Course Schedule

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	Additional Details
AS.070.318 (01)	Black Atlantic Worlds	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Angelini, Alessandro; White, Alexandre Ilani Rein	Mergenthaler 426	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 8/18 Tags: INST-GLOBAL, CES-RI, CES-BM
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	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 3/20 Tags: HIST-US, HIST-MIDEST, CDS-EWC, INST-GLOBAL
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	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 2/20 Tags: HIST-US, HIST-MIDEST, CDS-EWC, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.119 (01)	Introduction to U.S. Immigration History and Law	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Lim, Julian	Hodson 313	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/30 Tags: HIST-US, CDS-MB, INST-GLOBAL, INST-AP, CES-RI, CES-LC, CES-BM, AGRI-ELECT
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	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/20 Tags: HIST-ASIA, INST-GLOBAL
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	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 7/20 Tags: HIST-ASIA, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.171 (01)	Europe since 1945	TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Harms, Victoria Elisabeth	Bloomberg 274	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 2/45 Tags: HIST-EUROPE, HIST-US, CDS-MB, CDS-SSMC, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.209 (01)	Slavery in the Caribbean	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	Turner, Sasha	Gilman 119	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 6/20 Tags: HIST-US, HIST-LATAM, INST-GLOBAL, AFRS-ENSLAV, CES-BM, CES-LC, CES-RI
AS.100.225 (01)	Mansa Musa’s Gold: the History of African Muslims	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	Thiam, Madina	Krieger 307	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/20 Tags: HIST-AFRICA, CDS-MB, INST-GLOBAL, AFRS-AFRICA
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	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 0/18 Tags: HIST-US, INST-GLOBAL
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	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 1/18 Tags: HIST-US, INST-GLOBAL
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	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/15 Tags: HIST-US, HIST-EUROPE, HIST-AFRICA, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.274 (01)	Conspiracy in American Politics	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	Luff, Jennifer D	Gilman 17	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 0/25 Tags: HIST-US, INST-GLOBAL, INST-AP
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	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 11/20 Tags: HIST-US, HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
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	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 19/20 Tags: HIST-US, HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.310 (01)	The French Revolution	TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM	Mason, Laura	Gilman 75	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 13/27 Tags: HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.322 (01)	Asian Americans and the Law	TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM	Lim, Julian	Shaffer 301	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 6/20 Tags: HIST-US, HIST-ASIA, CDS-MB, INST-GLOBAL
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	Description: 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). Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 0/20 Tags: HIST-US, HIST-EUROPE, HIST-MIDEST, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.348 (01)	20th-Century China	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Rowe, William T	Hodson 203	Spring 2026	Description: Survey of the history of China from ca. 1895 to ca. 1976. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 7/30 Tags: HIST-ASIA, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.372 (01)	African Cities: Environment, Gender, and Economic Life	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Gondola, Didier Didier	Gilman 308	Spring 2026	Description: This class explores the geographic, economic and cultural issues resulting from Africa’s urban growth from precolonial times to the present. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 2/25 Tags: HIST-AFRICA, INST-GLOBAL, CES-PD, CES-GI, CES-CC
AS.100.404 (01)	John Locke	MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Marshall, John W	Gilman 186	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 2/19 Tags: HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL, INST-PT, CES-LSO
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	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 6/20 Tags: HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL, CES-CC
AS.100.450 (08)	History Research Lab: The Black Press South Africa	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Thornberry, Elizabeth	Smokler Center 213	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 10/12 Tags: INST-GLOBAL, HIST-AFRICA
AS.100.453 (01)	Global Legal History	M 4:30PM - 7:00PM	Loeffler, James	Gilman 381	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/15 Tags: HIST-US, HIST-EUROPE, HIST-MIDEST, INST-GLOBAL, AGRI-ELECT
AS.100.482 (01)	Historiography of Modern China	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Rowe, William T	Gilman 75	Spring 2026	Description: 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? Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 0/12 Tags: HIST-ASIA, INST-GLOBAL
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	Description: A broad survey of the significant political and cultural dynamics of Jewish history in the Medieval and Early Modern eras. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 2/19 Tags: NEAS-HISCUL, INST-GLOBAL, INST-NWHIST
AS.140.312 (01)	The Politics of Science in America	M 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Ginsberg, Benjamin; Kargon, Robert H	Gilman 75	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 1/15 Tags: INST-AP
AS.150.205 (01)	Introduction to the History of Modern Philosophy	MW 9:00AM - 9:50AM, F 9:00AM - 9:50AM	Melamed, Yitzhak Yohanan	Gilman 50; Gilman 55	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/20 Tags: COGS-PHLMND, INST-PT, PHIL-MODERN, MSCH-HUM
AS.150.205 (02)	Introduction to the History of Modern Philosophy	MW 9:00AM - 9:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Melamed, Yitzhak Yohanan	Gilman 50; Gilman 17	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 15/20 Tags: COGS-PHLMND, INST-PT, PHIL-MODERN, MSCH-HUM
AS.180.101 (01)	Elements of Macroeconomics	WF 9:00AM - 9:50AM, M 9:00AM - 9:50AM	Barbera, Bob; Seshie-Nasser, Hellen	Remsen Hall 1; Gilman 17	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/29 Tags: n/a
AS.180.101 (02)	Elements of Macroeconomics	WF 9:00AM - 9:50AM, M 9:00AM - 9:50AM	Barbera, Bob; Seshie-Nasser, Hellen	Remsen Hall 1; Gilman 55	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 6/29 Tags: n/a
AS.180.101 (03)	Elements of Macroeconomics	WF 9:00AM - 9:50AM, M 3:00PM - 3:50PM	Barbera, Bob; Seshie-Nasser, Hellen	Remsen Hall 1; Shaffer 002	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/30 Tags: n/a
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	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 29/29 Tags: n/a
AS.180.101 (05)	Elements of Macroeconomics	WF 9:00AM - 9:50AM, M 4:30PM - 5:20PM	Barbera, Bob; Seshie-Nasser, Hellen	Remsen Hall 1; Gilman 17	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 16/29 Tags: n/a
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	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 29/29 Tags: n/a
AS.180.102 (01)	Elements of Microeconomics	MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Husain, Muhammad Mudabbir	Remsen Hall 1	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/40 Tags: n/a
AS.180.102 (02)	Elements of Microeconomics	MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Husain, Muhammad Mudabbir	Remsen Hall 1	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 0/40 Tags: n/a
AS.180.102 (03)	Elements of Microeconomics	MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Husain, Muhammad Mudabbir	Remsen Hall 1	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 2/40 Tags: n/a
AS.180.102 (04)	Elements of Microeconomics	MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Husain, Muhammad Mudabbir	Remsen Hall 1	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 2/40 Tags: n/a
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 002	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 7/25 Tags: CES-BM, INST-ECON
AS.180.233 (01)	Economics of Transition and Institutional Change	TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Poliakova, Ludmila	Hodson 303	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 0/15 Tags: CES-LSO, CES-PD, CES-ELECT, INST-ECON
AS.180.241 (01)	International Trade	TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM	Dasgupta, Somasree	Hodson 210	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/60 Tags: CES-FT, INST-ECON
AS.180.242 (01)	International Monetary Economics	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Poliakova, Ludmila	Maryland 201	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/40 Tags: CES-FT, ECON-FINMIN, INST-ECON
AS.180.246 (01)	Environmental Economics	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Elliott, Jonathan Tyler	Bloomberg 278	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 26/40 Tags: CES-LE, INST-ECON, ENVS-MAJOR, ENVS-MINOR, ENGY-SCIPOL
AS.180.303 (01)	Topics in International Macroeconomics and Finance	TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Jeanne, Olivier	Gilman 75	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/25 Tags: INST-ECON, CES-FT, CES-PD, ECON-FINMIN
AS.180.349 (01)	Economics of Race, Gender and Culture	Th 3:00PM - 5:30PM	Hwang, Yujung	Bloomberg 276	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 1/10 Tags: INST-ECON, CES-GI, CES-RI
AS.180.355 (01)	Economics of Poverty/Inequality	MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Husain, Muhammad Mudabbir	Krieger 306	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 3/15 Tags: CES-PD, CES-ELECT, CES-RI, INST-ECON
AS.180.361 (01)	Rich Countries, Poor Countries	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Dasgupta, Somasree	Wyman Park N105	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/10 Tags: CES-FT, CES-PD, CES-TI, INST-ECON
