Visual arts are examined and discussed in their respective social and historical contexts.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Deleonardis, Lisa
• Room: Hodson 303
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/20
• PosTag(s): ARCH-ARCH, HART-ANC

This research-driven course focuses on joining together and mapping the largest known corpus of mosaic fragments (1st-6th centuries CE) from the heterogenous ancient city of Antioch at the mouth of the Orontes river (modern Antakya, Turkey). These mosaic fragments have been dispersed to institutions and museums across the globe, and their reunifications tell a series of stories about ancient Mediterranean diversity, early 20th century archaeology, and contemporary collection histories. Building from work completed in Phase I (Spring 2020) and Phase II (Fall 2021) and in conversation with a global network of Antioch researchers, students in this course will continue to research and digitally reunite mosaic fragments, including those in the collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art, delve deeper into the archival record associated with the early 20th century excavations, of which Baltimore was among the sponsors, and explore contemporary object biographies of the corpus, part of which remains in the region devastated by the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria in Spring 2023. Our research will center questions of craft, trade, materials and labor in ancient Antioch, modern archaeological practice, and contemporary museums. No prerequisites required and students from all majors welcome.

• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Stager, Jennifer M S
• Room: Greenhouse 000
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/12
• PosTag(s): HART-ANC

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: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Smith, Joshua M
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/15
• PosTag(s): ARCH-ARCH

This introductory course will focus on the theme of “encounter,” which has been central to anthropology’s self-formation. We will focus on the encounter with the other, the colonial encounter and the encounter with the possibility of human extinction to explore how newness comes into the world and how it may be structured by prior violence.

• Days/Times: T 9:00AM - 10:15AM, Th 9:00AM - 10:15AM
• Instructor: Khan, Naveeda
• Room: Gilman 50
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/20
• PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE

This introductory course will focus on the theme of “encounter,” which has been central to anthropology’s self-formation. We will focus on the encounter with the other, the colonial encounter and the encounter with the possibility of human extinction to explore how newness comes into the world and how it may be structured by prior violence.

• Days/Times: T 9:00AM - 10:15AM, Th 9:00AM - 10:15AM
• Instructor: Khan, Naveeda
• Room: Gilman 50
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/20
• PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE

This introductory course will focus on the theme of “encounter,” which has been central to anthropology’s self-formation. We will focus on the encounter with the other, the colonial encounter and the encounter with the possibility of human extinction to explore how newness comes into the world and how it may be structured by prior violence.

• Days/Times: T 9:00AM - 10:15AM, Th 9:00AM - 10:15AM
• Instructor: Khan, Naveeda
• Room: Gilman 50
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/20
• PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE

This introductory course will focus on the theme of “encounter,” which has been central to anthropology’s self-formation. We will focus on the encounter with the other, the colonial encounter and the encounter with the possibility of human extinction to explore how newness comes into the world and how it may be structured by prior violence.

• Days/Times: T 9:00AM - 10:15AM, Th 9:00AM - 10:15AM
• Instructor: Khan, Naveeda
• Room: Gilman 50
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/20
• 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 and argumentation; and through various observation and writing exercises, we will develop a practical understanding of the ethnographic method of transferring social worlds from the field to the text.

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

Review of important issues in ancient Near Eastern history and culture from the Neolithic era to the Persian period. Included will be an examination of the Neolithic agricultural revolution, the emergence of cities, states and writing, and formation of empires. Cultures such as Sumer and Akkad, Egypt, the Hittites, Israelites, Assyrians, Babylonians, and Persians will be discussed.

• Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Schwartz, Glenn M
• Room: Shaffer 304
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 18/30
• PosTag(s): ARCH-ARCH

This course will present the Egyptological collections of the musée du Louvre in Paris, room by room, as in a real visit. From the Predynastic period, in the 4th millennium BC, to Roman time, the iconic “masterpieces” of this world-renowned art museum, as well as its little-known artifacts, will allow us to explore the history and material culture of ancient Egypt. We will also learn to observe, describe and analyze archaeological objects, in a global manner and without establishing a hierarchy between them, while questioning their place in the museum and its particular language. The objective will be to go beyond the objects themselves and answer, in fine, the following questions: What do these objects tell us about the men and women who produced them, exchanged them, used them, and lived among them in antiquity? What do they also reveal about those who discovered them in Egypt, several millennia later, about those who collected them and sometimes traded them, and what does this say about the relations between Egypt and the Western countries over time? The courses will be complemented by one visit to the JHAM and one visit to the Walters Art Museum; Dr. Aude Semat, curator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) will also give a lecture about the Egyptian Collections at the MET.

• Days/Times: MW 4:30PM - 5:45PM
• Instructor: Arnette, Marie-Lys
• Room: Gilman 130G
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/15
• PosTag(s): NEAS-ARTARC, ARCH-ARCH

How did ancient people relate to their environment—the animals, plants, landscapes, and weather with which they interacted? How have modern binary conceptions of ‘nature’ and ‘culture’ or ‘human’ and ‘animal’ influenced our interpretation of ancient texts (along with ancient societies)? What is “the zoological gaze?” This course will focus on these questions and more as it investigates conceptions of nature in the texts of the Hebrew Bible, as well as texts and material culture from ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq), and the Levant (modern-day Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel, and Jordan). We will interrogate various interpretive lenses, including Posthumanism, Animal Studies, and Metaphor Theory, as we explore themes such as creation, nature and divinity, and animals in rituals, legal texts, and prophecies, among others. No previous familiarity with Hebrew language or the Hebrew Bible is needed.

• Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
• Instructor: Cooper, Stephanie Lynn
• Room: Gilman 381
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/15
• PosTag(s): NEAS-HISCUL, ENVS-MAJOR, ARCH-RELATE

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; Zaitchik, Benjamin Frederick
• Room: Olin 305
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 50/110
• PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE, ENVS-MAJOR, ENVS-MINOR

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: 4/24
• 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: Lewis, Kevin; Viete, Daniel R
• Room: Olin 305
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 13/50
• PosTag(s): ENVS-MINOR, ENVS-MAJOR, ARCH-RELATE

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. Crosslisted with Archaeology, History, History of Art, International Studies and Medicine, Science & Humanities.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Kingsley, Jennifer P
• Room: Krieger 300
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/25
• PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, ARCH-ARCH, PMUS-INTRO, MSCH-HUM, INST-GLOBAL

From 900 to 609 BCE, the Assyrian Empire dominated the ancient Near Eastern world, stretching from western Iran to the Mediterranean and Egypt. In concert with imperial expansion came an explosion of artistic production ranging from palace wall reliefs to small-scale luxury objects. This course provides an integrated picture of the imperial arts of this first world empire, situating it within the broader social and political contexts of the first millennium BCE. In its conquest of foreign lands, this powerful state came in contact with and appropriated a diversity of cultures, such as Phoenicia, Egypt, and Greece, which we will also study.

• Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Feldman, Marian
• Room: Gilman 177
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 17/25
• PosTag(s): ARCH-ARCH, HART-ANC

Drawing on case studies from North America, Mesoamerica, and the Andes this course considers various approaches to entombment and funerary ritual. Our analyses bear upon beliefs about death and the afterlife, ancestor veneration, fear of the dead, and the body as a site of embodied values. Tombs provide a specific context for interpreting object offerings and their attendant meanings. Collections study in regional museums.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Deleonardis, Lisa
• Room: Hodson 303
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/25
• PosTag(s): ARCH-ARCH, HART-ANC, MSCH-HUM

This course explores the origins and lives of societies in the Aegean world from the Early Bronze Age to the Persian Wars (ca. 3100-480 B.C.), focusing on major archaeological sites, sanctuaries, material culture, and artistic production.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Anderson, Emily S.K.
• Room: Latrobe 107
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 21/35
• PosTag(s): ARCH-ARCH

African American Pioneers: Courses focusing on the history and canon of anthropology often fail to consider the important role African American scholars have played in shaping the discipline. This course serves as an intervention by focusing on the contributions these underrepresented intellectuals have made to the field. Restrictions: For advanced undergraduates who have taken anthropology or sociology. Requirement for Anthropology Majors

• Days/Times: M 4:00PM - 6:30PM
• Instructor: Lans, Aja Marie
• Room: Krieger 308
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/15
• PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE

How and why did our nomadic hunting and gathering ancestors become farmers? What led agricultural societies to build cities, develop writing, religious institutions, wage war, and trade for exotic goods? This course surveys prehistory and ancient history from the origins of human culture to the emergence civilization. Although prehistory and ancient history yield evidence of tremendous cultural diversity this course emphasizes common elements of past human experience, culture, and culture change. These include the origins of modern humans and their adjustment to a variety of post-ice age environments, shifts from hunting and gathering to agricultural lifeways, and the initial development of the world’s earliest cities and civilizations.

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Harrower, Michael James
• Room: Bloomberg 168
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 20/40
• PosTag(s): ARCH-ARCH

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: 21/45
• PosTag(s): ENVS-MINOR, ARCH-RELATE, BEHB-BIOBEH

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: 14/24
• PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE, ENVS-MINOR

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 3:00PM - 4:15PM
• Instructor: Staff
• Room: Mergenthaler 111
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 65/120
• PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE

We examine the Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum collection to learn the materials and techniques utilized in the ancient world to produce objects in ceramics, stone, metal, glass, faience, bone and ivory.

• Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Balachandran, Sanchita
• Room: BLC 5015
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/12
• PosTag(s): PMUS-INTRO, PMUS-PRAC, ARCH-ARCH

An introduction to the theoretical and practical underpinnings of the conservation profession: who gets to be a conservator, where we work and how; what are its origins and how it has evolved.

• Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Jarvis, Jennifer
• Room: Bloomberg 278
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/10
• PosTag(s): PMUS-INTRO, ARCH-ARCH, PMUS-PRAC

Working in collaboration with staff from the Baltimore Museum of Art, students assess the opportunities and challenges of the European collections; research select objects; contribute to the department's collections development plan; and conceptualize new, more global and more inclusive approaches to the displays.

• Days/Times: Th 3:00PM - 5:30PM
• Instructor: Kingsley, Jennifer P; Yeager-Crasselt, Lara
• Room: Bloomberg 274
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/12
• PosTag(s): PMUS-PRAC, ARCH-RELATE