Undergraduate Courses

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.

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Courses with numbers 100–299 are designed for first years and sophomores but are open to all undergraduate students. Advanced courses, with numbers 300–499, are generally designed for students who have completed introductory courses in the appropriate area while 500-level courses are reserved for the Senior Thesis (AS.100.507/AS.100.508) and Independent Studies (AS.100.535/AS.100.536). Courses that are 500-level are listed as Independent Academic Work (IAW) courses.

Course # (Section)	Title	Day/Times	Instructor	Location	Term	Additional Details
AS.010.311 (01)	Object Lessons: An Introduction to European Printmaking c. 1450-1750	M 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Young, Rachel Aria Rose	BLC 2043	Spring 2026	Description: This course offers an introduction to the history of prints and printed books in Europe before 1800. Taking a hands-on approach, class meetings will be held in special collections at the Johns Hopkins Library and the Baltimore Museum of Art. Students will learn to identify and assess the major techniques and processes of early modern printmaking and gain familiarity with key artists and core concepts and terms. Organized thematically, the course will address a wide spectrum of contexts and subjects, including devotional practice; natural history and anatomy; patterns of collection and antiquarianism; the publishing industry; prints in the artist’s workshop and in art theory; pattern books and practices of craft; proto-ethnographic prints and costume books; city views and maps. Through this object-focused survey of early modern print, we will explore the medium’s potential to both codify and destabilize ideas, transmitting visual and textual information across Europe to reach new audiences, and consider how meaning was not only conveyed but also shaped by the materials and techniques of print. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 15/15 Tags: HART-RENEM
AS.010.314 (01)	The Art and Architecture of the Gods in Ancient Greece	F 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Shakeshaft, Hugo	Gilman 177	Spring 2026	Description: In ancient Greece, the visual arts were at the heart of human relations with the divine. Images of gods in various media were everywhere, from marketplaces to sanctuaries, from private homes to the coins in people’s pockets. Temples sacred to deities punctuated the landscape, from city-centers to remote mountain peaks. Alongside poets, artists were hugely influential in shaping ideas about gods. And by making objects for dedication, artists also provided worshippers with an essential means of divine veneration. In fact, much of what we call Greek art was made to honour deities. This course explores the relationship between the gods and the visual arts in ancient Greece, with a particular focus on the Archaic and Classical periods (ca. 700–300 BCE). What can art and architecture tell us about Greek attitudes to the gods? How and why were art and architecture important in divine worship? How did the visual arts contribute to human (mis)understanding of the divine? And what happened to the Greek gods in art after antiquity? The course tackles these questions by examining a wide range of primary material, including Greek architecture, sculpture, and painting, as well as relevant textual sources (in translation). Each week will focus on a different theme or case study, giving students the opportunity to investigate the many ways in which art’s interconnection with the gods featured in Greek culture. Topics include: the portrayal of divine myths in Greek sculpture and painting; the art and architecture of Greek sanctuaries, such as Delphi, Olympia, and the Athenian acropolis; Dionysos and the art of the symposium; Aphrodite and the emergence of the female nude in Greek art; the relationship between gods, art, and the natural landscape; and the artistic afterlives of the Greek gods, from the Renaissance to today. The course will include visits to the John Hopkins Archaeological Museum and the Walters Art Museum. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/15 Tags: HART-ANC
AS.010.322 (01)	Knowledge, Holiness, and Pleasure: The Illustrated Book in the Medieval World	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Zchomelidse, Nino	BLC 2043	Spring 2026	Description: The book was the primary source for the collection of knowledge in the Middle Ages. It was also the medium for the preservation and proliferation of the texts that underlay the three monotheistic religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam). It served as a source for elite entertainment, perhaps most importantly in Late Antiquity and the later Middle Ages. This course investigates the role of the illustrated book within the political, religious, and artistic developments that took place after the rise of Christianity from the end of the Roman Empire until the early modern period. We will examine how the different types of books, such as horizontal and vertical scrolls, large and miniature size codices influenced the placement, conception, and style of the illustrations. The class also addresses processes of manufacture, issues of materiality (i.e. precious multi-media book covers, papyrus, parchment, paper), and the relationship between text and image. The course will be taught exclusively with facsimiles of medieval manuscripts from Special Collections at Eisenhower Library and original manuscripts in the Walters Art Museum and other collections. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 15/15 Tags: HART-MED
AS.010.369 (01)	The American Art Museum: Origins, Mission, and Civic Purpose	M 4:30PM - 7:00PM	Weiss, Daniel H	Gilman 55	Spring 2026	Description: This course will explore the American art museum as a distinctive cultural and political idea. Tracing its origins to the ancient world, the American art 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, and the larger question of civic purpose. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 0/15 Tags: HART-MODERN, ARCH-RELATE, AGRI-ELECT
AS.010.459 (01)	The illuminated charter: visual splendor, performance, and authenticity of medieval legal documents	M 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Zchomelidse, Nino	Gilman 177	Spring 2026	Description: This course investigates the complexities of medieval legal documents, their specific visuality and materiality, as well as practices of copying and forgery. We will address the aesthetics of legal documents, their graphic signs, seals, and paleography and the authenticating strategies used to corroborate their legitimacy. Another emphasis is set on the performative aspects of the medieval charters in court and church rituals. Comparison with contemporary illuminated sacred books will reveal the tight connections of monastic scriptoria and royal/imperial chanceries. The geographic focus is set wide, ranging from medieval Spain, to Carolingian and Ottonian chanceries in France and Germany, to the papal court in Rome and the imperial and monastic scriptoria in Byzantium. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 3/10 Tags: HART-MED
AS.010.467 (01)	The Renaissance in its Global Dimensions 1450-1650	M 4:30PM - 7:00PM	Campbell, Stephen John	Gilman 177	Spring 2026	Description: A seminar focusing on recent scholarship that seeks to conceptualize a “global Renaissance,” beginning with Italy and the Mediterranean and then addressing exchanges between Europe and Southern/Eastern Asia. Case studies of the mobility of artists and artifacts, artistic adaptation and translation, materials as commodities and bearers of meaning. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 3/12 Tags: HART-RENEM
AS.060.417 (01)	Black Print Culture	M 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Nurhussein, Nadia	Gilman 130D	Spring 2026	Description: Students interested in Black print culture will engage in intensive archival research, both collaborative and individual, using the Sheridan Library’s Rare Book and Manuscript collections, and will create an online exhibition. Texts include poems, printed lectures, pamphlets, novels, periodicals, ephemera, correspondence, etc., alongside relevant critical and theoretical reading. Open to both undergraduate and graduate students. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 8/12 Tags: ENGL-GLOBAL
AS.070.205 (01)	Gods and Ancestors: East Asian Religions in Everyday Life	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Kim, Sujung	Mergenthaler 426	Spring 2026	Description: This course offers an introduction to the religious traditions of East Asia, including Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism, and Shinto. Moving chronologically from ancient foundations to modern developments, we will explore how religious ideas and practices have shaped—and been shaped by—East Asian societies over time. Emphasis will be placed on the diversity and unity of religious expressions in these traditions, with readings drawn from a wide range of texts: religious scriptures, philosophical texts, popular literature, and ethnographic accounts. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 3/20 Tags: n/a
AS.070.311 (01)	Argot Workshop: Student Publishing from Start to Finish	M 4:30PM - 7:00PM	Maddox, Perry	Mergenthaler 426	Spring 2026	Description: Are you interested in learning how to design and run a student journal? Do you have a piece of writing you would like to prepare for a public-facing platform? If so, then join us for the Argot workshop. We will revitalize the JHU undergraduate anthropology journal, featuring work from students in the humanities and social sciences at Hopkins and beyond. In the workshop, students will engage with every aspect of the publication process, including soliciting submissions, reviewing and editing articles, and creating and designing the online platform. Students enrolled in the workshop will also submit one piece of work to be published in the journal. With that in mind, we ask that each student enter the workshop with a piece of writing they would like to see through to publication. This could be an essay from another course, a research project, or a visual or multimedia work (with a writing component). During the semester, students will work on their own submissions, provide editorial guidance for others, and design, create, and publicize the journal. The journal will be published online at the end of the semester, creating a concrete opportunity for student work to reach a wider audience. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 3/18 Tags: n/a
AS.070.318 (01)	Black Atlantic Worlds	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Angelini, Alessandro; White, Alexandre Ilani Rein	Mergenthaler 426	Spring 2026	Description: This seminar explores the formation of Black Atlantic worlds through a selection of historical and ethnographic texts, material artifacts, and films. We will encounter familiar themes of slavery, revolution, commodity production, and imperial power recast in the minor key of the Black experience. Exploring major works by anthropologists, particularly key figures from Johns Hopkins, the course also examines how studies of transatlantic movements have reshaped our very understanding of history and culture, not simply as static or official forms but as fields of contention. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 8/18 Tags: INST-GLOBAL, CES-RI, CES-BM
AS.100.107 (01)	History of the Global War on Terror	MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM	Schrader, Stuart Laurence	Hodson 316; Gilman 17	Spring 2026	Description: The United States and its allies launched the Global War on Terror in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attack. But it quickly exceeded the scope of neutralizing al-Qaeda, the organization behind that attack, leading to military campaigns in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and across numerous countries in Africa and elsewhere. This course will examine the historical background of the Global War on Terror, including its relationship to prior stages of colonialism and the Cold War. It will delve into the post-9/11 wars and examine the relationship between US foreign policy and regional politics in Asia and Africa. This course is sequential to AS.100.106, The History of the Global Cold War, though that course is not a prerequisite. This course will introduce students to concepts and methods in the study of recent history, as a foundation for further courses in History, Critical Diaspora Studies, International Studies, Political Science, etc. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 3/20 Tags: HIST-US, HIST-MIDEST, CDS-EWC, INST-GLOBAL, HIST-LAW
