Undergraduate Courses

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Course # (Section)	Title	Day/Times	Instructor	Location	Term	Additional Details
AS.010.102 (01)	Introduction to Art History, 1400 to the Present	MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Campbell, Stephen John	Hodson 203; Gilman 177	Spring 2026	Description: This course explores world art and architecture from c. 1400 to the present and introduces art historical concepts and approaches. Works of art from local collections, such as the Walters Art Museum and the Baltimore Museum of Art, as well as local monuments and architecture may be incorporated into the course. Lectures will be supported by weekly sections that will include museum visits, discussion of scholarly readings and primary sources, and exam reviews. Credits: 4.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 11/18 Tags: n/a
AS.010.102 (02)	Introduction to Art History, 1400 to the Present	MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM	Campbell, Stephen John	Hodson 203; Gilman 177	Spring 2026	Description: This course explores world art and architecture from c. 1400 to the present and introduces art historical concepts and approaches. Works of art from local collections, such as the Walters Art Museum and the Baltimore Museum of Art, as well as local monuments and architecture may be incorporated into the course. Lectures will be supported by weekly sections that will include museum visits, discussion of scholarly readings and primary sources, and exam reviews. Credits: 4.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 3/18 Tags: n/a
AS.010.239 (01)	Art in Motion: The Interconnected Mediterranean in the 1st mill. BCE	TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Feldman, Marian	Gilman 177	Spring 2026	Description: The Mediterranean Sea has long connected the lands that surround it, from western Asia to North Africa, southern Europe and Iberia. The first millennium BCE, from the collapse of the Bronze Age (1200/1100 BCE) to the conquests of Alexander the Great (334-323 BCE), witnessed an especially vibrant period of interactions and exchanges that led to dramatic local developments. This class examines artworks that moved around the Mediterranean during this time, as well as those that arose from these interactions. Impacted by the large, emerging empires of Assyria, Persia, and Macedonia, and inheritors of older traditions such as Egypt, the arts of the 1st millennium BCE Mediterranean encourage us to ask questions about cultural interactions, mobile technologies, and the effect of globalizing forces on local regions. No previous experience in art history, archaeology, or the ancient Mediterranean is required. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 9/20 Tags: HART-ANC, ARCH-RELATE
AS.010.255 (01)	Introduction to Performance Art	MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Schopp, Caroline Lillian	Krieger 300	Spring 2026	Description: Performance art is provocative and often controversial because it troubles, without dissolving, the distinction between art and life. Not just a matter of activating bodies or spurring participation, performance art asks what kinds of actions count as worthy of attention in contemporary culture. Studying performance art provides a unique introduction to art history because it allows us to rethink established art historical concerns with representation, form, perspective, and materiality, while at the same time offering critical insight into the forms of attention that structure everyday life. In this introduction to performance art and its history, we will explore how performance art addresses ingrained assumptions about action and passivity, success and failure, embodiment and mediation, “good” and “bad” feelings, emancipation and dependency. The study of performance art invites transdisciplinary approaches. Students from across the university are welcome. Our attention to a wide array of artists and practices will be supplemented by readings in art history and art criticism as well as diverse theoretical approaches. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 2/24 Tags: HART-MODERN
AS.010.311 (01)	Object Lessons: An Introduction to European Printmaking c. 1450-1750	M 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Young, Rachel Aria Rose	BLC 2043	Spring 2026	Description: This course offers an introduction to the history of prints and printed books in Europe before 1800. Taking a hands-on approach, class meetings will be held in special collections at the Johns Hopkins Library and the Baltimore Museum of Art. Students will learn to identify and assess the major techniques and processes of early modern printmaking and gain familiarity with key artists and core concepts and terms. Organized thematically, the course will address a wide spectrum of contexts and subjects, including devotional practice; natural history and anatomy; patterns of collection and antiquarianism; the publishing industry; prints in the artist’s workshop and in art theory; pattern books and practices of craft; proto-ethnographic prints and costume books; city views and maps. Through this object-focused survey of early modern print, we will explore the medium’s potential to both codify and destabilize ideas, transmitting visual and textual information across Europe to reach new audiences, and consider how meaning was not only conveyed but also shaped by the materials and techniques of print. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 15/15 Tags: HART-RENEM
