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Courses with numbers 100–299 are designed for freshmen and sophomores but are open to all undergraduate students. Advanced courses, with numbers 300–599, are generally designed for students who have completed introductory courses in the appropriate area.
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Course # (Section)
Title
Day/Times
Instructor
Room
PosTag(s)
Info
AS.100.257 (01)
Africans and France, 1900-2024
T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Shepard, Todd
Gilman 119
HIST-EUROPE, HIST-AFRICA, INST-GLOBAL
Africans and France, 1900-2024 AS.100.257 (01)
By 1900, France had conquered large parts of the African continent - mainly through violence - and gained a reputation as the least racist Western state. In 2023, the French government works to hold onto the power it still holds in multiple sub-Saharan countries while, at home and abroad, the perniciousness and persistence of French anti-African racisms spark debate and activism. This course examines the interactions between African and Afro-descendent people and France/the French, in Africa (with particular attention to North and West Africa), France, and beyond. We will focus on colonialism, decolonization, and neocolonialism - notably “Françafrique” - as well as how Africans and Afro-descendent people in France navigated the challenges and possibilities they encountered.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Shepard, Todd
Room: Gilman 119
Status: Open
Seats Available: 22/30
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, HIST-AFRICA, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.103 (01)
Early Modern Europe & the Wider World
MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Loiselle, Ken
Smokler Center 213
HIST-EUROPE
Early Modern Europe & the Wider World AS.100.103 (01)
This survey course examines the history of Europe from the early sixteenth to the late eighteenth centuries. Topics to be examined include the Reformations and religious wars, curiosity, contact and conquest of non-European lands, the rise of modern bureaucratic states, the emergence of popular sovereignty as a political criterion, the new science, as well as expanding literacy and consumption.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Instructor: Loiselle, Ken
Room: Smokler Center 213
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 1/25
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE
AS.100.117 (01)
Introduction to Native North America
MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Grindon, Blake
Ames 218
HIST-US, INST-GLOBAL
Introduction to Native North America AS.100.117 (01)
This course provides an overview of Native American History in North America. We will investigate the diverse Indigenous cultures and political systems that have called the continent home from large and historically well-documented polities such as Cherokee nation and the Haudenosaunee to the crucial yet often-overlooked role of smaller polities such as those of the Abenakis and the Petites Nations of the Gulf Coast. Along the way we will ask: how have geography (and displacement) shaped culture and politics? how have Indigenous histories shaped the history of the United States (as well as Mexico and Canada)? what are the unique challenges of studying and writing Native American History today?
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Instructor: Grindon, Blake
Room: Ames 218
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/20
PosTag(s): HIST-US, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.117 (02)
Introduction to Native North America
MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Grindon, Blake
Ames 218
HIST-US, INST-GLOBAL
Introduction to Native North America AS.100.117 (02)
This course provides an overview of Native American History in North America. We will investigate the diverse Indigenous cultures and political systems that have called the continent home from large and historically well-documented polities such as Cherokee nation and the Haudenosaunee to the crucial yet often-overlooked role of smaller polities such as those of the Abenakis and the Petites Nations of the Gulf Coast. Along the way we will ask: how have geography (and displacement) shaped culture and politics? how have Indigenous histories shaped the history of the United States (as well as Mexico and Canada)? what are the unique challenges of studying and writing Native American History today?
