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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.001.120 (01)
FYS: U.S. History of the Present
TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
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 4:30PM - 5:45PM
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 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Kwass, Michael
Greenhouse 113
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 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Instructor: Kwass, Michael
Room: Greenhouse 113
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.001.166 (01)
FYS: The Pleasures of the Imagination - British culture in the eighteenth century
Th 9:00AM - 11:30AM
Marshall, John W
Gilman 308
FYS: The Pleasures of the Imagination - British culture in the eighteenth century AS.001.166 (01)
Music, Art, Theater, Novels, Autobiographies, and Material Culture all expanded dramatically in Britain in the long eighteenth century (c. 1714-1830), creating a culture celebrating ‘happiness’, 'beauty', and the 'pleasures of the imagination'. This First-Year Seminar will introduce students to themselves experiencing and discussing these exciting cultural forms, with students attending and watching plays and movies from plays, discussing Jane Austen novels as read and as filmed, reading and discussing an Afro-British autobiography, listening to performances of different kinds of music, and discussing works of art and architecture both in the classroom and in the museum.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: Th 9:00AM - 11:30AM
Instructor: Marshall, John W
Room: Gilman 308
Status: Open
Seats Available: 12/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.001.174 (01)
FYS: Women and Family in Chinese Film
T 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Staff
Gilman 413
FYS: Women and Family in Chinese Film AS.001.174 (01)
From the early 20th century, Chinese society underwent a turbulent process of modern transformation. Industrialization, urbanization, and democratization challenged previous gender and family norms. Meanwhile, at exactly this time, the Chinese film industry flourished, especially in the modern metropolis of Shanghai. Women and family provided a useful microcosm through which to explore national questions related to revolution, war, and modernity. They also entertained a public eager for new leisure pursuits. Popular feature films not only recorded but also interpreted and helped shape family and gender roles. Using filmic representations as the main material this First-Year Seminar will survey the "family question" (and "the woman question") in 20th century China
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: T 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Instructor: Staff
Room: Gilman 413
Status: Open
Seats Available: 12/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.001.206 (01)
FYS: Saints and Sinners in Premodern Christianity
M 10:30AM - 1:00PM
Rowe, Erin
Greenhouse 113
FYS: Saints and Sinners in Premodern Christianity AS.001.206 (01)
What makes one person a saint and another a sinner? By looking at saints' lives, painting, court cases, and theological treatises, this First-Year Seminar engages with Christian ideas about holiness and heresy, sin and virtue, revealing the complexity of theology and lived religious experience. Since visual culture is a key component to understanding premodern religious culture, the class will embark on a field trip to the National Gallery of Art (Washington DC) to discuss several important paintings in the collection. We will also work with manuscripts and printed materials in the library's Special Collections.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: M 10:30AM - 1:00PM
Instructor: Rowe, Erin
Room: Greenhouse 113
Status: Open
Seats Available: 12/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.010.264 (01)
Experiencing Medieval Art
MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Staff
Gilman 217
HART-MED
Experiencing Medieval Art AS.010.264 (01)
In the premodern world, the five senses were conceived as central to human perception. This course will explore the significance of the senses in the conception, creation, and reception of the visual art and architecture in the Middle Ages. Medieval objects and buildings were not only meant to be seen, but also to be experienced by touching, tasting, smelling, and hearing. They could elicit multisensory, often performative, or synesthetic responses in the viewers. Each week, we will focus on a specific sense and a related group of images, objects, or buildings to discover how medieval people experienced and interpreted them. To test out these ideas ourselves, we will explore works of art from the collections of Baltimore. Over the course of the semester, we will study sculptures, panel paintings, illuminated manuscripts, reliquaries, stained glass windows, rosaries, censers, spice containers, buildings, and ephemeral objects from Christian, Jewish, and Islamic art.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Instructor: Staff
Room: Gilman 217
Status: Open
Seats Available: 8/15
PosTag(s): HART-MED
AS.010.421 (01)
An Empire’s Diversity: Ottoman Art and Architecture beyond the Imperial Court
Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Rustem, Unver
Gilman 177
HART-RENEM, INST-GLOBAL
An Empire’s Diversity: Ottoman Art and Architecture beyond the Imperial Court AS.010.421 (01)
