Courses:

Africana Studies -

HA 362.250.01 (H S)
Program Abroad in Ghana: History, Politics and Culture* (letter grade, 3 credits)
Instructor: Franklin Knight
Schedule: January 6-17, 2010
Credits: 3, letter grade

Description: *This undergraduate study abroad course is taught for 3-credits and a letter grade. This course is Writing Intensive. Students enrolled in this course will be exposed to core themes related to the modern and historical experiences of Ghana. In addition to traditional academic lectures, readings, and assignments, students will complete a day-long service learning project and will be directly engaged with "active" learning while in the field. Prior to leaving, students will be exposed to broad themes related to the African Diaspora as it relates to West Africa and Ghana in particular. While in Ghana, participants will spend the majority of the time in Accra, the country's capital. Here, they will have the opportunity to attend six lectures, all given by University of Ghana faculty members. Visits to Elmina Slave Castle, the Kakum National Rain Forest, the village of Bonwire (the home of kente weaving) and the open market in the city of Kumasi (capital of the Ashanti region).

Anthropology -

AS 070.191.01 (H S)
About the House: Anthropology of Domestic Space
Instructor: Chitra Venkataramani
Schedule: TTh 1:00-3:30pm; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: How do the spaces in which we live our daily lives shape our sense of family, work and public space? Where does 'home' begin and end? This course explores how understandings of public-private boundaries, domestic life and architecture shape our everyday environments and vice versa. Each class session will contain one ethnographic reading that deals with these questions. Along with this reading we will also discuss one related work of architecture, art or fiction. Texts and materials may include: “Houses and House Life” (Henry L. Morgan), “Towards a New Architecture” (Le Corbusier), “House” (Rachel Whiteread), “Vanna Venturi House” (Venturi, Scott Brown) and “Zenana” (Laura Ring).

AS 070.193.01 (H)
Anthropology and Public Health: A Conversation
Instructor: Anila Daulatzai
Schedule: MWTh 1:00-4:00pm; First week schedule WTHF and the next two weeks will meet MWTH; Meets Jan 6-22
Credits: 2, graded S/U

Description: This course will stage a conversation between Anthropology and Public Health. It will explore epistemological differences between the disciplines that are more critical to the practice of Global Public Health in the contemporary world than the methodological distinctions. The course will focus on Afghanistan by critically reading Public Health journal articles/reports. The case of Afghanistan will be a lens to critique the discipline of Public Health as students re-examine how to use the tools of Public Health with anthropological sensibility.

Applied Math and Statistics -

EN 550.282.01 (Q)
A Hands-On Introduction to MATLAB
Instructor: Eric Harley
Schedule: MW 2:00-4:30pm; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: This is a first course in programming MATLAB for students in the mathematical sciences. MATLAB is widely used in research and industry for numerical calculations, plotting of functions and data, and the creation of user interfaces. Short tutorial lectures will be followed by problem solving sessions. Topics emphasized will be basic programming in the MATLAB environment and the practical solution of problems in matrix calculations, differential equations, signal and image processing, and machine learning.

en 550.282.02 (Q)
A Hands-On Introduction to MATLAB
Instructor: Eric Harley
Schedule: MW 10:00-12:30pm; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: This is a first course in programming MATLAB for students in the mathematical sciences. MATLAB is widely used in research and industry for numerical calculations, plotting of functions and data, and the creation of user interfaces. Short tutorial lectures will be followed by problem solving sessions. Topics emphasized will be basic programming in the MATLAB environment and the practical solution of problems in matrix calculations, differential equations, signal and image processing, and machine learning.

Art -

AS 371.189.01 (Note: This course has no area designation for distribution)
B'More: Charm City through the Lens
Instructor: Monica Lopez-Gonzalez
Schedule: B'More Program Dates: Saturday, January 16 through Friday, January 22.
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: This course will discuss the work of two Baltimore-based photographers and a film director. Students will be introduced to the concept of photography as an artistic medium for documenting a city's cultural life. Classroom lectures will be complemented by visits to Fells Point and Mount Vernon, as well as to a photo exhibit in a gallery. Using their own digital and cell phone cameras, students will create their own mini-portfolios to present.

AS 371.299.01 (Note: This course has no area designation for distribution)
Spirit Figures and Memory Boxes
Instructor: Nicole Fall, Bonnie Crawford Kotula
Schedule: MWF 9:00-12:00pm; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 2, graded S/U

Description: Exploration of self through the making of memory boxes or spirit figures will be the focus of a collaborative sculpture combining artwork from class members within a framework established by visiting sculptor Nicole Fall. The resulting work will become part of a site specific, multi-media installation at Mattin Center. Class sessions will include lectures about contemporary interactive trends in art, writing, research and explorations of sculptural technique and interactive technologies. Field trip to the sculptor's studio and museum will also be arranged.

Biology -

AS 020.170.01 (N)
Vaccine Development
Instructor: Lewis Schrager
Schedule: MW 6:00-9:00pm; Meets Jan 4-13
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: An overview of the development and use of vaccines in the service of public health. Important issues regarding vaccine development and their global use -- from earliest development to smallpox eradication to current vaccine development strategies for 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza and HIV -- will be discussed. Information presented in this course will be accessable and relevant to students with science and non-science majors.

AS 020.212.01 (N)
Influenza
Instructor: Emily Fisher
Schedule: MTTh 9:00-12:00pm; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 2, graded S/U

Description: This course will begin focused on basic biology of influenza virus and infection with special focus on H1N1 (swine flu). Reading assignments will draw from primary research literature as well as mainstream media. Students will choose a topic of influenza that interests them (evolution, immunology, epidemiology, social impact, etc.) and will lead class discussions on those topics.

AS 020.296.01 (N)
Foreign Gene Expression Laboratory
Instructor: Robert Horner
Schedule: MTWThF 9:00-2:00pm; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 2, graded S/U

Description: This laboratory will introduce students to molecular cloning techniques that allow bacteria to be used to produce a particular gene product. Recombinant plasmids, carrying a fusion protein gene, will be constructed and used to transform E. coli. These transformed clones will be used to manufacture the fusion protein, and it will be isolated. This is a project lab. All students will need to get the instructor's permission. Biology majors will have priority in registering.

AS 020.395.01 (N)
Fundamentals of Biological Light Microscopy
Instructor: J. McCaffery
Schedule: TWThF 11:00-3:00pm; The class will meet from 11-11:50am TWThF for lecture; and 1:00-3:00pm TWThF for laboratory. Meets Jan 4-22.
Credits: 2, graded S/U

Description: Introduction to the principles, practice, and application of light/fluorescence microscopy to biomedical research. The course will cover light optical theory; instrumentation design, use, and applications; and will afford students 'hands-on' experience in both specimen preparation and microscope operation (including epifluorescence, confocal, FCS, and deconvolution microscopes). Prerequisite: Permission of Instructor.

Biomedical Engineering -

EN 580.103.01 (E)
Biomedical Innovation from Baltimore
Instructor: Xiaoxu Kang
Schedule: B'More Program Dates: Saturday, January 16 through Friday, January 22.
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: Do you want to learn how to play a computer game using only your mind? Would you like to see monkeys work with robots or learn how humans can express love with the “Grandma Cell” in our brains? Have you ever wondered how your brain tells you the position of your head, how to train your muscles in a scientific way, or what happens to your heart rate and blood pressure when you are on roller coaster simulator? If you are interested in investigating the answers to these questions, you are invited to join the Biomedical Innovation Intersession course where we will discuss all the amazing biomedical advances happening right now at Johns Hopkins and in Baltimore!

