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 a one-time prerequisite for Stanford Academic Council Members (Post-Docs, Academic Staff, Faculty, Instructor/Clinical Instructor/Lecturer/Librarian positions) and SoM DFA's/HRM3/HRM4 senior human resource managers (Regular Staff positions) who are sponsoring an H1-B visa applicant for employment at Stanford.