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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.100.104 (01)	Modern Europe in a global context, 1789-Present	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne	Gilman 132; Gilman 277	Fall 2025	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	Gilman 132; Gilman 277	Fall 2025	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 (03)	Modern Europe in a global context, 1789-Present	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne	Gilman 132; Bloomberg 178	Fall 2025	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 (04)	Modern Europe in a global context, 1789-Present	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne	Gilman 132; Gilman 305	Fall 2025	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.100.106 (01)	History of the Global Cold War	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM	Schrader, Stuart Laurence	Hodson 316; Gilman 400	Fall 2025	The Cold War was a defining event of the 20th century. But what was it? Where did it take place? Who were the major contenders? And what were the consequences? This introductory course will examine the Cold War in a global context, looking beyond the United States and Europe. Students will learn about how the Cold War unfolded in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, in relation to the fall of European empires, the process of decolonization, and the rise of U.S. global power. This course will introduce students to key themes and primary sources in the study of the Global Cold War, as a foundation for further courses in History, Critical Diaspora Studies, International Studies, Political Science, etc.
AS.100.106 (02)	History of the Global Cold War	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Schrader, Stuart Laurence	Hodson 316; Maryland 104	Fall 2025	The Cold War was a defining event of the 20th century. But what was it? Where did it take place? Who were the major contenders? And what were the consequences? This introductory course will examine the Cold War in a global context, looking beyond the United States and Europe. Students will learn about how the Cold War unfolded in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, in relation to the fall of European empires, the process of decolonization, and the rise of U.S. global power. This course will introduce students to key themes and primary sources in the study of the Global Cold War, as a foundation for further courses in History, Critical Diaspora Studies, International Studies, Political Science, etc.
AS.100.118 (01)	Introduction to the Middle East	MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM	Noor, Rao Mohsin Ali	Krieger 170; Greenhouse 113	Fall 2025	Where is the Middle East? What is it exactly in the Middle of? What, if anything, defines it, and who gets to do the defining? This introductory course poses such questions. Whilst promising no easy answers, it will nevertheless introduce students who have no prior knowledge of the Middle East to the region. Emphasis will be placed on the history, geography, languages, religions, and culture of the pre-modern and modern Middle East. Students will also be exposed to different methods and approaches to the academic study of the region. The course, while at the introductory level, is reading and writing intensive.
AS.100.118 (02)	Introduction to the Middle East	MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 1:30PM - 2:20PM	Noor, Rao Mohsin Ali	Krieger 170; Gilman 400	Fall 2025	Where is the Middle East? What is it exactly in the Middle of? What, if anything, defines it, and who gets to do the defining? This introductory course poses such questions. Whilst promising no easy answers, it will nevertheless introduce students who have no prior knowledge of the Middle East to the region. Emphasis will be placed on the history, geography, languages, religions, and culture of the pre-modern and modern Middle East. Students will also be exposed to different methods and approaches to the academic study of the region. The course, while at the introductory level, is reading and writing intensive.
AS.100.118 (03)	Introduction to the Middle East	MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM	Noor, Rao Mohsin Ali	Krieger 170; Gilman 77	Fall 2025	Where is the Middle East? What is it exactly in the Middle of? What, if anything, defines it, and who gets to do the defining? This introductory course poses such questions. Whilst promising no easy answers, it will nevertheless introduce students who have no prior knowledge of the Middle East to the region. Emphasis will be placed on the history, geography, languages, religions, and culture of the pre-modern and modern Middle East. Students will also be exposed to different methods and approaches to the academic study of the region. The course, while at the introductory level, is reading and writing intensive.
AS.100.118 (04)	Introduction to the Middle East	MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 1:30PM - 2:20PM	Noor, Rao Mohsin Ali	Krieger 170; Gilman 10	Fall 2025	Where is the Middle East? What is it exactly in the Middle of? What, if anything, defines it, and who gets to do the defining? This introductory course poses such questions. Whilst promising no easy answers, it will nevertheless introduce students who have no prior knowledge of the Middle East to the region. Emphasis will be placed on the history, geography, languages, religions, and culture of the pre-modern and modern Middle East. Students will also be exposed to different methods and approaches to the academic study of the region. The course, while at the introductory level, is reading and writing intensive.
AS.100.122 (01)	Introduction to History of Africa (since 1880)	MW 9:00AM - 9:50AM, F 9:00AM - 9:50AM	Thornberry, Elizabeth	Gilman 305; Gilman 305	Fall 2025	Explore the social and political changes that have transformed the African continent in the modern era, with a focus on the rise and fall of colonialism, the relation between Africa and the world in the post-colonial era, and effect of colonialism and its aftermath on African household structures and gender roles.
AS.100.122 (02)	Introduction to History of Africa (since 1880)	MW 9:00AM - 9:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Thornberry, Elizabeth		Fall 2025	Explore the social and political changes that have transformed the African continent in the modern era, with a focus on the rise and fall of colonialism, the relation between Africa and the world in the post-colonial era, and effect of colonialism and its aftermath on African household structures and gender roles.
AS.100.144 (01)	Shopaholics: Consumer Revolution and the Material World, 1600-1850	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Katz, Anna May	Gilman 119	Fall 2025	We live in a world of global consumption. This course introduces students to the birth of global consumer culture in the period from the 1600s through to the American, French and Haitian revolutions. These revolutions were themselves sold to consumers through “revolutionary things”, and this period witnessed the first major consumer boycotts against slave-produced goods. Students will examine the histories of many key commodities involved in the “consumer revolution”, including fashion items such as shoes, wigs, clothing and accessories. A significant portion of the course will examine addictive stimulants like sugar, coffee, tea and tobacco, globalized and imperial goods which became common for the first time in this period. We shall see how production of these goods involved new forms of racialized exploitation; simultaneously, we shall explore the diversity of people involved in the consumer revolution, studying the consumption of important new goods by people living in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. By the end of the class, students will understand how the emergence of mass consumption affected the global politics of race, gender and class, with especially important consequences for women and non-elite men. Students will examine objects lauded for their politeness, decorative appeal, and cultural importance such as porcelain tea sets, snuffboxes, and fans. Students will choose their own objects for a student presentation and research project.
AS.100.226 (01)	Antisemitism in Historical Perspective	MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Loeffler, James	Gilman 377	Fall 2025	This course explores the origins and evolution of antisemitism, with focus on questions of historical continuity and rupture, comparison with other hatreds, and the politics of history.
AS.100.233 (01)	History of Modern Germany	TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Harms, Victoria Elisabeth	Gilman 17	Fall 2025	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, through imperialism, WWI and WWII, the Cold War to German unification, the ‘Refugee Crisis’, the rise of the AfD, and EU politics today.
AS.100.256 (01)	History of Kabbalah	M 9:30AM - 12:00PM	Maciejko, Pawel Tadeusz	Gilman 308	Fall 2025	This course surveys the history of Jewish magic, mysticism, and secret traditions from the Middle Ages to the 19th century. We will explore the concept of sod (mystery) and its historical variations, examining how it evolved over time. Readings will include excerpts from foundational texts of Jewish esotericism, such as Sefer Yetzirah, the Bahir, and the Zohar. Additionally, we will discuss practical Kabbalah—including the preparation and use of amulets and charms—as well as beliefs surrounding demonic (and angelic) possession.
AS.100.282 (01)	Race & Power in Modern South Africa	MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM	Thornberry, Elizabeth	Gilman 17; Gilman 119	Fall 2025	From 1948-1994, South Africa was governed under the system of apartheid, which denied political and civil rights to non-white citizens. This class traces the rise of apartheid in South Africa as well as the liberation struggle that eventually defeated it.
AS.100.282 (02)	Race & Power in Modern South Africa	MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 1:30PM - 2:20PM	Thornberry, Elizabeth	Gilman 17; Gilman 305	Fall 2025	From 1948-1994, South Africa was governed under the system of apartheid, which denied political and civil rights to non-white citizens. This class traces the rise of apartheid in South Africa as well as the liberation struggle that eventually defeated it.
AS.100.329 (01)	Animals in Chinese and Japanese History	TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM	Sampias, Wesley Jordan	Gilman 75	Fall 2025	Everyday, we all have encounters with animals: the mosquito that bites our arm, the rat that runs in front of us on the sidewalk, the dog that greets us upon our return home. These interactions are quotidian, but rarely reflected in the histories that we read. In this class, we will bring the animal back into the narratives that we tell by considering history from a multispecies perspective. Taking the examples of China and Japan, we will see how animals, both real and metaphoric, played a critical role in the political, economic, religious, and social lives of our historical, human, actors. We will see how the inclusion of animals in history bolsters and challenges history as it has been written and gain a deeper understanding of how our current mores regarding animals came to be. Our class will begin with a discussion of Japan and China in the 17th century and end with contemporary controversies surrounding Japanese whaling and shark fin soup. Throughout the course we will consider the ethical and philosophical ramifications of our inquiries like the agency of non-human animals. Designed for upper-level undergraduate students interested in the history of East Asia, prior knowledge of the region will be useful but is not required.
AS.100.346 (01)	Soviet-American Cold War	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Schmelz, Peter John	Gilman 75	Fall 2025	The focus will be on Soviet-American interactions, Cold-War Cultures, and the impact on both societies.
AS.100.347 (01)	Early Modern China	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Rowe, William T	Gilman 55	Fall 2025	The history of China from the 16th to the late 19th centuries.
AS.100.373 (01)	Crime, Punishment, Felony and Freedom: Law and Society in Premodern England, 1066 to 1688	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Lester, Anne E.	Hodson 313	Fall 2025	This course explores the development of English law and the English legal tradition from the Norman Conquest through the English Revolution (ca. 1066-1688). We will begin by tracing the impact of the Norman Conquest of England and examine the origins and development of English legal and political institutions such as kingship, the common law, the evolution of legal procedure, and the court and jury system, ideas of franchise, treason and the emergence of Parliament. We will also consider how English law constructs legal categories including aliens, women, heirs, traitors as well as the legal framework for the emergence of the English Church under the Tudors. When applicable the implications of these institutions for developments in the contemporary American and British legal systems will be addressed.
AS.100.395 (01)	History of Global Development	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Lurtz, Casey Marina	Smokler Center 213	Fall 2025	This course explores development as an ideology and a practice. From colonialism to the Cold War to contemporary NGOs, we will interrogate the history of our attempts to improve the world. This iteration of the course will have a particular focus on the intersections between development and the environment. Graduate students welcome.
AS.100.422 (01)	Society & Social Change in 18th Century China	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Rowe, William T	Gilman 277	Fall 2025	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	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	Marshall, John W	Gilman 308	Fall 2025	Witchcraft, magic, carnivals, riots, folk tales, gender roles; fertility cults and violence especially in Britain, Germany, France, and Italy.
AS.100.444 (01)	Historiography of the Maghreb, 1939 to the Present	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Shepard, Todd	Bloomberg 172	Fall 2025	We will explore key texts in the historiography of post-1939 North Africa as well as key recent publications, in French as well as in English.
AS.100.445 (01)	Revolution, Anti-Slavery, and Empire 1773-1792: British and American Political Thought from Paine, Smith, and the Declaration of Independence to Cugoano, Wollstonecraft, and the Bill of Rights	MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Marshall, John W	Krieger 308	Fall 2025	This seminar-style course will focus on discussing British and American political thought from the "Age of Revolutions", a period also of many critiques of Empire and of many works of Antislavery. Readings include Paine's Common Sense and Rights of Man, the Declaration of Rights, the Constitution and Bill of Rights, the Federalist Papers; works by Smith, Burke, and Wollstonecraft; and antislavery works by Cugoano, Equiano, Rush, Wesley, and Wilberforce.
AS.140.308 (01)	Race, Racism and Medicine	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	White, Alexandre Ilani Rein	Gilman 300	Fall 2025	How can we think about the interconnections between racism, theories of race and the practice of medicine? Living at a moment when racial disparities in health outcomes in the United States are still very stark, this course will provide a historically grounded approach to thinking about the roles that race and racism have played in healthcare, the production of health disparities as well as the role of medicine in the development of racist thought. While much of this course will focus geographically within the United States, this class will also explore global histories of medicine, encountering questions of race and medicine in Africa, the South Pacific and Asia. In addition to the analysis of primary source documents and historical texts, students will also be introduced to theoretical approaches to the study of race and racism from W.E.B. Dubois, Sylvia Wynter, Frantz Fanon and others.
