| ASNAMST100 | Introduction to Asian American Studies | What is meant by the term Asian American? How have representations of Asian Americans influenced concepts of US citizenship and belonging? What are the social and political origins of the Asian American community? This course provides a critical intr... |
| ASNAMST104 | Sexual Violence in Asian America | The course will make connections across historical and everyday violence on Asian American women to think about why violence against Asian women in wartime is hypervisible, yet everyday sexual violence against Asian American women is invisible. Readi... |
| ASNAMST105 | Vietnamese American Cultural Studies | What is the role of Vietnamese American cultural production in Asian America? How do we reckon with dominant narratives of gratitude and freedom, or seek alternative histories by centering diasporic memory? And what does the 'post'-war generation hav... |
| ASNAMST110 | The Development of the Southeast Asian American Communities: A comparative analysis | This course will examine the establishment of the Cambodian, Hmong, and Vietnamese communities in the US. We will focus on the historical events that resulted in their immigration and arrival to the US as well as the similarities and differences in... |
| ASNAMST118 | Asian American and Settler Colonial Entanglements | Today, the subject of decolonization is at the forefront of a wealth of scholarship as scholars, activists, and institutions grapple with the legacies of colonialism that are far from over. For Asian Americans, there are entanglements with colonialis... |
| ASNAMST118S | Critical Family History: Narratives of Identity and Difference | This course examines family history as a site for understanding identity, power, and social difference in American society. Focusing in particular on the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality, we approach the family as an archive through which... |
| ASNAMST125A | Archaeological Field Survey Methods | Practicum applying a variety of survey techniques to discover, map, and record archaeological sites. Basic cartographic skills for archaeologists and an introduction to GIS tools, GPS instruments, and geophysical techniques. Participants should be ab... |
| ASNAMST131 | Trauma, Healing, and Empowerment in Asian America | In these perilous times we need places of refuge where we can affirm our humanity and renew our commitment to social justice. Using historical and collective trauma of Asian Americans as a focus, we illuminate our current struggles to find meaning an... |
| ASNAMST132 | Whose Classics? Race and Classical Antiquity in the U.S. | Perceived as the privileged inheritance of white European (and later, American) culture, Classics has long been entangled with whiteness. We will examine this issue by flipping the script and decentering whiteness, focusing instead on marginalized co... |
| ASNAMST144 | Transforming Self and Systems: Crossing Borders of Race, Nation, Gender, Sexuality, and Class | Exploration of crossing borders within ourselves, and between us and them, based on a belief that understanding the self leads to understanding others. How personal identity struggles have meaning beyond the individual, how self healing can lead to c... |
| ASNAMST151D | Migration and Diaspora in American Art, 1800-Present | This lecture course explores American art through the lens of immigration, exile, and diaspora. We will examine a wide range of work by immigrant artists and craftsmen, paying special attention to issues of race and ethnicity, assimilation, displacem... |
| ASNAMST157 | An Introduction to Asian American Literature: The Short Story | This course introduces students to Asian American literature and its sociohistorical contexts through close-reading a selection of short stories by writers from various ethnic groups. |
| ASNAMST163 | Movements and Migrations: Understanding the Movements of People | Mass movements of people across the world is not a new phenomenon. And yet, in the contemporary moment, the pace of migration from global business networks to displacements from violence and climate change as well as the interconnectivity of social n... |
| ASNAMST169D | Contemporary Asian American Stories | This course will examine the aesthetics and politics of contemporary Asian American storytellers, with an emphasis on work produced within the past five years. We will investigate the pressures historically placed on Asian Americans to tell a certain... |
| ASNAMST16N | Behind "Swingposium:" Activism in Performing Arts | Swingposium (https://taiko.org/swingposium) is an immersive theater production, being presented by San Jose Taiko at Stanford in November. It tells the hidden history of Japanese Americans boosting morale in WWII Incarceration Camps through swing da... |
| ASNAMST174S | When Half is Whole: Developing Synergistic Identities and Mestiza Consciousness | This is an exploration of the ways in which individuals construct whole selves in societies that fragment, label, and bind us in categories and boxes. We examine identities that overcome the destructive dichotomies of us and them, crossing borders of... |
| ASNAMST186B | Asian American Art | This lecture course explores the work of artists, craftspeople, and laborers of Asian descent from 1850-present. Rather than a discrete identity category, we approach 'Asian American' as an expansive, relational term that encompasses heterogenous ex... |
| ASNAMST193F | Psychological Well-Being on Campus: Asian American Perspectives | Topics: the Asian family structure, and concepts of identity, ethnicity, culture, and racism in terms of their impact on individual development and the counseling process. Emphasis is on empathic understanding of Asians in America. Group exercises. |
| ASNAMST200R | Directed Research | May be repeated for credit. |
| ASNAMST200W | Directed Reading | (Staff) |
| ASNAMST201 | Doing Community History: Asian Americans and the Pandemic | Students utilize a community-engaged oral history methodology to produce short video documentaries focused on Asian Americans in the Covid-19 pandemic. In producing these collaborative digital history projects, students learn to evaluate the ways soc... |
| ASNAMST224 | Asian American Racialization in Education | This course examines how race and other social processes in education have shaped understandings of the racial category of "Asian American." Students will investigate how education as a social institution makes, remakes, and challenges racial narrati... |
| ASNAMST254 | Anti-Asian Violence in America: A History | This course places the recent wave of hate violence directed against Asian Americans in historical context. The recent violence is the latest in a history that began with the arrival of Asian immigrants in America in the mid-19th century and continu... |
| ASNAMST261 | Introduction to Asian American History | This course provides an introduction to the field of Asian American history. Tracing this history between the arrival of the first wave of Asian immigrants to the US in the mid-nineteenth century and the present, we foreground the voices and personal... |
| ASNAMST268 | Tackling Asian-American Health Challenges | Why do certain diseases like hepatitis B affect Asian/Pacific Islanders (APIs) disproportionately? How can public policy advance health equity among ethnic groups? Weekly lectures examine health challenges endemic to the API community, recognizing un... |
| ASNAMST272 | Science and History of Traditional Chinese Medicine | Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is a unique system for the diagnosis and treatment of disease, as well as for the cultivation of life-long health and well-being. This course introduces basic TCM theories, practices, and treatment methods including... |
| ASNAMST27SI | Revolution and the Pilipinx Diaspora: Exploring Global Activism in Local Communities | This course aims to provide students with an opportunity to not only learn about current issues in the local Filipino American community, but also develop their own plans to take action on social justice issues. Through mediums of art and reflection,... |
| ASNAMST281 | Asian Religions in America; Asian American Religions | This course will analyze both the reception in America of Asian religions (i.e. of Buddhism in the 19th century), and the development in America of Asian American religious traditions. |
| ASNAMST284 | Material Metonymy: Ceramics and Asian America | This course explores the rich history and contemporary state of ceramic production by Asian American/diasporic makers. It is also about the way history, culture, and emotion are carried by process, technique, and materials. Taught by an art historian... |
| ASNAMST298 | Race, Gender, & Sexuality in Chinese History | This course examines the diverse ways in which identities--particularly race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality have been understood and experienced in Chinese societies, broadly defined, from the imperial period to the present day. Topics include cha... |
| ASNAMST90E | Investigating Identity Through Filipinx Fiction | This course is both a reading seminar featuring canonical and contemporary Filipinx authors (including Mia Alvar, Carlos Bulosan, Elaine Castillo, Bienvenido Santos, Lysley Tenorio and José Rizal) and a writing workshop where students generate short... |
| ASNAMST91A | Asian American Autobiography/W | This is a dual purpose class: a writing workshop in which you will generate autobiographical vignettes/essays as well as a reading seminar featuring prose from a wide range of contemporary Asian-American writers. Some of the many questions we will co... |
| CHILATST100 | Introduction to Latinx Studies | This course introduces students to Latinx studies drawing on both the distinct and intra-ethnic experiences of Chicanx/Mexicanos, Puerto Ricans, Dominican Americans, and Central Americans. Introduction to Latinx studies examines the international pro... |
| CHILATST110 | Sabias Creadoras y Activistas: Chicana/Latina Ways of Knowing | (Open only to Undergraduates.) Chicana feminists have critically challenged masculine nationalist discourse as well as European and North American feminism. Through this course, we examine the diversity in thinking and methodology that defines these... |
| CHILATST111 | Curanderos, remedios y espiritualidad: Chicano/Latino healing practices | Understanding Chicano/Latino curandero traditions, remedios, brujeria and spirituality provides insights into the importance of such healing practices in everyday Chicano/Latino life. Through this course, we examine curanderismo and folk healing prac... |
| CHILATST112 | (Afro)Latinx in Reggaeton & Hip Hop: Blackness, Feminisms, and Performances | This course surveys Latinx participation in Hip-Hop and Reggaetón, highlighting women artists, the Hispanophone Caribbean, and U.S. urban centers. Students will analyze texts, lyrics, performance, and social issues the music addresses from multiple d... |
| CHILATST114 | Brujas and Blackness: Transnational Feminist Perspectives of AfroLatinidad | Blackness and brujería are taboo topics within Latinx communities; both typically connote negative imagery and are actively avoided. Recently, the bruja identity has been reclaimed by many AfroLatinx women who see it as an outward expression of their... |
| CHILATST116 | Latinx Social Movements | Latinx advocates, often through grassroots community organizing around social movement participation and electoral politics, have fought to ensure citizenship, civil rights, labor rights, environmental justice, immigrant rights, gender rights, sexual... |
| CHILATST125S | Chicano/Latino Politics | The political position of Latinos and Latinas in the U.S.. Focus is on Mexican Americans, with attention to Cuban Americans, Puerto Ricans, and other groups. The history of each group in the American polity; their political circumstances with respect... |
| CHILATST126 | Intersectional In(equalities): Latina/o(x) Families in the U.S. | This course will critically examine the social, cultural, political, economic, educational and health experiences of the multiplicity of Latina/o(x) families in the United States. Thorough examinations of readings, podcasts, and films students will d... |
| CHILATST128 | Spanish through Comics | The course, an exploration of the graphic narrative medium in Spanish, is open to intermediate and advanced Spanish speakers. We'll analyze vignettes, sections, or chapters from both auteur and pop-culture series. These may include Arrugas and Lola V... |
| CHILATST12D | Intro to English III: Latinx Literature | Emerging from the demographic, political, and cultural shifts of the late twentieth century, LatinX Literature flourishes in the twenty-first century as a hemispherically American corpus of texts. Like both ChicanX and Puerto Rican literatures before... |
| CHILATST131 | Raza Youth in Urban Schools: Mis-educating Chicana/o/x and Latina/o/x Communities | This course focuses on the experiences of Chicana/o/x and Latina/o/x youth in U.S. public schools. We will connect historical patterns with contemporary issues in some of this nations largest urban school districts in order to uncover the ways in whi... |
| CHILATST139 | Trans Latinx Studies | This course introduces students to the study of gender from a decolonial feminist perspective. We will study the dynamic and rapidly growing field of Trans* Latinx Studies, an interdisciplinary field whose goal is the study Latina/o/x/ Chicana/o/x ge... |
| CHILATST140 | Migration in 21st Century Latin American Film | Focus on how images and narratives of migration are depicted in recent Latin American film. It compares migration as it takes place within Latin America to migration from Latin America to Europe and to the U.S. We will analyze these films, and their... |
| CHILATST148 | Inglés Personal: Coaching Everyday Community English | This course is a 1 to 5 unit service learning course that prepares students to provide direct one-on-one service to adult English language learners in East Palo Alto and other surrounding communities. Students meet with and "coach" an adult learner o... |
| CHILATST14N | Growing Up Bilingual | This course is a Freshman Introductory Seminar that has as its purpose introducing students to the sociolinguistic study of bilingualism by focusing on bilingual communities in this country and on bilingual individuals who use two languages in their... |
| CHILATST162 | Latin/x America in Motion: An Introduction to Dance Studies | This course introduces students to the field of Dance Studies by examining the histories of Latin American and Caribbean dances and their relationship to developing notions of race and nation in the Americas. We will study the historical emergence an... |
| CHILATST173 | Mexican Migration to the United States | (History 73 is 3 units; History 173 is 5 units.) This course is an introduction to the history of Mexican migration to the United States. Barraged with anti-immigrant rhetoric and calls for bigger walls and more restrictive laws, few people in the Un... |
