The courses listed below are provided by the JHU Public Course Search. This listing provides a snapshot of immediately available courses and may not be complete. A selection of current class syllabi for the semester can be found on the course syllabi page.
Courses with numbers 100–299 are designed for freshmen and sophomores but are open to all undergraduate students. Advanced courses, with numbers 300–599, are generally designed for students who have completed introductory courses in the appropriate area.
Course # (Section)
Title
Day/Times
Instructor
Location
Term
Course Details
AS.001.120 (01)
FYS: U.S. History of the Present
TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Brann, Allon Yagoda
BLC 4040
Fall 2023
Which ideas, movements, problems, and conflicts define the contemporary United States—and where did they come from? In this First Year Seminar we’ll study the history of this country over the last three decades to try to answer those questions. Using a range of written and visual materials, we’ll investigate the history behind concepts like “globalization,” “the free market,” “identity politics,” “culture wars,” and the “War on Terror,” and discuss the causes and consequences of the debates they provoked in this period. We’ll also assess what’s appealing and challenging about studying the very recent past and using it to interpret our present.
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FYS: U.S. History of the Present AS.001.120 (01)
Which ideas, movements, problems, and conflicts define the contemporary United States—and where did they come from? In this First Year Seminar we’ll study the history of this country over the last three decades to try to answer those questions. Using a range of written and visual materials, we’ll investigate the history behind concepts like “globalization,” “the free market,” “identity politics,” “culture wars,” and the “War on Terror,” and discuss the causes and consequences of the debates they provoked in this period. We’ll also assess what’s appealing and challenging about studying the very recent past and using it to interpret our present.
Days/Times: TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Instructor: Brann, Allon Yagoda
Room: BLC 4040
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.001.145 (01)
FYS: The Haitian Revolution
TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Kwass, Michael
Greenhouse 113
Fall 2023
Long overshadowed by the American and French Revolutions, the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) is now widely recognized as one of the most important events in modern history. The most radical of the Atlantic Revolutions, it began with a massive uprising of the enslaved against the institution of slavery and culminated in the independence of the nation of Haiti. This First-Year Seminar will examine the origins, course, and legacy of the Revolution, addressing such issues as colonialism, racism, slavery, emancipation, human rights, and national sovereignty – issues that continue to shape the contemporary world.
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FYS: The Haitian Revolution AS.001.145 (01)
Long overshadowed by the American and French Revolutions, the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) is now widely recognized as one of the most important events in modern history. The most radical of the Atlantic Revolutions, it began with a massive uprising of the enslaved against the institution of slavery and culminated in the independence of the nation of Haiti. This First-Year Seminar will examine the origins, course, and legacy of the Revolution, addressing such issues as colonialism, racism, slavery, emancipation, human rights, and national sovereignty – issues that continue to shape the contemporary world.
Days/Times: TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Instructor: Kwass, Michael
Room: Greenhouse 113
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.001.161 (01)
FYS: Books, Authenticity, and Truth
T 2:00PM - 4:30PM
Celenza, Chris S.
BLC Macksey
Fall 2023
We are living through a crisis in how we take in information. Bombarded by information of all sorts coming at us on phones, tablets, and computer screens, it can be difficult to make sense of it all and harder still to determine whether something is true or false, authentic or inauthentic. The scale and speed of the change in media that we are undergoing is unprecedented in human history. Nevertheless, people in the past have faced moments of crisis – moments when writing seemed unreliable, when the format of written information changed, and when new publication formats forced reevaluations of the nature of truth. This First-Year Seminar will take us from Greco-Roman antiquity to the modern age, with stops along the way in the European Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Enlightenment. We will read selected texts that illuminate the place of writing, books, and the search for truth, think about the structure of libraries in the western Middle Ages and Renaissance, do extensive hands-on work with rare books, and visit other repositories of information, all toward the end of evaluating how the history of books and information can help us in our current quest to make sense of our world.
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FYS: Books, Authenticity, and Truth AS.001.161 (01)
We are living through a crisis in how we take in information. Bombarded by information of all sorts coming at us on phones, tablets, and computer screens, it can be difficult to make sense of it all and harder still to determine whether something is true or false, authentic or inauthentic. The scale and speed of the change in media that we are undergoing is unprecedented in human history. Nevertheless, people in the past have faced moments of crisis – moments when writing seemed unreliable, when the format of written information changed, and when new publication formats forced reevaluations of the nature of truth. This First-Year Seminar will take us from Greco-Roman antiquity to the modern age, with stops along the way in the European Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Enlightenment. We will read selected texts that illuminate the place of writing, books, and the search for truth, think about the structure of libraries in the western Middle Ages and Renaissance, do extensive hands-on work with rare books, and visit other repositories of information, all toward the end of evaluating how the history of books and information can help us in our current quest to make sense of our world.
Days/Times: T 2:00PM - 4:30PM
Instructor: Celenza, Chris S.
Room: BLC Macksey
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.001.166 (01)
FYS: The Pleasures of the Imagination - British culture in the eighteenth century
Th 9:00AM - 11:30AM
Marshall, John W
Gilman 308
Fall 2023
Music, Art, Theater, Novels, Autobiographies, and Material Culture all expanded dramatically in Britain in the long eighteenth century (c. 1714-1830), creating a culture celebrating ‘happiness’, 'beauty', and the 'pleasures of the imagination'. This First-Year Seminar will introduce students to themselves experiencing and discussing these exciting cultural forms, with students attending and watching plays and movies from plays, discussing Jane Austen novels as read and as filmed, reading and discussing an Afro-British autobiography, listening to performances of different kinds of music, and discussing works of art and architecture both in the classroom and in the museum.
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FYS: The Pleasures of the Imagination - British culture in the eighteenth century AS.001.166 (01)
Music, Art, Theater, Novels, Autobiographies, and Material Culture all expanded dramatically in Britain in the long eighteenth century (c. 1714-1830), creating a culture celebrating ‘happiness’, 'beauty', and the 'pleasures of the imagination'. This First-Year Seminar will introduce students to themselves experiencing and discussing these exciting cultural forms, with students attending and watching plays and movies from plays, discussing Jane Austen novels as read and as filmed, reading and discussing an Afro-British autobiography, listening to performances of different kinds of music, and discussing works of art and architecture both in the classroom and in the museum.
Days/Times: Th 9:00AM - 11:30AM
Instructor: Marshall, John W
Room: Gilman 308
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.001.174 (01)
FYS: Women and Family in Chinese Film
T 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Jiang, Jin
Gilman 413
Fall 2023
From the early 20th century, Chinese society underwent a turbulent process of modern transformation. Industrialization, urbanization, and democratization challenged previous gender and family norms. Meanwhile, at exactly this time, the Chinese film industry flourished, especially in the modern metropolis of Shanghai. Women and family provided a useful microcosm through which to explore national questions related to revolution, war, and modernity. They also entertained a public eager for new leisure pursuits. Popular feature films not only recorded but also interpreted and helped shape family and gender roles. Using filmic representations as the main material this First-Year Seminar will survey the "family question" (and "the woman question") in 20th century China
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FYS: Women and Family in Chinese Film AS.001.174 (01)
From the early 20th century, Chinese society underwent a turbulent process of modern transformation. Industrialization, urbanization, and democratization challenged previous gender and family norms. Meanwhile, at exactly this time, the Chinese film industry flourished, especially in the modern metropolis of Shanghai. Women and family provided a useful microcosm through which to explore national questions related to revolution, war, and modernity. They also entertained a public eager for new leisure pursuits. Popular feature films not only recorded but also interpreted and helped shape family and gender roles. Using filmic representations as the main material this First-Year Seminar will survey the "family question" (and "the woman question") in 20th century China
Days/Times: T 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Instructor: Jiang, Jin
Room: Gilman 413
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.010.421 (01)
An Empire’s Diversity: Ottoman Art and Architecture beyond the Imperial Court
Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Rustem, Unver
Gilman 177
Fall 2023
The established historiography of Ottoman architecture is dominated by the patronage of the sultans and their elites, particularly as it shaped the empire’s third and final capital, Istanbul. While this focus on the “center” and its leadership reflects the Ottoman state’s own hierarchical structure, it also obscures the larger network of places and people that enabled the imperial system to develop and acquire meaning in the first place. This course will explore Ottoman architecture and its patronage from the perspective of these neglected regions and actors, covering such examples as Christian vassal states along the empire’s European borders, Arab lands with existing traditions of Islamic art, the curious persistence of Gothic models in the former Crusader kingdom of Cyprus, and the distinctive architectural practices of non-Muslim minorities within Istanbul itself. Drawn primarily from the early modern and modern periods, our case studies will be treated not as imitations of or deviations from the metropolitan mainstream, but as vital expressions of Ottoman culture that assertively engaged with, and themselves contributed to, the better-known strategies of the sultan’s court. We will also go beyond issues of architecture and patronage and consider these buildings as lived spaces whose associated objects, furnishings, and social and ceremonial activities were no less constitutive of the empire’s diverse architectural landscape.
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An Empire’s Diversity: Ottoman Art and Architecture beyond the Imperial Court AS.010.421 (01)
The established historiography of Ottoman architecture is dominated by the patronage of the sultans and their elites, particularly as it shaped the empire’s third and final capital, Istanbul. While this focus on the “center” and its leadership reflects the Ottoman state’s own hierarchical structure, it also obscures the larger network of places and people that enabled the imperial system to develop and acquire meaning in the first place. This course will explore Ottoman architecture and its patronage from the perspective of these neglected regions and actors, covering such examples as Christian vassal states along the empire’s European borders, Arab lands with existing traditions of Islamic art, the curious persistence of Gothic models in the former Crusader kingdom of Cyprus, and the distinctive architectural practices of non-Muslim minorities within Istanbul itself. Drawn primarily from the early modern and modern periods, our case studies will be treated not as imitations of or deviations from the metropolitan mainstream, but as vital expressions of Ottoman culture that assertively engaged with, and themselves contributed to, the better-known strategies of the sultan’s court. We will also go beyond issues of architecture and patronage and consider these buildings as lived spaces whose associated objects, furnishings, and social and ceremonial activities were no less constitutive of the empire’s diverse architectural landscape.
Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Rustem, Unver
Room: Gilman 177
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/7
PosTag(s): HART-RENEM, INST-GLOBAL
AS.010.469 (01)
Quarried, Sculpted, Carved: Lifecycles of Mesoamerican Sculpture
M 4:30PM - 7:00PM
Popovici, Catherine H
Gilman 177
Fall 2023
Stelae, altars, colossal heads, thrones, figures, lintels. This course considers how artists created these stone monuments in Mesoamerica, the historical region that encompasses Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras, and El Salvador. Sculptors meticulously carved stone blocks to shape and then scribes expertly incised their surfaces with hieroglyphic text or iconography. These stone monuments were then transported and moved into position, their physical placements structuring social hierarchy and mediating interactions with the divine. In reviewing recent literature within the fields of art history and material studies, we will explore the full cycle of production for monumental works of art.
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Quarried, Sculpted, Carved: Lifecycles of Mesoamerican Sculpture AS.010.469 (01)
Stelae, altars, colossal heads, thrones, figures, lintels. This course considers how artists created these stone monuments in Mesoamerica, the historical region that encompasses Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras, and El Salvador. Sculptors meticulously carved stone blocks to shape and then scribes expertly incised their surfaces with hieroglyphic text or iconography. These stone monuments were then transported and moved into position, their physical placements structuring social hierarchy and mediating interactions with the divine. In reviewing recent literature within the fields of art history and material studies, we will explore the full cycle of production for monumental works of art.
Days/Times: M 4:30PM - 7:00PM
Instructor: Popovici, Catherine H
Room: Gilman 177
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/15
PosTag(s): HART-ANC, ARCH-ARCH
AS.100.102 (01)
The Medieval World
MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Lester, Anne E.
Gilman 132
Fall 2023
This course explores selected topics in the political, economic, social, and intellectual history of Western Europe in the wider world in the period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the fourteenth century. Special emphasis will be given to understanding the ways in which medieval society functioned as it reorganized itself after the almost total collapse of the ancient world. Topics include: religious plurality, sovereignty and subjecthood, flourishing of learning, chivalric culture, crusading, and the plague and its effects. We will follow the interplay between material and cultural forces in the processes of social organization.
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The Medieval World AS.100.102 (01)
This course explores selected topics in the political, economic, social, and intellectual history of Western Europe in the wider world in the period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the fourteenth century. Special emphasis will be given to understanding the ways in which medieval society functioned as it reorganized itself after the almost total collapse of the ancient world. Topics include: religious plurality, sovereignty and subjecthood, flourishing of learning, chivalric culture, crusading, and the plague and its effects. We will follow the interplay between material and cultural forces in the processes of social organization.
Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Instructor: Lester, Anne E.
Room: Gilman 132
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/15
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL, HIST-MIDEST
AS.100.102 (02)
The Medieval World
MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Lester, Anne E.
Gilman 132
Fall 2023
This course explores selected topics in the political, economic, social, and intellectual history of Western Europe in the wider world in the period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the fourteenth century. Special emphasis will be given to understanding the ways in which medieval society functioned as it reorganized itself after the almost total collapse of the ancient world. Topics include: religious plurality, sovereignty and subjecthood, flourishing of learning, chivalric culture, crusading, and the plague and its effects. We will follow the interplay between material and cultural forces in the processes of social organization.