AS.145.316 (91DC)	Food as War, Food as Resistance, Food as Liberation	W 11:30AM - 2:00PM	Labruto, Nicole	555 Penn 170A	Fall 2025	Food can be many things: sustenance, nutrition, cultural practice, and even artform. But regardless of how food is framed, it is also always political. It has the potential to be weaponized in the context of conflict. It has the potential to assert self-determination and dignity among those displaced by conflict and forced removal. And it has the potential to undergird liberation struggles as communities create food autonomy outside of oppressive structures. This course examines food as a tool and technology of both war and liberation by utilizing historic and contemporary case studies of manufactured food scarcity, food apartheid resulting from structural inequality, food-based community building, and food autonomy. We will consider agriculture, food availability, food distribution, nutrition, food-related health outcomes, food procurement, food preparation practices, and food-based justice and independence movement. As a practitioner seminar, the course will engage with food practitioners and food activists whose work addresses food and nutrition-related disparities faced by communities in sites of conflict, inequality, and diaspora.
AS.145.318 (91DC)	The War Lab: Medicine, Science, and Conflict	T 11:30AM - 2:00PM	Bayoumi, Soha Hassan		Fall 2025	This course explores how medicine, science, and technology intersect with war and conflict, shaping both the battlefield and society at large. It examines the medicine-science-war nexus by investigating the ways in which war and conflict have spurred scientific innovation and medical breakthroughs and, inversely, how scientific and medical innovations have enabled new forms of warcraft. From the development of antibiotics and prosthetics to the ethical dilemmas of weapons research and the use of artificial intelligence in combat, students will examine these entanglements and the profound moral and ethical questions they raise. Relying on case studies from historical and contemporary conflicts, historical documents, films, and literature, the course will investigate topics such as the technological frontiers of war, military funding of scientific research, post-conflict legacies of wartime technologies, and the long-term health outcomes of political and military conflict. Through a critical examination of these themes, students will gain a better understanding of the complex relationship between war and advancements in medicine, science, and technology and will be prompted to analyze the ethical, social, and political implications of the entanglements between war, science, and medicine.
AS.150.240 (01)	Introduction to Political Philosophy	MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM	Lebron, Christopher Joseph	Ames 218; Maryland 202	Fall 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 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 1:30PM - 2:20PM	Lebron, Christopher Joseph	Ames 218; Krieger 307	Fall 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	Remsen Hall 101; Wyman Park 350	Fall 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	Remsen Hall 101; Gilman 119	Fall 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	Remsen Hall 101; Maryland 109	Fall 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	Remsen Hall 101; Gilman 119	Fall 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, T 9:00AM - 9:50AM	Barbera, Bob; Seshie-Nasser, Hellen	Remsen Hall 101; Shaffer 3	Fall 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, T 9:00AM - 9:50AM	Barbera, Bob; Seshie-Nasser, Hellen	Remsen Hall 101; Remsen Hall 101	Fall 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	Shaffer 3	Fall 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	Shaffer 3	Fall 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	Shaffer 3	Fall 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	Shaffer 3	Fall 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.180.214 (01)	The Economic Experience of the BRIC Countries	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Dasgupta, Somasree	Hodson 303	Fall 2025	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.180.214 (02)	The Economic Experience of the BRIC Countries	TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM	Dasgupta, Somasree	Hodson 303	Fall 2025	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.180.223 (01)	Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa	WF 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Seshie-Nasser, Hellen	Gilman 75	Fall 2025	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	TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Fatehin, Sohani	Shriver Hall 001	Fall 2025	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.180.243 (01)	Economic Policymaking	MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Fourakis, Stelios Stephen	Maryland 104	Fall 2025	A key contribution of economics to the policymaking process is understanding and predicting reactions of agents affected by policy changes. Many policies have unintended or indirect effects that are at least as important as their direct impacts, but less obvious. Fortunately, economic theory provides us a framework to understand them. In this course, we will survey a wide variety of subjects, from taxation, to drug policy and harm reduction, to health insurance plan design and regulation, to bankruptcy codes. Working in groups, students will prepare presentations on specific policy proposals not directly covered in class, in which they will describe (with evidence) all the channels by which that policy will act.
AS.180.261 (01)	Monetary Analysis	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Poliakova, Ludmila	Hodson 311	Fall 2025	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	Latrobe 120	Fall 2025	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	Hodson 316	Fall 2025	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.180.351 (01)	Labor Economics	MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Husain, Muhammad Mudabbir; Wiswall, Matthew	Maryland 114	Fall 2025	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.180.389 (01)	Social Policy Implications of Behavioral Economics	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	Papageorge, Nicholas W	Hodson 305	Fall 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 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Lieberman, Robert C	Olin 305; Hodson 301	Fall 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 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Lieberman, Robert C	Olin 305; Gilman 377	Fall 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 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Lieberman, Robert C	Olin 305; Gilman 219	Fall 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 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Lieberman, Robert C	Olin 305; Hodson 315	Fall 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 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM	Lieberman, Robert C	Olin 305; Krieger 300	Fall 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 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM	Lieberman, Robert C	Olin 305; Shriver Hall 104	Fall 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.190.108 (01)	Contemporary International Politics	MW 1:30PM - 2:20PM, F 1:30PM - 2:20PM	David, Steven R	Mergenthaler 111; Bloomberg 178	Fall 2025	An introduction to international politics. Emphasis will be on continuity and change in international politics and the causes of war and peace. The first half of the course will focus on events prior to the end of the Cold War, including the Peloponnesian War, the European balance of power, imperialism, the origins and consequences of WWI and WWII, and the Cold War. The second half will focus on international politics since 1990, including globalization, whether democracies produce peace, the impact of weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, and the prospects for peace in the 21st century. Theories of realism and liberalism will also be considered. This course was previously AS.190.209.
AS.190.108 (02)	Contemporary International Politics	MW 1:30PM - 2:20PM, F 1:30PM - 2:20PM	David, Steven R	Mergenthaler 111; Gilman 413	Fall 2025	An introduction to international politics. Emphasis will be on continuity and change in international politics and the causes of war and peace. The first half of the course will focus on events prior to the end of the Cold War, including the Peloponnesian War, the European balance of power, imperialism, the origins and consequences of WWI and WWII, and the Cold War. The second half will focus on international politics since 1990, including globalization, whether democracies produce peace, the impact of weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, and the prospects for peace in the 21st century. Theories of realism and liberalism will also be considered. This course was previously AS.190.209.
AS.190.108 (03)	Contemporary International Politics	MW 1:30PM - 2:20PM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	David, Steven R	Mergenthaler 111; Croft Hall G02	Fall 2025	An introduction to international politics. Emphasis will be on continuity and change in international politics and the causes of war and peace. The first half of the course will focus on events prior to the end of the Cold War, including the Peloponnesian War, the European balance of power, imperialism, the origins and consequences of WWI and WWII, and the Cold War. The second half will focus on international politics since 1990, including globalization, whether democracies produce peace, the impact of weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, and the prospects for peace in the 21st century. Theories of realism and liberalism will also be considered. This course was previously AS.190.209.
AS.190.108 (04)	Contemporary International Politics	MW 1:30PM - 2:20PM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	David, Steven R	Mergenthaler 111; Krieger 302	Fall 2025	An introduction to international politics. Emphasis will be on continuity and change in international politics and the causes of war and peace. The first half of the course will focus on events prior to the end of the Cold War, including the Peloponnesian War, the European balance of power, imperialism, the origins and consequences of WWI and WWII, and the Cold War. The second half will focus on international politics since 1990, including globalization, whether democracies produce peace, the impact of weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, and the prospects for peace in the 21st century. Theories of realism and liberalism will also be considered. This course was previously AS.190.209.
AS.190.108 (05)	Contemporary International Politics	MW 1:30PM - 2:20PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM	David, Steven R	Mergenthaler 111; Gilman 217	Fall 2025	An introduction to international politics. Emphasis will be on continuity and change in international politics and the causes of war and peace. The first half of the course will focus on events prior to the end of the Cold War, including the Peloponnesian War, the European balance of power, imperialism, the origins and consequences of WWI and WWII, and the Cold War. The second half will focus on international politics since 1990, including globalization, whether democracies produce peace, the impact of weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, and the prospects for peace in the 21st century. Theories of realism and liberalism will also be considered. This course was previously AS.190.209.
AS.190.108 (06)	Contemporary International Politics	MW 1:30PM - 2:20PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM	David, Steven R	Mergenthaler 111; Bloomberg 178	Fall 2025	An introduction to international politics. Emphasis will be on continuity and change in international politics and the causes of war and peace. The first half of the course will focus on events prior to the end of the Cold War, including the Peloponnesian War, the European balance of power, imperialism, the origins and consequences of WWI and WWII, and the Cold War. The second half will focus on international politics since 1990, including globalization, whether democracies produce peace, the impact of weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, and the prospects for peace in the 21st century. Theories of realism and liberalism will also be considered. This course was previously AS.190.209.
AS.190.108 (07)	Contemporary International Politics	MW 1:30PM - 2:20PM, F 3:00PM - 3:50PM	David, Steven R	Mergenthaler 111; Gilman 77	Fall 2025	An introduction to international politics. Emphasis will be on continuity and change in international politics and the causes of war and peace. The first half of the course will focus on events prior to the end of the Cold War, including the Peloponnesian War, the European balance of power, imperialism, the origins and consequences of WWI and WWII, and the Cold War. The second half will focus on international politics since 1990, including globalization, whether democracies produce peace, the impact of weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, and the prospects for peace in the 21st century. Theories of realism and liberalism will also be considered. This course was previously AS.190.209.
AS.190.108 (08)	Contemporary International Politics	MW 1:30PM - 2:20PM, F 3:00PM - 3:50PM	David, Steven R	Mergenthaler 111; Gilman 77	Fall 2025	An introduction to international politics. Emphasis will be on continuity and change in international politics and the causes of war and peace. The first half of the course will focus on events prior to the end of the Cold War, including the Peloponnesian War, the European balance of power, imperialism, the origins and consequences of WWI and WWII, and the Cold War. The second half will focus on international politics since 1990, including globalization, whether democracies produce peace, the impact of weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, and the prospects for peace in the 21st century. Theories of realism and liberalism will also be considered. This course was previously AS.190.209.
AS.190.180 (01)	Introduction to Political Theory	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Simon, Josh David	Gilman 50; Gilman 377	Fall 2025	In the Republic, the ancient Greek philosopher Plato posed three questions: what is justice? How would a just person live? How would a just society be governed? These three questions form the basic subject matter of of political theory. In this course we will survey the history of political theory, reading a series of political theorists who took up Plato’s questions in a wide range of contexts, from Renaissance Italy and early modern England to late colonial India and the Jim Crow US South. Throughout, we’ll consider whether there are better and worse answers to these questions, or simply different answers that appear better or worse depending on the perspective from which one considers them. We’ll look closely at how the circumstances in which political theorists lived influenced their thinking, and how those circumstances should influence our own evaluation of their thinking. And we’ll ask whether Plato’s questions were the right questions to ask in his time, whether they are still relevant in ours, and whether there are other questions that political theorists would do better to spend their time considering.
AS.190.180 (02)	Introduction to Political Theory	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Simon, Josh David	Gilman 50; Hodson 216	Fall 2025	In the Republic, the ancient Greek philosopher Plato posed three questions: what is justice? How would a just person live? How would a just society be governed? These three questions form the basic subject matter of of political theory. In this course we will survey the history of political theory, reading a series of political theorists who took up Plato’s questions in a wide range of contexts, from Renaissance Italy and early modern England to late colonial India and the Jim Crow US South. Throughout, we’ll consider whether there are better and worse answers to these questions, or simply different answers that appear better or worse depending on the perspective from which one considers them. We’ll look closely at how the circumstances in which political theorists lived influenced their thinking, and how those circumstances should influence our own evaluation of their thinking. And we’ll ask whether Plato’s questions were the right questions to ask in his time, whether they are still relevant in ours, and whether there are other questions that political theorists would do better to spend their time considering.