AS.010.314 (01)	The Art and Architecture of the Gods in Ancient Greece	F 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Shakeshaft, Hugo	Gilman 177	Spring 2026	Description: In ancient Greece, the visual arts were at the heart of human relations with the divine. Images of gods in various media were everywhere, from marketplaces to sanctuaries, from private homes to the coins in people’s pockets. Temples sacred to deities punctuated the landscape, from city-centers to remote mountain peaks. Alongside poets, artists were hugely influential in shaping ideas about gods. And by making objects for dedication, artists also provided worshippers with an essential means of divine veneration. In fact, much of what we call Greek art was made to honour deities. This course explores the relationship between the gods and the visual arts in ancient Greece, with a particular focus on the Archaic and Classical periods (ca. 700–300 BCE). What can art and architecture tell us about Greek attitudes to the gods? How and why were art and architecture important in divine worship? How did the visual arts contribute to human (mis)understanding of the divine? And what happened to the Greek gods in art after antiquity? The course tackles these questions by examining a wide range of primary material, including Greek architecture, sculpture, and painting, as well as relevant textual sources (in translation). Each week will focus on a different theme or case study, giving students the opportunity to investigate the many ways in which art’s interconnection with the gods featured in Greek culture. Topics include: the portrayal of divine myths in Greek sculpture and painting; the art and architecture of Greek sanctuaries, such as Delphi, Olympia, and the Athenian acropolis; Dionysos and the art of the symposium; Aphrodite and the emergence of the female nude in Greek art; the relationship between gods, art, and the natural landscape; and the artistic afterlives of the Greek gods, from the Renaissance to today. The course will include visits to the John Hopkins Archaeological Museum and the Walters Art Museum. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/15 Tags: HART-ANC
AS.010.321 (01)	Collecting the Americas	TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Earley, Caitlin	Gilman 186	Spring 2026	Description: This course considers the history of collecting art of the Ancient Americas, focusing on the assembly and acquisition of collections within a broader history of museums and cultural heritage management. We examine varying scales of collections assembled between 1850 and the present, including personal, community, regional, and national collections. Our study is multinational, but uses area collections as a lens through which to consider the larger picture, including Dumbarton Oaks, the Walters, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian. While the course focuses on Art of the Americas, it touches on broader themes, including the effect of national politics on the collection of art; the contested place of Indigenous works in museums, both national and international; and the relationship between collectors, collections, and communities. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 18/18 Tags: HART-MODERN, ARCH-ARCH
AS.010.322 (01)	Knowledge, Holiness, and Pleasure: The Illustrated Book in the Medieval World	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Zchomelidse, Nino	BLC 2043	Spring 2026	Description: The book was the primary source for the collection of knowledge in the Middle Ages. It was also the medium for the preservation and proliferation of the texts that underlay the three monotheistic religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam). It served as a source for elite entertainment, perhaps most importantly in Late Antiquity and the later Middle Ages. This course investigates the role of the illustrated book within the political, religious, and artistic developments that took place after the rise of Christianity from the end of the Roman Empire until the early modern period. We will examine how the different types of books, such as horizontal and vertical scrolls, large and miniature size codices influenced the placement, conception, and style of the illustrations. The class also addresses processes of manufacture, issues of materiality (i.e. precious multi-media book covers, papyrus, parchment, paper), and the relationship between text and image. The course will be taught exclusively with facsimiles of medieval manuscripts from Special Collections at Eisenhower Library and original manuscripts in the Walters Art Museum and other collections. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 15/15 Tags: HART-MED
AS.010.327 (01)	Asia America: Art and Architecture	MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Brown, Rebecca Mary	Gilman 177	Spring 2026	Description: This course examines a set of case studies spanning the last century that will enable us to explore the shifting landscape of Asian transnational art and architecture. Each week will focus on a different artist, group, exhibition, architect, urban space, or site to unpack artistsʼ and architectsʼ engagements with the changing landscape of immigration policies, movements to build solidarity with other artists of color, and campaigns for gender and sexual equality. The course will situate these artists within American art, and build an expansive idea of Asia America to include the discussion of artists whose work directly addresses fluidity of location and transnational studio practice. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 0/15 Tags: HART-MODERN
AS.010.356 (01)	Landscape in World Cinema	Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Liu, Mia Yinxing	Gilman 119	Spring 2026	Description: Landscape in narrative cinema has silent enunciating power. The choice of location shots alone constitutes a set of complex considerations. We may wonder, why was Monument Valley featured in so many westerns? Is it only because of the site’s marvelous photogenicity, or its geographic location, or its social and historical significance? The formal and stylistic choices filmmakers made regarding how landscape is represented on screen, whether as a real or a fictional site, also reveal critical engagements with both social reality and the pictorial conventions of landscape art. Does it look barren or lush? sublime or banal? What is the concept of nature, what is a “view,” or picturesque, and how are these critical questions in representations of landscape framed and mediated in cinema? Does the representation of landscape work for or against the storyline unfolding on screen? What does it tell us about social reality, ecological concerns, and political commentary? This course examines landscape in narrative cinema not only as subject or part of the mise-en-scene but also as a way of seeing, a site of expression, and locus of social, historical, and political meaning. Each week we explore a film genre or a film movement, for example, Western, or Japanese New Wave, and study how landscape functions in that genre. Students are expected to watch films, read, and analyze both the readings and films carefully prior to coming to class. As a term project, each student selects a particular site (any site of their choice) for the focus of their study and research of cinematic landscape in the course. These sites can be a place personal to you, or a place you think is interesting or important in cinema. There will be workshops during the course of the semester to help complete the final project. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/15 Tags: HART-MODERN