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The Medieval World AS.100.102 (02)
This course explores selected topics in the political, economic, social, and intellectual history of Western Europe in the wider world in the period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the fourteenth century. Special emphasis will be given to understanding the ways in which medieval society functioned as it reorganized itself after the almost total collapse of the ancient world. Topics include: religious plurality, sovereignty and subjecthood, flourishing of learning, chivalric culture, crusading, and the plague and its effects. We will follow the interplay between material and cultural forces in the processes of social organization.
Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Instructor: Lester, Anne E.
Room: Gilman 132
Status: Open
Seats Available: 7/15
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL, HIST-MIDEST
AS.100.104 (01)
Modern Europe in a global context, 1789-Present
MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne
Krieger 170
Fall 2023
Modern Europe familiarizes students with key moments, ideas, communities, individuals, and movements which have defined European experiences in global encounters since the Revolutionary era. We will particularly focus on European imperial expansion, the formation of the modern nation-state, the history of political ideas and their global ramifications, and popular culture and social change.
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Modern Europe in a global context, 1789-Present AS.100.104 (01)
Modern Europe familiarizes students with key moments, ideas, communities, individuals, and movements which have defined European experiences in global encounters since the Revolutionary era. We will particularly focus on European imperial expansion, the formation of the modern nation-state, the history of political ideas and their global ramifications, and popular culture and social change.
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Instructor: Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne
Room: Krieger 170
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/15
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.104 (02)
Modern Europe in a global context, 1789-Present
MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne
Krieger 170
Fall 2023
Modern Europe familiarizes students with key moments, ideas, communities, individuals, and movements which have defined European experiences in global encounters since the Revolutionary era. We will particularly focus on European imperial expansion, the formation of the modern nation-state, the history of political ideas and their global ramifications, and popular culture and social change.
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Modern Europe in a global context, 1789-Present AS.100.104 (02)
Modern Europe familiarizes students with key moments, ideas, communities, individuals, and movements which have defined European experiences in global encounters since the Revolutionary era. We will particularly focus on European imperial expansion, the formation of the modern nation-state, the history of political ideas and their global ramifications, and popular culture and social change.
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Instructor: Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne
Room: Krieger 170
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/15
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.104 (03)
Modern Europe in a global context, 1789-Present
MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne
Krieger 170
Fall 2023
Modern Europe familiarizes students with key moments, ideas, communities, individuals, and movements which have defined European experiences in global encounters since the Revolutionary era. We will particularly focus on European imperial expansion, the formation of the modern nation-state, the history of political ideas and their global ramifications, and popular culture and social change.
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Modern Europe in a global context, 1789-Present AS.100.104 (03)
Modern Europe familiarizes students with key moments, ideas, communities, individuals, and movements which have defined European experiences in global encounters since the Revolutionary era. We will particularly focus on European imperial expansion, the formation of the modern nation-state, the history of political ideas and their global ramifications, and popular culture and social change.
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Instructor: Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne
Room: Krieger 170
Status: Open
Seats Available: 6/15
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.122 (01)
Introduction to History of Africa (since 1880)
MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Thornberry, Elizabeth
Hodson 303
Fall 2023
An introduction to modern African history, with emphasis on colonialism and decolonization.
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Introduction to History of Africa (since 1880) AS.100.122 (01)
An introduction to modern African history, with emphasis on colonialism and decolonization.
Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Instructor: Thornberry, Elizabeth
Room: Hodson 303
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/10
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, HIST-AFRICA
AS.100.127 (01)
Transatlantic Histories of Illicit Pleasure
TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Bilski, Emma Katherine
Maryland 114
Fall 2023
Through issues of illicit pleasure (sexuality, hallucination, play, etc.) in Black, Indigenous, queer, and women's history circa 1500-1850, we will investigate the politics of morality. Assessment will be based on "Un-Essay" projects instead of written exams.
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Transatlantic Histories of Illicit Pleasure AS.100.127 (01)
Through issues of illicit pleasure (sexuality, hallucination, play, etc.) in Black, Indigenous, queer, and women's history circa 1500-1850, we will investigate the politics of morality. Assessment will be based on "Un-Essay" projects instead of written exams.
Days/Times: TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Instructor: Bilski, Emma Katherine
Room: Maryland 114
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/18
PosTag(s): HIST-US, HIST-EUROPE, HIST-LATAM
AS.100.221 (01)
From Mass Conversion to Mass Incarceration: The History of the Uyghurs from the 10th Century to the Present Day
TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Kind, Kevin William
Krieger 300
Fall 2023
This course offers an overview of the history of the Uyghur people from their conversion to Islam in the tenth century to the present-day human rights crisis in Xinjiang, China.
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From Mass Conversion to Mass Incarceration: The History of the Uyghurs from the 10th Century to the Present Day AS.100.221 (01)
This course offers an overview of the history of the Uyghur people from their conversion to Islam in the tenth century to the present-day human rights crisis in Xinjiang, China.
Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Instructor: Kind, Kevin William
Room: Krieger 300
Status: Open
Seats Available: 11/20
PosTag(s): HIST-ASIA, HIST-MIDEST, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.233 (01)
History of Modern Germany
TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Harms, Victoria Elisabeth
Ames 218
Fall 2023
There is more to Germany than beer, BMWs, and Bayern Munich. We explore politics, culture, economics and society to understand Germany and its role in Europe and the world from the 18th century to the 2015 ‘Refugee Crisis’, climate change, EU and NATO politics today.
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History of Modern Germany AS.100.233 (01)
There is more to Germany than beer, BMWs, and Bayern Munich. We explore politics, culture, economics and society to understand Germany and its role in Europe and the world from the 18th century to the 2015 ‘Refugee Crisis’, climate change, EU and NATO politics today.
This course considers the American Revolution from the perspective of locations beyond the thirteen rebelling colonies. Covering a range of global hotspots, the focus is on events from 1763 to 1788.
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The American Revolution in Unexpected Places AS.100.250 (01)
This course considers the American Revolution from the perspective of locations beyond the thirteen rebelling colonies. Covering a range of global hotspots, the focus is on events from 1763 to 1788.
Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Instructor: Pearsall, Sarah
Room: Hodson 313
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/18
PosTag(s): HIST-US, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.250 (02)
The American Revolution in Unexpected Places
MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Pearsall, Sarah
Hodson 313
Fall 2023
This course considers the American Revolution from the perspective of locations beyond the thirteen rebelling colonies. Covering a range of global hotspots, the focus is on events from 1763 to 1788.
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The American Revolution in Unexpected Places AS.100.250 (02)
This course considers the American Revolution from the perspective of locations beyond the thirteen rebelling colonies. Covering a range of global hotspots, the focus is on events from 1763 to 1788.
Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Instructor: Pearsall, Sarah
Room: Hodson 313
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/18
PosTag(s): HIST-US, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.275 (01)
Passing in American Culture
W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Mott, Shani T
Hodson 301
Fall 2023
This course explores passing narratives – stories that feature people who cross race, class, ethnic, or gender boundaries. We will consider what passing narratives can teach us about power and identity, especially as power is presumed to reside in the self and race is presumed to no longer matter.
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Passing in American Culture AS.100.275 (01)
This course explores passing narratives – stories that feature people who cross race, class, ethnic, or gender boundaries. We will consider what passing narratives can teach us about power and identity, especially as power is presumed to reside in the self and race is presumed to no longer matter.
Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Mott, Shani T
Room: Hodson 301
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/15
PosTag(s): HIST-US
AS.100.293 (01)
Historical Methods, Archives and Interpretations
MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Maciejko, Pawel Tadeusz
Gilman 400
Fall 2023
This course will survey the main methods of and approaches to history since the Ancient times till the present. We shall begin by asking “What is history?” and explicate the basic concepts such as “fact”, “event”, “source”, narrative”, “evidence”, etc. We shall inquire if history can teach lessons for the future, or, for that matter, any lessons at all. We shall explore the interactions of history and collective memory and discuss various social, political, and psychological uses and abuses of historical writing.
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Historical Methods, Archives and Interpretations AS.100.293 (01)
This course will survey the main methods of and approaches to history since the Ancient times till the present. We shall begin by asking “What is history?” and explicate the basic concepts such as “fact”, “event”, “source”, narrative”, “evidence”, etc. We shall inquire if history can teach lessons for the future, or, for that matter, any lessons at all. We shall explore the interactions of history and collective memory and discuss various social, political, and psychological uses and abuses of historical writing.
Days/Times: MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Instructor: Maciejko, Pawel Tadeusz
Room: Gilman 400
Status: Open
Seats Available: 9/26
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.100.301 (01)
America after the Civil Rights Movement
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Connolly, Nathan D
Gilman 219
Fall 2023
This course explores the history of late twentieth-century America by examining the social, economic, and political legacies of 1960s civil rights protest for the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.
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America after the Civil Rights Movement AS.100.301 (01)
This course explores the history of late twentieth-century America by examining the social, economic, and political legacies of 1960s civil rights protest for the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.
Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Instructor: Connolly, Nathan D
Room: Gilman 219
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/25
PosTag(s): HIST-US
AS.100.302 (01)
History of the French-Algerian War, 1954-1962
T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Shepard, Todd
Maryland 217
Fall 2023
The Algerian Revolution (1954-1962) successfully challenged French claims that Algeria was part of France and led to an independent Algerian Republic. This struggle is often seen as the touchstone anti-colonial struggle as well as the matrix for modern forms of terrorism and state-sponsored torture. We will explore its history.
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History of the French-Algerian War, 1954-1962 AS.100.302 (01)
The Algerian Revolution (1954-1962) successfully challenged French claims that Algeria was part of France and led to an independent Algerian Republic. This struggle is often seen as the touchstone anti-colonial struggle as well as the matrix for modern forms of terrorism and state-sponsored torture. We will explore its history.
Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Shepard, Todd
Room: Maryland 217
Status: Open
Seats Available: 22/25
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, HIST-AFRICA, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.306 (01)
Cultural History of the USSR
TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Schmelz, Peter John
Hodson 210
Fall 2023
This class explores the history of the USSR through its varied cultural domains. It will consider music, literature, film, painting, and sculpture in both “high” and “low” registers, as well as aesthetics, power, and control over the entire Soviet period, at both the center and, especially, the periphery.
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Cultural History of the USSR AS.100.306 (01)
This class explores the history of the USSR through its varied cultural domains. It will consider music, literature, film, painting, and sculpture in both “high” and “low” registers, as well as aesthetics, power, and control over the entire Soviet period, at both the center and, especially, the periphery.
Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Instructor: Schmelz, Peter John
Room: Hodson 210
Status: Open
Seats Available: 10/18
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.321 (01)
Political Thought and Social Transformation in the Haitian Revolution and Early Independent Mexico, c. 1789-1850
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Borocz-Johnson, Lee Michael
Croft Hall G02
Fall 2023
This course will examine both the Haitian Revolution and the early period of Mexican independence by engaging with the ideas of actors within these events in international contexts.
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Political Thought and Social Transformation in the Haitian Revolution and Early Independent Mexico, c. 1789-1850 AS.100.321 (01)
This course will examine both the Haitian Revolution and the early period of Mexican independence by engaging with the ideas of actors within these events in international contexts.
Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Instructor: Borocz-Johnson, Lee Michael
Room: Croft Hall G02
Status: Open
Seats Available: 12/18
PosTag(s): HIST-LATAM, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.325 (01)
Mercenaries, Ice, and Dark Magic
WF 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Bentov, Achinoam
Maryland 104
Fall 2023
What’s the worst that can happen? We examine the seventeenth century as a warning, traversing the lives of soldiers, captives, and philosophers during one of the world’s most difficult moments.
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Mercenaries, Ice, and Dark Magic AS.100.325 (01)
What’s the worst that can happen? We examine the seventeenth century as a warning, traversing the lives of soldiers, captives, and philosophers during one of the world’s most difficult moments.
Days/Times: WF 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Instructor: Bentov, Achinoam
Room: Maryland 104
Status: Open
Seats Available: 7/18
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, HIST-ASIA
AS.100.327 (01)
The Islamic Age of Empires: The Ottomans, the Mughals, and the Safavids
TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Noor, Rao Mohsin Ali
Hodson 303
Fall 2023
“In the sixteenth century of our era”, wrote the eminent historian of Muslim societies Marshall Hodgson, “a visitor from Mars might well have supposed that the human world was on the verge of becoming Muslim”. They would have based this assertion, continues Hodgson, on the political, cultural, and economic vitality of the empires of the Ottomans, the Mughals, and the Safavids. This survey course will introduce students to the history, culture, institutions, and socio-religious makeup of these three early modern polities that ranged from the Balkans to Bengal, paying particular attention on issues of dynastic and religious law, cultural, religious, and military-diplomatic exchanges with the world and with each another, and their impact on the social, religious, and ethnic makeup of modern Europe and Asia.
