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Below is the schedule for the upcoming semester’s courses listed as “AS International Studies” within the Student Information Services (SIS) websi t e.

Course # (Section)	Title	Day/Times	Instructor	Location	Term	Course Details
AS.100.103 (21)	Early Modern Europe & the Wider World	TTh 1:00PM - 4:30PM	Loiselle, Ken	Gilman 17	Summer 2024	This introductory course surveys the history of Europe from the Renaissance to the Napoleonic period. Topics to be covered include European encounters in the Americas, the Protestant and Catholic Reformations and the subsequent religious violence of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the rise of centralizing states and popular resistance to expanding government, the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment as well as the origins, process and legacies of the French Revolution.
AS.140.224 (86)	Science in the Colonial Age	MWF 9:00AM - 11:30AM	Hinckley, Marlis A		Summer 2024	This course provides a fresh look at one of the most critical periods in the history of science – the so-called ‘Scientific Revolution’, spanning a period from approximately 1550 to 1750 – through the lens of colonial studies. It will address classic topics within the history and philosophy of science, such as the rise of observational epistemologies and the globalization of scientific knowledge. By connecting these philosophical concepts to the colonial contexts in which they arose, it will use tools from social history, economic history, and art history. Ultimately, it seeks not only to enrich students’ perspectives on the history of science, but also to inspire them to think about the connections between science and society across time, including in our own moment.
AS.070.241 (01)	African Cities	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Mohamed, Sabine	Mergenthaler 439	Fall 2024	An emerging body of literature argues that cities in the Global South work differently than Eurocentric theories of the city and urbanization suggest. This course will focus on such issues as the important role of cities in the nation’s economy, politics, and culture and interrogates the relationship between the city and its “outside.” This seminar interrogates the numerous ways that African cities, as an urban form, concept, and geography have been generative in anthropology, as well as in history, sociology, and urban studies. Africa has long existed as a crucial “other” in European culture. But how do we think of an African city outside of this limiting history? In this course, we explore the different histories, futures, and potentialities of African cities as an urban form, and lived experience, re-sorting its geographies and theorizations. We will explore issues of urban planning, (de)industrialization, urban race/ethnic relations, movement, and other issues important to the urban experience.
AS.070.319 (01)	The Political Culture of Bangladesh	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	Khan, Naveeda	Mergenthaler 426	Fall 2024	Bangladesh, the small, populous Muslim majority country in South Asia, steadily moving into middle income status, offers an off-centered but important vantage point upon the political culture of the region. We will read several new historical and ethnographic works, combined with film, fiction and art, to get a feel for this perspective, even as we interrogate what Bangladesh presumes about itself.
AS.070.345 (01)	Violence, Race and the Unruly Body	Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Mohamed, Sabine	Mergenthaler 439	Fall 2024	What is violence? Ubiquitous as a concept, it remains difficult to define both its essences and boundaries. How do we distinguish between criminality, organized, and unorganized violence? Is violence the antithesis of society, or a central component of it? In this course, we will disscuss the concept of violence, the challenges of writing about it and explore the potentials that emerge from bodies subjugated to racialized/gendered forms of violence. We will examine a number of different ethnographic spaces, including genocide in Rwanda, conflict resolution among the Nuer, the concept of criminality in Indonesia, largescale massacres in Thailand, and police violence in the United States
AS.100.104 (01)	Modern Europe in a global context, 1789-Present	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne	Ames 218	Fall 2024	Modern Europe familiarizes students with key moments, ideas, communities, individuals, and movements which have defined European experiences in global encounters since the Revolutionary era. We will particularly focus on European imperial expansion, the formation of the modern nation-state, the history of political ideas and their global ramifications, and popular culture and social change.
AS.100.104 (02)	Modern Europe in a global context, 1789-Present	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne	Ames 218	Fall 2024	Modern Europe familiarizes students with key moments, ideas, communities, individuals, and movements which have defined European experiences in global encounters since the Revolutionary era. We will particularly focus on European imperial expansion, the formation of the modern nation-state, the history of political ideas and their global ramifications, and popular culture and social change.
AS.100.115 (01)	Modern Latin America	MW 9:00AM - 9:50AM, F 9:00AM - 9:50AM	Lurtz, Casey Marina	Ames 218	Fall 2024	A class combining Latin American history since independence and digital humanities. Students will build guided research projects while thinking about questions of republicanism, freedom and unfreedom, migration, and development.
AS.100.115 (02)	Modern Latin America	MW 9:00AM - 9:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Lurtz, Casey Marina	Ames 218	Fall 2024	A class combining Latin American history since independence and digital humanities. Students will build guided research projects while thinking about questions of republicanism, freedom and unfreedom, migration, and development.
AS.100.119 (01)	Introduction to U.S. Immigration History and Law	TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Lim, Julian	Croft Hall G02	Fall 2024	Many Americans celebrate the United States as a “nation of immigrants,” but defining which immigrants to include and exclude in the nation has always been a contentious process. This course will put some of today’s immigration debates in historical perspective, examining how past Americans debated questions about the “fitness” of immigrants for freedom and citizenship, and how those debates in turn shaped immigrant experiences, the law, and American identity. Topics that we will cover include colonialism and slavery; immigrant labor; families; gender, race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality; immigration law; borders and deportation; refugees and asylum seekers; and citizenship and belonging.
AS.100.233 (01)	History of Modern Germany	TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Harms, Victoria Elisabeth	Hodson 203	Fall 2024	There is more to Germany than beer, BMWs, and Bayern Munich. We explore politics, culture, economics and society to understand Germany and its role within Europe and the world from the 18th century, the German Empire, WWII, the division into two states during the Cold War to the rise of the AfD, and EU politics today. We’ll partner with students at the University of Regensburg to discuss current challenges!
AS.100.247 (01)	Making War in a New World: Warfare in Early America, 1492-1804	TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Grindon, Blake	Krieger 306	Fall 2024	Columbus’s arrival in the Caribbean set off a chain of violence that swept through the early modern Americas. In this course we will investigate how warfare shaped North America and the Caribbean in the period between Columbus’s fateful 1492 voyage and the establishment of an independent Haitian state. The interlinked patterns of colonialism and trans-Atlantic slavery forced together people from three continents and made Native Americans, Africans, and Europeans in the Americas rethink what it meant to fight a war, and how to do it. We will consider how different cultures understood, deployed, and attempted to control violence, and then focus on specific wars, engaging with both contemporary scholarship and primary sources. Along the way, we will consider how the Americas, despite a long history before Columbus, became a “new world” through the warfare that followed after him. Throughout this semester we will read and discuss a variety of different forms of historical writing and consider the wide applicability of the history we are studying in the world around us today. Students will have the opportunity to explore different forms of historically informed writing in their own work.
AS.100.327 (01)	The Islamic Age of Empires: The Ottomans, the Mughals, and the Safavids	MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Noor, Rao Mohsin Ali	Croft Hall G02	Fall 2024	In this course, we will survey the political, social, intellectual, and cultural history of the three Islamic early modern gunpowder empires that ranged from “the Balkans to Bengal”: The Ottomans (1300-1922), the Safavids (1501-1736), and the Mughals (1526-1858).
AS.100.347 (01)	Early Modern China	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Rowe, William T	Hodson 316	Fall 2024	The history of China from the 16th to the late 19th centuries.
AS.100.360 (01)	The Modern British World: Imperial Encounters, Regimes, and Resistance, 1700-Brexit	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne	Gilman 219	Fall 2024	The Modern British World introduces some of the major events, themes, and controversies that led to Britain’s global dominance and ultimate decline as an imperial power.
AS.100.422 (01)	Society & Social Change in 18th Century China	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Rowe, William T	Gilman 77	Fall 2024	What did Chinese local society look like under the Qing Empire, and how did it change over the early modern era?
AS.100.426 (01)	Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe	MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Marshall, John W	Maryland 114	Fall 2024	Witchcraft, magic, carnivals, riots, folk tales, gender roles; fertility cults and violence especially in Britain, Germany, France, and Italy.
AS.100.453 (01)	Global Legal History	T 3:00PM - 5:30PM	Loeffler, James	Bloomberg 172	Fall 2024	Introduction to the practice of global legal history, with focus on the growth of modern international law from the seventeenth century to the present, its relationship to nationalism and empire, war, atrocity-crimes and human rights, international institutions, and the relationship between law and history.
AS.100.497 (01)	From Baltimore to Belgrade: 1968 in Global and Local Perspective	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Harms, Victoria Elisabeth	Krieger 308	Fall 2024	The sixties were a polarizing decade of unrest, revolutions, and fundamental change across Europe and the US. We will discuss 1968 through the lens of Baltimore and national case studies, and contextualize it within the Cold War and decolonization. We’ll speak with eyewitnesses, work with archivists, high school students, and community partners in the city!
AS.180.101 (01)	Elements of Macroeconomics	WF 9:00AM - 9:50AM, M 9:00AM - 9:50AM	Barbera, Bob; Seshie-Nasser, Hellen	Remsen Hall 101	Fall 2024	An introduction to the economic system and economic analysis, with emphasis on total national income and output, employment, the price level and inflation, money, the government budget, the national debt, and interest rates. The role of public policy. Applications of economic analysis to government and personal decisions. Prerequisite: basic facility with graphs and algebra.
AS.180.101 (02)	Elements of Macroeconomics	WF 9:00AM - 9:50AM, M 9:00AM - 9:50AM	Barbera, Bob; Seshie-Nasser, Hellen	Remsen Hall 101	Fall 2024	An introduction to the economic system and economic analysis, with emphasis on total national income and output, employment, the price level and inflation, money, the government budget, the national debt, and interest rates. The role of public policy. Applications of economic analysis to government and personal decisions. Prerequisite: basic facility with graphs and algebra.
AS.180.101 (03)	Elements of Macroeconomics	WF 9:00AM - 9:50AM, M 3:00PM - 3:50PM	Barbera, Bob; Seshie-Nasser, Hellen	Remsen Hall 101	Fall 2024	An introduction to the economic system and economic analysis, with emphasis on total national income and output, employment, the price level and inflation, money, the government budget, the national debt, and interest rates. The role of public policy. Applications of economic analysis to government and personal decisions. Prerequisite: basic facility with graphs and algebra.
AS.180.101 (04)	Elements of Macroeconomics	WF 9:00AM - 9:50AM, M 3:00PM - 3:50PM	Barbera, Bob; Seshie-Nasser, Hellen	Remsen Hall 101	Fall 2024	An introduction to the economic system and economic analysis, with emphasis on total national income and output, employment, the price level and inflation, money, the government budget, the national debt, and interest rates. The role of public policy. Applications of economic analysis to government and personal decisions. Prerequisite: basic facility with graphs and algebra.
AS.180.101 (05)	Elements of Macroeconomics	WF 9:00AM - 9:50AM, T 9:00AM - 9:50AM	Barbera, Bob; Seshie-Nasser, Hellen	Remsen Hall 101	Fall 2024	An introduction to the economic system and economic analysis, with emphasis on total national income and output, employment, the price level and inflation, money, the government budget, the national debt, and interest rates. The role of public policy. Applications of economic analysis to government and personal decisions. Prerequisite: basic facility with graphs and algebra.
AS.180.101 (08)	Elements of Macroeconomics	WF 9:00AM - 9:50AM, T 1:00PM - 1:50PM	Barbera, Bob; Seshie-Nasser, Hellen	Remsen Hall 101	Fall 2024	An introduction to the economic system and economic analysis, with emphasis on total national income and output, employment, the price level and inflation, money, the government budget, the national debt, and interest rates. The role of public policy. Applications of economic analysis to government and personal decisions. Prerequisite: basic facility with graphs and algebra.
AS.180.102 (01)	Elements of Microeconomics	TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM, Th 9:00AM - 9:50AM	Husain, Muhammad Mudabbir	Remsen Hall 101	Fall 2024	An introduction to the economic system and economic analysis with emphasis on demand and supply, relative prices, the allocation of resources, and the distribution of goods and services, theory of consumer behavior, theory of the firm, and competition and monopoly, including the application of microeconomic analysis to contemporary problems.
AS.180.102 (02)	Elements of Microeconomics	TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM, Th 9:00AM - 9:50AM	Husain, Muhammad Mudabbir	Remsen Hall 101	Fall 2024	An introduction to the economic system and economic analysis with emphasis on demand and supply, relative prices, the allocation of resources, and the distribution of goods and services, theory of consumer behavior, theory of the firm, and competition and monopoly, including the application of microeconomic analysis to contemporary problems.
AS.180.102 (03)	Elements of Microeconomics	TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM, F 9:00AM - 9:50AM	Husain, Muhammad Mudabbir	Remsen Hall 101	Fall 2024	An introduction to the economic system and economic analysis with emphasis on demand and supply, relative prices, the allocation of resources, and the distribution of goods and services, theory of consumer behavior, theory of the firm, and competition and monopoly, including the application of microeconomic analysis to contemporary problems.
AS.180.102 (04)	Elements of Microeconomics	TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM, F 9:00AM - 9:50AM	Husain, Muhammad Mudabbir	Remsen Hall 101	Fall 2024	An introduction to the economic system and economic analysis with emphasis on demand and supply, relative prices, the allocation of resources, and the distribution of goods and services, theory of consumer behavior, theory of the firm, and competition and monopoly, including the application of microeconomic analysis to contemporary problems.
AS.180.214 (01)	The Economic Experience of the BRIC Countries	TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Dasgupta, Somasree	Hodson 216	Fall 2024	In 2001, Jim O’Neill, the Chief Economist at Goldman Sachs, coined the acronym BRIC to identify the four large emerging economies, Brazil, Russia, India and China. These economies had an amazing run for the next decade, and emerged as the biggest and fastest growing emerging markets. However, since 2014 there has been some divergence in the BRICs’ economic performance. In this course, we look at the economic experiences of the BRIC countries for the past several decades. We discuss the reasons that contributed to their exceptional growth rates, with particular emphasis on their transformation into market economies, and the reasons for their eventual divergence. We also analyze some of the challenges that these countries continue to face in their development process.
AS.180.217 (01)	Game Theory in Social Sciences	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Wang, Xinyang	Wyman Park W603	Fall 2024	Game Theory is the study of multiple person decision problems in which the well-being of a decision maker depends not only on his own actions but also on those of others. Such problems arise frequently in economics, political science, business, military science and many other areas. In this course, we will learn how to model different social situations as games and how to use solution concepts to understand players' behavior. We will consider various examples from different fields and will play several games in class. The emphasis of the class is on the conceptual analysis and applications and we will keep the level of mathematical technicalities at the minimum -- high school algebra and one term of calculus will be sufficient. Students who took AS.180.117 are not eligible to take AS.180.217.
AS.180.223 (01)	Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa	WF 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Seshie-Nasser, Hellen	Wyman Park W603	Fall 2024	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.
AS.180.229 (01)	Economics of Health and Education in South Asia	MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Fatehin, Sohani	Hodson 216	Fall 2024	Human capital is an important factor of economic growth in South Asian economies, along with physical capital and technology. Addressing health and education challenges has implications for improving a country’s human capital formation and income growth. In this course, we look at past and present health and educational outcomes in South Asian Countries. We discuss the gaps in access to education and health care services, the quality of education and health care services as well as the impacts on the productivity of the labor force. We also empirically analyze the link between economic growth and human capital development. Furthermore, we focus on some challenges and future policy options for economies in South Asia.
AS.180.261 (01)	Monetary Analysis	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Poliakova, Ludmila	Shaffer 304	Fall 2024	This course analyzes the financial and monetary system of the U.S. economy and the design and implementation of U.S. monetary policy. Among other topics, we will examine the role of banks in the economy, the term structure of interest rates, the stock market, the supply of money, the role of the Federal Reserve in the economy, the objectives of monetary policy in the United States and current monetary policy practice.
AS.180.266 (01)	Financial Markets and Institutions	W 3:00PM - 5:30PM	Feinman, Josh	Gilman 132	Fall 2024	Understanding design and functioning of financial markets and institutions, connecting theoretical foundations and real-world applications and cases. Basic principles of asymmetric information problems, management of risk. Money, bond, and equity markets; investment banking, security brokers, and venture capital firms; structure, competition, and regulation of commercial banks. Importance of electronic technology on financial systems.
AS.180.289 (01)	Economics of Health	M 4:30PM - 7:00PM	de Broucker, Gatien	Krieger 170	Fall 2024	Application of economic concepts and analysis to the health services system. Review of empirical studies of demand for health services, behavior of providers, and relationship of health services to population health levels. Discussion of current policy issues relating to financing and resource allocation.
AS.180.303 (01)	Topics in International Macroeconomics and Finance	TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Jeanne, Olivier	Shriver Hall 104	Fall 2024	The course will review selected topics in international macroeconomics and finance. The topics include: financial globalization; international portfolio diversification; capital account liberalization and the choice of the exchange rate regime in emerging markets. The analysis will be motivated by current policy issues but will also be based on mathematical models of the international economy.