AS.100.107 (02)	History of the Global War on Terror	MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Schrader, Stuart Laurence	Hodson 316; Gilman 17	Spring 2026	Description: The United States and its allies launched the Global War on Terror in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attack. But it quickly exceeded the scope of neutralizing al-Qaeda, the organization behind that attack, leading to military campaigns in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and across numerous countries in Africa and elsewhere. This course will examine the historical background of the Global War on Terror, including its relationship to prior stages of colonialism and the Cold War. It will delve into the post-9/11 wars and examine the relationship between US foreign policy and regional politics in Asia and Africa. This course is sequential to AS.100.106, The History of the Global Cold War, though that course is not a prerequisite. This course will introduce students to concepts and methods in the study of recent history, as a foundation for further courses in History, Critical Diaspora Studies, International Studies, Political Science, etc. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 2/20 Tags: HIST-US, HIST-MIDEST, CDS-EWC, INST-GLOBAL, HIST-LAW
AS.100.152 (01)	Undergraduate Seminar: Love and War in the Middle Ages	Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Lester, Anne E.	Krieger Laverty	Spring 2026	Description: Love and war; two forces that brought people together and drove them apart. What did these concepts mean in the medieval world? How were they expressed? What role did love play in binding people, families, and kingdoms together, guiding their motivations, connecting them to the divine? How did war – whether intensive battles as we encounter in the Song of Roland or prolonged campaigns during the crusades – divide people, create categories of difference, force migrations, and change the shape of polities? How were love and war linked? We will read a series of primary texts covering some of the major genres of medieval writing including chanson de geste, romance, poetry, and memoir, as a lens through which to answer these questions. Together we will read a series of medieval texts in their historical context, probing how people used storytelling, sentiment, memories and personal experience to navigate their worlds. Designed as a freshman seminar, the course exposes students to a variety of historical methods, close-reading and critical analysis, with an emphasis on developing critical writing skills. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 12/12 Tags: HIST-EUROPE
AS.100.171 (01)	Europe since 1945	TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Harms, Victoria Elisabeth	Bloomberg 274	Spring 2026	Description: This class focuses on Europe from the end of World War II until today. We will discuss topics such as the Cold War, the European welfare state, Europe’s volatile relations with the US and the Soviet Union/ Russia, decolonization, 1989 and neoliberalism, racism, European integration and the role of the European Union in international politics. Expect to spend 25% of class time in group work, where we discuss the assigned literature, movies, documentaries, textual and visual primary sources. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 2/45 Tags: HIST-EUROPE, HIST-US, CDS-MB, CDS-SSMC, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.274 (01)	Conspiracy in American Politics	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	Luff, Jennifer D	Gilman 17	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 0/25 Tags: HIST-US, INST-GLOBAL, INST-AP
AS.100.345 (01)	Right-wing Populism since the 1980s	W 3:00PM - 5:30PM	Gill Peterson, Jules	Gilman 219	Spring 2026	Description: This seminar will explore the development of right-wing populism in the US since the 1980s, beginning with Ronald Reagan’s election and ending in the present day. A key focus will be the relationship between populist visions of American government, identity politics, and economic crisis. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 2/10 Tags: HIST-US, CES-RI, CES-LSO, AGRI-ELECT
AS.100.404 (01)	John Locke	MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Marshall, John W	Gilman 186	Spring 2026	Description: John Locke’s works had enormous influence in eighteenth century America and on justifications of the American Revolution. In this 250th anniversary year of the Declaration of Independence, this seminar- style course will read and discuss Locke’s major works intensively together with works influenced by Locke’s arguments and together with select scholarly interpretations. Locke’s works will be placed into the seventeenth century British, European and American contexts in which they were written, and the eighteenth-century American contexts in which they became extremely influential. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 2/19 Tags: HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL, INST-PT, CES-LSO, HIST-LAW
AS.100.412 (01)	Baltimore, Basketball, and the Legacy of Bentalou	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Harms, Victoria Elisabeth	Gilman 119	Spring 2026	Description: In this community-engaged sports history seminar, we partner with co-educator Coach Paul Franklin and an after-school youth basketball program in Bentalou, West Baltimore, founded in 1970. This class provides crucial lessons about US and sports history in the 20th and 21st centuries. We will study the history of urban planning, public health, law and order, and politics in Baltimore through the lens of this program and seek to better understand its significance for the community. Our group is tasked with researching the program’s evolution: we will speak with experts, sports figures, organizers and community leaders in the city, conduct interviews with past and current players, coaches, and supporters, explore relevant archives, newspapers, photos and film. Expect 90% group work and, instead of class, attend some U10 & U12 games. Collectively, we will decide on the deliverables to be presented to parents and players at the end-of-the-season celebration in April. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 0/20 Tags: HIST-US, CDS-EWC, CDS-SSMC
AS.130.126 (01)	Gods and Monsters in Ancient Egypt	TTh 12:30PM - 2:00PM	Jasnow, Richard	Gilman 130G	Spring 2026	Description: A basic introduction to Egyptian Religion, with a special focus on the nature of the gods and how humans interact with them. We will devote particular time to the Book of the Dead and to the "magical" aspects of religion designed for protective purposes. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 6/25 Tags: ARCH-RELATE
AS.190.411 (01)	The Politics of Political Surveillance	Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Luff, Jennifer D	Krieger 306	Spring 2026	Description: Mass political surveillance is a hallmark of modern life. All contemporary regimes practice some form of surveillance. Yet the politics of surveillance vary. This seminar investigates the technologies, purposes, and significance of political surveillance in the 20th century in different polities. We will explore perspectives on surveillance from various approaches—historical, sociological, anthropological, and in political science. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 3/15 Tags: POLI-CP, CDS-EWC, CES-LSO, CES-TI, INST-CP, HIST-LAW
AS.214.417 (01)	Galileo in Dialogue: Science, Literature, and Gender in Early Modern Italy	T 3:00PM - 5:30PM	Ray, Meredith	Maryland 202	Spring 2026	Description: This seminar investigates the contours of scientific dialogue in early modern Italy through the figure of Galileo Galilei and his intellectual milieu. We will examine how literary culture shaped the circulation of new ideas, and how women—whether as poets, patrons, or correspondents—participated in the exploration and communication of scientific knowledge. Readings include selections from Galileo’s scientific writings and extensive correspondence, alongside literary and artistic texts that illuminate the cultural contexts in which his ideas were produced, debated, and disseminated. By situating Galileo within academic, courtly, and cultural networks, the seminar considers the reciprocal relationship between scientific inquiry and literary production, with particular attention to how gender shaped access to, and participation in, intellectual life. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/12 Tags: n/a
AS.300.401 (01)	Comparative Late- and Post-Cold War Cultures in China, the USSR, and Beyond	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Hashimoto, Satoru; Schmelz, Peter John	Gilman 208	Spring 2026	Description: 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 (and post-Soviet) societies from the 1980s to the present. How did Chinese and Soviet (and post-Soviet) intellectuals reconfigure, reform, and/or reinvent their cultures as they re-embraced or debated 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” and revisionist coalitions against globalization today? In this co-taught course, specialists in Sinophone and Soviet cultures and their legacies will guide students in reading and discussing representative works from the 1980s onward from a comparative perspective. Readings include the film Hibiscus Town, Cui Jian, Yu Hua, Ge Fei, Can Xue, Mo Yan, Yan Lianke, and Ng Kim Chew, as well as the film Russian Ark, Viktor Tsoi, Komar and Melamid, Aka Morchiladze, Oksana Zabuzhko, and Serhiy Zhadan. No prerequisites. All course materials will be provided in English translation or with English subtitles. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 7/18 Tags: CES-LSO, CTAL-TEXT
AS.310.326 (01)	Labor Politics in China	Th 3:00PM - 5:30PM	He, Gaochao	Mergenthaler 266	Spring 2026	Description: This course explores the transformation of labor relations in China over the past century. It will cover the origins of the labor movement, the changes brought about by the 1949 Revolution, the industrial battles of the Cultural Revolution, the traumatic restructuring of state-owned enterprises over the past two decades, the rise of private enterprise and export-oriented industry, the conditions faced by migrant workers today, and recent developments in industrial relations and labor conflict. The course is designed for upper division undergraduates and graduate students. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/15 Tags: INST-CP, INST-GLOBAL, INST-ECON, CES-LC, CES-PD
AS.310.329 (01)	Women, Patriarchy, and Feminism in China, South Korea, and Japan	TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM	Henning, Stefan	Gilman 313	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 3/15 Tags: INST-GLOBAL, INST-CP, CES-GI
AS.310.331 (01)	Islam in Asia	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	Henning, Stefan	Gilman 381	Spring 2026	Description: 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, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, China, Malaysia, and Indonesia. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 9/15 Tags: CES-ELECT, INST-CP, ISLM-ISLMST
AS.360.305 (01)	Introduction to Computational Methods for the Humanities	TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Lippincott, Tom; Sirin Ryan, Hale	Bloomberg 168	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 12/12 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.360.306 (01)	Computational Intelligence for the Humanities	TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Messner, Craig A	Bloomberg 168	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 1/10 Tags: COGS-COMPCG, MSCH-HUM
AS.389.305 (01)	Oral History: Recording Voices Today for the Archives of Tomorrow	Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Roome, Kristine	Gilman 10	Spring 2026	Description: Oral Histories are a means by which history is both generated and preserved. Talking to and recording people in their own voices is immensely valuable but also brings challenges. This course equips students with the theoretical framework, methods and an awareness of the ethics of making and interpreting oral histories and provides hands-on experience researching, designing and creating an archival record of our time to professional standards. Our project focuses on Baltimore's Confederate monuments. We will interview key stakeholders in debates that led to their removal and in ongoing conversations about what to do with them now. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 0/10 Tags: MSCH-HUM, CDS-SSMC, ARCH-RELATE
AS.389.445 (01)	The Political Lives of Dead Bodies	M 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Hester, Jessica Leigh; Lans, Aja Marie	Gilman 55	Spring 2026	Description: Taking its name from the work of scholar Katherine Verdery, who investigates why and how certain corpses took on a political life in post-Soviet Eastern Europe, this course examines ways that human bodies have been collected, displayed, concealed and disappeared across cemeteries, museums, universities and other sites. We will trace various valuations (and devaluations) imposed on bodies across the life course and examine how some bodies are made to matter more than others in both life and death. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives across anthropology, Black studies, history of medicine and more, we will engage with case studies from across the globe, from the 18th century to the present day. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 0/12 Tags: HIST-US, HIST-EUROPE, CDS-SSMC, ARCH-ARCH, MSCH-HUM
