HISTORY

100.102 (H,S)

(W)

HISTORY OF OCCIDENTAL CIVILIZATION: THE MEDIEVAL WORLD (3) Gardner   Limit 15 per section Course added 5/2/06

Secs. 9 & 10 canceled 7/19/06

Lec.

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MW 11

M 12

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M 3

T 10

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T 12

T 1

T 1

T 2

T 2

T 3

100.103 (H,S)

(W)

HISTORY OF OCCIDENTAL CIVILIZATION: EUROPE AND THE WIDER WORLD (3) Marshall  Limit 15 per section     A survey of European history in the period from the Renaissance and Reformation in the late 18th century.

Lec.

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ThF 11

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T 1

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M 1

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100.120 (H,S)
(W)

SLAVERY: FROM AFRICA TO AMERICA (3) Larson   Limit 25 per section An introductory history of Africa enslavement in the Atlantic that considers the African origins of slaves and their subsequent experiences in North America.
Cross-listed with Public Health Studies

Lec.

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02

MT 3

T 2

T 1

100.121 (H,S)

(W)

HISTORY OF AFRICA (3) Hall
Limit 15 per section An introduction to the African past. First term: to 1880. Second term: since 1880.

Lec.

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MTW 11

W 12

W 1

W 2

100.147 (H,S)

(W)

ADAM SMITH AND KARL MARX (3) Jelavich/ Schoenberger   Limit 20   Freshmen only     This freshmen seminar will analyze and compare the founding work of classical political economy and its most radical critique: Smith’s Wealth of Nations and Marx’s Capital.
Cross-listed with Geography & Environmental Engineering

Sec. 01

W 2-5pm

100.153 (H,S)

(W)

MAKING AMERICA: IMMIGRATION, RACE, AND CITIZENSHIP (3) Shell-Weiss   Limit 15 per section Who and what is an American? This course provides an introduction to key questions and problems in 19th and early 20th century United States history focusing on debates over immigration, migration, citizenship and national identity.  Course added 4/05/06

Lec.

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MT 10

T 12

T 1

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100.191 (H,S)

FAMILY HISTORY IN U.S. AND EUROPE (3) Ditz   Limit 18 
Freshmen only  This seminar formated course introduces students to major themes in family history: sentiment and family authority; family and gender; history of sexuality; family and work; the dynamics of family and race. Readings stress inter-stress interdisciplinary perspectives. We also examine historical evidence, such as letters, diaries, and short stories. Emphasis on late 18th and 19th centuries, with some attention to the politics of family and gender in the 20th century United States.

Sec. 01

T 2-4

100.193 (H,S)

(W)

UNDERGRADUATE SEMINAR IN HISTORY (3) Johnson   Limit 40 20 Dept. Majors only    Year course: must be taken both semesters

Sec. 01

W 12-2

100.247 (H,S)

REMAKING GENDER IN 20TH CENTURY AMERICA (3)  Ryan   Limit 15 per section     Over the course of the last century the meanings of manhood and womanhood changed dramatically. This course will examine the transformation from the perspective of the women and men who enacted it. This course has been designated a Gilman lecture course in the Humanities Cross-listed with Studies of Women, Gender & Sexuality

Sec. 03 added 8/08/06

Lec.

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02

03

MT 11

W 2

W 3

W 1

100.274 (H,S)

(W)

SLAVERY AND FREEDOM IN THE AMERICAS (3) Roberts   Limit 25  What is slavery? This course investigates definitions of slavery (and freedom) and the experience of enslavement throughout the Americas from the 16th to the 19th century.
Dean’s Teaching Fellowship Course

Sec. 01

Th 2-5

100.275 (H,S)

(W)

ENTERPRISE AND THE LEGAL SYSTEM: INTRODUCTION TO THE AMERICAN LEGAL SYSTEM (3) Beveridge   Limit 25  This course is designed to introduce the student to the historical development of American law with particular reference to the business corporation and to the fundamentals of legal reasoning. The emphasis will be on the nineteenth century establishment of a distinctly American position on the corporation, the evolution of that position in the twentieth century, and the changes that are currently taking place in the law related to business corporations.
Dean’s Teaching Fellowship Course

