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Course # (Section)
Title
Day/Times
Instructor
Room
PosTag(s)
Info
AS.300.336 (01)
Forms of Moral Community: The Contemporary World Novel
MW 12:00PM - 1:30PM
Ong, Yi-Ping
Forms of Moral Community: The Contemporary World Novel AS.300.336 (01)
Literary and philosophical imaginations of moral community in the post-WWII period (1950-2001). Texts include: Coetzee, Disgrace; McEwan, Atonement; Achebe, Things Fall Apart; Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World; Roy, The God of Small Things; Lessing, The Grass is Singing; Mistry, A Fine Balance; Morrison, Beloved; and essays by Levi, Strawson, Adorno, Murdoch, and Beauvoir on the deep uncertainty over moral community after the crisis of World War II. Close attention to novelistic style and narrative will inform our study of the philosophical questions that animate these works. What does it means to acknowledge another person’s humanity? Who are the members of a moral community? Why do we hold one another responsible for our actions? How do fundamental moral emotions such as contempt, humiliation, compassion, gratitude, forgiveness, and regret reveal the limits of a moral community?
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:30PM
Instructor: Ong, Yi-Ping
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 20/20
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.300.337 (01)
The Tragic Tradition
TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Lisi, Leonardo
The Tragic Tradition AS.300.337 (01)
This course offers a broad survey of tragic drama in the Western tradition, from its origins in ancient Greece to the twentieth century. In weekly lectures and discussion sections, we will study the specific literary features and historical contexts of a range of different works, and trace the continuities and transformations that shape them into a unified tradition. Key questions and themes throughout the semester will include what counts as tragic, the tragedy of social and political conflict, the bearing of tragedy on the meaning and value of life, the antagonistic relation between world and humans, the promises and dangers of tragedy for contemporary culture. Authors to be studied: Sophocles, Euripides, Seneca, Shakespeare, Racine, Goethe, Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekov, Brecht, Pirandello, and Beckett.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Instructor: Lisi, Leonardo
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 7/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.211.333 (01)
Representing the Holocaust
W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Spinner, Samuel Jacob
INST-GLOBAL, GRLL-ENGL
Representing the Holocaust AS.211.333 (01)
How has the Holocaust been represented in literature and film? Are there special challenges posed by genocide to the traditions of visual and literary representation? Where does the Holocaust fit in to the array of concerns that the visual arts and literature express? And where do art and literature fit in to the commemoration of communal tragedy and the working through of individual trauma entailed by thinking about and representing the Holocaust? These questions will guide our consideration of a range of texts — nonfiction, novels, poetry — in Yiddish, German, English, French and other languages (including works by Primo Levi and Isaac Bashevis Singer), as well as films from French documentaries to Hollywood blockbusters (including films by Alain Resnais, Claude Lanzmann, and Steven Spielberg). All readings in English.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Spinner, Samuel Jacob
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/15
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, GRLL-ENGL
AS.300.323 (01)
Shakespeare and Ibsen
Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Lisi, Leonardo
Shakespeare and Ibsen AS.300.323 (01)
William Shakespeare and Henrik Ibsen are the two most frequently performed playwrights in history, and both have been credited with reinventing drama: Shakespeare for the Elizabethan stage and Ibsen for the modern. In this course we will pair together plays by each author – those that stand in an explicit relation of influence as well as those that share a significant set of concerns – in order to investigate how each takes up and transform key problems in the literary, political, and philosophical tradition for their own historical moment. Plays to be studied: by Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, The Tempest, A Winter’s Tale; by Ibsen, St. John’s Night, Hedda Gabler, Rosmersholm, The Wild Duck, The Master Builder, When We Dead Awaken.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Lisi, Leonardo
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 6/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.300.311 (01)
Introduction to Intellectual History
TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Marrati, Paola
INST-PT
Introduction to Intellectual History AS.300.311 (01)
This course offers a conceptual and historical introduction to Intellectual History. What makes the “history of ideas” different from the history of other objects? What, if anything, distinguishes the history of ideas from the history of philosophy? What is it exactly that we call “ideas”? In what sense do they have a history? These are examples of the kind of questions addressed in the course.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Marrati, Paola
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 18/25
PosTag(s): INST-PT
AS.213.374 (01)
Existentialism in Literature and Philosophy
T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Gosetti, Jennifer Anna
GRLL-ENGL
Existentialism in Literature and Philosophy AS.213.374 (01)
This course explores the themes of existentialism, including the meaning of existence, the nature of the self, authenticity and inauthenticity, the inescapability of death, the experience of time, anxiety, freedom and responsibility to others, in literary and philosophical works. It will be examined why these philosophical ideas often seem to demand literary expression, or bear a close relation to literary works. Readings may include writings by Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Heidegger, Rilke, Kafka, Simmel, Jaspers, Buber, Sartre, de Beauvoir, and Camus.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Gosetti, Jennifer Anna
Room:
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/15
PosTag(s): GRLL-ENGL
AS.300.223 (01)
Philosophy and Infinity.
