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Course # (Section)
Title
Day/Times
Instructor
Room
PosTag(s)
Info
AS.140.106 (01)
History of Modern Medicine
MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
O'brien, Elizabeth
History of Modern Medicine AS.140.106 (01)
The history of medicine and public health from the Enlightenment to the present, with emphasis on ideas, science, practices, practitioners, and institutions, and the relationship of these to the broad social context.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Instructor: O'brien, Elizabeth
Room:
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/20
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.140.106 (02)
History of Modern Medicine
MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
O'brien, Elizabeth
History of Modern Medicine AS.140.106 (02)
The history of medicine and public health from the Enlightenment to the present, with emphasis on ideas, science, practices, practitioners, and institutions, and the relationship of these to the broad social context.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Instructor: O'brien, Elizabeth
Room:
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/20
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.140.106 (03)
History of Modern Medicine
F 11:00AM - 11:50AM, MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM
O'brien, Elizabeth
History of Modern Medicine AS.140.106 (03)
The history of medicine and public health from the Enlightenment to the present, with emphasis on ideas, science, practices, practitioners, and institutions, and the relationship of these to the broad social context.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: F 11:00AM - 11:50AM, MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Instructor: O'brien, Elizabeth
Room:
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/20
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.140.106 (04)
History of Modern Medicine
MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
O'brien, Elizabeth
History of Modern Medicine AS.140.106 (04)
The history of medicine and public health from the Enlightenment to the present, with emphasis on ideas, science, practices, practitioners, and institutions, and the relationship of these to the broad social context.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Instructor: O'brien, Elizabeth
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 17/20
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.140.146 (01)
History of Public Health in East Asia
MWF 9:00AM - 9:50AM
Hanson, Marta
INST-GLOBAL
History of Public Health in East Asia AS.140.146 (01)
This course examines the history of disease, epidemics, and public health responses in East Asia from the 17th-20th centuries. This public health history emphasizes the interactions, connections, and comparisons among China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan.
Credits: 3.00
Level:
Days/Times: MWF 9:00AM - 9:50AM
Instructor: Hanson, Marta
Room:
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/30
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL
AS.140.168 (01)
Freshman Seminar: Lives in Science
T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Comfort, Nathaniel
Freshman Seminar: Lives in Science AS.140.168 (01)
In this seminar, we will examine the history of science and scientific medicine through the lens of biography. Readings will consist primarily of scientific biographies. Themes to consider include integrating a scientist’s life and work, stereotypes of scientists (hero, villain, martyr, etc.), women in science, race in science. Textual analysis and research and writing skills will also figure in our discussions. Students will write a term paper on a scientist or physician of their choice, on approval of the instructor. Writing intensive.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Comfort, Nathaniel
Room:
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.140.176 (01)
Public Health in East Asia Through Films & Documentaries
Th 6:30PM - 7:30PM
Hanson, Marta
Public Health in East Asia Through Films & Documentaries AS.140.176 (01)
This course uses contemporary films and documentaries to address issues in public health in East Asia, past & present. Topics covered include medicine in turn-of-the-twentieth century Japan and China, revolutionary medicine, STDS, mental illness, HIV/AIDs in China, industrial pollution, the politics of universal health care insurance, and pandemics in East Asia.
