ProCES courses connect community perspectives, knowledge, and priorities with 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 2024 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.
AAS 244 Introduction to Pre-20th Century Black Diaspora Art (R)
Anna Arabindan Kesson
CD or LA
engagement with community-oriented public artists and arts organizations
AMS 322 Native American Literature (R)
Sarah Rivett
CD or LA
engagement with community-based guest speakers
ANT 263 Justice (R)
CANCELED
ANT 311 Food, Culture & Society (O)
Hanna Garth
CD or SA
project using anthropological research methods with Princeton community-based organizations working on food access
ANT 368 Ethnography of Schools and Schooling (R)
Jason Klugman
SA
site visits to local schools; development of an ethnography of a school
ART 483 Pathologies of Difference: Art, Medicine and Race in the British Empire (R)
Anna Arabindan Kesson
CD or EC
engagement with community-oriented public artists and arts organizations
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
ASL 208 Medical Discourse in ASL (R)
Noah Buchholz
CD or SA
engagement with Deaf community leaders on campus and in community settings
CBE 225 Plastics, Profit, and People: How Science & 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 Littman
HA
option to collaborate with community-based historical society
CHI 451 Fifth Year Modern Chinese I: Language and Culture in Contemporary China (O)
Staff
engagement with community-based guest speakers
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: Applying Humanistic Design to Systemic Bias in Community Development (R)
Majora Carter
SA
learn from and contribute towards efforts of local social entrepreneurs via humanistic design frameworks
EGR/ENT 340 Tiger Challenge: Human-Centered Design for Social Impact (Non-Credit) (R)
Denise Crossen and Jessica Leung
create projects for social impact using human-centered design methods
EGR/ENT 380 eLab: Creating Value in the Real World (Non-Credit)
Derrick Lidow
develop sustainable projects for groups or communities
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
ENV/ENG 271 Climate Storytelling for Climate Action (O)
Bethany Wiggin
LA or SA
creation of stories regarding emotional impacts of climate change to complement quantitative data high school teachers use in a transdisciplinary curriculum
FRS 101 Get Your Kicks (R)
Andrew Buher
SA
collaboration with local nonprofit(s) on shoe drive
FRS 109 The Kitchen Lab: Food & Health (R)
Anthar Darwish
SEL
engagement with community-based and -oriented guests
FRS 115 Decomposing the Science of Composting: How to Turn Waste into Resource (O)
Xinning Zhang and Shannon Haynes
SEL
engagement with local schools on composting practices
FRS 143 Is Politics a Performance? (R)
Aaron Landsman
SA
visits to, observation of, and engagement with local city government actors
FRS 161 Harmonizing Resistance: Music's Power in the Americas (R)
Iris Hauser
CD or LA
engagement with community-based/-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
CD or SA
visits to and engagement with leaders in immigrant rights groups, health promotion entities, and government agencies
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
HUM 352 Arts in the Invisible City: Race, Policy, Performance (R)
D. Vance Smith
CD or LA
engagement with Trenton-based artists on and off campus
JPN 305 Integrative Advanced Japanese I (R)
Yukari Tokumasu
engagement with local Japanese speakers
JPN 401 Readings in Modern Japanese I (O)
Tomoko Shibata
engagement with local Japanese speakers
JPN 407 Contemporary Japanese Language and Culture I (O)
Shinji Sato
engagement with local Japanese speakers
JRN 260 The Media in America: Witnessing History (O)
Eliza Griswold
SA
option to identify an assignment into which community perspectives or priorities can be incorporated
JRN 449 International News: Migration Reporting (O)
Deborah Amos
SA
engagement with community representatives and members affected by migration and immigration policy
MOL 460 Diseases in Children: Causes, Costs, and Choices (R)
Daniel Notterman
EM
research project in response to and informed by community partner questions and priorities
PSY 420 Selected Topics in Psychotherapy Research (R)
Megan Spokas
engagement with guest speakers and experts working in community-based mental health
SOC 210 Urban Sociology: The City and Social Change in the Americas (O)
Patricia Fernández-Kelly
SA
option to identify an assignment into which community perspectives or priorities can be incorporated
SOC/AAS 314 Poverty, by America (R)
Matthew Desmond
engagement with guest speakers; site visits; final project organized around community partner priorities
SPA 205 Medical Spanish (R)
Paloma Moscardó-Vallés
engagement with guest speakers around barriers to healthcare access and community-based solutions
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 250/LSA 250/HUM 251/LAO 250 Identity in the Spanish-Speaking World (R)
Christina Lee
engagement with guest speakers during visit to Puerto Rico; reflective exercises
SPA 364 Doing Oral History in Spanish: The 'Voces de la Diáspora' Oral History Project (R)
Alberto Bruzos Moro
CD
participation in oral history project with local partners and participants/narrators
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
THR 101 Introduction to Theater Making (O)
Shariffa Ali; Jane Cox; Aaron Landsman
LA
participation in socially-engaged performance workshop
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
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 300 Urban Studies Research Seminar (O)
Aaron Shkuda
EC
engagement with guest speakers; walking tours of relevant off-campus sites
URB 385 Mapping Gentrification (O)
Aaron Shkuda
SA
engagement with guest speakers; walking tours of relevant off-campus sites
WRI 230 Is Talk Cheap? (O)
Alexander Davis
optional community engagement to inform research project