300.200 (H)

CITIES: FOR EXAMPLE, BALTIMORE (3) Hertz  Limit 20 per section   An introduction to how cities look and how they work, by way of contemporary Baltimore; an introduction to Baltimore, its pleasures and problems, by way of what's been said about other cities, in American and elsewhere, contemporary and long gone.  Readings in works by urban observers, photographers, historians, anthropologists, architects, planners and journalists, field trips to various Baltimore neighborhoods. Cross-listed with English, Romance Languages, German, and History of Art

Lec.

Sec. 01

02

03

M 11

W 3-5

W 3-5

W 3-5

300.303 (H)
              (W)

EARLY MODERN WOMEN WRITERS: POETRY OF THE EUROPEAN RENAISSANCE (3) Patton   Limit 15   This seminar begins with women orators of the Italian Quattrocento and then explores the poetry of European salons and social circles: Gaspara Stampa, Vittoria Colonna, Louise Labé, Les Dames des Roches, Margaret More Roper, Elizabeth I, Katherine Parr, Mary Sidney, and Elizabeth Cary.
Cross-listed with English, and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Sec. 01

ThF 10:30-12

300.318 (H,S)
              (W)

JUSTICE, TRUTH, AND RECONCILIATION: RESPONSES TO GENOCIDE AND MASS TERROR (3) Leys  Limit 20   A research seminar on the limits of justice and the possibilities of reconciliation in the aftermath of 20th century genocides and mass atrocities. Cross-listed with History, Jewish Studies, Anthropology and Political Science

Sec. 01

W 1-3

300.326 (H)

LIVING IN DOUBTS: SKEPTICISM IN PHILOSOPHY, LITERATURE, AND FILM (3) Fenno   Limit 20  
This course examines how literature and film expresses skepticism, and how these genres influence philosophy.  Authors include Descartes, Hume, Sartre, Shakespeare, Fielding, and Proust.  Three classic films will be screened.   Dean’s Teaching Fellowship Course
Cross-listed with English, Philosophy, and Film and Media Studies

Sec. 01

M 2-4,
T 3

300.330 (H)

THE GHOST AND THE MACHINE (3) De Vries   Limit 20   The seminar explores the modern obsession with the “ghost in the machine,” the “brain in the vat,” in view of a conception of the “spiritual automaton,” etc. Readings will include Descartes, Spinpza, Bergson, Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Ryle, Dreyfus, Putnam, and Cavell. Cross-listed with Anthropology, German, Philosophy, Political Science and Romance Languages Screening time added 02/04/05

Sec. 01

Th 10:30-1

T 7:30-1030pm

300.332 (H)

KOREAN AMERICAN FICTION (3) Rhee   Limit 20   The focus will be on the role of language in the project of representing the self.  Authors include Myung Mi Kim, Suki Kim Chang-rae Lee and Heinz Insu Fenkl.   Cross-listed with Language Teaching Center

Sec. 01

M 1-4

300.363 (H)
              (W)

READING JUDITH SHAKESPEARE: WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS OF EARLY MODERN ENGLAND (3) Patton   Limit 15    Virginia Woolf’s account of the thwarted career of Shakespeare’s hypothetical sister, Judith, frames our reading of English playwrights Elizabeth Cary and Mary Sidney (sister of Philip), and women poets of the  Renaissance England.  Cross-listed with English, and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Sec. 01

Th 2-5

300.369 (H)

AFRICAN AMERICAN INTELLECTUALS (3) Chandler-   Limit 15    Beginning with Harold Cruse’s “The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual,” (1967), the seminar considers Cedric Robinson’s monumental “Black Marxism” (1983) and Hortense Spillers’ magisterial “Black White and in Color” Cross-listed with Africana Studies

Sec. 01

Th 2:30-5:30

300.378 (H)

WHAT CAN A BODY DO? (3) Marrati   Limit 20   This course will explore different conceptions of the body and its biological, political, cultural, and ethical boundaries. Readings will include: Spinoza, Deleuze, Sartre, Levinas, Butler, Nancy. Cross-listed with Philosophy, Romance Languages, Political Science and Anthropology

Sec. 01

Th M 2-4:30

300.386 (H)

(W)

THE SATIRIC MUSE (3) Macksey   Limit 15   A comparative study of satiric writing from Petronius to contemporary practitioners.  Issues will include the variety of satiric genres; the uses of parody, invective, and irony, the devices of verbal and visual satire including some examples from film.

