Courses

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FYS: Love and its Maladies: A Short History
AS.001.196 (01)

Love is mad, love is obsessive, love can be painful or tragic, or an experience to be treasured forever. That's what books have taught us, by giving poetic souls a chance to imagine and develop romantic ideas – on paper. These books have in turn inspired films, or in earlier days, great operas. As a historian of ideas and a specialist of narrative with a keen interest in bodies, illness, and gender, I will explore with you in this First-Year Seminar a few favorite love stories. Each is chosen because it helps us uncover a universe of romantic feelings, often in conflict with social conventions (as in Romeo and Juliet for example). We meet once a week for two and half hours with a break in the middle. This format enables in-depth explorations of our texts, which will often be done in teamwork. We start with reading medium-length books, so be prepared to spend time engrossed in a novel. Later units of the course will involve film and opera. Among the readings for this class: The Legend of Tristan and Isolde, Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther; Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice; Jeanette Winterson's, Written on the Body.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: T 4:15PM - 6:45PM
  • Instructor: Ender, Evelyne
  • Room: Gilman 134
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 12/12
  • PosTag(s): n/a

FYS: Doctors and Patients: A Few Case Studies
AS.001.197 (01)

A famous, very experienced clinician used the phrase "The Soul of Care," signaling that medicine is not merely about fixing bodies. He wants to remind us that scientific knowledge involves mastery as well as empathy. "Narrative medicine" as this domain is called, assumes that the close study of stories can play a decisive role in preparing doctors for the challenging humanistic aspects of their profession. We focus in this First-Year Seminar on stories connected to medical cases, stories that can take us beyond medical questions to deeper issues connected to the human condition. Our seminar will be centered on discussions, often prepared in teams, based on your attentive close reading and research. The aim is to exercise your observational skills and imagination. What is at stake, medically and humanly speaking, is our capacity to uncover problems, dilemmas, ethical questions woven into texts that take us into the worlds of doctors and patients. Readings will involve a combination of modern and contemporary short stories, some of them more obviously fictional than others, some of them geographically or culturally more remote. Part of our study will also involve one longer text, namely When Breath Becomes Air, by Paul Kalanithi, and a small "anthology" of documents of a preparatory kind. We'll have at least one guest speaker, and also see a film together.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: MW 10:30AM - 11:45AM
  • Instructor: Ender, Evelyne
  • Room: Gilman 208
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 12/12
  • PosTag(s): n/a

The Painting of Modern Life: From the Avant-garde to the Everyday
AS.010.238 (01)

This course offers an introduction to modern European painting. Our point of departure will be Charles Baudelaire’s famous essay, “The Painter of Modern Life” (1863) in which he suggests that painting must engage the tensions that inform everyday life, in all its novelty and banality. We will put this claim to the test by approaching a constellation of key works that unlock different aspects of modern life: freedom and alienation, labor and leisure, metropole and colony, art and life, and the troubled intersections of class, race, and gender. Rather than treating the works we look at as “masterpieces” emblematic of European modernity, we will consider how they contribute to a critique of the idea of Europe and the modern project. Works studied will range from Francisco Goya’s “The Third of May 1808, or ‘The Executions’” to Hannah Höch’s “Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany,” from Édouard Manet’s “Olympia” to Carolee Schneemann’s “Up to and Including Her Limits.”

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
  • Instructor: Schopp, Caroline Lillian
  • Room: Gilman 177
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 11/20
  • PosTag(s): HART-MODERN

Ancient Greek Mythology: Art, Narratives, and Modern Mythmaking
AS.040.121 (01)

This course focuses on major and often intricate myths and mythical patterns of thought as they are reflected in compelling ancient visual and textual narratives. Being one of the greatest treasure troves of the ancient world, these myths will further be considered in light of their rich reception in the medieval and modern world (including their reception in the modern fields of anthropology and philosophy).