Sec. 01

MW 2-4

100.282(H,S)

(W)

PRACTICING DIFFERENCE, PRODUCING SIMILARITY: NATIVE AMERICANS AND ENGLISH EXPLORERS IN EARLY AMERICA (3) Stern Spivey      Limit 15 This seminar provides an introduction to the history and historiography of Native American and British American encounters from early exploration to the American Revolution, while introducing interdisciplinary methods of studying cross-cultural encounters. Dean’s Teaching Fellowship course

Sec. 01

TTh 2-3:30

100.322 (H,S)
(W)

THE HISTORY OF AFRICAN AMERICANS AT JOHNS HOPKINS (3) Knight   Limit 15   This is an undergraduate research-type seminar in which students working in groups will first become acquainted with historical research methods, the collection of oral tradition, and be taught to use multi-media recording devices.  They will then implement their instruction by creating a multi-media biographical and historical essay for the JHU web page dealing with African Americans at the Johns Hopkins Institutions Project (http://afam.nts.jhu.edu).  This course involves working together in groups of 2-3 students interviewing any appropriately selected Johns Hopkins figure and then composing an illustrated net-essay following the guidelines of the JHU Afam project.

Sec. 01

W Th 3-5

100.330 (H,S)

NATIONAL IDENTITY IN 20TH CENTURY CHINA AND JAPAN (3) Meyer-Fong  Limit 28 Using primary sources, including literature and film, we will explore the changing ways in which ideologues, intellectuals, and ordinary citizens defined national identity in 20th-century China and Japan. Cross-listed with East Asian Studies Course added 03/20/06

Sec. 01

MW 10

100.338 (H,S)

(W)

CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN POLITICAL ECONOMIES IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES (3) Berry   Limit 25     Examines contemporary economic and political issues and changes against the background of colonial rule and postcolonial history.

Sec. 01

MT 2-3:30

100.346 (H,S)

(W)

PORTUGAL AND THE WIDER WORLD (3) Russell-Wood   Limit 35 25 Exploration and Portuguese settlement in Africa, Asia, and America, and integration of these regions into a multi-continental, multi-oceanic system. Political, commercial, military, cultural, and social aspects examined in the context of European/non-European interactions.

Sec. 01

MT 9

100.347 (H)

(W)

EARLY MODERN CHINA (3) Rowe   Limit 35   The history of China from the 16th to the late 19th centuries. Cross-listed with East Asian Studies

Sec. 01

ThF 9

100.356 (H,S)

THE BUDDHIST EXPERIENCE (3) Lievens  Limit 30   Introduction to Buddhist theory and practice - from India to East Asia. Cross-listed with East Asian Studies

Sec. 01

ThF 10:30-12

100.358 (H)
(W)

COMPARING RACIAL FORMATIONS (3) Kramer  Limit 20 Course canceled 6/09/06 

Sec. 01

M 2-4

100.359 (H,S)

(W)

WOMEN'S LABOR MIGRATIONS (3) Shell-Weiss  Limit 12  Women's Labor Migrations and the politics of exchange in the Americas offers a comparative history of women's regional and international labor migrations over the last 120 years from the standpoint of both sending and receiving regions. Cross-listed with Study of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Course added 03/30/06

Sec. 01

M 2-4

100.375 (H,S)

COLLOQUIUM: PROBLEMS IN AMERICAN SOCIAL HISTORY (3) Walters   Limit 60 20

Sec. 01

Th 3:30-6pm

100.397 (H,S)
(W)

POLITICS AND CULTURE IN MODERN BRITAIN (3) Walkowitz   Limit 15   Some of the themes examined include the history of popular nationalism, industrialization and class conflict, antislavery and reform movements, history of Empire and racial thought, body politics, the urban environment, non-violent and militant politics, gender and war, internationalism and cosmopolitanism. Cross-listed with Studies of Women, Gender, & Sexuality

Sec. 01

W 2-4

100.422 (H,S)

SOCIETY AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN 18TH CENTURY CHINA (3) Rowe Limit 12   Prereq: One previous course in Chinese history.   Reading knowledge of Chinese recommended but not required. Cross-listed with East Asian Studies

Sec. 01

Th 12-2

100.449 (H,S)

(W)

SOCIAL ETHICS IN AMERICAN THOUGHT (3)  Ross   Limit 10 6 Perm Req'd.   A study of basic traditions of American thought with a focus on their views of social ethics, i.e. their ideals of collective human flourishing and the obligations that those ideas entail. Readings and papers on secondary and primary sources.

