How did ancient civilizations around the Mediterranean basin (Greece, Rome, Egypt, Persia, Carthage) understand and represent their own and others’ identities and ethnic differences? How did notions and practices around race, citizenship, and immigration evolve from antiquity to the present? How have culture and politics informed artistic, literary, and museum representations of ethnic ‘others’ over time, along with the historical development of ethnography, biological science, and pseudo-sciences of race? What role did “Classics” (the study of Greco-Roman cultures) play in modern colonialism, racecraft, and inequality? And what role can it play in unmaking their legacies, through the ongoing Black Classicism movement, the practice of Critical Race Theory, and the development of more global and interconnective approaches to premodern cultures? RAP provides an opportunity for Hopkins undergraduates and graduate students from a wide variety of disciplinary backgrounds to engage in project-based research toward building an open-access, grant-winning educational resource (OER) on “Race in Antiquity.” Participants learn, share, and practice advanced research methods; examine and discuss the history and modern implications of the teaching and study of their fields; test-drive and collaboratively edit OER pilot materials; and create new content based on their own research, for eventual digital publication.

• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Pandey, Nandini
• Room: Greenhouse 000
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/15
• PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM

This research-based Lab course will involve careful reading of a variety of Roman texts of the early empire, aiming to catalogue every instance of public speech and of the orators who speak in public. This cataloguing project, perhaps eventually resulting in an online database, will include historical and comparative readings about public speech as a feature of society.

• Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Roller, Matthew
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/10
• PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM

The bad guy as hero from Little Caesar to Goodfellas. Film screenings Th 7:30-10:00 PM, Sun 7:00-9:30 PM. In addition to the prerequisites, students should complete an 200-level Film and Media Studies Critical Studies course or obtain permission from the instructor ([email protected]) to enroll.

• Days/Times: M 3:00PM - 5:30PM, Th 7:30PM - 10:00PM Screenings
• Instructor: Bucknell, Lucy
• Room: Bloomberg 176
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/15
• PosTag(s): FILM-CRITST

This is a larger seminar-style course devoted to the writings attributed to Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X (El-Hajj El-Malik Shabazz). While the two the key African American male icons of the Civil Rights Movement era gained prominence in the 1950s and 1960s, they are typically discussed as representing two ideological camps: racial integration deeply committed to the idea of American exceptionalism and democratic perfection, and black nationalism, a non-state ideological move that adjudged the U.S. nation state on the same terms as any other imperial power. We will explore these binaries in their thought and the social movements connected to them, and also engage with multiple cinematic representations of the two figures that have carried them forward into contemporary times.

• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Jackson, Lawrence P
• Room: Ames 320
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/15
• PosTag(s): HIST-US, ENGL-GLOBAL

This upper-division course is designed to help students examine and probe the significant role Africa has played in shaping the Atlantic world and its place within its economic, social, religious, cultural, and political configurations.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Gondola, Didier Didier
• Room: Gilman 186
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/20
• PosTag(s): HIST-AFRICA, AFRS-AFRICA, INST-GLOBAL

This course focuses on the economics of poverty and inequality. It covers the measurement of poverty and inequality, facts and trends over time, the causes of poverty and inequality with a focus on those related to earnings and the labor market, and public policy toward poverty and inequality, covering both taxation and government expenditure and programs. By the nature of the material, the course is fairly statistical and quantitative. Students should have an intermediate understanding of microeconomic concepts. Basic knowledge of regression analysis is also helpful.

• Days/Times: MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Husain, Muhammad Mudabbir
• Room: Hodson 216
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 11/18
• PosTag(s): INST-ECON

An analysis of public policy and policy-making for American Cities. Special attention will be given to the subject of urban crime and law enforcement, poverty and welfare, and intergovernmental relations. Cross listed with Africana Studies.

• Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Spence, Lester
• Room: Hodson 203
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/25
• PosTag(s): INST-AP

The Caribbean is often described as enigmatic, uncommon and supernatural. While foreigners assume that the Caribbean is exotic, this course will explore this assumption from a Caribbean perspective. We will examine the links between Caribbean and Old-World imagination, the relationship between exoticism and Caribbean notions of superstition, and the way in which the Caribbean fictional universe derives from a variety of cultural myths. The course will be taught in English and all required texts are in English, French, and English translations from French. Students in the French program can choose to read all the original French versions and write in French.

• Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
• Instructor: Desormeaux, Daniel
• Room: Smokler Center 214
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Race has been important in social classifications and producing inequalities. This course is designed to provide you with a global understanding of how racial categories are created and maintained, how they change over time, and how they vary from place to place. It is organized in four parts. The first part introduces the concepts and analytical tools used by social scientists to study race. Of particular concern is power and the social construction rather than “natural” categories of race, as well as the general social processes involved in the maintenance and reproduction of these boundaries. In the second part, we will study the theories and dynamics racial category formation in the United States with attention to forms and processes of racial exclusion and oppression, and evidence of socio-economic inequalities based on race. In the third part of the course, we will compare these processes in the U.S. to those occurring in other countries. The fourth and final part of the course examines how race and racism shape political struggles and resistance movements.

• Days/Times: MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
• Instructor: Edwards, Zophia
• Room: Gilman 313
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/17
• PosTag(s): INST-AP, MSCH-HUM

In the United States, we spend more than $100 billion annually on illegal drugs—and the government spends more than $50 billion a year to combat their sale and use. These statistics raise important and complicated social questions. This course will examine the production, sale, use, and control of illegal drugs from a historical and sociological perspective. We will have three objectives: to understand the social construction of drug use and illegality in the United States and other rich countries; to uncover the political and economic consequences of drug trafficking in those countries that produce drugs, particularly in Latin America; and to examine the political economy of drug control through the so-called War on Drugs, both domestically and internationally.

• Days/Times: MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
• Instructor: Thornton, Christy
• Room: Ames 218
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/18
• PosTag(s): INST-ECON, INST-CP, INST-IR, INST-GLOBAL, MSCH-HUM

An introduction to Urban Health with Baltimore as a case study: wellbeing, nutrition, education, violence and city-wide geographic variation. Lectures by JH Faculty, local government/service providers and advocates.

• Days/Times: T 4:30PM - 5:45PM
• Instructor: Leaf, Philip
• Room: Remsen Hall 101
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 12/30
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to Urban Health with Baltimore as a case study: wellbeing, nutrition, education, violence and city-wide geographic variation. Lectures by JH Faculty, local government/service providers and advocates.

• Days/Times: T 4:30PM - 5:45PM
• Instructor: Leaf, Philip
• Room: Remsen Hall 101
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 18/30
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to Urban Health with Baltimore as a case study: wellbeing, nutrition, education, violence and city-wide geographic variation. Lectures by JH Faculty, local government/service providers and advocates.

• Days/Times: T 4:30PM - 5:45PM
• Instructor: Leaf, Philip
• Room: Remsen Hall 101
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 23/30
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to Urban Health with Baltimore as a case study: wellbeing, nutrition, education, violence and city-wide geographic variation. Lectures by JH Faculty, local government/service providers and advocates.

• Days/Times: T 4:30PM - 5:45PM
• Instructor: Leaf, Philip
• Room: Remsen Hall 101
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 20/30
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course introduces students to the field of Africana Studies. It focuses on the historical experience, intellectual ideas, theories, and cultural production of African-descended people. We will consider how people of the black diaspora remember and encounter Africa.

• Days/Times: F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Mott, Shani T; Stocks, Shawntay
• Room: Gilman 134
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course introduces students to a history of social change in Baltimore centered on Black women artists. Students will learn and apply archival and oral history methods as they learn about local movements.

• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Christmas, Sharayna; Webb, Nadejda Isha
• Room: Macaulay 109
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 11/14
• PosTag(s): CSC-CE

What about performance offers a unique opportunity to learn from and with communities? How might dramatic performance be used to share information while learning from an audience? This course examines the work and research of young artists from Liberia, West Africa who used street theatre to teach best practices for prevention during the Ebola crisis and considers how their use of dialogical performance contributed to critical knowledge which iteratively informed interventions throughout their awareness campaign. This community engaged course connects public health education efforts in Africa to community health education in Baltimore through the Blackstorytelling tradition with local expert Janice the Griot. Course co-educator and artist Janice the Griot Green will share her firsthand experiences and guide the class through the principles of Blackstorytelling for community change. Students will design public performance projects around local-global community-based concerns using the tools they have learned. In partnership with the Great National Blacks in Wax Museum in Baltimore, students will develop performance-based public health messaging drawing on their collection to support community outreach curricular materials development. This performance work will be created collaboratively in workshops during class and in team meetings. Public health researchers who are looking for innovative ways to share their data will gain insights into this experimental ethnographic method and practitioners who want to offer their communities ways to connect best practices to lived experience will develop new pedagogical tools. This is a Community Engagement course in partnership with the Center for Social Concern.

• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Blanks Jones, Jasmine; Greene, Janice
• Room: Krieger 103
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/12
• PosTag(s): CSC-CE, MSCH-HUM

In this course, we will follow the development of black poetry primarily as it has evolved in the United States. Beginning with the first published African American writers of the eighteenth century and ending with several important poets writing and performing today, we will consider the shape of the African American poetic tradition as commonly anthologized and as defined by our own theoretically-informed readings of the assigned literature. Attention will be given to both canonical and neglected literary movements and groups. Readings will include poetry and essays by Frances E.W. Harper, James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Amiri Baraka, Harryette Mullen, Tracie Morris, and others.

• Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Nurhussein, Nadia
• Room: Maryland 309
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 11/18
• PosTag(s): n/a

Washington, DC, is the capital of the United States but also the capital of its post–World War II national security state and military-industrial complex. This course will investigate the local effects of this status on the Washington-Baltimore corridor, in terms of immigration and urban development. The course will be divided into three major sections. First, we will analyze the growth and development of the military-industrial complex. Second, we will look at its place in the city and region’s development, including the construction of the Pentagon, Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, and other institutions. Third, we will analyze how these institutions have driven changes in the region’s population, as immigrants from war-torn parts of the globe have found new homes in and near Washington, DC. This course requires at least four Friday group trips to 555 Penn in Washington, which will take most of the day (transportation provided).

• Days/Times: F 10:00AM - 12:30PM
• Instructor: Schrader, Stuart Laurence
• Room: Mergenthaler 266
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/18
• PosTag(s): INST-AP

This course offers a hands-on opportunity for students to develop new skills as community organizers by learning from the best teachers possible: residents who have been serving their neighborhoods and building grassroots power in Southwest Baltimore since the 1990s. As a community-based learning course with the Center for Social Concern, and co-taught by professors, archivists, cultural curators, and longtime residents, including the founder of Fayette Street Outreach, Ms. Edna Manns Lake, this course will leverage the narrative power of storytelling to help rewrite a multigenerational history of community organizing in a part of the city long neglected by local government and threatened historically by open-air drug markets, rampant criminalization, and predatory housing speculators. Through community immersion, including story circles, oral histories, community archiving, local meetings, and guest presentations, students will learn how to navigate, identify, and build upon existing neighborhood assets. Students will then collaborate with a community partner to co-design and complete a neighborhood project by the end of the semester. Dispelling myths, learning truths, documenting history, and honoring decades of struggle in the face of massive odds, students will help re-write the narrative of Southwest Baltimore, centering humanity and resilience among resident-activists who stayed and fought for their community.

• Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
• Instructor: Berkley, Tonika Danielle; Collins, Jeneanne; Cumming, Daniel
• Room: Krieger 307
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/20
• PosTag(s): CSC-CE

This course introduces students to concepts of social justice and practices of community-engaged artmaking. It also provides students an opportunity to explore the history and legacies of the Black Arts Movement, and contemporary intersections of art and social justice in Baltimore City. Local artists and scholars will share their expertise using art to challenge social injustice. In turn, students will examine their personal creative practices and how they can be used to create and advocate for change. Throughout the semester, students will develop individual art projects that respond to course topics and are rooted in the principles and process of social practice art.

• Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Stocks, Shawntay
• Room: Remsen Hall 140
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Archives are where history is documented, and archives have tremendous power over whose stories get told. This course will critically examine the relationship between archival practice and public history by using John Hopkins University as a case study. We will work closely with archivists in the Special Collections Department and archives across Baltimore to get a firsthand look at how local archives shape public history, collective memory, and institutional silences. Students will learn how public historians, archivists, community activists, and students themselves can work together to do reparative research that advances social justice in their own communities.

• Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Blair, Monica Kristin
• Room: BLC 2030
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/12
• PosTag(s): PMUS-PRAC, MSCH-HUM

Working in collaboration with staff from the Baltimore Museum of Art, students assess the opportunities and challenges of the European collections; research select objects; contribute to the department's collections development plan; and conceptualize new, more global and more inclusive approaches to the displays.

• Days/Times: Th 3:00PM - 5:30PM
• Instructor: Kingsley, Jennifer P; Yeager-Crasselt, Lara
• Room: Bloomberg 274
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/12
• PosTag(s): PMUS-PRAC, ARCH-RELATE

This summer institute is a week long opportunity that takes place abroad with a theme focused on the healing arts. Grounding this theme is the pursuit of reparatory justice in the Rastafari faith. The summer school will integrate learning activities with existing community projects, for instance, the School of Vision and Rastafari Indigenous Village. Students will study Rastafari as an African-centered ethos, inclusive of culture and economic sustainability.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Shilliam, Robbie
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/14
• PosTag(s): n/a

Deirdre Cooper Owens argues that the experimental and pioneering work performed on enslaved Black women such as Anarcha, Betsy, and Lucy, by Dr. James Marion Sims, who is known as the father of gynecology, has been overshadowed in America’s understanding of American gynecology. In this writing intensive course, we will explore the role of Black enslaved women in the formation of the field of American gynecology. We will examine the writing about enslaved Black midwives, nurses, and Black women whose medical practices and bodies were deemed inferior and flawed yet provided foundational knowledge for white practitioners in the mid-1800s. Potential readings include Deirdre Cooper Owens’ Medical Bondage: Race Gender and the Origins of American Gynecology, Deborah Gray Whites’ Ar’nt I a Woman?, and Marie Jenkins Schwartz’s Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South. Throughout the term, students will conduct their own research and write to combine these conversations with contemporary discussions surrounding Black maternal health, Black midwives, birthing justice, and reproductive justice more broadly. This course will culminate with an academic conference where students will present their research to an audience of their peers. All undergraduates at sophomore level and above are welcome.

• Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
• Instructor: Wright, Lisa E.
• Room: Smokler Center 301
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/19
• PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM

This course will grapple with modern art as it emerges in critically important locations around the world over the course of the twentieth century, with an emphasis on Asia, Africa, and South America. Anti-colonial movements, national formations, geopolitical alliances, institution-building, exhibition, fair, and biennial histories, art group manifestos, and the intertwined relations of race, ethnicity, Indigeneity, gender, class, and sexuality. Museum visits to view works of art in person will be incorporated into the course.

• Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Brown, Rebecca Mary
• Room: Gilman 177
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/19
• PosTag(s): HART-MODERN

An emerging body of literature argues that cities in the Global South work differently than Eurocentric theories of the city and urbanization suggest. This course will focus on such issues as the important role of cities in the nation’s economy, politics, and culture and interrogates the relationship between the city and its “outside.” This seminar interrogates the numerous ways that African cities, as an urban form, concept, and geography have been generative in anthropology, as well as in history, sociology, and urban studies. Africa has long existed as a crucial “other” in European culture. But how do we think of an African city outside of this limiting history? In this course, we explore the different histories, futures, and potentialities of African cities as an urban form, and lived experience, re-sorting its geographies and theorizations. We will explore issues of urban planning, (de)industrialization, urban race/ethnic relations, movement, and other issues important to the urban experience.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Mohamed, Sabine
• Room: Mergenthaler 439
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/10
• PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL

Introduction to the grammar and writing system of the classical language of the Egyptian Middle Kingdom (ca. 2055-1650 B.C.). In the second semester, literary texts and royal inscriptions will be read. Course meets with AS.133.600.

• Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
• Instructor: Wilkinson, Alison Michelle
• Room: MSE Library Eisenberg
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/6
• PosTag(s): n/a

The word for “medicine” in Malagasy, fanafody, can also mean “charm” or “magic.” This seminar uses that linguistic flexibility as a point of departure to explore practices for bodily healing and protection amid broader processes of social transformation, primarily in 20th- and 21st-century East Africa and the western Indian Ocean. How is the medical magical? How is the magical medical? How have separations between magic and medicine been erected, maintained, or questioned? From the role of faith healers to the region's experience of new "miracle drugs," class materials will integrate anthropology, history, and science and technology studies (STS) to examine various permutations of the magic/medicine duality over time. Topics will include facets of traditional medicine; encounters between indigenous and imported healing systems; medical pluralism; colonial and postcolonial conflicts; the rise of humanitarian global health; epidemic and pandemic politics; ritual and religious processes; and the roles of identity, inequality, and empire in healing and protection practices. Grounded in Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion, Tanzania, Mozambique, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and South Africa, this course will also use magic/medicine to consider the region’s transcontinental and transoceanic connections.

• Days/Times: M 3:00PM - 5:30PM
• Instructor: Robbins, Gabrielle Lydia Marie
• Room: Bloomberg 176
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/12
• PosTag(s): n/a

Recommended Course Background: AS.190.214

• Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Spence, Lester
• Room: Bloomberg 278
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/20
• PosTag(s): INST-AP

Designed to sharpen students’ abilities in contemporary spoken and written Portuguese. This third-year course fosters the development of complex language skills that enhance fluency, accuracy and general proficiency in Portuguese and its appropriate use in professional and informal contexts. Students will briefly review previous grammar structures and concentrate on new complex grammar concepts. Using a variety of cultural items such as current news, short stories, plays, films, videos, newspaper articles, and popular music, students discuss diverse topics followed by intense writing and oral discussion with the aim of developing critical thinking and solid communication skills. Successful completion of Advanced Portuguese I will prepare students for the next level, Advanced Portuguese II, AS.210.372. May not be taken on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis. Prereq: AS.210.272 or (old AS.210.278) or placement test. THERE IS NO FINAL EXAM.

• Days/Times: MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM
• Instructor: De Azeredo Cerqueira, Flavia Christina; Staff
• Room: Gilman 400
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Did you know that Brazil is very similar to the United States? This course is intended as an introduction to the culture and civilization of Brazil. It is designed to provide students with basic information about Brazilian history, politics, economy, art, literature, popular culture, theater, cinema, and music. The course will focus on how Indigenous, Asian, African, and European cultural influences have interacted to create the new and unique civilization that is Brazil today. The course is taught in English. No Prereq. THERE IS NO FINAL EXAM.

• Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: De Azeredo Cerqueira, Flavia Christina
• Room: Gilman 75
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/20
• PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL

Over the last three decades Italy, historically a country of emigrants—many of whom suffered from discrimination in the societies they joined—became a destination for hundreds of thousands of migrants and refugees from various countries, and particularly from Africa. Significant numbers of these immigrants came to Italy as a result of the country’s limited, though violent colonial history; others arrive because Italy is the closest entry-point to Europe. How have these migratory flows challenged Italian society’s sense of itself? How have they transformed the notion of Italian national identity? In recent years, growing numbers of Afro- and Afro-descendant writers, filmmakers, artists and Black activists are responding through their work to pervasive xenophobia and racism while challenging Italy’s self-representation as a ‘White’ country. How are they forcing it to broaden the idea of ‘Italianess’? How do their counternarratives compel Italy to confront its ignored colonial past? And, in what way have Black youth in Italy embraced the #Blacklivesmatter movement? This multimedia course examines representation of blackness and racialized otherness, whiteness, and national identity through literary, film, and visual archival material in an intersectional framework. Examining Italy’s internal, ‘Southern question,’ retracing Italy’s colonial history, and recognizing the experiences of Italians of immigrant origins and those of immigrants themselves, we’ll explore compelling works by writers and filmmakers such as Igiaba Scego, Gagriella Ghermandi, Maza Megniste, Dagmawi Yimer, and others.

• Days/Times: T 3:00PM - 5:00PM
• Instructor: Di Bianco, Laura
• Room: Hodson 315
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course will introduce students to the application of statistical techniques commonly used in sociological analysis. Topics include measures of central tendency and dispersion, probability theory, confidence intervals, chi-square, anova, and regression analysis. Hands-on computer experience with statistical software and analysis of data from various fields of social research. Special Note: Required for IS GSCD track students.

• Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
• Instructor: Reese, Mike J
• Room: BLC 5015
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course will introduce students to the application of statistical techniques commonly used in sociological analysis. Topics include measures of central tendency and dispersion, probability theory, confidence intervals, chi-square, anova, and regression analysis. Hands-on computer experience with statistical software and analysis of data from various fields of social research. Special Note: Required for IS GSCD track students.

• Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
• Instructor: Reese, Mike J
• Room: BLC 5015
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course introduces students to the field of Africana Studies. It focuses on the historical experience, intellectual ideas, theories, and cultural production of African-descended people. We will consider how people of the black diaspora remember and encounter Africa. We will explore, too, how such people have lived, spoken, written, and produced art about colonialism and enslavement, gender and mobility, violence and pleasure. This course will be thematically organized and invite you to center your own stories about black people within your understanding of the modern world and its making.

• Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Mott, Shani T
• Room: Gilman 217
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

This introductory course will examine policing and prisons in the United States and beyond, with a focus on racial inequality. It will consist of three parts. First, we will define key concepts in police and prison studies. Then, we will explore the contemporary state of prisons and policing in the United States and look at debates around the rise of “mass incarceration” and aggressive forms of policing in the final third of the 20th century. Third, we will explore policing and prison in other parts of the globe in the contemporary moment, highlighting similarities and differences from the U.S. case. What can studying the instruments of social control in other societies reveal about our own? Students will develop an understanding of major trends, keywords, and debates in the literature on policing and prisons, with particular reference to race and racism.

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Schrader, Stuart Laurence
• Room: Croft Hall G02
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/18
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course explores “critical university studies” through the lens of abolitionist thought, from W.E.B. DuBois to Ruth Wilson Gilmore. It historicizes universities’ growth within U.S. cities during the twentieth century.

• Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
• Instructor: Cumming, Daniel
• Room: Wyman Park N105
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 18/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

In this course, we will read literary and historical texts that present visions of black utopia. Authors include “Ethiop” (William J. Wilson), Marcus Garvey, Octavia Butler, Toni Morrison, and others.

• Days/Times: MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
• Instructor: Nurhussein, Nadia
• Room: Krieger 307
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/18
• PosTag(s): n/a

Examines the history of African art in the Euro-American world, focusing on the ways that Western institutions have used African artworks to construct narratives about Africa and its billion residents.

• Days/Times: M 6:00PM - 8:30PM
• Instructor: Tervala, Kevin
• Room: Gilman 10
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/12
• PosTag(s): n/a