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: MW 4:30PM - 5:45PM
  • Instructor: Yatromanolakis, Dimitrios
  • Room: Gilman 108
  • Status: Waitlist Only
  • Seats Available: 0/15
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Islam and Dune
AS.100.338 (01)

In this course we will explore how religion in general and Islam in particular informs the world of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi novel Dune, laying particular emphasis on how the messianic and mystical tradition within Islam pervades the first novel. We will also watch excerpts from the film adaption by Denis Villeneuve, and the forthcoming second part in its entirety together in a local theater. As we do so, we will also discuss questions of Orientalism, representation, adaption, and appropriation in both the books and the films.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
  • Instructor: Noor, Rao Mohsin Ali
  • Room: Ames 218
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 3/20
  • PosTag(s): HIST-MIDEST, HIST-EUROPE

Islam and Dune
AS.100.338 (02)

In this course we will explore how religion in general and Islam in particular informs the world of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi novel Dune, laying particular emphasis on how the messianic and mystical tradition within Islam pervades the first novel. We will also watch excerpts from the film adaption by Denis Villeneuve, and the forthcoming second part in its entirety together in a local theater. As we do so, we will also discuss questions of Orientalism, representation, adaption, and appropriation in both the books and the films.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
  • Instructor: Noor, Rao Mohsin Ali
  • Room: Ames 218
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 9/20
  • PosTag(s): HIST-MIDEST, HIST-EUROPE

Introduction to Political Theory
AS.190.180 (01)

This course investigates core questions of what constitutes political freedom, what limits on freedom (if any) should be imposed by authority, adn the relationship between freedom, responsibility, and political judgement. Spanning texts ancient, modern, and contemporary, we shall investigate how power inhabits and invigorates practices of freedom and consent. Among the questions we will consider: Can we always tell the difference between consent and coercion? Are morality and freedom incompatible? Is freedom from the past impossible? By wrestling with slavery (freedom's opposite) we will confront the terrifying possibility that slavery can be both embodied and psychic. If our minds can be held captive by power, can we ever be certain that we are truly free? The political stakes of these problems will be brought to light through a consideration of issues of religion, gender, sexuality, civil liberties, class and race.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
  • Instructor: Simon, Josh David
  • Room: Mergenthaler 111
  • Status: Waitlist Only
  • Seats Available: 0/20
  • PosTag(s): INST-PT, POLI-PT

Introduction to Political Theory
AS.190.180 (02)

This course investigates core questions of what constitutes political freedom, what limits on freedom (if any) should be imposed by authority, adn the relationship between freedom, responsibility, and political judgement. Spanning texts ancient, modern, and contemporary, we shall investigate how power inhabits and invigorates practices of freedom and consent. Among the questions we will consider: Can we always tell the difference between consent and coercion? Are morality and freedom incompatible? Is freedom from the past impossible? By wrestling with slavery (freedom's opposite) we will confront the terrifying possibility that slavery can be both embodied and psychic. If our minds can be held captive by power, can we ever be certain that we are truly free? The political stakes of these problems will be brought to light through a consideration of issues of religion, gender, sexuality, civil liberties, class and race.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
  • Instructor: Simon, Josh David
  • Room: Mergenthaler 111
  • Status: Waitlist Only
  • Seats Available: 0/20
  • PosTag(s): INST-PT, POLI-PT

Introduction to Political Theory
AS.190.180 (03)

This course investigates core questions of what constitutes political freedom, what limits on freedom (if any) should be imposed by authority, adn the relationship between freedom, responsibility, and political judgement. Spanning texts ancient, modern, and contemporary, we shall investigate how power inhabits and invigorates practices of freedom and consent. Among the questions we will consider: Can we always tell the difference between consent and coercion? Are morality and freedom incompatible? Is freedom from the past impossible? By wrestling with slavery (freedom's opposite) we will confront the terrifying possibility that slavery can be both embodied and psychic. If our minds can be held captive by power, can we ever be certain that we are truly free? The political stakes of these problems will be brought to light through a consideration of issues of religion, gender, sexuality, civil liberties, class and race.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 3:00PM - 3:50PM
  • Instructor: Simon, Josh David
  • Room: Mergenthaler 111
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 10/20
  • PosTag(s): INST-PT, POLI-PT

Introduction to Political Theory
AS.190.180 (04)