T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Host, Alexander Stoltzfus
Philosophy and Infinity. AS.300.223 (01)
What is the infinite? Can we comprehend it? Can we experience it? In this course we will explore various ways in which philosophers in the western tradition have answered questions such as these. In the first half of the semester, we will examine theoretical treatments of the infinite that inform how we understand the fabric of our world, from the ordinary objects around us to more sublime concepts of God, space, time, and mathematics. In the second half, we will turn to arguments in aesthetics and ethics that reveal an interplay between infinity and finitude occurring before our very eyes. Philosophers we will cover include Descartes, Spinoza, Locke, Kant, Hegel, Russell, Levinas, and Arendt. Throughout, we will ask such fundamental questions as, what is the starting point of philosophy? what is its methodology? what can it achieve in terms of knowledge? and in terms of practice?
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Host, Alexander Stoltzfus
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 14/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.150.400 (01)
Simone de Beauvoir
W 4:00PM - 6:30PM
Staff
PHIL-ETHICS, GRLL-ENGL
Simone de Beauvoir AS.150.400 (01)
Seminar on Beauvoir’s moral philosophy, covering the major works of the 1940s. Readings will include selections from The Blood of Others, Pyrrhus and Cineas, All Men are Mortal, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Second Sex. Open to graduate students and advanced undergraduates. (Beginning undergraduates should contact Professor Kosch.) No prerequisites.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: W 4:00PM - 6:30PM
Instructor: Staff
Room:
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available: 3/15
PosTag(s): PHIL-ETHICS, GRLL-ENGL
AS.300.429 (01)
Literature of the Everyday
F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Ong, Yi-Ping
Literature of the Everyday AS.300.429 (01)
The ordinary, the common, the everyday: why does literary realism consider the experiences of the average individual to be worthy of serious contemplation? In this course, we will read closely a set of novels by Flaubert, Mann, Dickens, Zola, Tolstoy, and Woolf from the period in which the development of realism reaches it climax. These novels transform the conventions for the representation of lives of lower and middle class subjects, revealing such lives as capable of prompting reflection upon deep and serious questions of human existence.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Ong, Yi-Ping
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 14/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.300.317 (01)
The Russian Novel
None 1:30PM - 4:00PM, W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Eakin Moss, Anne
INST-GLOBAL
The Russian Novel AS.300.317 (01)
This course introduces students to the nineteenth century Russian novel and considers its lasting impact on world culture. We will read classic masterpieces of the psychological and philosophical novel, and their experimental forerunners. Short lectures on historical and cultural context and on methods of literary analysis will be combined with intensive group discussion. Novels include Anna Karenina, Crime and Punishment, Eugene Onegin, Dead Souls, and Hero of our Time.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: None 1:30PM - 4:00PM, W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Eakin Moss, Anne
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 11/15
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL
AS.371.152 (02)
Introduction to Digital Photography
Th 2:00PM - 4:50PM
Berger, Phyllis A
Mattin Center 204
Introduction to Digital Photography AS.371.152 (02)
Students learn to use their digital cameras through a variety of documentary, landscape and portrait projects, which will help them develop technical and creative skills. Critiques and slide lectures of historic photographs, which range from postmortem daguerreotypes to postmodern digital imagery, help students develop a personal vision. Students are provided digital SLR cameras and gain proficiency with one-on-one instruction in the field. Basics for print adjustment and output will be covered. Attendance at first class is mandatory. Approval for this course will be considered after enrollment on SIS.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: Th 2:00PM - 4:50PM
Instructor: Berger, Phyllis A
Room: Mattin Center 204
Status: Reserved Open
Seats Available: 5/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.300.310 (01)
Imagining Social Change in TV Series
TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Mccreary, Michael D
Gilman 50
Imagining Social Change in TV Series AS.300.310 (01)
How can the imagined worlds of television help us critically reflect on the social and political realities of modern life? This class will look at TV series that offer different ways for their viewers to consider the question: What are the possibilities and limits for social change in the twenty-first century? Each week, selections from a TV series will be paired with a reading from philosophy,
literary theory, media studies, political science, theology, or another related field that responds to similar themes and concerns. Our seminar will be discussion-based, and the TV series we watch will be determined by the interests of those in the class, but may include: Atlanta, Euphoria, The Handmaid’s Tale, Black Mirror, House of Flowers, Dear White People, The Good
Place, and BoJack Horseman.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Instructor: Mccreary, Michael D
Room: Gilman 50
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/18
