Courses

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Course # (Section)	Title	Day/Times	Instructor	Location	Term	Additional Details
AS.004.441 (01)	Special Topics in Writing: My Power: Motherhood in the Afterlife of Slavery	TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Wright, Lisa E.	Gilman 217	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 0/15 Tags: n/a
AS.060.417 (01)	Black Print Culture	M 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Nurhussein, Nadia	Gilman 130D	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 8/12 Tags: ENGL-GLOBAL
AS.070.318 (01)	Black Atlantic Worlds	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Angelini, Alessandro; White, Alexandre Ilani Rein	Mergenthaler 426	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 8/18 Tags: INST-GLOBAL, CES-RI, CES-BM
AS.070.419 (01)	Logic of Anthropological Inquiry	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Lans, Aja Marie	Mergenthaler 439	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 8/12 Tags: ARCH-RELATE
AS.100.108 (01)	Making America: Black Freedom Struggles to 1896	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Johnson, Jessica Marie	Macaulay 101; Macaulay 101	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 11/15 Tags: HIST-AFRICA, HIST-US, HIST-LATAM, AFRS-ENSLAV
AS.100.108 (02)	Making America: Black Freedom Struggles to 1896	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Johnson, Jessica Marie	Macaulay 101; Macaulay 101	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 15/15 Tags: HIST-AFRICA, HIST-US, HIST-LATAM, AFRS-ENSLAV
AS.100.108 (03)	Making America: Black Freedom Struggles to 1896	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Johnson, Jessica Marie	Macaulay 101; Macaulay 101	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: HIST-AFRICA, HIST-US, HIST-LATAM, AFRS-ENSLAV
AS.100.108 (04)	Making America: Black Freedom Struggles to 1896	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Johnson, Jessica Marie	Macaulay 101; Gilman 217	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: HIST-AFRICA, HIST-US, HIST-LATAM, AFRS-ENSLAV
AS.100.209 (01)	Slavery in the Caribbean	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	Turner, Sasha	Gilman 119	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 6/20 Tags: HIST-US, HIST-LATAM, INST-GLOBAL, AFRS-ENSLAV, CES-BM, CES-LC, CES-RI, HIST-LAW
AS.100.225 (01)	Mansa Musa’s Gold: the History of African Muslims	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	Thiam, Madina	Krieger 307	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/20 Tags: HIST-AFRICA, CDS-MB, INST-GLOBAL, AFRS-AFRICA
AS.100.271 (01)	Documenting & Digitizing Black Louisiana: Sources, Tools and Contexts	MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Burri, Margaret N; Johnson, Jessica Marie; McGinn, Emily	Macaulay 101	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 17/18 Tags: HIST-AFRICA, HIST-LATAM, HIST-US, ARCH-RELATE, AGRI-ELECT
AS.100.372 (01)	African Cities: Environment, Gender, and Economic Life	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Gondola, Didier Didier	Gilman 308	Spring 2026	Description: This class explores the geographic, economic and cultural issues resulting from Africa’s urban growth from precolonial times to the present. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 2/25 Tags: HIST-AFRICA, INST-GLOBAL, CES-PD, CES-GI, CES-CC
AS.100.450 (08)	History Research Lab: The Black Press South Africa	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Thornberry, Elizabeth	Smokler Center 213	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 10/12 Tags: INST-GLOBAL, HIST-AFRICA
AS.130.126 (01)	Gods and Monsters in Ancient Egypt	TTh 12:30PM - 2:00PM	Jasnow, Richard	Gilman 130G	Spring 2026	Description: 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 Status: Closed Seats Available: 6/25 Tags: ARCH-RELATE
AS.180.355 (01)	Economics of Poverty/Inequality	MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Husain, Muhammad Mudabbir	Krieger 306	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 3/15 Tags: CES-PD, CES-ELECT, CES-RI, INST-ECON
AS.194.230 (01)	African-Americans and the Development of Islam in America	Th 6:00PM - 9:00PM	Fanusie, Fatimah	Gilman 134	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 11/15 Tags: INST-GLOBAL
AS.210.371 (01)	Advanced Portuguese I	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	Staff		Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a
AS.230.205 (01)	Introduction to Social Statistics	F 10:00AM - 10:50AM, MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Reese, Mike J	BLC 5017; Shaffer 001	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 4.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 14/35 Tags: n/a
AS.230.320 (01)	Education & Inequality: Individual, Contextual, and Policy Perspectives	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Deluca, Stefanie	3505 N. Charles 102	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 2/15 Tags: INST-AP, CES-CC, CES-RI
AS.360.406 (01)	ERL: Composing Research: Collaborating with Elephants/People/Rivers/Kidneys/Soil	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Ludden, Jason	Gilman 77	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/10 Tags: MSCH-HUM, ENVS-MAJOR, ENVS-MINOR
AS.362.112 (01)	Introduction to Africana Studies	TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Spence, Lester	Bloomberg 168	Spring 2026	Description: 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 Status: Closed Seats Available: 3/15 Tags: CES-ELECT, CES-RI
