Faculty, staff and students at Stanford will likely, at one time or another, intersect with federal regulations that impose access, dissemination or participation restrictions on the transfer of items and information regulated for reasons of national security, foreign policy, anti-terrorism or non-proliferation. In these situations, the Stanford community is dealing with US export control regulations.

This class is one-time prerequisite for Stanford faculty (research-related positions) and senior human resource managers (all other positions) who are sponsoring an H1-B visa applicant for employment at Stanford.