Sec. 01

Th WF 2-3:30

360.340 (H,S)

POWER & RACISM (3) Hayes
Limit 25   Open to all Undergraduates Examination of white supremacy and antiblack racism as central dynamics in American political development through readings in philosophy, sociology, and political science. Compares racialized politics in the U.S. and Brazil.
Cross-listed with Africana Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Sociology, and Interdepartmental

Sec. 01

ThF 2-3:30

371.140 (H,S)

CARTOONING (3) Chalkley    Limit 15  Not open to Freshmen Cross-listed with Humanities

Sec. 01

F 1-4

300.502

INDEPENDENT STUDY

300.504 (H)                     (W)

INDIVIDUAL HONORS WORK – JUNIORS Macksey and Staff  
Open only to students admitted to the Honors Program in Humanistic Studies

300.506 (H)                     (W)

INDIVIDUAL HONORS WORK - SENIORS Macksey and Staff  
Open only to students admitted to the Honors Program in Humanistic Studies

300.508 (H)

              (W)

HONORS SEMINAR: METHODS IN HUMANISTIC STUDIES (2) Macksey/ Mao    A workshop on Honors projects in progress and their relation to methods in humanistic studies. Open only the members of the Honors Program in Humanistic Studies

Sec. 01

TBA

360.508 (H)

RESEARCH IN THE HUMANITIES: SPECIAL TOPIC (3)  Staff  Limit 15 Perm.Req'd. Open only to students in Humanities Undergraduate Fellowship in D.C.   Through reading and analysis of the kinds of methods of research used in developing the course, students learn of the scope and possibilities of Humanities research. Cross-listed with Interdepartmental and History of Art. Course added 12/01/04

Sec. 01

TBA

300.526 (H)

              (W)

EDITORIAL INTERNSHIP
Macksey   S/U only   Students with a serious commitment to critical journalism in arts and letters may contract a supervised internship with one of the university publications, the JHU Press, or cooperating sponsors in the community (newspapers, magazines, TV stations). Admission by interview

Sec. 01

TBA

300.600

INSTANCES: ON LIVING HERE & NOW DeVries   Limit 20 The seminar is devoted to different historical examples and contemporary formalizations of the privileged, fulfilled, yet fleeting moment (the instant, presence, kairos, Augenblick, durée, Jetztzeit). Readings will include Bergson, Bachelard, Heidegger, Badiou, and Hadot.
Cross-listed with Philosophy, German, Romance Languages, Anthropology, and Political Science

Sec. 01

T 10:30-1

300.604

LITERATURE OF THE CITY Hertz   Limit 20     Readings in the works of novelists and poets, historians, sociologists, journalists, and urban theorists on life in Western cities (e.g., London, Paris, Chicago, Los Angeles) from the 18th century to the present.
Cross-listed with English, German, Romance Languages and History of Art

Sec. 01

F 10-12

300.619

TRAUMA THEORY NOW Leys
A discussion of current debates about trauma, testimony, memory, and representation after Auschwitz.  Texts by Freud, Derrida, Felman, Caruth, LaCapra, Zizek,and others.  Films by Resnais (Hiroshima mon amour) and Lanzmann (Shoah).  Cross-listed with History of Science and Technology, History, Anthropology, and Political Science

Sec. 01

T 1-4

300.656

THE EVENT AND THE ORDINARY. ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF DELEUZE AND CAVELL.  Marrati   This seminar aims at discussing a set of issues shared by Cavell & Deleuze: the meaning of the ordinary and the event, the question of immanence, belief, and moral perfectionism.  Cross-listed with Philosophy, Anthropology, Romance Languages, and Political Science

Sec. 01

W 10:30-1

300.659

THE IDEA OF THE NOVEL Macksey Limit 20     Questions of text, temporality, authorship, and audience in narrative contexts.  Meets at professor’s home

Sec. 01

M 8-10:30pm

300.664

EROTICISM AND ASCETICISM IN MEDIEVAL JEWISH, CHRISTIAN, AND ISLAMIC MYSTICISM Wolfson
This course will explore the erotic character of asceticism and the ascetic character of eroticism expressed in the mystical expression of the three monotheistic faiths, focusing particularly on the 12th and 13th centuries.

Cross-listed with Jewish Studies

Sec. 01

T 4-6:30pm

300.673

HISTORICITY AND RELATION: RETHINKING JACQUES DERRIDA’S DE LA GRAMMATOLOGIE Chandler This seminar will focus on the relation of Derrida’s classic text to his earlier studies of Husserl; as such it will make thematic the problematic of historicity.

Sec. 01

T 4-7pm

040.688

COMPARATIVE APPROACHES TO ANCIENT RITUAL, RELIGION, AND SOCIETY Detienne/Yatromanolakis
Cross-listed with Classics

Sec. 01

W 3-5

300.800

INDEPENDENT STUDY -  FIELD EXAM

300.802

INDEPENDENT STUDY -  FIELD EXAM

300.804

DISSERTATION RESEARCH
Discussion of dissertations in progress. Limited to students writing dissertations.

300.806

LITERARY PEDAGOGICS

300.808

HUMANITIES RESEARCH PRACTICUM
Course added 02/02/05