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Instructor: Grindon, Blake
Room: Ames 218
Status: Open
Seats Available: 13/20
PosTag(s): HIST-US, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.274 (01)
Conspiracy in American Politics
TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Luff, Jennifer D
Gilman 219
HIST-US, POLI-AP, INST-GLOBAL, INST-AP
Conspiracy in American Politics AS.100.274 (01)
Conspiratorial thinking is nothing new in American politics. Since the founding of the nation, Americans have been riveted—and riven—by conspiracy theories. This course introduces students to key methods and questions in U.S. history by exploring conspiratorial episodes from the American Revolution through the present. We’ll pick apart allegations and denials of conspiracies to discover what they tell us about American politics and culture. We’ll also consider historians’ analyses of conspiratorial claims, and think about the relationship between conspiracy and historical causality.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Instructor: Luff, Jennifer D
Room: Gilman 219
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 1/25
PosTag(s): HIST-US, POLI-AP, INST-GLOBAL, INST-AP
AS.100.270 (01)
Europe since 1945
TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Harms, Victoria Elisabeth
Ames 218
HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL, HIST-US
Europe since 1945 AS.100.270 (01)
This class focuses on Europe from the end of World War II until today. We will discuss topics such as Germany’s division during the Cold War, the European welfare state, the relationship to the US and the Soviet Union, decolonization, the revolutions of 1989, racism, neoliberalism, and the EU. Expect academic literature, movies, documentary films, textual and visual primary sources, and plenty of group work. A special treat: we will team up with students at the University of Regensburg to research current challenges to and in the transatlantic alliance.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Harms, Victoria Elisabeth
Room: Ames 218
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/40
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL, HIST-US
AS.010.369 (01)
The American Art Museum: Origins, Mission, and Civic Purpose
TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Weiss, Daniel H
Gilman 177
HART-MODERN
The American Art Museum: Origins, Mission, and Civic Purpose AS.010.369 (01)
This course will explore the American art museum as a distinctive cultural and political idea. Tracing its origins to the ancient world, the American museum was descended more immediately from institutions created during the European Enlightenment, but differing with regard to overall mission and civic purpose. This course will explore the various roles played by museums in American society, focusing on programmatic content, organizational design, funding and operating practices, and the particular issues that have arisen in recent years in the areas of cultural property restitution, collection development, special exhibitions, governance and funding, anti-colonialism, and the larger question of civic purpose. Students will have the opportunity to visit local museums and meet with museum leaders in various professional areas.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Weiss, Daniel H
Room: Gilman 177
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/15
PosTag(s): HART-MODERN
AS.040.420 (04)
Classics Research Lab: Race in Antiquity Project (RAP)
W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Pandey, Nandini
MSCH-HUM
Classics Research Lab: Race in Antiquity Project (RAP) AS.040.420 (04)
How did ancient civilizations around the Mediterranean basin (Greece, Rome, Egypt, Persia, Carthage) understand and represent their own and others’ identities and ethnic differences? How did notions and practices around race, citizenship, and immigration evolve from antiquity to the present? How have culture and politics informed artistic, literary, and museum representations of ethnic ‘others’ over time, along with the historical development of ethnography, biological science, and pseudo-sciences of race? What role did “Classics” (the study of Greco-Roman cultures) play in modern colonialism, racecraft, and inequality? And what role can it play in unmaking their legacies, through the ongoing Black Classicism movement, the practice of Critical Race Theory, and the development of more global and interconnective approaches to premodern cultures? RAP provides an opportunity for Hopkins undergraduates and graduate students from a wide variety of disciplinary backgrounds to engage in project-based research toward building an open-access, grant-winning educational resource (OER) on “Race in Antiquity.” Participants learn, share, and practice advanced research methods; examine and discuss the history and modern implications of the teaching and study of their fields; test-drive and collaboratively edit OER pilot materials; and create new content based on their own research, for eventual digital publication.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Pandey, Nandini
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/15
PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM
AS.040.420 (05)
Classics Research Lab: A world of orators: speaking in public in the Roman empire
M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Roller, Matthew
Gilman 108
MSCH-HUM
Classics Research Lab: A world of orators: speaking in public in the Roman empire AS.040.420 (05)
This research-based Lab course will involve careful reading of a variety of Roman texts of the early empire, aiming to catalogue every instance of public speech and of the orators who speak in public. This cataloguing project, perhaps eventually resulting in an online database, will include historical and comparative readings about public speech as a feature of society.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Roller, Matthew
Room: Gilman 108
Status: Open
Seats Available: 7/10
PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM
AS.100.283 (01)
Making and Unmaking Queer Histories, 1800-Present
TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne
Krieger 307
HIST-EUROPE, HIST-US, INST-GLOBAL
Making and Unmaking Queer Histories, 1800-Present AS.100.283 (01)
This course investigates sexual cultures through the lens of modern Queer History in the United States and Western Europe, with forays into global and transnational histories.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne
Room: Krieger 307
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/20
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, HIST-US, INST-GLOBAL
AS.010.431 (01)
Obsessed with the Past: the Art and Architecture of Medieval Rome
T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Zchomelidse, Nino
Gilman 177
ARCH-RELATE, HART-MED
Obsessed with the Past: the Art and Architecture of Medieval Rome AS.010.431 (01)
In antiquity, Rome became the capital of an empire, its growing status reflected in its sophisticated urban planning, its architecture, and the arts. While an abundance of studies explores the revival of this glorious past in the Renaissance, this seminar discusses various ways of the reception of antiquity during the medieval period. We address the practice of using spolia in medieval architecture, the appropriation of ancient pagan buildings for the performance of Christian cult practices, the continuation of making (cult)images and their veneration, the meaning and specific visuality of Latin script (paleography and epigraphy) in later medieval art. We discuss the revival and systematic study of ancient knowledge (f. ex. medicine, astronomy, and the liberal arts), in complex allegorical murals. As we aim to reconstruct the art and architecture of medieval Rome, this course discusses ideas and concepts behind different forms of re-building and picturing the past, as they intersect with the self-referential character of a city that is obsessed with its own history.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Zchomelidse, Nino
Room: Gilman 177
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/6
PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE, HART-MED
AS.100.330 (01)
National Identity in 20th Century China & Japan
T 12:30PM - 3:00PM
Meyer-Fong, Tobie
HIST-ASIA, INST-GLOBAL, INST-CP
National Identity in 20th Century China & Japan AS.100.330 (01)
Using primary sources, including literature and film, we will explore the changing ways in which ideologues, intellectuals, and ordinary citizens defined national identity in 20th century China and Japan.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: T 12:30PM - 3:00PM
Instructor: Meyer-Fong, Tobie
Room:
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available: 7/18
PosTag(s): HIST-ASIA, INST-GLOBAL, INST-CP
AS.100.378 (01)
Africa and the Atlantic World
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Gondola, Didier Didier
Gilman 186
HIST-AFRICA, AFRS-AFRICA, INST-GLOBAL
Africa and the Atlantic World AS.100.378 (01)
This upper-division course is designed to help students examine and probe the significant role Africa has played in shaping the Atlantic world and its place within its economic, social, religious, cultural, and political configurations.
