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Course # (Section)
Title
Day/Times
Instructor
Room
PosTag(s)
Info
AS.001.120 (01)
FYS: U.S. History of the Present
TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Brann, Allon Yagoda
BLC 4040
FYS: U.S. History of the Present AS.001.120 (01)
Which ideas, movements, problems, and conflicts define the contemporary United States—and where did they come from? In this First Year Seminar we’ll study the history of this country over the last three decades to try to answer those questions. Using a range of written and visual materials, we’ll investigate the history behind concepts like “globalization,” “the free market,” “identity politics,” “culture wars,” and the “War on Terror,” and discuss the causes and consequences of the debates they provoked in this period. We’ll also assess what’s appealing and challenging about studying the very recent past and using it to interpret our present.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Instructor: Brann, Allon Yagoda
Room: BLC 4040
Status: Open
Seats Available: 12/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.001.145 (01)
FYS: The Haitian Revolution
TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Kwass, Michael
Gilman 134
FYS: The Haitian Revolution AS.001.145 (01)
Long overshadowed by the American and French Revolutions, the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) is now widely recognized as one of the most important events in modern history. The most radical of the Atlantic Revolutions, it began with a massive uprising of the enslaved against the institution of slavery and culminated in the independence of the nation of Haiti. This First-Year Seminar will examine the origins, course, and legacy of the Revolution, addressing such issues as colonialism, racism, slavery, emancipation, human rights, and national sovereignty – issues that continue to shape the contemporary world.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Instructor: Kwass, Michael
Room: Gilman 134
Status: Open
Seats Available: 12/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.001.159 (01)
FYS: Apartheid as Analogy - Structures of Racial Hierarchy in South Africa, Baltimore, and Beyond
MW 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Thornberry, Elizabeth
Gilman 308
FYS: Apartheid as Analogy - Structures of Racial Hierarchy in South Africa, Baltimore, and Beyond AS.001.159 (01)
Sites of racial conflict, from Palestine to Baltimore, have been compared to South African Apartheid. This First-Year Seminar examines the creation of a totalizing system of racial segregation and exploitation in twentieth century South Africa, and how it can help us understand histories of race elsewhere in the world, including our own city.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Instructor: Thornberry, Elizabeth
Room: Gilman 308
Status: Open
Seats Available: 12/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.001.161 (01)
FYS: Books, Authenticity, and Truth
T 2:00PM - 4:30PM
Celenza, Chris
BLC 2030
FYS: Books, Authenticity, and Truth AS.001.161 (01)
We are living through a crisis in how we take in information. Bombarded by information of all sorts coming at us on phones, tablets, and computer screens, it can be difficult to make sense of it all and harder still to determine whether something is true or false, authentic or inauthentic. The scale and speed of the change in media that we are undergoing is unprecedented in human history. Nevertheless, people in the past have faced moments of crisis – moments when writing seemed unreliable, when the format of written information changed, and when new publication formats forced reevaluations of the nature of truth. This First-Year Seminar will take us from Greco-Roman antiquity to the modern age, with stops along the way in the European Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Enlightenment. We will read selected texts that illuminate the place of writing, books, and the search for truth, think about the structure of libraries in the western Middle Ages and Renaissance, do extensive hands-on work with rare books, and visit other repositories of information, all toward the end of evaluating how the history of books and information can help us in our current quest to make sense of our world.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: T 2:00PM - 4:30PM
Instructor: Celenza, Chris
Room: BLC 2030
Status: Open
Seats Available: 12/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.001.163 (01)
FYS: Black Baltimore Archives - From Frederick Douglass to Billie Holiday
W 12:00PM - 2:30PM
Jackson, Lawrence P
Mergenthaler 266
FYS: Black Baltimore Archives - From Frederick Douglass to Billie Holiday AS.001.163 (01)
Black Baltimore Archives is an intense exploration (and excavation) of local African American history and narrative. Using the lives of Baltimore's most prominent artists-Frederick Douglass and Billie Holiday-this First-Year Seminar will explore questions connected to creating the historical record, assembling visual and sonic representations of black life, and the challenges that access and preservation pose to sustaining black community. We will visit the Afro-American Newspaper archives, the Maryland Center for History and Culture, the Maryland State Archives, and Morgan State University special collections, among other key archival repositories. Students will participate in a national conference and a local jazz event.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: W 12:00PM - 2:30PM
Instructor: Jackson, Lawrence P
Room: Mergenthaler 266
Status: Open