AS.180.349 (01)	Economics of Race, Gender and Culture	Th 3:00PM - 5:30PM	Hwang, Yujung	Bloomberg 172	Fall 2024	This course will overview popular causal inference methods and their applications in the economics of race, gender, and culture. For each causal inference method, the class will cover the econometric theory and how to implement the method in the STATA program. Students will solve many STATA exercises in class, so they must bring a laptop to those classes. Next, we will discuss papers that used the method to answer a research question about race, gender, and culture. The topics to cover include how to show there is racial/gender discrimination and how preference is formed.
AS.180.351 (01)	Labor Economics	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Husain, Muhammad Mudabbir	Maryland 114	Fall 2024	The course discusses various issues in labor markets from the perspective of economic theory. We first study the major forces at work that shape labor market behavior; firms’ labor demand and workers’ labor supply. Then we discuss the equilibrium behavior of employment and wages. Using these tools, we also cover various applied topics in labor economics, such as minimum wage regulations, male-female wage differentials, human capital investment, worker mobility, and unemployment.
AS.190.111 (01)	Introduction to Global Studies	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Marlin-Bennett, Renee E	Gilman 50	Fall 2024	This course surveys scholarly approaches to processes, relations, institutions, and social structures that cross, subvert, or transcend national borders. The course will also introduce students to research tools for global studies.
AS.190.111 (02)	Introduction to Global Studies	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Marlin-Bennett, Renee E	Gilman 50	Fall 2024	This course surveys scholarly approaches to processes, relations, institutions, and social structures that cross, subvert, or transcend national borders. The course will also introduce students to research tools for global studies.
AS.190.111 (03)	Introduction to Global Studies	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM	Marlin-Bennett, Renee E	Gilman 50	Fall 2024	This course surveys scholarly approaches to processes, relations, institutions, and social structures that cross, subvert, or transcend national borders. The course will also introduce students to research tools for global studies.
AS.190.111 (04)	Introduction to Global Studies	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM	Marlin-Bennett, Renee E	Gilman 50	Fall 2024	This course surveys scholarly approaches to processes, relations, institutions, and social structures that cross, subvert, or transcend national borders. The course will also introduce students to research tools for global studies.
AS.190.111 (05)	Introduction to Global Studies	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Marlin-Bennett, Renee E	Gilman 50	Fall 2024	This course surveys scholarly approaches to processes, relations, institutions, and social structures that cross, subvert, or transcend national borders. The course will also introduce students to research tools for global studies.
AS.190.111 (06)	Introduction to Global Studies	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Marlin-Bennett, Renee E	Gilman 50	Fall 2024	This course surveys scholarly approaches to processes, relations, institutions, and social structures that cross, subvert, or transcend national borders. The course will also introduce students to research tools for global studies.
AS.190.122 (01)	Western Political Theory	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Phillips, Chas.	Hodson 303	Fall 2024	An introductory overview of Western Political Theory, starting with Plato and the Greeks, moving through Machiavelli and the moderns, and ending up with a brief look at current political theory. We will analyze a range of theoretical styles and political approaches from a handful of thinkers, and develop our skills as close readers, efficient writers, and persuasive speakers.
AS.190.227 (01)	U.S. Foreign Policy	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Schmidt, Sebastian	Krieger 205	Fall 2024	This course provides an analysis of US foreign policy with a focus on the interests, institutions, and ideas underpinning its development. It offers a broad historical survey that starts with US involvement in the First World War, covers major developments of the twentieth century, and concludes with contemporary issues. Important themes include the developments underpinning the emergence of the liberal world order, strategies of containment during the Cold War, nuclear deterrence and antiproliferation efforts, the politics of international trade, alliance politics, technological and security policy, and the re-emergence of great power competition.
AS.190.227 (02)	U.S. Foreign Policy	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Schmidt, Sebastian	Krieger 205	Fall 2024	This course provides an analysis of US foreign policy with a focus on the interests, institutions, and ideas underpinning its development. It offers a broad historical survey that starts with US involvement in the First World War, covers major developments of the twentieth century, and concludes with contemporary issues. Important themes include the developments underpinning the emergence of the liberal world order, strategies of containment during the Cold War, nuclear deterrence and antiproliferation efforts, the politics of international trade, alliance politics, technological and security policy, and the re-emergence of great power competition.
AS.190.227 (03)	U.S. Foreign Policy	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM	Schmidt, Sebastian	Krieger 205	Fall 2024	This course provides an analysis of US foreign policy with a focus on the interests, institutions, and ideas underpinning its development. It offers a broad historical survey that starts with US involvement in the First World War, covers major developments of the twentieth century, and concludes with contemporary issues. Important themes include the developments underpinning the emergence of the liberal world order, strategies of containment during the Cold War, nuclear deterrence and antiproliferation efforts, the politics of international trade, alliance politics, technological and security policy, and the re-emergence of great power competition.
AS.190.227 (04)	U.S. Foreign Policy	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM	Schmidt, Sebastian	Krieger 205	Fall 2024	This course provides an analysis of US foreign policy with a focus on the interests, institutions, and ideas underpinning its development. It offers a broad historical survey that starts with US involvement in the First World War, covers major developments of the twentieth century, and concludes with contemporary issues. Important themes include the developments underpinning the emergence of the liberal world order, strategies of containment during the Cold War, nuclear deterrence and antiproliferation efforts, the politics of international trade, alliance politics, technological and security policy, and the re-emergence of great power competition.
AS.190.227 (05)	U.S. Foreign Policy	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 9:00AM - 9:50AM	Schmidt, Sebastian	Krieger 205	Fall 2024	This course provides an analysis of US foreign policy with a focus on the interests, institutions, and ideas underpinning its development. It offers a broad historical survey that starts with US involvement in the First World War, covers major developments of the twentieth century, and concludes with contemporary issues. Important themes include the developments underpinning the emergence of the liberal world order, strategies of containment during the Cold War, nuclear deterrence and antiproliferation efforts, the politics of international trade, alliance politics, technological and security policy, and the re-emergence of great power competition.
AS.190.228 (01)	The American Presidency	M 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Ginsberg, Benjamin	Krieger 308	Fall 2024	Over the past several decades, the power and importance of America’s presidency have greatly expanded . Of course, presidential history includes both ups and downs, some coinciding with the rise and fall of national party systems and others linked to specific problems, issues, and personalities. We should train our analytic eyes, however, to see beneath the surface of day-to-day and even decade-to-decade political turbulence. We should focus, instead, on the pronounced secular trend of more than two and a quarter centuries of American history. Two hundred years ago, presidents were weak and often bullied by Congress. Today, presidents are powerful and often thumb their noses at Congress and the courts. For better or worse, we have entered a presidentialist era.
AS.190.231 (01)	Politics of Income Inequality	WF 3:00PM - 4:15PM	Rehm, Philipp	Hodson 203	Fall 2024	Introduces fundamental patterns, puzzles, and theories on the politics of income inequality.
AS.190.246 (01)	Climate Solutions: The Global Politics and Technology of Decarbonization	MW 9:00AM - 9:50AM, F 9:00AM - 9:50AM	Allan, Bentley	Gilman 50	Fall 2024	This course provides an introduction to climate solutions by reviewing the politics and technologies in all major sectors: electricity, transportation, biofuels, hydrogen, buildings, heavy industry, and agriculture. In each area, we will first understand the existing technologies and potential solutions. But to understand decarbonization, we also have to study the political economy of these technologies. What role do the technologies play in the broader economy? Who will win or lose from the transition? What firms and countries dominate and control current and emerging supply chains? What makes a climate solutions project bankable? How can states design policies, regulations, and programs to successfully manage the politics of technology change?
AS.190.246 (03)	Climate Solutions: The Global Politics and Technology of Decarbonization	MW 9:00AM - 9:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Allan, Bentley	Gilman 50	Fall 2024	This course provides an introduction to climate solutions by reviewing the politics and technologies in all major sectors: electricity, transportation, biofuels, hydrogen, buildings, heavy industry, and agriculture. In each area, we will first understand the existing technologies and potential solutions. But to understand decarbonization, we also have to study the political economy of these technologies. What role do the technologies play in the broader economy? Who will win or lose from the transition? What firms and countries dominate and control current and emerging supply chains? What makes a climate solutions project bankable? How can states design policies, regulations, and programs to successfully manage the politics of technology change?
AS.190.339 (01)	American Racial Politics	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Spence, Lester	Shaffer 202	Fall 2024	Recommended Course Background: AS.190.214
AS.190.347 (01)	A New Cold War? Sino-American Relations in the 21st Century	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	David, Steven R	Mergenthaler 366	Fall 2024	“Can the United States and China avoid a new Cold War? One might think not given disputes over the South China Sea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, human rights, trade, ideology and so much more. Moreover, competition for influence in the developing world and American concerns as to whether China will replace it as the preeminent world power suggest a new Cold War is in the offing. Nevertheless, their extensive economic ties and need to work together to solve common problems such as climate change, nuclear proliferation, and pandemics argues against a continuing confrontation. This course will examine whether cooperation or conflict will define Sino-American relations, and whether a new Cold War—or even a shooting war—lies in the future.”
AS.190.366 (01)	Free Speech and the Law in Comparative Perspective	MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Katz, Richard Stephen; Zackin, Emily	Gilman 377	Fall 2024	This class explores the ideas and legal doctrines that define the freedom of speech. We will examine the free speech jurisprudence of the U.S. in comparison to that of other systems, particularly the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights and the Supreme Court of Canada.
AS.190.379 (01)	Nationalism and the Politics of Identity	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Kocher, Matthew Adam	Bloomberg 168	Fall 2024	Nationalism ties powerful organizations to political mobilization, territory, and individual loyalty. Yet nationalism is typically studied in isolation from other social formations that depend upon organizational – individual linkages. Alternative types of identity category sometimes depend similarly upon organizations that collect and deploy resources, mobilize individuals, erect boundaries, and promote strong emotional connections among individuals as well as between individuals and institutions. In this class, we study classic and contemporary works on nationalism, drawn from multiple disciplinary and analytic traditions, in the comparative context of alternative forms of identity. The focus of the class will be primarily theoretical, with no regional or temporal limitations.
AS.190.388 (01)	Race and the Politics of Memory	W 3:00PM - 5:30PM	Brendese, PJ Joseph	Gilman 277	Fall 2024	This is a writing intensive, advanced undergraduate political theory seminar. The course will examine the politics of memory: how power shapes what is available to be remembered, the timing and occasions of memory, who is allowed to remember, and the spaces inside of which remembrance takes place. Specifically, the seminar will explore how segregated memory enables racial segregation and racial inequality. Toward that end, we shall investigate political and theoretical interventions potentially equipped to contest contemporary forms of racial amnesia haunting what some have labeled a “post-truth” world.
AS.190.397 (01)	The Politics of International Law	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	Ross, Andrew	Gilman 17	Fall 2024	This course introduces students of politics to international law. We will explore historical roots and current problems, recognizing along the way persistent contestation over the participants, sources, purposes, and interests associated with international law. The course situates formal aspects of law—centered on international treaties, international organizations, the World Court (ICJ), and the International Criminal Court (ICC)—within a broader field of global governance consisting of treaty-based and customary law, states and transnational actors, centralized and decentralized forms of legal authority. We will place special emphasis on the significance of international law to colonialism, decolonization, and contemporary forms of imperialism, keeping in mind that the law has been experienced differently in the Global South and by actors not recognized as sovereign by states in positions of power. Students will be exposed to a range of approaches, including rational choice, various species of legalism, process-oriented theories, critical legal studies, and postcolonial critiques.
AS.190.428 (01)	Hobbes and Spinoza	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Bennett, Jane; Culbert, Jennifer	Gilman 208	Fall 2024	A close reading of Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) and Ethics by Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677), with consideration of important commentaries on these works. What conceptions of the human being, nature, reason, God, and freedom are defended and affirmed by Hobbes and Spinoza? What rhetorical strategies accompany their theories of self, ethics, social life?
AS.190.438 (01)	Violence and Politics	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Ginsberg, Benjamin	Croft Hall G02	Fall 2024	This seminar will address the role of violence–both domestic and international–in political life. Though most claim to abhor violence, since the advent of recorded history, violence and politics have been intimately related. States practice violence against internal and external foes. Political dissidents engage in violence against states. Competing political forces inflict violence upon one another. Writing in 1924, Winston Churchill declared–and not without reason–that, "The story of the human race is war." Indeed, violence and the threat of violence are the most potent forces in political life. It is, to be sure, often averred that problems can never truly be solved by the use of force. Violence, the saying goes, is not the answer. This adage certainly appeals to our moral sensibilities. But whether or not violence is the answer presumably depends upon the question being asked. For better or worse, it is violence that usually provides the most definitive answers to three of the major questions of political life--statehood, territoriality and power. Violent struggle, in the form of war, revolution, civil war, terrorism and the like, more than any other immediate factor, determines what states will exist and their relative power, what territories they will occupy, and which groups will and will not exercise power within them. Course is open to juniors and seniors.
AS.190.440 (01)	European Politics in Comparative Perspective	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Jabko, Nicolas	Maryland 309	Fall 2024	Europe has been in a sense the first testing ground for theories of comparative politics, but many outsiders now see Europe as a pacified and somewhat boring place. This course will question conventional wisdom through an examination of European politics in historical and cross-national perspective. We will apply the comparative method to the study of European politics today, and conversely we will ask what Europe tells us more generally about politics. We will see that Europe is still a locus of intense conflict as well as remarkably diverse experimentation. Topics will include: political, legal, and economic governance; the evolution of democracy and fundamental rights, the welfare state, class stratification, immigration and race, the role of religion; European integration and globalization. Recommended background: Introduction to Comparative Politics.
AS.190.444 (01)	Comparative Politics	Th 2:00PM - 4:30PM	Teele, Dawn Langan	Mergenthaler 366	Fall 2024	This course offers a graduate-level introduction to the field of comparative politics, focusing on the substantive questions that drive contemporary research. Issues will include: state formation and state capacity; regime typology, democratization, and democratic backsliding; party systems and political behavior; political economy and economic development; racial, ethnic, and religious politics; and revolutions and political violence. Readings include both classic and recent works, selected to help students both prepare for major or minor comprehensive exams and frame their own research projects.
AS.190.454 (01)	Nuclear Weapons and World Politics	M 4:30PM - 7:00PM	Deudney, Daniel Horace	Ames 234	Fall 2024	Over the seven decades since their invention, nuclear weapons have been a central focus in international politics. This course explores the fundamental question: what political arrangements ensure security from nuclear weapons? The debate has evolved through three stages. Initially (1945-1960), radical political changes were anticipated due to the perceived imminent threat of nuclear war. In the second stage (1960-1990), deterrence became a key concept, but opinions differed on the necessary conditions for it. The end of the Cold War marked an unexpected shift. In the third stage (1990-present), concerns about proliferation and terrorism emerged, leading to disagreements on preventive/pre-emptive actions versus arms control and disarmament. Realist international theories have been conflicted throughout these stages, with ongoing debates on arms control, public involvement, and the impact of nuclear security measures on liberal democratic governments.
AS.190.456 (01)	Humanitarianism and World Politics	W 4:30PM - 7:00PM	Barkawi, Tarak Karim; Ross, Andrew	Mergenthaler 366	Fall 2024	Humanitarianism has become a pervasive form of moral and political action in world politics. Over the course of the twentieth century and beyond, humanitarian logics infused the conduct of war and informed global governance in many areas—from refugee relief and post-conflict reconstruction, to peacekeeping and development, to migration, ecological security, and recovery from natural disasters. And yet, while often celebrated as an achievement, humanitarianism involves ambiguities, contradictions, and pathologies demanding critical scrutiny. This seminar aims, first, to interrogate critically the history of humanitarian practices and, second, to refine and revise concepts used to study and evaluate those practices. We pursue these aims in part with an eye to understanding mutations of humanitarian politics accompanying contemporary challenges to the post-WWII liberal international order. Topics include: (1) the invention of “humanity” as an idea/ideal; (2)humanitarianism, war and empire; (3) varities of humanitarianism; (4) humanitarian violence; (5) humanitarian expertise and institutions; (6) humanitarianism, media, and technology;
