Check Out Our Curated Spring ’26 Course List

Note: Graduate-level courses are bolded; CDH-coded courses are starred.

African American Studies

AAS 314 / COM 398 / AFS 321: Healing & Justice: The Virgin Mary in African Literature & Art (Wendy Laura Belcher)

*AAS 339 / EGR 339 / CDH 339: Black Mirror: Race, Technology, and Justice (Ruha Benjamin)

AAS 392 / ENG 392 / AMS 395 / GSS 389: Topics in African American Literature: What Octavia Taught Me: Black Speculative Fiction as Theory and Practice (Adriana Green)

Anthropology

ANT 238: Human, Machine, and In-Between: The Anthropology of AI (Beth Semel)

ANT 252: Visible/Invisible Worlds: Anthropology in Film and Data (Jeffrey D. Himpele)

ANT 422 / EAS 422: Digital China: Technology and Society (Jamie Wong)

Architecture

ARC 311 / STC 311: Building Science and Technology: Building Systems (Peter Pelsinski)

ARC 374 / CEE 373: Computational Thinking for Design, Architecture, and Engineering (Arash Adel)

ARC 380 / CEE 380: Introduction to Robotics for Digital Fabrication (Arash Adel)

*ARC 525 / ART 524 / CDH 525: Mapping the City: Cities and Cinema (M. Christine Boyer)

ARC 546 / URB 546: Technology and the City: The Architectural Implications of Networked Urban Landscape (Andrew Laing)

ARC 568: Robotic Architecture Workshop (V. Mitch McEwen)

Art and Archaeology

ART 559: Archive, Cinema, Fabulation (Tina M. Campt)

Computational and Data Humanities

*CDH 507 / HUM 507: Data in the Humanities (Grant R. Wythoff)

Center for Human Values

CHV 408: Privacy and Data Protection in US Law (Anita L. Allen-Castellitto)

Classics

*CLA 326 / HIS 326 / ART 366 / CDH 326: Topics in Ancient History: Space and Society in the Roman World (Mary-Evelyn H. Farrior)

Comparative Literature

COM 381: Between Worlds: Speculative Fiction and Fanfiction Communities (April Alliston and April M. Gilbert)

Computer Science

COS 126 / EGR 126: Computer Science: An Interdisciplinary Approach (Alan Kaplan and Kevin Wayne)

COS 217: Introduction to Programming Systems (Xiaoyan Li and Christopher M. Moretti)

COS 226: Algorithms and Data Structures (Maryam Hedayati and Gillat Kol)

COS 324: Introduction to Machine Learning (Zhuang Liu and Vikram Ramaswamy)

COS 333: Advanced Programming Techniques (Robert M. Dondero)

COS 351 / SPI 351 / SOC 353: Technology Policy and Law (Jonathan Mayer)

COS 423: Theory of Algorithms (Huacheng Yu)

COS 435 / ECE 433: Introduction to Reinforcement Learning (Peter Henderson)

COS 484: Natural Language Processing (Tri Dao and Karthik Narasimhan)

COS 511: Theoretical Machine Learning (Elad Hazan)

COS 526 / ECE 576: Neural Rendering (Felix Heide)

COS 534: Fairness in Machine Learning (Lydia T. Liu)

COS 568: Systems and Machine Learning (Kai Li)

COS 583 / ECE 583: Great Moments in Computing (Margaret R. Martonosi)

COS 598B: Advanced Topics in Computer Science: Formal methods with-and-for machine learning (Aarti Gupta)

COS 598I: Advanced Topics in Computer Science: Modern Data Systems (Jialin Ding)

East Asian Studies

*EAS 509 / CDH 509: Text Analysis in a CJK World (Paul A. Vierthaler)

Engineering

EGR 200 / ENT 200: Creativity, Innovation, and Design (Alice Kogan)

EGR 361 / ENT 361 / URB 361 / AAS 348: The Reclamation Studio: Humanistic Design applied to Systemic Bias (Majora J. Carter)

English

ENG 285: Introduction to Media Studies (Laura Nelson)

