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Overview
- Stanford Summer Sessions provides high-achieving and ambitious students a transformative educational experience at a world-class university.
- By combining challenging academics with a rich array of extra-curricular programming, Stanford Summer Sessions successfully shares the University’s culture of innovation, academic excellence, and global responsibility.
Program highlights of the Ethics and Politics of Public Service course at Stanford University - Summer Sessions
- What motives do people have to engage in public service work? Are self-interested motives troublesome? What is the connection between service work and justice? Should the government or schools require citizens or students to perform service work? Is mandatory service an oxymoron?
Programme Structure
Course content:
- Ethics, Politics, Public Service
- What and why: The meanings of, and motivations for, public service
- Two kinds of ‘public’: social capital, civil society, and service
- Service, power, and privilege
- Public service and democratic citizenship
- How should we measure the success of service?
- Service in a democratic society: Public subsidies for charitable giving
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 2 months
Start dates & application deadlines
- Starting
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Language
English
IELTS 7
TOEFL® IBT 100
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Credits
4 SCH
Delivered
On Campus
Disciplines
Public Policy Ethics View 26 other Short Courses in Public Policy in United StatesAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
IELTS 7
TOEFL® IBT 100
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Student insurance
Make sure to cover your health, travel, and stay while studying abroad. Even global coverages can miss important items, so make sure your student insurance ticks all the following:
- Additional medical costs (i.e. dental)
- Repatriation, if something happens to you or your family
- Liability
- Home contents and baggage
- Accidents
- Legal aid
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Other requirements
General requirements
To be eligible to apply, you must:
- Be a current sophomore, junior, or senior, or a gap year student at the time of application.
- Be at least 16 at the start of the program
- Not be matriculating into Stanford as freshman.
- INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS: Be able to verify fluency in the English language, using one of the methods described in the English Language Proficiency section on the International Students page.
Tuition Fee
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International
5488 USD/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 5488 USD for the full programme during 2 months. -
National
5488 USD/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 5488 USD for the full programme during 2 months. -
In-State
5488 USD/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 5488 USD for the full programme during 2 months.
Living costs for Stanford
1100 - 1600 USD /month
Living costs
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.
Funding
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