AS.362.203 (01)	Fight the Powers that Be: Black Music and Film in the 20th Century		Wiggins-Jackson, Raynetta		Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 12/12 Tags: n/a
AS.362.311 (01)	Black Utopias		Nurhussein, Nadia		Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 18/18 Tags: CES-RI
AS.362.402 (01)	Arts and Social Justice Practicum		Stocks, Shawntay		Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a
AS.362.413 (01)	Radical Histories of MLK Jr. and Malcolm X	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Jackson, Lawrence P	Mergenthaler 266	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 12/12 Tags: CES-LSO, CES-RI
AS.362.501 (01)	Independent Study		Jackson, Lawrence P		Spring 2026	Description: This course is available to students who wish to pursue selected, special work that may not be included in the Center's other courses. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/5 Tags: n/a
AS.362.511 (02)	Senior Honors in Africana Studies II		Jackson, Lawrence P		Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a
AS.362.511 (03)	Senior Honors in Africana Studies II		Schrader, Stuart Laurence		Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a
AS.389.314 (01)	Researching the Africana Archive: Black Cemetery Stories	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Dean, Gabrielle		Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 8/8 Tags: PMUS-PRAC, ARCH-RELATE, MSCH-HUM, CDS-SSMC
AS.362.211 (30)	Rastafari: From Marcus to Marley		Shilliam, Robbie		Summer 2026	Description: This summer institute is a week long opportunity that takes place abroad with a theme focused on the healing arts. Grounding this theme is the pursuit of reparatory justice in the Rastafari faith. The summer school will integrate learning activities with existing community projects, for instance, the School of Vision and Rastafari Indigenous Village. Students will study Rastafari as an African-centered ethos, inclusive of culture and economic sustainability. Credits: 1.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 14/14 Tags: n/a
AS.362.501 (01)	Independent Study		Jackson, Lawrence P		Summer 2026	Description: This course is available to students who wish to pursue selected, special work that may not be included in the Center's other courses. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 4/5 Tags: n/a
AS.004.441 (01)	Special Topics in Writing: The Mothers of Gynecology	TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Wright, Lisa E.	Gilman 400	Fall 2026	Description: Deirdre Cooper Owens argues that the experimental and pioneering work performed on enslaved Black women such as Anarcha, Betsy, and Lucy, by Dr. James Marion Sims, who is known as the father of gynecology, has been overshadowed in America’s understanding of American gynecology. In this writing-intensive course, we will explore the role of Black enslaved women in the formation of the field of American gynecology. We will examine the writing about enslaved Black midwives, nurses, and Black women whose medical practices and bodies were deemed inferior and flawed yet provided foundational knowledge for white practitioners in the mid-1800s. Potential readings include Deirdre Cooper Owens’ Medical Bondage: Race Gender and the Origins of American Gynecology, Deborah Gray Whites’ Ar’nt I a Woman?, and Marie Jenkins Schwartz’s Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South. Throughout the term, students will conduct their own research and write to combine these conversations with contemporary discussions surrounding Black maternal health, Black midwives, birthing justice, and reproductive justice more broadly. This course will culminate with an academic conference where students will present their research to an audience of their peers. All first-year students who have taken Reintro and all students at the sophomore level or above are welcome. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/18 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.010.386 (01)	Modern Art in a Global Frame	MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Brown, Rebecca Mary	Gilman 186	Fall 2026	Description: This course will grapple with modern art as it emerges in critically important locations around the world over the course of the twentieth century, with an emphasis on Asia, Africa, and South America. Anti-colonial movements, national formations, geopolitical alliances, institution-building, exhibition, fair, and biennial histories, art group manifestos, and the intertwined relations of race, ethnicity, Indigeneity, gender, class, and sexuality. Museum visits to view works of art in person will be incorporated into the course. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/15 Tags: HART-MODERN
AS.060.328 (01)	The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	Jackson, Lawrence P	Gilman 219	Fall 2026	Description: This course surveys American literature and social history during what was then known as the New Negro movement (roughly 1912-1934), today popularly called the Harlem Renaissance. Since the1980s, scholars have revised claims that the “Renaissance” was a literary failure characterized mainly by exotic and primitive caricatures. Today the era is noted for renewing ideas of American pluralist nationality, a project, in the words of one critic, “of reconceiving the United States as something other than a white nation.” To think through some of these claims, the course juxtaposes the classic modernist work of white American writers alongside the classics of African American Harlem Renaissance literature. We will pay close attention to the evolution and instantiation of racial stereotypes during the 1920s and the operation of modernist literary techniques. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 6/15 Tags: ENGL-GLOBAL
