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Course # (Section)
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Day/Times
Instructor
Room
PosTag(s)
Info
AS.001.106 (01)
FYS: Legal Fictions - Law and Humanities
TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Culbert, Jennifer, Siraganian, Lisa Michele
Gilman 208
FYS: Legal Fictions - Law and Humanities AS.001.106 (01)
A legal fiction is a fact assumed or created by courts to help reach a decision. In this First-Year Seminar, we study how legal fictions and fictions about law work in order to examine the possibilities and limits of fiction’s (legal) power. Drawing from legal and literary thought, as well as plays, short stories, cases, and legal commentary, we critically explore the capacity of words to reveal (or conjure) some fundamental features of our shared worlds and discuss their impact in contemporary debates about justice. The course is designed with first-year students in mind and requires no prior knowledge of law.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Culbert, Jennifer, Siraganian, Lisa Michele
Room: Gilman 208
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.001.108 (01)
FYS: Heart Matters
MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Ender, Evelyne
Bloomberg 276
FYS: Heart Matters AS.001.108 (01)
To the human imagination, the heart is more than a muscle and thumping pump keeping us alive. From the Renaissance to the present, writers have helped us make sense of our bodies, in health and in illness or pain. In this First-Year Seminar, our aim will be to trace the historical, cultural, and subjective meanings our minds have given to this "sublime engine." Our materials will involve a constellation of attentive readings of a rich literature involving modern fiction, poems, as well as recent scientific prose. The last part of this seminar involves a collaborative project focused on The Heart, the award-winning novel by Maylis de Kerangal.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Instructor: Ender, Evelyne
Room: Bloomberg 276
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.010.326 (01)
Modern Art and Mass Culture
MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Ballakrishnen, Meghaa
Gilman 119
HART-MODERN
Modern Art and Mass Culture AS.010.326 (01)
What happens to art after the widespread production and circulation of readymade commodities in the twentieth century? How does it contend with the technological developments—print media, photography, film—accompanying industrial production and urbanization? Focusing on procedural innovations central to the history of modern art—collage, nominalism, montage, conceptualism, and performance—and debates in art history about art’s “public,” we will ask how artists responded to, critiqued, and incorporated features of the industrial world in their practice. In particular, we will be interested in asking what kind of shared culture art attempted to forge against the homogenizing forces of industrial capitalism. Central to our inquiry is the repeated concern artists, critics, and theorists raise about the distinction between art and life, and about the importance to both of critical historical thinking. While introducing students to the history of modern art, this course also focuses on special contemporary projects by artists of color, theorized together using digital materials. Texts include Marx, Adorno, Benjamin, Federici, and Mulvey.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Instructor: Ballakrishnen, Meghaa
Room: Gilman 119
Status: Open
Seats Available: 2/12
PosTag(s): HART-MODERN
AS.211.477 (01)
Renaissance Witches and Demonology
TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Stephens, Walter E
Renaissance Witches and Demonology AS.211.477 (01)
Who were the witches? Why were they persecuted for hundreds of years? Why were women identified as the witches par excellence? How many witches were put to death between 1400 and 1800? What traits did European witch-mythologies share with other societies? After the witch-hunts ended, how did “The Witch” go from being “monstrous” to being “admirable” and even “sexy”? Answers are found in history and anthropology, but also in medicine, theology, literature, folklore, music, and the visual arts, including cinema.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Instructor: Stephens, Walter E
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 19/50
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.300.104 (01)
High School on Television
MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
McCreary, Michael D
Gilman 313
High School on Television AS.300.104 (01)
Education has always played an important role in popular culture, but High School Musical's premiere on Disney Channel in 2006 ushered in a new era of TV set in schools. In this course, we'll ask how recent depictions of high school on television captured the collective imagination and what they might be able to teach us about the purpose of school in society. Students will get the most out of the course if they are eager to learn about the philosophy of education; willing to critically reflect on their own experiences of schooling both inside and outside the classroom; and excited about watching TV shows such as Love, Victor; Euphoria; 13 Reasons Why; All American; Sex Education; Riverdale; Derry Girls; Elite; Merlí; Glee; and Friday Night Lights.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: McCreary, Michael D
Room: Gilman 313
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/17
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.300.318 (01)
Creating the Jazz Image
TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Ince, Ezgi
Gilman 208
Creating the Jazz Image AS.300.318 (01)
What is jazz? What do we think of when we hear the term “jazz culture”? Where does it stand and how does it function in American culture and social history? In this course, we will look at ways in which jazz and one of its fundamental elements, improvisation, influence and is influenced by other forms of art. We will look at both at the history of the music and its relation to painting, design, photography, poetry, fiction, dance and film, as well as its impact on forming identities, social structures and political questions. We will discuss the role of jazz within the wider frameworks of race, gender, ethnicity, class, and nationality, as well as its status as an entertainment and art form up until late-60s.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Instructor: Ince, Ezgi
Room: Gilman 208
Status: Open
Seats Available: 10/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.300.322 (01)
Lu Xun And His Times: China’s Long 20th Century And Beyond
WF 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Hashimoto, Satoru
Gilman 208
INST-GLOBAL
Lu Xun And His Times: China’s Long 20th Century And Beyond AS.300.322 (01)
The “founding father of modern Chinese literature,” Lu Xun (1881-1936) saw himself as a contemporary of writers like Gogol, Ibsen, and Nietzsche in creating his seminal short stories and essays, and likewise, he has been seen by numerous Chinese, Sinophone, and East Asian writers as their contemporary since his lifetime until today. In this course, we will survey Lu Xun's canonical works and their legacies through a comparative approach. What echoes do Lu Xun's works have with the European and Russian texts he engaged with? Why did his works manage to mark a “new origin” of Chinese literature? How were his works repeated, adapted, and appropriated by Chinese writers from the Republican period through the Maoist era to the post-socialist present, even during the Covid-19 pandemic? How do we assess his cross-cultural reception? Are his times obsolete now that China is on the rise? Or, have his times come yet? Through our comparative survey, Lu Xun's works and their afterlives will offer us a window onto China's long twentieth century and beyond in a transnational context. All materials are provided in English translation.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: WF 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Hashimoto, Satoru
Room: Gilman 208
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/15
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL
AS.300.345 (01)
Narrative Imagination in Philosophy and Literature
M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Sirin, Hale
Gilman 208
Narrative Imagination in Philosophy and Literature AS.300.345 (01)
We are constantly immersed in narratives or, as Roland Barthes said, narrative "is simply there like life itself. . . international, transhistorical, transcultural." As a bridge between experience and language, narrative informs the way we understand history, gender, politics, emotion, cognition and much more. Through reading a series of philosophical and literary texts, this course will provide a systematic understanding of how narratives are composed, how they are experienced, and eventually, how they evolve.