AS.010.369 (01)	The American Art Museum: Origins, Mission, and Civic Purpose	M 4:30PM - 7:00PM	Weiss, Daniel H	Gilman 55	Spring 2026	Description: This course will explore the American art museum as a distinctive cultural and political idea. Tracing its origins to the ancient world, the American art museum was descended more immediately from institutions created during the European Enlightenment, but differing with regard to overall mission and civic purpose. This course will explore the various roles played by museums in American society, focusing on programmatic content, organizational design, funding and operating practices, and the particular issues that have arisen in recent years in the areas of cultural property restitution, collection development, special exhibitions, governance and funding, and the larger question of civic purpose. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 0/15 Tags: HART-MODERN, ARCH-RELATE, AGRI-ELECT
AS.010.427 (01)	Catharsis: Creating (with) Greek Tragedy	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Stager, Jennifer	Gilman 177	Spring 2026	Description: This seminar considers the mutual imbrication of Greek tragedy and the visual arts, from descriptions of art in the plays to inspiration drawn by artists from ancient performances. We will read extant plays in translation (those with knowledge of ancient Greek may translate key passages in addition) and trace the materialities of their performances, textual transmissions, and receptions, with particular attention to the ways in which the visual arts inspire and draw inspiration from this body of work. We will visit relevant museum collections in the region and, where possible, see live performances. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/15 Tags: HART-ANC, ARCH-ARCH
AS.010.459 (01)	The illuminated charter: visual splendor, performance, and authenticity of medieval legal documents	M 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Zchomelidse, Nino	Gilman 177	Spring 2026	Description: This course investigates the complexities of medieval legal documents, their specific visuality and materiality, as well as practices of copying and forgery. We will address the aesthetics of legal documents, their graphic signs, seals, and paleography and the authenticating strategies used to corroborate their legitimacy. Another emphasis is set on the performative aspects of the medieval charters in court and church rituals. Comparison with contemporary illuminated sacred books will reveal the tight connections of monastic scriptoria and royal/imperial chanceries. The geographic focus is set wide, ranging from medieval Spain, to Carolingian and Ottonian chanceries in France and Germany, to the papal court in Rome and the imperial and monastic scriptoria in Byzantium. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 3/10 Tags: HART-MED
AS.010.467 (01)	The Renaissance in its Global Dimensions 1450-1650	M 4:30PM - 7:00PM	Campbell, Stephen John	Gilman 177	Spring 2026	Description: A seminar focusing on recent scholarship that seeks to conceptualize a “global Renaissance,” beginning with Italy and the Mediterranean and then addressing exchanges between Europe and Southern/Eastern Asia. Case studies of the mobility of artists and artifacts, artistic adaptation and translation, materials as commodities and bearers of meaning. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 3/12 Tags: HART-RENEM
AS.010.502 (01)	Independent Study		Campbell, Stephen John		Spring 2026	Description: Independent work Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.502 (02)	Independent Study		Feldman, Marian		Spring 2026	Description: Independent work Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.502 (03)	Independent Study		Merback, Mitchell		Spring 2026	Description: Independent work Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.502 (04)	Independent Study		Schopp, Caroline Lillian		Spring 2026	Description: Independent work Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.502 (05)	Independent Study		Stager, Jennifer		Spring 2026	Description: Independent work Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.502 (06)	Independent Study		Rustem, Unver		Spring 2026	Description: Independent work Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.502 (07)	Independent Study		Liu, Mia Yinxing		Spring 2026	Description: Independent work Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.502 (08)	Independent Study		Zchomelidse, Nino		Spring 2026	Description: Independent work Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.502 (09)	Independent Study		Hyman, Aaron M.		Spring 2026	Description: Independent work Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 1/1 Tags: n/a
AS.010.502 (10)	Independent Study		Brown, Rebecca Mary		Spring 2026	Description: Independent work Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.502 (11)	Independent Study		Deleonardis, Lisa		Spring 2026	Description: Independent work Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a
AS.010.522 (01)	Honors Thesis		Campbell, Stephen John		Spring 2026	Description: You must request Independent Academic Work using the Independent Academic Work form found in Student Self-Service: Registration > Online Forms. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.522 (02)	Honors Thesis		Feldman, Marian		Spring 2026	Description: You must request Independent Academic Work using the Independent Academic Work form found in Student Self-Service: Registration > Online Forms. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.522 (03)	Honors Thesis		Merback, Mitchell		Spring 2026	Description: You must request Independent Academic Work using the Independent Academic Work form found in Student Self-Service: Registration > Online Forms. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.522 (04)	Honors Thesis		Schopp, Caroline Lillian		Spring 2026	Description: You must request Independent Academic Work using the Independent Academic Work form found in Student Self-Service: Registration > Online Forms. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.522 (05)	Honors Thesis		Stager, Jennifer		Spring 2026	Description: You must request Independent Academic Work using the Independent Academic Work form found in Student Self-Service: Registration > Online Forms. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.522 (06)	Honors Thesis		Rustem, Unver		Spring 2026	Description: You must request Independent Academic Work using the Independent Academic Work form found in Student Self-Service: Registration > Online Forms. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.522 (07)	Honors Thesis		Liu, Mia Yinxing		Spring 2026	Description: You must request Independent Academic Work using the Independent Academic Work form found in Student Self-Service: Registration > Online Forms. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.522 (08)	Honors Thesis		Zchomelidse, Nino		Spring 2026	Description: You must request Independent Academic Work using the Independent Academic Work form found in Student Self-Service: Registration > Online Forms. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.522 (09)	Honors Thesis		Hyman, Aaron M.		Spring 2026	Description: You must request Independent Academic Work using the Independent Academic Work form found in Student Self-Service: Registration > Online Forms. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 1/1 Tags: n/a
AS.010.522 (10)	Honors Thesis		Brown, Rebecca Mary		Spring 2026	Description: You must request Independent Academic Work using the Independent Academic Work form found in Student Self-Service: Registration > Online Forms. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.522 (11)	Honors Thesis		Deleonardis, Lisa		Spring 2026	Description: You must request Independent Academic Work using the Independent Academic Work form found in Student Self-Service: Registration > Online Forms. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.522 (12)	Honors Thesis		Anderson, Emily S.K.		Spring 2026	Description: You must request Independent Academic Work using the Independent Academic Work form found in Student Self-Service: Registration > Online Forms. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.010.522 (13)	Honors Thesis		Earley, Caitlin		Spring 2026	Description: You must request Independent Academic Work using the Independent Academic Work form found in Student Self-Service: Registration > Online Forms. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/5 Tags: n/a
AS.130.317 (01)	Akhenaten, Nefertiti and the Armana Period	WF 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Bryan, Betsy Morrell	Gilman 238	Spring 2026	Description: This course examines the visual expressions of the revolutionary pharaoh Akhenaten and his wife Nefertiti. The artistic changes that this reign introduced will be discussed through art historical, religious, political, and sociological lenses. Who was the king's sole god Aten and how did he and his visual appearance impact Egypt and the ancient world 1350 to 1330 BCE? Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 11/12 Tags: ARCH-ARCH
AS.389.303 (01)	A World of Things	T 4:30PM - 7:00PM	Kingsley, Jennifer P	Mergenthaler 431	Spring 2026	Description: This course aims to make the object a focus point for understanding museums and what they do, and to consider the museum as a site for investigating the interaction between humans and things. At the center of the course is a tension between the idea that things are subject to human will, on the one hand, and indications that things can and do evade human attempts to control them, on the other. Readings from scholars across many disciplines, from anthropology to political science, will stimulate our looking, thinking, and discussion. Every session includes hands-on activities to help us think through the key concepts of the readings. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 2/10 Tags: ARCH-ARCH
AS.389.333 (01)	The Curator is on the Case: Museum Research Methods in Practice	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Kingsley, Jennifer P	Hmwd House Wine Cllr	Spring 2026	Description: How do art curators solve the puzzles posed by the collections they care for? This course invites students to work hands on with a collection of early modern paintings recently donated to the university. Students will learn to investigate art like a curator, from material and technical examination through provenance research and the reconstruction of object contexts. Students will share their research findings with public audiences in the form of an exhibition to be installed in the renovated MSEL library. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 2/10 Tags: PMUS-PRAC, ARCH-RELATE
AS.010.102 (85)	Introduction to Art History, 1400 to the Present		Brown, Rebecca Mary	Online	Summer 2026	Description: This course introduces world art and architecture from the late fourteenth century to the present, inclusive of Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and the Islamic world. We will engage with three primary thematic threads throughout, exploring landscape and the changing environment; portraiture, self-representation, and the body; and the circulation of artists, materials, and ideas around the globe. Wherever they are located, students will be asked to visit monuments, architecture, and/or museums to engage with art in person. Recorded lectures by the professor, scholarly readings, digital resources, films, and the textbook material will serve as the foundation for the course. Assignments will include close-looking annotations, short writing assignments often keyed to museum contexts (like label writing, image description for the blind and partially sighted), video tours, and peer-to-peer presentations. Students will have the opportunity to check-in weekly with the professor via synchronous office hours. Expect a fast pace—this is a full semester course in four weeks. Plan to spend 3 hours each weekday working through the materials (“contact hours”) and another 1-3 hours per day working on assignments, including visiting museums or sites in your area. Credits: 4.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 21/25 Tags: n/a
