Todd Davies  > Teaching

[page updated November 11, 2021]

Courses I teach or organize:

• Symsys 192: Symbolic Systems in Practice (3 units, Spring 2021-2022)
  
• previously taught: Spring 2020-2021 - requires Stanford login

• Symsys 195D/295D: Research in Digital Democracy (3-4 units, not offered in 2021-2022)
  
• previously taught: Spring 2020-2021)

• Symsys 201: Digital Technology, Society, and Democracy (3 units, Autumn 2021-2022)
  
• previously taught: Autumn 2019-2020; (as "ICT, Society, and Democracy"): Spring 2008-2009, Spring 2011-2012, Autumn 2013-2014, Autumn 2015-2016, and Autumn 2017-2018

• Symsys 203: Cognitive Science Perspectives on Humanity and Well-Being (3 units, not offered in 2021-2022)
• previously taught: Spring 2014-2015 and Spring 2018-2019

• Symsys 255 and Symsys 255A: Building Digital History (1, 3, or 5 units, not offered in 2021-2022)
• previously taught: Winter 2013-2014 and Spring 2015-2016
• article from STATIC, December 20, 2013
  

• Symsys 275/Bio 175: Collective Behavior in Natural and Artificial Systems (3 units, not offered in 2021-2022)
• previously taught: Spring 2016-2017 (jointly with Deborah Gordon and Bernardo Huberman)
  

• Symsys 280: Symbolic Systems Research Seminar (1 unit, Autumn, Winter, and Spring 2021-2022, organized with the Symbolic Systems Advising Fellows)
  

• Symsys 291: Symbolic Systems Master's Seminar (1 unit, Autumn, Winter, and Spring 2021-2022 with Hyowon Gweon)

• Symsys 299: Curricular Practical Training (1 unit, Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer 2021-2022)
  

Courses I have taught in the past, which are currently being taught by others:

• Symsys 100 / Linguist 144 / Phil 99 / Psych 35: Minds and Machines (4 units) [now listed as Symsys 1]
  
• previously taught: Autumn 2014-2015 (jointly with Dan Lassiter and Thomas Icard), and as "Introduction to Cognitive and Information Sciences" in Spring 2007-2008

Discontinued courses:

• Center for Teaching and Learning 100: The Next Three Years: Making the Most of Stanford (1 unit) 
• previously taught: Spring 2010-2011

• OSPOxfrd 62 and OSPOxfrd 63: Digital Technology in the UK (3-5 units)
• previously taught: Winter 2019-2020

• OSPOxfrd 69: Topics in Social Informatics [Independent Study] (1-3 units)
• previously taught: Winter 2019-2020

• Psychology 40: Introduction to Cognitive Psychology (4 units) 
• previously taught: Winter 2004-2005

• Symsys 1P: A Practical Introduction to Symbolic Systems (2 units, status for 2019-2020 TBD)
• previously taught: Winter 2018-2019

• SymbSys 2: Sym Sys: Many Parts, Cohesive Whole (1 unit, organized with Evan Cox and Graham Herrli)
• previously taught: Spring 2008-2009

• Symsys 10: Symbolic Systems Forum (1 unit)
• previously taught each quarter of the academic year from Spring 2001-2002 through Spring 2009-2010; see the Symsys website calendar for a history of the series since October 2002

• SymbSys 10SC: The University as a Local and Global Citizen (jointly with Tom Wasow, 2 units)
• previously taught: Sophomore College 2006

• SymbSys 16: Residential Seminar: The California Border from Alta to Baja (1 unit)
• previously taught: Spring 2007-2008 (jointly with Marc Pauly)

• SymbSys 17: Residential Seminar: Buddha Brain - Meditation, Religion, and Science (1 unit)
• previously taught: Spring 2008-2009

• SymbSys 91: Symbolic Systems Junior Honors Seminar (2 units)
• previously taught: Spring 2001-2002, Winter 2002-2003, Winter 2003-2004, Winter 2004-2005, Winter 2005-2006, Winter 2006-2007, Winter 2007-2008, and Winter 2008-2009

• Symsys 130: Research Methods in the Cognitive and Information Sciences (3 units)
  
• previously taught: Spring 2012-2013

• SymbSys 150: Computers and Social Decisions (3 units)
• previously taught:Spring 2001-2002 and Spring 2003-2004

• Symsys 170/270: Decision Behavior: Theory and Evidence (3-4 units)
• previously taught: Winter 2006-2007 and Spring 2009-2010

• Symsys 200: Symbolic Systems in Practice (3 units)
• previously taught: Winter 2009-2010, Autumn 2010-2011, Spring 2010-2011, and Winter 2011-2012

• SymbSys 202:The Rationality Debate (3 units)
  • previously taught: Spring 2000-2001 (as SymbSys 201), Winter 2001-2002, and Winter 2003-2004
  • conference presentation about this course: "Teaching Judgment and Decision Making Through the Rationality Debate" [pdf] (poster), BDRM2006 Pre-Conference on Teaching Decision Making, Santa Monica, California, June 15, 2006
    

• SymbSys 205: Systems: Theory, Science, and Metaphor (3 units) 
• previous versions:  Winter 2002-2003, Spring 2004-2005, and Spring 2006-2007

• Symsys 209: Battles Over Bits (3 units) 
  • previously taught: Autumn 2005-2006 and Autumn 2007-2008

• Symsys 271: Group Democracy (2-4 units)
  • previously taught: Winter 2016-2017

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