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Ghosts and Demons in Japan — JPN4403.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This course explores the supernatural world and its inhabitants as imagined in Japanese literature and visual culture from ancient times to the present day. Our survey will take in a wide variety of fantastic phenomena, including spirit possession and exorcism in Japanese literature, the “hungry ghosts” of medieval Buddhist folklore, interwar Gothic tales of the bizarre,
Cultural Studies and Languages

Gifts and Gift Exchange — PSY4131.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Ronald Cohen
Credits: 4
Whether between two people, or among several in a gathering or a small group, people usually manage to coordinate their activity with others. The rules that underlie, create, and maintain orderliness and permit people to carry on their activities are usually out of immediate, conscious awareness, and their existence is recognized only when they are violated. We will examine
Society Culture and Thought

Glaze and Kiln Technology — CER2137.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Jack Yu; see Barry Bartlett for registration
Credits: 2
This course will focus on fundamental technical requirements needed by intermediate and advanced level students pursuing advanced level projects in ceramics. Students will gain specific skills through focused training, learn about clay and glaze components in depth and the mechanics of kilns. An emphasis will be placed on understanding the chemistry behind glazes and how the
Visual Arts

Glaze Chemistry — CANCELLED

Fall 2015
Instructor: David Katz
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This course will focus on the exploration of fired ceramic surfaces and the fundamentals of formulating glazes for use in ceramic art. An emphasis will be placed on understanding the chemistry behind glazes and how the molecular breakdown of glaze recipes translates into unique fired surfaces. Through hands on and theoretical approaches students will gain experience developing
Visual Arts

Glaze Chemistry — CER2141.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Jack Yu
Credits: 2
This course will focus on the technical requirements needed for beginning students to progress to intermediate or advanced projects in ceramics. This course will focus on the exploration of fired ceramic surfaces and the fundamentals of formulating glazes for use in ceramic art. An emphasis will be placed on understanding the chemistry behind glazes and how the molecular
Visual Arts

Glaze Chemistry — CER2132.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: David Katz
Credits: 2
This course will focus on the exploration of fired ceramic surfaces and the fundamentals of formulating glazes for use in ceramic art. An emphasis will be placed on understanding the chemistry behind glazes and how the molecular breakdown of glaze recipes translates into unique fired surfaces. Through hands on and theoretical approaches students will gain experience developing
Visual Arts

Glaze Chemistry — CER2141.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Jack Yu
Credits: 2
This course will focus on the technical requirements needed for beginning students to progress to intermediate or advanced projects in ceramics. This course will focus on the exploration of fired ceramic surfaces and the fundamentals of formulating glazes for use in ceramic art. An emphasis will be placed on understanding the chemistry behind glazes and how the molecular
Visual Arts

Glaze-Redesigning the Ceramic Studio’s Glazes — CER4105.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Barry Bartlett
Credits: 2
This class is designed to help the intermediate and advance ceramic student build a deeper understanding of glaze applications. We will test and redesign the ceramic studio’s glaze palette. Both high fire and low fire glazes will be investigated throughout the term. The class will also be developing testing systems to track new colors and surfaces with existing glazes and also
Visual Arts

Glitch Feminism — FV4326.01) (cancelled 10/11/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: Jen Liu
Credits: 4
This course borrows its name from Legacy Russell's essay, then book of the same name, but uses it as a container to consider the history of fembots in science fiction in the 20th century, then arrive in the 21st century with various takes on cyberfeminism and hybrid biobodies, with a particular interest in the global south and diasporic perspectives.  We will look at a
Visual Arts Society Culture and Thought

Global Activist Video Production — FV4226.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Kate Purdie; Erika Mijlin
Credits: 4
This course will involve real-time, interactive dialogue between artists and social activists in the classroom and across the globe. Students will interact with international filmmakers and advocates in both real and virtual spaces. They will also explore the boundaries of group and individual documentary production through the examination of story structure, interview
CAPA Visual Arts

Global Capitalism — ANT4135.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Miroslava Prazak
Credits: 4
We are all familiar with a culture and society dedicated to the idea of consumption as the ultimate source of well-being. Its technology, wealth, and power are monuments to its success. But its spread around the globe has been accompanied by growing social and economic inequality, environmental destruction, mass starvation, and social unrest. Though most members of this society
Society Culture and Thought

Global Challenges: How Bennington Confronts the World — APA2138.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Noah Coburn
Credits: 2
Bennington College can seem far removed from many of the pressing global concerns of our time, and yet we also have faculty members and students whose research, art, and activism link Bennington to the outside world.  Through fieldwork term, study abroad, and other experiences, we all interact with the political, economic, and social concerns of our time--by analyzing
CAPA