This course investigates core questions of what constitutes political freedom, what limits on freedom (if any) should be imposed by authority, adn the relationship between freedom, responsibility, and political judgement. Spanning texts ancient, modern, and contemporary, we shall investigate how power inhabits and invigorates practices of freedom and consent. Among the questions we will consider: Can we always tell the difference between consent and coercion? Are morality and freedom incompatible? Is freedom from the past impossible? By wrestling with slavery (freedom's opposite) we will confront the terrifying possibility that slavery can be both embodied and psychic. If our minds can be held captive by power, can we ever be certain that we are truly free? The political stakes of these problems will be brought to light through a consideration of issues of religion, gender, sexuality, civil liberties, class and race.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 3:00PM - 3:50PM
  • Instructor: Simon, Josh David
  • Room: Mergenthaler 111
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 16/20
  • PosTag(s): INST-PT, POLI-PT

Political Arts: Dada, Surrealism, and Societal Metamorphoses
AS.190.415 (01)

In the years between World Wars I and II, a fascinating group of artists, manifesto-writers, performers, intellectuals, and poets, in Europe and the Caribbean, who were put off by conventional politics of the time, decided to pursue other means of societal transformation. This seminar explores the aims and tactics, and strengths and liabilities, of Dada and Surrealism, as it operated in Europe and the Americas in the years between the World Wars. We will also read texts and images from writers and artists influenced by Dada and Surrealism but applied to different historical and political contexts.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
  • Instructor: Bennett, Jane
  • Room: Gilman 208
  • Status: Approval Required
  • Seats Available: 9/15
  • PosTag(s): INST-PT

Jewish in America, Yiddish in America: Literature, Culture, Identity
AS.211.314 (01)

iddish was the language of European Jews for 1000 years. From the 19th century to the present day it has been a language that millions of Americans — Jewish immigrants and their descendants–have spoken, written in, conducted their daily lives in, and created culture in. This course will examine literature, film, newspapers, and more to explore how Jewish immigrants to America shaped their identities—as Jews, as Americans, and as former Europeans. What role did maintaining, adapting, or abandoning a minority language play in the creation of Jewish American identity—cultural, ethnic, or religious? How was this language perceived by the majority culture? How was it used to represent the experiences of other minoritized groups? What processes of linguistic and cultural translation were involved in finding a space for Yiddish in America, in its original or translated into English? The overarching subjects of this course include migration, race, ethnicity, multilingualism, and assimilation. We will analyze literature (novels, poetry, drama); film; comedy; and other media. All texts in English.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
  • Instructor: Spinner, Samuel Jacob
  • Room: Gilman 381
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 10/15
  • PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL

Bees, Bugs, and other Beasties: Insects in Literature
AS.211.323 (01)

Beetles, fleas, bees, ants, ticks, butterflies: as the earth’s most abundant animals, insects affect our lives in countless ways. In this seminar, we will explore the diverse world of insects and other arthropods and analyze their appearance in philosophy, literature, and the sciences. Reading our way from John Donne’s “The Flea” and Robert Hooke’s “Micrographia” to Mandeville’s “The Fable of the Bees,” Uexküll’s biosemiotics, and Kafka’s “Metamorphosis,” we will ask how concepts and stories of insects reflect and shape the ways we imagine our ecological milieus. We will look more closely at how entomological imaginaries evolved over time and pursue lines of inquiry that will shed new light on human interactions with the environment, politics, and cultural diversity. This course covers a wide range of sources from different European languages (all made available in English translations) and is writing intensive.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
  • Instructor: Frey, Christiane
  • Room: Gilman 443
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 4/15
  • PosTag(s): ENVS-MAJOR, MSCH-HUM

Dissent and Cultural Productions: Israeli Culture as a Case Study
AS.211.361 (01)

