American Studies 340nd - Seminar: Topics-Capstone in American Studies-New Directions in American Studies
Sem:Capston-T-NewDirections
Spring
2025
01
4.00
Evangeline Heiliger
W 1:20 PM - 4:00 PM
Smith College
AMS-340nd-01-202503
Wright 002
vheiliger@smith.edu
This course engages new scholarship in American Studies, with a focus on critical disability studies, critical race studies, queer ecologies, and feminist science and technology studies. This course presents an occasion to rethink approaches to interdisciplinarity, intersectionality, ethnic studies and media and cultural studies. Likely texts include works by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Theri A. Pickens, Sami Schalk, Harlan Weaver, Cutcha Risling Baldy, Aurora Levins Morales, Ron Chew, La Marr Jurelle Bruce, Moya Bailey, Candace Fujikane, Sylvia Wynter, and M. Remi Yergeau. Restrictions: Juniors and seniors only; American Studies majors. Enrollment limited to 12. Instructor permission required.
[CE] AMS 340 Limit; AMS majors only; JR/SR only