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Course # (Section)
Title
Day/Times
Instructor
Room
PosTag(s)
Info
AS.070.201 (01)
Picturizing Climate Change
Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Khan, Naveeda
ENVS-MAJOR, ENVS-MINOR
Picturizing Climate Change AS.070.201 (01)
Climate change is represented in many pictures, such as those of tables, graphs, iconic photographs and filmic images. It materializes in many objects and qualities in our everyday lives, such as emissions, heat, solar grids and taxes. Artists attempt to picturize climate through photographs, installations and performance art. In this class we will examine these myriad representations, materializations and artistic efforts to see what ethical, political and aesthetic issues are at stake within them. We will ask to what concerns and desires does climate change give expression?
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Khan, Naveeda
Room:
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/15
PosTag(s): ENVS-MAJOR, ENVS-MINOR
AS.070.221 (01)
Cityness: Anthropology and the Urban Experience
TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Procupez, Valeria
Cityness: Anthropology and the Urban Experience AS.070.221 (01)
This course is an introduction to urban anthropology through the study of diverse "urban experiences," to explore how they are shaped by power relations as well as resistance. We will read about crowds and anonymity, finance and poverty, media and public space to understand how they change through the evolution of technology, shifts in capital investment and flows of migration. We will examine the scope and limitations of classical (Western) notions of foundational studies city life. We will also explore how the notion of "cityness" better captures the variety of affects and dynamics of contemporary urban everyday life.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Procupez, Valeria
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 6/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.070.256 (01)
Locavores, Vegans, Freegans: Lifestyle Activism from an Anthropological Perspective
TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Abiral, Burge
ENVS-MAJOR, ENVS-MINOR
Locavores, Vegans, Freegans: Lifestyle Activism from an Anthropological Perspective AS.070.256 (01)
From social media usage to popular public figures such as Greta Thunberg, we are inundated every day by messages on how we should change our daily habits to save the planet or consume certain brands to help particular causes. This course offers an anthropological perspective on such endeavors of lifestyle activism, broadly defined as the changing of one’s lifestyle and consumption habits to enact some form of social and political change. We will ask: How can we distinguish between lifestyle activism and non-activist concerns with lifestyle? What makes pursuing certain daily actions activist? What kind of self-cultivation and moral aspiration play into the transformation of habits? What does it take for daily habits to become a lifestyle movement that could enact larger and meaningful social and political change? Drawing from a variety of social and political contexts, we will explore topics such as voluntary simplicity, bicycling, zero waste, boycotts, and back-to-landers, while maintaining a larger focus on food and food activism.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Instructor: Abiral, Burge
Room:
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 1/18
PosTag(s): ENVS-MAJOR, ENVS-MINOR
AS.070.317 (01)
Methods
MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Han, Clara, Pandian, Anand
Mergenthaler 266
Methods AS.070.317 (01)
This course aims to teach basic fieldwork skills: Choosing and entering a community; establishing contacts; learning to listen and to ask questions and locating archival material that might be relevant. It is a hands-on course that increases student familiarity with various neighborhoods such as the Arts District in Baltimore. Recommended Course Background: two or more prior courses in anthropology (not cross-listed courses). Course is a requirement for anthropology major.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Han, Clara, Pandian, Anand
Room: Mergenthaler 266
Status: Open
Seats Available: 7/20
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.070.324 (01)
Latin America in a Fracturing World
W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Angelini, Alessandro, Han, Clara
INST-CP, INST-GLOBAL
Latin America in a Fracturing World AS.070.324 (01)
This course examines the multiple and overlapping crises afflicting Latin America today through an ethnographic lens. Featuring conversations with authors of recent work on the region’s most pressing issues, we will explore the contours of knowledge production itself under conditions of precarity and violence. Discussions will include the retrenchment of borders, migration crises, the state management of life and death, the resurgence of authoritarianism, food insecurity, and resource conflicts.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Angelini, Alessandro, Han, Clara
Room:
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/19