Chemistry -

AS 030.440.01 (N)
Practical NMR: Basic Techniques
Instructor: Tina Trapane
Schedule: TTh 6:00-8:30pm; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: Mandatory for individuals (postdocs, graduate, and undergraduate students) intending to utilize NMR facilities in the Chemistry Department. Sessions will be held at the Bruker NMR spectrometers used most frequently for routine NMR data collection. Focus is on setting up instrument parameters, obtaining useful spectra, and data processing. Proton, C-13, F-19 and P-31 acquisition will be demonstrated along with preparation and handling of samples, troubleshooting and recognition of artifacts.

Civil Engineering -

EN 560.200.01 (E)
Building Baltimore: An Introduction to Engineering Design Graphics
Instructor: Rachel Sangree
Schedule: B'More Program Dates: Saturday, January 16 through Friday, January 22.
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: This course will introduce students to Baltimore through its rich structural engineering works. Students will gain instruction in different methods of engineering design graphics, from freehand sketching to computer-aided methods, and will apply those methods to documentation of local buildings and bridges. Class time will include instruction in engineering design graphics, studio time for students to explore the different methods of graphical communication, group discussions of students’ work and group exercises focused on improving graphical communication. Please bring the following to class: 1) 11x14 Canson Field Sketchbook; 2) 0.5mm or 0.7mm mechanical pencil with HB lead; 3) Staedtler Mars Plastic eraser; 4) 30-60-90 Triangle (clear plastic and preferably 8" long); 5) 45-45-90 Triangle (clear plastic and preferably 8" long); and, 6) Triangular scale for Engineers Triangular scale for Architects.

EN 560.203.01 (E)
Introduction to Surveying
Instructor: Reagan Herman
Schedule: Days: TTh, 9:30AM - noon; Meets Jan 4-22.
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: This intersession class will provide an introduction to surveying, including surveying computations and use of surveying equipment. The course will include both a classroom lecture component and a lab component which will involve conducting surveys outside across the Hopkins campus. Field work will include taking survey field notes, leveling, using an automatic level, and traversing using Total Station instruments.

Classics -

AS 040.353.01 (H)
Classical Etymologies
Instructor: Monica Signoretti
Schedule: MTWThF 1:00-2:50pm; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 2, graded S/U

Description: Greek and Latin give origin to many medical and scientific terms as well as to many words we use every day. This course will explore the connection between the English vocabulary and its classical origin. Terms derived from Greek and Latin will be analyzed. This will improve your understanding of the words you already know as well as expand your vocabulary.

Computer Science -

EN 600.106.01 (E)
Pre-programming (algorithmic thinking)
Instructor: Jorge Vasconcelos
Schedule: MWF 1:00-2:30pm; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: This is a non-technical course intended for people new to the world of computer programming. It is aimed to introduce methodological and conceptual tools to solve problems by thinking in abstract and logical ways. Situations common to the field of programming are discussed, along with fundamentals to create stepwise solutions, and programming techniques common to many languages. Students primarily do paper solutions, but some exercises may require computer. A cultural approach is promoted.

EN 600.133.01 (E)
Embedded Systems Fundamentals: Programming the Hardware-Software Interface
Instructor: Jorge Vasconcelos
Schedule: MWTh 6:00-9:00pm; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 2, graded S/U

Description: This hands-on course will be a gentle introduction to the field of embedded computing; computer systems that interact with the real world, making possible cell phones, MP3 players, flash drives, Wii games, and many more. Students will be programming different projects in modern microcontrollers, witnessing the effects immediately. The course will address the hardware-software interface of computer systems, setting a good foundation to understand the physical layer of computer applications and networking. The main topics are computer architecture fundamentals, assembly language, interfacing peripherals, programming device drivers, working with sensors, and data acquisition. Each student will be provided with the material to perform experiments individually, as well as with learning handouts. The course will be intensive but fun. (Projected syllabus http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~jorgev/cs333/ESF.pdf)

EN 600.146.01 (N E)
Introduction to Medical Imaging
Instructor: Ioana Fleming and Hassan Rivaz
Schedule: TTh 11:00-1:30pm; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: This intersession class will provide an introduction to the medical imaging modalities of X-ray, CT and ultrasound. The course will offer an introduction to the principles, instrumentation and applications of each modality. The class will be a mixture of lectures and class discussions. A tour of some of the medical imaging and robotics resources of the Computational Sciences and Engineering Building will be given in the first class. Assignments will test theoretical knowledge and also practical applications. Access to Matlab and knowledge of linear algebra are required. Note: Students should not expect an in-depth analysis of medical imaging systems. This class is not intended as a substitute for Medical Imaging courses offered during Fall and Spring terms.

EN 600.147.01 (E)
Computer Applications in Radiation Therapy
Instructor: Mohammad Matinfar
Schedule: TTh 1:30-4:00 PM. Meets Jan. 11-22.
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: The course consists of three segments: the first part is physics of radiation therapy which covers the photon and electron interaction with matters and the x-ray spectrum. The second part describes the computer applications in treatment planning systems – software. In this part, dose distribution, a system for dose calculation and the imaging for radiation therapy will be introduced. The last part of the course addresses the computer applications in radiation measuring and delivery systems - hardware. In this part, the generation of x-ray beam and how to deliver beam in a specified shape with specified intensity will be explained. The course materials are generally broad topics in this area and they are not detailed mathematics or physics. It is for students to understand how important the role of software and hardware is in this particular field of medicine. There will be one assignment and one multiple choice exam at the end of course.

Economics -

AS 180.104.01 (S)
Seminar in Financial Literacy
Instructor: Colleen Carey
Schedule: MTWThF from 10 to 12 and 2 to 4 PM. While the class doesn't meet every day during those times, students will need to have those times free.
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: This course follows the natural capitalization sequence of a company to introduce the main components of the financial services industry: private equity, commercial finance, IPO's, M&A's and leveraged buy-outs, Wall Street research, asset management, and industry ethics. Lectures on these topics will be given by alumni financial experts. The course concludes with a three-day trip to New York City, which will include visits to financial firms and an alumni networking reception. Firms may include J.P Morgan Chase, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, Morgan Stanley, and BlackRock.

English -

AS 060.122.01 (H)
The Ethnic Gangster in American Cinema
Instructor: Andrew Sisson and Anthony Charles Wexler
Schedule: MWF 6:00-7:30pm; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: In this intersession course we will consider the rise (and fall) of some of America’s most notorious and beloved gangsters: Don Corleone (“The Godfather”), Frank Lucas (“American Gangster”), and Tony Montana (“Scarface”). With the help of short readings from Zizek, Freud, Hobsbawm, and Jameson, we consider what these films have to say about the difficulties and hopes of the immigrant experience, the codes of gangster morality, and the role of organized crime in the American imagination. We will explore the complicated interplay between domestic responsibility, male brotherhood, and violence that is the hallmark of the genre. Students will be asked to write a short paper at the conclusion of the term, and are required to view the movies outside of class time.