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	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 3/20 Tags: INST-CP, POLI-CP, AGRI-ELECT, CES-ELECT
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	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 6/20 Tags: INST-CP, POLI-CP, AGRI-ELECT, CES-ELECT
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	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 3/20 Tags: INST-CP, POLI-CP, AGRI-ELECT, CES-ELECT
AS.190.102 (04)	Introduction To Comparative Politics	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Jabko, Nicolas	Remsen Hall 101; Gilman 77	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 3/14 Tags: INST-CP, POLI-CP, AGRI-ELECT, CES-ELECT
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	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/20 Tags: INST-CP, POLI-CP, AGRI-ELECT, CES-ELECT
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	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 10/20 Tags: INST-CP, POLI-CP, AGRI-ELECT, CES-ELECT
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	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 20/20 Tags: INST-CP, POLI-CP, AGRI-ELECT, CES-ELECT
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	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 9/20 Tags: INST-CP, POLI-CP, AGRI-ELECT, CES-ELECT
AS.190.102 (09)	Introduction To Comparative Politics	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Jabko, Nicolas	Remsen Hall 101; Krieger 304	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 11/20 Tags: INST-CP, POLI-CP, AGRI-ELECT, CES-ELECT
AS.190.252 (01)	Introduction to the Conduct of IR Research	TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM	Marlin-Bennett, Renee E	Gilman 219	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 20/25 Tags: POLI-IR, INST-IR, CES-ELECT
AS.190.305 (01)	Human Rights as a Practice, Weapon, and Symbol	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	Ross, Andrew	Gilman 75	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 0/19 Tags: INST-IR, CES-BM, CES-LSO, CES-RI, POLI-IR
AS.190.329 (01)	National Security-Nuclear Age	TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM	David, Steven R	Gilman 381	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 2/15 Tags: INST-IR, CES-LSO, CES-TI
AS.190.331 (01)	America and the World	TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Schmidt, Sebastian	Gilman 377	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/19 Tags: INST-AP, INST-IR, CES-FT
AS.190.337 (01)	Politics of the Korean Diaspora	T 4:00PM - 6:30PM	Chung, Erin	Krieger 308	Spring 2026	Description: 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? Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 1/12 Tags: INST-CP, CDS-MB, POLI-CP
AS.190.346 (01)	Foundations of International Relations Theory	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Schmidt, Sebastian	Gilman 377	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 3/19 Tags: INST-IR, INST-PT
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	Description: “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.” Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 0/15 Tags: INST-IR, CES-FT, CES-LSO
AS.190.358 (01)	Liberal Education: A Contested Question	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Shilliam, Robbie; Storey, Benjamin	Shaffer 303	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 0/15 Tags: POLI-IR, INST-IR, AGRI-ELECT, CES-ELECT, INST-GLOBAL
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	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: POLI-IR, POLI-AP, INST-CP, CES-BM, CES-CC, CES-LC
AS.190.411 (01)	The Politics of Political Surveillance	Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Luff, Jennifer D	Krieger 306	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 3/15 Tags: POLI-CP, CDS-EWC, CES-LSO, CES-TI, INST-CP
AS.190.420 (01)	From Polycrisis to Polytunity	M 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Ang, Yuen Yuen	Krieger 304	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 6/12 Tags: POLI-PT, INST-PT, AGRI-ELECT, CES-LSO, CES-PD, CES-TI
AS.190.440 (01)	European Politics in Comparative Perspective	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Jabko, Nicolas	Krieger 306	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 11/15 Tags: INST-CP, CES-ELECT
AS.190.444 (01)	Comparative Politics	T 3:00PM - 5:30PM	Teele, Dawn Langan	Mergenthaler 366	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 6/8 Tags: INST-CP, AGRI-ELECT, CES-ELECT
AS.190.478 (01)	Catastrophic and Existential Risks & World Orders	M 4:30PM - 7:00PM	Deudney, Daniel Horace	Mergenthaler 366	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 3/10 Tags: POLI-IR, INST-IR, CES-TI, CES-LE
AS.191.329 (01)	Spectral Futures: Black Temporality, Power, and the Politics of Liberation	TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Smith, T	Gilman 400	Spring 2026	Description: How have Black communities practiced resistance, reimagined the future, and reshaped the politics of time? This course explores Black political behavior and resistance through the lens of Afrofuturism and alternative temporalities. Students will examine how conventional notions of time and progress have been used to reinforce power and inequity, and how Black political action, cultural production, and speculative imagination challenge these structures. Drawing on political theory, cultural texts, and Afrofuturist thought, we will investigate the strategies, visions, and practices that open new possibilities for political agency, collective memory, and visions of liberation and Black futurity. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 10/20 Tags: POLI-PT, CES-RI, INST-PT
AS.192.210 (01)	Library Research Seminar for International Studies and Social Sciences	W 4:00PM - 6:00PM	Ye, Yunshan	BLC 4040	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 1.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 15/15 Tags: n/a
AS.192.403 (01)	Qualitative Research	W 1:30PM - 3:30PM	Parkinson, Sarah	Mergenthaler 366	Spring 2026	Description: 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? Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 3/5 Tags: n/a
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	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/15 Tags: INST-CP, INST-ECON, CES-PD
AS.192.430 (01)	Emotional States in International Politics	TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Ross, Andrew	Shriver Hall 104	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 2/15 Tags: INST-IR, POLI-IR
AS.192.501 (01)	Internship- International Studies		Van Morgan, Sydney		Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 1.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/10 Tags: n/a
AS.192.591 (01)	Research- International Studies		Van Morgan, Sydney		Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 6/10 Tags: n/a
AS.192.599 (01)	Independent Study		Van Morgan, Sydney		Spring 2026	Description: For students undertaking independent study projects that focus on international fields or topics. Approval Required. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a
AS.192.599 (02)	Independent Study		Ross, Andrew		Spring 2026	Description: For students undertaking independent study projects that focus on international fields or topics. Approval Required. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 9/10 Tags: n/a
AS.194.230 (01)	African-Americans and the Development of Islam in America	Th 6:00PM - 9:00PM	Fanusie, Fatimah	Gilman 134	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 11/15 Tags: INST-GLOBAL
AS.211.372 (01)	German Cinema: The Divided Screen	Th 3:00PM - 5:30PM	Rhee, Sharlyn	Gilman 413	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 7/15 Tags: INST-GLOBAL
AS.211.438 (01)	On Tyranny: Theory, Literature, History	W 1:00PM - 3:30PM	Frey, Christiane; Roller, Matthew	Gilman 108	Spring 2026	Description: 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”). Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 2/18 Tags: INST-PT
AS.211.438 (02)	On Tyranny: Theory, Literature, History	F 4:00PM - 5:00PM, W 1:00PM - 3:30PM	Frey, Christiane; Roller, Matthew	Gilman 108; Gilman 443	Spring 2026	Description: (For German majors.) 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”). Credits: 4.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 2/4 Tags: INST-PT
AS.212.353 (01)	La France Contemporaine	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Wuensch, April	Krieger 300	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 2/12 Tags: INST-CP
AS.215.111 (01)	Modern Spanish Culture	MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM	Martinez-Velez, Naiara	Gilman 413	Spring 2026	Description: 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 Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 7/15 Tags: INST-CP, INST-GLOBAL
AS.215.112 (01)	Modern Latin American Culture	MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM	Rios Saavedra, Veronica	Gilman 313	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 2/15 Tags: INST-CP, INST-GLOBAL
AS.215.427 (01)	The African Diaspora in Early Modern Iberia	WF 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Johnson, Paul Michael	Gilman 381	Spring 2026	Description: 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/) Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/15 Tags: MLL-SPAN, INST-GLOBAL, INST-CP, CDS-MB, CES-BM, CES-RI
AS.230.175 (01)	Chinese Revolutions	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	Kuo, Huei-Ying	Hodson 303	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 6/20 Tags: INST-CP, INST-GLOBAL, CES-LC, CES-PD, AGRI-ELECT
AS.230.228 (01)	Colonialism in Asia and Its Contested Legacies	TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Kuo, Huei-Ying	Gilman 119	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 9/20 Tags: INST-CP, INST-GLOBAL, CES-CC, CES-PD
AS.230.300 (01)	War and Antiwar in America	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	Andreas, Joel	Hodson 211	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 6/15 Tags: INST-GLOBAL
AS.230.320 (01)	Education & Inequality: Individual, Contextual, and Policy Perspectives	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Deluca, Stefanie	3505 N. Charles 102	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 2/15 Tags: INST-AP, CES-CC, CES-RI
AS.230.335 (01)	Medical Humanitarianism	TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Naveh Benjamin, Ilil	Shaffer 304	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 0/18 Tags: CES-ELECT, INST-IR, MSCH-HUM