Seats Available: 12/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.001.166 (01)
FYS: The Pleasures of the Imagination - British culture in the eighteenth century
Th 10:30AM - 1:00PM
Marshall, John W
Gilman 308
FYS: The Pleasures of the Imagination - British culture in the eighteenth century AS.001.166 (01)
Music, Art, plays, novels, satires, and material culture all expanded dramatically in Britain in the long eighteenth century (c. 1714-1830). Contemporaries spoke of the rise of 'beauty', of the appreciation of the 'pleasures of the imagination', and of the rise of a culture of 'happiness'. This First-Year Seminar will introduce students to these exciting developments in British (and British American) culture.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: Th 10:30AM - 1:00PM
Instructor: Marshall, John W
Room: Gilman 308
Status: Open
Seats Available: 12/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.010.339 (01)
Sex, Death, and Gender: The Body in Premodern Art, Medicine, and Culture, c. 1300-1600
TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Allsopp, Ben William
Gilman 119
HART-RENBAR, MSCH-HUM
Sex, Death, and Gender: The Body in Premodern Art, Medicine, and Culture, c. 1300-1600 AS.010.339 (01)
To what extent was the body and its depiction a site of contestation, identification, or desire in the Middle Ages and Renaissance? If the body in the West since the 1800s is seen to have been shaped by the rise of photography and film, the institutionalization of biomedicine, and the establishment of techniques of surveyance and mechanization, then how was the body represented, disciplined, and experienced in the preceding centuries? In an age of unprecedented encounter with non-European bodies, what did it mean to describe and categorize bodies by race, region, or religion? These are some of the major questions this class seeks to answer, which is fundamentally interdisciplinary as it draws upon insights and methods from anthropology and the history of medicine and history of science to investigate how the body has been represented and imagined in the visual arts. The bodies of the suffering Christ, the female mystic, the dissected cadaver, the punished criminal, and the non-European ‘Other’ will loom large as we work to problematize notions of a normative body, whether in the premodern world or in the contemporary one. While most readings and lectures will concern the body and its representation in the Christian West during the later Middle Ages and Renaissance, students are encouraged to work on a topic of their choosing from any geographical area 1000-1800 CE for their research papers.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Instructor: Allsopp, Ben William
Room: Gilman 119
Status: Open
Seats Available: 2/18
PosTag(s): HART-RENBAR, MSCH-HUM
AS.010.459 (01)
The illuminated charter: visual splendor, performance, and authenticity of medieval legal documents
W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Zchomelidse, Nino
Gilman 177
HART-MED
The illuminated charter: visual splendor, performance, and authenticity of medieval legal documents AS.010.459 (01)
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
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Zchomelidse, Nino
Room: Gilman 177
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/6
PosTag(s): HART-MED
AS.100.102 (01)
The Medieval World
MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Lester, Anne
Hackerman B 17 Maryland 104
HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
The Medieval World AS.100.102 (01)
This course explores selected topics in the political, economic, social, and intellectual history of Western Europe in the wider world in the period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the fourteenth century. Special emphasis will be given to understanding the ways in which medieval society functioned as it reorganized itself after the almost total collapse of the ancient world. Topics include: religious plurality, sovereignty and subjecthood, flourishing of learning, chivalric culture, crusading, and the plague and its effects. We will follow the interplay between material and cultural forces in the processes of social organization.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Instructor: Lester, Anne
Room: Hackerman B 17 Maryland 104
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/20
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.102 (02)
The Medieval World
MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Lester, Anne
Hackerman B 17 Gilman 308
HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
The Medieval World AS.100.102 (02)
This course explores selected topics in the political, economic, social, and intellectual history of Western Europe in the wider world in the period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the fourteenth century. Special emphasis will be given to understanding the ways in which medieval society functioned as it reorganized itself after the almost total collapse of the ancient world. Topics include: religious plurality, sovereignty and subjecthood, flourishing of learning, chivalric culture, crusading, and the plague and its effects. We will follow the interplay between material and cultural forces in the processes of social organization.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Instructor: Lester, Anne
Room: Hackerman B 17 Gilman 308
Status: Open
Seats Available: 2/20
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.102 (03)
The Medieval World
MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Lester, Anne
