Courses

The courses listed below are provided by the JHU Public Course Search. This listing provides a snapshot of immediately available courses and may not be complete. Course registration information can be found on the Student Information Services (SIS) website.

Courses beginning with AS.145 are specifically for the MSH major.

Study Abroad

Courses taken abroad count toward the major only if approved by the director of undergraduate studies in consultation with your adviser. This should be arranged prior to travel.

Advanced Placement/International Baccalaureate

Credits earned from AP/IB achievement may not be counted toward the major. These credits may be used to achieve advanced standing with approval by the director of undergraduate studies.

Course # (Section)	Title	Day/Times	Instructor	Location	Term	Additional Details
AS.004.351 (01)	Community Engaged Writing: Drugs and Harm Reduction in Baltimore	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Devenot, Nese Lisa	Bloomberg 172	Spring 2026	Description: This course offers a community-engaged approach to writing and public health, focusing on harm reduction strategies related to drug use in Baltimore City. Developed in collaboration with a local harm reduction nonprofit, students will explore the intersections of public health, policy, and community outreach, with an emphasis on addressing substance use beyond alcohol. Through critical reflections, interviews, social media campaigns, and community needs assessments, and other communication projects, students will engage with harm reduction principles and learn to translate them into educational tools for both the broader Baltimore community and the campus population. Working with the university’s Office of Health Promotion and Well-Being, students will develop educational materials on harm reduction for dissemination through social media, blog posts, and in-person events. The course invites students to explore innovative approaches to harm reduction education, integrating emerging trends in substance availability and evolving motivations for use. Students will contribute to local harm reduction efforts by supporting the work of the nonprofit partner in Baltimore City, while also developing strategies to engage the campus community. Through experiential learning, students will examine how writing can drive meaningful change and influence public health outcomes. All first-year students who have taken Reintro and all students at the sophomore level or above are welcome. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 0/12 Tags: CSC-CE
AS.004.351 (02)	Community-Engaged Writing: Public Health Campaigns & Information Access	Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Fusilier, Lauren	BLC 4040	Spring 2026	Description: How do you take the complexity of health research, data, and policy and make it meaningful to the people it most affects? In this course, students will collaborate with a local public health organization to develop communication materials that help bridge gaps left by cuts to public health funding. Together, we will explore how public writing—such as infographics, social media campaigns, posters, or other community-facing materials—can make vital information accessible, usable, and impactful. This course is especially valuable for public health majors who want to expand beyond quantitative methods to develop qualitative, people-centered skills: crafting messages that reach real audiences, addressing issues of equity and access, and practicing communication as a form of public care. By the end of the semester, students will not only gain practical experience in multimodal communication but also learn how writing can serve as a critical tool in promoting health and wellbeing. All first-year students who have taken Reintro and all students at the sophomore level or above are welcome. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 2/13 Tags: CSC-CE
AS.004.441 (01)	Special Topics in Writing: My Power: Motherhood in the Afterlife of Slavery	TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Wright, Lisa E.	Gilman 217	Spring 2026	Description: Who didn’t feel chills each time Blue Ivy appeared on the Renaissance stage as Beyoncé sings, “This that kinfolk, this that skinfolk, This that war, this that bloodline on the frontline, ready for war,” in her song “My Power?” Beyoncé, a rhetorical Queen herself, positions Blue Ivy to claim her power by countering the years of cruel insults she has endured from the public and social media alike, and also Beyoncé’s performance refutes motherhood tropes, the Matriarch, the Welfare Mother, and the Jezebel. In this space, we’ll center mothers as rhetorical subjects and agents to explore the various subtopics under the umbrella of the rhetoric of motherhood in the afterlife of slavery. You’re invited to listen to, read, research, and enter conversations surrounding motherhood rhetoric. Potential authors include Patricia Hill Collins, Brittany Cooper, Saidiya Hartman, Jennifer Nash, and Claudia Rankine. Students at the sophomore level and above are welcome. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 0/15 Tags: n/a
AS.040.152 (01)	Medical Terminology	MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Smith, Joshua M	Latrobe 120	Spring 2026	Description: This course investigates the Greek and Latin roots of modern medical terminology, with additional focus on the history of ancient medicine and its role in the development of that terminology. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 8/40 Tags: n/a
AS.060.216 (01)	Zombies	MW 9:00AM - 9:50AM, F 9:00AM - 9:50AM	Hickman, Jared W	Gilman 132; Gilman 17	Spring 2026	Description: This lecture survey will attempt to answer why the zombie has become such a fixture in contemporary literature and cinema. We will track this figure across its many incarnations--from its late-eighteenth-century appearance in ethnographic fictions growing out of the modern cultures of racialized slavery in the Americas right up to twenty-first-century Hollywood blockbusters in which the origins of the figure in the cultures of racialized slavery are perhaps not overt yet continue to manifest. What are the implications of the zombie's arc from a particular human being targeted for domination by a sorcerer to a living-dead horde created by radiation or epidemic? "Texts" may include: Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; Edgar Allan Poe, "The Man Who Was Used Up"; H.P. Lovecraft, "Herbert West--Re-Animator"; Zora Neale Hurston, Tell My Horse; Victor Halperin, dir., White Zombie; George Romero, dir., Dead series; Edgar Wright, dir., Shaun of the Dead; Alejandro Brugués, dir., Juan de los Muertos; Colm McCarthy, dir., The Girl with All the Gifts; Colson Whitehead, Zone One; Jordan Peele, dir., Get Out. Fulfills the Global and Minority Literatures requirement. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 11/20 Tags: ENGL-LEC, ENGL-GLOBAL, CDS-EWC
AS.060.216 (02)	Zombies	MW 9:00AM - 9:50AM, F 9:00AM - 9:50AM	Hickman, Jared W	Gilman 132; Gilman 377	Spring 2026	Description: This lecture survey will attempt to answer why the zombie has become such a fixture in contemporary literature and cinema. We will track this figure across its many incarnations--from its late-eighteenth-century appearance in ethnographic fictions growing out of the modern cultures of racialized slavery in the Americas right up to twenty-first-century Hollywood blockbusters in which the origins of the figure in the cultures of racialized slavery are perhaps not overt yet continue to manifest. What are the implications of the zombie's arc from a particular human being targeted for domination by a sorcerer to a living-dead horde created by radiation or epidemic? "Texts" may include: Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; Edgar Allan Poe, "The Man Who Was Used Up"; H.P. Lovecraft, "Herbert West--Re-Animator"; Zora Neale Hurston, Tell My Horse; Victor Halperin, dir., White Zombie; George Romero, dir., Dead series; Edgar Wright, dir., Shaun of the Dead; Alejandro Brugués, dir., Juan de los Muertos; Colm McCarthy, dir., The Girl with All the Gifts; Colson Whitehead, Zone One; Jordan Peele, dir., Get Out. Fulfills the Global and Minority Literatures requirement. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 14/20 Tags: ENGL-LEC, ENGL-GLOBAL, CDS-EWC
AS.060.216 (03)	Zombies	MW 9:00AM - 9:50AM, F 8:00AM - 8:50AM	Hickman, Jared W	Gilman 132; Gilman 377	Spring 2026	Description: This lecture survey will attempt to answer why the zombie has become such a fixture in contemporary literature and cinema. We will track this figure across its many incarnations--from its late-eighteenth-century appearance in ethnographic fictions growing out of the modern cultures of racialized slavery in the Americas right up to twenty-first-century Hollywood blockbusters in which the origins of the figure in the cultures of racialized slavery are perhaps not overt yet continue to manifest. What are the implications of the zombie's arc from a particular human being targeted for domination by a sorcerer to a living-dead horde created by radiation or epidemic? "Texts" may include: Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; Edgar Allan Poe, "The Man Who Was Used Up"; H.P. Lovecraft, "Herbert West--Re-Animator"; Zora Neale Hurston, Tell My Horse; Victor Halperin, dir., White Zombie; George Romero, dir., Dead series; Edgar Wright, dir., Shaun of the Dead; Alejandro Brugués, dir., Juan de los Muertos; Colm McCarthy, dir., The Girl with All the Gifts; Colson Whitehead, Zone One; Jordan Peele, dir., Get Out. Fulfills the Global and Minority Literatures requirement. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 7/12 Tags: ENGL-LEC, ENGL-GLOBAL, CDS-EWC
AS.060.216 (04)	Zombies	MW 9:00AM - 9:50AM, F 9:00AM - 9:50AM	Hickman, Jared W	Gilman 132; Gilman 413	Spring 2026	Description: This lecture survey will attempt to answer why the zombie has become such a fixture in contemporary literature and cinema. We will track this figure across its many incarnations--from its late-eighteenth-century appearance in ethnographic fictions growing out of the modern cultures of racialized slavery in the Americas right up to twenty-first-century Hollywood blockbusters in which the origins of the figure in the cultures of racialized slavery are perhaps not overt yet continue to manifest. What are the implications of the zombie's arc from a particular human being targeted for domination by a sorcerer to a living-dead horde created by radiation or epidemic? "Texts" may include: Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; Edgar Allan Poe, "The Man Who Was Used Up"; H.P. Lovecraft, "Herbert West--Re-Animator"; Zora Neale Hurston, Tell My Horse; Victor Halperin, dir., White Zombie; George Romero, dir., Dead series; Edgar Wright, dir., Shaun of the Dead; Alejandro Brugués, dir., Juan de los Muertos; Colm McCarthy, dir., The Girl with All the Gifts; Colson Whitehead, Zone One; Jordan Peele, dir., Get Out. Fulfills the Global and Minority Literatures requirement. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/12 Tags: ENGL-LEC, ENGL-GLOBAL, CDS-EWC
AS.070.308 (01)	Cancer Care: Inequality, Ethnography, Poetics	MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Roth, Sarah	Mergenthaler 426	Spring 2026	Description: Cancer, the ‘emperor of all maladies,’ is a leading cause of death worldwide. Cancer is, seemingly, everywhere: it brings to mind screening programs, pinkwashed fundraisers, promises of a cure, and myriad memoirs and fictions, lending cancer an abundance of meaning in our contemporary world. With developments in genetic testing and early detection, many aspects of contemporary cancer care have transformed—and with them, questions around risk and responsibility. In the clinic, cancer outcomes are increasingly understood in terms of individualized risk. Yet, these developments and ways of understanding cancer are limited to urban centers of the world, largely in the U.S. and Europe, with access to costly medical technologies. Further, experiences and outcomes of cancer care, from surveillance to treatment, refract along lines of race, gender, and geography, and the disease is a frame through which the politics of healthcare can be starkly seen and traced. In this upper-level undergraduate seminar, students are invited to explore cancer care—inequalities, experiences, and poetics—through literary and ethnographic analysis. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 1/15 Tags: n/a
