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FALL 2012 COURSES

389.201 (H, S) Introduction to the Museum: Past and Present
This course surveys museums, from their origins to their most contemporary forms, in the context of broader historical, intellectual, and cultural trends. Anthropology, art, history, and science museums are considered. Offered every fall. Cross-listed with Anthropology, History, History of Art.
Rodini 3 credits. TTh 1:30-2:45pm.

NEW COURSE! 389.357 (H) Heaven on Earth: Art, Culture and Wonder in the Vatican Museum and Library
This interdisciplinary course will explore the institutional, cultural, artistic and architectural history of St. Peter's and the Vatican Museum and Library from Antiquity through the Renaissance, up to the present day. Class meets in the Dick Macksey Seminar Room of the Brody Learning Commons.
Havens 3 credits. Tuesdays 3-5:20pm.

389.361 (H) Introduction to Material Culture: Trades and Training in Early Baltimore
Students explore early American life related to the region and the Carroll family of Homewood. Primary research and object study culminate in student-curated thematic exhibition. Optional intersession practicum experience is also possible. Cross-listed with History. M&S practicum course.
Arthur 3 credits. Meets at Homewood Museum. Wednesdays 1:30-3:50pm.

NEW COURSE! 389.369 Encountering the Art of East Asia: Museum Display, Theory and Practice
Students reconsider the exhibition and interpretation of East Asian Art at the Walters Art Museum, developing a pilot installation to suggest a new permanent display. M&S practicum course. Class meets at the Walters Art Museum. Cross-listed with East Asian
Mintz 3 credits. Thursday 2-5pm (extended time to allow for travel to the museum).

389.371 The Artist in the Museum: Making Books
In this course, curatorial staff from the Evergreen, Peabody, Walters and JHU libraries introduce students to the concept of books as art. Guided by a photography instructor and curator, students create their own artist's books inspired by these collections, and these become part of an exhibition within the libraries of Evergreen Museum & Library. Cross-listed with Homewood Art Workshops. M&S practicum course.
Berger and Abbott 3 credits Mondays 2-5pm.

NEW COURSE! 389.385 (H,S) Global Perspectives on the Museum
Course examines practices of collecting, display and preservation beyond the western museum tradition, focusing on how these practices reflect and construct political, historical, ethnic and nationalist narratives.
Rodini and Balachandran 3 credits (Cross-listed with Anthropology; counts towards International Studies major). Mondays 1:30-3:50pm.

389.501 Independent Study in Museums and Society
Rodini (by permission) 1-3 credits

389.511 Internship in Museums and Society
Rodini (by permission) 1 credit

CROSS-LISTED COURSES (see home departments for more information)

040.137 (H, W) Archaeology at the Crossroads: The Ancient Eastern Mediterranean through Objects in the JHU Archaeological Museum
Limited to Freshmen. This seminar investigates the Eastern Mediterranean as a space of intense cultural interaction in the Late Bronze Age, exploring how people, ideas, and things not only came into contact but deeply influenced one another through maritime trade, art, politics, etc. In addition to class discussion, we will work hands-on with artifacts from the JHU Archaeological Museum, focusing on material from Cyprus. Cross-listed with Museums and Society and Near Eastern Studies.
Anderson 3 credits (Classics) TTh 10:30-11:45am.

070.103 (H, S, W) Africa and the Museum
An introduction to Africa, artistic creativity, collection and exhibition: as African history, as anthropology of art and objects, and as public controversy in our national institutions. Works with the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Guyer 3 credits (Anthropology) Tuesdays 1:30-3:50pm.

130.251 Made for the Gods: Votive Egyptian Objects in the Archaeological Museum
This course investigates Egyptian votive objects made as gifts to the Gods. Students will learn about Egyptian religious practices and study groups of objects in the Archaeological Museum to learn to identify how they were produced, when, and for what functions. Physical analyses of the objects will be part of the class and facilitated by museum staff.
Bryan 3 credits (Near Eastern Studies) MW 12:00-1:15pm.