Hackerman B 17 Hackerman 320
HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
The Medieval World AS.100.102 (03)
This course explores selected topics in the political, economic, social, and intellectual history of Western Europe in the wider world in the period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the fourteenth century. Special emphasis will be given to understanding the ways in which medieval society functioned as it reorganized itself after the almost total collapse of the ancient world. Topics include: religious plurality, sovereignty and subjecthood, flourishing of learning, chivalric culture, crusading, and the plague and its effects. We will follow the interplay between material and cultural forces in the processes of social organization.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Instructor: Lester, Anne
Room: Hackerman B 17 Hackerman 320
Status: Open
Seats Available: 16/20
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.102 (04)
The Medieval World
MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Lester, Anne
Hackerman B 17 Maryland 104
HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
The Medieval World AS.100.102 (04)
This course explores selected topics in the political, economic, social, and intellectual history of Western Europe in the wider world in the period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the fourteenth century. Special emphasis will be given to understanding the ways in which medieval society functioned as it reorganized itself after the almost total collapse of the ancient world. Topics include: religious plurality, sovereignty and subjecthood, flourishing of learning, chivalric culture, crusading, and the plague and its effects. We will follow the interplay between material and cultural forces in the processes of social organization.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Instructor: Lester, Anne
Room: Hackerman B 17 Maryland 104
Status: Open
Seats Available: 18/20
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.115 (01)
Modern Latin America
MW 9:00AM - 9:50AM, F 9:00AM - 9:50AM
Lurtz, Casey
Ames 234 Maryland 202
HIST-LATAM, INST-GLOBAL
Modern Latin America AS.100.115 (01)
A class combining Latin American history since independence and digital humanities (revised with 2021 student feedback). Students will build guided research projects while thinking about questions of republicanism, freedom and unfreedom, migration, and development.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 9:00AM - 9:50AM, F 9:00AM - 9:50AM
Instructor: Lurtz, Casey
Room: Ames 234 Maryland 202
Status: Open
Seats Available: 10/15
PosTag(s): HIST-LATAM, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.115 (02)
Modern Latin America
MW 9:00AM - 9:50AM, F 9:00AM - 9:50AM
Lurtz, Casey
Ames 234 Krieger Laverty
HIST-LATAM, INST-GLOBAL
Modern Latin America AS.100.115 (02)
A class combining Latin American history since independence and digital humanities (revised with 2021 student feedback). Students will build guided research projects while thinking about questions of republicanism, freedom and unfreedom, migration, and development.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 9:00AM - 9:50AM, F 9:00AM - 9:50AM
Instructor: Lurtz, Casey
Room: Ames 234 Krieger Laverty
Status: Open
Seats Available: 13/15
PosTag(s): HIST-LATAM, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.115 (03)
Modern Latin America
MW 9:00AM - 9:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Lurtz, Casey
Ames 234 Maryland 202
HIST-LATAM, INST-GLOBAL
Modern Latin America AS.100.115 (03)
A class combining Latin American history since independence and digital humanities (revised with 2021 student feedback). Students will build guided research projects while thinking about questions of republicanism, freedom and unfreedom, migration, and development.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 9:00AM - 9:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Instructor: Lurtz, Casey
Room: Ames 234 Maryland 202
Status: Open
Seats Available: 11/15
PosTag(s): HIST-LATAM, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.115 (04)
Modern Latin America
MW 9:00AM - 9:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Lurtz, Casey
Ames 234 Maryland 217
HIST-LATAM, INST-GLOBAL
Modern Latin America AS.100.115 (04)
A class combining Latin American history since independence and digital humanities (revised with 2021 student feedback). Students will build guided research projects while thinking about questions of republicanism, freedom and unfreedom, migration, and development.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 9:00AM - 9:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Instructor: Lurtz, Casey
Room: Ames 234 Maryland 217
Status: Open
Seats Available: 10/15
PosTag(s): HIST-LATAM, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.122 (01)
Introduction to History of Africa (since 1880)
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Staff
Gilman 17
INST-GLOBAL, HIST-AFRICA
Introduction to History of Africa (since 1880) AS.100.122 (01)
An introduction to the African past since 1880.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Instructor: Staff
Room: Gilman 17
Status: Open
Seats Available: 20/40
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, HIST-AFRICA
AS.100.128 (01)
Approaches to Jewish History
MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Maciejko, Pawel Tadeusz
Croft Hall G02
HIST-EUROPE, HIST-MIDEST, HIST-US, INST-GLOBAL
Approaches to Jewish History AS.100.128 (01)
The course will provide an introduction to the study of Jewish History.
