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COURSE HIGHLIGHTS

Featured Spring Courses:

The Genius of Leonardo da Vinci: A 500th Anniversary Celebration

How to Think Like a Futurist: Improve Your Powers of Imagination, Invention, and Capacity for Change

Accelerate Your Startup Idea

20th-Century American Literature: An Intellectual Bus Tour

EVENTS

February 21

Medieval Matters: Medieval and Modern Ideas of Diet and Health
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February 25

Governance in an Emerging New World
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February 28

Our Sublime but Vulnerable World: The Photography of Camille Seaman
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April 06

150th Gold Spike Celebration — Transcontinental Railroad Symposium
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NEWS

Writer's Spotlight: This February, we're delighted to feature Jenn Stroud Rossmann, whose honest and funny writing on Silicon Valley evolved into her recently published novel, The Place You're Supposed to Laugh. LEARN MORE

This Spring, select Continuing Studies courses will be Berry-eligible for employees participating in Stanford’s BeWell program. LEARN MORE

Watch Continuing Studies public events on iTunes U. LEARN MORE