Anthropology is unique in its people-centered, ethnographic approach to understanding social life and worlds. We begin with a critical eye on colonial era articulations of the method of participant observation, then explore alternative ways of knowing. Throughout, we explore the tensions, contradictions, and creative potentials of producing critical knowledge with people. Students cultivate skills for field and archival work, with forays into digital spaces. Fieldwork exercises allow students to practice ethnographic approaches and challenge more experience-distant, quantitative methodologies.

The class mission is to give students an understanding of the sources and processes associated with creativity, innovation, and design - three interdependent capabilities essential to our own well being, as well as to the well being of society. We will study the internal and external factors that relate to our own ability to create, innovate, and design. We will also understand the factors that impact a group's ability to act creatively, to innovate, and to produce practical and appealing designs. The class will consist of readings and case studies as well as individual and group projects.

This class examines the entrepreneurial mindset, and how to put that mindset to work to create value in the world. The class also covers core 'hard skills' of innovation and entrepreneurship (including market evaluation, product testing and iteration, and business modeling). In this class students work in groups assigned to 'solving' some of the biggest global problems using tools learned in the class.

Join Tiger Challenge, a team-based course aimed at equipping participants with the capacity to design equitable and joyful societies. Through design thinking and social entrepreneurship, we tackle complex societal problems in education, health, equity, sustainability, and civic life. Learn to create innovative, resilient solutions while gaining practical skills and tools to address wicked challenges. With support from mentors and partners, you'll engage in hands-on projects, impact evaluations, and collaborative community engagement.

Assumptions and practices by the nonprofit industrial complex, government agencies and affordable housing developers treat poor communities, especially poor communities of color as problems to be managed by those from outside these communities. The Reclamation Studio explores the humanistic design practices applied by social entrepreneurs from low-status communities near Princeton (our "clients") that counteract that history of systemic bias with innovative development projects designed to retain the talent from within their communities. Students will have the opportunity to learn from, and contribute to their efforts.

Students learn how to apply critical thinking and analytical skills to creating sustainable value-producing systems, organizations, and enterprises that are valued and supported by existing well-defined communities or groups. This class is for student entrepreneurs who feel deeply about a project they are already working on and want to figure out how to make the product or design valuable on an ongoing basis to a group or community. By the end of this class sequence students will have designed and created smooth functioning products, services, systems, or actions that actual groups or communities want and are willing to fund going forward.

This course provides students with tools and processes to develop humanistic innovations. The course will cover topics of design research, service design tools, and critical areas in preventing unintended consequences. "Smart" innovations will be the technical problem space for the course. The class takes a practice approach, with reading from articles and books and team assignments designed to practice the skills discussed. The course will provide new tools for students in entrepreneurship and design, new types of outcomes for the social sciences, and a human-centered view on innovation for those in engineering.

Venture capital is a driving force behind innovation and entrepreneurship, although the unique working details of venture capital firms and their processes are well-kept secrets. Early stage investors not only fund startups but also enable innovation through mentorship and partnership with the entrepreneurs. Understanding how these investors think and operate is critical to students who are interested in entrepreneurship, as well as to those who would like to pursue venture capital.

This hands-on course introduces students to analysis and actions required to launch and commercialize a tech company, through the use of Harvard Business School cases, visits from entrepreneurs, and two "field assignments". You will learn conceptual frameworks and analytical techniques for evaluating technologies, markets, and commercialization strategies. Additionally, you will learn how to attract and motivate the resources needed to start a company (e.g. people, corporate partners and venture capital), prepare business plans, structure relationships, refine product-market fit, and create and grow enterprise value.

This course explores the connections between design, socio-technical systems, and diverse worldviews in working towards more sustainable societies. The course will be of value to students across disciplines interested in contemporary sustainability issues and bold responses to those issues. We will take an expansive view of sustainability and design in this course, examining issues and possibilities spanning scales and technologies. This includes how to mitigate the environmental costs of AI, how cooperatives and community economies can transform traditional markets, and how decomposition and decay offer novel approaches to product design.

The mission of the class is to enable students to successfully create and lead enterprises by teaching the skills required to be a successful entrepreneurial leader. This course is designed to help students learn first-hand the skills and qualities necessary to successfully incubate an idea, inspire and motivate others, build effective relationships and manage teams, scale an enterprise, and navigate the many inevitable crises and watershed moments they would face as a founder. These skills can be leveraged in any professional setting, regardless of the career path the students eventually take.