AS.190.458 (01)	Global climate Politics: Net-Zero Industrial Policy and World Order	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Allan, Bentley	Mergenthaler 366	Fall 2024	This course will survey the history of geopolitics and green industrial from China’s wind and solar push in the 1990s to the Inflation Reduction Act and beyond. We will seek to understand the determinants of industrial policy, best practices for industrial policy, and the effects of industrial policy on climate politics. The lens of geopolitics and industrial policy provides a unique avenue to understand world order. Through this lens, we will see how energy systems and technology competition animate and structure global politics.
AS.190.475 (01)	America in Comparative and International Perspective	T 4:30PM - 7:00PM	Deudney, Daniel Horace	Gilman 119	Fall 2024	Over the last quarter millennium, the United States of America has been the most successful state in world politics. It has had the world’s largest economy since 1870, and was on the winning side of the three great world struggles of the 20th century. During these struggles, the fate of liberal capitalist democracy in the world has been closely connected with the rise and success of the USA. This course examines the rise and impacts of the USA in comparative and international perspective. What factors account for the success of the USA during the late modern era? How has the rise and influence of the USA shaped world politics? The course focuses on the causes, consequences and possible alternatives of three founding moments (1776-88, 1861-67 and 1933-36), the role of wars against illiberal adversaries in strengthening American liberal national identity, the ways in which the internal logics of the Philadelphian states-union (1787-1861) and the liberal international order among advanced industrial democracies (1945-) as alternatives to Westphalian state-systems, the role and consequences of the US as an anti-imperial power, and the internal dual between liberal America dedicated to the Founding principles and an ‘alt-America’ of slavery and white supremacy.
AS.190.480 (01)	Democracy and Institutional Anxiety across the Political Spectrum	M 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Shilliam, Robbie; Teles, Steven Michael	Gilman 55	Fall 2024	Institutions are a ubiquitous part of political life. Much of the work of political life, both inside and outside government, is only possible through institutions - arrangements of power that provide continuity over time, have a relatively stable mission, jurisdiction and organizational structure. Democracy itself is dependent upon - but perhaps also constrained by - institutions. Institutions are subjects of profound anxiety, across the political spectrum, albeit for different reasons. Those anxieties come from fears about hierarchy, elite capture, illegitimacy, inflexibility, gerontocracy and ineffectiveness. This class will investigate the reasons for the creation and maintenance of institutions, the sources of institutional anxiety, and the challenges that this anxiety creates for the effective, responsible and democratic exercise of power
AS.190.497 (01)	Modern Political Thought	Th 9:00AM - 11:30AM	Valdez, Inés	Macaulay 101	Fall 2024	This course is a survey of modern political thought for advanced undergraduate students and graduate students. Its purpose is to (1) introduce some of the most significant texts in early modern European political theory, (2) survey a selection of the most important recent scholarly studies of these sources, and (3) develop theoretical and methodological skills at analyzing and interpreting the texts and the scholarship they have inspired.
AS.191.233 (01)	Collective Action and Organization Strategy in the U.S.	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Smithson-Stanley, Lynsy Suzanne	Hodson 211	Fall 2024	This class introduces students to the core theories, concepts and empirical analyses of two levels of collective action analysis: social movements and advocacy organizations. We will explore current and past social movements to ask questions both fundamental (e.g. “Why do social movements start?” “Under what conditions do they succeed?”) and to look critically at the real-world constraints and opportunities contemporary advocacy organizations face.
AS.191.335 (01)	Arab-Israeli Conflict (IR)	T 4:30PM - 7:00PM	Freedman, Robert	Maryland 104	Fall 2024	The course will focus on the origin and development of the Arab-Israeli conflict from its beginnings when Palestine was controlled by the Ottoman Empire, through World War I, The British Mandate over Palestine, and the first Arab-Israeli war (1947-1949). It will then examine the period of the Arab-Israeli wars of 1956, 1967, 1973, and 1982, the Palestinian Intifadas (1987-1993 and 2000-2005); and the development of the Arab-Israeli peace process from its beginnings with the Egyptian-Israeli treaty of 1979, the Oslo I and Oslo II agreements of 1993 and 1995, Israel's peace treaty with Jordan of 1994, the Road Map of 2003; and the periodic peace talks between Israel and Syria. The conflict will be analyzed against the background of great power intervention in the Middle East, the rise of political Islam and the dynamics of Intra-Arab politics, and will consider the impact of the Arab Spring.
AS.191.345 (01)	Russian Foreign Policy (IR)	W 4:30PM - 7:00PM	Freedman, Robert	Krieger 304	Fall 2024	This course will explore the evolution of Russian Foreign Policy from Czarist times to the present. The main theme will be the question of continuity and change, as the course will seek to determine to what degree current Russian Foreign Policy is rooted in the Czarist(1613-1917) and Soviet(1917-1991) periods, and to what degree it has operated since 1991 on a new basis. The main emphasis of the course will be on Russia's relations with the United States and Europe, China, the Middle East and the countries of the former Soviet Union--especially Ukraine, the Baltic States, Transcaucasia and Central Asia. The course will conclude with an analysis of the Russian reaction to the Arab Spring and its impact both on Russian domestic politics and on Russian foreign policy.
AS.192.225 (01)	Economic Growth and Development in East Asia	M 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Dore, Giovanna Maria Dora	Croft Hall G02	Fall 2024	Over the past three decades, East Asia has been the most dynamic region in the world. East Asia has a remarkable record of high and sustained economic growth. From 1965 to 1990, the twenty-three economies of East Asia grew faster than all other regions of the world mostly thanks to the ‘miraculous growth’ of Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand; these eight countries, in fact, have grown roughly three times as fast as Latin America and South Asia, five times faster than Sub-Saharan Africa, and significantly outperformed the industrial economies and the oil-rich Middle East and North Africa regions. Poverty levels have plummeted and human-development indicators have improved across the region. The course is divided into three parts to allow students to develop expertise in one or more countries and/or policy arenas, while also cultivating a broad grasp of the region and the distinct challenges of “fast-paced, sustained economic growth.” Part I will introduce the subject, consider the origins of Asian economic development, and analyse the common economic variables behind the region’s success. It will look at the East Asian Crisis and will consider its lessons and assess whether or not East Asian countries have learned them. While the course will show that there are many common ingredients to the success of the region’s economies, it will also show that each country is different, and that differences could be, at times, quite stark. Hence, Part II will focus on the development experiences of individual countries, with a special emphasis on the ASEAN economies, NIEs, Japan and China. Finally, Part III will consider various topics of special interest to Asia, including trends toward greater regional economic cooperation, both in the real and financial/monetary sectors, and issues related to poverty, migration, and inclusiveness in the region. NOTE: Contact Dr. Dore if prerequisites are not met.
AS.211.171 (01)	Brazilian Culture & Civilization: Colonial Times to the Present	MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM	De Azeredo Cerqueira, Flavia Christina	Latrobe 107	Fall 2024	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.
AS.211.265 (01)	Panorama of German Thought	TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Egginton, William	Hodson 315	Fall 2024	This course will survey German ideas—in philosophy, social and political theory, and drama—since the Enlightenment. Authors include Kant, Schiller, Lessing, Goethe, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Weber, Horkheimer, and Adorno.
AS.211.423 (01)	Black Italy	T 3:00PM - 5:30PM	Di Bianco, Laura	Hodson 315	Fall 2024	Over the last three decades Italy, historically a country of emigrants—many of whom suffered from discrimination in the societies they joined—became a destination for hundreds of thousands of migrants and refugees from various countries, and particularly from Africa. Significant numbers of these immigrants came to Italy as a result of the country’s limited, though violent colonial history; others arrive because Italy is the closest entry-point to Europe. How have these migratory flows challenged Italian society’s sense of itself? How have they transformed the notion of Italian national identity? In recent years, growing numbers of Afro- and Afro-descendant writers, filmmakers, artists and Black activists are responding through their work to pervasive xenophobia and racism while challenging Italy’s self-representation as a ‘White’ country. How are they forcing it to broaden the idea of ‘Italianess’? How do their counternarratives compel Italy to confront its ignored colonial past? And, in what way have Black youth in Italy embraced the #Blacklivesmatter movement? This multimedia course examines representation of blackness and racialized otherness, whiteness, and national identity through literary, film, and visual archival material in an intersectional framework. Examining Italy’s internal, ‘Southern question,’ retracing Italy’s colonial history, and recognizing the experiences of Italians of immigrant origins and those of immigrants themselves, we’ll explore compelling works by writers and filmmakers such as Igiaba Scego, Gagriella Ghermandi, Maza Megniste, Dagmawi Yimer, and others.
AS.215.111 (01)	Modern Spanish Culture	TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM	Pinar Diaz, Alicia	Gilman 35	Fall 2024	This course will explore the fundamental aspects of Spanish culture from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. The course will offer a general survey of the history of Spain and will discuss texts, movies, songs, pictures, and paintings in relation to their social, political, and cultural contexts. This course will be of particular interest for students planning on spending a semester abroad in Spain—specially for those students going to the JHU Fall Semester in Madrid, at Carlos III University. Taught in Spanish. Recommended Course Background: AS.210.311 or appropriate Webcape score. AS.215.390 was formerly numbered AS.211.390
AS.215.112 (01)	Modern Latin American Culture	MW 4:30PM - 5:45PM	Walls, Alfredo	Gilman 217	Fall 2024	Taught in Spanish. This course will explore the fundamental aspects of Latin- America culture from the formation of independent states through the present—in light of the social, political, and economic histories of the region. The course will offer a general survey of history of Latin- America, and will discuss texts, movies, songs, pictures, and paintings, in relation to their social, political, and cultural contexts. May not be taken satisfactory/unsatisfactory.
AS.215.369 (01)	Mapping Identity in Modern Spain	MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Seguin, Becquer D	Krieger 300	Fall 2024	What social, political, and economic forces make groups of people appear out of place in a given society? How have literary works contributed to counteracting the marginalization of certain groups? This course will look at how modern Spanish artists, writers, and intellectuals wrestled with questions of identity and marginalization. We will critically examine how the modern Spanish state was forged from restrictions on cultural difference and consider the various marginalized groups that were left in its wake. These groups include various peoples (e.g. the Romani), ideologies (e.g. anarchism, socialism, communism), social and economic classes (e.g. peasants, the working class), and regional identities (e.g. Catalonia, the Basque Country). Key texts in modern Spanish literature will prompt our investigation into how writers and artists reflected on, contested, and expressed the marginality of the country’s various internal others. Taught in Spanish.
AS.230.239 (01)	Coffee, Tea and Empires	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Kuo, Huei-Ying	Gilman 413	Fall 2024	The course examines the modern transformation of social life from the prism of coffee and tea. It traces the mass consumption of these two caffeinated beverages from the expansion of Eurocentric capitalism from the long sixteenth century onwards. It shows the changes in the coffee and tea culture from their respective Asian contexts to the age of mass consumption at the turn of the twentieth century. The topics include cash-crop production, plantation and peasant economy, the public sphere, and food heritage and nationalism.
AS.230.335 (01)	Medical Humanitarianism	TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Naveh Benjamin, Ilil	Gilman 219	Fall 2024	Humanitarian organizations play life-preserving roles in global conflicts, and have front-row views of disasters ranging from the 2010 Haiti earthquake to the 2011 Fukushima tsunami in Japan. Yet even while they provide vital assistance to millions of people in crisis, such organizations are beset by important paradoxes that hinder their capacity to create sustainable interventions. They work to fill long-lasting needs, but are prone to moving quickly from one site to the next in search of the latest emergency. They strive to be apolitical, yet are invariably influenced by the geopolitical agendas of global powers. How do such contradictions arise, and what is their impact upon millions of aid recipients around the world? Drawing on case studies from South Sudan to Haiti, this course addresses these contradictions by exploring how and why medical aid organizations attempt, and sometimes fail, to reconcile short-term goals, such as immediate life-saving, with long-term missions, such as public health programs and conflict resolution initiatives.
AS.230.348 (01)	Climate Change and Society	W 9:00AM - 11:30AM	Levien, Michael	Hodson 203	Fall 2024	This course will focus on the social dimensions of climate change. Drawing on global and multi-disciplinary scholarship, we will address such issues as: the relationship between fossil fuels and capitalism; the relationship between social inequality and “vulnerability” to climate change; and the political economy of “adaptation.” The longest section of the course will be devoted to understanding the social and political dimensions of proposed solutions to climate change, including renewable energy transitions, carbon capture and storage (CCS) and geoengineering. Students will write a final research paper on a sociological aspect of climate change.
AS.230.352 (01)	Chinese Diaspora: Networks and Identity	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	Kuo, Huei-Ying	Gilman 413	Fall 2024	This course surveys the relationship between China and its migrants and their descendants from the mid-nineteenth century onwards. It highlights the transnational foundation of modern Chinese nationalism. It also compares the divergent formations of the “Chinese question” in North America and postcolonial Southeast Asia. Key concepts include transnationalism, diaspora, ethnic politics, racism, Orientalism, and “united front” work.
AS.230.370 (01)	Housing and Homelessness in the United States	Th 4:30PM - 7:00PM	Greif, Meredith	Krieger 302	Fall 2024	This course will examine the role of housing, or the absence thereof, in shaping quality of life. It will explore the consequences of the places in which we live and how we are housed. Consideration will be given to overcrowding, affordability, accessibility, and past and existing housing policies and their influence on society. Special attention will be given to the problem of homelessness.
AS.230.378 (01)	Refugees, Human Rights, and Sovereignty	TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Naveh Benjamin, Ilil	Gilman 219	Fall 2024	What is a refugee? Since World War II, states that have pledged to offer protection to refugees have frequently been drawn instead to the dictates of nationalism and communitarianism, which prioritize concern for their own citizens, rather than to the needs of forced migrants. As a result, even those migrants that have been formally recognized as refugees according to the 1951 UN Refugee Convention have not been assured of protection, and other migrants have been even less assured. In this course, we will locate the reasons for this reality in the legal, political, and historical underpinnings of political asylum. What is the difference between an asylum seeker and a refugee? How has the refugee category been redefined and contested by international bodies since 1951? How are the ambiguities of real-life violence and persecution simplified in asylum adjudication interviews that require clear, factual narratives? What kinds of protections are offered to asylum seekers, whether by UN bodies, NGOs, or host governments, and how have such protections varied geographically and historically? Finally, what protections, if any, are afforded to those migrants who are fleeing not persecution but rather “merely” endemic poverty or climate-induced displacement? The course draws on literature from sociology, history, anthropology, and international refugee law in order to understand the capacity (or lack thereof) of human rights discourses and declarations to contravene state sovereignty in the name of protecting the rightless.
AS.310.305 (01)	China, Southeast Asia, and U.S. National Security	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Ott, marvin C	Mergenthaler 266	Fall 2024	The global political and security landscape of the 21st century will be shaped by the rivalry between two superpowers -- China and the U.S. For the foreseeable future, the geographic focus of that contest will be Southeast Asia and the surrounding maritime space, particularly the South China Sea. Southeast Asia is a complex, highly differentiated region of ten-plus nations, each with its own unique history and relationship with China. This course will introduce Southeast Asia as a key region -- geographically, economically, and strategically -- often overlooked by policymakers and scholars. It will also focus on the craft of national security strategy as the best tool for understanding the multi-sided competition, already well underway involving China, the U.S., and the Southeast Asian states.
AS.310.332 (01)	Ethnicity in China	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	Henning, Stefan	Mergenthaler 266	Fall 2024	Ever since the Chinese Empire fell in 1911, Chinese have tried to think of themselves as modern and to build a modern Chinese state. Among the Western concepts that Chinese appropriated to define and comprehend themselves were the notions of ethnicity, culture, nationality, and race. We will try to answer the following questions: What was the allure of arcane and elusive Western categories on culture, ethnicity, and race for Chinese scientists in the 20th century, and how did these categories come to underpin the rule of the Chinese state over its enormous population since the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949? How have the Chinese state’s policies on nationality and ethnicity shaped the minds of American China scholars as they study ethnicity and nationality in China?
AS.310.336 (01)	Rebellion and Its Enemies in China Today	TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM	Henning, Stefan	Mergenthaler 266	Fall 2024	On 13 October 2022, a middle-aged upper-middle class Chinese man staged a public political protest on an elevated road in Beijing. Peng Lifa, or “Bridge Man,” as he has become known in allusion to Tank Man from the Tiananmen demonstrations in 1989, demanded elections and reforms. How have urban Chinese been able to be so content or even happy despite their lack of political freedom? The class readings will introduce you to different kinds of activists who have confronted the authoritarian state since the late 1990s, among them human rights lawyers, reporters, environmental activists, feminists, religious activists, and labor activists. We will ask whether freedom, an obviously Western notion, is useful as an analytical category to think about China. Does freedom translate across the West/non-West divide?