This course explores the interplay between protest and cultural productions using the Israeli society as a case study. We will examine the formation and nature of political and social protest movements in Israel, such as the Israeli Black Panthers, Israeli feminism, the struggle for LGBTQ rights and the 2011 social justice protest. Dissent in the military and protest against war as well as civil activism in the context of the Palestinians-Israeli conflict will serve us to explore the notion of dissent in the face of collective ethos, memory and trauma. The literary, cinematic, theatrical and artistic productions of dissent will stand at the center of our discussion as well as the role of specific genres and media, including satire and comedy, television, popular music, dance and social media. We will ask ourselves questions such as how do cultural productions express dissent? What is the role of cultural productions in civil activism? And what is the connection between specific genre or media and expression of dissent? All material will be taught in English translation.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
  • Instructor: Stahl, Neta
  • Room:  
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 8/10
  • PosTag(s): INST-CP, INST-GLOBAL

Illness and Immunity in Postwar French Literature
AS.212.337 (01)

What does immunity have to do with literary studies? We will explore this question by examining the concept of immunity, not only as a medical and legal concept, but also as a cultural phenomenon. Students will analyze what “immunity” can teach us about the ideas of tolerance and defense and about the ways we come into contact and build relationships with others. Through attention to French novels and graphic novels, students will investigate the grammars and images linked to the concept of immunity and research how these languages and images shape how we think of mental and physical illnesses, vulnerability, exposure, as well as how they permeate body representations in French literature. Secondary sources such as philosophical texts, movies, and photographs will embed these narratives into larger issues within the history of medicine and postwar French literature.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
  • Instructor: Kheyrkhah, Clara
  • Room:  
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 14/18
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Stories of the Land: Nature and Narratives in Chinese Literature
AS.300.303 (01)

This course surveys modern and contemporary Chinese literature with a focus on the interplay between nature and narratives. We will read fictions by Shen Congwen, Xiao Hong, Alai, and Chi Zijian, among others, to embark on a journey through different forms, ideas, and practices of storytelling with and about nature. As we traverse the landscape of Chinese literature - from West Hunan to occupied Manchuria, from Tibet to Inner Mongolia - we will pay special attention to how local geographies, aesthetics, and epistemes inform these works and help create their literary worlds. Literary texts will be brought into dialogue with ecocritical theories, as we explore storytelling as a world-making practice in which both human and non-human beings take active part. Such a perspective is helpful for reimagining a future that overcomes human exceptionalism and environmental exploitation. All readings will be provided in English translations; knowledge of Chinese is not required.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
  • Instructor: An, Mengqi Mercy
  • Room: Gilman 208
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 10/12
  • PosTag(s): ENVS-MAJOR

Origins of Postwar Japanese and Japanophone Literatures
AS.300.325 (01)

A survey of post-WWII literatures written in Japanese and/or by writers of Japanese backgrounds from the perspective of their engagement with the memories of war and imperialism. Reading novels, short stories, essays, and poems produced by representative postwar Japanese writers, zainichi Korean writers, and overseas Japanophone writers, we will discuss how their struggles with the contested, politicized, and/or un-historicized memories of suffering from war and imperialism shapes literary forms. These works will be coupled with critical writings on key concepts such as pain, trauma, victimhood, responsibility, nationalism, diaspora, and gender. Readings in Hayashi Fumiko, Abe Kobo, Mishima Yukio, Oe Kenzaburo, Murakami Haruki, Lee Yangji, Yu Miri, John Okada, and Kazuo Ishiguro, among others. This course also serves as an introduction to postwar Japanese literature and culture. All readings are in English.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: WF 12:00PM - 1:15PM
  • Instructor: Hashimoto, Satoru
  • Room: Gilman 119
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 2/15
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Modern East Asian Literatures Across Boundaries
AS.300.330 (01)

Modern literature in East Asia is as much defined by creation of national boundaries as by their transgressions, negotiations, and reimaginations. This course examines literature originally written in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean in light of contemporary understandings of political, social, and cultural boundary demarcation and crossings. How do experiences of border-crossing create and/or alter literary forms? How, in turn, does literature inscribe, displace, and/or dismantle boundaries? Our readings will include, but not limited to, writings by intra- and trans-regional travelers, exiles, migrants, and settlers; stories from and on contested borderlands and islands (e.g. Manchuria, Okinawa, Jeju); and works and translations by bilingual authors. All readings are provided in English translation.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
  • Instructor: Hashimoto, Satoru
  • Room: Gilman 208
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 6/12
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Vibrant Matter of Thoreau and Whitman
AS.300.333 (01)