AS.100.111 (01)	Making America: Blacks in the Twentieth Century	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Connolly, Nathan D	Shaffer 306	Fall 2026	Description: This survey course explores the role of African-descended people and social-political responses directed at those people in the development of modern American society. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 34/48 Tags: HIST-US, CDS-SSMC
AS.100.229 (01)	African Women in the Postcolonial City	WF 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Quarshie, Afua Nuro Baafi	Shaffer 305	Fall 2026	Description: This course examines the many facets of women’s lives in postcolonial African cities. Using diverse sources, including films, novels, and newspapers, the course interrogates how women understood and fashioned themselves amid social, political, and economic change. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 6/15 Tags: HIST-AFRICA, AFRS-AFRICA, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.239 (01)	Chronicling the Caribbean	MW 9:00AM - 9:50AM, F 9:00AM - 9:50AM	Turner, Sasha	Gilman 132; Gilman 77	Fall 2026	Description: This course is a critical inquiry into the writing of the region’s history as mere appendage to imperial history justifying European domination and exploitation of the region. It explores how innovations in Caribbean Archaeology, Caribbean History, and the Digital Humanities challenge Eurocentric knowledge claims extending the decolonization struggle beyond politics and economy to include the academy. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 7/10 Tags: HIST-EUROPE, HIST-LATAM, HIST-AFRICA, INST-GLOBAL, AFRS-AFRICA
AS.100.239 (02)	Chronicling the Caribbean	MW 9:00AM - 9:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Turner, Sasha	Gilman 132; Gilman 10	Fall 2026	Description: This course is a critical inquiry into the writing of the region’s history as mere appendage to imperial history justifying European domination and exploitation of the region. It explores how innovations in Caribbean Archaeology, Caribbean History, and the Digital Humanities challenge Eurocentric knowledge claims extending the decolonization struggle beyond politics and economy to include the academy. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 8/10 Tags: HIST-EUROPE, HIST-LATAM, HIST-AFRICA, INST-GLOBAL, AFRS-AFRICA
AS.100.239 (03)	Chronicling the Caribbean	MW 9:00AM - 9:50AM, F 9:00AM - 9:50AM	Turner, Sasha	Gilman 132; Gilman 10	Fall 2026	Description: This course is a critical inquiry into the writing of the region’s history as mere appendage to imperial history justifying European domination and exploitation of the region. It explores how innovations in Caribbean Archaeology, Caribbean History, and the Digital Humanities challenge Eurocentric knowledge claims extending the decolonization struggle beyond politics and economy to include the academy. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 9/10 Tags: HIST-EUROPE, HIST-LATAM, HIST-AFRICA, INST-GLOBAL, AFRS-AFRICA
AS.100.239 (04)	Chronicling the Caribbean	MW 9:00AM - 9:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Turner, Sasha	Gilman 132; Gilman 77	Fall 2026	Description: This course is a critical inquiry into the writing of the region’s history as mere appendage to imperial history justifying European domination and exploitation of the region. It explores how innovations in Caribbean Archaeology, Caribbean History, and the Digital Humanities challenge Eurocentric knowledge claims extending the decolonization struggle beyond politics and economy to include the academy. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 9/10 Tags: HIST-EUROPE, HIST-LATAM, HIST-AFRICA, INST-GLOBAL, AFRS-AFRICA
AS.100.282 (01)	Race & Power in Modern South Africa	TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Thornberry, Elizabeth	Gilman 313	Fall 2026	Description: History of colonialism, the apartheid state, and the anti-apartheid liberation struggle in South Africa, with special attention to the role of gender, race, religion, and ethnicity. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 1/16 Tags: INST-GLOBAL, CES-LE, CES-RI, AFRS-AFRICA, HIST-AFRICA, HIST-LAW
AS.130.314 (01)	Introduction To Middle Egyptian	MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Jasnow, Richard	Gilman 238	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 3/6 Tags: n/a
AS.180.223 (01)	Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa	WF 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Seshie-Nasser, Hellen	Croft Hall G02	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/20 Tags: INST-ECON, CES-PD, CES-TI, CES-RI
AS.190.437 (01)	Race and Ethnic Politics in the United States	Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Weaver, Vesla Mae	Gilman 55	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 7/20 Tags: INST-AP, POLI-IR, CES-LSO, AGRI-ELECT, CDS-SSMC, HIST-LAW