Modern African American History, 1896 – present AS.100.190 (01)
This course introduces students to the defining social, political, and cultural moments that reflect the experience of African Americans in the United States, 1896 – present. Topics include the Great Migration, the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Freedom Struggle, African American politics, urban rebellion, mass incarceration, Hip Hop culture, the current movement for Black Lives, and more.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Instructor: Wright Rigueur, Leah M
Room: Gilman 75
Status: Open
Seats Available: 9/20
PosTag(s): HIST-US
AS.100.233 (01)
History of Modern Germany
TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Harms, Victoria Elizabeth
Gilman 55
HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL, MLL-GERM
History of Modern Germany AS.100.233 (01)
There is more to Germany than beer, BMWs, and Bayern Munich. We explore politics, culture, economics and society to understand Germany and its role within Europe and the world from the 18th century to the ‘Refugee Crisis’, climate change and EU politics today.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Instructor: Harms, Victoria Elizabeth
Room: Gilman 55
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 2/40
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL, MLL-GERM
AS.100.251 (01)
West African History
MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Keegan, Thomas
Krieger 308
HIST-AFRICA, INST-GLOBAL
West African History AS.100.251 (01)
This course explores the rich history of West Africa and its place in the broader world. Topics include the environmental history of the Sahara desert, West African empires, and the rise of Nollywood and contemporary culture.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Keegan, Thomas
Room: Krieger 308
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/18
PosTag(s): HIST-AFRICA, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.293 (01)
Historical Methods, Archives and Interpretations
WF 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Turner Bryson, Sasha
Shaffer 302
Historical Methods, Archives and Interpretations AS.100.293 (01)
Surveys methods, approaches, and practices of historical writing. It asks students to think about the questions historians ask, the archives they use, and the arguments they make. Students will be introduced to subversive and emancipatory potential of contemporary scholarship that importantly incorporates subaltern, marginalized, or formerly forgotten voices.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: WF 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Turner Bryson, Sasha
Room: Shaffer 302
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.100.304 (01)
Ecstasy: Mystical, Visionary, and Holy Women and their Writings in Medieval Europe, ca. 1000-1400
TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Bond, Laurence Joseph
Gilman 308
HIST-EUROPE, MLL-GERM
Ecstasy: Mystical, Visionary, and Holy Women and their Writings in Medieval Europe, ca. 1000-1400 AS.100.304 (01)
This course uses the writings of medieval women to explore their social and religious worlds and orients visionary writing within the broader narrative of religious movements from the 12th-14th centuries.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Instructor: Bond, Laurence Joseph
Room: Gilman 308
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/18
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, MLL-GERM
AS.100.321 (01)
Political Thought and Social Transformation in the Haitian Revolution and Early Independent Mexico, c. 1789-1850
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Borocz-Johnson, Lee Michael
Krieger 302
HIST-LATAM, INST-GLOBAL
Political Thought and Social Transformation in the Haitian Revolution and Early Independent Mexico, c. 1789-1850 AS.100.321 (01)
This course will examine both the Haitian Revolution and the early period of Mexican independence by engaging with the ideas of actors within these events in international contexts.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Instructor: Borocz-Johnson, Lee Michael
Room: Krieger 302
Status: Open
Seats Available: 9/18
PosTag(s): HIST-LATAM, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.327 (01)
The Islamic Age of Empires
MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Staff
Maryland 201
HIST-MIDEST
The Islamic Age of Empires AS.100.327 (01)
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
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Staff
Room: Maryland 201
Status: Open
Seats Available: 10/15
PosTag(s): HIST-MIDEST
AS.100.347 (01)
Early Modern China
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Rowe, William T
BLC 5015
INST-GLOBAL, HIST-ASIA
Early Modern China AS.100.347 (01)
The history of China from the 16th to the late 19th centuries.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Instructor: Rowe, William T
Room: BLC 5015
Status: Open
Seats Available: 7/40
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, HIST-ASIA
AS.100.354 (01)
Playing in the White: Black Writers, the Literary Colorline and Writing Whiteness
W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Mott, Shani T
Shriver Hall 104
HIST-US
Playing in the White: Black Writers, the Literary Colorline and Writing Whiteness AS.100.354 (01)
This course will turn to known and not-so-known black writers during the early to mid-twentieth century who defied literary expectation and wrote stories that featured or focused on whiteness. We will consider what whiteness offered black writers and the political work that their literary experimentations did for a white American publishing industry.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Mott, Shani T
Room: Shriver Hall 104
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/15
PosTag(s): HIST-US
AS.100.413 (01)
London 1580-1830: The History of Britain's capital city
MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Marshall, John W
Hackerman 320
INST-GLOBAL, HIST-EUROPE
London 1580-1830: The History of Britain's capital city AS.100.413 (01)
Seminar-style class analyzing the social, cultural, gender, religious, economic, and political history of London from Shakespeare's time through revolutions, plague, fire, and commercial, colonial, and industrial expansion.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Marshall, John W
Room: Hackerman 320
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/25
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, HIST-EUROPE
AS.100.422 (01)
Society & Social Change in 18th Century China
W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Rowe, William T
INST-GLOBAL, HIST-ASIA
Society & Social Change in 18th Century China AS.100.422 (01)
What did Chinese local society look like under the Qing Empire, and how did it change over the early modern era?
