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Courses in DC-Please note that the DC course Judaism, Christianity and Islam will be offered at Homewood as well via video conferencing in the Wyman Park Conference Room.

450. 608 Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Bruce Robertson
Monday 6:30-8:45
$1570

Despite over a thousand years of conflict both external and internal, Judaism, Christianity and Islam share doctrines and practices.  Students will examine the essential teachings of the three great Abrahamic religion concerning revelation, scripture, sacred geography, worship, prophecy, holy war, divine justice and judgment, blasphemy (including sacreligious humor), and the afterlife.  Readings will include selections from the Bible, Qur'an, St. Augustine's The City of God, Moses Maimonides' The Guide for the Perplexed, The Alchemy of Happiness by Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazzali, as well as the contemporary classics What Do Jews Believe? by Rabbi David Ariel, Introduction to Christianity by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI), and The Heart of Islam: Enduring Values for Humanity by Seyyed Hossein Nasr.  Visits to a synagogue, church, and mosque for a service of worship will be required.

Courses in Baltimore

450.619  Cosmic Landscapes (New Course)
Trevor Lipscombe
T 6:15-8:30
$1570

In the world of physics, cutting-edge theories come and go. Some, however, are eventually enshrined in the canon and last for centuries. We are told from early days in school that the Earth goes around the Sun and not, as the ancients believed, vice versa. Likewise, we have come to believe that the universe is well-described by the Big Bang theory; that matter is composed of atoms; and that light  behaves sometimes as waves and sometimes as particles. From heliocentrism to Big Bang cosmology, from electromagnetism to quantum theory, we will examine the non-mathematical writings of the leading proponents of such theories * including Einstein, Newton, and Hawking. These accessible, thought-provoking readings will enable students to understand the main historical developments of these theories, their key ingredients, and the experimental evidence marshalled to confirm them. Readings (provisional): Dolling, Statile, and Giannelli "The Tests of Time" (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003). Paperback, 712 pp $45. Achinstein (ed.) "Science Rules" (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004). Paperback, 440pp 29.95.

Dr. Lipscombe is the Editor-in-Chief at Johns Hopkins University Press. His doctorate is in theoretical physics from Oxford University. He taught at the City College of New York, and was at Princeton University Press for seven years, prior to his arrival at Johns Hopkins. Lipscombe is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. His first book, "Albert Einstein: A Biography" was published in 2005 by Greenwood Press.
 

450.636 Cultural Eras: The 1950s
Melissa Hilbish
M  6:15-8:30
$1570

This course examines the idea of being "American"  within the context of the fifties when "un-american" activities and associations clearly placed individuals and groups on the outside of the mainstream.  American national identity is considered through the dynamic that emerges between national security and civil rights and liberties; between conformity and conflict.; between inside and outside. Through the significant and enduring cultural shifts that took place in American life between 1945 and 1960 basic images and ideas closely associated with the ’50s are challenged as the course considers a variety of topics from Ike to Elvis to McCarthy, the Beats, the Korean War, the Montgomery bus boycott and the Nation of Islam, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, advertising, the Kinsey Report, the promise of technology and the concern over its affects on the culture, the Cold War, the changing role of scientists, and the rise of the suburbs.

Dr. Hilbish is the Associate Program Chair for the MLA Program. She has a doctorate in American Studies from the University of Maryland, College Park. Her courses include interdisciplinary perspectives and  film and cultural history including: "Film and Public Memory," "The 1960s," "Science Fiction Film of the 20th Century" and "Exploring the Liberal Arts: Its About Time."

450.645 History and Art of Walking
Nancy Forgione
W  6:15-8:30pm
$1570

Walking can serve as both an ordinary and an extraordinary means of transport. Poets, writers, artists, and philosophers have used walking as a stimulus to creativity, recognizing that the process and rhythms of walking facilitate the process and rhythms of thinking. Walking at its best unites mind and body and integrates inner and outer worlds. Its nature can vary not only according to culture and era, but according to environmental (urban vs. rural, for example) and purpose. Though the course will emphasize literary, artistic, and philosophical examples, it will also consider walking's many other functions: for exploration (travel, walking tours), for spiritual growth (pilgrimages, labyrinths), for political purposes or altruistic reasons (protest marches, walkathons), and recreational and athletic aims (hiking, race-walking).

Visiting Assistant Professor of 19th century art in the Department of the History of Art at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Forgione also teaches "The Idea of Home" in the MLA Program.

450.686 The American Revolution
Duane Cummins
M  6:15-8:30
$1570

D. Duane Cummins served 14 years [1988-2002] as President and Professor of American History at
Bethany College.  During the years of his Bethany presidency, he also served as Chairman of the
Presidents' Athletic Conference, as President of the West Virginia Association for  Independent Colleges
and Chair of the East Central College ConsortiaHe is the author of 12 books and numerous articles.  His
most recent book, a biography of A. Dale Fiers, was released July 1, 2003.