AS.140.106 (01)	History of Modern Medicine	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Cummiskey, Julia Ross	Gilman 132; Gilman 219	Spring 2026	Description: The history of medicine and public health from the Enlightenment to the present, with emphasis on ideas, science, practices, practitioners, and institutions, and the relationship of these to the broad social context. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 9/20 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.140.106 (02)	History of Modern Medicine	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Cummiskey, Julia Ross	Gilman 132; Gilman 75	Spring 2026	Description: The history of medicine and public health from the Enlightenment to the present, with emphasis on ideas, science, practices, practitioners, and institutions, and the relationship of these to the broad social context. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 9/20 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.140.106 (03)	History of Modern Medicine	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Cummiskey, Julia Ross	Gilman 132; Shriver Hall 104	Spring 2026	Description: The history of medicine and public health from the Enlightenment to the present, with emphasis on ideas, science, practices, practitioners, and institutions, and the relationship of these to the broad social context. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 10/20 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.140.233 (01)	Science and Religion: A Complicated History?	MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM	Allen, Meagan Selby	Hodson 203	Spring 2026	Description: Religion is often portrayed as being at odds with science. From Galileo’s treatment by the Roman Inquisition to contemporary Creationism museums, we are told that religious institutions do not support science. Likewise, religious people don’t make good scientists – or do they? Is religion really the thorn in the side of science that so many claim it is? In this class, we will discover the interwoven history between scientific practice and religion, beginning with the atomism and humoral theories of the Ancient Greeks and culminating in 21st century debates about stem cells and cloning. Many of the great scientific minds were also deeply religious – how did their beliefs shape their practice of science and approach to the natural world? Is religion truly antithetical to scientific practice? And if not, why do we so readily assume that it is? Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 1/25 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.140.302 (01)	Rise of Modern Science	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Jiang, Lijing	Bloomberg 168; Gilman 300	Spring 2026	Description: This course surveys major scientific developments from the mid-18th century to the present, with a focus on the physical and the life sciences. Topics include the chemical "revolution", evolution by natural selection, genetics, and the recombinant DNA technology. Throughout, the course highlights the institutional context of scientific work. It also situates scientific developments within their broader techno-social context, paying special attention to the political, economic, and/or technological factors that enabled these developments in the first place, and to the social, political, and environmental impacts that accompanied the rise of modern science. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 1/16 Tags: MSCH-HUM, ENGY-SCIPOL
AS.140.302 (02)	Rise of Modern Science	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Jiang, Lijing	Bloomberg 168; Hodson 316	Spring 2026	Description: This course surveys major scientific developments from the mid-18th century to the present, with a focus on the physical and the life sciences. Topics include the chemical "revolution", evolution by natural selection, genetics, and the recombinant DNA technology. Throughout, the course highlights the institutional context of scientific work. It also situates scientific developments within their broader techno-social context, paying special attention to the political, economic, and/or technological factors that enabled these developments in the first place, and to the social, political, and environmental impacts that accompanied the rise of modern science. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 2/16 Tags: MSCH-HUM, ENGY-SCIPOL
AS.140.303 (01)	Medieval Science: The History of the Experiment in the Middle Ages	MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Allen, Meagan Selby	Gilman 300	Spring 2026	Description: What is “Science”? How do we do “science”? How have the boundaries of these definitions – what we consider to be science and the proper methods of gathering scientific information – changed over the centuries? Have scientists always held the same beliefs about what kinds of knowledge and evidence constitute “science”? In this class, we will examine how science was done in the period before the “Scientific Revolution”. We will learn about the ways in which Medieval scientists classified types of knowledge and what they considered to be acceptable means of determining truths about the world around them. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 3/15 Tags: MSCH-HUM
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.140.316 (01)	Minds and Machines	TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Honenberger, Phillip	Gilman 413	Spring 2026	Description: Is the mind identical to the brain? Is the mind (or brain) a computer? Could a computer reason, have emotions, or be morally responsible? This course examines such questions philosophically and historically. Topics include the history of AI research from 1940s to present; debates in cognitive science related to AI (computationalism, connectionism, and 4E cognition); and AI ethics. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/15 Tags: n/a
AS.140.319 (01)	Tales of Medical Horror	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	White, Alexandre Ilani Rein	Gilman 300	Spring 2026	Description: What can the medium of horror tell us about popular understandings of medicine? What sorts of anxieties and concerns about the fields of health, bodily autonomy and the relationships between medicine and society can be drawn from the horror genre? Connecting film and some literature in the genres of horror to historical sources and readings in the field of the history of medicine, this class will use popular media as a window into key themes in the history of medicine. Some key topics of this class include reproductive rights and autonomy, the relationship(s) between medicine and religion, racism, xenophobia and disease and surgical horror. This class will meet twice a week with an additional film screening every other week in the evening. This class with its focus upon horror and especially horror films will deal with disturbing and violent material including graphic violence. Please be advised. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 1/15 Tags: n/a
AS.140.347 (01)	History Of Genetics	T 4:00PM - 6:30PM	Comfort, Nathaniel	Gilman 300	Spring 2026	Description: The science, social thought, and cultures of heredity since the 19th century. We cover pre-Mendelian heredity, Mendelism, classical genetics and cytogenetics, molecular biology and genomics, including the Human Genome Project. We discuss eugenics, social Darwinism, scientific racism. We consider DNA in medicine, popular culture, art, commerce. Big questions include: Why are we so obsessed with heredity? Is Mendelism wrong? Is intelligence genetic? Is it possible to do meaningful science on race and intelligence? To what extent is your genome “you”? Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 11/20 Tags: BEHB-SOCSCI
AS.140.411 (01)	Senior Research Seminar		Jiang, Lijing		Spring 2026	Description: For History of Science, Medicine, and Technology majors preparing a senior honors thesis. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 14/15 Tags: n/a
AS.145.108 (01)	Disability Futures: An Introduction to Medicine, Science, and the Humanities	T 12:00PM - 1:15PM, Th 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Castro Sanchez, Franz; Puglionesi, Alicia G	Bloomberg 278; Krieger 306	Spring 2026	Description: Disability Futures investigates the role of science and medicine in defining “normal” bodies and minds, and the processes of social change through which we can imagine and build an accessible future. Too often, technologists envision a future where disability has been “cured.” In reality, disability has always been an important part of human life; a world where disabled people thrive is a better world for everyone. This course surveys the field of disability studies with a focus on how disability has shaped, and been shaped by, science, medicine, and technology. We combine approaches from science and technology studies (STS), public health, and the medical humanities, covering topics such as art and speculative fiction, eugenics, technoableism, intersectionality, disability politics, structural determinants of health, and disability justice. Throughout the course, we center creative reimaginings by disabled people in science and the arts. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 1/20 Tags: n/a
AS.145.108 (02)	Disability Futures: An Introduction to Medicine, Science, and the Humanities	T 12:00PM - 1:15PM, Th 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Castro Sanchez, Franz; Puglionesi, Alicia G; Treadway, Tashi M	Bloomberg 278; Shriver Hall Board Room	Spring 2026	Description: Disability Futures investigates the role of science and medicine in defining “normal” bodies and minds, and the processes of social change through which we can imagine and build an accessible future. Too often, technologists envision a future where disability has been “cured.” In reality, disability has always been an important part of human life; a world where disabled people thrive is a better world for everyone. This course surveys the field of disability studies with a focus on how disability has shaped, and been shaped by, science, medicine, and technology. We combine approaches from science and technology studies (STS), public health, and the medical humanities, covering topics such as art and speculative fiction, eugenics, technoableism, intersectionality, disability politics, structural determinants of health, and disability justice. Throughout the course, we center creative reimaginings by disabled people in science and the arts. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 2/20 Tags: n/a
AS.145.219 (01)	Science Studies and Medical Humanities: Theory and Methods	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Vado, Karina A	Gilman 300	Spring 2026	Description: The knowledge and practices of science and medicine are not as self-evident as they may appear. When we observe, what do we see? What counts as evidence? How does evidence become fact? How do facts circulate and what are their effects? Who is included in and excluded from our common-sense notions of science, medicine, and technology? This course will introduce students to central theoretical concerns in Science and Technology Studies and the Medical Humanities, focusing on enduring problematics that animate scholars. In conjunction with examinations of theoretical bases, students will learn to evaluate the methodological tools used in different fields in the humanities to study the production and circulation of scientific knowledge and the structures of medical care and public health. This problem-centered approach will help students understand and apply key concepts and approaches in critical studies of science, technology, and medicine. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 2/18 Tags: MSCH-HUM, CES-TI
AS.145.327 (01)	Emergency!: A cultural and historical exploration of the concept of “emergency” in medicine	Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Balhara, Kamna	Maryland 202	Spring 2026	Description: What constitutes an “emergency” in medicine? How has our understanding of emergencies evolved over time in response to historical events, cultural shifts, popular media, and changes in the healthcare system? How has this contributed to the development of the specialty of emergency medicine? In what ways does time, urgency, and emergency differ when one is within the walls of the hospital? This course will use a multimodal approach to tackle various facets of an “emergency” in medicine – for instance, comparing how healthcare practitioners conceptualize “emergency” vs the how the broader population views emergencies, considering the development and implications of the concept of triage, and evaluating the provision of emergency care in times of crisis such as natural disasters or the recent COVID-19 pandemic. This course will also offer a unique local look at what “emergency” means at Johns Hopkins - we will leverage the Chesney Medical Archives to understand how emergency care has evolved across time locally at Johns Hopkins, and students will also have the opportunity to shadow the course instructor (an emergency physician) in the Johns Hopkins Emergency Department. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 0/12 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.145.328 (01)	The Clinical Conversation: Ethics and Communication in Healthcare	M 3:00PM - 5:30PM	Beach, Mary Catherine	Mergenthaler 266	Spring 2026	Description: This course provides an in-depth exploration of communication in healthcare. Students will examine both the routines of everyday clinical communication—such as agenda setting, information gathering, and shared decision-making—and the complex, emotionally charged encounters that arise in the face of behavior change, serious illness, and end-of-life discussions. The course integrates scholarship and practice: students will gain exposure to communication research methods, including descriptive approaches and conversation analysis, while working with dialogue and engaging in experiential exercises to better understand and cultivate respect, empathy, epistemic reciprocity, and listening. Topics include motivational interviewing, emotional communication, physician self-disclosure, informed consent, the impact of communication and relationships on patient outcomes, and how social relationships, identity, power, and inequality are manifested in interaction. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 0/12 Tags: MSCH-HUM, PHIL-BIOETH
