THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY 2015-2016 FALL TERM UNDERGRADUATE SCHEDULE OF COURSES as of March 1 6, 2015 ARTS AND SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING For current offerings go to https://isis.jhu.edu/classes/ To view course offerings: Choose the bookmark icon. Select Arts and Sciences or Engineering to view by department. 3/16/2015 4:14:26 PM Office of the Registrar, The Johns Hopkins University Page 1 of 321 School of Arts and Sciences and Engineering Fall 2015 Term Course Schedule WIN\grauenz1 Anthropology Crse Sect Area WI Title Credits Limit Day/Time AS.070.113 01 HS Freshman Seminar: Water and Collective Life 3.00 18 W 1:30-3:50PM Pandian, Anand This course explores the place of water in human collective life, religious practice, cultural identity, and political aspiration. Students will learn basic ethnographic methodologies and writing strategies through both seminar discussions and class fieldtrips to water sources and sites in and around Baltimore. Some seminar discussions and fieldtrips will be carried out jointly with the freshman seminar in Political Science 090.199 ("Politics of Water") AS.070.132 01 HS Invitation to Anthropology 3.00 60 TTh 10:30-11:45AM Han, Clara The screen that brings you last night’s Instagrams and celebrity gossip also flashes glimpses of melting icecaps and burning rubble. These are complex times for human beings, both exhilarating and deeply unsettling. This course introduces anthropology as a way of reflecting on the challenges of contemporary life around the globe, focusing on themes such as faith, war, technology, money and ecology. AS.070.317 01 HS W Methods 3.00 15 TTh 1:30-2:45PM Khan, Naveeda Topic: Understanding Baltimore. This course aims to teach basic fieldwork skills: Choosing and entering a community; establishing contacts; learning to listen and to ask questions and locating archival material that might be relevant. It is a hands-on course that will focus on the Arts District North Station in Baltimore. Required course background: two or more prior courses in anthropology (not cross-listed courses). Course is a requirement for anthropology majors. AS.130.102 01 H W From the Neanderthals to the Neolithic 3.00 50 TTh 1:30-2:45PM McCarter, Susan Emphasizing theories about human biological and cultural development, this course consists of an in-depth survey of Neanderthal morphology and culture, a brief discussion of evolutionary theory and our fossil ancestors, and concludes with an exploration of the mechanisms and results of the shift from hunting and gathering to farming. (Course formerly known as Introduction: Human Prehistory.) Cross-listed with Anthropology. AS.130.110 01 HS Introduction To Archaeology 3.00 80 TTh 10:30-11:45AM Schwartz, Glenn M An introduction to archaeology and to archaeological method and theory, exploring how archaeologists excavate, analyze, and interpret ancient remains in order to reconstruct how ancient societies functioned. Specific examples from a variety of archaeological projects in different parts of the world will be used to illustrate techniques and principles discussed. Cross-listed with Anthropology. AS.130.177 01 HS World Prehistory 3.00 35 TTh 12:00-1:15PM Harrower, Michael James 3/16/2015 4:14:26 PM Office of the Registrar, The Johns Hopkins University Page 2 of 321 School of Arts and Sciences and Engineering Fall 2015 Term Course Schedule WIN\grauenz1 Anthropology Crse Sect Area WI Title Credits Limit Day/Time How and why did our nomadic hunting and gathering ancestors become farmers? What led agricultural societies to build cities, develop writing, religious institutions, wage war, and trade for exotic goods? This course surveys prehistory and ancient history from the origins of human culture to the emergence civilization. Although prehistory and ancient history yield evidence of tremendous cultural diversity this course emphasizes common elements of past human experience, culture, and culture change. These include the origins of modern humans and their adjustment to a variety of post-ice age environments, shifts from hunting and gathering to agricultural lifeways, and the initial development of the world’s earliest cities and civilizations. AS.130.376 01 H Ancient Ritual 3.00 30 MW 3:00-4:15PM Delnero, Paul This course will introduce students to the vast body of rituals that were practiced and performed in antiquity, with a particular emphasis on rituals from ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Hebrew Bible. In addition to examining rituals from a comparative perspective, anthropological and sociological studies of ritual will be read and discussed to shed light on the social, cultural, and political significance of ritual in the ancient world and beyond. AS.140.343 01 HS What it Means to be Human: Perspectives in 3.00 15 MW 1:30-2:45PM the History of Anthropology, 1860-1995 