The established historiography of Ottoman architecture is dominated by the patronage of the sultans and their elites, particularly as it shaped the empire’s third and final capital, Istanbul. While this focus on the “center” and its leadership reflects the Ottoman state’s own hierarchical structure, it also obscures the larger network of places and people that enabled the imperial system to develop and acquire meaning in the first place. This course will explore Ottoman architecture and its patronage from the perspective of these neglected regions and actors, covering such examples as Christian vassal states along the empire’s European borders, Arab lands with existing traditions of Islamic art, the curious persistence of Gothic models in the former Crusader kingdom of Cyprus, and the distinctive architectural practices of non-Muslim minorities within Istanbul itself. Drawn primarily from the early modern and modern periods, our case studies will be treated not as imitations of or deviations from the metropolitan mainstream, but as vital expressions of Ottoman culture that assertively engaged with, and themselves contributed to, the better-known strategies of the sultan’s court. We will also go beyond issues of architecture and patronage and consider these buildings as lived spaces whose associated objects, furnishings, and social and ceremonial activities were no less constitutive of the empire’s diverse architectural landscape.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Rustem, Unver
Room: Gilman 177
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/7
PosTag(s): HART-RENEM, INST-GLOBAL
AS.010.469 (01)
Quarried, Sculpted, Carved: Lifecycles of Mesoamerican Sculpture
M 4:30PM - 7:00PM
Popovici, Catherine H
Gilman 177
HART-ANC, ARCH-ARCH
Quarried, Sculpted, Carved: Lifecycles of Mesoamerican Sculpture AS.010.469 (01)
Stelae, altars, colossal heads, thrones, figures, lintels. This course considers how artists created these stone monuments in Mesoamerica, the historical region that encompasses Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras, and El Salvador. Sculptors meticulously carved stone blocks to shape and then scribes expertly incised their surfaces with hieroglyphic text or iconography. These stone monuments were then transported and moved into position, their physical placements structuring social hierarchy and mediating interactions with the divine. In reviewing recent literature within the fields of art history and material studies, we will explore the full cycle of production for monumental works of art.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: M 4:30PM - 7:00PM
Instructor: Popovici, Catherine H
Room: Gilman 177
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/15
PosTag(s): HART-ANC, ARCH-ARCH
AS.100.102 (01)
The Medieval World
MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Lester, Anne E.
Hackerman B 17
HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL, HIST-MIDEST
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 E.
Room: Hackerman B 17
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/15
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL, HIST-MIDEST
AS.100.102 (02)
The Medieval World
MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Lester, Anne E.
Hackerman B 17
HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL, HIST-MIDEST
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 E.
Room: Hackerman B 17
Status: Open
Seats Available: 14/15
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL, HIST-MIDEST
AS.100.102 (03)
The Medieval World
MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Lester, Anne E.
Hackerman B 17
HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL, HIST-MIDEST
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 E.
Room: Hackerman B 17
Status: Open
Seats Available: 12/15
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL, HIST-MIDEST
AS.100.102 (04)
The Medieval World
MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Lester, Anne E.
Hackerman B 17
HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL, HIST-MIDEST
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 E.
Room: Hackerman B 17
Status: Open
Seats Available: 15/15
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL, HIST-MIDEST
AS.100.104 (01)
Modern Europe in a global context, 1789-Present
MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Hindmarch-Watson, Katie Anne
Krieger 170
HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
Modern Europe in a global context, 1789-Present AS.100.104 (01)
Modern Europe familiarizes students with key moments, ideas, communities, individuals, and movements which have defined European experiences in global encounters since the Revolutionary era. We will particularly focus on European imperial expansion, the formation of the modern nation-state, the history of political ideas and their global ramifications, and popular culture and social change.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Instructor: Hindmarch-Watson, Katie Anne
Room: Krieger 170
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/15
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.104 (02)
Modern Europe in a global context, 1789-Present
MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Hindmarch-Watson, Katie Anne
Krieger 170
HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
Modern Europe in a global context, 1789-Present AS.100.104 (02)
Modern Europe familiarizes students with key moments, ideas, communities, individuals, and movements which have defined European experiences in global encounters since the Revolutionary era. We will particularly focus on European imperial expansion, the formation of the modern nation-state, the history of political ideas and their global ramifications, and popular culture and social change.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Instructor: Hindmarch-Watson, Katie Anne