AS.070.267 (01)	Culture, Religion and Politics in Iran	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Haeri, Niloofar	Mergenthaler 426	Spring 2025	This is an introductory course for those interseted in gaining basic knowledge about contemporary Iran. The focus will be on culture and religion and the ways they in which they become interwoven into different kinds of political stakes.
AS.070.309 (91DC)	Migration and Empire/Imperialism	W 5:30PM - 8:00PM	Mohamed, Sabine	555 Penn 448	Spring 2025	Given that we inhabit a world after European colonialism, some would argue that empires are an artifact of the past. Yet, imperialism continues to shape our contemporary multipolar world. In this interdisciplinary seminar, students will explore topics ranging from transnational anti-colonial worldmaking projects to (post)colonial infrastructures, to the politics of citizenship and race, contested border regimes, and the rise of far-right movements to focus on the modalities of (im)mobility, subject formation, and how difference and belonging within these often-fraught imperial settings have been both defined and defied. We will also attend to non-European imperial varieties and decenter a Eurocentric perspective on migration and empire. SPECIAL NOTE: There will be a $30 lab fee for the course.
AS.070.336 (01)	Ethnographic Perspectives on Brazil	M 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Angelini, Alessandro	Mergenthaler 426	Spring 2025	Tom Jobim, best known as the composer of the bossa nova classic “Girl from Ipanema,” once quipped, “Brazil is not for beginners.” Beyond enduring stereotypes, the complexities and contradictions of Brazilian society have long been fertile ground for anthropological inquiry. This seminar offers close readings of classic and contemporary ethnography that interrogate Brazilian society as a set of questions and paradoxes. We will also explore, conversely, how studies in Brazil have deeply shaped core anthropological thought.
AS.070.353 (01)	Korean War: Inter Asia, Cold War, and Partition Course	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Han, Clara	Mergenthaler 439	Spring 2025	The Korean War from the dominant U.S. perspective is seen as a “forgotten war”, one that today registers in caricatures of the predicament of the two Koreas. This course will explore the entangled histories of empire in the Korean War. It will seek to shift our understanding of Korean War from a U.S. dominated Cold War perspective to the Inter Asian contexts in which war unfolded. Further, it will examine closely how scholars in Korea and diasporic scholars have engaged an ongoing war and partition and moved beyond ethnonationalist frameworks. As a study of war, we will consider how techniques of punishment and torture came to be justified and refined in specific sites, the role of the Korean War within multiple other wars, such as Vietnam, and in mass atrocity (such as Gwangju Uprising and Massacre) and the figure of the political prisoner and the subject of humanitarianism.
AS.100.103 (01)	Early Modern Europe & the Wider World	TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Loiselle, Ken	Krieger 302	Spring 2025	This survey course examines the history of Europe from the early sixteenth to the late eighteenth centuries. Topics to be examined include the Reformations and religious wars, curiosity, contact and conquest of non-European lands, the rise of modern bureaucratic states, the emergence of popular sovereignty as a political criterion, the new science, as well as expanding literacy and consumption.
AS.100.129 (01)	Introduction to Modern Jewish History	MW 9:00AM - 9:50AM, F 9:00AM - 9:50AM	Loeffler, James	Gilman 55	Spring 2025	Jewish history 1750-present in Europe, the Near East, the US, Israel; the challenges of modernity and new forms of Jewish life and conflict from Enlightenment and emancipation, Hasidism, Reform and Orthodox Judaism to capitalism and socialism; empire, nationalism and Zionism; the Holocaust. Extensive attention to US Jewry and State of Israel.
AS.100.129 (02)	Introduction to Modern Jewish History	MW 9:00AM - 9:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Loeffler, James	Gilman 55	Spring 2025	Jewish history 1750-present in Europe, the Near East, the US, Israel; the challenges of modernity and new forms of Jewish life and conflict from Enlightenment and emancipation, Hasidism, Reform and Orthodox Judaism to capitalism and socialism; empire, nationalism and Zionism; the Holocaust. Extensive attention to US Jewry and State of Israel.
AS.100.170 (01)	Chinese Cultural Revolution	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Meyer-Fong, Tobie	Gilman 55	Spring 2025	The Cultural Revolution was Mao Zedong’s last attempt to transform Chinese society spiritually and structurally. The events of this period were marked by social upheaval, personal vendettas, violence, massive youth movements, and extreme ideological pressure. What were the causes of the Cultural Revolution? How was it experienced and how is it remembered? To what extent are its reverberations felt in contemporary Chinese society, politics, and literature? How have subsequent events affected our understanding of the Cultural Revolution decade? This course will explore the Cultural Revolution from a variety of perspectives, focusing on the relationship between events in China from 1966-1976, and their subsequent interpretation as history and in historical memory in China and beyond.
AS.100.170 (02)	Chinese Cultural Revolution	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Meyer-Fong, Tobie	Gilman 55	Spring 2025	The Cultural Revolution was Mao Zedong’s last attempt to transform Chinese society spiritually and structurally. The events of this period were marked by social upheaval, personal vendettas, violence, massive youth movements, and extreme ideological pressure. What were the causes of the Cultural Revolution? How was it experienced and how is it remembered? To what extent are its reverberations felt in contemporary Chinese society, politics, and literature? How have subsequent events affected our understanding of the Cultural Revolution decade? This course will explore the Cultural Revolution from a variety of perspectives, focusing on the relationship between events in China from 1966-1976, and their subsequent interpretation as history and in historical memory in China and beyond.
AS.100.203 (01)	The American Revolution in History and Memory	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Grindon, Blake	Hodson 316	Spring 2025	As we approach the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution questions about the legacy and meaning of the revolutionary era circulate among both professional historians and the American public: How revolutionary was the American Revolution, and for whom? What did the diverse population of North America in the 1770s—including free and enslaved people of African descent, Native Americans, as well white women and men in the thirteen colonies—make of the political rupture between Britain and America? What type of nation did the founders envision and how does that continue to shape the United States today? How has the American Revolution been remembered and memorialized at different times in American history? In this course we will read current scholarship on the American Revolution and also visit museum and cultural sites to explore both the events of the American Revolution and their ongoing memorialization while exploring answers to these questions.
AS.100.203 (02)	The American Revolution in History and Memory	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Grindon, Blake	Hodson 316	Spring 2025	As we approach the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution questions about the legacy and meaning of the revolutionary era circulate among both professional historians and the American public: How revolutionary was the American Revolution, and for whom? What did the diverse population of North America in the 1770s—including free and enslaved people of African descent, Native Americans, as well white women and men in the thirteen colonies—make of the political rupture between Britain and America? What type of nation did the founders envision and how does that continue to shape the United States today? How has the American Revolution been remembered and memorialized at different times in American history? In this course we will read current scholarship on the American Revolution and also visit museum and cultural sites to explore both the events of the American Revolution and their ongoing memorialization while exploring answers to these questions.
AS.100.220 (01)	"Bad Feminism": Exclusion and Essentialism	MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Klassen, Magdalene Ruth	Gilman 400	Spring 2025	This course introduces students to major debates and controversies within the feminist movement in the United Kingdom and the United States from 1850 to the present. From colonial and eugenic women’s movements to anti-trans and carceral feminism, the contents and assessments of this course ask you to consider a pressing question in contemporary feminism: how do we reckon with the reality that many feminists have excluded and continue to exclude people from the liberatory futures they imagine? Together we will analyze the value and limits of historical context and evaluate the relationship between past and present controversies within the feminist movement. Employing critical feminist concepts such as intersectionality and positionality, we will consider what it means for people (including ourselves) to be “products of their time.” By doing historical research in newspaper databases, we will evaluate how feminist claims about “sisterhood” have changed over time.
AS.100.270 (01)	Europe since 1945	TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Harms, Victoria Elisabeth	Bloomberg 274	Spring 2025	This class focuses on Europe from the end of World War II until today. We will discuss topics such as the bipolar world order, the creation of the European welfare state, Europe’s volatile relations with the US and the Soviet Union/ Russia, decolonization, 1989 and neoliberalism, racism, and the emergence of the European Union. Expect to spend 25% of class time in group work, where we discuss the assigned academic literature, movies, documentaries, textual and visual primary sources.
AS.100.283 (01)	Making Queer Histories: Identity, Representation, Politics, and Contexts, 1800-present	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne	Gilman 55	Spring 2025	This course investigates sexual cultures through the lens of modern Queer History in the United States and Western Europe, with forays into global and transnational histories.
AS.100.283 (02)	Making Queer Histories: Identity, Representation, Politics, and Contexts, 1800-present	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM	Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne	Gilman 55	Spring 2025	This course investigates sexual cultures through the lens of modern Queer History in the United States and Western Europe, with forays into global and transnational histories.
AS.100.332 (01)	Early Asian Latin America	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Luis, Diego Javier		Spring 2025	From 1565 to 1815, the Manila galleons sailed between Spanish colonies in the Philippines and Mexico. Thousands of free and enslaved Asians from all over coastal Asia disembarked these ships at Acapulco and, within decades, could be found throughout Mexico, Central America, and Peru. A second and larger migratory wave of Chinese and South Asian contract laborers arrived in the Caribbean and South America during the nineteenth century. This course examines these two waves and their entanglements to chart the trajectories of the earliest Asian diasporas in the Americas. In the evaluation of these topics, we will pay close attention to racialization, cross-cultural exchange, lived experience, and unfree labor.
AS.100.348 (01)	20th-Century China	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Rowe, William T	Gilman 55	Spring 2025	Survey of the history of China from ca. 1895 to ca. 1976.
AS.100.386 (01)	Sports History of the Cold War	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Harms, Victoria Elisabeth	Hodson 313	Spring 2025	This class reassesses the history of the Cold War through sports. We will investigate how the Cold War has shaped sports, the Olympic movement, the role of athletes at home and abroad. We will discuss how sports intersected with domestic and foreign policy, and how sports constructed, reinforced, and challenged notions of race, gender, and class. We will also interview JHU alumni and former athletes who made a career out of sports.
AS.100.413 (01)	London 1580-1830: The History of Britain's capital city	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	Marshall, John W	Gilman 308	Spring 2025	Seminar-style class analyzing the social, cultural, gender, religious, economic, and political history of London from Shakespeare's time through revolutions, plague, fire, and commercial, colonial, and industrial expansion.
AS.100.482 (01)	Historiography of Modern China	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Rowe, William T	Gilman 381	Spring 2025	How has the history of modern China been told by Chinese, Western, and Japanese historians and social thinkers, and how did this affect popular attitudes and government policies toward China?
AS.130.216 (01)	History of the Jews in Modern Times, From the Middle-Ages to 1600	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Katz, David	Smokler Center Library	Spring 2025	A broad survey of the significant political and cultural dynamics of Jewish history in the Medieval, Early-Modern, and Modern Eras.
AS.140.382 (01)	Health and Healing in Early-Modern England	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Fissell, Mary E	Gilman 300	Spring 2025	This course explores health and society in England, 1500 to 1800 including healing practices at all levels of society, concepts of health and illness, patient experiences, and patterns of disease. Recommended Course Background: At least one course in History or History of Science, Medicine, and Technology.
AS.150.205 (01)	Introduction to the History of Modern Philosophy	MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM	Connolly, Patrick	Hodson 203	Spring 2025	An overview of philosophical thought in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. We shall focus on fundamental questions in epistemology (knowledge, how we acquire it, its scope and limits), metaphysics (the ultimate nature of reality, the relation of mind and body, free will), and theology (the existence and nature of God, God’s relation to the world, whether knowledge of such things is possible): all questions that arose in dramatic ways as a result of the rise of modern science. The principal philosophers to be discussed are Descartes, Locke, Hume and Kant, though we shall also make the acquaintance of Spinoza, Leibniz and Berkeley.
AS.150.205 (02)	Introduction to the History of Modern Philosophy	MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Connolly, Patrick	Hodson 203	Spring 2025	An overview of philosophical thought in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. We shall focus on fundamental questions in epistemology (knowledge, how we acquire it, its scope and limits), metaphysics (the ultimate nature of reality, the relation of mind and body, free will), and theology (the existence and nature of God, God’s relation to the world, whether knowledge of such things is possible): all questions that arose in dramatic ways as a result of the rise of modern science. The principal philosophers to be discussed are Descartes, Locke, Hume and Kant, though we shall also make the acquaintance of Spinoza, Leibniz and Berkeley.
AS.150.240 (01)	Introduction to Political Philosophy	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Lebron, Christopher Joseph	Hodson 216	Spring 2025	This course begins by reviewing canonical texts in modern political philosophy beginning with Thomas Hobbes and John Locke and ends by exploring classic questions in contemporary debates in race, gender, and identity.
AS.150.240 (02)	Introduction to Political Philosophy	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM	Lebron, Christopher Joseph	Hodson 216	Spring 2025	This course begins by reviewing canonical texts in modern political philosophy beginning with Thomas Hobbes and John Locke and ends by exploring classic questions in contemporary debates in race, gender, and identity.
AS.180.101 (01)	Elements of Macroeconomics	WF 9:00AM - 9:50AM, M 9:00AM - 9:50AM	Barbera, Bob; Seshie-Nasser, Hellen	Mergenthaler 111	Spring 2025	An introduction to the economic system and economic analysis, with emphasis on total national income and output, employment, the price level and inflation, money, the government budget, the national debt, and interest rates. The role of public policy. Applications of economic analysis to government and personal decisions. Prerequisite: basic facility with graphs and algebra.
AS.180.101 (02)	Elements of Macroeconomics	WF 9:00AM - 9:50AM, M 9:00AM - 9:50AM	Barbera, Bob; Seshie-Nasser, Hellen	Mergenthaler 111	Spring 2025	An introduction to the economic system and economic analysis, with emphasis on total national income and output, employment, the price level and inflation, money, the government budget, the national debt, and interest rates. The role of public policy. Applications of economic analysis to government and personal decisions. Prerequisite: basic facility with graphs and algebra.
AS.180.101 (03)	Elements of Macroeconomics	WF 9:00AM - 9:50AM, M 3:00PM - 3:50PM	Barbera, Bob; Seshie-Nasser, Hellen	Mergenthaler 111	Spring 2025	An introduction to the economic system and economic analysis, with emphasis on total national income and output, employment, the price level and inflation, money, the government budget, the national debt, and interest rates. The role of public policy. Applications of economic analysis to government and personal decisions. Prerequisite: basic facility with graphs and algebra.
AS.180.101 (04)	Elements of Macroeconomics	WF 9:00AM - 9:50AM, M 3:00PM - 3:50PM	Barbera, Bob; Seshie-Nasser, Hellen	Mergenthaler 111	Spring 2025	An introduction to the economic system and economic analysis, with emphasis on total national income and output, employment, the price level and inflation, money, the government budget, the national debt, and interest rates. The role of public policy. Applications of economic analysis to government and personal decisions. Prerequisite: basic facility with graphs and algebra.
AS.180.101 (05)	Elements of Macroeconomics	WF 9:00AM - 9:50AM, M 4:30PM - 5:20PM	Barbera, Bob; Seshie-Nasser, Hellen	Mergenthaler 111	Spring 2025	An introduction to the economic system and economic analysis, with emphasis on total national income and output, employment, the price level and inflation, money, the government budget, the national debt, and interest rates. The role of public policy. Applications of economic analysis to government and personal decisions. Prerequisite: basic facility with graphs and algebra.
AS.180.101 (06)	Elements of Macroeconomics	WF 9:00AM - 9:50AM, M 4:30PM - 5:20PM	Barbera, Bob; Seshie-Nasser, Hellen	Mergenthaler 111	Spring 2025	An introduction to the economic system and economic analysis, with emphasis on total national income and output, employment, the price level and inflation, money, the government budget, the national debt, and interest rates. The role of public policy. Applications of economic analysis to government and personal decisions. Prerequisite: basic facility with graphs and algebra.
AS.180.102 (01)	Elements of Microeconomics	MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Husain, Muhammad Mudabbir	Remsen Hall 101	Spring 2025	An introduction to the economic system and economic analysis, with an emphasis on demand and supply, relative prices, the allocation of resources, and the distribution of goods and services. It covers the theory of consumer behavior, the theory of the firm, and competition and monopoly, including the application of microeconomic analysis to contemporary problems. The course includes lectures twice a week, each 75 minutes, and a TA session once a week for 50 minutes. The TA session is highly recommended, and attendance in both the lecture class and TA section is crucial for a better performance in the course. Students must check the dates and times of the TA sections before registering for a particular section.
AS.180.102 (02)	Elements of Microeconomics	MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Husain, Muhammad Mudabbir	Remsen Hall 101	Spring 2025	An introduction to the economic system and economic analysis, with an emphasis on demand and supply, relative prices, the allocation of resources, and the distribution of goods and services. It covers the theory of consumer behavior, the theory of the firm, and competition and monopoly, including the application of microeconomic analysis to contemporary problems. The course includes lectures twice a week, each 75 minutes, and a TA session once a week for 50 minutes. The TA session is highly recommended, and attendance in both the lecture class and TA section is crucial for a better performance in the course. Students must check the dates and times of the TA sections before registering for a particular section.