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.360.133 (03)
Freshman Seminar: Great Books at Hopkins
TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Patton, Elizabeth, Spinner, Samuel Jacob
Freshman Seminar: Great Books at Hopkins AS.360.133 (03)
Students attend lectures by an interdepartmental group of Hopkins faculty and meet for discussion in smaller seminar groups; each of these seminars is led by one of the course faculty. In lectures, panels, multimedia presentations, and curatorial sessions among the University's rare book holdings, we will explore some of the greatest works of the literary and philosophical traditions in Europe and the Americas. Close reading and intensive writing instruction are hallmarks of this course; authors for Fall 2020 include Homer, Dante, Milton, Mary Shelley, Frederick Douglass, and Virginia Woolf.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Instructor: Patton, Elizabeth, Spinner, Samuel Jacob
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 15/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.300.341 (01)
Transwar Japanese and Japanophone Literatures
F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Hashimoto, Satoru
INST-GLOBAL
Transwar Japanese and Japanophone Literatures AS.300.341 (01)
A survey of Japanese and Japanese- language literatures produced in Japan and its (former)colonies during the “transwar” period, or the several years before and after the end of WWII. This periodization enables us to take into account the shifting boundaries, sovereignties, and identities amid the intensification of Japanese imperialism and in the aftermath of its eventual demise. We aim to pay particular attention to voices marginalized in this political watershed, such as those of Japanese-language writers from colonial Korea and Taiwan, intra-imperial migrants, and radical critics of Japan’s “postwar” regime. Underlying our investigation is the question of whether literature can be an agent of justice when politics fails to deliver it. We will introduce secondary readings by Adorno, Arendt, Levinas, Derrida, and Scarry, among others, to help us interrogate this question. All readings are in English.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Hashimoto, Satoru
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/15
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL
AS.360.133 (01)
Freshman Seminar: Great Books at Hopkins
TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Patton, Elizabeth
Freshman Seminar: Great Books at Hopkins AS.360.133 (01)
Students attend lectures by an interdepartmental group of Hopkins faculty and meet for discussion in smaller seminar groups; each of these seminars is led by one of the course faculty. In lectures, panels, multimedia presentations, and curatorial sessions among the University's rare book holdings, we will explore some of the greatest works of the literary and philosophical traditions in Europe and the Americas. Close reading and intensive writing instruction are hallmarks of this course; authors for Fall 2020 include Homer, Dante, Milton, Mary Shelley, Frederick Douglass, and Virginia Woolf.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Instructor: Patton, Elizabeth
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 15/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.360.133 (02)
Freshman Seminar: Great Books at Hopkins
TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Bett, Richard, Patton, Elizabeth
Freshman Seminar: Great Books at Hopkins AS.360.133 (02)
Students attend lectures by an interdepartmental group of Hopkins faculty and meet for discussion in smaller seminar groups; each of these seminars is led by one of the course faculty. In lectures, panels, multimedia presentations, and curatorial sessions among the University's rare book holdings, we will explore some of the greatest works of the literary and philosophical traditions in Europe and the Americas. Close reading and intensive writing instruction are hallmarks of this course; authors for Fall 2020 include Homer, Dante, Milton, Mary Shelley, Frederick Douglass, and Virginia Woolf.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Instructor: Bett, Richard, Patton, Elizabeth
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 15/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.300.343 (01)
The Cinema of Revolution
None 3:00PM - 5:30PM, T 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Eakin Moss, Anne
Shaffer 301
INST-GLOBAL
The Cinema of Revolution AS.300.343 (01)
This course examines global political revolutions through cinema and the ways in which cinema helped to make political revolutions. Early cinema was intimately intertwined with the Russian revolution, and Russian revolutionary cinema had a profound impact on the ways in which media was used for revolutionary purposes through the 20th century and around the world. Students will be introduced to films from a number of different countries, and the history and context of their production and reception. They will also learn methods of film analysis and produce their own video essay.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: None 3:00PM - 5:30PM, T 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Instructor: Eakin Moss, Anne
Room: Shaffer 301
Status: Open
Seats Available: 14/15
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL
AS.300.399 (01)
Cinema and Philosophy
MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Marrati, Paola
Cinema and Philosophy AS.300.399 (01)
Do movies have anything to say about philosophical problems? Why is contemporary philosophy so interested in cinema? What are the most productive ways of bringing films and philosophy into conversation?