AS.001.161 (01)	FYS: Why are you here? Universities: Past, Present, and Future	T 2:00PM - 4:30PM	Celenza, Chris S.; Storey, Jenna Silber	San Martin Center 200B	Fall 2026	Description: As an undergraduate student at Hopkins, you’ve likely given much thought about which university to attend and which major to choose. But why does the institution to which you’ve pledged to spend four years of your life exist? Where did universities come from? Why are they currently organized in departments, and why weren’t they organized that way for most of their past? Why was Johns Hopkins founded, and how do its aims and structures differ from those of other American institutions of higher education as well as from other universities around the world? This course aims to give students insight into the history of the university as an institution that structures the quest for knowledge. Concentrating on the period from the founding of the first university in Bologna, Italy to the present moment, we will seek to understand how the human quest to know has informed the structure of academic institutions in different ways over the course of that history. We will explore ways that the quest to know has at times challenged and changed institutional structures. And we will conclude by thinking about how efforts to know that sit uneasily within the contemporary university are challenging its structures today. This course will require students both to engage sympathetically in the close reading of texts that are emblematic of different ways of knowing, and to think in institutional terms about how those different quests to know inspired and challenged academic structures over time. We hope that this manner of studying the history of the university will both expand and discipline our imagination of what is possible and good for its future. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 12/12 Tags: n/a
AS.010.428 (01)	Art & Culture in the Crusader Near East, ca 1000-1300	M 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Lester, Anne E.; Zchomelidse, Nino	Gilman 177	Fall 2026	Description: From the late eleventh century to the close of the thirteenth, European pilgrims, knights, foot soldiers, merchants, and travelers, visited, fought, colonized, and settled in the Holy Land, that is along the Mediterranean coast stretching from modern Turkey to Egypt, creating a principality known as the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem or what scholars have called the Crusader Near East. This territory became the location of fiercely contested borders, religious identities, and political alliances, but it was also the site of vibrant artistic and cultural production. This course will interrogate what scholars mean by crusader culture. We will analyze different types of sources and materials including texts, textiles, architecture, manuscript illumination, sculpture, metalworks, and ivory. The course takes an interdisciplinary approach – with the goal of coordinating the lives and experiences of people living in the Crusader Near East, with the documents, and visual and material culture they produced, consumed, and exchanged with western Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic world. One of the goals is to gain a deeper understanding and appreciation for the context of cultural production and to consider and critique the terminologies and narratives about crusading, including concepts of acculturation, translation, and hybridity. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 2/15 Tags: HART-MED, ARCH-RELATE
AS.100.145 (01)	Introduction to Computational History	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Hyman, Louis	Shaffer 307; Hodson 216	Fall 2026	Description: History exists at the intersection of the humanities and social sciences and, thus, is a perfect gateway to students interested in either discipline. This course engages both a “history of data” and the “data of history” by exploring American labor, consumer, and business history. Students learn to think critically about how data are made and organized, then use historical datasets to build arguments and visualizations about social and economic change over time. Tools include Google Sheets, Python, and Claude AI. No prior experience with statistics or programming required. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 17/20 Tags: HIST-US, AGRI-ELECT
AS.100.145 (02)	Introduction to Computational History	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM	Hyman, Louis	Shaffer 307; Gilman 186	Fall 2026	Description: History exists at the intersection of the humanities and social sciences and, thus, is a perfect gateway to students interested in either discipline. This course engages both a “history of data” and the “data of history” by exploring American labor, consumer, and business history. Students learn to think critically about how data are made and organized, then use historical datasets to build arguments and visualizations about social and economic change over time. Tools include Google Sheets, Python, and Claude AI. No prior experience with statistics or programming required. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 20/20 Tags: HIST-US, AGRI-ELECT
AS.100.145 (03)	Introduction to Computational History	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Hyman, Louis	; Shaffer 304	Fall 2026	Description: History exists at the intersection of the humanities and social sciences and, thus, is a perfect gateway to students interested in either discipline. This course engages both a “history of data” and the “data of history” by exploring American labor, consumer, and business history. Students learn to think critically about how data are made and organized, then use historical datasets to build arguments and visualizations about social and economic change over time. Tools include Google Sheets, Python, and Claude AI. No prior experience with statistics or programming required. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 20/20 Tags: HIST-US, AGRI-ELECT
AS.100.145 (04)	Introduction to Computational History	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Hyman, Louis	; Hodson 211	Fall 2026	Description: History exists at the intersection of the humanities and social sciences and, thus, is a perfect gateway to students interested in either discipline. This course engages both a “history of data” and the “data of history” by exploring American labor, consumer, and business history. Students learn to think critically about how data are made and organized, then use historical datasets to build arguments and visualizations about social and economic change over time. Tools include Google Sheets, Python, and Claude AI. No prior experience with statistics or programming required. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 20/20 Tags: HIST-US, AGRI-ELECT
AS.100.333 (01)	Knowledge and Faith in U.S. History	Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Jewett, Andrew John	Shriver Hall Board Room	Fall 2026	Description: How do we know the truth? Which beliefs are valid? What sources of intellectual authority should we follow? US history has been shaped by fierce disagreements over these questions. This course will explore many of the proposed answers, focusing on scientific and religious frameworks. As citizens, it is crucial to understand conflicts over truth, belief, and authority. Yet very few people have a sense of the history of these disputes or a language for discussing them constructively. This class provides both. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 7/18 Tags: HIST-US
AS.100.338 (01)	Islam and Dune	Th 3:00PM - 5:30PM	Noor, Rao Mohsin Ali	Maryland 202	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/15 Tags: HIST-MIDEST
AS.100.411 (01)	AI and Data Methods in History	Th 4:30PM - 7:00PM	Hyman, Louis; Jabko, Nicolas	Hodson 213	Fall 2026	Description: This course engages both a ‘history of data’ and the ‘data of history’ by exploring American labor, consumer and business history. 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 ChatGPT for data analysis. No prior experience with statistics or programming is necessary, but students should come with a desire to learn. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 35/35 Tags: HIST-US, AGRI-ELECT, MSCH-HUM, CES-LC, CES-TI
AS.130.352 (01)	History of Hasidism	TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Katz, David	Smokler Center Library	Fall 2026	Description: Although it appears to be a relic of pre-modern Judaism, Hasidism is a phenomenon of the modern era of Jewish history. This course surveys the political and social history of the Hasidic movement over the course of the last three centuries. Students will also explore basic features of Hasidic culture and thought in their historical development. Cross-listed with Jewish Studies. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 6/19 Tags: INST-GLOBAL, HIST-LAW
AS.140.105 (01)	History of Medicine	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Ragab, Ahmed	Gilman 50; Hodson 216	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Reserved Open Seats Available: 5/20 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.140.105 (02)	History of Medicine	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Ragab, Ahmed	Gilman 50; Ames 218	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Reserved Open Seats Available: 5/20 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.140.105 (03)	History of Medicine	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Ragab, Ahmed	Gilman 50; Hodson 315	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Reserved Open Seats Available: 5/20 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.140.105 (04)	History of Medicine	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Ragab, Ahmed	Gilman 50; Shaffer 302	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Reserved Open Seats Available: 5/20 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.140.105 (05)	History of Medicine	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Ragab, Ahmed	Gilman 50; Shaffer 305	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Reserved Open Seats Available: 5/20 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.196.411 (91DC)	The Modern American Midterm Election in Historical Perspective	W 11:30AM - 1:15PM	Mason, Lily Hall; Wright Rigueur, Leah M	555 Penn B244	Fall 2026	Description: American elections – even rare, unexpected, or paradigm-busting elections – do not occur in a vacuum. Instead, they are created, shaped, and constructed by a variety of significant forces, over time.This seminar thus suggests that you cannot understand modern American politics and contests, including the 2024 election and the upcoming 2026 election, without examining the historical antecedents that make the present-day moment possible. Consequently, while enrolled in this seminar, students will grapple with the following central question: what are the foundational moments in modern American social, political, and economic history that provided the “building blocks” for the 2026 United States Midterm Elections? How can we use history to analyze and explain the developments of the 2026 election, and put them in context as those moments are happening in real time? Credits: 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 8/15 Tags: INST-AP, AGRI-ELECT, HIST-LAW
AS.197.215 (01)	The Uses and Abuses of Economics in Modern America	TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Anand, Ibanca	SNF Agora 109	Fall 2026	Description: This course takes a historical view on the American economics profession since the early 20th century. Rather than focusing on the theoretical content of economic ideas and models, students will pay attention to their applications and audiences. Students will reflect on what it meant for economists to serve as policymakers, journalists, foreign ambassadors, and business consultants, securing influence in spaces far beyond academia. How did the growing power of economists in these various spheres shape the world we live in today? These are some of the questions we will explore together through readings, lectures, and group discussions. Students need not have an economics or social science background to excel in this course. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 10/18 Tags: CES-ELECT
AS.211.171 (01)	Brazilian Culture & Civilization: Colonial Times to the Present	MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM	De Azeredo Cerqueira, Flavia Christina	Gilman 119	Fall 2026	Description: 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. No Prereq. THERE IS NO FINAL EXAM. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 20/20 Tags: INST-GLOBAL
AS.211.171 (02)	Brazilian Culture & Civilization: Colonial Times to the Present	MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM	De Azeredo Cerqueira, Flavia Christina	Gilman 119	Fall 2026	Description: 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. No Prereq. THERE IS NO FINAL EXAM. Credits: 4.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: INST-GLOBAL