Sec. 01

M 10-12

100.477 (H,S)

17TH CENTURY CHINA: COMMERCE, CULTURE, AND CONQUEST (3)  Meyer-Fong  Limit 12 Designed as an interdisciplinary exploration of the 17th century Chinese world and will incorporate both literary and visual materials. We will begin in the late Ming, a period of commercial expansion and intellectual iconoclasm, political incoherence and thriving print culture. We will learn about the military threat posed by a newly organized Manchu state on the northeast frontier, and by rebel armies with dynastic aspirations. By mid-semester, we will turn to accounts of the Ming collapse and the Manchu conquest (1644) and the political, intellectual, economic, and cultural consequences of these transformative events. Cross-listed with East Asian Studies Course added 03/20/06

Sec. 01

W 1-3

362.220 (H,S)

(W)

AFRICAN DIASPORA (3) Vinson Limit 25 Cross-listed with Africana Studies and Anthropology

Sec. 01

T 2-4

090.341 (H)

MARX, FREUD AND MODERN CRITICAL THEORY (3) Berry   Limit 20  See German for full description Cross-listed with German, Philosophy, and Political Science

Sec. 01

MTh 3-4:30

191.340 (S)

EDUCATION POLITICS IN URBAN AMERICA (3)  Hayes   Limit 25 15   This course analyzes the politics of urban public schooling, concentrating on community political dynamics and the struggle for equal educational opportunity and quality education.  The course emphasizes the impact of urban transformation, socioeconomic class inequality, and racial and ethnic politics on the changing character of public school reform since the 1954 Supreme Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education.
Cross-listed with Anthropology, Political Science, and Sociology, and Africana Studies

Sec. 01

Th 2-4

212.379 (H)

THE INTELLECTUAL WORLD OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE (3) Celenza     Limit 20 15
Cross-listed with Classics, the Humanities Center, Philosophy and Romance Languages

Sec. 01

W 11-1

061.384 (H)

HISTORY OF PHOTOJOURNALISM IN THE UNITED STATES (3) Hijar Limit 20
Lab Fee: $ 40 (No lab fee) This course explores US Photojournalism in historical perspective, with emphasis on social and cultural contexts; students will develop the analytic skills necessary to see media images with a critical eye.
Cross-listed with Film & Media and Studies of Women, Gender & Sexuality

Sec. 01

MW 4-5:30

090.386 (H)

GERMAN JEWISH THOUGHT SINCE THE ENLIGHTENMENT (3) Tobias Limit 15   

Cross-listed with Jewish Studies, German, and the Humanities Center

Sec. 01 Reading hour

W 3-5pm               TBA

100.501

INTERNSHIP Course added 9/28/06

TBA

100.507

SENIOR THESIS Knight    A seminar supervised by the Director of Undergraduate Studies and designed to provide a forum for collective exchange among seniors undertaking the senior thesis. All students undertaking the senior thesis must register and attend.

Sec. 01

T 6-8pm

100.535

INDEPENDENT STUDY

TBA

100.609

RACE AND MODERN HISTORY Kramer Course canceled 6/09/06 

Sec. 01

T 2-4

100.636

RUSSIAN HISTORY SEMINAR Brooks   This course will explore the chief issues in modern Russian history with an emphasis on culture and politics.

Sec. 01

TBA

100.639

TOPICS IN GERMAN HISTORY Jelavich   Readings in German social and cultural history, 1815-1914. 

