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# McGraw Commons

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## Posts

- [Sefer Hasidim](https://commons.princeton.edu/sefer-hasidim/) - The Princeton University Sefer Hasidim Database (PUSHD) includes fourteen manuscripts containing different versions of Sefer Hasidim and its fragments. http://etc.princeton.edu/sefer_hasidim
- [Arabic Alphabet: The Transformation of the Latin Alphabet from its Arabic Equivalent](https://commons.princeton.edu/arabic-alphabet-the-transformation-of-the-latin-alphabet-from-its-arabic-equivalent/) - Featuring animated transformations of Arabic and Latin letters of the alphabet and audio recordings of vocabulary, the Arabic Alphabet website facilitated mastery of the Arabic alphabet in Intensive Arabic
- [EAS233: East Asian Humanities](https://commons.princeton.edu/eas233-east-asian-humanities/) - The East Asian Studies department's East Asian Humanities course expands upon a model developed four years ago. In collaboration with staff from the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning, faculty members in the department continue to develop an online space that not only presents course materials but also allows students augment course readings with multimedia
- [Mapping NYC Modernism: Literature and Art History](https://commons.princeton.edu/mapping-nyc-modernism-literature-and-art-history/) - [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ layout=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding_top=”” padding_right=”” padding_bottom=”” padding_left=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none” last=”no” hover_type=”none” link=”” border_position=”all”][fusion_text] One-term project for visiting (Department of English) Professor David Ball, ’07, Dickinson College. Features student-created maps and entries to create an overview of
- [People, Nature, and the Environment](https://commons.princeton.edu/people-nature-and-the-environment/) - A six-week summer program at the University of Tokyo (UT) is designed specifically for rising juniors and seniors who are preparing to begin their research for their junior papers and senior theses. The program includes: weekly seminars with UT students by guest lecturers on topics and methods related to the theme of “Nature and the
- [Komonjo](https://commons.princeton.edu/komonjo/) - This website introduces four document collections in interactive formats for teaching and study. The first, Not So Secret Secrets, explores the elaborate safeguards for ensuring that Uesugi Kenshin could know that a gunpowder recipe that he received was in fact from the shogun. These documents also reveal the rapidity of transmission of Portuguese knowledge, and
- [WAR, MEMORY AND IDENTITY: A SUMMER RESEARCH PROGRAM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO 2015](https://commons.princeton.edu/war-memory-and-identity-a-summer-research-program-at-the-university-of-tokyo-2015/) - WAR, MEMORY, AND IDENTITY documents a six-week summer program, in partnership with the University of Tokyo, and particularly the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia. With resources and scholars covering the region, and often focusing on different perspectives and questions than those that animate American discussions, the University of Tokyo provides a superb environment for
- [Surrealism: Sex, Dreams, and Revolution](https://commons.princeton.edu/surrealism-sex-dreams-and-revolution/) - This site was created for a course cross-listed between the Departments of Art and Archeology and French. The students in this course studied the Surrealist movement, and created their own projects, according to Surrealist believes. the projects included an exhibition, a word cloud, a review and remix of several Surrealist classic films, and essays on
- [Princeton Buffer](https://commons.princeton.edu/princeton-buffer/) - This site is a student-created review of film, television, and popular culture. In the words of its creators: The Princeton Buffer provides reviews and conversations to advise you on what you should be watching, what’s up with what you’re already watching, or what you should stop watching this instant. We are a group of student
- [The Politics of Race in Comparative Perspective](https://commons.princeton.edu/the-politics-of-race-in-comparative-perspective/) - This seminar explores the causes and consequences of race politics around the world, using theories and methods from political science to elucidate substantively important questions. The course begins by considering the very concept of race, and how it compares with the related notion of "ethnicity". Students study the making and unmaking of white supremacy, "racial
- [FRS101: Facebook: The Social Impact of Social Networks](https://commons.princeton.edu/frs101facebook-the-social-impact-of-social-networks/) - This course examines the social impact of social media sites such as Facebook, and how they have changed communication patterns, and expectations of privacy. Students used the site to comment on course readings, various social networks, and their experience with new forms of social networking. Instructor: Edward Felten, Center for Information Technology Policy and Computer
- [COS436/ELE469: Human-Computer Interface Technology](https://commons.princeton.edu/203113/) - This course introduces hardware and software technologies employed in the creation of human-computer interfaces, and, more broadly, thefield of humancomputer interaction (HCI) . The course will help develop a solid understanding of the concepts and practices of HCI, and current research topics in human-computer interaction and interfaces. The site served as a showcase for student designs for, imlementations of, and
- [POL351/WWS311: The Politics of Development](https://commons.princeton.edu/the-politics-of-development/) - This course investigates the key political drivers of human development through careful consideration of theory and comparative analysis. Topics include state-building, colonialism, ethnic conflict, global integration, multi-level governance, and global public health. The site formed a virtual discussion space for readings, talks, and questions about the course content. Instructor: Evan S. Lieberman, Politics.