SUMMER 2012

London Study Abroad: Art, Science and Culture in Context - 14-25 May, 2012
Behind-the-scene tours with the instructor and curators of the major art, science, and cultural museums, and historic rare book and manuscript libraries, in greater London and a full-day trip to Cambridge University. Introduces students to the unique historical circumstances that shaped each unique museum & collection and their respective missions from the late Middle Ages to the foundation of the first great public museums and libraries during the second half of the 18^th and the 19^th centuries.
Havens 3 credits

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389.103 (H, W) Museum Matters Freshman Seminar
Limited to Freshmen. Museums are crucibles, places where we debate and shape public memory, identity, and cultural values. We examine this premise through weekly visits to Baltimore museums of art, science, history (and many more), critical group discussion, and intensive writing assignments.
Rodini & Arthur 3 credits.

389.202 (H, S) Introduction to the Museum: Issues and Ideas
This course considers the practical, political, and ethical challenges facing museums today, including the impact of technology and globalization, economic pressures, and debates over the ownership and interpretation of culture. Offered every spring.
Kingsley 3 credits

389.203 (H, W) Museum Matters NOW 389.103 Freshman Seminar

389.205 (H) Examining Archaeological Objects
This course considers the role of materials in the production, study and interpretation of objects by examining artifacts from the Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum. Students will consider materials such as ceramics, stone, metal, glass, wood and textiles, and visit artists' studios to gain an understanding of historical manufacturing processes. Cross-listed with Archaeology, Anthropology, Near Eastern Studies, Classics and History of Art. M&S practicum course.
Balachandran 3 credits.

389.330 (H) Critique of the Museum in Contemporary Art
Since the 1960s, many artists have challenged art museum conventions, contesting the assumption that museums are ideologically neutral spaces of display. This institutional critique is examined in artworks, installations, literature. Cross-listed with History of Art.
Haywood (Contemporary Museum) 3 credits

389.340 (H) Critical Issues in Art Conservation
The course examines recent controversies in the conservation of major global art works and sites, raising questions concerning the basic theoretical assumptions, practical methods, and ethical implications of art conservation. Cross-listed with Anthropology, History of Art.
Balachandran 3 credits

389.341 (H) Examining Archaeological Objects
What can art and archaeological objects reveal about materials, their craftsmanship and preservation? We investigate artists' treatises, visit studios and museum conservation laboratories, and closely examine artworks. Cross-listed with History of Art, Classics and Near Eastern Studies. M&S practicum course
Balachandran 3 credits

389.342 (H) Objects in Focus: Materials, Techniques, History
What can art and archaeological objects reveal about materials, their craftsmanship and preservation? We investigate artists' treatises, visit studios and museum conservation laboratories and closely examine artworks. Cross-listed with Classics, History of Art, Near Eastern Studies. M&S practicum course.
Balachandran 3 credits

389.343 (H) Conservation of Modern and Contemporary Art
We examine how museums care for, interpret, and preserve modern and contemporary artworks that defy the traditional materials, display methods, and uses of ancient or historic art. Cross-listed with History of Art.
Balachandran 3 credits

389.345 (H) Introduction to Museum Practice
Taking the JHU Archaeological Museum as a case study and working closely with its holdings, we will discuss the principles and practice of managing and preserving museum collections. Cross-listed with Anthropology, Classics, History of Art, Near Eastern Studies. M&S practicum course.
Balachandran 3 credits

389.349 (H) Art and the Law
The course examines the ways in which art and the law intersect from a variety of perspectives including intellectual property, cultural appropriation and freedom of expression. Cross-listed with History of Art.
Lehmann 3 credits

389.350 (H,S) Staging Suburbia
Work as a public historian alongside Jewish Museum of Maryland curators and staff, researching primary documents and artifacts to develop an exhibition about Baltimore’s Jewish suburbs. The show will travel throughout Baltimore. Cross-listed with History and Jewish Studies.
Weiner 3 credits

389.354 (H) Paper Museums: Exhibiting Prints at the Baltimore Museum of Art
Students work with Baltimore Museum of Art print collection and staff to develop, organize, and design an exhibition. All aspects of museum work are explored, including research, interpretation, presentation, programming, marketing. Cross-listed with History of Art. M&S practicum course.
Rodini 3 credits

