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.

This course introduces students to the study of social processes using agent based models (ABMs)--computer simulations in which agents interact and generate social outcomes such as norms, culture, and inequality. In the first part of the course, we will discuss the theoretical foundations of ABMs, how to design models that explore empirical questions, and practice generating, visualizing, and analyzing results. The second part will focus on ABM applications in the social sciences and their substantive implications. Students will be encouraged to develop a critical appreciation of ABMs, and will produce their own model for the final project.

Online platforms, which monitor and intervene in the lives of billions of people, routinely host thousands of experiments to evaluate policies, test products, and contribute to theory in the social sciences. Field experiments are also powerful tools for monitoring discrimination and governing human and machine behavior. In this hands-on undergraduate class, students will develop practical experimentation skills, engaging with methods, theory, ethics, and politics of large-scale behavioral research online. For a final project, student teams will develop, conduct, and report on a novel experiment together with an online community or platform.

This course introduces core concepts and tools for analyzing spatial data. Students will gain hands-on experience creating spatial data (e.g., geocoding and merging data sources), producing and interpreting maps, and describing and analyzing spatial patterns and relationships. Drawing on examples in housing, health, education, public policy, and urban studies, students will learn how to apply spatial reasoning in the empirical analysis of social phenomenon and use spatial methods to answer questions about the geographic distribution of social problems, the organization of communities, and the relationship between society and the environment.

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, multimedia introductory course in modern spoken and written Turkish. Based on authentic input, grammatical properties of the language are introduced. Language skills are developed through communicative activities in class and individualized work with interactive learning aids. Five classes; laboratory required. No credit is given for TUR 101 unless followed by TUR 102.

A continuation of 101. Coverage of basic grammar. There will be a growing emphasis on Turkish culture, reading, and increasing vocabulary. Final exam includes an oral interview. Five classes; laboratory work required. Prerequisite: 101. Students who complete 102 normally place into 105.

Building on students' knowledge, this course aims to further all language skills through extensive exposure to current news, authentic multimedia sources, and close reading of graded authentic materials. Weekly modules to reinforce more complex language structures. Prerequisite: 102 or permission of the instructor. Five classes; laboratory work recommended as needed.

A continuation of 105. Emphasis on developing all language skills and cultural understanding. Review of grammar as needed. In addition to exposure to current events, students will be introduced to modern Turkish literature, with close reading of selected prose and poetry. Final exam includes an oral interview. Five classes; laboratory work recommended as needed.