AS.230.348 (01)	Climate Change and Society	M 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Gray, Ian Patrick	Krieger 307	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/12 Tags: INST-GLOBAL, INST-CP, CES-LE, ENVS-MAJOR, ENVS-MINOR
AS.230.365 (01)	Public Opinion and American Politics	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Morgan, Stephen L	Gilman 400	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 1/12 Tags: INST-AP, AGRI-ELECT
AS.230.378 (01)	Refugees, Human Rights, and Sovereignty	TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Naveh Benjamin, Ilil	Shaffer 304	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 1/18 Tags: CES-BM, CES-LSO, INST-GLOBAL, INST-IR, CDS-MB
AS.230.395 (01)	Theories of Power and Resistance	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Levien, Michael	3505 N. Charles 300	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 7/15 Tags: INST-CP, INST-PT, CES-GI, CES-PD, CES-RI
AS.230.413 (01)	Energy and Society	M 9:00AM - 11:30AM	Levien, Michael	Mergenthaler 526	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 6/10 Tags: INST-IR, ENGY-SCIPOL, CES-LE
AS.230.415 (01)	Social Problems in Contemporary China	TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Andreas, Joel	Hodson 303	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/15 Tags: INST-CP, CES-LSO, CES-PD
AS.271.360 (01)	Climate Change: Science & Policy	MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Zaitchik, Benjamin Frederick	Hodson 203	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 15/36 Tags: CES-LE, INST-IR, ENVS-MAJOR, ENVS-MINOR
AS.300.102 (01)	Great Minds	TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Marrati, Paola	Gilman 208	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 0/25 Tags: INST-PT, CES-ELECT
AS.310.208 (01)	U.S. National Security Technology Partnerships in Asia	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	White, Jennifer Hendrixson	Smokler Center 213	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 0/15 Tags: INST-IR, INST-CP
AS.310.326 (01)	Labor Politics in China	Th 3:00PM - 5:30PM	He, Gaochao	Mergenthaler 266	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/15 Tags: INST-CP, INST-GLOBAL, INST-ECON, CES-LC, CES-PD
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	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 3/15 Tags: INST-GLOBAL, INST-CP, CES-GI
AS.310.331 (01)	Islam in Asia	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	Henning, Stefan	Gilman 381	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 9/15 Tags: CES-ELECT, INST-CP, ISLM-ISLMST
AS.361.100 (01)	Introduction to Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies	MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Cotler, Angelina	Croft Hall G02	Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 0/20 Tags: INST-GLOBAL, INST-CP, HIST-LATAM, CES-ELECT
AS.363.336 (01)	Sexual Politics of the Cold War: An Inter-Asia Approach	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Kim, Sojung		Spring 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 12/12 Tags: INST-GLOBAL
AS.190.224 (85)	The Politics and Society of E. Asia	MTWThF 10:30AM - 12:00PM	Yasuda, John Kojiro	Online	Summer 2026	Description: This introductory course seeks to examine the politics of China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan as part of a distinct region. We will seek to understand how individual polities responded to regional developments and trends, such as the tide of colonialism, socialism, regional economic developments, and democracy. The course will introduce students to the most pressing questions concerning the rise of China, the future of the innovation economy, and intra-regional tensions. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 25/25 Tags: POLI-CP, INST-CP
AS.192.295 (91DC)	Politics and Economics of the FIFA World Cup	MTWThF 9:00AM - 12:00PM	Campante, Filipe R	555 Penn 170B	Summer 2026	Description: This one-week intensive course uses the 2026 FIFA World Cup—jointly hosted by Canada, Mexico, and the United States—as a lens through which to examine fundamental questions in political economy and public policy. Co-taught by Filipe Campante (Johns Hopkins) and Stan Veuger (AEI), the course brings together students from JHU and AEI's Collegiate Network for structured conversations around the economic, political, and sociological dimensions of the world's most popular sporting event. The course will cover five broad topics areas: the determinants of national soccer performance, the political economy of global soccer, the economic geography of the host region, soccer’s role in shaping national identity, and the local economic impact of sport events and facilities. The course is tuition-free, designed for undergraduate students with an interest in public policy, politics, economics, national identity, and popular culture. Readings combine. Beyond the substantive content, students will be exposed to the research cultures of both AEI and JHU, build networks across institutions, and leave with sharper tools for thinking about how sports, politics, and markets intersect. The course will meet MWF at the American Enterprise Institute, and TTh at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Center, Room 170B. Credits: 1.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 15/16 Tags: n/a
AS.192.501 (01)	Internship- International Studies		Van Morgan, Sydney		Summer 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 1.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 7/10 Tags: n/a
AS.192.591 (01)	Research- International Studies		Van Morgan, Sydney		Summer 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 9/10 Tags: n/a
AS.010.373 (01)	Art and Politics in Modern China	TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Liu, Mia Yinxing	Gilman 119	Fall 2026	Description: Art has always been intertwined with politics; one can even say art is always political. In modern China, this statement is especially poignant. The relationship between art and politics has been at the core of art production in China in the past century, and a perennial preoccupation of those in power, including now. This course will therefore examine three major threads: the documents, dictums, and decrees by the artists and by the regimes concerning the nature, function, and practice of art and artists in the 20th century, for example, Mao’s famous Yan’an talk in 1942; artists’ response to and art’s participation in the important political events and historical moments, for example, the 1989 democracy movement; we will also examine the space of resistance, intervention, and alterity that art created in modern China, concerning topics of gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, ecocriticism, privacy, and questions of historiography. The period we examine will begin at the end of the 19th century when artists struggled with a crumbling empire facing the onslaught of modernity, to the present. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/15 Tags: HART-MODERN, INST-CP
AS.070.312 (01)	Global China: Anthropological Perspectives	TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Jiao, Yida	Mergenthaler 426	Fall 2026	Description: This course invites students to critically examine China’s growing engagement and influence on a global scale. Over the past two decades, China’s outbound investments, loans, infrastructure projects, migration, medical, and cultural initiatives have surged dramatically. These sweeping yet variegated footprints have profoundly shaped the international political and economic landscapes. What are the peculiarities of China’s overseas practices, processes, patterns, and policies in a globalized world? This course will guide any undergraduate at Hopkins with an interest in contemporary China to analyze the multifaceted dimensions of “Global China” using ethnographic methods and other social science approaches. The course is designed to attract students from a range of disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, political science, economics, international studies, East Asian studies and Africana studies. The course is structured into three units. In the first unit, students will be introduced to the general phenomena, multi-level dynamics, and reflective methodological frameworks of Global China, laying the groundwork for the remainder of the course. In the second unit, students will explore how Global China manifests across various domains, including industry, agriculture, infrastructure, resources, and medicine. In the third unit, students will reflect on the interactions between overseas Chinese entrepreneurs and local populations, Chinese political-economic power and soft power, as well as the relationships among different overseas Chinese communities. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 3/18 Tags: INST-CP, INST-GLOBAL, CES-FT, CES-PD
AS.070.345 (01)	Violence, Race and the Unruly Body	M 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Mohamed, Sabine	Mergenthaler 439	Fall 2026	Description: What is violence? Ubiquitous as a concept, it remains difficult to define both its essences and boundaries. How do we distinguish between criminality, organized, and unorganized violence? Is violence the antithesis of society, or a central component of it? In this course, we will disscuss the concept of violence, the challenges of writing about it and explore the potentials that emerge from bodies subjugated to racialized/gendered forms of violence. We will examine a number of different ethnographic spaces, including genocide in Rwanda, conflict resolution among the Nuer, the concept of criminality in Indonesia, largescale massacres in Thailand, and police violence in the United States Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 1/12 Tags: INST-CP
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	Hodson 213; Krieger 306	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 1/15 Tags: HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
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	Hodson 213; Bloomberg 172	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 12/15 Tags: HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
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	Hodson 213; Bloomberg 172	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 1/15 Tags: HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