How do the “American Romantics” Henry Thoreau and Walt Whitman expose the entanglements of aesthetic sensibilities with political ideologies and economies? What techniques do they offer for cultivating more ecological styles of perception and pleasure -- styles at odds with, but sometimes also tacit within, systems of extractive capitalism and hyper-consumerism? How might a more robust and widely distributed capacity to sense the active presence of lively material bodies and forces help to forge a way out of or around powerful systems of exploitation? This course reads Thoreau and Whitman, as well as more recent work from indigenous writers, feminist and queer theories, and "new materialist" works of art or performance, with a focus on the nonhuman influences upon human subjectivity-formation. It is in search of ecological, earth-focused models of self.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times:
  • Instructor: Bennett, Jane
  • Room:  
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 15/15
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Contemporary Opera and Literature: Identity, Society, Politics
AS.300.335 (01)

Composer Matthew Aucoin has recently called opera “the impossible art.” Its impossibility feels particularly acute today, as it is buffeted by competing media, genres, and attention. Yet since 2000, opera has never seemed as vibrant, with composers new and old continuing to engage with its "generative impossibilities,” using a variety of literary genres as their sources. This class considers central opera examples from the past twenty years, looking at compositions by such creators as Thomas Adès, Unsuk Chin, Missy Mazzoli, Terence Blanchard, and György Kurtág, among others. These composers and their performers and critics engage with a variety of literary genres including novels, short stories, memoirs, and plays, as well as different media, chief among them film. They address opera’s tangled history and its possible roles in our contemporary world, asking questions about race, class, ideology, the environment, politics, and identity. This class will do the same, asking what opera today is capable of doing that other genres (musical and otherwise) cannot. How can—and does--opera speak to the present moment? The class will spend time developing a theoretical and practical vocabulary for considering both literary texts and how best to listen to, watch, and analyze opera. No musical background is required.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
  • Instructor: Staff
  • Room: Gilman 208
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 20/20
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Children’s Literature and the Self: From Fairy Tales to Science-Fiction
AS.300.372 (01)

It was more or less like this. They said: - You know, Hela, you’re an anxious human being. She: - I’m a human being? - Why, of course. You’re not a puppy. She pondered. After a long pause, surprised: - I’m a human being. I’m Hela. I’m a girl. I’m Polish. I’m mommy’s little daughter, I’m from Warsaw…. What a lot of things I am! (Janusz Korczak, Ghetto Diary) This course isn’t what you expect. It is not easy. It is not even fun. We will tackle painful topics: orphanhood, loneliness, jealousy, death. You will learn that “Snow White expresses, more perfectly than any other fairy-tale, the idea of melancholy.” (Theodor Adorno) We will also deal with parenthood, childhood, justice, and love. We will not watch any Disney films (but we shall analyze some memes). So who is a child? “Children are not people of tomorrow; they are people today,” wrote in 1919 Janusz Korczak, pediatrician, pedagogue, and children’s author who proposed the idea of inalienable Children’s Rights. We will read folk tales from different cultures, discuss authorial fairy tales (Oscar Wilde), fantasy books (Tove Jansson’s Moomintrolls) and science-fiction (Stanisław Lem’s Fables for Robots). We will also investigate the special connection between children and animals (Juan Rámon Jimenez, Margaret Wise Brown). Many iconic children’s literature characters, such as J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan, “a Betwixt-and-Between” with a Thrush’s Nest for a home, St.-Exupéry’s Little Prince, and Astrid Lindgren’s Pippi Longstocking, are outsiders. All along we will consider how children’s literature reflects and shapes ideas of selfhood, from archetypal to post-humanistic ones.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
  • Instructor: Jerzak, Katarzyna
  • Room: Gilman 208
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 8/25
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Introduction to Concepts and Problems of Modern Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Critical Theory
AS.300.421 (01)