- [Venice and the Mediterranean: Crete](https://commons.princeton.edu/venice-and-the-mediterranean-crete/) - This project developed out of ART330/HLS331: Venice and the Mediterranean in the Spring of 2007. The course explored the artistic and cultural geography of Venice's Mediterranean empire, known as the stato da mar, from its beginnings in 1204 to the loss of Crete in 1669. During a 9-day trip to Crete, sponsored by the Program
- [Mapping the Golden Age of Venice](https://commons.princeton.edu/mapping-the-golden-age-of-venice/) - This interactive map encapsulates work done by the students of Art 440, Venice in its Golden Age, Fall 2007. The aim of this interdisciplinary seminar was to explore the art and architecture of Renaissance Venice in the context of its rich cultural heritage and unique political and social system.
- [Mapping Globalization](https://commons.princeton.edu/mapping-globalization/) - The Mapping Globalization website is intended for everyone interested in globalization. The main goal of the website is to make empirical work on globalization as widely accessible as possible. The website offers an expanding set of resources for students, instructors, and researchers, and provides a forum for empirical research on globalization. http://commons.princeton.edu/mg/
- [München auf einen klick](https://commons.princeton.edu/munchen-auf-einen-klick/) - The 'München auf einen klick' website documents undergraduate experiences during a summer study trip in Munich. Students used their newly-acquired language skills to describe their favorite places in the city.
- [FRS 177: The World of Noir](https://commons.princeton.edu/frs-177-the-world-of-noir/) - In the 1940s, pulp magazines and B-films created a new genre, eventually called Noir. On page and screen, hundreds of these crime stories—stark, vivid, and ambiguous—shaped the imagination and self-concept of a world beset by depression and fear. As societies shifted from hot to cold war and grappled with civil rights and urban decay, Noir depicted a
- [Borderlands: Reporting from the frontlines of history in Greece](https://commons.princeton.edu/borderlands-reporting-from-the-frontlines-of-history-in-greece/) - In June and July 2016, students traveled to Athens and the island of Lesbos, notebooks and cameras in hand, to serve as eyewitnesses at a pivotal moment in world affairs. Their challenging assignment: Produce a compelling and rigorous first rough draft of history. http://commons.princeton.edu/globalreporting2016/
- [History Beyond the Written Word: Unconventional Historical Sources and The Historian's Craft](https://commons.princeton.edu/history-beyond-the-written-word-unconventional-historical-sources-and-the-historians-craft/) - In History Beyond the Written Word: Unconventional Historical Sources and The Historian's Craft. History 278 (Spring 2015), students conducted oral history interviews and collected other materials, researching history using unconventional sources.