Link, Adrianna Halina This course explores the changing scientific, social, and cultural ideas that shaped how anthropologists and other scholars approached the study of human beings from the mid-nineteenth through the twentieth centuries. AS.310.115 01 H Ghost Tales from China and Japan, 14th-19th 3.00 25 MW 3:00-4:15PM Centuries Joo, Fumiko We cannot express our own experience of death – only imagine life after death. How did people in the past conceptualize the world of the dead? Ghost tales will teach us what we imagine as the experience of dead and life after death. This course aims to introduce students to a variety of ghost stories in Late Imperial China and Tokugawa Japan and connect their literary imagination of the dead to the cultural, socio-historical, and religious context of each society as well as to the broad East Asian tradition of supernatural narratives. While we also touch upon earlier traditions on narrating the dead, most of the stories in class readings are from the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644- 1911) dynasties of China, and the Tokugawa period (1600-1868) of Japan. Key issues include family, gender, sexuality, body, medicine and many more. Although we will also take a look at visual and theatrical representations of the dead, we will primarily focus on literary texts about ghostly phenomena. Film screenings required. All readings are in English. 3/16/2015 4:14:26 PM Office of the Registrar, The Johns Hopkins University Page 3 of 321 School of Arts and Sciences and Engineering Fall 2015 Term Course Schedule WIN\grauenz1 Anthropology Crse Sect Area WI Title Credits Limit Day/Time AS.389.201 01 HS Introduction to the Museum: Past and 3.00 25 TTh 1:30-2:45PM Present Kingsley, Jennifer P This course surveys museums, from their origins to their most contemporary forms, in the context of broader historical, intellectual, and cultural trends. Anthropology, art, history, and science museums are considered. Cross-listed with Anthropology, History, and History of Art. AS.389.353 01 H W Revolutions of the Book: Material Culture & 3.00 15 T 3:00-5:30PM the Transformation of Knowledge from Antiquity to the Renaissance Havens, Earle Explores the material culture of knowledge through transformations in the technologies and arts of communication, taught entirely from rare books, manuscripts, and artifacts in JHU libraries and museum collections. EN.570.147 01 HS W Adam Smith & Karl Marx 3.00 25 W 4:00-7:00PM Schoenberger, Erica Smith and Marx are iconic figures in the history of political economic thought, often cited, rarely read. They are positioned as polar opposites in highly consequential debates about how society should be ordered. In this class, we will read and discuss their work, closely and carefully. We concentrate on the two iconic texts – The Wealth of Nations and Capital, Vol. 1 – but also explore some of their less well-known writings. Freshmen Only. 3/16/2015 4:14:26 PM Office of the Registrar, The Johns Hopkins University Page 4 of 321 School of Arts and Sciences and Engineering Fall 2015 Term Course Schedule WIN\grauenz1 Art Crse Sect Area WI Title Credits Limit Day/Time AS.371.131 01 Studio Drawing I 2.00 15 T 1:30-4:50PM Hankin, Craig This course focuses on developing fundamental drawing skills for the student with little or no previous studio experience. Basic concepts of form and composition will be taught through exercises based on the book, Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain, and with the aid of still-life setups and live models. Attendance at 1st class is mandatory. AS.371.131 02 Studio Drawing I 2.00 15 Th 1:30-4:50PM AS.371.133 01 Painting Workshop I 2.00 12 W 1:30-4:50PM Hankin, Craig This course offers the fundamentals of oil painting techniques for the serious student with minimal prior studio experience. Observational skills are taught through the extensive use of still-life setups, with particular attention paid to issues of light, color, and composition. Slide lectures and a museum trip give students an art historical context in which to place their own discoveries as beginning painters. AS.371.134 01 Painting Workshop II 2.00 12 Th 1:30-5:00PM Gruber, Barbara Students who have mastered basic painting skills undertake sustained projects, including portrait and plein air landscape work. Slide lectures and handouts deepen students' appreciation of representational traditions. Advanced techniques, materials, and compositional issues are also investigated. Recommended Course Background: AS.371.133 or equivalent. AS.371.149 01 H Visual Reality 3.00 12 F 1:30-4:20PM Bakker, D.S. In art, "Realism" is a simulation of visual reality. But art can also simulate alternative realities, those realities or truths which exist only in daydreams or nightmares. In this class, we will learn to explore and create representations of these additional moments of existence.