This seminar aims at providing a survey of some fundamental concepts and problems that shape modern and contemporary debates in philosophy, literary studies, and the humanities at large. This term we will study different notions of existence, language, truth, power, otherness, race, gender, and reality. This course serves as the proseminar in methods and theory for graduate students in Comparative Thought and Literature but is open to students in all departments.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: Th 2:00PM - 4:30PM
  • Instructor: Staff
  • Room: Gilman 208
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 5/5
  • PosTag(s): n/a

GIS Mapping of a Secret Transnational Network Between England, Europe, and the Americas
AS.360.458 (01)

Every time we assemble a set of data and draw conclusions, new points of connection emerge. Taking that inevitability as a starting point, this Humanities Research Lab begins the semester by assessing and digitizing an existing but little-explored data set documenting English Jesuit movements in Tudor-Stuart England in the years of religious reform. Weekly readings will establish the historical context and explore individual perspectives on the Henrician Reformation and its aftermath in the long reign of Elizabeth I, with a particular focus on the city of London. Readings and research will inform debate on whether our emerging evidence defines this resistance as an expression of religious devotion or as an act of treason. Each class session will include hands-on instruction in mapping techniques (previous experience, while welcome, is not required). Over time, we will move on from our existing data set, brainstorming ideas on how these investigatory methods might be extended to other aspects of history or to entirely different fields of enquiry. Students will be encouraged to form subgroups and/or initiate individual projects. As needed, instruction will continue in GIS mapping techniques and other data assessment methods currently in use across the disciplines at Hopkins, from brain mapping in Biomedical Engineering to geospatial research at the Space Telescope Science Institute. Required class presentation and written summary, research proposal essay, and a final project presentation (individual or team) will be required.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: Th 10:30AM - 1:00PM
  • Instructor: Patton, Elizabeth
  • Room: Gilman 208
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 15/15
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Photoshop: The Digital Darkroom
AS.371.151 (01)

This course concentrates on the fundamentals of Lightroom and Photoshop for photographic post-processing and creative image-making techniques. Students will gain a proficient workflow for image development using such tools as adjustments, gradients, actions, masking, and other post-production methods. Course projects will include digital collaging and hand coloring techniques, and will pull inspiration from various artistic movements, field trips to local museums, and exploring the surrounding Station North neighborhood. Students will also learn inkjet printing as a mode for bringing their digitally crafted images to life. Students will receive instruction on DSLR cameras, which are available on semester loan. Attendance in first class is mandatory.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: F 2:00PM - 5:00PM
  • Instructor: Berger, phyllis A
  • Room: The Centre 318
  • Status: Approval Required
  • Seats Available: 1/11
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Introduction to Digital Photography
AS.371.152 (01)

This studio art course will introduce students to the basic techniques and applications of fine art photography using digital technology. Emphasis will be placed on DSLR camera functions, image manipulation with Adobe Creative Cloud, and digital inkjet printing. Throughout the semester, students will engage in classroom critiques and discussions to aid their dialogue on art and their understanding of photographic imagery. In this course, creative exploration will be fostered through the visual language of photography. DSLR film cameras are available on semester loan. Attendance in first class is mandatory.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: M 10:00AM - 1:00PM
  • Instructor: Caro, Christiana
  • Room: The Centre 318
  • Status: Approval Required
  • Seats Available: 2/11
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Introduction to Digital Photography
AS.371.152 (02)