AS.010.222 (86)	Modern Art in the Arab World		Amin, Alessandra	Online	Summer 2026	Description: This class provides an introduction to the art of Arabic-speaking societies in the Middle East and North Africa over the course of the twentieth century. This era saw a dramatic series of sociopolitical shifts unfold throughout the region: colonial governments collapsed or changed hands, new regimes rose and fell, populations scattered in the wake of war and occupation or rebuilt their countries in the spirit of independence. Alongside these developments, art practices and exhibition cultures assumed new roles as well as new forms, playing an integral part in decolonial nation-building and networks of transnational solidarity. This course will explore stylistic and thematic developments that arose during this tumultuous period, focusing most closely on the visual cultures of Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq and Morocco. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 19/25 Tags: n/a
AS.001.206 (01)	FYS: Wisdom: Global Perspectives and Practices	W 3:00PM - 5:30PM	Merback, Mitchell	Gilman 177	Fall 2026	Description: Where is wisdom to be found? And where is the place of understanding? These probing questions from the Hebrew bible's Book of Job arose from a wisdom tradition that was rooted in a particular time, place, and group identity. Yet versions of these same questions can be found the world over. Is true wisdom the exclusive power of a divine being in heaven, or can it found on earth, in human intelligence, learning, and virtue? Who is rightly considered a sage—the enlightened monk, the Stoic teacher, the ruler who dispenses justice, the hermit-saint communing with God? Is the perfection of wisdom an attainable goal or only an impossible ideal? Why do some cultures personify Wisdom as a female goddess, attributing to her voice, agency, and cosmic creative powers? This First-Year Seminar places these questions under a cross-cultural lens by visiting the wisdom traditions of ancient Israel, Greek and Roman philosophy, early Christianity, medieval mysticism, and Buddhism. Course materials are drawn from the Old and New Testaments, ancient dialogues, Buddhist sutras and Zen kōans, and other sources. We will also look at a variety of visual images, from holy portraits and devotional icons to mystical diagrams and Tibetan mandalas. When existence is hard enough as it is, why do we seek wisdom? Can today's culture of fortune-cookie philosophy, meditation apps, and self-help accessories really help us attain it? We'll engage in a series of practical experiments in the "art of living," testing for ourselves the possibilities, challenges, and joys of living with wisdom. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 12/12 Tags: n/a
AS.010.101 (01)	Introduction to Art History, Pre-1400	F 10:00AM - 10:50AM, MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Stager, Jennifer; Zchomelidse, Nino	Gilman 55; Gilman 177	Fall 2026	Description: This course explores world art and architecture before c. 1400 and introduces art historical concepts and approaches. Works of art from local collections, such as the Walters Art Museum and the Baltimore Museum of Art, as well as local monuments and architecture may be incorporated into the course. Lectures will be supported by weekly sections that will include museum visits, discussion of scholarly readings and primary sources, and exam reviews. Credits: 4.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 6/15 Tags: n/a
AS.010.101 (02)	Introduction to Art History, Pre-1400	MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM	Stager, Jennifer; Zchomelidse, Nino	Gilman 55; Gilman 177	Fall 2026	Description: This course explores world art and architecture before c. 1400 and introduces art historical concepts and approaches. Works of art from local collections, such as the Walters Art Museum and the Baltimore Museum of Art, as well as local monuments and architecture may be incorporated into the course. Lectures will be supported by weekly sections that will include museum visits, discussion of scholarly readings and primary sources, and exam reviews. Credits: 4.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/15 Tags: n/a
AS.010.246 (01)	Indigenous Architectures, Sites, and Environments	TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM	Staff	Gilman 134	Fall 2026	Description: An introduction to the Indigenous architectural sites and engineered spaces of the Western Hemisphere prior to European contact. At the core of our inquiry will be critiquing the naming of those spaces, and how these naming conventions have created modern understandings of those sites. In the modern United States, are Indigenous architectures considered American “antiquity?” In Latin America, are those spaces considered “Indigenous?” As many of these architectural sites were constructed by Indigenous communities who did not practice writing—and thus did not “write down” their titles—where (and from whom) did these sites get their names? Taking a hemispheric approach, class lectures will move from South to North America, covering Machu Picchu (Perú), Ciudad Perdida (Colombia), Teotihuacan (Mexico), the Hopewell Mound Group (United States), and Chaco Canyon (United States) among other Indigenous architectures, sites, and environments. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 2/15 Tags: HART-ANC, ARCH-ARCH
AS.010.301 (01)	Michelangelo: Religion, Sexuality, and the Crisis of Renaissance Art	MW 4:30PM - 5:45PM	Campbell, Stephen John	Hodson 303	Fall 2026	Description: The course will focus on the controversies surrounding the representation of the body in the writings and figurative art of Michelangelo and his contemporaries, the historical circumstances under which the most admired artist in Europe was attacked as a blasphemer and an idolator, and the effect of widespread calls for censorship on his later production. The writings of Michelangelo, Pietro Aretino, Benvenuto Cellini and own writings will be considered with a focus on their staging of an ambivalent and transgressive eroticism. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/25 Tags: HART-RENEM