AS.190.180 (03)	Introduction to Political Theory	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 1:30PM - 2:20PM	Simon, Josh David	Gilman 50; Hodson 216	Fall 2025	In the Republic, the ancient Greek philosopher Plato posed three questions: what is justice? How would a just person live? How would a just society be governed? These three questions form the basic subject matter of of political theory. In this course we will survey the history of political theory, reading a series of political theorists who took up Plato’s questions in a wide range of contexts, from Renaissance Italy and early modern England to late colonial India and the Jim Crow US South. Throughout, we’ll consider whether there are better and worse answers to these questions, or simply different answers that appear better or worse depending on the perspective from which one considers them. We’ll look closely at how the circumstances in which political theorists lived influenced their thinking, and how those circumstances should influence our own evaluation of their thinking. And we’ll ask whether Plato’s questions were the right questions to ask in his time, whether they are still relevant in ours, and whether there are other questions that political theorists would do better to spend their time considering.
AS.190.180 (04)	Introduction to Political Theory	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 1:30PM - 2:20PM	Simon, Josh David	Gilman 50; Maryland 217	Fall 2025	In the Republic, the ancient Greek philosopher Plato posed three questions: what is justice? How would a just person live? How would a just society be governed? These three questions form the basic subject matter of of political theory. In this course we will survey the history of political theory, reading a series of political theorists who took up Plato’s questions in a wide range of contexts, from Renaissance Italy and early modern England to late colonial India and the Jim Crow US South. Throughout, we’ll consider whether there are better and worse answers to these questions, or simply different answers that appear better or worse depending on the perspective from which one considers them. We’ll look closely at how the circumstances in which political theorists lived influenced their thinking, and how those circumstances should influence our own evaluation of their thinking. And we’ll ask whether Plato’s questions were the right questions to ask in his time, whether they are still relevant in ours, and whether there are other questions that political theorists would do better to spend their time considering.
AS.190.180 (05)	Introduction to Political Theory	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Simon, Josh David	Gilman 50; Gilman 75	Fall 2025	In the Republic, the ancient Greek philosopher Plato posed three questions: what is justice? How would a just person live? How would a just society be governed? These three questions form the basic subject matter of of political theory. In this course we will survey the history of political theory, reading a series of political theorists who took up Plato’s questions in a wide range of contexts, from Renaissance Italy and early modern England to late colonial India and the Jim Crow US South. Throughout, we’ll consider whether there are better and worse answers to these questions, or simply different answers that appear better or worse depending on the perspective from which one considers them. We’ll look closely at how the circumstances in which political theorists lived influenced their thinking, and how those circumstances should influence our own evaluation of their thinking. And we’ll ask whether Plato’s questions were the right questions to ask in his time, whether they are still relevant in ours, and whether there are other questions that political theorists would do better to spend their time considering.
AS.190.228 (01)	The American Presidency	M 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Ginsberg, Benjamin	Shriver Hall Board Room	Fall 2025	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	M 3:00PM - 5:30PM	Rehm, Philipp	Latrobe 120	Fall 2025	This course is about the interplay of democracy and capitalism. A core principle of democracy is equality. A core principle of capitalism is inequality. In democracies, the resource-poor are vote-rich. In contrast, the resource-rich are vote-poor. This helps combining capitalist economic systems with democratic political systems (“democratic capitalism”). But the sharp increase in income inequality in recent decades raises questions about the viability of democratic capitalism. What are the patterns, causes, and consequences of (income) inequality? How does inequality influence how democracy and capitalism interact? Why are there large differences in terms of redistribution between countries? For concreteness, the course compares the U.S. case to other rich democracies.
AS.190.246 (01)	Climate Solutions: The Global Politics and Technology of Decarbonization	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	Allan, Bentley	Gilman 50	Fall 2025	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.190.304 (01)	Latinos and the American Political Landscape	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Bautista-Chavez, Angie M.	Gilman 313	Fall 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.190.314 (01)	What is Money?	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Chambers, Samuel Allen	Hodson 301	Fall 2025	This undergraduate seminar will explore the mysteries of money. We will focus on a central and straightforward, but vexing question: what is money? Pursuing this question will take us from deep philosophical explorations of the nature of money, through the diverse history of money and theories of money, to today’s complex and dynamic financial instruments – from securities, to derivatives, to crypto.
AS.190.327 (01)	Politics of Information	TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM	Marlin-Bennett, Renee E	Krieger 308	Fall 2025	Considers global and comparative politics of information, information technologies, and the Internet. Examines governance of information (ownership of information, rights to information, privacy) and governance of information technologies (domain names, social media websites, etc.).
AS.190.345 (01)	Public Opinion	MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM	Trump, Kris-Stella	Latrobe 107	Fall 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.190.370 (01)	The Politics of China	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Yasuda, John Kojiro	Gilman 377	Fall 2025	This course is designed to help students better understand the politics of China. Lectures will focus on the tools of governance that China has employed to navigate its transition from plan to market, provide public goods and services to its citizens, and to maintain social control over a rapidly changing society. The course will draw heavily from texts covering a range of subjects including China's political economy, social and cultural developments, regime dynamics, and historical legacies. Students interested in authoritarian resilience, governance, post-communist transition, and domestic will find this course particularly instructive.
AS.190.379 (01)	Nationalism and the Politics of Identity	M 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Kocher, Matthew Adam	Smokler Center 213	Fall 2025	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.190.392 (01)	Introduction to Economic Development	MWF 3:00PM - 3:50PM	Mazzuca, Sebastian L	Croft Hall B32	Fall 2025	Most wealthy countries are democracies, but not all democracies are wealthy—India, Costa Rica, and Mongolia are prominent examples. This course explores three fundamental questions: 1) What political institutions promote economic prosperity? 2) Under what conditions does democracy promote prosperity? 3) What are the mechanisms connecting political institutions and economic performance?
AS.190.397 (01)	The Politics of International Law	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	Ross, Andrew	Gilman 75	Fall 2025	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.190.437 (01)	Race and Ethnic Politics in the United States	Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Weaver, Vesla Mae	Smokler Center 213	Fall 2025	Race has been and continues to be centrally important to American political life and development. In this course, we will engage with the major debates around racial politics in the United States, with a substantial focus on how policies and practices of citizenship, immigration law, social provision, and criminal justice policy shaped and continue to shape racial formation, group-based identities, and group position; debates around the content and meaning of political representation and the responsiveness of the political system to American minority groups; debates about how racial prejudice has shifted and its importance in understanding American political behavior; the prospects for contestation or coalitions among groups; the “struggle with difference” within groups as they deal with the interplay of race and class, citizenship status, and issues that disproportionately affect a subset of their members; and debates about how new groups and issues are reshaping the meaning and practice of race in the United States.
AS.190.438 (01)	Violence and Politics	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Ginsberg, Benjamin	Gilman 17	Fall 2025	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.190.443 (01)	Politics of Outer Space	M 4:30PM - 7:00PM	Deudney, Daniel Horace	Bloomberg 274	Fall 2025	Humans have long dreamed of leaving Earth and venturing into the vastness of cosmic outer space. During the 20th century space travel became a real possibility, stimulating an extraordinary outpouring of visionary space projects. Space Expansionists claim these projects are increasingly feasible and desirable. Advocates assert that human expansion into space will fundamentally improve the human situation by enabling perennial human goals (improved security from violence, expanded and protected habitat, and ultimately survival of the human species). In the first steps beyond the atmosphere, a variety of military, scientific, and utilitarian activities have been conducted. The history of space activities has been marked by sudden and unexpected spurts of activity, followed by periods of relative stagnation. Recent developments point to another period of rapid expansion: renewed military tensions, new space private sector initiatives, renewed interest in Luna, and growing efforts to divert and mine asteroids. A core part of the arguments for the desirability of space expansion are geopolitical in that they claim broadly political effects will result from humans interacting with extraterrestrial material environments composed of particular combinations geographies and human-built artifacts. Space expansionist arguments are advanced through analogies to Earth geographies (e.g. space is an ocean), as well as large-scale historical trends and patterns. Space expansion is advanced as the opening of a new frontier, reversing the contemporary global closure brought about by rising levels of interdependence. The goal of space expansionists is to make humanity a multi-world species, and it is anticipated that biological species radiation will occur. This course explores the causes and consequences of space activity; how space activities reflect and effect world political order; and whether human expansion into space is desirable, as its fervent advocates believe.
AS.190.467 (01)	Theories of Justice	TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM	Culbert, Jennifer	Krieger 309	Fall 2025	This course will explore the classic question, “What is justice?” While we will entertain several different answers to the question, the course will focus on how these answers speak to and past one another, illuminating contemporary quandaries related to intergenerational justice, global justice, and the justice of resistance. Guided by Nietzsche, we will read texts by authors including, among others, Plato, Kant, Bentham, Marx, Rawls, Nozick, and West. Over the course of the semester, students will write three papers. There will also be a final exam.
AS.190.468 (01)	Federalism, Sovereignty, and The State	W 12:00PM - 2:00PM	Jabko, Nicolas; Mazzuca, Sebastian L	Mergenthaler 366	Fall 2025	Federalism has become an increasingly widespread constitutional form in the world — in America, but also in Europe, the "cradle of the nation-state," and on other continents. While it typically resolves political problems, it also raises many questions about the nature of states and of sovereignty. This course will discuss scholarship that addresses federalism, sovereignty, and the state, both in contemporary politics and in historical perspective.
AS.190.475 (01)	America in Comparative and International Perspective	T 4:30PM - 7:00PM	Deudney, Daniel Horace	Mergenthaler 366	Fall 2025	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.191.251 (01)	From Ivory Tower to Situation Room: Academic Debates and U.S. National Security Policy	TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Lahiff, Colin Patrick	Hodson 315	Fall 2025	Just how well equipped is academia to answer the most challenging questions of US national security policy? From Henry Kissinger, to Zbigniew Brzezinski and Condoleezza Rice, it seems to be an American tradition to appoint well-trained academics to the highest ranks of U.S. national security decision-making. Academics have much to say about the questions that keep policymakers awake at night: How dangerous is the spread of nuclear weapons? Should the United States come to the defense of Taiwan in the event of an attack on that island? In this course we will take up a major topic related to U.S. national security policy each week, examining the existing arguments put forth by leading academics and policymakers alike.
AS.191.335 (01)	Arab-Israeli Conflict (IR)	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Freedman, Robert	Gilman 381	Fall 2025	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	Maryland 104	Fall 2025	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.192.345 (01)	Trade Wars: Easy to Win, Good, or Fantastically Disruptive?	M 1:00PM - 3:30PM	Dore, Giovanna Maria Dora	Mergenthaler 266	Fall 2025	Changing technologies, economic and market conditions challenge the international system of rules governing trade and make it more susceptible to the possibility of trade wars. This course will take an interdisciplinary approach toward understanding current trade wars and the world trading system. You will learn what international trade policy is about, why it becomes politicized, how trade policies are formulated in the U.S., the European Union and East Asian countries, especially China, and how current trade policies are governed by international agreements and laws (i.e., the WTO). Along the way, the course will explore current trade trends and how they affect consumers, workers, firms, and industries globally, as well as whether trade wars boost the fortunes of countries/regions that remain outside the fray, have shaped and changed relationships among world’s big and small trade partners, aided or damaged bilateral, multilateral trade agreements, or the relevance of the WTO.
AS.192.501 (01)	Internship- International Studies		Van Morgan, Sydney		Fall 2025	For students undertaking internships that focus on international fields or topics. Students wishing to enroll in this course must consult with the International Studies Program before submitting an Independent Study Request in SIS.
AS.192.591 (01)	Research- International Studies		Van Morgan, Sydney		Fall 2025	For students undertaking research projects that focus on international fields or topics. Students wishing to enroll in this course must consult with the International Studies Program before submitting an Independent Study Request in SIS.
AS.196.201 (01)	Introduction to Civic Life	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Wright Rigueur, Leah M	Wyman Park N325F	Fall 2025	What does it take for people to engage productively as informed, skilled, and effective members of democratic communities and the world? Whether we are scientists, doctors, engineers, advocates, public servants, or anything else, we are all members of pluralistic communities. This introductory course seeks to introduce students to the theory and principles of civic life and the rights and responsibilities of active citizenship. We’ll examine the history of and struggles for freedom, inclusion, and civic participation, the role of information, deliberation, and free expression in the public sphere, and the threats and opportunities for global democracy. Students will read and discuss materials by civic studies and democracy scholars, building a foundational understanding of civic life across disciplines and perspectives. Many of these scholars and practitioners will appear in class to discuss their work directly with students. The course will pay particular attention to the ways that students from all backgrounds can apply these ideas in their everyday lives, regardless of the professions they pursue. This course is also the first course for students interested in minoring in the SNF Agora Institute Minor on Civic Life, but is designed to inspire a commitment to participation in civic life for all students, including those who do not major or minor in related fields.