AS.145.329 (01)	Skin: Medicine and Culture on the Surface	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Glenny, Heather Margaret	Krieger 302	Spring 2026	Description: This course examines the scientific and cultural history of human skin in the United States. As a surface, a boundary, and a text to be “read” and “written” upon, how has skin been made meaningful? How do metaphors and imagery—like skin as protector, as entrance and exit, as a container for individual identity—inform medical studies of skin? And how does medical research shape how skin shows up in literature, film, art, and politics? Readings will focus on the role of skin in representations of racial perception, health, disease, and beauty, and our discussions will ask how skin has become such an important object for defining ‘humanness’ in the U.S. From dermatological experiments on the enslaved and imprisoned, to environmental pollution, Black feminist sci-fi, pore-erasing creams, and shape-shifting superheroes, this course moves across time and media to peel back the many meanings of skin. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 2/14 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.145.331 (01)	Eugenic Imaginaries in American Literature, Culture, and Society	TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Vado, Karina A	Gilman 186	Spring 2026	Description: In this course, we will explore the intersections of American literature, broadly conceived, and eugenics. Defined as the “[pseudo]science of racial improvement,” eugenics gained global traction amongst scientists, physicians, politicians (both liberal and conservative), intellectuals, writers, and the general public in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Engaging genres such as horror, sci-fi, utopian and dystopian fiction, and textual mediums such as novels, poetry, television, and film from the US, Mexico, and Canada, we will thus consider how social and cultural ideas shape scientific practice and how scientific ideas inform literary and cultural imaginaries. At the same time, we will be paying special attention to how these literary and cultural texts affirm, critique, revise, or conjure futures beyond the horrors of eugenics and its destructive politics of exclusion. Considering, then, the many genealogies of eugenics, we will supplement our primary readings with excerpts of texts that shaped the makings of eugenics, legitimated it as an interdisciplinary scientific field, and that later served as springboards for the implementation of eugenic policy. Further, we will engage relevant scholarship in the fields of anthropology, history of science and medicine, sociology, science and technology studies, and the medical humanities. Through these and other readings, we will critically survey the lingering legacies of eugenic thought and how they inform contemporary questions of classification, “fit” and “unfit” bodies, death and dying, illness and health, and social identity (ex. class, disability, gender, race, and sexuality). Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 6/15 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.145.350 (01)	MSH Research Capstone	M 3:00PM - 5:30PM	Puglionesi, Alicia G	Gilman 300	Spring 2026	Description: The Research Capstone seminar prepares students to undertake original extended research in the medical humanities and science studies. The course will help students synthesize the interdisciplinary knowledge upon which the Medicine, Science, and the Humanities (MSH) major is built. Students will have the opportunity to form research topics, devise and execute research plans, write a research grant application, and share their work with the class. The course is aimed at MSH juniors seeking to create Honors projects, though the course is open to any student wishing to learn or enhance research skills. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 12/18 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.145.460 (91DC)	Research Seminar: Critical AI: Questions and Methods	T 2:30PM - 5:00PM	Tatarchenko, Ksenia		Spring 2026	Description: Borrowing its title from a new journal and an emerging, interdisciplinary field of study, this class examines artificial intelligence, and its subfield of machine learning, through the lens of the humanities and social sciences. The course focuses on the historical, cultural, ethical, and societal dimensions of AI. It combines group discussions of selected readings with individual research projects supervised by the instructor. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 18/18 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.145.510 (01)	Medicine, Science & the Humanities Independent Research		Labruto, Nicole		Spring 2026	Description: This course is for students in the Medicine, Science & the Humanities doing independent research. Course can be taken up to 3 credits with approval from the director. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.145.511 (01)	Medicine, Science & the Humanities Independent Research		Merback, Mitchell		Spring 2026	Description: This class is for the MSH majors completing their research project. Instructor approval required. This course can be taken for up to 3 credits with instructor approval. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.145.511 (04)	Medicine, Science & the Humanities Independent Research		Puglionesi, Alicia G		Spring 2026	Description: This class is for the MSH majors completing their research project. Instructor approval required. This course can be taken for up to 3 credits with instructor approval. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 3/5 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.145.511 (05)	Medicine, Science & the Humanities Independent Research		Bayoumi, Soha Hassan		Spring 2026	Description: This class is for the MSH majors completing their research project. Instructor approval required. This course can be taken for up to 3 credits with instructor approval. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.145.511 (06)	Medicine, Science & the Humanities Independent Research		Bayoumi, Soha Hassan		Spring 2026	Description: This class is for the MSH majors completing their research project. Instructor approval required. This course can be taken for up to 3 credits with instructor approval. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.145.516 (01)	MSH Honors Thesis	M 4:30PM - 5:20PM	Choi, Susan; Labruto, Nicole		Spring 2026	Description: This class is for the MSH majors completing their honors thesis. Instructor approval required. This course can be taken for up to 3 credits with instructor approval. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.145.516 (04)	MSH Honors Thesis		Puglionesi, Alicia G		Spring 2026	Description: This class is for the MSH majors completing their honors thesis. Instructor approval required. This course can be taken for up to 3 credits with instructor approval. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.150.219 (01)	Introduction to Bioethics	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Rieder, Travis N	Gilman 50; Krieger Laverty	Spring 2026	Description: Introduction to a wide range of moral issues arising in the biomedical fields, e.g. physician-assisted suicide, human cloning, abortion, surrogacy, and human subjects research. Cross listed with Public Health Studies. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 2/20 Tags: PHIL-BIOETH, PHIL-ETHICS
AS.150.219 (02)	Introduction to Bioethics	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Rieder, Travis N	Gilman 50; Krieger Laverty	Spring 2026	Description: Introduction to a wide range of moral issues arising in the biomedical fields, e.g. physician-assisted suicide, human cloning, abortion, surrogacy, and human subjects research. Cross listed with Public Health Studies. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 15/15 Tags: PHIL-BIOETH, PHIL-ETHICS
AS.150.219 (03)	Introduction to Bioethics	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Rieder, Travis N	Gilman 50; Bloomberg 276	Spring 2026	Description: Introduction to a wide range of moral issues arising in the biomedical fields, e.g. physician-assisted suicide, human cloning, abortion, surrogacy, and human subjects research. Cross listed with Public Health Studies. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 2/20 Tags: PHIL-BIOETH, PHIL-ETHICS
AS.150.219 (04)	Introduction to Bioethics	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Rieder, Travis N	Gilman 50; Gilman 55	Spring 2026	Description: Introduction to a wide range of moral issues arising in the biomedical fields, e.g. physician-assisted suicide, human cloning, abortion, surrogacy, and human subjects research. Cross listed with Public Health Studies. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 1/20 Tags: PHIL-BIOETH, PHIL-ETHICS
AS.150.219 (05)	Introduction to Bioethics	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Rieder, Travis N	Gilman 50; Gilman 134	Spring 2026	Description: Introduction to a wide range of moral issues arising in the biomedical fields, e.g. physician-assisted suicide, human cloning, abortion, surrogacy, and human subjects research. Cross listed with Public Health Studies. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 7/15 Tags: PHIL-BIOETH, PHIL-ETHICS
AS.150.219 (06)	Introduction to Bioethics	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Rieder, Travis N	Gilman 50; Bloomberg 276	Spring 2026	Description: Introduction to a wide range of moral issues arising in the biomedical fields, e.g. physician-assisted suicide, human cloning, abortion, surrogacy, and human subjects research. Cross listed with Public Health Studies. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 7/15 Tags: PHIL-BIOETH, PHIL-ETHICS
AS.150.219 (07)	Introduction to Bioethics	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Rieder, Travis N	Gilman 50; Gilman 217	Spring 2026	Description: Introduction to a wide range of moral issues arising in the biomedical fields, e.g. physician-assisted suicide, human cloning, abortion, surrogacy, and human subjects research. Cross listed with Public Health Studies. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 9/15 Tags: PHIL-BIOETH, PHIL-ETHICS
AS.150.219 (08)	Introduction to Bioethics	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Rieder, Travis N	Gilman 50; Bloomberg 276	Spring 2026	Description: Introduction to a wide range of moral issues arising in the biomedical fields, e.g. physician-assisted suicide, human cloning, abortion, surrogacy, and human subjects research. Cross listed with Public Health Studies. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 15/15 Tags: PHIL-BIOETH, PHIL-ETHICS
AS.210.313 (01)	Medical Spanish	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	Torres Burgos, Carmen	Gilman 313	Spring 2026	Description: Medical Spanish is a comprehensive examination of vocabulary and grammar for students who either work or intend to work in medicine and health-related fields in Spanish-speaking environments. The student will be able to participate in conversations on topics such as contrasting health systems, body structures, disorders and conditions, consulting your doctor, physical and mental health, first-aid, hospitalization and surgery on completion of this course. In completing the course’s final project students will apply, synthesize, and reflect on what has been learned in the class by creating a professional dossier individualized to their professional interests. There is no final exam. Not open to native speakers of Spanish. No new enrollments permitted after the third class session. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 1/14 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.210.313 (02)	Medical Spanish	TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Torres Burgos, Carmen	Gilman 17	Spring 2026	Description: Medical Spanish is a comprehensive examination of vocabulary and grammar for students who either work or intend to work in medicine and health-related fields in Spanish-speaking environments. The student will be able to participate in conversations on topics such as contrasting health systems, body structures, disorders and conditions, consulting your doctor, physical and mental health, first-aid, hospitalization and surgery on completion of this course. In completing the course’s final project students will apply, synthesize, and reflect on what has been learned in the class by creating a professional dossier individualized to their professional interests. There is no final exam. Not open to native speakers of Spanish. No new enrollments permitted after the third class session. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 0/14 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.213.385 (01)	The Flesh of Nature: Body, Media and Environment	MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Harmon, Brad	Gilman 443	Spring 2026	Description: In this course we will explore how literature and film depict the material relationships between our human bodies and more-than-human worlds within and around us. We will consider not only how the classical elements (earth, air, fire, water) are media and how they connect our individual bodies with other bodies, but how the body itself is a medium. We will examine a range of ecologically conscious literary texts and films from the German and Nordic worlds as they engage themes including elementality, the nuclear age, the Anthropocene, and queer ecologies. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 13/15 Tags: ENVS-MAJOR, ENVS-MINOR
AS.220.424 (01)	Science and Storytelling: The Narrative of Nature, the Nature of Narrative	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Panek, Richard	Dunning Hall 121	Spring 2026	Description: This course is half reading seminar, half writing workshop. The two halves build on one underlying principle: Both the scientific method and the traditional literary narrative follow the same storytelling structure: What do you know? What do you want to know? What do you learn? Now what do you know? Etc. In the seminar half of the class, we read and discuss samples of the writings of scientists throughout history—focusing especially on what those works would have meant to the authors and to their readers. Primary sources include Plato, Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes, Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Heisenberg, plus many more. In the workshop half of the class, students will write—in a step-by-step, week-by-week process, in close collaboration with their peers—a midterm paper and a final paper on any science topic and in any form of their choosing, while applying storytelling lessons from the seminar half of the course. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 0/15 Tags: MSCH-HUM, ENVS-MAJOR, ENVS-MINOR