Room: Krieger 170
Status: Open
Seats Available: 11/15
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.104 (03)
Modern Europe in a global context, 1789-Present
MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Hindmarch-Watson, Katie Anne
Krieger 170
HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
Modern Europe in a global context, 1789-Present AS.100.104 (03)
Modern Europe familiarizes students with key moments, ideas, communities, individuals, and movements which have defined European experiences in global encounters since the Revolutionary era. We will particularly focus on European imperial expansion, the formation of the modern nation-state, the history of political ideas and their global ramifications, and popular culture and social change.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Instructor: Hindmarch-Watson, Katie Anne
Room: Krieger 170
Status: Open
Seats Available: 14/15
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.104 (04)
Modern Europe in a global context, 1789-Present
MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Hindmarch-Watson, Katie Anne
Krieger 170
HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
Modern Europe in a global context, 1789-Present AS.100.104 (04)
Modern Europe familiarizes students with key moments, ideas, communities, individuals, and movements which have defined European experiences in global encounters since the Revolutionary era. We will particularly focus on European imperial expansion, the formation of the modern nation-state, the history of political ideas and their global ramifications, and popular culture and social change.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Instructor: Hindmarch-Watson, Katie Anne
Room: Krieger 170
Status: Open
Seats Available: 13/15
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.127 (01)
Transatlantic Histories of Illicit Pleasure
TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Bilski, Emma Katherine
Maryland 114
HIST-US, HIST-EUROPE, HIST-LATAM
Transatlantic Histories of Illicit Pleasure AS.100.127 (01)
Through issues of illicit pleasure (sexuality, hallucination, play, etc.) in Black, Indigenous, queer, and women's history circa 1500-1850, we will investigate the politics of morality. Assessment will be based on "Un-Essay" projects instead of written exams.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Instructor: Bilski, Emma Katherine
Room: Maryland 114
Status: Open
Seats Available: 6/18
PosTag(s): HIST-US, HIST-EUROPE, HIST-LATAM
AS.100.221 (01)
From Mass Conversion to Mass Incarceration: The History of the Uyghurs from the 10th Century to the Present Day
TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Kind, Kevin William
Krieger 300
HIST-ASIA, HIST-MIDEST, INST-GLOBAL
From Mass Conversion to Mass Incarceration: The History of the Uyghurs from the 10th Century to the Present Day AS.100.221 (01)
This course offers an overview of the history of the Uyghur people from their conversion to Islam in the tenth century to the present-day human rights crisis in Xinjiang, China.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Instructor: Kind, Kevin William
Room: Krieger 300
Status: Open
Seats Available: 14/20
PosTag(s): HIST-ASIA, HIST-MIDEST, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.233 (01)
History of Modern Germany
TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Harms, Victoria Elisabeth
Ames 218
HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL, MLL-GERM, MLL-ENGL
History of Modern Germany AS.100.233 (01)
There is more to Germany than beer, BMWs, and Bayern Munich. We explore politics, culture, economics and society to understand Germany and its role in Europe and the world from the 18th century to the 2015 ‘Refugee Crisis’, climate change, EU and NATO politics today.
This class offers a broad overview of changes in China from Neolithic times through the Song dynasty (roughly from 5000 BCE through the 13th century CE!). It features discussion of art, material culture, philosophical texts, religious ideas, and literary works as well as providing a broad overview of politics and society. Close readings of primary sources in discussion sections and extensive use of visual material in lectures will allow students to consider the relationship between what (sources) we have—and what we can know about the past.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Instructor: Meyer-Fong, Tobie
Room: Ames 218
Status: Open
Seats Available: 16/20
PosTag(s): HIST-ASIA, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.243 (02)
China: Neolithic to Song
MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Meyer-Fong, Tobie
Ames 218
HIST-ASIA, INST-GLOBAL
China: Neolithic to Song AS.100.243 (02)
This class offers a broad overview of changes in China from Neolithic times through the Song dynasty (roughly from 5000 BCE through the 13th century CE!). It features discussion of art, material culture, philosophical texts, religious ideas, and literary works as well as providing a broad overview of politics and society. Close readings of primary sources in discussion sections and extensive use of visual material in lectures will allow students to consider the relationship between what (sources) we have—and what we can know about the past.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Instructor: Meyer-Fong, Tobie
Room: Ames 218
Status: Open
Seats Available: 18/20
PosTag(s): HIST-ASIA, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.250 (01)
The American Revolution in Unexpected Places
MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Pearsall, Sarah
Hodson 313
HIST-US, INST-GLOBAL
The American Revolution in Unexpected Places AS.100.250 (01)