PosTag(s): INST-CP, INST-GLOBAL
AS.070.330 (01)
Sheltering in Places: Architecture and Anthropology in Conversation
T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Degani, Michael
Sheltering in Places: Architecture and Anthropology in Conversation AS.070.330 (01)
What is the relation between social life and shelter? How do the kinds of buildings we move through shape our sense of what is important, beautiful, or possible? Why do some buildings feel good and others bad? And how do buildings evolve as people inhabit, repurpose, repair or degrade them over time? The course begins with philosophical reflections on spheres, shells, and containers in relation to childhood and memory. It then explores the long interdisciplinary conversation between architecture and anthropology, focusing on the social and cultural dimensions of built structures. Finally, it considers how architectural practice is responding to contemporary challenges of migration, pandemics, and climate change.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Degani, Michael
Room:
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.070.334 (01)
Contemporary Anthropology
T 4:00PM - 6:00PM
Pandian, Anand
Contemporary Anthropology AS.070.334 (01)
Students are invited to attend, for credit, the departmental research colloquium in anthropology. The colloquium meets most (but not all) Tuesday afternoons during the semester. Students are expected to attend and listen, encouraged to ask questions when they wish, and to write one brief reflection on contemporary trends in the field, based on what they have observed during these sessions.
Credits: 1.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: T 4:00PM - 6:00PM
Instructor: Pandian, Anand
Room:
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 1/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.070.402 (01)
Sustainable Design Studio
F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Labruto, Nicole
ENVS-MAJOR, ENVS-MINOR
Sustainable Design Studio AS.070.402 (01)
Environmental justice issues require sustainable design solutions founded on social scientific practice, technical expertise, and solidarity with community partners. Building on theoretical and methodological knowledge gained in the Fall 2020 Sustainable Design course (AS.070.433/633), the Sustainable Design Studio will bring together students, members of Baltimore social justice organizations, and practitioners from a variety of disciplines to work in collaboration to research and design solutions to complex social-ecological problems faced by partner organizations. This studio class provides students with practical, project-based design experience through community collaboration. Instructor permission required.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Labruto, Nicole
Room:
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available: 13/19
PosTag(s): ENVS-MAJOR, ENVS-MINOR
AS.070.419 (01)
Logic of Anthropological Inquiry
M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Angelini, Alessandro, Degani, Michael
ARCH-RELATE
Logic of Anthropological Inquiry AS.070.419 (01)
Anthropology is an endeavor to think with the empirical richness of the world at hand, a field science with both literary and philosophical pretensions. This course grapples with the nature of anthropological inquiry, reading classic works in the discipline as well as contemporary efforts to reimagine its foundations. Required for anthropology majors.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Angelini, Alessandro, Degani, Michael
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/15
PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE
AS.070.465 (01)
Concepts: How to Read Hindu and Islamic Texts
F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Das, Veena, Khan, Naveeda
INST-GLOBAL, INST-NWHIST, ISLM-ISLMST
Concepts: How to Read Hindu and Islamic Texts AS.070.465 (01)
What is the nature of anthropological concepts and what relations do they bear to concepts internal to a society? We invite students to think with key ideas from Hindu and Islamic traditions, asking if anthropological concepts are best seen as abstractions from the particular or as intertwined with ongoing lines of inquiry, say into the nature of the real and continual efforts to test it? Topics in ritual theory, grammar, aesthetics, translation, revelation, luminosity, figuration and the mythological among those to be considered.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Das, Veena, Khan, Naveeda
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 2/15
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, INST-NWHIST, ISLM-ISLMST
AS.100.365 (01)
Culture & Society in the High Middle Ages
MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Spiegel, Gabrielle M
Hodson 110
HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
Culture & Society in the High Middle Ages AS.100.365 (01)
This course will cover the period commonly known as the High Middle Ages, that is, the civilization of Western Europe in the period roughly from 1050 to 1350. . It is a period of exceptional creativity in the history of Western Europe and in medieval history specifically, a time when many of the most characteristic institutions of Europe came into being.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Instructor: Spiegel, Gabrielle M
