Register now for the sixth summer of Blast Courses in the Humanities!
These free, fully online courses are a fun, low-commitment way to explore ideas about history, the arts, and aspects of human culture from the everyday to the extraordinary.
Courses run mid-July to mid-August, 2 hours per week, no homework. This year's courses include:
- Herbs, Acupuncture, and Moxibustion: Living Histories of Medicine in Asia
- Camp, Kitsch, Sentimental, and Cringe: Understanding the Categories of Bad Taste
- Tombs, Temples, and Immortality: The Ancient Egyptian Afterlife
- Craft and Power: The Anthropology of Making in the 21st Century
- Media, Morality, and Mayhem: The History of Moral Panic
- The Mother of God: the Many Lives of the Virgin Mary
- How to Read a Translation
- Sweat, Study, Stay Strong: How the Ancient World Inspired Modern Fitness
- Histories of Maryland in Africa, Africa in Baltimore
For more info and to register: https://krieger.jhu.edu/humanities-institute/programs/humanities-blast-courses/