AS.180.102 (03)	Elements of Microeconomics	MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Husain, Muhammad Mudabbir	Remsen Hall 101	Spring 2025	An introduction to the economic system and economic analysis, with an emphasis on demand and supply, relative prices, the allocation of resources, and the distribution of goods and services. It covers the theory of consumer behavior, the theory of the firm, and competition and monopoly, including the application of microeconomic analysis to contemporary problems. The course includes lectures twice a week, each 75 minutes, and a TA session once a week for 50 minutes. The TA session is highly recommended, and attendance in both the lecture class and TA section is crucial for a better performance in the course. Students must check the dates and times of the TA sections before registering for a particular section.
AS.180.102 (04)	Elements of Microeconomics	MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Husain, Muhammad Mudabbir	Remsen Hall 101	Spring 2025	An introduction to the economic system and economic analysis, with an emphasis on demand and supply, relative prices, the allocation of resources, and the distribution of goods and services. It covers the theory of consumer behavior, the theory of the firm, and competition and monopoly, including the application of microeconomic analysis to contemporary problems. The course includes lectures twice a week, each 75 minutes, and a TA session once a week for 50 minutes. The TA session is highly recommended, and attendance in both the lecture class and TA section is crucial for a better performance in the course. Students must check the dates and times of the TA sections before registering for a particular section.
AS.180.210 (01)	Migrating to Opportunity? Economic Evidence from East Asia, the U.S. and the EU	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Dore, Giovanna Maria Dora	Hodson 305	Spring 2025	Increased mobility of people across national borders, whether by choice or by force, has become an integral part of the modern world. Using a comparative perspective and an applied economics approach, the course explores the economic and political determinants, and (likely) consequences of migration flows for East Asia, the US and the EU. Lectures, assignments and in class discussions, will be built around the following topics: i) migrants’ self-selection; ii) human capital investment decision-making; iii) remittance decisions and effects; iv) impacts on labor markets of both receiving and sending countries; and v) the economic benefits from immigration. Overall, the course will give students perspective on the why people choose or feel compelled to leave their countries, how receiving countries respond to migrants’ presence, and the key economic policy concerns that are influencing the shaping of immigration policy in East Asia, the US, and the EU.
AS.180.217 (01)	Game Theory in Social Sciences	MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Staff	Greenhouse 113	Spring 2025	Game Theory is the study of multiple person decision problems in which the well-being of a decision maker depends not only on his own actions but also on those of others. Such problems arise frequently in economics, political science, business, military science and many other areas. In this course, we will learn how to model different social situations as games and how to use solution concepts to understand players' behavior. We will consider various examples from different fields and will play several games in class. The emphasis of the class is on the conceptual analysis and applications and we will keep the level of mathematical technicalities at the minimum -- high school algebra and one term of calculus will be sufficient. Students who took AS.180.117 are not eligible to take AS.180.217.
AS.180.233 (01)	Economics of Transition and Institutional Change	TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Poliakova, Ludmila	Gilman 17	Spring 2025	This course will introduce students to the comparative analysis of institutions of existing capitalist systems and to the historical evolution of those institutions. By comparing the economic systems of different nations, we will try to reveal the institutional setups that either contribute or hinder economic performance. We will also examine the process of countries transforming their economies and investigate the factors that determine the differences in reforms’ outcomes between countries.
AS.180.241 (01)	International Trade	TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM	Dasgupta, Somasree	Hodson 213	Spring 2025	Theory of comparative advantage and the international division of labor: the determinants and pattern of trade, factor price equalization, factor mobility, gains from trade and distribution of income, and theory and practice or tariffs and other trade restrictions. Recommended Course Background: AS.180.101.
AS.180.242 (01)	International Monetary Economics	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	Poliakova, Ludmila	Maryland 109	Spring 2025	This course presents International Monetary Economics theory and applies it towards gaining an understanding of recent events and current policy issues. The theory presented in this course covers a broad range of topics including exchange rate determination, monetary and fiscal policy in an open economy, balance of payments crisis, the choice of exchange rate, and international debt. The insights provided by these theoretical frameworks will enable us to discuss topics such as the global financial crisis, global financial imbalances, the Chinese exchange rate regime, and proposed changes in the international financial architecture.
AS.180.246 (01)	Environmental Economics	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Elliott, Jonathan Tyler	Bloomberg 278	Spring 2025	In this course we will study the role of the government in the regulation of the environment. In the first half of the course we will take a broad overview of environmental economics. We will focus on evaluating the effectiveness and trade-offs associated with various tools used to regulate the environment, covering topics related to market failures, pollution regulation, and regulation under uncertainty. In the second half of the course, we take a more applied approach and consider topics related to particular environmental issues including climate change, study the functioning of particular industries such as energy and electricity, and consider challenges to regulation such as enforcement, international borders, and unknown control costs.
AS.180.332 (01)	Debt Crises and Financial Crises	MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM	Fourakis, Stelios Stephen	Hodson 211	Spring 2025	This course will provide students with the theoretical tools and historical context to understand financial crises and debt crises. We will review famous examples, such as the banking panics of the Great Depression and the Eurozone Sovereign Debt Crises, and use economic theory to understand how and why crises happen, as well as how policies can be designed to prevent them or mitigate their effects. Topics to be covered include banking crises, currency crises, sovereign debt crises, private debt crises, panics, and the relationships between them. Students will work in groups on projects connecting the more theoretical content of the course to real world events and present these projects to the rest of the class.
AS.180.355 (01)	Economics of Poverty/Inequality	MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Husain, Muhammad Mudabbir	Gilman 186	Spring 2025	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.
AS.180.361 (01)	Rich Countries, Poor Countries	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Dasgupta, Somasree	Wyman Park 350	Spring 2025	Why are some countries rich while some other countries poor? Why does a country’s income per person generally grow over time? We try to analyze these questions using the theoretical and empirical growth literature. We will study seminal growth models, and also try to explain cross-country income differences in terms of factors like geography, institutions and global integration. Knowledge of regression analysis (including instrumental variables estimation) is required.
AS.180.389 (01)	Social Policy Implications of Behavioral Economics	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	Papageorge, Nicholas W	Croft Hall G02	Spring 2025	Economists increasingly incorporate insights from psychology into models of rational decision-making. Known as "behavioral economics", this line of research considers how, for example, emotions, rules-of-thumb, biased beliefs and time-inconsistent preferences influence how we make choices. Behavioral economics increasingly pervades policy discussions on topics as diverse as: obesity, the role of media, subprime mortgages and voting patterns. Behavioral models are certainly novel, but do they help us to design superior social policies? With the goal of preparing students to address this question, this course (1) provides a thorough overview of the main contributions of behavioral economics, highlighting departures from more traditional economic models and (2) emphasizes how behavioral economic models might (or might not) improve how we think about social policy.
AS.190.101 (01)	Introduction to American Politics	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Sheingate, Adam	Shaffer 3	Spring 2025	This course examines the ideals and operation of the American political system. It seeks to understand how our institutions and politics work, why they work as they do, and what the consequences are for representative government in the United States. Emphasis is placed on the federal government and its electoral, legislative, and executive structures and processes. As useful and appropriate, attention is also given to the federal courts and to the role of the states. The purpose of the course is to understand and confront the character and problems of modern government in the United States in a highly polarized and plebiscitary era.
AS.190.101 (02)	Introduction to American Politics	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Sheingate, Adam	Shaffer 3	Spring 2025	This course examines the ideals and operation of the American political system. It seeks to understand how our institutions and politics work, why they work as they do, and what the consequences are for representative government in the United States. Emphasis is placed on the federal government and its electoral, legislative, and executive structures and processes. As useful and appropriate, attention is also given to the federal courts and to the role of the states. The purpose of the course is to understand and confront the character and problems of modern government in the United States in a highly polarized and plebiscitary era.
AS.190.101 (03)	Introduction to American Politics	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM	Sheingate, Adam	Shaffer 3	Spring 2025	This course examines the ideals and operation of the American political system. It seeks to understand how our institutions and politics work, why they work as they do, and what the consequences are for representative government in the United States. Emphasis is placed on the federal government and its electoral, legislative, and executive structures and processes. As useful and appropriate, attention is also given to the federal courts and to the role of the states. The purpose of the course is to understand and confront the character and problems of modern government in the United States in a highly polarized and plebiscitary era.
AS.190.101 (04)	Introduction to American Politics	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM	Sheingate, Adam	Shaffer 3	Spring 2025	This course examines the ideals and operation of the American political system. It seeks to understand how our institutions and politics work, why they work as they do, and what the consequences are for representative government in the United States. Emphasis is placed on the federal government and its electoral, legislative, and executive structures and processes. As useful and appropriate, attention is also given to the federal courts and to the role of the states. The purpose of the course is to understand and confront the character and problems of modern government in the United States in a highly polarized and plebiscitary era.
AS.190.101 (05)	Introduction to American Politics	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Sheingate, Adam	Shaffer 3	Spring 2025	This course examines the ideals and operation of the American political system. It seeks to understand how our institutions and politics work, why they work as they do, and what the consequences are for representative government in the United States. Emphasis is placed on the federal government and its electoral, legislative, and executive structures and processes. As useful and appropriate, attention is also given to the federal courts and to the role of the states. The purpose of the course is to understand and confront the character and problems of modern government in the United States in a highly polarized and plebiscitary era.
AS.190.101 (06)	Introduction to American Politics	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Sheingate, Adam	Shaffer 3	Spring 2025	This course examines the ideals and operation of the American political system. It seeks to understand how our institutions and politics work, why they work as they do, and what the consequences are for representative government in the United States. Emphasis is placed on the federal government and its electoral, legislative, and executive structures and processes. As useful and appropriate, attention is also given to the federal courts and to the role of the states. The purpose of the course is to understand and confront the character and problems of modern government in the United States in a highly polarized and plebiscitary era.
AS.190.101 (07)	Introduction to American Politics	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Sheingate, Adam	Shaffer 3	Spring 2025	This course examines the ideals and operation of the American political system. It seeks to understand how our institutions and politics work, why they work as they do, and what the consequences are for representative government in the United States. Emphasis is placed on the federal government and its electoral, legislative, and executive structures and processes. As useful and appropriate, attention is also given to the federal courts and to the role of the states. The purpose of the course is to understand and confront the character and problems of modern government in the United States in a highly polarized and plebiscitary era.
AS.190.180 (01)	Introduction to Political Theory	MW 1:30PM - 2:20PM, F 1:30PM - 2:20PM	Brendese, PJ Joseph	Gilman 50	Spring 2025	This course investigates core questions of what constitutes political freedom, what limits on freedom (if any) should be imposed by authority, adn the relationship between freedom, responsibility, and political judgement. Spanning texts ancient, modern, and contemporary, we shall investigate how power inhabits and invigorates practices of freedom and consent. Among the questions we will consider: Can we always tell the difference between consent and coercion? Are morality and freedom incompatible? Is freedom from the past impossible? By wrestling with slavery (freedom's opposite) we will confront the terrifying possibility that slavery can be both embodied and psychic. If our minds can be held captive by power, can we ever be certain that we are truly free? The political stakes of these problems will be brought to light through a consideration of issues of religion, gender, sexuality, civil liberties, class and race.
AS.190.180 (02)	Introduction to Political Theory	MW 1:30PM - 2:20PM, F 1:30PM - 2:20PM	Brendese, PJ Joseph	Gilman 50	Spring 2025	This course investigates core questions of what constitutes political freedom, what limits on freedom (if any) should be imposed by authority, adn the relationship between freedom, responsibility, and political judgement. Spanning texts ancient, modern, and contemporary, we shall investigate how power inhabits and invigorates practices of freedom and consent. Among the questions we will consider: Can we always tell the difference between consent and coercion? Are morality and freedom incompatible? Is freedom from the past impossible? By wrestling with slavery (freedom's opposite) we will confront the terrifying possibility that slavery can be both embodied and psychic. If our minds can be held captive by power, can we ever be certain that we are truly free? The political stakes of these problems will be brought to light through a consideration of issues of religion, gender, sexuality, civil liberties, class and race.
AS.190.180 (03)	Introduction to Political Theory	MW 1:30PM - 2:20PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM	Brendese, PJ Joseph	Gilman 50	Spring 2025	This course investigates core questions of what constitutes political freedom, what limits on freedom (if any) should be imposed by authority, adn the relationship between freedom, responsibility, and political judgement. Spanning texts ancient, modern, and contemporary, we shall investigate how power inhabits and invigorates practices of freedom and consent. Among the questions we will consider: Can we always tell the difference between consent and coercion? Are morality and freedom incompatible? Is freedom from the past impossible? By wrestling with slavery (freedom's opposite) we will confront the terrifying possibility that slavery can be both embodied and psychic. If our minds can be held captive by power, can we ever be certain that we are truly free? The political stakes of these problems will be brought to light through a consideration of issues of religion, gender, sexuality, civil liberties, class and race.
AS.190.180 (04)	Introduction to Political Theory	MW 1:30PM - 2:20PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM	Brendese, PJ Joseph	Gilman 50	Spring 2025	This course investigates core questions of what constitutes political freedom, what limits on freedom (if any) should be imposed by authority, adn the relationship between freedom, responsibility, and political judgement. Spanning texts ancient, modern, and contemporary, we shall investigate how power inhabits and invigorates practices of freedom and consent. Among the questions we will consider: Can we always tell the difference between consent and coercion? Are morality and freedom incompatible? Is freedom from the past impossible? By wrestling with slavery (freedom's opposite) we will confront the terrifying possibility that slavery can be both embodied and psychic. If our minds can be held captive by power, can we ever be certain that we are truly free? The political stakes of these problems will be brought to light through a consideration of issues of religion, gender, sexuality, civil liberties, class and race.
AS.190.231 (01)	Politics of Income Inequality	WF 3:00PM - 4:15PM	Rehm, Philipp	Bloomberg 168	Spring 2025	Introduces fundamental patterns, puzzles, and theories on the politics of income inequality.
AS.190.249 (01)	Fictional World Politics: International Relations Through Fiction	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Marlin-Bennett, Renee E	Ames 234	Spring 2025	The plots and settings of fictitious works provide “cases” for the exploration of international relations theories. Incorporates literature, film, and works of IR scholarship.
AS.190.304 (01)	Latinos and the American Political Landscape	TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Bautista-Chavez, Angie M.	Bloomberg 276	Spring 2025	This course examines Latinos and the American political landscape – taking seriously the political lives of Latinos to sharpen accounts of American political development. In Part I: Latinos and American Empire, we will examine how American state building, American racial capitalism, and American empire created a varied set of racialized citizenship regimes that shaped the legality and membership of Latinos – depending on the interplay between domestic racial hierarchies and international projects. In Part II: Latinos and the Administrative State, we will examine how the regulation of Latino immigrants and asylum seekers from Latin America and the Caribbean have been an engine for American political development – including the making of border bureaucracies, networked policing that harnesses the institution of federalism, and the development of ocean-spanning detention infrastructure. In Part III: Latinos as Targets, we will examine how Latinos became racialized as ‘illegals’ and became the prime targets of state action – and how state efforts have led to the suppressing of political agency, mobilization of collective action, and even integration of Latinos into the enforcement apparatus. In Part IV: Latinos, Hierarchies, and Power, we will examine the political power of those most marginalized among the Latino population – including Black, Trans, Queer, Immigrant, and Undocumented Latinos – to learn about how these groups contend with intragroup and intergroup hierarchies, their role in intersectional movements, and their organizing under repressive conditions. In Part V: Latinos and Placemaking, we conclude with Latino placemaking across the United States to examine how Latinos – in relation with and to, and in coalition with Black, Indigenous, and Asian organizing – are cultivating and asserting political and policy influence in the face of climate change, policing, detention, and gentrification.
