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Course # (Section)
Title
Day/Times
Instructor
Room
PosTag(s)
Info
AS.389.240 (01)
Archaeological Museum Practicum: Collections Management
F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Balachandran, Sanchita
Gilman 150A
ARCH-ARCH
Archaeological Museum Practicum: Collections Management AS.389.240 (01)
Students will learn current procedures for surveying, cataloguing, documenting and rehousing collections using objects from the Archaeological Museum. This is a hands-on practicum course working closely with museum staff.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Balachandran, Sanchita
Room: Gilman 150A
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/12
PosTag(s): ARCH-ARCH
AS.389.379 (01)
Interpreting Historic Sites for the 21st Century
W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Maloney, Elizabeth
Gilman 217
PMUS-PRAC, ENVS-MAJOR, ENVS-MINOR
Interpreting Historic Sites for the 21st Century AS.389.379 (01)
Students go behind the scenes at JHU’s own Evergreen Museum and Library to investigate how historic sites design spaces for learning, community engagement, leisure, as well as for exhibitions and special events. Students consider the history of Evergreen and its inhabitants and create concepts for how to engage communities in that history and story. Multiple class meetings take place at the Evergreen Museum.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Maloney, Elizabeth
Room: Gilman 217
Status: Open
Seats Available: 6/12
PosTag(s): PMUS-PRAC, ENVS-MAJOR, ENVS-MINOR
AS.389.201 (01)
Introduction to the Museum: Past and Present
TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Kingsley, Jennifer P
Shriver Hall 104
HIST-EUROPE, ARCH-ARCH, PMUS-INTRO
Introduction to the Museum: Past and Present AS.389.201 (01)
This course surveys museums, from their origins to their most contemporary forms, in the context of broader historical, intellectual, and cultural trends including the social movements of the 20th century. Anthropology, art, history, and science museums are considered. Cross-listed with History and History of Art.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Kingsley, Jennifer P
Room: Shriver Hall 104
Status: Open
Seats Available: 22/30
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, ARCH-ARCH, PMUS-INTRO
AS.389.357 (01)
Heaven on Earth: Art, Power, and Wonder in the Vatican from Antiquity to the Enlightenment
T 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Havens, Earle Ashcroft, II.
BLC Macksey
GRLL-ENGL, GRLL-ITAL
Heaven on Earth: Art, Power, and Wonder in the Vatican from Antiquity to the Enlightenment AS.389.357 (01)
A material cultural exploration of the Vatican from the founding of St. Peter’s basilica in antiquity to the establishment of the Vatican Library and Museums in the Renaissance and Enlightenment.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: T 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Instructor: Havens, Earle Ashcroft, II.
Room: BLC Macksey
Status: Open
Seats Available: 10/15
PosTag(s): GRLL-ENGL, GRLL-ITAL
AS.100.140 (01)
Freshman Seminar: Displacement: A History of U.S. Cities from Urban Renewal to Gentrification
Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Speller, Morris Elsmere Longley
Gilman 305
HIST-US
Freshman Seminar: Displacement: A History of U.S. Cities from Urban Renewal to Gentrification AS.100.140 (01)
“Displacement” explores historical conflicts over urban planning, clearance, and redevelopment. Students will conduct archival research and contribute to an online exhibit that develops the histories of displaced Baltimore neighborhoods.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Speller, Morris Elsmere Longley
Room: Gilman 305
Status: Open
Seats Available: 6/12
PosTag(s): HIST-US
AS.389.410 (01)
Sharing Knowledge: Participatory Archives, Collaborative Storytelling, and Social Justice
Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Plaster, Joseph
Gilman 277
Sharing Knowledge: Participatory Archives, Collaborative Storytelling, and Social Justice AS.389.410 (01)
This course introduces students to collaborative humanities projects that encourage democratic
participation among publics more broadly conceived than the academy. We investigate indigenous research methods; collaborative oral history and ethnography; interactive theater;
and community archives. Final projects draw on the university’s archival, museum, and library
collections.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Plaster, Joseph
Room: Gilman 277
Status: Open
Seats Available: 10/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.010.307 (01)
Diplomats, Dealers, and Diggers: The Birth of Archaeology and the Rise of Collecting from the 19th c. to Today
MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Feldman, Marian
Gilman 119
ARCH-ARCH
Diplomats, Dealers, and Diggers: The Birth of Archaeology and the Rise of Collecting from the 19th c. to Today AS.010.307 (01)
The development of archaeology in the Middle East – its history of explorers, diplomats, missionaries and gentlemen-scholars – profoundly shaped the modern world, from the creation of new museums and the antiquities market to international relations and terrorism.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Instructor: Feldman, Marian
Room: Gilman 119
Status: Open
Seats Available: 13/19
PosTag(s): ARCH-ARCH
Column one has the course number and section. Other columns show the course title, days offered, instructor's name, room number, if the course is cross-referenced with another program, and a option to view additional course information in a pop-up window.
