Spring Quarter 2009

ANTHROPOLOGY 16. 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 to in-class moot court trials: colonial encounters and colonizing discourses; frontiers and boundaries; and sovereignty of self and nation. Topics include gender in native communities, American Indian law, readings by native authors, and Indians in film and popular culture. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-AmerCul
5 units, Spring (Wilcox, M)

ANTHROPOLOGY 103/203. The Archaeology of Modern Urbanism
Seminar. Urbanism as a defining feature of modern life. The perspective of archaeology on the history and development of urban cultures. Case studies are from around the globe; emphasis is on the San Francisco Bay Area megalopolis. Cities as cultural sites where economic, ethnic, and sexual differences are produced and transformed; spatial, material, and consumption practices; and the archaeology of communities and neighborhoods. GER:DB-SocSci
5 units, Spr (Voss, B)

ANTHROPOLOGY 165. Parks and Peoples: The Benefits and Costs of Protected Area Conservation
Seminar. Emphasis is on the social impact of parks and reserves. Integrated conservation and development projects (ICDPs) based on protected areas; alternative ways to derive local social benefits from them. Cases include Yellowstone, Manu, Galápagos, Ngorongoro, and Guanacaste.
5 units, Spring (Durham, W)

ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES 173S. Transcultural and Multiethnic Lives: Contexts, Controversies, and Challenges
(Same as CSRE 173S.) Lived experience of people who dwell in the border world of race and nation where they negotiate transcultural and multiethnic identities and politics. Comparative, historical, and global contexts such as family and class. Controversies, such as representations of mixed race people in media and multicultural communities. What the lives of people like Tiger Woods and Barack Obama reveal about how the marginal is becoming mainstream.
5 units, Spring (Staff)

CHICANO STUDIES 122. Introduction to Latina Literature
(Same as CSRE 122.) Interdisciplinary. Intracultural differences amongst Latinas such as around immigration. Themes include gender, sexuality, identity, language politics, transnationalism, socioeonomic status, and the notion of homeland and its loss and reclamation.
3-5 units, Spring (Staff)

COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN RACE AND ETHNICITY 122. Introduction to Latina Literature
See CHICANO STUDIES 122.

COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN RACE AND ETHNICITY 173S. Transcultural and Multiethnic Lives: Contexts, Controversies, and Challenges
See ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES 173S.

EARTH, ENERGY, AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES 46N. Exploring the Critical Interface between the Land and Monterey Bay: Elkhorn Slough
(Freshman Seminar) Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to freshmen. Field trips to sites in the Elkhorn Slough, a small agriculturally impacted estuary that opens into Monterey Bay, a model ecosystem for understanding the complexity of estuaries, and one of California's last remaining coastal wetlands. Readings include Jane Caffrey's Changes in a California Estuary: A Profile of Elkhorn Slough. Basics of biogeochemistry, microbiology, oceanography, ecology, pollution, and environmental management.
3 units, Spring (Francis, C)

EARTH SYSTEMS 113. Earthquakes and Volcanoes
(Same as GEOPHYS 113.) Earthquake location, magnitude and intensity scales, seismic waves, styles of eruptions and volcanic hazards, tsunami waves, types and global distribution of volcanoes, volcano forecasting. Plate tectonics as a framework for understanding earthquake and volcanic processes. Forecasting; earthquake resistant design; building codes; and probabilistic hazard assessment. For non-majors and potential earth scientists. GER:DB-EngrAppSci
3 units, Spring (Beroza, G; Segall, P)

EARTH SYSTEMS 180B. Local Sustainable Agriculture
Field-based training in ecologically sound agricultural practices at the Stanford Community Farm; guest lectures from Bay Area farmers, agricultural educators, and food policy advocates; and a field trip to an educational farm. Weekly fieldwork led by an instructor with extensive organic farming experience. Topics include bed preparation, starting seedlings, composting, irrigation techniques, and harvesting methods. May be repeated for credit.
1 unit, Spring (Staff)

EARTH SYSTEMS 215. Free Trade, NAFTA, and the Environment
New forms of environmental governance stipulated within NAFTA policy. Topics include: theories of free trade, economic liberalization, and transnational environmental governance; green technology transfers; agricultural and industrial economies and implications for workers; transboundary conservation, water, and air quality issues in the North American west.
4-5 units, Spring (Simon, G)