This class reassesses the history of the Cold War through sports. We will investigate how the Cold War has shaped sports, the Olympic movement, the role of athletes at home and abroad. We will discuss how sports intersected with domestic and foreign policy, and how sports reinforced or challenged notions of race, gender, and class. We will also interview eyewitnesses, former athletes in the 1960s and 1970s.
Survey of the history of China from ca. 1895 to ca. 1976.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Instructor: Rowe, William T
Room: Gilman 55
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/40
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, HIST-ASIA
AS.100.339 (01)
Instability, Intolerance, and Inquisition in Early Modern Spain
Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Rowe, Erin
Gilman 308
HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
Instability, Intolerance, and Inquisition in Early Modern Spain AS.100.339 (01)
The early modern Spanish empire spanned three continents by the sixteenth century, including nearly a third of continental Europe. Its astonishing power and wealth provoked internal consternation and debate, including disagreement about the legal legitimacy of empire and the treatment of Indigenous subjects, social instability, Inquisitorial prosecutions, religious intensity, the rapid expansion of the transatlantic slave trade, and cultural flourishing in what later scholars would call “The Golden Age.” In this course, we discuss this complex period of time in Spanish history through the lens of gender, race, art and theater, political theory, and theology. This course is reading and writing intensive, where students should expect to engage in detailed discussions of primary material and to produce three essays (no exams).
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Rowe, Erin
Room: Gilman 308
Status: Open
Seats Available: 12/19
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.388 (01)
Practicing Historical Research
MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Maciejko, Pawel Tadeusz
Hodson 305
Practicing Historical Research AS.100.388 (01)
Students work on producing an individual research project. In certain cases, advisors may allow this requirement to be substituted with a History Research Lab course.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Instructor: Maciejko, Pawel Tadeusz
Room: Hodson 305
Status: Open
Seats Available: 28/36
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.100.395 (01)
History of Global Development
T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Lurtz, Casey Marina
Krieger 304
HIST-LATAM, INST-GLOBAL
History of Global Development AS.100.395 (01)
This course explores development as an ideology and a practice. From colonialism to the Cold War to contemporary NGOs, we will interrogate the history of our attempts to improve the world. This iteration of the course will have a particular focus on the intersections between development and the environment. Graduate students welcome.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Lurtz, Casey Marina
Room: Krieger 304
Status: Open
Seats Available: 11/25
PosTag(s): HIST-LATAM, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.314 (01)
The Enlightenment
TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Kwass, Michael
Gilman 217
HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
The Enlightenment AS.100.314 (01)
Examines the Enlightenment, an intellectual movement that swept Europe in the eighteenth century to shape the modern world. Students will not only read canonical works of the period (Voltaire, Hume, Rousseau, etc.) but also consider the broader social and cultural contexts in which ideas evolved. Thus, the class will explore the rise of the book trade and popular reading practices; new understandings of gender and sexuality; and the development of anti-Black racism and slavery in the Atlantic world.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Instructor: Kwass, Michael
Room: Gilman 217
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/14
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.310 (01)
The French Revolution
TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Mason, Laura
Gilman 381
HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
The French Revolution AS.100.310 (01)
The political, social and cultural history of events that marked a turning-point to the modern era by inaugurating and then destroying a more popular democracy than Europeans had yet known.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Instructor: Mason, Laura
Room: Gilman 381
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/15
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.445 (01)
Revolution, Anti-Slavery, and Empire 1773-1792: British and American Political Thought from Paine, Smith, and the Declaration of Independence to Cugoano, Wollstonecraft, and the Bill of Rights
MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Marshall, John W
Gilman 17
HIST-EUROPE, HIST-US, INST-GLOBAL, INST-PT
Revolution, Anti-Slavery, and Empire 1773-1792: British and American Political Thought from Paine, Smith, and the Declaration of Independence to Cugoano, Wollstonecraft, and the Bill of Rights AS.100.445 (01)
This seminar-style course will focus on discussing British and American political thought from the "Age of Revolutions", a period also of many critiques of Empire and of many works of Antislavery. Readings include Paine's Common Sense and Rights of Man, the Declaration of Rights, the Constitution and Bill of Rights, the Federalist Papers; works by Smith, Burke, and Wollstonecraft; and antislavery works by Cugoano, Equiano, Rush, Wesley, and Wilberforce.