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	Hodson 213; Bloomberg 276	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 13/15 Tags: HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.160 (01)	Colonial Latin America	MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM	Luis, Diego Javier	Gilman 132; Gilman 186	Fall 2026	Description: The colonial period in Latin America was one of dynamic collision and convergence, drastic ruptures and surprising continuities. The several hundred years between the early invasions and Latin American independence are often dismissed as blank pages of Baroque stagnation, glacial change, and economic decadence. These assumptions, though, are misleading, for at the crossroads of the Atlantic and Pacific, Latin America was at the center of the early modern world. In this course, we investigate not only the violence of conquest and enslavement, but also how Indigenous and Afro-diasporic peoples adapted to new colonial realities. In so doing, we will see how the limitations (not dominance) of European influence defined the development of multiethnic societies in the hemisphere. Our timeframe covers from the consolidation of the Mexica and Inca empires in the early 1400s to the period just before the wars of independence in the early 19th century. We will also pay attention to the difficulty of defining (if at all possible) the “end” of the colonial period, and during the last weeks of the semester, we will consider the lingering presence of the colonial past in the 21st century. Overall, the course uses close analysis of primary- and secondary-source documents to examine the broader processes of invasion, religion, hierarchy, rebellion, liminality, and memory. In the evaluation of each topic, we will consider diverse perspectives, such as those of enslaved Africans, Indigenous intellectuals, women, mestizos, and Iberian newcomers. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 19/19 Tags: HIST-LATAM, CDS-GI, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.160 (02)	Colonial Latin America	MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Luis, Diego Javier	Gilman 132; Maryland 114	Fall 2026	Description: The colonial period in Latin America was one of dynamic collision and convergence, drastic ruptures and surprising continuities. The several hundred years between the early invasions and Latin American independence are often dismissed as blank pages of Baroque stagnation, glacial change, and economic decadence. These assumptions, though, are misleading, for at the crossroads of the Atlantic and Pacific, Latin America was at the center of the early modern world. In this course, we investigate not only the violence of conquest and enslavement, but also how Indigenous and Afro-diasporic peoples adapted to new colonial realities. In so doing, we will see how the limitations (not dominance) of European influence defined the development of multiethnic societies in the hemisphere. Our timeframe covers from the consolidation of the Mexica and Inca empires in the early 1400s to the period just before the wars of independence in the early 19th century. We will also pay attention to the difficulty of defining (if at all possible) the “end” of the colonial period, and during the last weeks of the semester, we will consider the lingering presence of the colonial past in the 21st century. Overall, the course uses close analysis of primary- and secondary-source documents to examine the broader processes of invasion, religion, hierarchy, rebellion, liminality, and memory. In the evaluation of each topic, we will consider diverse perspectives, such as those of enslaved Africans, Indigenous intellectuals, women, mestizos, and Iberian newcomers. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 19/19 Tags: HIST-LATAM, CDS-GI, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.229 (01)	African Women in the Postcolonial City	WF 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Quarshie, Afua Nuro Baafi	Shaffer 305	Fall 2026	Description: This course examines the many facets of women’s lives in postcolonial African cities. Using diverse sources, including films, novels, and newspapers, the course interrogates how women understood and fashioned themselves amid social, political, and economic change. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 6/15 Tags: HIST-AFRICA, AFRS-AFRICA, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.233 (01)	History of Modern Germany	TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Harms, Victoria Elisabeth	Hodson 313	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/35 Tags: HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL, MLL-GERM, MLL-ENGL, CDS-MB, CES-BM, CES-PD
AS.100.239 (01)	Chronicling the Caribbean	MW 9:00AM - 9:50AM, F 9:00AM - 9:50AM	Turner, Sasha	Gilman 132; Gilman 77	Fall 2026	Description: This course is a critical inquiry into the writing of the region’s history as mere appendage to imperial history justifying European domination and exploitation of the region. It explores how innovations in Caribbean Archaeology, Caribbean History, and the Digital Humanities challenge Eurocentric knowledge claims extending the decolonization struggle beyond politics and economy to include the academy. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 7/10 Tags: HIST-EUROPE, HIST-LATAM, HIST-AFRICA, INST-GLOBAL, AFRS-AFRICA
AS.100.239 (02)	Chronicling the Caribbean	MW 9:00AM - 9:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Turner, Sasha	Gilman 132; Gilman 10	Fall 2026	Description: This course is a critical inquiry into the writing of the region’s history as mere appendage to imperial history justifying European domination and exploitation of the region. It explores how innovations in Caribbean Archaeology, Caribbean History, and the Digital Humanities challenge Eurocentric knowledge claims extending the decolonization struggle beyond politics and economy to include the academy. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 8/10 Tags: HIST-EUROPE, HIST-LATAM, HIST-AFRICA, INST-GLOBAL, AFRS-AFRICA
AS.100.239 (03)	Chronicling the Caribbean	MW 9:00AM - 9:50AM, F 9:00AM - 9:50AM	Turner, Sasha	Gilman 132; Gilman 10	Fall 2026	Description: This course is a critical inquiry into the writing of the region’s history as mere appendage to imperial history justifying European domination and exploitation of the region. It explores how innovations in Caribbean Archaeology, Caribbean History, and the Digital Humanities challenge Eurocentric knowledge claims extending the decolonization struggle beyond politics and economy to include the academy. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 9/10 Tags: HIST-EUROPE, HIST-LATAM, HIST-AFRICA, INST-GLOBAL, AFRS-AFRICA
AS.100.239 (04)	Chronicling the Caribbean	MW 9:00AM - 9:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Turner, Sasha	Gilman 132; Gilman 77	Fall 2026	Description: This course is a critical inquiry into the writing of the region’s history as mere appendage to imperial history justifying European domination and exploitation of the region. It explores how innovations in Caribbean Archaeology, Caribbean History, and the Digital Humanities challenge Eurocentric knowledge claims extending the decolonization struggle beyond politics and economy to include the academy. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 9/10 Tags: HIST-EUROPE, HIST-LATAM, HIST-AFRICA, INST-GLOBAL, AFRS-AFRICA
AS.100.282 (01)	Race & Power in Modern South Africa	TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Thornberry, Elizabeth	Gilman 313	Fall 2026	Description: History of colonialism, the apartheid state, and the anti-apartheid liberation struggle in South Africa, with special attention to the role of gender, race, religion, and ethnicity. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 1/16 Tags: INST-GLOBAL, CES-LE, CES-RI, AFRS-AFRICA, HIST-AFRICA, HIST-LAW
AS.100.314 (01)	The Enlightenment	TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM	Kwass, Michael	Gilman 219	Fall 2026	Description: Examines the Enlightenment, an intellectual movement that swept Europe in the eighteenth century to shape the modern world. Students will not only read canonical works of the period (Voltaire, Hume, Rousseau, etc.) but also consider the broader social and cultural contexts in which ideas evolved. Thus, the class will explore the rise of the book trade and popular reading practices; new understandings of gender and sexuality; and the development of anti-Black racism and slavery in the Atlantic world. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/18 Tags: HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.347 (01)	Early Modern China	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Rowe, William T	Gilman 17	Fall 2026	Description: The history of China from the 16th to the late 19th centuries. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 7/25 Tags: INST-GLOBAL, HIST-ASIA
AS.100.350 (01)	Law and Empire	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Thornberry, Elizabeth	Shaffer 301	Fall 2026	Description: Exploration of the role of law in creating modern empires, and the role of empire in internatinal law. Focus on Africa, with comparative examples from other modern empires. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/12 Tags: HIST-AFRICA, INST-GLOBAL, CES-LSO, HIST-LAW
AS.100.360 (01)	The Modern British World: Imperial Encounters, Regimes, and Resistance, 1700-Brexit	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne	Gilman 75	Fall 2026	Description: The Modern British World introduces some of the major events, themes, and controversies that led to Britain’s global dominance and ultimate decline as an imperial power. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/18 Tags: HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL, CES-FT, CES-RI, HIST-LAW
AS.100.386 (01)	Sports History of the Cold War	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Harms, Victoria Elisabeth	Gilman 308	Fall 2026	Description: This class reassesses the history of the Cold War through sports. We will investigate how the Cold War has shaped sports, the Olympic movement, the role of athletes at home and abroad. We will discuss how sports intersected with domestic and foreign policy, and how sports constructed, reinforced, and challenged notions of race, gender, and class. We will also interview JHU alumni and former athletes who made a career out of sports. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/20 Tags: HIST-EUROPE, HIST-US, CDS-MB, MSCH-HUM, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.422 (01)	Society & Social Change in 18th Century China	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Rowe, William T	Gilman 381	Fall 2026	Description: What did Chinese local society look like under the Qing Empire, and how did it change over the early modern era? Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/12 Tags: INST-GLOBAL, HIST-ASIA
