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Homewood
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History
of the Book in
the West |
Popular
Culture |
Exploring
the Liberal Arts |
Lost
Books of the Bible |
The
Old
South, 1607-1865 |
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Ideas
and Politics |
Theories
of Ethics |
Philosophy
of the Universe |
Mesoamerica
and the Pueblo Cultures |
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Art
Collectors and Collecting
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Philosophy
of the Universe
Theories of Ethics
Ideas
and Politics
The
Old South,
1607 - 1865
Courses
at Homewood
450.626
Philosophy of The Universe
Richard Henry
W 6:15 PM - 8:30 PM
Topics for this course
may include: Does the
Earth go around the Sun?; Who cares
exactly how things fall? ; Pythagoras:
not just a Theorem! ; Newton: a boy changes the way we think;
Descartes: he is poisoning your mind; Galileo
and the starry universe; I hate
math!; How far does the universe extend?; What is the nature of
time?;
Hilbert
asks, "Gentlemen, just what is
an atom?; Albert Einstein and Hilbert;
Quantum Mechanics ... made easy; Well,
does the Moon exist, or does it
not? The syllabus is available online at:
http://henry.pha.jhu.edu/philosophy.html
450.648
Popular Culture
Ronald Walters
T 6:15 PM - 8:30 PM
This
course provides a chronological overview of American popular culture,
beginning
in the 19th century with the minstrel show as the first distinctively
American
form of popular culture, and ending with the late 20th century
international
“pop culture industry.”
450.701
Theories of Ethics
Stephen Barker
T 6:15 PM - 8:30 PM
Are
there correct answers to ethical questions about what
behavior is right and what is wrong? Or is no one’s opinion
about ethics any
more correct than anyone else’s? In other words, are ethical
judgments capable
of being true, or are we being
deceived by an illusion if we suppose so? Here
is a basic and vexed problem, which has concerned many thinkers.
Philosophers,
ancient and moderns, such as Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Hobbes, Kant,
and
Nietzsche have put forward treatments of this problem, and theologians,
psychologists, anthropologists, and political theorists also have
written about
it. A variety of these viewpoints will be considered and appraised, in
search
of a resolution to the problem.
450.702
History
of the Book in the West
William
Noel
Martina Bagnoli
M 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
This
course explores the development of the book from its inception in the
Late
Roman Empire (the 4th and 5th centuries) to the dawn of printing with
Gutenberg’s invention of moveable type at Mainz
in 1450. Students consider the book as a product of "new"
technologies (e.g., the invention of moveable type), changing economic
and
social conditions (e.g., the rise of vernacular texts for a literate
nobility),
and religious and secular practices (e.g., books for monasteries,
universities,
and private houses). Through this course, students gain an appreciation
of
objects that are both key historical documents and very often,
consummate works
of art. Note: Since this course draws
upon the resources of the Department of Manuscripts at The Walters Art
Gallery,
some class sessions will be held at the museum.
450.726
Lost
Books of Bible
P. Kyle
McCarter
Th 6:15 PM - 8:30 PM
Course being revised.
Description forthcoming.
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.
450.730
Mesoamerica
and the Pueblo
cultures of the Southwest
George Scheper
Th 6:15 PM - 8:30 PM
Mesoamerica and the Southwest is an interdisciplinary study of the
cultural histories of Mexico and the U.S. Southwest, looking
at the similarities and differences between the indigenous cultures of
central and northern Mexico and the Pueblo cultures of the Southwest,
and their modern continuities. We begin our exploration ofthe
Pre-Columbian
cultures of the Valley of Mexico. with the great urban center of
Teotihuacan, the subject of very exciting recent excavations, through
the rise of the Toltec capital at Tula, and the accompanying myth of
Quetzelcoatl (Feathered Serpent), and finally
focusing on the intense and perplexing culture of the Aztecs and their
capital of Tenochtitlan, underlying Mexico City. We also want to see
how the
Nahua, descendents of the Aztecs, and other indigenous Mexican
communities manifest cultural continuities in such traditions as the
Day of the Dead and the cult of
Guadalupe. We will assess Mexican author Guillermo Bonfil
Batalla’s suggestion that instead of the “imaginary
Mexico” fostered by U.S. economic,
and cultural interests, there is in fact a “México
Profundo”
whose base is the vast Indian and "mestizo" cultural world. In the
second half of the course we look to the north, to the
present-day U.S.