AS.211.171 (01)	Brazilian Culture & Civilization: Colonial Times to the Present	MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM	De Azeredo Cerqueira, Flavia Christina	Hodson 305	Fall 2025	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.211.171 (02)	Brazilian Culture & Civilization: Colonial Times to the Present	MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM	De Azeredo Cerqueira, Flavia Christina	Hodson 305	Fall 2025	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.211.333 (01)	Representing the Holocaust	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Spinner, Samuel Jacob	Gilman 400	Fall 2025	How has the Holocaust been represented in literature and film? Are there special challenges posed by genocide to the traditions of visual and literary representation? Where does the Holocaust fit in to the array of concerns that the visual arts and literature express? And where do art and literature fit in to the commemoration of communal tragedy and the working through of individual trauma entailed by thinking about and representing the Holocaust? These questions will guide our consideration of a range of texts — nonfiction, novels, poetry — in Yiddish, German, English, French and other languages (including works by Primo Levi and Isaac Bashevis Singer), as well as films from French documentaries to Hollywood blockbusters (including films by Alain Resnais, Claude Lanzmann, and Steven Spielberg). All readings in English.
AS.211.378 (01)	Latin American Ecocriticism	W 4:30PM - 7:00PM	Bedran, Marina		Fall 2025	Increased awareness of climate change has led to a shift in the way we address and intervene in environmental issues in the new millennium. Yet the interest in making sense of the environment has a long history in literature and the arts. How have Latin American writers and artists understood and depicted their environments and environmental questions? How do the form and content of texts and cultural artifacts influence our understanding of the non-human world? Can works of fiction shape ecological transformations? In this course we will discuss texts from the early colonial period to the present, including the literary works of Graciliano Ramos, Horacio Quiroga, and Clarice Lispector; political ecology; film; Ana Mendieta’s earth-body art; contemporary experiments in bio-art; postcolonial theory; and the intersection of environmental justice with such topics as nationalism and human rights. Going beyond ecocriticism’s original focus on the Anglo-American world, we will engage recent scholarship on Latin America that sheds light on the region’s cultural and geopolitical importance to the global climate, with particular attention to Brazil. This course aims to introduce students to current debates in Latin American Ecocriticism and the Anthropocene and thus contribute to an incipient but expanding field.
AS.211.378 (02)	Latin American Ecocriticism	W 4:30PM - 7:00PM	Bedran, Marina		Fall 2025	Increased awareness of climate change has led to a shift in the way we address and intervene in environmental issues in the new millennium. Yet the interest in making sense of the environment has a long history in literature and the arts. How have Latin American writers and artists understood and depicted their environments and environmental questions? How do the form and content of texts and cultural artifacts influence our understanding of the non-human world? Can works of fiction shape ecological transformations? In this course we will discuss texts from the early colonial period to the present, including the literary works of Graciliano Ramos, Horacio Quiroga, and Clarice Lispector; political ecology; film; Ana Mendieta’s earth-body art; contemporary experiments in bio-art; postcolonial theory; and the intersection of environmental justice with such topics as nationalism and human rights. Going beyond ecocriticism’s original focus on the Anglo-American world, we will engage recent scholarship on Latin America that sheds light on the region’s cultural and geopolitical importance to the global climate, with particular attention to Brazil. This course aims to introduce students to current debates in Latin American Ecocriticism and the Anthropocene and thus contribute to an incipient but expanding field.
AS.211.424 (01)	Climate Change Narratives	Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Di Bianco, Laura	Gilman 479	Fall 2025	In The Great Derangement Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh writes that “the climate crisis is also a crisis of culture, and thus of imagination.” Worldwide, climate and environmental change is stirring the imaginary of novelists, filmmakers, and artists who are finding ways to frame, emplot, or even perform, an unmanageable phenomenon like climate change. How is climate change shaping new modes of storytelling and aesthetics? How do film, literature, and environmentally conscious art transform our perception of the world we inhabit and its unpredictable changes? Can climate change narratives help us to imagine futures of possibilities, maybe dystopian, uncertain, or even happy, but futures nonetheless? This multimedia course explores, through a transnational perspective, a variety of contemporary novels, films, and other media that attempt answer these questions.
AS.211.447 (01)	From the Shtetl to the Ghetto: Remembering and Imagining European Jewish Life	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Spinner, Samuel Jacob	Gilman 479	Fall 2025	The two most distinctive forms of Jewish urban settlement in Europe were the ghetto and the shtetl. Shtetls were small market towns in eastern Europe with large Jewish populations; in western European cities that restricted Jewish residence, ghettos were the small neighborhoods where Jews were permitted to live. Both arose in the 16th century - shtetls in Polish lands, while the first ghetto was in Venice - but their development took very different paths in the modern period. With industrialization, urbanization, and mass migration transforming Jewish life in the 19th century, shtetls became ubiquitous elements of Jewish art and literature as objects of nostalgia and metaphors for a range of ideas about Jewish identity and history. Ghettos, after disappearing in the 19th century, were revived by the Nazis as an integral part of their genocide of Europe's Jews. This course will survey shtetls and ghettos in history and culture, considering their role in antisemitic policy and fantasy as well as in literary and artistic representations of Jewish culture, identity, and social autonomy. Our focus will be on literature (including novels, travelogues, and journalism) and art from the 19th century to the present. All readings in English.
AS.213.364 (01)	Truth and Lies in the Languages of Politics	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Frey, Christiane	Gilman 479	Fall 2025	Fake facts, conspiracy theories, outright lies: have we entered a new era of “post-truth”? Some claim that deception has always been a part of political processes, that objectivity is an illusion, that every “fact” is made, formed, fashioned, constructed (“fact” comes from the same Latin root as “fiction”). Others insist that without a distinction between truth and lie, all politics is a farce, and look to fact-checking and evidence for guidance. Who is right? And what assumptions are at the basis of this perhaps overly-simple binarism? In order to get a grasp on these questions, we will explore the theme and the concept of lying in literature, philosophy, and current media, with an emphasis on political language. We will read literary texts by Heinrich von Kleist, Herman Melville, Thomas Mann, the much-discussed GDR novel “Jacob the Liar,” political philosophy by Plato, Machiavelli, Kant, Nietzsche (“On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense”), Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt, and Nina Schick’s 2020 exposé “Deep Fakes: The Coming Infocalypse.” We will apply what we learn from these readings to fake news and social media in order to develop new skills of dealing with manipulative language. Taught in English (with the option of a section in German).
AS.213.364 (02)	Truth and Lies in the Languages of Politics	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Frey, Christiane	Gilman 479	Fall 2025	(German language section of this course.) Fake facts, conspiracy theories, outright lies: have we entered a new era of “post-truth”? Some claim that deception has always been a part of political processes, that objectivity is an illusion, that every “fact” is made, formed, fashioned, constructed (“fact” comes from the same Latin root as “fiction”). Others insist that without a distinction between truth and lie, all politics is a farce, and look to fact-checking and evidence for guidance. Who is right? And what assumptions are at the basis of this perhaps overly-simple binarism? In order to get a grasp on these questions, we will explore the theme and the concept of lying in literature, philosophy, and current media, with an emphasis on political language. We will read literary texts by Heinrich von Kleist, Herman Melville, Thomas Mann, the much-discussed GDR novel “Jacob the Liar,” political philosophy by Plato, Machiavelli, Kant, Nietzsche (“On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense”), Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt, and Nina Schick’s 2020 exposé “Deep Fakes: The Coming Infocalypse.” We will apply what we learn from these readings to fake news and social media in order to develop new skills of dealing with manipulative language.
AS.214.418 (01)	Italian Cinema: the Classics, the Forgotten, and the Emergent	T 3:00PM - 5:30PM	Di Bianco, Laura	Gilman 479	Fall 2025	From the epic movies of the silent era to neorealist and auteur films of the post-war period, all the way to contemporary Academy winner The Great Beauty, Italian cinema, has had and continues to have a global impact, and shape the imagination of filmmakers all over the world. This course traces Italian film history from its origins to recent times, highlighting its main genres and trends beyond the icons of neorealist and auteur cinema, including the so-called ‘comedy Italian style,’ spaghetti westerns, horror, mafia-mockery films, feminist filmmaking, and ecocinema. While learning to probe the cinematic frame, and examine composition, camera movements, cinematography, editing, and sound, and interrogating issues of gender, class, and race, we will screen classics such as Bicycle Thieves, La Dolce Vita, and L’Avventura, but also forgotten archival films by pioneer women filmmakers, and works by emergent, independent filmmakers. This course is taught in English. Additional sessions in Italian will be arranged upon students’ request.
AS.215.111 (01)	Modern Spanish Culture	TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM	Williams, Rachel C	Gilman 400	Fall 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	Rios Saavedra, Veronica	Gilman 219	Fall 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.230.213 (01)	Social Theory	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	White, Alexandre Ilani Rein	Mergenthaler 266	Fall 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	Maryland 202	Fall 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.230.378 (01)	Refugees, Human Rights, and Sovereignty	TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Naveh Benjamin, Ilil	Hackerman 320	Fall 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.230.386 (01)	The Making of the Asian Races Across the Pacific in the Long 20th Century	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	Kuo, Huei-Ying	Gilman 186	Fall 2025	Focusing on the race-makings of the Asians across the Pacific in the long twentieth century, the course employs the reading materials that elucidate the constructions about the demographic categories of the Asian "races." We use prewar Japanese materials and Chinese nationalist thoughts to elaborate on the following themes: the internal distinction among the peoples grouped under the racial category of the Asians; the overall presentation about the generic category of the "Asian" peoplehood, as well as their alleged shared civilization and interests. The theoretical framework include concepts of capitalist reconfiguration of social boundaries through racism and the question of power behind the reproduction of racial hierarchy.
AS.230.393 (01)	Global Health and Human Rights	TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Naveh Benjamin, Ilil	Gilman 186	Fall 2025	Is access to healthcare a fundamental human right? If so, then which global actors are obligated to provide healthcare to whom, and for how long? How do meanings of health and illness vary across time and place? And finally, how are human rights principles translated into frontline practice in order to promote well-being? This course takes a critical interdisciplinary approach to these questions through a series of global case studies ranging from humanitarian aid in post-tsunami Sri Lanka to anti-FGM (female genital mutilation) campaigns in Ghana. How do international NGOs, UN bodies, and governments collaborate (or compete) to distribute healthcare in places beset by dire resource shortages? Do human rights principles carry legal weight across borders, and if so, could access to healthcare services and essential medicines be litigated in order to compel governments to provide it? And finally, what cultural assumptions do human rights discourses carry with them, and what happens if rights-based approaches are poorly received by recipient populations? Moving beyond the basic principle of healthcare as a human right, this course aims to bring this idea’s history and politics into focus by offering an in-depth exploration of its ethics and implementation.
AS.230.419 (01)	Global Social Democracy	Th 9:00AM - 11:30AM	Prasad, Monica	Mergenthaler 526	Fall 2025	Can social democracy offer an alternative to neoliberal capitalism? This course begins with an investigation of the history of social democracy in Europe, from origins to crisis to reconstruction, and then globalizes this in three ways: first, by asking how colonial relations affected social democracy in Europe; second, by examining welfare states in Asia, Latin America, and Africa; and third, by considering the possibilities of global redistribution.
AS.310.305 (01)	China, Southeast Asia, and U.S. National Security	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Ott, marvin C	Mergenthaler 266	Fall 2025	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 2025	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	Gilman 313	Fall 2025	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.310.340 (01)	Development and Social Change in Rural China	F 2:00PM - 4:30PM	He, Gaochao	Mergenthaler 266	Fall 2025	This course will survey the major issues of development and social change in rural China since 1950s. These issues will be addressed in chronological order. They include land ownership and land grabbing, organization of rural economic, political, and social life, rural elections and village governance, development strategies, urban-rural relationship in resource allocation, rural modernization strategies in regard to irrigation, clean drinking water, electricity supply, hard paved road, education and rural medical service, women’s rights and family life, rural consumption, and etc. This course will prepare students, both empirically and analytically, to understand what happened in rural China from 1949 to the present, and how we can engage in policy and theoretical discussions based on what we learn.
AS.360.420 (01)	Humanities Research Lab: Making Maps of Mexico	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Lurtz, Casey Marina	Gilman 308	Fall 2025	Learn the basics of ArcGIS, data management, and the history of maps and censuses as you help Prof. Lurtz build a digital historical atlas of Mexico. No experience necessary, graduate students welcome.
AS.362.305 (01)	Nope. Black Resistance in Theory and Practice	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Spence, Lester	Mergenthaler 252	Fall 2025	What role does resistance play in black political thought and action? How do black concepts of resistance shape broader political processes? How are these concepts essential in understanding political development past and present?
