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The Great Transformation in 2024 — SCT2109.01

Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 4
This course will introduce students to Society, Culture Thought by engaging with the work of one of Bennington College’s most remarkable former professors, Karl Polanyi. Nearly 80 years ago, fleeing the rise of Naziism in Europe, Polanyi arrived at Bennington, and gave a series of public lectures that offered a bold new interpretation of what had gone wrong as the world fell

The Green New Deal — POP2264.02

Instructor: John Hultgren, Tim Schroeder Kerry Woods
Credits: 1
In recent weeks, calls for a Green New Deal have stoked enthusiasm from the Left, criticism from the Right, and confusion for many unfamiliar with the term. This Environmental Studies Pop-Up will introduce students to the Green New Deal, using insights from social and natural science to examine the history and evolution of the concept. We will also engage with the Fourth

The Haggadah of Passover: An Exploration — MED2123.02

Instructor: Michael Cohen
Credits: 1
The Haggadah is the book that provides the outline for the Passover Seder. The Haggadah combines history, myth, ritual, theater, food, and other elements as it tells a story of and celebration of Freedom. While the earliest building blocks of the Haggadah are found in the Biblical text the Haggadah has evolved over millennia showing the influences of many different eras and

The Hand as Tool — CER2317.01

Instructor: Anina Major
Credits: 4
Clay responds directly to touch, retains memory and is forced through the dynamic process of firing to fix a point in time. This class will introduce students to a variety of hand-building techniques to construct sculptural and/or utilitarian forms. Students will develop their skills by practicing techniques demonstrated in class. Through making, students skills will

The Hand as Tool — CER2317.01

Instructor: Anina Major
Days & Time: TU 8:30am-12:10pm
Credits: 4

Clay responds directly to touch, retains memory and is forced through the dynamic process of firing to fix a point in time. This class will introduce students to a variety of hand-building techniques to construct sculptural and/or utilitarian forms. Students will develop their skills by practicing techniques demonstrated in class. Through making, students’ skills will

The Hand as Tool — CER2317.02, section 2) (canceled 8/1/2024

Instructor: Anina Major
Credits: 4
Clay responds directly to touch, retains memory and is forced through the dynamic process of firing to fix a point in time. This class will introduce students to a variety of hand-building techniques to construct sculptural and/or utilitarian forms. Students will develop their skills by practicing techniques demonstrated in class. Through making, students skills will increase,

The Hand As Tool — CER2317.01

Instructor: Yoko Inoue
Credits: 4
Clay responds directly to touch, retains memory and is forced through the dynamic process of firing to fix a point in time. This class will introduce students to a variety of hand-building techniques to construct sculptural and/or utilitarian forms. Students will develop their skills by practicing techniques demonstrated in class. Through making students skills will increase,

The Hand as Tool — CER2317.01

Instructor: Anina Major
Days & Time: TU 8:30am-12:10pm
Credits: 4

Clay responds directly to touch, retains memory and is forced through the dynamic process of firing to fix a point in time. This class will introduce students to a variety of hand-building techniques to construct sculptural and/or utilitarian forms. Students will develop their skills by practicing techniques demonstrated in class. Through making, students’ skills will

The Hand as Tool — CER2317.02

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
Clay responds directly to touch, retains memory and is forced through the dynamic process of firing to fix a point in time. This class will introduce students to a variety of hand-building techniques to construct sculptural and/or utilitarian forms. Students will develop their skills by practicing techniques demonstrated in class. Through making, students skills will increase,

The Hand as Tool — CER2317.01

Instructor: Anina Major
Credits: 4
Clay responds directly to touch, retains memory and is forced through the dynamic process of firing to fix a point in time. This class will introduce students to a variety of hand-building techniques to construct sculptural and/or utilitarian forms. Students will develop their skills by practicing techniques demonstrated in class. Through making, students' skills will increase,

The Hand as Tool — CER2317.01) (day/time updated as of 10/9/2023

Instructor: Anina Major
Credits: 4
Clay responds directly to touch, retains memory and is forced through the dynamic process of firing to fix a point in time. This class will introduce students to a variety of hand-building techniques to construct sculptural and/or utilitarian forms. Students will develop their skills by practicing techniques demonstrated in class. Through making, students skills will