AS.225.350 (01)	Acting for Doctors	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	Rome, Susan R	Krieger 103	Spring 2026	Description: In this cutting-edge course, an acting class designed for pre-med students who are interested in a career in either clinical work or research, we will explore ways in which collaboration, curiosity, and connection can enhance your understanding and ability to be an effective medical professional. Empathy, perspective-taking, analysis of dramatic literature with medical themes, and devising a piece around medical ethics will be the focus of the activities. No acting experience is required, just a willingness to explore your creativity in an inclusive environment. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 0/12 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.230.341 (01)	Sociology of Health and Illness	M 3:00PM - 4:50PM, W 3:00PM - 3:50PM	Agree, Emily	Gilman 50; Gilman 377	Spring 2026	Description: Students will learn core concepts that define the sociological approach to health, illness and health care. Classes will involve a combination of lectures and examples, as well as weekly discussion sections. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 1/15 Tags: PHIL-BIOETH, MSCH-HUM, SPOL-UL, CES-RI, CES-ELECT, ENVS-MAJOR, ENVS-MINOR
AS.230.341 (02)	Sociology of Health and Illness	M 3:00PM - 4:50PM, W 3:00PM - 3:50PM	Agree, Emily	Gilman 50; Krieger 300	Spring 2026	Description: Students will learn core concepts that define the sociological approach to health, illness and health care. Classes will involve a combination of lectures and examples, as well as weekly discussion sections. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 1/15 Tags: PHIL-BIOETH, MSCH-HUM, SPOL-UL, CES-RI, CES-ELECT, ENVS-MAJOR, ENVS-MINOR
AS.230.341 (03)	Sociology of Health and Illness	M 3:00PM - 4:50PM, W 4:30PM - 5:20PM	Agree, Emily	Gilman 50; Bloomberg 278	Spring 2026	Description: Students will learn core concepts that define the sociological approach to health, illness and health care. Classes will involve a combination of lectures and examples, as well as weekly discussion sections. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 1/15 Tags: PHIL-BIOETH, MSCH-HUM, SPOL-UL, CES-RI, CES-ELECT, ENVS-MAJOR, ENVS-MINOR
AS.230.341 (04)	Sociology of Health and Illness	M 3:00PM - 4:50PM, W 4:30PM - 5:20PM	Agree, Emily	Gilman 50; Croft Hall G02	Spring 2026	Description: Students will learn core concepts that define the sociological approach to health, illness and health care. Classes will involve a combination of lectures and examples, as well as weekly discussion sections. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 1/15 Tags: PHIL-BIOETH, MSCH-HUM, SPOL-UL, CES-RI, CES-ELECT, ENVS-MAJOR, ENVS-MINOR
AS.389.445 (01)	The Political Lives of Dead Bodies	M 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Hester, Jessica Leigh; Lans, Aja Marie	Gilman 55	Spring 2026	Description: Taking its name from the work of scholar Katherine Verdery, who investigates why and how certain corpses took on a political life in post-Soviet Eastern Europe, this course examines ways that human bodies have been collected, displayed, concealed and disappeared across cemeteries, museums, universities and other sites. We will trace various valuations (and devaluations) imposed on bodies across the life course and examine how some bodies are made to matter more than others in both life and death. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives across anthropology, Black studies, history of medicine and more, we will engage with case studies from across the globe, from the 18th century to the present day. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 0/12 Tags: HIST-US, HIST-EUROPE, CDS-SSMC, ARCH-ARCH, MSCH-HUM
AS.040.152 (86)	Medical Terminology	MWF 11:00AM - 2:00PM	Smith, Joshua M	Online	Summer 2026	Description: This course investigates the Greek and Latin roots of modern medical terminology, with additional focus on the history of ancient medicine and its role in the development of that terminology. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 20/20 Tags: n/a
AS.140.316 (21)	Minds and Machines	TTh 1:00PM - 4:30PM	Honenberger, Phillip	Gilman 400	Summer 2026	Description: Is the mind identical to the brain? Is the mind (or brain) a computer? Could a computer reason, have emotions, or be morally responsible? This course examines such questions philosophically and historically. Topics include the history of AI research from 1940s to present; debates in cognitive science related to AI (computationalism, connectionism, and 4E cognition); and AI ethics. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 6/19 Tags: COGS-PHLMND, COGS-COMPCG
AS.211.259 (86)	Introduction to Medical and Mental Health Interpreting	M 10:00AM - 12:00PM	Zannirato, Alessandro	Online	Summer 2026	Description: This course is a broad introduction to the fields of medical and mental health interpreting. Modules will include: (1) Three-way communication: managing role expectations and interpersonal dynamics; (2) Basic interpreting skills and techniques in a healthcare setting; (3) Ethical principles, dilemmas, and confidentiality; (4) Elements of medical interpreting; (5) Elements of mental health interpreting; (6) Trauma-informed interpreting: serving the refugee population. The course is taught in English, and has no foreign language pre-requisites. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 6/12 Tags: n/a
AS.001.102 (01)	FYS: Experimental Fish	MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Jiang, Lijing	Gilman 300	Fall 2026	Description: How have fish and other aquatic animals contributed to the understanding of nature, the environment, and life itself? What features of aquatic organisms and the medium of water facilitated these investigations and why did certain research take place at certain times and places? This First-Year Seminar guides students to address these questions through the perspectives of the history of science and technology. Readings are composed of primary literature in biological studies of aquatic animals and related secondary literature in history of the life sciences. Through readings, lectures, discussions, field trips to local laboratories and aquarium, and an original research project, students will gain experience for future research in the life sciences or in historical studies of science. Topics include “fish” in natural history, taxonomy, physiology, embryology, genetics, neuroscience, fisheries /aquaculture, environmental testing, and molecular biology. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 12/12 Tags: n/a
AS.001.103 (01)	FYS: America in the Rear View Mirror: How Car Culture Shaped a Country	MW 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Leslie, Bill W	Gilman 300	Fall 2026	Description: Join us for a road trip through American history, from the horseless carriage to the latest EVs. In this First-Year Seminar, we'll explore the evolving automotive industry, car culture in film, novels, and music, auto racing, the great American highway, labor relations, environmental issues, and more. You'll be writing an 'autobiography' of a car driven by someone in your family, visit a classic car museum in Hershey, PA, and build a Visible V-8 engine, just like the one in my own 1964 Buick Riviera. We'll screen some classic car films--'Grand Prix', 'Bullit', 'Gone in 60 Seconds', 'American Graffiti''--and unpack some class car tunes like 'Little Deuce Coupe', 'Route 66' and 'Hot Rod Lincoln'. Should be a fun ride! Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 12/12 Tags: CES-CC, CES-LC, CES-LE
AS.001.106 (01)	FYS: Virtual Companions: History and Ethics	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Frumer, Yulia	Gilman 300	Fall 2026	Description: As interactions with virtual companions, chatbots, and emotionally responsive AI become increasingly common, this First-Year Seminar asks a set of urgent questions: What does it mean for a machine to simulate empathy? Who defines “care,” agency, and trust in human–machine relationships? Why do these technologies feel so persuasive? What new forms of bias, manipulation, dependency, or surveillance might these technologies enable?To address these questions, our course emphasizes not only ethical critique but also historical and technical understanding. We will examine how the concept and practice of emulated empathy was imagined, built, and justified, tracing key moments in the history of artificial intelligence and human–computer interaction. Core sources include Alan Turing’s writings on machine intelligence; ELIZA (1966), the first computer therapist; contemporary AI ethics frameworks such as the IEEE standard on emulated empathy in autonomous systems; popular media, including the film Her; and global case studies such as Japanese advertising for avatar girlfriends. The seminar discussion will be based on hands-on encounters with AI systems and sustained scrutiny of historical sources. Screenings and in-class demonstrations will anchor the discussion, while comparative analysis of archival materials and contemporary standards will enable students to learn how the history of technology informs ethical debates. Throughout the course, students will actively evaluate the promises and limitations of emulated empathy by contrasting what these technologies were designed to do with our expectations for human empathy, understanding, and companionship. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 12/12 Tags: n/a
AS.001.123 (01)	FYS: Telling Stories	TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Ender, Evelyne	Gilman 134	Fall 2026	Description: Stories give shape to human lives. Although AI now seems capable of generating plots that appear life-like, only humans can be affected by stories and carry this knowledge into the real world. Short stories are central to this seminar, which explores how modern fiction does not so much “copy” the world as offer new perspectives born from nothing more than signs inscribed on a page. Materials drawn from studies in narratology and research on the reading brain will support this argument. This course invites you to actively engage in class activities that combine writing and discussion. As part of the experiential learning that is a feature of FYS seminars, you will have a chance to discuss the art of storytelling with one or two local authors or with writers at Hopkins. Our classwork will depend on attentive, in-depth readings of a selection of short stories chosen because they can lead to productive encounters that reveal the wealth of meanings and wisdom that inhabit literary works. As studies in narrative have shown, fiction can introduce us to the views, memories, and feelings of other human beings, even though these entities are born from nothing more than words cast on a page. For a broader perspective, we will also explore recent scientific studies that offer models for the reading brain and argue that our existence as humans depends on our capacity to elaborate and transmit stories across time as part of apprehending the world we inhabit. We will read selections from Stanislas Dehaenne, Maryanne Wolf, Roy Schafer, and Fritz Breithaupt. Our initial sampling of short works includes stories written over the last twenty years by authors such as Alison Baker, Tessa Hadley, Junot Díaz, Xuan Juliana Wang, Joy Ladin, and Sidik Fofana. As readers yourselves, you may suggest additional stories to present, or even choose to cap the course with a story of your own inspired by the approaches to storytelling we will explore together. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 12/12 Tags: n/a
AS.001.172 (01)	FYS: Earth On Drugs - Medicine, Bodies, Environment	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	Labruto, Nicole	Gilman 300	Fall 2026	Description: Sixty-eight percent of Americans report taking at least one prescription medication daily, and twenty-six percent say they’re taking at least four prescriptions per day. What are the ecological effects of the production and consumption of pharmaceuticals? Where do drugs go when they leave the body–and how are organisms and ecosystems affected? How are nonhumans implicated in drug testing and other exposures? What knowledge regimes undergird understandings of the human body as (1) treatable by medications and (2) dissociated from the natural world? What ecological knowledge has contributed to the biomedical pharmacopeia? In this seminar, we will learn about dolphins on LSD, the botanical links between the mafia and scurvy, cocaine-addicted animals, yams and the contraceptive pill, plants and the war on drugs, and more. Students will engage with historical, anthropological, cultural studies, and environmental health texts and media to examine these questions. Students will visit a clinical herbalist’s medicinal plant cultivation site, an open source insulin production lab, and a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) practitioner. We will also conduct water quality testing in the Chesapeake Bay watershed to determine the presence of pharmaceuticals. Using planetary health and cross-cultural lenses, we will ask after the relationship between drugs, bodies, and the environment, and consider nonbiomedical healing regimes that posit different relationships between them. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 12/12 Tags: n/a
AS.001.190 (01)	FYS: Poisons! A History	Th 3:00PM - 5:30PM	Li, Lan	Shriver Hall 001	Fall 2026	Description: Poisons aren't what they seem. Sometimes they look like food. Sometimes they look like drugs. From cinnabar to cinnamon, from dragon blood to goat bezoars, poisons result from careful human construction, collection, and creation. They are objects of early chemistry. Far from killing us, poisons have been central to the history of medicine. Physicians in the past and present monitor dosage, drug combination, and drug preparation to mitigate poison toxicity while still maintaining drugs' therapeutic potencies. Knowledge about poisons, in other words, quietly undergirds most of human civilization. Poisons are what keep us alive. Or not. This First-Year Seminar comes to understand poisons in three ways. First, it takes on individual poisons (mercury, opium, among others) to introduce major themes in the history of science and science studies. Second, it engages with global perspectives in the history of medicine to understand how poisons were deployed, refined, and neutralized around the world. Third, it introduces frameworks in the philosophy of chemistry to analyze the social, conceptual, and practical demands on empiricism. Together, these three perspectives will shift students’ perspectives on poisons from objects that kill to critiquing them as objects that are intimately tied to ideas of cure. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 12/12 Tags: n/a