- [other futures: a virtual exhibition space](https://commons.princeton.edu/other-futures-a-virtual-exhibition-space/) - This creative-collaborative assignment is meant to give students an opportunity to engage critically with visual art and explore the ways it has been put to use to both re-frame and re-conceptualize the Caribbean’s catastrophic history. By coming together around the work of one of the Caribbean artists recently featured in the Small Axe Visual Life
- [Sonic Fugitives](https://commons.princeton.edu/sonic-fugitives/) - Students explore the historically denied the right to literacy, African-Americans have used sound as a mode of protest and expression of freedom, subjectivity, and citizenship. In this course, we will explore the rich interplay of sound and literature in African-American letters, how writers have used sound to make political claims about race, gender, class, region,
- [Inclusive Pedagogy Symposium](https://commons.princeton.edu/inclusive-pedagogy-symposium/) - The Inclusive Pedagogy Symposium sought to answer two important questions: How do educators ensure they are providing an inclusive learning environment for all students? How can the learner’s understanding of inclusive learning and teaching enhance the learning experience of all students? To answer these questions, participants were immersed in literature of inclusive pedagogy, actively engaged
- [The Founders and Their World](https://commons.princeton.edu/the-founders-and-their-world/) - This seminar offers students the opportunity to dig into readings treating American history during the early national period, roughly 1783-1820, when the ideals of the Revolution met the realities of statecraft, when the social institutions of British America were strained through a new national idiom, and when many important issues that would prove vital to
- [Anthropology of Media](https://commons.princeton.edu/anthropology-of-media/) - This course introduces the media as an arena for anthropology by exploring how media texts and technologies are embedded in social forces and cultural values. The course reveals the assumptions about reality that frame representations of cultural difference and social inequality in documentary films, track the global circulation of mass media, and examines how indigenous
- [Aprendo, an online textbook for Spanish 101, 102, 103 & 107](https://commons.princeton.edu/spa-101-102-103-107-aprendo/) - Aprendo is an online textbook developed during 2016 for use in Spanish 101, 102, 103, and 107. Students have access to multimedia course materials and complete exercises online.
- [AAS 341 ART 375: Enter the New Negro: Black Atlantic](https://commons.princeton.edu/aas-341-art-375-enter-the-new-negro-black-atlantic/) - Born in the late 1800s, the New Negro movement demanded political equality, desegregation, and an end to lynching, while also launching new forms of international Black cultural expression. The visionary modernity of its artists not only reimagined the history of the black diaspora by developing new artistic languages through travel, music, religion and poetry, but
- [Levantine Colloquial Arabic](https://commons.princeton.edu/levantine-colloquial-arabic/) - The Levantine Colloquial Arabic site facilitates the study of Arabic through three popular Arabic-language films. The site includes clips from the films, associated vocabulary lists, and transcriptions.
- [ABCBooks: ENG385, Children's Literature](https://commons.princeton.edu/abcbooks/) - The ABC Books project makes available for research and analysis an interactive digital archive of rare children’s alphabet books. The overarching goal of the project is for students not only to interact with the archive but also actively to build and enhance it. With the assistance of staff from the Center for Digital Humanities and
- [HIS278: Digital, Spatial, Visual and Oral Histories](https://commons.princeton.edu/his278-digital-spatial-visual-and-oral-histories/) - Students in the Spring 2016, HIS278, Digital, Spatial, Visual and Oral Histories course produced digital narratives using ESRI's online StoryMaps application. Based on recorded interviews conducted by the Historical Society of Princeton, images from the Society's archives, census records, and digital maps held in Princeton University's Maps and Geospatial Information Center, these multimedia narratives tell stories
- [Princeton Geniza Project](https://commons.princeton.edu/princeton-geniza-project/) - The Princeton Geniza Project website hosts approximately 4500 TEI-encoded transcriptions of Judeo-Arabic textual fragments. The archive has been used for decades as a scholarly research, teaching, and learning resource. In 2016, the newly-created Princeton Geniza Lab in Frist Campus Center, is working with staff members from the McGraw Center to update and standardize the database.
- [Playing Soviet: The Visual Languages of Early Soviet Children's Books, 1917-1953](https://commons.princeton.edu/playing-soviet-the-visual-languages-of-early-soviet-childrens-books-1917-1953/) - The Playing Soviet website presents an interactive database of children’s book illustrations drawn from little-known and rarely-seen Soviet children’s books from the collection of the Cotsen Collection at Princeton’s Firestone Library. The website supports image annotation, allowing students to contribute to the site, and data exports, enabling the development of data visualizations based on information
- [Principedia](https://commons.princeton.edu/principedia/) - Principedia provides a unique forum within which to realize a fundamental aim of the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning: to engage faculty, staff, graduate students and especially undergraduates in systematic reflection and substantive discourse about the practices and processes of learning in Princeton’s distinctive academic environment.
- [URB 202: The Trenton Project](https://commons.princeton.edu/urb-202-the-trenton-project/) - The Trenton Project is a collaborative documentary investigation by the Princeton University course, Documentary Film and the City.