| CHILATST177A | Well-Being in Immigrant Children & Youth: A Service Learning Course | This is an interdisciplinary course that will examine the dramatic demographic changes in American society that are challenging the institutions of our country, from health care and education to business and politics. This demographic transformation... |
| CHILATST177B | Well-Being in Immigrant Children & Youth: A Service Learning Course | This is an interdisciplinary course that will examine the dramatic demographic changes in American society that are challenging the institutions of our country, from health care and education to business and politics. This demographic transformation... |
| CHILATST180E | Introduction to Chicanx/Latinx Studies | This course draws on intersectional and interdisciplinary approaches to introduce students to the range of issues, experiences, and methodologies that form the foundation of Latina/o/x studies. By considering the relationship between the creation of... |
| CHILATST181 | Latino Social Movements | Social movements are cooperative attempts to change the world. This course reviews historically significant and contemporary political and social movements in Latino communities in the U.S., including the movements of the 1960s and events of the mode... |
| CHILATST193B | Peer Counseling in the Chicano/Latino Community | Topics: verbal and non-verbal attending and communication skills, open and closed questions, working with feelings, summarization, and integration. Salient counseling issues including Spanish-English code switching in communication, the role of ethni... |
| CHILATST195 | U.S. Latinx Art | This course surveys art made by Latinas/os/xs who have lived and worked in the United States since the 1700s, including Chicanos, Nuyoricans, and other Black, Brown, and Indigenous artists. While exploring the diversity of Latinx art, students will c... |
| CHILATST198 | Internship for Public Service | Students should consult with CCSRE Director of Community Engaged Learning (ddmurray@stanford.edu) to develop or gain approval for an internship that addresses race/ethnicity, public service, and social justice. Students will read a selection of short... |
| CHILATST19N | The Immigrant Experience in Everyday Life | The seminar introduces students to major themes connected to the immigrant experience, including identity, education, assimilation, transnationalism, political membership, and intergroup relations. There will also be some attention given to research... |
| CHILATST1SI | English Language Learner Coaching and Curriculum Development | The principal purpose of this course is to support Habla tutors language coaches in developing lesson plans and strategies to implement during theircoaching sessions with English language learners. The course equips students with a foundational under... |
| CHILATST200R | Directed Research | No Description Set |
| CHILATST200W | Directed Reading | (Staff) |
| CHILATST201B | The Undocumented Migration Project Exhibition at Stanford | Are you an artist seeking a greater purpose for you art? Would you like to gain a sense of history and best practices for engaging your community in creative work? Human Rights policy experts and activists, artists and scholars will participate in th... |
| CHILATST21 | Visual Storytelling in Community: The Casa Zapata Mural Archive & History Project | This mural history project was created by Stanford students at Casa Zapata over several years to explore and archive over twenty murals that are painted on the interior and exterior walls of this undergraduate residence in Lucie Stern Hall, Stanford... |
| CHILATST212 | Biology, Culture and Social Justice in Latin America: Perspectives from Forensic Anthropology | This course will only take place in the first 5 weeks of the quarter.As forensic anthropologists, we are routinely asked to make identifications of unknown human remains and provide courtroom testimony. Latin America has become a nexus for social jus... |
| CHILATST271B | Latinx History | This course provides students with an introduction to Latinx history and places it within a broader cultural context. Along these lines it considers the legacies of colonialism, the transnational migration, race and racialization, and the histories... |
| CHILATST274 | Mexican American History | This course will explore the history of Mexican migrants and Mexican Americans from 1848 to the present. |
| CHILATST277 | Refugees and Asylum | This course explores the histories of refugees and asylum seekers to the United States and helps students learn how people seek asylum by working on the legal cases of current asylum seekers. |
| CHILATST293 | Black and Brown: American Artists of Color | This course explores the art history of African American and Latina/o/x artists in the United States, Latin America & the Caribbean. Focused on particular exhibition and collection histories, students will consider the artistic, social and political... |
| CSRE100P | Student and Community Organizing for Social Change | In this course, we will learn from long-time organizers and change agents by studying movement histories, participating in skill-building workshops, and engaging directly in movement-building work with community partners from the Bay Area. Through se... |
| CSRE101P | Preparation for Community- Based Fellowships | In this course, we will learn from long-time organizers and change agents by studying movement histories, participating in skill-building workshops, and engaging directly in movement-building work with community partners from the Bay Area. Through s... |
| CSRE102 | Advanced Methods in Comparative studies in race and ethnicity | This course examines the key theoretical paradigms issues themes and debates as well as the methodological approach is in the field of critical race and comparative ethnic studies. The course also assesses the relative strengths and weaknesses of key... |
| CSRE102C | History of World Cinema III: Queer Cinema around the World | Provides an overview of cinema from around the world since 1960, highlighting the cultural, political, and economic forces that have shaped various film movements over the last six decades. We study key film movements and national cinemas towards dev... |
| CSRE103 | Intergroup Communication | In an increasingly globalized world, our ability to connect and engage with new audiences is directly correlated with our competence and success in any field How do our intergroup perceptions and reactions influence our skills as communicators? This... |
| CSRE103B | Race, Ethnicity, and Linguistic Diversity in Classrooms: Sociocultural Theory and Practices | Focus is on classrooms with students from diverse racial, ethnic and linguistic backgrounds. Studies, writing, and media representation of urban and diverse school settings; implications for transforming teaching and learning. Issues related to devel... |
| CSRE103F | Intergroup Communication Facilitation | 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 eq... |
| CSRE103S | Indigenous Feminisms | Seminar examines Indigenous Feminisms and the impact of colonialism on gender roles & gender relations beginning with the 17th century to the present. Topics include demographic changes; social, political & economic transformations associated with bi... |
| CSRE104 | Introduction to Race and Technology | How do ideas about race get encoded in the design of new technology? How have science and technology shaped our understanding of race and identity? Drawing on research in anthropology, history, media studies, STS, and beyond, we will consider how tec... |
| CSRE105C | Human Trafficking: Historical, Legal, and Medical Perspectives | (Same as HISTORY 5C. 105C is 5 units, 5C is 3 units.) Interdisciplinary approach to understanding the extent and complexity of the global phenomenon of human trafficking, especially for forced prostitution, labor exploitation, and organ trade, focusi... |
| CSRE106A | A.I.-Activism-Art | Lecture/studio course exploring arts and humanities scholarship and practice engaging with, and generated by, emerging emerging and exponential technologies. Our course will explore intersections of art and artificial intelligence with an emphasis on... |
| CSRE107 | Community Organizing: People, Power and Change | Mobilizing communities for positive social change requires educated leaders equipped with the skills to organize people and power. Organizing can make a difference in addressing major public challenges that demand full engagement of the citizenry, e... |
| CSRE108 | Introduction to Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | 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 a... |
| CSRE108S | American Indian Religious Freedom | The persistence of tribal spiritual beliefs and practices in light of legal challenges (sacred geography and the 1st Amendment), treatment of the dead and sacred objects (repatriation), consumerism (New Age commodification), and cultural intellectual... |
| CSRE108X | The Changing Face of America | This upper-division seminar will explore some of the most significant issues related to educational access and equity facing American society in the 21st century. Designed for students with significant leadership potential who have already studied th... |
| CSRE109A | Federal Indian Law | Cases, legislation, comparative justice models, and historical and cultural material. The interlocking relationships of tribal, federal, and state governments. Emphasis is on economic development, religious freedom, and environmental justice issues i... |
| CSRE109B | Native Nation Building | The history of competing tribal and Western economic models, and the legal, political, social, and cultural implications for tribal economic development. Case studies include mineral resource extraction, gaming, and cultural tourism. 21st-century str... |
| CSRE10A | Introduction to Identity, Diversity, and Aesthetics: Arts, Culture, and Pedagogy | This weekly lecture series introduces students to the study of identity, diversity, and aesthetics through the work of leading artists and scholars affiliated with the Institute for Diversity in the Arts (IDA). This year's course highlights the educ... |
| CSRE10AY | Pacific Standard Time LA/LA creative projects in a Celebration Beyond Borders | Students will have the opportunity to develop written and creative responses to the exploration of the region wide collaboration Pacific Standard Time LA/LA. |
| CSRE11 | Introduction to Dance Studies | This class is an introduction to dance studies and the complex meanings bodily performances carry both onstage and off. Using critical frames drawn from dance criticism, history and ethnography and performance studies, and readings from cultural stud... |
| CSRE111A | From Colonialism to K-pop: Race and Gender in South Korean Culture | Some may associate South Korea with the following: BTS, North Korean nukes, Samsung, Hyundai, Squid Games. Some may repeat what South Korea has said about itself: that it is racially homogenous, an ethnic community that can trace their ancestry back... |
| CSRE112X | Urban Education | (Graduate students register for EDUC 212 or SOC 229X). Combination of social science and historical perspectives trace the major developments, contexts, tensions, challenges, and policy issues of urban education. |
| CSRE113 | Passing: Hidden Identities Onscreen | 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 w... |
| CSRE113V | Freedom in Chains: Black Slavery in the Atlantic, 1400s-1800s | This course will focus on the history of slavery in the British, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch Atlantic world(s), from the late 1400s to the 1800s. Its main focus will be on the experiences of enslaved Africans and their descendants. Between... |
| CSRE114C | America Never was America to me: Race and Equity in US Public Schools | This cross-disciplinary course will use the 10-part docu-series "America to Me" to discuss the complexities of race and equity in US schools. The series follows a year in the life of a racially diverse, well-resourced high school outside Chicago, pro... |
| CSRE114N | Comparative History of Racial & Ethnic Groups in California | Comparative focus on the demographic, political, social and economic histories of American Indians & Alaska Natives, African Americans, Chinese Americans and Japanese Americans during late 18th, early 20th century California. Topics: relationships w... |
| CSRE116 | Decolonizing the Indigenous Classroom | Using Indigenous and decolonizing perspectives on education, this interdisciplinary course will examine interaction and language in cross-cultural educational situations, including language, literacy and interethnic communication as they relate to In... |
| CSRE117 | Expanding Engineering Limits: Culture, Diversity, and Equity | This course investigates how culture and diversity shape who becomes an engineer, what problems get solved, and the quality of designs, technology, and products. As a course community, we consider how cultural beliefs about race, ethnicity, gender, s... |
| CSRE117S | History of Native Americans in California | This course examines the political histories and cultural themes of Native Americans in California, 1700s1950s. Throughout the semester we will focus on: demographics, diversity of tribal cultures; regional environmental backgrounds; the Spanish Era... |
| CSRE118D | Musics and Appropriation Throughout the World | This course critically examines musical practices and appropriation through the amplification of intersectionality. We consider musics globally through recourse to ethnomusicological literature and critical race theories. Our approach begins from an... |
| CSRE118E | Heritage, Environment, and Sovereignty in Hawaii | This course explores the cultural, political economic, and environmental status of contemporary Hawaiians. What sorts of sustainable economic and environmental systems did Hawaiians use in prehistory? How was colonization of the Hawaiian Islands info... |
| CSRE118S | Critical Family History: Narratives of Identity and Difference | This course examines family history as a site for understanding identity, power, and social difference in American society. Focusing in particular on the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality, we approach the family as an archive through which... |
| CSRE119 | Novel Perspectives on South Africa | 21st-century South Africa continues its literary effervescence. In this class we'll sample some recent novels and related writings to tease out the issues shaping the country (and to some degree the continent) at present. Is `South African literature... |
| CSRE11AX | Public Art Practice: Site Specific Installation | In collaboration with the EPACenter youth arts center in East Palo Alto this class is an immersive introduction to contemporary public art practices, with a focus on community engagement, program design and installation. Day trips to local public ar... |
| CSRE11SC | Who Belongs at Stanford? Discussions of a Different Sort of Education | You've finished your first year of university. You have taken the required first year courses, you hope you have explored enough, you are anxious about choosing a major. You know the campus fairly well, you have perhaps made some friends, you have so... |
