We will also, however, explore how video games can serve as liberatory, intentional works of art that transcend the exclusionary behavior often associated with the "gamer" identity. Through our readings in the interdisciplinary field of video game studies and our play with games themselves, we will pay special attention to how games are informed by larger cultural questions around politics, identity, race, gender, sexuality, and capitalism. This course will ask you to play critically and approach these video game texts with the same rigor you would approach a work of literature. Each session is structured around the discussion of assigned readings and games, and students are asked to come to class prepared to participate in discussion. Assignments will include a short paper and an experiential component such as experimenting with game design, game script writing, or interactive media. By the end of the quarter, we will improve our critical thinking and writing skills by examining the key role that video games play in our culture and current political moment while understanding what the games we play can tell us about us.

Born in Zanzibar in 1948, novelist and critic Abdulrazak Gurnah - winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2021 - is celebrated for his literary oeuvre that, according to the Nobel Prize committee, explores the "the effects of colonialism and the fates of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents." European colonialism is indeed a major theme in Gurnah's work, but this assessment overlooks Gurnah's remarkable role as a chronicler of East Africa's complex historical relationship with the Indian Ocean world. In this course, we will read Gurnah's novels and essays alongside current scholarship on East Africa and the Indian Ocean world, with a focus on Zanzibar's connection to the Arabian Peninsula. Our aim is to grasp the nuances of slavery, racialization, language politics, and diaspora formation in the Indian Ocean context as imagined in the fiction of a major contemporary writer.

Surveying a range of oceanic, archipelagic, and urban ecologies in the transpacific, this course examines the complex relationship between race, migration, and the natural environment in literary studies. While attending to how transpacific ecologies have been indelibly shaped by interlocking forces of racial capitalism, settler colonialism, militarism, and imperialism, we will also consider: how do Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander literatures come to reimagine identity formation, diasporic relation, and environmental justice? Readings include Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, Ruth Ozeki, Craig Santos Perez, Le The Diem Thuy, Wu Mingyi, and more. No previous exposure to transpacific studies or environmental humanities expected: students of all backgrounds are welcome.

This course will train students in applied methods for computationally analyzing texts for humanities research. The skills students will gain will include basic programming for textual analysis, applied statistical evaluation of results and the ability to present these results within a formal research paper or presentation. Students in the course will also learn the prerequisite steps of such an analysis including corpus selection and cleaning, metadata collection, and selecting and creating an appropriate visualization for the results. This class is enrollment by permission only. To request a spot in the class, please fill out the survey: https://forms.gle/S1CqZn8XcLrc5vb66

In this course, students will learn how to apply quantitative and computational methods for analyzing text to questions that are of significance to Literary Studies, and the humanities more broadly. Beginning with a series of readings and discussions on the theoretical implications of using quantitative methods for literary analysis, we will move to in-depth instruction in more advanced methods for computational text analysis, including topic models, word embeddings, and large language models. Students will not only become familiar with training and querying these models, but, more importantly, will gain hands-on experience in how to build these analytical techniques into humanities-based research.

How have literary traditions of madness informed modern fiction's portrayals of the human mind, particularly in the context of rapidly shifting cultural frameworks about the origins and manifestations of mental illness? What are the repercussions of new forms, trends and genres for parsing (or blurring) the line between condition and personhood? Using the novels of Akwaeke Emezi, Toni Morrison, Virginia Woolf, and Leslie Marmon Silko to guide our inquiries, we'll consider inherited and new metaphors of madness in light of emerging theoretical interpretations of disability, identity, gender and trauma.

This is an introduction to media studies, with an emphasis on how classic writings by 20th-century theorists illuminate the myriad cultural objects that populate our rapidly maturing internet age. Fantasy novels, anime films, and television series will ground the abstract theory and help students see why media matters, so to speak, all the while encouraging us to contemplate how our information ecosystem enables and obstructs access to these and other texts. Booklovers, cinephiles, and bingewatchers will get to build a vocabulary to describe the idiosyncrasies of beloved works. But alongside Walter Benjamin, Marshall McLuhan, and Susan Sontag, students will also wrangle with tough questions about the ways reading and viewing practices keep changing - for better or worse - in the lurch toward a digital-first future.