Crossroads in the Study of the Americas

Five Colleges, Incorporated

CISA Faculty Fellow Courses: Spring 2000


The following courses are taught by faculty who have nominated as CISA Faculty Fellows. 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.

Asian-American Studies:

  • "Gender and Sexuality in Asian American Literature".

    Prof. Floyd Cheung. Smith College

    ENG354: Th 3:00 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.

Contested Spaces:

  • "Comparative Symbolic Systems"

    Prof. David Samuels. UMass Amherst

    Anth750: Tu 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

  • "Contesting Borders: The Literature of Exile"

    Prof. Michelle Stephens. Mt. Holyoke College

    Engl 372s : W 1:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.

  • "Doing Ethnography: Research Methods in Anthropology"

    Prof. Joshua Roth. Mt. Holyoke College

    Anth 275s: M-W 8:35 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.

  • "Ethnicity and Transnationalism in a Globalizing Age"

    Prof. Karin Weyland. Amherst College

    Anth-38: T-Th 10:00 a.m. - 11:20 a.m.

  • "Ethnography/Travelogue"

    Prof. Kara Lynch. Hampshire College

    HACU-251: W 2:30 p.m. - 5:20 p.m.

  • "Introduction to Ethnomusicology"

    Prof. David Samuels. UMass Amherst

    Anth235: T-Th 11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

  • "Video II: Non-fiction Production"

    Prof. Kara Lynch. Hampshire College

    HACU-220 : T 6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

  • "Visual Discourse and Cultures"

    Prof. Karin Weyland. Amherst College

    Soc - 42 : T-Th 2:00 p.m. - 3:20p.m.

The Americas as Crossroads:

  • "American Literature III: Studies in American Modernism"

    Prof. Michelle Stephens. Mt. Holyoke College

    English 341s: T-Th 1:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.

  • "Introduction to the Study of American Society and Culture"

    Prof. Floyd Cheung. Smith College

    AMS201: T-Th 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.