Course # (Section)
Title
Day/Times
Instructor
Room
PosTag(s)
Info
AS.389.242 (01)
Museum Education: From Contested Knowledge to Reflective Narrative
Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Rose, Julia
Hmwd House Wine Cllr
PMUS-INTRO
Museum Education: From Contested Knowledge to Reflective Narrative AS.389.242 (01)
This practicum course critically considers current art and history museum education practices and explores social justice discourses through museum visits, visitor studies, and museum learning strategies.
Credits: 3.00
Level:
Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Rose, Julia
Room: Hmwd House Wine Cllr
Status: Open
Seats Available: 12/15
PosTag(s): PMUS-INTRO
AS.389.202 (01)
Introduction to the Museum: Issues and Ideas
W 1:30PM - 5:00PM
Forloney, Robert
Hodson 311
PMUS-INTRO
Introduction to the Museum: Issues and Ideas AS.389.202 (01)
Museums face practical, political and ethical challenges, including economic difficulties, debates over interpretation of culture and pressure to demonstrate social value. This course considers how museums are answering these challenges. Extra time is to allow for field trip travel - most days class runs 1:30-3:50
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 5:00PM
Instructor: Forloney, Robert
Room: Hodson 311
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/20
PosTag(s): PMUS-INTRO
AS.389.275 (01)
Interpreting Hopkins as Historic Site
T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Kingsley, Jennifer P
Hackerman 320
PMUS-PRAC, ARCH-RELATE
Interpreting Hopkins as Historic Site AS.389.275 (01)
This hands-on course explores interpretive strategies for historic sites and culminates in the production of original, research-based, outdoor interpretive exhibits on the Homewood Campus.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Kingsley, Jennifer P
Room: Hackerman 320
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/12
PosTag(s): PMUS-PRAC, ARCH-RELATE
AS.010.444 (01)
Classics Research Lab: Antioch Recovery Project (ARP)
Th 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Stager, Jennifer M S
Gilman 261
HART-ANC, ARCH-ARCH
Classics Research Lab: Antioch Recovery Project (ARP) AS.010.444 (01)
Antioch Recovery Project investigates mosaics from the ancient city of Antioch (modern Antakya, Turkey, near the border with Syria) now in the collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art. Excavated by an international team of archaeologists in the 1930s, hundreds of ancient mosaics from the cosmopolitan city were subsequently dispersed to museums across the globe, with twenty-four mosaics entering the collection of the BMA. Phase I will focus on the digital documentation and analysis of the mosaic of Narcissus as a prototype for ongoing research bringing together the fragments of ancient Antioch for contemporary beholders. The Greek myth of Narcissus tells the story of a beautiful Theban hunter doomed to love his own reflection and is the origin of the modern psychiatric term “narcissism”. Researching the mythology, materials, conservation history, archival material, historiography, and contemporary reception of the Narcissus mosaic and myth offers extensive opportunities to collaborate with scholars across a range of disciplines at JHU, in the Baltimore museum community, and beyond. Investigators will move between the Baltimore Museum of Art, the CRL processing lab in Gilman Hall, and Special Collections. The course will involve some travel to visit other mosaics from Antioch now in collections at Harvard’s Dumbarton Oaks in Washington D.C., and the Princeton Art Museum in Princeton, New Jersey.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: Th 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Instructor: Stager, Jennifer M S
Room: Gilman 261
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/12
PosTag(s): HART-ANC, ARCH-ARCH
AS.010.382 (01)
The Politics of Display in South Asia
W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Brown, Rebecca Mary
Gilman 119
HART-MODERN, HART-NW
The Politics of Display in South Asia AS.010.382 (01)