Malcolm and Martin: Evolutionary Revolutionaries AS.100.323 (01)
This is a larger seminar-style course devoted to the writings attributed to Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X (El-Hajj El-Malik Shabazz). While the two the key African American male icons of the Civil Rights Movement era gained prominence in the 1950s and 1960s, they are typically discussed as representing two ideological camps: racial integration deeply committed to the idea of American exceptionalism and democratic perfection, and black nationalism, a non-state ideological move that adjudged the U.S. nation state on the same terms as any other imperial power. We will explore these binaries in their thought and the social movements connected to them, and also engage with multiple cinematic representations of the two figures that have carried them forward into contemporary times.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Jackson, Lawrence P
Room: Krieger 304
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/15
PosTag(s): HIST-US, ENGL-GLOBAL
AS.100.482 (01)
Historiography of Modern China
W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Rowe, William T
Gilman 10
INST-GLOBAL, HIST-ASIA
Historiography of Modern China AS.100.482 (01)
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?
History Research Lab: Digital History AS.100.450 (04)
In this course, students participate in a research “laboratory,” engaging in direct research on an area of faculty’s research, leading to the development of a collective, digital humanities project.
History Research Lab: Black Intellectuals in South Africa AS.100.450 (08)
This course will use the archives of South Africa’s black newspapers as a tool to analyze black political thought in the early twentieth century. We will start by collectively examining responses to major political developments including the creation of the Union of South Africa and the Native Lands Act; students will then formulate individual research projects.
In this course, we will explore American labor, business and immigration history through data using AI. Students will learn how to think critically about how data are made and organized. They will then use that data to build arguments and visualizations about social and economic change over time. Throughout the course, we will learn to use various tools such as Google Sheets, Python, and Chat GPT for data analysis. No prior experience with statistics or programming is necessary, but students should come with a desire to learn. For advanced undergraduates and graduates.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: M 5:00PM - 7:30PM
Instructor: Hyman, Louis
Room: Gilman 377
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/15
PosTag(s): HIST-US, AGRI-ELECT, MSCH-HUM
AS.100.431 (01)
Law and Genocide in Modern Europe
Th 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Loeffler, James
Gilman 55
HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
Law and Genocide in Modern Europe AS.100.431 (01)
Can law end genocide? Modern Europe has formed the site for some of the worst global atrocities in modern history. It has also served as the birthplace and proving grounds for many of humanity’s boldest experiments in genocide prevention and global justice. In this course, we will examine the historical links between mass violence and legal change. We will focus on pivotal trials and legal campaigns in Central and Eastern Europe from World War I to the present, including the Nuremberg Trials, the UN Yugoslavian Tribunals, and the ongoing Russia/Ukraine war. We will pay special attention to the question of what the historical entanglements between international law, human rights, and empire mean for the future of universal justice in Europe and beyond.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: Th 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Instructor: Loeffler, James
Room: Gilman 55
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available: 9/15
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.433 (01)
Free Speech and Censorship in the United States
T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Jelavich, Peter
Shriver Hall 001
HIST-US
Free Speech and Censorship in the United States AS.100.433 (01)
This undergraduate research seminar examines censorship laws, practices, and debates from the eighteenth century to the present. Issues include political speech, obscenity and pornography, and racist hate speech. In addition to discussing common readings, each student will choose a censorship case or issue to research, present to the class, and analyze in a final essay.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Jelavich, Peter
Room: Shriver Hall 001
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/10
PosTag(s): HIST-US
AS.100.442 (01)
The Intellectual History of Capitalism, 1900 to present
W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Burgin, Angus
Gilman 308
HIST-US, HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL, INST-ECON
The Intellectual History of Capitalism, 1900 to present AS.100.442 (01)
This course examines shifting understandings of the philosophical foundations, political implications, and social effects of the market economy since the early twentieth century.
