This course surveys the art and architecture of Mesoamerica, from the ancestral Puebloans in what is today the Southwestern United States, through the homelands of the Mexica, Maya, and Zapotec in Central America, to the Taíno and Chiriquí in the Circum-Caribbean. After first discussing the concept of “Mesoamerica,” we will then explore the material and spatial productions of these Indigenous groups. Each week we will focus on a different urban setting, examining the works communities made and used there, which included sculpture, ceramics, murals, manuscripts, textiles, metalwork, and earthen architecture. Course themes will include—but are not limited to—the portrayal of humans, animals, and sacred figures; urban design, construction, and monumentality; as well as how materials and spaces were used for religious and political purposes.

• Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
• Instructor: Staff
• Room: Gilman 177
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 19/19
• PosTag(s): HART-ANC, ARCH-ARCH

This course investigates the confluence of archaeology as a discipline, collecting of cultural heritage, and their ongoing roles in the socio-politics of the Western world and Middle East. It focuses primarily on the Middle East, first tracing a narrative history of archaeology in the region during the 19th and early 20th centuries, with its explorers, diplomats, missionaries and gentlemen-scholars. It then examines the relationship of archaeology to the creation of the encyclopedic museum and collecting practices more generally, considering how these activities profoundly shaped the modern world, including the antiquities market and looting. A central theme is the production of knowledge through these activities and how this contributes to aspects of power and (self-)representation.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Feldman, Marian
• Room: Gilman 177
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 20/20
• PosTag(s): HART-ANC

The question of what it means to be human requires continual investigation. Anthropology offers conceptual tools and an ethical groundwork for understanding humanity in all its diversity. This course familiarizes students with anthropological concepts and methods. We will engage in critical analysis of a broad range of subjects including language, exchange, class, race, gender, kinship, sexuality, religion, and capitalism.

• Days/Times: F 12:00PM - 1:15PM, W 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Angelini, Alessandro
• Room: Mergenthaler 111
• Status: Reserved Open
• Seats Available: 15/15
• PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE

The question of what it means to be human requires continual investigation. Anthropology offers conceptual tools and an ethical groundwork for understanding humanity in all its diversity. This course familiarizes students with anthropological concepts and methods. We will engage in critical analysis of a broad range of subjects including language, exchange, class, race, gender, kinship, sexuality, religion, and capitalism.

• Days/Times: F 12:00PM - 1:15PM, W 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Angelini, Alessandro
• Room: Mergenthaler 111
• Status: Reserved Open
• Seats Available: 15/15
• PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE

The question of what it means to be human requires continual investigation. Anthropology offers conceptual tools and an ethical groundwork for understanding humanity in all its diversity. This course familiarizes students with anthropological concepts and methods. We will engage in critical analysis of a broad range of subjects including language, exchange, class, race, gender, kinship, sexuality, religion, and capitalism.

• Days/Times: F 12:00PM - 1:15PM, W 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Angelini, Alessandro
• Room: Mergenthaler 111
• Status: Reserved Open
• Seats Available: 15/15
• PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE

The question of what it means to be human requires continual investigation. Anthropology offers conceptual tools and an ethical groundwork for understanding humanity in all its diversity. This course familiarizes students with anthropological concepts and methods. We will engage in critical analysis of a broad range of subjects including language, exchange, class, race, gender, kinship, sexuality, religion, and capitalism.

• Days/Times: F 12:00PM - 1:15PM, W 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Angelini, Alessandro
• Room: Mergenthaler 111
• Status: Reserved Open
• Seats Available: 15/15
• PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE

The question of what it means to be human requires continual investigation. Anthropology offers conceptual tools and an ethical groundwork for understanding humanity in all its diversity. This course familiarizes students with anthropological concepts and methods. We will engage in critical analysis of a broad range of subjects including language, exchange, class, race, gender, kinship, sexuality, religion, and capitalism.

• Days/Times: F 12:00PM - 1:15PM, W 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Angelini, Alessandro
• Room: Mergenthaler 111
• Status: Reserved Open
• Seats Available: 15/15
• PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE

Historical archaeology might be defined as the study of the modern world's development through investigations of material and archival remains of past societies. Because of its focus on the post-Columbian era, Charles Orser drew attention to the “haunts” of historical archaeology, including colonialism, Eurocentrism, capitalism, and modernity. This course focuses primarily on the field in North America, including its history and development. Historical archaeology now provides crucial perspectives on the silenced, overlooked, and obscured histories and experiences of marginalized peoples. Anthropological approaches enable historical archaeologists to link past events and processes to our current moment and to better understand the enduring legacies of sociopolitical formations and institutions that perpetuate various forms of inequality.

• Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Lans, Aja Marie
• Room: Mergenthaler 426
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 15/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course explores the craft of ethnography as a mode of research and writing fundamental to anthropology. Through the close reading of several ethnographic works, we will consider the intertwining of description, local concepts, and analysis. We will undertake several observation and writing exercises to learn how to write in an ethnographic mode and translate field research into lively texts.

• Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Haeri, Niloofar
• Room: Mergenthaler 426
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 15/15
• PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE

One of the most significant transformations in human history was the “urban revolution” in which cities, writing, and social classes formed for the first time. In this course, we compare five areas where this development occurred: China, Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, Egypt, and Mesoamerica (Mexico/Guatemala/Honduras/Belize). In each region, we review the physical setting, the archaeological and textual evidence, and the theories advanced to explain the rise (and eventual collapse) of these complex societies.

• Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Schwartz, Glenn M
• Room: Gilman 55
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 40/40
• PosTag(s): n/a

Climate change, population growth, war - what questions do archaeologists ask about the ancient past, how do they collect relevant evidence, and how do they arrive at satisfying answers to their questions? This course will review major theoretical currents in archaeology including evolutionary, cultural-historical, processual and post-processual approaches and discuss the future of archaeology as a scientific and humanistic discipline. Basic techniques for analyzing major categories of artifacts such as lithics, ceramics, archaeobotanical, and zooarchaeological materials will also be introduced.

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Harrower, Michael James
• Room: Gilman 130G
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/8
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to archaeology and to archaeological method and theory, exploring how archaeologists excavate, analyze, and interpret ancient remains in order to reconstruct how ancient societies functioned. Specific examples from a variety of archaeological projects in different parts of the world will be used to illustrate techniques and principles discussed.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Anderson, Emily S.K.
• Room: Gilman 17
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 40/40
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to the science behind global environmental issues. Earth systems, biogeochemical cycles, and the interrelationships between the living and nonliving world are explored, along with applications to climate change, biodiversity loss, and other issues of global significance.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Gnanadesikan, Anand; Zaitchik, Benjamin Frederick
• Room: Olin 305
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 109/110
• PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE, ENVS-MAJOR, ENVS-MINOR

The course provides a broad introduction to the principles and practice of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and related tools of Geospatial Analysis. Topics will include history of GIS, GIS data structures, data acquisition and merging, database management, spatial analysis, and GIS applications. In addition, students will get hands-on experience working with GIS software.

• Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Chen, Xin
• Room: Krieger 108
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 24/24
• PosTag(s): ENVS-MINOR, ARCH-RELATE, ENVS-MAJOR

Basic concepts in geology, including plate tectonics; Earth’s internal structure; geologic time; minerals; formation of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks; development of faults, folds and earthquakes; geomagnetism. Corequisite (for EPS Majors): AS.270.221; optional for others. The course is introductory and open to undergraduates at all levels; freshmen are encouraged to enroll.

• Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Viete, Daniel R; Wiemann, Jasmina
• Room: Olin 247
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 49/50
• PosTag(s): ENVS-MINOR, ENVS-MAJOR, ARCH-RELATE

This course is an introduction to the use of remote sensing technology to study Earth’s physical and biochemical processes. Topics covered include remote sensing of the atmosphere, land and oceans, as well as remote sensing as a tool for policy makers. Also offered as 270.618.

• Days/Times: MF 10:00AM - 10:50AM, W 10:00AM - 10:50AM
• Instructor: Lewis, Kevin
• Room: Krieger 108
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 12/12
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course will introduce student to methods used in field-based ecological research addressing population, community and ecosystem-level questions. Outdoor fieldwork is an essential part of the course. Field activities will center around the riparian ecosystem adjacent to the Homewood campus and on the urban ecology of the greater Baltimore region. Students will build skills in data collection, analysis, synthesis, and presentation. Basic statistical instruction in R will be taught to aid data analysis.

• Days/Times: F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Avolio, Meghan Lynn; Szlavecz, Katalin
• Room: Olin 247
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): ENVS-MAJOR, ENVS-MINOR, BEHB-BIOBEH

This course examines the origins of human structure, function and behavior from an evolutionary perspective. It includes study of the evolution, behavior and behavioral ecology of nonhuman primates, hominid evolution (including the paleontological and archaeological records), and the origins of human cognition, social behavior and culture.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Staff
• Room: Remsen Hall 101
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 80/80
• PosTag(s): n/a

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.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Kingsley, Jennifer P
• Room: Gilman 400
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 25/25
• PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, ARCH-ARCH, PMUS-INTRO, MSCH-HUM

Digital media play an increasingly significant role in museums from how museums share and narrate their collections online to the use of AI to catalog things and create metadata about them. This class explores critically how digital tools work to tell stories and invites students to unpack the resulting museum narratives. Students will learn by doing, creating a digital exhibit of five museum objects using Omeka and later transforming their exhibits by creating data of their own design to tell a new story about their objects. This new narrative will apply critical perspectives considered in the course such as, but not limited to, repatriation, critical cataloging, and geo-politics.

• Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
• Instructor: Staff
• Room: BLC 4040
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 15/15
• PosTag(s): PMUS-PRAC, MSCH-HUM

Drawing on case studies from North America, Mesoamerica, and the Andes this course considers various approaches to entombment and funerary ritual. Our analyses bear upon beliefs about death and the afterlife, ancestor veneration, fear of the dead, and the body as a site of embodied values. Tombs provide a specific context for interpreting object offerings and their attendant meanings. Collections study in regional museums.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Deleonardis, Lisa
• Room: Hodson 216
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/29
• PosTag(s): ARCH-ARCH, HART-ANC, MSCH-HUM

This course explores the origins and lives of societies in the Aegean world from the Early Bronze Age to the Persian Wars (ca. 3100-480 B.C.), focusing on major archaeological sites, sanctuaries, material culture, and artistic production.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Anderson, Emily S.K.
• Room: Latrobe 107
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 23/35
• PosTag(s): ARCH-ARCH

African American Pioneers: Courses focusing on the history and canon of anthropology often fail to consider the important role African American scholars have played in shaping the discipline. This course serves as an intervention by focusing on the contributions these underrepresented intellectuals have made to the field. Restrictions: For advanced undergraduates who have taken anthropology or sociology. Requirement for Anthropology Majors

• Days/Times: M 4:00PM - 6:30PM
• Instructor: Lans, Aja Marie
• Room: Mergenthaler 439
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/15
• PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE

An introduction to archaeology and to archaeological method and theory, exploring how archaeologists excavate, analyze, and interpret ancient remains in order to reconstruct how ancient societies functioned. Specific examples from a variety of archaeological projects in different parts of the world will be used to illustrate techniques and principles discussed.

• Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Schwartz, Glenn M
• Room: Gilman 50
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 11/40
• PosTag(s): ARCH-ARCH

How and why did our nomadic hunting and gathering ancestors become farmers? What led agricultural societies to build cities, develop writing, religious institutions, wage war, and trade for exotic goods? This course surveys prehistory and ancient history from the origins of human culture to the emergence civilization. Although prehistory and ancient history yield evidence of tremendous cultural diversity this course emphasizes common elements of past human experience, culture, and culture change. These include the origins of modern humans and their adjustment to a variety of post-ice age environments, shifts from hunting and gathering to agricultural lifeways, and the initial development of the world’s earliest cities and civilizations.

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Harrower, Michael James
• Room: Bloomberg 168
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 24/40
• PosTag(s): ARCH-ARCH

Ecology is the study of organisms and their environment. This course focuses on the patterns of distribution and abundance of organisms. Topics include population dynamics and regulation, competition, predation, host-parasite interactions, patterns of species diversity, community succession, the flow of energy and matter through ecosystems. We will also discuss the role of natural and human disturbances in shaping communities.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Szlavecz, Katalin
• Room: Olin 305
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 26/45
• PosTag(s): ENVS-MINOR, ARCH-RELATE, BEHB-BIOBEH

The course provides a broad introduction to the principles and practice of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and related tools of Geospatial Analysis. Topics will include history of GIS, GIS data structures, data acquisition and merging, database management, spatial analysis, and GIS applications. In addition, students will get hands-on experience working with GIS software.

• Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Chen, Xin
• Room: Krieger 108
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 15/24
• PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE, ENVS-MINOR

"Baltimore museums house over 15,000 objects from the Ancient Near East and North Africa. How did these ancient objects arrive in Charm City? What can their stories teach us about ethics and curatorial practices in the past, present, and future? Increasingly the public, academics, and foreign stakeholders have been advocating for more institutional transparency of museum collections, with a particular focus on museums and social justice. This course offers students an opportunity to engage with ongoing debates between archaeologists, museums, cultural heritage experts, and social justice advocates, while gaining archival research and critical thinking skills. The course will consist of seminar-style discussions hosted in several Baltimore museums with guided tours of select objects and collections in the Walters Art Museum, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum. During these museum visits we focus on two main goals: introducing the art of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and Africa and learning to untangle the complex histories associated with these objects' arrival into Baltimore Museum collections."

• Days/Times: Th 5:30PM - 8:00PM
• Instructor: Shippelhoute, Karlene Dee Ann
• Room: Gilman 130G
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/12
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to the theoretical and practical underpinnings of the conservation profession: who gets to be a conservator, where we work and how; what are its origins and how it has evolved.

• Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Jarvis, Jennifer
• Room: BLC 5015
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/10
• PosTag(s): PMUS-INTRO, ARCH-ARCH, PMUS-PRAC

From 900 to 609 BCE, the Assyrian Empire dominated the ancient Near Eastern world, stretching from western Iran to the Mediterranean and Egypt. In concert with imperial expansion came an explosion of artistic production ranging from palace wall reliefs to small-scale luxury objects. This course provides an integrated picture of the imperial arts of this first world empire, situating it within the broader social and political contexts of the first millennium BCE. In its conquest of foreign lands, this powerful state came in contact with and appropriated a diversity of cultures, such as Phoenicia, Egypt, and Greece, which we will also study.

• Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Feldman, Marian
• Room: Gilman 177
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 15/25
• PosTag(s): ARCH-ARCH, HART-ANC

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