PWR 2 courses focus on developing strategies for presenting research-based arguments in both written and oral/multimedia genres. This course takes as its theme Silicon Valley, an engine that promises/threatens to disrupt the way that national and global economies are organized. Does this point to a coming utopia? To a dystopia? Works from technologists, sociologists, economists, anthropologists, historians, activists and more will help answer these questions. A full course description and video can be found here: pwrcourses.stanford.edu/pwr2/pwr2mgd For the PWR course catalog please visit https://pwrcourses.stanford.edu/ Enrollment is handled by the PWR office. Prerequisite: PWR 1.
4 units · Letter (ABCD/NP) · GER: Writing 2
PWR 2 courses focus on developing strategies for presenting research-based arguments in both written and oral/multimedia genres. This course takes as its theme Silicon Valley, an engine that promises/threatens to disrupt the way that national and global economies are organized. Does this point to a coming utopia? To a dystopia? Works from technologists, sociologists, economists, anthropologists, historians, activists and more will help answer these questions. A full course description and video can be found here: pwrcourses.stanford.edu/pwr2/pwr2mgd For the PWR course catalog please visit https://pwrcourses.stanford.edu/ Enrollment is handled by the PWR office. Prerequisite: PWR 1.
Offered in Autumn 2026 at Stanford University.