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PSYC 120: Yoga Psychology for Resilience and Creativity (LIFE 120, TAPS 102L)

In this integrative class, learn about the practice, psychology, and philosophy of yoga as a conceptual model for well-being. Supported by findings in modern neuroscience and psychological research, yoga is an ancient, holistic modality that integrates body, mind, and community through ethical awareness, movement, breathing, and meditation. This integration lends itself to embodied, creative expression as wellas other healing modalities you will explore, such as theater and performance, dance, qigong, and laughter yoga. Yoga philosophy and postures are drawn from Dr. Christiane Brem's protocol developed as a therapeutic yoga class. The weekly performance exercises we will practice were developed by theater makers such as Augusto Boal and the UK-based performance duo Curious.
Last offered: Spring 2022 | UG Reqs: WAY-CE

PWR 91CL: Self & Science (LIFE 91CL)

"Self & Science" mines the intersection of memoir and science writing. In this advanced experimental writing course, students will read a selection of essays by writers including Lewis Thomas, Oliver Sacks, Annie Dillard, and Mark Doty, which illustrate the shared intellectual foundation in observation of scientific and poetic inquiry. Building on these readings, students will be challenged to produce an experimental essay that transgresses genre boundaries in the service of considering how personal reflection can narrate researched discoveries. Over the course of the quarter, students are invited to bolster their overall communication acumen, enhance their ability to share valuable discoveries beyond the confines of their major discipline, and practice the difficult bliss of engaging a discerning public audience. Click here for course video and full description: https://undergrad.stanford.edu/programs/pwr/courses/advanced-courses/self-science
Last offered: Winter 2023 | UG Reqs: WAY-CE

PWR 91CW: Intermediate Writing: Seeing is Believing: The Power of Persuasive Data Stories

In this course, students will study and practice principles of data visualization informed by fields like rhetorical theory, statistics, and cognitive science, using these principles to critically read, redesign, and create charts, maps, and other datastories more effectively. For full course description and video visit https://pwrcourses.stanford.edu/pwr91cw
Terms: Aut | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-CE
Instructors: Wright, C. (PI)

PWR 91D: Intermediate Writing: Your American Life

In this course, you'll read and listen to some of the most moving and insightful pieces of the last decade, explore the important differences between print and oral storytelling, and then script and record your own full-length audio piece. Along the way, we will explore many craft elements that apply equally to print and audio pieces. You will learn, for example, how to organize your material, choose an effective structure, blend dramatization and reflection, ground insights in concrete scenes, create a strong narrative arc, and manage elements such as characterization, description, and dialogue. We will also, of course, explore craft elements unique to the audio form and you will learn how to use your voice and other sonic elements to craft the kind of piece you might hear on This American Life.nnThrough a special arrangement with the Stanford Storytelling Project, in the spring of 2012 this course will feature special sessions with prominent contributors to This American Life. n Prerequisite: first two levels of the writing requirement or equivalent transfer credit. For more information, see http://www.stanford.edu/dept/undergrad/cgi-bin/drupal_pwr/advanced_pwr.
Last offered: Autumn 2013 | UG Reqs: WAY-CE

PWR 91EE: Intermediate Writing: Saving Lives with Picture Books

Want to help improve the health of mothers and young children in Bangladesh by creating picture books? This is your chance. (No artistic skills required.) You and your classmates will collaboratively create at least one original picture book designed to communicate information about child stimulation, nutrition, water sanitation, hygiene, the dangers of lead, and healthy ways of thinking. You¿ll study the genre of the picture book, explore the culture of Bangladesh, and consult with a team of Stanford-led researchers to create at least one picture book. You¿ll pitch story ideas, create storyboards and dummies, and revise and edit in light of feedback from the team in Bangladesh, as well as some of the mothers participating in the study.
Last offered: Autumn 2018 | UG Reqs: WAY-CE

PWR 91EP: Intermediate Writing: Communicating Climate Change: Navigating the Stories from the Frontlines