Room: Hodson 110
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/22
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.365 (02)
Culture & Society in the High Middle Ages
MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Spiegel, Gabrielle M
Hodson 110
HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
Culture & Society in the High Middle Ages AS.100.365 (02)
This course will cover the period commonly known as the High Middle Ages, that is, the civilization of Western Europe in the period roughly from 1050 to 1350. . It is a period of exceptional creativity in the history of Western Europe and in medieval history specifically, a time when many of the most characteristic institutions of Europe came into being.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Instructor: Spiegel, Gabrielle M
Room: Hodson 110
Status: Open
Seats Available: 21/23
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
AS.130.214 (01)
The Origins of Civilization: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Schwartz, Glenn M
ARCH-ARCH, NEAS-ARTARC, NEAS-HISCUL
The Origins of Civilization: A Cross-Cultural Perspective AS.130.214 (01)
One of the most significant transformations in human history was the “urban revolution” in which cities, writing, and social classes formed for the first time. In this course, we compare five areas where this development occurred: China, Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, Egypt, and Mesoamerica (Mexico/Guatemala/Honduras/Belize). In each region, we review the physical setting, the archaeological and textual evidence, and the theories advanced to explain the rise (and eventual collapse) of these complex societies.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Instructor: Schwartz, Glenn M
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 23/50
PosTag(s): ARCH-ARCH, NEAS-ARTARC, NEAS-HISCUL
AS.194.305 (01)
Cultures of Pilgrimage in Islam
T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Roy, Arpan
INST-GLOBAL
Cultures of Pilgrimage in Islam AS.194.305 (01)
The hajj pilgrimage to Mecca is one of the pillars of Islam. But Muslims around the world also take part in many other pilgrimages, from the massive annual Shi’a pilgrimage to Karbala to the smaller ziyarat “visits” to Sufi saint shrines, to travel to centers of Islamic learning, to pilgrimage to isolated natural features like mountains, trees, valleys. What are the theologies that propel the act of travel in Islam? How are cities, architectures, economies shaped by these cultures? And how are these traditions affected by the wars and colonial projects that plague many Muslim-majority countries in the contemporary world? Readings in this course will draw from anthropology, philosophy, Islamic interpretive texts (tafsir), and travelogues.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Roy, Arpan
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 7/19
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL
AS.363.301 (01)
Feminist and Queer Theory: Black Decolonial Feminisms in the Americas
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Estrella, Amarilys
INST-PT
Feminist and Queer Theory: Black Decolonial Feminisms in the Americas AS.363.301 (01)
This course will use both historical and contemporary readings focusing on Black and decolonial feminisms as theory and praxis to reflect on the particular experiences of afro-descendants throughout the Americas.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Instructor: Estrella, Amarilys
Room:
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/18
PosTag(s): INST-PT
AS.365.104 (04)
What Does it Mean to be Religious? Experience, Creativity, and the Individual
Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Haeri, Niloofar, Ziad, Homayra
What Does it Mean to be Religious? Experience, Creativity, and the Individual AS.365.104 (04)
What do we mean when we say that something or someone is “religious?” We unpack this question in a comparative perspective, but will pay special attention to the ways in which this term has been applied to the study of Islamic cultures and Muslim experience. Through an exploration of the categories of experience, creativity and the individual, we offer a more capacious way of imagining what it means to be religious.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Haeri, Niloofar, Ziad, Homayra
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 10/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.365.104 (07)
The Anthropology of Home
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Procupez, Valeria
The Anthropology of Home AS.365.104 (07)
In this course, we will examine different conceptions and experiences of ""home"" through studies of domesticity, kinship and household in diverse cultural settings. Reading anthropological analysis of urban built environment and locality, we will explore the notions of home and homeland, as realms of care, intimacy and belonging yet also as sites of subjection, discrimination and gender/racial inequality.