AS 060.123.01 (H)
In Finnegans Wake
Instructor: Stephanie Hershinow
Schedule: TTh 1:00-3:30pm; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: Students in this course will take a stab at James Joyce’s notoriously unreadable but endlessly rewarding text, Finnegans Wake (1939). By our powers combined, we will read selections from the… novel? epic? experiment? nonsense? alongside critical and contextual material. We certainly won’t arrive at all of the answers, but by the end of the course, we’ll hopefully have figured out some of the questions. Students from all fields welcome.

AS 060.153.01 (H)
Revolutionary Ink: Two Rebellious Baltimore Writers, Poe and Mencken
Instructor: Patrick Fessenbecker
Schedule: B'More Program Dates: Saturday, January 16 through Friday, January 22.
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: This course will focus on two of Baltimore's most famous writers, E.A. Poe, and H.L. Mencken. We'll consider a selection of their most famous texts - Poe's stories, poems, and prose works, and Mencken's "Chrestomathy," visit the Poe and Mencken houses, and, if time permits, take advantage of the Mencken collection at the Enoch Pratt Free Library.

AS 060.155.01 (H)
Nation and Self in Classic Children's Fiction
Instructor: Jessica Valdez
Schedule: TTh 1:00-3:30pm; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: This course will examine how classic children’s fiction represents national identity and its relationship to selfhood. How do these classic works ask children to understand their roles as gendered and national subjects? How do familial, social and gender norms figure in these representations? Materials include Kipling, Frances Hodgson Burnett and Louisa May Alcott; Disney’s Mary Poppins; and readings from Said and Bakhtin. Students will write two one-page response papers and a final short paper.

AS 060.172.01 (H)
Looking Back: England in and after World War II
Instructor: Robert Higney
Schedule: MWF 9:00-12:00pm; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 2, graded S/U

Description: This course will focus on a short but intense period in British literary culture, examining writers who addressed the experience of World War II in its immediate aftermath to raise questions about national belonging, nostalgia, religious faith, the growth of state institutions, and the spread of mass culture. We’ll read novels by Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene, and Evelyn Waugh, essays by T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and Alan Sillitoe, and related critical and historical pieces.

Entrepreneurship & Management -

EN 660.150.01 *No area designator (Note: This course has no area designation for distribution)
Media & P.R. in the Big Apple
Instructor: Leslie Kendrick
Schedule: MTWThF 10:00-3:00pm; Meets Jan 11-21
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: Gain insight into trends and career opportunities in public relations and media through one week of class learning (half days) followed by a 3-day trip to New York to network with and learn from executives from leading P.R. and media firms.

EN 660.152.01 (Note: This course has no area designation for distribution)
Branding--Shaping the Way Consumers View Products
Instructor: Theresa Jones
Schedule: MTWThF 1:00-4:00pm; Meets Jan 4-8
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: Through case studies and an applied group project (developing and presenting a marketing plan for a new product launch), students will gain an understanding (from the Lecturer who is a former Procter & Gamble marketer) of the fundamentals of brand marketing, learn how to make marketing strategy choices, learn how to evaluate advertising and hone their oral and written communication skills.

EN 660.160.01 (Note: This course has no area designation for distribution)
Real Estate Development & Finance
Instructor: Jeremy Gorelick
Schedule: MTTh 4:00-5:45pm; Meets Jan 4-21 Credits: 1
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: Taught by a professional in the field and a Hopkins graduate, this course explores whether the basic truths of real estate development still hold water today. Readings will be contemporary and will analyze real estate development from the point of view of the developer, the community with vested interest, the representatives of debt and equity lenders and the end purchaser.

Film & Media Studies -

AS 061.101.01 (H)
Hollywood 101: Survival in and Mechanics of the Entertainment Industry
Instructor: Chris Aldrich
Schedule: Tuesday, January 19 – Friday, January 22; 9:30AM-6:30PM. (With ample breaks.)
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: Hollywood is infamous for its glamour and wealth, but what goes on behind the façade? Join Hopkins entertainment industry alumni in an intensive one-week program and explore the business side of fame. Use this course to learn how the industry works and how to network and navigate your way through it. The course will cover various aspects of development, production, distribution, financing, marketing, and representation within the film, television, publishing, music, and internet markets.

AS 061.146.01 (H)
The Stand-Up Comic in Society
Instructor: Adam Ruben
Schedule: MTTh 7:00-10:00pm; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 2, graded S/U

Description: Stand-up comics uniquely reflect the collision of cultures that produced them. Students study and analyze influential comics, then create, workshop, and ultimately perform their own five-minute stand-up routine.

AS 061.247.01 (H)
Creatures from Outer Space
Instructor: Lucy Bucknell
Schedule: TThF 3:00-6:00pm; Meets Jan 11-22
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: Fifties sci-fi classics including The Day the Earth Stood Still, War of the Worlds, and Invasion of the Body Snatchers. In-class screenings and open discussion. No prior experience in film studies required.

General Engineering -

EN 500.201.01 (E)
Introduction to Matlab for Engineers
Instructor: Daniel Abretske, Sharmishtaa Seshamani
Schedule: TTh 1:00-3:30pm; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: Matlab is a powerful but relatively simple and quick way of solving numerical problems in mathematics, computer science and engineering. In this introductory course we will discuss Matlab's programming paradigm, with an emphasis on numerical problem solving. We will discuss Matrix-Vector operations, numerical solutions to systems of equations, data representation and display, and other special topics as time permits. The course will be a hands on experience utilizing lab computers with a small course project and micro assignments given for part of each lecture.

German and Romance Languages and Literatures -

AS 210.103.01 (Note: This course has no area designation for distribution)
Learner Managed French Elements I (3-credit, letter grade course)
Instructor: Olivia Sabee
Schedule: MTWThF 10:00-12:00pm; Meets Jan 4-22 (3-credit, letter grade course)
Credits: 3, letter grade

Description: Basic language class offered for 3 credits and letter grade only (S/U is NOT available for first-year language courses.) This intensive, three-week course will allow students to review the material of the first semester of French Elements at a fast pace. Suited for students with some French background who qualify to join the regular French Elements II course in the spring AND for true beginners who are self-motivated and work well independently. Major online component supplements in-class instruction. Must complete the year by taking French Elements II in the spring in order to receive credit. Please contact Claude Guillemard for placement test: claude@jhu.edu.

AS 213.232.01 (H)
Text and the City: Representing the Modern Metropolis
Instructor: Doreen Densky
Schedule: TWF 9:00-11:30am; Meets Jan 4-15
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: This course will examine narratives of the city with emphasis on the representation of Berlin in early twentieth-century films, newspaper articles, fiction, essays, and poems. We will explore the city as an ephemeral and mobile space, whose boundaries are constantly being redefined by its inhabitants. In addition to literary works by Siegfried Kracauer, Alfred Döblin, Joseph Roth, and Georg Heym, we will also discuss theoretical texts by Benjamin and Simmel. Reading and discussion in English.

History -

AS 100.174.01 (H)
Writing the History of Slave Resistance
Instructor: Patrick Luck
Schedule: MTWF 1:00-3:30pm; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 2, graded S/U

Description: This course will teach students the analysis and writing of history through a focus on the topic of slave resistance in the Americas. Students will read and discuss a series of articles, books, and documents on the topics of historical writing and slave resistance. As a final project, the students will be asked to write an analytical paper about a primary document relating an instance of possible slave resistance. All students will share the same document and read and critique each other's work.