- [AMS 379 GSS 349: Race and Living Laboratories](https://commons.princeton.edu/ams-379-gss-349-race-and-living-laboratories/) - This course traces the intersecting discourses of race, nation, and disease throughout US history, examining various "living laboratories" or sites of state-sanctioned medical experimentation on populations such as Asian American, African American and Latinx, deemed to harbor disease. http://commons.princeton.edu/livinglaboratories/
- [Korean Travel Narratives, 1100s - 1930s](https://commons.princeton.edu/korean-travel-narratives/) - Knowledge about the world transformed over history: civilization, empire, East-West encounter, and postcolonial homelessness are frames that link identity and space. Reading travelogues by Koreans and about Korea, this course attempts to analyze the epistemic coordinates of travelogue that produces knowledge about self and other and to note the changing historical contexts around Korea, which
- [JRN 440: The Literature of Fact](https://commons.princeton.edu/literature-of-fact/) - This seminar encourages the integration of digital storytelling tools--audio, video, still images, graphical material--with journalism's foundational skills of rigorous observation, analysis, and writing. The course explores the forces of vision and voice in non-fiction, the tensions between reporting the story and telling it, and how the best writers bring them into harmony.
- [Women and Religion in America](https://commons.princeton.edu/women-and-religion-in-america/) - This course explores the dynamics of religion, gender, and power in American religious history, with case studies of women in a variety of traditions. Student's final digital history project (e.g. podcast, online museum exhibition, Wikipedia page, digital oral history, audio walking tour, digitized primary source) contribute to a collaborative digital exhibition.
- [Contemporary Experimental Fiction and Visual Culture](https://commons.princeton.edu/contemporary-experimental-fiction/) - Students in this course study contemporary writers and artists at the intersection of the fine art exhibition, the artist’s book, and graphic narrative who seek to overturn the traditions, formal devices, and audience expectations of literary fiction. Students conducted creative experiments on the class blog to sharpen our critical facilities and make ourselves attuned to
- [Environmental and Social Crisis](https://commons.princeton.edu/environmental-and-social-crisis/) - This course explores the social and political elements of environmental crisis, looking at how war and capitalism precipitate environmental crises and how state and corporate institutions also benefit from these disasters.
- [Soviet Culture, Above and Below Ground](https://commons.princeton.edu/soviet-culture/) - This interdisciplinary survey explores Soviet literature, art, theater, and film after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. The course focuses on major cultural topics in and around the increasing pressure of shifting political landscapes, ideology, propaganda, the publishing market, and the role of the writer in Russian society.
- [Spanish for a Medical Mission in Ecuador](https://commons.princeton.edu/spanish-for-a-medical-mission-in-ecuador/) - Students in this course focuses on medical and health topics in the hispanic world. Students learn and practice specific vocabulary and structures useful for conducting a medical interview in Spanish. Aspects of Latino culture in the health and medical fields are explored by means of examining authentic texts and through the contribution of guest speakers.
- [ENG 523: Renaissance Drama: Shakespeare's Language](https://commons.princeton.edu/eng-523-renaissance-drama-shakespeares-language/) - A survey of Shakespeare's linguistic resources, from several standpoints: the history of the language, the art of rhetoric, problems of attribution (including the potentials of computational stylometrics), and poetics. http://commons.princeton.edu/shakespeares-language/
- [Migration Reporting: Manitoba](https://commons.princeton.edu/migration-reporting-manitoba/) - This seminar will focus on journalism and the global migration crisis, as more than 65 million people are on the move, with forced displacements at a record high. At the same time, refugee resettlement in the United States is contentious. This course examines journalism's approach to the crisis in photos, text, and radio, considering the
- [Borderland: Reporting on the front lines of history in Greece](https://commons.princeton.edu/borderland-reporting-on-the-front-lines-of-history-in-greece/) - In June and July 2017, students traveled to Athens and the island of Lesbos, notebooks and cameras in hand, to serve as eyewitnesses at a pivotal moment in world affairs. Their challenging assignment: Produce a compelling and rigorous first rough draft of history. http://commons.princeton.edu/globalreporting2017/
- [Sonic Cinema](https://commons.princeton.edu/sonic-cinema/) - This course explores the use of sound in relation to moving images, including film scoring, musicals, soundtracks, music videos, and experimental sound and video art. Significant attention is devoted to digital technology and media soundscapes. Several questions are addressed in the course: How does sound reinforce regimes of audiovisual representation? How does it disrupt them?