AS.100.426 (01)	Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe	MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Marshall, John W	Krieger 304	Fall 2026	Description: Witchcraft, magic, carnivals, riots, folk tales, gender roles; fertility cults and violence especially in Britain, Germany, France, and Italy. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/19 Tags: INST-GLOBAL, HIST-EUROPE
AS.100.452 (01)	From Slavery to Freedom: History and Personhood, 500BCE-1500CE	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Lester, Anne E.	Gilman 132	Fall 2026	Description: What did it mean to be free in the premodern world? What did it mean to be a serf or enslaved? How was freedom and unfreedom experienced differently based on gender, geography, religion and space? This course explores the long history of slavery, freedom, and ‘unfreedom,’ in its many and various degrees. We will consider an array of source materials spanning law codes, personal narratives, manumission cases, chronicles, histories, and hagiographies, as well as non-written sources. How did practices of slavery and degrees of unfreedom during the Greek and Roman periods come to shape an understanding of those categories in early medieval Europe, in the Islamic world, and across the pre-modern Mediterranean? How were slavery and empire connected in the past? We will also focus on how scholars have written about slavery, manumission, and freedom and how power, difference, and ideals of freedom have been theorized over time. What methods have scholars employed to get at the experiences of those who were enslaved and silenced? And how have they attempted to narrate these histories differently? Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/15 Tags: HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL, HIST-LAW
AS.100.453 (01)	Global Legal History	M 4:30PM - 7:00PM	Loeffler, James	Krieger 306	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/20 Tags: HIST-US, HIST-EUROPE, HIST-MIDEST, INST-GLOBAL, AGRI-ELECT, HIST-LAW
AS.130.352 (01)	History of Hasidism	TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Katz, David	Smokler Center Library	Fall 2026	Description: Although it appears to be a relic of pre-modern Judaism, Hasidism is a phenomenon of the modern era of Jewish history. This course surveys the political and social history of the Hasidic movement over the course of the last three centuries. Students will also explore basic features of Hasidic culture and thought in their historical development. Cross-listed with Jewish Studies. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 7/19 Tags: INST-GLOBAL, HIST-LAW
AS.140.313 (01)	Science and Fascism	TTh 10:30AM - 11:50AM	McManus, Alison L	Mergenthaler 266	Fall 2026	Description: This course takes a historical approach to the relationship between modern science and fascism. During the 20th century, fascist movements often exploited scientific traditions for economic, military, and rhetorical power. At the same time, scientists relied on fascist regimes to confer legitimacy on their research programs. In this seminar-style course, students will examine these difficult linkages through several case studies on science under fascism, which are drawn from Italy, Germany, Japan, Spain, Portugal, and their empires. The course will address several overarching questions. Is it possible to define fascist science? How have research programs supported fascist regimes, and vice versa? How have scientists reckoned with, remembered, and forgotten these difficult histories? Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/15 Tags: MSCH-HUM, INST-GLOBAL, CES-TI
AS.140.426 (01)	Chemical Warfare, 1915–Present	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	McManus, Alison L	Gilman 300	Fall 2026	Description: This course surveys the history of chemical weapons from the battlefields of World War I to the metropolitan streets of the 21st century. Emphasis is given to questions of research, development, and regulation. How have scientists participated in the invention and production of novel chemical weapons agents at different times in the past? What challenges have confronted organizations tasked with preventing the development, stockpiling, and use of these weapons? The course will explore these questions through case studies from both world wars, the Italo-Ethiopian War, the Vietnam War, and recent histories of domestic policing. Please note that this is a reading and writing-intensive seminar course. Students should be prepared to read 80-100 pages per week and write an original research paper by the end of the term. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 1/18 Tags: MSCH-HUM, INST-GLOBAL
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	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/29 Tags: n/a
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	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 9/29 Tags: n/a
AS.180.101 (03)	Elements of Macroeconomics	WF 9:00AM - 9:50AM, M 3:00PM - 3:50PM	Barbera, Bob; Seshie-Nasser, Hellen	Mudd 26; Krieger 309	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 24/29 Tags: n/a
AS.180.101 (04)	Elements of Macroeconomics	WF 9:00AM - 9:50AM, M 3:00PM - 3:50PM	Barbera, Bob; Seshie-Nasser, Hellen	Mudd 26; Shaffer 306	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 26/29 Tags: n/a
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 132	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 26/29 Tags: n/a
AS.180.101 (06)	Elements of Macroeconomics	WF 9:00AM - 9:50AM, M 4:30PM - 5:20PM	Barbera, Bob; Seshie-Nasser, Hellen	Mudd 26; Ames 234	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 28/29 Tags: n/a
AS.180.102 (01)	Elements of Microeconomics	MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Husain, Muhammad Mudabbir	Remsen Hall 101	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 14/40 Tags: n/a
AS.180.102 (02)	Elements of Microeconomics	MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Husain, Muhammad Mudabbir	Remsen Hall 101	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 30/40 Tags: n/a
AS.180.102 (03)	Elements of Microeconomics	MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Husain, Muhammad Mudabbir	Remsen Hall 101	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 33/40 Tags: n/a
AS.180.102 (04)	Elements of Microeconomics	MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Husain, Muhammad Mudabbir	Remsen Hall 101	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 34/40 Tags: n/a
AS.180.214 (01)	The Economic Experience of the BRIC Countries	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Dasgupta, Somasree	Wyman Park N105	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/20 Tags: INST-ECON, INST-CP, CES-FT, CES-PD
AS.180.214 (02)	The Economic Experience of the BRIC Countries	TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM	Dasgupta, Somasree	Gilman 132	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/20 Tags: INST-ECON, INST-CP, CES-FT, CES-PD
AS.180.223 (01)	Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa	WF 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Seshie-Nasser, Hellen	Croft Hall G02	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/20 Tags: INST-ECON, CES-PD, CES-TI, CES-RI
AS.180.229 (01)	Economics of Health and Education in South Asia	TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Fatehin, Sohani	Gilman 186	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/15 Tags: INST-ECON, CES-PD
AS.180.261 (01)	Monetary Analysis	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Poliakova, Ludmila	Maryland 201	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/40 Tags: INST-ECON, ECON-FINMIN, CES-FT
AS.180.266 (01)	Financial Markets and Institutions	W 3:00PM - 5:30PM	Feinman, Josh	Remsen Hall 233	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/40 Tags: INST-ECON, ECON-FINMIN, CES-FT, CES-TI
AS.180.289 (01)	Economics of Health	M 4:30PM - 7:00PM	De Broucker, Gatien	Maryland 201	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/40 Tags: INST-ECON, PHIL-BIOETH, SPOL-UL, CES-ELECT
AS.180.351 (01)	Labor Economics	MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Husain, Muhammad Mudabbir	Gilman 217	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/15 Tags: INST-ECON, CES-LC, CES-GI
AS.180.389 (01)	Social Policy Implications of Behavioral Economics	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	Papageorge, Nicholas W	Wyman Park N105	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/25 Tags: INST-ECON, CES-ELECT, BEHB-BIOBEH
AS.190.112 (01)	Introduction to Geopolitics	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Deudney, Daniel Horace	Gilman 50; Bloomberg 176	Fall 2026	Description: An Introduction to materialist and systemic realist and liberal theories, in four parts: theory, pre-global, global and planetary. Credits: 3.00 Status: Reserved Open Seats Available: 7/20 Tags: POLI-IR, INST-GATEWY, INST-IR, INST-PT
AS.190.112 (02)	Introduction to Geopolitics	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Deudney, Daniel Horace	Gilman 50; Hodson 301	Fall 2026	Description: An Introduction to materialist and systemic realist and liberal theories, in four parts: theory, pre-global, global and planetary. Credits: 3.00 Status: Reserved Open Seats Available: 7/20 Tags: POLI-IR, INST-GATEWY, INST-IR, INST-PT
AS.190.112 (03)	Introduction to Geopolitics	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 1:30PM - 2:20PM	Deudney, Daniel Horace	Gilman 50; Gilman 400	Fall 2026	Description: An Introduction to materialist and systemic realist and liberal theories, in four parts: theory, pre-global, global and planetary. Credits: 3.00 Status: Reserved Open Seats Available: 7/20 Tags: POLI-IR, INST-GATEWY, INST-IR, INST-PT
AS.190.112 (04)	Introduction to Geopolitics	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 1:30PM - 2:20PM	Deudney, Daniel Horace	Gilman 50; Hodson 303	Fall 2026	Description: An Introduction to materialist and systemic realist and liberal theories, in four parts: theory, pre-global, global and planetary. Credits: 3.00 Status: Reserved Open Seats Available: 9/20 Tags: POLI-IR, INST-GATEWY, INST-IR, INST-PT