389.355 (H, W) Reading Culture in the Nineteenth-Century Library
Students reconstruct the culture of reading in nineteenth-century America through an investigation of the Peabody Library (founded 1856) as a space and collection. Meets at Peabody. M & S practicum course. Cross-listed with English, writing intensive.
Dean 3 credits

389.356 (H) Halls of Wonder: Art, Science, and Literature in teh Age of hte Marvelous, 1500-1800
Explore the material culture of "wonder" from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment in literature, science, and art, with Hopkins’ rare book collections and the Walters Art Museum. Cross-listed with History, History of Art, and GRLL. M&S practicum course.
Havens 3 credits

389.359 (H) Literary Archive
This course invites students to grapple with the theory and practice of building literary archives in 19^th- and 20^th-century American culture. For the final project students will work collaboratively to build a digital archive and exhibit of selected materials from the JHU rare book and manuscript collections. Meets in Special Collections. M&S practicum course. Cross-listed with English.
Dean 3 credits

389.361 (H) Introduction to Material Culture
Students explore early American life related to the region and the Carroll family of Homewood. Primary research and object study culminate in student-curated thematic exhibition. Optional intersession practicum experience is also possible. Offered fall semester. Cross-listed with History. M&S practicum course.
Arthur 3 credits

389.362 (H) Behind the Scenes at the Walters Art Museum
Work with Walters staff to learn about the workings of a professional art museum while developing an exhibition or other museum project. Cross-listed with History of Art. M&S practicum course.
Rodini 3 credits

389.363 (H) Curating Culture at the Evergreen Museum
In this hands-on course, students research the Evergreen collection in order to develop an innovative, public exhibition or presentation. The history of the house, its grounds, its books and artifacts are all subject to investigation. Cross-listed with History of Art. M&S practicum course.
Abbott 3 credits

389.364 (H) History of the Artifact
By developing a small installation at the Baltimore Museum of Industry, students explore how museums use artifacts to present the past to diverse audiences. Cross-listed with History. M&S practicum course.
Finkelstein (Baltimore Museum of Industry) 3 credits

389.365 (H) Close Looking at the BMA
This course takes an interdisciplinary approach to the careful consideration of one or several works or art in the collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art. Creative final projects enhance the educational mission of the museum. Meets at the BMA. Cross-listed with History of Art. M&S practicum course.
Rodini 3 credits

389.366 (H) Interpreting Warhol: An Introduction to Museum Education
A hybrid between art history and an introduction to museum practices, this course culminates in developing education programs for the BMA's upcoming exhibition dedicated to Andy Warhol. Cross-listed with History of Art. M&S practicum course.
Bautista (BMA) 3 credits

389.367 (H) Walking with Reliquaries
Students study medieval objects from the Walters Art Museum collection with the curator, and design interpretative tools that will be used in an upcoming exhibition at the museum. Cross-listed with History of Art. M&S practicum course.
Bagnoli (Walters) 3 credits

389.368 (H) Artists, Museums, and Social Purpose: Contemporary Models
How do artists working today engage with museums? Students explore these partnerships in theory and practice, proposing a local installation in collaboration with artist-instructor Peter Bruun. Cross-listed with History of Art, Homewood Art Workshops. M&S practicum course.
Bruun 3 credits

389.369 (H) History and Theory of the Decorative Arts
Seminar studies various approaches to defining, displaying, interpreting objects; explores the decorative arts as cultural and museological category. Cross-listed wtih History of Art. M&S practicum course.
Staff 3 credits

389.370 (H) Camera Arts: Photographing Evergreen Museum & Library
Curator and photography instructor lead students in a photographic exploration of the Evergreen collection. Fine arts approach to digital photography and printing. Final project exhibition at Evergreen. Cross-listed with Homewood Art Workshops. M&S practicum course.
Berger and Abbott 3 credits

389.440 (H, S) Who Owns Culture?
This seminar explores the complicated, often explosive concept of cultural property, including questions surrounding the ownership, preservation, and interpretation of artifacts, monuments, heritage sites, and living traditions. Cross-listed with Anthropology, History of Art.
Rodini 3 credits

