| GLOBAL101 | Critical Issues in Global Affairs | It is often stated that we live in a global age. What does this mean? How new is this phenomenon? What does it mean to think about the human experience from a global perspective? And, why does it matter? In this course, we will examine globalism... |
| GLOBAL102 | The Mamluks: Slave-Soldiers and Sultans of Medieval Egypt | Known as ghulam or mamluk in Arabic, the slave-soldier was a ubiquitous phenomenon in the world of medieval Islam. Usually pagan steppe nomads, mamluks were purchased in adolescence, converted to Islam, taught Arabic, and trained to lead armies. Some... |
| GLOBAL104 | Iranian Cuisine | Course offers an introductory look at Iranian cooking and cuisine. Through weekly themes and the preparation of dishes, students will learn about the history of Iranian cuisine, essential ingredients, and general cooking techniques. Guest chefs will... |
| GLOBAL108 | Islam in West Africa Beyond Decolonization | This course will survey the history of Islam and Muslim societies in West Africa through the beliefs, practices, writings, stories and poems of Sufi scholarly sages. The course will focus on the Islamic intellectual and spiritual tradition of West Af... |
| GLOBAL110 | Love in the Time of Cinema | Romantic coupling is at the heart of mainstream film narratives around the world. Through a range of film cultures, we will examine cinematic intimacies and our own mediated understandings of love and conjugality formed in dialog with film and other... |
| GLOBAL112 | Oceans and the Global Imaginary | This course brings together various social, climatic, and ecological perspectives to seek a better understanding of the relationships between people and the sea. Our oceans constitute some 70% of the surface area of our planet; they connect continent... |
| GLOBAL120 | Stories at the Border | How authors and filmmakers represent the process of border-making as a social experience? How do the genres in which they work shape our understandings of the issues themselves? We will explore several different genres of visual and textual represent... |
| GLOBAL124 | Global Algorithmic Development and Ethics | New generative models like ChatGPT have a unique impact on global AI development and deployment. Like other machine and deep learning models, they promise unprecedented potential for growth, education, improved quality of life, healthcare, and commun... |
| GLOBAL125 | Human Rights in an Age of Great Power Rivalry, War, and Political Transformation | As is well known, great and emerging power rivalries largely shaped the course of the 20th century through WWI, WWII, and the Cold War. In the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the 21st century been characterized by the geopolitical reco... |
| GLOBAL133 | The Medieval Middle East: Crusaders, Turks, and Mongols | This course surveys the history of the Middle East from c.950 A.D. to c.1517 A.D., placing particular emphasis on the following questions: What were the social, cultural, and political contexts for conversion to Islam in the Middle Ages? How did the... |
| GLOBAL134 | The Birth of Islam: Authority, Community, and Resistance | This course explores the historical problem of how authority and community (in both the political and religious sense) were defined and challenged in the early Islamic period. Chronological topics covered include: the political, cultural, and religi... |
| GLOBAL135 | Around the World in Ten Films | This is an introductory-level course about the cinema as a global language. We will undertake a comparative study of select historical and contemporary aspects of international cinema, and explore a range of themes pertaining to the social, cultural,... |
| GLOBAL137 | 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... |
| GLOBAL139 | History of Philosophy from Al-Kindi to Averroes | The rise of Islam saw a flourishing of philosophical and scientific activity across Islamic civilizations from Central Asia to Spain. Between the 7th to 13th centuries, many of the major philosophers in the history of philosophy lived in the Muslim w... |
| GLOBAL142 | The Global Middle Ages | This course focuses on the historical interconnectedness of pre-modern cultures, necessarily decentering Europe to explore cultural exchange across the world, including the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and the Americas, in the period 600-1600 CE. Provi... |
| GLOBAL145 | 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... |
| GLOBAL150N | Climate Change and Mental Health | The impact of climate change is far-reaching, extending beyond immediate and imminent ecological effects and into a range of human experiences, including physical and mental disease. This course uses an interdisciplinary approach to consider the inte... |
| GLOBAL157 | 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... |
| GLOBAL190 | Peace and War in Medieval Islam: From the Arab Conquests to the Crusades | This course interrogates the theory and reality of war-making and peacemaking across the first millennium of Islamic history (c.600-c.1600 CE). We will examine major historical events (e.g. the struggle of the early community of Muslims against the p... |
| GLOBAL191 | Undergraduate Directed Reading | Independent studies for undergraduate students under the direction of a faculty member for which academic credit may properly be allowed. May be repeated for credit. |
| GLOBAL193 | 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... |
| GLOBAL194 | Understanding China's Rise | This course is an overview China's national trajectory since the 1980s, and will place its historic economic advance in comparative perspective. We will examine the factors that made this advance possible, explore the ways that China's political and... |
