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CISA-Related Courses: Fall 1999

The following courses are taught by faculty who have been closely involved with CISA since its inception. While the list is not exhaustive, these courses share CISA's concerns with exploring relational aspects of identity in the Americas within a comparatist and transdisciplinary framework. African-American, Black and Caribbean Studies: "Caribbean Poetry: The Anglophone Tradition" Prof. Rhonda Cobham-Sander. Amherst College BLKST 37/ENGL 99: T 1:00 - 4:00. "Literature of the Black Empire" Prof. Michelle Stephens. Mount Holyoke College ENGL 251F: T-TH 2:30-3:45 "The Caribbean in American Culture" Prof. Michelle Stephens. Mount Holyoke College ENGL 370F: W 2:15 - 4:00 (w/ Monday night screening) Asian-American Studies: "Asian-American Writing". Prof. Barry O'Connell. Amherst College THEATR 130: TH 12:20 - 2:15 "Asian Americans and Their Worlds" Prof. Mitziko Sawada. Hampshire College HIST SS-0289: W 2:20 - 5:20 "Asian-American Women Writers" Prof. Sanda Lwin. Mount Holyoke College ENGL 273/AMSTUD 250/WOST 203, Sect 2. "Exploring Asian Americas" Prof. Joshua Roth. Mount Holyoke College ANTH 203F: M-W 11:00 - 12:15 "Asian American Literature" Prof. Floyd Cheung. Smith College ENGL 267. M-W 1:10 - 2:30 "Asian Diasporic Writing in America" Prof. Sanda Lwin. UMass Amherst ENGL 891L W 17:00 - 19:30 Latin-American and Central-American Studies: "Perspectives on Latin America" Prof. Marina Kaplan. Smith College LAS 100: M-W 1:10 - 2:30 "Survey of Latin American Literature I" Prof. Marina Kaplan. Smith College SLL 260: M-W 2:40 - 4:00 "Latin American Literature in a Regional Context" Prof. Nancy Saporta Sternbach. Smith College SLL 371. T-TH 10:30 - 12:00 "Cultures and Civilizations of Spanish America". Prof. Luis Marentes. UMass Amherst SPAN 417: T-TH 11:15 - 12:30 "Twentieth Century Spanish American Prose Fiction". Prof. Luis Marentes. UMass Amherst SPAN 555: T-TH 1:00 - 2:15 "Teaching the Puerto Rican Experience" Prof. Sonia Nieto. UMass Amherst EDUC 588 M 16:00 - 18:30 Contested Spaces: "Narratives of the Past" Profs. Mitziko Sawada and Vivek Bhandari. Hampshire College SS-0140: T-TH: 12:30 - 1:50 "Postcolonial Cinemas" Prof. Awam Ampka. Mount Holyoke College THEAT 350-02: M-W 11:14 - 12:15 (and one evening screening) "Theorizing Women's Issues" Prof. Alex Deschamps. UMass Amherst WOST 301: T-TH 1:00 - 2:15 "Critical Race Feminist Theory" Prof. Alex Deschamps. UMass Amherst WOST 792A: M 16:00 - 18:30 "Global Communication" Prof. Henry Geddes. UMass Amherst COMM 794U T 16:00 - 19:00 "Seminar: Advanced Popular Culture" Prof. Lisa Henderson. UMass Amherst COMM 494P: T-TH 11:15 - 12:30 "Politics of Sexual Representation" Prof. Lisa Henderson. UMass Amherst COMM 397C T-TH 11:15 - 12:30 "Identity and Heterogeneity in the French and Francophone Text" Prof. Robert Schwartzwald. UMass Amherst FREN 594A/COMLIT 594A: T 16:00 - 19:00 The Americas as Crossroads: "Western American History" Prof. Martha Sandweiss. Amherst College HIST 85: T-TH 2:00 - 3:20 "Crisscrossing the Americas" Prof. Amy Kaplan and Ms. Gerassi-Navarro. Mount Holyoke College AMSTUD 101F (also LAT-AMSTUD 202F) T-TH 11:00 - 12:15 "American Autobiographical Writing" Prof. Floyd Cheung. Smith College ENGL 120: MWF: 10:00 - 10:50 "American Journeys" Prof. Richard Millington. Smith College ENGL 120, Sect 10: T-TH 3:00 - 4:20 "Music, Culture and Communication" Prof. Henry Geddes. UMass Amherst COMM 497O: T-TH 2:30 - 3:45 "American Identities". Prof. Randall Knoper. UMass Amherst ENGL 270: T-TH 9:30 - 10:45 "Introduction to Multicultural Education" Prof. Sonia Nieto. UMass Amherst EDUC 677: T 16:00 - 18:30 "Art in Cross-Cultural Perspectives" Prof. Oriol Pi-Sunyer. UMass Amherst ANTH 234: T 18:30 - 21:30 "Buddhism in American Literature" Prof. Lucien Miller. UMass Amherst COMLIT 391D: T-TH 4:00 - 5:15 "Contemporary Playwrights of Color" Prof. Roberta Uno. UMass Amherst THEATR 130: TH 12:20 - 2:15