The course will introduce students to major aspects of the ancient Greek civilization, with special emphasis placed upon culture, society, archaeology, literature, and philosophy.

• Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Smith, Joshua M
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): ARCH-ARCH, ARCH-RELATE

The question of what it means to be human requires continual investigation. Anthropology offers conceptual tools and an ethical groundwork for understanding humanity in all its diversity. This course familiarizes students with anthropological concepts and methods. We will engage in critical analysis of a broad range of subjects including language, exchange, class, race, gender, kinship, sexuality, religion, and capitalism.

• Days/Times: W 12:00PM - 1:15PM, M 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: MacLochlainn, Scott
• Room: Mergenthaler 111; Mergenthaler 439
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE

The question of what it means to be human requires continual investigation. Anthropology offers conceptual tools and an ethical groundwork for understanding humanity in all its diversity. This course familiarizes students with anthropological concepts and methods. We will engage in critical analysis of a broad range of subjects including language, exchange, class, race, gender, kinship, sexuality, religion, and capitalism.

• Days/Times: W 12:00PM - 1:15PM, M 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: MacLochlainn, Scott
• Room: Mergenthaler 111; Ames 320
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE

The question of what it means to be human requires continual investigation. Anthropology offers conceptual tools and an ethical groundwork for understanding humanity in all its diversity. This course familiarizes students with anthropological concepts and methods. We will engage in critical analysis of a broad range of subjects including language, exchange, class, race, gender, kinship, sexuality, religion, and capitalism.

• Days/Times: W 12:00PM - 1:15PM, M 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: MacLochlainn, Scott
• Room: Mergenthaler 111; Smokler Center 301
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 2/15
• PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE

The question of what it means to be human requires continual investigation. Anthropology offers conceptual tools and an ethical groundwork for understanding humanity in all its diversity. This course familiarizes students with anthropological concepts and methods. We will engage in critical analysis of a broad range of subjects including language, exchange, class, race, gender, kinship, sexuality, religion, and capitalism.

• Days/Times: W 12:00PM - 1:15PM, M 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: MacLochlainn, Scott
• Room: Mergenthaler 111; Maryland 114
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 2/15
• PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE

This course explores the craft of ethnography as a mode of research and writing fundamental to anthropology. Through the close reading of several ethnographic works, we will consider the intertwining of description, local concepts, and analysis. We will undertake several observation and writing exercises to learn how to write in an ethnographic mode and translate field research into lively texts.

• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Procupez, Valeria
• Room: Mergenthaler 426
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 8/15
• PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE

This course examines the archaeology of the Arabian Peninsula from the earliest Paleolithic in the region (ca. 1.5 million years ago) through the first millennium of the Islamic era (ca. AD 1600). We will review basic geology and environmental conditions, examine the development of animal herding and crop cultivating lifeways, and study the rise of ancient complex societies and civilizations.

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Harrower, Michael James
• Room: Gilman 130G
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 12/20
• PosTag(s): ARCH-ARCH, ARCH-RELATE

Water and its histories reveal deep similarities and pivotal differences among human societies that are critical to understanding the human past and our future. Environments are often defined by water availability and periodicity, water is a frequent theme of religious traditions and a common point of political conflict. The hydraulic hypothesis, one of the longest-standing potential explanations for the rise of the world’s earliest civilizations, claims that organizational requirements of large-scale irrigation spawned ancient political hierarchies and cities. Archaeologists now know irrigation was not the only factor responsible for the origins of ancient states, but water management was important to agriculture in every region of ancient state formation. This course explores economic and social histories of water in the ancient Near East. It examines water’s diverse roles in ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Levantine and South Arabian agriculture, politics, ritual and religion, including water’s interconnected significance in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Harrower, Michael James
• Room:  
• Status: Canceled
• Seats Available: 25/25
• PosTag(s): n/a

This hybrid seminar examines in depth a series of artistic case studies over a 3000 year period in the region of what is today Iraq, Syria, and southeastern Turkey, from c, 3500-500 BCE. Discussion will focus on processes of making and contexts of using myriad forms of art and architecture. Topics will include the invention of writing and complex imagery; portraiture and ritual practice; the symbolic value of materials; visual narration; and the uses of space for expressive purposes. We will approach these and other topics through critical engagement with existing scholarship, as well as by direct study of objects in nearby museum collections.

• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Feldman, Marian
• Room: Gilman 130G
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 3/10
• PosTag(s): HART-ANC, MSCH-HUM, ARCH-ARCH, ARCH-RELATE

An introduction to archaeology and to archaeological method and theory, exploring how archaeologists excavate, analyze, and interpret ancient remains in order to reconstruct how ancient societies functioned. Specific examples from a variety of archaeological projects in different parts of the world will be used to illustrate techniques and principles discussed.

• Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Schwartz, Glenn M
• Room: Gilman 55
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 22/40
• PosTag(s): ARCH-ARCH, ARCH-RELATE

Fieldwork associated with Archaeology major

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Schwartz, Glenn M
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Fieldwork associated with Archaeology major

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Anderson, Emily S.K.
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Fieldwork associated with Archaeology major

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Deleonardis, Lisa
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Fieldwork associated with Archaeology major

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Harrower, Michael James
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Fieldwork associated with Archaeology major

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Schwartz, Glenn M
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Fieldwork associated with Archaeology major

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Harrower, Michael James
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Fieldwork associated with Archaeology major

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Anderson, Emily S.K.
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Fieldwork associated with Archaeology major

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Feldman, Marian
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Fieldwork associated with Archaeology major

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Bryan, Betsy Morrell
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Fieldwork associated with Archaeology major

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Deleonardis, Lisa
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Thesis writing related to Archaeology major

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Schwartz, Glenn M
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Thesis writing related to Archaeology major

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Roller, Matthew
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Thesis writing related to Archaeology major

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Deleonardis, Lisa
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Thesis writing related to Archaeology major

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Harrower, Michael James
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Thesis writing related to Archaeology major

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Anderson, Emily S.K.
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Thesis writing related to Archaeology major

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Bryan, Betsy Morrell
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Thesis writing related to Archaeology major

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

Thesis writing related to Archaeology major

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Feldman, Marian
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Thesis writing related to Archaeology major

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Schwartz, Glenn M
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Thesis writing related to Archaeology major

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Roller, Matthew
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Thesis writing related to Archaeology major

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Deleonardis, Lisa
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Thesis writing related to Archaeology major

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Anderson, Emily S.K.
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Thesis writing related to Archaeology major

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Bryan, Betsy Morrell
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Thesis writing related to Archaeology major

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

Thesis writing related to Archaeology major

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Harrower, Michael James
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Thesis writing related to Archaeology major

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Feldman, Marian
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 9/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to the science behind global environmental issues. Earth systems, biogeochemical cycles, and the interrelationships between the living and nonliving world are explored, along with applications to climate change, biodiversity loss, and other issues of global significance.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Gnanadesikan, Anand; Waugh, Darryn
• Room: Olin 305
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 33/65
• PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE, ENVS-MAJOR, ENVS-MINOR, CES-LE

The course provides a broad introduction to the principles and practice of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and related tools of Geospatial Analysis. Topics will include history of GIS, GIS data structures, data acquisition and merging, database management, spatial analysis, and GIS applications. In addition, students will get hands-on experience working with GIS software.

• Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Chen, Xin
• Room: Krieger 108
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 3/24
• PosTag(s): ENVS-MINOR, ARCH-RELATE, ENVS-MAJOR

Basic concepts in geology, including plate tectonics; Earth’s internal structure; geologic time; minerals; formation of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks; development of faults, folds and earthquakes; geomagnetism. Corequisite (for EPS Majors): AS.270.221; optional for others. The course is introductory and open to undergraduates at all levels; freshmen are encouraged to enroll.

• Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Smith, Emmy
• Room: Olin 305
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 24/48
• PosTag(s): ENVS-MINOR, ENVS-MAJOR, ARCH-RELATE

This course will introduce student to methods used in field-based ecological research addressing population, community and ecosystem-level questions. Outdoor fieldwork is an essential part of the course. Field activities will center around the riparian ecosystem adjacent to the Homewood campus and on the urban ecology of the greater Baltimore region. Students will build skills in data collection, analysis, synthesis, and presentation. Basic statistical instruction in R will be taught to aid data analysis.

• Days/Times: F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Avolio, Meghan Lynn; Szlavecz, Katalin
• Room: Olin 247
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 2/14
• PosTag(s): ENVS-MAJOR, ENVS-MINOR, BEHB-BIOBEH, ARCH-RELATE, BEHB-BIOBEH

This course examines the origins of human structure, function and behavior from an evolutionary perspective. It includes study of the evolution, behavior and behavioral ecology of nonhuman primates, hominid evolution (including the paleontological and archaeological records), and the origins of human cognition, social behavior and culture.

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Gallup, Andrew
• Room: Krieger 170
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 8/60
• PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE, BEHB-BIOBEH

This course surveys museums, from their origins to their most contemporary forms, in the context of broader historical, intellectual, and cultural trends including the social movements of the 20th century. Anthropology, art, history, and science museums are considered.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Kingsley, Jennifer P
• Room: Gilman 17
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 16/25
• PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, ARCH-ARCH, PMUS-INTRO, MSCH-HUM, ARCH-RELATE, CDS-SSMC

Digital media play an increasingly significant role in museums from how museums share and narrate their collections online to the use of AI to catalog things and create metadata about them. This class explores critically how digital tools work to tell stories and invites students to unpack the resulting museum narratives. Students will learn by doing, creating a digital exhibit of five museum objects using Omeka and later transforming their exhibits by creating data of their own design to tell a new story about their objects. This new narrative will apply critical perspectives considered in the course such as, but not limited to, repatriation, critical cataloging, and geo-politics.

• Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
• Instructor: McGinn, Emily
• Room: BLC 4040
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 8/15
• PosTag(s): PMUS-PRAC, MSCH-HUM, ARCH-RELATE

The Mediterranean Sea has long connected the lands that surround it, from western Asia to North Africa, southern Europe and Iberia. The first millennium BCE, from the collapse of the Bronze Age (1200/1100 BCE) to the conquests of Alexander the Great (334-323 BCE), witnessed an especially vibrant period of interactions and exchanges that led to dramatic local developments. This class examines artworks that moved around the Mediterranean during this time, as well as those that arose from these interactions. Impacted by the large, emerging empires of Assyria, Persia, and Macedonia, and inheritors of older traditions such as Egypt, the arts of the 1st millennium BCE Mediterranean encourage us to ask questions about cultural interactions, mobile technologies, and the effect of globalizing forces on local regions. No previous experience in art history, archaeology, or the ancient Mediterranean is required.

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Feldman, Marian
• Room: Gilman 177
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/20
• PosTag(s): HART-ANC, ARCH-RELATE

This seminar considers the mutual imbrication of Greek tragedy and the visual arts, from descriptions of art in the plays to inspiration drawn by artists from ancient performances. We will read extant plays in translation (those with knowledge of ancient Greek may translate key passages in addition) and trace the materialities of their performances, textual transmissions, and receptions, with particular attention to the ways in which the visual arts inspire and draw inspiration from this body of work. We will visit relevant museum collections in the region and, where possible, see live performances.

• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Stager, Jennifer
• Room: Gilman 177
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/15
• PosTag(s): HART-ANC, ARCH-ARCH

This class reads how literature represented the causes of early climate disasters during the European period of transition from magic to science as ways of knowing. How did people understand the new experiences of climate in the age of coal mining, colonization, and extreme weather conditions in the 'little ice age' in Europe. Readings include plays, poems, fiction.

• Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Achinstein, Sharon
• Room: Shriver Hall 104
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): ENGL-PR1800, ARCH-RELATE, ENVS-MAJOR, ENVS-MINOR

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

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

Humans have recorded economic transactions since the invention of writing, but only recently have historians, text specialists, and social theorists joined forces to ask: can modern economic models explain ancient interactions? What roles did political and legal institutions play in shaping economic life? How did early records reflect trade, contracts, and the emergence of credit markets? What norms ensured trust, and how were scribes trained to document disputes and inheritance? This course explores these questions through case studies from Mesopotamia, Anatolia, the Biblical world, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. We’ll examine ancient documents alongside social theory, digital tools, and hands-on activities. Topics include trade, taxation, entrepreneurship, and the broader debate over applying modern theories to ancient economies.

• Days/Times: WF 3:00PM - 4:15PM
• Instructor: Freire, Lucas
• Room: Gilman 238
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/18
• PosTag(s): NEAS-HISCUL, ARCH-RELATE, CES-FT, CES-LSO

One of the most significant transformations in human history was the “urban revolution” in which cities, writing, and social classes formed for the first time. In this course, we compare five areas where this development occurred: China, Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, Egypt, and Mesoamerica (Mexico/Guatemala/Honduras/Belize). In each region, we review the physical setting, the archaeological and textual evidence, and the theories advanced to explain the rise (and eventual collapse) of these complex societies.

• Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Schwartz, Glenn M
• Room: Maryland 109
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 31/40
• PosTag(s): ARCH-ARCH, CES-CC, CES-PD

This course examines the visual expressions of the revolutionary pharaoh Akhenaten and his wife Nefertiti. The artistic changes that this reign introduced will be discussed through art historical, religious, political, and sociological lenses. Who was the king's sole god Aten and how did he and his visual appearance impact Egypt and the ancient world 1350 to 1330 BCE?

• Days/Times: WF 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Bryan, Betsy Morrell
• Room: Gilman 238
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 11/12
• PosTag(s): ARCH-ARCH

Over the past 50 years, archaeological science (or Archaeometry) has become an increasingly important subfield within the wider discipline of anthropological archaeology. Analytical approaches to archaeological materials including ceramic, stone, metal, bone, and plant remains have proven to be vital in archaeologists’ pursuit of piecing together the human past. This course is designed to familiarize students with the foundational principles of archaeological sciences including dating techniques, conservation sciences, and materials science approaches to artifact studies including optical petrography, X-ray fluorescence, mass spectrometry, stable isotope geochemistry, neutron activation analysis, and scanning electron microscopy. Students will learn the fundamental science behind archaeometric techniques and their applications to anthropological and historical questions. Students will also obtain hands-on laboratory experience through required labs and an optional final project.

• Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
• Instructor: Shannon, John Lafe
• Room: Krieger 302
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/20
• PosTag(s): ARCH-ARCH, ARCH-RELATE

Fieldwork associated with Archaeology major

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Schwartz, Glenn M
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE

Fieldwork associated with Archaeology major

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Anderson, Emily S.K.
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE

Fieldwork associated with Archaeology major

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Schwartz, Glenn M
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE

Fieldwork associated with Archaeology major

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Harrower, Michael James
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE

Fieldwork associated with Archaeology major

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Anderson, Emily S.K.
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE

Fieldwork associated with Archaeology major

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Feldman, Marian
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE

Fieldwork associated with Archaeology major

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Bryan, Betsy Morrell
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE

Fieldwork associated with Archaeology major

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Deleonardis, Lisa
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE

Fieldwork associated with Archaeology major

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Arnette, Marie-Lys
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE

Thesis writing related to Archaeology major

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Schwartz, Glenn M
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE

Thesis writing related to Archaeology major

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Roller, Matthew
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE

Thesis writing related to Archaeology major

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Deleonardis, Lisa
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE

Thesis writing related to Archaeology major

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Harrower, Michael James
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE

Thesis writing related to Archaeology major

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Anderson, Emily S.K.
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE

Thesis writing related to Archaeology major

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Feldman, Marian
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE

Thesis writing related to Archaeology major

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Schwartz, Glenn M
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE

Thesis writing related to Archaeology major

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Roller, Matthew
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE

Thesis writing related to Archaeology major

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Deleonardis, Lisa
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE

Thesis writing related to Archaeology major

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Arnette, Marie-Lys
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE

Thesis writing related to Archaeology major

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Feldman, Marian
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE

Ecology is the study of organisms and their environment. This course focuses on the patterns of distribution and abundance of organisms. Topics include population dynamics and regulation, competition, predation, host-parasite interactions, patterns of species diversity, community succession, the flow of energy and matter through ecosystems. We will also discuss the role of natural and human disturbances in shaping communities.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Szlavecz, Katalin
• Room: Olin 305
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 11/40
• PosTag(s): ENVS-MINOR, BEHB-BIOBEH, ENVS-MAJOR, ARCH-RELATE

The course provides a broad introduction to the principles and practice of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and related tools of Geospatial Analysis. Topics will include history of GIS, GIS data structures, data acquisition and merging, database management, spatial analysis, and GIS applications. In addition, students will get hands-on experience working with GIS software.

• Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Chen, Xin
• Room: Krieger 108
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/24
• PosTag(s): ENVS-MINOR, ARCH-RELATE

American museums today face ongoing practical, political and ethical challenges, including economic difficulties, technology and globalization, ongoing debates over the ownership and interpretation of culture and pressure to demonstrate their social value. This course considers how museums are answering these challenges and projects into the future. In addition to class discussions and group work, we will visit a number of different cultural institutions to discuss best practices in interpretation, how culture is represented in a variety of manners, the history of collection acquisition, analyze visitor experiences, how sites approach advocacy and civic engagement, among other topics related to the weekly readings.

• Days/Times: F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Forloney, Robert
• Room: Gilman 300
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/15
• PosTag(s): PMUS-INTRO, ARCH-ARCH, CES-ELECT

This course will introduce you to the theoretical and practical underpinnings of the conservation profession: who gets to be a conservator, where we work and how. There will be a hands-on opportunity to apply theoretical knowledge to document and stabilize items from JHU Special Collections. Topics include but are not limited to: what are the origins of the conservation profession and how has it evolved? What challenges do conservators face today? How do conservators contribute to institutional goals of preservation, access, research and learning?

• Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Jarvis, Jennifer
• Room: BLC 5015
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/10
• PosTag(s): PMUS-INTRO, PMUS-PRAC, ARCH-ARCH

This course aims to make the object a focus point for understanding museums and what they do, and to consider the museum as a site for investigating the interaction between humans and things. At the center of the course is a tension between the idea that things are subject to human will, on the one hand, and indications that things can and do evade human attempts to control them, on the other. Readings from scholars across many disciplines, from anthropology to political science, will stimulate our looking, thinking, and discussion. Every session includes hands-on activities to help us think through the key concepts of the readings.

• Days/Times: T 4:30PM - 7:00PM
• Instructor: Kingsley, Jennifer P
• Room: Krieger 304
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/10
• PosTag(s): ARCH-ARCH

How do art curators solve the puzzles posed by the collections they care for? This course invites students to work hands on with a collection of early modern paintings recently donated to the university. Students will learn to investigate art like a curator, from material and technical examination through provenance research and the reconstruction of object contexts. Students will share their research findings with public audiences in the form of an exhibition to be installed in the renovated MSEL library.

• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Kingsley, Jennifer P
• Room: Hmwd House Wine Cllr
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/10
• PosTag(s): PMUS-PRAC, ARCH-RELATE

Taking its name from the work of scholar Katherine Verdery, who investigates why and how certain corpses took on a political life in post-Soviet Eastern Europe, this course examines ways that human bodies have been collected, displayed, concealed and disappeared across cemeteries, museums, universities and other sites. We will trace various valuations (and devaluations) imposed on bodies across the life course and examine how some bodies are made to matter more than others in both life and death. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives across anthropology, Black studies, history of medicine and more, we will engage with case studies from across the globe, from the 18th century to the present day.

• Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Hester, Jessica Leigh; Lans, Aja Marie
• Room: Gilman 55
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/12
• PosTag(s): HIST-US, HIST-EUROPE, CDS-SSMC, ARCH-ARCH, MSCH-HUM