An analysis of public policy and policy-making for American Cities. Special attention will be given to the subject of urban crime and law enforcement, poverty and welfare, and intergovernmental relations. Cross listed with Africana Studies.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 3:50PM
Instructor: Spence, Lester
Room: Krieger 308
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 1/25
PosTag(s): INST-AP
AS.194.230 (01)
African-Americans and the Development of Islam in America
Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Fanusie, Fatimah
Krieger 180
INST-GLOBAL
African-Americans and the Development of Islam in America AS.194.230 (01)
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
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Fanusie, Fatimah
Room: Krieger 180
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/12
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL
AS.214.362 (01)
Italian Journeys: Medieval and Early Modern
TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Avesani, Tatiana Ioanna; Cipriani, Giulia M.
Olin 305
INST-GLOBAL, MLL-ENGL
Italian Journeys: Medieval and Early Modern AS.214.362 (01)
What does it mean to traverse a name? What’s in a name? What if that name is Orpheus, one of antiquity’s most renowned poets? In this class we will try to answer these three questions. We will follow the myth of Orpheus from its origins in antiquity to the Italian Renaissance. Our aim will be to look at the ways a name and, in this case, a story is able to take on different forms as it travels through time and as it is being narrated. Through the texts of Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio and Poliziano, we will compare their delivery of the myth against those of the Roman poets Virgil and Ovid. Via a close reading of each text, we will use elements inherent to the story such as love, loss, pain, dismemberment, identity, gender and sexuality to explore the concept of multiplicity within a single unity. Historical contextualization, literary theory, textual criticism and reception will serve as further tools to help us in our questioning. Ultimately, we will follow the journey of transformation of the myth to ask ourselves two final questions: is it the same story? Are we the same readers?
No prior knowledge of any of the texts is necessary. The course will be taught in English with section 02 available in Italian for Italian Majors and Minors to fulfill their requirements.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Instructor: Avesani, Tatiana Ioanna; Cipriani, Giulia M.
Room: Olin 305
Status: Open
Seats Available: 6/10
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, MLL-ENGL
AS.214.241 (01)
How To Do Just About Everything: Renaissance Guides to Living Well
MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Saiber, Arielle
Gilman 443
How To Do Just About Everything: Renaissance Guides to Living Well AS.214.241 (01)
How do I make money, gain and keep power, find love, live long, strengthen my memory, avoid depression, cook well, write beautifully, fence, mix paint, counteract poisoning, and create coded messages? The Renaissance had answers to these and many other questions. This course explores a large sampling of advice from the Italian Renaissance. Readings include Machiavelli’s Prince, Della Casa’s Galateo of Manners, Maestro Martino's Art of Cooking, and selections from Cornaro's Art of Living Long, Manciolino's Guide to Swordsmanship, Cennini's Craftsman's Handbook, Della Porta’s Natural Magic, Castiglione’s Book of the Courtier, Ficino’s Book of Life, as well as religious sermons, humanist treatises, and books of “secrets.” Secondary literature will provide historical context for the primary texts and tools for recognizing and unpacking the persuasive devices used in these early examples of self-help. Students will become familiar with Italian Renaissance thought and develop analytical and critical skills to examine advice in its cultural and temporal context. The course as a whole will focus on the notion of “core values” and what is at stake when you propose help or seek help. We will also experience some of these "how-to's", such as calligraphy, oration, creating codes, and more.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Instructor: Saiber, Arielle
Room: Gilman 443
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.310.303 (01)
Women and Writing in Modern China
TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Jiang, Jin
Gilman 132
Women and Writing in Modern China AS.310.303 (01)
China’s turbulent 20th century was marked by social and political upheavals, wars, and economic hardship. Women writers played an important role in documenting these events. How did women experience and understand their historical context? How were their experiences and interpretations different from (or similar to) those of their male counterparts? This course will search modern China’s mind through women’s writings. Students will read works by women writers of the “long 20th century” (roughly 1890s-2020s) including, but not limited to, Ding Ling, Xiao Hong, Zhang Ailing, and Zhang Jie. We will engage in close readings of their literary works in context of their life experiences, considering key themes such as women’s identity and agency, nationalism, revolution, and social reform as well as new and changing gender norms. Basic knowledge of modern Chinese history helpful but not required.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Jiang, Jin
Room: Gilman 132
Status: Open
Seats Available: 7/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.300.401 (01)
Comparative Late- and Post-Cold War Cultures in China, the USSR, and Beyond
F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Hashimoto, Satoru; Schmelz, Peter John
Gilman 381
Comparative Late- and Post-Cold War Cultures in China, the USSR, and Beyond AS.300.401 (01)