AS.213.398 (01)	Speaking Truth to Power: From Martin Luther to Audre Lorde	TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Frey, Christiane	Gilman 377	Fall 2026	Description: “Here I stand; I can do no other.” With these words, Martin Luther challenged the greatest powers of his time. Centuries later, Audre Lorde declared that “your silence will not protect you,” reframing truth-telling as a tool for survival and liberation. This course explores the ethics and aesthetics of fearless speech (Parrhesia). We will examine how individuals and literary figures—from 16th-century reformers to modern activists, from Sophocles’ Antigone to Wieland’s Diogenes—risked their lives and reputations to speak a truth that disrupts the status quo. How does language become a weapon? What is the cost of breaking the silence? And can truth remain “true” once it enters the arena of political power? These and other questions will be at the core of our inquiry in this seminar as we navigate the boundary between private conscience and public defiance. Readings include: Martin Luther, Plato, Sophocles, Wieland, Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Nietzsche, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, and Audre Lorde. A section in German will be offered for interested students. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 2/15 Tags: n/a
AS.230.377 (01)	Health disparities in America	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Hagos, Rama Michael	Bloomberg 278	Fall 2026	Description: This course evaluates contemporary health disparities in the United States through a sociological lens. In particular, this course examines how social positions, such as race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and socioeconomic status, shape health patterns in the U.S. population. Students will learn how health disparities are defined and measured, potential causes, and strategies to mitigate observed health inequities. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 15/20 Tags: n/a
AS.300.315 (01)	Authoritarianism, Freedom, and the Arts	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Schmelz, Peter John	Gilman 208	Fall 2026	Description: What is the proper role of the arts and artists in society? Is censorship of the arts or artists ever permissible, for political or other reasons? How may artists and their publics challenge conventional frames of reference or control, state-sponsored or otherwise? Are any of the arts better suited than others to resistance or opposition? Are any of the arts better suited than the others to fostering control and compliance? This class will employ a comparative framework to examine these and other central questions raised by theories and histories of authoritarianism and the arts. It will investigate various theoretical and philosophical frameworks for understanding its key concepts, ranging from Plato, Kant, and Tolstoy to Dewey, Adorno, Arendt, and beyond. The class will concentrate on specific case studies drawn from across world history, beginning with examples from the early modern era, moving into the twentieth-century (including Nazi Germany, fascist Italy, the USSR, China, and the US 1950s, 1960s, and 1980s), and ending with the present day worldwide. It will draw on various art forms, including music, visual arts, literature, film, and various combinations of these and other art forms. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 11/16 Tags: INST-GLOBAL
AS.310.202 (01)	Introduction to Korean Culture	MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM	Kim, Sujung	Mergenthaler 426	Fall 2026	Description: From North Korea’s nuclear threat to South Korea’s K-pop, Korea is constantly in the US media. But how much do you know about Korea? This introductory course is designed to introduce students to the long and complex cultural history of Korea. While focusing on key aspects in shaping premodern and modern Korean identity, the course also places Korea in a larger cross-national context, particularly its close interactions with China and Japan. Reading primary and secondary sources combined with visual materials, the course chronologically and thematically examines major historical moments, from Korea’s participation in and exit from a Sino-centric premodern world order, Japanese colonialism and its ramifications in Korean society, economic development and democratization, to the global popularity of Korean popular culture. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/18 Tags: INST-CP
AS.389.201 (01)	Introduction to the Museum: Past and Present	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Kingsley, Jennifer P	Gilman 219	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 16/25 Tags: HIST-EUROPE, ARCH-ARCH, PMUS-INTRO, MSCH-HUM, ARCH-RELATE, CDS-SSMC
AS.100.108 (04)	Making America: Black Freedom Struggles to 1896	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Johnson, Jessica Marie	Macaulay 101; Gilman 217	Spring 2026	Description: The history of Africans and people of African descent in what becomes the continental United States. We will learn about the everyday experiences of Africans and people of African descent and the way this struggle for (and meaning of) freedom made make and shake the Americas. You will learn historical facts and how to distinguish change over time and place. You will learn to construct historical narratives using primary and secondary sources, about systems of oppression (like slavery) and how those systems operate--and how ordinary people and communities resisted and took that system down. Opportunities for independent research will be available for advanced students looking for professional development and research experience. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: HIST-AFRICA, HIST-US, HIST-LATAM, AFRS-ENSLAV
AS.100.119 (01)	Introduction to U.S. Immigration History and Law	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Lim, Julian	Hodson 313	Spring 2026	Description: Many Americans celebrate the United States as a “nation of immigrants,” but defining which immigrants to include and exclude in the nation has always been a contentious process. This course will put some of today’s immigration debates in historical perspective, examining how past Americans debated questions about the “fitness” of immigrants for freedom and citizenship, and how those debates in turn shaped immigrant experiences, the law, and American identity. Topics that we will cover include colonialism and slavery; immigrant labor; families; gender, race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality; immigration law; borders and deportation; refugees and asylum seekers; and citizenship and belonging. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/30 Tags: HIST-US, CDS-MB, INST-GLOBAL, INST-AP, CES-RI, CES-LC, CES-BM, AGRI-ELECT, HIST-LAW
AS.100.108 (03)	Making America: Black Freedom Struggles to 1896	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Johnson, Jessica Marie	Macaulay 101; Macaulay 101	Spring 2026	Description: The history of Africans and people of African descent in what becomes the continental United States. We will learn about the everyday experiences of Africans and people of African descent and the way this struggle for (and meaning of) freedom made make and shake the Americas. You will learn historical facts and how to distinguish change over time and place. You will learn to construct historical narratives using primary and secondary sources, about systems of oppression (like slavery) and how those systems operate--and how ordinary people and communities resisted and took that system down. Opportunities for independent research will be available for advanced students looking for professional development and research experience. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: HIST-AFRICA, HIST-US, HIST-LATAM, AFRS-ENSLAV
AS.100.209 (01)	Slavery in the Caribbean	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	Turner, Sasha	Gilman 119	Spring 2026	Description: An introductory examination of slavery in the Caribbean, this course explores the structure of slavery and its development and its transformative effects on people and the region, and the formation of the modern world. Students can expect to explore themes broadly related to gender and sexuality; politics and economy; science and technology; health and the environment; law, culture and society. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 6/20 Tags: HIST-US, HIST-LATAM, INST-GLOBAL, AFRS-ENSLAV, CES-BM, CES-LC, CES-RI, HIST-LAW
AS.100.143 (02)	China: Neolithic to Song	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM	Meyer-Fong, Tobie	Hodson 316; Gilman 55	Spring 2026	Description: This class offers a broad overview of changes in China from Neolithic times through the Song dynasty (roughly from 5000 BCE through the 13th century CE). It features discussion of art, material culture, philosophical texts, religious ideas, and literary works as well as providing a broad overview of politics and society. Close readings of primary sources in discussion sections and extensive use of visual material in lectures will allow students to consider the relationship between what (sources) we have—and what we can know about the past. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 7/20 Tags: HIST-ASIA, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.143 (01)	China: Neolithic to Song	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Meyer-Fong, Tobie	Hodson 316; Gilman 377	Spring 2026	Description: This class offers a broad overview of changes in China from Neolithic times through the Song dynasty (roughly from 5000 BCE through the 13th century CE). It features discussion of art, material culture, philosophical texts, religious ideas, and literary works as well as providing a broad overview of politics and society. Close readings of primary sources in discussion sections and extensive use of visual material in lectures will allow students to consider the relationship between what (sources) we have—and what we can know about the past. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/20 Tags: HIST-ASIA, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.108 (01)	Making America: Black Freedom Struggles to 1896	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Johnson, Jessica Marie	Macaulay 101; Macaulay 101	Spring 2026	Description: The history of Africans and people of African descent in what becomes the continental United States. We will learn about the everyday experiences of Africans and people of African descent and the way this struggle for (and meaning of) freedom made make and shake the Americas. You will learn historical facts and how to distinguish change over time and place. You will learn to construct historical narratives using primary and secondary sources, about systems of oppression (like slavery) and how those systems operate--and how ordinary people and communities resisted and took that system down. Opportunities for independent research will be available for advanced students looking for professional development and research experience. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 11/15 Tags: HIST-AFRICA, HIST-US, HIST-LATAM, AFRS-ENSLAV
AS.100.132 (01)	Introduction to Jewish America	TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Loeffler, James	Krieger 300	Spring 2026	Description: An introduction to the study of the American Jewish experience, tracing five centuries of history from the colonial period through to the present. Topics will include immigration and citizenship, antisemitism and philosemitism, religion and politics. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/20 Tags: HIST-US
AS.100.225 (01)	Mansa Musa’s Gold: the History of African Muslims	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	Thiam, Madina	Krieger 307	Spring 2026	Description: Today about one third of the world’s Muslims live in Africa, a continent where Islam has a long history. This course follows African Muslims as they traveled and migrated, built communities and states, produced literature and scholarship, and contended with slavery and empire. Our historical investigations will take us all over the African continent as well as across the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, following the paths of African Muslim pilgrims, scholars, slaves, soldiers, merchants, rulers, and revolutionaries. No prerequisites needed. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/20 Tags: HIST-AFRICA, CDS-MB, INST-GLOBAL, AFRS-AFRICA