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Rowe, William T
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/12
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, HIST-ASIA
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 over the past century; topics include political radicalism, indecency, pornography, and racist hate speech. In addition to discussing common readings, each student will choose a censorship case or issue to research and present to the class.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Jelavich, Peter
Room: Shriver Hall 001
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/12
PosTag(s): HIST-US
AS.100.450 (07)
History Research Lab: Asian Diaspora in Baltimore
T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Kim, Yumi
HIST-US
History Research Lab: Asian Diaspora in Baltimore AS.100.450 (07)
Help build a set of digital and visual resources on local histories of Baltimore-area Asian diasporic communities. Training in research and curatorial tools such as critical oral history and digital storytelling will be provided. Opportunities to collaborate with local community organizations will be available. No prior experience necessary.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Kim, Yumi
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/12
PosTag(s): HIST-US
AS.100.494 (01)
Senior Honors Seminar
W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Pearsall, Sarah
Senior Honors Seminar AS.100.494 (01)
A two-semester coordinating seminar for history majors writing senior honors theses. Admission is granted by instructor only after the student has selected a faculty thesis advisor. AS.100.494 is to be taken concurrently with AS.100.507 Senior Thesis.
Credits: 1.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Pearsall, Sarah
Room:
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available: 13/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.100.497 (01)
1968: Rebels, Revolutions & the Right-Wing Backlash
W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Harms, Victoria Elizabeth
Maryland 109
HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL, HIST-US, CSC-CE
1968: Rebels, Revolutions & the Right-Wing Backlash AS.100.497 (01)
The sixties were a polarizing decade of unrest, revolutions, and fundamental change across Europe and the US. We will discuss 1968 through the lens of national case studies, the Cold War, and the history of Baltimore. This is a community-engaged class!
Up the Nile: New Approaches to the History of Egyptology and Nubiology
TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Moroney, Morgan E
Smokler Center Library
NEAS-HISCUL
Up the Nile: New Approaches to the History of Egyptology and Nubiology AS.130.248 (01)
King Tut, Napoleon, Champollion, Ozymandias, Nefertiti: the history of Egyptology is filled with big characters, huge monuments, and glimmering objects. But it is also made up of colonialist practices, looted sites, and forgotten scholarly contributions. “Up the Nile” examines the antiquarian, colonialist, racist, Western-centric, and patriarchal roots of modern Egyptology and Nubiology, and addresses how scholars and enthusiasts alike are continuing to grapple with these lasting legacies and biases. This class investigates how the Egyptians and Nubians thought of their own histories, as well as how other ancient cultures viewed the cultures of the Nile. It moves roughly chronologically, tracing understudied and marginalized voices from the Islamic, Medieval, and Ottoman periods into the 20th and 21st centuries. It examines the origins of scholarship, modern collecting, Egyptomania, and museums, delving into the problems and repercussions that still haunt us today. “Up the Nile” will engage with important and difficult aspects regarding Egyptology’s and Nubiology’s colonialist, racist, and sexist past and present. It asks: who decides who writes history, then and now?
