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Cultural Localities II: Writing Culture — ANT4136.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Noah Coburn
Credits: 4
***Time Change*** This advanced research seminar offers the opportunity for the student to implement an advanced study of a specific culture and issue as it is shaped by various social, political, religious and economic contexts. The course will begin with a discussion of contemporary issues in anthropological field research and the writing process, and will include issues
Social Science

Cultural Studies: Amanda Knox in Translation — MOD2138.02

Fall 2014
Instructor: barbara alfano
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
This is the second of a two-module series that discusses the importance of approaching a different culture from its own perspective. The series, which includes "Cultural Studies: Learning Cultural Perspectives Through Ikebana," will help students experience the process of cross-cultural understanding. One of the interesting and controversial aspects of Knox's trial in Italy is
CAPA Languages Modules: Transferable Approaches

Cultural Studies: Learning Culture Through Ikebana — MOD2148.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: ikuko yoshida
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
This is the first of a two-module series that discusses the importance of approaching a different culture from its own perspective. The series, which includes Cultural Studies: Amanda Knox in Translation (MOD2138), will help students experience the process of cross-cultural understanding. The capacity to sense, let alone experience, another's point of view seems critical in
CAPA Visual Arts Modules: Transferable Approaches

Culture and Public Health — ANT2112.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Rebecca Dinkel
Credits: 4
Public health policies, practices, and the communication thereof, have radically been altered since the COVID-19 pandemic. This cultural shift has been encouraged through social media, which many have argued have spread misinformation about public health and medicine. This course examines how anthropology can be a tool for understanding societal and cultural framing of public
Society Culture and Thought

Culture in a Globalized World(cancelled 4/27/2023) — ANT4151.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Steve Moog
Credits: 4
People have always been connected, but in the last 40 years, the frequency and magnitude of people’s global interactions have dramatically increased. Look at the clothing you have on today and think of how many people from how many different places were involved in what you are wearing. Social theorists have understood globalization as a consequence of economic forces that
Society Culture and Thought

Culture, Conflict, and Memory in Southeast Asia — ANT2122.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Timothy Karis
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Southeast Asia is a region with rich cultural diversity as well as an eventful political-economic history over the past century, its residents experiencing European colonialism, protracted wars, and tumultuous experiments with communism. Targeting the tensions and conflicts that have accompanied nation-building in Southeast Asia, this course uses ethnography, film, and
Society Culture and Thought

Culture, Environment and Sustainable Living — ANT2117.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Miroslava Prazak
Credits: 4
In this seminar, we examine how Western and non-Western cultures, both past and present, perceive and shape key environmental and social issues. Through readings, discussions and films we will evaluate the potential of environmental and cultural studies to address some of the most urgent contemporary problems. To work toward an understanding of what is today called
Society Culture and Thought Environment

Culture, Environment and Sustainable Living — ANT2117.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Miroslava Prazak
Credits: 4
In this seminar, we examine how Western and non-Western cultures, both past and present, perceive and shape key environmental and social issues. Through readings, discussions and films we will evaluate the potential of environmental and cultural studies to address some of the most urgent contemporary problems. To work toward an understanding of what is today called
Society Culture and Thought Environment

Culture, Environment and Sustainable Living — ANT2117.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Miroslava Prazak
Credits: 4
In this seminar, we examine how Western and non-Western cultures, both past and present, perceive and shape key environmental and social issues. Through readings, discussions and films we will evaluate the potential of environmental and cultural studies to address some of the most urgent contemporary problems. To work toward an understanding of what is today called
Society Culture and Thought Environment

Culture, Environment, and Sustainable Living — ANT2117.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Miroslava Prazak
Credits: 4
In this seminar, we examine how Western and non-Western cultures, both past and present, perceive and shape key environmental and social issues. Through readings, discussions and films we will evaluate the potential of environmental and cultural studies to address some of the most urgent contemporary problems. To work toward an understanding of what is today called
Society Culture and Thought Environment

Cup Lending Library — CER4108.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Aysha Peltz
Credits: 4
All art is a form of communication. The ceramic cup is unusual in that it communicates, perhaps best, through touch. The Cup Lending Library is designed to facilitate this kind of communication on our campus. In this course, students will curate and make cups for a Cup Lending Library to be permanently installed in Crossett Library. The Cup Lending Library will act as an
Visual Arts

