AREA OF EMPHASIS COURSE LIST - 2006/2007

This is not necessarily a complete list; it is designed to stimulate your thinking as you craft your own Area of Concentration. If you would like to recommend or subtract a course, please contact Student Services (cacciari@stanford.edu) - your feeback is very welcome. Be sure to check if and when the courses you choose for your Area of Concentration are offered (in the current Stanford Bulletin).

AREA1

ENVIRONMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY


HUMBIO

111X


Coral Reef Ecosystems


HUMBIO

112


Conservation Biology


HUMBIO

112X


Coastal Resource Management


HUMBIO

113X


Coastal Forest Ecosystems


HUMBIO

114


Environmental Change and Emerging Infectious Diseases


HUMBIO

116


Controlling Climate Change in the 21st Century


HUMBIO

117


Human Behavioral Ecology


HUMBIO

118


Ecological Anthropology


HUMBIO

119


Demography: Health, Development, Environment

EXTRA-DEPARTMENTAL OFFERINGS



ANTHSCI

169


Conservation and Evolutionary Ecology






OUTSIDE HUM BIO




ANTHSCI

166A


Indigenous Forest Management


ANTHSCI

167C


Managing the Commons: Evolving Theories for Sustainable Resource Use


BIOHOPK

163H


Oceanic Biology


BIOHOPK

164H


Marine Botany


BIOHOPK

166H


Molecular Ecology


BIOHOPK

172H


Marine Ecology


BIOHOPK

179H


Subtidal Communities


BIOHOPK

182H


Stanford at Sea


BIOSCI

101


Ecology


BIOSCI

121


Biogeography


BIOSCI

125


Ecosystems of California


BIOSCI

145


Behavioral Ecology


BIOSCI

164


Biosphere - Atmosphere Interactions


BIOSCI

175


Tropical Ecology and Conservation


BIOSCI

206


Field Studies in Earth Systems


CEE

115


Goals and Methods of Sustainable Building Projects


CEE

142A


Sustainable Development


CEE

175A


California Coast: Science, Policy, and Law


EARTHSYS

103


Energy Resources


EARTHSYS

104


The Watercourse


EARTHSYS

108


Coastal Wetlands


EARTHSYS

111


Biology and Global Change


EARTHSYS

124


Environmental Justice


EARTHSYS

180


Fundamentals of Sustainable Agriculture


ECON

106


World Food Economy


ECON

118


Development Economics


ECON

122


Economic Development in Latin America


ECON

155


Environmental Economics and Policy


GES

138


Urbanization, Global Change and Sustainability


GES

142


Remote Sensing of Land Use and Land Cover


GES

145


Energy Flow and Policy: The Pacific Rim


HIST

153


American Environmental History from Pre-Columbian America to Today's World


HIST

252G


Environmental History of Urban America


HIST

254


Popular Culture and American Nature


HIST

268F


US National Parks: History, Policy, and Context


HIST

269H


Burgers, Fries, and Fruit Pies: How the West Fed America


INTNLREL

131


Globalization and Organizations


LAW

280


Toxic Harms


LAW

282


Environmental Ethics


LAW

338


Land Use


MS&E

152


Introduction to Decision Analysis


MS&E

153


Introduction to Decision Making in Organizations


MS&E

243


Energy and Environmental Policy Analysis


MS&E

294


Climate Policy Analysis


POLISCI

123


Politics and Public Policy


STS

114


Technology, Ecology, and the Imagination of the Future





ALSO SEE: HUMBIO 165 (AREA6), CASA 185 (AREA7).






AREA2

HEALTH


HUMBIO

120


Health Care in America: The Organizations and Institutions that Shape the Health Care System


HUMBIO

120A


American Health Policy


HUMBIO

120W


Seminar in Federal Health and Environment Programs and Agencies


HUMBIO

120X


Health Systems and Health Insurance: France and the U.S., a Comparison across Space and Time


HUMBIO

121


Economics of Health Improvement in Developing Countries


HUMBIO

122


International Health Policy: Comparative National Health Care Systems


HUMBIO

122X


Comparative Health Care Systems: UK and U.S.


HUMBIO

123


Obesity in America: Clinical and Public Health Implications


HUMBIO

124


Fat Nutrition and Current Health Concerns


HUMBIO

125


Current Topics and Controversies in Women's Health


HUMBIO

126


Promoting Health Over the Life Course: Multidisciplinary Perspectives


HUMBIO

127A


Community Health: Assessment and Planning I


HUMBIO

127B


Community Health: Assessment and Planning II

HUMBIO

127S


Work, Stress, and Health


HUMBIO

128


Community Health Psychology


HUMBIO

128X


Public Health and Primary Health Care in a Changing Community Context


HUMBIO

129S


International Health


HUMBIO

129


Critical Issues in International Women's Health

EXTRA-DEPARTMENTAL OFFERINGS



SOC

141A


Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, Health






OUTSIDE HUM BIO



ECON

126


Economics of Health and Medical Care


ECON

150


Economic Policy Analysis


FEMST

260


Seminar in Women's Health: Women and Disabilities


HIST

245E


Health and Society in Africa


INDE

244


Ethnicity and Medicine


INDE

253


Rural Medicine with an International Perspective


MS&E

292


Health Policy Modeling


PSYCH

102


Longevity


PUBLPOL

104


Economic Policy Analysis


PUBLPOL

231


Political Economy of Health Care in the Unites States





ALSO SEE: HUMBIO 119 (AREA1), HUMBIO 149 (AREA4), HUMBIO 157 (AREA5), HUMBIO 165 (AREA6), POLISCI 123 (AREA1), CASA 174, FEMST 244, HIST 243G, MS&E 197 (AREA7).






