Global Arc

How do musical sounds hang together and convey meaningful ideas to its local audience--emotions, acoustic, semiotic, and ideological dimensions to theorize how it answers to diverse aesthetic and epistemic conditions across listening cultures. Students will engage a range of musical sounds through embodied analysis, (auto)ethnography, and close readings in music theory, ethnomusicology, and music perception. While this course welcomes students without previous training in music theory, it is also poised to challenge those with substantial experience.

This sequence is designed to provide Sophomores with an in-lab research experience over two semesters, with PSY 230 in the Fall being the prerequisite for PSY 231 in the Spring. PSY 230 is a non-credit bearing class while PSY 231 carries a full unit of credit (both are graded P/D/F). Students will gain an introduction to research within a Psychology lab. Students are expected to spend a minimum of 6 hours per week engaged in research and attend weekly meetings as outlined by the mentoring faculty. At the end of each semester, students will submit a written report of their research experience (PSY 230) and present their findings (PSY 231).

In this course you will learn two of the most popular programming languages in biology, R and python, along with current bioinformatics tools for dealing with genomic datasets. We will cover the basics of programming logic, along with project and data management skills. Special focus will be given to processing and curation of large tabular and genomic datasets. This course will serve as a practical introduction to programming, giving students the tools they need to succeed in their projects and showing how simple computational tools can liberate them to pursue the questions they are passionate about.

An introduction to the ecology and evolution of the woods, grasslands and rivers in and around Princeton. The course will meet on Friday mornings and afternoons and after preliminary lecture undertake field trips to local sites of ecological interest: the Institute Woods, Mountain Lakes, Stony Ford, Terhune Orchards, D&R Greenway, Autumn Hill and Bowman¿s Hill. Students will learn about the ecology and evolution of local plant and animal communities and develop independent research projects that examine specific aspects of their ecology.

An advanced language course that explores the history and genres of ASL literature. Students will broaden their grammar, vocabulary, and Deaf culture knowledge through viewing and analyzing various ASL literary works and creating their own ASL literary works.

Ge'ez is an ancient African language of world-historical significance. With a history spanning centuries, its writings offer a unique vantage point on the interconnected histories of African, Middle Eastern, and Indian Ocean societies. It lives on in the cultural and religious life of many East African communities, and their global diasporas, and through its many linguistic descendants, including Amharic with 57 million speakers. This course will teach you how to read, understand, and translate Ge'ez texts, including from manuscripts housed at Princeton, one of the largest collections in the world. There are no prerequisites.

This is an introductory course aimed at students with no previous background in Ukrainian. During the course, students acquire effective communication skills in speaking, listening, reading, and writing, and develop a deeper appreciation and knowledge of Ukrainian customs and traditions. To enhance cultural awareness, students are presented with authentic audio-visual materials, literary texts, and art objects. Upon completion, students will have the ability to read concise, original Ukrainian texts and speak about basic topics such as school, family life, and travel.

This course will teach some of the fundamental concepts needed to succeed in the calculus sequence, and develop students' mathematical writing and presentation skills. It is comprised of lectures, precepts, and writing workshops.Written work will be assigned weekly, and a final project will be due at the end of the summer.

MAT 210 will survey the main ideas of calculus in a single variable incorporating an introduction to formal mathematical proofs. The course will place equal emphasis on theory (how to construct formal mathematical definitions and rigorous, logical proofs) and on practice (concrete computational examples involving integration and infinite sequences and series). This course provides a more theoretical foundation in single variable calculus than MAT104, intended to prepare students better for a first course in real analysis (MAT215), but it covers all the computational tools needed to continue to multivariable calculus (MAT201 or MAT203).

The momentous encounter of Europeans and Indigenous peoples had shattering consequences for the worldview and identity of both groups. The encounters raised a host of existential questions that seemed to demonstrate the inadequacy of each culture's traditional religious models of the world. This course explores the effects of contact from early 17th-centruy encounters in Canada and North America into the residential schools of the 19th and 20th centuries. The course explores the effects of contact: contrasting prescriptive Christian ideals of conversion with the descriptive reality of mutual change and influence.