Stanford Graduate Summer Institute

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Summer Courses, 2007

• The d.school Experience: Adventures in Design Thinking

  Sunday, September 16 - Friday, September 21, 2007
  

  Organizing Faculty:
              Liz Gerber (MS&E)
              Bernie Roth (Design Division, Mechanical Engineering)
              Terry Winograd, Computer Science

  
  This week-long hands-on project-based workshop prepares students to lead innovation and design thinking in teams at Stanford and in careers beyond. Workshop activities introduce the methods of design thinking that go into the d.school courses on topics such as Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability, Software Design Experiences , and Creating Infectious Action.

• Global Warming: Good Science or Bad Politics?

  Sunday, September 16 - Friday, September 21, 2007

  
  

  Organizing Faculty:
              Stepphen Schneider (Biological Sciences)
              Terry Root (Woods Institute)

  
  The class discusses 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. Participants have the opportunity to interact with a variety of speakers from different policy arenas and perspectives-government agency, NGO, legislative, media, and scientific.

• Music & Human Behavior: a Multidisciplinary Investigation

  Sunday, September 16 - Friday, September 21, 2007

  
  

  Organizing Faculty:
              Vinod Menon (Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences)
              Jonathan Berger (Music)

  
  Integrating performances, lectures and discussion, the class examines the anatomy of hearing, learning and memory, and emotions, among other topics.

• Interdisciplinary Problem-Solving: Responding to Pandemics

  Sunday dinner, September 16 - Friday, September 21, 2007

  
  

  Organizing Faculty:
              John Boothroyd (Microbiology and Immunology)

  
  This course brings a diverse mix of graduate students together with invited speakers to teach one another about alternative ways to think about and approach a problem, using bird flu as a wonderful (and terrifying) example. Students will brainstorm around topics related to this topic, including risk analysis, technology applications, and ethical considerations.

• Managing Groups in Teams

  Monday, September 10 - Friday, September 14

  
  

  Organizing Faculty:
              Deborah Gruenfeld (GSB)
              Dale Miller (GSB)

  
  This course on the theory and practice of making teams work 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.