AS.001.298 (01)	FYS: Empire of Lies? Propaganda, Technology, and the Public Sphere	M 4:30PM - 7:00PM	Tatarchenko, Ksenia	Gilman 77	Fall 2026	Description: Can a government control what people believe? Who gets to decide what counts as “truth”—and how is it made to stick? This First-Year Seminar traces a century of information, communication, and warfare in Russia, from Lenin’s revolutionary use of radio to Putin’s troll farms and deepfakes. Along the way, we will grapple with questions that remain urgent today: What is propaganda, and how can we recognize it? Can the press respond to peoples’ concerns under an authoritarian regime, or does power inevitably shape the narrative? And in an age of algorithms and viral misinformation, are citizens of democracies any better at resisting manipulation than those living under dictatorships? We’ll dig into the technologies themselves—print, radio, television, and digital networks—to understand how each new medium created fresh possibilities for persuasion, resistance, and control. And we’ll get hands-on: working with rare propaganda posters, samizdat publications, and archival materials in JHU’s special collections, you’ll encounter the physical artifacts of ideological warfare—the paper, ink, and design choices that shaped how messages landed. By the end of our seminar, you’ll never watch the news (or scroll your feed) the same way again. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 12/12 Tags: n/a
AS.004.321 (01)	Writing Methods: Science in Situ - Effective and Meaningful Science Communication	Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Thyagarajan, Sunita; Wilbanks, Rebecca	Smokler Center Library	Fall 2026	Description: Science in Situ introduces students to the art of science writing via an exploration of the sites where science is happening in Baltimore. Effective science communicators have a deep understanding of their subject matter and are skilled at conveying complex ideas in accessible ways. However, explaining the facts is not enough; science writers also need to make meaning out of information by placing it in social and narrative contexts that are relevant to their audience. This course encourages students to write creatively, with humor, and in multimedia formats to communicate scientific content to a wide range of audiences. Students will learn about key techniques as well as challenges in science journalism and gain practice communicating technical subject matter in a variety of modalities. Through field trips to local museums and forensic labs, and interviews with researchers and editors of science magazines, students will identify opportunities to share their ideas and knowledge in engaging ways, and to reflect on why science matters to broader audiences. This course is aimed at junior and senior undergraduate students who are STEM majors. All first-year students who have taken Reintro and all students at the sophomore level or above are welcome. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 7/18 Tags: BEHB-SOCSCI
AS.004.351 (02)	Community-Engaged Writing: Composing the Commons	Th 4:30PM - 7:00PM	Russell, Arthur J.; Schnitzler, Carly Elisabeth	Gilman 4	Fall 2026	Description: The Commons is Hopkins’ newest arts and culture magazine, responding to the annual Common Question. Our course will collaboratively design and produce an issue of The Commons over the course of the semester. Composing The Commons takes a hands-on, lab based approach to writing technologies, media archeology, and accessibility studies. This writing methods course will examine print and digital media, explore physical and digital archives, and experiment with methods of intermedia composition and translation. Students will write a peer-reviewed article and create photo essays, short stories, poems, games, and print and digital ephemera. Our aim is to publish and translate a well-researched, well considered magazine in both print and digital formats, for many publics. All first-year students who have taken Reintro and all students at the sophomore level or above are welcome. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/12 Tags: n/a
AS.004.441 (01)	Special Topics in Writing: The Mothers of Gynecology	TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Wright, Lisa E.	Gilman 400	Fall 2026	Description: Deirdre Cooper Owens argues that the experimental and pioneering work performed on enslaved Black women such as Anarcha, Betsy, and Lucy, by Dr. James Marion Sims, who is known as the father of gynecology, has been overshadowed in America’s understanding of American gynecology. In this writing-intensive course, we will explore the role of Black enslaved women in the formation of the field of American gynecology. We will examine the writing about enslaved Black midwives, nurses, and Black women whose medical practices and bodies were deemed inferior and flawed yet provided foundational knowledge for white practitioners in the mid-1800s. Potential readings include Deirdre Cooper Owens’ Medical Bondage: Race Gender and the Origins of American Gynecology, Deborah Gray Whites’ Ar’nt I a Woman?, and Marie Jenkins Schwartz’s Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South. Throughout the term, students will conduct their own research and write to combine these conversations with contemporary discussions surrounding Black maternal health, Black midwives, birthing justice, and reproductive justice more broadly. This course will culminate with an academic conference where students will present their research to an audience of their peers. All first-year students who have taken Reintro and all students at the sophomore level or above are welcome. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/18 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.040.372 (01)	Plato’s Mathematical Cosmos	Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Staff	Gilman 108	Fall 2026	Description: The Timaeus is often seen today as one of Plato’s more mysterious and puzzling dialogues. But it was also historically one of his most influential. Its account of creation, the cosmos, and its numerical ordering formed the foundation for considerable work at the junctures of science, mathematics, and philosophy, from Antiquity through the Middle Ages and Renaissance. This course will explore the complex and fascinating story told in the Timaeus together with its long-reaching legacy. We will read the dialogue in translation in its entirety as well as select later thinkers who build on its picture of the cosmos and its important mathematical, philosophical, and theological themes. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 8/16 Tags: n/a
AS.060.246 (01)	Medicine in Literature, Then & Now	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Daniel, Andrew	Krieger 180; Croft Hall G02	Fall 2026	Description: From quacks to plague, from humors to hypochondria, from AIDS to cancer, this lecture course examines literary representations of suffering, disease and treatment across genres and across time. In particular it explores how early modern literature represents and occasionally satirizes medicine, and how contemporary writers inherit and revise early modern modes. Over the semester, students will become familiar with the diverse array of forms of medical practice, the classed and gendered hierarchies in which medical practitioners were organized during different historical periods, and the various stances and attitudes towards medicine as discourse, profession, and field of knowledge that result. After an initial grounding in some historical and methodological basics, we will proceed to wrestle with a range of literary texts (prose works, poetry, drama, and memoir). Authors will include Shakespeare, Jonson, Donne, Moliere, Gunn, Sontag, Lorde, and Boyer. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/15 Tags: ENGL-LEC, ENGL-PR1800
AS.060.246 (02)	Medicine in Literature, Then & Now	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Daniel, Andrew	Krieger 180; Gilman 134	Fall 2026	Description: From quacks to plague, from humors to hypochondria, from AIDS to cancer, this lecture course examines literary representations of suffering, disease and treatment across genres and across time. In particular it explores how early modern literature represents and occasionally satirizes medicine, and how contemporary writers inherit and revise early modern modes. Over the semester, students will become familiar with the diverse array of forms of medical practice, the classed and gendered hierarchies in which medical practitioners were organized during different historical periods, and the various stances and attitudes towards medicine as discourse, profession, and field of knowledge that result. After an initial grounding in some historical and methodological basics, we will proceed to wrestle with a range of literary texts (prose works, poetry, drama, and memoir). Authors will include Shakespeare, Jonson, Donne, Moliere, Gunn, Sontag, Lorde, and Boyer. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/15 Tags: ENGL-LEC, ENGL-PR1800
AS.060.246 (03)	Medicine in Literature, Then & Now	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Daniel, Andrew	Krieger 180; Shriver Hall 001	Fall 2026	Description: From quacks to plague, from humors to hypochondria, from AIDS to cancer, this lecture course examines literary representations of suffering, disease and treatment across genres and across time. In particular it explores how early modern literature represents and occasionally satirizes medicine, and how contemporary writers inherit and revise early modern modes. Over the semester, students will become familiar with the diverse array of forms of medical practice, the classed and gendered hierarchies in which medical practitioners were organized during different historical periods, and the various stances and attitudes towards medicine as discourse, profession, and field of knowledge that result. After an initial grounding in some historical and methodological basics, we will proceed to wrestle with a range of literary texts (prose works, poetry, drama, and memoir). Authors will include Shakespeare, Jonson, Donne, Moliere, Gunn, Sontag, Lorde, and Boyer. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/15 Tags: ENGL-LEC, ENGL-PR1800
AS.070.428 (01)	The Body Immortal in Yoga and Ayurveda	MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Minkowski, Christopher Zand	Mergenthaler 426	Fall 2026	Description: This course will trace the history of an idea - how to make the human body physically immortal - in two Indian systems of knowledge, Yoga and Ayurveda. The course will follow the development of this idea in both theory and practice in the ancient and medieval Indian world. Beginning with accounts of immortal humans that are found in early Sanskrit literature, the course will move on to the elaboration of yogic practice in the tantric movements and to the refinements to alchemical theory (rasāyana-śāstra) in Ayurvedic texts. The course will then move to the emergence of postural yoga (haṭha-yoga) as an independent discipline, which marks a new phase in the pursuit of corporeal immortality. Throughout we will keep track of competing theories of the body - its systems, components, processes, subtle dimensions, channels, centers, layers of physicality, and interactions with breath and spirit - as these form the ground on which to apply bespoke, immortality-creating methods. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 2/20 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.100.333 (01)	Knowledge and Faith in U.S. History	Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Jewett, Andrew John	Shriver Hall Board Room	Fall 2026	Description: How do we know the truth? Which beliefs are valid? What sources of intellectual authority should we follow? US history has been shaped by fierce disagreements over these questions. This course will explore many of the proposed answers, focusing on scientific and religious frameworks. As citizens, it is crucial to understand conflicts over truth, belief, and authority. Yet very few people have a sense of the history of these disputes or a language for discussing them constructively. This class provides both. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 8/18 Tags: HIST-US
AS.140.105 (01)	History of Medicine	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Ragab, Ahmed	Gilman 50; Hodson 216	Fall 2026	Description: Course provides an introduction to health and healing in the ancient world, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance. Topics include religion and medicine; medicine in the Islamicate world; women and healing; patients and practitioners. Credits: 3.00 Status: Reserved Open Seats Available: 5/20 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.140.105 (02)	History of Medicine	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Ragab, Ahmed	Gilman 50; Ames 218	Fall 2026	Description: Course provides an introduction to health and healing in the ancient world, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance. Topics include religion and medicine; medicine in the Islamicate world; women and healing; patients and practitioners. Credits: 3.00 Status: Reserved Open Seats Available: 5/20 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.140.105 (03)	History of Medicine	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Ragab, Ahmed	Gilman 50; Hodson 315	Fall 2026	Description: Course provides an introduction to health and healing in the ancient world, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance. Topics include religion and medicine; medicine in the Islamicate world; women and healing; patients and practitioners. Credits: 3.00 Status: Reserved Open Seats Available: 5/20 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.140.105 (04)	History of Medicine	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Ragab, Ahmed	Gilman 50; Shaffer 302	Fall 2026	Description: Course provides an introduction to health and healing in the ancient world, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance. Topics include religion and medicine; medicine in the Islamicate world; women and healing; patients and practitioners. Credits: 3.00 Status: Reserved Open Seats Available: 5/20 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.140.105 (05)	History of Medicine	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Ragab, Ahmed	Gilman 50; Shaffer 305	Fall 2026	Description: Course provides an introduction to health and healing in the ancient world, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance. Topics include religion and medicine; medicine in the Islamicate world; women and healing; patients and practitioners. Credits: 3.00 Status: Reserved Open Seats Available: 5/20 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.140.310 (01)	Normal and Pathological	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Greene, Jeremy		Fall 2026	Description: This seminar explores the shifting lines of the normal and the pathological and the constitution of disease in the complex of medicine, public health, and the social. Readings include the works of Canguilhem and Foucault, historical monographs and ethnographies. Students will have the opportunity to develop substantial research or review papers throughout the course of the seminar. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 15/15 Tags: MSCH-HUM