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Instructor: Moroney, Morgan E
Room: Smokler Center Library
Status: Open
Seats Available: 9/18
PosTag(s): NEAS-HISCUL
AS.140.105 (01)
History of Medicine
MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Ragab, Ahmed
Gilman 132 Gilman 400
MSCH-HUM
History of Medicine AS.140.105 (01)
Course provides an introduction to health and healing in the ancient world, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance. Topics include religion and medicine; medicine in the Islamicate world; women and healing; patients and practitioners.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Instructor: Ragab, Ahmed
Room: Gilman 132 Gilman 400
Status: Reserved Open
Seats Available: 5/20
PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM
AS.140.105 (02)
History of Medicine
MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Ragab, Ahmed
Gilman 132 Gilman 119
MSCH-HUM
History of Medicine AS.140.105 (02)
Course provides an introduction to health and healing in the ancient world, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance. Topics include religion and medicine; medicine in the Islamicate world; women and healing; patients and practitioners.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Instructor: Ragab, Ahmed
Room: Gilman 132 Gilman 119
Status: Reserved Open
Seats Available: 5/20
PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM
AS.140.105 (03)
History of Medicine
MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Ragab, Ahmed
Gilman 132 Gilman 400
MSCH-HUM
History of Medicine AS.140.105 (03)
Course provides an introduction to health and healing in the ancient world, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance. Topics include religion and medicine; medicine in the Islamicate world; women and healing; patients and practitioners.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Instructor: Ragab, Ahmed
Room: Gilman 132 Gilman 400
Status: Reserved Open
Seats Available: 5/20
PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM
AS.211.265 (01)
Panorama of German Thought
TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Tobias, Rochelle
Panorama of German Thought AS.211.265 (01)
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 or morality and rights? How do German writers define the nation, community, and the people or das Volk? What is the link between romanticism and nationalism? To what degree is political economy, as developed by Marx, a critical response to romanticism? How did German thinkers conceive of power and force in the wake of World Wars I and II? What are the ties that bind as well as divide a community in this tradition? We will consider these and related questions in this course through careful readings of selected works.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Tobias, Rochelle
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 15/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.211.329 (01)
Museums and Identity
MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Spinner, Samuel Jacob
Bloomberg 278
INST-GLOBAL
Museums and Identity AS.211.329 (01)
The museum boom of the last half-century has centered largely around museums dedicated to the culture and history of identity groups, including national, ethnic, religious, and minority groups. In this course we will examine such museums and consider their long history through a comparison of the theory and practice of Jewish museums with other identity museums. We will study the various museological traditions that engage identity, including the collection of art and antiquities, ethnographic exhibitions, history museums, heritage museums, art museums, and other museums of culture. Some of the questions we will ask include: what are museums for and who are they for? how do museums shape identity? and how do the various types of museums relate to one another? Our primary work will be to examine a variety of contemporary examples around the world with visits to local museums including the Jewish Museum of Maryland, the National Museum of African American History and Culture and the National Museum of the American Indian.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Instructor: Spinner, Samuel Jacob
Room: Bloomberg 278
Status: Open
Seats Available: 2/15
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL
AS.211.394 (01)
Brazilian Culture & Civilization
MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
De Azeredo Cerqueira, Flavia Christina
Shriver Hall 001
INST-NWHIST, INST-GLOBAL, GRLL-ENGL
Brazilian Culture & Civilization AS.211.394 (01)
Did you know that Brazil is very similar to the United States? This course is intended as an introduction to the culture and civilization of Brazil. It is designed to provide students with basic information about Brazilian history, politics, economy, art, literature, popular culture, theater, cinema, and music. The course will focus on how Indigenous, Asian, African, and European cultural influences have interacted to create the new and unique civilization that is Brazil today. The course is taught in English, but ONE extra credit will be given to students who wish to do the course work in Portuguese. Those wishing to do the course work in English for 3 credits should register for section 01. Those wishing to earn 4 credits by doing the course work in Portuguese should register for section 02. The sections will be taught simultaneously. Section 01: 3 credits Section 02: 4 credits (instructor’s permission required).
No Prereq. THERE IS NO FINAL EXAM.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: De Azeredo Cerqueira, Flavia Christina
Room: Shriver Hall 001
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/15
PosTag(s): INST-NWHIST, INST-GLOBAL, GRLL-ENGL
AS.211.394 (02)
Brazilian Culture & Civilization
MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
De Azeredo Cerqueira, Flavia Christina
Shriver Hall 001
INST-NWHIST, INST-GLOBAL, GRLL-ENGL
Brazilian Culture & Civilization AS.211.394 (02)
Did you know that Brazil is very similar to the United States? This course is intended as an introduction to the culture and civilization of Brazil. It is designed to provide students with basic information about Brazilian history, politics, economy, art, literature, popular culture, theater, cinema, and music. The course will focus on how Indigenous, Asian, African, and European cultural influences have interacted to create the new and unique civilization that is Brazil today. The course is taught in English, but ONE extra credit will be given to students who wish to do the course work in Portuguese. Those wishing to do the course work in English for 3 credits should register for section 01. Those wishing to earn 4 credits by doing the course work in Portuguese should register for section 02. The sections will be taught simultaneously. Section 01: 3 credits Section 02: 4 credits (instructor’s permission required).
No Prereq. THERE IS NO FINAL EXAM.
