Spotlight Story
Stanford Continuing Studies invites you to join our open learning community. Each year, more than 11,000 Bay Area residents take our courses in Liberal Arts & Sciences, Creative Writing, and Professional & Personal Development. Below we have highlighted a few of our upcoming Spring courses.
This quarter, SSU will be held at the Hopkins Marine Station in Monterey on its gorgeously situated campus. Several distinguished Stanford faculty members will join us to present engaging talks on ancient history, the migrations of bluefin tuna, Biblical narrative, and the war on terrorism. Plus, a literary reading will round out the day. Consider making a weekend out of it and visiting the nearby Monterey Bay Aquarium, Point Lobos, and historic sites in Monterey.
The American Revolution was the first of the great Atlantic revolutions in the name of liberty, equality, and human rights. Taught by Professor Caroline Winterer, this course will examine the background to the American Revolution, the long and difficult war that followed, and then the drafting of the US Constitution. The course will conclude with an appraisal of the short-term and long-term outcomes of the American Revolutionary era.
It’s the biggest game in the country and it’s big business, too. This ten-week course will take a comprehensive look at college and professional football, drawing on insights from a panel of insiders. Coaches, former players, journalists, analysts, agents, and sports executives will be on hand, taking you inside a game filled with tradition, rivalry, passion, and emotion.
The United States finds itself in difficult economic times and under continual threat from domestic and international terrorism. More than ever, US foreign policy is being informed by scholars with a grasp of these vexing issues. This course will draw on Stanford’s foreign policy community (Francis Fukuyama, Larry Diamond, and David Holloway, to name a few) and focus on big questions related to democratization, nuclear proliferation, and peace in the Middle East, Afghanistan, China, and beyond.