AS.070.318 (01)	Black Atlantic Worlds	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Angelini, Alessandro; White, Alexandre Ilani Rein	Mergenthaler 426	Spring 2026	This seminar explores the formation of Black Atlantic worlds through a selection of historical and ethnographic texts, material artifacts, and films. We will encounter familiar themes of slavery, revolution, commodity production, and imperial power recast in the minor key of the Black experience. Exploring major works by anthropologists, particularly key figures from Johns Hopkins, the course also examines how studies of transatlantic movements have reshaped our very understanding of history and culture, not simply as static or official forms but as fields of contention.
AS.100.107 (01)	History of the Global War on Terror	MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM	Schrader, Stuart Laurence	Hodson 316; Gilman 17	Spring 2026	The United States and its allies launched the Global War on Terror in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attack. But it quickly exceeded the scope of neutralizing al-Qaeda, the organization behind that attack, leading to military campaigns in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and across numerous countries in Africa and elsewhere. This course will examine the historical background of the Global War on Terror, including its relationship to prior stages of colonialism and the Cold War. It will delve into the post-9/11 wars and examine the relationship between US foreign policy and regional politics in Asia and Africa. This course is sequential to AS.100.106, The History of the Global Cold War, though that course is not a prerequisite. This course will introduce students to concepts and methods in the study of recent history, as a foundation for further courses in History, Critical Diaspora Studies, International Studies, Political Science, etc.
AS.100.107 (02)	History of the Global War on Terror	MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Schrader, Stuart Laurence	Hodson 316; Gilman 17	Spring 2026	The United States and its allies launched the Global War on Terror in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attack. But it quickly exceeded the scope of neutralizing al-Qaeda, the organization behind that attack, leading to military campaigns in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and across numerous countries in Africa and elsewhere. This course will examine the historical background of the Global War on Terror, including its relationship to prior stages of colonialism and the Cold War. It will delve into the post-9/11 wars and examine the relationship between US foreign policy and regional politics in Asia and Africa. This course is sequential to AS.100.106, The History of the Global Cold War, though that course is not a prerequisite. This course will introduce students to concepts and methods in the study of recent history, as a foundation for further courses in History, Critical Diaspora Studies, International Studies, Political Science, etc.
AS.100.119 (01)	Introduction to U.S. Immigration History and Law	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Lim, Julian	Hodson 313	Spring 2026	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.100.143 (01)	China: Neolithic to Song	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Meyer-Fong, Tobie	Hodson 316; Gilman 377	Spring 2026	This class offers a broad overview of changes in China from Neolithic times through the Song dynasty (roughly from 5000 BCE through the 13th century CE). It features discussion of art, material culture, philosophical texts, religious ideas, and literary works as well as providing a broad overview of politics and society. Close readings of primary sources in discussion sections and extensive use of visual material in lectures will allow students to consider the relationship between what (sources) we have—and what we can know about the past.
AS.100.143 (02)	China: Neolithic to Song	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM	Meyer-Fong, Tobie	Hodson 316; Gilman 55	Spring 2026	This class offers a broad overview of changes in China from Neolithic times through the Song dynasty (roughly from 5000 BCE through the 13th century CE). It features discussion of art, material culture, philosophical texts, religious ideas, and literary works as well as providing a broad overview of politics and society. Close readings of primary sources in discussion sections and extensive use of visual material in lectures will allow students to consider the relationship between what (sources) we have—and what we can know about the past.
AS.100.171 (01)	Europe since 1945	TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Harms, Victoria Elisabeth	Bloomberg 274	Spring 2026	This class focuses on Europe from the end of World War II until today. We will discuss topics such as the Cold War, the European welfare state, Europe’s volatile relations with the US and the Soviet Union/ Russia, decolonization, 1989 and neoliberalism, racism, European integration and the role of the European Union in international politics. Expect to spend 25% of class time in group work, where we discuss the assigned literature, movies, documentaries, textual and visual primary sources.
AS.100.209 (01)	Slavery in the Caribbean	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	Turner, Sasha	Gilman 119	Spring 2026	An introductory examination of slavery in the Caribbean, this course explores the structure of slavery and its development and its transformative effects on people and the region, and the formation of the modern world. Students can expect to explore themes broadly related to gender and sexuality; politics and economy; science and technology; health and the environment; law, culture and society.
AS.100.225 (01)	Mansa Musa’s Gold: the History of African Muslims	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	Thiam, Madina	Krieger 307	Spring 2026	Today about one third of the world’s Muslims live in Africa, a continent where Islam has a long history. This course follows African Muslims as they traveled and migrated, built communities and states, produced literature and scholarship, and contended with slavery and empire. Our historical investigations will take us all over the African continent as well as across the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, following the paths of African Muslim pilgrims, scholars, slaves, soldiers, merchants, rulers, and revolutionaries. No prerequisites needed.
AS.100.250 (01)	The American Revolution in Unexpected Places	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Pearsall, Sarah	Hodson 203; Gilman 75	Spring 2026	This course considers the American Revolution from the perspective of locations beyond the thirteen rebelling colonies. Covering a range of global hotspots, the focus is on events from 1763 to 1788.
AS.100.250 (02)	The American Revolution in Unexpected Places	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Pearsall, Sarah	Hodson 203; Gilman 377	Spring 2026	This course considers the American Revolution from the perspective of locations beyond the thirteen rebelling colonies. Covering a range of global hotspots, the focus is on events from 1763 to 1788.
AS.100.253 (01)	Modern Histories of Human Rights: Empire, Justice, and International Law	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Peeples, Sandy W	Hodson 315	Spring 2026	The language of human rights can be found all around us, as a legal framework, political discourse, and method of interpreting justice and liberation. Much of this language invests human rights with a unique scale of political and intellectual power, opening up a range of questions. Can human rights accomplish justice? How are they enforced? What does it mean to support human rights? In order to answer these contemporary questions it helps to start from some historical ones. Where did human rights come from? What is a human right? Who decides and does it matter? Recently, scholars, including historians and lawyers, have revived attempts to chart the historical development of human rights as a discrete project. Those histories have diverged in the power and intellectual weight they attribute to human rights as well as the basic chronology of human rights as a discourse. This class will provide a survey of these histories and in the process attempt to introduce students to historiography as a method as well as provide insight into the structure and function of the modern human rights project.
AS.100.274 (01)	Conspiracy in American Politics	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	Luff, Jennifer D	Gilman 219	Spring 2026	Conspiratorial thinking is nothing new in American politics. Since the founding of the nation, Americans have been riveted—and riven—by conspiracy theories. This course introduces students to key methods and questions in U.S. history by exploring conspiratorial episodes from the American Revolution through the present. We’ll pick apart allegations and denials of conspiracies to discover what they tell us about American politics and culture. We’ll also consider historians’ analyses of conspiratorial claims, and think about the relationship between conspiracy and historical causality.
AS.100.283 (01)	Making and Unmaking Queer Histories: Identity, Self-Representation, Politics, and Contexts, 1800-Pre	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne	Hodson 316; Krieger 304	Spring 2026	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 and Unmaking Queer Histories: Identity, Self-Representation, Politics, and Contexts, 1800-Pre	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne	Hodson 316	Spring 2026	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.100.310 (01)	The French Revolution	TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM	Mason, Laura	Gilman 75	Spring 2026	This course immerses students in the rich historiography of the French Revolution. We will focus on recent scholarship to examine such themes as: the nature of revolution and popular activism; violence & trauma; constitutionalism; citizenship, democracy, and social rights; the revolution after Thermidor and why the republic collapsed.
AS.100.322 (01)	Asian Americans and the Law	TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM	Lim, Julian	Shaffer 301	Spring 2026	This course will explore the prominent role that Asian Americans have played in U.S. legal history. Paying close attention to the relationship between immigration, citizenship, law, and society, we will dive more deeply into the legal histories of numerous groups of Asian descent in the American past and present. We will also place these experiences within the more heterogeneous and complicated landscape of race relations in the United States, as well as considering international relations and transnational connections.
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	Hodson 303	Spring 2026	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.100.348 (01)	20th-Century China	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Rowe, William T	Hodson 203	Spring 2026	Survey of the history of China from ca. 1895 to ca. 1976.
AS.100.372 (01)	African Cities: Environment, Gender, and Economic Life	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Gondola, Didier Didier	Gilman 308	Spring 2026	This class explores the geographic, economic and cultural issues resulting from Africa’s urban growth from precolonial times to the present.
AS.100.404 (01)	John Locke	MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Marshall, John W	Gilman 186	Spring 2026	John Locke’s works had enormous influence in eighteenth century America and on justifications of the American Revolution. In this 250th anniversary year of the Declaration of Independence, this seminar- style course will read and discuss Locke’s major works intensively together with works influenced by Locke’s arguments and together with select scholarly interpretations. Locke’s works will be placed into the seventeenth century British, European and American contexts in which they were written, and the eighteenth-century American contexts in which they became extremely influential.
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 2026	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.100.450 (08)	History Research Lab: The Black Press South Africa	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Thornberry, Elizabeth	Smokler Center 213	Spring 2026	Early twentieth-century South Africa was home to a vibrant African publishing scene, with numerous newspapers run by African publishers for black audiences. This class will use these newspapers as primary sources to reconstruct the conversations among African intellectuals about some of the most pressing issues of the day, including African voting rights, land ownership, and the place of “customary law” in the colonial state.
AS.100.453 (01)	Global Legal History	M 4:30PM - 7:00PM	Loeffler, James	Gilman 381	Spring 2026	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.100.482 (01)	Historiography of Modern China	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Rowe, William T	Gilman 75	Spring 2026	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 Pre-Modern Times, From the Middle-Ages to 1600	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Katz, David	Smokler Center Library	Spring 2026	A broad survey of the significant political and cultural dynamics of Jewish history in the Medieval, Early-Modern, and Modern Eras.
AS.140.312 (01)	The Politics of Science in America	M 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Ginsberg, Benjamin; Kargon, Robert H	Gilman 75	Spring 2026	This course examines the relations of the scientific and technical enterprise and government in the United States in the 20th and 21st centuries. Topics will include the funding of research and development, public health, national defense, etc. Case studies will include the 1918 Spanish influenza epidemic, the Depression-era Science Advisory Board, the founding of the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, the institution of the President’s Science Advisor, the failure of the Superconducting Supercollider, the Hubble Space Telescope, the covid pandemic, etc.
AS.150.205 (01)	Introduction to the History of Modern Philosophy	MW 9:00AM - 9:50AM, F 9:00AM - 9:50AM	Melamed, Yitzhak Yohanan	Krieger 180; Gilman 55	Spring 2026	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 9:00AM - 9:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Melamed, Yitzhak Yohanan	Krieger 180; Gilman 17	Spring 2026	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.180.101 (01)	Elements of Macroeconomics	WF 9:00AM - 9:50AM, M 9:00AM - 9:50AM	Barbera, Bob; Seshie-Nasser, Hellen	Mudd 26; Gilman 17	Spring 2026	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	Mudd 26; Gilman 55	Spring 2026	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	Mudd 26; Shaffer 2	Spring 2026	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	Mudd 26; Bloomberg 176	Spring 2026	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	Mudd 26; Gilman 17	Spring 2026	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	Mudd 26; Bloomberg 176	Spring 2026	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 1	Spring 2026	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 1	Spring 2026	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 1	Spring 2026	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 1	Spring 2026	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	Shaffer 2	Spring 2026	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.180.233 (01)	Economics of Transition and Institutional Change	TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Poliakova, Ludmila	Hodson 303	Spring 2026	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 210	Spring 2026	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 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Poliakova, Ludmila	Maryland 201	Spring 2026	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	Hodson 213	Spring 2026	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.180.303 (01)	Topics in International Macroeconomics and Finance	TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Jeanne, Olivier	Maryland 114	Spring 2026	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 276	Spring 2026	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.180.355 (01)	Economics of Poverty/Inequality	MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Husain, Muhammad Mudabbir	Krieger 306	Spring 2026	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 N105	Spring 2026	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.190.102 (01)	Introduction To Comparative Politics	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Jabko, Nicolas	Remsen Hall 101; Maryland 217	Spring 2026	To understand politics, the 24-hour news cycle of the modern media takes us only so far. In this course, we will take a step back and implement an intellectually rigorous method. Scholars of comparative politics use the method of comparison to illuminate important political phenomena of our times. Following this method, we will embark on a scholarly tour of the world and compare the politics of various countries. We will also trace these politics back to their historical sources. We will adopt the assumption that there is something to be gained from such comparisons across space and time.