This course considers the American Revolution from the perspective of locations beyond the thirteen rebelling colonies. Covering a range of global hotspots, the focus is on events from 1763 to 1788.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Instructor: Pearsall, Sarah
Room: Hodson 313
Status: Open
Seats Available: 7/18
PosTag(s): HIST-US, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.250 (02)
The American Revolution in Unexpected Places
MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Pearsall, Sarah
Hodson 313
HIST-US, INST-GLOBAL
The American Revolution in Unexpected Places AS.100.250 (02)
This course considers the American Revolution from the perspective of locations beyond the thirteen rebelling colonies. Covering a range of global hotspots, the focus is on events from 1763 to 1788.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Instructor: Pearsall, Sarah
Room: Hodson 313
Status: Open
Seats Available: 13/18
PosTag(s): HIST-US, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.252 (01)
Sex and the American City
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Gill Peterson, Jules
Krieger 308
HIST-US
Sex and the American City AS.100.252 (01)
Why are cities associated with sex and vice? Are cities a natural refuge for LGBT people? This course explores the role of American cities in the history of sexuality.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Instructor: Gill Peterson, Jules
Room: Krieger 308
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/12
PosTag(s): HIST-US
AS.100.275 (01)
Passing in American Culture
W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Mott, Shani T
Hodson 301
HIST-US
Passing in American Culture AS.100.275 (01)
This course explores passing narratives – stories that feature people who cross race, class, ethnic, or gender boundaries. We will consider what passing narratives can teach us about power and identity, especially as power is presumed to reside in the self and race is presumed to no longer matter.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Mott, Shani T
Room: Hodson 301
Status: Open
Seats Available: 10/15
PosTag(s): HIST-US
AS.100.293 (01)
Historical Methods, Archives and Interpretations
MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Maciejko, Pawel Tadeusz
Gilman 400
Historical Methods, Archives and Interpretations AS.100.293 (01)
This course will survey the main methods of and approaches to history since the Ancient times till the present. We shall begin by asking “What is history?” and explicate the basic concepts such as “fact”, “event”, “source”, narrative”, “evidence”, etc. We shall inquire if history can teach lessons for the future, or, for that matter, any lessons at all. We shall explore the interactions of history and collective memory and discuss various social, political, and psychological uses and abuses of historical writing.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Instructor: Maciejko, Pawel Tadeusz
Room: Gilman 400
Status: Open
Seats Available: 16/28
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.100.301 (01)
America after the Civil Rights Movement
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Connolly, Nathan D
Gilman 219
HIST-US
America after the Civil Rights Movement AS.100.301 (01)
This course explores the history of late twentieth-century America by examining the social, economic, and political legacies of 1960s civil rights protest for the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Instructor: Connolly, Nathan D
Room: Gilman 219
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/25
PosTag(s): HIST-US
AS.100.302 (01)
History of the French-Algerian War, 1954-1962
T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Shepard, Todd
Maryland 217
HIST-EUROPE, HIST-AFRICA, INST-GLOBAL
History of the French-Algerian War, 1954-1962 AS.100.302 (01)
The Algerian Revolution (1954-1962) successfully challenged French claims that Algeria was part of France and led to an independent Algerian Republic. This struggle is often seen as the touchstone anti-colonial struggle as well as the matrix for modern forms of terrorism and state-sponsored torture. We will explore its history.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Shepard, Todd
Room: Maryland 217
Status: Open
Seats Available: 19/25
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, HIST-AFRICA, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.306 (01)
Cultural History of the USSR
Staff
HIST-EUROPE
Cultural History of the USSR AS.100.306 (01)
This class explores the history of the USSR through its varied cultural domains. It will consider music, literature, film, painting, and sculpture in both “high” and “low” registers, as well as aesthetics, power, and control over the entire Soviet period, at both the center and, especially, the periphery.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times:
Instructor: Staff
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 18/18
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE
AS.100.321 (01)
Political Thought and Social Transformation in the Haitian Revolution and Early Independent Mexico, c. 1789-1850
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Borocz-Johnson, Lee Michael
Croft Hall G02
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: Croft Hall G02
Status: Open
Seats Available: 13/18
PosTag(s): HIST-LATAM, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.325 (01)
Mercenaries, Ice, and Dark Magic
WF 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Bentov, Achinoam
Maryland 104
HIST-EUROPE, HIST-ASIA
Mercenaries, Ice, and Dark Magic AS.100.325 (01)