AS.191.397 (01)	The Politics of the Blues in U.S. Cities	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Gaines, Kory	Ames 234	Fall 2026	Description: How might we come to understand the blues as critical for ideational formations, identity, and institutional change for Black Americans in the twentieth century? Blues and jazz are not often understood as mediums for political thought and action. Popular culture has always been an avenue for Black Americans to express and influence American politics broadly. The blues has long been a Black working-class epistemology for Black survival and thriving, even further the blues is a foundation for building social democracy for all people. This course will examine how the blues and its extension into jazz critique and explain conditions of racial domination in the plantation South and new relations of domination in the urban North. With a particular focus on Baltimore, Chicago, and New York City, students will understand and analyze the socio-political life of the blues using historical institutionalist methods in political science. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/20 Tags: POLI-AP, POLI-PT, CES-RI, CES-LC
AS.196.411 (91DC)	The Modern American Midterm Election in Historical Perspective	W 11:30AM - 1:15PM	Mason, Lily Hall; Wright Rigueur, Leah M	555 Penn B244	Fall 2026	Description: American elections – even rare, unexpected, or paradigm-busting elections – do not occur in a vacuum. Instead, they are created, shaped, and constructed by a variety of significant forces, over time.This seminar thus suggests that you cannot understand modern American politics and contests, including the 2024 election and the upcoming 2026 election, without examining the historical antecedents that make the present-day moment possible. Consequently, while enrolled in this seminar, students will grapple with the following central question: what are the foundational moments in modern American social, political, and economic history that provided the “building blocks” for the 2026 United States Midterm Elections? How can we use history to analyze and explain the developments of the 2026 election, and put them in context as those moments are happening in real time? Credits: 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 8/15 Tags: INST-AP, AGRI-ELECT, HIST-LAW
AS.210.371 (01)	Advanced Portuguese I	MWF 9:00AM - 9:50AM	De Azeredo Cerqueira, Flavia Christina; Nagasawa, Ellen	Gilman 443	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 4/10 Tags: n/a
AS.211.171 (01)	Brazilian Culture & Civilization: Colonial Times to the Present	MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM	De Azeredo Cerqueira, Flavia Christina	Gilman 119	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 20/20 Tags: INST-GLOBAL
AS.211.171 (02)	Brazilian Culture & Civilization: Colonial Times to the Present	MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM	De Azeredo Cerqueira, Flavia Christina	Gilman 119	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 4.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: INST-GLOBAL
AS.230.244 (01)	Race and Ethnicity in American Society	TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM	Greif, Meredith	Gilman 186	Fall 2026	Description: 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 Status: Open Seats Available: 1/20 Tags: INST-AP, CES-RI, CES-CC, MSCH-HUM
AS.230.388 (01)	Caribbean Baltimore	Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Edwards, Zophia	Bloomberg 178	Fall 2026	Description: Caribbean immigrants have long been an integral part of Baltimore’s rich and diverse Black community, shaping the city’s neighborhoods, politics, culture, and movements for justice. In this community-based learning course, students will explore the historical and contemporary experiences of Caribbean immigrants in Baltimore, with particular attention to migrants from the Anglophone Caribbean. Moving beyond the classroom, students will engage directly with Caribbean activists, educators, artists, and cultural workers whose lives and labor animate the city. Through oral history interviews, ethical and reflexive community engagement, and justice-driven archival practices, students will gain hands-on experience researching and co-creating an archival record of Caribbean immigrant life in Baltimore. This course is taught in partnership with Nati Kamau-Nataki of Everyone’s Place Bookstore and African Cultural Center. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 2/10 Tags: CDS-SSMC, CDS-MB, CSC-CE
AS.230.430 (01)	Sociology of Policing and Resistance in Race-Class Subjugated Communities	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Weaver, Vesla Mae	Mergenthaler 431	Fall 2026	Description: Policing has become a primary way that many Americans see and experience government, particularly those from race-class subjugated communities, and has been a site of resistance and freedom struggles since the first Reconstruction. In this undergraduate seminar, we will survey key debates around policing and social movements, with a particular focus on research that takes institutional development, history, and racial orders seriously. A core preoccupation of this course will be to understand the ways in which policing “makes race” and how debates about crime, surveillance, and safety were often debates about black inclusion and equality. We will explore changes in the racial logics of policing over time, debates over how policing helped construct the racial order, and the consequences of several shifts in policing for communities. From broken windows policing in New York to the emergence of the new vagrancy-style banishment laws in urban Seattle to the men who live under constant surveillance in Philadelphia and to the large share of blacks in Ferguson with outstanding warrants for ‘failure to appear”, these policies and policing regimes have helped remake the government in the eyes of the urban poor. How does exposure to criminal justice interventions shape political learning, racial lifeworlds, and community social capital? The course will include a range of methods (ethnography, historical analysis, quantitative and qualitative). Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 8/12 Tags: CDS-EWC, CES-LC, CES-RI, HIST-LAW