AS.190.102 (02)	Introduction To Comparative Politics	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Jabko, Nicolas	Remsen Hall 101; Bloomberg 176	Spring 2026	To understand politics, the 24-hour news cycle of the modern media takes us only so far. In this course, we will take a step back and implement an intellectually rigorous method. Scholars of comparative politics use the method of comparison to illuminate important political phenomena of our times. Following this method, we will embark on a scholarly tour of the world and compare the politics of various countries. We will also trace these politics back to their historical sources. We will adopt the assumption that there is something to be gained from such comparisons across space and time.
AS.190.102 (03)	Introduction To Comparative Politics	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Jabko, Nicolas	Remsen Hall 101; Hodson 216	Spring 2026	To understand politics, the 24-hour news cycle of the modern media takes us only so far. In this course, we will take a step back and implement an intellectually rigorous method. Scholars of comparative politics use the method of comparison to illuminate important political phenomena of our times. Following this method, we will embark on a scholarly tour of the world and compare the politics of various countries. We will also trace these politics back to their historical sources. We will adopt the assumption that there is something to be gained from such comparisons across space and time.
AS.190.102 (04)	Introduction To Comparative Politics	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Jabko, Nicolas	Remsen Hall 101; Bloomberg 176	Spring 2026	To understand politics, the 24-hour news cycle of the modern media takes us only so far. In this course, we will take a step back and implement an intellectually rigorous method. Scholars of comparative politics use the method of comparison to illuminate important political phenomena of our times. Following this method, we will embark on a scholarly tour of the world and compare the politics of various countries. We will also trace these politics back to their historical sources. We will adopt the assumption that there is something to be gained from such comparisons across space and time.
AS.190.102 (05)	Introduction To Comparative Politics	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM	Jabko, Nicolas	Remsen Hall 101; Gilman 186	Spring 2026	To understand politics, the 24-hour news cycle of the modern media takes us only so far. In this course, we will take a step back and implement an intellectually rigorous method. Scholars of comparative politics use the method of comparison to illuminate important political phenomena of our times. Following this method, we will embark on a scholarly tour of the world and compare the politics of various countries. We will also trace these politics back to their historical sources. We will adopt the assumption that there is something to be gained from such comparisons across space and time.
AS.190.102 (06)	Introduction To Comparative Politics	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM	Jabko, Nicolas	Remsen Hall 101; Bloomberg 176	Spring 2026	To understand politics, the 24-hour news cycle of the modern media takes us only so far. In this course, we will take a step back and implement an intellectually rigorous method. Scholars of comparative politics use the method of comparison to illuminate important political phenomena of our times. Following this method, we will embark on a scholarly tour of the world and compare the politics of various countries. We will also trace these politics back to their historical sources. We will adopt the assumption that there is something to be gained from such comparisons across space and time.
AS.190.102 (07)	Introduction To Comparative Politics	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 1:30PM - 2:20PM	Jabko, Nicolas	Remsen Hall 101; Hodson 203	Spring 2026	To understand politics, the 24-hour news cycle of the modern media takes us only so far. In this course, we will take a step back and implement an intellectually rigorous method. Scholars of comparative politics use the method of comparison to illuminate important political phenomena of our times. Following this method, we will embark on a scholarly tour of the world and compare the politics of various countries. We will also trace these politics back to their historical sources. We will adopt the assumption that there is something to be gained from such comparisons across space and time.
AS.190.102 (08)	Introduction To Comparative Politics	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 1:30PM - 2:20PM	Jabko, Nicolas	Remsen Hall 101; Gilman 55	Spring 2026	To understand politics, the 24-hour news cycle of the modern media takes us only so far. In this course, we will take a step back and implement an intellectually rigorous method. Scholars of comparative politics use the method of comparison to illuminate important political phenomena of our times. Following this method, we will embark on a scholarly tour of the world and compare the politics of various countries. We will also trace these politics back to their historical sources. We will adopt the assumption that there is something to be gained from such comparisons across space and time.
AS.190.252 (01)	Introduction to the Conduct of IR Research	TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM	Marlin-Bennett, Renee E	Gilman 219	Spring 2026	Course Description: This course introduces students to the conduct of social science research in the field of International Relations. Students will develop skills for evaluating scholarship and will be introduced to concepts and methods that they will be able to use for research assignments in their subsequent courses. Topics include: research design and how to review the scholarly literature; finding, evaluating, gathering, and organizing evidence/data; and introduction to evaluation of hypotheses using statistical analysis, comparative case study analysis, and other techniques. Recommended for students who have already taken a "gateway" course in IR such as Contemporary International Politics or Introduction to Global Studies.
AS.190.305 (01)	Human Rights as a Practice, Weapon, and Symbol	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	Ross, Andrew	Gilman 75	Spring 2026	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.190.329 (01)	National Security-Nuclear Age	TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM	David, Steven R	Gilman 381	Spring 2026	This course examines the impact of weapons of mass destruction on international politics with an emphasis on security issues. The first half of the course focuses on the history of nuclear weapons development during the Cold War and theories of deterrence. The second half of the class considers contemporary issues including terrorism, chemical and biological weapons, ballistic missile defense and proliferation. Requirements include a midterm, final and a ten page paper.
AS.190.331 (01)	America and the World	TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Schmidt, Sebastian	Gilman 377	Spring 2026	This course examines the unique position of the United States in world politics. We will briefly survey the broader international relations literature on the dynamics of power and influence in world politics and work through empirics related to American foreign policy. The course will encompass security politics as well as the economic, monetary, and ideational dimensions of American influence. Interested students must have completed at least one 100 or 200 level introductory course in international relations.
AS.190.337 (01)	Politics of the Korean Diaspora	T 4:00PM - 6:30PM	Chung, Erin	Krieger 308	Spring 2026	This seminar explores some of the core questions in the study of citizenship, migration, and racial and ethnic politics through the lens of Korean diasporic populations in the United States, Japan, China, and the former Soviet Union. We will examine how immigration, citizenship, and minority policies have structured and constrained the relationship of Korean communities to both the receiving and sending states. As a diasporic group, is there a collective self-identification among members of Korean communities that transcends territorial, hemispheric, linguistic, and cultural differences? Or is the Korean ethnic identity more a reflection of racial and ethnic politics in the receiving society? What factors determine the assimilability of a particular group at a given historical moment?
AS.190.346 (01)	Foundations of International Relations Theory	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Schmidt, Sebastian	Gilman 377	Spring 2026	This course is a broad conceptual introduction to international relations theory in a format that stresses close reading and critical discussion. We will explore mainstream theoretical perspectives and critiques of those perspectives, as well as more recent developments in the field. By the end of the course, students will have a firm grasp of the core issues and debates in the field. The course is conceptually demanding; interested students should have at least completed an introductory course in political science.
AS.190.347 (01)	A New Cold War? Sino-American Relations in the 21st Century	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	David, Steven R	Smokler Center Library	Spring 2026	“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.190.358 (01)	Liberal Education: A Contested Question	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Shilliam, Robbie; Storey, Benjamin	Smokler Center 301	Spring 2026	What is liberal education, and what should it be? If such an education liberates, what does it liberate from? How does that liberation happen? What virtues does liberal education cultivate? What are its characteristic pitfalls? How does liberal education relate to the contemporary debates of political life, and how might it serve the public good? This course, co-taught by a professor of postcolonial politics at Johns Hopkins University and a conservative scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, will bring together divergent perspectives around a set of landmark texts about liberal education for a common conversation, engaging with enduring questions and contemporary political controversies.
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 2026	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.190.411 (01)	The Politics of Political Surveillance	Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Luff, Jennifer D	Krieger 306	Spring 2026	Mass political surveillance is a hallmark of modern life. All contemporary regimes practice some form of surveillance. Yet the politics of surveillance vary. This seminar investigates the technologies, purposes, and significance of political surveillance in the 20th century in different polities. We will explore perspectives on surveillance from various approaches—historical, sociological, anthropological, and in political science.
AS.190.420 (01)	From Polycrisis to Polytunity	M 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Ang, Yuen Yuen	Krieger 304	Spring 2026	Around the world, people speak of living through a “polycrisis”—a time when overlapping disruptions create fear and paralysis. In this course, Prof. Yuen Yuen Ang invites you to flip the script: from polycrisis to polytunity, seeing disruption as a portal to new possibilities. Polytunity opens into Ang’s broader paradigm, AIM (Adaptive, Inclusive, Moral) Political Economy, which builds on her earlier works (How China Escaped the Poverty Trap, China’s Gilded Age). Together we’ll explore AIM’s three pillars: Adaptive (systems not machine thinking), Inclusive (diverse pathways, not one template), and Moral (ideas are shaped by power and positionality)—and trace how they can inspire both new research agendas and real-world applications across a range of fields. We’ll see how Ang’s “ideational forest” grows from roots to canopy, offering a generative compass for navigating our age of disruption.
AS.190.440 (01)	European Politics in Comparative Perspective	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Jabko, Nicolas	Krieger 306	Spring 2026	Despite the periodic resurgence of war on its periphery, Europe can easily appear as a pacified and relatively boring continent. This course will question this stereotype through an examination of European politics in historical and cross-national perspective. We will discuss central concepts that comparative politics scholars mobilize in the study of European politics across time and space. Topics will include: political, legal, and economic governance; the evolution of democracy, the welfare state, partisan politics, citizenship, and identities; European integration and globalization.
AS.190.444 (01)	Comparative Politics	T 3:00PM - 5:30PM	Teele, Dawn Langan	Mergenthaler 366	Spring 2026	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.190.478 (01)	Catastrophic and Existential Risks & World Orders	M 4:30PM - 7:00PM	Deudney, Daniel Horace	Mergenthaler 366	Spring 2026	This course focuses on the politics of emerging natural and technogenic catastrophic and existential risks (CAER). The emergence and acceleration of machine-based civilization devoted to the progressive development of science-based technology has produced a fundamentally novel human situation, and the emergence of a horizon of potential disasters, catastrophes and threats to human existence. Some threats, such as super-volcanoes and asteroidal collisions, have purely natural origins. Others, such as nuclear war, bioweapons, nanotechnology, artificial superintelligence, totalitarian government and climate change are anthropogenic. Some, such as geo-engineering, space colonization and asteroidal diversion, appear to be solutions, but may also pose severe, but under-appreciated, threats. International theory is largely unprepared to conceptualize such threats, or suitable solutions to them. Many of the novel technologies have both civil and military applications. Some are increasingly accessible to small non-state actors. Foresight capacities to anticipate negative consequences of new technologies are severely limited, and powerful interests are deeply committed to their largely unhindered development. Several of these technologies may enable the establishment of highly hierarchical world government, and regulatory regimes capable of restraining them may require world government to be effective. The globally hegemonic ideology of Baconian Promethean modernism is strongly committed to unlimited scientific and technological development, making efforts to restrain, regulate or relinquish such technologies very difficult. This course focuses on the contours of these threats, the ways in which they are activated by different political factors, the features of regimes necessary to restrain them, and the implications for world order of these threats and responses to them.
AS.192.210 (01)	Library Research Seminar for International Studies and Social Sciences	W 4:00PM - 6:00PM	Ye, Yunshan	BLC 4040	Spring 2026	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.192.403 (01)	Qualitative Research	W 1:30PM - 3:30PM	Parkinson, Sarah	Mergenthaler 366	Spring 2026	This class is designed to introduce students to qualitative methodology. Practically, students will gain first hand experience with qualitative research methods via research design, ethics review, in-depth interviewing, participant observation, and archival/primary source research. They will learn to deploy analytical techniques such as discourse analysis and process tracing. Students will also be asked to consider the merits of qualitative approaches more generally, and discuss the relative advantages of qualitative, experimental, and quantitative approaches. Questions that we will discuss include: What place should qualitative research have in a research design? Can qualitative research test hypotheses, or only generate them? Can qualitative research explain social phenomena, or only interpret them? What are the disadvantages and advantages of qualitative approaches compared to quantitative approaches? For what kinds of research questions are ethnographic techniques best suited? Is replicability possible for ethnographic field research? What criteria of evidence and analytical rigor apply on this terrain?
