Do you Know the Ways? Quickstart Guide for Students

Ways of Thinking, Ways of Doing

• A unique approach to general education breadth (8 Ways)
• Develop a set of intellectual tools for your toolbox to use here at Stanford and beyond
• Many Ways courses count towards your major and minor
• You must take 11 Ways courses

Ways Categories
 

Two courses each in:

• Aesthetic and Interpretive Inquiry (AII)
• Social Inquiry (SI)
• Scientific Method and Analysis (SMA)
   

One course each in:

• Applied Quantitative Reasoning (AQR)
• Creative Expression (CE)*
• Engaging Diversity (ED)
• Ethical Reasoning (ER)
• Formal Reasoning (FR)

* See our About page for various ways to fulfill CE and the grading exception