AS.100.250 (01)	The American Revolution in Unexpected Places	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Pearsall, Sarah	Hodson 203; Gilman 75	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 0/18 Tags: HIST-US, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.482 (01)	Historiography of Modern China	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Rowe, William T	Gilman 75	Spring 2026	Description: How has the history of modern China been told by Chinese, Western, and Japanese historians and social thinkers, and how did this affect popular attitudes and government policies toward China? Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 0/12 Tags: HIST-ASIA, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.108 (02)	Making America: Black Freedom Struggles to 1896	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Johnson, Jessica Marie	Macaulay 101; Macaulay 101	Spring 2026	Description: The history of Africans and people of African descent in what becomes the continental United States. We will learn about the everyday experiences of Africans and people of African descent and the way this struggle for (and meaning of) freedom made make and shake the Americas. You will learn historical facts and how to distinguish change over time and place. You will learn to construct historical narratives using primary and secondary sources, about systems of oppression (like slavery) and how those systems operate--and how ordinary people and communities resisted and took that system down. Opportunities for independent research will be available for advanced students looking for professional development and research experience. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 15/15 Tags: HIST-AFRICA, HIST-US, HIST-LATAM, AFRS-ENSLAV
AS.100.250 (02)	The American Revolution in Unexpected Places	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Pearsall, Sarah	Hodson 203; Gilman 377	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 1/18 Tags: HIST-US, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.252 (01)	Sex and the American City	T 3:00PM - 5:30PM	Gill Peterson, Jules	Gilman 377	Spring 2026	Description: Why are cities associated with sex and vice? How did modern forms of policing and urban development first arise? This introductory course explores the place of US cities in the history of sexuality, including Baltimore. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 0/12 Tags: HIST-US
AS.100.253 (01)	Modern Histories of Human Rights: Empire, Justice, and International Law	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Peeples, Sandy W	Hodson 315	Spring 2026	Description: The language of human rights can be found all around us, as a legal framework, political discourse, and method of interpreting justice and liberation. Much of this language invests human rights with a unique scale of political and intellectual power, opening up a range of questions. Can human rights accomplish justice? How are they enforced? What does it mean to support human rights? In order to answer these contemporary questions it helps to start from some historical ones. Where did human rights come from? What is a human right? Who decides and does it matter? Recently, scholars, including historians and lawyers, have revived attempts to chart the historical development of human rights as a discrete project. Those histories have diverged in the power and intellectual weight they attribute to human rights as well as the basic chronology of human rights as a discourse. This class will provide a survey of these histories and in the process attempt to introduce students to historiography as a method as well as provide insight into the structure and function of the modern human rights project. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/15 Tags: HIST-US, HIST-EUROPE, HIST-AFRICA, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.271 (01)	Documenting & Digitizing Black Louisiana: Sources, Tools and Contexts	MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Burri, Margaret N; Johnson, Jessica Marie; McGinn, Emily	Macaulay 101	Spring 2026	Description: Documenting & Digitizing Black Louisiana: Sources, Tools and Contexts is an experiential, team-based, community-engaged undergraduate seminar that combines secondary literature on the history of colonial Louisiana as well as the digital humanities, with intensive deep readings of a selection of translated documents. Seminar sessions will include gatherings with research teams of faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students, with a special emphasis workshops, with and hosted by scholars at JHU and beyond (including team members at Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans. Students with interests in Black history, in multimedia content creation, in digital infrastructure, in manuscript documents, in translation and languages, in public history, social justice and community engagement will find much to learn in this course. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 17/18 Tags: HIST-AFRICA, HIST-LATAM, HIST-US, ARCH-RELATE, AGRI-ELECT
AS.100.283 (02)	Making and Unmaking Queer Histories: Identity, Self-Representation, Politics, and Contexts, 1800-Pre	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne	Hodson 316	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 19/20 Tags: HIST-US, HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.310 (01)	The French Revolution	TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM	Mason, Laura	Gilman 75	Spring 2026	Description: This course immerses students in the rich historiography of the French Revolution. We will focus on recent scholarship to examine such themes as: the nature of revolution and popular activism; violence & trauma; constitutionalism; citizenship, democracy, and social rights; the revolution after Thermidor and why the republic collapsed. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 13/27 Tags: HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.283 (01)	Making and Unmaking Queer Histories: Identity, Self-Representation, Politics, and Contexts, 1800-Pre	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne	Hodson 316; Krieger 304	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 11/20 Tags: HIST-US, HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.322 (01)	Asian Americans and the Law	TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM	Lim, Julian	Shaffer 301	Spring 2026	Description: This course will explore the prominent role that Asian Americans have played in U.S. legal history. Paying close attention to the relationship between immigration, citizenship, law, and society, we will dive more deeply into the legal histories of numerous groups of Asian descent in the American past and present. We will also place these experiences within the more heterogeneous and complicated landscape of race relations in the United States, as well as considering international relations and transnational connections. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 6/20 Tags: HIST-US, HIST-ASIA, CDS-MB, INST-GLOBAL, HIST-LAW
AS.100.327 (01)	The Islamic Age of Empires: The Ottomans, the Mughals, and the Safavids	MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Noor, Rao Mohsin Ali	Hodson 303	Spring 2026	Description: In this course, we will survey the political, social, intellectual, and cultural history of the three Islamic early modern gunpowder empires that ranged from “the Balkans to Bengal”: The Ottomans (1300-1922), the Safavids (1501-1736), and the Mughals (1526-1858). Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 0/20 Tags: HIST-US, HIST-EUROPE, HIST-MIDEST, INST-GLOBAL, HIST-LAW
AS.100.348 (01)	20th-Century China	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Rowe, William T	Hodson 203	Spring 2026	Description: Survey of the history of China from ca. 1895 to ca. 1976. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 7/30 Tags: HIST-ASIA, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.388 (01)	Practicing Historical Research	MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Maciejko, Pawel Tadeusz	Latrobe 107	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 34/40 Tags: n/a
AS.100.372 (01)	African Cities: Environment, Gender, and Economic Life	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Gondola, Didier Didier	Gilman 308	Spring 2026	Description: This class explores the geographic, economic and cultural issues resulting from Africa’s urban growth from precolonial times to the present. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 2/25 Tags: HIST-AFRICA, INST-GLOBAL, CES-PD, CES-GI, CES-CC
AS.100.423 (01)	History of the Carceral State	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Schrader, Stuart Laurence	Gilman 17	Spring 2026	Description: This course will cover the state of the field in the history of the carceral state in the United States. It will cover key texts from the past few decades, as well as some of the latest works, on policing, surveillance, incarceration, migrant detention, border control and deportation, etc. Some works in the fields of Law, Political Science, Sociology, and Geography may also be included. Students will write an essay on the field in this course. Open to advanced undergraduates by permission of instructor. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 9/15 Tags: HIST-US, CDS-EWC, CES-LC, CES-RI, HIST-LAW
AS.100.413 (01)	London 1580-1830: The History of Britain's capital city	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	Marshall, John W	Gilman 308	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 6/20 Tags: HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL, CES-CC
AS.100.433 (01)	Free Speech and Censorship in the United States	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Jelavich, Peter	Gilman 308	Spring 2026	Description: This undergraduate research seminar examines free speech and censorship laws, practices, and debates in the United States since the 19th century. Issues include political speech, obscenity and pornography, and racist hate speech. In addition to discussing common readings, each student will choose a free speech case or issue to research, present to the class, and analyze in a final essay. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 15/15 Tags: HIST-US, CES-LSO, AGRI-ELECT
AS.100.428 (01)	Saints, Saviors, and Sovereigns in the Early Modern World	Th 3:00PM - 5:30PM	Noor, Rao Mohsin Ali	Gilman 377	Spring 2026	Description: This reading intensive seminar will explore the myriad ways in which questions of sovereignty and the sacred were joined together across the early modern world. Emphasis will be placed on sacred and universal modes of kingship, saintly cults, and messianic movements amongst the Muslim, Christian, and Jewish communities of the Mediterranean, the Middle East, and South Asia. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 13/15 Tags: HIST-ASIA, HIST-MIDEST, HIST-EUROPE
AS.100.450 (08)	History Research Lab: The Black Press South Africa	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Thornberry, Elizabeth	Smokler Center 213	Spring 2026	Description: Early twentieth-century South Africa was home to a vibrant African publishing scene, with numerous newspapers run by African publishers for black audiences. This class will use these newspapers as primary sources to reconstruct the conversations among African intellectuals about some of the most pressing issues of the day, including African voting rights, land ownership, and the place of “customary law” in the colonial state. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 10/12 Tags: INST-GLOBAL, HIST-AFRICA
AS.100.508 (01)	Senior Honors Thesis	Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Furstenberg, Francois		Spring 2026	Description: This seminar is required for senior history majors who are writing senior honors theses and wish to graduate with departmental honors. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 6/10 Tags: n/a
AS.100.536 (01)	Independent Study		Burgin, Angus		Spring 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.453 (01)	Global Legal History	M 4:30PM - 7:00PM	Loeffler, James	Gilman 381	Spring 2026	Description: Introduction to the practice of global legal history, with focus on the growth of modern international law from the seventeenth century to the present, its relationship to nationalism and empire, war, atrocity-crimes and human rights, international institutions, and the relationship between law and history. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/15 Tags: HIST-US, HIST-EUROPE, HIST-MIDEST, INST-GLOBAL, AGRI-ELECT, HIST-LAW
AS.100.536 (02)	Independent Study		Celenza, Chris S.		Spring 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.464 (01)	Saints & Relics: Medieval Belief and the Material World	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Lester, Anne E.	Gilman 305	Spring 2026	Description: This course traces the rise and development of the cult of saints from the third to the sixteenth centuries. Topics covered include: sanctity and the body; saint-making and religious authority; miracles and belief; relics and portable Christianity; travel and migration; techniques of veneration; translation and adaptation, and so forth. Structured around key historiographical works addressing these topics, the course exposes students to the major research tools for working with saints’ cults, hagiography, liturgical texts, and writing about belief in the historical context, to build both a critical set of research skills and to gain a comprehensive understanding of the key debates and developments in the field. Short weekly research assignments or response papers are required. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/10 Tags: HIST-EUROPE