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The Islamic Age of Empires: The Ottomans, the Mughals, and the Safavids AS.100.327 (01)
“In the sixteenth century of our era”, wrote the eminent historian of Muslim societies Marshall Hodgson, “a visitor from Mars might well have supposed that the human world was on the verge of becoming Muslim”. They would have based this assertion, continues Hodgson, on the political, cultural, and economic vitality of the empires of the Ottomans, the Mughals, and the Safavids. This survey course will introduce students to the history, culture, institutions, and socio-religious makeup of these three early modern polities that ranged from the Balkans to Bengal, paying particular attention on issues of dynastic and religious law, cultural, religious, and military-diplomatic exchanges with the world and with each another, and their impact on the social, religious, and ethnic makeup of modern Europe and Asia.
Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Instructor: Noor, Rao Mohsin Ali
Room: Hodson 303
Status: Open
Seats Available: 8/20
PosTag(s): HIST-MIDEST, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.338 (01)
Islam and Dune
MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Noor, Rao Mohsin Ali
Ames 218
Fall 2023
In this course we will explore how religion in general and Islam in particular informs the world of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi novel Dune, laying particular emphasis on how the messianic and mystical tradition within Islam pervades the first novel. We will also watch excerpts from the film adaption by Denis Villeneuve, and the forthcoming second part in its entirety together in a local theater. As we do so, we will also discuss questions of Orientalism, representation, adaption, and appropriation in both the books and the films.
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Islam and Dune AS.100.338 (01)
In this course we will explore how religion in general and Islam in particular informs the world of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi novel Dune, laying particular emphasis on how the messianic and mystical tradition within Islam pervades the first novel. We will also watch excerpts from the film adaption by Denis Villeneuve, and the forthcoming second part in its entirety together in a local theater. As we do so, we will also discuss questions of Orientalism, representation, adaption, and appropriation in both the books and the films.
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Instructor: Noor, Rao Mohsin Ali
Room: Ames 218
Status: Open
Seats Available: 6/20
PosTag(s): HIST-MIDEST, HIST-EUROPE
AS.100.338 (02)
Islam and Dune
MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Noor, Rao Mohsin Ali
Ames 218
Fall 2023
In this course we will explore how religion in general and Islam in particular informs the world of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi novel Dune, laying particular emphasis on how the messianic and mystical tradition within Islam pervades the first novel. We will also watch excerpts from the film adaption by Denis Villeneuve, and the forthcoming second part in its entirety together in a local theater. As we do so, we will also discuss questions of Orientalism, representation, adaption, and appropriation in both the books and the films.
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Islam and Dune AS.100.338 (02)
In this course we will explore how religion in general and Islam in particular informs the world of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi novel Dune, laying particular emphasis on how the messianic and mystical tradition within Islam pervades the first novel. We will also watch excerpts from the film adaption by Denis Villeneuve, and the forthcoming second part in its entirety together in a local theater. As we do so, we will also discuss questions of Orientalism, representation, adaption, and appropriation in both the books and the films.
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Instructor: Noor, Rao Mohsin Ali
Room: Ames 218
Status: Open
Seats Available: 13/20
PosTag(s): HIST-MIDEST, HIST-EUROPE
AS.100.347 (01)
Early Modern China
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Rowe, William T
Hodson 213
Fall 2023
The history of China from the 16th to the late 19th centuries.
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Early Modern China AS.100.347 (01)
The history of China from the 16th to the late 19th centuries.
Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Instructor: Rowe, William T
Room: Hodson 213
Status: Open
Seats Available: 23/40
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, HIST-ASIA
AS.100.360 (01)
The Modern British World: Imperial Encounters, Regimes, and Resistance, from the American Revolution to the present
TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne
Gilman 186
Fall 2023
The Modern British World introduces some of the major events, themes, and controversies that led to Britain’s global dominance and ultimate decline as an imperial power. This course focuses on varying forms of imperial governance, the interrelationships between metropole and colony, and the formation of British and colonial national identities.
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The Modern British World: Imperial Encounters, Regimes, and Resistance, from the American Revolution to the present AS.100.360 (01)
The Modern British World introduces some of the major events, themes, and controversies that led to Britain’s global dominance and ultimate decline as an imperial power. This course focuses on varying forms of imperial governance, the interrelationships between metropole and colony, and the formation of British and colonial national identities.
Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne
Room: Gilman 186
Status: Open
Seats Available: 10/20
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.368 (01)
European Socialist Thought
T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Jelavich, Peter
Gilman 55
Fall 2023
A survey of European socialist theories, including Marxism, anarchism, Social Democracy, feminism, and anti-imperialism. Authors include Proudhon, Marx, Engels, Bakunin, Bernstein, Lenin, Luxemburg, Kollontai, Césaire, and Fanon.
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European Socialist Thought AS.100.368 (01)
A survey of European socialist theories, including Marxism, anarchism, Social Democracy, feminism, and anti-imperialism. Authors include Proudhon, Marx, Engels, Bakunin, Bernstein, Lenin, Luxemburg, Kollontai, Césaire, and Fanon.
Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Jelavich, Peter
Room: Gilman 55
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/15
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, INST-PT, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.392 (01)
The Art of Lying: Lie, Dissimulation, and the "Fake News" in Pre-modern Europe
W 4:30PM - 7:00PM
Maciejko, Pawel Tadeusz
Bloomberg 176
Fall 2023
We live in an age that values authenticity, sincerity, and open and transparent communication. Yet this was not always the case. This course will examine the attitudes to lie, falsity, and dissimulation in pre-modern European society. We shall begin by exploring the concepts of lie and discussions of permissibility of lying in the canonical texts of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. We shall then focus on the texts composed between the 16th and the 18th centuries and explore questions posed by theologians (“Is lying always a sin?”, “Should one lie to protect lives?”, “Can God lie?”), philosophers and politicians (“Is the morality of the rulers different than that the ruled?”, “Are politicians bound to lie?”), and courtiers (“Is not telling the truth a necessary part of being polite?”, “Is all civility based on falsehood?”). We shall then move beyond the question of lying and probe the questions of dissimulation, imposture, and false or invented identities. We shall end with a discussion of the early romantic “cult of sincerity”.
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The Art of Lying: Lie, Dissimulation, and the "Fake News" in Pre-modern Europe AS.100.392 (01)
We live in an age that values authenticity, sincerity, and open and transparent communication. Yet this was not always the case. This course will examine the attitudes to lie, falsity, and dissimulation in pre-modern European society. We shall begin by exploring the concepts of lie and discussions of permissibility of lying in the canonical texts of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. We shall then focus on the texts composed between the 16th and the 18th centuries and explore questions posed by theologians (“Is lying always a sin?”, “Should one lie to protect lives?”, “Can God lie?”), philosophers and politicians (“Is the morality of the rulers different than that the ruled?”, “Are politicians bound to lie?”), and courtiers (“Is not telling the truth a necessary part of being polite?”, “Is all civility based on falsehood?”). We shall then move beyond the question of lying and probe the questions of dissimulation, imposture, and false or invented identities. We shall end with a discussion of the early romantic “cult of sincerity”.
Days/Times: W 4:30PM - 7:00PM
Instructor: Maciejko, Pawel Tadeusz
Room: Bloomberg 176
Status: Open
Seats Available: 17/30
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE
AS.100.413 (01)
London 1580-1830: The History of Britain's capital city
MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Marshall, John W
Gilman 219
Fall 2023
Seminar-style class analyzing the social, cultural, gender, religious, economic, and political history of London from Shakespeare's time through revolutions, plague, fire, and commercial, colonial, and industrial expansion.
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London 1580-1830: The History of Britain's capital city AS.100.413 (01)
Seminar-style class analyzing the social, cultural, gender, religious, economic, and political history of London from Shakespeare's time through revolutions, plague, fire, and commercial, colonial, and industrial expansion.
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Marshall, John W
Room: Gilman 219
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/25
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, HIST-EUROPE
AS.100.422 (01)
Society & Social Change in 18th Century China
W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Rowe, William T
Gilman 277
Fall 2023
What did Chinese local society look like under the Qing Empire, and how did it change over the early modern era?
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Society & Social Change in 18th Century China AS.100.422 (01)
What did Chinese local society look like under the Qing Empire, and how did it change over the early modern era?
Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Rowe, William T
Room: Gilman 277
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/15
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, HIST-ASIA
AS.100.447 (01)
A Celluloid Archive: Constructing Modern Indian History through Film
Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Halladay, Andrew
Gilman 308
Fall 2023
Cinema enjoys extraordinary prominence in India, where in a given year the output of films in Bombay—to say nothing of other Indian film centers—far surpasses the number produced by all American studios combined. While many of India’s most successful films have been derided by critics in Europe and North America, this course takes them seriously both as an artistic form and as a historical tool, treating the films, together with their consumption and circulation, as a critical window into the social history of India. We will begin our investigation in the silent era to demonstrate how, even though the majority of early films are lost, reception histories can reveal much about the communities that viewed them. Moving into the Golden Age of Hindi cinema in the 1950s and 1960s, we will consider how the popularity of these films in Pakistan, Iran, West Africa, and the Soviet Union was tied to India’s global aspirations and self-representation. This course closes with an examination of the current era of Indian cinema and the extent to which its production values, moral and political claims, and viewership (especially in the diaspora) have responded to, and perhaps emboldened, domestic shifts toward economic liberalization and rightwing politics. Focusing more on the social spaces around Indian cinema than on specific films, this course touches on such topics as the segregation of cinemas, the politics of tiered seating, and the rise of multiplexes and (il)legal streaming. Our interrogation of these spaces will reveal how these films can expose social attitudes, even on matters like caste, class, religion, language, and race that they may address only obliquely. More than this, however, this course proposes that Indian cinema, as a primary means of social interaction, entertainment, and information for millions, is not only a historical record but a historical force in its own right.
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A Celluloid Archive: Constructing Modern Indian History through Film AS.100.447 (01)
Cinema enjoys extraordinary prominence in India, where in a given year the output of films in Bombay—to say nothing of other Indian film centers—far surpasses the number produced by all American studios combined. While many of India’s most successful films have been derided by critics in Europe and North America, this course takes them seriously both as an artistic form and as a historical tool, treating the films, together with their consumption and circulation, as a critical window into the social history of India. We will begin our investigation in the silent era to demonstrate how, even though the majority of early films are lost, reception histories can reveal much about the communities that viewed them. Moving into the Golden Age of Hindi cinema in the 1950s and 1960s, we will consider how the popularity of these films in Pakistan, Iran, West Africa, and the Soviet Union was tied to India’s global aspirations and self-representation. This course closes with an examination of the current era of Indian cinema and the extent to which its production values, moral and political claims, and viewership (especially in the diaspora) have responded to, and perhaps emboldened, domestic shifts toward economic liberalization and rightwing politics. Focusing more on the social spaces around Indian cinema than on specific films, this course touches on such topics as the segregation of cinemas, the politics of tiered seating, and the rise of multiplexes and (il)legal streaming. Our interrogation of these spaces will reveal how these films can expose social attitudes, even on matters like caste, class, religion, language, and race that they may address only obliquely. More than this, however, this course proposes that Indian cinema, as a primary means of social interaction, entertainment, and information for millions, is not only a historical record but a historical force in its own right.
Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Halladay, Andrew
Room: Gilman 308
Status: Open
Seats Available: 9/20
PosTag(s): HIST-ASIA, INST-GLOBAL
AS.140.105 (01)
History of Medicine
MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Ragab, Ahmed
Maryland 110
Fall 2023
Course provides an introduction to health and healing in the ancient world, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance. Topics include religion and medicine; medicine in the Islamicate world; women and healing; patients and practitioners.
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History of Medicine AS.140.105 (01)
Course provides an introduction to health and healing in the ancient world, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance. Topics include religion and medicine; medicine in the Islamicate world; women and healing; patients and practitioners.
Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Instructor: Ragab, Ahmed
Room: Maryland 110
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/23
PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM
AS.140.105 (02)
History of Medicine
MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Ragab, Ahmed
Maryland 110
Fall 2023
Course provides an introduction to health and healing in the ancient world, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance. Topics include religion and medicine; medicine in the Islamicate world; women and healing; patients and practitioners.
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History of Medicine AS.140.105 (02)
Course provides an introduction to health and healing in the ancient world, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance. Topics include religion and medicine; medicine in the Islamicate world; women and healing; patients and practitioners.
Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Instructor: Ragab, Ahmed
Room: Maryland 110
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/23
PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM
AS.140.105 (03)
History of Medicine
MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 9:00AM - 9:50AM
Ragab, Ahmed
Maryland 110
Fall 2023
Course provides an introduction to health and healing in the ancient world, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance. Topics include religion and medicine; medicine in the Islamicate world; women and healing; patients and practitioners.
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History of Medicine AS.140.105 (03)
Course provides an introduction to health and healing in the ancient world, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance. Topics include religion and medicine; medicine in the Islamicate world; women and healing; patients and practitioners.
Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 9:00AM - 9:50AM
Instructor: Ragab, Ahmed
Room: Maryland 110
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/23
PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM
AS.211.265 (01)
Panorama of German Thought
MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Jelavich, Peter
Bloomberg 168
Fall 2023
This course will survey German ideas—in philosophy, social and political theory, and drama—since the Enlightenment. Authors include Kant, Schiller, Lessing, Goethe, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Weber, Horkheimer, and Adorno.
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Panorama of German Thought AS.211.265 (01)
This course will survey German ideas—in philosophy, social and political theory, and drama—since the Enlightenment. Authors include Kant, Schiller, Lessing, Goethe, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Weber, Horkheimer, and Adorno.