| CSRE11SI | Leadership at Stanford | This class will explore the role of student government, decision-making and advocacy in a major research university setting such as Stanford. Designed to prepare new student leaders for their legislative responsibilities, the class will incorporate p... |
| CSRE12 | Community Organizing: People, Power, and Change | Mobilizing communities for positive social change requires educated leaders equipped with the skills to organize people and power. Organizing can make a difference in addressing major public challenges that demand full engagement of the citizenry, es... |
| CSRE120 | Contemporary Islam & Muslims in the United States | In this course, we will explore contemporary Islam and Muslims in a post-9/11, post-Trump United States. Following some brief grounding history in Week 1, we will use ethnographic studies and digital media content to understand the American Muslim ex... |
| CSRE120P | Poverty and Inequality in Israel and the US: A Comparative Approach | Poverty rates in Israel are high and have been relatively stable in recent decades, with about one fifth of all households (and a third of all children) living below the poverty line. In this class we will learn about poverty and inequality in Israe... |
| CSRE121 | Discourse of the Colonized: Native American and Indigenous Voices | Using the assigned texts covering the protest movements in the 20th century to the texts written from the perspective of the colonized at the end of the 20th century, students will engage in discussions on decolonization. Students will be encouraged... |
| CSRE121L | Racial-Ethnic Politics in US | This course examines the profound role race plays in American politics. Topics covered include the construction of political identity among Asian, Black, Latino, Native, and White Americans; the politics of immigration and acculturation; and the infl... |
| CSRE122 | Race, Family, and the State | Family is often imagined as a private realm, but the state has historically played an important role in its regulation, particularly for low income families and racial minorities. How do government programs work to preserve some families while destab... |
| CSRE122B | Reality Television and All Things Basic | In ¿Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema¿ (1975), feminist film theorist Laura Mulvey argues that ¿the cinema poses questions of the ways the unconscious (formed by the dominant order) structures ways of seeing and pleasure in looking,¿ (804-805), co... |
| CSRE122F | Histories of Race in Science and Medicine at Home and Abroad | This course has as its primary objective, the historical study of the intersection of race, science and medicine in the US and abroad with an emphasis on Africa and its Diasporas in the US. By drawing on literature from history, science and technolog... |
| CSRE123 | Beyond Incarceration: Imagining a World Without Prisons | Just how radical is it to think of a world without prisons? What might it take to get there? For many years prisons have seemed to be an absolutely central part of any modern state, as unquestionable as hospitals. As Angela Davis states in Are Prison... |
| CSRE123C | "Third World Problems?" Environmental Justice Around the World | As the Flint, Michigan water situation began to attract attention and condemnation, Michigan State Representative, Sheldon Neeley, describing the troops on the ground and the Red Cross distributing water bottles, said that the Governor had "turned an... |
| CSRE123F | Navigating a Multicultural World: Practical recommendations for individuals, groups, & institutions | The world is becoming increasing multicultural, as groups of different races, ethnicities, ages, genders, and socioeconomic classes are coming into closer and more frequent contact than ever before. With increased cultural contact comes the need to c... |
| CSRE124 | Do I Sound...? Identity, Technology, and Voice in Performance and Media | Do I sound: Black? American? Feminine? Queer? Human? In this course we will explore the relationship between identity and technology through the voice - spoken, sung, screamed, and written. We will examine case studies spanning genres (film, popular... |
| CSRE124F | The Mothership Connection: Black Science Fiction Across Media | As science fiction becomes the lingua franca of American popular culture and race takes center stage in our contemporary social and political discourses, the works of black SF creators offer a number of powerful conceptual tools for thinking about ra... |
| CSRE125E | Shades of Green: Exploring and Expanding Environmental Justice in Practice | Historically, discussions of race, ethnicity, culture, and equity in the environment have been shaped by a limited view of the environmental justice movement, often centered on urban environmental threats and separated from other types of environment... |
| CSRE126C | Ethics and Leadership in Public Service | This course explores ethical questions that arise in public service work, as well as leadership theory and skills relevant to public service work. Through readings, discussions, in-class activities, assignments, and guest lectures, students will deve... |
| CSRE127B | Leadership, Organizing and Action: Intensive | Two Consecutive Weekend Course: Community Organizing makes a difference in addressing major public challenges that demand full engagement of the citizenry, especially those whose voices are marginalized. In this course you will learn and practice the... |
| CSRE129 | Camus | "The admirable conjunction of a man, of an action, and of a work" for Sartre, "the ideal husband of contemporary letters" for Susan Sontag, reading "Camus's fiction as an element in France's methodically constructed political geography of Algeria" fo... |
| CSRE12SL | Legalistic Precedents for Gender/Sexuality and Racial Disparities | This course covers key issue areas targeted by the American Civil Liberties Union Northern California (ACLU NorCal) chapter and seeks to build more informed policy-based discourse around racial and gender/sexuality disparities in technology and civil... |
| CSRE130 | Community-based Research As Tool for Social Change:Discourses of Equity in Communities & Classrooms | Issues and strategies for studying oral and written discourse as a means for understanding classrooms, students, and teachers, and teaching and learning in educational contexts. The forms and functions of oral and written language in the classroom, e... |
| CSRE131 | Trauma, Healing, and Empowerment in Asian America | In these perilous times we need places of refuge where we can affirm our humanity and renew our commitment to social justice. Using historical and collective trauma of Asian Americans as a focus, we illuminate our current struggles to find meaning an... |
| CSRE131A | Is Visibility a Trap (Door)? Gender, Race, and the Stakes of Representation | This course examines key theoretical debates surrounding the fraught political and epistemological potential of visibility and representation. Who gets to set the premises for recognition, and how do sexuality, gender, and race affect the ways in wh... |
| CSRE132 | Whose Classics? Race and Classical Antiquity in the U.S. | Perceived as the privileged inheritance of white European (and later, American) culture, Classics has long been entangled with whiteness. We will examine this issue by flipping the script and decentering whiteness, focusing instead on marginalized co... |
| CSRE132A | Social Inequality in Israel | Like the US, Israel is a nation of immigrants. Israel additionally shares with the US vast economic, ethnic/racial and gender gaps, which are shaped and are being shaped by the demographic diversity characterizing its society. The course will provide... |
| CSRE132C | Technology and Inequality | In this advanced interdisciplinary seminar we will examine the ways that technologies aimed to make human lives better (healthier, freer, more connected, and informed) often also harbor the potential to exacerbate social inequalities. Drawing from re... |
| CSRE132E | Topics in Writing & Rhetoric: Introduction to Environmental Justice: Race, Class, Gender and Place | Environmental justice means ensuring equal access to environmental benefits and preventing the disproportionate impacts of environmental harms for all communities regardless of gender, class, race, ethnicity or other social positions. This introducto... |
| CSRE133 | Intersectional Feminisms | This course is focused on the feminist concept of intersectionality. As a mode of Black feminist thought, lived activist practice, and interdisciplinary research methodology, intersectionality allows us to think about overlapping forms of identity an... |
| CSRE133E | Literature and Society in Africa and the Caribbean | This course provides students with an introductory survey of literature and cinema from Francophone Africa and the Caribbean in the 20th and 21st centuries. Students will be encouraged to consider the geographical, historical, and political connectio... |
| CSRE133J | WELFARE, WORK AND POVERTY. | Early theorists of the welfare state described it as a reaction to the emergence of needs and interests of specific social groups during processes of economic development and change. Later theorists countered that the welfare state does not merely re... |
| CSRE133P | Ethics and Politics in Public Service | This course examines ethical and political questions that arise in doing public service work, whether volunteering, service learning, humanitarian endeavors overseas, or public service professions such as medicine and teaching. What motives do people... |
| CSRE134 | Museum Cultures: Material Representation in the Past and Present | Students will open the "black box" of museums to consider the past and present roles of institutional collections, culminating in a student-curated exhibition. Today, museums assert their relevance as dynamic spaces for debate and learning. Coloniali... |
| CSRE135 | Contemporary Islam & Muslims in the United States | In this course, we will explore contemporary Islam and Muslims in a post-9/11, post-Trump United States. Following some brief grounding history in Week 1, we will use ethnographic studies and digital media content to understand the American Muslim ex... |
| CSRE135P | The Psychology of Diverse Community | This course is an exploration. Its aim is to identify distinguishing features of good diverse communities and articulate them well enough to offer principles or guidelines for how to design and mange such communities e.g. schools, universities, acade... |
| CSRE136 | White Identity Politics | Pundits proclaim that the 2016 Presidential election marks the rise of white identity politics in the United States. Drawing from the field of whiteness studies and from contemporary writings that push whiteness studies in new directions, this upper-... |
| CSRE136U | The Psychology of Scarcity: Its Implications for Psychological Functioning and Education | This course brings together several literatures on the psychological, neurological, behavioral and learning impact of scarcities, especially those of money (poverty) time and food. It will identify the known psychological hallmarks of these scarcitie... |
| CSRE138 | Medical Ethics in a Global World: Examining Race, Difference and Power in the Research Enterprise | This course will explore historical as well as current market transformations of medical ethics in different global contexts. We will examine various aspects of the research enterprise, its knowledge-generating and life-saving goals, as well as the s... |
| CSRE13N | Race, Blackness, Antiquity | What was the definition of 'race' twenty-five hundred years ago? What did black skin color indicate in the centuries before the Trans-Atlantic slave trade? In this course, students will investigate the history of black skin color in Greek and Roman a... |
| CSRE140S | Casablanca - Algiers - Tunis : Cities on the Edge | Casablanca, Algiers and Tunis embody three territories, real and imaginary, which never cease to challenge the preconceptions of travelers setting sight on their shores. In this class, we will explore the myriad ways in which these cities of North Af... |
| CSRE141 | Gentrification | Neighborhoods in the Bay Area and around the world are undergoing a transformation known as gentrification. Middle- and upper-income people are moving into what were once low-income areas, and housing costs are on the rise. Tensions between newcomers... |
| CSRE141E | Counterstory in Literature and Education | Counterstory is a method developed in critical legal studies that emerges out of the broad "narrative turn" in the humanities and social science. This course explores the value of this turn, especially for marginalized communities, and the use of cou... |
| CSRE141R | Between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, JR.: Race, Religion, and the Politics of Freedom | Malcolm X (El Hajj Malik El Shabazz) and Martin Luther King, Jr. are both icons of the twentieth-century civil rights and black freedom movements. Often characterized as polar opposites - one advocating armed self-defense and the other non-violence a... |
| CSRE141S | Immigration and Multiculturalism | What are the economic effects of immigration? Do immigrants assimilate into local culture? What drives native attitudes towards immigrants? Is diversity bad for local economies and societies and which policies work for managing diversity and multicul... |
| CSRE141X | Activism and Intersectionality | How are contemporary U.S. social movements shaped by the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality? This course explores the emergence, dynamics, tactics, and targets of social movements. Readings include empirical and theoretical social mo... |
| CSRE142 | The Literature of the Americas | This course will focus on identifying moments of continuity and discontinuity in the literatures of the Americas, both in time and space. We will look at a wide-range of literatures of the Americas in comparative perspective, emphasizing continuities... |
| CSRE142C | Challenging the Status Quo: Social Entrepreneurs Advancing Democracy, Development and Justice | This community-engaged learning class is part of a broader Program on Social Entrepreneurship at the Haas Center for Public Service. It will use practice to better inform theory about how innovation can help address societies biggest challenges. Work... |
| CSRE143 | Re(positioning) Disability: Historical, Cultural, and Social Lenses | This course is designed to introduce undergraduate students of any major to important theoretical and practical concepts regarding special education, disability, and diversity. This course primarily addresses the social construction of disability and... |
| CSRE144 | Transforming Self and Systems: Crossing Borders of Race, Nation, Gender, Sexuality, and Class | Exploration of crossing borders within ourselves, and between us and them, based on a belief that understanding the self leads to understanding others. How personal identity struggles have meaning beyond the individual, how self healing can lead to c... |
| CSRE145 | Race and Ethnic Relations in the USA | (Graduate students register for 245.) Race and ethnic relations in the U.S. and elsewhere. The processes that render ethnic and racial boundary markers, such as skin color, language, and culture, salient in interaction situations. Why only some group... |