- [Local Reporting: Paris as a Case Study](https://commons.princeton.edu/paris-case-study/) - This course examines what makes certain spaces -- a multi-ethnic suburb of Paris, a museum, or a building -- more controversial or problematic than others. Students produce a body of journalistic work based on historical and archival research, interviews, investigation, and field work in Paris during spring break. http://commons.princeton.edu/pariscasestudy/
- [Introduction to Asian-American Studies: Race, War, Decolonization](https://commons.princeton.edu/introduction-to-asian-american-studies-race-war-decolonization/) - This course offers an introduction to Asian American studies centered on the issues of "race," "privilege," and "power" from the premise that multiple racial projects—including Orientalism, Islamophobia, anti-Black racism, and settler colonialism—contribute to Asian racial formation, and that warfare plays a central role in these projects. With a focus on militarism in the US, Asia,
- [Architecture, Globalization and the Environment](https://commons.princeton.edu/architecture-globalization-and-the-environment/) - Art 250, Architecture, Globalization, and the Environment, analyzes contemporary architecture and its relation to climate change, urbanism, and consequent social problems. Special attention is paid to the erosion of public space, whether due to gentrification, gated communities, outright segregation, or to the devastating impact of war in urban zones in many parts of the world.
- [Students for Social Progress](https://commons.princeton.edu/students-for-social-progress/) - This site explores and shares ideas about improving society and making the world a better place.
- [Representing slavery: rereading the visual narrative](https://commons.princeton.edu/representing-slavery-rereading-the-visual-narrative/) - A Digital Exhibition for AAS 349, Seeing to Remember: Representing Slavery Across the Black Atlantic
- [The Joseph Henry Project](https://commons.princeton.edu/the-joseph-henry-project/) - A project website based on the engineering work of Joseph Henry (1797 - 1878).
- [Indigenous Brazil](https://commons.princeton.edu/indigenous-brazil/) - The poem "TOTEM", by André Vallias, served as an initial guide to the course. Each student chose one of the names of the indigenous people cited in the poem to research and write about it. The result of this research were contributed to the "TOTEM BLOG", a collection of texts produced by each of the
- [International News: Migration Reporting](https://commons.princeton.edu/migration-reporting/) - Students in this course reported on immigration and refugee policy and practice across borders, with a focus on the conflict between national security, international responsibility, and America and Canada's historical roles in resettlement. Trips to Canada (Toronto and Winnipeg) and Connecticut will gave students opportunities to report from the field.
- [American Dissent](https://commons.princeton.edu/american-dissent/) - This Writing Seminar explored the achievements — and limits — of social movements and ideas opposed to the status quo. Students analyzed Frederick Douglass’s 1852 speech about the meaning of Independence Day, examined historical, architectural, and financial perspectives on the Woodstock Music and Art Fair of 1969 and conducted their own research projects investigating an
- [Covering Hostile Governments](https://commons.princeton.edu/covering-hostile-governments/) - Students in this course contributed blog posts based on research, reporting, and aggregation, focused on the tools journalists use to cover hostile governments.
- [Studio 455 - Visible Evidence: Documentary Film and Data Visualization](https://commons.princeton.edu/studio-455-visible-evidence-documentary-film-and-data-visualization/) - The Studio 455 website features cource assignments and other iformation, serves as a resource of documentary films used in the course, supports the addition of time-coded, student annotations to those films, and hosts student writings and multimedia project work.
- [Gender, Sexuality, and Media](https://commons.princeton.edu/gender-sexuality-and-media/) - This course website offers a course schedule, assignments, and additional resources for VIS369.
- [Midterms Matter](https://commons.princeton.edu/midterms-matter/) - This course website chronicles the experiences and journalistic work of Journalism 447, Politics and the Media, as they travel to Arizona and experience, first-hand, the midterm elections of 2018.
- [Teach With Collections](https://commons.princeton.edu/teach-with-collections/) - A collaboration between the Princeton Art Museum, Princeton University LIbrary, and the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning, the Teach With Collections website highlights undergraduate coursework that takes advantage of the University special collections and archives.