389.501/502 Independent Study in Museums and Society
Independent study allows students to develop and carry out their own research project in a related field. Projects must be approved and overseen by a supervising faculty member and approved by the Program's Director. Students should also consult the University's Independent Work Policy.
Rodini, staff Up to 3 credits

389.511/512 Internship in Museums and Society
Students may seek credit for academic work connected to an unpaid museum internship. Projects may be in the area of research, exhibition development, conservation science, or other related fields. All projects must be approved and overseen by a supervising faculty member and approved by the Program's Director, and must be in keeping with the University's Independent Work Policy.
Rodini, staff 1 credit

AFRICANA STUDIES

African Visions: Art Objects, Context, and Interpretations

A hands-on class that addressed the relationship between art and its contexts by focusing on the histories and inventions of African art objects. Film, print media, and museums will all be considered. Cross-listed with History of Art. M&S practicum course.
Milbourne (ex-BMA) 3 credits

362.133 (H, W) Black Baltimore History: Introduction to Research
This course focuses on major topics in twentieth-century Black Baltimore history. Using the rich reporting of Black newspapers, in particular Baltimore's Afro-American Newspapers, as well as images and exhibits related to African American history, students will explore daily life in African American neighborhoods, the history of racial segregation in Baltimore City, civil rights activism in Baltimore, Black Power politics, changing urban demographics during the twentieth century and the contested nature of depictions of African American life and history. As part of the course students will research and curate online exhibits of primary source materials. M&S practicum course.
Hinderer 3 credits

362.306 (H) Seeing Baltimore History: Race and Community
The course considers questions of community and race in Baltimore during the twentieth century. Students will study the reporting of local newspapers, in particular the rich archives of the Baltimore Afro American Newspaper, which includes many unpublished photographs. Topics include daily life in Baltimore, interracial activism and conflict, civil rights, and changing demographics of the city. Students will produce an online exhibit. M&S practicum course.
Hinderer 3 credits

ANTHROPOLOGY

070.103 (H, S, W) Africa and the Museum
Freshman seminar course on African material life, as created, used, collected, displayed, and discussed. Aims to introduce both Africa and its representation in the West.
Guyer 3 credits

CLASSICS

010.119 (H) The World of Pompeii
This course focuses on the history and archaeology of Pompeii. Close attention is also paid to the reception of Pompeian materials in European and American culture.
Valladares 3 credits

010.368 The Authority of Ruins: Antiquarianism in Italy, 1690-1890
This seminar focused on the transformation of antiquarianism in Italy after the discovery of Herculaneum and Pompeii. Students worked primarily with rare books from the collections at JHU, and developed an on-line exhibition of their work. M&S practicum course.
Valladares 3 credits

040.360 (AS) The Archaeology of Daily Life
This course will examine objects of daily life from the Greco-Roman world in the Johns Hopkins University Archaeological Museum. Students will collaborate on an online catalogue, featuring their research. Cross-listed with History of Art, Near Eastern Studies, and Museums and Society. M&S practicum course.
Valladares 3 credits

FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES

061.223 Special Topics: Performance Art and Video
This course will explore the history and current state of video and performance art, two of the most important movements in contemporary art. How have they influenced each other and how they have affected mainstream media and cultural notions of art? Students will view significant works and their presentation in galleries, museums, and public spaces, and will create individual and collaborative performance pieces of their own.
Barber 3 credits

061.395 Film Programming
This course is run in close conjunction with the Johns Hopkins Film Society. Half of the work you will be doing in this class will be geared toward the Film Society’s 2011 Film Festival in its programming, marketing, budgeting, organization, scheduling, and interaction with both filmmakers and the community. In this class, you will learn to program, execute, and run a film series and gain the tools to create and run a Film Festival. You will, then, learn how to do historical and aesthetic research to craft a project proposal, hone it so it is the best possible version of your idea, market it so that it succeeds, project its films on 35mm, introduce its films with short lectures to an audience, answer a Q&A about your films, interact with audiences, make connections with filmmakers and "curate" a film of your choice, and, essentially make the entire thing come off without a hitch. We focus, then, on a set of interlocking skill sets: film programming and projection, series organization and planning, and audience outreach as well as event management.
Ward 3 credits

