A proposal (5 to 10 pages) should (a) describe your intellectual objectives in detail, (b) explain why a self-designed concentration is the optimal way to pursue these objectives (as opposed to the five STS concentrations or other majors at Stanford), and (c) list at least 12 courses and 50 units that comprise the plan of study.
microMORPH INTERDISCIPLINARY WORKSHOPS bring together small groups of graduate students, postdoctorals, and faculty with diverse interests and expertise to interact and discuss critical concepts, intellectual objectives, emerging technologies, and analytical approaches that have the potential to advance our understanding of the evolution of plant form.
This view questioned whether there can be any rational, objective framework for discussing intellectual problems, or whether instead the intellectual frameworks that people use are inherently determined by their life situations.
Spock's manner is equitable, calm, intellectual, and objective; his speech is formal and distinct from everyone else's on the Starship Enterprise.
Our respondents are guided by subjective feelings more than they are by appeals to rational, intellectual and objective conceptions of right and wrong.
This school was one of the first to renounce religious orthodoxy of any kind in favour of rational and objective intellectual inquiry, and it was the first where teachers lectured in German (i.e., a vernacular language) rather than in Latin.
Ruth L. Okediji, Securing Intellectual Property Objectives: New Approaches to Human Rights Considerations, in Casting the Net Wider: Human Rights, Development, and New Duty-Bearers 211 (Margot E. Salomon, Arne Tostensen & Wouter Vandenhole eds., 2007).
The seminar is constructed as a debate among these four influential "urban intellectuals". The objective is to reflect on the past, present, and future of New York City and other cities in light of their ideas.
In Orientalism, Said argued that much of the Western study of Islamic civilization was political intellectualism meant for European self-affirmation, rather than for objective intellectual enquiry and academic study of Eastern cultures.
While learning and perceptual theorists may stress objective intellectual steps involved in the process of being persuaded, functional theorists emphasize more subjective motivational aspects.
