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Letterpress: Technique, Materials, and Equipment — PRI4208.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Julia Ferrari and Mike Smoot
Credits: 4
This will be a studio art class during which students are introduced to the techniques, materials and equipment used in letterpress printing. Students will complete a series of assignments designed to give them practice in these techniques and for them to become more adept at using the materials and equipment. Ambitious students will be able to do more advanced work, as the
Visual Arts

Letters to a Young Poet: Rainer Maria Rilke — LIT4528.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: MWunderlich@bennington.edu
Credits: 4
From 1903 to 1908, the German-language poet Rainer Marie Rilke wrote ten letters to a young military cadet who wanted to become a poet. These letters have become some of the most widely-read and quoted letters on the art of writing poetry the world has ever known. In the spirit of these inspiring and philosophical letters, and in an exercise of analog exchange, this course will
Literature

Let’s Get the Show on the Road: Touring Live Performance — DRA4245.01) (cancelled 9/18/2024

Spring 2025
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
Touring is not all about groupies and wrecking hotel rooms; it is one of the most common ways for independent performing artists of all levels to have their work seen and financed.  With the goal of preparing Bennington’s creators to have their future time-based art presented, this course will investigate the practical aspects of touring for the performing arts. Through

Lexicon of Forced Migration — APA2170.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: John Hultgren
Credits: 4
The course is intended to provide students an introduction to foundational concepts of migration studies. The course will navigate this complex topic through four thematic anchors: (1) Time and Space, which will explore the history of migration from a global perspective, emphasizing the uneven development, colonial encounters, and environmental pressures that give rise to
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Lexicon of Forced Migration — APA2170.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: John Hultgren
Credits: 4
The course is intended to provide students an introduction to foundational concepts of migration studies. The course will navigate this complex topic through four thematic anchors: (1) Time and Space, which will explore the history of migration from a global perspective, emphasizing the uneven development, colonial encounters, and environmental pressures that give rise to
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Lexicon of Forced Migration — APA2170.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: John Hultgren
Credits: 4
The course is intended to provide students an introduction to foundational concepts of migration studies. The course will navigate this complex topic through four thematic anchors: (1) Time and Space, which will explore the history of migration from a global perspective, emphasizing the uneven development, colonial encounters, and environmental pressures that give rise to
CAPA

Liberalism and Religion — SPA4254.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Credits: 4
One of the more ubiquitous problems in formulating thought on Latin America, evident in anything from a page-long critique of a painting to governmental policy, is the premise that liberalism, for all its apparent flaws, has good intentions, and is coupled to the increasing obsolescence of religion, which only serves to divide theory and practice. The development of political,
Languages

Liberalism: For and Against — PHI4104.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Paul Voice
Credits: 4
This course invites students to critically engage with liberalism, the dominant political theory in Anglo-American philosophy. Students will read some of the main texts in the various traditions of contemporary liberal thought, including libertarianism, Rawlsian liberalism and utilitarian liberalism, and survey some of the central critical responses to the liberal project. The
Social Science

Libertinage — FRE4718.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course examines libertinage, the movement of early‐modern freethinkers who championed individual autonomy and questioned the authority of religious, moral, social, and political thought. We will focus particular attention on questions of pleasure and morality, sexuality and power, authority and subversion. Writers studied will include Molière (Dom Juan), Prévost (Manon
Languages

Library City: A New Atlas for Crossett — VA4109.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Mary Lum
Credits: 4
This course will inhabit the library as a 21st century city of knowledge. After introductory lectures and readings about contemporary cities and libraries, students will spend the term mapping highly individual paths of research through the collections of Crossett Library. Intensive directed reading and looking, will result in the creation of written and visual essays, through
Visual Arts

Library City: Practicing Curiosity — VA4113.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Mary Lum
Credits: 4
This course will inhabit the library as a 21st century city of knowledge. After introductory lectures and readings about cities and libraries, students will spend the term mapping highly individual paths of research through the collections of Crossett Library. Intensive directed reading and looking, will result in the creation of written and visual essays, through which
Visual Arts

Life After Bennington — PLN2103.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: John Bullock
Days & Time: Th 7:00PM-9:00PM
Credits: 2

This course will feature presentations and conversations with Bennington alumni with the purpose of providing guidance to current students about how to leverage their own experience in designing their education to the next step in their growth: designing a career. The skills and capacities that undergird the Bennington approach to liberal

