360.223 Gerrits
This course explores feminist film theory and the political stakes of cinema in the context of psychoanalysis and semiotics.
AS.360.233 Goodfellow
This course explores concepts foundational to the development of feminist and queer theory. The class provides the necessary tools to continue future scholarly work in gender and sexuality studies. 360.533 Goodfellow
070.373 Han
How can we understand mental illness from an anthropological perspective? A study of mental illness brings together a critical analysis of medical and psychiatric discourses, institutions of care, as well as economic inequality. It also challenges us to consider fundamental questions of how to engage with subjectivity and experience. In this course, we will work through historical analyses of psychiatric discourse, ethnographic explorations of mental illness and addictions, and social theory on subjectivity and science and technology. 290.420 Kraft
Perm Req'd Juniors & Seniors PBS, Neuroscience, Public Health, Behavioral Biology, or Biology majors, or PBS or Women's Studies minors only. Pre-registration will be held in 140 Ames/time TBA/bobbie@jhu.edu This course will examine the historical and current theories of sexual orientation and sexual variation development by examining the biological, psychological and social contributing factors that influence the development of sexual orientations and variations along with treatment and modification of problematic sexual behaviors.
060.250 Furguson
The course will include readings that identify major literary innovations of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in England--from Defoe's Robinson Crusoe to Pope's technique of using literature to criticize his contemporaries to Sterne's cultivation of sentiment to Wordsworth's efforts to simplify the language of poetry and to let it speak a language less learned and more colloquial and to Austen's depiction of courtship and marriage as a system. 061.339 Bucknell
Prereq: One core course or Perm. Req'd Limit 15 Lab Fee: $40 Postwar film noir: Fuller, Huston, Lang, Mann, Tourneur, and others.
214.370 Stephens
Discover the Magic and Marvels-both literal and figurative-of Italian literature between 1350 and 1550. Poets, philosophers, political theorists, dramatists, and fiction writers ponder the nature of humanity, in itself and in its relations with the supra-human beings described byreligion and literature. Readings include Ariosto's Orlando furioso, the epic romance that inspired works as varied as Spenser's Faerie Queene and Cervantes' Don Quixote.
212.414 Russo
A selection of novels, essays and plays from the 17th to the 21st century illustrating the intersection of gender, taste and politics in the construction of a French masculine identity. From the courtly gentleman, to the effeminate male, to the Romantic dandy, to the visionary, post-human man, masculine sexuality is alternately portrayed as normative ideal, as satire, social critique, tragi-comedy or utopia. Texts by Crébillon, Marivaux, Laclos, Stendhal, Chateaubriand, Baudelaire, Proust, Houellebecq. 215.451 Gonzalez
From Pepi to Volver, the films will be studied in form, content, and socio-political terms.
214.650 Wegenstein
This course is situated in the fields of techno-science studies, the history of medical technologies, and new media studies. Throughout the course's readings and screenings we will trace the "cosmetic gaze" - a gaze through which the act of looking at our bodies and those of others is already informed by the techniques, expectations, and strategies of bodily modification - to both its cultural-historical as well as technological roots from 18th century physiognomy treatises (e.g., Johann Kaspar Lavater) to the 19th and 20th-century politicized discourses of beauty (with their racist counterparts) from the works of Francis Galton and Cesare Lombroso to the Nazis; this material will be compared to current day reality television makeover shows and the beauty ideals they refer to. Readings to be announced.
214.678 Stephens
A study of Ariosto's Orlando furioso in the context of humanistic culture and of his own literary production in shorter genres. The relation of Orlando furioso to the traditions of epic and romance, especially Boiardo and Tasso, will be a major focus.
100.206 Aldeman
This course studies children separated from parents by death, poverty, abandonment, and coercion, and the ways Americans have cared for them-including indenture, orphanages, “orphan trains,” adoption, and foster care.
100.372 Walkowitz
This course focuses on the politics of everyday life, consumption, intimate relations, and concepts of the self in Victorian Britain (1837-1901). Particular attention will be devoted to Victorian visual culture, including exhibitions, built environment, decorative arts and theatrical performance. Other themes include popular nationalism, class cultures, feminism and body politics, Empire and racial thought.
100.424 Meyer-Fong
This course examines the experience of Chinese women, and also how writers, scholars, and politicians (often male, sometimes foreign) have represented women's experiences for their own political and social agendas. 100.767 Walkowitz/Mort
This course will explore built environment, commercialized sexual modernities, cosmopolitanism and Diasporic communities, Historical memory and space. 140.383 Petrozzi
The course analyzes the history of human-animal interactions focusing on the way in which discourses and knowledge about animals shaped fundamental concepts such as gender, culture, agency, and knowledge.
300.363 Patton
Virginia Woolf's account of the thwarted career of Shakespeare's hypothetical sister, Judith, frames our reading of women playwrights, poets, and diarists of 16th and early 17th century England.
130.330 Robbins
An open inquiry into the biblical story of the Garden of Eden, the course will also trace its interpretation, its use and abuse, over the centuries.
230.316 McDonald
This course is an examination of sociological theories and studies of African-American families and an overview of the major issues confronting African-American family life. The contemporary conditions of black families are explored, as well as the historical events that have influenced the family patterns we currently observe. Special attention will be given to social policies that have evolved as a result of the prominence of any one perspective at a given point in time.
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