ProCES courses connect community perspectives, knowledge, and priorities with enrolled undergraduates' academic work. Depending on the course, you might:
- Create a documentary film that sheds light on previously neglected historical perspectives;
- Review and summarize the scholarly literature on a key issue for the staff of a busy nonprofit organization;
- Grapple with ethical, critical, or theoretical understandings of and approaches to community and academic collaboration;
- Learn from responses to pressing societal challenges through the lens of a particular academic discipline.
ProCES courses have either a required (R) or opt-in (O) community-engaged or -oriented learning component. Course Offerings indicates these attributes based on the following descriptions:
- Community-Engaged Learning Component Required (R) indicates that all students will engage with community-based knowledge through activities such as in-class discussion, guest speakers, public presentations, site visits, or research.
- Community-Engaged Learning Component Opt-In (O) indicates that students select community-engaged or -oriented course experiences or assignments.
Search ProCES Course Offerings or see below for Fall 2025 ProCES courses.
Note that the description beneath each course indicates the types(s) of community-engaged or oriented offered within the course. Where applicable, distribution area acronym is listed below the instructor name. Please note that this list is dynamic and may change. Check back to confirm offerings prior to the new semester. In some cases, the engagement with community partners is pending or evolving. Courses are open to all Princeton undergraduate students.
AAS 420 Museums and Medicine (R)
Anna Arabindan Kesson
CD
engagement with community-oriented public artists and arts organizations
ANT 219 Catastrophes across Cultures: The Anthropology of Disaster (O)
Ryo Morimoto
SA
research environmental policy in collaboration with a local community-based partner
ANT 311 Food, Culture & Society (O)
Hanna Garth
CD or SA
project using anthropological research methods with Mercer County community-based organizations working on food access
ARC 352 Junior Studio: Urban Agricultural Community Center (R)
Daisy Ames
engagement with guest speakers; site visits
ART 329 The Architecture of Confinement from the Hospice to the Era of Mas Incarceration (R)
Basile Baudez
HA
engagement with community-based guest speakers and justice-impacted participants to collaborate on final assignment
ASL 101 Beginner's American Sign Language I (R)
Stefanie Amiruzzaman and Allison Marie Bloom
visit to Deaf community events
ASL 105 Intermediate American Sign Language (R)
Stefanie Amiruzzaman, Allison Marie Bloom and Peter Cook
visit to Deaf community events
CBE 225 Plastics, Profit, and People: How Science and Society Can Strive for Sustainability (R)
Emily Davidson
HA or SEN
engagement with community-based experts from nonprofits, the media, and industry; site visit to materials recovery facility; deliverable offering a solution to a plastics challenge
CEE 102A Engineering in the Modern World (O)
Michael G. Littman
HA
option to collaborate with community-based historical society
CHI 451 Fifth Year Modern Chinese I: Language and Society in Chinese Contexts (O)
Fang-Yen Hsieh
CD or SA
engagement with community-based guest speakers
CHV 401 Media Literacy: What to Read and Believe in the Age of AI (R)
Joe Stephens
EM
pending engagement details
COS 333 Advanced Programming Techniques (O)
Robert Dondero
software development project with a community partner
EGR 200 Creativity, Innovation, and Design (O)
Alice Kogan and Christopher MacPherson
development of design project with community partner
EGR 361 The Reclamation Studio: Humanistic Design applied to Systemic Bias (R)
Majora Carter
SA
learn from and contribute towards efforts of Trenton-based social entrepreneurs via humanistic design frameworks
EGR 380 eLab: Creating Value in the Real World (Year-Long Course) (O)
Derek B. Lidow
develop sustainable projects for groups or communities
ENG 229 Introduction to Indigenous Literatures (O)
Robbie Richardson
LA
engagement with community-based speakers and learning opportunities
ENV 221 AI for Global Good (R)
Jamie Caldwell
QCR
pending engagement details
ENV 251 Coming to Our Senses: Climate Justice - Climate Change in Film, Photography and Popular Culture (R)
Anne McClintock
EM
site visits; community-based guest speakers
FRE 208 Speak up! An Introduction to Topics in the Francophone World (R)
Carole Marithe Trévise
SA
engagement with community-based speakers
FRE 301 Introduction to Haitian Creole (R)
Johnny Laforêt
engagement with community-based guests; community-oriented assignments
