Global Arc

This course explores Latin American scholars' contributions to international relations theories, specifically three conceptual frameworks: dependency, autonomy, and peripheral realism. Within each, we will do a close reading of foundational texts by Latin American scholars to identify their key objects, arguments, and limits. These texts will be complemented by case studies illustrating the links between theory and practice, critiques of the frameworks, and analyses of the particular cultural-historical-geographical moments in which they were developed.

Latin American cinema is tightly intertwined with the region's political landscape, historically serving as a means to document social realities and examine particular political formations. In this course, we will use cinema as a catalyst to explore transformative, at times traumatic, political and social events, including democracy, agrarian reform, revolution, dictatorial regimes, and neoliberalism. In addition to watching a group of memorable films, students will be asked to read and discuss short secondary readings by writers, lawyers, historians, and political scientists on the events the films focus on. Course taught in Spanish.

How might it be possible to address the harms that come from histories of colonialism and slavery in the Americas? What remedies are available? This course explores the question of historical injustice through real-world efforts to confront histories of racial and colonial violence, using three case studies, Colombia, Haiti, and the U.S., as well as comparative perspectives from the region. Students will read primary source documents alongside anthropological, historical, and literary texts to examine how courts, social movements, and ordinary people understand harm and imagine repair.

This seminar introduces four themes in political analysis of Latin America: the state, the political regime, economic development, and inequality. These topics structure foundational debates across the social sciences and humanities. The course takes a comparative, historical approach, situating national political and economic trajectories within broader regional and global contexts. We examine the territorial configuration of Argentina and Mexico after independence to explain limits on maintaining order and providing public goods. We also compare city institutions to assess preferences for redistribution and politicians' delivery strategies.

The senior thesis (498-499) is a year-long project in which students complete a substantial piece of research and scholarship under the supervision and advisement of a Princeton faculty member. While a year-long thesis is due in the student's final semester of study, the work requires sustained investment and attention throughout the academic year.

The senior thesis (498-499) is a year-long project in which students complete a substantial piece of research and scholarship under the supervision and advisement of a Princeton faculty member. While a year-long thesis is due in the student's final semester of study, the work requires sustained investment and attention throughout the academic year.

This course examines a range of major topics in global health, with each weekly session dedicated to a single theme. An invited expert will frame the topic at the start of class, followed by student engagement through questions, commentary, and discussion. Students will then expand on aspects of the expert's presentation in short presentations, connecting the material to broader issues in global health. Students should plan for 3-5 hours of reading and literature research each week in preparation for presentations and discussions. The course meets once weekly in the evening.

Students carry out independent work with a faculty adviser who, in most cases, will subsequently become their senior thesis adviser. Those students who plan to do an experimental thesis may, in consultation with their adviser, begin conducting laboratory research. Students meet with their adviser frequently (6 to 10 meetings) to analyze the relevant literature, discuss experimental findings, and plan their senior thesis research.

MOL 351 is a required core course for juniors in MOL. It has two main components: a weekly lecture in which students learn about ongoing departmental research, and a weekly precept in which they learn how to engage with scientific research papers. Each lecture is presented by two MOL faculty members, providing broad exposure to cutting-edge research in molecular biology. In precept, students read and critically analyze primary research papers in molecular biology. Two six-week modules, each with a distinct topic area, provide students with an in-depth introduction to two different subdisciplines.

An introduction to working with digital sound, from capture (microphone techniques), through processing (Digital Audio Workstations and mixing/signal processing techniques), to reproduction (speakers/headphones). Listening and ear training for sound production will be a central theme, with the aim of improving our ability to connect control parameters with perceptual experience. Broader questions about the relationships between production tools and the creative process will also be considered. Approach will be genre-agnostic, and principles and practices should be relevant regardless of aesthetic.