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Jelavich, Peter
Room: Bloomberg 168
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/10
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, INST-PT, HIST-EUROPE
AS.211.314 (01)
Jewish in America, Yiddish in America: Literature, Culture, Identity
MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Spinner, Samuel Jacob
Gilman 381
Fall 2023
iddish was the language of European Jews for 1000 years. From the 19th century to the present day it has been a language that millions of Americans — Jewish immigrants and their descendants–have spoken, written in, conducted their daily lives in, and created culture in. This course will examine literature, film, newspapers, and more to explore how Jewish immigrants to America shaped their identities—as Jews, as Americans, and as former Europeans. What role did maintaining, adapting, or abandoning a minority language play in the creation of Jewish American identity—cultural, ethnic, or religious? How was this language perceived by the majority culture? How was it used to represent the experiences of other minoritized groups? What processes of linguistic and cultural translation were involved in finding a space for Yiddish in America, in its original or translated into English? The overarching subjects of this course include migration, race, ethnicity, multilingualism, and assimilation. We will analyze literature (novels, poetry, drama); film; comedy; and other media. All texts in English.
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Jewish in America, Yiddish in America: Literature, Culture, Identity AS.211.314 (01)
iddish was the language of European Jews for 1000 years. From the 19th century to the present day it has been a language that millions of Americans — Jewish immigrants and their descendants–have spoken, written in, conducted their daily lives in, and created culture in. This course will examine literature, film, newspapers, and more to explore how Jewish immigrants to America shaped their identities—as Jews, as Americans, and as former Europeans. What role did maintaining, adapting, or abandoning a minority language play in the creation of Jewish American identity—cultural, ethnic, or religious? How was this language perceived by the majority culture? How was it used to represent the experiences of other minoritized groups? What processes of linguistic and cultural translation were involved in finding a space for Yiddish in America, in its original or translated into English? The overarching subjects of this course include migration, race, ethnicity, multilingualism, and assimilation. We will analyze literature (novels, poetry, drama); film; comedy; and other media. All texts in English.
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Spinner, Samuel Jacob
Room: Gilman 381
Status: Open
Seats Available: 10/15
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL
AS.211.394 (01)
Brazilian Culture & Civilization
MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
De Azeredo Cerqueira, Flavia Christina
Shaffer 202
Fall 2023
Did you know that Brazil is very similar to the United States? This course is intended as an introduction to the culture and civilization of Brazil. It is designed to provide students with basic information about Brazilian history, politics, economy, art, literature, popular culture, theater, cinema, and music. The course will focus on how Indigenous, Asian, African, and European cultural influences have interacted to create the new and unique civilization that is Brazil today. The course is taught in English, but ONE extra credit will be given to students who wish to do the course work in Portuguese. Those wishing to do the course work in English for 3 credits should register for section 01. Those wishing to earn 4 credits by doing the course work in Portuguese should register for section 02. The sections will be taught simultaneously. Section 01: 3 credits Section 02: 4 credits (instructor’s permission required).
No Prereq. THERE IS NO FINAL EXAM.
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Brazilian Culture & Civilization AS.211.394 (01)
Did you know that Brazil is very similar to the United States? This course is intended as an introduction to the culture and civilization of Brazil. It is designed to provide students with basic information about Brazilian history, politics, economy, art, literature, popular culture, theater, cinema, and music. The course will focus on how Indigenous, Asian, African, and European cultural influences have interacted to create the new and unique civilization that is Brazil today. The course is taught in English, but ONE extra credit will be given to students who wish to do the course work in Portuguese. Those wishing to do the course work in English for 3 credits should register for section 01. Those wishing to earn 4 credits by doing the course work in Portuguese should register for section 02. The sections will be taught simultaneously. Section 01: 3 credits Section 02: 4 credits (instructor’s permission required).
No Prereq. THERE IS NO FINAL EXAM.
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: De Azeredo Cerqueira, Flavia Christina
Room: Shaffer 202
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/20
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL
AS.310.327 (01)
Women in China from Antiquity to MeToo
M 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Jiang, Jin
Mergenthaler 266
Fall 2023
This interdisciplinary survey course considers questions related to women and gender in Chinese society. Taking a long historical view, the course examines ideologies, social institutions, and literary representations of women and gender in traditional society and their modern transformation. Specific topics to be explored include the concept of Yin and Yang, Confucian gender ideology and the family, sex and sexuality, marriage and concubinage, footbinding, and calls for women's liberation in the context of twentieth-century Chinese revolutions. The course will end with an examination of the relationship between social media and gender politics as seen through the Chinese MeToo movement. Students will have the opportunity to work with a variety of primary sources including historical, literary, and visual materials.
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Women in China from Antiquity to MeToo AS.310.327 (01)
This interdisciplinary survey course considers questions related to women and gender in Chinese society. Taking a long historical view, the course examines ideologies, social institutions, and literary representations of women and gender in traditional society and their modern transformation. Specific topics to be explored include the concept of Yin and Yang, Confucian gender ideology and the family, sex and sexuality, marriage and concubinage, footbinding, and calls for women's liberation in the context of twentieth-century Chinese revolutions. The course will end with an examination of the relationship between social media and gender politics as seen through the Chinese MeToo movement. Students will have the opportunity to work with a variety of primary sources including historical, literary, and visual materials.
Days/Times: M 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Instructor: Jiang, Jin
Room: Mergenthaler 266
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/15
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, INST-CP
AS.360.410 (01)
Humanities Research Lab: The Dutch Americas
M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Hyman, Aaron M.
Gilman 177
Fall 2023
The Dutch East India Company, or VOC, is historically and art historically well documented and firmly understood. But the Dutch also had significant holdings to the west via the Dutch West India Company, or WIC. They operated and held outposts in the present-day United States (New York/New Amsterdam), Caribbean (Surinam, Curaçao, Bonaire), Latin America (Brazil), and West Africa. Despite the abundance of materials associated with the WIC from this wide geography, these have been scarcely assessed by art historians, and a defined and comprehensive corpus has never been assembled. This class will act as a research lab in which to do so. In research teams, students will map artworks and objects created from that broad, transnational cultural ambit—categories that might include maps, landscape paintings, still life paintings featuring American flora and fauna, botanical illustrations, plantation architecture, luxury objects made from precious raw materials gathered in the Americas, the urban environment of slavery—and develop individual research questions around them.
The class will run with a partner lab in the form of a course led by Professor Stephanie Porras at Tulane University. The course will feature speakers; and there is potential for funded travel to conduct research. We will start at the ground level; no previous knowledge about the field is required. Students from all disciplines are welcome.
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Humanities Research Lab: The Dutch Americas AS.360.410 (01)
The Dutch East India Company, or VOC, is historically and art historically well documented and firmly understood. But the Dutch also had significant holdings to the west via the Dutch West India Company, or WIC. They operated and held outposts in the present-day United States (New York/New Amsterdam), Caribbean (Surinam, Curaçao, Bonaire), Latin America (Brazil), and West Africa. Despite the abundance of materials associated with the WIC from this wide geography, these have been scarcely assessed by art historians, and a defined and comprehensive corpus has never been assembled. This class will act as a research lab in which to do so. In research teams, students will map artworks and objects created from that broad, transnational cultural ambit—categories that might include maps, landscape paintings, still life paintings featuring American flora and fauna, botanical illustrations, plantation architecture, luxury objects made from precious raw materials gathered in the Americas, the urban environment of slavery—and develop individual research questions around them.
The class will run with a partner lab in the form of a course led by Professor Stephanie Porras at Tulane University. The course will feature speakers; and there is potential for funded travel to conduct research. We will start at the ground level; no previous knowledge about the field is required. Students from all disciplines are welcome.
Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Hyman, Aaron M.
Room: Gilman 177
Status: Open
Seats Available: 6/8
PosTag(s): HART-RENEM
AS.362.112 (01)
Introduction to Africana Studies
TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Mott, Shani T
Gilman 313
Fall 2023
This course introduces students to the field of Africana Studies. It focuses on the historical experience, intellectual ideas, theories, and cultural production of African-descended people. We will consider how people of the black diaspora remember and encounter Africa. We will explore, too, how such people have lived, spoken, written, and produced art about colonialism and enslavement, gender and mobility, violence and pleasure. This course will be thematically organized and invite you to center your own stories about black people within your understanding of the modern world and its making.
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Introduction to Africana Studies AS.362.112 (01)
This course introduces students to the field of Africana Studies. It focuses on the historical experience, intellectual ideas, theories, and cultural production of African-descended people. We will consider how people of the black diaspora remember and encounter Africa. We will explore, too, how such people have lived, spoken, written, and produced art about colonialism and enslavement, gender and mobility, violence and pleasure. This course will be thematically organized and invite you to center your own stories about black people within your understanding of the modern world and its making.
Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Instructor: Mott, Shani T
Room: Gilman 313
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.362.119 (01)
Abolition and the University
TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Cumming, Daniel
Gilman 186
Fall 2023
This course explores “critical university studies” through the lens of abolitionist thought, from W.E.B. DuBois to Ruth Wilson Gilmore. It historicizes universities’ growth within U.S. cities during the twentieth century.
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Abolition and the University AS.362.119 (01)
This course explores “critical university studies” through the lens of abolitionist thought, from W.E.B. DuBois to Ruth Wilson Gilmore. It historicizes universities’ growth within U.S. cities during the twentieth century.
Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Instructor: Cumming, Daniel
Room: Gilman 186
Status: Open
Seats Available: 15/20
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.363.201 (01)
Introduction to the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Giardini, Jo Aurelio
Croft Hall G02
Fall 2023
This course will serve as an intensive introduction to contemporary approaches to theories of gender and sexuality, and their relationship to cultural production and politics. Students will develop a historically situated knowledge of the development of feminist and queer scholarship in the 20th and 21st centuries, and consider the multiply intersecting forces which shape understandings of sexual and gender identity. We will consider both foundational questions (What is gender? Who is the subject of feminism? What defines queerness?) and questions of aesthetic and political strategy, and spend substantial time engaging with feminist and queer scholarship in comparative contexts. Students will be introduced to debates in Black feminism, intersectionality theory, third world feminism, socialist feminism, queer of colour critique, and trans* theory. We will read both canonical texts and recent works of scholarship, and the final weeks of the course will be devoted to thinking with our theoretical and historical readings against a selection of feminist and queer literature and cinema. No prior familiarity with the study of gender and sexuality is necessary.
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Introduction to the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality AS.363.201 (01)
This course will serve as an intensive introduction to contemporary approaches to theories of gender and sexuality, and their relationship to cultural production and politics. Students will develop a historically situated knowledge of the development of feminist and queer scholarship in the 20th and 21st centuries, and consider the multiply intersecting forces which shape understandings of sexual and gender identity. We will consider both foundational questions (What is gender? Who is the subject of feminism? What defines queerness?) and questions of aesthetic and political strategy, and spend substantial time engaging with feminist and queer scholarship in comparative contexts. Students will be introduced to debates in Black feminism, intersectionality theory, third world feminism, socialist feminism, queer of colour critique, and trans* theory. We will read both canonical texts and recent works of scholarship, and the final weeks of the course will be devoted to thinking with our theoretical and historical readings against a selection of feminist and queer literature and cinema. No prior familiarity with the study of gender and sexuality is necessary.
Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Instructor: Giardini, Jo Aurelio
Room: Croft Hall G02
Status: Open
Seats Available: 11/30
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.389.201 (01)
Introduction to the Museum: Past and Present
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Kingsley, Jennifer P
Krieger 300
Fall 2023
This course surveys museums, from their origins to their most contemporary forms, in the context of broader historical, intellectual, and cultural trends including the social movements of the 20th century. Anthropology, art, history, and science museums are considered. Crosslisted with Archaeology, History, History of Art, International Studies and Medicine, Science & Humanities.
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Introduction to the Museum: Past and Present AS.389.201 (01)
This course surveys museums, from their origins to their most contemporary forms, in the context of broader historical, intellectual, and cultural trends including the social movements of the 20th century. Anthropology, art, history, and science museums are considered. Crosslisted with Archaeology, History, History of Art, International Studies and Medicine, Science & Humanities.
Investigates collaborative humanities methods that foster democratic participation among publics more broadly conceived than the academy, including participatory action research, collaborative oral history, indigenous research methods, interactive theater, participatory archival practices, and cooperative models for connecting art, artists, and audiences. Course focuses on queer, trans, and Black histories in Baltimore, includes excursions to local cultural institutions, and is co-taught by prominent public humanists, artists, and activists from Baltimore and beyond.
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Public Humanities & Social Justice AS.389.410 (01)
Investigates collaborative humanities methods that foster democratic participation among publics more broadly conceived than the academy, including participatory action research, collaborative oral history, indigenous research methods, interactive theater, participatory archival practices, and cooperative models for connecting art, artists, and audiences. Course focuses on queer, trans, and Black histories in Baltimore, includes excursions to local cultural institutions, and is co-taught by prominent public humanists, artists, and activists from Baltimore and beyond.
Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Plaster, Joseph
Room: Bloomberg 274
Status: Open
Seats Available: 6/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.010.369 (01)
The American Art Museum: Origins, Mission, and Civic Purpose
TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Weiss, Daniel H
Gilman 177
Spring 2024
This course will explore the American art museum as a distinctive cultural and political idea. Tracing its origins to the ancient world, the American museum was descended more immediately from institutions created during the European Enlightenment, but differing with regard to overall mission and civic purpose. This course will explore the various roles played by museums in American society, focusing on programmatic content, organizational design, funding and operating practices, and the particular issues that have arisen in recent years in the areas of cultural property restitution, collection development, special exhibitions, governance and funding, anti-colonialism, and the larger question of civic purpose. Students will have the opportunity to visit local museums and meet with museum leaders in various professional areas.
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The American Art Museum: Origins, Mission, and Civic Purpose AS.010.369 (01)
This course will explore the American art museum as a distinctive cultural and political idea. Tracing its origins to the ancient world, the American museum was descended more immediately from institutions created during the European Enlightenment, but differing with regard to overall mission and civic purpose. This course will explore the various roles played by museums in American society, focusing on programmatic content, organizational design, funding and operating practices, and the particular issues that have arisen in recent years in the areas of cultural property restitution, collection development, special exhibitions, governance and funding, anti-colonialism, and the larger question of civic purpose. Students will have the opportunity to visit local museums and meet with museum leaders in various professional areas.
Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Weiss, Daniel H
Room: Gilman 177
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/15
PosTag(s): HART-MODERN
AS.040.420 (04)
Classics Research Lab: Race in Antiquity Project (RAP)
W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Pandey, Nandini
Greenhouse 000
Spring 2024
How did ancient civilizations around the Mediterranean basin (Greece, Rome, Egypt, Persia, Carthage) understand and represent their own and others’ identities and ethnic differences? How did notions and practices around race, citizenship, and immigration evolve from antiquity to the present? How have culture and politics informed artistic, literary, and museum representations of ethnic ‘others’ over time, along with the historical development of ethnography, biological science, and pseudo-sciences of race? What role did “Classics” (the study of Greco-Roman cultures) play in modern colonialism, racecraft, and inequality? And what role can it play in unmaking their legacies, through the ongoing Black Classicism movement, the practice of Critical Race Theory, and the development of more global and interconnective approaches to premodern cultures? RAP provides an opportunity for Hopkins undergraduates and graduate students from a wide variety of disciplinary backgrounds to engage in project-based research toward building an open-access, grant-winning educational resource (OER) on “Race in Antiquity.” Participants learn, share, and practice advanced research methods; examine and discuss the history and modern implications of the teaching and study of their fields; test-drive and collaboratively edit OER pilot materials; and create new content based on their own research, for eventual digital publication.
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Classics Research Lab: Race in Antiquity Project (RAP) AS.040.420 (04)
How did ancient civilizations around the Mediterranean basin (Greece, Rome, Egypt, Persia, Carthage) understand and represent their own and others’ identities and ethnic differences? How did notions and practices around race, citizenship, and immigration evolve from antiquity to the present? How have culture and politics informed artistic, literary, and museum representations of ethnic ‘others’ over time, along with the historical development of ethnography, biological science, and pseudo-sciences of race? What role did “Classics” (the study of Greco-Roman cultures) play in modern colonialism, racecraft, and inequality? And what role can it play in unmaking their legacies, through the ongoing Black Classicism movement, the practice of Critical Race Theory, and the development of more global and interconnective approaches to premodern cultures? RAP provides an opportunity for Hopkins undergraduates and graduate students from a wide variety of disciplinary backgrounds to engage in project-based research toward building an open-access, grant-winning educational resource (OER) on “Race in Antiquity.” Participants learn, share, and practice advanced research methods; examine and discuss the history and modern implications of the teaching and study of their fields; test-drive and collaboratively edit OER pilot materials; and create new content based on their own research, for eventual digital publication.
Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Pandey, Nandini
Room: Greenhouse 000
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/15
PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM
AS.040.420 (05)
Classics Research Lab: A world of orators: speaking in public in the Roman empire
M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Roller, Matthew
Gilman 108
Spring 2024
This research-based Lab course will involve careful reading of a variety of Roman texts of the early empire, aiming to catalogue every instance of public speech and of the orators who speak in public. This cataloguing project, perhaps eventually resulting in an online database, will include historical and comparative readings about public speech as a feature of society.
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Classics Research Lab: A world of orators: speaking in public in the Roman empire AS.040.420 (05)
This research-based Lab course will involve careful reading of a variety of Roman texts of the early empire, aiming to catalogue every instance of public speech and of the orators who speak in public. This cataloguing project, perhaps eventually resulting in an online database, will include historical and comparative readings about public speech as a feature of society.
Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Roller, Matthew
Room: Gilman 108
Status: Open
Seats Available: 6/10
PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM
AS.100.103 (01)
Early Modern Europe & the Wider World
MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Loiselle, Ken
Krieger 304
Spring 2024
This survey course examines the history of Europe from the early sixteenth to the late eighteenth centuries. Topics to be examined include the Reformations and religious wars, curiosity, contact and conquest of non-European lands, the rise of modern bureaucratic states, the emergence of popular sovereignty as a political criterion, the new science, as well as expanding literacy and consumption.
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Early Modern Europe & the Wider World AS.100.103 (01)
This survey course examines the history of Europe from the early sixteenth to the late eighteenth centuries. Topics to be examined include the Reformations and religious wars, curiosity, contact and conquest of non-European lands, the rise of modern bureaucratic states, the emergence of popular sovereignty as a political criterion, the new science, as well as expanding literacy and consumption.
Days/Times: MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Instructor: Loiselle, Ken
Room: Krieger 304
Status: Open
Seats Available: 7/26
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE
AS.100.117 (01)
Introduction to Native North America
MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Grindon, Blake
Ames 218
Spring 2024
This course provides an overview of Native American History in North America. We will investigate the diverse Indigenous cultures and political systems that have called the continent home from large and historically well-documented polities such as Cherokee nation and the Haudenosaunee to the crucial yet often-overlooked role of smaller polities such as those of the Abenakis and the Petites Nations of the Gulf Coast. Along the way we will ask: how have geography (and displacement) shaped culture and politics? how have Indigenous histories shaped the history of the United States (as well as Mexico and Canada)? what are the unique challenges of studying and writing Native American History today?
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Introduction to Native North America AS.100.117 (01)
This course provides an overview of Native American History in North America. We will investigate the diverse Indigenous cultures and political systems that have called the continent home from large and historically well-documented polities such as Cherokee nation and the Haudenosaunee to the crucial yet often-overlooked role of smaller polities such as those of the Abenakis and the Petites Nations of the Gulf Coast. Along the way we will ask: how have geography (and displacement) shaped culture and politics? how have Indigenous histories shaped the history of the United States (as well as Mexico and Canada)? what are the unique challenges of studying and writing Native American History today?
Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Instructor: Grindon, Blake
Room: Ames 218
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/20
PosTag(s): HIST-US, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.117 (02)
Introduction to Native North America
MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Grindon, Blake
Ames 218
Spring 2024
This course provides an overview of Native American History in North America. We will investigate the diverse Indigenous cultures and political systems that have called the continent home from large and historically well-documented polities such as Cherokee nation and the Haudenosaunee to the crucial yet often-overlooked role of smaller polities such as those of the Abenakis and the Petites Nations of the Gulf Coast. Along the way we will ask: how have geography (and displacement) shaped culture and politics? how have Indigenous histories shaped the history of the United States (as well as Mexico and Canada)? what are the unique challenges of studying and writing Native American History today?
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Introduction to Native North America AS.100.117 (02)
This course provides an overview of Native American History in North America. We will investigate the diverse Indigenous cultures and political systems that have called the continent home from large and historically well-documented polities such as Cherokee nation and the Haudenosaunee to the crucial yet often-overlooked role of smaller polities such as those of the Abenakis and the Petites Nations of the Gulf Coast. Along the way we will ask: how have geography (and displacement) shaped culture and politics? how have Indigenous histories shaped the history of the United States (as well as Mexico and Canada)? what are the unique challenges of studying and writing Native American History today?
Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Instructor: Grindon, Blake
Room: Ames 218
Status: Open
Seats Available: 16/20
PosTag(s): HIST-US, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.257 (01)
Africans and France, 1900-2024
T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Shepard, Todd
Gilman 119
Spring 2024
By 1900, France had conquered large parts of the African continent - mainly through violence - and gained a reputation as the least racist Western state. In 2023, the French government works to hold onto the power it still holds in multiple sub-Saharan countries while, at home and abroad, the perniciousness and persistence of French anti-African racisms spark debate and activism. This course examines the interactions between African and Afro-descendent people and France/the French, in Africa (with particular attention to North and West Africa), France, and beyond. We will focus on colonialism, decolonization, and neocolonialism - notably “Françafrique” - as well as how Africans and Afro-descendent people in France navigated the challenges and possibilities they encountered.
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Africans and France, 1900-2024 AS.100.257 (01)
By 1900, France had conquered large parts of the African continent - mainly through violence - and gained a reputation as the least racist Western state. In 2023, the French government works to hold onto the power it still holds in multiple sub-Saharan countries while, at home and abroad, the perniciousness and persistence of French anti-African racisms spark debate and activism. This course examines the interactions between African and Afro-descendent people and France/the French, in Africa (with particular attention to North and West Africa), France, and beyond. We will focus on colonialism, decolonization, and neocolonialism - notably “Françafrique” - as well as how Africans and Afro-descendent people in France navigated the challenges and possibilities they encountered.
Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Shepard, Todd
Room: Gilman 119
Status: Open
Seats Available: 23/30
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, HIST-AFRICA, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.270 (01)
Europe since 1945
TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Harms, Victoria Elisabeth
Ames 218
Spring 2024
This class focuses on Europe from the end of World War II until today. We will discuss topics such as Germany’s division during the Cold War, the European welfare state, the relationship to the US and the Soviet Union, decolonization, the revolutions of 1989, racism, neoliberalism, and the EU. Expect academic literature, movies, documentary films, textual and visual primary sources, and plenty of group work. A special treat: we will team up with students at the University of Regensburg to research current challenges to and in the transatlantic alliance.
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Europe since 1945 AS.100.270 (01)
This class focuses on Europe from the end of World War II until today. We will discuss topics such as Germany’s division during the Cold War, the European welfare state, the relationship to the US and the Soviet Union, decolonization, the revolutions of 1989, racism, neoliberalism, and the EU. Expect academic literature, movies, documentary films, textual and visual primary sources, and plenty of group work. A special treat: we will team up with students at the University of Regensburg to research current challenges to and in the transatlantic alliance.
Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Harms, Victoria Elisabeth
Room: Ames 218
Status: Open
Seats Available: 2/40
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL, HIST-US
AS.100.274 (01)
Conspiracy in American Politics
TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Luff, Jennifer D
Gilman 219
Spring 2024
Conspiratorial thinking is nothing new in American politics. Since the founding of the nation, Americans have been riveted—and riven—by conspiracy theories. This course introduces students to key methods and questions in U.S. history by exploring conspiratorial episodes from the American Revolution through the present. We’ll pick apart allegations and denials of conspiracies to discover what they tell us about American politics and culture. We’ll also consider historians’ analyses of conspiratorial claims, and think about the relationship between conspiracy and historical causality.
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Conspiracy in American Politics AS.100.274 (01)
Conspiratorial thinking is nothing new in American politics. Since the founding of the nation, Americans have been riveted—and riven—by conspiracy theories. This course introduces students to key methods and questions in U.S. history by exploring conspiratorial episodes from the American Revolution through the present. We’ll pick apart allegations and denials of conspiracies to discover what they tell us about American politics and culture. We’ll also consider historians’ analyses of conspiratorial claims, and think about the relationship between conspiracy and historical causality.
Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Instructor: Luff, Jennifer D
Room: Gilman 219
Status: Open
Seats Available: 2/25
PosTag(s): HIST-US, POLI-AP, INST-GLOBAL, INST-AP
AS.100.283 (01)
Making and Unmaking Queer Histories, 1800-Present
TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne
Krieger 307
Spring 2024
This course investigates sexual cultures through the lens of modern Queer History in the United States and Western Europe, with forays into global and transnational histories.
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Making and Unmaking Queer Histories, 1800-Present AS.100.283 (01)
This course investigates sexual cultures through the lens of modern Queer History in the United States and Western Europe, with forays into global and transnational histories.
Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne
Room: Krieger 307
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/20
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, HIST-US, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.310 (01)
The French Revolution
TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Mason, Laura
Gilman 381
Spring 2024
The political, social and cultural history of events that marked a turning-point to the modern era by inaugurating and then destroying a more popular democracy than Europeans had yet known.
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The French Revolution AS.100.310 (01)
The political, social and cultural history of events that marked a turning-point to the modern era by inaugurating and then destroying a more popular democracy than Europeans had yet known.
Days/Times: TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Instructor: Mason, Laura
Room: Gilman 381
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/15
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.314 (01)
The Enlightenment
TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Kwass, Michael
Gilman 217
Spring 2024
Examines the Enlightenment, an intellectual movement that swept Europe in the eighteenth century to shape the modern world. Students will not only read canonical works of the period (Voltaire, Hume, Rousseau, etc.) but also consider the broader social and cultural contexts in which ideas evolved. Thus, the class will explore the rise of the book trade and popular reading practices; new understandings of gender and sexuality; and the development of anti-Black racism and slavery in the Atlantic world.
