Global Arc

Special topics in security and sustainability will explore areas of policy related to conflict and cooperation, development, environment, climate and energy, science, technology and security as well as trade and financial policy both domestically and internationally.

Special Topics in International Policy and Development will house courses related to policy and development specifically in regions outside of the US.

This seminar is organized in three parts: an overview of the impacts of climate change and general approaches to adaptation and transformation in floodplains; a study of several regions that have had to adapt to increasing flooding; and a series of five specific local case studies, coastal and riverine. The topic of climate adaptation is of course vast and of necessity the scope of this seminar is limited to one already major impact of climate change.

The Policy Advocacy Clinic provides a unique offering for students to learn about and participate in the policymaking process. This one-year, two semester experience includes two core components: a fall semester academic seminar, and a spring semester clinical program. Students in this seminar will study the policymaking process and learn how to turn social problems into policy solutions. Topics will cover both the academic and practical, ranging from studying public policy theories and structures, to developing the skills needed to engage in policy analysis, campaign planning, power-mapping, SWOT analysis, and the legislative process.

The seminar will examine the Israel-Palestine conflict and the conflict resolution process, focusing on the narratives of Israelis and Palestinians and on U.S. policy. Students should emerge from the course well-versed in the intricacies of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the conflict resolution process.

National security secrecy presents a conflict of core values: self-government and self-defense. We need information to hold our leaders accountable, but if we know our enemies know too. This course explores that dilemma and the complex relationships that resolve it. Beginning with the traditional rubric of "government versus press," the course maps an increasingly fragmented information marketplace. We will apply competing legal and philosophical models to real-world cases of unauthorized disclosure. Among the subjects: weapons of mass destruction, the "war on terror," the Snowden surveillance disclosures, torture and Wikileaks.

In this intensive seminar, Princeton students have the opportunity to contribute to the exoneration of wrongfully convicted people. A select group of dedicated students will spend the semester as investigators, documentarians, and social justice advocates. The goal is to create a public documentary, website, and social media campaign that makes the case for the innocence of a wrongfully convicted person who is currently languishing in prison and deserves to be free.

This course is designed to allow students to explore more deeply the process and meaning of painting. Students will complete a set of structured assignments and are encouraged to develop an independent direction. Contemporary critical theory is integrated into the course. One studio class, four hours per week. Prerequisite: 203, 204 and instructor's permission.

This seminar will frame the idea of black film as a visual negotiation between film as art and the discursivity of race, rather than black film as a demographic, or a genre, or a reflection of the black experience, or something bound by a representational politics of positive and negative stereotypes. Black film will be critically considered as an interdisciplinary practice that enacts a distinct visual and expressive culture alongside literature, music, art, photography, and new media. Students will consider new paradigms for genre, narrative, aesthetics, historiography, and intertextuality within this overarching concept of black film.

To become a working filmmaker today, one has to master the short film - being a filmmaker no longer means creating feature films exclusively, if at all. This course will focus on the technical challenges of being short as well as the conceptual challenge of being funny.The collaborative, in-class production of short film comedies will be augmented by critical analysis of the short comedy genre throughout film history, by in-class readings and discussions, and by visits from industry professionals.The ultimate goals will be not only learning how to discern successful short comedy content and why it "works," but learning how to make it as well.