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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.
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Human Origins AS.290.101 (11)
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: MTWTh 9:00AM - 10:45AM
Instructor: Gallup, Andrew
Room: Dunning Hall 414
Status: Open
Seats Available: 10/15
PosTag(s): BEHB-BIOBEH
AS.040.111 (01)
Ancient Greek Civilization
MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Smith, Joshua M
Gilman 108
Fall 2025
The course will introduce students to major aspects of the ancient Greek civilization, with special emphasis placed upon culture, society, archaeology, literature, and philosophy.
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Ancient Greek Civilization AS.040.111 (01)
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: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.070.132 (01)
Invitation to Anthropology
W 12:00PM - 1:15PM, M 12:00PM - 1:15PM
MacLochlainn, Scott
Mergenthaler 111
Fall 2025
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.
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Invitation to Anthropology AS.070.132 (01)
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
Status: Reserved Open
Seats Available: 4/15
PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE
AS.070.132 (02)
Invitation to Anthropology
W 12:00PM - 1:15PM, M 12:00PM - 1:15PM
MacLochlainn, Scott
Mergenthaler 111
Fall 2025
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.
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Invitation to Anthropology AS.070.132 (02)
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
Status: Reserved Open
Seats Available: 6/15
PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE
AS.070.132 (03)
Invitation to Anthropology
W 12:00PM - 1:15PM, M 12:00PM - 1:15PM
MacLochlainn, Scott
Mergenthaler 111
Fall 2025
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.
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Invitation to Anthropology AS.070.132 (03)
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
Status: Reserved Open
Seats Available: 3/15
PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE
AS.070.132 (04)
Invitation to Anthropology
W 12:00PM - 1:15PM, M 12:00PM - 1:15PM
MacLochlainn, Scott
Mergenthaler 111
Fall 2025
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.
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Invitation to Anthropology AS.070.132 (04)
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
Status: Reserved Open
Seats Available: 4/15
PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE
AS.070.273 (01)
Ethnographies
W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Procupez, Valeria
Mergenthaler 426
Fall 2025
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.
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Ethnographies AS.070.273 (01)
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: Open
Seats Available: 6/15
PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE
AS.130.364 (01)
Archaeology of Arabia
TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Harrower, Michael James
Gilman 130G
Fall 2025
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.
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Archaeology of Arabia AS.130.364 (01)
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: Open
Seats Available: 12/20
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.130.368 (01)
Nomads and Empires: Water in the Ancient Near East
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Harrower, Michael James
Gilman 119
Fall 2025
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.
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Nomads and Empires: Water in the Ancient Near East AS.130.368 (01)
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: Gilman 119
Status: Open
Seats Available: 21/25
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.130.420 (01)
Research Methods: Arts of the Mesopotamian World: Crafters & Consumers
W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Feldman, Marian
Gilman 130G
Fall 2025
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.
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Research Methods: Arts of the Mesopotamian World: Crafters & Consumers AS.130.420 (01)
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: Open
Seats Available: 2/10
PosTag(s): HART-ANC, MSCH-HUM
AS.136.101 (01)
Introduction To Archaeology
TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Schwartz, Glenn M
Gilman 55
Fall 2025
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.
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Introduction To Archaeology AS.136.101 (01)
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: Open
Seats Available: 27/40
PosTag(s): ARCH-ARCH, ARCH-RELATE
AS.270.103 (01)
Introduction to Global Environmental Change
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Gnanadesikan, Anand; Karimi, Saman; Zaitchik, Benjamin Frederick
Olin 305
Fall 2025
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.
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Introduction to Global Environmental Change AS.270.103 (01)
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; Karimi, Saman; Zaitchik, Benjamin Frederick
Introduction to Geographic Information Systems and Geospatial Analysis
M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Chen, Xin
Krieger 108
Fall 2025
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.
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Introduction to Geographic Information Systems and Geospatial Analysis AS.270.205 (01)
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: 1/24
PosTag(s): ENVS-MINOR, ARCH-RELATE, ENVS-MAJOR
AS.270.220 (01)
The Dynamic Earth: An Introduction to Geology
TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Smith, Emmy
Olin 305
Fall 2025
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.
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The Dynamic Earth: An Introduction to Geology AS.270.220 (01)
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: Open
Seats Available: 27/48
PosTag(s): ENVS-MINOR, ENVS-MAJOR, ARCH-RELATE
AS.270.338 (01)
Field Methods in Ecology
F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Avolio, Meghan Lynn; Szlavecz, Katalin
Olin 247
Fall 2025
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.
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Field Methods in Ecology AS.270.338 (01)
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
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.
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Human Origins AS.290.101 (01)
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: Open
Seats Available: 25/60
PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE, BEHB-BIOBEH
AS.389.201 (01)
Introduction to the Museum: Past and Present
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Kingsley, Jennifer P
Gilman 17
Fall 2025
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.
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Introduction to the Museum: Past and Present AS.389.201 (01)
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.
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.
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Data and the Digital in Museums AS.389.313 (01)
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.