EDUCATION 178X. Latino Families, Languages, and Schools
The challenges facing schools to establish school-family partnerships with newly arrived Latino immigrant parents. How language acts as a barrier to home-school communication and parent participation. Current models of parent-school collaboration and the ideology of parental involvement in schooling. (SSPEP) (Valdés)
3-5 units, Spring (Valdes, G)

FILM STUDIES 220. Being John Wayne
John Wayne's imposing corporeality and easy comportment combined to create an icon of masculinity, the American West, and America itself. Focus is on the films that contributed most to the establishment, maturation, and deconstruction of the iconography and mythology of the John Wayne character. The western and war film as genres; the crisis of and performance of masculinity in postwar culture; gender and sexuality in American national identity; relations among individualism, community, and the state; the Western and national memory; and patriotism and the Vietnam War.
5 units, Spring (Bukatman, S)

GEOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES 7C. Advanced Wilderness Skills
For students with prior backcountry experience. Backcountry skiing, mountaineering, climbing, first aid, and trip planning. Focus is on outdoor leadership experience and trip management techniques. Food, group, and major personal gear provided. Four mandatory weekend trips. Fee. See http://www.stanford.edu/class/ges7/ for information or contact oep-teachers@lists.stanford.edu. Prerequisite: application.
1 unit, Spring (Bird, D)

GEOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES 185. Volcanology
For juniors, seniors, and beginning graduate students in Earth Sciences and Archaeology. How volcanic landforms and deposits relate to the composition and physical properties of magmas and the modes of emplacement. Labs emphasize recognizing types of lavas and products of explosive eruptions. Volcanic hazards and the effects of eruptions on climate and the atmosphere; volcanic-hosted geothermal systems and mineral resources. Required four-day field trip over Memorial Day weekend to study silicic and mafic volcanism associated with the western margin of the Basin and Range province. Prerequisite: 1, 102 or equivalent. GER: DB-NatSci
3-4 units, Spring (Mahood, G), alternate years, not given next year

GEOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES 284. Field Seminar on Eastern Sierran Volcanism
For graduate students in the earth sciences and archaeology. Four-day trip over Memorial Day weekend to study silicic and mafic volcanism associated with the western margin of the Basin and Range province: basaltic lavas and cinder cones erupted along normal faults bounding Owens Valley, Long Valley caldera, postcaldera rhyolite lavas, hydrothermal alteration and hot springs, Holocene rhyolite lavas of the Inyo and Mono craters, volcanism of the Mono Basin with subaqueous basaltic eruptions, floating pumice blocks, and cryptodomes punching up lake sediments. If snow-level permits, silicic volcanism associated with the Bodie gold district. Prerequisite: 1, 102 or equivalent.
1 unit, Spring (Mahood, G)

GEOPHYSICS 113. Earthquakes and Volcanoes
See EARTH SYSTEMS 113.

HISTORY 163. A History of North American Wests
The history, peoples, and natural systems of a region that has never been contained within a single empire or nation state, but has been united by the movement of peoples, species, and things. Topics include smallpox, horses, gold, salmon, rivers, coal, and oil. GER:DB-SocSci, WIM
5 units, Spring (White, R)

PUBLIC POLICY 156. Health Care Policy and Reform
Competing health care reform proposals at the state and local levels. Focus is on California including proposals for expanding coverage for children, a single payer system, employer and individual mandates. Recent proposals in other states including Massachusetts, Maine, and Vermont; their relation to national efforts. Attention to local reform efforts, including in San Francisco. Prospects for future policy.
5 units, Spring (Nation, J)

SOCIOLOGY 139/239. American Indians in Contemporary Society
The social position of American Indians in contemporary American society, 1890 to the present. The demographic resurgence of American Indians, changes in social and economic status, ethnic identification and political mobilization, and institutions such as tribal governments and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Recommended: 138 or a course in American history. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-AmerCul
5 units, Spring (Snipp, C)

SOCIOLOGY 164/264. Immigration and the Changing United States
The role of race and ethnicity in immigrant group integration in the U.S. Topics include: theories of integration; racial and ethnic identity formation; racial and ethnic change; immigration policy; intermarriage; hybrid racial and ethnic identities; comparisons between contemporary and historical waves of immigration. GER:DB-SocSci
5 units, Spring (Jimenez, T)

 

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