printer friendly pageCSRE 4: The Sociology of Music (AMSTUD 4, SOC 4)
This course examines music - its production, its consumption, and it contested role in society - from a distinctly sociological lens. Why do we prefer certain songs, artists, and musical genres over others? How do we 'use' music to signal group membership and create social categories like class, race, ethnicity, and gender? How does music perpetuate, but also challenge, broader inequalities? Why do some songs become hits? What effects are technology and digital media having on the ways we experience and think about music? Course readings and lectures will explore the various answers to these questions by introducing students to key sociological concepts and ideas. Class time will be spent moving between core theories, listening sessions, discussion of current musical events, and an interrogation of students - own musical experiences. Students will undertake a number of short research and writing assignments that call on them to make sociological sense of music in their own lives, in the lives of others, and in society at large.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
CSRE 30: Interrogating Islamophobia
What is Islamophobia? How has it shown up historically and what does it look like today? In this seminar, we will investigate the conceptual roots and contemporary manifestations of Islamophobia in America, followed by inquiries into counter efforts. Our goal will be to interrogate the meanings, function, and impact of Islamophobia within the United States, so that together we can enhance the prevalent discourse around it.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1
CSRE 55M: MMUF Seminar
This seminar is designed to help MMUF honor students in the following ways: (1) developing and refining research paper topics, (2) learning about the various approaches to research and writing, and (3) connecting to Stanford University resources such as the library and faculty. May be repeat for credit
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
6 times
(up to 6 units total)
CSRE 55N: Black Panther, Hamilton, Diaz, and Other Wondrous Lives (COMPLIT 55N)
This seminar concerns the design and analysis of imaginary (or constructed) worlds for narratives and media such as films, comics, and literary texts. The seminar's primary goal is to help participants understand the creation of better imaginary worlds - ultimately all our efforts should serve that higher purpose. Some of the things we will consider when taking on the analysis of a new world include: What are its primary features - spatial, cultural, biological, fantastic, cosmological? What is the world's ethos (the guiding beliefs or ideals that characterize the world)? What are the precise strategies that are used by the artist to convey the world to us and us to the world? How are our characters connected to the world? And how are we - the viewer or reader or player - connected to the world? Note: This course must be taken for a letter grade to be eligible for WAYS credit.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Saldivar, J. (PI)
CSRE 91NF: Writing and Representing Ourselves in the Time of GenAI (PWR 91NF)
Generative AI promises to help us with some of the greatest challenges in healthcare, education, finance, and more. However, how can we ensure that we benefit from a more ethical & human-centered use of this technology that encompasses and benefits all humans? In this class, we will engage in meaningful discussions and learn how to critically examine the far-reaching socio-cultural and linguistic impacts GenAI tools have on daily interactions, as well as far-reaching global impacts. You will have the opportunity to reflect more deeply on the potential challenges that GenAI can pose in terms of reinforcing stock-narratives or images about marginalized groups and investigate the ways certain GenAI tools have exhibited forms of racial, gender or language-based bias. Via course readings, guest-lecture visits, and course assignments you will increase your awareness and find practical solutions that address the normative narratives that feed Generative AI tools.
https://pwrcourses.stanford.edu/advancedpwr/pwr91nf This course does not fulfill the Write 1 or the Write 2 writing requirement.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Fahim, N. (PI)
CSRE 101B: Institutions and Inequities
This course offers frameworks for understanding institutional racism, racial capitalism, and the historical and contemporary ways through which these forces reinforce and maintain racial inequity across a variety of social sectors (e.g., health, media, education, criminal justice, and the environment). At the end of this course, students will be able to identify how race is institutionalized, how racialized institutions are interconnected, and how institutional violence can be combated.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Barahona, B. (PI)
;
Dinh, T. (PI)
CSRE 103F: Intergroup Communication Facilitation (PSYCH 103F, PSYCH 203F)
Are you interested in strengthening your skills as a facilitator or section leader? Interested in opening up dialogue around identity within your community or among friends? This course will provide you with facilitation tools and practice, but an equal part of the heart of this class will come from your own reflection on the particular strengths and challenges you may bring to facilitation and how to craft a personal style that works best for you. This reflection process is ongoing, for the instructors as well as the students.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2
Instructors:
Markus, H. (PI)
;
Seyedi, Z. (PI)
CSRE 103S: Indigenous Feminisms (AMSTUD 103, FEMGEN 103S, NATIVEAM 103S)
Seminar examines Indigenous feminist theories and praxis, transnational Native feminisms in the United States, diversity of tribal traditions and gender roles, kinship, change and continuity under cycles of settler colonialism, decolonization, Indigenous sovereignty, and feminist work for human rights in Indigenous communities today in the U.S. and globally. Sources include history, ethnography, biography, autobiography, the novel & film.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-Gender, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Anderson, J. (PI)
CSRE 108: Introduction to Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (AMSTUD 107, FEMGEN 101, TAPS 108)
Introduction to interdisciplinary approaches to gender, sexuality, queer, trans, and feminist studies. Topics include social justice and feminist organizing, art and activism, feminist histories, the emergence of gender and sexuality studies in the academy, intersectionality and interdependence, the embodiment and performance of difference, and relevant socio-economic and political formations such as work and the family. Students learn to think critically about race, gender, disability, and sexuality. Includes guest lectures from faculty across the university and weekly discussion sections.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-SI, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Jean-Baptiste, R. (PI)
;
Kazem, H. (PI)
CSRE 113: Passing: Hidden Identities Onscreen (FEMGEN 112, JEWISHST 112)
Characters who are Jewish, Black, Latinx, women, and LGBTQ often conceal their identities - or "pass" - in Hollywood film. Our course will trace how Hollywood has depicted"passing" from the early 20th century to the present. Just a few of our films will include Gentleman's Agreement (1947), Imitation of Life (1959), School Ties (1992), White Chicks (2004), and Blackkklansman (2018). Through these films, we will explore the overlaps and differences between antisemitism, racism, misogyny, and queerphobia, both onscreen and in real life. In turn, we will also study the ideological role of passing films: how they thrill audiences by challenging social boundaries and hierarchies, only to reestablish familiar boundaries by the end. With this contradiction, passing films often help audiences to feel enlightened without actually challenging the oppressive status quo. Thus, we will not treat films as accurate depictions of real-world passing, but rather as cultural tools that help audiences to manage ideological contradictions about race, gender, sexuality, and class. Students will finish the course by creating their own short films about passing.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Branfman, J. (PI)
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