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Instructor: Marrati, Paola
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 19/25
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.360.133 (04)
Freshman Seminar: Great Books at Hopkins
TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Patton, Elizabeth, Reese, Matthew
Freshman Seminar: Great Books at Hopkins AS.360.133 (04)
Students attend lectures by an interdepartmental group of Hopkins faculty and meet for discussion in smaller seminar groups; each of these seminars is led by one of the course faculty. In lectures, panels, multimedia presentations, and curatorial sessions among the University's rare book holdings, we will explore some of the greatest works of the literary and philosophical traditions in Europe and the Americas. Close reading and intensive writing instruction are hallmarks of this course; authors for Fall 2020 include Homer, Dante, Milton, Mary Shelley, Frederick Douglass, and Virginia Woolf.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Instructor: Patton, Elizabeth, Reese, Matthew
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 15/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.371.152 (01)
Introduction to Digital Photography
Th 10:00AM - 12:50PM
Berger, Phyllis A
Mattin Center 204
Introduction to Digital Photography AS.371.152 (01)
Students learn to use their digital cameras through a variety of documentary, landscape and portrait projects, which will help them develop technical and creative skills. Critiques and slide lectures of historic photographs, which range from postmortem daguerreotypes to postmodern digital imagery, help students develop a personal vision. Students are provided digital SLR cameras and gain proficiency with one-on-one instruction in the field. Basics for print adjustment and output will be covered. Attendance at first class is mandatory. Approval for this course will be considered after enrollment on SIS.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: Th 10:00AM - 12:50PM
Instructor: Berger, Phyllis A
Room: Mattin Center 204
Status: Reserved Open
Seats Available: 1/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.371.303 (01)
Documentary Photography
M 2:00PM - 4:50PM
Staff
Mattin Center 204
Documentary Photography AS.371.303 (01)
In this course, we will explore different genres of documentary photography including: the fine art document, photojournalism, social documentary photography, the photo essay and photography of propaganda. Field trips offer opportunities to explore Baltimore neighborhoods such as
Waverly, Greenmount Avenue, and Baltimore’s old Chinatown. Students will work on a semester-long photo-documentary project on a subject of their choice. Camera experience is a plus, but not a prerequisite. Digital SLRs are available on loan for the semester. Attendance at first class is mandatory. Approval in this course will be considered after enrollment in SIS.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: M 2:00PM - 4:50PM
Instructor: Staff
Room: Mattin Center 204
Status: Reserved Open
Seats Available: 2/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.371.162 (02)
Black and White: Digital Darkroom
F 2:00PM - 4:50PM
Berger, Phyllis A
Mattin Center 204
Black and White: Digital Darkroom AS.371.162 (02)
In this digital course, students explore the black-and-white aesthetic. They develop camera skills on numerous field trips and local walks.
Students meet frequently for critiques and discussions based on historic and contemporary imagery. Techniques such as high dynamic range, and infrared are covered. Emphasis is on composition and developing a photographic style with shooting and post processing. Students are encouraged to make work that is meaningful to them and which communicates its intent to their audience. Camera experience is a plus, but not a prerequisite. Digital SLRs are available on loan for the semester. Attendance in first class is mandatory. Approval in this course will be considered after enrollment in SIS.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: F 2:00PM - 4:50PM
Instructor: Berger, Phyllis A
Room: Mattin Center 204
Status: Reserved Open
Seats Available: 3/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.371.162 (01)
Black and White: Digital Darkroom
F 10:00AM - 12:50PM
Berger, Phyllis A
Mattin Center 204
Black and White: Digital Darkroom AS.371.162 (01)
In this digital course, students explore the black-and-white aesthetic. They develop camera skills on numerous field trips and local walks.
