Overseas Seminars

These three-week, faculty-led seminars are offered prior to the beginning of Autumn Quarter. Locations are announced in December and applications are taken in January for the following academic year.

OSPGEN 80. Changing Face of the World: Cultural, Scientific, Medical and Social Aspects of Craniofacial Biology

Field trips to London's Darwin Center to examine his work on the evolution of facial architecture, and Guy's Hospital and museum. Students work with Changing Faces, a charity seeking to change views of disfigurement. Field trips to Paris' cranialfacial biologist Nicole Le Douarin and her institute, and to museums to examine artists' views of the face. Facial transplants and ethical considerations.

2 units, Aut (Helms, J)

OSPGEN 81. Shakespeare and Friends: Adventures in England's Theater Scene

Immersion in England's theater scene. Students attend shows in London and Stratford. Under the guidance of Nona Shepphard of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, students produce a short excerpt from a Shakespeare play for performance at the end of the seminar.

2 units, Aut (Friedlander, L)

OSPGEN 82. Education, Health Care, and Development in Emerging China

Current status of education and health care systems in China. Contrast education and health care systems prior to recent reforms with those of today. Major problems and ongoing solutions put forth by the central government. Field trips to rural and urban educational and health institutions; local guest speakers; interaction with students at Renmin University in Beijing. Students work in groups to propose reforms of China's education and health care delivery systems.

2 units, Aut (Rozelle, S; Atlas, S)

OSPGEN 83. Gandhi and His Legacy: Nonviolence in India, the U.S., and the World

Gandhi's life, thought, and legacy in settings where he lived and struggled, including the sites of his assassination and cremation, Sevagram Ashram, Gandhi's home base for twelve years, and Kolkata, site of one of his fasts. Connections between Gandhi and Martin Luther King. Guest speakers include academics and social activists, and may include his grandson, Gopalkrishna Gandhi.

2 units, Aut (Carson, C; Hess, L)

OSPGEN 84. Natural History and Behavioral and Evolutionary Ecology

Natural history, biodiversity, and ecology of a species-rich tropical dry forest in Western Mexico. Focus on plant/insect interactions, as representing the architecture of biodiversity.Questions in ecology, evolution, behavior, and conservation biology, in this ecosystem. Students work at the Chamela Tropical Research Station, a fully-equipped field research facility administered by the National University of Mexico (UNAM). Hands-on research experience and methods of scientific research.

2 units, Aut (Gordon, D; Dirzo, R)

OSPGEN 85. Project Finance, Urban Development, and Construction in the Middle East

Conditions and processes for the sustainable development of Doha and Qatar. Topics include: history and economy; existing and planned infrastructure, and its sustainable development and operation; ongoing commercial and institutional developments; 4D modeling; scoping, phasing, and analysis of development projects; regional competitiveness analysis; development risk identification and assessment; assessment of social, political, and financial sustainability. Small groups develop a proposal, plan, and presentation for the development of a large-scale project.

2 units, Aut (Fischer, M; Orr, R)

OSPGEN 86. St. Petersburg and Beyond

Unique role of St. Petersburg in Russian cultural history. History, architecture, art, city planning, literature, music, ballet, and politics. Prerequisite: ARTHIST 107A.

2 units, Aut (Kollmann, N; Kollmann, J)

OSPGEN 87. Thailand: Education, Development, and Globalization

Instructors team with the faculties of Education, Engineering, and Science at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. Visits to other educational institutions, offices of international organizations, and historical sites in Bangkok, and schools and rural villages outside of the capital.

2 units, Aut (Antonio, A; Wotipka, C)

OSPGEN 88. The Bloomsbury Group

The 20th-century literary and intellectual concentration of individuals in Britain. Readings include Virginia Woolf and E.M. Forster. Students select a member of the group for individual concentration. Meetings in King's College, Cambridge, where the Bloomsbury Group originated, with visits to sites associated with the group in London and Sussex.

2 units, Aut (Stansky, P)

OSPGEN 89. Tibetan Buddhism in Bhutan and Gross National Happiness

Function of Buddhism in the social, political, and economic development of the Kingdom of Bhutan; the national development theory, Gross National Happiness, and its roots in Buddhism.

2 units, Aut (Mancall, M; Watkins, G)

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Stanford Bulletin, Archive 2008-09

Stanford Bulletin, Archive 2008-09

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