AS.190.305 (01)	Human Rights as a Practice, Weapon, and Symbol	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	Ross, Andrew	Gilman 219	Spring 2025	This course studies the complexity of international human rights as a vehicle for political change. The course approaches human rights as a set of legal instruments and practices, but also as a flexible political and symbolic toolbox used to address sometimes very divergent claims to justice. It pays attention to the roles of states, as well as the growing authority of human rights organizations, institutions, and online networks. We begin with a survey of major international human rights instruments before using a series of case studies to better understand how those instruments are used in practice. Rather than assume that human rights are always effective and benevolent, we set out to consider which kinds of policies they enable and which they foreclose. Cases also raise questions about the universality of human rights across cultural settings and demand critical reflection on how human rights function in North-South relations. The course draws from research aimed at improving the practice of human rights, as well as perspectives approaching human rights as instruments of power.
AS.190.317 (01)	Marxism and Revolution	TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM	Roundtree, Jacob; Schmitz, Volker	Gilman 313	Spring 2025	What is "Marxism"? After years of obscurity, Marxism has returned to recent political and academic debates, often without any clear indication of what the term might actually mean, or how it might differ from other "radical" political traditions. In this class, we will study and discuss the most important works of Karl Marx and Marxian thinkers, from their philosophical foundations to their analysis of global capitalism, class struggle, and the roles of states and culture. In the second part of the semester, we will trace this tradition through some of the great upheavals in the 20th century: from the Russian Revolution to particular variants of the struggles against colonialism in the developing world and against racism in the United States. In the process, we will focus on the central ideas distinguishing Marxism from other philosophies as well as from adjacent, allied, and rival political movements.
AS.190.318 (01)	Does Israel Have a Future?	W 4:00PM - 6:30PM	David, Steven R	Mergenthaler 366	Spring 2025	The future of Israel has never been more uncertain. Although external threats from Arab countries have abated, the danger posed by a nuclear attack from Iran grows with each passing day. Equally alarming is the growing domestic threat to Israel’s existence as a Jewish democracy. Efforts by Israel’s ruling coalition to weaken the High Court call into question whether the liberal democratic character of Israel can persist. The possibility of civil war, once thought impossible, cannot be discounted. In assessing how Israel can cope with these existential threats, lessons from the destruction of the ancient Israelite kingdoms will be examined.
AS.190.322 (01)	Future of American Democracy	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	Lieberman, Robert C	Krieger 307	Spring 2025	For the most part, observers of American politics have not considered the possibility that the American democratic regime might be at risk. But the unexpected election of Donald Trump in 2016 and the subsequent course of his presidency have occasioned a great deal of uncertainty and anxiety about whether democracy in the United States is at risk and whether American political institutions can withstand the stresses of contemporary politics. This course will use the Trump era to explore the conditions that seem to threaten the stability of the American regime. We will begin by exploring the political circumstances that led to Trump’s rise. We will then examine what we can learn from the experience of other countries about the conditions that make democracy either robust or fragile. Finally, we will consider how a set of contemporary political conditions in the United States — extreme partisan polarization, intense racial antagonism, growing economic inequality, and expanded executive power — contribute to the challenges facing American democracy today and in the future.
AS.190.345 (01)	Public Opinion	MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM	Trump, Kris-Stella	Gilman 55	Spring 2025	This course provides an overview of public opinion in the United States. We will explore what affects people’s political opinions, how opinions change, and how opinions affect (and are affected by) politics. Some of the questions we will discuss are: What is public opinion? How much do Americans know about politics? How do the issue positions of leading politicians affect public opinion? How do race relations affect public opinion? What role does partisanship play in all this? When and how do people change their minds about politics? How can my voice be heard in politics? The class will read papers that include quantitative/statistical work; a prior knowledge of statistical methods would be helpful but it is not required for success in the course. The final paper will be based on an original research project, the successful completion of which does not require any statistical training.
AS.190.355 (01)	Comparative Racial Politics	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Spence, Lester	Krieger 308	Spring 2025	Whether thought of as a biological reality or a social construction, “race” is viewed simultaneously as global and as intensely domestic. In this course I seek to examine race from a comparative perspective. What if we thought of race as a political construction, one produced both domestically and transnationally? In this class we will examine how race and racism are produced across as well as within borders, comparing the United States with similar and dissimilar cases. Further we will examine how comparative racial politics shape and are shaped by political movements, ideologies, and orders.
AS.190.377 (01)	Rastafari in Baltimore and the Caribbean: Transnational Community Development in the Black World	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Shilliam, Robbie		Spring 2025	This is an exploratory research lab course that examines Rastafari – a transnational movement with roots in the Caribbean and presence in Baltimore and DC. Students learn about the history, philosophy, and practices of the movement as well as its confrontations with racist systems of political and economic governance. Students are prepared to undertake research with the movement, which culminates in a week long immersion with the movement in Jamaica.
AS.190.390 (01)	Race and American Democracy	TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM	Lieberman, Robert C	Krieger 302	Spring 2025	While the United States has long been a democracy for white men, it has mostly been anything but democratic when seen through the eyes of Black Americans. But progress toward the expansion of democracy has occurred at a few times in American history. What made American democratization possible, and how might the United States again move toward more complete and inclusive democracy?
AS.190.423 (01)	Planetary Geopolitics	T 4:30PM - 7:00PM	Deudney, Daniel Horace	Mergenthaler 366	Spring 2025	With the tools of geopolitics, course explores political debates over globalization of machine civilization and changes in scope and pace, space and place, and role of nature in human affairs.
AS.190.429 (01)	Politics of the Market Economy	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Jabko, Nicolas	Mergenthaler 366	Spring 2025	Although “the market” is conventionally understood as separate from “politics”, the modern market economy did not arise in a political vacuum. In fact, the very separation between the economy and politics is itself the product of a politically potent set of ideas. This course is an upper-division reading seminar on the origins and evolution of the modern market economy. Readings will include Smith, Marx, Weber, Polanyi, Keynes, Hayek, Friedman, Becker, and Foucault. Recommended course background: Introduction to comparative politics OR any college-level course in social or political theory.
AS.190.451 (01)	Geopolitics	M 4:30PM - 7:00PM	Deudney, Daniel Horace	Gilman 55	Spring 2025	Intensive exploration of theories of how geography, ecology, and technology shape political orders. Case studies of ancient, early modern, global, and contemporary topics, including European ascent, industrial revolution, tropics and North South divide, climate change, geo-engineering and global commons (oceans, atmosphere and orbital space
AS.190.457 (01)	Sovereignty, the State, and War in International Politics	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Schmidt, Sebastian	Mergenthaler 366	Spring 2025	We are used to thinking of sovereignty, the state, and war as fairly self-evident concepts and as the bedrock of so much work, not only in academic international relations, but also in policy discourse. It seems straightforward that sovereign states wage war, and war in turn may make or break states. Under conditions of rapidly advancing globalization, however, the relationship of these concepts is anything but straightforward. This class builds on historical investigations into state formation, the relationship of the military instrument to the state, the progressive globalization of the defense industrial base, the rapidly changing practices of security under technical innovation, and related phenomena to question notions of state and security and to better understand the past and present fault lines of conflict. This is a graduate course that welcomes advanced undergraduates with previous international relations coursework at instructor’s discretion.
AS.190.459 (01)	Money and Sovereignty	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Jabko, Nicolas	Maryland 104	Spring 2025	The power to coin money was historically central to the formation of sovereign states. Yet the relationship between money and sovereignty has considerably evolved over time. First, the emergence of nation-states and of popular sovereignty meant that money was no longer primarily a state and elite concern, but also increasingly a matter of everyday life and mass politics. Second, the increasing integration and financialization of the world economy produced new challenges for sovereignty. We will discuss historical and social science scholarship that address these historical trends and the politics of money and sovereignty today. Topics will include: capitalism, public budgets and debts, central banks, populism, democracy, financialization, international integration.
AS.191.302 (01)	The American Right in Comparative Perspective	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Gover, Jessica Ann	Bloomberg 276	Spring 2025	The objective of this course is to examine the American right in comparative context with an emphasis on discussing how scholarship defines key terms, engaging various empirical cases from around the world ranging from Hungary to Turkey to India, and placing particular emphasis on linking theory with practice by inviting experts and scholars from within and beyond academia to discuss contemporary developments in global politics. We will closely consider major themes and concepts from other introductory political science courses such as democratic backsliding, global populism, the administrative state, and varieties of conservatism and partisanship. There are no prerequisites for this course and students from fields outside political science and international studies are strongly encouraged to participate. Dean's Teaching Fellowship.
AS.191.356 (01)	Beyond Good & Evil: Spinoza's Compositional Ethics	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	Kim, Jiyoung		Spring 2025	What does it mean to live in a world often characterized as “post-truth” or “post-moral”? The postmodern turn is often characterized by a rejection of moralism. Such criticisms often argue that that which has often been called ‘morality’ is only one way in which to valuate the better and the worse—and one which impoverishes life since its works by ‘judging life’ utilizing criteria which claim to stand outside and above the life thus judged. However if this is only one way in which to evaluate, the question which is raised is: what other frameworks for valuation could there be? This course will investigate what may be meant by the critique and explore other frameworks for valuation primarily through the immanent processual ethics proposed in Baruch Spinoza’s Ethics. Through reading Spinoza’s ethical framework in conversation with various considerations from fields such as the scientific, mathematical, literary, cinematic, and painterly, we will explore a possible alternative framework of normative evaluation, populated by considerations such as: power of action, capacity for affecting and being affected, what a body can do.
AS.192.150 (01)	States, Regimes & Contentious Politics	MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Lawrence, Adria K	Remsen Hall 101	Spring 2025	This course satisfies the gateway requirement for the major in International Studies and it satisfies the requirement for a 100-level course in comparative politics for the major in Political Science. Substantively, the classes introduces students to the study of politics and political life in the world, with a particular focus on the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa. Throughout the course, we will analyze the sources of order and disorder in modern states, addressing a series of questions, such as: why did nation-states form? What makes a state a nation? Why are some states democracies while others are not? How do people organize to fight oppression? Why does conflict sometimes turn violent? What are the causes of ethnic war? Drawing on a mix of classic works and contemporary scholarship, we will discuss the answers that scholars have formulated to address these and other questions, paying special attention to research design and the quality of argumentation.
AS.192.210 (01)	Library Research Seminar for International Studies and Social Sciences	W 4:00PM - 6:00PM	Ye, Yunshan	BLC 4040	Spring 2025	Are you planning to do a research project for your independent study class, or preparing for a grant application, or working on a big research project for a research intensive class or graduation thesis, or just wishing to improve your research skills? If so, this course is for you! Through weekly two hour sessions over ten weeks, you will receive systematic training on major research tools, resources and techniques useful for any research project in international studies, political science, and other social science subjects. By the end of the course, you will be able to come up with a viable research topic, and complete a research statement that includes an abstract, problem statement and literature review based on in-depth research utilizing tools and techniques covered in the course. The skills you learn through the course will prepare you for any future research projects and advanced studies.
AS.192.335 (01)	Diplomats, Experts, and Activists in International Politics	TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Ross, Andrew	Gilman 400	Spring 2025	While it is commonplace to speak of international politics as a domain of states, the work of foreign affairs and global governance is performed by actual people within complex institutions and organizations. This course sets out to understand the diplomats, experts, and activists who occupy and navigate these roles. It considers the evolution and contestation over values and norms within institutions, organizations, and movements, and it examines the standards of expertise that allow these actors to assert authority at the international level. The course also considers activists, skeptics, and other challengers seeking to undermine or radically transform established institutions and practices of global governance. Through diverse and interdisciplinary readings on diplomatic practices, institutional cultures, and social movement dynamics, students will also gain insight into professional avenues available in international and global affairs.
AS.192.404 (01)	Autocracy, Democracy and Development: Korea, Indonesia and Myanmar	W 1:00PM - 3:30PM	Dore, Giovanna Maria Dora	Mergenthaler 266	Spring 2025	East Asia’s “miracle growth” has not gone hand in hand with a decisive move toward democracy. Over the last 30 years, only eight East Asian countries have become democratic out of more than 60 countries worldwide, and they continue to struggle with the challenges of democratic consolidation, weak political governance, and limited citizens’ political engagement. This course explores the reasons why democratization proceeds slowly in East Asia, and seems to be essentially decoupled from the region’s fast-paced economic growth. The choice of Korea, Indonesia, and Myanmar as the case studies for this course results from their authoritarian past as well as their more recent institutional and political trajectories towards democracy.Contact instructor if prerequisites are not met.
AS.211.231 (01)	Planet Amazonia: Culture, History, and the Environment	TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Bedran, Marina	Gilman 217	Spring 2025	Without Amazonia, global warming could reach levels that threaten life on the planet. Yet, in an era of deforestation and climate change, Amazonia itself might be on the verge of disappearance, with disastrous consequences for the world. This course proposes interdisciplinary perspectives on Amazonia through a range of works drawn from history, anthropology, archeology, environmental studies, literature, and the arts. We’ll look at texts by European travelers and missionaries who contributed to the paradoxical image of Amazonia as a “virgin paradise” or a “green hell”; scientific studies and artists’ depictions of the region’s flora and fauna; the often-overlooked history of human occupation of the region; and projects to colonize, develop, or conserve the world’s largest tropical forest. What importance does Amazonia hold for Latin American and global geopolitics? How do art and literature, including indigenous writings, create, reinforce, or deconstruct clichés about the region? What alternative futures for our planet can Amazonia help us to imagine?
AS.211.372 (01)	German Cinema: The Divided Screen	F 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Rhee, Sharlyn	Gilman 479	Spring 2025	This course is an approach to Twentieth century German history and culture via film and related readings in English translation. We will emphasize the national division thematically, and explore the audio and visual aspects of cinema by focusing on representative films embedded in larger narratives. Some prior familiarity with German culture is recommended but not required.
AS.212.353 (01)	La France Contemporaine	TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Wuensch, April		Spring 2025	Students will explore contemporary French society and culture through a wide variety of media: fiction and non-fiction readings (graphic novels, news periodicals, popular magazines), films, music, art, websites, and podcasts. A diverse range of hands-on activities in addition to guided readings will help students develop cultural awareness as we discuss topics such as education, politics, humor, sports, cuisine, immigration, slang, and national identity, as well as the historical factors that have influenced these facets of French and francophone culture. Recommended Course Background: AS.210.301 or AS.210.302 or permission of instructor.
AS.213.325 (01)	Revolution, Power and Poetic Justice: Kleist's "Michael Kohlhaas" in Context	WF 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Tobias, Rochelle		Spring 2025	Political thinkers from Ernst Bloch and Carl Schmitt to Reinhard Koselleck and Theodor W. Adorno have long been drawn to Heinrich von Kleist’s novella “Michael Kohlhaas” because of the questions it raises about what a just political order would be when, in the context of this story, only the threat of violence enables the powerless to be heard. The novella takes place in the latter half of the sixteenth century as the feudal era is coming to an end, and Kohlhaas’s struggle to rectify the damage done to his property reveals the vulnerability of the then emerging merchant class to the still unchecked power of the nobility. Yet Kohlhaas’s response to the situation proves to be as arbitrary as the injustice he faces, and the only solution the novella can find for this impasse is a fairy tale that embodies—in all senses of the phrase—poetic justice. This course will examine the novella in its historical context (Reformation, doctrine of natural law, Prussian land reform) and with an eye toward modern thought on state violence, terror, liberalism, and the power of art. All texts and discussion in English.