What’s the worst that can happen? We examine the seventeenth century as a warning, traversing the lives of soldiers, captives, and philosophers during one of the world’s most difficult moments.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: WF 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Instructor: Bentov, Achinoam
Room: Maryland 104
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/18
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, HIST-ASIA
AS.100.327 (01)
The Islamic Age of Empires: The Ottomans, the Mughals, and the Safavids
TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Noor, Rao Mohsin Ali
Hodson 303
HIST-MIDEST, INST-GLOBAL
The Islamic Age of Empires: The Ottomans, the Mughals, and the Safavids AS.100.327 (01)
“In the sixteenth century of our era”, wrote the eminent historian of Muslim societies Marshall Hodgson, “a visitor from Mars might well have supposed that the human world was on the verge of becoming Muslim”. They would have based this assertion, continues Hodgson, on the political, cultural, and economic vitality of the empires of the Ottomans, the Mughals, and the Safavids. This survey course will introduce students to the history, culture, institutions, and socio-religious makeup of these three early modern polities that ranged from the Balkans to Bengal, paying particular attention on issues of dynastic and religious law, cultural, religious, and military-diplomatic exchanges with the world and with each another, and their impact on the social, religious, and ethnic makeup of modern Europe and Asia.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Instructor: Noor, Rao Mohsin Ali
Room: Hodson 303
Status: Open
Seats Available: 11/20
PosTag(s): HIST-MIDEST, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.338 (01)
Islam and Dune
MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Noor, Rao Mohsin Ali
Ames 218
HIST-MIDEST, HIST-EUROPE
Islam and Dune AS.100.338 (01)
In this course we will explore how religion in general and Islam in particular informs the world of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi novel Dune, laying particular emphasis on how the messianic and mystical tradition within Islam pervades the first novel. We will also watch excerpts from the film adaption by Denis Villeneuve, and the forthcoming second part in its entirety together in a local theater. As we do so, we will also discuss questions of Orientalism, representation, adaption, and appropriation in both the books and the films.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Instructor: Noor, Rao Mohsin Ali
Room: Ames 218
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/20
PosTag(s): HIST-MIDEST, HIST-EUROPE
AS.100.338 (02)
Islam and Dune
MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Noor, Rao Mohsin Ali
Ames 218
HIST-MIDEST, HIST-EUROPE
Islam and Dune AS.100.338 (02)
In this course we will explore how religion in general and Islam in particular informs the world of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi novel Dune, laying particular emphasis on how the messianic and mystical tradition within Islam pervades the first novel. We will also watch excerpts from the film adaption by Denis Villeneuve, and the forthcoming second part in its entirety together in a local theater. As we do so, we will also discuss questions of Orientalism, representation, adaption, and appropriation in both the books and the films.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Instructor: Noor, Rao Mohsin Ali
Room: Ames 218
Status: Open
Seats Available: 9/20
PosTag(s): HIST-MIDEST, HIST-EUROPE
AS.100.347 (01)
Early Modern China
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Rowe, William T
Ames 218
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: Ames 218
Status: Open
Seats Available: 10/40
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, HIST-ASIA
AS.100.360 (01)
The Modern British World: Imperial Encounters, Regimes, and Resistance, from the American Revolution to the present
TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Hindmarch-Watson, Katie Anne
Gilman 186
HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
The Modern British World: Imperial Encounters, Regimes, and Resistance, from the American Revolution to the present AS.100.360 (01)
The Modern British World introduces some of the major events, themes, and controversies that led to Britain’s global dominance and ultimate decline as an imperial power. This course focuses on varying forms of imperial governance, the interrelationships between metropole and colony, and the formation of British and colonial national identities.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Hindmarch-Watson, Katie Anne
Room: Gilman 186
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/20
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.368 (01)
European Socialist Thought
T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Jelavich, Peter
Gilman 55
HIST-EUROPE, INST-PT, INST-GLOBAL
European Socialist Thought AS.100.368 (01)
A survey of European socialist theories, including Marxism, anarchism, Social Democracy, feminism, and anti-imperialism. Authors include Proudhon, Marx, Engels, Bakunin, Bernstein, Lenin, Luxemburg, Kollontai, Césaire, and Fanon.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Jelavich, Peter
Room: Gilman 55
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/15
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, INST-PT, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.392 (01)
The Art of Lying: Lie, Dissimulation, and the "Fake News" in Pre-modern Europe
W 4:30PM - 7:00PM
Maciejko, Pawel Tadeusz
Croft Hall G02
HIST-EUROPE
The Art of Lying: Lie, Dissimulation, and the "Fake News" in Pre-modern Europe AS.100.392 (01)
