| HUMANITIES
CENTER |
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| 300.202
(H) |
AMERICAN
PRAGMATISM (3) Dechand Limit 12 A discussion seminar dedicated to
close readings of three pragmatists with significant ties to the
early history of Johns Hopkins University:
Charles Sanders Peirce, William James,
and John Dewey. |
Sec. 01 |
F 10-12:30 |
| 300.303 (H)
(W) |
EARLY
MODERN WOMEN WRITERS: POETRY OF THE EUROPEAN RENAISSANCE (3) Patton Limit 12 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,
Elizabeth I, Katherine Parr, Mary Sidney, and Elizabeth Cary.
Cross-listed with English, and Studies of
Women, Gender, and Sexuality
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Sec. 01 |
F 10-12 |
| 300.308 (H) |
THE
CRISIS OF MODERNISM: THE 1960s AND FATE OF ART (3) Tsai
Limit 15 The course provides an art historical
and philosophical account of how a crisis in the concept of art
emerged in the 1960’s. Key authors include Kant, Hegel, Adorno, and Greenberg.
Dean’s Teaching Fellowship Course
Cross-listed with History of Art |
Sec. 01 |
W 10-1 |
| 300.322 (H) |
RUSSIAN
CINEMA FROM AVANT-GARDE TO SOCIALIST REALISM (3) Eakin Moss Limit 25
Introduction to Russian cinema from its boulevard beginnings to
the avant-garde to Stalinism. Examination of pre-revolutionary
melodramas, silent film masters Eisenstein, Pudovkin
and Vertov, and socialist realist adventures and musicals.
Cross-listed with Film & Media Studies |
Sec. 01
Scr. |
MW 2-3:30
T 7:30pm - 10pm |
| 300.329 (H,S) |
FREUD,
RELIGION, AND ETHICS (3) Leys Limit
20 A seminar on the history and reception of Freud's ideas about
the origin of religion and ethics. Course added 11/28/05 |
Sec. 01 |
M
1-3 |
| 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 women playwrights, poets and diarists of
the 16th and early 17th century England.
Cross-listed
with English, and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality |
Sec. 01 |
Th 10-12 |
| 300.387
(H)
(W) |
YIDDISH STORYTELLING (3) Eakin Moss
Limit 15 Examines multiple forms of Yiddish storytelling including
folktales, Hasidic wonder tales, epic, modernist poetry and film.
Considers issues of narrative structure, adaptation and the legacy
of Yiddish storytelling in American culture.
Cross-listed
with Jewish Studies |
Sec. 01 |
T 2-4:30 |
| 300.388
(H)
(W) |
INTRODUCTION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF TIME (3) Schott Limit 15 This course will explore
answers to the question “What is time?” that take account of time
as something both inside and outside of us. Readings include, among others, Aristotle, Augustine, Kant, Bergson,
and Heidegger.
Cross-listed
with Philosophy
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Sec. 01 |
T
2-5 T1:30-4:30 |
| 300.398
(H)
(W) |
DRAMA BY STAGES (3) Macksey
Limit 15 An eclectic tour of theatrical spaces, forms, and texts from
Athens to the present.
Analysis of performance conventions and comparative
study of dramatic and cinematic representation.
