printer friendly pageGENE 217: Translational Bioinformatics (BIOE 217, BIOMEDIN 217, CS 275)
Analytic and interpretive methods to optimize the transformation of genetic, genomic, and biological data into diagnostics and therapeutics for medicine. Topics: access and utility of publicly available data sources; types of genome-scale measurements in molecular biology and genomic medicine; linking genome-scale data to clinical data and phenotypes; and new questions in biomedicine using bioinformatics. Case studies. Prerequisites: programming ability at the level of
CS 106A and familiarity with statistics and biology.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-4
GENE 231: AI for Beginners
How will AI help medicine but how could it harm us. This course will provide a high-level overview of AI techniques. Through pre-built hands-on exercises, we will cover neural networks and their applicability to generative AI and large language models. We will also discuss the societal and ethical issues surrounding the real-world applications of AI. This course is healthare oriented, looking at the intersection of AI and Genetics to analyze advances that could be made but also ethical questions that should be asked. The course is designed to be accessible to many disciplines and there are no pre-requisites.
Terms: Win
| Units: 2-3
GSBGEN 368: Managing Difficult Conversations
This elective 3- unit course is offered with Pass-Fail grading to MBA students who aspire to improve their ability to deal effectively with difficult professional and personal interpersonal situations. Class is held Tuesday, 3:10-6:10 PM. The course will be taught by William F. Meehan III, the Raccoon Partners Lecturer in Management and Senior Partner Emeritus, McKinsey and Company, and Charles G. Prober, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics, Microbiology & Immunology and Senior Associate Vice Provost for Health Education, Stanford School of Medicine. The course, which is case/vignette-based, involves frequent student-to-student and student-to-instructor role-playing in authentic business and medical interactions.
GSBGEN 368 is cross-listed with
Inde 238, which draws primarily medical students, and part of the learning environment of the course is the mix of perspectives and vignettes we role play and discuss. Topic-specific experts often will be present to participate as class guests. Relevant principles of professionalism, leadership, and psychology underlie the course pedagogy. Students will be expected to attend all classes unless excused in advance.nClass preparation will include reading of assigned cases/vignettes, analysis of the situations presented and recommendations as to how to confront specific difficult conversations; and reading of assigned background material. It is important that all students participate actively in classroom discussions. Class size will be limited to 45 students per the following: (1) a maximum of 30 MBA students and (2) a maximum of 15 medical or other non-GSB graduate students. GSB students enroll under
GSBGEN 368. Please email Dr. Prober or Professor Meehan directly if you have any questions.n.
Last offered: Winter 2022
GSBGEN 568: Managing Difficult Conversations
This elective 2-unit course is designed for those who aspire to improve their ability to deal effectively with difficult professional and interpersonal conversations. The course is taught by William F. Meehan III, the Raccoon Partners Lecturer in Strategic Management, Stanford Graduate School of Business and Senior Partner Emeritus, McKinsey and Company. The course is case/vignette-based and classes usually include frequent role-playing in authentic business, entrepreneurial, professional (e.g, consulting, law, medicine, non-profits) and other difficult interactions as was as selected interpersonal situations. Outside guests with experience relevant to the vignette theme will often participate as our guests. All students are also asked to prepare their own vignette from their own actual professional or personal experience, which will be role-played during the course. Students will be expected to attend all classes unless excused in advance. Class preparation will include reading of assigned cases/vignettes; analysis of the cases/vignettes and recommendations as to how to confront specific difficult conversations (consistent with assigned study questions); and reading of assigned background material. All students are expected to participate actively in class role plays and discussions. Grading will be on a Pass/Fail basis. MBA's and MSx's are eligible to register.
Last offered: Spring 2022
HISTORY 23S: Sex and Socialism
Among the major promises made by socialism and communism was the liberation of women from an imperialist, capitalist, and patriarchal world. How did these promises hold up in the face of the realities of revolution and state formation? This course explores the relationship between gender, sex, and sexuality within the state socialist polities of the 20th century. Topics include diversity in barricades and workplaces, motherhood and reproductive rights, medicine and sexology, incarceration and state violence, and homosexuality and gender non-conformity.