AS 100.175.01 (H S)
First Colonies: English Settlement in America
Instructor: Stephanie Crumbaugh
Schedule: MWF 9:00-10:30am; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: This course will explore the origins of English colonization in the New World through readings and discussions of the “discovery” and settlement experiences at Roanoke, Jamestown, and Bermuda. By examining a variety of primary sources, students will engage with historical questions regarding trans-Atlantic movement, cross-cultural encounters, leadership, and labor from the 1580s to the 1620s.

AS 100.176.01 (H)
Movers and Shakers: Baltimore By Biography
Instructor: Craig Hollander
Schedule: B'More Program Dates: Saturday, January 16 through Friday, January 22.
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: Through the lives of Baltimore's most famous residents, “Baltimore By Biography” teaches the history of the city and its impact on Maryland and the United States. From studying Charles Carroll and Joshua Barney in the 18th century to Edgar Allan Poe, Frederick Douglass, and John Wilkes Booth in the 19th, students will learn about Baltimore’s early history, before moving onto the city's remarkable contribution to American culture (Billie Holiday), athletics (Babe Ruth), and civil rights (Thurgood Marshall) in the 20th century.

AS 100.177.01 (H)
B'More: Before Harborplace: Downtown Baltimore Before and After Urban Renewal
Instructor: Robert Gamble
Schedule: B'More Program Dates: Saturday, January 16 through Friday, January 22.
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: Retracing the steps of nineteenth-century Baltimoreans like Frederick Douglass and Edgar Allen Poe, this course examines both the history of old Baltimore and more recent debates over historic preservation that reshaped the downtown. What, if anything, is sacred in urban development? Fieldtrips to old and new urban institutions like Lexington Market and Power Plant Live will allow students to engage with the city, past and present, and issues relating to the preservation of its history.

AS 100.178.01 (H)
History of American Domestic Technology
Instructor: Amy Breakwell
Schedule: MWTh 9:00-10:30am; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: How did Americans get from quill pens, the pony express, and hand-dug wells to home computers, telephones, and indoor plumbing? This introductory course will cover domestic technological innovation and corresponding cultural change during the last three hundred years. In addition to lectures, experiential learning will be utilized whenever possible; activities will include experiments in technologies of cooking and clothing construction. The class will also receive private tours of the Homewood House and Evergreen Museums.

AS 100.179.01 (H)
European International Relations in the Long Nineteen Century
Instructor: Edward Kolla
Schedule: MWF 1:00-4:00pm; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 2, graded S/U

Description: This course will examine European international relations from the Congress of Vienna in 1814-15 until the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. We will track the fortunes of the various “great powers” through the conflicts and crises of the nineteenth century – via lectures, readings, and re-enactments in class of the many congresses and negotiations that typified the era.

History of Art -

HA 010.306.01 (H)
Program Abroad: Renaissance Art in Florence* (3 credits, letter grade)
Instructor: Jason DiResta and Chris Nygren
Schedule: January 3-22, 2010
Credits: 3, letter grade

Description: * This undergraduate study abroad course is taught for three credits and a letter grade. The churches, palaces, museums and piazzas of Florence and nearby cities serve as the clasroom for this intensive three-week course on Italian Renaissance Art. Students examine the art of Giotto, Brunelleschi, Masaccio, Donatello, Fra Angelico, Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael and Michelangelo. The emphasis is on the various functions and meanings of works of art within the culture of Renaissance Florence. Students are encouraged to develop a close knowledge of particular works as material forms.

Humanities Center -

AS 300.101.01 (H)
Modern Skepticism
Instructor: Tarek Dika
Schedule: MWF 1:00-4:00pm; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 2, graded S/U

Description: Is your belief in the existence of the external world justified? How do you know you're not dreaming? How do you know other people are not well-organized automata? You might say that you just know – but how? This course seeks to introduce students to the questions raised by modern skepticism regarding the existence of the external world, other minds, and the general possibility of human knowledge as a whole. No prior background in philosophy required.

AS 300.103.01 (H)
Human Freedom
Instructor: Tarek Dika
Schedule: MWF 6:00-9:00pm; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 2, graded S/U

Description: Are human beings free, or is everything determined by nature? What is a free action? What is the relationship between freedom and moral responsibility? This course seeks to introduce students to the problem of human freedom, its relation to the natural order, and the possibility of moral responsibility. No prior background in philosophy required.

AS 300.314.01 (H)
"The Wire," "The Corner": The City?
Instructor: Thomas Gottbreht
Schedule: B'More Program Dates: Saturday, January 16 through Friday, January 22.
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: The course will focus on the HBO series set in Baltimore, The Wire, and the book, The Corner, that inspired the series. Students will watch and discuss key episodes and read academic and critical reviews of the series and the issues addressed in each season, including the drug trade and war on drugs and the shortcomings and failures of the educational and political system of Baltimore.

AS 300.321.01 (H)
Morality, Religion, and Reason: Kant
Instructor: Jennifer Bautz and Martin Shuster
Schedule: MTh 3:00-5:30pm; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: This class will examine the relationship between morality, religion, and reason in Immanuel Kant’s writings. Kant believed both that morality leads to religion, as well as that he had to criticize reason to make room for faith. Does morality lead to religion? How do reason and religion co-exist? In working through Kant’s claims, we will understand more fully the relationship between morality, religion, and reason. No prior familiarity with Kant is required.

AS 300.325.01 (H)
Ethics and the Nazi Genocide: Adorno
Instructor: Martin Shuster
Schedule: MTh 6:00-8:30pm; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: This class will explore the status and possibility of ethics after the Nazi Genocide. In particular, we will look at Theodor W. Adorno's response to the Nazi Genocide and his claim that "Hitler has forced a new categorical imperative upon humans...to arrange their thoughts and actions so that Auschwitz will not repeat itself, so that nothing similar will occur.” No prior familiarity with Adorno is required.

Interdepartmental -

AS 360.176.01 (S)
B'More: Urban Schools Today
Instructor: Francis Masci and Veronique Gugliucciello
Schedule: B'More Program Dates: Saturday, January 16 through Friday, January 22.
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: Our schools and particularly those in urban areas are constantly in the news. Find out what's really happening here in Baltimore City through the eyes of fellow students and faculty who are working in schools and /or preparing to become teachers. Discussion topics will include: what urban schools are like today, how state and national reform efforts affect urban schools and how principals and teachers are working to improve student achievement. Sessions will include observations in Baltimore City Public Schools.

AS 360.241.01 (S)
Leading Social Change
Instructor: William Smedick
Schedule: TTh 3:00-5:00pm; Meets Jan 4-22 Please visit http://www.jhu.edu/intersession/spa/index.html for schedule.
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: Learn the principles, values and skills necessary to lead and succeed in organizations that make a positive difference in today’s world. The course will identify and provide opportunities to enhance the leadership skills of the students. A “Blueprint for Success” will provide the framework for students to cultivate their own ideas for new socially conscious entrepreneurial ventures. Students will hear from successful current leaders in the field of social entrepreneurship and be provided the opportunity to network with JHU alumni who are working or volunteering in the profit or non-profit through occupations that make a difference.

HA 360.236.01 (N)
Program Abroad: Ecuador and Galapagos Islands* (3 credits, letter grade)
Instructor: Eric Fortune
Schedule: January 3-22
Credits: 3, letter grade

Description: * This undergraduate study abroad course is taught for 3 credits and a letter grade. This course is an introduction to Ecuador's Rain Forest, Highlands, and Galapagos Islands. The course will concentrate on the flora and fauna of these special habitats, but will also include the history, art, and culture of Ecuador. The final grade will be based on a field notebook that the student keeps, participation during the trip, and a final paper due in late January. There are no prerequisites other than a valid passport and approval of instructors.