AS.192.404 (01)	Autocracy, Democracy and Development: Korea, Indonesia and Myanmar	M 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Dore, Giovanna Maria Dora	Gilman 119	Spring 2026	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.192.430 (01)	Emotional States in International Politics	TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Ross, Andrew	Shriver Hall 104	Spring 2026	This course explores the role of emotions in international politics. Claims about shared emotion—including but not limited to fear, anger, guilt, humiliation, and compassion—are frequently woven into the public images and foreign policy narratives of states. This course reflects on who is making such claims, why, how, and to what effect. We begin with consideration of enduring puzzles in international relations, including the idea of the state as rational actor and the central role of fear under international anarchy, as well as a series of more recent, cross-disciplinary frameworks designed to understand states as sites and objects of emotional politics. The bulk of the course then engages with a series of closer studies on topics of contemporary significance; these topics may include: contestation over historical memory and collective trauma, performances of emotion in diplomatic summits, struggles for recognition and status, narratives of national decline, conspiracy theories and foreign policy, the role of humor and insult in foreign policy discourse, and the rise of populism and nativism.
AS.192.501 (01)	Internship- International Studies		Van Morgan, Sydney		Spring 2026	For students undertaking internships that focus on international fields or topics. Students wishing to enroll in this course must consult with the International Studies Program before submitting an Independent Study Request in SIS.
AS.192.591 (01)	Research- International Studies		Van Morgan, Sydney		Spring 2026	For students undertaking research projects that focus on international fields or topics. Students wishing to enroll in this course must consult with the International Studies Program before submitting an Independent Study Request in SIS.
AS.192.599 (01)	Independent Study		Van Morgan, Sydney		Spring 2026	For students undertaking independent study projects that focus on international fields or topics. Approval Required.
AS.192.599 (02)	Independent Study		Ross, Andrew		Spring 2026	For students undertaking independent study projects that focus on international fields or topics. Approval Required.
AS.194.230 (01)	African-Americans and the Development of Islam in America	Th 6:00PM - 9:00PM	Fanusie, Fatimah	Gilman 134	Spring 2026	Muslims have been a part of the American fabric since its inception. A key thread in that fabric has been the experiences of enslaved Africans and their descendants, some of whom were Muslims, and who not only added to the dynamism of the American environment, but eventually helped shape American culture, religion, and politics. The history of Islam in America is intertwined with the creation and evolution of African American identity. Contemporary Islam in America cannot be understood without this framing. This course will provide a historical lens for understanding Islam, not as an external faith to the country, but as an internal development of American religion. This course will explicate the history of early Islamic movements in the United States and the subsequent experiences of African-Americans who converted to Islam during the first half of the twentieth century. We will cover the spiritual growth of African American Muslims, their institutional presence, and their enduring impact on American culture writ large and African-American religion and culture more specifically.
AS.211.372 (01)	German Cinema: The Divided Screen	Th 3:00PM - 5:30PM	Rhee, Sharlyn	Gilman 413	Spring 2026	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.211.438 (01)	On Tyranny: Theory, Literature, History	W 1:00PM - 3:30PM	Frey, Christiane; Roller, Matthew	Gilman 108	Spring 2026	Despotism, authoritarianism, autocracy, dictatorship: the terms for tyranny are legion. But what exactly do we mean by tyranny, and how are we to understand it? This seminar will explore what literature, philosophy, and political theory, ancient and modern, have to say about both this (protean) concept and its many historically charged avatars. A deeper look into the history of “tyranny” reveals unexpected complexities, from affirmative uses of the term to radical critiques. To better understand this complex history and what it is we mean when we oppose political repression today, we will read classic works from political theory, philosophy, and literature (e.g. Plato’s “Apology of Socrates,” “Republic” VIII-IX; Xenophon’s “Hiero”; Livy’s “Ab Urbe Condita” 1-2; Seneca the Younger’s “De Clementia”), early modern (e.g. Machiavelli’s “Prince”; La Boétie’s “On Voluntary Servitude”; Shakespeare’s “Macbeth”; Schiller’s “Fiesco”) and modern works (e.g. Strauss on Xenophon, followed by Kojève’s Commentary; Arendt’s “Origins of Totalitarianism”).
AS.212.353 (01)	La France Contemporaine	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Wuensch, April	Krieger 300	Spring 2026	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.215.111 (01)	Modern Spanish Culture	MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM	Martinez-Velez, Naiara	Gilman 413	Spring 2026	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	Rios Saavedra, Veronica	Gilman 313	Spring 2026	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.215.427 (01)	The African Diaspora in Early Modern Iberia	WF 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Johnson, Paul Michael	Gilman 381	Spring 2026	Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain was home to a sizeable Black African, Afro-diasporic, and Afro-descendant population that scholarship has only recently begun to acknowledge substantively. The historical legacy of these communities reveals that Afro-Iberians, enslaved as well as free, experienced often violent forms of racial discrimination and oppression, but that they also contributed meaningfully to a shared cultural landscape of art, literature, drama, dance, and music. Early modern writers of fiction likewise depicted Afro-diasporic characters not only as servants but also as sovereigns, soldiers, scholars, and saints. This advanced undergraduate seminar will grapple with these ambivalences by surveying a wide, multidisciplinary range of cultural products. In surveying the historical and literary complexities of the African diaspora in early modern Iberia, we will ask how these communities were subjected to the violence of empire, colonialism, racism, human trafficking, and enslavement, while at the same time generating creative vectors of pride, freedom, agency, and resistance. Class will be conducted in Spanish. (If AS.210.311 has not been taken, the student may submit an SPE score: https://krieger.jhu.edu/modern-languages-literatures/spanish-and-portuguese/undergraduate/get-started/)
AS.230.175 (01)	Chinese Revolutions	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	Kuo, Huei-Ying	Hodson 303	Spring 2026	This survey course situates China's political and cultural revolutions within broader transnational contexts from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. It examines foreign influences and global entanglements through topics such as Christian missionaries and anti-dynastic revolutions, the contest between the New Culture Movement and the Confucian Revering Movement, Chinese overseas and federalist movements, and the international dimensions of Chinese nationalist projects between 1898 and 1949.
AS.230.228 (01)	Colonialism in Asia and Its Contested Legacies	TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Kuo, Huei-Ying	Gilman 119	Spring 2026	This course examines the impact of colonialism on East and Southeast Asia from the long nineteenth century to the postwar era. Focusing on British Singapore and Hong Kong, and Japanese Korea and Taiwan, it explores colonial social and economic change, as well as postcolonial transformations. Topics include free-trade imperialism, capitalist exploitation, colonial modernity, Pan-Asianism, anticolonial movements, and nation-building in the Cold War.
AS.230.300 (01)	War and Antiwar in America	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	Andreas, Joel	Hodson 211	Spring 2026	This course will review the history of US foreign wars and antiwar movements and consider the relationship between the two. It is designed for both undergraduate and graduate students.
AS.230.320 (01)	Education & Inequality: Individual, Contextual, and Policy Perspectives	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Deluca, Stefanie	3505 N. Charles 102	Spring 2026	What is the function and purpose of schooling in modern society? Is education the "great equalizer" in America, or does family background mostly predict where people end up in life? What can we do to improve educational attainment? This course is designed to tackle such questions and develop the ability of students to think critically, theoretically, historically and empirically about debates in the sociology of education. The course will also cover additional topics, including: racial and economic differences in educational attainment; school segregation; the rise of for-profit education; how college matters. In addition to reading empirical studies and theoretical work, the relevance of education research for educational policy-making will be emphasized throughout the course.
AS.230.335 (01)	Medical Humanitarianism	TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Naveh Benjamin, Ilil	Shaffer 304	Spring 2026	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	M 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Gray, Ian Patrick	Krieger 307	Spring 2026	This course will focus on social scientific insights into the causes, consequences and potential solutions to the climate crisis. Drawing on global and interdisciplinary scholarship, we will address such issues as: the relationship between fossil fuels and capitalism; the relationship between social inequality and "vulnerability" to climate change; the politics of "adaptation"; the organization of climate obstruction; protest and climate justice movements; the challenge of energy transition in fossil fuel producing regions; and the political-economy and sociology of renewable energy and carbon capture. The course is reading-intensive and discussion-oriented.
AS.230.365 (01)	Public Opinion and American Politics	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Morgan, Stephen L	Gilman 400	Spring 2026	How does public opinion shape electoral behavior and the contours of democracy in the United States, and how have these relationships changed as techniques for measuring public opinion have evolved since the early twentieth century? To consider this question, the course introduces alternative perspectives on the features of a healthy democracy, including both historical perspectives and current arguments. Interweaved with this material, the course examines how public opinion is measured and interpreted by private pollsters, survey researchers, and data journalists. Emphasis is placed on the alternative claims that opposing analysts adopt, as well as how the technologies of data collection and analysis shape the permissibility of conclusions.
AS.230.378 (01)	Refugees, Human Rights, and Sovereignty	TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Naveh Benjamin, Ilil	Shaffer 304	Spring 2026	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.230.395 (01)	Theories of Power and Resistance	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Levien, Michael	3505 N. Charles 300	Spring 2026	How does power operate in contemporary societies? How is power reproduced, how is it resisted and under what conditions does resistance produce social change? This course will examine how social theorists have advanced novel answers to these questions as they grappled with the historical events and social concerns of the 20th and 21st centuries, including the failure of communist movements in the West, the rise and fall of fascism and Nazism, the consolidation of capitalist democracies, the emergence of anti-colonial movements in the "Third World," and the mutations and intersections of race, gender and sexuality as forms of domination. In addition to understanding and comparing theories, we will assess their usefulness for understanding our present conjuncture.
AS.230.413 (01)	Energy and Society	M 9:00AM - 11:30AM	Levien, Michael	Mergenthaler 526	Spring 2026	Framed by the escalating climate crisis, this seminar will focus on the social embeddedness of fossil fuels and the conditions of possibility for a renewable energy transition. Topics to be explored include the relationship between fossil fuels and capitalism; the character of previous historical energy transformations; climate denialism and the political power of the fossil fuel industry; the political and social challenges posed by fossil-fuel producing regions; contemporary proposals for a Green New Deal and "just transitions"; the challenges of siting energy infrastructure; and the social implications of various energy transition pathways associated with technologies such wind, solar, and carbon capture. Cases will be drawn from across the world. This will be a read-intensive seminar intended for advanced undergraduates and graduate students. Prior experience in social science recommended. Students will produce a final research paper on a topic and case of their choosing.
AS.230.415 (01)	Social Problems in Contemporary China	TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Andreas, Joel	Hodson 303	Spring 2026	In this course we will examine contemporary Chinese society, looking at economic development, rural transformation, urbanization and migration, labor relations, class structure, governance, and popular protest. The course is designed for both undergraduate and graduate students. Undergraduates should have already completed a course about China.
AS.271.360 (01)	Climate Change: Science & Policy	MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Zaitchik, Benjamin Frederick	Bloomberg 274	Spring 2026	This course will investigate the policy and scientific debate over global warming. It will review the current state of scientific knowledge about climate change, examine the potential impacts and implications of climate change, explore our options for responding to climate change, and discuss the present political debate over global warming.
AS.300.102 (01)	Great Minds	TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Marrati, Paola	Gilman 219	Spring 2026	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.310.208 (01)	U.S. National Security Technology Partnerships in Asia	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Staff	Smokler Center 213	Spring 2026	This course explores the intersection of U.S. national security strategy, emerging technologies, and alliance partnerships in East Asia. Through readings, discussions, guest speakers, and a group project (oral policy briefing and policy memo), students will examine the roles of executive and legislative actors, the private sector, and foreign governments in shaping the future of technology partnerships with key U.S. allies and partners. The final assignment simulates an interagency memo-writing and briefing exercise to the National Security Advisor.
AS.310.326 (01)	Labor Politics in China	Th 3:00PM - 5:30PM	He, Gaochao	Mergenthaler 266	Spring 2026	This course explores the transformation of labor relations in China over the past century. It will cover the origins of the labor movement, the changes brought about by the 1949 Revolution, the industrial battles of the Cultural Revolution, the traumatic restructuring of state-owned enterprises over the past two decades, the rise of private enterprise and export-oriented industry, the conditions faced by migrant workers today, and recent developments in industrial relations and labor conflict. The course is designed for upper division undergraduates and graduate students. Cross-listed with Sociology and International Studies (CP).
AS.310.329 (01)	Women, Patriarchy, and Feminism in China, South Korea, and Japan	TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM	Henning, Stefan	Gilman 313	Spring 2026	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	Gilman 17	Spring 2026	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.361.100 (01)	Introduction to Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies	MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Cotler, Angelina	Croft Hall G02	Spring 2026	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 2026	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.