FRS 101 Get Your Kicks (R)
Andrew Buher
SA
collaboration with local nonprofit(s) on shoe collection
FRS 109 The Kitchen Lab: Food & Health (R)
Anthar Darwish
SEL
engagement with community-based and -oriented guests
FRS 143 Is Politics a Performance? (R)
Aaron Landsman
SA
visits to and engagement with meetings of local city government
FRS 161 Harmonizing Resistance: Music's Power in the Americas (R)
Iris Hauser
CD or LA
engagement with community-based and -oriented guests in media, the arts, environment, and health fields
FRS 191 Do Sanctuary Spaces Matter in Contemporary Immigrant Rights Work? (R)
Tara Carr-Lemke
SA
engagement with community-based partners as guest speakers and on a cumulative project
GHP 350 Critical Perspectives in Global Health Policy (O)
Heather Howard
SA
engagement with community-based agencies to develop a policy memo with recommendations for interventions
GSS 401 Feminist Life Writing (O)
Brian Herrera
EM or LA
pending engagement details
JPN 305 Integrative Advanced Japanese I (R)
Yukari Tokumasu
engagement with local Japanese speakers
JPN 401 Readings in Modern Japanese I (O)
Tomoko Shibata
optional engagement with local Japanese speakers
JPN 407 Contemporary Japanese Language and Culture I (O)
Shinji Sato
optional engagement with local Japanese speakers
JRN 449 International News: Migration Reporting (R)
Deb Amos
SA
engagement with community members and organizations
MOL 460 Diseases in Children: Causes, Costs, and Choices (R)
Daniel Notterman
EM
research project in response to and informed by community questions and priorities
POL 342 Racial Climate and Multiracial Democracy (R)
LaFleur Stephens-Dougan
CD or SA
engagement with guest speakers and experts
PSY 385 Mind, Body, Culture: Clinical Psychology (R)
Shirley Wang
SA
engagement with community-based guest speakers
PSY 420 Selected Topics in Psychotherapy Research (R)
Megan Spokas
engagement with guest speakers and experts working in community-based mental health
SPA 205 Medical Spanish (R)
Paloma Moscardó-Vallés
engagement with guest speakers around barriers to healthcare access and community-based solutions
SPA 207 Studies in Spanish Language and Style (R)
Anais Holgado-Lage
LA
engagement with community-based speakers
SPA 233 Languages of the Americas (R)
Dunia Méndez Vallejo
CD or EC
engagement with community-based guest speakers; option to collaborate on a project led by a community language keeper
SPA 304 Spanish in the Community (R)
Dunia Méndez Vallejo
CD or SA
English language instruction in community-based social services agency El Centro-Catholic Charities of Trenton
SPA 368 Spanish into English Translation in the Age of AI (R)
Catalina Arango
LA
engagement with translators and interpreters from the local community
SPI 328 Crime and Violence in US Cities (R)
Patrick Sharkey
SA
collaboration with a community-based agency to engage with guest speakers, visit relevant sites, and contribute to a community-oriented project
SPI 331 Race and Public Policy (O)
Ismail White
SA
option to identify an assignment into which community perspectives or priorities can be incorporated
SPI 356 Asylum: Policy, Politics, and Practice (R)
Amelia Frank-Vitale
CD or EM
collaboration with a New York-based organization to work directly on ongoing asylum claims
SPI 416 American Yo-Yo: Integration and Alienation in the Lives of Immigrants (R)
Anastasia Mann
HA/SA
engagement with guest speakers; site visits; final applied project
SPI 430 Negotiation, Mediation, and Restorative Justice: Re-imagining Conflict (R)
Maya Dimant
engagement with Trenton-based justice organization’s guest speakers
THR 101 Introduction to Theater Making (O)
Elena Aaroz and Aaron Landsman
LA
participation in socially-engaged performance workshop
THR 212 Performance & Policy (O)
Brian Herrera
LA or SA
pending engagement details
THR 400 Theatrical Design Studio (R)
Jane Cox, Tess James, and Yoshinori Tanokura
LA
exploration of cultural appreciation and appropriation in design in conversation with local community partners
THR 356 Ritual and Resistance: Introduction to South African Physical Theater Making (R)
Shariffa Ali
LA
pending engagement details
THR 412 Creative Theater Making in VR (R)
Chesney Snow
LA
pending engagement details
TPP 301 Seminar on Student Learning and Methods for Teaching (O)
Todd Kent and Kathleen Nolan
SA
observation and engagement in a school-based project
URB/ARC/HUM/AMS 300 Urban Studies Research Seminar (O)
Aaron Shkuda
option of visiting relevant sites
URB 385/SOC 385/HUM 385/ARC 385 Mapping Gentrification (O)
Aaron Shkuda
option of visiting relevant sites and collaborating with community partners
VIS 240 Flower Study: Uses and Misuses of Beauty (O)
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