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Course # (Section)
Title
Day/Times
Instructor
Room
PosTag(s)
Info
AS.040.420 (04)
Classics Research Lab: Race in Antiquity Project (RAP)
W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Pandey, Nandini
Greenhouse 000
MSCH-HUM
Classics Research Lab: Race in Antiquity Project (RAP) AS.040.420 (04)
How did ancient civilizations around the Mediterranean basin (Greece, Rome, Egypt, Persia, Carthage) understand and represent their own and others’ identities and ethnic differences? How did notions and practices around race, citizenship, and immigration evolve from antiquity to the present? How have culture and politics informed artistic, literary, and museum representations of ethnic ‘others’ over time, along with the historical development of ethnography, biological science, and pseudo-sciences of race? What role did “Classics” (the study of Greco-Roman cultures) play in modern colonialism, racecraft, and inequality? And what role can it play in unmaking their legacies, through the ongoing Black Classicism movement, the practice of Critical Race Theory, and the development of more global and interconnective approaches to premodern cultures? RAP provides an opportunity for Hopkins undergraduates and graduate students from a wide variety of disciplinary backgrounds to engage in project-based research toward building an open-access, grant-winning educational resource (OER) on “Race in Antiquity.” Participants learn, share, and practice advanced research methods; examine and discuss the history and modern implications of the teaching and study of their fields; test-drive and collaboratively edit OER pilot materials; and create new content based on their own research, for eventual digital publication.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Pandey, Nandini
Room: Greenhouse 000
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/15
PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM
AS.194.256 (01)
Museums, Communities, and the Sacred
TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Ziad, Homayra
3003 N. Charles OMA Lounge
CSC-CE, ISLM-ISLMST, INST-GLOBAL
Museums, Communities, and the Sacred AS.194.256 (01)
This community-engaged course is co-created by a scholar and curator with expertise in religion, art, and material culture, and taught in partnership with the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA), and centers how museums engage with the sacred. Recognizing that museums have traditionally been under-equipped to respond to the social concerns that animate their local communities, the BMA is rethinking how a twenty-first century civic museum engages the city in which it is located. Understanding the museum as a public space in which contemporary civic and social issues can be engaged, we will explore such questions as: how can a museum represent devotional objects while honoring a diversity of religious and spiritual perspectives and avoiding homogenous narratives about belief? How can a museum create relationships with religious communities to understand and interpret the objects in its collection, and navigate differences in faith-based communities with ethical care? How can a museum engage local communities in the process of writing labels for objects and in other acts of interpretation in a way that is not extractive and is genuinely value-aligned? In short, how can a museum truly become public? As a community-engaged course, students will build practically on their learning about museums, religion and public pedagogy to create and facilitate community listening circles at the BMA. The course will include visits to the BMA and other sites, guest visits on focused topics from museum professionals in other institutions, and training in listening and facilitation.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Instructor: Ziad, Homayra
Room: 3003 N. Charles OMA Lounge
Status: Open
Seats Available: 12/20
PosTag(s): CSC-CE, ISLM-ISLMST, INST-GLOBAL
AS.389.155 (01)
The History of Fake News from The Flood to The Apocalypse
W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Havens, Earle A
BLC 2043
ARCH-RELATE, MSCH-HUM
The History of Fake News from The Flood to The Apocalypse AS.389.155 (01)
In our digital age of hacking, on-line bots, and trolls stealing, faking, and confounding information across the Internet, it is too often forgotten that “fake news” has, in fact, always been with us. This course examines this dark undercurrent within human civilization across historical time, exploring specific examples of fakes, lies, and forgeries from the biblical Flood in antiquity to prophecies of a future Apocalypse. We will draw throughout on the riches of JHU’s own Bibliotheca Fictiva—the world’s premier rare book and manuscript research collection dedicated to literary forgeries across the millennia.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Havens, Earle A
Room: BLC 2043
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/12
PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE, MSCH-HUM
AS.389.202 (01)
Introduction to the Museum: Issues and Ideas
W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Forloney, Robert
Bloomberg 168
PMUS-INTRO, ARCH-ARCH
Introduction to the Museum: Issues and Ideas AS.389.202 (01)
American museums today face ongoing practical, political and ethical challenges, including economic difficulties, technology and globalization, ongoing debates over the ownership and interpretation of culture and pressure to demonstrate their social value. This course considers how museums are answering these challenges and projects into the future.
NOTE: Class usually meets 1:30- 4:00 PM, except for days with field trips (when class will meet 1:30- 5:00 PM instead).
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Forloney, Robert
Room: Bloomberg 168
Status: Open
Seats Available: 8/18
PosTag(s): PMUS-INTRO, ARCH-ARCH
AS.389.250 (01)
Introduction to Conservation
Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Jarvis, Jennifer
BLC 5015
PMUS-INTRO, ARCH-ARCH, PMUS-PRAC
Introduction to Conservation AS.389.250 (01)
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.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
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
AS.389.265 (01)
Hopkins History Through the Archives
T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Blair, Monica Kristin
BLC 2030
PMUS-PRAC, MSCH-HUM
Hopkins History Through the Archives AS.389.265 (01)
Archives are where history is documented, and archives have tremendous power over whose stories get told. This course will critically examine the relationship between archival practice and public history by using John Hopkins University as a case study. We will work closely with archivists in the Special Collections Department and archives across Baltimore to get a firsthand look at how local archives shape public history, collective memory, and institutional silences. Students will learn how public historians, archivists, community activists, and students themselves can work together to do reparative research that advances social justice in their own communities.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
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
AS.389.322 (01)
Tigers to Teapots: Collecting, Cataloging, and Hoarding in America
MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Finkelstein, Lori
Hmwd House Wine Cllr
Tigers to Teapots: Collecting, Cataloging, and Hoarding in America AS.389.322 (01)
This course examines material culture through the lens of personal collecting. Focusing on the United States, students will explore how collectors influenced the holdings of the nation’s museums, including JHU’s Evergreen and Homewood Museum, and contemplate how collecting, for public and private purposes, shapes status and taste in America. This course will also address how collections are organized, displayed, and conserved and will delve into psychological and environmental aspects of collecting and hoarding.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Finkelstein, Lori
Room: Hmwd House Wine Cllr
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/13
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.389.420 (01)
Curatorial Seminar: European Art
Th 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Kingsley, Jennifer P; Yeager-Crasselt, Lara
Bloomberg 274
PMUS-PRAC, ARCH-RELATE
Curatorial Seminar: European Art AS.389.420 (01)
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.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: Th 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Instructor: Kingsley, Jennifer P; Yeager-Crasselt, Lara