Students meet frequently for critiques and discussions based on historic and contemporary imagery. Techniques such as high dynamic range, and infrared are covered. Emphasis is on composition and developing a photographic style with shooting and post processing. Students are encouraged to make work that is meaningful to them and which communicates its intent to their audience. Camera experience is a plus, but not a prerequisite. Digital SLRs are available on loan for the semester. Attendance in first class is mandatory. Approval in this course will be considered after enrollment in SIS.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: F 10:00AM - 12:50PM
Instructor: Berger, Phyllis A
Room: Mattin Center 204
Status: Reserved Open
Seats Available: 3/10
PosTag(s): n/a
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Course # (Section)
Title
Day/Times
Instructor
Room
PosTag(s)
Info
AS.213.374 (01)
Existentialism in Literature and Philosophy
T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Gosetti, Jennifer Anna
GRLL-ENGL
Existentialism in Literature and Philosophy AS.213.374 (01)
This course explores the themes of existentialism, including the meaning of existence, the nature of the self, authenticity and inauthenticity, the inescapability of death, the experience of time, anxiety, freedom and responsibility to others, in literary and philosophical works. It will be examined why these philosophical ideas often seem to demand literary expression, or bear a close relation to literary works. Readings may include writings by Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Heidegger, Rilke, Kafka, Simmel, Jaspers, Buber, Sartre, de Beauvoir, and Camus.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Gosetti, Jennifer Anna
Room:
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/15
PosTag(s): GRLL-ENGL
AS.300.311 (01)
Introduction to Intellectual History
TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Marrati, Paola
INST-PT
Introduction to Intellectual History AS.300.311 (01)
This course offers a conceptual and historical introduction to Intellectual History. What makes the “history of ideas” different from the history of other objects? What, if anything, distinguishes the history of ideas from the history of philosophy? What is it exactly that we call “ideas”? In what sense do they have a history? These are examples of the kind of questions addressed in the course.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Marrati, Paola
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 18/25
PosTag(s): INST-PT
AS.211.333 (01)
Representing the Holocaust
W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Spinner, Samuel Jacob
INST-GLOBAL, GRLL-ENGL
Representing the Holocaust AS.211.333 (01)
How has the Holocaust been represented in literature and film? Are there special challenges posed by genocide to the traditions of visual and literary representation? Where does the Holocaust fit in to the array of concerns that the visual arts and literature express? And where do art and literature fit in to the commemoration of communal tragedy and the working through of individual trauma entailed by thinking about and representing the Holocaust? These questions will guide our consideration of a range of texts — nonfiction, novels, poetry — in Yiddish, German, English, French and other languages (including works by Primo Levi and Isaac Bashevis Singer), as well as films from French documentaries to Hollywood blockbusters (including films by Alain Resnais, Claude Lanzmann, and Steven Spielberg). All readings in English.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Spinner, Samuel Jacob
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/15
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, GRLL-ENGL
AS.300.323 (01)
Shakespeare and Ibsen
Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Lisi, Leonardo
Shakespeare and Ibsen AS.300.323 (01)
William Shakespeare and Henrik Ibsen are the two most frequently performed playwrights in history, and both have been credited with reinventing drama: Shakespeare for the Elizabethan stage and Ibsen for the modern. In this course we will pair together plays by each author – those that stand in an explicit relation of influence as well as those that share a significant set of concerns – in order to investigate how each takes up and transform key problems in the literary, political, and philosophical tradition for their own historical moment. Plays to be studied: by Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, The Tempest, A Winter’s Tale; by Ibsen, St. John’s Night, Hedda Gabler, Rosmersholm, The Wild Duck, The Master Builder, When We Dead Awaken.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Lisi, Leonardo
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 6/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.300.223 (01)
Philosophy and Infinity.
T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Host, Alexander Stoltzfus
Philosophy and Infinity. AS.300.223 (01)
What is the infinite? Can we comprehend it? Can we experience it? In this course we will explore various ways in which philosophers in the western tradition have answered questions such as these. In the first half of the semester, we will examine theoretical treatments of the infinite that inform how we understand the fabric of our world, from the ordinary objects around us to more sublime concepts of God, space, time, and mathematics. In the second half, we will turn to arguments in aesthetics and ethics that reveal an interplay between infinity and finitude occurring before our very eyes. Philosophers we will cover include Descartes, Spinoza, Locke, Kant, Hegel, Russell, Levinas, and Arendt. Throughout, we will ask such fundamental questions as, what is the starting point of philosophy? what is its methodology? what can it achieve in terms of knowledge? and in terms of practice?
