2007 Course Overview
explore ~ experience ~ expand
Summer Institute for Entrepreneurship
Monday, June 18 ~ Friday, July 13, 2007
Discover what it takes to develop an idea into a successful venture through an intensive four-week business management program for graduate students in non-business fields. There is a $600 registration fee and a $40 application fee for this course.
Using Different Approaches to Solving Complex Problems:
Responding to Pandemics
with Professor John Boothrooyd
Sunday dinner, September 16 ~ Friday, September 21, 2007
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Join other graduate students from all corners of the University to educate each other about the factors that influence the emergence of a new infectious disease, methods that could be used to prevent such a disease and, assuming an outbreak, ways to combat it once it has a foothold. Flu will be used as a paradigm with special focus on the possibility of avian flu emerging as a human epidemic.
The d.school Experience: Adventures in Design Thinking
with Liz Gerber, Bernie Roth, and Terry Winograd
Sunday, September 16 ~ Friday, September 21, 2007
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Adventures in Design Thinking is an experiential workshop offered to all Stanford graduate students through the Stanford Graduate Summer Institute and the d.school (officially the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford).
Music and Human Behavior: a Multidisciplinary Investigation
with Professors Jonathan Berger, Vinod Menon, the St. Lawrence String Quartet and friends
Sunday, September 16 ~ Friday, September 21, 2007
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Music is a curiously pervasive human behavior. This course will look at music listening and music performance from cognitive and neuroscience perspectives.
Managing Groups and Teams
with Professors Deborah Gruenfeld and Dale Miller
Monday, September 10 ~ Friday, September 14, 2007
9 a.m. ~ 12 p.m., M~F
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Managing Groups and Teams is a short course on the theory and practice of making teams work. It has two primary goals: first, to provide a conceptual framework for understanding group dynamics and their effects on team performance, and second, to provide opportunities to reflect on and develop your ability to build and manage effective groups and teams.
Global Warming: Good Science or Bad Politics?
with Professors Stephen Schneider and Terry Root
Sunday, September 16 ~ Friday, September 21, 2007
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Global warming is a topic in which the scientific and political dimensions are equally complex and completely interrelated. The class will begin with a fast tutorial of the physical and biological scientific basis for concerns about global warming, as well as the contours of the debate among economists, sociologists, ethicists, ecologists, business and environmental stakeholders and policy makers. Two important topics that will be included are the range of feasible adaptation and mitigation options available to cope with scientific projections; and the challenge of explicitly separating value-laden judgments from scientific judgments.