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.140.321 (01)	Scientific Revolution	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Allen, Meagan Selby	Hodson 316; Gilman 17	Fall 2026	Description: How did the Western understanding of nature change between 1500 and 1720? We'll study the period through the works of astronomers and astrologers, naturalists and magi, natural philosophers and experimentalists, doctors and alchemists & many others. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/20 Tags: n/a
AS.140.321 (02)	Scientific Revolution	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Allen, Meagan Selby	Hodson 316; Shaffer 305	Fall 2026	Description: How did the Western understanding of nature change between 1500 and 1720? We'll study the period through the works of astronomers and astrologers, naturalists and magi, natural philosophers and experimentalists, doctors and alchemists & many others. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 1/20 Tags: n/a
AS.140.330 (01)	Scientists or Swindlers: Alchemy from Antiquity to the Scientific Revolution	MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM	Allen, Meagan Selby	Gilman 300	Fall 2026	Description: This class will cover the history alchemy from its Greco-Egyptian and Arabic roots, through its popularization in the European Middle Ages, to its zenith in the Early Modern period. Using both primary and secondary sources, students will see how alchemy, rather than being a mystical quest or nothing more than the desire to turn lead into gold, was in fact a complex system of belief about the natural world and the generation of materials, both organic and inorganic. Reading works by historical alchemists such as Roger Bacon, Paul of Taranto, Paracelsus, and others, students will understand how alchemy was incorporated into numerous intellectual and practical disciplines, including metallurgy, medical theory, pharmacology, natural philosophy, and even theology. At the conclusion of the course, students should be able to answer: what role did the translation movements and cross-cultural exchanges play in the development of European alchemy? In what ways were (al)chemical theories different than modern chemistry? And in what ways are they the same? How do technology and culture drive changes in scientific theories? All majors are welcome, although students may find that a high-school level understanding of general chemistry will be helpful. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/15 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.140.343 (01)	Medicalization of Identity	F 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Alon, Leigh	Gilman 186	Fall 2026	Description: This course will cover questions about how we came to think about various aspects of our identity in medical terms, and what the ramifications of this process have been. While the field of genetics is especially well positioned to define who we are, we will look well beyond it as we tackle topics such as the construction of mental illness and how “traditional” medicine has shaped national character. We will discuss what role medicine should play in aspects of our identity which seem more proximal to and readily identifiable with the medical field, and those that at first glance may seem quite removed from medicine. We will also seek to define what we mean by “identity,” a ubiquitous, personal, and at times charged term. Medicalization has the allure of providing seemingly unassailable evidence in service of answering long held, fundamental questions, but at what cost? Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 20/20 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.140.405 (01)	Modern Life Sciences in East Asia	M 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Jiang, Lijing	Gilman 77	Fall 2026	Description: A reading and research seminar where students read and discuss about history of modern life sciences in East Asia. The final paper can be an original research paper or an historiographical essay Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/12 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.140.406 (01)	The Human Body is Nothing but a Hydrolic Machine: Theories of Body, Self, & Wellness in PreMod Europe	MW 4:30PM - 5:45PM	Mertz, Elliot A	Gilman 300	Fall 2026	Description: Here is a common claim: All of what we know and want is filtered through the states of the body. If we know something, it is by means of our experiences; if we experience something, it is by means of our senses; if we want something, it is something about the body. The relationship between the body and the self has been one of the most contested questions in the history of knowledge. In the early-modern period, the question of the relationship between the “self” and the “body” was deeply tied up with medicine, with explanations of the workings of organic bodies, and with answers to basic questions about the nature of the world and humans in that world. For all of our work in medicine, natural science, and philosophy, the question still remains: what do we mean when we talk about selves? What is their relationship with the thing we call bodies? How does the moral principle of “wellness” apply to that relationship? By the end of this class, I hope you will have thought about your ingrained assumptions about your body and your relationship to it (and other people and their relationships with their bodies!) This course is grounded on weekly close reading of early-modern argument-bearing texts, ranging from Plato’s “Phaedo” to Newton’s “On Gravity” to Stahl’s “Idle work.” Each of these texts represents an attempt to understand and express the nature of the body, the relationship of that body to the “self” and what constitutes wellness in that relationship. I have chosen these text not because reading didactic accounts of wellness comprises a complete understanding of the way that people thought about the body – people interact with their bodies as patients, partners, owners, pleasure-seekers, prisoners, and other roles – but because these ideas question deeply understood dogma about what it means to have a body. I hope you can bring these ideas to bear on your experiences and ideas so you can deploy an arsenal of thoughts when you inspect your bodily experiences. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/18 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.140.411 (01)	Senior Research Seminar		Jiang, Lijing		Fall 2026	Description: For History of Science, Medicine, and Technology majors preparing a senior honors thesis. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 14/15 Tags: n/a
AS.140.411 (02)	Senior Research Seminar		Portuondo, Maria M		Fall 2026	Description: For History of Science, Medicine, and Technology majors preparing a senior honors thesis. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 20/20 Tags: n/a
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.145.109 (01)	Science/Fiction: Making Knowledge in Medicine, Science, and the Humanities	TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Vado, Karina A	Gilman 50	Fall 2026	Description: In May 1959, C.P. Snow, an English novelist and chemist, delivered a now-famous academic lecture on “The Two Cultures,” in which he declared that the “intellectual life of the whole of western society is increasingly being split into two polar groups.” These two groups, the “literary intellectuals” and the “scientists” are engulfed, according to Snow, by “mutual incomprehension,” “hostility and dislike” but “most of all lack of understanding.” Indeed, he tells us, the two cultures “have a curious distorted image of each other.” Modern-day headlines such as “Humanities aren't a science. Stop treating them like one” and “Why Science Will Never Replace the Humanities” attest to the enduring circulation of Snow’s view of a deep-seated antagonism between the humanities and sciences. Yet what factors led to these disciplinary distinctions? And are the sciences and humanities as rigidly polarized as Snow made them out to be? In this course, we will attempt to answer these questions by interrogating the relationship between science and literature, past and present. To focus our discussion and course readings, we will be primarily engaging key texts and developments in the history of biology alongside literary and (pop) cultural explorations of key biological theories/concepts (ex. theories of evolution, eugenics and genetics, the “modern synthesis,” genetic engineering, cloning, epigenetics, biomedicine and biotechnology, etc.). Through these interdisciplinary and multigeneric engagements, students will also assess how literary, medical, and scientific discourse have been implicated in the (mis)construction and reification of race, gender, sexuality, and other social phenomena. Credits: 3.00 Status: Reserved Open Seats Available: 8/18 Tags: n/a
AS.145.109 (02)	Science/Fiction: Making Knowledge in Medicine, Science, and the Humanities	TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Vado, Karina A	Gilman 50	Fall 2026	Description: In May 1959, C.P. Snow, an English novelist and chemist, delivered a now-famous academic lecture on “The Two Cultures,” in which he declared that the “intellectual life of the whole of western society is increasingly being split into two polar groups.” These two groups, the “literary intellectuals” and the “scientists” are engulfed, according to Snow, by “mutual incomprehension,” “hostility and dislike” but “most of all lack of understanding.” Indeed, he tells us, the two cultures “have a curious distorted image of each other.” Modern-day headlines such as “Humanities aren't a science. Stop treating them like one” and “Why Science Will Never Replace the Humanities” attest to the enduring circulation of Snow’s view of a deep-seated antagonism between the humanities and sciences. Yet what factors led to these disciplinary distinctions? And are the sciences and humanities as rigidly polarized as Snow made them out to be? In this course, we will attempt to answer these questions by interrogating the relationship between science and literature, past and present. To focus our discussion and course readings, we will be primarily engaging key texts and developments in the history of biology alongside literary and (pop) cultural explorations of key biological theories/concepts (ex. theories of evolution, eugenics and genetics, the “modern synthesis,” genetic engineering, cloning, epigenetics, biomedicine and biotechnology, etc.). Through these interdisciplinary and multigeneric engagements, students will also assess how literary, medical, and scientific discourse have been implicated in the (mis)construction and reification of race, gender, sexuality, and other social phenomena. Credits: 3.00 Status: Reserved Open Seats Available: 8/18 Tags: n/a
AS.145.109 (03)	Science/Fiction: Making Knowledge in Medicine, Science, and the Humanities	TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Vado, Karina A	Gilman 50	Fall 2026	Description: In May 1959, C.P. Snow, an English novelist and chemist, delivered a now-famous academic lecture on “The Two Cultures,” in which he declared that the “intellectual life of the whole of western society is increasingly being split into two polar groups.” These two groups, the “literary intellectuals” and the “scientists” are engulfed, according to Snow, by “mutual incomprehension,” “hostility and dislike” but “most of all lack of understanding.” Indeed, he tells us, the two cultures “have a curious distorted image of each other.” Modern-day headlines such as “Humanities aren't a science. Stop treating them like one” and “Why Science Will Never Replace the Humanities” attest to the enduring circulation of Snow’s view of a deep-seated antagonism between the humanities and sciences. Yet what factors led to these disciplinary distinctions? And are the sciences and humanities as rigidly polarized as Snow made them out to be? In this course, we will attempt to answer these questions by interrogating the relationship between science and literature, past and present. To focus our discussion and course readings, we will be primarily engaging key texts and developments in the history of biology alongside literary and (pop) cultural explorations of key biological theories/concepts (ex. theories of evolution, eugenics and genetics, the “modern synthesis,” genetic engineering, cloning, epigenetics, biomedicine and biotechnology, etc.). Through these interdisciplinary and multigeneric engagements, students will also assess how literary, medical, and scientific discourse have been implicated in the (mis)construction and reification of race, gender, sexuality, and other social phenomena. Credits: 3.00 Status: Reserved Open Seats Available: 9/18 Tags: n/a