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Host, Alexander Stoltzfus
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 14/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.300.336 (01)
Forms of Moral Community: The Contemporary World Novel
MW 12:00PM - 1:30PM
Ong, Yi-Ping
Forms of Moral Community: The Contemporary World Novel AS.300.336 (01)
Literary and philosophical imaginations of moral community in the post-WWII period (1950-2001). Texts include: Coetzee, Disgrace; McEwan, Atonement; Achebe, Things Fall Apart; Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World; Roy, The God of Small Things; Lessing, The Grass is Singing; Mistry, A Fine Balance; Morrison, Beloved; and essays by Levi, Strawson, Adorno, Murdoch, and Beauvoir on the deep uncertainty over moral community after the crisis of World War II. Close attention to novelistic style and narrative will inform our study of the philosophical questions that animate these works. What does it means to acknowledge another person’s humanity? Who are the members of a moral community? Why do we hold one another responsible for our actions? How do fundamental moral emotions such as contempt, humiliation, compassion, gratitude, forgiveness, and regret reveal the limits of a moral community?
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:30PM
Instructor: Ong, Yi-Ping
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 20/20
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.150.400 (01)
Simone de Beauvoir
W 4:00PM - 6:30PM
Staff
PHIL-ETHICS, GRLL-ENGL
Simone de Beauvoir AS.150.400 (01)
Seminar on Beauvoir’s moral philosophy, covering the major works of the 1940s. Readings will include selections from The Blood of Others, Pyrrhus and Cineas, All Men are Mortal, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Second Sex. Open to graduate students and advanced undergraduates. (Beginning undergraduates should contact Professor Kosch.) No prerequisites.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: W 4:00PM - 6:30PM
Instructor: Staff
Room:
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available: 3/15
PosTag(s): PHIL-ETHICS, GRLL-ENGL
AS.300.337 (01)
The Tragic Tradition
TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Lisi, Leonardo
The Tragic Tradition AS.300.337 (01)
This course offers a broad survey of tragic drama in the Western tradition, from its origins in ancient Greece to the twentieth century. In weekly lectures and discussion sections, we will study the specific literary features and historical contexts of a range of different works, and trace the continuities and transformations that shape them into a unified tradition. Key questions and themes throughout the semester will include what counts as tragic, the tragedy of social and political conflict, the bearing of tragedy on the meaning and value of life, the antagonistic relation between world and humans, the promises and dangers of tragedy for contemporary culture. Authors to be studied: Sophocles, Euripides, Seneca, Shakespeare, Racine, Goethe, Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekov, Brecht, Pirandello, and Beckett.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Instructor: Lisi, Leonardo
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 7/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.300.341 (01)
Transwar Japanese and Japanophone Literatures
F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Hashimoto, Satoru
INST-GLOBAL
Transwar Japanese and Japanophone Literatures AS.300.341 (01)
A survey of Japanese and Japanese- language literatures produced in Japan and its (former)colonies during the “transwar” period, or the several years before and after the end of WWII. This periodization enables us to take into account the shifting boundaries, sovereignties, and identities amid the intensification of Japanese imperialism and in the aftermath of its eventual demise. We aim to pay particular attention to voices marginalized in this political watershed, such as those of Japanese-language writers from colonial Korea and Taiwan, intra-imperial migrants, and radical critics of Japan’s “postwar” regime. Underlying our investigation is the question of whether literature can be an agent of justice when politics fails to deliver it. We will introduce secondary readings by Adorno, Arendt, Levinas, Derrida, and Scarry, among others, to help us interrogate this question. All readings are in English.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Hashimoto, Satoru
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/15
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL
AS.300.317 (01)
The Russian Novel
None 1:30PM - 4:00PM, W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Eakin Moss, Anne
INST-GLOBAL
The Russian Novel AS.300.317 (01)
This course introduces students to the nineteenth century Russian novel and considers its lasting impact on world culture. We will read classic masterpieces of the psychological and philosophical novel, and their experimental forerunners. Short lectures on historical and cultural context and on methods of literary analysis will be combined with intensive group discussion. Novels include Anna Karenina, Crime and Punishment, Eugene Onegin, Dead Souls, and Hero of our Time.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: None 1:30PM - 4:00PM, W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Eakin Moss, Anne
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 11/15
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL
AS.300.343 (01)
The Cinema of Revolution
None 3:00PM - 5:30PM, T 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Eakin Moss, Anne
Shaffer 301
INST-GLOBAL
The Cinema of Revolution AS.300.343 (01)
This course examines global political revolutions through cinema and the ways in which cinema helped to make political revolutions. Early cinema was intimately intertwined with the Russian revolution, and Russian revolutionary cinema had a profound impact on the ways in which media was used for revolutionary purposes through the 20th century and around the world. Students will be introduced to films from a number of different countries, and the history and context of their production and reception. They will also learn methods of film analysis and produce their own video essay.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: None 3:00PM - 5:30PM, T 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Instructor: Eakin Moss, Anne
Room: Shaffer 301
Status: Open
Seats Available: 14/15
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL
AS.371.162 (01)
Black and White: Digital Darkroom
F 10:00AM - 12:50PM
Berger, Phyllis A
Mattin Center 204
Black and White: Digital Darkroom AS.371.162 (01)
In this digital course, students explore the black-and-white aesthetic. They develop camera skills on numerous field trips and local walks.