- [The Art and Science of Motorcycle design](https://commons.princeton.edu/the-art-and-science-of-motorcycle-design/) - In this hands-on seminar and laboratory experience about the engineering design of motorcycles, students restore a vintage Triumph motorcycle and compare it to previous restorations of the same make and model of motorcycle from other years (1955, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1962, 1963, and 1964).
- [The Ōnin War](https://commons.princeton.edu/the-onin-war/) - This website includes an animated video offering a new perspective on the Ōnin War. This war, which nominally lasted from 1467 through 1477, led to the destruction of Kyoto, Japan’s capital, and according to standard narratives, ushered in a century of conflict, Japan’s Warring States (Sengoku) era.
- [MAE511: Experimental Methods I](https://commons.princeton.edu/mae511-experimental-methods-i/) - A laboratory course that focuses on basic electronics techniques, digital electronics, and data acquisition and analysis. Topics include introduction to digital and analog electronics, digital-to-analog and analog-to-digital conversion, microcomputer sampling, and data analysis.
- [Introduction to Asian American Studies](https://commons.princeton.edu/introduction-to-asian-american-studies/) - Exploring Asian Americanism through archives, personal narratives, and other texts, this course focuses on the role of history in producing current conditions and our understandings of them. In these tasks, particular attention is paid to racism and antiracism, war, and decolonization.
- [Fictions of Black Urban Life](https://commons.princeton.edu/fictions-of-black-urban-life/) - Students in this course explore the transformation of urban life in the 20th and 21st centuries through an exploration of selected works by African American and African diasporic writers, artists, and intellectuals. Students discuss sociological studies, novels, poems, music, and experimental works that interrogate fictions such as urban development, revitalization, and even gentrification.
- [OtherFutures 2018, An introduction to modern Caribbean literature](https://commons.princeton.edu/otherfutures-2018/) - This course introduces students to major theories and debates within the study of Caribbean literature and culture with a particular focus on the idea of catastrophe. Reading novels and poetry that address the historical loss and injustices that have given shape to the modern Caribbean, students explore questions of race, gender, and sexuality and pay
- [Introduction to Chinese Philosophy](https://commons.princeton.edu/introduction-to-chinese-philosophy/) - This course focuses primarily on the Confucian tradition, investigating topics related classical Chinese Philosophy from Confucius through to Hanfeizi, a brief look at Chinese Buddhism, and the development of Song and Ming Dynasty Neo-Confucianism. The webste for Introduction to Chinese Philosophy hosts reading responses in the course and contains additional tools allowing student responses to
- [Les « voix » dans la ville](https://commons.princeton.edu/les-voix-dans-la-ville/) - FRE207F is an intensive, four-week language immersion program held in Aix-en-Provence during the summer of 2018. During their stay students conduct projects related to sociolinguistics and documenting the linguistic landscape of southern France.
- [Studio 454: Transcultural Cinema](https://commons.princeton.edu/studio-454-transcultural-cinema/) - Studio 454 is the on-line studio for our work in Transcultural Cinema (ANT 454, spring 2018). Discussion of online video is facilitated by time-coded annotations and screenshots.
- [Contagion](https://commons.princeton.edu/contagion/) - Swine flu. Zika. SARS. While these and other communicable diseases are biological phenomena, our efforts to contain them reveal a preoccupation with enforcing literal and metaphorical boundaries. In turn, our fascination with images of infection—from zombie fiction to news about “viral” cyber attacks—highlights a fear of contaminating “us” with “them.” In this Writing Seminar, students
- [Structures and the Urban Environment](https://commons.princeton.edu/structures-and-the-urban-environment/) - One of the most classic courses at Princeton University, CEE262, Structures in the Urban Environment (known as “Bridges”) was founded by Professor David Billington (1927-2018) in 1974. The course argues that the best designed structures (bridges, buildings, and vaults) are a work of art – structural art – the art of the structural engineer. The
- [Music of the Baroque](https://commons.princeton.edu/baroque/) - The website supporting Music 234, Music of the Baroque, houses student writings on a wide variety of topics related to music during the Baroque period, as well as student comments upon those writings.
- [Interpreting the Qur’an: Text, Context, and Materiality](https://commons.princeton.edu/interpreting-quran/) - The course blog for Religion 333, Interpreting the Qur’an: Text, Context, and Materiality, hosted course materials, a reading schedule, student recitations, discussions, and annotations on images.