CUPS: Mold Making and Slip Casting — CER2208.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
Credits: 4
This is an introductory course of basic mold making and slip casting techniques for producing systemic components to create a series of functional ware. This course focuses on the development of design concepts through exploration of slip casting methods, application of alteration and assemblage techniques and experimentation of prototype makings to produce ceramic multiples
Visual Arts

CUPS: Mold Making and Slip Casting — CER2208.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

This is an introductory course of basic mold making and slip casting techniques for producing components to create a series of functional ware. This course focuses on the development of design concepts through exploration of slip casting methods, application of alteration and assemblage techniques and experimentation of prototype

Ceramics Design

CUPS: Mold Making and Slip Casting Production Lab — CER2127.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2

This lab class is structured for students who are registered for CER2208 CUPS: Slip Casting and Mold Making to achieve production goals. The two-hour mandatory lab will be guided by the faculty so that students can receive technical guidance and adequate support to establish their studio production practices and expand their

Ceramics Design

Curator, Artist, Impresario: Modes of Exhibition Making — VA2244.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Anne Thompson
Credits: 4
This introductory class traces the historical evolution of contemporary curatorial practice. We start with the early tradition of curators as experts and custodians of collections. Building on that foundation, we examine the twentieth-century emergence of the curator as a visionary impresario and producer of global exhibitions. Throughout, we consider how artists since the
Visual Arts

Curator, Artist, Impresario: Modes of Exhibition Making — VA2244.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Anne Thompson
Credits: 4
This introductory class traces the historical evolution of contemporary curatorial practice. We start with the early tradition of curators as experts and custodians of collections. Building on that foundation, we examine the twentieth-century emergence of the curator as a visionary impresario and producer of global exhibitions. Throughout, we consider how artists since the
Visual Arts

Curatorial Choices: Multiple Narratives in the Bennington Collections — VA2227.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Anne Thompson
Credits: 2
How does augmenting and rearranging an exhibition change the meaning it communicates? This course explores this question via the raw material of an art show in Usdan Gallery. Term starts with the opening of “Unpacking the Vault,” curated by fall term students who researched objects from the college collection and constructed narrative strains about Bennington’s history. Spring
Visual Arts

Current Affairs: Taiwan, Hong Kong and China — CHI4217.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Credits: 4
From Hong Kong’s Anti Extradition Bill, One Country/Two System, The "Umbrella Movement," China's One Belt One Road, COVID-19, the US-China trade war, China digital currency, LGBT right in Taiwan to Taiwan’s Election in 2020, among other topics, students will use authentic materials, such as print articles, videos and other media as springboards to analysis and
Cultural Studies and Languages

Current Issues in Chinese Film — CHI4320.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Credits: 4
While movies such as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon have helped Chinese cinema broaden its appeal and consolidate its position as a significant force in international cinema, such historical fantasies won't do much to help us understand the current issues facing Chinese society. Fortunately, there are many fine Chinese language films available that may shed more light on modern
Languages

Cut/Copy: Masking and Compositing Digital Images — PHO4125.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Elizabeth White
Credits: 2
Designed for students who have completed Foundations of Photography, this 2-credit course teaches advanced, non-destructive Photoshop techniques for adding and removing content, and invites the remaking of existing images. Working with a range of tools for selections and masking, multiple adjustment layers, and blending modes, students will learn to make bold modifications,
Visual Arts

Dalcroze Eurhythmics and The City of Rhythm — MFN2148.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
Founded in 1909, the garden city of Hellerau had an odd design aesthetic: everything would be based on principles of rhythm. Instead of placing a church in the center, the city planners invited the Swiss musician and choreographer Emile Jaques-Dalcroze and the visionary stage designer Adolphe Appia to design a modern theatre and college where they would teach Dalcroze’s Methode
Music

Dalcroze Eurhythmics: A Pedagogy for Noticing — MFN2147.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
What do you know that your sentient, feeling body did not first experience? The Swiss musician Emile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865-1950) developed a whole pedagogy of music and movement to explore this question. Self-awareness, self-expression, and musical knowing are all seated in the body, the fundamental constant of all experience. But how do we honor that truth in our learning? We
Music

Dalcroze Eurhythmics: Experiencing Body, Expressive Body — MFN2119.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
Dalcroze Eurhythmics is a music class where we practice sensing the body through sound. What do you know that your sentient, feeling body did not first experience? How does music help you express yourself? Can music help you get to know someone else? The feeling body is the single constant throughout all of our experiences, but can be easily forgotten amidst the notes and
Music