AS.145.109 (04)	Science/Fiction: Making Knowledge in Medicine, Science, and the Humanities	TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Vado, Karina A	Gilman 50	Fall 2026	Description: In May 1959, C.P. Snow, an English novelist and chemist, delivered a now-famous academic lecture on “The Two Cultures,” in which he declared that the “intellectual life of the whole of western society is increasingly being split into two polar groups.” These two groups, the “literary intellectuals” and the “scientists” are engulfed, according to Snow, by “mutual incomprehension,” “hostility and dislike” but “most of all lack of understanding.” Indeed, he tells us, the two cultures “have a curious distorted image of each other.” Modern-day headlines such as “Humanities aren't a science. Stop treating them like one” and “Why Science Will Never Replace the Humanities” attest to the enduring circulation of Snow’s view of a deep-seated antagonism between the humanities and sciences. Yet what factors led to these disciplinary distinctions? And are the sciences and humanities as rigidly polarized as Snow made them out to be? In this course, we will attempt to answer these questions by interrogating the relationship between science and literature, past and present. To focus our discussion and course readings, we will be primarily engaging key texts and developments in the history of biology alongside literary and (pop) cultural explorations of key biological theories/concepts (ex. theories of evolution, eugenics and genetics, the “modern synthesis,” genetic engineering, cloning, epigenetics, biomedicine and biotechnology, etc.). Through these interdisciplinary and multigeneric engagements, students will also assess how literary, medical, and scientific discourse have been implicated in the (mis)construction and reification of race, gender, sexuality, and other social phenomena. Credits: 3.00 Status: Reserved Open Seats Available: 11/18 Tags: n/a
AS.145.219 (01)	Science Studies and Medical Humanities: Theory and Methods	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Bayoumi, Soha Hassan	Gilman 377	Fall 2026	Description: The knowledge and practices of science and medicine are not as self-evident as they may appear. When we observe, what do we see? What counts as evidence? How does evidence become fact? How do facts circulate and what are their effects? Who is included in and excluded from our common-sense notions of science, medicine, and technology? This course will introduce students to central theoretical concerns in Science and Technology Studies and the Medical Humanities, focusing on enduring problematics that animate scholars. In conjunction with examinations of theoretical bases, students will learn to evaluate the methodological tools used in different fields in the humanities to study the production and circulation of scientific knowledge and the structures of medical care and public health. This problem-centered approach will help students understand and apply key concepts and approaches in critical studies of science, technology, and medicine. Credits: 3.00 Status: Reserved Open Seats Available: 2/19 Tags: MSCH-HUM, CES-TI, ARCH-RELATE
AS.145.312 (01)	Narratives of Bias in Healthcare	Th 2:30PM - 5:00PM	Balhara, Kamna	Mergenthaler 266	Fall 2026	Description: What are the ways in which bias informs and infiltrates healthcare? What is the relationship of bias with power and injustice, across medical training, patient care, and the production of medical knowledge? This course will grapple with these questions through interpretation and discussion of works of visual art, fiction, non-fiction, and popular media that center the voices of patients and healthcare providers. We will tie a direct link to healthcare systems and patient outcomes by applying a similar critical and interpretive lens to primary sources from scientific and medical literature. Combining these conversations with discussions of healthcare practices, we will explore a broad survey of themes, including cognitive biases and decision-making in patient care, epistemic injustice, bias in artificial intelligence, and bias in medical language and the electronic health record. Students will be introduced to identifying and navigating narratives of bias in healthcare, with an emphasis on applying critical thinking to the systems that propagate and dismantle bias in healthcare. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/15 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.145.323 (01)	Music as Laboratory	W 4:30PM - 7:00PM	Ludwig, Loren	Shaffer 202	Fall 2026	Description: What is the relationship between the histories of music and scientific development? How is making music a kind of laboratory research? Musical instruments and aesthetics have always emerged in dialogue with developments in science, technology, and medicine. The first stethoscope borrowed from the design of flutes and challenged physicians to grapple with new concepts like "sound," "signal," and "noise." The automation of industrial machinery was influenced by earlier musical automata--technology that sought to mechanically synchronize, sequence and loop musical phrases. Concepts like logarithms, combinatorics, resonance and sympathetic vibration, melancholy and mania, etc., relied on the contributions of musicians, music theorists, and instrument-makers. This seminar looks at points of contact between music and histories of science, technology, and medicine through both scholarly and creative lenses. The course integrates creative and experimental music making with reading and short writing assignments. Familiarity with music notation and some basic musical skills will be helpful but are not strictly necessary. Limit 15 students. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/15 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.145.324 (01)	Empire of Lies? Propaganda, Technology, and the Public Sphere from Lenin to Putin	M 4:30PM - 7:00PM	Tatarchenko, Ksenia	Gilman 77	Fall 2026	Description: How does a state mobilize information? This course examines the century-long battle over truth and falsehood from Lenin’s early interest in wireless propaganda to Putin’s digital disinformation campaigns. We challenge the simple notion of "lies" to ask a more provocative question: was a public sphere possible under communism? Through a focus on the materiality of media—the evolving infrastructures of print, radio, television, and digital networks—we will analyze how communication technologies were built into indispensable tools for mass agitation, political organization, and socialist education, ultimately designed to transform both individual consciousness and collective action. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 12/12 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.145.330 (01)	Health Care Activism in Baltimore and Beyond	MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Puglionesi, Alicia G	Gilman 400	Fall 2026	Description: National struggles over the right to health care, and over the health needs of marginalized groups, have taken distinctive forms in Baltimore City during the past century. The renowned Johns Hopkins University came to symbolize, for many residents, the power of medicine both to heal and to harm – and the need for community action. This course delves into the archives of local institutions to understand the work of activists and advocates who connected health, medicine, and social justice. We focus on specific sites, from the segregated wards of Johns Hopkins to the People’s Free Medical Clinic on Greenmount Avenue, where demands for equity changed the city's health care landscape. Through interdisciplinary readings and conversations with local organizers, we consider how historical memory can serve as a creative resource for the art and politics of the present. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/18 Tags: MSCH-HUM, CES-RI, CES-CC
AS.145.332 (01)	Sick Deception: Quacks, cons, grifters, and post-truth science	T 4:30PM - 7:00PM	Puglionesi, Alicia G	Krieger Laverty	Fall 2026	Description: Why has the scam become a dominant social form? Especially when it comes to health and wellness, everyone has a supplement, diet, or app that promises to change your life. Sometimes there’s no harm in trying, but unproven and dangerous claims have often traveled from the consumer arena into health politics and policy. More than a simple story of bad actors exploiting the vulnerable, these are messy case studies in trust, doubt, profit, and the politics of knowledge. In this discussion- and project-based seminar, we confront the long history of frauds, fads, controversies, and the current “post-truth” moment through the lens of ethical responsibility: while the terrain of knowledge always shifts, discerning the basis of medical and scientific claims remains essential for the lives of patients and the population. We engage with historical sources, fiction, film, scholarship, and, of course, social media to seek the material realities that shape the economy of the grift, and its consequences for our bodies, communities, and environment. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 7/15 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.145.333 (01)	Money for Research: History, Policy, and Politics of Federal Funding	W 4:30PM - 7:00PM	Jewett, Andrew John	Gilman 400	Fall 2026	Description: American dominance in the STEM fields since 1945 has rested on federal support. Both military and civilian agencies have poured money into academic research, remaking the economy and society as well as the armed forces. However, the political developments of 2026 pushed that system to the brink and promised to alter the relationships between researchers and government. This course begins by exploring the development, justification, and operation of federal research funding as it took shape in the late 1940s and 1950s. We will then trace shifts over time, including new federal spending patterns reflecting a quest for global economic competitiveness. Finally, we will examine the nature and possible outcomes of the current reconfiguration. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/18 Tags: MSCH-HUM, CES-PD, CES-RI
AS.145.360 (01)	Incarceration and Health: Critical Perspectives	Th 1:30PM - 3:50PM	Sufrin, Carolyn	Smokler Center 301	Fall 2026	Description: Can care exist in a space of punishment? Institutions of incarceration are inherently spaces of violence and social control and, in the U.S.’s current context of mass incarceration, racial oppression. Yet prisons, jails, and detention centers are required to provide individuals access to health care. How can we understand this convergence of care for the body and psyche with multiple forms of carceral violence? This course will examine modes of health and health care inside institutions of incarceration as they are situated within broader socio-political contexts that shape society’s over-reliance on incarceration as a means of social and racialized control. Drawing on history, anthropology, sociology, legal theory, critical race studies, and public health, the course will explore the everyday realities inside institutions of incarceration as they relate to suffering and care and how those are connected to policies and processes of subjugation outside the institutions’ walls. Case studies for examining these relationships include pregnancy, COVID-19, addiction, and mental illness behind bars. Students will engage with concepts such as disciplinary power, biopower, carceral and anti-carceral feminism, theories of care, medical abolition, and dual loyalty. While the course will primarily focus on the U.S. context, we will also draw comparisons to non-U.S. settings. Throughout the course we will seek to understand how institutions of incarceration are not, as popularly understood, isolated places “elsewhere,” but implicitly porous with so-called free society—and therefore as exemplars for understanding the connections among health, inequality, and state institutions. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/15 Tags: n/a
AS.145.390 (01)	Global Perspectives on Medicine, Science, & Technology: Adv Topics in Med, Sci, and the Humanities	W 3:00PM - 5:30PM	Bayoumi, Soha Hassan		Fall 2026	Description: Critical studies of the significance of science, technology, and medicine rely on circuits of knowledge exchange that shape and reshape the landscape of scholarly interest. Building on the theoretical foundations established in AS.145.219 “Science Studies and Medical Humanities: Theory and Methods,” this course probes key questions in science studies (STS) and the medical humanities (MH) by tracing the intellectual genealogies of significant topics in these fields. By exploring a number of key texts, theories, and methodologies, it aims to acquaint students with both classic and cutting-edge writings and frameworks in STS and MH, and equip students with the tools to apply them in their own research. Coursework will include: close reading of core books to dissect how scholars marshal evidence to build their arguments; regular reading responses; and a final project that allows students to synthesize materials related to their own interests, which can serve as the foundation for an honors project. This course is required for students pursuing the Science and Technology Studies (STS) track in MSH, but is open to other students as well. The thematic focus of the course is determined by the instructing faculty and draws on their areas of scholarly expertise. This semester, the course examines global perspectives on medicine, science, and technology and centers transnational scholarship that challenges Eurocentric narratives to deepen our understanding of STS and MH. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 12/12 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.145.460 (92DC)	Research Seminar: Critical AI: Questions and Methods	T 2:30PM - 5:00PM	Tatarchenko, Ksenia		Fall 2026	Description: Borrowing its title from a new journal and an emerging, interdisciplinary field of study, this class examines artificial intelligence, and its subfield of machine learning, through the lens of the humanities and social sciences. The course focuses on the historical, cultural, ethical, and societal dimensions of AI. It combines group discussions of selected readings with individual research projects supervised by the instructor. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 14/18 Tags: n/a