Students meet frequently for critiques and discussions based on historic and contemporary imagery. Techniques such as high dynamic range, and infrared are covered. Emphasis is on composition and developing a photographic style with shooting and post processing. Students are encouraged to make work that is meaningful to them and which communicates its intent to their audience. Camera experience is a plus, but not a prerequisite. Digital SLRs are available on loan for the semester. Attendance in first class is mandatory. Approval in this course will be considered after enrollment in SIS.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: F 10:00AM - 12:50PM
Instructor: Berger, Phyllis A
Room: Mattin Center 204
Status: Reserved Open
Seats Available: 3/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.300.310 (01)
Imagining Social Change in TV Series
TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Mccreary, Michael D
Gilman 50
Imagining Social Change in TV Series AS.300.310 (01)
How can the imagined worlds of television help us critically reflect on the social and political realities of modern life? This class will look at TV series that offer different ways for their viewers to consider the question: What are the possibilities and limits for social change in the twenty-first century? Each week, selections from a TV series will be paired with a reading from philosophy,
literary theory, media studies, political science, theology, or another related field that responds to similar themes and concerns. Our seminar will be discussion-based, and the TV series we watch will be determined by the interests of those in the class, but may include: Atlanta, Euphoria, The Handmaid’s Tale, Black Mirror, House of Flowers, Dear White People, The Good
Place, and BoJack Horseman.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Instructor: Mccreary, Michael D
Room: Gilman 50
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/18
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.300.429 (01)
Literature of the Everyday
F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Ong, Yi-Ping
Literature of the Everyday AS.300.429 (01)
The ordinary, the common, the everyday: why does literary realism consider the experiences of the average individual to be worthy of serious contemplation? In this course, we will read closely a set of novels by Flaubert, Mann, Dickens, Zola, Tolstoy, and Woolf from the period in which the development of realism reaches it climax. These novels transform the conventions for the representation of lives of lower and middle class subjects, revealing such lives as capable of prompting reflection upon deep and serious questions of human existence.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Ong, Yi-Ping
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 14/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.360.133 (01)
Freshman Seminar: Great Books at Hopkins
TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Patton, Elizabeth
Freshman Seminar: Great Books at Hopkins AS.360.133 (01)
Students attend lectures by an interdepartmental group of Hopkins faculty and meet for discussion in smaller seminar groups; each of these seminars is led by one of the course faculty. In lectures, panels, multimedia presentations, and curatorial sessions among the University's rare book holdings, we will explore some of the greatest works of the literary and philosophical traditions in Europe and the Americas. Close reading and intensive writing instruction are hallmarks of this course; authors for Fall 2020 include Homer, Dante, Milton, Mary Shelley, Frederick Douglass, and Virginia Woolf.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Instructor: Patton, Elizabeth
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 15/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.360.133 (02)
Freshman Seminar: Great Books at Hopkins
TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Bett, Richard, Patton, Elizabeth
Freshman Seminar: Great Books at Hopkins AS.360.133 (02)
Students attend lectures by an interdepartmental group of Hopkins faculty and meet for discussion in smaller seminar groups; each of these seminars is led by one of the course faculty. In lectures, panels, multimedia presentations, and curatorial sessions among the University's rare book holdings, we will explore some of the greatest works of the literary and philosophical traditions in Europe and the Americas. Close reading and intensive writing instruction are hallmarks of this course; authors for Fall 2020 include Homer, Dante, Milton, Mary Shelley, Frederick Douglass, and Virginia Woolf.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Instructor: Bett, Richard, Patton, Elizabeth
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 15/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.360.133 (03)
Freshman Seminar: Great Books at Hopkins
TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Patton, Elizabeth, Spinner, Samuel Jacob
Freshman Seminar: Great Books at Hopkins AS.360.133 (03)
Students attend lectures by an interdepartmental group of Hopkins faculty and meet for discussion in smaller seminar groups; each of these seminars is led by one of the course faculty. In lectures, panels, multimedia presentations, and curatorial sessions among the University's rare book holdings, we will explore some of the greatest works of the literary and philosophical traditions in Europe and the Americas. Close reading and intensive writing instruction are hallmarks of this course; authors for Fall 2020 include Homer, Dante, Milton, Mary Shelley, Frederick Douglass, and Virginia Woolf.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Instructor: Patton, Elizabeth, Spinner, Samuel Jacob