This course invites students to explore culture in the late and post-Cold War world from a broader perspective by surveying literature, thought, cinema, art, and music in Chinese and Soviet societies from the 1980s to the present. How did Chinese and Soviet intellectuals reconfigure, reform, and/or reinvent their cultures as they re-embraced the ideas of freedom, democracy, and globalization? How did they grapple with the legacies of their socialist and even pre-socialist pasts as they entered new eras of reforms? How did reform movements adopt different forms and strategies in different parts of the USSR and in the Sinophone world? What kinds of negotiations took place between various centers and peripheries within and around these regions? What can we learn from their cultural endeavors about the promises, contradictions, and discontents of the post-Cold War world, as we witness the rise of a so-called “new cold war” today? In this co-taught course, specialists in Sinophone and Soviet cultures will guide students to read and discuss representative works from the 1980s onward from a comparative perspective. Readings include Cui Jian, Yu Hua, Can Xue, Mo Yan, Yan Lianke, Guo Songfen, and the film Hibiscus Town, as well as Viktor Tsoi, Komar and Melamid, Aka Morchiladze, Oksana Zabuzhko, Serhiy Zhadan, and the film Repentance. No prerequisites. All course materials will be provided in English translation or with English subtitles.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Hashimoto, Satoru; Schmelz, Peter John
Room: Gilman 381
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.214.362 (02)
Italian Journeys: Medieval and Early Modern
TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM, F 2:00PM - 2:50PM
Avesani, Tatiana Ioanna; Cipriani, Giulia M.
Olin 305
INST-GLOBAL, MLL-ENGL
Italian Journeys: Medieval and Early Modern AS.214.362 (02)
What does it mean to traverse a name? What’s in a name? What if that name is Orpheus, one of antiquity’s most renowned poets? In this class we will try to answer these three questions. We will follow the myth of Orpheus from its origins in antiquity to the Italian Renaissance. Our aim will be to look at the ways a name and, in this case, a story is able to take on different forms as it travels through time and as it is being narrated. Through the texts of Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio and Poliziano, we will compare their delivery of the myth against those of the Roman poets Virgil and Ovid. Via a close reading of each text, we will use elements inherent to the story such as love, loss, pain, dismemberment, identity, gender and sexuality to explore the concept of multiplicity within a single unity. Historical contextualization, literary theory, textual criticism and reception will serve as further tools to help us in our questioning. Ultimately, we will follow the journey of transformation of the myth to ask ourselves two final questions: is it the same story? Are we the same readers?
No prior knowledge of any of the texts is necessary. The course will be taught in English with section 02 available in Italian for Italian Majors and Minors to fulfill their requirements.
Credits: 4.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM, F 2:00PM - 2:50PM
Instructor: Avesani, Tatiana Ioanna; Cipriani, Giulia M.
Room: Olin 305
Status: Open
Seats Available: 2/4
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, MLL-ENGL
AS.310.329 (01)
Women, Patriarchy, and Feminism in China, South Korea, and Japan
TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Henning, Stefan
Mergenthaler 266
INST-GLOBAL, INST-CP
Women, Patriarchy, and Feminism in China, South Korea, and Japan AS.310.329 (01)
We will try to get a quick overview of the recent history of patriarchy in China, South Korea, and Japan from the mid-twentieth century to our present and then compare the initiatives of feminists to transform the lives of women throughout these three societies. We will also debate whether or how it makes sense to adapt the Western notions of patriarchy and sexism as well as the Western political program of feminism to the non-Western context of East Asia by reading books by historians, anthropologists, and sociologists.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Instructor: Henning, Stefan
Room: Mergenthaler 266
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 1/15
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, INST-CP
AS.310.207 (01)
Cities and Urban Life in Chinese Film
W 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Jiang, Jin
Mergenthaler 266
INST-GLOBAL, INST-CP
Cities and Urban Life in Chinese Film AS.310.207 (01)
This seminar introduces students to the phenomenon of migration in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan from theoretical, empirical, and comparative perspectives. The objectives of the course are to understand the 1) historical context behind present-day migrations in East Asia; 2) different patterns of migration flows and their consequences on receiving countries; 3) various theoretical frameworks for migration. The course is divided into three parts. In the first part, the course will examine theoretical approaches to migration, structured around the question of whether East Asia as a region represents a distinct model of migration. In the second, students will explore the empirical cases in greater detail by comparing and contrasting the different types of migrations. The third part addresses the responses to migration by host governments and societies and the implications of migration on citizenship and identity. Recommended Course Background: any class related to the history or politics of Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and/or China.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: W 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Instructor: Jiang, Jin
Room: Mergenthaler 266
Status: Open
Seats Available: 9/15
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, INST-CP
AS.360.305 (01)
Introduction to Computational Methods for the Humanities
TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Lippincott, Tom; Sirin Ryan, Hale
Gilman 50
Introduction to Computational Methods for the Humanities AS.360.305 (01)
This course introduces basic computational techniques in the context of empirical humanistic scholarship. Topics covered include the command-line, basic Python programming, and experimental design. While illustrative examples are drawn from humanistic domains, the primary focus is on methods: those with specific domains in mind should be aware that such applied research is welcome and exciting, but will largely be their responsibility beyond the confines of the course. Students will come away with tangible understanding of how to cast simple humanistic questions as empirical hypotheses, ground and test these hypotheses computationally, and justify the choices made while doing so. No previous programming experience is required.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Instructor: Lippincott, Tom; Sirin Ryan, Hale
Room: Gilman 50
Status: Open
Seats Available: 14/20
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.360.412 (01)
Humanities Research Lab: Asian Diaspora in Baltimore and D.C.
