Global Arc

Bioethics was named in 1970. Its etymology, however, is from the ancient Greek. We will put ancient and modern conceptions of human flourishing in conversation by exploring how naturalizing medicine has historically shaped the nature of birth, death, and mind. What is at stake in invoking the Greeks when constructing the ethics of modern medicine? How can reading ancient Greek texts in context help us think critically and imaginatively about ethical challenges in medicine today? We will examine how the formation of a medical tradition around the physical body creates persistent practical and philosophical questions in the clinic and beyond.

We begin with a body and spend our lives representing, indexing, performing, expressing, camouflaging, revealing, adorning, contextualizing, and recontextualizing that body. This course will look at how artists have made work to intervene in this process. Alongside other aspects of visual culture, we will take protest as a key site of the political body that we will break down into voice, movement, text, and mass media. Studio work will explore strategies of representation through mixed media, drawing, painting, photography and performance. The course will include visiting artists and a museum or gallery visit.

The Haptic Lab is hands-on studio course in which haptic learning - both physical and virtual - will occur simultaneously. Four fast-paced, materially intensive assignments will be paired with equally intensive digital production. Students not only will engage in making artworks in both realms, but also engage in critical analysis of the dynamic relationship between the two. Materials may include ash wood, silicon rubber, soil, polystyrene, or a recipe for 2,000-year-old cement. Course work will be supported by visiting artists and scholars and accompanied by cognitive self-analysis in the form of weekly photo and journal documentation.

Poverty and inequality are increasing. In this class, a comparative approach will be applied that highlights country differences with a special emphasis on the US Israel comparison. In the first few weeks of this class, basic theories of poverty and inequality will be reviewed, and how theories regarding poverty have changed over the years will be discussed. In the remaining weeks, discussion will turn to substantive topics such as gender, immigration, ethnicity/nationality, age, and health.

This course will offer an in-depth exploration of multilateralism and its role in our world at a time of global change and transition. It will provide students with an understanding of how the shifting world order, the rise of new actors and power centers, and new forms of fragmentation in politics and geoeconomics are testing international relations in an unprecedented manner. Technologies such as artificial intelligence are set to profoundly shape diplomacy, politics, and culture. We will analyze these forces of change, studying how they are affecting each other and impacting global governance.

How have racial and ethnic inequalities in housing and neighborhood development become hallmarks of many U.S. cities? This course focuses on the complex topics of race and racism from a spatial perspective, paying particular attention to the effects of interlocking systems of oppression on primarily urban African-American communities. However, we will not just examine the built environment of such communities. People shape and are shaped by the places they physically occupy. We, therefore, also delve into the narratives and everyday experiences of racialized city dwellers through the social sciences, the humanities, and media.

The class will focus on Petrarch's Latin works and the legacy of classical antiquity. The aim is to read select Latin works in the original. We will also look into Petrarch's personality as presented in his work, his belief in the moral and practical value of studying the classics, and his inspiring humanist philosophy more generally. There will be guest speakers.

This course is an introduction to personal financial decisions for students with no prior knowledge of economics or finance. It introduces key concepts such as saving, borrowing, interest rates, risk, and diversification. It also provides an overview of important financial products and services such as bank accounts, retirement accounts, mutual funds, mortgages, credit cards, and insurance. Students learn to avoid common financial mistakes due to inertia and behavioral biases. Key concepts are illustrated through real world examples and homework exercises with practical calculations.

POL 300 aims to introduce students to elements of good research design in political science. POL 300 consists of three components: The weekly lecture covers topics in research design. The weekly precept discusses lecture materials and prepares students to complete problem sets. The practicum applies principles of research design to one of several specific topic areas. Practica are led by faculty instructors with expertise in the topic area who will teach students how to design and carry out a specific independent research project. POL 300 is open to Politics juniors only and designed to complement the Fall Junior Independent Work requirement.

Modeled on the undergraduate writing seminar taken by Princeton's own transfer students, WRI 100 prepares Transfer Scholars for the rigors of independent research, and facilitates their transition from a consumer to producer of scholarship. Emphasizing evidence-driven argument in response to Transfer Scholars' own intellectual curiosities, WRI 100 provides analytical tools for working with humanities and social science theory.