AS.362.111 (01)	Introduction Africana Public Health	TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM	Stocks, Shawntay	Krieger 170	Fall 2026	Description: Introduction to Africana Public Health explores the intersections between the disciplines of Africana Studies and Public Health Studies. The course uses the research questions and evidence bases of Africana Studies to address issues of race, power, and inequality in public health. Each week, students will participate in a themed conversations between Africana Studies and Public Health scholars, then discuss and analyze the ideas raised in weekly seminars alongside course readings. The course is designed to introduce students to both fields and inspire further study and research. Introduction to Africana Public Health encourages students to think critically about the influence of social and historical forces on public health research and policy, from the local context of Baltimore to global health initiatives. By the end of the course, students will have tools to better understand how race, inequality, and social conditions shape the ways public health challenges are defined and addressed for Black communities. Students will participate in the organization and execution of the joint Africana-Public Health lunchtime speaker events. Community-based learning is a significant component of Introduction to Africana Public Health and the course requires occasional travel within Baltimore City to community partners. Credits: 3.00 Status: Reserved Open Seats Available: 22/25 Tags: n/a
AS.362.112 (01)	Introduction to Africana Studies	TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Okechukwu, Amaka Camille	Gilman 381	Fall 2026	Description: 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 Status: Open Seats Available: 10/15 Tags: CES-ELECT, CES-RI
AS.362.200 (01)	Translating the Haitian Revolution: Resurrecting Literature	TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Desormeaux, Daniel	Gilman 10	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 4/10 Tags: ENVS-MAJOR, ENVS-MINOR
AS.362.204 (01)	Anti-Black Racism and Black Freedom Struggles: History, Theory, and Culture	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Makalani, Minkah	Gilman 277	Fall 2026	Description: In Anti-Black Racism and Black Freedom Struggles: History, Theory, and Culture, students will learn about key historical, intellectual, and political aspects of white supremacy as a system or racial domination, and anti-black racism as a central feature of that global system. This class will explore the historical forms that white supremacy has taken—from colonialism and plantation slavery to Jim Crow, gentrification, and mass incarceration—racial ideologies, and how modern political systems have hinged on racial oppression. Most important, we will explore how black people have responded to the structures and ideologies of white supremacy, their thinking about freedom, being, and rights, and their efforts to fit into the worlds in which they found themselves, to improve those societies, and those projects that sought radical alternatives to the an anti-black world. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 13/15 Tags: CES-LC, CES-LSO, CES-RI, HIST-LAW
AS.362.345 (01)	Black Politics I	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Spence, Lester	Mergenthaler 252	Fall 2026	Description: This course is a survey of the bases and substance of politics among black Americans and the relation of black politics to the American political system up to the end of Jim Crow. The intention is both to provide a general sense of pertinent issues and relations over this period as a way of helping to make sense of the present and to develop criteria for evaluating political scientists' and others' claims regarding the status and characteristics of black American political activity. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 1/7 Tags: INST-AP
AS.362.501 (01)	Independent Study		Blanks Jones, Jasmine		Fall 2026	Description: This course is available to students who wish to pursue selected, special work that may not be included in the Center's other courses. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.362.501 (02)	Independent Study		Jackson, Lawrence P		Fall 2026	Description: This course is available to students who wish to pursue selected, special work that may not be included in the Center's other courses. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.362.501 (03)	Independent Study		Johnson, Jessica Marie		Fall 2026	Description: This course is available to students who wish to pursue selected, special work that may not be included in the Center's other courses. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.362.510 (01)	Senior Honors in Africana Studies I		White, Alexandre Ilani Rein		Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a
AS.362.510 (02)	Senior Honors in Africana Studies I		Johnson, Jessica Marie		Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a
AS.362.510 (03)	Senior Honors in Africana Studies I		Schrader, Stuart Laurence		Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a