Credits: 1.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: Th 6:30PM - 7:30PM
Instructor: Hanson, Marta
Room:
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 1/50
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.140.302 (01)
Rise of Modern Science
MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Mercelis, Joris Hans Angele
GECS-SOCSCI
Rise of Modern Science AS.140.302 (01)
Survey of major scientific developments from the mid-18th century to the present.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Instructor: Mercelis, Joris Hans Angele
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/15
PosTag(s): GECS-SOCSCI
AS.140.302 (02)
Rise of Modern Science
MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Mercelis, Joris Hans Angele
GECS-SOCSCI
Rise of Modern Science AS.140.302 (02)
Survey of major scientific developments from the mid-18th century to the present.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Instructor: Mercelis, Joris Hans Angele
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 2/15
PosTag(s): GECS-SOCSCI
AS.140.302 (03)
Rise of Modern Science
MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Mercelis, Joris Hans Angele
GECS-SOCSCI
Rise of Modern Science AS.140.302 (03)
Survey of major scientific developments from the mid-18th century to the present.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Instructor: Mercelis, Joris Hans Angele
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/15
PosTag(s): GECS-SOCSCI
AS.140.327 (01)
Science and Utopia
W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Kargon, Robert H
Science and Utopia AS.140.327 (01)
This seminar will explore the complex interaction between science, technology and utopian/dystopian thought from the late nineteenth century. Major utopians will include Bellamy, H.G. Wells, Mark Twain, Frank Lloyd Wright, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Sinclair Lewis, B.F. Skinner, Margaret Atwood, and Walt Disney.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Kargon, Robert H
Room:
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.140.374 (01)
Force and Matter from Galileo to Maxwell's Field Theory
M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Kargon, Robert H
Force and Matter from Galileo to Maxwell's Field Theory AS.140.374 (01)
This seminar will trace the concept of force and its interaction with matter from Galileo in the late sixteenth century to rise of field theory in the work of James Clerk Maxwell in the late nineteenth century. Major figures to be studied through primary source readings are Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Hobbes, Newton, Boscovich, Schelling, Laplace, Fourier, Faraday, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) and Maxwell.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Kargon, Robert H
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 12/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.140.378 (01)
Architecture and Medicine: Matters of Life and Death
W 1:10PM - 4:00PM
Leslie, Stuart W
Architecture and Medicine: Matters of Life and Death AS.140.378 (01)
This interdisciplinary seminar will be synchronously co-taught by scholars at Rutgers and Johns Hopkins. The subject matter lies between the history of medicine and the history of architecture. We hope to engage you in a range of issues related to space and healthcare by surveying building types such as hospitals, maternity hospitals, nurses’ housing, lunatic asylums, prisons and dormitories. We will explore architects who worked closely with doctors and vice versa. We will consider issues of surveillance, race, and gender. Aspects of contagion, quarantine, and the history of public health will also enter our discussions. The importance of therapeutic architecture today will be the last subject before the student presentations. The current global health emergency, as related to past pandemics, will be a springboard for our weekly discussions.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: W 1:10PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Leslie, Stuart W
Room:
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.140.412 (01)
Research Seminar
Leslie, Stuart W
Research Seminar AS.140.412 (01)
Departmental Majors Writing a Senior Thesis Only
Credits: 2.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times:
Instructor: Leslie, Stuart W
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 8/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.365.104 (05)
Campus Life, Now and Then
TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Leslie, Stuart W
Ames 234
Campus Life, Now and Then AS.365.104 (05)
What was it that the Hopkins undergraduates of old did all day? Before the AMRs appeared on campus, where did they live? Where did they study without the D-Level? What passed for campus social life in those days before women joined the student body? Were fraternity antics all just good clean fun? Any campus pranks achieve truly epic status? Has the current pandemic changed everything? (We survived influenza in 1918, after all.) Join us for a look at Hopkins history through the eyes of your predecessors.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Leslie, Stuart W
Room: Ames 234
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.365.104 (06)
Foreign at Home: Asian Scientists at Johns Hopkins
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Frumer, Yulia
Foreign at Home: Asian Scientists at Johns Hopkins AS.365.104 (06)
Today Johns Hopkins prides itself on its diverse body of scholars, doctors, and researchers. This course will follow scientists from East Asia who decided to make Johns Hopkins University their home. We will follow their professional trajectories, explore their struggles with international politics, and examine the effects of their “Asian” identity on their ability to conduct research. As a Freshman Seminar, the course will emphasize the acquisition of academic skills including navigating university resources, formulating research questions and hypotheses, structuring and writing a research paper, and presenting research findings in a public setting.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Instructor: Frumer, Yulia
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/14
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.365.105 (01)
When Worlds Collide: Science Goes Global
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Portuondo, Maria M
When Worlds Collide: Science Goes Global AS.365.105 (01)
In this freshmen 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 and the Maya, and English explorers in the Pacific islands.