Cross-listed
with Philosophy |
Sec. 01 |
WF
W 2-3:30
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| 070.368
(H,S) (W) |
MODERN
SOUTH ASIA: THE OCCULT IN EVERYDAY LIFE (3) Khan Limit 35
Cross-listed
with Humanities
Center and Studies of Women, Gender,
and Sexuality |
Sec. 01 |
W 1-4 |
| 090.395
(H) |
LITERATURE & PHOTOGRAPHY
(3) Tobias Limit 15
Cross-listed with the German, Film & Media Studies, and
Writing Seminars |
Sec. 01 |
W 3-5
Plus discussion hour TBA |
| 090.403
(H) |
VISIONS OF CINEMA: EXPLORATIONS
IN WEIMAR FILM 1913-1933
(3) Gold Limit 15
Cross-listed with German and Film &
Media Studies |
Sec. 01 |
M 1-3
Plus screening TBA on
Thurs. evenings |
| 371.140 (H) |
CARTOONING
(3) Chalkley Limit
15 Not open to Freshmen
Cross-listed
with Art |
Sec. 01 |
F 1-4 |
| 300.502 |
INDEPENDENT STUDY |
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| 300.504 (H)
(W) |
INDIVIDUAL HONORS WORK – JUNIORS Macksey
and Staff
Open only to students admitted to the Honors Program in Humanistic
Studies |
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| 300.506 (H)
(W) |
INDIVIDUAL HONORS WORK - SENIORS Macksey and Staff
Open only to students admitted to the Honors Program in Humanistic
Studies |
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| 300.508
(W) |
HONORS
SEMINAR: METHODS IN HUMANISTIC STUDIES (2) Macksey/ 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
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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 |
| 360.508
(H)
(W) |
IMAGINING THE WORLD FROM
CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY TO THE COLONIZATION OF THE AMERICAS (3) Kupfer Limit 15 Perm. Req’d.
Open only to students in Humanities Undergraduate Fellowship
in D.C.
Cross-listed
with History, History of Art, and the Interdepartmental |
Sec. 01 |
TBA |
| 300.659
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THE
IDEA OF THE NOVEL Macksey Limit
20 Questions of text, temporality, authorship, and audience
in narrative contexts. Meets at professor’s home
Course not offered
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Sec. 01
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M 8-10:30pm
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| 300.672 |
THOMAS HARDY Hertz Limit 20
A reading of the major novels, along with some short fiction and
poetry.
Cross-listed with Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality,
English |
Sec. 01 |
F 9-12 |
| 300.674 |
FREUD’S MOSES Leys
Psychoanalytic and post-psychoanalytic accounts of the relations
between violence, religion, identity, and memory centered on the
reception of Freud’s Moses and Monotheism. Texts by Freud,
Yerushalmi, Derrida, Lyotard,
Said, Caruth, Assman,
and others.
Cross-listed with Anthropology, History, Political Science,
Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, and Jewish Studies |
Sec. 01 |
W 1-4 |
| 300.676 |
THE ELEGIAC MUSE Macksey
The literature of Mortality from the Romantics to their modern
inheritors. |
Sec. 01 |
M 8-10:30pm |
| 040.602 |
COMPARATIVE HISTORICITIES: NATION, HISTORIOGRAPHY,
MYTHIDEOLOGY Detienne Limit 8 Cross-listed
with Anthropology, History, Classics, Philosophy and Romance Languages
and Literatures |
Sec. 01 |
W 3-5 |
| 010.627 |
PRO-SEMINAR ON 19TH CENTURY FRENCH PAINTING
Fried
Cross-listed
with History of Art |
Sec. 01 |
TBA |
| 010.638 |
A RECONSIDERTATION OF THE REVOLUTION IN
ITALIAN ART Dempsey/Fried
Cross-listed with History
of Art |
Sec. 01 |
Th 1-4 |
| 090.670 |
HERMENEUTICS – LITERARY
AND PHILOSOPHICAL (SCHLEIERMACHER, SZONDI, HEIDEGGER, GADAMER)
Gold Limit 15
Cross-listed
with German and Philosophy |
Sec. 01 |
Th 3-5 |
| 300.800 |
INDEPENDENT STUDY |
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| 300.802 |
INDEPENDENT STUDY - FIELD EXAM |
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| 300.804 |
DISSERTATION RESEARCH
Discussion
of dissertations in progress. Limited to students writing dissertations. |
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| 300.806 |
LITERARY PEDAGOGICS |
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| 300.808 |
HUMANITIES RESEARCH PRACTICUM |
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