SoCo 2022 Courses
SoCo seminars provide an intensive and immersive learning experience, including field trips and activities outside class to engage in experiential learning, when faculty may choose to use evenings and weekends. Classes have 10-14 students. Check out the SoCo Calendar to see how SoCo fits into your sophomore summer.
An Exploration of Art Materials: The Intersection of Art and Science
Learn how egg yolks turn into paint you can use, from an artist and an engineer together.
Classical California
How many ways do ancient Greece and Rome still show up in our lives today?
Deliberative Democracy: Deliberating the Issues that Divide Us and Beyond
Examine the state of polarization in American democracy and study the method of Deliberative Polling in theory and practice.
Desert Biogeography of Joshua Tree National Park
What happens to the ecosystem when two deserts collide?
Dream It, Build It!
The world is filled with electronic devices! Wouldn’t it be cool to hack and build stuff? Bend electronics to your will? Cloud connect your own stuff?
Energy in Hawaii: Forefront of Clean Energy Technology and Policy
Explore practical, social, technical, and political issues surrounding energy production and use in Hawaii.
Evolution and Conservation in Galápagos
The tiny remote islands of Galápagos have played a central role in the study of evolution. Not surprisingly, they have also been important to theory and practice in biodiversity conservation.
Guaranteed Income: A Bold Experiment to Reduce Inequality
California is pioneering experiments in universal basic income—join the journey!
LGBT History and Culture in the Bay Area
Study the evolution of queer culture in one of its most important birthplaces.
Learning Theater: From Audience to Critic at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival
From the audience seats to backstage, immerse yourself in theater right at the heart of it.
Needs Finding in Healthcare
What does a patient in the healthcare system really need to make the experience better?
Policing and Violence in Latin America: Historical Origins and Contemporary Challenges
Why is it so difficult for countries to build a police force that is professional, effective, and respects human rights?
Natural History, Marine Biology, and Research
Zen and the art of marine biology.
Remix | Writing and Reading the DJ
Learn why sampling and remixing is today's unique artform—and learn to remix on a turntable.
Spanish Immersion | From the Field to our Table: History and work of the migrant farm-worker community in Pescadero
Learn to dream in Spanish, and work closely with the Spanish-speaking community in the Bay Area.
The Cult of Happiness: Pursuing the Good Life in America and China
What does it mean to YOU to be happy?
The Face of Battle
Travel to DC and Montana to walk the fields of Gettysburg and Little Bighorn, and recapture what it was like to be there.
Who Belongs at Stanford? Discussions of a Different Sort of Education
What happens when “diverse” populations are recruited to places like Stanford, and then asked to constrain or reshape their diversity for the sake of belonging?
Units and Grading Basis?
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