Mechanical Engineering -

EN 530.114.01 (E)
Introduction to Computer-Aided Design
Instructor: Michael Boyle
Schedule: MTWTh 1:30-5:00pm; Meets Jan 11-14
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: This course explores many aspects of the mechanical design process using computer-aided design (CAD). Solid modeling, assembly modeling, detail drafting, mechanism dynamics, and structural analysis are all explored using Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire.

EN 530.114.02 (E)
Introduction to Computer-Aided Design
Instructor: Michael Boyle
Schedule: MTWTh 5:30-9:00pm; Meets Jan 11-14
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: This course explores many aspects of the mechanical design process using computer-aided design (CAD). Solid modeling, assembly modeling, detail drafting, mechanism dynamics, and structural analysis are all explored using Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 3.0.

EN 530.114.03 (E)
Introduction to Computer-Aided Design
Instructor: Michael Boyle
Schedule: MTWTh, 9:00-12:30pm; Meets Jan 11-14
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: This course explores many aspects of the mechanical design process using computer-aided design (CAD). Solid modeling, assembly modeling, detail drafting, mechanism dynamics, and structural analysis are all explored using Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 3.0.

Military Science -

AS 374.107.01 (H)
Motivating Leadership
Instructor: Stephen Pomper
Schedule: MWF 10:00-11:30am; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: This course is an introduction to some basic and accepted leadership theory, traits and skills. It mainly focuses on your ability to influence individuals and small groups to achieve timely results and desirable objectives. Discussions and readings are on decision making, assessing, following, mentoring and counseling. A portion of the class time is devoted to actually doing: speaking in front of others, making decisions, following, and of course – leading. This course can also explore methods that are more experimental, controversial and sometimes unproductive. Ultimately, you will discover your current leader potential and establish a benchmark for a lifelong journey of bettering yourself, and more importantly, those you will soon lead.

Museums and Society -

AS 389.172.01 (H)
City on Display: Exploring Baltimore through Its Museums
Instructor: Nicholas Spicher
Schedule: B'More Program Dates: Saturday, January 16 through Friday, January 22.
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: Baltimore is a city full of museums, both traditional and innovative. What do these institutions have to say about the city they call home? How do their choices of exhibits, artifacts, and descriptions combine to create a unique version of history? In this course, we will visit several Baltimore museums in order to learn the ways in which museums can tell stories of a city's industries, cultures, and people.

AS 389.173.01 (Note: This course has no area designation for distribution)
The History of America’s Top Hospital
Instructor: Phoebe Evans Letocha
Schedule: B'More Program Dates: Saturday, January 16 through Friday, January 22.
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: GO WHERE NO STUDENT HAS GONE BEFORE… The Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives! Spend a week immersed in the fascinating history of Johns Hopkins Hospital and schools of medicine, nursing and public health. Mornings are devoted to studying and discussing the archival collections and afternoons are spent on exclusive, private tours of Johns Hopkins medical facilities. Students will also have the unique opportunity to speak with the physicians, nurses and health care professionals who make our hospital number one in the country. Don’t miss this once-in-a-lifetime chance to understand Hopkins’ past…especially if you plan on becoming part of its future!

Music -

AS 376.135.01 (H)
Classical Music Moments during the Cold War
Instructor: Jolie Lin
Schedule: MWTh 6:00-7:30pm; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: This class will explore three major works of Western classical music in connection to three different points throughout the Cold War. These works are Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony composed during the siege of Leningrad, Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 made historic by Van Cliburn's first prize win at the First International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow, and Leonard Bernstein’s rendition of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in a celebration concert after the fall of the Berlin Wall. A field trip to the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra will take place on January 22.

AS 376.136.01 (H)
Words and Music
Instructor: Patrick Handler
Schedule: TTh 1:00-3:30pm; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: This course offers a brief exploration of the relationship between words and music in text settings, tone poems, and operas. We will begin by analyzing music from the Baroque era with an emphasis on Bach’s St. Matthew Passion. From here we will trace the evolution of the relationship between text and music through to the 20th century with an emphasis on how each has influenced the development of the other.

AS 376.140.01 (H)
Digital Sound Art
Instructor: Mark Lackey
Schedule: TTh 9:00-11:30am; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: Owners of personal computers may have overlooked the potential of these machines as unique, non-imitative musical instruments. This course combines an historical overview of electronic music with a workshop environment for creative exploration. Participants will study the history of electronic music, then use freeware and low cost shareware for recording, editing, altering, and layering sounds to create personal, idiomatic (non-pop) works of sound art. Computers are available; participants are welcome to bring a laptop computer if they prefer.

AS 376.151.01 (H)
B'More: Get to Know the BSO: America's First Municipal Orchestra
Instructor: Josephine Yun
Schedule: B'More Program Dates: Saturday, January 16 through Friday, January 22.
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: Did you know that when the Baltimore Symphony began in 1915, it was a branch of the local government? This course will explore the BSO's history, challenges, and evolution into the internationally recognized organization it is today. Guest lecturers will include a member of the BSO administration and BSO musicians. The class will finish with a trip to see a BSO concert at Meyerhoff Symphony Hall.

AS 376.155.01 (H)
Tunes For Toons
Instructor: Faye Chiao
Schedule: MWF 1:00-4:00pm; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 2, graded S/U

Description: For many people, a first introduction to “classical” music came from watching cartoons. This course seeks to re-trace this influence by exploring the use of musical works in classic cartoons by Warner Brothers and Disney. The course is intended to introduce, and ideally foster an appreciation for, some of the great pieces within the classical Western musical canon. We will take a more in-depth look at the musical works to see how they are used (or spoofed!) in classic cartoons.

AS 376.158.01 (H)
Musical Intersections
Instructor: Judah Adashi
Schedule: TTh 1:00-3:30pm; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: This course will consider music that blurs the line between idioms, combining influences from classical music, jazz, rock, pop, electronica and world music. We will focus on major 20th and 21st century musicians, from Duke Ellington, Leonard Bernstein and the Beatles to Björk, the Kronos Quartet and The Bad Plus. Through readings, short assignments, listening and discussion, the class will explore the elusive boundaries between genres, particularly the divide between classical and popular music.

AS 376.160.01 (H)
The History of the Musical
Instructor: Imani Mosley
Schedule: MWF 1:00-4:00pm; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 2, graded S/U

Description: From Show Boat to RENT, the American musical has generated some of the most influential music, dance, stagecraft, and film of the 20th century. This class provides an historical introduction to this often overlooked genre—from minstrel shows to the stage revivals of the 1990s. In situating the musical within the landscape of 20th-century cultural history, we will focus on issues of race, gender, and politics as expressed in this uniquely American genre.

Near Eastern Studies -

AS 130.220.01 (H)
Mummies at the Movies
Instructor: Catherine Cobb
Schedule: MTTH 1:00-4:00pm; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 2, graded S/U

Description: Ancient Egypt has captured the imaginations of people from all over the world for centuries. Hollywood has used Egypt as a setting, plot device, and character since the early days of film. Some are masterworks of the craft, but most leave some historical accuracy to be desired. We will watch some of the many films on the topic from the ‘30s to the present, and discuss their historical and cinematic value.