AS.100.536 (03)	Independent Study		Connolly, Nathan D		Spring 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.536 (04)	Independent Study		Furstenberg, Francois		Spring 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.536 (05)	Independent Study		Gill Peterson, Jules		Spring 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.536 (06)	Independent Study		Gondola, Didier Didier		Spring 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.536 (07)	Independent Study		Harms, Victoria Elisabeth		Spring 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.536 (08)	Independent Study		Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne		Spring 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.536 (09)	Independent Study		Hyman, Louis		Spring 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.536 (12)	Independent Study		Johnson, Jessica Marie		Spring 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.536 (13)	Independent Study		Jones, Martha Suzanne		Spring 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.536 (14)	Independent Study		Kwass, Michael		Spring 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.536 (15)	Independent Study		Lester, Anne E.		Spring 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.536 (16)	Independent Study		Lim, Julian		Spring 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.536 (17)	Independent Study		Loeffler, James		Spring 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.536 (18)	Independent Study		Luis, Diego Javier		Spring 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.536 (10)	Independent Study		Jackson, Lawrence P		Spring 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.536 (19)	Independent Study		Lurtz, Casey Marina		Spring 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.536 (21)	Independent Study		Makalani, Minkah		Spring 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.536 (11)	Independent Study		Jelavich, Peter		Spring 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.536 (22)	Independent Study		Marshall, John W		Spring 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.536 (23)	Independent Study		Mason, Laura		Spring 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.536 (25)	Independent Study		Noor, Rao Mohsin Ali		Spring 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.536 (24)	Independent Study		Meyer-Fong, Tobie		Spring 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.536 (29)	Independent Study		Schrader, Stuart Laurence		Spring 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.536 (28)	Independent Study		Rowe, William T		Spring 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.536 (27)	Independent Study		Rowe, Erin		Spring 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.536 (20)	Independent Study		Maciejko, Pawel Tadeusz		Spring 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.536 (30)	Independent Study		Shepard, Todd		Spring 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.536 (26)	Independent Study		Pearsall, Sarah		Spring 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.536 (31)	Independent Study		Thiam, Madina		Spring 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.536 (33)	Independent Study		Turner, Sasha		Spring 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.536 (34)	Independent Study		Wright Rigueur, Leah M		Spring 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.194.230 (01)	African-Americans and the Development of Islam in America	Th 6:00PM - 9:00PM	Fanusie, Fatimah	Gilman 134	Spring 2026	Description: Muslims have been a part of the American fabric since its inception. A key thread in that fabric has been the experiences of enslaved Africans and their descendants, some of whom were Muslims, and who not only added to the dynamism of the American environment, but eventually helped shape American culture, religion, and politics. The history of Islam in America is intertwined with the creation and evolution of African American identity. Contemporary Islam in America cannot be understood without this framing. This course will provide a historical lens for understanding Islam, not as an external faith to the country, but as an internal development of American religion. This course will explicate the history of early Islamic movements in the United States and the subsequent experiences of African-Americans who converted to Islam during the first half of the twentieth century. We will cover the spiritual growth of African American Muslims, their institutional presence, and their enduring impact on American culture writ large and African-American religion and culture more specifically. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 11/15 Tags: INST-GLOBAL
AS.362.112 (01)	Introduction to Africana Studies	TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Spence, Lester	Bloomberg 168	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 3/15 Tags: CES-ELECT, CES-RI
AS.389.155 (91DC)	The History of "Fake News" from The Flood to The Apocalypse	M 11:30AM - 2:00PM	Havens, Earle A		Spring 2026	Description: A sweeping historical engagement with fakes, lies, and forgeries from the ancient world to the digital age, explored through JHU’s Bibliotheca Fictiva collection of rare books and manuscripts—the largest research collection on this subject in the world. Topics include ancient papyri, biblical apocrypha, medieval manuscript forgeries, archaeological and textual forgeries of the Renaissance, false travelogues of the Age of Exploration, pecuniary forgery in the 19th century, art forgery, and the advent of “fake news” in the digital era. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 15/15 Tags: n/a
AS.362.413 (01)	Radical Histories of MLK Jr. and Malcolm X	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Jackson, Lawrence P	Mergenthaler 266	Spring 2026	Description: This is a research seminar devoted to the lives of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X (El-Hajj El-Malik Shabazz), the two the key African American male icons of the Civil Rights Movement representing two ideological camps: racial integration and black nationalism. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 12/12 Tags: CES-LSO, CES-RI
AS.100.234 (85)	Martial Bodies, Moral Worlds: Chinese Martial Arts in History, Culture, and Media	TTh 8:30AM - 11:30AM	Mang, Fan	Online	Summer 2026	Description: This course offers a thematic introduction to the history and cultural significance of martial arts in China. It explores the social, political, and cultural contexts of martial arts practice from the classical period to the 21st century. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this course situates martial arts in history through an examination of religious, literary, and visual sources, drawing on theoretical perspectives from gender studies, anthropology, and cultural history. No prior knowledge of Chinese history or language is required. All readings will be available in English on the Canvas website. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 12/12 Tags: HIST-ASIA
AS.100.536 (32)	Independent Study		Thornberry, Elizabeth		Spring 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.255 (82)	Jerusalem in the Middle Ages (c. 1095-1290)	MTTh 2:00PM - 4:00PM	Werth, Pelia	Online	Summer 2026	Description: The course examines the significance – religious, political, and imaginative – of Jerusalem around the period of military crusading, and its function as a living, breathing city that was home to, and a key pilgrimage location for, individuals from a diverse range of religious, ethnic, and regional backgrounds. Students will consider a wide variety of texts and other cultural products from medieval Muslim, Jewish, and Christian authors, and have the opportunity to consider the place of ‘medieval’ tropes and events in contemporary discussions on the ‘Holy City’. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 20/20 Tags: HIST-MIDEST
AS.001.163 (01)	FYS: Abolition in the Urban South: Baltimore’s William Levington	F 12:00PM - 2:30PM	Jackson, Lawrence P	Greenhouse 113	Fall 2026	Description: This First-Year Seminar will use the tools of the historical and literary archive to etch a social history of African American life in Baltimore between roughly 1790 and 1860, focusing on the historical figure William Levington. The founder of the first black Episcopalian church in the slaveholding South, Levington was also the third seminary-trained black priest in America. Students will explore classic narratives revealing the lives of the enslaved in American cities and in the Chesapeake. The course will also consider the role of the black church as the principle independent institution and mass movement for antebellum African Americans. We will make a class visit to St. James in Lafayette Square, the church Levington founded, and also visit the Maryland Center for History and Culture, and the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 12/12 Tags: n/a
AS.389.314 (01)	Researching the Africana Archive: Black Cemetery Stories	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Dean, Gabrielle		Spring 2026	Description: This course addresses the historic role of the African American cemetery as sacred and political space, with important links to other Black institutions. Operating in partnership with Mount Auburn Cemetery in Baltimore, owned and operated by the Sharp Street Memorial United Methodist Church, we will visit the cemetery and related locations in Baltimore throughout the semester. Our collective goal is to research and share stories that further the interests of these important and vulnerable sites. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 8/8 Tags: PMUS-PRAC, ARCH-RELATE, MSCH-HUM, CDS-SSMC
AS.100.104 (02)	Modern Europe in a global context, 1789-Present	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne	Hodson 213; Bloomberg 172	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 12/15 Tags: HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.104 (04)	Modern Europe in a global context, 1789-Present	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne	Hodson 213; Bloomberg 276	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 13/15 Tags: HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.111 (01)	Making America: Blacks in the Twentieth Century	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Connolly, Nathan D	Shaffer 306	Fall 2026	Description: This survey course explores the role of African-descended people and social-political responses directed at those people in the development of modern American society. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 36/48 Tags: HIST-US, CDS-SSMC
AS.100.104 (01)	Modern Europe in a global context, 1789-Present	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne	Hodson 213; Krieger 306	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 1/15 Tags: HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.104 (03)	Modern Europe in a global context, 1789-Present	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne	Hodson 213; Bloomberg 172	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 1/15 Tags: HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.125 (01)	The History of Gender and Sexuality on the Internet	TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Gill Peterson, Jules	Hodson 211	Fall 2026	Description: This course examines the historical forces since the 1960s that gave rise to the computing industry, the internet, and social media. Topics will include the history of Silicon Valley, parasociality, loneliness, and identity politics. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 20/20 Tags: HIST-US, CES-GI, CES-TI
AS.100.160 (01)	Colonial Latin America	MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM	Luis, Diego Javier	Gilman 132; Gilman 186	Fall 2026	Description: The colonial period in Latin America was one of dynamic collision and convergence, drastic ruptures and surprising continuities. The several hundred years between the early invasions and Latin American independence are often dismissed as blank pages of Baroque stagnation, glacial change, and economic decadence. These assumptions, though, are misleading, for at the crossroads of the Atlantic and Pacific, Latin America was at the center of the early modern world. In this course, we investigate not only the violence of conquest and enslavement, but also how Indigenous and Afro-diasporic peoples adapted to new colonial realities. In so doing, we will see how the limitations (not dominance) of European influence defined the development of multiethnic societies in the hemisphere. Our timeframe covers from the consolidation of the Mexica and Inca empires in the early 1400s to the period just before the wars of independence in the early 19th century. We will also pay attention to the difficulty of defining (if at all possible) the “end” of the colonial period, and during the last weeks of the semester, we will consider the lingering presence of the colonial past in the 21st century. Overall, the course uses close analysis of primary- and secondary-source documents to examine the broader processes of invasion, religion, hierarchy, rebellion, liminality, and memory. In the evaluation of each topic, we will consider diverse perspectives, such as those of enslaved Africans, Indigenous intellectuals, women, mestizos, and Iberian newcomers. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 19/19 Tags: HIST-LATAM, CDS-GI, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.233 (01)	History of Modern Germany	TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Harms, Victoria Elisabeth	Hodson 313	Fall 2026	Description: There is more to Germany than beer, BMWs, and Bayern Munich. We explore politics, culture, economics and society to understand Germany and its role within Europe and the world from the 18th century, through imperialism, WWI and WWII, the Cold War to German unification, the ‘Refugee Crisis’, the rise of the AfD, and EU politics today. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/35 Tags: HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL, MLL-GERM, MLL-ENGL, CDS-MB, CES-BM, CES-PD