AS.190.112 (05)	Introduction to Geopolitics	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Deudney, Daniel Horace	Gilman 50; SNF Agora 112	Fall 2026	Description: An Introduction to materialist and systemic realist and liberal theories, in four parts: theory, pre-global, global and planetary. Credits: 3.00 Status: Reserved Open Seats Available: 9/20 Tags: POLI-IR, INST-GATEWY, INST-IR, INST-PT
AS.190.112 (06)	Introduction to Geopolitics	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 9:00AM - 9:50AM	Deudney, Daniel Horace	Gilman 50; SNF Agora 107	Fall 2026	Description: An Introduction to materialist and systemic realist and liberal theories, in four parts: theory, pre-global, global and planetary. Credits: 3.00 Status: Reserved Open Seats Available: 19/20 Tags: POLI-IR, INST-GATEWY, INST-IR, INST-PT
AS.190.225 (01)	Democracy in America: Classics in Context	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Lieberman, Robert C; Simon, Josh David	Krieger 302	Fall 2026	Description: What principles animate American democracy? How have those principles been debated? To what extent have the institutions and practices of American government aimed to embody those principles? And how well have they succeeded in that aim? In this course, we consider these questions from two distinct angles. First, by reading historical texts, we will learn how the people that participated in or observed the colonization of North America, the American Revolution, the framing of the US Constitution, the Civil War, the Progressive Era, the Civil Rights Movement, the Women’s Rights Movement, and the modern conservative movement understood themselves and their actions. Second, by reading contemporary scholarship on the origins and evolution of the American political order, we will try to discern patterns of stability and change that emerge in concert with, or even despite, the ideas and intentions of influential individuals and powerful groups. Throughout the course, we examine the relationship between political institutions, individual incentives and group solidarities, and political ideas. By the end of the course, students will improve their grasp on the history of our political present and, perhaps, gain a better sense of how their actions can influence our political future. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/19 Tags: POLI-AP, POLI-PT, INST-AP, INST-PT, AGRI-ELECT, CES-LSO, CES-RI
AS.190.228 (01)	The American Presidency	M 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Ginsberg, Benjamin	Shaffer 304	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/15 Tags: POLI-AP, INST-AP
AS.190.304 (01)	Latinos and the American Political Landscape	MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Bautista-Chavez, Angie M.	Gilman 119	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/15 Tags: INST-AP, CES-LSO, CES-PD, CES-RI, POLI-AP
AS.190.308 (01)	Democracy and Dictatorship: Theory and Cases	TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Mazzuca, Sebastian L	Gilman 413	Fall 2026	Description: The course will cover three topics: 1) The conceptualization of political regime, democracy and authoritarianism. We will also consider neighboring concepts of other macro-political structures—government, state, and administration—in order to be able to demarcate what is distinctive about the study of political regimes. 2) The characterization of political regimes in most Western and some non-Western countries, in history and today. We will centrally focus on the so called “Waves of Democratization,” but we will also consider stories with less happy outcomes, that is, processes that led to the breakdown of democracies and the installation of repressive dictatorships. 3) The explanation(s) of the stability and change of political regimes around the world. Theoretical accounts of regime change come in many flavors—emphasis on economic versus political causes, focus on agents and choices versus structures and constraints, international versus domestic factors, among others. We will consider most of them. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/15 Tags: INST-CP
AS.190.350 (01)	Political Violence	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	David, Steven R	Ames 218	Fall 2026	Description: This class considers the range of political violence in the 21st century. Topics to be considered are the persistence of interstate and civil wars, targeted killings, terrorism, ethnic conflict, nuclear war, genocide, lessons from Ukraine, the rise of China, humanitarian intervention, and the impact of new technologies such as AI and autonomous weaponry on armed warfare. A 15-20 page research paper and in-class examination are required. A background in international relations is desirable but not required. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 15/15 Tags: INST-IR
AS.190.379 (01)	Nationalism and the Politics of Identity	M 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Kocher, Matthew Adam	Gilman 75	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/18 Tags: INST-CP, INST-PT, CES-BM, CES-RI, POLI-CP, POLI-IR
AS.190.397 (01)	The Politics of International Law	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	Ross, Andrew	Gilman 186	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/19 Tags: POLI-IR, INST-IR, CES-LSO, HIST-LAW
AS.190.402 (01)	Environmental Racism	W 2:00PM - 4:30PM	Brendese, PJ Joseph	Mergenthaler 366	Fall 2026	Description: This course is an advanced undergraduate political theory seminar that examines the disproportionate impact of environmental destruction on racially stigmatized populations. Environmental racism has largely been understood in terms of environmental policy-making that discriminates against people of color, particularly with respect to the state-sanctioned siting of toxic waste facilities, the distribution of pollutants, food-deserts, and the exclusion of non-white peoples from leading positions in the environmental movement. In this seminar, we will explore environmental racism more broadly, pushing beyond its conventional, place-based understandings and approaching the corresponding logics that produce human disposability and environmental waste from the standpoint of both space and time. Examining colonial legacies of coding racial others in terms natural disasters, epidemics, infestations, non-human animals, and dirt, we shall investigate how the natural world is subjected to exploitation and domination in tandem with the subordination of racial subjects historically identified with nature and rendered expendable. In other words, we shall illuminate the logics of power through which race-making coincides with waste-making. Accordingly, we will explore political and theoretical challenges to environmental racism in multiple registers, such as those posed by Indigenous communities, decolonial thinkers and Afro-diasporic theories contesting the intersection of racial biopolitics and ecological crises. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 1/10 Tags: INST-PT, ENVS-MAJOR, ENVS-MINOR, CDS-GI, CES-LE, CES-RI
AS.190.403 (01)	Bureaucracy and the American Political Landscape	W 4:30PM - 7:00PM	Bautista-Chavez, Angie M.	Mergenthaler 366	Fall 2026	Description: In this course, we will revisit canonical understandings of the American bureaucracy as a provider of public goods and as accountable to elected officials within a system of democratic governance. The course will examine the role and operation of the executive branch bureaucracy across key phases of American political development. In Part I: Expansion, we will examine the role of the bureaucracy in territorial consolidation and the overseas expansion of the American state. In Part II: Removals, we will examine the role of the bureaucracy in managing populations. In Part III: Surveillance, we will examine the role of the bureaucracy in monitoring and surveilling citizens and noncitizens alike. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 4/10 Tags: POLI-AP, CDS-EWC, CDS-MB, CES-BM, CES-PD, CES-LSO, INST-AP
AS.190.415 (01)	Political Arts: Dada, Surrealism, and Societal Metamorphoses	M 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Bennett, Jane	Gilman 132	Fall 2026	Description: In the years between World Wars I and II, a fascinating group of artists, manifesto-writers, performers, intellectuals, and poets, in Europe and the Caribbean, who were put off by conventional politics of the time, decided to pursue other means of societal transformation. This seminar explores the aims and tactics, and strengths and liabilities, of Dada and Surrealism, as it operated in Europe and the Americas in the years between the World Wars. We will also read texts and images from writers and artists influenced by Dada and Surrealism but applied to different historical and political contexts. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/15 Tags: INST-PT
AS.190.424 (01)	Theories of Comparative Politics	W 9:00AM - 11:30AM	Mazzuca, Sebastian L	Mergenthaler 366	Fall 2026	Description: This seminar is intended for two types of student: a) graduate students planning to take the comprehensive exam in comparative politics, either as a major or as a minor; and b) advanced undergraduates who want to get a good sense of what graduate training in political science is about. In addition to exploring central methodological debates and analytic approaches, the seminar reviews the literature on state-society relations, political and economic development, social movements, nationalism, revolutions, formal and informal political institutions, and regime durability vs. transition. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/5 Tags: INST-CP
AS.190.426 (01)	Time and Politics	M 4:30PM - 7:00PM	Chambers, Samuel Allen	Mergenthaler 366	Fall 2026	Description: This undergraduate seminar explores the philosophical concept of time as it relates to contemporary theories of politics. We will read mainly a selection of works form the philosophical canon (Plato, Descartes, Kant, Heidegger, Derrida, Ricoeur) along with works from contemporary theorists (Brown, Connolly, Grosz, Honig, Rancière). Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/15 Tags: POLI-PT, INST-PT
AS.190.437 (01)	Race and Ethnic Politics in the United States	Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Weaver, Vesla Mae	Gilman 55	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 7/20 Tags: INST-AP, POLI-IR, CES-LSO, AGRI-ELECT, CDS-SSMC, HIST-LAW
AS.190.438 (01)	Violence and Politics	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Ginsberg, Benjamin	Ames 218	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/15 Tags: INST-IR, CES-LSO, POLI-CP, POLI-AP
