Are you unsure if you want to attend graduate school?
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Not sure what program or school you want to attend?

We can help!

This 2 Credit, ten-week course is for juniors and seniors who know they want to pursue, or are considering the possibility of graduate education. During the quarter, students will learn first-hand from faculty and staff involved in graduate admissions how to find programs that fit their interests, and how to prepare application materials.

Course information:
GRDSCH 200: Preparing for Graduate Education
Autumn Quarter 2019: Fridays, 1:30-3:20pm
Gould Hall (GLD), Room 322
SLN 15801

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Several Stanford law professors are seeking full-time Research Fellows to begin work in the spring/summer of 2020. This is a unique opportunity for graduating seniors and recent college graduates to participate in groundbreaking empirical legal and social science research. Past fellows have found the experience to be valuable preparation for graduate school and have matriculated to a number of prestigious graduate, law, and business programs. We would greatly appreciate it if you could pass along the attached job posting (also copied below) to your students at your convenience.

Sincerely,
Stanford Law School Research Fellow Program

RESEARCH FELLOW, STANFORD LAW SCHOOL (Fixed term) *multi-job posting

Commitment: Full-time, starting Summer 2020. Some applicants available to start earlier will also be considered. Fellowships last for one year, with an option to renew for a second year by mutual agreement of the professor and the fellow.

Description:...

Mark Weitzenkamp has been a popular undergraduate adviser in our department since 2013. However, few of his students know that he holds a Ph.D. in Drama and is one of the world’s foremost experts on acting editions (inexpensive versions of plays printed mostly for use in theatres).

This past spring Mark wrapped up an ambitious ten-year project.  Starting in the 1930s, the UW Drama Department’s first director, Glenn Hughes (famous for popularizing modern theatre in the round), acquired about 3,000 acting editions from the 19th century, but they had never been accurately and fully catalogued. Mark volunteered his time to write the finding aid for this archive for Special Collections in the UW Library, allowing it to be used by researchers from around the world.

Acting editions provide a window on popular culture because they are what local theatre groups use to stage plays in their communities. Shakespeare is well represented in the archive, as one might expect, but the...

HSTLAC 185: Race, Gender, & Class in Latin America and The Caribbean (SLN: 16193)

T/Th 1:30 – 3:20

5 credits

I&S, DIV (Please note that this course satisfies the Foundations category for the Diversity Minor)

The anti-immigration, racist violence(s) of today are one expression of the 500-year ongoing forms of conquest, colonization, and resistance in the Americas. This course explores both the logics that produced and sustains such structures of dominations, and the multiple alternative imaginations, challenges, and resistances to them.

For more information about this course, please see the course page here: ...