AS.100.160 (02)	Colonial Latin America	MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Luis, Diego Javier	Gilman 132; Maryland 114	Fall 2026	Description: The colonial period in Latin America was one of dynamic collision and convergence, drastic ruptures and surprising continuities. The several hundred years between the early invasions and Latin American independence are often dismissed as blank pages of Baroque stagnation, glacial change, and economic decadence. These assumptions, though, are misleading, for at the crossroads of the Atlantic and Pacific, Latin America was at the center of the early modern world. In this course, we investigate not only the violence of conquest and enslavement, but also how Indigenous and Afro-diasporic peoples adapted to new colonial realities. In so doing, we will see how the limitations (not dominance) of European influence defined the development of multiethnic societies in the hemisphere. Our timeframe covers from the consolidation of the Mexica and Inca empires in the early 1400s to the period just before the wars of independence in the early 19th century. We will also pay attention to the difficulty of defining (if at all possible) the “end” of the colonial period, and during the last weeks of the semester, we will consider the lingering presence of the colonial past in the 21st century. Overall, the course uses close analysis of primary- and secondary-source documents to examine the broader processes of invasion, religion, hierarchy, rebellion, liminality, and memory. In the evaluation of each topic, we will consider diverse perspectives, such as those of enslaved Africans, Indigenous intellectuals, women, mestizos, and Iberian newcomers. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 19/19 Tags: HIST-LATAM, CDS-GI, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.239 (01)	Chronicling the Caribbean	MW 9:00AM - 9:50AM, F 9:00AM - 9:50AM	Turner, Sasha	Gilman 132; Gilman 77	Fall 2026	Description: This course is a critical inquiry into the writing of the region’s history as mere appendage to imperial history justifying European domination and exploitation of the region. It explores how innovations in Caribbean Archaeology, Caribbean History, and the Digital Humanities challenge Eurocentric knowledge claims extending the decolonization struggle beyond politics and economy to include the academy. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 7/10 Tags: HIST-EUROPE, HIST-LATAM, HIST-AFRICA, INST-GLOBAL, AFRS-AFRICA
AS.100.229 (01)	African Women in the Postcolonial City	WF 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Quarshie, Afua Nuro Baafi	Shaffer 305	Fall 2026	Description: This course examines the many facets of women’s lives in postcolonial African cities. Using diverse sources, including films, novels, and newspapers, the course interrogates how women understood and fashioned themselves amid social, political, and economic change. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/15 Tags: HIST-AFRICA, AFRS-AFRICA, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.239 (03)	Chronicling the Caribbean	MW 9:00AM - 9:50AM, F 9:00AM - 9:50AM	Turner, Sasha	Gilman 132; Gilman 10	Fall 2026	Description: This course is a critical inquiry into the writing of the region’s history as mere appendage to imperial history justifying European domination and exploitation of the region. It explores how innovations in Caribbean Archaeology, Caribbean History, and the Digital Humanities challenge Eurocentric knowledge claims extending the decolonization struggle beyond politics and economy to include the academy. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 9/10 Tags: HIST-EUROPE, HIST-LATAM, HIST-AFRICA, INST-GLOBAL, AFRS-AFRICA
AS.100.239 (04)	Chronicling the Caribbean	MW 9:00AM - 9:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Turner, Sasha	Gilman 132; Gilman 77	Fall 2026	Description: This course is a critical inquiry into the writing of the region’s history as mere appendage to imperial history justifying European domination and exploitation of the region. It explores how innovations in Caribbean Archaeology, Caribbean History, and the Digital Humanities challenge Eurocentric knowledge claims extending the decolonization struggle beyond politics and economy to include the academy. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 9/10 Tags: HIST-EUROPE, HIST-LATAM, HIST-AFRICA, INST-GLOBAL, AFRS-AFRICA
AS.100.239 (02)	Chronicling the Caribbean	MW 9:00AM - 9:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Turner, Sasha	Gilman 132; Gilman 10	Fall 2026	Description: This course is a critical inquiry into the writing of the region’s history as mere appendage to imperial history justifying European domination and exploitation of the region. It explores how innovations in Caribbean Archaeology, Caribbean History, and the Digital Humanities challenge Eurocentric knowledge claims extending the decolonization struggle beyond politics and economy to include the academy. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 8/10 Tags: HIST-EUROPE, HIST-LATAM, HIST-AFRICA, INST-GLOBAL, AFRS-AFRICA
AS.100.293 (01)	Historical Methods, Archives and Interpretations	MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Noor, Rao Mohsin Ali	Gilman 17	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 3/30 Tags: n/a
AS.100.282 (01)	Race & Power in Modern South Africa	TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Thornberry, Elizabeth	Gilman 313	Fall 2026	Description: History of colonialism, the apartheid state, and the anti-apartheid liberation struggle in South Africa, with special attention to the role of gender, race, religion, and ethnicity. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/16 Tags: INST-GLOBAL, CES-LE, CES-RI, AFRS-AFRICA, HIST-AFRICA, HIST-LAW
AS.100.314 (01)	The Enlightenment	TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM	Kwass, Michael	Gilman 219	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/18 Tags: HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.350 (01)	Law and Empire	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Thornberry, Elizabeth	Shaffer 301	Fall 2026	Description: Exploration of the role of law in creating modern empires, and the role of empire in internatinal law. Focus on Africa, with comparative examples from other modern empires. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/12 Tags: HIST-AFRICA, INST-GLOBAL, CES-LSO, HIST-LAW
AS.100.347 (01)	Early Modern China	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Rowe, William T	Gilman 17	Fall 2026	Description: The history of China from the 16th to the late 19th centuries. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 8/25 Tags: INST-GLOBAL, HIST-ASIA
AS.100.386 (01)	Sports History of the Cold War	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Harms, Victoria Elisabeth	Gilman 308	Fall 2026	Description: 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 constructed, reinforced, and challenged notions of race, gender, and class. We will also interview JHU alumni and former athletes who made a career out of sports. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/20 Tags: HIST-EUROPE, HIST-US, CDS-MB, MSCH-HUM, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.360 (01)	The Modern British World: Imperial Encounters, Regimes, and Resistance, 1700-Brexit	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne	Gilman 75	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/18 Tags: HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL, CES-FT, CES-RI, HIST-LAW
AS.100.426 (01)	Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe	MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Marshall, John W	Krieger 304	Fall 2026	Description: Witchcraft, magic, carnivals, riots, folk tales, gender roles; fertility cults and violence especially in Britain, Germany, France, and Italy. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/19 Tags: INST-GLOBAL, HIST-EUROPE
AS.100.422 (01)	Society & Social Change in 18th Century China	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Rowe, William T	Gilman 381	Fall 2026	Description: What did Chinese local society look like under the Qing Empire, and how did it change over the early modern era? Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/12 Tags: INST-GLOBAL, HIST-ASIA
AS.100.452 (01)	From Slavery to Freedom: History and Personhood, 500BCE-1500CE	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Lester, Anne E.	Gilman 132	Fall 2026	Description: What did it mean to be free in the premodern world? What did it mean to be a serf or enslaved? How was freedom and unfreedom experienced differently based on gender, geography, religion and space? This course explores the long history of slavery, freedom, and ‘unfreedom,’ in its many and various degrees. We will consider an array of source materials spanning law codes, personal narratives, manumission cases, chronicles, histories, and hagiographies, as well as non-written sources. How did practices of slavery and degrees of unfreedom during the Greek and Roman periods come to shape an understanding of those categories in early medieval Europe, in the Islamic world, and across the pre-modern Mediterranean? How were slavery and empire connected in the past? We will also focus on how scholars have written about slavery, manumission, and freedom and how power, difference, and ideals of freedom have been theorized over time. What methods have scholars employed to get at the experiences of those who were enslaved and silenced? And how have they attempted to narrate these histories differently? Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/15 Tags: HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL, HIST-LAW
AS.100.535 (01)	Independent Study		Burgin, Angus		Fall 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.592 (01)	Summer Independent Study		Harms, Victoria Elisabeth		Summer 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 4/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.535 (05)	Independent Study		Gill Peterson, Jules		Fall 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.507 (01)	Senior Honors Thesis	Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Pearsall, Sarah	Gilman 308	Fall 2026	Description: The Senior Honors Seminar is a coordinating seminar for senior history majors who are writing senior honors theses and wish to graduate with departmental honors. We will discuss the organization of your historical research projects and help you prepare for writing your senior thesis based on that research. This is an interactive class that helps make the most of your senior thesis experience! Credits: 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 14/15 Tags: n/a
AS.100.453 (01)	Global Legal History	M 4:30PM - 7:00PM	Loeffler, James	Krieger 306	Fall 2026	Description: Introduction to the practice of global legal history, with focus on the growth of modern international law from the seventeenth century to the present, its relationship to nationalism and empire, war, atrocity-crimes and human rights, international institutions, and the relationship between law and history. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 1/20 Tags: HIST-US, HIST-EUROPE, HIST-MIDEST, INST-GLOBAL, AGRI-ELECT, HIST-LAW