| CSRE146A | Designing Research for Social Justice: Writing a Community-Based Research Proposal | This course will support students in designing and writing a community-engaged research proposal. In contrast to "traditional" forms of research, community-engaged research uses a social justice lens in seeking to apply research to benefit communitie... |
| CSRE146B | Community Engaged Research - Principles, Ethics, and Design | This course is designed to support students planning to participate in community engaged research experiences during the summer 2023 term. Course materials and discussions will promote deep engagement with, and reflection on, the principles, practice... |
| CSRE147A | Race and Ethnicity Around the World | (Graduate students register for 247.) How have the definitions, categories, and consequences of race and ethnicity differed across time and place? This course offers a historical and sociological survey of racialized divisions around the globe. Case... |
| CSRE148D | Inglés Personal: Coaching Everyday Community English | This course is a 1 to 5 unit service learning course that prepares students to provide direct one-on-one service to adult English language learners in East Palo Alto and other surrounding communities. Students meet with and "coach" an adult learner o... |
| CSRE148P | The Psychology of Bias: Stereotyping, Prejudice, and Discrimination | From Black Lives Matter to mansplaining, issues of stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination grab our attention and draw our concern. This course brings together research from social, cognitive, affective, developmental, cultural, and neural perspe... |
| CSRE148R | Los Angeles: A Cultural History | This course traces a cultural history of Los Angeles from the early twentieth century to the present. Approaching popular representations of Los Angeles as our primary source, we discuss the ways that diverse groups of Angelenos have represented thei... |
| CSRE149 | The Laboring of Diaspora & Border Literary Cultures | Focus is given to emergent theories of culture and on comparative literary and cultural studies. How do we treat culture as a social force? How do we go about reading the presence of social contexts within cultural texts? How do ethno-racial writer... |
| CSRE149A | The Urban Underclass | (Graduate students register for 249.) Recent research and theory on the urban underclass, including evidence on the concentration of African Americans in urban ghettos, and the debate surrounding the causes of poverty in urban settings. Ethnic/racial... |
| CSRE14N | Growing Up Bilingual | This course is a Freshman Introductory Seminar that has as its purpose introducing students to the sociolinguistic study of bilingualism by focusing on bilingual communities in this country and on bilingual individuals who use two languages in their... |
| CSRE150A | Race and Crime | The goal of this course is to examine social psychological perspectives on race, crime, and punishment in the United States. Readings will be drawn not only from psychology, but also from sociology, criminology, economics, and legal studies. We will... |
| CSRE150B | Race and Crime Practicum | This practicum is designed to build on the lessons learned in PSYCH 150 Race & Crime. In this community service learning course, students participate in community partnerships relevant to race and crime, as well as reflection to connect these experie... |
| CSRE150G | Performing Race, Gender, and Sexuality | In this theory and practice-based course, students will examine performances by and scholarly texts about artists who critically and mindfully engage race, gender, and sexuality. Students will cultivate their skills as artist-scholars through written... |
| CSRE150S | Nineteenth Century America | (Same as HISTORY 50B. 150B is 5 units; 50B is 3 units.) This course is a survey of nineteenth-century American history. Topics include: the legacy of the American Revolution; the invention of political parties; capitalist transformation and urbanizat... |
| CSRE151C | Ethical STEM: Race, Justice, and Embodied Practice | What role do science and technology play in the creation of a just society? How do we confront and redress the impact of racism and bias within the history, theory, and practice of these disciplines? This course invites students to grapple with the c... |
| CSRE151D | Migration and Diaspora in American Art, 1800-Present | This lecture course explores American art through the lens of immigration, exile, and diaspora. We will examine a wide range of work by immigrant artists and craftsmen, paying special attention to issues of race and ethnicity, assimilation, displacem... |
| CSRE151P | Transpacific Performance | Building on exciting new work in transpacific studies, this course explores how performance reveals the many ways in which cultures and communities intersect across the diverse and dynamic Pacific Ocean world, covering works from the Americas and Asi... |
| CSRE152K | Mixed-Race Politics and Culture | Today, almost one-third of Americans identify with a racial/ethnic minority group, and more than 9 million Americans identify with multiple races. What are the implications of such diversity for American politics and culture? This course approaches i... |
| CSRE153D | Creative Research for Artists | This generative lab is dedicated to juniors and seniors in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, African and African American Studies, or related fields in the arts who are pursuing an advanced creative honors thesis or capstone project around q... |
| CSRE153P | Black Artistry: Strategies of Performance in the Black Diaspora | Charting a course from colonial America to contemporary London, this course explores the long history of Black performance throughout an Atlantic diaspora. Defining performance as "forms of cultural staging," from Thomas DeFrantz and Anita Gonzalez'... |
| CSRE153Q | Reading and Writing the Gendered Story | Exploration of novels, stories, memoirs and micro-narratives in which gender plays a major role. The texts are by writers of varied genders and sexual orientations as well as varied class, racial and national backgrounds. Written assignments presen... |
| CSRE153R | Before the Model Minority: South Asians in the US | The model minority myth has been used to create a wedge between Asian and Black people in the United States, and masks the histories and lives of itinerant South Asian traders, laborers, and farmers. Beginning in the 1860s, South Asians (mostly male,... |
| CSRE154D | Black Magic: Ethnicity, Race, and Identity in Performance Cultures | In 2013, CaShawn Thompson devised a Twitter hashtag, #blackgirlmagic, to celebrate the beauty and intelligence of black women. Twitter users quickly adopted the slogan, using the hashtag to celebrate everyday moments of beauty, accomplishment, and ma... |
| CSRE154T | The Politics of Algorithms | (Graduate students enroll in 254. COMM 154 is offered for 5 units, COMM 254 is offered for 4 units.) Algorithms have become central actors in today's digital world. In areas as diverse as social media, journalism, education, healthcare, and policing,... |
| CSRE155 | Just Transitions Policy Lab | Building off the work of the Stanford Coalition for Planning an Equitable 2035 (SCoPE), the just transitions policy lab will address transportation justice, housing justice, and labor equity concerns that have been identified by neighboring communiti... |
| CSRE156 | The Changing American City | After decades of decline, U.S. cities today are undergoing major transformations. Young professionals are flocking to cities instead of fleeing to the suburbs. Massive increases in immigration have transformed the racial and ethnic diversity of citie... |
| CSRE156T | Performing History: Race, Politics, and Staging the Plays of August Wilson | This course purposefully and explicitly mixes theory and practice. Students will read and discuss the plays of August Wilson, the most celebrated and most produced contemporary American playwright, that comprise his 20th Century History Cycle. Class... |
| CSRE156X | Theater of Dissent: Social Movements, Migration, and Revolution in the Americas | TAPS 156X is an introductory level course that considers how theatre and performance provide a vital platform to examine political dissonance, the mobilities and (im)mobilities that shape transnational migration, and the formation of Latinx/Chicanx i... |
| CSRE157A | Performing Arabs and Others in Theory and Practice | How deeply must the artist engage to be satisfied with a representation? Is there such a thing as `good representation¿? When must artists persist and when should they resist? In this class, we will dare to make mistakes, challenge formulaic popular... |
| CSRE157B | Election 2020 | (Also LAW 7101). We are living in extraordinary times. The historic convergence of social, economic, and public health challenges has profoundly impacted the lives of millions of Americans. In the midst of great uncertainty, the 2020 US presidential... |
| CSRE157P | Solidarity and Racial Justice | Is multiracial solidarity necessary to overcome oppression that disproportionately affects certain communities of color? What is frontline leadership and what role should people play if they are not part of frontline communities? In this course we wi... |
| CSRE160 | Censorship in American Art | This course examines the art history of censorship in the United States. Paying special attention to the suppression of queer, Black and Latinx visual and performance art, including efforts to vandalize works and defund institutions, students will ex... |
| CSRE160A | The Historical Archaeology of Latin America | How has the study of past material cultures contributed to our comprehension of the Iberian colonial experience in the New World? How has an archaeology of the recent past been presented to the public and made socially relevant in contemporary Latin... |
| CSRE160J | Conjure Art 101: Performances of Ritual, Spirituality and Decolonial Black Feminist Magic | Conjure Art is a movement and embodied practice course looking at the work and techniques of artists of color who utilize spirituality and ritual practices in their art making and performance work to evoke social change. In this course we will discus... |
| CSRE160M | Introduction to Representations of the Middle East in Dance, Performance, & Popular Culture | This course will introduce students to the ways in which the Middle East has been represented and performed by/in the 'West' through dance, performance, and popular culture in both historical and contemporary contexts. A brief look through today's me... |
| CSRE161 | Imagining Adaptive Societies | The ecological, social, and economic crises of the Anthropocene suggest it is time for us to re-imagine how best to organize our communities, our institutions, and our societies. Despite the clear shortcomings, our society remains stuck in a rut of i... |
| CSRE161P | Entrepreneurship for Social and Racial Equity | This course is designed for students of all backgrounds and provides an introduction to business ownership and an entrepreneurial mindset with a focus on operating businesses with racial equity as a core principle and/or within diverse communities wi... |
| CSRE162 | The Politics of Sex: Gender, Race, and Sex in Modern America | This course explores the ways that individuals and movements for social and economic equality have redefined and contested gender and sexuality in the modern United States. Using a combination of primary and secondary sources, we will explore the int... |
| CSRE162D | Latin/x America in Motion: An Introduction to Dance Studies | This course introduces students to the field of Dance Studies by examining the histories of Latin American and Caribbean dances and their relationship to developing notions of race and nation in the Americas. We will study the historical emergence an... |
| CSRE162V | Advanced Research in Black Performing Arts | What is the history of Committee for Black Performing Arts (CBPA)? How did it come into being and how do we carry/re-member the legacy forward and into the future? In this course students will engage in the research and archiving process as we dig in... |
| CSRE163 | Fly Folk in the Buttermilk: A Black Music and Culture Writing Workshop | This course in honor of the late, great music journalist and thinker, Greg Tate, is designed to introduce popular music writing as a genre to students from all academic backgrounds. From cultural criticism, liner notes, music journalism, and DJ schol... |
| CSRE164A | Race and Performance | How does race function in performance and dare we say live and in living color? How does one deconstruct discrimination at its roots? From a perspective of global solidarity and recognition of shared plight among BIPOC communities, we will read and p... |
| CSRE165 | Identity and Academic Achievement | How do social identities affect how people experience academic interactions? How can learning environments be better structured to support the success of all students? In this class, we will explore how a variety of identities such as race, gender, s... |
| CSRE166 | African Archive Beyond Colonization | From street names to monuments, the material sediments of colonial time can be seen, heard, and felt in the diverse cultural archives of ancient and contemporary Africa. This seminar aims to examine the role of ethnographic practice in the political... |
| CSRE168 | Race, Nature, and the City | This course provides an introduction to the study of race and place within urban political ecology (UPE). Geographer Natasha Cornea defines UPE as a 'conceptual approach that understands urbanization to be a political, economic, social, and ecologica... |
| CSRE16A | Dynamic Australia: immigrant and indigenous experiences | How did modern Australian society take shape? Within this larger framework, several more focused questions will guide us: What have been the experiences of immigrants, of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, and how have their relations evolved ov... |
| CSRE170A | Unlearning Racism, Redefining Identity: Culture workers and the frontlines of Change | The fabric of racism is inextricably woven and constructed into the founding principles of the United States. Racism was done and it can be undone through effective anti-racist organizing with, and in accountability to the communities most impacted b... |
| CSRE171 | Peering into darkness: critical research practices in contemporary art & astrophysics | We were peering into this darkness, crisscrossed with voices, when the change took place: the only real, great change I've ever happened to witness, and compared to it the rest is nothing --Italo Calvino `Peering into darkness is an interdisciplinary... |
| CSRE172 | Transformative Art-Practices for Engaging Community | This course is presented by IDA, the Institute for Diversity in the Arts. In this course, we will explore how artists are addressing and transforming issues central to communities of color such as housing, healthy food access, abolition, human traffi... |
