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Academic Theme Houses

A University Theme House - Academic (UTH-A) is a productive academic collaboration between multiple participants: staff, faculty, institutional affiliates, and undergraduates, all within a residence. This intentional collaboration will seek to promote intellectual vitality in the residence. The team will initiate, implement, actively participate in, and commit to running the academic theme for a minimum of four years, with the possibility of further four-year term after successful review. 

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The premise is that the theme will assist in forming a dynamic community around a designated focus, creating interesting and stimulating conversation and knowledge exchange. This will contribute to a student’s sense of well-being and belonging in their residence to which they will have specifically pre-assigned. 

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These houses are

  • Open to all students ​who apply from any neighborhood
  • Can be all-frosh, four-class or upperclass houses 
  • You can live in an academic university theme dorm for two of your three upperclass years.  You can live here a third year if you are a student leader.
  • If you live in this type of house your first year, the neighborhood the house is in will become your neighborhood home. You are still eligible to live in a different university theme house in your upperclass years.
  • While open to students in all neighborhoods, the house will be part of one neighborhood, will participate on that neighborhood’s community council, and will have access to and share resources with the neighborhood.
  • Governed by the Committee on Residential Learning (CoRL).

Academic Theme House Pages

  • Explore Energy (Theme)

     Are you eager to make friends among housemates who are charged up for energy revolutions shaping the future? Explore Energy House, a four-class academic theme house in Potter at Sterling Quad, is open to any undergraduate in any major, and graduate studen

  • Humanities (Theme)

     Opened in the fall of 2015, Ng House is a lively central location for humanities activity on campus (broadly Art, Art History, Classics, Digital and Computational Humanities, English, History, Literatures, Languages, Linguistics, Music, Philosophy, Religi

  • ITALIC+Arts (Theme)

     All pre-assigned residents of ITALIC+Arts must demonstrate interest in and active engagement in the arts. But, you don’t need to be a prodigy or even majoring in the arts! We are as interested in your enthusiasm for the community as we are in your arts pr

  • Outdoor House (Theme)

     Outdoor House (ODH) is a center for exploration, thought, and play focused on natural systems, sustainability, and conservation. The experiential and academic components of our house are essential to this mission, with adventure and community driving our

  • Public Service & Civic Engagement (Theme)

     Otero is Stanford’s Public Service and Civic Engagement Theme House, a four-class house with 44 first-year residents and 34 upperclass residents who share an interest in public service.

  • Structured Liberal Education (Theme)

     Structured Liberal Education (SLE) is a residence-based academic program housed in East Florence Moore Hall that encourages students to live a life of ideas in an atmosphere that emphasizes critical thinking and interpretation. Sometimes called “a liberal

  • Well House (Theme)

     We want to create a substance-free undergraduate residential community and experience based on the theme of wellness. This provides an environment for students to learn and practice holistic approaches to physical, mental, and emotional health: The Well H
Exterior photo of Okada House.