Students in Bing Overseas Studies Program’s global seminar in Oaxaca learned first hand how the area’s Indigenous communities work in concert with local ecosystems. “In your head, you think of a national park that’s far away from everybody. But a lot of times, biodiversity is in people’s neighborhoods.”
Stanford’s newly restructured undergraduate requirement program kindles students’ curiosity about ideas in the world, and also about themselves and each other.
100 years ago, Stanford’s first general education requirement was a course on citizenship
In 1923, Stanford introduced its first required class to its incoming frosh: Problems of Citizenship. The course was part of a series of changes that have shaped what undergraduate education at Stanford looks like today.
How to tackle the world’s biggest sustainability challenges
A spring-quarter course taught by Stanford professors William Barnett and Chris Field asked students to consider solutions to global predicaments. “This new generation will be known as the greatest generation ... they will be building sustainability into everything they do.”
With science fiction as inspiration, faculty encouraged students in the course "Imagining Adaptive Societies" to imagine a future where people thrive in a sustainable and equitable world.
Students build augmented reality experiences with devices from iPads for Learning program
The program explores how iPads can impact teaching, learning, and research and allowed journalism students to explore the intersection of extended reality and journalism.
‘Principled Entrepreneurial Decisions’ teaches students to develop their ethical compass
A Stanford engineering course shows students how relying on principles and values can guide them through difficult professional and personal situations.
More than 100 students from diverse backgrounds and fields of study were drawn to a fall class exploring the connection between the health of people and the environment, part of a wave of interest in classes about sustainability.
After taking the undergraduate class, Why College, Daniel Gaughran took a leave of absence from Stanford to extend the course’s goals of contemplation and self-discovery. He is now back at Stanford, energized and ready for whatever is next.