AREA 3

HUMAN PERFORMANCE


HUMBIO

130


Human Nutrition


HUMBIO

132


Functional Anatomy of Exercise


HUMBIO

133


Human Physiology


HUMBIO

135


Exercise Physiology


HUMBIO

135S


Applied Topics in Exercise Physiology and Metabolism


HUMBIO

136


Neural Basis of Human Movement


HUMBIO

139


Sports Medicine

EXTRA-DEPARTMENTAL OFFERINGS



PSYCH

133


Human Cognitive Abilities






OUTSIDE HUM BIO



ME

281


Biomechanics of Movement


RAD

220


Introduction to Imaging and Image-Based Human Anatomy


SURG

101


Regional Study of Human Structure





ALSO SEE: HUMBIO 124 (AREA2), HUMBIO 180 (AREA8), PSYCH 102 (AREA2), ME 280 (AREA8).






AREA 4

HUMAN DEVELOPMENT


HUMBIO

141


Human Developmental Biology and Medicine


HUMBIO

142


Adolescent Development


HUMBIO

142A


Seminar on Problem Behavior in Adolescence


HUMBIO

143


Adolescent Sexuality


HUMBIO

144


Boys' Psychosocial Development


HUMBIO

145


Birds to Words: Cognition, Communication, and Language


HUMBIO

146


The Anthropology of Death and Dying


HUMBIO

149


Aging: From Biology to Social Policy






OUTSIDE HUM BIO



ANTHSCI

176A


Anthropological Perspective on Child Maltreatment


BIOSCI

160


Developmental Biology


COMM

170


Communication and Children I


EDUC

219


Artistic Development of the Child


EDUC

239


Emerging Issues in Child and Adolescent Development


INDE

248


Ethnogeriatrics in Medicine


LINGUIST

140


Language Acquisition I


PSYCH

131


Language and Thought


PSYCH

141


Cognitve Development


PSYCH

143


Developmental Anomolies


PSYCH

149


The Infant Mind: Cognitive Development Over the First Year


PSYCH

162


The Psychology of Gender


SOC

105


Status, Friendship and Social Pressure


SOC

120


Interpersonal Relations


SOC

121


Social Psychology and Social Structure


SOC

128


Sociology of the Life Course


SOC

130


Education and Society


SOC

150


The Family





ALSO SEE: HUMBIO 157 (AREA5), HUMBIO 163 (AREA6), HUMBIO 186 (AREA8), PSYCH 102 (AREA2), PSYCH 133 (AREA3), PSYCH 161 (AREA6), ME 280 (AREA8).






AREA 5

BIO-MEDICAL SCIENCE


HUMBIO

152P


HIV Prevention in East Africa Prefield Seminar


HUMBIO

153


Parasites and Pestilence: Infectious Public Health Challenges


HUMBIO

154


Cancer Epidemiology


HUMBIO

155A


Humans and Viruses


HUMBIO

155B


The Vaccine Revolution


HUMBIO

155C


Human Biology Inquiry Project


HUMBIO

155S


The Smallest Predator


HUMBIO

157


The Stem Cell: Science, Ethics, and Politics


HUMBIO

158


The Human Genome and Disease

EXTRA-DEPARTMENTAL OFFERINGS



DBIO

202


Assisted Reproductive Technologies


BIOSCI

149


Principles of Sleep Research






OUTSIDE HUM BIO



BIOSCI

104


Advanced Molecutar Biology


BIOSCI

118


Genetic Analysis of Biological Processes


BIOSCI

134


Replication of DNA


BIOSCI

159


Chromatin Biology in Health and Disease


BIOSCI

213


Biology of Viruses


BIOSCI

230


Molecular and Cellular Immunology


CBIO

101


Cancer Biology


GENE

202


Human Genetics


GENE

203


Advanced Genetics


HRP

231


Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases


INDE

297


Applied Bio Medical Sciences


MI

104


Innate Immunology


MI

209


Medical Microbiology





ALSO SEE: HUMBIO 124 (AREA2), HUMBIO 130, 132, 133, 135, 135S, 139 (AREA3), HUMBIO 141 (AREA4), ME 281, RAD 220 (AREA3), SURG 101, BIOSCI 160 (AREA4), BIOSCI 153 (AREA6).






