This seminar traces the "ghetto" and the Holocaust as central concepts in Jewish and Black historiography. The course will divide its time between the Jewish ghetto of Rome and the city of Warsaw, where we will hold classes at the new POLIN Museum. In addition spending time in the ghetto in Italy, students will also visit the Vatican. In Poland, the class will also visit Krakow, where students will explore the intact Jewish quarter dating from the late medieval and early modern period. In comparative perspective, U.S. Black ghettos from World War II to the present will be studied in depth.

This seminar, taught at University of Tokyo and Peking University, with students from Princeton University and each of the two hosting universities, focuses on developing an understanding of contemporary Japanese and Chinese societies - their histories, cultures, politics, and economies - through lectures, readings, discussions, and tours in Japan and China. Excursions include an overnight trip to rural Japan to examine the role of population aging and rural depopulation on peripheral regions and a trip to Shanghai to experience a rapidly changing Chinese cultural setting.

Equal parts art, programming, and statistical reasoning, data visualization is critical for anyone who seeks to analyze data. Data analysis skills have become essential for those pursuing careers in policy evaluation, business consulting, and research in fields like public health, social science, or education. This course introduces students to the powerful R programming language and the basics of creating data-analysis graphics in R.