FYS: The Hospital
AS.001.101 (01)

Johns Hopkins invented the modern hospital along with modern medical education. This seminar will explore the history of the hospital from its monastic origins to its current form, with particular attention to how hospital design has reflected and reinforced ways of thinking about health, disease and medical treatment. We will also consider specialized hospitals and clinics, for the mentally ill, for particular diseases, for women and children, among other topics.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level:
• Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Leslie, Stuart W
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

FYS: Japanese Robots
AS.001.102 (01)

Japan is a world leader in biomimetic robotics. Japanese society enthusiastically embraces robotic nurses, robotic guides, robotic waiters, robotic pets, and even robotic girlfriends. What are the origins of the Japanese love of robots? What role did robotics engineers play in creating the image of loveable robots? What societal fears do Japanese robots assuage and what hopes do they foster? In the course of the semester, students will learn about the evolution of Japanese robotics, and explore the implications of this evolution to humans’ relationship with robots. While learning about Japanese robots, students will acquire skills necessary for college-level education, including how to write an email to a professor, how to organize and manage digital tools, how to navigate the information resources, and how to develop, complete, and present research projects. This course will equip students with skills essential to their success in college and beyond.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level:
• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Frumer, Yulia
• Room: Gilman 77
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

FYS: When Worlds Collide - Science Goes Global
AS.001.103 (01)

In this First-Year Seminar, we will explore instances of contact between different world cultures and pre-modern and modern science (16th-20th c.). The premise of the course is the understanding that in addition to the cultural, religious and political negotiations that took place during cross-cultural encounters, science also underwent a similar process. We understand science expansively, as the study of nature and the production of knowledge about it embedded in a particular cultural context. The historical episodes we will discuss are selections of instances where agents of the West—missionaries, explorers, businessmen, colonists, scientists—established prolonged contact with non-western cultures and engaged in conversations about their worldviews. Some cases considered include Jesuits in the Chinese imperial court, Spanish missionaries among the Maya, and English explorers in the Pacific islands.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level:
• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Portuondo, Maria M
• Room: Gilman 277
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Departmental Colloquium
AS.140.641 (01)

Reports by staff members, students, and invited speakers.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: Th 3:00PM - 4:50PM
• Instructor: Frumer, Yulia
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 25/25
• PosTag(s): n/a

Directed Readings & Dissertation
AS.140.801 (01)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Kargon, Robert H
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Directed Readings & Dissertation
AS.140.811 (01)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Staff
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Directed Readings & Dissertation
AS.140.831 (01)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Leslie, Stuart W
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Directed Readings & Dissertation
AS.140.835 (01)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Principe, Lawrence
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Directed Readings & Dissertation
AS.140.841 (01)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Portuondo, Maria M
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Directed Reading & Dissertation
AS.140.843 (01)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Frumer, Yulia
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Directed Readings and Dissertation
AS.140.845 (01)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Mercelis, Joris Hans Angele
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Directed Reading and Dissertation
AS.140.863 (01)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: O'brien, Elizabeth
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Dissertation Research
AS.140.888 (01)

For graduate students in the History of Science and Technology Department Only.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Frumer, Yulia
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a