printer friendly pageENGLISH 175E: Animals and the Fictions of Identity (AMSTUD 175E)
In a post-Darwin world, the notion that we might all have an animal alter-ego lurking inside seems quite familiar. But ideas about animals¿how they think and feel, act and react¿involve identity categories such as race, gender, class and ability in surprising ways. This course will trace the relationship between animality and human life in twentieth-century American fiction, from race and indigeneity in Jack London¿s dog stories to the storytelling practices of contemporary animal advocacy groups. The course may also include an experiential component in which students will have the opportunity to explore multispecies concerns with a local organization.
Terms: Sum
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Googasian, V. (PI)
ENGLISH 180B: Reading Politics: The History and Future of Literacy
Reading is a political act. Through our major texts of Charles Dickens's
Oliver Twist, Zora Neale Hurston¿s
The Eatonville Anthology, and Azar Nafisi¿s
Reading Lolita in Tehran, we will explore the classed, racialized, and gendered power dynamics of literacy and literature. How can books incite social revolutions? How can they maintain harmful inequalities? When is reading a tool of empowerment and when is it a tool of social control? We will examine these questions in a number of contexts, ranging from Victorian London, to the Jim Crow American South, from the Islamic revolution in Iran to a Silicon Valley proliferating with new forms of scientific, technological, and financial literacy. The course includes a significant service learning component, in which students will volunteer to tutor underprivileged readers through Bay Area literacy programs. Final projects will ask students to reflect on these tutoring experiences and consider the complex politics at work in the act of teaching someone to read.
Terms: Sum
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Droge, A. (PI)
ENGR 110: Perspectives in Assistive Technology (ENGR 110) (ENGR 210)
Seminar and student project course. Explores the medical, social, ethical, and technical challenges surrounding the design, development, and use of technologies that improve the lives of people with disabilities and older adults. Guest lecturers include engineers, clinicians, and individuals with disabilities. Tours of local facilities, assistive technology faire, and a movie screening. Students from any discipline are welcome. 3 units for students (juniors, seniors, and graduate students preferred) who pursue a team-based assistive technology project - enrollment limited to 24. 1 unit for seminar attendance only (CR/NC) or individual project (letter grade). Total enrollment limited to classroom capacity of 50. Projects can be continued as independent study in Spring Quarter. See
http://engr110.stanford.edu/. Service Learning Course certified by Haas Center for Public Service.
Terms: Win
| Units: 1-3
Instructors:
Jaffe, D. (PI)
ENGR 119: Community Engagement Preparation Seminar (ENGR 219)
This seminar is designed for engineering students who have already committed to an experiential learning program working directly with a community partner on a project of mutual benefit. This seminar is targeted at students participating in the Summer Service Learning Program offered through Stanford¿s Global Engineering Program.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1
ENGR 210: Perspectives in Assistive Technology (ENGR 110) (ENGR 110)
Seminar and student project course. Explores the medical, social, ethical, and technical challenges surrounding the design, development, and use of technologies that improve the lives of people with disabilities and older adults. Guest lecturers include engineers, clinicians, and individuals with disabilities. Tours of local facilities, assistive technology faire, and a movie screening. Students from any discipline are welcome. 3 units for students (juniors, seniors, and graduate students preferred) who pursue a team-based assistive technology project - enrollment limited to 24. 1 unit for seminar attendance only (CR/NC) or individual project (letter grade). Total enrollment limited to classroom capacity of 50. Projects can be continued as independent study in Spring Quarter. See
http://engr110.stanford.edu/. Service Learning Course certified by Haas Center for Public Service.
Terms: Win
| Units: 1-3
Instructors:
Jaffe, D. (PI)
ENGR 219: Community Engagement Preparation Seminar (ENGR 119)
This seminar is designed for engineering students who have already committed to an experiential learning program working directly with a community partner on a project of mutual benefit. This seminar is targeted at students participating in the Summer Service Learning Program offered through Stanford¿s Global Engineering Program.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1
FEMGEN 5C: Human Trafficking: Historical, Legal, and Medical Perspectives (CSRE 5C, EMED 5C, HISTORY 5C, HUMBIO 178T)
(Same as
History 105C. History majors and others taking 5 units, enroll in 105C.) Interdisciplinary approach to understanding the extent and complexity of the global phenomenon of human trafficking, especially for forced prostitution, labor exploitation, and organ trade, focusing on human rights violations and remedies. Provides a historical context for the development and spread of human trafficking. Analyzes the current international and domestic legal and policy frameworks to combat trafficking and evaluates their practical implementation. Examines the medical, psychological, and public health issues involved. Uses problem-based learning. Students interested in service learning should consult with the instructor and will enroll in an additional course.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
FEMGEN 6W: Service-Learning Workshop on Human Trafficking (HISTORY 6W)
Considers purpose, practice, and ethics of service learning. Provides training for students' work in community. Examines current scope of human trafficking in Bay Area, pressing concerns, capacity and obstacles to effectively address them. Students work with community partners dedicated to confronting human trafficking and problems it entails on a daily basis. Must currently be enrolled in or have previously taken
History 5C/105C (
FemGen 5C/105C,
HumBio 178H, IR 105C,
CSRE 5C/105C). (Cardinal Course certified by the Haas Center)
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Jolluck, K. (PI)
FEMGEN 7W: Service-Learning Workshop on Human Trafficking Part II (HISTORY 7W)
Prerequisite:
HISTORY6W (
FEMGEN 6W). Continuation of
HISTORY 6W (
FEMGEN 6W). Students will continue working on their projects with their community partners. Several class meetings and small group consultations throughout the quarter. (Cardinal Course certified by the Haas Center)
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Jolluck, K. (PI)
FEMGEN 100X: Grassroots Community Organizing: Building Power for Collective Liberation (AFRICAAM 100, CSRE 100, URBANST 108)
Taught by long-time community organizer, Beatriz Herrera. This course explores the theory, practice and history of grassroots community organizing as a method for developing community power to promoting social justice. We will develop skills for 1-on-1 relational meetings, media messaging, fundraising strategies, power structure analysis, and strategies organizing across racial/ethnic difference. And we will contextualize these through the theories and practices developed in the racial, gender, queer, environmental, immigrant, housing and economic justice movements to better understand how organizing has been used to engage communities in the process of social change. Through this class, students will gain the hard skills and analytical tools needed to successfully organize campaigns and movements that work to address complex systems of power, privilege, and oppression. As a Community-Engaged Learning course, students will work directly with community organizations on campaigns to address community needs, deepen their knowledge of theory and history through hands-on practice, and develop a critical analysis of inequality at the structural and interpersonal levels. Placements with community organizations are limited. Enrollment will be determined on the first day through a simple application process. Students will have the option to continue the course for a second quarter in the Winter, where they will execute a campaign either on campus or in collaboration with their community partner.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Herrera, B. (PI)
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