| CSRE173 | Still Waters Run Deep, Troubling The Archive with filmmaking and photography | Using lens-based filmmaking and photography as a form of storytelling, students will create individual projects that explore their own family, community, environmental histories, and narratives. How has your identities or historical context been flat... |
| CSRE174 | History of South Africa | (Same as HISTORY 47. HISTORY 147 is for 5 units; HISTORY 47 is for 3 units) Introduction, focusing particularly on the modern era. Topics include: precolonial African societies; European colonization; the impact of the mineral revolution; the evol... |
| CSRE174S | When Half is Whole: Developing Synergistic Identities and Mestiza Consciousness | This is an exploration of the ways in which individuals construct whole selves in societies that fragment, label, and bind us in categories and boxes. We examine identities that overcome the destructive dichotomies of us and them, crossing borders of... |
| CSRE175W | Philosophy of Law: Protest, Punishment, and Racial Justice | In this course, we will examine some of the central questions in philosophy of law, including: What is law? How do we determine the content of laws? Do laws have moral content? What is authority? What gives law its authority? Must we obey the law? If... |
| CSRE176B | The Social Life of Neighborhoods | How do neighborhoods come to be? How and why do they change? What is the role of power, money, race, immigration, segregation, culture, government, and other forces? In this course, students will interrogate these questions using literatures from soc... |
| CSRE177 | Dramatic Writing: The Fundamentals | Course introduces students to the basic elements of playwriting and creative experimentation for the stage. Topics include: character development, conflict and plot construction, staging and setting, and play structure. Script analysis of works by co... |
| CSRE177E | Well-Being in Immigrant Children & Youth: A Service Learning Course | This is an interdisciplinary course that will examine the dramatic demographic changes in American society that are challenging the institutions of our country, from health care and education to business and politics. This demographic transformation... |
| CSRE177F | Well-Being in Immigrant Children & Youth: A Service Learning Course | This is an interdisciplinary course that will examine the dramatic demographic changes in American society that are challenging the institutions of our country, from health care and education to business and politics. This demographic transformation... |
| CSRE177I | Workshop with Young Jean Lee | Instructor Young Jean Lee is a playwright and director who will have two plays premiering on Broadway in 2018-2019. In this workshop, students will help to collaboratively perform, direct, and rewrite the script of one of these plays, which is about... |
| CSRE178 | Ethics and Politics of Public Service | Ethical and political questions in public service work, including volunteering, service learning, humanitarian assistance, and public service professions such as medicine and teaching. Motives and outcomes in service work. Connections between service... |
| CSRE178B | Intensive Playwriting | Intermediate level study of fundamentals of playwriting through an intensive play development process. Course emphasizes visual scripting for the stage and play revision. Script analysis of works by contemporary playwrights may include: Suzan-Lori Pa... |
| CSRE178P | The Science and Practice of Effective Advocacy | How can purposeful collective action change government policy, business practices and cultural norms? This course will teach students about the components of successful change campaigns and help develop the practical skills to carry out such efforts.... |
| CSRE179A | Crime and Punishment in America | This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the way crime has been defined and punished in the United States. Recent social movements such as the Movement for Black Lives have drawn attention to the problem of mass incarceration and officer-... |
| CSRE179W | Du Bois and Democracy | In this course, we will work together to develop a detailed and comprehensive understanding of the political philosophy of W. E. B. Du Bois, giving special attention to the development of his democratic theory. We will do so by reading a number of ke... |
| CSRE18 | Antiracism and Health Equity: A project-based community service course | This class will examine the structural racialized bias in medicine, biomedical research and health care delivery by using short form media to address the dismantling of systemic racist practices. In understanding that inequity is a feature and not a... |
| CSRE180E | Introduction to Chicanx/Latinx Studies | This course draws on intersectional and interdisciplinary approaches to introduce students to the range of issues, experiences, and methodologies that form the foundation of Latina/o/x studies. By considering the relationship between the creation of... |
| CSRE180S | The Black Music 1980s: Turntables, Beat Machines and DJ Scholarship | This course focuses on the regional rhythms and aesthetic trends of Black popular music of the Americas in the 1980s, a period of Black cultural production largely ignored by the academy. Students will investigate how technology, economic shifts, AID... |
| CSRE181 | Multicultural Issues in Higher Education | The primary social, educational, and political issues that have surfaced in American higher education due to the rapid demographic changes occurring since the early 80s. Research efforts and the policy debates include multicultural communities, the c... |
| CSRE183 | Re-Imagining American Borders | Borders of all kinds in this America have been tight for a long time, and the four years of the Trump regime have shown new violent dangers in such divisions in race, ethnicity, gender and class in this country. In the inordinately difficult years o... |
| CSRE185B | Jews in the Contemporary World: Culture, Pop Culture, and Representation | (HISTORY 185B is 5 units; HISTORY 85B is 3 units.) From Barbra Streisand to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, from The Dybbuk to Broad City, and from Moscow to LA, this course applies a multicultural perspective on different experiences of Jewishness in the 20th... |
| CSRE185C | Racial Inequality across the Lifespan | Imagine two children, one Black and one White, born on the same day and in the same country. By adulthood, these two will likely have had two remarkably different social experiences (e.g., the Black child will have received less education, income, he... |
| CSRE186 | The Psychology of Racial Inequality | Our topic is the psychology of racial inequality - thinking, feeling, and behaving in ways that contribute to racial stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination, and how these processes in turn maintain and perpetuate inequality between racial groups... |
| CSRE189 | Race and Immigration | In the contemporary United States, supposedly race-neutral immigration laws have racially-unequal consequences. Immigrants from Mexico, Central America, and the Middle East are central to ongoing debates about who's includable, and who's excludable,... |
| CSRE190A | Public Service and Social Impact: Pathways to Purposeful Careers | How do I translate my interests and skills 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, education, nonprofits, social en... |
| CSRE191 | African American Art | This course explores major art and political movements, such as the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, and #BlackLivesMatter, that have informed and were inspired by African American artists. Students will read pivotal texts written by Blac... |
| CSRE194 | Black Brazil: Afro-Brazilian Music, Literature, and Art | More enslaved people from Africa were forced to Brazil than any other country and Brazil was the last country to abolish the practice of slavery in the Americas. How do these two facts impact the cultural history of Brazil? How and why was the countr... |
| CSRE194KT | Topics in Writing & Rhetoric: The Last Hopi On Earth: The Rhetoric of Entertainment Inequity | While #OscarsSoWhite brought attention to the Academy's overwhelmingly White, male membership, the underbelly of the entertainment industry itself is rife with inequitable hiring of not only on-camera and on-stage performers but also directors, write... |
| CSRE194KTA | Topics in Writing & Rhetoric: Racism, Misogyny, and the Law | The gutting of the Voting Rights Act in 2013 by the Supreme Court of the United States led to the consequent disenfranchisement of many voters of color. For many citizens who desire a truly representative government, SCOTUS's decision predicted the c... |
| CSRE194NCR | Topics in Writing & Rhetoric: Introduction to Cultural Rhetorics | All cultures have their own ways of communicating and making meaning through a range of situated rhetorical practices. In this gateway course to the Notation in Cultural Rhetorics, you'll explore the diverse contexts in which these practices are made... |
| CSRE194SS | Topics in Writing & Rhetoric: Making Rhetoric Matter: Human Rights at Home | 'Human rights' often sounds like it needs defending in far-off places: in distant public squares where soldiers menace gatherings of citizens, in dark jails where prisoners are tortured for their politics, in unknown streets where gender inequality h... |
| CSRE195 | U.S. Latinx Art | This course surveys art made by Latinas/os/xs who have lived and worked in the United States since the 1700s, including Chicanos, Nuyoricans, and other Black, Brown, and Indigenous artists. While exploring the diversity of Latinx art, students will c... |
| CSRE196C | Introduction to Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity | Race and ethnicity are often taken for granted as naturally occurring, self-evident phenomena that must be navigated or overcome to understand and eradicate the (re)production of societal hierarchies across historical, geopolitical, and institutional... |
| CSRE196D | Introduction to Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity: Continuing Community Engagement | In this continuation of CSRE 196C, students will continue to develop an interactive map that explores race and community in the Bay Area, through the work of local musicians. In collaboration with the SF-based non-profit, PeaceTones, you will intervi... |
| CSRE198 | Internship for Public Service | Students should consult with CCSRE Director of Community Engaged Learning (ddmurray@stanford.edu) to develop or gain approval for an internship that addresses race/ethnicity, public service, and social justice. Students will read a selection of short... |
| CSRE199 | Community-Based Fellowship Practicum | This course is designed to support undergraduate Community-Based Research and Praxis Fellows at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. Students will situate their research and praxis projects in the context of global, multigenerati... |
| CSRE1A | My Journey: Conversations on Race and Ethnicity | This course meets once a week for one hour, over lunch (provided). Students will meet with CSRE faculty who will share their work, their life stories, their reasons for believing that race and ethnicity are of central concern to all members of our s... |
| CSRE1V | A History of Race | This course will survey the idea of race and its history. We will focus our attention on the construction of the idea of race, and we will trace the ways in which this concept has changed over time. The course will start with a panel discussion on de... |
| CSRE200R | Directed Research | No Description Set |
| CSRE200W | Directed Reading | No Description Set |
| CSRE200X | CSRE Senior Seminar | Supports the conceptualization, research, and writing of the CCSRE senior paper with the support of a faculty project advisor. Required for CCSRE majors in their senior year who are not completing a CCSRE honors project, including those who opt to wr... |
| CSRE201B | The Undocumented Migration Project Exhibition at Stanford | Are you an artist seeking a greater purpose for you art? Would you like to gain a sense of history and best practices for engaging your community in creative work? Human Rights policy experts and activists, artists and scholars will participate in th... |
| CSRE201D | Public Art Interventions in Social & Cultural Spaces | This team-taught course brings long-time artists, organizers, and researchers to present a range of strategies for creating public art and cultural productions in various social and cultural spaces. Our exploration of public art engages ideas about s... |
| CSRE201L | Doing Public History | Examines history outside the classroom; its role in political/cultural debates in U.S. and abroad. Considers functions, practices, and reception of history in public arena, including museums, memorials, naming of buildings, courtrooms, websites, op-... |
| CSRE201X | CCSRE Honors Seminar | Supports the research and writing of the CCSRE honors thesis with the support of a faculty project advisor and a secondary reader. Required for all admitted students completing an honors project in CCSRE, regardless of major. |
| CSRE201Y | CCSRE Honors Seminar | Supports the research and writing of the CCSRE honors thesis with the support of a faculty project advisor and a secondary reader. Required for all admitted students completing an honors project in CCSRE, regardless of major. |
| CSRE201Z | CCSRE Honors Seminar | Supports the research and writing of the CCSRE honors thesis with the support of a faculty project advisor and a secondary reader. Required for all admitted students completing an honors project in CCSRE, regardless of major. |
| CSRE202 | Moving the Message: Reading and embodying the works of bell hooks | In this course, we will spend time reading, discussing and embodying the work of Black feminist theorist and teacher bell hooks. hook's work focuses on practices rooted in Black feminism, the role of love in revolutionary politics, rescuing ourselves... |
| CSRE205L | Prostitution & Sex Trafficking: Regulating Morality and the Status of Women | Examines governmental policies toward prostitution from the late 19th century to the present. Focuses on the underlying attitudes, assumptions, strategies, and consequences of various historical and current legal frameworks regulating prostitution,... |
| CSRE20N | What counts as "race," and why? | Preference to freshmen. Seminar discussion of how various institutions in U.S. society employ racial categories, and how race is studied and conceptualized across disciplines. Course introduces perspectives from demography, history, law, genetics, so... |
| CSRE21 | African American Vernacular English | Vocabulary, pronunciation and grammatical features of the systematic and vibrant vernacular English [AAVE] spoken by African Americans in the US, its historical relation to British dialects, and to English creoles spoken on the S. Carolina Sea Island... |
| CSRE212 | Biology, Culture and Social Justice in Latin America: Perspectives from Forensic Anthropology | This course will only take place in the first 5 weeks of the quarter.As forensic anthropologists, we are routinely asked to make identifications of unknown human remains and provide courtroom testimony. Latin America has become a nexus for social jus... |