HISTORY

100.350 The Art of Collecting in America's Gilded Age, ca. 1880-ca. 1920
This Course is organized as an upper division seminar for students with interest in history, art history, and museum studies, focuses on the art collections of wealthy Americans during the fabled Gilded Age, ca. 1880 - ca. 1920. Topics to be discussed include the motives, both personal and patriotic, underlying the formation of these collections, the ideas and circumstances that contributed to the creation of municipal museums such as New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the relationship between these collections, both private and public, and America’s national identity.
Kagan 3 credits

100.353 (H, S) Remembering Vietnam: Documenting, Capturing, and Preserving a Divisive War
This is a course to teach students about a divisive war, its documentation, and its memorialization through gathering images, interviews, and other data. A lab unit is required.
Walters 4 credits

100.372 The Victorians
This course focuses on the politics of everyday life, consumption, intimate relations, and concepts of the self in Victorian Britain (1837-1901). Particular attention is devoted to Victorian visual culture, including exhibitions, built environment, decorative arts, and leisure culture. Other themes include popular nationalism, class cultures, feminism and body politics, Empire and racial thought.
Walkowitz 3 credits

100.376 (H, S) Baltimore as Historical Site
This class uses the historical site of Baltimore to demonstrate the spatial context of major events in U.S. and urban history.
Ryan 3 credits

100.470 (H, S) Monuments and Memory in Asian History
This seminar explores the ritual, political, and religious significance of architectural sites in Asia. We also examine their more recent role as signifiers of cultural and national identities and in tourism.
Meyer-Fong 3 credits

HISTORY OF ART

010.192 (H) Move over Michelangelo: Renaissance Sculpture in Northern Italy
Michelangelo's heroic figure has dominated our conception of Renaissance sculpture, but outside of Florence & Rome, a princely aesthetic for small, intimate, tactile works dominated. We will explore the alternate paradigms for the figure and sculpture in the North, centering around Padua, Mantua, and Venice. The course is built around the collection at the Walters Art Museum, from which students will choose an object as the subject of a semester-long research project. We also take advantage of MICA to visit a bronze workshop, and will visit the Antico exhibition in NY at the Frick. Dean's Teaching Fellowship.
Blom 3 credits

010.241 (H) Exhibiting the Global
Processes of globalization have increasingly structured the ways in which art institutions and their audiences display and perceive the world. This course will attempt to address some of the theoretical problems facing contemporary art in the global context from the display of others to theories of subjectivity impacted by the increasing movement of peoples and expansion of communication technologies. The course explores some historical precedents of exhibiting global cultures beginning with colonial and world exhibitions. It also examines a number of global exhibitions in recent decades as case studies in exhibiting the global.
Wofford 3 credits

010.311 (H) Japanese Print Culture and Western Collecting
The first half of this seminar will examine issues in Japanese print culture, especially the development and circulation of ukiyo-e prints, during the Edo and Meiji periods (1615-1912). Topics will include technological innovations, the role of publishers, censorship, and prints as didactic objects. The second half of the course will explore the popularity of Japanese prints in the West, including their impact on Japonisme and incorporation into Western collections. Cross-listed with East Asian Studies.
Snow 3 credits

010.334 (H) Problems in the Art of the Ancient Americas
Selected topics which may include art of the ancient scribe and visual communication (Maya, Aztec, Mixtec, Inka), imperial art and architecture (Aztec Moche, Inka), sacred media and indigenous aesthetics (Mesoamerica, Andes), the role of American art in the European Kunstkammer, collection and exhibition of antiquities, the antiquities market and art crimes. (Note: this course is only cross-listed with M&S when the particular topic is appropriate, subject to Instructor and Director approval.)
DeLeonardis 3 credits

010.366 Native Amerian Art
Survey of the principle visual arts of North America (1500 BC-AD 1600). Introduction to interpretive theory and methodology. Collections study in local and regional museums. Also cross-listed with Archaeology and PLAS.
DeLeonardis 3 credits

010.382 (H) The Politics of Display in South Asia
Through examining collecting, patronage, colonial exhibitions, and museums, this course examines how South Asia has been constructed in practices of display. Themes: politics of representation, spectacle, ethnography, and economies of desire related to colonialism and the rise of modernity.
R. Brown 3 credits

