Courses

Learn more about the North American West while you are living in it! Stanford offers many courses with content related to the study of the North American West across a wide range of departments and programs.

Stanford Courses about the North American West
2008-09 Academic Year

Stanford offers many courses with content related to the study of land and life in North American West across a wide range of departments and programs.  The Bill Lane Center does not offer a major or minor in the study of the North American West, but its faculty can advise interested students in how to build a field of study around Western topics within and outside of their major department.  Independent research opportunities may also be available for qualified students. For more information, contact westcenter@stanford.edu.

• Autumn Quarter 2008
• Winter Quarter 2009
• Spring Quarter 2009
• Courses Offered in Future Years

Center Sponsored Courses

Each academic year, the Bill Lane Center sponsors courses to enrich Stanford's curriculum about the North American West.  These courses are taught by the Bill Lane Center's faculty and scholars or by faculty who receive course development support from the Center.  During the 2008-09 academic year, the following courses are sponsored by the Bill Lane Center:

Autumn Quarter 2007
ECON 21SC	Land and Water Policies in the West
HISTORY 201A	Spatial History
HISTORY 254	Popular Culture and American Nature
Winter Quarter 2008
HISTORY 243K	Endangered Species
Spring Quarter 2008
EARTHSYS 215	Free Trade, NAFTA, and the Environ.
FILM 220	Being John Wayne
HISTORY 163	A History of North American Wests

 

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