AS.010.316 (01)	Touching Waves: Textiles and Architecture in the Islamic World	TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Maleki, Kimia	Krieger 307	Fall 2026	Description: Textiles and architecture have played vital roles in the visual and material cultures of the Islamic world. However, the buildings have received far more attention from historians of art than textiles have. But what if we shift our lens and consider these two mediums together? Integrating these two subfields of Islamic art sheds light on several artistic, cultural, social, and economic aspects of the Islamic world. In this course, through such an integrative approach, we will have the opportunity to learn about a range of spaces, senses, objects, architecture, and human activities experienced in Islamic lands from the medieval period, starting in the ninth century, to the modern era of the nineteenth century. We will also become acquainted with the interplay of various artistic traditions and mediums such as carpets, manuscripts, paintings, tilework, and photography. What if we imagine the Alhambra Palace with its original textiles and curtains moving with the wind, creating a rhythm with the sound of its fountains and garden? What does the global trade of Persian, Ottoman, and Indian textiles reveal about our interconnected past? Why did European painters depict “Oriental” carpets in their work? Through this course, students will have a hands-on experience by studying textiles and other artworks in local collections such as the Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum, the Walters Art Museum, and the Textile Museum, as well as publications and photographic albums of world’s fairs in Johns Hopkins’ own Special Collections. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 4/18 Tags: HART-MODERN, HART-MED, ARCH-RELATE
AS.010.373 (01)	Art and Politics in Modern China	TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Liu, Mia Yinxing	Gilman 119	Fall 2026	Description: Art has always been intertwined with politics; one can even say art is always political. In modern China, this statement is especially poignant. The relationship between art and politics has been at the core of art production in China in the past century, and a perennial preoccupation of those in power, including now. This course will therefore examine three major threads: the documents, dictums, and decrees by the artists and by the regimes concerning the nature, function, and practice of art and artists in the 20th century, for example, Mao’s famous Yan’an talk in 1942; artists’ response to and art’s participation in the important political events and historical moments, for example, the 1989 democracy movement; we will also examine the space of resistance, intervention, and alterity that art created in modern China, concerning topics of gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, ecocriticism, privacy, and questions of historiography. The period we examine will begin at the end of the 19th century when artists struggled with a crumbling empire facing the onslaught of modernity, to the present. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/15 Tags: HART-MODERN, INST-CP
AS.010.386 (01)	Modern Art in a Global Frame	MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Brown, Rebecca Mary	Gilman 186	Fall 2026	Description: This course will grapple with modern art as it emerges in critically important locations around the world over the course of the twentieth century, with an emphasis on Asia, Africa, and South America. Anti-colonial movements, national formations, geopolitical alliances, institution-building, exhibition, fair, and biennial histories, art group manifestos, and the intertwined relations of race, ethnicity, Indigeneity, gender, class, and sexuality. Museum visits to view works of art in person will be incorporated into the course. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 1/15 Tags: HART-MODERN
AS.010.428 (01)	Art & Culture in the Crusader Near East, ca 1000-1300	M 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Lester, Anne E.; Zchomelidse, Nino	Gilman 177	Fall 2026	Description: From the late eleventh century to the close of the thirteenth, European pilgrims, knights, foot soldiers, merchants, and travelers, visited, fought, colonized, and settled in the Holy Land, that is along the Mediterranean coast stretching from modern Turkey to Egypt, creating a principality known as the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem or what scholars have called the Crusader Near East. This territory became the location of fiercely contested borders, religious identities, and political alliances, but it was also the site of vibrant artistic and cultural production. This course will interrogate what scholars mean by crusader culture. We will analyze different types of sources and materials including texts, textiles, architecture, manuscript illumination, sculpture, metalworks, and ivory. The course takes an interdisciplinary approach – with the goal of coordinating the lives and experiences of people living in the Crusader Near East, with the documents, and visual and material culture they produced, consumed, and exchanged with western Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic world. One of the goals is to gain a deeper understanding and appreciation for the context of cultural production and to consider and critique the terminologies and narratives about crusading, including concepts of acculturation, translation, and hybridity. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 2/15 Tags: HART-MED, ARCH-RELATE
AS.010.446 (01)	Philoctetes and the Art of Medicine	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Stager, Jennifer	Gilman 75	Fall 2026	Description: Through the prism of the Greek tragedy Philoctetes by Sophocles, this course explore the history of ancient Greek medicine as it intersects with the history of art. We will cover themes of war, wounds, isolation, incarceration, pain, pharmaka, and friendship through a close-reading of the text in translation, close looking at associated images, and attention to the play's many receptions. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/8 Tags: HART-ANC, ARCH-RELATE
AS.010.447 (01)	Art and the Body in the Ancient Americas	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	Earley, Caitlin	Gilman 177	Fall 2026	Description: What is a body, and how do bodies make meaning in art? This course investigates the concept of the body and its expression in Indigenous art from the Ancient Americas. As a site of human experience, a node of relational exchanges, and an expressive and constructive force, the body offers us a window into ways of being and understanding in the Americas. What can the way the body is created, represented, and manipulated tell us about attitudes toward power, religion, and the structure of the world? We will consider case studies from three cultural groups: the Moche, the Maya, and the Aztec. Our investigation is focused on the human body, and explores bodies that are living, dead, gendered, fragmented, multiple, and divine. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/7 Tags: HART-ANC, ARCH-ARCH