AS.215.111 (01)	Modern Spanish Culture	TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM	Walls, Alfredo	Gilman 186	Spring 2025	This course will explore the fundamental aspects of Spanish culture from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. The course will offer a general survey of the history of Spain and will discuss texts, movies, songs, pictures, and paintings in relation to their social, political, and cultural contexts. This course will be of particular interest for students planning on spending a semester abroad in Spain—specially for those students going to the JHU Fall Semester in Madrid, at Carlos III University. Taught in Spanish. Recommended Course Background: AS.210.311 or appropriate Webcape score. AS.215.390 was formerly numbered AS.211.390
AS.215.112 (01)	Modern Latin American Culture	MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM	Pinar Diaz, Alicia	Gilman 17	Spring 2025	Taught in Spanish. This course will explore the fundamental aspects of Latin- America culture from the formation of independent states through the present—in light of the social, political, and economic histories of the region. The course will offer a general survey of history of Latin- America, and will discuss texts, movies, songs, pictures, and paintings, in relation to their social, political, and cultural contexts. May not be taken satisfactory/unsatisfactory.
AS.230.150 (01)	Issues in International Development	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Edwards, Zophia	Hackerman B 17	Spring 2025	This course will introduce the main theoretical perspectives, debates, and themes in the field of international development since the mid-20th century. It has three sections. The first section focuses on debates over what conditions and strategies generate capitalist economic growth and on the relationship between capitalist growth, colonialism, enslavement, the construction of social difference, human welfare, and inequality. The second section presents critical assessments of development interventions from various perspectives. The third section considers the role of social movements in shaping development and social change in the 21st century.
AS.230.150 (02)	Issues in International Development	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Edwards, Zophia	Hackerman B 17	Spring 2025	This course will introduce the main theoretical perspectives, debates, and themes in the field of international development since the mid-20th century. It has three sections. The first section focuses on debates over what conditions and strategies generate capitalist economic growth and on the relationship between capitalist growth, colonialism, enslavement, the construction of social difference, human welfare, and inequality. The second section presents critical assessments of development interventions from various perspectives. The third section considers the role of social movements in shaping development and social change in the 21st century.
AS.230.150 (03)	Issues in International Development	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Edwards, Zophia	Hackerman B 17	Spring 2025	This course will introduce the main theoretical perspectives, debates, and themes in the field of international development since the mid-20th century. It has three sections. The first section focuses on debates over what conditions and strategies generate capitalist economic growth and on the relationship between capitalist growth, colonialism, enslavement, the construction of social difference, human welfare, and inequality. The second section presents critical assessments of development interventions from various perspectives. The third section considers the role of social movements in shaping development and social change in the 21st century.
AS.230.150 (04)	Issues in International Development	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Edwards, Zophia	Hackerman B 17	Spring 2025	This course will introduce the main theoretical perspectives, debates, and themes in the field of international development since the mid-20th century. It has three sections. The first section focuses on debates over what conditions and strategies generate capitalist economic growth and on the relationship between capitalist growth, colonialism, enslavement, the construction of social difference, human welfare, and inequality. The second section presents critical assessments of development interventions from various perspectives. The third section considers the role of social movements in shaping development and social change in the 21st century.
AS.230.213 (01)	Social Theory	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	Andreas, Joel	Hodson 315	Spring 2025	This course will focus on four classical social theorists whose ideas have greatly influenced how we study and understand society: Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and W.E.B. DuBois. Much of the course is devoted to applying their theories to analyze current social issues, especially those involving social inequality, conflict, cohesion, and change.
AS.230.244 (01)	Race and Ethnicity in American Society	TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM	Greif, Meredith	Gilman 400	Spring 2025	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.
AS.230.330 (01)	Space, Society, and Social Change	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Ilic, Gorana	Maryland 104	Spring 2025	What is the relationship between space and society? In this course, we will challenge the idea that space is a mere container of human interactions and activities. We will learn how top-down decisions about space (e.g., the dismantling of public housing, land dispossession, the formation of refugee camps) contribute to social hierarchies along class, gender, race, and caste lines. We will then consider how bottom-up movements use space to resist oppression and promote social change. We will draw on theoretical and empirical work from the social sciences and urban studies, and explore cases from several regions of the world, spanning the last few decades. Students in the course will also practice broader essential skills in the social sciences, including summarizing academic arguments, connecting empirical observations to theoretical debates, and making clear and concise arguments.
AS.230.335 (01)	Medical Humanitarianism	MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Naveh Benjamin, Ilil	Gilman 400	Spring 2025	Humanitarian organizations play life-preserving roles in global conflicts, and have front-row views of disasters ranging from the 2010 Haiti earthquake to the 2011 Fukushima tsunami in Japan. Yet even while they provide vital assistance to millions of people in crisis, such organizations are beset by important paradoxes that hinder their capacity to create sustainable interventions. They work to fill long-lasting needs, but are prone to moving quickly from one site to the next in search of the latest emergency. They strive to be apolitical, yet are invariably influenced by the geopolitical agendas of global powers. How do such contradictions arise, and what is their impact upon millions of aid recipients around the world? Drawing on case studies from South Sudan to Haiti, this course addresses these contradictions by exploring how and why medical aid organizations attempt, and sometimes fail, to reconcile short-term goals, such as immediate life-saving, with long-term missions, such as public health programs and conflict resolution initiatives.
AS.230.369 (01)	Sociology in Economic Life	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	Kuo, Huei-Ying	Gilman 400	Spring 2025	This course introduces two approaches in the research of economic sociology: the emphasis on macro world-historical social change and the concern over the meso-level institutionalization of markets. Key concepts include division of labor, market, commodification, social and cultural capital, informal economy, migrants and business networks, globalization, and post-globalization.
AS.230.370 (01)	Housing and Homelessness in the United States	TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM	Greif, Meredith	Gilman 400	Spring 2025	This course will examine the role of housing, or the absence thereof, in shaping quality of life. It will explore the consequences of the places in which we live and how we are housed. Consideration will be given to overcrowding, affordability, accessibility, and past and existing housing policies and their influence on society. Special attention will be given to the problem of homelessness.
AS.230.372 (01)	Race, Class, and Decolonization Struggles	M 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Edwards, Zophia	Shriver Hall Board Room	Spring 2025	This course explores the complex interplay between race, class, and the politics of decolonization and national independence in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean and Latin America. Through diverse theories, primary sources, and comparative case studies, students will analyze how racialized and exploited groups have challenged systems of imperial and colonial domination while seeking to assert different meanings of freedom. The course moves beyond traditional decolonization narratives that restrict frameworks spatially to the boundaries of the nation-state and temporally to the post-World War II period. By historicizing decolonization struggles and emphasizing the transnational and comparative dimensions of the ideologies and practices of decolonization, we will explore how race and class dynamics within countries intersect with global power relations to shape the politics and processes of decolonization.
AS.230.378 (91DC)	Refugees, Human Rights, and Sovereignty	Th 11:30AM - 2:00PM	Naveh Benjamin, Ilil	555 Penn 644	Spring 2025	What is a refugee? Since World War II, states that have pledged to offer protection to refugees have frequently been drawn instead to the dictates of nationalism and communitarianism, which prioritize concern for their own citizens, rather than to the needs of forced migrants. As a result, even those migrants that have been formally recognized as refugees according to the 1951 UN Refugee Convention have not been assured of protection, and other migrants have been even less assured. In this course, we will locate the reasons for this reality in the legal, political, and historical underpinnings of political asylum. What is the difference between an asylum seeker and a refugee? How has the refugee category been redefined and contested by international bodies since 1951? How are the ambiguities of real-life violence and persecution simplified in asylum adjudication interviews that require clear, factual narratives? What kinds of protections are offered to asylum seekers, whether by UN bodies, NGOs, or host governments, and how have such protections varied geographically and historically? Finally, what protections, if any, are afforded to those migrants who are fleeing not persecution but rather “merely” endemic poverty or climate-induced displacement? The course draws on literature from sociology, history, anthropology, and international refugee law in order to understand the capacity (or lack thereof) of human rights discourses and declarations to contravene state sovereignty in the name of protecting the rightless.
AS.230.387 (91DC)	Global Migration and Refugees: Applied Research and Practice Seminar	Th 2:30PM - 5:00PM	Agarwala, Rina	555 Penn 448	Spring 2025	This course will introduce students to the cutting-edge debates on global migration and refugees and give them a first-hand look at the complicated interactions between research, politics, and policy-making. Each week, students will read the work of a featured scholar who will visit the class as a guest lecture, giving students the unique opportunity to directly engage with the scholar. In addition, policy makers, community groups, and activists dealing with migration will visit the class for guest lectures, and students will have the opportunity to learn exactly how, when, and why research is (and is not) applied on the ground. To highlight the global nature of the theme, the course will highlight issues of immigration and emigration, receiving and sending countries, in the global North and South. This course is offered in Washington DC and is available to students accepted to the Spring 2025 Hopkins Semester DC only.
AS.230.440 (01)	Port Cities and Historical Capitalism in Maritime Asia	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Kuo, Huei-Ying	Gilman 400	Spring 2025	This seminar examines inter-regional connections and diplomacy in maritime Asia (focusing on the region around the Straits of Malacca, the South and East China Seas, and the Taiwan Straits). In addition to a survey of the application of world-system theories on Asia, the reading materials include the roles of trading diasporas in world history, the maritime silk Road, the Chinese tribute trade system, the British free-trade imperialism, American open-door policy, Japanese pan-Asianism, Cold-war diplomacy, and the Beijing-centric belt-and-road initiatives. The goal is to explore the prospects and limitations of examining inter-Asian connections beyond political states.
AS.300.102 (01)	Great Minds	TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Marrati, Paola	Gilman 208	Spring 2025	This course offers an introductory survey of foundational authors of modern philosophy and moral and political thought whose ideas continue to influence contemporary problems and debates. The course is taught in lectures and seminar discussions. Authors studied include Plato, René Descartes, Immanuel Kant, Karl Marx, Virginia Woolf, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Iris Murdoch, James Baldwin, Cora Diamond, Judith Butler, Kwame A. Appiah and others.
AS.300.316 (01)	Art and Thought of the Soviet and Post-Soviet Peripheries	Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Schmelz, Peter John	Gilman 208	Spring 2025	his class explores the art, culture, and history of the Soviet and post-Soviet peripheries, meaning the non-Russian republics of the USSR, including, among others, the Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania), Ukraine, Belarus, the Caucasus (Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan), and the diverse countries of Central Asia including Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan). We will focus on notable examples from different art forms, including literature (fiction and poetry), music (popular, traditional, and classical), film, and the visual arts, as we investigate questions about identity, power, cultural politics, and coloniality and decoloniality from the early twentieth century up to the present. Representative creators include Oksana Zabuzhko (The Museum of Abandoned Secrets), Dato Turashvili (Flight from the USSR), Chinghiz Aitmatov (The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years), Rashid Nugmanov (The Needle), Sergei Parajanov (The Color of Pomegranates), Kira Muratova (The Piano Tuner), Valentyn Sylvestrov, Viktor Tsoi, the Ganelin Trio, and Sainkho Namchylak. We will consider how different Soviet and post-Soviet thinkers from representative traditions wrestled with local definitions of “Sovietness” as well as with varied interpretations of the “post-Soviet.” The discourse of socialist realism and its bureaucratic and aesthetic negotiations will be a central topic, but so too will divergences from Moscow-centered artistic and philosophical demands
AS.310.327 (01)	Women in China from Antiquity to MeToo	TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM	Jiang, Jin	Mergenthaler 266	Spring 2025	This interdisciplinary survey course considers questions related to women and gender in Chinese society. Taking a long historical view, the course examines ideologies, social institutions, and literary representations of women and gender in traditional society and their modern transformation. Specific topics to be explored include the concept of Yin and Yang, Confucian gender ideology and the family, sex and sexuality, marriage and concubinage, footbinding, and calls for women's liberation in the context of twentieth-century Chinese revolutions. The course will end with an examination of the relationship between social media and gender politics as seen through the Chinese MeToo movement. Students will have the opportunity to work with a variety of primary sources including historical, literary, and visual materials.
AS.310.329 (01)	Women, Patriarchy, and Feminism in China, South Korea, and Japan	TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM	Henning, Stefan	Mergenthaler 266	Spring 2025	We will try to get a quick overview of the recent history of patriarchy in China, South Korea, and Japan from the mid-twentieth century to our present and then compare the initiatives of feminists to transform the lives of women throughout these three societies. We will also debate whether or how it makes sense to adapt the Western notions of patriarchy and sexism as well as the Western political program of feminism to the non-Western context of East Asia by reading books by historians, anthropologists, and sociologists.
AS.310.331 (01)	Islam in Asia	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	Henning, Stefan	Mergenthaler 266	Spring 2025	You will learn about the efforts of ordinary, non-elite Muslims to shape the relation between their communities and the state as well as to (where applicable) the non-Muslim majority through collective organizing over the last forty years. We will read and discuss books by anthropologists, historians, and sociologists studying Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, China, Malaysia, and Indonesia.
AS.310.333 (01)	Engaging Allies and Adversaries in East Asia: The Role of Multitrack Diplomacy	M 3:00PM - 5:30PM	Staff	Mergenthaler 266	Spring 2025	Diplomacy can occur in several forms, or “tracks,” that engage a range of actors critical to managing or changing state to state relations. In an increasingly complex geopolitical environment, formal government to government diplomacy, or Track 1, can be constrained by various political realities in an increasingly complex geostrategic environment. In East Asia in particular, maintaining peace and security despite the state of formal diplomatic relations is crucial, given the high prospects of nuclear use in case of war. Finding ways to overcome these challenges, creating an environment more conducive for Track 1 to restart or expand, and establishing channels of communication in the absence of Track 1 relations is often done through nongovernmental actors in a number of ways. This course will examine the role of multitrack diplomacy, both past and present, in engaging both allies and adversaries in East Asia, to help build understanding and trust, explore potential pathways forward, and help prevent conflict in this vital and dynamic region. It will examine case studies of US efforts to engage China and North Korea, strategic dialogues with US allies in the region, and broader multilateral efforts in the region, focused on how these approaches have fed into or helped support formal diplomatic processes.
AS.361.100 (01)	Introduction to Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies	MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM	Cotler, Angelina	Gilman 186	Spring 2025	An interdisciplinary introduction to the ways of life of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx peoples, their origins, historical legacies, and current cultural expressions. This course assumes no prior knowledge and incorporates the insights of several disciplines including anthropology, history, political science, economics, cultural studies, literary criticism, and ethnomusicology. The course seeks to comprehend the region from multiple perspectives and to provide a broad conceptual overview.
AS.363.336 (01)	Sexual Politics of the Cold War: An Inter-Asia Approach	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Kim, Sojung		Spring 2025	Has the Cold War truly ended? What does it mean to end a war? This course invites you to critically examine the Cold War through the lenses of sexuality and inter-Asia. While the general consensus is that the Cold War has concluded, this notion of an absolute “end” has continuously faced challenges in new Cold War studies, particularly posed by scholars across regions and areas within “Asia.” What are the imperatives of these challenges? Simultaneously, growing feminist scholarship on sexual politics reveals the ways in which sexuality serves as a pivotal arena in the construction and transformation of Cold War politics, shaping our ordinary lives. How are possibilities for intimacy and alternative futures woven under seemingly endless conditions of war? Situated at the intersection of sexual politics and inter-Asia methods, drawing from a diverse range of interdisciplinary texts, literature, and visual materials, we explore postcolonial, feminist, and queer discussions surrounding the changing nature of Cold War politics. These discussions engage critically and expand upon the traditionally Western-centric understanding of war, peace, and Asia.