In the next two decades floods, droughts and famine caused by climate change will displace more than 250 million people around the world. In this course students will develop an increased understanding of how different stakeholders including scientists, aid organizations, locals, policy makers, activists, and media professionals communicate the climate change crisis. They will select a site experiencing the devastating effects and research the voices telling the stories of those sites and the audiences who are (or are not) listening. Students might want to investigate drought-ridden areas such as the Central Valley of California or Darfur, Sudan; Alpine glaciers melting in the Alps or in Alaska; the increasingly flooded Pacific islands; the hurricane ravaged Gulf Coast, among many others. Data from various stakeholders will be analyzed and synthesized for a magazine length article designed to bring attention to a region and/or issue that has previously been neglected. Students will wri more »
In the next two decades floods, droughts and famine caused by climate change will displace more than 250 million people around the world. In this course students will develop an increased understanding of how different stakeholders including scientists, aid organizations, locals, policy makers, activists, and media professionals communicate the climate change crisis. They will select a site experiencing the devastating effects and research the voices telling the stories of those sites and the audiences who are (or are not) listening. Students might want to investigate drought-ridden areas such as the Central Valley of California or Darfur, Sudan; Alpine glaciers melting in the Alps or in Alaska; the increasingly flooded Pacific islands; the hurricane ravaged Gulf Coast, among many others. Data from various stakeholders will be analyzed and synthesized for a magazine length article designed to bring attention to a region and/or issue that has previously been neglected. Students will write and submit their article for publication.For students who have completed the first two levels of the writing requirement and want further work in developing writing abilities, especially within discipline-specific contexts and nonfiction genres. Individual conferences with instructor and peer workshops. Prerequisite: first two levels of the writing requirement or equivalent transfer credit. For more information, see https://undergrad.stanford.edu/programs/pwr/explore/notation-science-writing.
Last offered: Spring 2016 | UG Reqs: WAY-CE, WAY-SI

PWR 91EPA: Environmental Justice Storytelling: Writing for Impact (EARTHSYS 91EJ)

In this class students will explore groundbreaking environmental justice (EJ) stories created in multiple mediums including podcasts, documentaries, op-eds, and social media. Over the quarter you will research and develop your own EJ story and select a genre to communicate it as you work through key questions to take outside of the class and into your career: What is the role of the writer in addressing our greatest environmental and social challenges? What impact can stories have in shifting power and changing policies? How do we transform mainstream narratives? How do we engage the most impacted voices in the making of our stories? How do we figure out the audience to reach and how best to reach them? Finally, where are the places we find hope in this work? This course does not fulfill the WR1 or WR2 requirement.
Last offered: Autumn 2022 | UG Reqs: WAY-CE, WAY-EDP

PWR 91F: Finding Your Story

Life challenges us to become aware of the stories that shape us--family stories, cultural mythologies, even popular movies, television shows, and songs--and then create and live our own story. We face this challenge throughout our lives but perhaps most acutely as we move into adulthood; this is the period when we most need to become conscious of stories and their power, to gather wisdom, practices, and resources for finding our own story. This class, designed with seniors in mind, will illuminate and explore these resources and give you the opportunity to reflect deeply, in discussion and writing, on what truly calls to you in this life. We will engage with some of the world's great stories--myths, parables, teaching tales, modern fiction, even aphorisms, koans, and riddles. In them we can find both elements that resonate with our own story and provocations that help us unearth and cultivate our native gifts--the genius in each of us. We will look at short excerpts from masterworks and myths from around the world, all voices in the largest conversation we have as humans, the one that asks: who am I? why am I here? what truly matters? how can I be happy? Together we will investigate how these stories, and stories like them, can be used to help us find our own story. Students in this course will have a special opportunity to meet personally with poet Billy Collins and singer Aimee Mann when they visit campus in April. Does not fulfill NSC requirement. For students who have completed the first level of the writing requirement and want further work in developing writing abilities, especially within discipline-specific contexts and nonfiction genres. Individual conferences with instructor and peer workshops. Prerequisite: first level of the writing requirement or equivalent transfer credit. For more information, see http://www.stanford.edu/dept/undergrad/cgi-bin/drupal_pwr/advanced_pwr.
Last offered: Spring 2016 | UG Reqs: WAY-CE

PWR 91HT: Telling Your Story as Counterstory: The Rhetoric of Critical Race Theory (CSRE 91B)

Critical Race Theory (CRT), developed by legal scholars in the 1970s, proposes that marginalized folk use their own stories to reframe discussions about racism, particularly through a creative practice called counterstory. This course will take a deep dive into counterstory as a creative form of resistance and intercultural communication. Students will develop the skills to respond to a stock story with counterstory and participate in an online collective project. Students will also produce an e-portfolio.
Last offered: Autumn 2022 | UG Reqs: WAY-CE, WAY-EDP

PWR 91JS: Stanford Science Podcast (EARTHSYS 157)

In this course, students will explore how podcasts can be used as a tool for effective science communication. Through a series of workshops and guest speakers, students in this course will learn the necessary journalistic and technical skills to produce high quality podcast episodes, from interviewing and storytelling to audio editing and digital publishing. Podcast episodes will highlight the cutting edge research being done at Stanford, and students will choose specific stories based on their own interests, from earth sciences to public health to big data. Final podcast episodes will be published on iTunes.
Last offered: Spring 2021 | UG Reqs: WAY-CE
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