Other

Life and Death of Lorca — SPA4303.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Sarah Harris
Credits: 4
“In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world,” wrote Federico García Lorca (1898-1936), and indeed, Lorca’s own untimely death ensured his vibrant legacy as it came to represent the murder of intellectual and artistic freedoms. Lorca’s work and life provide a window into the rich artistic heritage of Andalucía and the twentieth century in
Languages

Life and Death: Buddhism in Modern Japanese films — JPN4604.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Credits: 4
In this sixth term Japanese course, students will examine how Buddhism influenced Japanese thought on the after-life and analyze how Japanese views on the relationship between life and death are depicted in Japanese films. In the first seven weeks of the course, students will examine and discuss the history, beliefs, and deities of Buddhism and their influences on society. In
Cultural Studies and Languages

Life and Death: Buddhism in Modern Japanese films — JPN4401.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Credits: 4
In this course, students will examine how Buddhism influenced Japanese thought on the after-life and analyze how Japanese views on the relationship between life and death are depicted in recent Japanese films. In the first seven weeks of the course, students will examine and discuss the history, beliefs, and deities of Buddhism and their influences on society. In the second
Languages

Life and Death: Buddhism in Modern Japanese films — JPN4604.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Credits: 4
In this sixth term Japanese course, students will examine how Buddhism influenced Japanese thought on the after-life and analyze how Japanese views on the relationship between life and death are depicted in Japanese films. In the first seven weeks of the course, students will examine and discuss the history, beliefs, and deities of Buddhism and their influences on society. In
Cultural Studies and Languages

Life and Death: Buddhism in Modern Japanese Films — JPN4401.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Credits: 4
In this course, students will examine how Buddhism influenced Japanese thought on the after-life and analyze how Japanese views on the relationship between life and death are depicted in recent Japanese films. In the first seven weeks of the course, students will examine and discuss the history, beliefs, and deities of Buddhism and their influences on society. In the second
Languages

Life and Death: Buddhism in Modern Japanese films — JPN4401.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Credits: 4
In this course, students will examine how Buddhism influenced Japanese thought on the after-life and analyze how Japanese views on the relationship between life and death are depicted in recent Japanese films.  In the first seven weeks of the course, students will examine and discuss the history, beliefs, and deities of Buddhism and their influences on society.  In
Languages

Life and Death: Buddhism in Modern Japanese Films — JPN4117.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Credits: 4
In this course, students will examine how Buddhism influenced Japanese thought on the after-life and analyze how Japanese views on the relationship between life and death are depicted in recent Japanese films. In the first seven weeks of the course, students will examine and discuss the history, beliefs, and deities of Buddhism and their influences on society. In the second
Languages

Life and Death: Buddhism in Modern Japanese films — JPN4604.01) (new day/time as of 12/19/2022

Spring 2023
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Credits: 4
In this course, students will examine how Buddhism influenced Japanese thought on the after-life and analyze how Japanese views on the relationship between life and death are depicted in recent Japanese films. In the first seven weeks of the course, students will examine and discuss the history, beliefs, and deities of Buddhism and their influences on society. In the second
Cultural Studies and Languages

Life and Death: Buddhism in Modern Japanese Films — JPN4401.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Credits: 4
In this course, students will examine how Buddhism influenced Japanese thought on the after-life and analyze how Japanese views on the relationship between life and death are depicted in recent Japanese films. In the first seven weeks of the course, students will examine and discuss the history, beliefs, and deities of Buddhism and their influences on society. In the second
Cultural Studies and Languages

Life and Death: Buddhism in Modern Japanese Films — JPN4604.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 4

In this sixth-term Japanese course, students will examine how Buddhism influenced Japanese thought on the afterlife and analyze how Japanese views on the relationship between life and death are depicted in Japanese films.  In the first seven weeks of the course, students will examine and discuss the history, beliefs, and deities of Buddhism, as

Japanese

Life and Death: Buddhism in Modern Japanese films — JPN4118.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Credits: 4
In this course, students will examine how Buddhism influenced Japanese thought on the after-life and analyze how Japanese views on the relationship between life and death are depicted in recent Japanese films.  In the first seven weeks of the course, students will examine and discuss the history, beliefs, and deities of Buddhism and their influences on society.  In
Languages

Life Design Ecosystems: Building Community Beyond Bennington — cancelled

Fall 2019
Instructor: Michael Gonzales
Credits: 1
The dynamically changing environment of the world of work, uncertainties tied to meaningful employment, and the flexible/creative ways people have responded will be discussed in combination with the goal of taking proactive measures in expanding meaningful relationships and networks in your professional and creative endeavors. The goal for this class is to provide a platform