ENG 275 / AMS 275: American Television (William A. Gleason)

ENG 402: Forms of Literature: From Page to Screen: Film Adaptation (Lee C. Mitchell)

Environmental Studies

ENV 201 / JRN 201 / ENG 206: Environmental Media (Allison Carruth)

First Year Seminars

FRS 172: Origins of Modern Communications and the Principles of Innovation (Swati Bhatt)

German

GER 211: Introduction to Media Theory (Thomas Y. Levin)

History

*HIS 278 / CDH 278: Digital, Spatial, Visual, and Oral Histories (Emmanuel H. Kreike)

*HIS 387 / ENG 389 / CDH 387: Data & Culture (Matthew L. Jones and Meredith A. Martin)

History of Science

*HOS 599 / HIS 599 / CDH 599: Special Topics in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine: Information-Computing-Infrastructure (Matthew L. Jones)

Humanistic Studies

*HUM 346 / ENG 256 / CDH 346: Introduction to Digital Humanities (Christine M. Roughan)

Italian

ITA 320: Cybernetics, Literary Ghosts and the Italian Way (Elisa Dossena and Giovanni Riotta)

Music

MUS 218: Live Electronic Music: Principles & Performance (Jeffrey O. Snyder)

MUS 316: Computer and Electronic Music Composition (Tyondai A. Braxton)

MUS 561: Music Cognition Lab (Elizabeth H. Margulis)

Philosophy

PHI 543 / SML 543: Machine Learning: A Practical Introduction for Humanists and Social Scientists (Sarah-Jane Leslie)

Politics

POL 506 / SPI 595: Qualitative Methods (Corrine M. McConnaughy)

POL 572: Quantitative Analysis I (Zeyang Yu)

POL 573: Quantitative Analysis II (Marc Ratkovic)

POL 574: Quantitative Analysis IV (Arthur Spirling)

Princeton Writing Program

WRI 139 / 140: How to Raise a Machine (Allen Durgin)

WRI 177 / 178: Technogenesis (Marina Fedosik)

Public and International Affairs

SPI 200: Statistics for Social Science (Rocío Titiunik)

SPI 528D: Topics in Domestic Policy: Policymaking and Ethical Challenges from Advances in Science & Tech (Zeynep Tufekci)

SPI 585A: Topics in STEP: Societal Impacts of Data, Algorithms and AI (Aleksandra Korolova)

Religion

REL 307: God in the Flesh: The ‘Avatar’ in Hinduism from Sacred Texts to the Digital Age (Vishal Sharma)

Sociology

SOC 317: The Sociology of Artificial Intelligence (Zeynep Tufekci)

SOC 504: Advanced Social Statistics (Sam Trejo)

SOC 505: Research Seminar in Empirical Investigation (Yu Xie)

Statistics and Machine Learning

SML 201: Introduction to Data Science (Derek E. Sollberger) (section 1 and section 2)

SML 301 / COS 301: Data Intelligence: Modern Data Science Methods (Sihoon Choi, Omar, Hagrass, and Daisy Yan Hu)

SML 312: Research Projects in Data Science (B) (Jonathan Hanke)

SML 354 / PHI 354: Artificial Intelligence: A Hands-on Introduction from Basics to ChatGPT (Sarah-Jane Leslie)

SML 510: Graduate Research Seminar (Sarah-Jane Leslie)

Translation and Intercultural Communication 

TRA 301 / COS 401 / LIN 304: Introduction to Machine Translation (Srinivas Bangalore)

Visual Arts

VIS 208: Graphic Design: Link (David W. Reinfurt)

VIS 217: Graphic Design: Circulation (David W. Reinfurt)

VIS 233 / AAS 233 / GSS 248: Archives of Justice: Black, Queer, Immigrant Stories (Medhin Paolos)

VIS 248: Corpus Archive: The Body As/Against the Record (Tamara Santibañez)

VIS 323: Animation II (Tim Szetela)

VIS 413 / AAS 413 / ART 413: The Art of Fabulation (Tina M. Campt)

VIS 425: Haptic Lab: Digital Crafts (Joe Scanlan)