AS 130.255.01 (H S)
From Feast to Famine in the Ancient World
Instructor: Adam Maskevich
Schedule: MTTh 9:00-12:00 noon; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 2, graded S/U

Description: Biological life, on its most basic level, is the quest for sustenance. However, in human societies, food transcends mere sustenance to become a major actor in each society’s structure and beliefs. This dual nature of food as basic necessity and cultural touchstone makes its study of great importance to our understanding of civilization, both past and present. This class will explore the role food has played in Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Mesoamerican, and Andean cultures as evidenced in the archaeological record.

Philosophy -

AS 150.100.01 (H)
Love
Instructor: James Gilmore
Schedule: MWF l:00-4:00pm; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 2, graded S/U

Description: What is love? Why do we fall in love? In this class we will examine ancient and modern philosophical conceptions of love. Topics discussed will include the different roles played by reason and emotion in love, the essential nature of love (if love has an essential nature), and the relationship between love and happiness. Each student will participate in class discussions, make a short presentation and write a short (5-7 pages) paper.

AS 150.221.01 (H)
Future of Humanity
Instructor: Jonathon Hricko, John Waterman
Schedule: MWF 1:00-4:00pm; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 2, graded S/U

Description: Is it permissible for athletes to genetically enhance themselves? If we can, should we make ourselves smarter, happier, and immortal with genetics? If more people die from old age than AIDS, cancer, and accidents combined, does that mean we should put most of our dollars into stopping aging? These questions and others will be discussed in FOH. Not only will we think about the future of humanity, we'll learn how to think about the future.

AS 150.222.01 (H)
Modern Moral and Political Philosophy: Ethics, Economy, and the State
Instructor: Patrick Leland
Schedule: MWF 1:00-4:00pm; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 2, graded S/U

Description: This introductory course examines the relation between ethics, political economy, and political philosophy since the 17th century. In particular, we will examine 1) how differing accounts of human nature motivate different accounts of economic and political organization; 2) whether human nature is relevant to moral evaluations of economic and political behavior; and 3) what challenges socio-economic conditions might pose to accounts of the aforementioned themes. We will read from the works of Hobbes, Adam Smith, Kant, Fichte, and Marx, as well as from more recent political philosophers. No prior coursework in philosophy is required.

AS 150.223.01 (H)
Confucius and Aristotle on Ethics
Instructor: Patrick Leland
Schedule: TTh 1:00-3:30pm; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: This is an introductory course in comparative philosophy. Confucius (Kong fuzi) and Aristotle initiated two of the most influential ethical traditions in the eastern and western hemispheres, respectively. We will read the founding documents of these two traditions and compare their accounts of human well-being, virtuous character, ethical action, justice, self-control, friendship, and moral self-cultivation. No prior coursework in philosophy is required.

AS 150.224.01 (H)
Ethics and Poverty
Instructor: Nicholas Tebben
Schedule: MWF 2:00-3:30pm; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: In what does poverty consist? Not simply lack of money: many of the poor in fully industrialized nations are much wealthier than the well-off in other parts of the world. Amartya Sen has suggested that poverty should be seen as lack of freedom; lack of money contributes to poverty only in that it restricts one's freedom. On this basis he has argued that development in poor nations must be seen as a project of increasing freedom (social, political and economic), rather than industrialization or improvement of economic indicators. Sen's "Development as Freedom" will be the centerpiece of this class.

AS 150.225.01 (H)
Luck
Instructor: Nicholas Goldberg
Schedule: TTh 1:00-3:30pm; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: Luck is an inevitable part of the human condition. This course considers why luck is a fact of life, as well as its larger implications for our practical existence. These themes will be developed systematically, and illustrated with historical, literary, and scientific examples ranging from the Old and New Testament, gambling, and evolution.

AS 150.226.01 (H)
The Philosophy of Psychiatry
Instructor: Bryan Miller
Schedule: TTH 1:00-3:30pm; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: What is mental illness? Is psychiatry a pseudoscience? How is psychiatry relevant to philosophy? In this course we will explore answers to these questions by reading and discussing literature from the growing field of philosophy of psychiatry. We will focus on: 1) understanding and assessing competing accounts of mental illness and how these accounts classify mental disorders, and 2) exploring how understanding mental illnesses such as schizophrenia can inform philosophical debates about the mind/brain.

Physics & Astronomy -

AS 171.212.01 (N)
Origin of the Elements
Instructor: Jon Fulbright
Schedule: MWF 1:00-3:30pm; Meets Jan 11-22
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: Nearly every chemical element inside your body was formed deep inside a star and ejected in a powerful explosion called a supernova. We will trace the path these atoms took from formation within stars to the Earth today. We will explore how the origins of planets like Earth and ultimately life depend upon these element factories. We will also discuss elements created during the Big Bang and other nucleosynthesis sites.

Political Science -

AS 190.319.01 (S)
Seminar in International Development and Policy: Opportunities for Undergraduates
Instructor: Alden Mulabdic
Schedule: MTWTh 10:00-12:00pm Jan 4-22 Trip Dates: NYC - Jan 19-21 Fee: $250
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: This course introduces students to perspectives on globalization and the global economy as practiced by leading professionals in a range of fields. Presentations, discussions, and readings address the changing nature, importance and impact of globalization on trade and finance, cross-culture marketing, news media and entertainment industries, state sovereignty and more. The course involves a mandatory two-day, one over-night trip to New York City and an additional all day trip to Washington D.C. A mandatory trip meeting and resume workshop will be held in early December for students admitted to the class. Attendance counts towards course attendance policy. 100 Percent attendance expected for successful completion of the course. Course/trip attendees will be made by faculty selection.

AS 190.361.01 (S)
Political Structures of Europe
Instructor: Fabian Bauwens
Schedule: MWF 1:00-4:00pm; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 2, graded S/U

Description: This course offers students an in depth analysis of the politics and political structures of Europe. Despite some attention to implications of the EU, it is not about the EU. The course is divided in two. Part one addresses theoretical topics including: presidential vs. parliamentary systems, political cleavages, multi-party and two-party systems, government coalitions, consociationalism. Part two surveys individual European countries. Students are presented alternatives to US democracy and tool-kits for thinking about institutionalizing democracy.

AS 191.102.01 (S)
International Human Rights and Terrorism
Instructor: Stefanie Fishel
Schedule: MWTh 9:00-12:00pm; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 2, graded S/U

Description: This class is a topical survey of International Relations through human rights in law, theory, and practice, including institutions and actors involved in the creation and maintenance of human rights. Students will analyze the application of human rights laws to acts of violence. The class will provide a basis for understanding human rights and the way they operate in the world through laws, institutions, and actions. We will focus on the concept and phenomenon of terrorism with both domestic and international examples and its relation to the maintenance of human rights and its challenge to the norms, institutions and actors who are affected by acts of terror.

AS 191.260.01 (S)
The Practice of Law
Instructor: Ana L. Droscoski and Jesse Merriam
Schedule: Schedule: M-F 10 AM - noon. Jan 4-15.
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: This course is designed to familiarize students with the world of the law and legal practice options, through the eyes of JHU alumni and community members who are (or have been) practicing attorneys. The course will tentatively focus on the following legal specialties: Intellectual Property -- including Patent Law, Corporate Law, Entertainment and Sports Law, Environmental/Energy Law, Criminal Law (including White Collar Crime, State and Federal Prosecutors, and Criminal Defense), Health Law (including Public Health and Regulation), Employment and Labor Law, Public Interest Law, Working for the Government, and Employment and Labor law.