| GLOBAL199 | Capstone Project: Global Studies Minor | Students completing a capstone project for the Global Studies Minor must enroll in this course for units (1-5) with their capstone advisor selected as the instructor. The course may be repeated for credit, with advisor approval. Students are expected... |
| GLOBAL200 | Utopia, Dystopia, and Technology in Science Fiction: A Cross-Cultural Perspective | This course explores how science fiction (sf) narratives from East and West imagine the future of humanity and human-nature relations. The blind faith in technoscientific power has aggravated class disparity, eroded the social fabric, and undermined... |
| GLOBAL210 | The Mamluks: Slave-Soldiers and Sultans of Medieval Egypt | Known as ghulam or mamluk in Arabic, the slave-soldier was a ubiquitous phenomenon in the world of medieval Islam. Usually pagan steppe nomads, mamluks were purchased in adolescence, converted to Islam, taught Arabic, and trained to lead armies. Some... |
| GLOBAL211 | Love in the Time of Cinema | Romantic coupling is at the heart of mainstream film narratives around the world. Through a range of film cultures, we will examine cinematic intimacies and our own mediated understandings of love and conjugality formed in dialog with film and other... |
| GLOBAL225 | Human Rights in an Age of Great Power Rivalry, War, and Political Transformation | As is well known, great and emerging power rivalries largely shaped the course of the 20th century through WWI, WWII, and the Cold War. In the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the 21st century been characterized by the geopolitical reco... |
| GLOBAL232 | Peace and War in Medieval Islam: From the Arab Conquests to the Crusades | This course interrogates the theory and reality of war-making and peacemaking across the first millennium of Islamic history (c.600-c.1600 CE). We will examine major historical events (e.g. the struggle of the early community of Muslims against the p... |
| GLOBAL233 | The Medieval Middle East: Crusaders, Turks, and Mongols | This course surveys the history of the Middle East from c.950 A.D. to c.1517 A.D., placing particular emphasis on the following questions: What were the social, cultural, and political contexts for conversion to Islam in the Middle Ages? How did the... |
| GLOBAL234 | The Birth of Islam: Authority, Community, and Resistance | This course explores the historical problem of how authority and community (in both the political and religious sense) were defined and challenged in the early Islamic period. Chronological topics covered include: the political, cultural, and religi... |
| GLOBAL249A | The Iranian Cinema: Image and Meaning | This course will focus on the analysis of ten Iranian films with the view of placing them in discourse on the semiotics of Iranian art and culture. The course will also look at the influence of a wide array of cinematic traditions from European, Ame... |
| GLOBAL249B | Iranian Cinema in Diaspora | Despite enormous obstacles, immigrant Iranian filmmakers, within a few decades (after the Iranian Revolution), have created a slow but steady stream of films outside Iran. They were originally started by individual spontaneous attempts from different... |
| GLOBAL249C | Contemporary Iranian Theater | Today, Iranian plays both in traditional and contemporary styles are staged in theater festivals throughout the world and play their role in forming a universal language of theater which combine the heritages from countries in all five continents. De... |
| GLOBAL308 | Islam in West Africa Beyond Decolonization | This course will survey the history of Islam and Muslim societies in West Africa through the beliefs, practices, writings, stories and poems of Sufi scholarly sages. The course will focus on the Islamic intellectual and spiritual tradition of West Af... |
| GLOBAL34Q | Nationalism | Nationalist platforms have been on the rise for years across the globe. The success of nationalist parties and candidates is often accompanied by backlash against outgroups, from immigrants to religious and ethnic minorities. Nationalism often leads... |
| GLOBAL390 | 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... |
| GLOBAL391 | Graduate Directed Reading | Independent studies for graduate students under the direction of a faculty member for which academic credit may properly be allowed. May be repeat for credit |
| GLOBAL50 | At Home Abroad Seminar: International Film Series | The At Home Abroad House invites you to challenge your habits of visual culture, fill your ears with less-familiar sounds, and build your own understanding of what it means to live in a global age. Stanford experts from a multitude of cultural discip... |
| GLOBAL50B | At Home Abroad Seminar: The Global Creativity Lab | The At Home Abroad House invites you to challenge the way you usually learn by trying out art forms and creative problem-solving strategies from around the world and building your own understanding of what it means to live in a global age. This once-... |
| GLOBAL50C | At Home Abroad Seminar: Global Gastronomies and Multicultural Cooking Class | Global Gastronomies and Multicultural Cooking Class, organized by the At Home Abroad (AHA) House. Meets in Bollard Suites Teaching Kitchen. Course fees are $90 per student; open to undergraduate students only. |
| HUMRTS101 | Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Human Rights Theory and Practice | This course will introduce students to the philosophical and historical foundations for the modern concept of human rights, as well as the international and domestic legal frameworks currently in force to protect and promote these rights. Students wi... |