Credits: 4.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: De Azeredo Cerqueira, Flavia Christina
Room: Shriver Hall 001
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available: 1/5
PosTag(s): INST-NWHIST, INST-GLOBAL, GRLL-ENGL
AS.214.479 (01)
Dante Visits the Afterlife
MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Staff
Shriver Hall 104
Dante Visits the Afterlife AS.214.479 (01)
One of the greatest works of literature of all times, the Divine Comedy leads us down into the torture-pits of Hell, up the steep mountain terrain of Purgatory, through the “virtual” space of Paradise, and then back to where we began: our own earthly lives. We accompany Dante on his journey, building along the way knowledge of medieval Italian history, literature, philosophy, politics, and religion. The course also focuses on the arts of reading deeply, asking questions of a text, and interpreting literary and scholarly works through discussion and critical writing. Conducted in English.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Staff
Room: Shriver Hall 104
Status: Open
Seats Available: 2/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.215.406 (01)
Novelist Intellectuals
TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Seguin, Becquer D
Krieger Laverty
Novelist Intellectuals AS.215.406 (01)
What does a novelist’s op-ed about economics have to do with her literary writing? In what ways does a fiction writer’s essays on the environment inform how we read her novels? What happens when we find the political opinions of a writer objectionable? This undergraduate seminar will consider what the Spanish writer Francisco Ayala termed “novelist intellectuals,” that is, literary writers who actively participate in a society’s public sphere. Considering writers from Madrid to New York, from London to Buenos Aires, we will ask how one should hold a novelist’s fictional and non-fictional writings in the balance and explore ways of reading that allow us to consider the public intellectual side and the aesthetic side of a novelist together.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Instructor: Seguin, Becquer D
Room: Krieger Laverty
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/18
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.310.326 (01)
Labor Politics in China
W 4:30PM - 7:00PM
He, Gaochao
Gilman 119
INST-CP, INST-GLOBAL, INST-ECON
Labor Politics in China AS.310.326 (01)
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. Cross-listed with Sociology and International Studies (CP).
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: W 4:30PM - 7:00PM
Instructor: He, Gaochao
Room: Gilman 119
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/15
PosTag(s): INST-CP, INST-GLOBAL, INST-ECON
AS.360.408 (01)
Experiential Research Lab: “Holy” Conquest: Religion and Colonization in Sixteenth-Century Mexico
W 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Hyman, Aaron M., Rowe, Erin
HIST-LATAM
Experiential Research Lab: “Holy” Conquest: Religion and Colonization in Sixteenth-Century Mexico AS.360.408 (01)
"When the Spanish unleashed their regime of colonization of what is present-day Mexico, their primary justification was the religious salvation of Indigenous people. Spaniards, along with other Europeans, arrived by the boatload to impose colonial order, taking up bureaucratic and ecclesiastical positions. The result was far from smooth—the sixteenth-century saw widespread disease, missionary violence on behalf of salvation, crop destruction and the recultivation of land, urban plans that radically altered the environment, the resettlement of entire populations, among other dramatic social and environmental events.
This course investigates the complex and dynamic elements of colonial New Spain (as Mexico was called) from an interdisciplinary perspective. It tries to make sense of the chaotic landscape of the first century of Spanish colonial rule in New Spain. It is a research and writing intensive course that serves as an introduction to both the history and art history of this place and moment. Our meetings will act as a springboard for a group trip to Mexico during the January intersession to study objects and spaces in situ. Final projects will relate to materials viewed in person in Mexico. The costs for this trip are included for all students, no fees required. Knowledge of Spanish preferred but not required.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: W 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Instructor: Hyman, Aaron M., Rowe, Erin
Room:
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available: 2/6
PosTag(s): HIST-LATAM
AS.360.420 (01)
Humanities Research Lab: Making Maps of Mexico
MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Lurtz, Casey
Greenhouse 113
HIST-LATAM, INST-GLOBAL
Humanities Research Lab: Making Maps of Mexico AS.360.420 (01)
Learn the basics of ArcGIS and data management as you help Prof. Lurtz publish an agricultural dataset and maps from 10 years before Mexico erupted in revolution. No experience necessary.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Instructor: Lurtz, Casey
Room: Greenhouse 113
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/12
PosTag(s): HIST-LATAM, INST-GLOBAL
AS.362.112 (01)
Introduction to Africana Studies
TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Mott, Shani T
Bloomberg 278
Introduction to Africana Studies AS.362.112 (01)
This course introduces students to the field of Africana Studies. It focuses on the historical experience, intellectual ideas, theories, and cultural production of African-descended people. We will consider how people of the black diaspora remember and encounter Africa. We will explore, too, how such people have lived, spoken, written, and produced art about colonialism and enslavement, gender and mobility, violence and pleasure. This course will be thematically organized and invite you to center your own stories about black people within your understanding of the modern world and its making.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Instructor: Mott, Shani T
