140.106 (H,S)

HISTORY OF MODERN MEDICINE (3) Fissell   Limit 20 per section
Perm Req'd. Cross-listed with Public Health Course closed 02/03/05

Lec.
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02

MT 10
W 10
W 10

140.118 (H,S)

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FRESHMAN SEMINAR: THE LABORATORY (3)  Leslie  Limit 15 You’ll probably be spending lots of time in one. Find out where it came from, how it works, and what makes it a distinctive place for research & teaching. Special attention to the history of the laboratory at Johns Hopkins, including medical laboratories.

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M 6-9pm

140.302 (H,S)

RISE OF MODERN SCIENCE (3) Kingsland   Limit 20 per section.

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02

MT 10
W 10
W 10

140.336 (H,S)

HEALTH, RISK, AND HISTORY (3)  Mooney  Limit 15   Seminar reviews modernist notions of “risk society” and how and why they have come to pervade public health discourse and practice. Broad themes include the idea, computation and communication of risk. Cross-listed with Public Health

Sec. 01

T 2-5

140.338 (H,S)

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SCIENCE IN REVOLUTIONARY EUROPE (1688-1789) (3) Friesen   Limit 15  Examines science and social change in western Europe and beyond. Topics include: Newton; experiment & popular science; science, religion & the state; the chemical revolution; science & romanticism.

Sec. 01

F 12-3

140.340 (H,S)

SCIENCE AND UTOPIA: SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS AND VISION OF AN IDEAL SOCIETY (3) Kargon    Limit 25     Not open to those who have taken 140.116 – Freshman Seminar   How science and technology were integrated into the social fabric of “ideal” communities in such works as Bellamy’s Looking Backward, Well’s Modern Utopia, Huxley’s Brave New World, Atwoods’s Handmaid’s Tale, etc.

Sec. 01

W 2-4

140.344 (H,S)
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THE USES OF EVIL: HISTORICAL ENCOUNTERS WITH THE DEVIL (3) Waddell   Limit 15    Explores historical ideas about the presence and role of the Devil in the natural world, from the philosophy and theology of the schools to popular art, literature, and film. Dean’s Teaching Fellowship Course

Sec. 01

ThF 10:30-12

140.346 (H,S)

HISTORY OF CHINESE MEDICINE (3) Hanson   Limit 20    How did Chinese conceptualize the human body, health and disease over the past 2,000 years?  How did these concepts change over time and differ according to region? Why do gender, class, and place matter?  Who practiced medicine in China, what did they practice, where, and how do we know what we know about them?  These are some of the questions students will engage by discussing the most recent historical, anthropological, and philosophical scholarship on the history of medicine in China and reading a wide range of primary sources on Chinese medicine in English translation.

Cross-listed with Public Health

Sec. 01

MTW 10

140.350 (H,S)

              (W)

JAPAN AND THE ENVIRONMENT (3) Low    Limit 20    Examines traditional attitudes to nature, tensions between economic growth and the environment, and the shift from domestic to global environmental concerns.

Sec. 01

W 2-5

140.412 (H,S)

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SENIOR RESEARCH SEMINAR (2) Leslie   For departmental majors writing a senior thesis only.

Sec. 01

TBA

140.422 (H,S)
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LAS VEGAS AND LOS ANGLES (3) Leslie     Seniors only      Limit 30  A comparative study of Sin City and the City of Angles as places and images that redefined the urban environment of the late 20th c. America and for better of worse may end up being prototypes for the city of the future.

Sec. 01

ThF 10:30-12

376.322 (H)

CAPTURING SOUND (3) Katz  
Limit 20 per section   This course will explore the profound influence of sound recordings on music and musical life since the beginning of the 20th century. A wide variety of topics and issues will be covered, including digital sampling, early recording and classical performance practice, MP3 and file-sharing, and hip-hop turntablism. Formerly taught as “The Phonograph Effect"  
Cross-listed with Music

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02

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MT 3

W 3

W 4

Th 3

Th 4

140.502

INDEPENDENT STUDY

140.626

ADVANCED SEMINAR  Kingsland  For student and faculty presentations of research, discussion of teaching methods, rehearsal of job talks, and discussion of recent literature in the field.

Sec. 01

F 12-2

140.640

TECHNOLOGY IN TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE  Leslie/Low  This seminar will compare the development of key industrial sectors (e.g. textiles, steel, automobiles, electronics) in the U.S. and Japan, with some attention to Europe and to emerging Asian nations.

Sec. 01

T 1-3

140.642

COLLOQUIUM Kargon/Kingsland/Comfort

Sec. 01

Th 3-5

140.702

OUTLINE OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE, 18TH– 20TH CENTURIES Fissell   Taught at the Welch Medical Library on the East Baltimore Campus, 3rd floor seminar room.

Sec. 01

W 10-12

140.708

RISE OF MODERN SCIENCE  Kingsland

Sec. 01

W 10-12

140.714

BIOMEDICINE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY   Comfort/Todes   For humanities and science students.  Explores development of biomedical sciences over the past century, including neurobiology, physiology, genetics, embryology and endocrinology. Examines research styles, the problem of interpretation, role of technology, social context of biomedicine, nature of the modern laboratory, and other themes. This course is also listed as School of Medicine 150.714. Taught at the Welch Medical Library on the East Baltimore Campus, 3rd floor seminar room.

Sec. 01

Th 10-12

300.619

TRAUMA THEORY NOW Leys  
See Humanities for a complete course description   Cross-listed with Anthropology, History, Humanities, and Political Science 

Sec. 01

T 1-4

140.802

DIRECTED READINGS & DISSERTATION Kargon  

Sec. 01

TBA

140.812

DIRECTED READINGS & DISSERTATION Kingsland

Sec. 01

TBA