010.390 (H) Art Museum Policy and Practice
This hands-on seminar looks behind the scenes at displays and exhibitions, museum operations and programs, as signs of current thinking about what art, past and present, may be.
E. Dauterman Maguire 3 credits

010.392 (H) Creating a Museum Exhibition
Research, interpretation, and presentation; a hands-on introduction. Permission required. M&S practicum course.
E. Dauterman Maguire 3 credits

010.398 Tombs for the Living
Centering on the tomb as a unit of analysis, this course examines how death and funerary ritual reflect the cultural values of the living and are an active force in shaping them. Drawing on case studies from Mesoamerica and the Andes we consider various approaches to entombment and funerary ritual.
Deleonardis 3 credits

010.411 (H) Art Collecting and the Rise of the Museum
This class looks at the history of collecting and displaying art from the Renaissance studiolo through the nineteenth century.
Campbell 3 credits

010.552 Museum Internship
An opportunity for first-hand experience in museum work on the Homewood campus or in local museums. Advance arrangement with faculty required. (M&S credit requires approval of Director and adherence to the University's Independent Work Policy.)
E. Dauterman Maguire 1 credit

010.666 (H) Exhibiting the Other
A graduate seminar open to advanced undergraduates, the course assesses the politics, theory, and practice of displaying what still operates as the "other" despite challenges to museum practices of displaying the art and visual culture of regions and periods outside of the Euro-American mainstream.
Brown Graduate course.

HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

140.215 (H, S) Monuments and Memory
This course explores the construction or discovery, and the enduring significance, of selected monuments in the West, including national memorials, national parks, and other architectural and engineering milestones. It investigates how they were made, interpreted, and represented in art, literature, popular culture, and tourism.
Leslie 3 credits Gilman Course in the Humanities

140.351 Science Moderne: Inventing a Culture for the Future
This undergraduate seminar examines the impact of new ideas of time and space and of the second Industrial Revolution (the transformations induced by science-based technologies) on art, music, dance, urban design, architecture, and social and political thought in the first half of the 20th century.
Kargon and Molella (Smithsonian) 3 credits

140.359 Museums and Globalization
Examines how museums are linked to wider national and cultural communities, and how they mobilize resources to address political, economic, and social concerns and questions of heritage.
Kargon 3 credits

140.363 (H, S) Museums and Controversy: From the Enola Gay to Body Worlds
Exhibitions on Freud, Darwin, the Bomb, environment, the human body, and similar "hot" topics have stirred unexpected controversy. This seminar explores the origins of such heated public and scientific disagreements.
Leslie, Kargon 3 credits

140.372 (H, S) Science on Display
History of collecting, exhibiting and interpreting science and technology, from Renaissance cabinets of curiosity to modern world's fairs, zoos, aquariums, films and science centers. Students will present their own exhibits as dioramas, web sites, documentaries or other formats.
Leslie 3 credits

NEAR EASTERN STUDIES

130.251 Made for the Gods: Votive Egyptian Objects in the Archaeological Museum
This course investigates Egyptian votive objects maed as gifts to the Gods. Students will learn about Egyptian religious practices and study groups of objects in the Archaeological Museum to learn to identify how they were produced, when, and for what functions. Physical analyses of the objects will be part of the class and facilitated by museum staff.
Bryan 3 credits

130.334 Museum Study of Objects from the Eton College Myers Collection
Students are introduced to studying Egyptian objects through an investigation of some pieces from the Eton College Myers Collection on long term loan to the University. Cataloguing and research for these objects will be part of the course. M&S practicum course. Taught with 133.706.
Bryan 3 credits

MICA

Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) Exhibition Development Seminar. The theme for 2010-11 was Baltimore: Open City. Recently spotlighted by the Baltimore City Paper, in this course participants worked with artists, designers, activists, and scholars to develop public installations and programs that investigate the ways Baltimore is and is not an open city. The class is a year-long commitment, with both the fall and spring semesters required to participate. Hopkins students interested in this course should contact Museums and Society Director, erodini@jhu.edu.

INTERSESSION

The following Museums and Society courses have been offered during winter intersession. Stay tuned for future Intersession opportunities.