We live in an age that values authenticity, sincerity, and open and transparent communication. Yet this was not always the case. This course will examine the attitudes to lie, falsity, and dissimulation in pre-modern European society. We shall begin by exploring the concepts of lie and discussions of permissibility of lying in the canonical texts of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. We shall then focus on the texts composed between the 16th and the 18th centuries and explore questions posed by theologians (“Is lying always a sin?”, “Should one lie to protect lives?”, “Can God lie?”), philosophers and politicians (“Is the morality of the rulers different than that the ruled?”, “Are politicians bound to lie?”), and courtiers (“Is not telling the truth a necessary part of being polite?”, “Is all civility based on falsehood?”). We shall then move beyond the question of lying and probe the questions of dissimulation, imposture, and false or invented identities. We shall end with a discussion of the early romantic “cult of sincerity”.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: W 4:30PM - 7:00PM
Instructor: Maciejko, Pawel Tadeusz
Room: Croft Hall G02
Status: Open
Seats Available: 17/30
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE
AS.100.413 (01)
London 1580-1830: The History of Britain's capital city
MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Marshall, John W
Gilman 219
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: Gilman 219
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/25
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
Bloomberg 274
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: Bloomberg 274
Status: Open
Seats Available: 9/15
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, HIST-ASIA
AS.100.447 (01)
A Celluloid Archive: Constructing Modern Indian History through Film
Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Halladay, Andrew
Gilman 308
HIST-ASIA, INST-GLOBAL
A Celluloid Archive: Constructing Modern Indian History through Film AS.100.447 (01)
Cinema enjoys extraordinary prominence in India, where in a given year the output of films in Bombay—to say nothing of other Indian film centers—far surpasses the number produced by all American studios combined. While many of India’s most successful films have been derided by critics in Europe and North America, this course takes them seriously both as an artistic form and as a historical tool, treating the films, together with their consumption and circulation, as a critical window into the social history of India. We will begin our investigation in the silent era to demonstrate how, even though the majority of early films are lost, reception histories can reveal much about the communities that viewed them. Moving into the Golden Age of Hindi cinema in the 1950s and 1960s, we will consider how the popularity of these films in Pakistan, Iran, West Africa, and the Soviet Union was tied to India’s global aspirations and self-representation. This course closes with an examination of the current era of Indian cinema and the extent to which its production values, moral and political claims, and viewership (especially in the diaspora) have responded to, and perhaps emboldened, domestic shifts toward economic liberalization and rightwing politics. Focusing more on the social spaces around Indian cinema than on specific films, this course touches on such topics as the segregation of cinemas, the politics of tiered seating, and the rise of multiplexes and (il)legal streaming. Our interrogation of these spaces will reveal how these films can expose social attitudes, even on matters like caste, class, religion, language, and race that they may address only obliquely. More than this, however, this course proposes that Indian cinema, as a primary means of social interaction, entertainment, and information for millions, is not only a historical record but a historical force in its own right.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Halladay, Andrew
Room: Gilman 308
Status: Open
Seats Available: 11/20
PosTag(s): HIST-ASIA, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.450 (04)
History Research Lab: Digital History
WF 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Johnson, Jessica Marie
Wyman Park N303
HIST-US
History Research Lab: Digital History AS.100.450 (04)
Digital history and humanities application for graduate students and advanced undergraduates. Please contact instructor first if you are interested in enrolling.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: WF 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Johnson, Jessica Marie
Room: Wyman Park N303
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available: 10/15
PosTag(s): HIST-US
AS.100.450 (09)
History Research Lab: Black Louisiana
F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Johnson, Jessica Marie
Wyman Park N303
HIST-US
History Research Lab: Black Louisiana AS.100.450 (09)
Digital history and humanities application for graduate students and advanced undergraduates with a focus on Black Louisiana. Please contact instructor first with a proposal for a research topic if you are interested in enrolling. Language skills (French/Spanish) optimal.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Johnson, Jessica Marie
Room: Wyman Park N303
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available: 1/6
PosTag(s): HIST-US
AS.130.126 (01)
Gods and Monsters in Ancient Egypt
MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Jasnow, Richard
Krieger 170
ARCH-RELATE
Gods and Monsters in Ancient Egypt AS.130.126 (01)