The Hand as Tool — CER2317.01

Instructor: Anina Major
Credits: 4
Clay responds directly to touch, retains memory and is forced through the dynamic process of firing to fix a point in time. This class will introduce students to a variety of hand-building techniques to construct sculptural and/or utilitarian forms. Students will develop their skills by practicing techniques demonstrated in class. Through making, students' skills will

The Hand as Tool — CER2317.01, section 1) (canceled 8/1/2024

Instructor: Anina Major
Credits: 4
Clay responds directly to touch, retains memory and is forced through the dynamic process of firing to fix a point in time. This class will introduce students to a variety of hand-building techniques to construct sculptural and/or utilitarian forms. Students will develop their skills by practicing techniques demonstrated in class. Through making, students skills will increase,

The Hand as Tool — CER2317.01

Instructor: Anina Major
Credits: 4
Clay responds directly to touch, retains memory and is forced through the dynamic process of firing to fix a point in time. This class will introduce students to a variety of hand-building techniques to construct sculptural and/or utilitarian forms. Students will develop their skills by practicing techniques demonstrated in class and presentations on traditional and non

The Hand as Tool — CER2317.03

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
Clay responds directly to touch, retains memory and is forced through the dynamic process of firing to fix a point in time. This class will introduce students to a variety of hand-building techniques to construct sculptural and/or utilitarian forms. Students will develop their skills by practicing techniques demonstrated in class. Through making, students skills will increase,

The Harlem Renaissance — LIT2403.01

Instructor: Benjamin Anastas
Credits: 4
In Harlem, during the decade separating the end of World War I and the beginning of the Depression, a generation of black artists and writers born around the turn of the century emerged as a self-conscious movement, flourished, and then dispersed. They described themselves as part of a “New Negro Renaissance”; cultural historians describe them as participants in the Harlem

The Haunted South — LIT2376.01

Instructor: Annie DeWitt
Credits: 4
The American South, with its complex and difficulty history, has long given rise to voices both lyrical and confessional, empathic and dangerous, realistic and strange. Rooted in this landscape's shifting racial, domestic and socio-economic identity, we will explore the grand and problematic tradition of U.S. Southern Literature from the Civil War to the Present. Writers to be

The Herbarium: Research, Art & Botany — BIO4441.01

Instructor: Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie
Days & Time: TU,FR 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 4

An herbarium is a museum of pressed plants, a record of flora following a system that dates back to the 16th century. Large herbaria at institutions like D.C.’s Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Chicago’s Field Museum, Cambridge’s Harvard University, and London’s Kew Gardens contain millions of specimens, collected from

The History of Argentina — SPA4217.01

Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course will chart the last two centuries of Argentine history, chronologically, from textbooks to slogans, philosophy to politics, with a particular focus on nationalist discourse. Perhaps the only consistent ideology of the period, and doubtless one of the more persuasive, does Argentine nationalism represent an autochthonous spirit, the legitimate identity of

The History of Directing — DRA2169.01

Instructor: Jean Randich
Credits: 4
How did the director emerge as a driving, creative force in the theater? We will work semi-chronologically from the late 19th to the early 21st century, examining how culture and theater interact and change each other. We will consider traditional theater, the rise of the modern director, theatricality, epic theater, auteur directors, ensemble theater, theater for social change

The History of English Prosody — LIT2276.01

Instructor: Phillip Williams
Credits: 4
This class explores the history and development of poetry in the English language. We will investigate the evolution of poetic techniques, forms, and tropes across history. We will begin with meter, syllabics, received forms such as the sonnet and villanelle, the ode, lyrical versus narrative poetry, accentual verse, structure versus form, prose poetry, and free verse. We will

The History of Medicine: From Hippocrates to Harvey — HIS2312.01

Instructor: Carol Pal
Credits: 4
How did premodern culture understand the human body? How did it work? Where did it fit in the Great Chain of Being, and what differentiated men from women? Medicine has always been a hybrid of thinking, seeing, knowing, and doing. But what defined medicine in the past? Was it a science, an art, or a random assortment of practices? Between the age of Hippocrates and the age of