Courses
The Lab offers innovative teaching opportunities for students to understand and imagine solutions to civil society’s challenges in a digitally dependent world. Our teaching seeks to nurture an emerging generation of scholars, community advocates, technologists, and policymakers shaping the future of digital civil society.
Our flagship course is the “Digital Civil Society” Seminar – a collaborative class taught and re-imagined every year by the Lab’s postdocs and lead scholars.
The Lab also organizationally supports Computing and Society, which is an interdisciplinary group of Stanford students dedicated to bringing more discussions about the ethical and societal implications of computing and computer science research to the Stanford community.
Below is a list of classes taught by DCSL scholars at Stanford over the years. Check the Stanford Bulletin for course offerings in the current academic term.
Bridging Policy and Tech Through Design
Taught by Lucy Bernholz
This project-based course aims to bring together students from computer science and the social sciences to work with external partner...
Read MoreDigital Civil Society Seminar
Taught by Lucy Bernholz, Toussaint Nothias, and DCSL Postdoctoral Fellows
The Digital Civil Society Seminar is the Lab’s flagship course for Stanford students. The class is taught and designed by...
Read MoreDigital Civil Society Speaker Series
Taught by Lucy Bernholz and DCSL Postdoctoral Fellows
The Digital Civil Society Speaker Series highlights evolving perspectives at the intersection of the social sector, digital technology, and contemporary...
Read MoreDigital Security and Civil Society
Taught by Lucy Bernholz and Divya Siddarth
Digital Security and Civil Society: Course Overview from Stanford PACS on Vimeo. This class will instruct students in the political...
Read MoreEthics of Technological Disruption
Taught by Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami, and Jeremy Weinstein
Teaching team: Rob Reich, Professor of Political Science and, by courtesy, Professor of Philosophy and of Education, Stanford Mehran Sahami,...
Read MoreEthics, Public Policy, and Technological Change
Taught by Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami, and Jeremy Weinstein
Ethics, Public Policy, and Technological Change is a new undergraduate course whose aim is to explore the ethical and social...
Read MoreTechnology for Social Good
Taught by Lucy Bernholz and Rob Reich
Digital tools have changed the way we volunteer, give money, and organize for social good. This class offered through the Stanford...
Read MoreThe Active Citizen in the Digital Age
Taught by Lucy Bernholz and Rob Reich
We participate in our communities in many ways – as neighbors, volunteers, voters, donors, members of local organizations (PTAs, churches,...
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