Course Catalog 2024-25
Students enrolled as single course students are not eligible to take a Leadership, Homeroom, or Wellness course as their only course. Single course students may add Homeroom or Wellness in addition to their single academic course. New students enrolled in a single course are not eligible to take the following courses in their first year at Stanford OHS: Poetry, Drawing, Creative Writing, or the following Advanced Topics courses without the writing option: Philosophy, Literature, or Biological Research.
Modes of Writing and Argumentation Writing Lab (OE11WL)
The OHS Writing and Tutoring Center offers supplemental weekly Writing Labs. These weekly labs are intended to support students in...
Poetry (OECW1D)
Students in this class will explore these central questions about poetry: What is a poem? How is it made? What...
Creative Writing: Multi-Genre (OECW1F)
This course explores several writing genres: poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction (e.g. personal narrative). Students will study the elements of...
Critical Theory and the Historical Imagination (OE020B)
What is the past? What does it do? What’s it for? In this course we’ll look together at how people...
Critical Theory of the Anthropocene (OE020C)
"Critical Theory of the Anthropocene” aligns with the course goals and major assignments of the standard AP English Language and...
Critical Theory: Canon & Counter-Canon (OE020E)
Of all the literature that an era produces, only a tiny sliver makes it into the “canon” – the informal...
Critical Theory: Language and Culture (OE020Z)
Language and Culture (CTLC) is a year-long course that introduces students to post-structuralism as a critical methodology for studying literature...
Advanced Literature & Criticism: Wonders and Sublimity (OE021A)
In this year-long, advanced-level class, students will explore different critical approaches to canonical literature, considering a breadth of literary theory...
Advanced Literature & Criticism: Russian Literature (OE021B)
In this year-long, advanced-level class, students will explore different critical approaches to canonical literature, considering a breadth of literary theory...
Advanced Topics in Literature I (OE025)
Topic for Fall 2024: Writing Across the Pacific. From Mark Twain’s sketches of Hawaii to the “Hallyuwood” of Korean cinema...
Advanced Topics in Literature II (OE026)
Topic for Spring 2025: Narrating the Nation: Medieval and Modern. This class examines the intersection of literature and history, and...
Advanced Topics in Literature I: Writing Option (OE027)
Topic for Fall 2024: Writing Across the Pacific. From Mark Twain’s sketches of Hawaii to the “Hallyuwood” of Korean cinema...
Advanced Topics in Literature II: Writing Option (OE028)
Topic for Spring 2025: Narrating the Nation: Medieval and Modern. This class examines the intersection of literature and history, and...
Modernist Literature and Photography (UE031)
Students in this course study how photography, from its inception in the mid-19th century, rose into a dominant visual genre...
Literature & New Technologies (UE033)
The typewriter, a machine for writing, produces letters on a page in a manner distinct from that of a pencil...
Imagining Your Art (JDRW1)
In this course, we will explore fundamentals in drawing to help guide our application and enhance our technical skills and...
Leadership Course Series (OL010)
Legal Studies: Constitutional Law: Writing Option (OLS10)
This course examines present-day U.S. constitutional law. Students will learn some constitutional law as well as how to think critically...
Legal Studies: Constitutional Law (OLS11)
This course examines present-day U.S. constitutional law. Students will learn some constitutional law as well as how to think critically...
Music Theory (OMT10)
Music Theory is a year-long course that examines the harmony and form of Western European music with a focus on...