AS.010.451 (01)	Script, Character, Scribble: Writing and Pseudo-Writing in Modern and Contemporary Art	M 4:30PM - 7:00PM	Brown, Rebecca Mary	Gilman 177	Fall 2026	Description: Almost readable, but not quite: artists in the twentieth and twenty-first century played with script of all kinds, from ancient glyphs and Persian script to Roman typefaces and Korean Hangul. Artists also scribbled in ways that evoke writing without script or meaning. This course takes on the question of meaning-making in art through the form of script—flirting with that tantalizing feeling that we can almost read the work of art through the marks on its surface. We will engage with artists from around the world whose work grapples with knowledge, meaning, and script, and discuss the limits and possibilities of legibility, knowing, and language. In addition to painting and drawing, we will also discuss conceptual art, installation, video, architecture, tapestry, ceramics, graphic novel forms, book arts, and sculpture. We will have opportunities to situate these works within longer histories of script and pseudo-script and image-text relations. Our discussion-driven seminars will be guided by readings in art history and theory. The course carries no expectation that you are multi-lingual or have experience with multiple scripts. Central to our semester will be group trips to see art in person in DC and Baltimore. Assignments include an option for short, focused writing with feedback and opportunities to experiment with genre and to rewrite, or a longer seminar paper, chosen in consultation with the professor. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/8 Tags: HART-MODERN
AS.010.483 (01)	Three Artists (Three Sick Women): Art, Illness, Death	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Schopp, Caroline Lillian	Gilman 177	Fall 2026	Description: What happens when the artist becomes sick? How does illness become the subject of artistic practice? And what does art concerned with sickness tell us about the entanglement of gender and medicine in contemporary life? This course draws inspiration from Anne Wagner’s book, Three Artists, Three Women (1996), in which she explores an expectation that undergirds modernist art history: that the work of artists who are also women must reveal their femininity. We take up the challenge to this normative expectation with the work of three artists (who happened also to be three sick women) active in the post Second World War period. A German-Jewish immigrant to the US, Eva Hesse is known today for the fragile latex sculptures she made before dying from a brain tumor. Alina Szapocznikow, a Polish concentration camp survivor, employed her sculptural practice of body casting to index the symptoms and effects of her metastatic breast cancer. Hannah Wilke, an American feminist performance artist, painstakingly documented her treatments for terminal lymphoma. These artists’ careful explorations of their bodies and their illnesses trouble assumptions about femininity and feminism in the late twentieth century. They also afford an introduction to post-minimalism in the US, nouveau réalisme is Europe, and international conceptual and performance art. We constellate their interconnected work with that of others whose practices are infused in diverse ways by illness and its permeable definition: Indira Allegra, Cassils, Bob Flanagan, Yayoi Kusama, Wangechi Mutu, David Wojnarowicz, Florentina Holzinger. Readings in art history will be complemented with historical and contemporary approaches in feminist theory and critical disability studies, as well as a selection of literary and hybrid-form writings on art, illness, and death, including: Ingeborg Bachmann, Johanna Hedva, Audre Lorde, Paul Preciado, Gillian Rose. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/6 Tags: HART-MODERN
AS.010.501 (01)	Independent Study		Campbell, Stephen John		Fall 2026	Description: Independent work Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a
AS.010.501 (02)	Independent Study		Schopp, Caroline Lillian		Fall 2026	Description: Independent work Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a
AS.010.501 (03)	Independent Study		Merback, Mitchell		Fall 2026	Description: Independent work Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a
AS.010.501 (04)	Independent Study		Liu, Mia Yinxing		Fall 2026	Description: Independent work Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a
AS.010.501 (08)	Independent Study		Zchomelidse, Nino		Fall 2026	Description: Independent work Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a
AS.010.501 (09)	Independent Study		Stager, Jennifer		Fall 2026	Description: Independent work Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a
AS.010.501 (10)	Independent Study		Brown, Rebecca Mary		Fall 2026	Description: Independent work Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a
AS.010.501 (12)	Independent Study		Feldman, Marian		Fall 2026	Description: Independent work Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a
AS.010.501 (13)	Independent Study		Rustem, Unver		Fall 2026	Description: Independent work Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a
AS.010.521 (01)	Honors Thesis		Campbell, Stephen John		Fall 2026	Description: Open to students by arrangement with a faculty advisor in the History of Art Department. Interested students should review the program description available in the department office. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a
AS.010.521 (02)	Honors Thesis		Feldman, Marian		Fall 2026	Description: Open to students by arrangement with a faculty advisor in the History of Art Department. Interested students should review the program description available in the department office. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a
AS.010.521 (03)	Honors Thesis		Merback, Mitchell		Fall 2026	Description: Open to students by arrangement with a faculty advisor in the History of Art Department. Interested students should review the program description available in the department office. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a
