2008-2009

African Studies
Catharine Newbury
Professor of Government and African Studies
Smith College

Fall 2008:
Smith: Gov 232: Women and Politics in Africa
University: Poli Sci 391 G: The Rwanda Genocide in Comparative Perpspective

Spring 2009:
Smith: Gov 227: Contemporary African Politics
Mount Holyoke: Politics 398:  The Rwanda Genocide in Comparative Perpspective

Arabic
Mohammed Jiyad
Senior Lecturer
Mount Holyoke College

Fall 2008:
Mount Holyoke: Asian Studies 130f: Elementary Arabic I
Mount Holyoke: Asian Studies 232f: Intermediate Arabic I
Mount Holyoke: Asian Studies 295: Independent Study in Arabic

Spring 2009:
Mount Holyoke; Asian Studies 131s: Elementary Arabic II
Mount Holyoke: Asian Studies 233s: Intermediate Arabic II
Mount Holyoke: Asian Studies 320s Arab Women Novelists’ Work

Architectural Studies
Thom Long
Assistant Professor
Hampshire College

Fall 2008:
Hampshire: HACU 279: Mutations in Expression—Unpacking Cross-Pollination in Design and Representation
Mount Holyoke: Art 205: Sculpting Space (Architectural Design Studio)

Spring 2009:
Hampshire: HACU 307: Think. See. Do -- Concentrations in Studio Architecture
Amherst: Euro Studies 52/Art 16: Designing Across Borders and Time

Art and Technology
John Slepian
Assistant Professor
Hampshire College

Fall 2008:
Hampshire:  IA 327: Division III Concentrators Seminar in Visual Art
Smith: ARS 263: Intermediate Digital Media

Spring 2009:
Hampshire: IA 241: Digital Art: Multimedia, Malleability and Interactivity
Smith: ARS 361: Interactive Digital Multimedia 

Asian/Pacific/American Studies
Richard Chu
Assistant Professor of History
University

Fall 2008:
University: History 247: “Empire,” “Race,” and The Philippines: Indigenous Peoples vs. the Spanish, U.S. and Japanese Imperial Projects
Smith: Amer. Studies 220: Asian-Pacific American History

Spring 2009:
University: History 247: Asian-Pacific American History
Amherst: History 21: Race, Empire and Transnationalism: Chinese Diasporic Communities in the World

Sujani Reddy
Assistant Professor of American Studies
Amherst College

Fall 2008:
Amherst: Amer. Studies 32: The Asian American Experience
Hampshire: SS 235: Blacks and Asians

Spring 2009:
Amherst: TBA
Smith: Amer. Studies 230: Asian American Experience

Center for the Study of World Languages:
Supervised Independent Language Program (SILP)
102 Bartlett Hall
UMass Amherst
545-3453

Elizabeth H.D. Mazzocco (alternative link)
(Director, Professor of Italian, University)

Fall 2008:
University: Frital 126 H: Intensive Honors Elementary Italian

Dance
Dance Building
Hampshire College
559-5673

Constance Valis Hill
Visiting Associate Professor
Hampshire

Fall 2008:
Hampshire: HACU 125T: Reading, Writing, Blogging Dance
Amherst: THDA 23: Fleeting Images: Choreography on Film

Spring 2009:
Hampshire:  HACU 325: Twentieth Century American Dance: Sixties Vanguard To Nineties Hip-Hop
Smith: Dance 540: History and Literature of Dance

Early Music Program
210 Pratt Hall
Mount Holyoke College
538-2079

Robert Eisenstein
Program Director

Fall 2008:
Mount Holyoke: Music143H 01: Chamber Music: Euridice Ensemble
Mount Holyoke: Music147 A 01: Early Music: Collegium
Mount Holyoke: Music147E: Early Music: Seminar in 17th Century Song
Mount Holyoke: Music 281-1: History of Western Music
University: Music 101: Literature of Music
University: Music 300: History of Music from Ancient Greece to 1700
University: Music 578: Collegium Musicum  Umass
University: Music H04 Honors Colloquium Music 300

Spring 2009:
Mount Holyoke: Music 102: Music and Technology
University: TBA

English
Jane Degenhardt
Assistant Professor
University

Fall 2008:
University: English 300: Shakespeare and Empire
Amherst: English 35: Shakespeare

Spring 2009:
University: English 891: “Renaissance Tragicomedy.”
Mount Holyoke: English 312s: Seminar on Shakespeare’s “Problem Plays.”

Film/Video Production
Baba Hillman
Assistant Professor
Hampshire College

Professor Hillman will be on leave for 2008-09. Her courses will still be offered and taught by other instructors.

Fall 2008:
Hampshire: HACU 109: Intro to Media Production
Amherst: ENG 82: Production Workshop in the Moving Image

Spring 2009:
TBA

Jenny Perlin
Visiting Artist
Mount Holyoke College

Fall 2008:
Mount Holyoke: Film Studies 210: Eye and Ear Control: Beginning Video Production
Smith: FLS 282: Advanced Video Seminar: Duration, Space and Memory—Advanced Production

Spring 2009:
Mount Holyoke: Film Studies 310: Language/Image: Advanced Production Workshop
University: TBA

Geosciences
J. Michael Rhodes
Professor
University

Fall 2008:
University: Geosciences 591M: Geochemistry of Magmatic Processes

Spring 2009:
University: Geosciences 591V: Volcanology

International Relations
Jon Western (alternative link)
Associate Professor
Mount Holyoke College

Fall 2008:
Mount Holyoke: Intl. Rel. 237: International Human Rights
Amherst: PoliSci 82: U.S. Foreign Policy, Human Rights and Democracy

Spring 2009:
Mount Holyoke: Intl Rel. 319: U.S. Foreign Policy, Human Rights and Democracy
Hampshire: TBA

Middle Eastern Studies
Nadya Sbaiti
Assistant Professor of History
Smith College

Fall 2008:
Mount Holyoke: History 301-6: Madrasas, Missionaries and Modernity: Education in Middle Eastern History

Spring 2009:
Smith: History 209: Women and Gender in the Middle East
Mount Holyoke: History 111-01: The Making of the Modern Middle East

Music
Bode Omojola
Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology
Mount Holyoke College

Fall 2008:
Mount Holyoke: Music 166: Introduction to the Music of Africa
Hampshire: HACU 269: Master Musicians of Africa

Spring 2009:
Mount Holyoke: Music 226: World Music
Smith: Music 220: African Popular Music

Peace and World Security Studies (PAWSS)
Michael Klare
Professor and Program Director
Social Science
Hampshire College

Professor Klare will be on leave in 2008-09.

Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (REEES) Sergey Glebov
Assistant Professor of History
Smith College

Fall 2008:
Smith: History 101: Soviet History Through Film
University: History 393 P: Russian Empire-Building Eurasia 1552-1914
Amherst: History 80: “Affirmative Action Empire”: Soviet Experiences of Managing Diversity

Spring 2009:
Smith: History 245: Empire in the North: Native Peoples in Siberia and Alaska under Russian and Soviet Rule
Mount Holyoke: RES 131s: Introduction to Peoples and Cultures of Eurasia

Theater
Robert Kaplowitz
Visiting Lecturer in Sound Design
University

Fall 2008:
University: Theater 593s/693s: Advanced Theatrical Sound Design
Mount Holyoke: Theater 128f: Sound Design I

Spring 2009:
Amherst: THDA 46: Sound Design I
Smith: Theater 317: Movements and Design: Introduction to Sound Design

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