Sec. 01

T 12-2

100.649

THE AMERICAN SOUTH  Johnson

Sec. 01

W 6-8pm

100.673

RESEARCH SEMINAR IN COLONIAL BRITISH AMERICA AND EARLY UNITED STATES Ditz

Sec. 01

W 9-12

100.677

RESEARCH SEMINAR IN EARLY MODERN BRITISH AMERICA   Greene   Graduate students only

Sec. 01

TBA

100.680

RESEARCH SEMINAR IN ATLANTIC HISTORY, 1600-1800 Morgan Limit 15 Course added 5/10/06

Sec. 01

TBA

100.695

PROBLEMS IN AMERICAN SOCIAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY  Walters Limit 15 Course added 9/05/06

Sec. 01

W 10-12

100.699

SOCIAL ETHICS IN AMERICAN THOUGHT   Ross Limit 6 Perm Req'd. Taught with 100.449

Sec. 01

M 10-12

100.707

COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA  Limit 15 Course added 9/12/06

Sec. 01

TBA

100.709

MODERN LATIN AMERICA   Knight Reading knowledge of Spanish. Graduate Students only

Sec. 01

W 2-4

100.711

TOPICS IN BRAZILIAN HISTORY  Russell-Wood

Sec. 01

MT 10:30-12

100.721

TOPICS IN AFRICAN HISTORY Berry    Topics and debates in historical writings on Africa and interdisciplinary approaches to African history. Will emphasize environmental themes and political economy in fall 2006.

Sec. 01

W 3-5 T M 10-12

100.726

THE CITY AND THE SEXES Ryan    Seminar will explore the intersection between urban history and the history of gender with a focus on 19th and 20th century America.

Sec. 01

T 4-6pm

100.727

MEDIEVAL SEMINAR: HISTORICAL WRITING IN THE MIDDLE AGES Spiegel Course added 7/26/06

Sec. 01

Th 2-4

100.735

EARLY MODERN BRITAIN Marshall

Sec. 01

TBA

100.746

HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICA Larson  Explores the major historiographical issues in the history of Southern Africa.

Sec. 01

T 10-12

100.750

THE REVOLUTIONARY SELF, FRANCE 1750-1830 Bell  This course will examine changing concepts of the self and changing forms of “self-presentation” in philosophical texts, memoirs, letters, and literature.

Sec. 01

Th T 2-4

100.763

SEMINAR: COMPARATIVE WORLD HISTORY Staff   

Sec. 01

T 4-6pm

100.767

LONDON WORLD CITY, 1880-1960  Walkowitz  Limit 12   The following themes are explored:  urban cultural theory, print culture and urban identity, the built environment, policing, sexual scandal, popular entertainments and erotic pleasure, consumer culture, cultural imperialism, the experience of war, social democracy, and the emergence of a multi-racial urban society. Cross-listed with Studies of Women, Gender, & Sexuality

Sec. 01

T 10-12

300.639

PSYCHOANALYSIS AND ART HISTORY  Fried / Leys  Limit 20
Cross-listed with German & Romance Languages, the Humanities Center, and Philosophy

Sec. 01

T 1-4

212.761

BOOKS, READERS, AND WRITERS IN PRE-MODERN EUROPE Celenza / Izbicki   Limit 15    Prereq: Basic reading knowledge of Latin or Perm. Req’d.
Cross-listed with Classics, German, the Humanities Center, and Romance Languages

Sec. 01

T 4-6pm

The following seminars are for Graduate students only

100.779

RESEARCH SEMINAR IN THE HISTORY OF WOMEN & GENDER Staff Course added 7/06/06

Sec. 01

TBA

100.781

THE SEMINAR Staff

Sec. 01

M 4-6pm

100.783

SEMINAR: MEDIEVAL EUROPE

Sec. 01

Th 4-6pm

100.785

SEMINAR: EARLY MODERN EUROPE

Sec. 01

Th 4-6pm

100.787

SEMINAR: MODERN EUROPE

Sec. 01

Th 4-6pm

100.789

SEMINAR: AMERICAN

Sec. 01

W 4-6pm

100.791

SEMINAR: LATIN AMERICAN

Sec. 01

T 4-6pm

100.793

SEMINAR: AFRICAN  Staff

Sec. 01

T 4-6pm

100.801

DISSERTATION RESEARCH

100.803

INDEPENDENT STUDY