AS.010.521 (04)	Honors Thesis		Liu, Mia Yinxing		Fall 2026	Description: Open to students by arrangement with a faculty advisor in the History of Art Department. Interested students should review the program description available in the department office. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a
AS.010.521 (06)	Honors Thesis		Schopp, Caroline Lillian		Fall 2026	Description: Open to students by arrangement with a faculty advisor in the History of Art Department. Interested students should review the program description available in the department office. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a
AS.010.521 (08)	Honors Thesis		Zchomelidse, Nino		Fall 2026	Description: Open to students by arrangement with a faculty advisor in the History of Art Department. Interested students should review the program description available in the department office. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a
AS.010.521 (09)	Honors Thesis		Anderson, Emily S.K.		Fall 2026	Description: Open to students by arrangement with a faculty advisor in the History of Art Department. Interested students should review the program description available in the department office. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 20/20 Tags: n/a
AS.010.521 (10)	Honors Thesis		Brown, Rebecca Mary		Fall 2026	Description: Open to students by arrangement with a faculty advisor in the History of Art Department. Interested students should review the program description available in the department office. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a
AS.010.521 (12)	Honors Thesis		Stager, Jennifer		Fall 2026	Description: Open to students by arrangement with a faculty advisor in the History of Art Department. Interested students should review the program description available in the department office. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a
AS.010.521 (13)	Honors Thesis		Rustem, Unver		Fall 2026	Description: Open to students by arrangement with a faculty advisor in the History of Art Department. Interested students should review the program description available in the department office. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a
AS.010.521 (16)	Honors Thesis		Earley, Caitlin		Fall 2026	Description: Open to students by arrangement with a faculty advisor in the History of Art Department. Interested students should review the program description available in the department office. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a
AS.190.415 (01)	Political Arts: Dada, Surrealism, and Societal Metamorphoses	M 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Bennett, Jane	Gilman 132	Fall 2026	Description: In the years between World Wars I and II, a fascinating group of artists, manifesto-writers, performers, intellectuals, and poets, in Europe and the Caribbean, who were put off by conventional politics of the time, decided to pursue other means of societal transformation. This seminar explores the aims and tactics, and strengths and liabilities, of Dada and Surrealism, as it operated in Europe and the Americas in the years between the World Wars. We will also read texts and images from writers and artists influenced by Dada and Surrealism but applied to different historical and political contexts. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/15 Tags: INST-PT, POLI-PT
AS.211.399 (01)	Anonymity: The Art and Politics of Hidden Identity	F 2:00PM - 4:30PM	Cerreti, Marta	Krieger Laverty	Fall 2026	Description: Why do people choose to conceal their identities? This course investigates the multifaceted roles of anonymity and pseudonymity across literature, music, performance art, and activism. To be anonymous—literally “without a name”—can offer protection, enable more honest expression, serve as political resistance, function as deception, or arise from necessity. We will examine anonymity both as a strategy and as a performative act, considering how it challenges conventional notions of identity, authorship, and power. Key questions will include: How does anonymity function as a tool for resistance or control in different cultural and political contexts? How does it intersect with issues of race, gender, and sexuality? And how does it shape creative labor, from ghostwriting to collective production? Case studies span from Virginia Woolf’s modernist “philosophy of anonymity” and Italo Calvino’s postmodern desire for a literature beyond the self, to Elena Ferrante’s pseudonymous authorship. We will also investigate digital anonymity in the work of hacker collectives and artivists. By the end of the course, students will develop a critical understanding of how anonymity can both empower and erase, analyze the aesthetic and political possibilities it offers across media and cultural contexts, and apply these insights to their own research and experience. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 14/17 Tags: n/a
AS.213.332 (01)	Literature and the Visual Arts	T 3:00PM - 5:30PM	Gosetti, Jennifer Anna	Maryland 309	Fall 2026	Description: Literature and the Visual Arts is devoted to exploring the resonances between literary and visual forms of artistic expression and their enrichment of the modernist cultural landscape. We will aim to understand how the interest in visual art by modernist writers, and the impressions of literature on modernist and contemporary artworks newly illuminate or challenge traditional aesthetics of the temporality and spatiality of the work, aesthetic judgment, and the phenomenology of aesthetic attention. Readings may include works of literature or aesthetics by Immanuel Kant, Rainer Maria Rilke, Paul Klee, Stefan Zweig, Martin Heidegger, Charles Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Siegfried Lenz, and Virginia Woolf, alongside work of many visual artists from van Gogh and Cézanne to German Expressionism and Anselm Kiefer. Taught in English. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 7/12 Tags: n/a
AS.389.201 (01)	Introduction to the Museum: Past and Present	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Kingsley, Jennifer P	Gilman 219	Fall 2026	Description: This course surveys museums, from their origins to their most contemporary forms, in the context of broader historical, intellectual, and cultural trends including the social movements of the 20th century. Anthropology, art, history, and science museums are considered. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 16/25 Tags: HIST-EUROPE, ARCH-ARCH, PMUS-INTRO, MSCH-HUM, ARCH-RELATE, CDS-SSMC