A basic introduction to Egyptian Religion, with a special focus on the nature of the gods and how humans interact with them. We will devote particular time to the Book of the Dead and to the "magical" aspects of religion designed for protective purposes.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Instructor: Jasnow, Richard
Room: Krieger 170
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/63
PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE
AS.140.105 (02)
History of Medicine
MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Ragab, Ahmed
Maryland 110
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: Maryland 110
Status: Reserved Open
Seats Available: 5/20
PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM
AS.140.105 (03)
History of Medicine
MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 9:00AM - 9:50AM
Ragab, Ahmed
Maryland 110
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 9:00AM - 9:50AM
Instructor: Ragab, Ahmed
Room: Maryland 110
Status: Reserved Open
Seats Available: 8/20
PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM
AS.140.105 (04)
History of Medicine
MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 9:00AM - 9:50AM
Ragab, Ahmed
Maryland 110
MSCH-HUM
History of Medicine AS.140.105 (04)
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 9:00AM - 9:50AM
Instructor: Ragab, Ahmed
Room: Maryland 110
Status: Canceled
Seats Available: 20/20
PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM
AS.211.265 (01)
Panorama of German Thought
MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Jelavich, Peter
Hodson 316
INST-GLOBAL, INST-PT, HIST-EUROPE
Panorama of German Thought AS.211.265 (01)
This course will survey German ideas—in philosophy, social and political theory, and drama—since the Enlightenment. Authors include Kant, Schiller, Lessing, Goethe, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Weber, Horkheimer, and Adorno.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Jelavich, Peter
Room: Hodson 316
Status: Open
Seats Available: 2/10
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, INST-PT, HIST-EUROPE
AS.211.314 (01)
Jewish in America, Yiddish in America: Literature, Culture, Identity
MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Spinner, Samuel Jacob
Gilman 381
INST-GLOBAL
Jewish in America, Yiddish in America: Literature, Culture, Identity AS.211.314 (01)
iddish was the language of European Jews for 1000 years. From the 19th century to the present day it has been a language that millions of Americans — Jewish immigrants and their descendants–have spoken, written in, conducted their daily lives in, and created culture in. This course will examine literature, film, newspapers, and more to explore how Jewish immigrants to America shaped their identities—as Jews, as Americans, and as former Europeans. What role did maintaining, adapting, or abandoning a minority language play in the creation of Jewish American identity—cultural, ethnic, or religious? How was this language perceived by the majority culture? How was it used to represent the experiences of other minoritized groups? What processes of linguistic and cultural translation were involved in finding a space for Yiddish in America, in its original or translated into English? The overarching subjects of this course include migration, race, ethnicity, multilingualism, and assimilation. We will analyze literature (novels, poetry, drama); film; comedy; and other media. All texts in English.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Spinner, Samuel Jacob
Room: Gilman 381
Status: Open
Seats Available: 10/15
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL
AS.211.394 (01)
Brazilian Culture & Civilization
MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
De Azeredo Cerqueira, Flavia Christina
Gilman 443
INST-GLOBAL
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: Gilman 443
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/20
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL
AS.211.394 (02)
Brazilian Culture & Civilization
MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
De Azeredo Cerqueira, Flavia Christina
Gilman 443
INST-GLOBAL
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: Gilman 443
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available: 2/5
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL
AS.310.327 (01)
Women in China from Antiquity to MeToo
M 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Staff
Mergenthaler 266
INST-GLOBAL, INST-CP
Women in China from Antiquity to MeToo AS.310.327 (01)
This interdisciplinary survey course considers questions related to women and gender in Chinese society. Taking a long historical view, the course examines ideologies, social institutions, and literary representations of women and gender in traditional society and their modern transformation. Specific topics to be explored include the concept of Yin and Yang, Confucian gender ideology and the family, sex and sexuality, marriage and concubinage, footbinding, and calls for women's liberation in the context of twentieth-century Chinese revolutions. The course will end with an examination of the relationship between social media and gender politics as seen through the Chinese MeToo movement. Students will have the opportunity to work with a variety of primary sources including historical, literary, and visual materials.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: M 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Instructor: Staff
Room: Mergenthaler 266
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/15
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, INST-CP
AS.360.410 (01)
Humanities Research Lab: The Dutch Americas
M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Hyman, Aaron M.