Southwest, which was in fact the Mexican Northwest until the Mexican
American War. (more...)
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.
450.735
Ideas and Politics
Mark Blyth
M 6:15 PM - 8:30 PM
The
role of ideas in politics is one that is 'essentially
contested.' Although our common sense intuitions tell us that our
'ideas
matter', a great deal of academic writing suggests that ideas are mere
'rationalizations' of agents' pre-existing interests and, at best,
serve as
weapons in political struggles. This class examines the role of ideas
as
'independently causal' elements in politics. Drawing on diverse
literatures on
religion, rhetoric, economics, and politics, we discuss the power of
ideas in
the world, and the role of ideas as reflections of that world.
450.749
Exploring Liberal Arts: It's About The Da Vinci Code
Melissa Hilbish
W 6:15 PM - 8:30 PM
This core class uses a
thematic approach to
introduce students to the breath of the liberal arts, and to an
interdisciplinary approach to understanding aspects of culture. This
year’s theme: The Da Vinci Code. Over 40 million copies of
Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code have sold since its publication
in 2003, and now in summer 2006 The DaVinci Code: The Movie features
symbologist Robert Langdon and cryptologist Sophie Neveu’s
frantic journey to unravel the ultimate conspiracy theory. The success
of the book, and now the movie, has very little to do with any literary
or historical merit but rather The Da Vinci Code has raised a number of
interesting and controversial scholarly issues. The Da Vinci Code
provides the beginnings of an intellectual journey and during this
journey students will begin to explore what is meant by the "liberal
arts" -- and how and why the liberal arts provide a useful
interdisciplinary foundation through which to understand the world
around us. How do humanities, social sciences, natural
sciences, and arts compare and contrast in their “ways of
knowing.” We will look at how individual scholars from very
diverse fields approach the issues raised.
450.767
The Old South, 1607 – 1865
William Evitts
S 10:00 AM - 12:15 PM
The United States began
in the South, which
contained half of the
national land and population at Independence
and contributed five of the first seven presidents. With the
largest slave population in the
Western Hemisphere, the unique southern culture gave us William
Faulkner, Uncle
Remus, Elvis, Scarlett O’Hara, minstrel shows
(America’s first mass
entertainment), Martin Luther King, Kentucky Fried Chicken, NASCAR,
Booker T.
Washington, country music, jazz, cotton, and by far the bloodiest war
we ever
fought. We will examine the South from
first settlement to its transformative defeat in the Civil War, with
appropriate emphasis on the institution of slavery. Midterm,
final, paper
450.790
Internship
at the Maryland
Historical Society
Course in DC
450.705.51
Art Collectors/Collecting
Linda Skalet
S 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Using
the
museums of the Washington/Baltimore area as classroom, this
course traces a dual path through the history of Art (particularly
Renaissance to Modern painting) and the history of art collecting in
the United States. The National Gallery will provide an overview of art
history, and the Corcoran, Clark, Phillips, Freer, Hirschorn, Walters,
and Cone collections will provide case studies. Issues of taste, who
and what influence it, and the impact of private collections and the
art museums that became their legacy of the development of American
culture will be addressed. Particular attention will be paid to the
choices made by individual collectors exploring the meaning and
relevance of the works of art they selected to their own lives and also
to the larger picture of American history during their lifetimes.
MLA
Capstone-Please
go to here
for more information about the
Capstone options.
450.825.01
Portfolio
Melissa Hilbish
Permission from Associate Program Chair required.
450.830.01
Graduate Project
Melissa Hilbish
Permission from Associate Program Chair required.
450.835.01
Graduate Thesis I
Melissa Hilbish
Permission from Associate Program Chair required.
450.836.01
Graduate Thesis II
Melissa Hilbish
Permission from Associate Program Chair required.
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