Course Schedule

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

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

Modern Europe in a global context, 1789-PresentAS.100.104 (03)

Modern Europe in a global context, 1789-PresentAS.100.104 (04)

History of the Global Cold WarAS.100.106 (01)

History of the Global Cold WarAS.100.106 (02)

Introduction to the Middle EastAS.100.118 (01)

Introduction to the Middle EastAS.100.118 (02)

Introduction to the Middle EastAS.100.118 (03)

Introduction to the Middle EastAS.100.118 (04)

Introduction to History of Africa (since 1880)AS.100.122 (01)

Introduction to History of Africa (since 1880)AS.100.122 (02)

Shopaholics: Consumer Revolution and the Material World, 1600-1850AS.100.144 (01)

Antisemitism in Historical PerspectiveAS.100.226 (01)

History of Modern GermanyAS.100.233 (01)

History of KabbalahAS.100.256 (01)

Race & Power in Modern South AfricaAS.100.282 (01)

Race & Power in Modern South AfricaAS.100.282 (02)

Animals in Chinese and Japanese HistoryAS.100.329 (01)

Soviet-American Cold WarAS.100.346 (01)

Early Modern ChinaAS.100.347 (01)

Crime, Punishment, Felony and Freedom: Law and Society in Premodern England, 1066 to 1688AS.100.373 (01)

History of Global DevelopmentAS.100.395 (01)

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

Popular Culture in Early Modern EuropeAS.100.426 (01)

Historiography of the Maghreb, 1939 to the PresentAS.100.444 (01)

Revolution, Anti-Slavery, and Empire 1773-1792: British and American Political Thought from Paine, Smith, and the Declaration of Independence to Cugoano, Wollstonecraft, and the Bill of RightsAS.100.445 (01)

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