AREA 6

BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR


HUMBIO

163


Neural Systems and Behavior


HUMBIO

160


Human Behavioral Biology


HUMBIO

165


Promoting Behavior Change






OUTSIDE HUM BIO



BIOSCI

145


Behavioral Ecology


BIOSCI

151


Mechanisms of Neuron Death


BIOSCI

153


Cellular Neuroscience: Cell Signaling and Behavior


BIOSCI

154


Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology


BIOSCI

158


Developmental Neurobiology


BIOSCI

222


Exploring Neural Circuits


NBIO

206


The Nervous System


NBIO

218


Neural Basis of Behavior


NBIO

220


Central Mechanisms in Vision Perception


PHIL

167A


Philosophy, Biology, Behavior


PHIL

186


Philosophy of Mind


PHIL

189


Philisophical Applications of Cognitive Science


PSYCH

161


Emotion


PSYCH

163


Interpersonal Basis of Abnormal Behavior


PSYCH

166


Seminar on Personal and Social Change


PSYCH

167


Central Mechanisms in Vision-Based Cognition


PSYCH

168


Emotion Regulation


PSYCH

210


Foundations of Memory





ALSO SEE: HUMBIO 128 (AREA2), HUMBIO 145 (AREA4), PSYCH 133 (AREA3), PSYCH 141, 149, 162, SOC 120, 121 (AREA4), PHIL 167B (AREA6), COMPM 106A (AREA8).






AREA 7

ETHICS AND MEDICAL HUMANITIES


HUMBIO

171


The Death Penalty: Human Biology, Law, and Policy


HUMBIO

172A


Children, Youth, and the Law


HUMBIO

172B


Children, Youth, and the Law


HUMBIO

173


Science, Business and the Law


HUMBIO

175


Health Care as Seen Through Medical History, Literature, and the Arts


HUMBIO

175S


The Literature of Health Care: Novels and Theater of Illness


HUMBIO

176


Illness Narratives


HUMBIO

178


Medical Anthropology

EXTRA-DEPARTMENTAL OFFERINGS



POLISCI

131


Children's Citizenship: Justice Across Generations


POLISCI

133


Ethics and Politics in Public Service


PHIL

78


Medical Ethics






OUTSIDE HUM BIO



CASA

174


Cultures of Disease: Cancer


CASA

185


Environmental Ethics


EDUC

247


Moral Education


FEMST

244


History of Women and Medicine in the United States


HIST

241G


History of the Senses


HIST

241S


Science and Culture Wars


HIST

242G


Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe


HIST

243G


Tobacco and Health in World History


HIST

244C


History of the Body in Science, Medicine and Culture


HIST

244L


Theory and Practice of Feminism in Science


HIST

245E


Health and Society in Africa


HRP

212


Crosscultural Medicine


MS&E

197


Ethics and Public Policy


MS&E

254


The Ethical Analyst


PHIL

170


Ethical Theory


PHIL

171


Justice


PSYCH

178


Stigma and Marginality


POLISCI

141


The Global Politics of Human Rights


POLISCI

236


Theories of Civil Society, Philanthropy and the Non-Profit Sector


PUBPOL

183


Philanthropy and Social Innovation


SOC

137


Homelessness


SOC

141


Controversies about Inequality


SOC

149


The Urban Underclass


STS

210


Ethics, Science and Technology





ALSO SEE: PHIL 167A, 186, 189 (AREA6).






AREA 8

EVOLUTION


HUMBIO

180


Human Osteology


HUMBIO

181


The Evolution of Human Diet


HUMBIO

182


Evolution of Human Disease


HUMBIO

183


Astrobiology and Space Exploration


HUMBIO

186


Biological Clocks


HUMBIO

187


Human Diversity: A Linguistic Perspective


HUMBIO

189


Darwin Inquiry Project

EXTRA-DEPARTMENTAL OFFERINGS



ME

280


Skeletal Development and Evolution






OUTSIDE HUMBIO



ANTHSCI

130C


Current Issues in Paleoanthropology


ANTHSCI

131A


Primate Evolution


ANTHSCI

131B


Primate Societies


ANTHSCI

133B


Advanced Human Osteology


ANTHSCI

141


Hunter-Gatherers in Archaeological Perspective


ANTHSCI

145B


Evolution of Civilizations


BIOHOP

171H


Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology


BIOSCI

113


Fundamentals of Molecular Evolution


BIOSCI

136


Evolutionary Paleobiology


BIOSCI

143


Evolution


BIOSCI

183A/B


Population Genetic Theory and Evolution (I&II)


BIOSCI

215


Biochemical Evolution


COMPMED

106


A Primate Perspective on Brain Evolution


HIST

241S


Science and Culture Wars


HIST

243S


Human Origins: History, Evidence and Controversy


LINGUIST

160


Introduction to Language Change


PHIL

167B


Philosophy of Biology





ALSO SEE: HUMBIO 145 (AREA4), BIOSCI 121 (AREA1).

 

 
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