Global Arc

The course will explore how social sciences responded to the rise of fascism from 1920 to 1945. Its aim is to provide knowledge and information on fascist ideology and movements in historical perspective and conceptual and theoretical tools for making sense of fascism in our contemporary world. We will learn how social scientists perceived, understood and reacted to fascism and follow their insights and misconceptions, analyses and interpretations, debates and polemics, academic research and political work, through which the knowledge and understanding of fascism was accumulated and, all too often, neglected or forgotten in the past 75 years.

How do people use contemporary technologies -- like cell phones, MMORPGs, text messages, and social network sites -- in their daily lives? What impact do these systems have on relationships, mobility, global systems, activism, sustainability and art? And can we design new systems to support these experiences? This senior seminar will bring together students in the social and computing sciences in an introduction to qualitative studies in Human Computer Interaction (HCI), to examine our assumptions in computing systems and reach for new dimensions of user experience.

From soap dispensers that don't see dark skin, to facial recognition tools that misidentify black faces, scholars and citizens have documented how the devices and tools we use compound inequalities in society. This Princeton Challenge intervenes in this trend by asking what would it look like to build explicitly anti-racist systems? Students will work in teams to design, build and test systems that embrace anti-racism as a core value, drawing on sociology of race, technology, and Human-Computer Interaction, and scholarship on anti-racism. Students from all sectors of campus, with or without technical backgrounds welcome.

A performance-oriented, multi-media introductory course in modern spoken and written Turkish. Based on authentic input, grammatical properties of the language are introduced. Cultural aspects are stressed throughout. Language skills are developed through communicative activities in class and individualized work with interactive digitized learning aids.

Familiarity with all grammatical aspects of Modern Turkish. Reading text of moderate difficulty; developing communicative skills; ability to comprehend and engage in daily discourse; ability to write short compositions.

Extensive exposure to current news, authentic multimedia sources; in-depth review of grammar. Introduction to modern Turkish literature, with close reading of selected prose and poetry. Development of all language skills and cultural understanding is emphasized.

To enable students to communicate in Modern Turkish, and to read Turkish (current events, editorials, literature and academic writings) with some speed and accuracy.

This course introduces a wide variety of reading material (newspaper, memoir, letter, short story, diary etc.) to strengthen students' abilities in understanding and evaluating modern Turkish texts. Information on selected authors and their works will provide a general view on the Ottoman/Turkish cultural, literary and historical panorama. The analysis and discussions of the texts in class will serve to build fluency.

This course introduces a wide variety of topics in contemporary Turkish media, cinema and documentaries. It will develop students' skills in listening and understanding colloquial Turkish, as well as in evaluating social, political and cultural issues covered by the media (including BBC, TRT, VOA). Viewing a selection of Turkish documentaries and films will serve to build fluency through in-depth classroom analysis and discussions. Weekly written assignments will help to develop students' proficiency in literary Turkish.

Introduces students to social scientific thinking on cities and urbanism and then builds on this base to consider and evaluate various approaches to urban policy.