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Science in the Colonial AgeAS.140.224 (86)

African CitiesAS.070.241 (01)

The Political Culture of BangladeshAS.070.319 (01)

Violence, Race and the Unruly BodyAS.070.345 (01)

Modern Europe in a global context, 1789-PresentAS.100.104 (01)

Modern Europe in a global context, 1789-PresentAS.100.104 (02)

Modern Latin AmericaAS.100.115 (01)

Modern Latin AmericaAS.100.115 (02)

Introduction to U.S. Immigration History and LawAS.100.119 (01)

History of Modern GermanyAS.100.233 (01)

Making War in a New World: Warfare in Early America, 1492-1804AS.100.247 (01)

The Islamic Age of Empires: The Ottomans, the Mughals, and the SafavidsAS.100.327 (01)

Early Modern ChinaAS.100.347 (01)

The Modern British World: Imperial Encounters, Regimes, and Resistance, 1700-BrexitAS.100.360 (01)

Society & Social Change in 18th Century ChinaAS.100.422 (01)

Popular Culture in Early Modern EuropeAS.100.426 (01)

Global Legal HistoryAS.100.453 (01)

From Baltimore to Belgrade: 1968 in Global and Local PerspectiveAS.100.497 (01)

Elements of MacroeconomicsAS.180.101 (01)

Elements of MacroeconomicsAS.180.101 (02)

Elements of MacroeconomicsAS.180.101 (03)

Elements of MacroeconomicsAS.180.101 (04)

Elements of MacroeconomicsAS.180.101 (05)

Elements of MacroeconomicsAS.180.101 (08)

Elements of MicroeconomicsAS.180.102 (01)

Elements of MicroeconomicsAS.180.102 (02)

Elements of MicroeconomicsAS.180.102 (03)

Elements of MicroeconomicsAS.180.102 (04)

The Economic Experience of the BRIC CountriesAS.180.214 (01)

Game Theory in Social SciencesAS.180.217 (01)

Economic Development in Sub-Saharan AfricaAS.180.223 (01)

Economics of Health and Education in South AsiaAS.180.229 (01)

Monetary AnalysisAS.180.261 (01)

Financial Markets and InstitutionsAS.180.266 (01)

Economics of HealthAS.180.289 (01)

Topics in International Macroeconomics and FinanceAS.180.303 (01)

Economics of Race, Gender and CultureAS.180.349 (01)

Labor EconomicsAS.180.351 (01)

Introduction to Global StudiesAS.190.111 (01)

Introduction to Global StudiesAS.190.111 (02)

Introduction to Global StudiesAS.190.111 (03)

Introduction to Global StudiesAS.190.111 (04)

Introduction to Global StudiesAS.190.111 (05)

Introduction to Global StudiesAS.190.111 (06)

Western Political TheoryAS.190.122 (01)

U.S. Foreign PolicyAS.190.227 (01)

U.S. Foreign PolicyAS.190.227 (02)

U.S. Foreign PolicyAS.190.227 (03)

U.S. Foreign PolicyAS.190.227 (04)

U.S. Foreign PolicyAS.190.227 (05)

The American PresidencyAS.190.228 (01)

Politics of Income InequalityAS.190.231 (01)

Climate Solutions: The Global Politics and Technology of DecarbonizationAS.190.246 (01)

Climate Solutions: The Global Politics and Technology of DecarbonizationAS.190.246 (03)

American Racial PoliticsAS.190.339 (01)

A New Cold War? Sino-American Relations in the 21st CenturyAS.190.347 (01)

Free Speech and the Law in Comparative PerspectiveAS.190.366 (01)

Nationalism and the Politics of IdentityAS.190.379 (01)

Race and the Politics of MemoryAS.190.388 (01)

The Politics of International LawAS.190.397 (01)

Hobbes and SpinozaAS.190.428 (01)

Violence and PoliticsAS.190.438 (01)

European Politics in Comparative PerspectiveAS.190.440 (01)

Comparative PoliticsAS.190.444 (01)

Nuclear Weapons and World PoliticsAS.190.454 (01)

Humanitarianism and World PoliticsAS.190.456 (01)

Global climate Politics: Net-Zero Industrial Policy and World OrderAS.190.458 (01)

America in Comparative and International PerspectiveAS.190.475 (01)

Democracy and Institutional Anxiety across the Political SpectrumAS.190.480 (01)

Modern Political ThoughtAS.190.497 (01)

Collective Action and Organization Strategy in the U.S.AS.191.233 (01)

Arab-Israeli Conflict (IR)AS.191.335 (01)

Russian Foreign Policy (IR)AS.191.345 (01)

Economic Growth and Development in East AsiaAS.192.225 (01)

Brazilian Culture & Civilization: Colonial Times to the PresentAS.211.171 (01)

Panorama of German ThoughtAS.211.265 (01)

Black ItalyAS.211.423 (01)

Modern Spanish CultureAS.215.111 (01)

Modern Latin American CultureAS.215.112 (01)

Early Modern Europe & the Wider World
AS.100.103 (21)

Science in the Colonial Age
AS.140.224 (86)

African Cities
AS.070.241 (01)

The Political Culture of Bangladesh
AS.070.319 (01)

Violence, Race and the Unruly Body
AS.070.345 (01)

Modern Europe in a global context, 1789-Present
AS.100.104 (01)

Modern Europe in a global context, 1789-Present
AS.100.104 (02)

Modern Latin America
AS.100.115 (01)

Modern Latin America
AS.100.115 (02)

Introduction to U.S. Immigration History and Law
AS.100.119 (01)

History of Modern Germany
AS.100.233 (01)

Making War in a New World: Warfare in Early America, 1492-1804
AS.100.247 (01)

The Islamic Age of Empires: The Ottomans, the Mughals, and the Safavids
AS.100.327 (01)

Early Modern China
AS.100.347 (01)

The Modern British World: Imperial Encounters, Regimes, and Resistance, 1700-Brexit
AS.100.360 (01)

Society & Social Change in 18th Century China
AS.100.422 (01)

Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe
AS.100.426 (01)

Global Legal History
AS.100.453 (01)

From Baltimore to Belgrade: 1968 in Global and Local Perspective
AS.100.497 (01)

Elements of Macroeconomics
AS.180.101 (01)

Elements of Macroeconomics
AS.180.101 (02)

Elements of Macroeconomics
AS.180.101 (03)

Elements of Macroeconomics
AS.180.101 (04)

Elements of Macroeconomics
AS.180.101 (05)

Elements of Macroeconomics
AS.180.101 (08)

Elements of Microeconomics
AS.180.102 (01)

Elements of Microeconomics
AS.180.102 (02)

Elements of Microeconomics
AS.180.102 (03)

Elements of Microeconomics
AS.180.102 (04)

The Economic Experience of the BRIC Countries
AS.180.214 (01)

Game Theory in Social Sciences
AS.180.217 (01)

Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
AS.180.223 (01)

Economics of Health and Education in South Asia
AS.180.229 (01)

Monetary Analysis
AS.180.261 (01)

Financial Markets and Institutions
AS.180.266 (01)

Economics of Health
AS.180.289 (01)

Topics in International Macroeconomics and Finance
AS.180.303 (01)

Economics of Race, Gender and Culture
AS.180.349 (01)

Labor Economics
AS.180.351 (01)

Introduction to Global Studies
AS.190.111 (01)

Introduction to Global Studies
AS.190.111 (02)

Introduction to Global Studies
AS.190.111 (03)

Introduction to Global Studies
AS.190.111 (04)

Introduction to Global Studies
AS.190.111 (05)

Introduction to Global Studies
AS.190.111 (06)

Western Political Theory
AS.190.122 (01)

U.S. Foreign Policy
AS.190.227 (01)

U.S. Foreign Policy
AS.190.227 (02)

U.S. Foreign Policy
AS.190.227 (03)

U.S. Foreign Policy
AS.190.227 (04)

U.S. Foreign Policy
AS.190.227 (05)

The American Presidency
AS.190.228 (01)

Politics of Income Inequality
AS.190.231 (01)

Climate Solutions: The Global Politics and Technology of Decarbonization
AS.190.246 (01)

Climate Solutions: The Global Politics and Technology of Decarbonization
AS.190.246 (03)

American Racial Politics
AS.190.339 (01)

A New Cold War? Sino-American Relations in the 21st Century
AS.190.347 (01)

Free Speech and the Law in Comparative Perspective
AS.190.366 (01)

Nationalism and the Politics of Identity
AS.190.379 (01)

Race and the Politics of Memory
AS.190.388 (01)

The Politics of International Law
AS.190.397 (01)

Hobbes and Spinoza
AS.190.428 (01)

Violence and Politics
AS.190.438 (01)

European Politics in Comparative Perspective
AS.190.440 (01)

Comparative Politics
AS.190.444 (01)

Nuclear Weapons and World Politics
AS.190.454 (01)

Humanitarianism and World Politics
AS.190.456 (01)

Global climate Politics: Net-Zero Industrial Policy and World Order
AS.190.458 (01)

America in Comparative and International Perspective
AS.190.475 (01)

Democracy and Institutional Anxiety across the Political Spectrum
AS.190.480 (01)

Modern Political Thought
AS.190.497 (01)

Collective Action and Organization Strategy in the U.S.
AS.191.233 (01)

Arab-Israeli Conflict (IR)
AS.191.335 (01)

Russian Foreign Policy (IR)
AS.191.345 (01)

Economic Growth and Development in East Asia
AS.192.225 (01)

Brazilian Culture & Civilization: Colonial Times to the Present
AS.211.171 (01)

Panorama of German Thought
AS.211.265 (01)

Black Italy
AS.211.423 (01)

Modern Spanish Culture
AS.215.111 (01)

Modern Latin American Culture
AS.215.112 (01)