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The Global Enlightenment: 18th-20th cent. Literature — LIT2563.01) (day/time updated as of 5/10/2024

Fall 2024
Instructor: Mariam Rahmani
Credits: 4
This course takes a comparative approach to the global Enlightenment. Exploring ideas of the human and humanity developed across the world at this period, we pursue the idea that forms of difference such as race, gender, and sexuality became essential to defining “human” and “humanity.” Indeed our contemporary world grapples with this legacy. We ask: who is allowed to be fully
Literature

The Global Music Classroom — EDU4403.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This course will introduce students to several methods for incorporating diverse global music practices into the general music classroom. Geared toward K-12 music education, our course will combine experiences in music, cultural understanding, and culturally sensitive pedagogical strategies. We will listen actively, sing, dance, play instruments, and discuss the sociocultural
Education

The Grand Vessel — CER4319.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Barry Bartlett
Credits: 4
In this class we will investigate the history of vessels made to impress, awe, and celebrate the technical as well as symbolic meaning of culture in different countries. Large and small in scale these vessel have been made for millennia to be used in tombs, in palaces, industrial expositions as well as the private home. These vessels often go to unimagined
Visual Arts

The Great Transformation in 2024 — SCT2109.01

Fall 2024
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
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

The Green New Deal — POP2264.02

Spring 2019
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

Spring 2023
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
Advancement of Public Action

The Hand as Tool — CER2317.01, section 1

Fall 2026
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

Ceramics

The Hand as Tool — CER2317.01

Fall 2025
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

Ceramics

The Hand As Tool — CER2317.01

Fall 2021
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,
Visual Arts

The Hand as Tool — CER2317.02, section 2

Fall 2026
Instructor: Anina Major
Days & Time: WE 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

Ceramics

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

Fall 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,
Visual Arts

The Hand as Tool — CER2317.01

Spring 2027
Instructor: Anina Major
Days & Time: TH 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

Ceramics

The Hand as Tool — CER2317.01

Spring 2020
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
Visual Arts

The Hand as Tool — CER2317.01

Spring 2025
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,
Visual Arts

The Hand as Tool — CER2317.01

Spring 2026
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

Ceramics

The Hand as Tool — CER2317.01

Fall 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
Visual Arts

The Hand as Tool — CER2317.02

Fall 2024
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,
Visual Arts

The Hand as Tool — CER2317.01

Spring 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
Visual Arts

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

Spring 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
Visual Arts

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

Fall 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,
Visual Arts

The Hand as Tool — CER2317.03

Fall 2024
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,
Visual Arts

The Harlem Renaissance — LIT2403.01

Spring 2016
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
Literature

The Haunted South — LIT2376.01

Spring 2018
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
Literature