- [Sufism](https://commons.princeton.edu/sufism/) - The course blog for Religion 239, Sufism, hosted course materials, a reading schedule, student recitations, discussions, and annotations on images.
- [Intermediate/Advanced Spanish](https://commons.princeton.edu/intermediate-advanced-spanish/) - A website supporting the student annotation of Spanish-language films.
- [Blog de prensa Española](https://commons.princeton.edu/blog-prensa/) - This blog supports the summer study abroad program in Spain.
- [ANT 347: Culture, Media, and Data](https://commons.princeton.edu/culture-media-and-data/) - Students in this course chart media and data as agents of social inequality and cultural ideology, and learn how people subvert them. We excavate the assumptions that frame representations of reality and difference in documentary film, track the global circulation of mass media, see indigenous filmmakers as cultural activists, and explore the datafication of organic
- [PHY 209: Respiratory Monitoring During the Pandemic](https://commons.princeton.edu/phy-209-respiratory-monitoring-during-the-pandemic/) - How can non-invasive helmet-based assisted breathing data be collected and used to assess the health of a patient? Tully will design new material and lab equipment for this seminar in computational physics to teach students how respiratory monitoring is used, how to build these systems with inexpensive, readily available components, and how to implement Python
- [Immigration Politics, Policymaking in the U.S.](https://commons.princeton.edu/immigration-politics-policymaking-in-the-u-s/) - The course blog for Politics 334 hosted student reflections on news of the day and final projects in this course from the Spring of 2019
- [Spanish for a Medical Mission in Ecuador](https://commons.princeton.edu/spanish-for-a-medical-mission-in-ecuador-2/) - Spanish for a Medical Mission to Ecuador is an interdisciplinary initiative to bridge health education, humanitarian engagement, and the Spanish language. The mission of this course is to provide twelve Princeton undergraduate students an unparalleled exposure to global health policies and health care through hands-on work in health clinics in Ecuador during Spring Break. A
- [SPA 307: Advanced Spanish Language and Style](https://commons.princeton.edu/spa-307-advanced-spanish-language-and-style/) - This blog for Spanish 307, Advanced Language and Style, hosted students' "critical responses" and the "survey reports".
- [The Arab-Israeli Conflict](https://commons.princeton.edu/the-arab-israeli-conflict/) - A series of course websites facilitated student written reflections on topics in the news..
- [From Haiti to Ferguson: The Global Black Freedom Struggle](https://commons.princeton.edu/haiti-to-ferguson/) - A course blog for African American Studies 303, Topics in Global Race and Ethnicity, served as a platform for students writing and as a gateway to student-developed digital projects.
- [Voces de Princeton](https://commons.princeton.edu/voces-de-princeton/) - This collection of interviews documents the use of Spanish in Princeton University, giving more visibility to our own Spanish-speaking community. Furthermore, creating a repository of interviews and casual conversations provides a more authentic perspective of a language that has an important presence on our campus, and it becomes a venue for the voices and experiences
- [Il Giornale Pisano](https://commons.princeton.edu/il-giornale-pisano/) - Il Giornale Pisano is a collective, online repository of writings produced during the summer ‘19 study abroad experience in Pisa, Italy.
- [First Step Chinese](https://commons.princeton.edu/first-step-chinese/) - This website hosts video resources produced by Princeton faculty to accompany the First Step Chinese textbook.
- [EPICS](https://commons.princeton.edu/epics/) - Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering public EPICS was founded at Purdue in 2005 and introduced at Princeton University in Fall 2006 by co-founder Professor Ed Coyle *82. EPICS is a unique program in which teams of undergraduates are designing, building, and deploying real systems to solve engineering-based problems for local community service and education organizations.