Through an examination of colonial exhibitions, the rise of national, regional, and archaeological museums, and current practices of display and representation in institutions, we will explore how the image of South Asia has been constructed in the colonial, modern, and contemporary eras. We will engage with the politics of representation, spectacle, and the economies of desire as related to colonialism and the rise of modernity. Readings from postcolonial theory, museum studies, anthropology, history, and art history.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Brown, Rebecca Mary
Room: Gilman 119
Status: Open
Seats Available: 6/15
PosTag(s): HART-MODERN, HART-NW
AS.389.373 (01)
Encountering American Art
Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Anderson, Virginia, Kingsley, Jennifer P
Gilman 150A
PMUS-PRAC
Encountering American Art AS.389.373 (01)
Students investigate the Baltimore Museum of Art’s American art collection and its presentation to the public alongside current scholarship on American art to develop strategies for a new permanent collection display that aligns with the museum’s commitment to artistic excellence and social equity. M&S Practicum. Co-taught with BMA curator Virginia Anderson.
Credits: 4.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Anderson, Virginia, Kingsley, Jennifer P
Room: Gilman 150A
Status: Open
Seats Available: 2/12
PosTag(s): PMUS-PRAC
AS.389.346 (01)
Scribbling Women in the Literary Archive
M 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Dean, Gabrielle
BLC Macksey
Scribbling Women in the Literary Archive AS.389.346 (01)
Students examine select texts and archival materials related to Emily Dickinson, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Edith Wharton, Ida B. Wells, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sui Sin Far, Alice Duer Miller, and Zora Neale Hurston. Students interrogate how these writers navigated the constraints of gender, as informed by race and class, in the decades before and after the 19th Amendment and consider literary collecting in relation to gendered cultural politics.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: M 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Instructor: Dean, Gabrielle
Room: BLC Macksey
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 1/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.389.250 (01)
Conservation of Material Culture: Art, Artifacts and Heritage Sites
F 1:30PM - 5:00PM
Trusheim, Lorraine
Hmwd House Wine Cllr
ARCH-ARCH, PMUS-INTRO
Conservation of Material Culture: Art, Artifacts and Heritage Sites AS.389.250 (01)
This course will introduce students to the field of art conservation through the study of paintings, paper, books, objects, contemporary sculpture and historic preservation. Topics covered will include: methods of manufacture, agents of deterioration, preservation initiatives, conservation treatment and ethics, and conservation science. Cross-listed with History of Art.
Class usually meets at 1:30 - 3:50 PM, except for days with field trips.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: F 1:30PM - 5:00PM
Instructor: Trusheim, Lorraine
Room: Hmwd House Wine Cllr
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available: 1/8
PosTag(s): ARCH-ARCH, PMUS-INTRO
AS.389.230 (01)
Queer & Trans Public History
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Plaster, Joseph
PMUS-INTRO
Queer & Trans Public History AS.389.230 (01)
This course introduces students to a blend of public history, queer studies and transgender studies. Students learn oral history and archival research methods as they draw on and contribute to the university’s archival, museum, and library collections.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Instructor: Plaster, Joseph
Room:
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/15
PosTag(s): PMUS-INTRO
AS.070.379 (01)
Social Ecology Studio
Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Pandian, Anand
Mergenthaler 426
ENVS-MAJOR, ENVS-MINOR
Social Ecology Studio AS.070.379 (01)
This course will grapple with the social and cultural dimensions of contemporary ecological problems through a local, project-based approach. Coursework will be organized on a studio basis in partnership with a local environmental organization, Friends of Stony Run. Continuing a collaborative project initiated in the fall of 2019, we will work together to develop interpretive materials for the Stony Run stream and urban watershed adjoining our campus.