The first part of this course will focus on building a foundation in the formal study of narrative, focusing on elements such as genre, plot, character, narrator and reader. We will start with a brief consideration of ancient approaches to literary narrative in Aristotle's Poetics and Plato's Republic. From there, we will engage with a wide range of readings in narrative theory. The second part of the course will focus on critical approaches to narrative, such as gender and narrative, social and political critique of narrative, narratives in the age of artificial intelligence, and conclude with the evolving concept of narrative in the Anthropocene.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Sirin, Hale
Room: Gilman 208
Status: Open
Seats Available: 9/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.300.348 (01)
Modern Drama
TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Lisi, Leonardo
Gilman 208
Modern Drama AS.300.348 (01)
This course offers a survey of modern drama, from the mid nineteenth century to the present. We will sample a broad range of dramatic styles and movements in order to uncover the variety of ways theatre has made sense of the human experience over the past two hundred years.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Instructor: Lisi, Leonardo
Room: Gilman 208
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.300.399 (01)
Cinema and Philosophy
TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Marrati, Paola, Meyer, Marshall (Marshall)
Gilman 75
Cinema and Philosophy AS.300.399 (01)
What do films and philosophy have in common? Do films express, with their own means, philosophical problems that are relevant to our experience of ourselves and the world we live in? This term we will study such issues with a particular focus on questions of justice, truth, revenge, forgiveness, hope, hate, and fear.
What is a Person? Humans, Corporations, Robots, Trees
TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Siraganian, Lisa Michele
Gilman 208
What is a Person? Humans, Corporations, Robots, Trees AS.300.402 (01)
Knowing who or what counts as a person seems straightforward, until we consider the many kinds of creatures, objects, and artificial beings that have been granted—or demanded or denied—that status. This course explores recent debates on being a person in culture, law, and philosophy. Questions examined will include: Should trees have standing? Can corporations have religious beliefs? Could a robot sign a contract? Materials examined will be wide-ranging, including essays, philosophy, novels, science fiction, television, film. No special background is required.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Instructor: Siraganian, Lisa Michele
Room: Gilman 208
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/20
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.300.421 (01)
Introduction to Concepts and Problems of Modern Philosophy, Aesthtics, and Critical Theory
W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Marrati, Paola
Gilman 208
Introduction to Concepts and Problems of Modern Philosophy, Aesthtics, and Critical Theory AS.300.421 (01)
This seminar is addressed to first and second year graduate students as well as to advanced undergraduates. It 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 in particular notions of existence, language, truth, power, otherness, race, gender, and reality.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Marrati, Paola
Room: Gilman 208
Status: Open
Seats Available: 22/25
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.360.133 (01)
Freshman Seminar: Great Books at Hopkins
T 10:30AM - 11:45AM, Th 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Patton, Elizabeth (Elizabeth)
Mergenthaler 111 Mergenthaler 431
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, Plato, Dante, John Donne, George Herbert, Christina Rosetti, Mary Shelley, Friederick Nietzsche, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Frederick Douglass.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: T 10:30AM - 11:45AM, Th 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Instructor: Patton, Elizabeth (Elizabeth)
Room: Mergenthaler 111 Mergenthaler 431
Status: Open
Seats Available: 6/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.360.133 (02)
Freshman Seminar: Great Books at Hopkins
T 10:30AM - 11:45AM, Th 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Bett, Richard, Patton, Elizabeth (Elizabeth)
Mergenthaler 111 Mergenthaler 111
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, Plato, Dante, John Donne, George Herbert, Christina Rosetti, Mary Shelley, Friederick Nietzsche, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Frederick Douglass.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: T 10:30AM - 11:45AM, Th 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Instructor: Bett, Richard, Patton, Elizabeth (Elizabeth)
Room: Mergenthaler 111 Mergenthaler 111
Status: Open
Seats Available: 8/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.360.133 (03)
Freshman Seminar: Great Books at Hopkins
T 10:30AM - 11:45AM, Th 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Di Bianco, Laura (Laura), Patton, Elizabeth (Elizabeth)
Mergenthaler 111 Gilman 208
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, Plato, Dante, John Donne, George Herbert, Christina Rosetti, Mary Shelley, Friederick Nietzsche, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Frederick Douglass.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: T 10:30AM - 11:45AM, Th 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Instructor: Di Bianco, Laura (Laura), Patton, Elizabeth (Elizabeth)