389.172 (H) City on Display: Exploring Baltimore through Its Museums
Spicher

389.173 The History of America's Top Hospital
This course will introduce students to the history of the Johns Hopkins Hospital and the schools of medicine, nursing and public health through the collections of the Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives. Morning will be devoted to study and discussion of primary source documents, photographs, film and material culture. The class will take tours of historic sites on the East Baltimore campus in the afternoons.
Letocha

Study Abroad Madrid: Perspectives on the History of Spain, Its Art and Culture
The course offers an interdisciplinary approach to Spain and its cultures and art. Topics to be addressed include the country’s multi-cultural heritage (Christian, Jewish, and Muslim), its imperial era and overseas expansion, its fabled Golden Age of literature and art, and fabled decline as a world power.
Kagan

389.210 (H) Study Abroad France: Surveying Paris: Museums. Monuments. Memory
Investigate how museums have shaped Paris' physical, social and imaginary landscape. Topics range from the place of the Louvre in the French Revolution to the remaking of Versailles as a monument to monarchy; from the use of the medieval past to the technological expositions of the 19th century; from art as a stamp of modernity to its role in constructing a post-colonial nation.
Rodini

389.162.22 (H) Japanese Art at Evergreen Museum
Using the Evergreen House collection of Japanese lacquer, netsuke, and sword fittings, this course explores nineteenth and early twentieth century art collecting in Baltimore, investigating the cultural background of Asian art collections in America and Europe, how Americans of the period learned about Japan, and the ways these objects were integrated into upper class American households. Some class meetings will be held at Evergreen Museum and Library, giving students first hand experience with the objects and their context of display.
Snow

389.191 (H) New York: City of Museums
For museums, New York City is still the place to be. Investigate how New York became the city of museums. Topics range from the call for the first children's museum in the world to the contentious debates over the 9/11 museum and memorial; from the creation of art galleries as identity museums in the 1960s to the invention of Fifth Avenue as the "museum mile"; from New York City's changing roles as a national and cultural capital to its marketing in the heritage tourism industry.

389.193.12 (H) The Renaissance of the Book
A hands-on introduction to rare books and manuscripts from ancient Mesopotamia to the Industrial Era, crossing the disciplines of science and technology, art, religion, politics and literature-- using the rare books and manuscripts of the Sheridan Libraries. Special emphasis is paid to the Printing Revolution of the 15th and 16th centuries, when books first emerged as a core element of material culture.
Havens 1 credit SUMMER COURSES

The following Museums and Society courses have been offered during summer session. Check this site for future course listings.

010.138.21 (AS) Introduction to Public Art: Murals, Monuments, and Museums
Murals on the side of the local grocery, Washington monuments in both DC and Baltimore, a 16th century manuscript painting at the Walters, film series at the Charles, galleries in North Arts: this course asks how visual culture shapes and is shaped by the urban experience. Critical readings in museum studies, urban studies, art history, cultural politics. Weekly field trips to local sites, museums, monuments; discussions with artists, curators, collectors.
Brown 3 Credits History of Art

010.245 Art In London
In this 3-week summer study abroad course in the UK, students get up close with the London art world, investigating art from the Renaissance through the 21st century. They visit all of the major art museums, seeing the highlights of each collection; visit the major art dealers and auction houses to learn about the commercial side of the art world; and meet with some of the world's leading art specialists to discuss their jobs and gain a behind-the-scenes view of this important artistic center. This course is an ideal introduction to students interested in pursuing a career anywhere in the art world.

010.338 Murals, Monuments, Museums: Art and Visual Culture in Baltimore and D.C.
How do monuments shape our experience of Baltimore? What is public art? How do we use art to commemorate, to record community history, to reshape urban space, to challenge our understanding of who and where we are? This course includes extensive on-site study of Baltimore and D.C. murals, monuments, and museums and talk with curators, artists, and directors. Readings will be drawn from key scholarship on urban history, architecture, public art, planning, and museum studies.
Brown

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OTHER LOCAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDY

Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) offers a number of relevant courses through its new Curatorial Studies Concentration, a number of which are open to Hopkins students. If you are interested in MICA courses, please contact the Director.

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