AS 191.334.01 (S)
Revolutions: Theory and Practice
Instructor: Karyn jiamin Wang, Katherine Goktepe
Schedule: TThF 9:00-12:00pm; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 2, graded S/U

Description: In France, 1793, an angry mob cheers as the guillotine blade descends on Marie Antoinette’s head. In Haiti, 1799, throngs of slaves storm the capital. In China, 1935, a young revolutionary sets Luding Bridge afire with a ball of paraffin. Through fiction, film, music, manifestos, and scholarly writings, this course will examine perspectives on revolution. The role of charismatic leaders, violence, religion, and propaganda will be discussed. Short selections by Lenin, Gandhi, Mao, Havel, and others.

AS 191.356.01 (H S)
Michel Foucault at the Collège de France: Abnormal
Instructor: Alexander Barder
Schedule: MWF 1:00-4:00pm; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 2, graded S/U

Description: This course is an in-depth reading of Michel Foucault’s 1974-1975 lectures at the Collège de France on the genesis of the abnormal individual. As a result, it will examine more closely Foucault’s various forays into human monstrosity, the disciplinary subject, sexuality, psychopathology, degeneration and law in order to understand how the abnormal individual emerges as a key figure of concern for the governance and management of modern society and politics.

Psychological & Brain Sciences -

AS 200.102.01 (N S)
Free Will and Determinism: A Psychological Perspective
Instructor: Jeffrey Moher
Schedule: MW 9:00-11:30am; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: Do we behave in a deterministic manner, our actions predictable according to certain variables, or are we free to act as we choose? This course examines the question primarily by looking at data from psychological research, investigating the brain and behavior in humans and other animals, but also by drawing from other areas such as philosophy and physics.

AS 200.176.01 (S)
Infant Cognition: How Babies’ Brains Make Sense of the World Around Them
Instructor: Rebecca Rosenberg
Schedule: MWF 3:00-4:30pm; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: Can a newborn baby distinguish objects from people? Can a young infant imagine a favorite toy not currently in view? This course addresses infant cognitive development and asks what abilities may be innate and/or shaped by the infants’ own experiences and environment. Students will read and discuss empirical articles, see videos of infant studies, and will have the opportunity to visit an actual infant lab.

AS 200.225.01 (S)
Women in Science
Instructor: Hayley Kleitz Nelson
Schedule: TTh 9:00-12:30pm; Meets Jan 4-14.
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: In this course, we will investigate gender differences in science careers and discuss how science education early in life and social forces later in life affect career outcomes in the sciences. We will also highlight the careers of several influential women scientists across disciplines and discuss their contributions to the field.

AS 200.226.01 (H E S)
The Neurobiology of Food Intake and Overeating
Instructor: Alex Johnson
Schedule: TThF 9:00-10:30am; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: This course will examine the role of learning and its interaction with the body’s regulatory mechanisms in the control of food intake and overeating. Topics covered will include: the neurobiology of learning and motivation; the role of central and peripheral mechanisms in food intake; regulatory and non-regulatory factors that lead to overeating and obesity. In addition, students will be expected to complete a written exam.

Public Health Studies -

AS 280.201.01 (Note: This course has no area designation for distribution)
Introduction to Health Communication and Animation
Instructor: Barbara Gwinn, Jimmy Joe Roche
Schedule: 9:00-12:00 noon; Meets Jan 6,7,8,12,13,14,19,20 and 21. Off campus field trip is scheduled for Jan 8.
Credits: 2, graded S/U

Description: This course will provide students with a brief look at behavior change – why we do it, and why we often don’t – from theory to application. The course will include a field trip to the Center for Communication Programs (CCP, affiliated with the HBS department of JHSPH), which creates health communication campaign media worldwide. Students will dig into common college health challenges and the reasons they persist, plus design effective health messaging to create a healthier JHU community. Digital Media Center Staff will teach the fundamentals of effective storytelling through animation techniques such as video stop-motion, claymation, and hand drawn movies. Students will research, write, and produce short animations about health-related behavior change.

AS 280.202.01 (S)
The Obesity Epidemic
Instructor: Scott Kahan, MD, MPH Lawrence Cheskin, MD
Schedule: MTThF 4:00-7:30pm; Meets Jan 11-15
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: This course explores the obesity epidemic, considered by many to be the greatest 21st century public health threat in the U.S. and the developed world. Students will learn about the underlying causes, medical and economic consequences, and nutritional, policy, and public health aspects of the epidemic. Students will be presented with a multidisciplinary approach to addressing obesity and its complications. The primary course objectives are to: • To engage students to develop a practical understanding and approach to obesity management • To provide an understanding of the social, medical, and public health relevance of the current domestic and international epidemics of obesity and its impact on disease development throughout the lifespan. • To translate basic and clinical science findings related to obesity towards options for prevention and treatment. • To examine the roles and responsibilities of the individual, the healthcare system and healthcare providers.

AS 280.203.01 (S)
B'More: What Ails You? Solving Public Health Problems
Instructor: Kenny Mok, MD
Schedule: B'More Program Dates: Saturday, January 16 through Friday, January 22.
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: The purpose of this course is to introduce students to some of the core concepts in Public Health with the focus on upstream intervention. It will teach students some problem solving techniques and provide them the opportunity to work in small groups and demonstrate the mastery of the concepts by successfully writing about a Public Health problem of interest that afflicts Baltimore.

AS 280.204.01 (S)
B'More: Disease Detectives: Investigating Cancer Origins and Outcomes
Instructor: Ulluminair Salim, MPH
Schedule: B'More Program Dates: Saturday, January 16 through Friday, January 22.
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States. What is cancer, and how can we use the science of epidemiology to uncover clues about cancer’s origins in order to prevent and treat cancer? This course introduces students to the descriptive epidemiology (person, place, and time) of major cancer sites and describes how tools of epidemiology can shed light on patterns of disease occurrence and outcome.

AS 280.205.01 (S)
B'More: Junk Food vs. Whole Foods: Access to Food in Baltimore
Instructor: Seung Hee Lee
Schedule: B'More Program Dates: Saturday, January 16 through Friday, January 22.
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: This course looks closely at the environment of Baltimore City’s complex food systems and what it would take to improve these systems to assure widespread access to nutritious, adequate and affordable food. Students will gain hands-on experience through visiting a supermarket, a corner store and an emergency food distribution center. The in-class sessions are structured primarily as discussion seminars based around the readings and trips, supplemented with some lectures and guest lectures. Class sessions will engage students to think critically and will provide background and frameworks for understanding the field trips.

Sociology -

AS 230.116.01 (S)
B’more Innovative: Baltimore Ideas that Changed the World
Instructor: Michael Reese
Schedule: B'More Program Dates: Saturday, January 16 through Friday, January 22.
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: Ideas that changed the world originated from Baltimore. In this course, we will discuss how ideas and innovations are born, spread, succeed and fail by examining case studies rooted in Baltimore. In-class activities will provide insight into how entrepreneurs and activists promote change. Field trips will inform class conversations about technological and cultural innovations along with the societal and economic consequences of those changes.

