Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity Department Courses

Code	Name	Description
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...
ASNAMST139	Refugees, Race and the Greco-Roman World	Who is a refugee and who gets to decide? How does race impact who is welcomed into a new community and who is turned away? And what does the Greco-Roman world have to do this? This course will explore these questions by surveying different forms of f...
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...
CHILATST129	Race, Indigeneity, and Cultural Heritage in Latin America	This course introduces students to the anthropological study of social difference and inequality in contemporary Latin America. It focuses on the intersections of race, Indigeneity, and cultural heritage. Since European contact, race has been a key c...
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	Ingl¿s 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...
CSRE129A	Race, Indigeneity, and Cultural Heritage in Latin America	This course introduces students to the anthropological study of social difference and inequality in contemporary Latin America. It focuses on the intersections of race, Indigeneity, and cultural heritage. Since European contact, race has been a key c...
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 whi...
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...
CSRE139	Refugees, Race and the Greco-Roman World	Who is a refugee and who gets to decide? How does race impact who is welcomed into a new community and who is turned away? And what does the Greco-Roman world have to do this? This course will explore these questions by surveying different forms of f...
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	Ingl¿s 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...
CSRE180A	Foundations of Social Research	Formulating a research question, developing hypotheses, probability and non-probability sampling, developing valid and reliable measures, qualitative and quantitative data, choosing research design and data collection methods, challenges of making ca...
CSRE180B	Introduction to Data Analysis	Preference to sociology majors, minors, and co-terms. To enroll, students must contact Sonia Chan (schan23@stanford.edu) for a permission number. Methods for analyzing and evaluating quantitative data in sociological research. Students will be taught...
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...
CSRE1T	Introduction to Science, Technology & Society	The course introduces students to critical perspectives on the history, social context, epistemology, and ethics of science, technology, and medicine. The goal of the course is to learn about major concepts and methods from science & technology studi...
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...
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...
CSRE85B	Jews in the Contemporary World: Culture, Pop Culture, and Representation	(HISTORY 85B is 3 units; HISTORY 185B is 5 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...
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...
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	Muwekma House Seminar
NATIVEAM5B	Muwekma House Seminar	Second Quarter of Muwekma House Seminar.

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...

ASNAMST139

Refugees, Race and the Greco-Roman World

Who is a refugee and who gets to decide? How does race impact who is welcomed into a new community and who is turned away? And what does the Greco-Roman world have to do this? This course will explore these questions by surveying different forms of f...

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...

CHILATST129

Race, Indigeneity, and Cultural Heritage in Latin America

This course introduces students to the anthropological study of social difference and inequality in contemporary Latin America. It focuses on the intersections of race, Indigeneity, and cultural heritage. Since European contact, race has been a key c...

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

Ingl¿s 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...

CSRE129A

Race, Indigeneity, and Cultural Heritage in Latin America

This course introduces students to the anthropological study of social difference and inequality in contemporary Latin America. It focuses on the intersections of race, Indigeneity, and cultural heritage. Since European contact, race has been a key c...

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 whi...

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...

CSRE139

Refugees, Race and the Greco-Roman World

Who is a refugee and who gets to decide? How does race impact who is welcomed into a new community and who is turned away? And what does the Greco-Roman world have to do this? This course will explore these questions by surveying different forms of f...

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

Ingl¿s 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...

CSRE180A

Foundations of Social Research

Formulating a research question, developing hypotheses, probability and non-probability sampling, developing valid and reliable measures, qualitative and quantitative data, choosing research design and data collection methods, challenges of making ca...

CSRE180B

Introduction to Data Analysis

Preference to sociology majors, minors, and co-terms. To enroll, students must contact Sonia Chan (schan23@stanford.edu) for a permission number. Methods for analyzing and evaluating quantitative data in sociological research. Students will be taught...

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...

CSRE1T

Introduction to Science, Technology & Society

The course introduces students to critical perspectives on the history, social context, epistemology, and ethics of science, technology, and medicine. The goal of the course is to learn about major concepts and methods from science & technology studi...

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

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CSRE200W

Directed Reading

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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...

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...

CSRE85B

Jews in the Contemporary World: Culture, Pop Culture, and Representation

(HISTORY 85B is 3 units; HISTORY 185B is 5 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...

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

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NATIVEAM200W

Directed Reading

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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...

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

NATIVEAM5B

Muwekma House Seminar

Second Quarter of Muwekma House Seminar.

Department: Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity