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Course # (Section)
Title
Day/Times
Instructor
Room
PosTag(s)
Info
AS.130.126 (01)
Gods and Monsters in Ancient Egypt
MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Jasnow, Richard
Olin 305
ARCH-RELATE
Gods and Monsters in Ancient Egypt AS.130.126 (01)
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.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Instructor: Jasnow, Richard
Room: Olin 305
Status: Open
Seats Available: 7/100
PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE
AS.100.282 (01)
Race & Power in Modern South Africa
MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Thornberry, Elizabeth
Gilman 17
INST-GLOBAL, HIST-AFRICA
Race & Power in Modern South Africa AS.100.282 (01)
Overview of modern South African history, with a focus on the origins of the racial state and the development of black liberation movements.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Instructor: Thornberry, Elizabeth
Room: Gilman 17
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/18
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, HIST-AFRICA
AS.100.282 (02)
Race & Power in Modern South Africa
MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Thornberry, Elizabeth
Gilman 17
INST-GLOBAL, HIST-AFRICA
Race & Power in Modern South Africa AS.100.282 (02)
Overview of modern South African history, with a focus on the origins of the racial state and the development of black liberation movements.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Instructor: Thornberry, Elizabeth
Room: Gilman 17
Status: Open
Seats Available: 9/18
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, HIST-AFRICA
AS.130.203 (01)
Archaeology of Africa: From Human Origins to the Emergence of Civilizations
TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Harrower, Michael James
Gilman 10
ARCH-ARCH, NEAS-ARTARC
Archaeology of Africa: From Human Origins to the Emergence of Civilizations AS.130.203 (01)
This course examines Africa’s ancient past from the emergence of biologically modern humans, ancient hunter-gatherers, the earliest animal herding and farming populations, to cities and civilizations. While Egypt plays an undeniably central role in world history, this course concentrates in particular on ancient geographies other than Egypt.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Harrower, Michael James
Room: Gilman 10
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/10
PosTag(s): ARCH-ARCH, NEAS-ARTARC
AS.190.311 (01)
Disposable People: Race, Immigration and Biopolitics
W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Brendese, Philip Joseph, III.
Mattin Center 162
INST-PT
Disposable People: Race, Immigration and Biopolitics AS.190.311 (01)
This course will explore theories and practices of race and immigration in order to illuminate the proliferation of populations regarded as disposable in contemporary politics. We will pay special attention to the contestable criteria used to determine eligibility for membership in the human race. We shall also examine how political power influences the relays between citizenship status and those whose lives are worthy of protection, and those who should be allowed to die.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Brendese, Philip Joseph, III.
Room: Mattin Center 162
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/15
PosTag(s): INST-PT
AS.190.380 (01)
The American Welfare State
Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Schlozman, Daniel
Abel Wolman House 100
POLI-AP, POLI-RSCH, INST-AP
The American Welfare State AS.190.380 (01)
This course analyzes the distinctive US welfare state in historical and comparative perspective. We begin with a survey of the policy context, an historical overview from the poorhouses through the Great Society, and a tour of welfare states across the rich democracies. We then survey developments – and explain the actual workings of policy – across jobs, education, welfare, pensions, and health care. We explore the institutional and political factors behind their divergent trajectories through conservative revival and the age of Trump. Students will write a seminar paper exploring policy development over time in a program or area of their choosing. Enrollment restricted to Social Policy minors only.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Schlozman, Daniel
Room: Abel Wolman House 100
Status: Open
Seats Available: 8/20
PosTag(s): POLI-AP, POLI-RSCH, INST-AP
AS.150.404 (01)
The Idea of Power
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Lebron, Christopher Joseph
Krieger 308
INST-PT, PHIL-ETHICS
The Idea of Power AS.150.404 (01)
The Idea of Power surveys seminal texts in the history of political thought on the nature, promise, and dangers of political and social power; it also critically engages contemporary texts on race and gender power relations
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Instructor: Lebron, Christopher Joseph
Room: Krieger 308
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/15
PosTag(s): INST-PT, PHIL-ETHICS
AS.100.394 (01)
Brazilian Paradoxes: Slavery, Race, and Inequality in Brazil (from a Portuguese Colony to the World’s 8th Largest Economy)
TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Hebrard, Jean Michel Louis
Gilman 413
HIST-LATAM, INST-GLOBAL, INST-NWHIST
Brazilian Paradoxes: Slavery, Race, and Inequality in Brazil (from a Portuguese Colony to the World’s 8th Largest Economy) AS.100.394 (01)
Place of contrasts, Brazil has a multi-ethnic cultural heritage challenged by social and racial inequalities. Its political life remains chaotic. We will examine these problems through Brazilian history and culture.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Instructor: Hebrard, Jean Michel Louis
Room: Gilman 413
Status: Open
Seats Available: 2/15
PosTag(s): HIST-LATAM, INST-GLOBAL, INST-NWHIST
AS.100.354 (01)
Playing in the White: Black Writers, the Literary Colorline and Writing Whiteness
Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Mott, Shani T
Hodson 316
HIST-US
Playing in the White: Black Writers, the Literary Colorline and Writing Whiteness AS.100.354 (01)
This course will turn to known and not-so-known black writers during the early to mid-twentieth century who defied literary expectation and wrote stories that featured or focused on whiteness. We will consider what whiteness offered black writers and the political work that their literary experimentations did for a white American publishing industry.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Mott, Shani T
Room: Hodson 316
Status: Open
Seats Available: 6/15
PosTag(s): HIST-US
AS.194.210 (01)
Race, Gender, Citizenship: Being Muslim in America
M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Ziad, Homayra
Krieger 302
ISLM-ISLMST, INST-AP, CSC-CE
Race, Gender, Citizenship: Being Muslim in America AS.194.210 (01)
This course explores how American Muslims navigate and contest complex notions of belonging in the context of national conversations on race, gender, citizenship, and national security. With a focus on specific case studies that range from Black Muslim movements of the early twentieth century to the ongoing War on Terror, the course adds complexity to the public conversation on what it means to be Muslim - and what it means to be American. We will draw on history, ethnography, first-person narratives, films, blogs, documentaries and fiction. As a Community Engaged course, the class will include site visits and learning with and from Muslim communities in Baltimore.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Ziad, Homayra
Room: Krieger 302
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/26
PosTag(s): ISLM-ISLMST, INST-AP, CSC-CE
AS.190.410 (01)
Beyond Bob Marley: Exploring the Rastafari Movement in the Greater Baltimore Area
W 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Shilliam, Robert
Krieger 300
POLI-IR, CSC-CE
Beyond Bob Marley: Exploring the Rastafari Movement in the Greater Baltimore Area AS.190.410 (01)
This course uses a community based learning approach to inquire into the presence of the Rastafari community in the Baltimore area. Most people will have heard of Rastafari through the music of Bob Marley. People might not know, however, that Rastafari emerges out of and has been part of a global history of liberation struggles. This course is co-taught with a local Rastafari organization. You will be intellectually and practically equipped to take part in a project of original research on the Rastafari presence in the Baltimore region, starting with the demonization of the movement in the 1980s “war on drugs” and including the movement’s response.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: W 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Instructor: Shilliam, Robert
Room: Krieger 300
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/20
PosTag(s): POLI-IR, CSC-CE
AS.191.303 (01)
Critical Race Theory, Law, and Criminal Justice
MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Schrader, Stuart Laurence
Maryland 114
POLI-AP, POLI-PT, INST-AP, INST-PT, SPOL-UL
Critical Race Theory, Law, and Criminal Justice AS.191.303 (01)
In this course, students will gain a foundational understanding of critical race theory, including its genesis in legal theory. The course will examine its relationship and importance to social movements, including through key concepts like intersectionality. The course will also use critical race theory to grapple with law, racial segregation, and the criminal justice system in the United States.