AS.190.455 (01)	Social Movements in U.S. Politics	M 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Schlozman, Daniel; Zackin, Emily	Shaffer 002	Fall 2026	Description: This seminar explores social movements across American history, placing them in the broad context of American political development. Cases include abolition, temperance, women’s suffrage, the Second Ku Klux Klan, labor, civil rights, feminism, gun rights, Black Lives Matter, and MAGA. As we situate these movements, we seek to explore similarities and dissimilarities in their strategies and impacts. Requirements include a term paper. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/15 Tags: POLI-AP, INST-AP
AS.190.475 (01)	America in Comparative and International Perspective	T 4:30PM - 7:00PM	Deudney, Daniel Horace	Krieger 304	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/20 Tags: POLI-IR, INST-CP, INST-IR, CES-PD
AS.191.335 (01)	Arab-Israeli Conflict (IR)	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Freedman, Robert	Bloomberg 178	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/15 Tags: INST-IR, INST-CP, POLI-IR
AS.191.345 (01)	Russian Foreign Policy (IR)	W 4:30PM - 7:00PM	Freedman, Robert	Krieger 300	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 2/20 Tags: POLI-IR, INST-IR, INST-CP
AS.191.354 (01)	The Global Politics of Migration and Mobilities	Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Engelhard, Alice	Bloomberg 172	Fall 2026	Description: From pirates to settlers, enslaved people to nomads, tourists to migrants, global politics are made by the overlapping routes of people on the move, and by attempts to put some people on the move, while containing others in place. In an international world order of nation-states constituted through histories of mobility, questions of movement are amongst the most pressing political issues facing students of international relations. The course will explore some of these questions through engagement with academic texts as well as fiction, film, and archival materials, to ask: What does the study of world politics look like if movement is treated as a primary rather than an exceptional condition? How do contemporary regimes of (im)mobility function to put some people on the move, and attempt to contain others in place? How do processes of colonization and decolonization unfold through questions of mobility? How are questions of belonging framed in relation to movement and stasis, for example, in relation to those rendered ‘migrants’ and ‘natives’? Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 10/15 Tags: INST-IR, CES-BM
AS.191.391 (01)	Political Pluralism in the Anthropocene: A World for Many Worlds	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	Aum, Ilsuk	Krieger 304	Fall 2026	Description: This course explores the evolving concept of pluralism in political theory, from its liberal foundations to contemporary calls for “deep pluralism” that engage radically different 'worldviews,’ ‘ontologies,’ ‘worlds,’ ‘cosmologies.’ Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 9/18 Tags: POLI-PT, INST-PT
AS.192.285 (01)	AI and the Archives	F 2:00PM - 4:00PM	Van Morgan, Sydney	Mergenthaler 252	Fall 2026	Description: This small, hands-on research seminar introduces students to the use of emerging artificial intelligence tools in archival research. Working with historical records that have not yet been scanned or digitized, students will learn how AI can assist with transcription, annotation, indexing, and interpretation of primary sources. The course focuses particularly on nineteenth-century materials connected to the life, family, and legacy of Johns Hopkins, including manuscripts, correspondence, land records, and other archival documents. Students will also work with records of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in both the United States and Britain, including meeting minutes, membership records, epistles, and other materials that shed light on the transatlantic social and religious networks that shaped Hopkins’s world. Students interested in this course are encouraged to contact the instructor before registering. Credits: 2.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/6 Tags: n/a
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 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 13/15 Tags: INST-ECON, CES-FT, CES-LSO
AS.192.501 (01)	Internship- International Studies		Van Morgan, Sydney		Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 1.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a
AS.192.591 (01)	Research- International Studies		Van Morgan, Sydney		Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a
AS.196.201 (01)	Introduction to Civic Leadership	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Amat Matus, Consuelo	SNF Agora 107	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 4/24 Tags: INST-AP, INST-CP, INST-IR, CES-ELECT
AS.196.411 (91DC)	The Modern American Midterm Election in Historical Perspective	W 11:30AM - 1:15PM	Mason, Lily Hall; Wright Rigueur, Leah M	555 Penn B244	Fall 2026	Description: American elections – even rare, unexpected, or paradigm-busting elections – do not occur in a vacuum. Instead, they are created, shaped, and constructed by a variety of significant forces, over time.This seminar thus suggests that you cannot understand modern American politics and contests, including the 2024 election and the upcoming 2026 election, without examining the historical antecedents that make the present-day moment possible. Consequently, while enrolled in this seminar, students will grapple with the following central question: what are the foundational moments in modern American social, political, and economic history that provided the “building blocks” for the 2026 United States Midterm Elections? How can we use history to analyze and explain the developments of the 2026 election, and put them in context as those moments are happening in real time? Credits: 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 8/15 Tags: INST-AP, AGRI-ELECT, HIST-LAW
AS.197.213 (01)	Social Democracy	MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM	Prasad, Monica	Gilman 55	Fall 2026	Description: 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 social democratic movements in other countries; and third, by considering what would have to happen to enable a genuinely global social democracy. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 6/15 Tags: CES-PD, INST-CP, INST-IR
AS.211.171 (01)	Brazilian Culture & Civilization: Colonial Times to the Present	MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM	De Azeredo Cerqueira, Flavia Christina	Gilman 119	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 20/20 Tags: INST-GLOBAL
AS.211.171 (02)	Brazilian Culture & Civilization: Colonial Times to the Present	MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM	De Azeredo Cerqueira, Flavia Christina	Gilman 119	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 4.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: INST-GLOBAL
AS.211.357 (01)	Framing Amazonia: Narratives and Myths in Film and Literature	MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM	Rios Saavedra, Veronica	Shaffer 303	Fall 2026	Description: This course will cover a timeline of the representation of the Amazon rainforest in different media, ranging from the 1930s until today, from filmmakers and literary authors from various countries, including both Amazonian and non-Amazonian perspectives. In this historiography of mainly filmic and some literary productions, we will touch on notions such as, but not limited to, national identity and its diffuse borders, agency, and the ethics of representing the ‘other’. The main objective for this course is for students to learn to identify different audiovisual and literary tropes and stereotypes that stem from a colonial mindset, which may have been carved into the mind by repetition and cultural reproduction. At the end of the course, students will have a better understanding of the (mis)representations of this cultural region and will be able to question the effects and ethics of filming it. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 6/15 Tags: INST-GLOBAL
AS.213.386 (01)	Panorama of German Thought	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Tobias, Rochelle	Krieger 180	Fall 2026	Description: This course introduces students to major figures and trends in German literature and thought from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. We will pay particular attention to the evolution of German political thought from the Protestant Reformation to the foundation of the German Federal Republic after WWII. How did the Protestant Reformation affect the understanding of the state, rights, civic institutions, and temporal authority in Germany? How did German Enlightenment thinkers conceive of ethics and politics? How do German writers define the nation, community, and the people? What is the link between romanticism and nationalism? To what degree is political economy, as developed by Marx, a critical response to romanticism? What are the ties that bind as well as divide a community in this tradition? We will consider these questions through a careful reading of selected works by Luther, Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Marx, Freud, Weber, and Arendt. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 9/15 Tags: INST-GLOBAL, INST-PT
AS.215.111 (01)	Modern Spanish Culture	MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM	Martinez-Velez, Naiara	Gilman 17	Fall 2026	Description: 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 Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 12/15 Tags: INST-CP, INST-GLOBAL
AS.215.112 (01)	Modern Latin American Culture	TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM	Pinar Diaz, Alicia	Gilman 413	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 4/15 Tags: INST-GLOBAL, INST-CP
AS.230.150 (01)	Issues in International Development	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Prasad, Monica	Gilman 119; Gilman 119	Fall 2026	Description: Is it possible to solve global poverty? For several decades the international development community has been trying to do so, with mixed results. In recent years many donor countries have dramatically reduced development aid, and there is need for new thinking on how to move forward. In this course we study what has been tried and what is being proposed now. Students leave the course with an understanding of economic development in Latin America, Africa, and Asia over the last century, as well as approaches to the study of development in different social science disciplines and an introduction to making a career in international development. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/15 Tags: INST-CP, INST-IR, INST-ECON, AGRI-ELECT