This studio art course will introduce students to the basic techniques and applications of fine art photography using digital technology. Emphasis will be placed on DSLR camera functions, image manipulation with Adobe Creative Cloud, and digital inkjet printing. Throughout the semester, students will engage in classroom critiques and discussions to aid their dialogue on art and their understanding of photographic imagery. In this course, creative exploration will be fostered through the visual language of photography. DSLR film cameras are available on semester loan. Attendance in first class is mandatory.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: M 2:00PM - 5:00PM
  • Instructor: Caro, Christiana
  • Room: The Centre 318
  • Status: Approval Required
  • Seats Available: 2/11
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Course # (Section) Title Day/Times Instructor Room PosTag(s) Info
AS.001.196 (01)FYS: Love and its Maladies: A Short HistoryT 4:15PM - 6:45PMEnder, EvelyneGilman 134
AS.001.197 (01)FYS: Doctors and Patients: A Few Case StudiesMW 10:30AM - 11:45AMEnder, EvelyneGilman 208
AS.010.238 (01)The Painting of Modern Life: From the Avant-garde to the EverydayTTh 10:30AM - 11:45AMSchopp, Caroline LillianGilman 177HART-MODERN
AS.040.121 (01)Ancient Greek Mythology: Art, Narratives, and Modern MythmakingMW 4:30PM - 5:45PMYatromanolakis, DimitriosGilman 108
AS.100.338 (01)Islam and DuneMW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PMNoor, Rao Mohsin AliAmes 218HIST-MIDEST, HIST-EUROPE
AS.100.338 (02)Islam and DuneMW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AMNoor, Rao Mohsin AliAmes 218HIST-MIDEST, HIST-EUROPE
AS.190.180 (01)Introduction to Political TheoryMW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AMSimon, Josh DavidMergenthaler 111INST-PT, POLI-PT
AS.190.180 (02)Introduction to Political TheoryMW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AMSimon, Josh DavidMergenthaler 111INST-PT, POLI-PT
AS.190.180 (03)Introduction to Political TheoryMW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 3:00PM - 3:50PMSimon, Josh DavidMergenthaler 111INST-PT, POLI-PT
AS.190.180 (04)Introduction to Political TheoryMW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 3:00PM - 3:50PMSimon, Josh DavidMergenthaler 111INST-PT, POLI-PT
AS.190.415 (01)Political Arts: Dada, Surrealism, and Societal MetamorphosesW 1:30PM - 4:00PMBennett, JaneGilman 208INST-PT
AS.211.314 (01)Jewish in America, Yiddish in America: Literature, Culture, IdentityMW 12:00PM - 1:15PMSpinner, Samuel JacobGilman 381INST-GLOBAL
AS.211.323 (01)Bees, Bugs, and other Beasties: Insects in LiteratureTTh 10:30AM - 11:45AMFrey, ChristianeGilman 443ENVS-MAJOR, MSCH-HUM
AS.211.361 (01)Dissent and Cultural Productions: Israeli Culture as a Case StudyTTh 12:00PM - 1:15PMStahl, Neta INST-CP, INST-GLOBAL
AS.212.337 (01)Illness and Immunity in Postwar French LiteratureTTh 1:30PM - 2:45PMKheyrkhah, Clara 
AS.300.303 (01)Stories of the Land: Nature and Narratives in Chinese LiteratureT 1:30PM - 4:00PMAn, Mengqi MercyGilman 208ENVS-MAJOR
AS.300.325 (01)Origins of Postwar Japanese and Japanophone LiteraturesWF 12:00PM - 1:15PMHashimoto, SatoruGilman 119
AS.300.330 (01)Modern East Asian Literatures Across BoundariesF 1:30PM - 4:00PMHashimoto, SatoruGilman 208
AS.300.333 (01)Vibrant Matter of Thoreau and WhitmanBennett, Jane 
AS.300.335 (01)Contemporary Opera and Literature: Identity, Society, PoliticsTTh 12:00PM - 1:15PMStaffGilman 208
AS.300.372 (01)Children’s Literature and the Self: From Fairy Tales to Science-FictionMW 12:00PM - 1:15PMJerzak, KatarzynaGilman 208
AS.300.421 (01)Introduction to Concepts and Problems of Modern Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Critical TheoryTh 2:00PM - 4:30PMStaffGilman 208
AS.360.458 (01)GIS Mapping of a Secret Transnational Network Between England, Europe, and the AmericasTh 10:30AM - 1:00PMPatton, ElizabethGilman 208
AS.371.151 (01)Photoshop: The Digital DarkroomF 2:00PM - 5:00PMBerger, phyllis AThe Centre 318
AS.371.152 (01)Introduction to Digital PhotographyM 10:00AM - 1:00PMCaro, ChristianaThe Centre 318
AS.371.152 (02)Introduction to Digital PhotographyM 2:00PM - 5:00PMCaro, ChristianaThe Centre 318