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The Enlightenment AS.100.314 (01)
Examines the Enlightenment, an intellectual movement that swept Europe in the eighteenth century to shape the modern world. Students will not only read canonical works of the period (Voltaire, Hume, Rousseau, etc.) but also consider the broader social and cultural contexts in which ideas evolved. Thus, the class will explore the rise of the book trade and popular reading practices; new understandings of gender and sexuality; and the development of anti-Black racism and slavery in the Atlantic world.
Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Instructor: Kwass, Michael
Room: Gilman 217
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/14
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.323 (01)
Malcolm and Martin: Evolutionary Revolutionaries
W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Jackson, Lawrence P
Ames 320
Spring 2024
This is a larger seminar-style course devoted to the writings attributed to Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X (El-Hajj El-Malik Shabazz). While the two the key African American male icons of the Civil Rights Movement era gained prominence in the 1950s and 1960s, they are typically discussed as representing two ideological camps: racial integration deeply committed to the idea of American exceptionalism and democratic perfection, and black nationalism, a non-state ideological move that adjudged the U.S. nation state on the same terms as any other imperial power. We will explore these binaries in their thought and the social movements connected to them, and also engage with multiple cinematic representations of the two figures that have carried them forward into contemporary times.
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Malcolm and Martin: Evolutionary Revolutionaries AS.100.323 (01)
This is a larger seminar-style course devoted to the writings attributed to Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X (El-Hajj El-Malik Shabazz). While the two the key African American male icons of the Civil Rights Movement era gained prominence in the 1950s and 1960s, they are typically discussed as representing two ideological camps: racial integration deeply committed to the idea of American exceptionalism and democratic perfection, and black nationalism, a non-state ideological move that adjudged the U.S. nation state on the same terms as any other imperial power. We will explore these binaries in their thought and the social movements connected to them, and also engage with multiple cinematic representations of the two figures that have carried them forward into contemporary times.
Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Jackson, Lawrence P
Room: Ames 320
Status: Open
Seats Available: 9/15
PosTag(s): HIST-US, ENGL-GLOBAL
AS.100.348 (01)
20th-Century China
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Rowe, William T
Gilman 55
Spring 2024
Survey of the history of China from ca. 1895 to ca. 1976.
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20th-Century China AS.100.348 (01)
Survey of the history of China from ca. 1895 to ca. 1976.
Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Instructor: Rowe, William T
Room: Gilman 55
Status: Open
Seats Available: 15/40
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, HIST-ASIA
AS.100.378 (01)
Africa and the Atlantic World
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Gondola, Didier Didier
Gilman 186
Spring 2024
This upper-division course is designed to help students examine and probe the significant role Africa has played in shaping the Atlantic world and its place within its economic, social, religious, cultural, and political configurations.
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Africa and the Atlantic World AS.100.378 (01)
This upper-division course is designed to help students examine and probe the significant role Africa has played in shaping the Atlantic world and its place within its economic, social, religious, cultural, and political configurations.
Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Instructor: Gondola, Didier Didier
Room: Gilman 186
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/20
PosTag(s): HIST-AFRICA, AFRS-AFRICA, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.386 (01)
Sports History of the Cold War
W 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Harms, Victoria Elisabeth
Krieger 307
Spring 2024
This class reassesses the history of the Cold War through sports. We will investigate how the Cold War has shaped sports, the Olympic movement, the role of athletes at home and abroad. We will discuss how sports intersected with domestic and foreign policy, and how sports reinforced or challenged notions of race, gender, and class. We will also interview eyewitnesses, former athletes in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Sports History of the Cold War AS.100.386 (01)
This class reassesses the history of the Cold War through sports. We will investigate how the Cold War has shaped sports, the Olympic movement, the role of athletes at home and abroad. We will discuss how sports intersected with domestic and foreign policy, and how sports reinforced or challenged notions of race, gender, and class. We will also interview eyewitnesses, former athletes in the 1960s and 1970s.
Students work in close collaboration with a faculty member to produce an individual research project. The course is designed for history majors in conjunctions with AS.100.293, and it is recommended, although not required, that the AS.100.293 be taken first.
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Practicing Historical Research AS.100.388 (01)
Students work in close collaboration with a faculty member to produce an individual research project. The course is designed for history majors in conjunctions with AS.100.293, and it is recommended, although not required, that the AS.100.293 be taken first.
Days/Times: MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Instructor: Maciejko, Pawel Tadeusz
Room: Hodson 305
Status: Open
Seats Available: 28/36
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.100.395 (01)
History of Global Development
T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Lurtz, Casey Marina
Krieger 304
Spring 2024
This course explores development as an ideology and a practice. From colonialism to the Cold War to contemporary NGOs, we will interrogate the history of our attempts to improve the world. This iteration of the course will have a particular focus on the intersections between development and the environment. Graduate students welcome.
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History of Global Development AS.100.395 (01)
This course explores development as an ideology and a practice. From colonialism to the Cold War to contemporary NGOs, we will interrogate the history of our attempts to improve the world. This iteration of the course will have a particular focus on the intersections between development and the environment. Graduate students welcome.
Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Lurtz, Casey Marina
Room: Krieger 304
Status: Open
Seats Available: 14/25
PosTag(s): HIST-LATAM, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.411 (01)
AI and Data Methods in History
M 5:00PM - 7:30PM
Hyman, Louis
Wyman Park 350
Spring 2024
In this course, we will explore American labor, business and immigration history through data using AI. Students will learn how to think critically about how data are made and organized. They will then use that data to build arguments and visualizations about social and economic change over time. Throughout the course, we will learn to use various tools such as Google Sheets, Python, and Chat GPT for data analysis. No prior experience with statistics or programming is necessary, but students should come with a desire to learn. For advanced undergraduates and graduates.
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AI and Data Methods in History AS.100.411 (01)
In this course, we will explore American labor, business and immigration history through data using AI. Students will learn how to think critically about how data are made and organized. They will then use that data to build arguments and visualizations about social and economic change over time. Throughout the course, we will learn to use various tools such as Google Sheets, Python, and Chat GPT for data analysis. No prior experience with statistics or programming is necessary, but students should come with a desire to learn. For advanced undergraduates and graduates.
Days/Times: M 5:00PM - 7:30PM
Instructor: Hyman, Louis
Room: Wyman Park 350
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/25
PosTag(s): HIST-US, AGRI-ELECT, MSCH-HUM
AS.100.433 (01)
Free Speech and Censorship in the United States
T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Jelavich, Peter
BLC 4040
Spring 2024
This undergraduate research seminar examines censorship laws, practices, and debates from the eighteenth century to the present. Issues include political speech, obscenity and pornography, and racist hate speech. In addition to discussing common readings, each student will choose a censorship case or issue to research, present to the class, and analyze in a final essay.
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Free Speech and Censorship in the United States AS.100.433 (01)
This undergraduate research seminar examines censorship laws, practices, and debates from the eighteenth century to the present. Issues include political speech, obscenity and pornography, and racist hate speech. In addition to discussing common readings, each student will choose a censorship case or issue to research, present to the class, and analyze in a final essay.
Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Jelavich, Peter
Room: BLC 4040
Status: Open
Seats Available: 6/10
PosTag(s): HIST-US
AS.100.442 (01)
The Intellectual History of Capitalism, 1900 to present
W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Burgin, Angus
Gilman 308
Spring 2024
Since 1900 global markets have undergone a dramatic transformation. This course will grapple with the writings of economists and social theorists who sought to understand the implications of these changes, and in some cases helped to inspire them. Questions they addressed include: does freedom result from the absence of coercion, or does it require the provision of capacities? Do markets reward desirable behaviors, or do they produce social and environmental pathologies? Does competition occur spontaneously, or does it require careful regulation and reinforcement? And what is the relationship between innovation and inequality? Readings include selections from Max Weber, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, W.E.B. DuBois, John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich Hayek, Karl Polanyi, Joseph Schumpeter, Theodor Adorno, Milton Friedman, Donna Haraway, Wendy Brown, and Thomas Piketty. Class meetings will focus on the close reading of these texts, and discussion of how and why perceptions of the market economy have changed over time.
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The Intellectual History of Capitalism, 1900 to present AS.100.442 (01)
Since 1900 global markets have undergone a dramatic transformation. This course will grapple with the writings of economists and social theorists who sought to understand the implications of these changes, and in some cases helped to inspire them. Questions they addressed include: does freedom result from the absence of coercion, or does it require the provision of capacities? Do markets reward desirable behaviors, or do they produce social and environmental pathologies? Does competition occur spontaneously, or does it require careful regulation and reinforcement? And what is the relationship between innovation and inequality? Readings include selections from Max Weber, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, W.E.B. DuBois, John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich Hayek, Karl Polanyi, Joseph Schumpeter, Theodor Adorno, Milton Friedman, Donna Haraway, Wendy Brown, and Thomas Piketty. Class meetings will focus on the close reading of these texts, and discussion of how and why perceptions of the market economy have changed over time.
Revolution, Anti-Slavery, and Empire 1773-1792: British and American Political Thought from Paine, Smith, and the Declaration of Independence to Cugoano, Wollstonecraft, and the Bill of Rights
MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Marshall, John W
Gilman 17
Spring 2024
This seminar-style course will focus on discussing British and American political thought from the "Age of Revolutions", a period also of many critiques of Empire and of many works of Antislavery. Readings include Paine's Common Sense and Rights of Man, the Declaration of Rights, the Constitution and Bill of Rights, the Federalist Papers; works by Smith, Burke, and Wollstonecraft; and antislavery works by Cugoano, Equiano, Rush, Wesley, and Wilberforce.
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Revolution, Anti-Slavery, and Empire 1773-1792: British and American Political Thought from Paine, Smith, and the Declaration of Independence to Cugoano, Wollstonecraft, and the Bill of Rights AS.100.445 (01)
This seminar-style course will focus on discussing British and American political thought from the "Age of Revolutions", a period also of many critiques of Empire and of many works of Antislavery. Readings include Paine's Common Sense and Rights of Man, the Declaration of Rights, the Constitution and Bill of Rights, the Federalist Papers; works by Smith, Burke, and Wollstonecraft; and antislavery works by Cugoano, Equiano, Rush, Wesley, and Wilberforce.
In this course, students participate in a research “laboratory,” engaging in direct research on an area of faculty’s research, leading to the development of a collective, digital humanities project.
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History Research Lab: Digital History AS.100.450 (04)
In this course, students participate in a research “laboratory,” engaging in direct research on an area of faculty’s research, leading to the development of a collective, digital humanities project.
Man vs. Machine: Resistance to New Technology since the Industrial Revolution
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Mercelis, Joris Hans Angele
Gilman 300
Spring 2024
This course analyzes various episodes of “luddism” in the history of science and technology, from the destruction of textile machinery in the early 1800s up to recent controversies about robots, vaccines, and AI chatbots. What explains why different groups of actors did (or did not) resist the introduction of new technologies, ranging from the bicycle and the automobile to the nuclear energy plant? What types of fears did these technologies arouse? What can history teach us about the recurring concern that technological innovation might destroy more jobs than it generates? These are some of the themes we will be examining in this seminar on the basis of research presentations and classroom discussions of primary and secondary historical sources.
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Man vs. Machine: Resistance to New Technology since the Industrial Revolution AS.140.356 (01)
This course analyzes various episodes of “luddism” in the history of science and technology, from the destruction of textile machinery in the early 1800s up to recent controversies about robots, vaccines, and AI chatbots. What explains why different groups of actors did (or did not) resist the introduction of new technologies, ranging from the bicycle and the automobile to the nuclear energy plant? What types of fears did these technologies arouse? What can history teach us about the recurring concern that technological innovation might destroy more jobs than it generates? These are some of the themes we will be examining in this seminar on the basis of research presentations and classroom discussions of primary and secondary historical sources.
Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Instructor: Mercelis, Joris Hans Angele
Room: Gilman 300
Status: Open
Seats Available: 7/15
PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM
AS.190.385 (01)
Urban Politics and Policy
M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Spence, Lester
Hodson 203
Spring 2024
An analysis of public policy and policy-making for American Cities. Special attention will be given to the subject of urban crime and law enforcement, poverty and welfare, and intergovernmental relations. Cross listed with Africana Studies.
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Urban Politics and Policy AS.190.385 (01)
An analysis of public policy and policy-making for American Cities. Special attention will be given to the subject of urban crime and law enforcement, poverty and welfare, and intergovernmental relations. Cross listed with Africana Studies.
Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Spence, Lester
Room: Hodson 203
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/25
PosTag(s): INST-AP
AS.214.241 (01)
How To Do Just About Everything: Renaissance Guides to Living Well
MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Saiber, Arielle
Gilman 479
Spring 2024
How do I make money, gain and keep power, find love, live long, strengthen my memory, avoid depression, cook well, write beautifully, fence, mix paint, counteract poisoning, and create coded messages? The Renaissance had answers to these and many other questions. This course explores a large sampling of advice from the Italian Renaissance. Readings include Machiavelli’s Prince, Della Casa’s Galateo of Manners, Maestro Martino's Art of Cooking, and selections from Cornaro's Art of Living Long, Manciolino's Guide to Swordsmanship, Cennini's Craftsman's Handbook, Della Porta’s Natural Magic, Castiglione’s Book of the Courtier, Ficino’s Book of Life, as well as religious sermons, humanist treatises, and books of “secrets.” Secondary literature will provide historical context for the primary texts and tools for recognizing and unpacking the persuasive devices used in these early examples of self-help. Students will become familiar with Italian Renaissance thought and develop analytical and critical skills to examine advice in its cultural and temporal context. The course as a whole will focus on the notion of “core values” and what is at stake when you propose help or seek help. We will also experience some of these "how-to's", such as calligraphy, oration, creating codes, and more.
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How To Do Just About Everything: Renaissance Guides to Living Well AS.214.241 (01)
How do I make money, gain and keep power, find love, live long, strengthen my memory, avoid depression, cook well, write beautifully, fence, mix paint, counteract poisoning, and create coded messages? The Renaissance had answers to these and many other questions. This course explores a large sampling of advice from the Italian Renaissance. Readings include Machiavelli’s Prince, Della Casa’s Galateo of Manners, Maestro Martino's Art of Cooking, and selections from Cornaro's Art of Living Long, Manciolino's Guide to Swordsmanship, Cennini's Craftsman's Handbook, Della Porta’s Natural Magic, Castiglione’s Book of the Courtier, Ficino’s Book of Life, as well as religious sermons, humanist treatises, and books of “secrets.” Secondary literature will provide historical context for the primary texts and tools for recognizing and unpacking the persuasive devices used in these early examples of self-help. Students will become familiar with Italian Renaissance thought and develop analytical and critical skills to examine advice in its cultural and temporal context. The course as a whole will focus on the notion of “core values” and what is at stake when you propose help or seek help. We will also experience some of these "how-to's", such as calligraphy, oration, creating codes, and more.
Days/Times: MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Instructor: Saiber, Arielle
Room: Gilman 479
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.214.362 (01)
Italian Journeys: Medieval and Early Modern
TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Cipriani, Giulia M.
Gilman 313
Spring 2024
The supernatural is often described as the disruption of universal coherence. It becomes an aggression that challenges the stability of a world in which the natural laws were, until then, intact. The Impossible suddenly happens in a world in which it was banished.
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Italian Journeys: Medieval and Early Modern AS.214.362 (01)
The supernatural is often described as the disruption of universal coherence. It becomes an aggression that challenges the stability of a world in which the natural laws were, until then, intact. The Impossible suddenly happens in a world in which it was banished.
Days/Times: TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Instructor: Cipriani, Giulia M.
Room: Gilman 313
Status: Open
Seats Available: 8/10
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, MLL-ENGL
AS.214.362 (02)
Italian Journeys: Medieval and Early Modern
TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM, F 2:00PM - 2:50PM
Avesani, Tatiana Ioanna; Cipriani, Giulia M.
Gilman 313
Spring 2024
The supernatural is often described as the disruption of universal coherence. It becomes an aggression that challenges the stability of a world in which the natural laws were, until then, intact. The Impossible suddenly happens in a world in which it was banished.
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Italian Journeys: Medieval and Early Modern AS.214.362 (02)
The supernatural is often described as the disruption of universal coherence. It becomes an aggression that challenges the stability of a world in which the natural laws were, until then, intact. The Impossible suddenly happens in a world in which it was banished.
Days/Times: TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM, F 2:00PM - 2:50PM
Instructor: Avesani, Tatiana Ioanna; Cipriani, Giulia M.
Room: Gilman 313
Status: Open
Seats Available: 2/4
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, MLL-ENGL
AS.300.401 (01)
Comparative Late- and Post-Cold War Cultures in China, the USSR, and Beyond
F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Hashimoto, Satoru; Schmelz, Peter John
Gilman 381
Spring 2024
This course invites students to explore culture in the late and post-Cold War world from a broader perspective by surveying literature, thought, cinema, art, and music in Chinese and Soviet societies from the 1980s to the present. How did Chinese and Soviet intellectuals reconfigure, reform, and/or reinvent their cultures as they re-embraced the ideas of freedom, democracy, and globalization? How did they grapple with the legacies of their socialist and even pre-socialist pasts as they entered new eras of reforms? How did reform movements adopt different forms and strategies in different parts of the USSR and in the Sinophone world? What kinds of negotiations took place between various centers and peripheries within and around these regions? What can we learn from their cultural endeavors about the promises, contradictions, and discontents of the post-Cold War world, as we witness the rise of a so-called “new cold war” today? In this co-taught course, specialists in Sinophone and Soviet cultures will guide students to read and discuss representative works from the 1980s onward from a comparative perspective. Readings include Cui Jian, Yu Hua, Can Xue, Mo Yan, Yan Lianke, Guo Songfen, and the film Hibiscus Town, as well as Viktor Tsoi, Komar and Melamid, Aka Morchiladze, Oksana Zabuzhko, Serhiy Zhadan, and the film Repentance. No prerequisites. All course materials will be provided in English translation or with English subtitles.
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Comparative Late- and Post-Cold War Cultures in China, the USSR, and Beyond AS.300.401 (01)
This course invites students to explore culture in the late and post-Cold War world from a broader perspective by surveying literature, thought, cinema, art, and music in Chinese and Soviet societies from the 1980s to the present. How did Chinese and Soviet intellectuals reconfigure, reform, and/or reinvent their cultures as they re-embraced the ideas of freedom, democracy, and globalization? How did they grapple with the legacies of their socialist and even pre-socialist pasts as they entered new eras of reforms? How did reform movements adopt different forms and strategies in different parts of the USSR and in the Sinophone world? What kinds of negotiations took place between various centers and peripheries within and around these regions? What can we learn from their cultural endeavors about the promises, contradictions, and discontents of the post-Cold War world, as we witness the rise of a so-called “new cold war” today? In this co-taught course, specialists in Sinophone and Soviet cultures will guide students to read and discuss representative works from the 1980s onward from a comparative perspective. Readings include Cui Jian, Yu Hua, Can Xue, Mo Yan, Yan Lianke, Guo Songfen, and the film Hibiscus Town, as well as Viktor Tsoi, Komar and Melamid, Aka Morchiladze, Oksana Zabuzhko, Serhiy Zhadan, and the film Repentance. No prerequisites. All course materials will be provided in English translation or with English subtitles.
Days/Times: F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Hashimoto, Satoru; Schmelz, Peter John
Room: Gilman 381
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.310.207 (01)
Cities and Urban Life in Chinese Film
W 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Jiang, Jin
Mergenthaler 266
Spring 2024
This seminar introduces students to the phenomenon of migration in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan from theoretical, empirical, and comparative perspectives. The objectives of the course are to understand the 1) historical context behind present-day migrations in East Asia; 2) different patterns of migration flows and their consequences on receiving countries; 3) various theoretical frameworks for migration. The course is divided into three parts. In the first part, the course will examine theoretical approaches to migration, structured around the question of whether East Asia as a region represents a distinct model of migration. In the second, students will explore the empirical cases in greater detail by comparing and contrasting the different types of migrations. The third part addresses the responses to migration by host governments and societies and the implications of migration on citizenship and identity. Recommended Course Background: any class related to the history or politics of Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and/or China.
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Cities and Urban Life in Chinese Film AS.310.207 (01)
This seminar introduces students to the phenomenon of migration in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan from theoretical, empirical, and comparative perspectives. The objectives of the course are to understand the 1) historical context behind present-day migrations in East Asia; 2) different patterns of migration flows and their consequences on receiving countries; 3) various theoretical frameworks for migration. The course is divided into three parts. In the first part, the course will examine theoretical approaches to migration, structured around the question of whether East Asia as a region represents a distinct model of migration. In the second, students will explore the empirical cases in greater detail by comparing and contrasting the different types of migrations. The third part addresses the responses to migration by host governments and societies and the implications of migration on citizenship and identity. Recommended Course Background: any class related to the history or politics of Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and/or China.
Days/Times: W 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Instructor: Jiang, Jin
Room: Mergenthaler 266
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/15
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, INST-CP
AS.310.303 (01)
Women and Writing in Modern China
TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Jiang, Jin
Mergenthaler 252
Spring 2024
China’s turbulent 20th century was marked by social and political upheavals, wars, and economic hardship. Women writers played an important role in documenting these events. How did women experience and understand their historical context? How were their experiences and interpretations different from (or similar to) those of their male counterparts? This course will search modern China’s mind through women’s writings. Students will read works by women writers of the “long 20th century” (roughly 1890s-2020s) including, but not limited to, Ding Ling, Xiao Hong, Zhang Ailing, and Zhang Jie. We will engage in close readings of their literary works in context of their life experiences, considering key themes such as women’s identity and agency, nationalism, revolution, and social reform as well as new and changing gender norms. Basic knowledge of modern Chinese history helpful but not required.
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Women and Writing in Modern China AS.310.303 (01)
China’s turbulent 20th century was marked by social and political upheavals, wars, and economic hardship. Women writers played an important role in documenting these events. How did women experience and understand their historical context? How were their experiences and interpretations different from (or similar to) those of their male counterparts? This course will search modern China’s mind through women’s writings. Students will read works by women writers of the “long 20th century” (roughly 1890s-2020s) including, but not limited to, Ding Ling, Xiao Hong, Zhang Ailing, and Zhang Jie. We will engage in close readings of their literary works in context of their life experiences, considering key themes such as women’s identity and agency, nationalism, revolution, and social reform as well as new and changing gender norms. Basic knowledge of modern Chinese history helpful but not required.
Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Jiang, Jin
Room: Mergenthaler 252
Status: Open
Seats Available: 12/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.310.329 (01)
Women, Patriarchy, and Feminism in China, South Korea, and Japan
TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Henning, Stefan
Mergenthaler 266
Spring 2024
We will try to get a quick overview of the recent history of patriarchy in China, South Korea, and Japan from the mid-twentieth century to our present and then compare the initiatives of feminists to transform the lives of women throughout these three societies. We will also debate whether or how it makes sense to adapt the Western notions of patriarchy and sexism as well as the Western political program of feminism to the non-Western context of East Asia by reading books by historians, anthropologists, and sociologists.
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Women, Patriarchy, and Feminism in China, South Korea, and Japan AS.310.329 (01)
We will try to get a quick overview of the recent history of patriarchy in China, South Korea, and Japan from the mid-twentieth century to our present and then compare the initiatives of feminists to transform the lives of women throughout these three societies. We will also debate whether or how it makes sense to adapt the Western notions of patriarchy and sexism as well as the Western political program of feminism to the non-Western context of East Asia by reading books by historians, anthropologists, and sociologists.
Days/Times: TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Instructor: Henning, Stefan
Room: Mergenthaler 266
Status: Open
Seats Available: 2/15
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, INST-CP
AS.310.331 (01)
Islam in Asia
TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Henning, Stefan
Mergenthaler 266
Spring 2024
You will learn about the efforts of ordinary, non-elite Muslims to shape the relation between their communities and the state as well as to (where applicable) the non-Muslim majority through collective organizing over the last forty years. We will read and discuss books by anthropologists, historians, and sociologists studying Iran, Pakistan, India, China, Malaysia, and Indonesia.
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Islam in Asia AS.310.331 (01)
You will learn about the efforts of ordinary, non-elite Muslims to shape the relation between their communities and the state as well as to (where applicable) the non-Muslim majority through collective organizing over the last forty years. We will read and discuss books by anthropologists, historians, and sociologists studying Iran, Pakistan, India, China, Malaysia, and Indonesia.
Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Instructor: Henning, Stefan
Room: Mergenthaler 266
Status: Open
Seats Available: 8/15
PosTag(s): ISLM-ISLMST, INST-CP
AS.360.305 (01)
Introduction to Computational Methods for the Humanities
TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Lippincott, Tom; Sirin Ryan, Hale
Gilman 55
Spring 2024
This course introduces basic computational techniques in the context of empirical humanistic scholarship. Topics covered include the command-line, basic Python programming, and experimental design. While illustrative examples are drawn from humanistic domains, the primary focus is on methods: those with specific domains in mind should be aware that such applied research is welcome and exciting, but will largely be their responsibility beyond the confines of the course. Students will come away with tangible understanding of how to cast simple humanistic questions as empirical hypotheses, ground and test these hypotheses computationally, and justify the choices made while doing so. No previous programming experience is required.
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Introduction to Computational Methods for the Humanities AS.360.305 (01)
This course introduces basic computational techniques in the context of empirical humanistic scholarship. Topics covered include the command-line, basic Python programming, and experimental design. While illustrative examples are drawn from humanistic domains, the primary focus is on methods: those with specific domains in mind should be aware that such applied research is welcome and exciting, but will largely be their responsibility beyond the confines of the course. Students will come away with tangible understanding of how to cast simple humanistic questions as empirical hypotheses, ground and test these hypotheses computationally, and justify the choices made while doing so. No previous programming experience is required.
Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Instructor: Lippincott, Tom; Sirin Ryan, Hale
Room: Gilman 55
Status: Open
Seats Available: 15/20
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.360.306 (01)
Computational Intelligence for the Humanities
TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Backer, Samuel Ehrlich; Messner, Craig A
Gilman 195
Spring 2024
This course introduces substantial machine learning methods of particular relevance to humanistic scholarship. Areas covered include standard models for classification, regression, and topic modeling, before turning to the array of open-source pretrained deep neural models, and the common mechanisms for employing them. Students are expected to have a level of programming experience equivalent to that gained from AS.360.304, Gateway Computing, AS.250.205, or Harvard’s CS50 for Python. Students will come away with an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of different machine learning models, the ability to discuss them in relation to human intelligence and to make informed decisions of when and how to employ them, and an array of related technical knowledge.
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Computational Intelligence for the Humanities AS.360.306 (01)
This course introduces substantial machine learning methods of particular relevance to humanistic scholarship. Areas covered include standard models for classification, regression, and topic modeling, before turning to the array of open-source pretrained deep neural models, and the common mechanisms for employing them. Students are expected to have a level of programming experience equivalent to that gained from AS.360.304, Gateway Computing, AS.250.205, or Harvard’s CS50 for Python. Students will come away with an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of different machine learning models, the ability to discuss them in relation to human intelligence and to make informed decisions of when and how to employ them, and an array of related technical knowledge.
Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Backer, Samuel Ehrlich; Messner, Craig A
Room: Gilman 195
Status: Open
Seats Available: 6/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.360.412 (01)
Humanities Research Lab: Asian Diaspora in Baltimore and D.C.
F 10:00AM - 12:30PM
Kim, Yumi
Gilman 308
Spring 2024
In this humanities research lab, students will conduct original research on local histories of Asian American and Asian diasporic communities in the Baltimore area, inclusive of D.C. Students will think about how and why the histories and experiences of the region’s Asian American and diasporic communities, especially their interactions with other racialized and minoritized groups, continue to be erased from public conversation, and then engage in hands-on collaborative and reparative work in response to such erasure. The lab is organized around discussions and workshops with community collaborators, guest speakers, and scholars, as well as visits to archives, neighborhoods, and community organizations. This course requires at least four Friday group trips to 555 Penn in Washington D.C. (transportation provided).
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Humanities Research Lab: Asian Diaspora in Baltimore and D.C. AS.360.412 (01)
In this humanities research lab, students will conduct original research on local histories of Asian American and Asian diasporic communities in the Baltimore area, inclusive of D.C. Students will think about how and why the histories and experiences of the region’s Asian American and diasporic communities, especially their interactions with other racialized and minoritized groups, continue to be erased from public conversation, and then engage in hands-on collaborative and reparative work in response to such erasure. The lab is organized around discussions and workshops with community collaborators, guest speakers, and scholars, as well as visits to archives, neighborhoods, and community organizations. This course requires at least four Friday group trips to 555 Penn in Washington D.C. (transportation provided).
Days/Times: F 10:00AM - 12:30PM
Instructor: Kim, Yumi
Room: Gilman 308
Status: Open
Seats Available: 8/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.360.420 (01)
Humanities Research Lab: Making Maps of Mexico
TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Lurtz, Casey Marina
Hodson 315
Spring 2024
Learn the basics of ArcGIS, data management, and the history of maps and censuses as you help Prof. Lurtz build a digital historical atlas of Mexico. No experience necessary, graduate students welcome.
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Humanities Research Lab: Making Maps of Mexico AS.360.420 (01)
Learn the basics of ArcGIS, data management, and the history of maps and censuses as you help Prof. Lurtz build a digital historical atlas of Mexico. No experience necessary, graduate students welcome.
Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Instructor: Lurtz, Casey Marina
Room: Hodson 315
Status: Open
Seats Available: 6/15
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL
AS.362.112 (01)
Introduction to Africana Studies
F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Mott, Shani T; Stocks, Shawntay
Gilman 134
Spring 2024
This course introduces students to the field of Africana Studies. It focuses on the historical experience, intellectual ideas, theories, and cultural production of African-descended people. We will consider how people of the black diaspora remember and encounter Africa.
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Introduction to Africana Studies AS.362.112 (01)
This course introduces students to the field of Africana Studies. It focuses on the historical experience, intellectual ideas, theories, and cultural production of African-descended people. We will consider how people of the black diaspora remember and encounter Africa.
Days/Times: F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Mott, Shani T; Stocks, Shawntay
Room: Gilman 134
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.362.326 (01)
Nothing About Us, Without Us: Storytelling as a Method for Community Organizing
TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Berkley, Tonika Danielle; Collins, Jeneanne; Cumming, Daniel
Krieger 307
Spring 2024
This course offers a hands-on opportunity for students to develop new skills as community organizers by learning from the best teachers possible: residents who have been serving their neighborhoods and building grassroots power in Southwest Baltimore since the 1990s. As a community-based learning course with the Center for Social Concern, and co-taught by professors, archivists, cultural curators, and longtime residents, including the founder of Fayette Street Outreach, Ms. Edna Manns Lake, this course will leverage the narrative power of storytelling to help rewrite a multigenerational history of community organizing in a part of the city long neglected by local government and threatened historically by open-air drug markets, rampant criminalization, and predatory housing speculators. Through community immersion, including story circles, oral histories, community archiving, local meetings, and guest presentations, students will learn how to navigate, identify, and build upon existing neighborhood assets. Students will then collaborate with a community partner to co-design and complete a neighborhood project by the end of the semester. Dispelling myths, learning truths, documenting history, and honoring decades of struggle in the face of massive odds, students will help re-write the narrative of Southwest Baltimore, centering humanity and resilience among resident-activists who stayed and fought for their community.
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Nothing About Us, Without Us: Storytelling as a Method for Community Organizing AS.362.326 (01)
This course offers a hands-on opportunity for students to develop new skills as community organizers by learning from the best teachers possible: residents who have been serving their neighborhoods and building grassroots power in Southwest Baltimore since the 1990s. As a community-based learning course with the Center for Social Concern, and co-taught by professors, archivists, cultural curators, and longtime residents, including the founder of Fayette Street Outreach, Ms. Edna Manns Lake, this course will leverage the narrative power of storytelling to help rewrite a multigenerational history of community organizing in a part of the city long neglected by local government and threatened historically by open-air drug markets, rampant criminalization, and predatory housing speculators. Through community immersion, including story circles, oral histories, community archiving, local meetings, and guest presentations, students will learn how to navigate, identify, and build upon existing neighborhood assets. Students will then collaborate with a community partner to co-design and complete a neighborhood project by the end of the semester. Dispelling myths, learning truths, documenting history, and honoring decades of struggle in the face of massive odds, students will help re-write the narrative of Southwest Baltimore, centering humanity and resilience among resident-activists who stayed and fought for their community.
Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Instructor: Berkley, Tonika Danielle; Collins, Jeneanne; Cumming, Daniel
Room: Krieger 307
Status: Open
Seats Available: 8/20
PosTag(s): CSC-CE
AS.389.155 (01)
The History of Fake News from The Flood to The Apocalypse
W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Havens, Earle A
BLC 2043
Spring 2024
In our digital age of hacking, on-line bots, and trolls stealing, faking, and confounding information across the Internet, it is too often forgotten that “fake news” has, in fact, always been with us. This course examines this dark undercurrent within human civilization across historical time, exploring specific examples of fakes, lies, and forgeries from the biblical Flood in antiquity to prophecies of a future Apocalypse. We will draw throughout on the riches of JHU’s own Bibliotheca Fictiva—the world’s premier rare book and manuscript research collection dedicated to literary forgeries across the millennia.
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The History of Fake News from The Flood to The Apocalypse AS.389.155 (01)
In our digital age of hacking, on-line bots, and trolls stealing, faking, and confounding information across the Internet, it is too often forgotten that “fake news” has, in fact, always been with us. This course examines this dark undercurrent within human civilization across historical time, exploring specific examples of fakes, lies, and forgeries from the biblical Flood in antiquity to prophecies of a future Apocalypse. We will draw throughout on the riches of JHU’s own Bibliotheca Fictiva—the world’s premier rare book and manuscript research collection dedicated to literary forgeries across the millennia.
Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Havens, Earle A
Room: BLC 2043
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/12
PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE, MSCH-HUM
AS.389.265 (01)
Hopkins History Through the Archives
T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Blair, Monica Kristin
BLC 2030
Spring 2024
Archives are where history is documented, and archives have tremendous power over whose stories get told. This course will critically examine the relationship between archival practice and public history by using John Hopkins University as a case study. We will work closely with archivists in the Special Collections Department and archives across Baltimore to get a firsthand look at how local archives shape public history, collective memory, and institutional silences. Students will learn how public historians, archivists, community activists, and students themselves can work together to do reparative research that advances social justice in their own communities.
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Hopkins History Through the Archives AS.389.265 (01)
Archives are where history is documented, and archives have tremendous power over whose stories get told. This course will critically examine the relationship between archival practice and public history by using John Hopkins University as a case study. We will work closely with archivists in the Special Collections Department and archives across Baltimore to get a firsthand look at how local archives shape public history, collective memory, and institutional silences. Students will learn how public historians, archivists, community activists, and students themselves can work together to do reparative research that advances social justice in their own communities.
Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Blair, Monica Kristin
Room: BLC 2030
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/12
PosTag(s): PMUS-PRAC, MSCH-HUM
AS.389.322 (01)
Tigers to Teapots: Collecting, Cataloging, and Hoarding in America
MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Finkelstein, Lori
Hmwd House Wine Cllr
Spring 2024
This course examines material culture through the lens of personal collecting. Focusing on the United States, students will explore how collectors influenced the holdings of the nation’s museums, including JHU’s Evergreen and Homewood Museum, and contemplate how collecting, for public and private purposes, shapes status and taste in America. This course will also address how collections are organized, displayed, and conserved and will delve into psychological and environmental aspects of collecting and hoarding.
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Tigers to Teapots: Collecting, Cataloging, and Hoarding in America AS.389.322 (01)
This course examines material culture through the lens of personal collecting. Focusing on the United States, students will explore how collectors influenced the holdings of the nation’s museums, including JHU’s Evergreen and Homewood Museum, and contemplate how collecting, for public and private purposes, shapes status and taste in America. This course will also address how collections are organized, displayed, and conserved and will delve into psychological and environmental aspects of collecting and hoarding.
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Finkelstein, Lori
Room: Hmwd House Wine Cllr
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/13
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.100.103 (21)
Early Modern Europe & the Wider World
TTh 1:00PM - 4:30PM
Loiselle, Ken
Gilman 17
Summer 2024
This introductory course surveys the history of Europe from the Renaissance to the Napoleonic period. Topics to be covered include European encounters in the Americas, the Protestant and Catholic Reformations and the subsequent religious violence of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the rise of centralizing states and popular resistance to expanding government, the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment as well as the origins, process and legacies of the French Revolution.
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Early Modern Europe & the Wider World AS.100.103 (21)
This introductory course surveys the history of Europe from the Renaissance to the Napoleonic period. Topics to be covered include European encounters in the Americas, the Protestant and Catholic Reformations and the subsequent religious violence of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the rise of centralizing states and popular resistance to expanding government, the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment as well as the origins, process and legacies of the French Revolution.
Days/Times: TTh 1:00PM - 4:30PM
Instructor: Loiselle, Ken
Room: Gilman 17
Status: Open
Seats Available: 20/20
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.100.141 (21)
Error and Chaos in Military History
MW 1:00PM - 4:45PM
Bentov, Achinoam
Krieger Laverty
Summer 2024
What does the aphorism that “war is hell” mean in practical terms? The course will serve as a deconstructive introduction to military history, overviewing soldiers’ and generals’ experiences of historically significant military disasters. Students will also be guided through the creation of a research paper on a conflict of their own choosing.
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Error and Chaos in Military History AS.100.141 (21)
What does the aphorism that “war is hell” mean in practical terms? The course will serve as a deconstructive introduction to military history, overviewing soldiers’ and generals’ experiences of historically significant military disasters. Students will also be guided through the creation of a research paper on a conflict of their own choosing.
Days/Times: MW 1:00PM - 4:45PM
Instructor: Bentov, Achinoam
Room: Krieger Laverty
Status: Open
Seats Available: 18/18
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, HIST-ASIA, HIST-US
AS.100.237 (83)
Renaissance Europe
TTh 9:00AM - 12:00PM
Zheng, Vaclav
Summer 2024
A topic and research methodology seminar on the European Renaissance (1350-1600). The theme for this year is “Humanism.” We will read classic Renaissance works of Petrarch, Boccaccio, Bruni, Machiavelli, Castiglione, Tasso, Erasmus, Rabelais, Vives, Sidney, Kochanowski and Držić while analyzing key historiographical debates (Burckhardt, Baron, Kristeller, Garin, Hankins, Celenza, etc.). Students are required to complete a short historiography essay and a long research paper.
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Renaissance Europe AS.100.237 (83)
A topic and research methodology seminar on the European Renaissance (1350-1600). The theme for this year is “Humanism.” We will read classic Renaissance works of Petrarch, Boccaccio, Bruni, Machiavelli, Castiglione, Tasso, Erasmus, Rabelais, Vives, Sidney, Kochanowski and Držić while analyzing key historiographical debates (Burckhardt, Baron, Kristeller, Garin, Hankins, Celenza, etc.). Students are required to complete a short historiography essay and a long research paper.