| CSRE216 | Arab Studies | This course covers several areas in the study of Arab language, history, politics, and culture. It is designed based on student needs and offered primarily in the summer. |
| CSRE217 | Expanding Engineering Limits: Culture, Diversity, and Equity | This course investigates how culture and diversity shape who becomes an engineer, what problems get solved, and the quality of designs, technology, and products. As a course community, we consider how cultural beliefs about race, ethnicity, gender, s... |
| CSRE21N | How to Make a Racist | How does a child, born without beliefs or expectations about race, grow up to be racist? To address this complicated question, this seminar will introduce you to some of the psychological theories on the development of racial stereotyping, prejudice,... |
| CSRE22 | Lockdown America: Race and Incarceration in the Land of the Free | This course is about prisons, jails, and the place they hold in American life, drawing heavily from the instructor's experiences of fieldwork in prisons and jails in the San Francisco Bay Area. Prisons and Jails are commonly imagined as isolated plac... |
| CSRE220 | Public Policy Institute | ** This course meets and concludes prior to Autumn Quarter. If you were not a student in this year's PPI, please DO NOT ENROLL. **Public Policy Institute serves to: provide students with information and perspectives on important public policy issues... |
| CSRE221D | Crafting Challenging Conversations in a Conflicted World | In moments of divisive, time-sensitive conflict and disagreement, interdependent community groups that are we-us oriented often struggle to maintain cohesive relationships. In this interactive, project-based course, participants will dive into the ar... |
| CSRE223 | Caribbean Questions: Exploring the Caribbean | When asked to conjure up an image of the Caribbean, what comes to mind? The geographies? The political climate? Its people? Its histories? In this course we will complicate and investigate the notion of 'the Caribbean' by addressing various question... |
| CSRE224 | Asian American Racialization in Education | This course examines how race and other social processes in education have shaped understandings of the racial category of "Asian American." Students will investigate how education as a social institution makes, remakes, and challenges racial narrati... |
| CSRE226D | The Holocaust: Insights from New Research | Overview of the history of the Holocaust, the genocide of European Jews. Explores its causes, course, consequences, and memory. Addresses the events themselves, as well as the roles of perpetrators and bystanders, dilemmas faced by victims, collab... |
| CSRE22SI | SENSA Labs Social Enterprise Seminar | As a social entrepreneur, how do you know you're solving the right problem? What values, approaches, and strategies differentiate a social enterprise from other startups? What does it take to build a venture that is both socially-minded and profitabl... |
| CSRE23 | Race and the War on Drugs: Long Roots and Other Futures | Current discussions of the war on drugs reference Richard Nixon's 1971 declaration as a starting point. This class will encourage students instead to see the war on drugs beyond seemingly self-evident margins and imaginaries. In this course, we will... |
| CSRE230 | Law, Order, & Algorithms | Human decision making is increasingly being displaced by predictive algorithms. Judges sentence defendants based on statistical risk scores; regulators take enforcement actions based on predicted violations; advertisers target materials based on demo... |
| CSRE230A | Digital Civil Society | A vibrant civil society is a core component of democratic life. 'Civil society' includes social movements, grassroots activism, philanthropists, unions, nonprofits, NGOs, charities, informal associational life, and cooperatives, among others. In this... |
| CSRE24 | Race and Environment | From the moment colonizers began arriving in the space now referred to as the Americas until the moments these words were written and read, coloniality and one its central mechanisms 'race' have shaped the ways that people think about the spaces in w... |
| CSRE243 | Writing Across Languages and Cultures: Research in Writing and Writing Instruction | Theoretical perspectives that have dominated the literature on writing research. Reports, articles, and chapters on writing research, theory, and instruction; current and historical perspectives in writing research and research findings relating to t... |
| CSRE245 | Understanding Racial and Ethnic Identity Development | This seminar will explore the impact and relative salience of racial/ethnic identity on select issues including: discrimination, social justice, mental health and academic performance. Theoretical perspectives on identity development will be reviewed... |
| CSRE246 | Constructing Race and Religion in America | This seminar focuses on the interrelationships between social constructions of race and social interpretations of religion in America. How have assumptions about race shaped religious worldviews? How have religious beliefs shaped racial attitudes? Ho... |
| CSRE248X | Language, Literacy, and Culture | This field-based Cardinal Course will provide a unique opportunity to combine theory and practice in the study of language, literacy, and culture in educational settings. It is a collaborative partnership between Stanford (through the Haas Center for... |
| CSRE249 | The Algerian Wars | From Algiers the White to Algiers the Red, Algiers, the Mecca of the Revolutionaries in the words of Amilcar Cabral, this course offers to study the Algerian Wars since the French conquest of Algeria (1830-) to the Algerian civil war of the 1990s. We... |
| CSRE250J | Baldwin and Hansberry: The Myriad Meanings of Love | This course looks at major dramatic works by James Baldwin and Lorraine Hansberry. Both of these queer black writers had prophetic things to say about the world-historical significance of major dramas on the 20th Century including civil rights, revol... |
| CSRE251 | Iberian Expansion Through the Looking Glass: One World or Many? | The conquerors, missionaries, and historians who reflected on Iberian overseas expansion during the early modern period often asked themselves a crucial question: was there only one world or many? Were the Americas a 'New World,' unknown to the ancie... |
| CSRE252C | The Old South: Culture, Society, and Slavery | This course explores the political, social, and cultural history of the antebellum American South, with an emphasis on the history of African-American slavery. Topics include race and race making, slave community and resistance, gender and reproducti... |
| CSRE253C | Histories of Racial Capitalism | This colloquium takes as its starting point the insistence that the movement, settlement, and hierarchical arrangements of indigenous communities and people of African descent is inseparable from regimes of capital accumulation. It builds on the conc... |
| CSRE258 | Black Feminist Theater and Theory | From the rave reviews garnered by Angelina Weld Grimke's lynching play, Rachel to recent work by Lynn Nottage on Rwanda, black women playwrights have addressed key issues in modern culture and politics. We will analyze and perform work written by bl... |
| CSRE26 | Dancing Theories of Race | What can choreography and movement practice lend a comparative understanding of race studies? Pairing critical theory in race studies with dance performance, this course moves through ten units to scaffold a nuanced orientation toward race and dance... |
| CSRE260 | Race and Ethnicity in Urban California | The course is part of an ongoing research project that examines the consequences of longterm social, economic, and political changes in ethnic and race relations in in urban California. The required readings, discussions, and service learning compone... |
| CSRE260B | Race and Ethnicity in Urban California: Research Seminar | This course is part of an ongoing research project that examines the consequences of social, demographic, economic, and political changes in ethnic and race relations in in urban California. Students taking this course will construct will investigat... |
| CSRE261 | Imagining Adaptive Societies | The ecological, social, and economic crises of the Anthropocene suggest it is time for us to re-imagine how best to organize our communities, our institutions, and our societies. Despite the clear shortcomings, our society remains stuck in a rut of i... |
| CSRE264 | History of Prisons and Immigration Detention | This course will explore the history of the growing prison and immigration detention systems in the United States. They will pay particular attention to how they developed and how they affect different populations. |
| CSRE264S | Race, Gender, Justice | The question of justice animates some of the most influential classics and contemporary plays in the dramatic canon. We will examine the relationship between state laws and kinship obligations in Sophocles's Antigone. We will trace the transnational... |
| CSRE265 | Crossing the Atlantic: Race and Identity in the "Old" and "New" African Diasporas | In this course, we will think critically about what we have come to call the African diaspora. We will travel the world virtually while exploring a selection of classic and understudied texts, in order to interrogate the relationship between culture,... |
| CSRE265G | Writing and Voice: Anthropological Telling through Literature and Practices of Expression | In this graduate seminar we will explore how writers draw from their worlds of experience to create humanistic works of broad 'and often urgent' appeal. We will pay special attention to how creative writers integrate details of history, kinship, com... |
| CSRE267 | Theory and Method in Linguistic Anthropology | This course introduces students to central concepts and approaches in linguistic anthropology, with a specific focus on the role of educational institutions, processes, and ideologies in shaping language use and vice versa. Students will learn practi... |
| CSRE270 | Introduction to Arab Studies: Memory, Heritage, and Cultural Production | What is Arab Studies? Who are Arabs? Where do they live? How can we better understand this area and its people? This class offers undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to engage with Arab Studies through a series of public lectures, scr... |
| CSRE27SI | Revolution and the Pilipinx Diaspora: Exploring Global Activism in Local Communities | This course aims to provide students with an opportunity to not only learn about current issues in the local Filipino American community, but also develop their own plans to take action on social justice issues. Through mediums of art and reflection,... |
| CSRE285 | Texts and Contexts: French-English Translation | This course introduces students to the ways in which translation has shaped the image of France and the Francophone world. What texts and concepts were translated, how, where, and to what effect? Students will work on a translation project throughout... |
| CSRE288C | Jews of the Modern Middle East and North Africa | This course will explore the cultural, social, and political histories of the Jews of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) from 1860 to present times. The geographic concentration will range from Morocco to Iran, Iraq to Turkey, and everywhere in... |
| CSRE28N | The Cultural Shaping of Emotion | This seminar examines how our cultural ideas and practices shape our conceptions, perceptions, and experiences of emotion. We will read and discuss empirical research and case studies from psychology, anthropology, sociology, and medicine. Course req... |
| CSRE290 | Riot: Visualizing Civil Unrest in the 20th and 21st Centuries | This seminar explores the visual legacy of civil unrest in the United States. Focusing on the 1965 Watts Rebellion, 1992 Los Angeles Riots, 2014 Ferguson Uprising, and 2020 George Floyd Uprisings students will closely examine photographs, television... |
| CSRE291 | Urban Schools, Social Policy, and the Gentrifying City | This course is designed to help students develop a more sophisticated understanding of educational inequality in the contemporary U.S. city. This course will survey existing literature about the intersection of gentrification and urban schooling, foc... |
| CSRE292 | Education for Liberation: A History of African American Education, 1800 to the Present | This course examines discourses around education and freedom in African American educational thought from the 19th century to the present, using both primary sources and the works of current historians. The course pays particular attention to how the... |
| CSRE293 | Black and Brown: American Artists of Color | This course explores the art history of African American and Latina/o/x artists in the United States, Latin America & the Caribbean. Focused on particular exhibition and collection histories, students will consider the artistic, social and political... |
| CSRE298G | Race, Gender, & Sexuality in Chinese History | This course examines the diverse ways in which identities--particularly race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality have been understood and experienced in Chinese societies, broadly defined, from the imperial period to the present day. Topics include cha... |
| CSRE29SI | Migration is Beautiful: Histories, Realities, and Policies of Immigrant Justice | In the current political landscape, many political stakeholders have endorsed anti-immigrant policies using inflammatory rhetoric that has disturbed American attitudes toward immigration. This course challenges the underlying assumptions of this disc... |
| CSRE30 | 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.... |
| CSRE300 | Theory and Methods in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity | This course examines the concept of race, processes of racial formation, and theory and methods for the interdisciplinary study of race and ethnicity. The course will focus on expressions and representations of race and racialization through comparat... |
| CSRE301 | Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity | an advanced introduction to concepts and debates within the multi-disciplinary field of comparative studies in race and ethnicity. |
| CSRE301A | Graduate Workshop: Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity | Required for PhD Minors in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CSRE) and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (FGSS). The Fall Phd Minor Workshop will explore theory and methods in anti-racist and feminist pedagogy through selected readings... |
| CSRE301B | Graduate Workshop: Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity | Required for PhD Minors in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CSRE). Students in the Winter Phd Minor Workshop will present and offer feedback on works in progress. |
| CSRE301C | Graduate Workshop: Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity | Required for PhD Minors in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CSRE) and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (FGSS). |