450.718 Faulkner's Fiction: Beyond the Southern Mystique
Nancy Norris-Kniffin
Th 6:15-8:30pm
$1570

Although Faulkner’s fiction can be viewed as the historical culmination of works about the American South, it should also be placed in the larger artistic context of Shakespeare, Balzac, Melville, Twain, Conrad, Dickens, and Joyce. This course explores the development of Faulkner’s psychological themes and innovative techniques in representative short stories, The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, The Hamlet, and Go Down, Moses. During Spring Break, students will have the option of visiting Oxford and other areas of Mississippi that served as sources for many of Faulkner's fictional settings

Dr. Norris-Kniffin is the former director of the MLA Program and continues to teach courses in this program as well as two Hopkins non-credit programs (Odyssey and Evergreen Society), Smithsonian Associates, and Chautauqua Institution.

450.729 Maya Worlds: Ancient and Modern (New Course)
George Scheper
Th 6:15 PM - 8:30 PM
$1570

This course will survey the Pre-Columbian Maya cultures of Mexico and Central America, in light of ongoing archaeological excavation work and the current project of glyph decipherment that has now established that the Maya of the Classic era (third to ninth centuries, CE) were a fully literate Native American civilization. Slide lectures on such important sites as Copán, Tikal, Palenque, Uxmal, and Chichen Itzá will explore basic urban layout, the design of ceremonial centers, and the symbolism and iconography of Maya art and architecture, and what these can tell us about the social, political and religious life of the ancient Maya. The course moves on to study the period of European contact, of prolonged struggle, and of colonial and national hegemony, along with continued Maya strategies of cultural survival through accommodation and resistance. Topics will include the crises of the Caste Wars in the Yucatan; the neo-liberal “reforms” of the late nineteenth century that appropriated indigenous communal lands; and the genocidal repression of the 1980’s in Guatemala. Special attention will be devoted to the subject of religious “syncretism,” the blending of Maya traditionalism with distinctively Maya forms of Catholicism, and other religious practices.

George Scheper is Professor of Humanities at the Community College of Baltimore County–Essex and teaches interdisciplinary courses for The Johns Hopkins School of Professional Studies. He holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University in English Literature, and his primary area of scholarship is cultural studies, with publications on Biblical themes, landscape architecture, popular culture, and the encounter of cultures in the New World. DR. Scheper also won one of The 2004 Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Awards. See the article here.

450.736 Romanticism in Music
Ray Sprenkle
W 6:15-8:30
$1570

Romanticism characterized 19th-century European music as well as literature and the visual arts.   After examining works by such leading composers as Beethoven, Berlioz, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, Wagner, Brahms, and Tchaikovsky, students discuss the important differences between romanticism and both 18th-century classicism and 20th-century modernism.  By the conclusion of the seminar, students will be able to identify the selections, themes, and composers of the music studied.

Dr. Ray Sprenkle D.M.A., Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University. Studies with Stefan Grove and Leo Müller. Compositions performed regionally by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, and Baltimore Choral Arts Society; compositions performed nationally by the Chelsea Ensemble, Western Wind Vocal Ensemble, Annapolis Brass Quintet; compositions performed internationally by the Bavarian Radio Orchestra and Netherlands Brass. Soundtrack for CNN's production of "John Glenn: Return to Space" (1998). Dr. Sprenkle teaches a variety of music courses In the MLA Program including Beethoven and his Age.
 

450.764 Medicine In Ancient Near Eastern and Classical Worlds
P. Kyle McCarter, Jr.
T 6:15 PM - 8:30 PM
$1570

This seminar examines the practices of medicine in ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Israel, as well as classical Greece and Rome.  The primary emphasis is on early ideas about health and disease.  Students discuss such issues as the practice of surgery, methods of hygiene, knowledge of contagion, definitions of illness, and concepts of ritual purity.  Readings include primary texts surviving from ancient Near Eastern documents (e.g., Egyptian papyri and Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets), as well as the Hippocratic treatises and other medical literature from the Greco-Roman World.

P. Kyle McCarter is the William Foxwell Albright Chair in Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies. He specializes in epigraphy, the study of the written remains of people who lived long ago. He is also the Program Chair for the MLA Program and teaches a variety of classes in the program including: Dead Sea Scrolls, King Arthur, and Lost Books of the Bible.
 

MLA Capstone

450.825.01 Portfolio
$350 Melissa Hilbish
Permission from Associate Program Chair required.

450.830.01 Graduate Project
$1570 Melissa Hilbish
Permission from Associate Program Chair required.

450.835.01 Graduate Thesis I
$1570 Melissa Hilbish
Permission from Associate Program Chair required.

450.836.01 Graduate Thesis II
$1570 Melissa Hilbish
Permission from Associate Program Chair required.