AS.145.490 (01)	MSH Honors Thesis Seminar		Labruto, Nicole; Vado, Karina A		Fall 2026	Description: This course guides Honors writers through the process of completing their thesis project. Topics covered include data management, bibliography management, document formatting, writing strategies, and writer’s block. The instructor and peers will offer comments on drafts throughout the semester. Students will complete this course with a full draft of their Honors thesis. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 7/10 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.145.490 (02)	MSH Honors Thesis Seminar		Vado, Karina A		Fall 2026	Description: This course guides Honors writers through the process of completing their thesis project. Topics covered include data management, bibliography management, document formatting, writing strategies, and writer’s block. The instructor and peers will offer comments on drafts throughout the semester. Students will complete this course with a full draft of their Honors thesis. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/10 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.145.510 (01)	Medicine, Science & the Humanities Independent Research		Wright, Lisa E.		Fall 2026	Description: This course is for students in the Medicine, Science & the Humanities doing independent research. Course can be taken up to 3 credits with approval from the director. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.145.510 (03)	Medicine, Science & the Humanities Independent Research		Ender, Evelyne		Fall 2026	Description: This course is for students in the Medicine, Science & the Humanities doing independent research. Course can be taken up to 3 credits with approval from the director. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 1/1 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.145.510 (05)	Medicine, Science & the Humanities Independent Research		Puglionesi, Alicia G		Fall 2026	Description: This course is for students in the Medicine, Science & the Humanities doing independent research. Course can be taken up to 3 credits with approval from the director. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 1/1 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.145.510 (11)	Medicine, Science & the Humanities Independent Research		Labruto, Nicole		Fall 2026	Description: This course is for students in the Medicine, Science & the Humanities doing independent research. Course can be taken up to 3 credits with approval from the director. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 1/1 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.145.510 (13)	Medicine, Science & the Humanities Independent Research		Bayoumi, Soha Hassan		Fall 2026	Description: This course is for students in the Medicine, Science & the Humanities doing independent research. Course can be taken up to 3 credits with approval from the director. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 12/12 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.145.516 (01)	MSH Honors Thesis		Bayoumi, Soha Hassan		Fall 2026	Description: This class is for the MSH majors completing their honors thesis. Instructor approval required. This course can be taken for up to 3 credits with instructor approval. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.145.516 (02)	MSH Honors Thesis		Li, Lan		Fall 2026	Description: This class is for the MSH majors completing their honors thesis. Instructor approval required. This course can be taken for up to 3 credits with instructor approval. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.145.516 (03)	MSH Honors Thesis		Schrader, Stuart Laurence		Fall 2026	Description: This class is for the MSH majors completing their honors thesis. Instructor approval required. This course can be taken for up to 3 credits with instructor approval. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.145.516 (04)	MSH Honors Thesis		Puglionesi, Alicia G		Fall 2026	Description: This class is for the MSH majors completing their honors thesis. Instructor approval required. This course can be taken for up to 3 credits with instructor approval. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.145.516 (05)	MSH Honors Thesis		Edwards, Zophia		Fall 2026	Description: This class is for the MSH majors completing their honors thesis. Instructor approval required. This course can be taken for up to 3 credits with instructor approval. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.145.516 (06)	MSH Honors Thesis		Balhara, Kamna		Fall 2026	Description: This class is for the MSH majors completing their honors thesis. Instructor approval required. This course can be taken for up to 3 credits with instructor approval. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.145.516 (07)	MSH Honors Thesis		Mooney, Graham		Fall 2026	Description: This class is for the MSH majors completing their honors thesis. Instructor approval required. This course can be taken for up to 3 credits with instructor approval. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.145.516 (08)	MSH Honors Thesis		Han, Clara		Fall 2026	Description: This class is for the MSH majors completing their honors thesis. Instructor approval required. This course can be taken for up to 3 credits with instructor approval. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.145.516 (09)	MSH Honors Thesis		Labruto, Nicole		Fall 2026	Description: This class is for the MSH majors completing their honors thesis. Instructor approval required. This course can be taken for up to 3 credits with instructor approval. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.150.219 (01)	Introduction to Bioethics	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Rieder, Travis N	Remsen Hall 233; Bloomberg 276	Fall 2026	Description: Introduction to a wide range of moral issues arising in the biomedical fields, e.g. physician-assisted suicide, human cloning, abortion, surrogacy, and human subjects research. Cross listed with Public Health Studies. Credits: 3.00 Status: Reserved Open Seats Available: 4/14 Tags: PHIL-BIOETH, PHIL-ETHICS, AGRI-ELECT
AS.150.219 (02)	Introduction to Bioethics	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Rieder, Travis N	Remsen Hall 233; Krieger 308	Fall 2026	Description: Introduction to a wide range of moral issues arising in the biomedical fields, e.g. physician-assisted suicide, human cloning, abortion, surrogacy, and human subjects research. Cross listed with Public Health Studies. Credits: 3.00 Status: Reserved Open Seats Available: 4/14 Tags: PHIL-BIOETH, PHIL-ETHICS, AGRI-ELECT
AS.150.219 (03)	Introduction to Bioethics	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Rieder, Travis N	Remsen Hall 233; Maryland 309	Fall 2026	Description: Introduction to a wide range of moral issues arising in the biomedical fields, e.g. physician-assisted suicide, human cloning, abortion, surrogacy, and human subjects research. Cross listed with Public Health Studies. Credits: 3.00 Status: Reserved Open Seats Available: 4/14 Tags: PHIL-BIOETH, PHIL-ETHICS, AGRI-ELECT
AS.150.219 (04)	Introduction to Bioethics	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Rieder, Travis N	Remsen Hall 233; Ames 218	Fall 2026	Description: Introduction to a wide range of moral issues arising in the biomedical fields, e.g. physician-assisted suicide, human cloning, abortion, surrogacy, and human subjects research. Cross listed with Public Health Studies. Credits: 3.00 Status: Reserved Open Seats Available: 7/14 Tags: PHIL-BIOETH, PHIL-ETHICS, AGRI-ELECT
AS.150.219 (05)	Introduction to Bioethics	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Rieder, Travis N	Remsen Hall 233; Shaffer 301	Fall 2026	Description: Introduction to a wide range of moral issues arising in the biomedical fields, e.g. physician-assisted suicide, human cloning, abortion, surrogacy, and human subjects research. Cross listed with Public Health Studies. Credits: 3.00 Status: Reserved Open Seats Available: 9/14 Tags: PHIL-BIOETH, PHIL-ETHICS, AGRI-ELECT
AS.150.219 (06)	Introduction to Bioethics	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Rieder, Travis N	Remsen Hall 233; Shaffer 303	Fall 2026	Description: Introduction to a wide range of moral issues arising in the biomedical fields, e.g. physician-assisted suicide, human cloning, abortion, surrogacy, and human subjects research. Cross listed with Public Health Studies. Credits: 3.00 Status: Reserved Open Seats Available: 6/14 Tags: PHIL-BIOETH, PHIL-ETHICS, AGRI-ELECT
AS.210.313 (01)	Medical Spanish	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	Torres Burgos, Carmen	Gilman 77	Fall 2026	Description: Medical Spanish is a comprehensive examination of vocabulary and grammar for students who either work or intend to work in medicine and health-related fields in Spanish-speaking environments. The student will be able to participate in conversations on topics such as contrasting health systems, body structures, disorders and conditions, consulting your doctor, physical and mental health, first-aid, hospitalization and surgery on completion of this course. In completing the course’s final project students will apply, synthesize, and reflect on what has been learned in the class by creating a professional dossier individualized to their professional interests. There is no final exam. Not open to native speakers of Spanish. No new enrollments permitted after the third class session. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/12 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.210.313 (02)	Medical Spanish	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Torres Burgos, Carmen	Gilman 77	Fall 2026	Description: Medical Spanish is a comprehensive examination of vocabulary and grammar for students who either work or intend to work in medicine and health-related fields in Spanish-speaking environments. The student will be able to participate in conversations on topics such as contrasting health systems, body structures, disorders and conditions, consulting your doctor, physical and mental health, first-aid, hospitalization and surgery on completion of this course. In completing the course’s final project students will apply, synthesize, and reflect on what has been learned in the class by creating a professional dossier individualized to their professional interests. There is no final exam. Not open to native speakers of Spanish. No new enrollments permitted after the third class session. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 4/12 Tags: MSCH-HUM
AS.212.340 (01)	Topics in French Cinema: Cinéma et le corps	MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM	Anderson, Bruce; Roos, Suzanne Lois; Schilling, Derek	Gilman 443	Fall 2026	Description: This course explores how French films have interrogated the body. We will ask how they have attempted to come to terms with human physicality, desire, and fragility--and with the ability of cinema itself to move spectators emotionally and even physically. Themes explored will include sexuality, gender identity and illness and disability. Conducted in French. Students will have the opportunity to progress in French oral expression and critical analysis. Screenings include works of Céline Sciamma, Michael Haneke, Agnès Varda, Jacques Audiard, and Alain Resnais. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 7/12 Tags: n/a
AS.220.424 (01)	Science and Storytelling: The Narrative of Nature, the Nature of Narrative	Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Panek, Richard		Fall 2026	Description: This course is half reading seminar, half writing workshop. The two halves build on one underlying principle: Both the scientific method and the traditional literary narrative follow the same storytelling structure: What do you know? What do you want to know? What do you learn? Now what do you know? Etc. In the seminar half of the class, we read and discuss samples of the writings of scientists throughout history—focusing especially on what those works would have meant to the authors and to their readers. Primary sources include Plato, Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes, Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Heisenberg, plus many more. In the workshop half of the class, students will write—in a step-by-step, week-by-week process, in close collaboration with their peers—a midterm paper and a final paper on any science topic and in any form of their choosing, while applying storytelling lessons from the seminar half of the course. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 2/15 Tags: MSCH-HUM, ENVS-MAJOR
AS.225.350 (01)	Acting for Doctors	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Rome, Susan R	Krieger Laverty	Fall 2026	Description: In this cutting-edge course, an acting class designed for pre-med students who are interested in a career in either clinical work or research, we will explore ways in which collaboration, curiosity, and connection can enhance your understanding and ability to be an effective medical professional. Empathy, perspective-taking, analysis of dramatic literature with medical themes, and devising a piece around medical ethics will be the focus of the activities. No acting experience is required, just a willingness to explore your creativity in an inclusive environment. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/12 Tags: n/a
AS.389.201 (01)	Introduction to the Museum: Past and Present	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Kingsley, Jennifer P	Gilman 219	Fall 2026	Description: This course surveys museums, from their origins to their most contemporary forms, in the context of broader historical, intellectual, and cultural trends including the social movements of the 20th century. Anthropology, art, history, and science museums are considered. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 16/25 Tags: HIST-EUROPE, ARCH-ARCH, PMUS-INTRO, MSCH-HUM, ARCH-RELATE, CDS-SSMC