| CSRE302 | Decolonizing the Indigenous Classroom | Using Indigenous and decolonizing perspectives on education, this interdisciplinary course will examine interaction and language in cross-cultural educational situations, including language, literacy and interethnic communication as they relate to In... |
| CSRE302C | History of World Cinema III: Queer Cinema around the World | Provides an overview of cinema from around the world since 1960, highlighting the cultural, political, and economic forces that have shaped various film movements over the last six decades. We study key film movements and national cinemas towards dev... |
| CSRE303 | CSRE Graduate Student Workshop Series | This course is designed specifically for Graduate Fellows in the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. |
| CSRE30N | The Science of Diverse Communities | This course is an exploration. Most generally, its aim is to identify distinguishing features of good diverse communities and articulate them well enough to offer principles or guidelines for how to design and manage such communities - all with a par... |
| CSRE30Q | The Big Shift | Is the middle class shrinking? How do people who live at the extremes of American society- the super rich, the working poor and those who live on the margins, imagine and experience "the good life"? How do we understand phenomena such as gang culture... |
| CSRE31N | Does Science Have Culture? | In this course students will engage with the anthropology of science and medicine to explore the how cultural norms shape scientific understandings. Through a series of diverse global case studies, seminar participants will assess how historical con... |
| CSRE32 | Theories in Race and Ethnicity: A Comparative Perspective | This undergraduate course employs an anthropological and historical perspective to introduce students to ideas and concepts of race and ethnicity that emerged primarily in Europe and the United States in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and th... |
| CSRE326D | The Holocaust: Insights from New Research | Overview of the history of the Holocaust, the genocide of European Jews. Explores its causes, course, consequences, and memory. Addresses the events themselves, as well as the roles of perpetrators and bystanders, dilemmas faced by victims, collab... |
| CSRE329 | Rethinking Francophone Literature in the 21st Century | This course is a critical examination of literature from the Francophone world of the 20th and 21st centuries. Students will travel through time and space with a selection of novels, poems, essays, and short stories. In this historical and cultural j... |
| CSRE33SI | Examining Access for FLI Students in Higher Education | Stanford's past two presidents have steadfastly declared Stanford as a vehicle of upwards mobility and to correct inequalities. Essentially, this means providing sufficient access to students who often are most in need: first-generation and/or low-in... |
| CSRE340 | (Re)Meditating Systems Change: Disability, Language & Difference | This is a course about gaining a deep understanding of the levers of systems change in K-12 education focusing especially on (re)mediating systems in ways that center inclusion, equity, and justice. This course is concerned with systems change proces... |
| CSRE343 | (Re)Framing Difference: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Disability, Race and Culture | This course uses social theories of difference to examine the intersections of disability, race and culture. The course will examine these concepts drawing from scholarship published in history, sociology of education, urban sociology, cultural studi... |
| CSRE346B | Community Engaged Research - Principles, Ethics, and Design | This course is designed to support students planning to participate in community engaged research experiences during the summer 2023 term. Course materials and discussions will promote deep engagement with, and reflection on, the principles, practice... |
| CSRE350G | Performing Race, Gender, and Sexuality | In this theory and practice-based course, students will examine performances by and scholarly texts about artists who critically and mindfully engage race, gender, and sexuality. Students will cultivate their skills as artist-scholars through written... |
| CSRE351 | Iberian Expansion Through the Looking Glass: One World or Many? | The conquerors, missionaries, and historians who reflected on Iberian overseas expansion during the early modern period often asked themselves a crucial question: was there only one world or many? Were the Americas a 'New World,' unknown to the ancie... |
| CSRE357 | Edward Said, or Scholar vs Empire | How can an intellectual fight forces far larger than a single individual? How can solidarity be an antidote to racism? Why is there no distinction between the local and the global? What is the scholar's role in an alienating political climate? Why ar... |
| CSRE35N | Black Music Revealed: Black composers, performers, and themes from the 18th century to the present | Online seminar on the achievements of Black composers and performers in ragtime, jazz, and classical music, from Chevalier de Saint-Georges, whose music influenced Mozart, and George Bridgetower, for whom Beethoven composed his "Kreutzer" Sonata, to... |
| CSRE35SI | An Introduction to Labor Organizing on Campus | Campus Workers are critical to maintaining our university, so how can you support them as a student? What is campus labor organizing and how does it work on a practical level? How can students make a difference in the lives of workers on campus? This... |
| CSRE363 | Race in Greco-Roman Antiquity | This course will investigate representations of black people in ancient Greek and Roman antiquity. In addition to interrogating the conflation of the terms "race" and "blackness" as it applies to this time period, students will learn how to critique... |
| CSRE364A | Race and Performance | How does race function in performance and dare we say live and in living color? How does one deconstruct discrimination at its roots? From a perspective of global solidarity and recognition of shared plight among BIPOC communities, we will read and p... |
| CSRE366 | Classical Reception in the Black Diaspora | From the ancient oral epics to contemporary literature from Africa, the Caribbean, and the USA, this seminar will examine the significance of Classics in the literatures and arts of Africa and the Black Diaspora. This course will also investigate the... |
| CSRE366A | Blackness/Gender/Sexuality & Dis-ease: HIV/AIDS Art History | Since the emergence of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), artists have been central to the fight against the state's violence and neglect of those with HIV/AIDS. In this story, however, race and gender are marginalized as frameworks that shap... |
| CSRE370 | Introduction to Arab Studies: Memory, Heritage, and Cultural Production | What is Arab Studies? Who are Arabs? Where do they live? How can we better understand this area and its people? This class offers undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to engage with Arab Studies through a series of public lectures, scr... |
| CSRE371 | Representation: Race, Law, and Politics | Graduate seminar. In this course, we will work together to develop a detailed and comprehensive understanding of the concept(s) of political representation. We will do so by examining a number of historical and contemporary theories of political repr... |
| CSRE372 | African American Child and Adolescent Mental Health: An Ecological Approach | African American children and adolescents face a number of challenges (e.g., racism, discrimination, lack of access to resources, community violence) that can impact their mental health. Yet, they possess and utilize many strengths in the face of cha... |
| CSRE378 | Carceral Logics & Abolition in Education | Abolition is a complex concept, often moving against the grain in a society fixated on punishment. What happens when we begin with the concept that life is valuable and that concept should be the center of society when building institutions and respo... |
| CSRE385 | Race, Ethnicity, and Language: Pedagogical Possibilities | This seminar explores the intersections of language and race/racism/racialization in the public schooling experiences of students of color. We will briefly trace the historical emergence of the related fields of sociolinguistics and linguistic anthro... |
| CSRE387 | BAD Lab: Scholarly Communication in Education | This seminar gives doctoral students an overview of scholarly communication in education in areas related to the BAD Lab. In the first half, we focus on publication including: publishing journal articles and books. We also examine multimedia communic... |
| CSRE389B | Race, Ethnicity, and Language: Writing Race, Ethnicity, and Language in Ethnography | This methods seminar focuses on developing ethnographic strategies for representing race, ethnicity, and language in writing without reproducing the stereotypes surrounding these categories and practices. In addition to reading various ethnographies,... |
| CSRE39 | Long Live Our 4Bil. Year Old Mother: Black Feminist Praxis, Indigenous Resistance, Queer Possibility | How can art facilitate a culture that values women, mothers, transfolks, caregivers, girls? How can black, indigenous, and people of color frameworks help us reckon with oppressive systems that threaten safety and survival for marginalized people and... |
| CSRE390 | Riot: Visualizing Civil Unrest in the 20th and 21st Centuries | This seminar explores the visual legacy of civil unrest in the United States. Focusing on the 1965 Watts Rebellion, 1992 Los Angeles Riots, 2014 Ferguson Uprising, and 2020 George Floyd Uprisings students will closely examine photographs, television... |
| CSRE393 | The Art of Punk: Sound, Aesthetics and Performance | This seminar explores the sonic and visual aesthetics of punk rock since the 1970s. While studying music, videos, zines, and album covers, students will examine the convergence of art with politics among artists, such as Lydia Lunch and Vaginal Davis... |
| CSRE394 | Complicating Minimal Art: Racializing, Queering, and Politicizing a Canon | This seminar focuses on the contributions people of color, women, and queer artists have made to Minimalism, a popular and influential style of art defined by sleek geometric forms. Students will critically engage canonical texts, which often privile... |
| CSRE3P | America: Unequal | It was never imagined "when the U.S. was founded" that the rich would be so rich and the poor so poor. It was never imagined "when the U.S. was founded" that opportunities to get ahead would depend so profoundly on one's family circumstances and oth... |
| CSRE4 | The Sociology of Music | 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 membe... |
| CSRE41A | Genes and Identity | In recent decades genes have increasingly become endowed with the cultural power to explain many aspects of human life: physical traits, diseases, behaviors, ancestral histories, and identity. In this course we will explore a deepening societal intr... |
| CSRE41Q | Black & White Race Relations in American Fiction & Film | Movies and the fiction that inspires them; power dynamics behind production including historical events, artistic vision, politics, and racial stereotypes. What images of black and white does Hollywood produce to forge a national identity? How do fil... |
| CSRE42 | Spoken Word Poetry and Resistance: 1990's-Present | In the 1990's the Spoken Word movement exploded onto the public scene in multiple forms. The decade marked the birth of the Poetry Slam movement, the 'Golden Age' of rap, and the re-emergence of Poetry as Performance. In the contemporary moment Kendr... |
| CSRE43 | Theater and Social Justice: Skills for Rethinking Everything | In this course we will employ theater foundations (writing, acting, staging and direction) to interrogate individual and collective belief systems prescribed through our lineage, geography, genetics, culture and class. We will ask big questions like:... |
| CSRE439 | Critical Race Theory in Education | This seminar will examine the foundational tenets of Critical Race Theory (CRT) as an analytic framework to study of inequities in P-20 education. Each week will examine how CRT tenets developed in law and were taken up in education via epistemology,... |
| CSRE44 | Finding Ourselves and Sharing Our Stories | In this class we seek to find ourselves and others, crossing borders of race, ethnicity, sex, gender, ability, or class that limit and confine us. We explore healing and empowerment in a beloved community made through shared vulnerability, storytelli... |
| CSRE45Q | Understanding Race and Ethnicity in American Society | Preference to sophomores. Historical overview of race in America, race and violence, race and socioeconomic well-being, and the future of race relations in America. Enrollment limited to 16. |
| CSRE46 | Cape to Cairo: Decolonization and African Urban Life 1940s-1960s | Decolonization across Africa was complicated, messy and sometimes violent. It was also an important moment for (re) imagining and (re)structuring society resulting in fascinating historical encounters among different groups. This course explores deco... |
| CSRE47Q | Heartfulness: Mindfulness, Compassion, and Responsibility | We practice mindfulness as a way of enhancing well-being, interacting compassionately with others, and engaging in socially responsible actions as global citizens. Contemplation is integrated with social justice through embodied practice, experientia... |
| CSRE50Q | Life and Death of Words | In this course, we explore the world of words: their creation, evolution, borrowing, change, and death. Words are the key to understanding the culture and ideas of a people, and by tracing the biographies of words we are able to discern how the world... |
| CSRE50S | Nineteenth Century America | (Same as HISTORY 150B. HISTORY 50B is 3 units; HISTORY 150B is 5 units.) Territorial expansion, social change, and economic transformation. The causes and consequences of the Civil War. Topics include: urbanization and the market revolution; slavery... |
| CSRE51Q | Comparative Fictions of Ethnicity | Explorations of how literature can represent in complex and compelling ways issues of difference--how they appear, are debated, or silenced. Specific attention on learning how to read critically in ways that lead one to appreciate the power of litera... |
| CSRE52H | I, Scientist: Diversity Improves the Scientific Practice | Disciplinary priorities, research agendas, and innovations are determined by the diversity of participants and problem-solving is more successful with a broad range of approaches. Using case studies in scientific research, we propose to use these ins... |
| CSRE55M | 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... |
| CSRE55N | Black Panther, Hamilton, Díaz, and Other Wondrous Lives | 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 worl... |