AS.100.535 (07)	Independent Study		Harms, Victoria Elisabeth		Fall 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.535 (08)	Independent Study		Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne		Fall 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.535 (09)	Independent Study		Hyman, Louis		Fall 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.535 (06)	Independent Study		Gondola, Didier Didier		Fall 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.535 (10)	Independent Study		Jackson, Lawrence P		Fall 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.535 (11)	Independent Study		Johnson, Jessica Marie		Fall 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.535 (13)	Independent Study		Kwass, Michael		Fall 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.535 (14)	Independent Study		Lester, Anne E.		Fall 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.535 (12)	Independent Study		Jones, Martha Suzanne		Fall 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.535 (15)	Independent Study		Lim, Julian		Fall 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.535 (16)	Independent Study		Loeffler, James		Fall 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.535 (19)	Independent Study		Makalani, Minkah		Fall 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.535 (17)	Independent Study		Luis, Diego Javier		Fall 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.535 (18)	Independent Study		Maciejko, Pawel Tadeusz		Fall 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.535 (02)	Independent Study		Celenza, Chris S.		Fall 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.535 (03)	Independent Study		Connolly, Nathan D		Fall 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.535 (21)	Independent Study		Mason, Laura		Fall 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.535 (20)	Independent Study		Marshall, John W		Fall 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.535 (30)	Independent Study		Turner, Sasha		Fall 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.535 (04)	Independent Study		Furstenberg, Francois		Fall 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.535 (22)	Independent Study		Meyer-Fong, Tobie		Fall 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.535 (23)	Independent Study		Noor, Rao Mohsin Ali		Fall 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.535 (24)	Independent Study		Pearsall, Sarah		Fall 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.535 (25)	Independent Study		Rowe, Erin		Fall 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.535 (26)	Independent Study		Schrader, Stuart Laurence		Fall 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.535 (27)	Independent Study		Shepard, Todd		Fall 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.535 (28)	Independent Study		Thiam, Madina		Fall 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.389.155 (91DC)	The History of "Fake News" from The Flood to The Apocalypse	M 11:30AM - 2:00PM	Havens, Earle A	555 Penn 632	Fall 2026	Description: A sweeping historical engagement with fakes, lies, and forgeries from the ancient world to the digital age, explored through JHU’s Bibliotheca Fictiva collection of rare books and manuscripts—the largest research collection on this subject in the world. Topics include ancient papyri, biblical apocrypha, medieval manuscript forgeries, archaeological and textual forgeries of the Renaissance, false travelogues of the Age of Exploration, pecuniary forgery in the 19th century, art forgery, and the advent of “fake news” in the digital era. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 12/12 Tags: n/a
AS.100.535 (29)	Independent Study		Thornberry, Elizabeth		Fall 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.100.535 (31)	Independent Study		Wright Rigueur, Leah M		Fall 2026	Description: Undergraduate independent research under a faculty mentor. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.197.310 (01)	From Disco to Deindustrialization: The 1970s and the Origins of Today’s Political Economy	MW 4:30PM - 5:45PM	Eilbert, Casey Cyrus	SNF Agora 112	Fall 2026	Description: For many Americans, the 1970s evoke idiosyncratic fads—disco music, bell-bottoms, Pet Rocks, lava lamps, and mood rings. Yet underneath the polyester, the decade also produced many of the political and economic transformations that continue to shape American life today. Then, as now, inflation squeezed household budgets and dominated the news cycle. Conflict in the Middle East and resulting fuel shortages exposed the environmental limits of economic growth. Unions declined, and jobs were mechanized, computerized, and shipped overseas—initiating a permanent shift from a trade surplus to a deficit. Establishment political parties struggled to respond to these conditions, opening space for populist challenges to the status quo. And at the same time, the unprecedented entry of women into paid work and a post-60s civil-rights ethos sparked debates over inequality, fairness, and economic justice. In this course, students will examine a range of primary and secondary sources to better understand the decade that many consider the origin of our time. Because this is a research lab, students will also pursue research projects of their own design; and course assignments will provide support, scaffolding, and deadlines for independent research. This course satisfies the "research lab" requirement for Moral and Political Economy majors. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 18/18 Tags: CES-LC, CES-LE, CES-GI
AS.212.378 (01)	Reading Caribbean History through Literature	TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM	Anderson, Bruce; Schilling, Derek; Staff	Krieger 307	Fall 2026	Description: The Caribbean occupies a central place in the history of the modern world, yet it is frequently portrayed as peripheral. Conventional narratives of its past are framed through the perspective of European empires, depicting the region as a sequence of colonial episodes that illustrate Europe’s expansion. This course explores the history of the French-speaking Caribbean through nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, examining how these works challenge colonial narratives, give voice to silenced perspectives, and reimagine the past. Readings include works by Émeric Bergeaud, Marie Vieux-Chauvet, Jacques Stephen Alexis, Edwidge Danticat, Aimé Césaire, Édouard Glissant, and Patrick Chamoiseau, paired with critical scholarship. The course will be conducted in English, with all texts available in English or English translation. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 18/18 Tags: n/a
AS.213.386 (01)	Panorama of German Thought	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Tobias, Rochelle	Krieger 180	Fall 2026	Description: This course introduces students to major figures and trends in German literature and thought from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. We will pay particular attention to the evolution of German political thought from the Protestant Reformation to the foundation of the German Federal Republic after WWII. How did the Protestant Reformation affect the understanding of the state, rights, civic institutions, and temporal authority in Germany? How did German Enlightenment thinkers conceive of ethics and politics? How do German writers define the nation, community, and the people? What is the link between romanticism and nationalism? To what degree is political economy, as developed by Marx, a critical response to romanticism? What are the ties that bind as well as divide a community in this tradition? We will consider these questions through a careful reading of selected works by Luther, Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Marx, Freud, Weber, and Arendt. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 9/15 Tags: INST-GLOBAL, INST-PT
AS.362.112 (01)	Introduction to Africana Studies	TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Okechukwu, Amaka Camille	Gilman 381	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 9/15 Tags: CES-ELECT, CES-RI
AS.362.204 (01)	Anti-Black Racism and Black Freedom Struggles: History, Theory, and Culture	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Makalani, Minkah	Gilman 277	Fall 2026	Description: In Anti-Black Racism and Black Freedom Struggles: History, Theory, and Culture, students will learn about key historical, intellectual, and political aspects of white supremacy as a system or racial domination, and anti-black racism as a central feature of that global system. This class will explore the historical forms that white supremacy has taken—from colonialism and plantation slavery to Jim Crow, gentrification, and mass incarceration—racial ideologies, and how modern political systems have hinged on racial oppression. Most important, we will explore how black people have responded to the structures and ideologies of white supremacy, their thinking about freedom, being, and rights, and their efforts to fit into the worlds in which they found themselves, to improve those societies, and those projects that sought radical alternatives to the an anti-black world. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 13/15 Tags: CES-LC, CES-LSO, CES-RI, HIST-LAW
AS.363.201 (01)	Introduction to the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality	MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Pahl, Katrin	Gilman 186	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/18 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.389.380 (01)	Museums on Campus: Creative Approaches to Audience Engagement	MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Finkelstein, Lori	Hmwd House Wine Cllr	Fall 2026	Description: This course will engage students in the fundamentals of museum audience engagement through creating and marketing a series of mini-installations around campus related to Homewood Museum. By “busting out” of the actual museum building, participants in this course will be charged with creating exciting opportunities for the museum to better connect with students, faculty, and the larger JHU community. The course will offer students real-world immersion in museum work and will use as its jumping off point a recently written report on how Homewood Museum could improve its public perception and grow its visitor base. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 1/12 Tags: ARCH-RELATE
AS.389.313 (01)	Data and the Digital in Museums	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	McGinn, Emily	BLC 4040	Fall 2026	Description: Digital media play an increasingly significant role in museums from how museums share and narrate their collections online to the use of AI to catalog things and create metadata about them. This class explores critically how digital tools work to tell stories and invites students to unpack the resulting museum narratives. Students will learn by doing, creating a digital exhibit of five museum objects using Omeka and later transforming their exhibits by creating data of their own design to tell a new story about their objects. This new narrative will apply critical perspectives considered in the course such as, but not limited to, repatriation, critical cataloging, and geo-politics. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 8/15 Tags: PMUS-PRAC, MSCH-HUM, ARCH-RELATE
AS.389.220 (01)	Queer Sixties	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Plaster, Joseph		Fall 2026	Description: Introduction to U.S. queer and trans politics and culture in the period building up to the gay liberation movement. The course highlights the significance of homophile organizing, drag and leather communities, trans activism, bar- and street-based publics, experimental film, and subcultural practices. It examines how we, as a culture, have come to narrate queer and trans history and investigates the ways archival practices shape those narrations. Students will learn to conduct historical research in online and analog archives, finding and integrating primary and secondary sources to write original research about the past. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 12/15 Tags: CDS-SSMC
AS.305.336 (01)	Insurgency and Counterinsurgency	Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Schrader, Stuart Laurence	Bloomberg 278	Fall 2026	Description: The term “counterinsurgency” is typically associated with the disastrous US wars in Vietnam or Iraq. But is counterinsurgency always doomed to fail and insurgency guaranteed to succeed? This course will give students an overview of key literature in counterinsurgency and internal security, as well as representative literature produced by and for insurgents, revolutionaries, and guerrillas/terrorists. A central task will be to define these vexed terms and track their shifting meaning over time, including the importance of cultural, racial, and gendered significations to those definitions. The course will also include a large-scale simulation of an insurgency and efforts to control or extinguish it, comprising the student assignments and requiring active participation of every student in the course. Each student will be assigned roles that will require specific creative actions. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 11/20 Tags: CDS-EWC
AS.305.350 (01)	Immigrant Justice and Resources Lab	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Lim, Julian	Gilman 55	Fall 2026	Description: This seminar offers students an opportunity to combine historical research skills and community engagement for real-world, public impact. Through collaborative research and partnering with an immigrant justice organization, students in the seminar will gain a deeper understanding of immigration history, gather and analyze research for community stakeholders, and transform scholarly discussions into applicable resources for use in immigrant rights and justice cases today. Students who wish to take this course should have previously enrolled in at least one course covering immigration, but that is not a formal prerequisite. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 2/12 Tags: CDS-MB, CSC-CE, HIST-LAW