Lectures on Public Health and Wellbeing in Baltimore
T 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Leaf, Philip
Hodson 210
Lectures on Public Health and Wellbeing in Baltimore AS.280.120 (04)
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.
Credits: 1.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: T 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Instructor: Leaf, Philip
Room: Hodson 210
Status: Open
Seats Available: 22/40
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.230.323 (01)
Qualitative Research Practicum
Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Amen Strayhorn, Kali-ahset
Mattin Center 162
CSC-CE
Qualitative Research Practicum AS.230.323 (01)
This course provides "hands on" research experience applying sociological research tools and a sociological perspective to problems of substance. Qualitative observational and/or interviewing methods will be emphasized. Students will design and carry out a research project and write a research report. This course fulfills the "research practicum" requirement for the Sociology major.
The Political Economy of Drugs and Drug Wars AS.230.397 (01)
In the United States, we spend more than $100 billion annually on illegal drugs—and the government spends more than $50 billion a year to combat their sale and use. These statistics raise important and complicated social questions. This course will examine the production, sale, use, and control of illegal drugs from a historical and sociological perspective. We will have three objectives: to understand the social construction of drug use and illegality in the United States and other rich countries; to uncover the political and economic consequences of drug trafficking in those countries that produce drugs, particularly in Latin America; and to examine the political economy of drug control through the so-called War on Drugs, both domestically and internationally.
Hip Hop Culture: From the Boogie Down to Black Lives Matter
T 5:00PM - 7:30PM
Devos, Andrew David
Krieger 304
Hip Hop Culture: From the Boogie Down to Black Lives Matter AS.362.271 (01)
Hip hop has become one of the most influential youth cultural movements of the past 40 years. It has moved from being a geographically-isolated African American and Puerto Rican musical scene to influencing every aspect of American and international youth culture, including music, visual culture, language, and politics. How did hip hop develop? Where did it come from, who made it, and why? What do the images and messages of hip hop culture mean, how has it changed our world, and who cares? We will approach these questions by delving into the historical, aesthetic, socioeconomic, and political dimensions of hip hop culture. Classes will historically explore specific themes, either examining issues that hip hop has dealt with (e.g., police brutality) or employing theoretical frameworks that we can use to help us think more critically about hip hop (e.g., subcultural theory).
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: T 5:00PM - 7:30PM
Instructor: Devos, Andrew David
Room: Krieger 304
Status: Open
Seats Available: 2/20
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.363.416 (01)
WGS Internship/Practicum: Feminist Animals: Sex, Nature, and Nonhumans
W 1:30PM - 4:30PM
Guha-Majumdar, Jishnu
WGS Internship/Practicum: Feminist Animals: Sex, Nature, and Nonhumans AS.363.416 (01)
Introducing feminist approaches to ecology and nonhumans, this course considers the interconnections between heteropatriarchal domination and the domination of nonhuman animals and ecologies. What different sensibilities and ways of seeing sex and gender open up when attention shifts to nonhumans? What tensions within and between feminism, animal liberation, and ecological concern come to the fore when each approach is alongside the others? How does the study of nonhumans extend the promise of feminism, and vice versa? In responding to these questions, we will see the real breadth of issues that the theory and practice of feminism can address.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:30PM
Instructor: Guha-Majumdar, Jishnu
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 8/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.210.290 (03)
Accelerated Portuguese
MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Spiker, Magali T
Gilman 77
Accelerated Portuguese AS.210.290 (03)
No previous knowledge of Portuguese is required. This course is an accelerated Portuguese introductory course. Encourages rapid acquisition by intensive exposure to the language through immersion activities, videos and culture. The course will cover the basics of Portuguese grammar. Students will be encouraged to use the language through communicative activities, listening and writing activities. Students will develop an intermediate level of proficiency in Portuguese. THERE IS NO FINAL EXAM. May not be taken on a Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory basis.