Last offered: Winter 2021
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 40: World History of Science: From Prehistory through the Scientific Revolution
(
History 40 is 3 units;
History 140 is 5 units.) The earliest developments in science, the prehistoric roots of technology, the scientific revolution, and global voyaging. Theories of human origins and the oldest known tools and symbols. Achievements of the Mayans, Aztecs, and native N. Americans. Science and medicine in ancient Greece, Egypt, China, Africa, and India. Science in medieval and Renaissance Europe and the Islamic world including changing cosmologies and natural histories. Theories of scientific growth and decay; how science engages other factors such as material culture and religions.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Proctor, R. (PI)
;
Deschamps, N. (TA)
HISTORY 44Q: Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, Engineering, and Environment (FEMGEN 44Q)
Gendered Innovations harness the creative power of sex, gender, and intersectional analysis for innovation and discovery. We focus on sex and gender, and consider factors intersecting with sex and gender, including age, race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, educational background, disabilities, geographic location, etc. We start with the history of gender in science in the scientific revolution to understand how to transform research institutions so that women, men, and non-binary individuals can flourish. The majority of the course is devoted to considering gendered innovations in AI, social robotics, health & medicine, design of cars and cockpits, menstrual products, marine science, and more. This course will emphasize writing skills as well as oral and multimedia presentation; it fulfills the second level Writing and Rhetoric Requirement (WRITE 2), WAY-ED, and WAY-SI.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI, Writing 2, GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Schiebinger, L. (PI)
HISTORY 83A: Enlightenment and Genocide: Modern Europe and the Ottoman Empire
(
HISTORY 83A is 3 units;
HISTORY 183A is 5 units.) In the early eighteenth century, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, wife of the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, introduced Ottoman smallpox inoculation to western medicine. But over the next two centuries, Ottoman scientific, cultural, and geopolitical strength disintegrated, while western Europeans colonized much of the globe and industrialized at home. How and why did this happen? This course explores this period of wrenching social change and transformation, and asks how the Enlightenment, with its calls for universal human rights and democracy, existed alongside crimes against humanity such as the Armenian Genocide and the Jewish Holocaust. We inquire into ethical dilemmas from diverse perspectives to better understand the contested heritage of our modern world. Bringing western and non-western philosophy into conversation with history, we study the changing structures of Ottoman and European societies in the context of industrialization, repeated cycles from monarchy to democracy to dictatorship, and the growth of radical strains of Islam as a social protest and revolt against European dominance.
Last offered: Winter 2022
| UG Reqs: WAY-ER, WAY-SI
HISTORY 140: World History of Science: From Prehistory through the Scientific Revolution
(
History 40 is 3 units;
History 140 is 5 units.) The earliest developments in science, the prehistoric roots of technology, the scientific revolution, and global voyaging. Theories of human origins and the oldest known tools and symbols. Achievements of the Mayans, Aztecs, and native N. Americans. Science and medicine in ancient Greece, Egypt, China, Africa, and India. Science in medieval and Renaissance Europe and the Islamic world including changing cosmologies and natural histories. Theories of scientific growth and decay; how science engages other factors such as material culture and religions.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI, GER:DB-SocSci
HISTORY 144: Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, Engineering, and Environment (FEMGEN 144)
Explores "Gendered Innovations" or how sex, gender, and intersectional analysis in research spark discovery and innovation. This course focuses on sex and gender, and considers factors intersecting with sex and gender, including age, race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, educational background, disabilities, geographic location, etc., where relevant. Topics include historical background, basic concepts, social robots, sustainability, medicine & public health, femtech, facial recognition, inclusive crash test dummies, and more. Stanford University is engaged in a multi-year collaboration with the European Commission and the U.S. National Science Foundation project on Gendered Innovations in Science, Health & Medicine, Engineering, and Environment, and this class will contribute that project. The operative questions is: how can sex, gender, and intersectional analysis lead to discovery, enhance social justice, and environmental sustainability?
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI, GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Schiebinger, L. (PI)
;
Ayodele, M. (TA)
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