- [Digital Food](https://commons.princeton.edu/digital-food/) - The California Bay Area has been at the forefront of culinary cuisine, movements, and innovation for decades. The area has been the birthplace of everything from Mai Tai’s and Rocky Road Ice Cream to the Farm to Table movement and the commercialized Rice-A-Roni packets (“Bay Area Foodie”). At the same time, the Bay Area is
- [Living Forms](https://commons.princeton.edu/living-forms/) - Living Forms is the result of a semester-long exploration of site-specific dance work in Rebecca Lazier’s Site, Off-Site, Site-Responsive Dance and Choreography class as part of the Princeton Dance Festival: Reimagined 2020. This website is an evolving collection of the embedded layers that inform improvisational response that often do not find their way into the ‘final
- [Scrolls of the Mongol Invasions of Japan](https://commons.princeton.edu/scrolls-of-the-mongol-invasions-of-japan/) - The Scrolls of the Mongol Invasions of Japan website is a re-development of several projects developed by Professor Tom Conlan in Princeton Department of East Asian Studies, devoted to understanding the Mongol Invasions of Japan in 1274 and 1281. The failure of the invasions gave rise to the notion of the “divine wind” or Kamikaze,
- [Tannowa Collection: The Kyoto Princeton Project](https://commons.princeton.edu/tannowa-collection-the-kyoto-princeton-project/) - Kyoto University and Princeton University have initiated a joint project in March 2020 in order to deepen the knowledge and awareness of Japanese history and culture throughout the world. The goal is to disseminate images, transcriptions, translations, and research about Japanese documents owned by the Kyoto University Museum. The first set of documents that are
- [Crowdsourcing Trenton](https://commons.princeton.edu/crowdsourcing-trenton/) - Crowdsourcing Trenton is a project related to the Trenton Project, a project researching topics relating to the history of Trenton in the 1960s. Members of the Trenton community who might have insight into the events that took place in Trenton during the 1960's and the people involved with those events, are invited to contribute information.
- [LinguaViva](https://commons.princeton.edu/linguaviva/) - LinguaViva is the title of a collection of textbooks used in many levels of Portuguese instruction. Hosted by the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning, these textbooks, written by Princeton faculty, allow students to save responses directly on the website and for faculty to review that work with students.
- [ConTEXTos de Princeton](https://commons.princeton.edu/contextos-de-princeton/) - ConTEXTos is a platform which uses a selection of mapped course readings as pedagogic frame for the independent student to navigate texts holistically in order to understand how genre, function and grammar interact. Readings available on the website are enhanced with three layers of annotation types: structural, functional, and grammatical.
- [Gabriele Münter Photographer of America 1898-1900](https://commons.princeton.edu/gabriele-munter-photographer-of-america-1898-1900/) - http://commons.princeton.edu/munter/
- [JRN 260: What to See and Believe in the Age of COVID](https://commons.princeton.edu/see-and-believe/) - This seminar will explore strategies for becoming a confident consumer of the news during the current "infodemic" -- the sudden tsunami of conflicting information about the pandemic, social justice protests, and myriad other topics. Students will use time-honored principles of journalism to understand and navigate the rapidly evolving media landscape. Discussion will focus on where
- [POR 304: Performing Brazilian Culture: When Race and Gender Take Center Stage](https://commons.princeton.edu/center-stage/) - In this course, students will engage with Brazilian culture through the concept of performance, underlining race and gender issues. How do dance, music, poetry, image, theater, film, fiction, humor, and sports represent Brazilian people and cultures? How do those practices develop between transnational zones of systemic racism and gender injustice in relation to Afro-Brazilian, Indigenous
- [SPA 252/HUM 252/ECS 359: Narrating Pandemics Now](https://commons.princeton.edu/narrating-pandemics-now/) - After the COVID crisis, illness, contagion and healing became central figures of a new global reality. This course will provide a collective space for conversation and analysis in Spanish to help navigate the anxieties that the new virus brought to our lives and societies. We will discuss sickness, infection, immunity and epidemics from a historical,
- [POL 426: Generation Z Voting Challenge](https://commons.princeton.edu/gen-z/) - What does it take to increase youth voting in 2020? Students will collaboratively design, implement, and evaluate concrete interventions to register and turn out young Americans. Interventions might provide information on how to vote, explain issues at stake, activate social relationships or identities, work with community groups, motivate by entertaining, or highlight how voting matters.

## Pages

- [McGraw Commons, Platforms for Teaching and Learning](https://commons.princeton.edu/) - Engage your students McGraw Commons is an online publishing platform for teaching and learning, supporting the shared creation of projects as learning activity. Sites developed with McGraw Commons can be cumulative in which students contribute to work done in prior semesters, or serve as the product of a single course. Course projects can be made

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