AS.230.150 (02)	Issues in International Development	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Prasad, Monica	Gilman 119; Latrobe 107	Fall 2026	Description: Is it possible to solve global poverty? For several decades the international development community has been trying to do so, with mixed results. In recent years many donor countries have dramatically reduced development aid, and there is need for new thinking on how to move forward. In this course we study what has been tried and what is being proposed now. Students leave the course with an understanding of economic development in Latin America, Africa, and Asia over the last century, as well as approaches to the study of development in different social science disciplines and an introduction to making a career in international development. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/15 Tags: INST-CP, INST-IR, INST-ECON, AGRI-ELECT
AS.230.213 (01)	Social Theory	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	Levien, Michael	Gilman 413	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/15 Tags: INST-PT, CES-LC, CES-LSO
AS.230.231 (01)	The Rise of Gig Economy Around the Globe	MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Liang, Jingting	Krieger 308	Fall 2026	Description: Digital platforms are becoming an indispensable part of our lives. We order food and groceries through DoorDash and Instacart, request rides from Uber and Lyft, and browse content created by Instagram and TikTok influencers. How do these platforms emerge and become so deeply intertwined with our daily lives? Who is investing in and working for these platforms, and why? How do platforms operate, and what are the consequences? How do gig platform worker feel about their work and life? What are the changes and continuity of gig work compared to other low-wage work in different times and spaces? Are there any alternatives to how platforms can be organized and operated in today’s world? This undergraduate seminar will introduce and discuss the main concepts and practices of the global platform economy with a particular focus on gig labor. We will critically examine: 1) how external political, economic, and social conditions shape platforms; 2) how platforms shape workers’ labor conditions and activism, and how workers’ actions in turn impact these platforms; and 3) how today’s gig work relates to other precarious work across different time and space, and what can be done to improve gig labor’s working conditions. Following an overview in the first week, the course will tackle different topics analytically, including the emergence and evolution of the gig economy, the social formation and working conditions of gig labor, gig labor’s collective actions, state interventions in gig labor, platform work in a comparative and historical perspective, and platform cooperativism as an alternative to today’s gig economy. The course is reading and writing intensive and will be conducted as a discussion seminar. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 6/18 Tags: INST-ECON, CES-LC, CES-PD, CES-TI
AS.230.244 (01)	Race and Ethnicity in American Society	TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM	Greif, Meredith	Gilman 186	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 1/20 Tags: INST-AP, CES-RI, CES-CC, MSCH-HUM
AS.230.314 (01)	China and the Global South	MW 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Haro Sly, Maria Jose	Hodson 301	Fall 2026	Description: This course combines theoretical frameworks with empirical case studies to examine the concept of the "Global South" and China's evolving role within it. Students will analyze the implications of China's development finance, foreign direct investment patterns, trade relationships, and cooperation initiatives with Global South countries. Through regional case studies, students will examine Chinese "Going Out" policies and strategies across Asia, Africa, and Latin America, exploring how these relationships are reshaping global economic and political dynamics. Students will develop strong analytical and research skills. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 12/18 Tags: INST-CP, CES-FT, CES-PD
AS.230.317 (01)	Sociology of Immigration	MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM	Hao, Lingxin	Hodson 315	Fall 2026	Description: In 2020 immigrant adults and their foreign-born and U.S.-born children counted approximately 85.7 million people, or 26 percent of the overall U.S. population. This course covers post-1965 immigration to the U.S. The inflows, stocks, and incorporation of immigrant generations make immigration one of the most important topics in sociology. Through in-depth readings, student-selected presentations, and student-led discussions, the course engages students in understanding and critiquing contentious perspectives in the potential impacts of immigration on the economic and social dynamics of American society. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/15 Tags: INST-IR
AS.230.369 (01)	Sociology in Economic Life	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	Kuo, Huei-Ying	Gilman 132	Fall 2026	Description: This course introduces two approaches in the research of economic sociology: the emphasis on macro world-historical social change and the concern over the meso-level institutionalization of markets. Key concepts include division of labor, market, commodification, social and cultural capital, informal economy, migrants and business networks, globalization, and post-globalization. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/20 Tags: INST-ECON, INST-PT, CES-PD, CES-RI, CES-LC
AS.230.432 (01)	Global Migration as a Process	Th 3:00PM - 5:30PM	Hagos, Rama M	Mergenthaler 526	Fall 2026	Description: This course introduces migration as a social process rather than a singular event. Students will be introduced to historical and contemporary literature on global migration. In this course, we will evaluate the drivers of migration, the migration selection process, the short- and long-term effects of migration on destination and origin countries, and the politics of migration policies. This course aims to provide students with a foundation in theories and methodologies that shape contemporary debates in international migration. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 12/15 Tags: INST-ECON, CES-BM, CES-RI
AS.300.315 (01)	Authoritarianism, Freedom, and the Arts	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Schmelz, Peter John	Gilman 208	Fall 2026	Description: What is the proper role of the arts and artists in society? Is censorship of the arts or artists ever permissible, for political or other reasons? How may artists and their publics challenge conventional frames of reference or control, state-sponsored or otherwise? Are any of the arts better suited than others to resistance or opposition? Are any of the arts better suited than the others to fostering control and compliance? This class will employ a comparative framework to examine these and other central questions raised by theories and histories of authoritarianism and the arts. It will investigate various theoretical and philosophical frameworks for understanding its key concepts, ranging from Plato, Kant, and Tolstoy to Dewey, Adorno, Arendt, and beyond. The class will concentrate on specific case studies drawn from across world history, beginning with examples from the early modern era, moving into the twentieth-century (including Nazi Germany, fascist Italy, the USSR, China, and the US 1950s, 1960s, and 1980s), and ending with the present day worldwide. It will draw on various art forms, including music, visual arts, literature, film, and various combinations of these and other art forms. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 11/16 Tags: INST-GLOBAL
AS.310.202 (01)	Introduction to Korean Culture	MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM	Kim, Sujung	Mergenthaler 426	Fall 2026	Description: From North Korea’s nuclear threat to South Korea’s K-pop, Korea is constantly in the US media. But how much do you know about Korea? This introductory course is designed to introduce students to the long and complex cultural history of Korea. While focusing on key aspects in shaping premodern and modern Korean identity, the course also places Korea in a larger cross-national context, particularly its close interactions with China and Japan. Reading primary and secondary sources combined with visual materials, the course chronologically and thematically examines major historical moments, from Korea’s participation in and exit from a Sino-centric premodern world order, Japanese colonialism and its ramifications in Korean society, economic development and democratization, to the global popularity of Korean popular culture. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/18 Tags: INST-CP
AS.310.305 (01)	China, Southeast Asia, and U.S. National Security	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Ott, marvin C	Mergenthaler 266	Fall 2026	Description: 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. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 6/15 Tags: INST-CP, INST-IR, CES-FT, CES-LE, CES-LSO
AS.310.332 (01)	Ethnicity in China	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Henning, Stefan	Ames 320	Fall 2026	Description: 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? Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/15 Tags: INST-CP, INST-GLOBAL, CES-RI
AS.310.336 (01)	Rebellion and Its Enemies in China Today	TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM	Henning, Stefan	Gilman 313	Fall 2026	Description: 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? Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 2/15 Tags: INST-CP, CES-LSO
AS.362.345 (01)	Black Politics I	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Spence, Lester	Mergenthaler 252	Fall 2026	Description: This course is a survey of the bases and substance of politics among black Americans and the relation of black politics to the American political system up to the end of Jim Crow. The intention is both to provide a general sense of pertinent issues and relations over this period as a way of helping to make sense of the present and to develop criteria for evaluating political scientists' and others' claims regarding the status and characteristics of black American political activity. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 1/7 Tags: INST-AP