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 15/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.371.152 (02)
Introduction to Digital Photography
Th 2:00PM - 4:50PM
Berger, Phyllis A
Mattin Center 204
Introduction to Digital Photography AS.371.152 (02)
Students learn to use their digital cameras through a variety of documentary, landscape and portrait projects, which will help them develop technical and creative skills. Critiques and slide lectures of historic photographs, which range from postmortem daguerreotypes to postmodern digital imagery, help students develop a personal vision. Students are provided digital SLR cameras and gain proficiency with one-on-one instruction in the field. Basics for print adjustment and output will be covered. Attendance at first class is mandatory. Approval for this course will be considered after enrollment on SIS.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: Th 2:00PM - 4:50PM
Instructor: Berger, Phyllis A
Room: Mattin Center 204
Status: Reserved Open
Seats Available: 5/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.360.133 (04)
Freshman Seminar: Great Books at Hopkins
TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Patton, Elizabeth, Reese, Matthew
Freshman Seminar: Great Books at Hopkins AS.360.133 (04)
Students attend lectures by an interdepartmental group of Hopkins faculty and meet for discussion in smaller seminar groups; each of these seminars is led by one of the course faculty. In lectures, panels, multimedia presentations, and curatorial sessions among the University's rare book holdings, we will explore some of the greatest works of the literary and philosophical traditions in Europe and the Americas. Close reading and intensive writing instruction are hallmarks of this course; authors for Fall 2020 include Homer, Dante, Milton, Mary Shelley, Frederick Douglass, and Virginia Woolf.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Instructor: Patton, Elizabeth, Reese, Matthew
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 15/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.300.399 (01)
Cinema and Philosophy
MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Marrati, Paola
Cinema and Philosophy AS.300.399 (01)
Do movies have anything to say about philosophical problems? Why is contemporary philosophy so interested in cinema? What are the most productive ways of bringing films and philosophy into conversation?
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Instructor: Marrati, Paola
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 19/25
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.371.152 (01)
Introduction to Digital Photography
Th 10:00AM - 12:50PM
Berger, Phyllis A
Mattin Center 204
Introduction to Digital Photography AS.371.152 (01)
Students learn to use their digital cameras through a variety of documentary, landscape and portrait projects, which will help them develop technical and creative skills. Critiques and slide lectures of historic photographs, which range from postmortem daguerreotypes to postmodern digital imagery, help students develop a personal vision. Students are provided digital SLR cameras and gain proficiency with one-on-one instruction in the field. Basics for print adjustment and output will be covered. Attendance at first class is mandatory. Approval for this course will be considered after enrollment on SIS.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: Th 10:00AM - 12:50PM
Instructor: Berger, Phyllis A
Room: Mattin Center 204
Status: Reserved Open
Seats Available: 1/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.371.303 (01)
Documentary Photography
M 2:00PM - 4:50PM
Staff
Mattin Center 204
Documentary Photography AS.371.303 (01)
In this course, we will explore different genres of documentary photography including: the fine art document, photojournalism, social documentary photography, the photo essay and photography of propaganda. Field trips offer opportunities to explore Baltimore neighborhoods such as
Waverly, Greenmount Avenue, and Baltimore’s old Chinatown. Students will work on a semester-long photo-documentary project on a subject of their choice. Camera experience is a plus, but not a prerequisite. Digital SLRs are available on loan for the semester. Attendance at first class is mandatory. Approval in this course will be considered after enrollment in SIS.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: M 2:00PM - 4:50PM
Instructor: Staff
Room: Mattin Center 204
Status: Reserved Open
Seats Available: 2/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.371.162 (02)
Black and White: Digital Darkroom
F 2:00PM - 4:50PM
Berger, Phyllis A
Mattin Center 204
Black and White: Digital Darkroom AS.371.162 (02)
In this digital course, students explore the black-and-white aesthetic. They develop camera skills on numerous field trips and local walks.
Students meet frequently for critiques and discussions based on historic and contemporary imagery. Techniques such as high dynamic range, and infrared are covered. Emphasis is on composition and developing a photographic style with shooting and post processing. Students are encouraged to make work that is meaningful to them and which communicates its intent to their audience. Camera experience is a plus, but not a prerequisite. Digital SLRs are available on loan for the semester. Attendance in first class is mandatory. Approval in this course will be considered after enrollment in SIS.