AS 230.124.01 (S)
Through the Medical Sociological Lens: Tuberculosis in Literature, Opera, and History
Instructor: Rachel Core
Schedule: MTTh 6:00-8:30pm, Jan 4-14
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: Tuberculosis, the greatest single cause of disease and death until the 19th century, has seen a worldwide resurgence in recent decades. Not surprisingly, tuberculosis captured the imagination of many 19th and 20th century writers. This class views tuberculosis in literature and opera through the lenses of medical sociology—stigma, the sick role, and race, class, gender and health—to consider the ways one disease is socially constructed and determined.

AS 230.214.01 (S)
White Privilege
Instructor: Mindelyn Buford II
Schedule: MWTh 9:30-12:00pm; Meets Jan 4-14
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: This course introduces students to Critical Whiteness Studies—the scholarly study of white privilege. Through assigned readings, classroom discussion, film screenings, and class activities students will learn about white privilege as the other side of racism. Topics of discussion will include: whiteness as unearned privilege, invisible, and the norm/standard; the social construction of whiteness; the taken-for-granted benefits of whiteness; and anti-racism movements.

AS 230.218.01 (S)
Interrogating Heterosexuality
Instructor: Mindelyn Buford II
Schedule: MWTh 2:00-4:30pm; Meets Jan 4-15
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: This course introduces students to Critical Heterosexual Studies—the scholarly study of heterosexuality as an “institution or patterned set of social behaviors and rituals we commonly understand means ‘to be straight’.” Through assigned readings, classroom discussion, film screenings, and class activities students will interrogate “what interests are served by the way we organize and give meaning to heterosexuality?” Topics of discussion will include: the social construction of heterosexuality; heteronormativity and heterosexism; and the same-sex marriage debate.

Theatre Arts and Studies -

AS 225.318.01 (Note: This course has no area designation for distribution)
Mime & Movement
Instructor: Eric Beatty
Schedule: MTTh 6:00-8:30pm; Meets Jan 4-14
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: In this class you will develop your ability to move and increase your awareness of how you move. You will explore how movement can help you create a character and gain self confidence both on stage and off. You will improve your ability to observe and analyze movements on stage and in daily life and have fun within a safe and positive class environment.

Writing Seminars -

AS 220.174.01 (H)
Three Weeks in Hell: Dante's Inferno
Instructor: Stephen Kampa
Schedule: MTTh 1:00-4:00pm; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 2, graded S/U

Description: Before there were horror films, there was Dante. Rivers of boiling blood! Schismatics tearing themselves apart! Sinners locked in solid ice! We will read one of the greatest poems in world literature with an eye to appreciating Dante through poetic imitation. Emphases will include the architecture of hell, the notion of retributive justice, allegory, and theology. For three weeks, we'll study a classic in which one character eats another's brains.

AS 220.177.01 (H)
Weird Stories, Amazing Tales, Fantastic Fiction
Instructor: Charlotte O'Donnell
Schedule: MWF 1:00-4:00pm; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 2, graded S/U

Description: This course seeks to explore the boundaries between science fiction, fantasy writing and literature. Students will study basic writing techniques involved in creating speculative fiction, with particular interest given to helping students construct alternate realities inside their stories. Topics will include mythical creatures, ghosts, and time/space travel. Students will read Bradbury, Kafka, Murakami and Bender among others.

AS 220.183.01 (H)
Introduction to Dramatic Writing: Film
Instructor: Marc Lapadula
Schedule: MWF 1:00-5:30pm; Meets Jan 4-8
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: An examination of the screenplays as a literary text and blue-print for production. Professional screenplays will be critically analyzed, with focus on character, dialogue, plot development, conflict, pacing, dramatic foreshadowing, the element of surprise, text and subtext, and visual story-telling. Students will learn professional screenplay format and write a short script.

AS 220.191.01 (H)
Reading and Writing Poems of Love and Sex
Instructor: Clay Cogswell
Schedule: TTh 1:00-3:30pm; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: Students will read and discuss poems that deal with Love and Sex. We will start with Sappho’s love poems (from ancient Greece) and move up through time, enjoying the more passionate work of Catullus, Shakespeare, Donne, and Whitman, all the way to 21st century American poets like Sharon Olds, Rita Dove, and Richard Wilbur. Students will also compose their own poetry of love and sex.

AS 220.193.01 (H)
Fitzgerald and Dickens
Instructor: John D. Rockefeller, V
Schedule: MWF 6:00-9:00pm; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 2, graded S/U

Description: F. Scott Fitzgerald's novels are often admired for their lyrical prose, but seldom esteemed for their intellectual rigor. As a result, the political commentary that Fitzgerald subtly wove into the fabric of his novels has been overlooked. We'll redress this oversight by examining Fitzgerald's sustained engagement with Charles Dickens's Bleak House in The Beautiful and Damned--both of which focus on characters who are destroyed by the lawsuits they win. Fitzgerald selected Bleak House as the backdrop for his second novel because of an alliance he felt with Dickens, who similarly conceived his novels as instruments for steering society to the left. Ironically, though, Fitzgerald critiqued the progressive movement from the left by contrasting his novel with Dickens's. The Beautiful and Damned illustrates that, rather than the culmination of the progressive movement, Prohibition was a betrayal of it.

AS 220.196.01 (H)
Fiction for Foodies
Instructor: Shashi Bhat
Schedule: TTh 1:00-3:30pm; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 1, graded S/U

Description: In this course we will read and write delicious descriptions of food! We will explore excerpts from writers such as E.B. White, Alice McDermott, Roald Dahl, Jhumpa Lahiri, Vladimir Nabokov, and J.K. Rowling. We’ll study techniques in writing about food, and may also watch clips of film adaptations of great food books (Like Water for Chocolate, Julie and Julia), and hold a potluck, as inspiration for students to craft rich food scenes of their own.

AS 220.197.01 (H)
You're The One That I Want: Musical Theatre, from Stage to Screen
Instructor: Dara Weinberg
Schedule: MWTh 1:00-4:00pm; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 2, graded S/U

Description: This course examines musical theatre in multiple forms: stage, film, live action, and cartoons. We will watch and discuss films in class, which may include the following: Baltimorean Howard Ashman's LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS and BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, GREASE, John Waters's HAIRSPRAY, GUYS AND DOLLS, CHORUS LINE, CAROUSEL, and WEST SIDE STORY. Students write lyrics and imitations, and may take optional field trips to DC to see Disney's MULAN and Mel Brooks's YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN.

AS 220.198.01 (H)
Creative Writing: Flash Fiction
Instructor: Robin Tung
Schedule: MTTh 1:00-4:00pm; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 2, graded S/U

Description: In this course, we will explore stories in very short forms ranging from realism to surrealism and magic realism. Students will craft their own flash fiction and learn to read as writers exploring literary techniques, the balance between lyricism and narrative, and reasons for the short form. This will primarily be a workshop course with writing exercises, student critiques, and readings from Amy Hempel, Grace Paley, Donald Barthelme and many others.

AS 220.208.01 (H)
Introduction to Creative Writing: Medicine and Literature--Dealing with the Body and Difference
Instructor: Joanna Pearson
Schedule: MWF 6:00-9:00pm; Meets Jan 4-22
Credits: 2, graded S/U

Description: This is a medicine, literature, and creative writing course that should be of particular interest to pre-med or pre-health profession students. From Greek myths of the minotaur, to the history of carnivals and freak shows, to popular recent documentaries about disability like Murderball, we will consider how the consideration of bodily difference has evolved. Through our own writing of short stories, poems, and memoirs, we will attempt to write thoughtfully as we consider the body and its differences.