F 10:00AM - 12:30PM
Kim, Yumi
Gilman 308
Humanities Research Lab: Asian Diaspora in Baltimore and D.C. AS.360.412 (01)
In this humanities research lab, students will conduct original research on local histories of Asian American and Asian diasporic communities in the Baltimore area, inclusive of D.C. Students will think about how and why the histories and experiences of the region’s Asian American and diasporic communities, especially their interactions with other racialized and minoritized groups, continue to be erased from public conversation, and then engage in hands-on collaborative and reparative work in response to such erasure. The lab is organized around discussions and workshops with community collaborators, guest speakers, and scholars, as well as visits to archives, neighborhoods, and community organizations. This course requires at least four Friday group trips to 555 Penn in Washington D.C. (transportation provided).
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: F 10:00AM - 12:30PM
Instructor: Kim, Yumi
Room: Gilman 308
Status: Open
Seats Available: 9/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.310.331 (01)
Islam in Asia
TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Henning, Stefan
Mergenthaler 266
ISLM-ISLMST, INST-CP
Islam in Asia AS.310.331 (01)
You will learn about the efforts of ordinary, non-elite Muslims to shape the relation between their communities and the state as well as to (where applicable) the non-Muslim majority through collective organizing over the last forty years. We will read and discuss books by anthropologists, historians, and sociologists studying Iran, Pakistan, India, China, Malaysia, and Indonesia.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Instructor: Henning, Stefan
Room: Mergenthaler 266
Status: Open
Seats Available: 6/15
PosTag(s): ISLM-ISLMST, INST-CP
AS.140.356 (01)
Man vs. Machine: Resistance to New Technology since the Industrial Revolution
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Mercelis, Joris Hans Angele
Gilman 300
MSCH-HUM
Man vs. Machine: Resistance to New Technology since the Industrial Revolution AS.140.356 (01)
This course analyzes various episodes of “luddism” in the history of science and technology, from the destruction of textile machinery in the early 1800s up to recent controversies about robots, vaccines, and AI chatbots. What explains why different groups of actors did (or did not) resist the introduction of new technologies, ranging from the bicycle and the automobile to the nuclear energy plant? What types of fears did these technologies arouse? What can history teach us about the recurring concern that technological innovation might destroy more jobs than it generates? These are some of the themes we will be examining in this seminar on the basis of research presentations and classroom discussions of primary and secondary historical sources.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Instructor: Mercelis, Joris Hans Angele
Room: Gilman 300
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/15
PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM
AS.360.420 (01)
Humanities Research Lab: Making Maps of Mexico
TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Lurtz, Casey Marina
Hodson 315
INST-GLOBAL
Humanities Research Lab: Making Maps of Mexico AS.360.420 (01)
Learn the basics of ArcGIS, data management, and the history of maps and censuses as you help Prof. Lurtz build a digital historical atlas of Mexico. No experience necessary, graduate students welcome.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Instructor: Lurtz, Casey Marina
Room: Hodson 315
Status: Open
Seats Available: 7/15
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL
AS.362.112 (01)
Introduction to Africana Studies
F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Mott, Shani T
Gilman 134
Introduction to Africana Studies AS.362.112 (01)
This course introduces students to the field of Africana Studies. It focuses on the historical experience, intellectual ideas, theories, and cultural production of African-descended people. We will consider how people of the black diaspora remember and encounter Africa.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Mott, Shani T
Room: Gilman 134
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.360.306 (01)
Computational Intelligence for the Humanities
TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Backer, Samuel Ehrlich; Messner, Craig A
Computational Intelligence for the Humanities AS.360.306 (01)
This course introduces substantial machine learning methods of particular relevance to humanistic scholarship. Areas covered include standard models for classification, regression, and topic modeling, before turning to the array of open-source pretrained deep neural models, and the common mechanisms for employing them. Students are expected to have a level of programming experience equivalent to that gained from AS.360.304, Gateway Computing, AS.250.205, or Harvard’s CS50 for Python. Students will come away with an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of different machine learning models, the ability to discuss them in relation to human intelligence and to make informed decisions of when and how to employ them, and an array of related technical knowledge.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Instructor: Backer, Samuel Ehrlich; Messner, Craig A
