Continuing Studies Program
Stanford Continuing Studies is pleased to offer two courses in the Fall quarter to be held at the Porter Drive facility. These courses were carefully chosen, based on employee input, and are open exclusively to Stanford employees. Course schedules are tailored to fit with work schedules and all class sessions are conveniently held onsite. Additional courses will be offered each quarter based on student feedback.
To register for these courses using STAP funds, send an email with your name, employee ID, and the course number to csp-porterdr@lists.stanford.edu. If you'd like to pay with a credit card or check, please download the registration form (pdf).
Public Speaking
Feeling uneasy about an upcoming toast at a wedding or a business presentation? Many of us wish we could speak more clearly and confidently. Informed by scholarly research, this course provides a hands-on, practical introduction to the theory, basic principles, and methods of effective public speaking. Using a variety of directly relevant contexts (e.g., job interviews, sales presentations, business meetings), we will focus on the three major aspects of speechmaking: organization, delivery, and oratorical style.
This course will consist of a combination of lectures, discussions, group activities, video analysis, and speechmaking. Everyone will develop, deliver, and then evaluate both formal (informative and persuasive) and informal (question/answer and impromptu) speeches. In addition, students will learn speech apprehension management techniques, effective use of visual aids, and tips and tricks for powerful online presentations.
Matt Abrahams
Speech Communication Instructor, DeAnza College
Matt Abrahams received a BA in psychology from
Stanford and an MA in communication from UC
Davis. He has published several research articles on
speaking anxiety, persuasion, and interpersonal communication.
After a decade as a high tech executive,
Abrahams teaches and does research and development
to aid in the learning and teaching of communication.
COM 01
Wednesdays, 5:30 – 7:20 pm
5 weeks, September 24 – October 22
1 unit, $200
Limit 30
NOTE: The instructor will discuss with students at the first class meeting if schedule changes are necessary to accommodate those students who observe the religious holidays that fall on the 10/1 and 10/8 class meetings.
How to Register
To register for these courses using STAP funds, send an email with your name, employee ID, and the course number to csp-porterdr@lists.stanford.edu. If you'd like to pay with a credit card or check, please download the registration form (pdf).
All Continuing Studies courses are STAP fund eligible.
19th-Century European Painting: From Romanticism to Post-Impressionism
Painting in 19th-century Europe underwent rapid and numerous transformations, opening with Ingres' chilly portrait of Napoleon, and closing with Munch’s fractured, reverberating The Scream—the artist’s highly personal vision of his troubled connection to the universe. This course will offer a broad overview of the era, covering the principal movements and practitioners. It will look at the lyrical beauty and gothic horror portrayed by romantic painters such as Friedrich, Turner, and Delacroix; the politically engaged painters of Realism—Courbet and Daumier—and their call for art to celebrate contemporary life; Manet’s dialogue with the art of the past and his push toward modernism; Degas' experiments with framing the visual field in his scenes of the ballet and the racetrack; Monet and the Impressionists' brushstrokes and juxtaposition of colors that convey the immediacy of the artists’ experience of town and country; and the expressionistic, conceptual work of Post-Impressionists such as van Gogh, Cezanne, Gauguin, Seurat, and Klimt.
Mary Salzman
Lecturer, School of Art and Design, San Jose State University
Mary Salzman received a PhD in art history from
Stanford. She specializes in 18th- and 19th-century
European art. She has taught at the University of San
Francisco, and was recently a visiting professor of art
history at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Her
interests include Rococo ornament, genre painting, the
connections between art and the natural sciences, and
representations of urban life. She also teaches art history
courses on comics and the graphic novel.
ARTH 213
Thursdays, 5:30 – 7:20 pm
5 weeks, September 25 – October 23
1 unit, $200
Limit 30
NOTE: The instructor will discuss with students at the first class meeting if a schedule change is necessary to accommodate those students who observe the religious holiday that falls on 10/9.
How to Register
To register for these courses using STAP funds, send an email with your name, employee ID, and the course number to csp-porterdr@lists.stanford.edu. If you'd like to pay with a credit card or check, please download the registration form (pdf).
All Continuing Studies courses are STAP fund eligible.