Global Arc

Writing well matters. It can play a key role in the circulation and targeting of ideas in society and can also have a direct impact on the development and health of a democracy. This course will take as its starting point the value of good writing and the social context in which it is embedded. We will look at process and practice and examine issues of impact. We will look at a variety of forms, including press releases, long form works, and investigative pieces that can lead to shifts in policy. We will also explore how the art of speechwriting and rhetoric can be used to persuade and galvanize audiences.

SPI 299 is an introductory coordinating workshop for SPIA juniors who are beginning the two-year sequence to fulfill their junior paper and senior thesis independent research requirements. This workshop provides an introduction to the resources and support available to undergraduate researchers, background guidance and instruction helpful for conducting research, and a forum to practice and further develop the skills needed to engage successfully in independent research.

This course takes a closer look at the debate surrounding the issues of the role of morality and values in U.S. foreign policy from a historical, intellectual, and practical viewpoint. When, how, and why did various U.S. administrations come to emphasize notion of morality as a central dimension of their foreign policy? Have the strategies they have carried out to that end reinforced or detracted from U.S. national interests?

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 explores the fundamental role of public policy, economics, and technology in transforming the national healthcare landscape through progressive innovation over time. Through lectures, discussions, and cases studies we will examine the complex history, present day realities, and future considerations of health policy, healthcare economics, emerging technologies and their cumulative role in shaping care delivery, access, and national health outcomes for all Americans. We will examine landmark health policy decisions over the past century that have defined American healthcare and will analyze their downstream impact.

This course introduces you to environmental justice, which examines the processes that systematically lead poor and marginalized communities to face a disproportionate degree of environmental risks and hazards. Beginning with the birth of the environmental justice movement focused on the siting of waste facilities, we will trace the development of the field as it has expanded into examination of food, climate, water, energy, and the international waste trade.

Since the 1920s, the term "gang" has been used to describe all kinds of collectives, from groups of well-dressed mobsters to petty criminals and juvenile delinquents. In nearly a century of research the only consistency in their characterization is as internal Other from the vantage of the law. This class will investigate how the category of "the gang" serves to provoke imaginaries of racial unrest and discourses of "dangerous," threatening subjects in urban enclaves. More broadly we will examine the methods and means by which liberal democratic governments maintain their sovereign integrity through the containment of threatening populations

How can the world conserve its forests? Forests, cover 1/3 of global land and play critical roles in addressing climate change, supporting biodiversity and supplying wood. This class will explore the science and policy of conserving the world's forests. Starting with an exploration of forest ecology and effects on climate, the class will then explore forces that drive forest loss or degradation including growing food and wood demand, roadbuilding, concessions, and shifting development patterns. It will address the question of whether the world should use more or less wood, and carefully evaluate various public and private policies.

This course studies the science-policy interface: how it works, how it fails, and how to revamp it. It will critically examine whether the kinds of evidence science produces match the kinds of evidence useful for policy. Topics: self-correction in science (theory & practice); science reform; science journalism; public trust in science; modeling the science-policy boundary; evidence synthesis; the roles of scientific & non-scientific evidence, and values; policy making under incomplete evidence; theories of policy change; science funding. Student papers will empirically advance understanding of these topics and/or develop proposals for reform.