| CSRE58 | Mapping Racial Justice | How do communities map their territories for racial justice? How are maps used as tools of oppression or liberation? What cartographic methods can we use to tell our stories? Focusing on Indigenous geographies in relation to other racialized communit... |
| CSRE5C | Human Trafficking: Historical, Legal, and Medical Perspectives | (Same as History 105C. 5C is 3 units; 105C is 5 units.) Interdisciplinary approach to understanding the extent and complexity of the global phenomenon of human trafficking, especially for forced prostitution, labor exploitation, and organ trade, focu... |
| CSRE61 | Introduction to Dance Studies: Dancing Across Stages, Clubs, Screens, and Borders | This introduction to dance studies course explores dance practice and performance as means for producing cultural meaning. Through theoretical and historical texts and viewing live and recorded dance, we will develop tools for analyzing dance and und... |
| CSRE63N | The Feminist Critique: The History and Politics of Gender Equality | This course explores the long history of ideas about gender and equality. Each week we read, dissect, compare, and critique a set of primary historical documents (political and literary) from around the world, moving from the 15th century to the pres... |
| CSRE68 | American Prophet: The Inner Life and Global Vision of Martin Luther King, Jr. | Martin Luther King, Jr., was the 20th-century's best-known African-American leader, but the religious roots of his charismatic leadership are far less widely known. The documents assembled and published by Stanford's King Research and Education Inst... |
| CSRE74 | History of South Africa | (Same as HISTORY 147. HISTORY 47 is for 3 units; HISTORY 147 is for 5 units.) Introduction, focusing particularly on the modern era. Topics include: precolonial African societies; European colonization; the impact of the mineral revolution; the evol... |
| CSRE78 | Art + Community: Division, Resilience & Reconciliation | Violence and trauma isolates and segregates us. Part of the healing process must be about coming back into community. Freedom is meaningful only insofar as it lifts all, especially those who have been done the most harm. In times of violence and pola... |
| CSRE82G | Making Palestine Visible | Israel-Palestine is one of the most difficult subjects to talk about, in large part because we in the United States do not have much exposure to Palestinian history, culture, and politics in their own terms. This course aims to humanize Palestinians... |
| CSRE91 | Exploring American Religious History | This course will trace how contemporary beliefs and practices connect to historical trends in the American religious landscape. |
| CSRE91B | Telling Your Story as Counterstory: The Rhetoric of Critical Race Theory | 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 dee... |
| CSRE91D | Asian American Autobiography/W | This is a dual purpose class: a writing workshop in which you will generate autobiographical vignettes/essays as well as a reading seminar featuring prose from a wide range of contemporary Asian-American writers. Some of the many questions we will co... |
| CSRE92D | Arab and Arab-American Poetry | In this introductory course, students will write and read widely, exploring various aspects of poetic craft, including imagery, metaphor, line, stanza, music, rhythm, diction, and tone. The course will focus primarily on the rich and varied tradition... |
| CSRE94 | Topics in Writing and Rhetoric: Empathy, Ethics, and Compassion Meditation | Does not fulfill NSC requirement. In this course, we'll extend this discussion by expanding our thinking about rhetoric as a means of persuasion to consider its relation to empathy-as a mode of listening to and understanding audiences and communities... |
| CSRE95 | Liberation Through Land: Organic Gardening and Racial Justice | Through field trips, practical work and readings, this course provides students with the tools to begin cultivating a relationship to land that focuses on direct engagement with sustainable gardening, from seed to harvest. The course will take place... |
| CSRE95I | Space, Public Discourse and Revolutionary Practices | This course examines the mediums of public art that have been voices of social change, protestand expressions of community desire. It will offer a unique glimpse into Iran¿scontemporary art and visual culture through the investigation of public art p... |
| CSRE99B | EAST House Seminar: Current Issues and Debates in Equity, Access & Society | EAST is the Equity, Access, and Society Theme House at Stanford University. The EAST House Seminar is primarily a speaker series designed to introduce students to the research of Stanford faculty. In Autumn and Winter quarters, faculty and other scho... |
| CSRE99C | EAST House Seminar: Readings on Equity, Access & Society | EAST is the Equity, Access, and Society Theme House at Stanford University. The EAST House Seminar is primarily a speaker series designed to introduce students to the research of Stanford faculty. In Autumn and Winter quarters, faculty and other scho... |
| NATIVEAM100 | Decolonizing Methodologies: Introduction to Native American Studies | ***Formerly known as Native Americans in the 21st-century Anthro16 or Nativeam16What does it mean to be a Native American in the 21st century? Beyond traditional portrayals of military conquests, cultural collapse, and assimilation, the relationships... |
| NATIVEAM103S | Indigenous Feminisms | Seminar examines Indigenous Feminisms and the impact of colonialism on gender roles & gender relations beginning with the 17th century to the present. Topics include demographic changes; social, political & economic transformations associated with bi... |
| NATIVEAM108S | American Indian Religious Freedom | The persistence of tribal spiritual beliefs and practices in light of legal challenges (sacred geography and the 1st Amendment), treatment of the dead and sacred objects (repatriation), consumerism (New Age commodification), and cultural intellectual... |
| NATIVEAM109A | Federal Indian Law | Cases, legislation, comparative justice models, and historical and cultural material. The interlocking relationships of tribal, federal, and state governments. Emphasis is on economic development, religious freedom, and environmental justice issues i... |
| NATIVEAM109B | Native Nation Building | The history of competing tribal and Western economic models, and the legal, political, social, and cultural implications for tribal economic development. Case studies include mineral resource extraction, gaming, and cultural tourism. 21st-century str... |
| NATIVEAM111B | Muwekma: Landscape Archaeology and the Narratives of California Natives | This course explores the unique history of San Francisco Bay Area tribes with particular attention to Muwekma Ohlone- the descendent community associated with the landscape surrounding and including Stanford University. The story of Muwekma provides... |
| NATIVEAM112 | Muwekma Community Engaged Learning, Cultural Heritage and Native Plants Garden Field Project | This course will allow students interested in working with the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe to engaged in community based participatory research. More specifically students will be creating tending and maintaining a native plants garden in the area surroundi... |
| NATIVEAM114 | Comparative History of Racial & Ethnic Groups in California | Comparative focus on the demographic, political, social and economic histories of American Indians & Alaska Natives, African Americans, Chinese Americans and Japanese Americans during late 18th and early 20th century California. Topics: relationship... |
| NATIVEAM115 | Introduction to Native American History | This course incorporates a Native American perspective in the assigned readings and is an introduction to Native American History from contact with Europeans to the present. History, from a Western perspective, is secular and objectively evaluative... |
| NATIVEAM116 | Decolonizing the Indigenous Classroom | Using Indigenous and decolonizing perspectives on education, this interdisciplinary course will examine interaction and language in cross-cultural educational situations, including language, literacy and interethnic communication as they relate to In... |
| NATIVEAM117S | History of Native Americans in California | This course examines the political histories and cultural themes of Native Americans in California, 1700s1950s. Throughout the semester we will focus on: demographics, diversity of tribal cultures; regional environmental backgrounds; the Spanish Era... |
| NATIVEAM118 | Heritage, Environment, and Sovereignty in Hawaii | This course explores the cultural, political economic, and environmental status of contemporary Hawaiians. What sorts of sustainable economic and environmental systems did Hawaiians use in prehistory? How was colonization of the Hawaiian Islands info... |
| NATIVEAM119S | The History of Native Americans of California | How the federal government placed education at the center of its Indian policy in second half of 19th century, subjecting Native Americans to programs designed to erase native cultures and American Indian responses to those programs. Topics include t... |
| NATIVEAM12 | Muwekma Native Plants Garden Field Lab | This course will allow students interested in working with the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe to engage in Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) through (CEL) Community Engaged Learning. This CARDINAL COURSE draws from the knowledge and support prov... |
| NATIVEAM120 | Is Pocahontas a Myth? Native American Women in History | This course will look at notable Native American Women in Native American history starting with Native American oral tradition narratives about important women in specific tribal narratives including origin narratives used in Native American tribal... |
| NATIVEAM121 | Discourse of the Colonized: Native American and Indigenous Voices | Using the assigned texts covering the protest movements in the 20th century to the texts written from the perspective of the colonized at the end of the 20th century, students will engage in discussions on decolonization. Students will be encouraged... |
| NATIVEAM122 | Historiography & Native American Oral Traditions and Narratives | This course is an introduction to Native American Literature in the United States in a (post) colonial, or decolonized context (in the last seventy years). The readings focus on the complex social and political influences that have shaped Native Ame... |
| NATIVEAM123 | Food Sovereignty | Connections: Tribal Food Systems and Indigenous Food Sovereignty¿ will explore Indigenous food systems and implications on land, environment, community and Individual health of Indigenous peoples of North America, pre-contact to present, Indigenous r... |
| NATIVEAM126 | Mo'olelo Aloha Aina: Hawaiian Perspectives on Storytelling, Land, and Sovereignty | This course will introduce a wide variety of topics pertaining to the culture and history of the Hawaiian Islands and the aboriginal people of Hawai'i (k'naka maoli). Topics will range from Hawaiian perspectives on genealogies, Hawaiian conceptions o... |
| NATIVEAM132 | Decolonizing the American Indigenous Classroom | Using Indigenous and decolonizing perspectives on education, this interdisciplinary course will examine interaction and language in cross-cultural educational situations, including language, literacy and interethnic communication as they relate to In... |
| NATIVEAM134 | Museum Cultures: Material Representation in the Past and Present | Students will open the "black box" of museums to consider the past and present roles of institutional collections, culminating in a student-curated exhibition. Today, museums assert their relevance as dynamic spaces for debate and learning. Coloniali... |
| NATIVEAM16 | Native Americans in the 21st Century: Encounters, Identity, and Sovereignty in Contemporary America | What does it mean to be a Native American in the 21st century? Beyond traditional portrayals of military conquests, cultural collapse, and assimilation, the relationships between Native Americans and American society. Focus is on three themes leading... |
| NATIVEAM161 | Entrepreneurship for Social and Racial Equity | This course is designed for students of all backgrounds and provides an introduction to business ownership and an entrepreneurial mindset with a focus on operating businesses with racial equity as a core principle and/or within diverse communities wi... |
| NATIVEAM162 | Tribal Economic Development and Sustainability | Native Americans, Alaska Natives, Inuit and First Nations in Canada have experienced a revolution in economic development over the last 30 years. The course will examine different aspects of Indigenous economic development with a focus on case studie... |
| NATIVEAM17 | Indigenous Peacemaking: A Framework for Learning and Practice at Stanford | The course explores Indigenous Peacemaking as a framework to promote understanding, conflict resolution, and change on campus, and outside of the academy in tribal and other courts. Content will address issues of cultural appropriation and knowledge,... |
| NATIVEAM200R | Directed Research | No Description Set |
| NATIVEAM200W | Directed Reading | No Description Set |
| NATIVEAM221 | Crafting Challenging Conversations in a Conflicted World | In moments of divisive, time-sensitive conflict and disagreement, interdependent community groups that are we-us oriented often struggle to maintain cohesive relationships. In this interactive, project-based course, participants will dive into the ar... |
| NATIVEAM240 | Psychology and American Indian/Alaska Native Mental Health | Western medicine's definition of health as the absence of sickness, disease, or pathology; Native American cultures' definition of health as the beauty of physical, spiritual, emotional, and social things, and sickness as something out of balance. To... |
| NATIVEAM32SI | Sustainable Design and Practice in Native American Architecture | This lecture series highlights and celebrates Native American design practices, both in architectural design and in materials use. As practicing Indigenous architects and designers, the guest speakers aim to share how Indigineity and Nativeness influ... |
| NATIVEAM39 | Long Live Our 4Bil. Year Old Mother: Black Feminist Praxis, Indigenous Resistance, Queer Possibility | How can art facilitate a culture that values women, mothers, transfolks, caregivers, girls? How can black, indigenous, and people of color frameworks help us reckon with oppressive systems that threaten safety and survival for marginalized people and... |
| NATIVEAM50Q | Life and Death of Words | In this course, we explore the world of words: their creation, evolution, borrowing, change, and death. Words are the key to understanding the culture and ideas of a people, and by tracing the biographies of words we are able to discern how the world... |
| NATIVEAM57A | Cherokee Language Lab | This course is intended for students who have already completed First Year Cherokee and would like to continue their exposure, learning, and understanding of the language. |
| NATIVEAM5A | Muwekma House Seminar | No Description Set |
| NATIVEAM5B | Muwekma House Seminar | Second Quarter of Muwekma House Seminar. |