| HUMRTS103 | Transitional Justice, Human Rights, and International Criminal Tribunals | (Formerly IPS 280) Historical backdrop of the Nuremberg and Tokyo Tribunals. The creation and operation of the Yugoslav and Rwanda Tribunals (ICTY and ICTR). The development of hybrid tribunals in East Timor, Sierra Leone, and Cambodia, including e... |
| HUMRTS106 | Human Rights in Comparative and Historical Perspective | The course examines core human rights concepts and issues as they arise in a variety of contexts ranging from the ancient world to today. These issues include slavery, human trafficking, gender based violence, discrimination against marginalized grou... |
| HUMRTS108 | Advanced Spanish Service-Learning: Migration, Asylum, and Human Rights at the Border | This community engaged learning workshop is open only to students who are concurrently enrolled in SPANLANG 108SL. Through the HUMRTS 108 units, students will have the opportunity to apply their advanced Spanish language skills and knowledge of the U... |
| HUMRTS109 | Slavery, human trafficking, and the moral order: ancient and modern | Slavery and trafficking in persons in the Greco-Roman world were legal and ubiquitous; today slavery is illegal in most states and regarded as a grave violation of human rights and as a crime against humanity under international law. In recent trend... |
| HUMRTS112 | 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... |
| HUMRTS114 | Human Rights Practice and Challenges in Southeast Asia: Issues, fieldwork, career paths | This course aims to address student interest in the practice of human rights both from the individual perspective, particularly regarding a variety of professional career paths, as well as from institutional perspectives. Courses that focus on partic... |
| HUMRTS115 | Corporations, Human Rights, and Social Responsibility | Large corporations now routinely spend millions of dollars to protect human rights and the environment. Shell Nigeria builds hospitals and schools in the Niger Delta. Nike employs hundreds of inspectors to improve conditions for the factory workers w... |
| HUMRTS117 | International Human Rights | (LAW 5010) In part as a result of the rise of international human rights mechanisms in the twentieth century, conflicts over resources, privileges and power are now increasingly mediated through the lens of human rights, in terms of the protection o... |
| HUMRTS120 | Human Rights in an Age of Great Power Rivalry, War, and Political Transformation | As is well known, great and emerging power rivalries largely shaped the course of the 20th century through WWI, WWII, and the Cold War. In the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the 21st century been characterized by the geopolitical reco... |
| HUMRTS121 | The Haitian Revolution: Slavery, Freedom, and the Atlantic World | How did the French colony of Saint-Domingue become Haiti, the world's first Black-led republic? What did Haiti symbolize for the African diaspora and the Americas at large? What sources and methods do scholars use to understand this history? To answe... |
| HUMRTS122 | Global Human Rights and Local Practices | The course examines how the international community has fared in promoting and protecting human rights in the world, with an emphasis on the role of the United Nations. The course will begin with an overview of debates about the state of the internat... |
| HUMRTS123 | Current Issues in Southeast Asia | Current Issues in Southeast Asia (INTLPOL 226) is a seminar that will examine some of the key challenges facing the nations of Southeast Asia, which collectively boast the world's fifth largest economy and are home to some 680 million people. After... |
| HUMRTS194A | Environmental Justice Colloquium | This colloquium brings the voices and vision of leading Environmental Justice (EJ) advocates to the Stanford community, in order to educate, inspire, and transform our understanding of environmental science. Environmental Justice advances a positive... |
| HUMRTS196 | Environmental Justice and Human Rights Lab | The Environmental Justice and Human Rights Lab is an intellectual hub and supportive learning community for students engaging in environmental justice and human rights work of any kind. Environmental justice (EJ) advances a positive vision for polici... |
| HUMRTS197 | Human Rights Careers Intensive | This weekly seminar aimed at juniors, seniors, and graduate students, to support practical exploration of human rights careers. Students will meet alumni and other human rights professionals working in a variety of sectors, and get job-search ready.... |
| HUMRTS198 | Independent Study or Directed Reading in Human Rights | May be repeated for credit. Students using these units toward the Minor in Human Rights must take for a letter grade. Department consent is required for enrollment. Please contact denisefz@stanford.edu indicating your plan and demonstrating agreement... |
| HUMRTS199 | Capstone Project: Human Rights Minor | Students completing a required capstone project for the Minor in Human Rights must enroll in this course for units with their capstone adviser selected as the instructor. Students must agree with their capstone advisor how many units (3-5) their pro... |
| HUMRTS6W | Community-Engaged Learning Workshop on Human Trafficking - Part I | Considers purpose, practice, and ethics of service learning. Provides training for students' work in community. Examines current scope of human trafficking in Bay Area, pressing concerns, capacity and obstacles to effectively address them. Student... |
| HUMRTS7W | Community-Engaged Learning Workshop on Human Trafficking - Part II | Prerequisite: HISTORY6W (FEMGEN 6W). Continuation of HISTORY 6W (FEMGEN 6W). Students will continue working on their projects with their community partners. Several class meetings and small group consultations throughout the quarter. (Cardinal Co... |