The MAE department will revive Aerospace Structures, a pillar of the aerospace engineering curriculum and a requirement for majors. The course will include new content to address recent advances in aerospace design and new approaches to teaching that emphasize in-depth discussions, hands-on lab assignments, and in-class demos.

The most popular course on campus, COS 126 will transition from using pre-recorded lectures to presenting lectures live. The new lectures will update the course content, taking into account recent developments in computer science with topics such as artificial intelligence/machine learning, networks/distributed systems, and ethics in computing.  Precepts for the course will include new active-learning exercises and programming assignments.

This co-taught class puts Africa at the center of intellectual and artistic inquiry, encouraging students to think globally and engaging them in a multi-modal form of pedagogy in which practice-based exploration is carefully integrated with textual learning and close analysis. The course will give students a deep and well-rounded understanding of African performance practice–free of cliches and stereotypes–and a sense of the diversity of the African continent through its music.

This new course aims to address the persistent compartmentalization of material and digital learning by engaging messy, material-based pedagogy alongside the teaching of digital tools and technologies. Students in the course will experience a fast-paced studio environment in which they identify and creatively solve problems using a range of approaches including systemic thinking, visualization, material and digital experimentation, and adaptation.

Inspired by the question “Can anything be a scripture?,” this course will move beyond the “American” purview to take a more conceptual approach to a broader range of case studies. In its reimagined form, it will include the study of scriptures in the conventional sense as well as other types of texts that are subject to “scripturalization,” including forms of writing not traditionally thought of as religious as well as visual art forms, architecture, and the built environment of everyday life.

The core seminar for the European Cultural Studies program will be overhauled to focus on socio-cultural debates that originated within specific national territories in Europe, yet had an impact on several other continents. The course’s thematic approach to topics such as “racism,” “revolutionism,” and “Classicism and Anti-Classicism” will offer students a broad view of transnational politics and give them familiarity with the literature and research methods of a number of different disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.

Reimagined as a gateway into the Certificate Program in Asian American Studies, this course will include multimedia lectures that balance historical exposition, literary interpretation, and the use of tech tools that foster student engagement and collaboration. By asking students to evaluate and challenge their own assumptions about the meanings of “Asian,” “American,” and “Asian American,” the course will broaden students’ understanding of how these categories get imagined and remade through works of art, literature, and popular culture.

The new iteration of this course will include videos of mock medical interviews with native Spanish speakers for students to study as models for their own mock interviews at semester’s end. Through these videos, students will experience language samples from speakers with different accents and will have the opportunity to observe the non-verbal interactions between native speakers. The videos will contain medical content, but they will also be culturally relevant, offering students information about the Latino community which will support their future interactions with patients.

This innovative anthropological engineering course aims to reckon with the role of autonomous machines in human ecology—their promises and perils–by bringing together an interdisciplinary group of social science, humanities, computer science, and engineering students around an agile robot nicknamed Spot. Through their repeated interaction with Spot, students will cooperate in small teams to experiment with diverse visions of utilizing robots in “the service of humanity.”

Inspired by a successful graduate course on the same topic, this new laboratory science course will provide students with an introduction to optics, lasers, and Fourier transforms through hands-on experience building optical imaging systems. Targeting students from engineering, chemistry, physics, astrophysics, and computer science, the proposed course emphasizes the interplay between theoretical concepts of Fourier transforms and their practical applications.

As the first of a two-semester calculus-based introductory sequence taken by prospective STEM majors, PHY 103 attracts students with a variety of backgrounds. The new version of this course will feature an expanded collection of videos covering concepts such as the quadratic equation, trigonometry, vectors, frames of reference, applications of Newton’s 2nd Law, momentum conservation, and collisions. Ranging in duration from 5 to 20 minutes, these videos will be available to students on demand and will offer them extra support on the topics in which they need the most help.

The redesigned version of this methods course will include new assignments, guidelines, and assessment tools that better prepare junior English concentrators for their independent work. In conjunction with these changes, the guidelines and assessment procedures for the junior paper will be revised with the goal of bringing consistency and transparency to each phase of a student’s independent work within the department.

The focus of this course–in which students from the University of the Philippines will participate virtually alongside Princeton students–is on learning how to read, transcribe, translate, and interpret handwritten documents concerning the Spanish Crown’s conquest of the Philippines and parts of present-day Indonesia, China, and Japan. Students will analyze manuscripts “against the grain,” attempting to detect the voices of those subjected and colonized: Philippine natives, mestizos, and the Spaniards and Latin Americans who were conscripted into forced labor. The course’s major assignment will be the curation of a website that demonstrates how these documents matter to the study of the Spanish Pacific.

A mainstay of the undergraduate sequence in political theory, this course will employ a new system of specifications grading so that each student can chart a path through the course that is relevant to their own purpose in taking it–whether as prospective Politics majors, for a minor, or for general education.

This introductory class will give students a broad overview of the manipulation of the physical environment (scenery), clothing, lights, sound, and projections in live performance. Through hands-on experimentation, students will improve their visual literacy and research skills and gain an understanding of how sensory cues can be used to shape emotions and experience.

With the goal of giving students tangible tools for solving real-world problems in their own communities, the new iteration of this course will incorporate a service-learning final project in which students work with a local food-related organization. In the pilot version of the project, students spent several weeks volunteering, observing, and interviewing clients at the Arm in Arm food assistance program in order to offer the executive director advice on how to expand their services to more food insecure community members.

This award will enable essential updates to the online Portuguese teaching platform, Língua Viva, used in these three language courses. Modifications to the platform will include restructuring the course sequence according to updated Cognitive Linguistics recommendations; reorganizing the website to make it more user friendly; incorporating interactive multimedia elements to provide more authentic learning experiences for students; and converting open-ended activities to those that provide immediate feedback.

The redesigned version of this course seeks to make ASL learning materials more accessible to students through the creation of a "library" of videos and an expansion of the intranet ASL dictionary. The course will also implement A Sign of Respect, a published curriculum that focuses on teaching ASL students about Deaf cultural norms. Finally, to help students meet the course requirement of attending a Deaf community event, the class will host an ASL performing artist on campus during the Deaf Awareness Month in September.

In collaboration with ProCES, the Historical Society of Princeton, and the Princeton Public Library, the Departments of History and Spanish and Portuguese will develop a series of three courses in which students help to compile an archive of oral histories of Spanish-speaking Latino/a/e Princetonians. The goal of the project is to provide a robust narrative about the growing Latino/a/e community in the town of Princeton, while also offering students the opportunity to learn research skills, consider the challenges of conducting oral histories in Spanish, and gain knowledge of US immigration and Latin American history.

In the redeveloped version of this required capstone course for MAE’s aerospace program, new learning modules will provide a unifying and coherent mechanism for teaching high level systems engineering and management concepts alongside technical subsystem design and analysis. Instructors will also implement a new peer review system and continue to grow the on-campus reach of the final design presentation event.