Credits: 4.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Instructor: Spiker, Magali T
Room: Gilman 77
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.280.120 (02)
Lectures on Public Health and Wellbeing in Baltimore
T 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Leaf, Philip
Hodson 210
Lectures on Public Health and Wellbeing in Baltimore AS.280.120 (02)
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.
Credits: 1.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: T 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Instructor: Leaf, Philip
Room: Hodson 210
Status: Open
Seats Available: 9/22
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.362.112 (01)
Introduction to Africana Studies
WF 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Mott, Shani T
Shaffer 300
Introduction to Africana Studies AS.362.112 (01)
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.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: WF 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Instructor: Mott, Shani T
Room: Shaffer 300
Status: Open
Seats Available: 6/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.230.244 (01)
Race and Ethnicity in American Society
TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Greif, Meredith
Gilman 413
INST-AP
Race and Ethnicity in American Society AS.230.244 (01)
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.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Instructor: Greif, Meredith
Room: Gilman 413
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/18
PosTag(s): INST-AP
AS.362.315 (01)
Black Against Empire
MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Schrader, Stuart Laurence
Krieger Laverty
INST-GLOBAL, INST-AP, INST-CP
Black Against Empire AS.362.315 (01)
This course will examine the confrontation of Black social movements with imperialism in the twentieth century. How, we will ask, have key Black internationalist thinkers conceptualized and defined diaspora, capitalism, imperialism, war, and the global? What have been the effects of war and repression, as well as economic growth and globalization, on Black internationalism? Readings may include texts by W.E.B. Du Bois, Angela Y. Davis, Frantz Fanon, Ashley Farmer, Claudia Jones, Robin D.G. Kelley, Claude McKay, Huey P. Newton, Walter Rodney, Malcolm X, etc. Students will complete a research paper on a topic of their own choosing related to Black internationalism in the twentieth century.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Instructor: Schrader, Stuart Laurence
Room: Krieger Laverty
Status: Open
Seats Available: 8/18
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, INST-AP, INST-CP
AS.230.357 (01)
Baltimore and Beyond
T 4:00PM - 6:30PM
Deluca, Stefanie
Abel Wolman House 100
SPOL-UL
Baltimore and Beyond AS.230.357 (01)
This course uses the city of Baltimore as a lens through which to explore issues of urban inequality. We will focus on Baltimore's history of racial segregation and concentrated poverty, and its effect on the social and economic well-being of the city and its residents, with attention to education, employment, health and crime. Students will learn how to employ Census data, GIS approaches, and sociological research to inform questions about population change, inequality and the distribution of resources across the city and metropolitan region. Students will also work on one or more policy relevant studies based in Baltimore, including: a project on abandoned and vacant housing, a desegregation intervention, and a longitudinal study of inner city youth. Finally, students will become familiar with Baltimore City's programs and policy approaches to addressing the city's most pressing problems, and will design innovative and effective and innovative solutions as part of their course assignments. Enrollment restricted to Social Policy minors only.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: T 4:00PM - 6:30PM
Instructor: Deluca, Stefanie
Room: Abel Wolman House 100
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/15
PosTag(s): SPOL-UL
AS.280.120 (01)
Lectures on Public Health and Wellbeing in Baltimore
T 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Leaf, Philip
Hodson 210
Lectures on Public Health and Wellbeing in Baltimore AS.280.120 (01)
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.
Credits: 1.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: T 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Instructor: Leaf, Philip
Room: Hodson 210
Status: Open
Seats Available: 11/25
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.280.120 (03)
Lectures on Public Health and Wellbeing in Baltimore
T 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Leaf, Philip
Hodson 210
Lectures on Public Health and Wellbeing in Baltimore AS.280.120 (03)
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.
