SoCo 2025 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.
SoCo runs from Sept 1 to Sept 19. Check out the SoCo Calendar to see how SoCo fits into your summer, and apply by April 15.
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.
Artificial Intelligence and Deliberative Democracy
Can AI support and enhance the democratic process? Collaborate with Stanford's Crowdsourced Democracy Team and the Deliberative Democracy Lab to examine the possibilities and challenges.
Black Mirror: AI, Art, Social Action
Freaked out, excited, overwhelmed or even secretly a little bored with all the breathless hype and handwringing over artificial intelligence? Take a playful but serious look at AI in terms of your own life, studies, and eventually career.
Classical California
How many ways do ancient Greece and Rome still show up in our lives today?
Climate Resilience and Energy in Hawaii
Travel to Hawaii to explore the practical, social, technical, and political challenges surrounding climate resilience and energy on the islands.
Discover Monterey Bay through Oceanography, Ecology, and Literature
Study spawning squid and feeding whales while spending some time aboard the newly renovated research ship—Steinbeck's the Western Flyer!
Evolution and Conservation in Galápagos
Embark on an expeditionary ship in Galápagos to discover lessons learned from Darwin's time to the present, while exploring evolution, conservation, and their connection among the habitats and organisms of Galápagos.
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.
LGBT History and Culture in the Bay Area
Study the evolution of queer culture in one of its most important birthplaces.
Needs Finding in Healthcare
What does a patient in the healthcare system really need to make the experience better?
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
Learn to dream in Spanish while exploring the Spanish-speaking community in the Bay Area.
The Uncertain Future of Humanity
Will humans survive the next ten thousand years?
Units and Grading Basis?
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