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 9/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.362.326 (01)
Nothing About Us, Without Us: Storytelling as a Method for Community Organizing
TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Berkley, Tonika Danielle; Collins, Jeneanne; Cumming, Daniel
Krieger 307
CSC-CE
Nothing About Us, Without Us: Storytelling as a Method for Community Organizing AS.362.326 (01)
This course offers a hands-on opportunity for students to develop new skills as community organizers by learning from the best teachers possible: residents who have been serving their neighborhoods and building grassroots power in Southwest Baltimore since the 1990s. As a community-based learning course with the Center for Social Concern, and co-taught by professors, archivists, cultural curators, and longtime residents, including the founder of Fayette Street Outreach, Ms. Edna Manns Lake, this course will leverage the narrative power of storytelling to help rewrite a multigenerational history of community organizing in a part of the city long neglected by local government and threatened historically by open-air drug markets, rampant criminalization, and predatory housing speculators. Through community immersion, including story circles, oral histories, community archiving, local meetings, and guest presentations, students will learn how to navigate, identify, and build upon existing neighborhood assets. Students will then collaborate with a community partner to co-design and complete a neighborhood project by the end of the semester. Dispelling myths, learning truths, documenting history, and honoring decades of struggle in the face of massive odds, students will help re-write the narrative of Southwest Baltimore, centering humanity and resilience among resident-activists who stayed and fought for their community.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Instructor: Berkley, Tonika Danielle; Collins, Jeneanne; Cumming, Daniel
Room: Krieger 307
Status: Open
Seats Available: 9/20
PosTag(s): CSC-CE
AS.389.155 (01)
The History of Fake News from The Flood to The Apocalypse
W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Havens, Earle A
BLC 2043
ARCH-RELATE, MSCH-HUM
The History of Fake News from The Flood to The Apocalypse AS.389.155 (01)
In our digital age of hacking, on-line bots, and trolls stealing, faking, and confounding information across the Internet, it is too often forgotten that “fake news” has, in fact, always been with us. This course examines this dark undercurrent within human civilization across historical time, exploring specific examples of fakes, lies, and forgeries from the biblical Flood in antiquity to prophecies of a future Apocalypse. We will draw throughout on the riches of JHU’s own Bibliotheca Fictiva—the world’s premier rare book and manuscript research collection dedicated to literary forgeries across the millennia.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Havens, Earle A
Room: BLC 2043
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/12
PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE, MSCH-HUM
AS.389.322 (01)
Tigers to Teapots: Collecting, Cataloging, and Hoarding in America
MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Finkelstein, Lori
Hmwd House Wine Cllr
Tigers to Teapots: Collecting, Cataloging, and Hoarding in America AS.389.322 (01)
This course examines material culture through the lens of personal collecting. Focusing on the United States, students will explore how collectors influenced the holdings of the nation’s museums, including JHU’s Evergreen and Homewood Museum, and contemplate how collecting, for public and private purposes, shapes status and taste in America. This course will also address how collections are organized, displayed, and conserved and will delve into psychological and environmental aspects of collecting and hoarding.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Finkelstein, Lori
Room: Hmwd House Wine Cllr
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/13
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.389.265 (01)
Hopkins History Through the Archives
T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Blair, Monica Kristin
BLC 2030
PMUS-PRAC, MSCH-HUM
Hopkins History Through the Archives AS.389.265 (01)
Archives are where history is documented, and archives have tremendous power over whose stories get told. This course will critically examine the relationship between archival practice and public history by using John Hopkins University as a case study. We will work closely with archivists in the Special Collections Department and archives across Baltimore to get a firsthand look at how local archives shape public history, collective memory, and institutional silences. Students will learn how public historians, archivists, community activists, and students themselves can work together to do reparative research that advances social justice in their own communities.