Global Change — BIO2113.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Credits: 4
More than at any other time in the history of human civilization, we can't project where we are heading by looking at where we have been. Why is our time unique? We are experiencing accelerating climate change due to human activities, and this will continue through the coming century, taking us into climates not previously experienced by modern humans. Our lifestyles are
Science Mathematics and Computing Environment

Global Change Biology — BIO4100.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
Human activity is altering the environment at such an unprecedented rate that many scientists consider this to be the genesis of a new geological age, the Anthropocene. In this class we will examine human impacts at the level of the ecosystem, population, and organism by exploring and discussing current primary literature. Areas of discussion will be shaped by student interest,
Science and Mathematics

Global Change: Earth Systems in the Anthropocene — BIO2235.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Credits: 4
"Anthropocene" has been proposed as a name for the current period of Earth history, defined by the detectability of a global human 'signal' in the geological record; proposed starting dates range from ca. 12,000 years ago to the mid-20th century. Regardless of the acceptance of the term, human activities have induced large, global changes in atmospheric, biological, and
Science and Mathematics Environment

Global Environmental Politics — ENV2176.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: John Hultgren
Credits: 4
Contemporary efforts to confront our most pressing ecological problems are characterized by a tension between the global realities of these problems and the territorial borders and logics that define sovereign nation-states. This course will explore this tension in three parts. First, we will engage with a variety of theoretical and conceptual debates introduced by
Environment Society Culture and Thought

Global Environmental Politics — POL2108.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: John Hultgren
Days & Time: MO,TH 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 4

Contemporary efforts to confront our most pressing ecological problems are characterized by a tension between the global realities of these problems and the territorial borders and logics that define sovereign nation-states. This course will explore this tension in three parts. First, we will engage with a variety of theoretical and conceptual debates introduced by scholars

Environment Politics

Global Environmental Politics — POL2108.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Tim Schroeder
Credits: 4
Contemporary efforts to confront our most pressing ecological problems are characterized by a tension between the global realities of these problems and the territorial borders and logics that define "sovereign nation-states." This course will explore this tension in three parts. First, we will engage with a variety of theoretical and conceptual debates introduced by scholars
Environment Society Culture and Thought

Global Environmental Politics — POL2108.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: John Hultgren
Credits: 4
Contemporary efforts to confront our most pressing ecological problems are characterized by a tension between the global realities of these problems and the territorial borders and logics that define sovereign nation-states. This course will explore this tension in three parts. First, we will engage with a variety of theoretical and conceptual debates introduced by scholars of
Environment Society Culture and Thought

Global Environmental Systems in the Anthropocene — ENV4123.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Credits: 4
It's about anthropogenic climate change, but also the history of global systems over millennia and longer, effects of human civilization and agriculture on global nutrient and hydrological cycles, etc. -- with focus on planetary scale. This course views global processes through the lens of ecosystem science (sometimes called 'biogeochemistry', which tells you something about
Environment Science and Mathematics

Global Ethics/Global Justice — PHI2110.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Paul Voice
Credits: 4
What do we owe to distant others? What responsibilities do we have to address the misfortunes of citizens of other countries? What, if anything, do we owe future generations? Does the idea of global justice make sense? These and other questions are addressed through a careful readings and analysis of a variety of philosophical arguments. You will be expected to write two papers
Social Science

Global Ethics/Global Justice — PHI2110.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Paul Voice
Credits: 4
What do we owe to distant others? What responsibilities do we have to address the misfortunes of citizens of other countries? What, if anything, do we owe future generations? Does the idea of global justice make sense? These and other questions are addressed through a careful reading and analysis of a variety of philosophical arguments. You will be expected to write two papers
Society Culture and Thought

Global Ethics/Global Justice — PHI2110.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Paul Voice
Credits: 4
What do we owe to distant others? What responsibilities do we have to address the misfortunes of citizens of other countries? What, if anything, do we owe future generations? Does the idea of global justice make sense? These and other questions are addressed through a careful reading and analysis of a variety of philosophical arguments.
Society Culture and Thought

Global History of Architecture — AH2127.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Razan Francis
Credits: 4
This introductory course examines major monuments and urban developments from the early modern period (roughly 1400 C.E.) to the present. Moving away from a Eurocentric focus, it examines architecture globally across time and space. For example, we will analyze the plan of Tenochtitlán (Mexico) and the Forbidden City (Beijing, China). We will explore, when discernible, regional
Visual Arts

Global Political Economy — PEC2256.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This course provides a foundation for the study of global political economy by exploring how the spread of capitalism shaped, and continues to shape, our modern world. Relatedly, we will examine the global impacts of slavery, abolition, colonialism, and movements for self-determination. Drawing from classical and contemporary texts, we will look at debates over free trade and
Society Culture and Thought