Room: Bloomberg 278
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.363.201 (01)
Introduction to the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Staff
Hodson 210
Introduction to the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality AS.363.201 (01)
This course will serve as an intensive introduction to contemporary approaches to theories of gender and sexuality, and their relationship to cultural production and politics. Students will develop a historically situated knowledge of the development of feminist and queer scholarship in the 20th and 21st centuries, and consider the multiply intersecting forces which shape understandings of sexual and gender identity. We will consider both foundational questions (What is gender? Who is the subject of feminism? What defines queerness?) and questions of aesthetic and political strategy, and spend substantial time engaging with feminist and queer scholarship in comparative contexts. Students will be introduced to debates in Black feminism, intersectionality theory, third world feminism, socialist feminism, queer of colour critique, and trans* theory. We will read both canonical texts and recent works of scholarship, and the final weeks of the course will be devoted to thinking with our theoretical and historical readings against a selection of feminist and queer literature and cinema. No prior familiarity with the study of gender and sexuality is necessary.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Instructor: Staff
Room: Hodson 210
Status: Open
Seats Available: 30/30
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.363.302 (01)
Feminist and Queer Theory: Women in Western Thought an Introduction
T 4:30PM - 7:00PM
Staff
Maryland 104
INST-PT, MSCH-HUM
Feminist and Queer Theory: Women in Western Thought an Introduction AS.363.302 (01)
Women in Western Thought is an introduction to (the history of) Western thought from the margins of the canon. The class introduces you to some key philosophical question, focusing on some highlights of women’s thought in Western thought, most of which are commonly and unjustly neglected. The seminar will be organized around a number of paradigmatic cases, such as the mind/body question in Early Modern Europe, the declaration of the rights of (wo)men during the French revolution, the impact of slavery on philosophical thought, the MeToo debate and others. By doing so, the course will cover a range of issues, such as the nature of God, contract theory, slavery, standpoint epistemology, and queer feminist politics. Students will engage with questions about what a canon is, and who has a say in that. In this sense, Women in Western Thought introduces you to some crucial philosophical and political problems and makes you acquainted with some women in the field. The long term objective of a class on women in Western thought must be to empower, to inspire independence, and to resist the sanctioned ignorance often times masked as universal knowledge and universal history. People of all genders tend to suffer from misinformation regarding the role of women and the gender of thought more generally. By introducing you to women who took it upon themselves to resist the obstacles of their time, I am hoping to provide role models for your individual intellectual and political development. By introducing you to the historical conditions of the exclusion and oppression of women (including trans and queer women as well as black women and women of color), I hope to enable you to generate the sensitivities that are required to navigate the particular social relations of the diverse world you currently inhabit. By introducing philosophical topics in this way, I hope to enable you to have a positive, diversifying influence on you future endeavours.
Introduction to the Museum: Past and Present AS.389.201 (01)
This course surveys museums, from their origins to their most contemporary forms, in the context of broader historical, intellectual, and cultural trends including the social movements of the 20th century. Anthropology, art, history, and science museums are considered. Crosslisted with Archaeology, History, History of Art, International Studies and Medicine, Science & Humanities.
Ancient Color: The Technologies and Meanings of Color in Antiquity
M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Balachandran, Sanchita
Gilman 150A
MSCH-HUM
Ancient Color: The Technologies and Meanings of Color in Antiquity AS.389.315 (01)
What role did the colorful surfaces of sculptures, vessels and textiles play in the ancient world? We examine historical texts and recent scholarly and scientific publications on the technologies and meanings of color in antiquity, and use imaging and analytical techniques to study polychromed objects from the Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Balachandran, Sanchita
Room: Gilman 150A
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/15
PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM
AS.389.325 (01)
Women of the Book: Female Miracle Workers, Mystics, and Material Culture, 1450-1800
W 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Champagne, Kelsey Elizabeth, Havens, Earle A
BLC Macksey
Women of the Book: Female Miracle Workers, Mystics, and Material Culture, 1450-1800 AS.389.325 (01)
From psycho-spiritual autobiographers to mystical bi-locating nuns, convent crèche-keepers to choristers of sacred music, from rock-star-status mystics to the hidden careers of women printers, engravers, and miracle-makers, this course will explore the remarkable intellectual, cultural, and imaginative contributions of women who found refuge, agency, and power within alternative lives.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: W 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Instructor: Champagne, Kelsey Elizabeth, Havens, Earle A
