Blockbuster Courses on the U.S. Presidential Election Getting Started at Stanford Continuing Studies This Week

This fall, Stan­ford Con­tin­u­ing Stud­ies presents 150+ cours­es in the Lib­er­al Arts & Sci­ences, Cre­ative Writ­ing, and Pro­fes­sion­al Devel­op­ment, includ­ing two major cours­es on the U.S. pres­i­den­tial elec­tion. Taught by Pamela Kar­lan (Stan­ford law pro­fes­sor) and James Stey­er (CEO, Com­mon Sense Media), Elec­tion 2020: A Panoram­ic View of Amer­i­ca’s Deci­sive Elec­tion will fea­ture a line­up of dis­tin­guished guest speakers–from Bill Clin­ton and Kara Swish­er, to Steve Schmidt, David Plouffe and Andrew Yang. The oth­er course focus­es on Tech­nol­o­gy and the 2020 Elec­tion: How Sil­i­con Val­ley Tech­nolo­gies Impact Our Elec­tions and Shape Our Democ­ra­cy. Taught by pro­fes­sor Rob Reich and Dutch politi­cian Mari­et­je Schaake, the course will fea­ture vis­its from Roger McNamee, (author of Zucked: Wak­ing Up to the Face­book Cat­a­stro­phe), Alex Sta­mos (For­mer Chief Secu­ri­ty Offi­cer, Face­book), Shoshana Zuboff, (Har­vard author of The Age of Sur­veil­lance Cap­i­tal­ism), Michael McFaul (for­mer ambas­sador to Rus­sia), and more.

These live online cours­es are open to adults. Although the cours­es aren’t free, they’re time­ly and bound to engage. Elec­tion 2020 starts today. Tech­nol­o­gy and the 2020 Elec­tion starts on Wednes­day. Explore the entire Con­tin­u­ing Stud­ies cat­a­logue here.

Note: High school stu­dents can also enroll in both of these elec­tion cours­es. To explore that oppor­tu­ni­ty, fol­low these links:

Elec­tion 2020: A Panoram­ic View of Amer­i­ca’s Deci­sive Elec­tion

Tech­nol­o­gy and the 2020 Elec­tion: How Sil­i­con Val­ley Tech­nolo­gies Impact Our Elec­tions and Shape Our Democ­ra­cy