Anthropologist Irma McLaurin explains that Black feminist anthropologists are “Black women (first) who do anthropology (second).” Broadly, Black feminism is based on the notion that Black women and their knowledge matter. Being Black and female within a patriarchal white supremacist society subjects Black women to unique experiences that give insight into the many forms that oppression can take. But Black feminisms and Black feminists are not homogenous. There are various political views and disciplinary approaches. Of course, not all Black feminists are academics—there are artists, organizers, and mothers. There are different gender identities and sexualities. What is shared among Black feminists is an emphasis on retrieving and (re)producing Black women’s knowledge, doing activist work, and a commitment to humanism. In this course, we focus on engagements with Black feminism in all subfields of anthropology.

• Days/Times: T 4:00PM - 6:30PM
• Instructor: Lans, Aja Marie
• Room: Mergenthaler 439
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 0/8
• PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE

Explore the social and political changes that have transformed the African continent in the modern era, with a focus on the rise and fall of colonialism, the relation between Africa and the world in the post-colonial era, and effect of colonialism and its aftermath on African household structures and gender roles.

• Days/Times: MW 9:00AM - 9:50AM, F 9:00AM - 9:50AM
• Instructor: Thornberry, Elizabeth
• Room: Gilman 305; Gilman 305
• Status: Canceled
• Seats Available: 15/15
• PosTag(s): HIST-AFRICA

Explore the social and political changes that have transformed the African continent in the modern era, with a focus on the rise and fall of colonialism, the relation between Africa and the world in the post-colonial era, and effect of colonialism and its aftermath on African household structures and gender roles.

• Days/Times: MW 9:00AM - 9:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
• Instructor: Thornberry, Elizabeth
• Room:  
• Status: Canceled
• Seats Available: 15/15
• PosTag(s): HIST-AFRICA

From 1948-1994, South Africa was governed under the system of apartheid, which denied political and civil rights to non-white citizens. This class traces the rise of apartheid in South Africa as well as the liberation struggle that eventually defeated it.

• Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
• Instructor: Thornberry, Elizabeth
• Room: Gilman 17; Gilman 119
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 5/15
• PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, CES-LE, CES-RI, AFRS-AFRICA, HIST-AFRICA

From 1948-1994, South Africa was governed under the system of apartheid, which denied political and civil rights to non-white citizens. This class traces the rise of apartheid in South Africa as well as the liberation struggle that eventually defeated it.

• Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 1:30PM - 2:20PM
• Instructor: Thornberry, Elizabeth
• Room: Gilman 17; Gilman 305
• Status: Canceled
• Seats Available: 15/15
• PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, CES-LE, CES-RI, AFRS-AFRICA, HIST-AFRICA

We will explore key texts in the historiography of post-1939 North Africa as well as key recent publications, in French as well as in English.

• Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Shepard, Todd
• Room: Bloomberg 172
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 9/15
• PosTag(s): HIST-AFRICA, INST-GLOBAL, AFRS-AFRICA

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 4:30PM - 5:45PM
• Instructor: Wilkinson, Alison Michelle
• Room: Gilman 238
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 4/6
• PosTag(s): n/a

How can we think about the interconnections between racism, theories of race and the practice of medicine? Living at a moment when racial disparities in health outcomes in the United States are still very stark, this course will provide a historically grounded approach to thinking about the roles that race and racism have played in healthcare, the production of health disparities as well as the role of medicine in the development of racist thought. While much of this course will focus geographically within the United States, this class will also explore global histories of medicine, encountering questions of race and medicine in Africa, the South Pacific and Asia. In addition to the analysis of primary source documents and historical texts, students will also be introduced to theoretical approaches to the study of race and racism from W.E.B. Dubois, Sylvia Wynter, Frantz Fanon and others.

• Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: White, Alexandre Ilani Rein
• Room: Gilman 300
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 2/20
• PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, CES-RI, MSCH-HUM

Many sub-Saharan African countries are among the least developed countries in the world. In this course, we explore the economic development experiences of African countries, with more focus on sub-Saharan Africa. The course starts with a historical perspective, delves into development strategies, and examines evidence on successes and failures of some case study countries. We conclude by analyzing the many challenges that these countries continue to face in their development process. Elements of Microeconomics and Macroeconomics are required prerequisites. There would be group presentations on assigned readings.

• Days/Times: WF 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Seshie-Nasser, Hellen
• Room: Gilman 75
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 0/21
• PosTag(s): INST-ECON, CES-PD, CES-TI, CES-RI

Race has been and continues to be centrally important to American political life and development. In this course, we will engage with the major debates around racial politics in the United States, with a substantial focus on how policies and practices of citizenship, immigration law, social provision, and criminal justice policy shaped and continue to shape racial formation, group-based identities, and group position; debates around the content and meaning of political representation and the responsiveness of the political system to American minority groups; debates about how racial prejudice has shifted and its importance in understanding American political behavior; the prospects for contestation or coalitions among groups; the “struggle with difference” within groups as they deal with the interplay of race and class, citizenship status, and issues that disproportionately affect a subset of their members; and debates about how new groups and issues are reshaping the meaning and practice of race in the United States.

• Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Weaver, Vesla Mae
• Room: Smokler Center 213
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 14/25
• PosTag(s): INST-AP, POLI-IR, CES-LSO, AGRI-ELECT

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 9:00AM - 9:50AM
• Instructor: De Azeredo Cerqueira, Flavia Christina; Nagasawa, Ellen
• Room: Gilman 77
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 3/10
• 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: Hodson 305
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 0/20
• PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL

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: Hodson 305
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 3/5
• PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL

In the 2015 New York Times article “A Language for Grieving,” the literary scholar Sonya Posmentier writes, “By making violence strange and unfamiliar, very different poets like [Gwendolyn] Brooks and [M. NourbeSe] Philip have gone beyond merely repeating its effects, like a viral video of a police shooting, and beyond the realm of the evidentiary to that of the imagination, where we might not only observe violence but mourn and counter it.” In this course, we will explore how 20th- and 21st-century African American and African diasporic poets have moved “beyond the realm of the evidentiary to that of the imagination” to write about, into, and through history. Readings may include work by Robert Hayden, Gwendolyn Brooks, M. NourbeSe Phillip, Amaud Jamaul Johnson, Patricia Smith, Tyehimba Jess, Cameron Awkward-Rich, and others, including a multigenerational selection of elegies for Emmett Till. Students should expect to engage with the readings both creatively and analytically and will have the opportunity to write their own historical poetry.

• Days/Times: W 3:00PM - 5:30PM
• Instructor: Russell, Lauren M
• Room: Gilman 79
• Status: Canceled
• Seats Available: 15/15
• PosTag(s): WRIT-READ, WRIT-POET

Race and ethnicity have played a prominent role in American society and continue to do so, as demonstrated by interracial and interethnic gaps in economic and educational achievement, residence, political power, family structure, crime, and health. Using a sociological framework, we will explore the historical significance of race and its development as a social construction, assess the causes and consequences of intergroup inequalities and explore potential solutions.

• Days/Times: TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
• Instructor: Greif, Meredith
• Room: Maryland 202
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 2/19
• PosTag(s): INST-AP, CES-RI, CES-CC, 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: Maryland 109
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): CES-CC

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: Maryland 109
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 0/3
• PosTag(s): CES-CC

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: Maryland 109
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 0/7
• PosTag(s): CES-CC

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: Maryland 109
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 0/4
• PosTag(s): CES-CC

Introduction to Critical Diaspora Studies will explore the transnational, relational, and comparative approach to racism, migration, and colonialism at the heart of this major. It will introduce students to cutting-edge literature in the major’s four tracks: Migration and Borders; Global Indigeneities; Empires, Wars, and Carceralities; and Solidarities, Social Movements, and Citizenship. Topics covered will include diasporic and indigenous cultures and politics from Asia, Africa, and Latin America, as well as the United States. Students should expect to learn the value of interdisciplinary and transnational approaches to questions of social belonging, activism, justice, and politics. This course will also be useful to students in all humanities and social science majors who are interested in questions of racism, migration, and colonialism. This course may entail travel over fall break.

• Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Schrader, Stuart Laurence
• Room: Gilman 75
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 1/18
• 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: Jackson, Lawrence P
• Room: Gilman 219
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 10/15
• PosTag(s): CES-ELECT, CES-RI

This course will examine the lasting aesthetic impact of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) on Black fiction writers and playwrights, with an emphasis on issues related to culture wars, imaginary marronage, colonial language, slave memory, literary violence & trauma, sexual politics, beliefs, and the African diaspora.

• Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Desormeaux, Daniel
• Room: Gilman 10
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 0/10
• PosTag(s): ENVS-MAJOR, ENVS-MINOR

This course explores Black social movements in the United States to better understand social inequality, social structures, oppression, agency, and power across time and space.

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Okechukwu, Amaka Camille
• Room: Krieger 308
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 5/20
• PosTag(s): CES-RI, CES-ELECT

What role does resistance play in black political thought and action? How do black concepts of resistance shape broader political processes? How are these concepts essential in understanding political development past and present?

• Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Spence, Lester
• Room: Mergenthaler 252
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 9/16
• PosTag(s): INST-PT, CES-LC, CES-RI

This course is available to students who wish to pursue selected, special work that may not be included in the Center's other courses.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Blanks Jones, Jasmine
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is available to students who wish to pursue selected, special work that may not be included in the Center's other courses.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Johnson, Jessica Marie
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

The first semester of Senior Honors in Africana Studies, conducted as an Independent Study. Interested students should submit an application to the CAS Director of Undergraduate Studies.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: White, Alexandre Ilani Rein
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

The first semester of Senior Honors in Africana Studies, conducted as an Independent Study. Interested students should submit an application to the CAS Director of Undergraduate Studies.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Johnson, Jessica Marie
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

The first semester of Senior Honors in Africana Studies, conducted as an Independent Study. Interested students should submit an application to the CAS Director of Undergraduate Studies.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Schrader, Stuart Laurence
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Who didn’t feel chills each time Blue Ivy appeared on the ​​Renaissance stage as Beyoncé sings, “This that kinfolk, this that skinfolk, This that war, this that bloodline on the frontline, ready for war,” in her song “My Power?” Beyoncé, a rhetorical Queen herself, positions Blue Ivy to claim her power by countering the years of cruel insults she has endured from the public and social media alike, and also Beyoncé’s performance refutes motherhood tropes, the Matriarch, the Welfare Mother, and the Jezebel. In this space, we’ll center mothers as rhetorical subjects and agents to explore the various subtopics under the umbrella of the rhetoric of motherhood in the afterlife of slavery. You’re invited to listen to, read, research, and enter conversations surrounding motherhood rhetoric. Potential authors include Patricia Hill Collins, Brittany Cooper, Saidiya Hartman, Jennifer Nash, and Claudia Rankine. Students at the sophomore level and above are welcome.

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Wright, Lisa E.
• Room: Gilman 217
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students interested in Black print culture will engage in intensive archival research, both collaborative and individual, using the Sheridan Library’s Rare Book and Manuscript collections, and will create an online exhibition. Texts include poems, printed lectures, pamphlets, novels, periodicals, ephemera, correspondence, etc., alongside relevant critical and theoretical reading. Open to both undergraduate and graduate students.

• Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Nurhussein, Nadia
• Room: Gilman 130D
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/12
• PosTag(s): ENGL-GLOBAL

This seminar explores the formation of Black Atlantic worlds through a selection of historical and ethnographic texts, material artifacts, and films. We will encounter familiar themes of slavery, revolution, commodity production, and imperial power recast in the minor key of the Black experience. Exploring major works by anthropologists, particularly key figures from Johns Hopkins, the course also examines how studies of transatlantic movements have reshaped our very understanding of history and culture, not simply as static or official forms but as fields of contention.

• Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Angelini, Alessandro; White, Alexandre Ilani Rein
• Room: Mergenthaler 426
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 13/18
• PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, CES-RI, CES-BM

Anthropology is an endeavor to think with the empirical richness of the world at hand, a field science with both literary and philosophical pretensions. This course grapples with the nature of anthropological inquiry, reading classic works in the discipline as well as contemporary efforts to reimagine its foundations. Required for anthropology majors.

• Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Lans, Aja Marie
• Room: Mergenthaler 439
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/12
• PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE

The history of Africans and people of African descent in what becomes the continental United States. We will learn about the everyday experiences of Africans and people of African descent and the way this struggle for (and meaning of) freedom made make and shake the Americas. You will learn historical facts and how to distinguish change over time and place. You will learn to construct historical narratives using primary and secondary sources, about systems of oppression (like slavery) and how those systems operate--and how ordinary people and communities resisted and took that system down. Opportunities for independent research will be available for advanced students looking for professional development and research experience.

• Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
• Instructor: Johnson, Jessica Marie
• Room: Macaulay 101; Macaulay 101
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/15
• PosTag(s): HIST-AFRICA, HIST-US, HIST-LATAM, AFRS-ENSLAV

The history of Africans and people of African descent in what becomes the continental United States. We will learn about the everyday experiences of Africans and people of African descent and the way this struggle for (and meaning of) freedom made make and shake the Americas. You will learn historical facts and how to distinguish change over time and place. You will learn to construct historical narratives using primary and secondary sources, about systems of oppression (like slavery) and how those systems operate--and how ordinary people and communities resisted and took that system down. Opportunities for independent research will be available for advanced students looking for professional development and research experience.

• Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
• Instructor: Johnson, Jessica Marie
• Room: Macaulay 101; Macaulay 101
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 11/15
• PosTag(s): HIST-AFRICA, HIST-US, HIST-LATAM, AFRS-ENSLAV

The history of Africans and people of African descent in what becomes the continental United States. We will learn about the everyday experiences of Africans and people of African descent and the way this struggle for (and meaning of) freedom made make and shake the Americas. You will learn historical facts and how to distinguish change over time and place. You will learn to construct historical narratives using primary and secondary sources, about systems of oppression (like slavery) and how those systems operate--and how ordinary people and communities resisted and took that system down. Opportunities for independent research will be available for advanced students looking for professional development and research experience.

• Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
• Instructor: Johnson, Jessica Marie
• Room: Macaulay 101; Macaulay 101
• Status: Canceled
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): HIST-AFRICA, HIST-US, HIST-LATAM, AFRS-ENSLAV

The history of Africans and people of African descent in what becomes the continental United States. We will learn about the everyday experiences of Africans and people of African descent and the way this struggle for (and meaning of) freedom made make and shake the Americas. You will learn historical facts and how to distinguish change over time and place. You will learn to construct historical narratives using primary and secondary sources, about systems of oppression (like slavery) and how those systems operate--and how ordinary people and communities resisted and took that system down. Opportunities for independent research will be available for advanced students looking for professional development and research experience.

• Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
• Instructor: Johnson, Jessica Marie
• Room: Macaulay 101; Gilman 217
• Status: Canceled
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): HIST-AFRICA, HIST-US, HIST-LATAM, AFRS-ENSLAV

An introductory examination of slavery in the Caribbean, this course explores the structure of slavery and its development and its transformative effects on people and the region, and the formation of the modern world. Students can expect to explore themes broadly related to gender and sexuality; politics and economy; science and technology; health and the environment; law, culture and society.

• Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
• Instructor: Turner, Sasha
• Room: Gilman 119
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/20
• PosTag(s): HIST-US, HIST-LATAM, INST-GLOBAL, AFRS-ENSLAV, CES-BM, CES-LC, CES-RI

Today about one third of the world’s Muslims live in Africa, a continent where Islam has a long history. This course follows African Muslims as they traveled and migrated, built communities and states, produced literature and scholarship, and contended with slavery and empire. Our historical investigations will take us all over the African continent as well as across the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, following the paths of African Muslim pilgrims, scholars, slaves, soldiers, merchants, rulers, and revolutionaries. No prerequisites needed.

• Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
• Instructor: Thiam, Madina
• Room: Krieger 307
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/20
• PosTag(s): HIST-AFRICA, CDS-MB, INST-GLOBAL, AFRS-AFRICA

Documenting & Digitizing Black Louisiana: Sources, Tools and Contexts is an experiential, team-based, community-engaged undergraduate seminar that combines secondary literature on the history of colonial Louisiana as well as the digital humanities, with intensive deep readings of a selection of translated documents. Seminar sessions will include gatherings with research teams of faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students, with a special emphasis workshops, with and hosted by scholars at JHU and beyond (including team members at Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans. Students with interests in Black history, in multimedia content creation, in digital infrastructure, in manuscript documents, in translation and languages, in public history, social justice and community engagement will find much to learn in this course.

• Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Burri, Margaret N; Johnson, Jessica Marie; McGinn, Emily
• Room: Macaulay 101
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 16/18
• PosTag(s): HIST-AFRICA, HIST-LATAM, HIST-US, ARCH-RELATE, AGRI-ELECT

This class explores the geographic, economic and cultural issues resulting from Africa’s urban growth from precolonial times to the present.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Gondola, Didier Didier
• Room: Gilman 308
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/25
• PosTag(s): HIST-AFRICA, INST-GLOBAL, CES-PD, CES-GI, CES-CC

Early twentieth-century South Africa was home to a vibrant African publishing scene, with numerous newspapers run by African publishers for black audiences. This class will use these newspapers as primary sources to reconstruct the conversations among African intellectuals about some of the most pressing issues of the day, including African voting rights, land ownership, and the place of “customary law” in the colonial state.

• Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Thornberry, Elizabeth
• Room: Smokler Center 213
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/12
• PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, HIST-AFRICA

A basic introduction to Egyptian Religion, with a special focus on the nature of the gods and how humans interact with them. We will devote particular time to the Book of the Dead and to the "magical" aspects of religion designed for protective purposes.

• Days/Times: TTh 12:30PM - 2:00PM
• Instructor: Jasnow, Richard
• Room: Gilman 130G
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/25
• PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE

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: Krieger 306
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): CES-PD, CES-ELECT, CES-RI, INST-ECON

Muslims have been a part of the American fabric since its inception. A key thread in that fabric has been the experiences of enslaved Africans and their descendants, some of whom were Muslims, and who not only added to the dynamism of the American environment, but eventually helped shape American culture, religion, and politics. The history of Islam in America is intertwined with the creation and evolution of African American identity. Contemporary Islam in America cannot be understood without this framing. This course will provide a historical lens for understanding Islam, not as an external faith to the country, but as an internal development of American religion. This course will explicate the history of early Islamic movements in the United States and the subsequent experiences of African-Americans who converted to Islam during the first half of the twentieth century. We will cover the spiritual growth of African American Muslims, their institutional presence, and their enduring impact on American culture writ large and African-American religion and culture more specifically.

• Days/Times: Th 6:00PM - 9:00PM
• Instructor: Fanusie, Fatimah
• Room: Gilman 134
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/15
• PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL

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.

• Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
• Instructor: Staff
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• 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.

• Days/Times: MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM
• Instructor: Reese, Mike J
• Room: Hodson 203
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 14/35
• PosTag(s): n/a

What is the function and purpose of schooling in modern society? Is education the "great equalizer" in America, or does family background mostly predict where people end up in life? What can we do to improve educational attainment? This course is designed to tackle such questions and develop the ability of students to think critically, theoretically, historically and empirically about debates in the sociology of education. The course will also cover additional topics, including: racial and economic differences in educational attainment; school segregation; the rise of for-profit education; how college matters. In addition to reading empirical studies and theoretical work, the relevance of education research for educational policy-making will be emphasized throughout the course.

• Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Deluca, Stefanie
• Room: 3505 N. Charles 102
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): INST-AP, CES-CC, CES-RI

This course focuses on writing with/for/about natural resource issues and scientific research. This writing class prepares students for travel to Sri Lanka, in the summer of 2026, to study Human-Elephant Conflict (HEC) while learning about the health of communities around Wasgamuwa National Park. During the spring of 2026, we’ll work with community collaborators in the Baltimore area to address their content production needs and identify spaces and places for text production/revision while also learning about HEC and Sri Lanka. Additionally, we’ll explore ethical representations of data and synthesize complex arguments into public facing documents. In late May of 2026, we will travel to Sri Lanka for two weeks to work alongside the Sri Lanka Wildlife Conservation Society (SLWCS) – a non-governmental organization committed to saving elephants by helping people – in the Mahaweli Development Project (MDP): a key agricultural region, which has a high rate of both HEC and chronic kidney disease. Students will spend their mornings mapping elephant movements and surveying farmers about elephant related incidences. We’ll also meet with faculty and researchers from the University of Colombo, University of Peradeniya, American Institute for Sri Lanka Studies, and other organizations; these hosted workshops will expose students to new research networks, contemporary scholarship, and help them develop an understanding of collaboration and global scholarship. Additionally, we’ll visit sites of ecological and historical importance. By the end of the trip, students will have worked with GIS databases and technology, sociology and anthropology field methods, and the process of community and public engaged research. After our return from Sri Lanka, students will propose their own research project. Enrollment by permission only. Application required; email [email protected]. Commitment to 2 credit-course in Summer 2026 required.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Ludden, Jason
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM, ENVS-MAJOR, ENVS-MINOR

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: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Spence, Lester
• Room: Bloomberg 168
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): CES-ELECT, CES-RI

Focusing specifically on the representation of Black music in U.S feature films from 1900-2000, this course explores the ways in which race and power are negotiated in two interconnected spaces – behind the camera and within the narrative of the film. This seminar introduces participants to film analysis as well as an overview of several Black music genres. Assignments will include weekly responses as well as a final creative project.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Wiggins-Jackson, Raynetta
• Room:  
• Status: Canceled
• Seats Available: 12/12
• 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:
• Instructor: Nurhussein, Nadia
• Room:  
• Status: Canceled
• Seats Available: 18/18
• PosTag(s): CES-RI

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:
• Instructor: Stocks, Shawntay
• Room:  
• Status: Canceled
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

This is a research seminar devoted to the lives of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X (El-Hajj El-Malik Shabazz), the two the key African American male icons of the Civil Rights Movement representing two ideological camps: racial integration and black nationalism.

• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Jackson, Lawrence P
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/12
• PosTag(s): CES-LSO, CES-RI

This course is available to students who wish to pursue selected, special work that may not be included in the Center's other courses.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Schrader, Stuart Laurence
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

The second semester of Senior Honors in Africana Studies, conducted as an Independent Study. Only students who have successfully completed AS.362.510 Senior Honors In Africana Studies I will be allowed to register.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Johnson, Jessica Marie
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

The second semester of Senior Honors in Africana Studies, conducted as an Independent Study. Only students who have successfully completed AS.362.510 Senior Honors In Africana Studies I will be allowed to register.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Schrader, Stuart Laurence
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course addresses the historic role of the African American cemetery as sacred and political space, with important links to other Black institutions. Operating in partnership with Mount Auburn Cemetery in Baltimore, owned and operated by the Sharp Street Memorial United Methodist Church, we will visit the cemetery and related locations in Baltimore throughout the semester. Our collective goal is to research and share stories that further the interests of these important and vulnerable sites.

• Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Dean, Gabrielle
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/8
• PosTag(s): PMUS-PRAC, ARCH-RELATE, MSCH-HUM, CDS-SSMC