Gilman 177
HART-RENEM
Humanities Research Lab: The Dutch Americas AS.360.410 (01)
The Dutch East India Company, or VOC, is historically and art historically well documented and firmly understood. But the Dutch also had significant holdings to the west via the Dutch West India Company, or WIC. They operated and held outposts in the present-day United States (New York/New Amsterdam), Caribbean (Surinam, Curaçao, Bonaire), Latin America (Brazil), and West Africa. Despite the abundance of materials associated with the WIC from this wide geography, these have been scarcely assessed by art historians, and a defined and comprehensive corpus has never been assembled. This class will act as a research lab in which to do so. In research teams, students will map artworks and objects created from that broad, transnational cultural ambit—categories that might include maps, landscape paintings, still life paintings featuring American flora and fauna, botanical illustrations, plantation architecture, luxury objects made from precious raw materials gathered in the Americas, the urban environment of slavery—and develop individual research questions around them.
The class will run with a partner lab in the form of a course led by Professor Stephanie Porras at Tulane University. The course will feature speakers; and there is potential for funded travel to conduct research. We will start at the ground level; no previous knowledge about the field is required. Students from all disciplines are welcome.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Hyman, Aaron M.
Room: Gilman 177
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/8
PosTag(s): HART-RENEM
AS.360.458 (01)
GIS Mapping of a Secret Transnational Network Between England, Europe, and the Americas
Th 10:30AM - 1:00PM
Patton, Elizabeth
Gilman 208
GIS Mapping of a Secret Transnational Network Between England, Europe, and the Americas AS.360.458 (01)
Every time we assemble a set of data and draw conclusions, new points of connection emerge. Taking that inevitability as a starting point, this Humanities Research Lab begins the semester by assessing and digitizing an existing but little-explored data set documenting English Jesuit movements in Tudor-Stuart England in the years of religious reform. Weekly readings will establish the historical context and explore individual perspectives on the Henrician Reformation and its aftermath in the long reign of Elizabeth I, with a particular focus on the city of London. Readings and research will inform debate on whether our emerging evidence defines this resistance as an expression of religious devotion or as an act of treason. Each class session will include hands-on instruction in mapping techniques (previous experience, while welcome, is not required). Over time, we will move on from our existing data set, brainstorming ideas on how these investigatory methods might be extended to other aspects of history or to entirely different fields of enquiry. Students will be encouraged to form subgroups and/or initiate individual projects. As needed, instruction will continue in GIS mapping techniques and other data assessment methods currently in use across the disciplines at Hopkins, from brain mapping in Biomedical Engineering to geospatial research at the Space Telescope Science Institute. Required class presentation and written summary, research proposal essay, and a final project presentation (individual or team) will be required.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: Th 10:30AM - 1:00PM
Instructor: Patton, Elizabeth
Room: Gilman 208
Status: Open
Seats Available: 15/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.362.102 (01)
Anti-Racism 101
T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Schrader, Stuart Laurence
Maryland 202
HIST-US
Anti-Racism 101 AS.362.102 (01)
What is Anti-Racism? How do we identify racism’s presence and effects, and how do we direct social and civic resources to end it? In this Freshman Seminar, students will learn from a series of faculty experts and invited guests about the history, workings, and legacies of racism. They’ll also study present-day and past approaches – attempted and theorized – to abolish racism in the modern world.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Schrader, Stuart Laurence
Room: Maryland 202
Status: Open
Seats Available: 20/20
PosTag(s): HIST-US
AS.362.112 (01)
Introduction to Africana Studies
TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Mott, Shani T
Gilman 313
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: Gilman 313
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 1/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.362.119 (01)
Abolition and the University
TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Cumming, Daniel
Gilman 186
Abolition and the University AS.362.119 (01)
This course explores “critical university studies” through the lens of abolitionist thought, from W.E.B. DuBois to Ruth Wilson Gilmore. It historicizes universities’ growth within U.S. cities during the twentieth century.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Instructor: Cumming, Daniel
Room: Gilman 186
Status: Open
Seats Available: 15/20
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.363.201 (01)
Introduction to the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Giardini, Jo Aurelio
Croft Hall G02
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.
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.
Public Humanities & Social Justice AS.389.410 (01)
Investigates collaborative humanities methods that foster democratic participation among publics more broadly conceived than the academy, including participatory action research, collaborative oral history, indigenous research methods, interactive theater, participatory archival practices, and cooperative models for connecting art, artists, and audiences. Course focuses on queer, trans, and Black histories in Baltimore, includes excursions to local cultural institutions, and is co-taught by prominent public humanists, artists, and activists from Baltimore and beyond.
