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Contemporary Ceramics Processes — CER2209.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: joshuaprimmer@bennington.edu
Credits: 2
Contemporary Ceramics Processes is a foundational overview of the techniques and materials common to a modern ceramics studio. Methodologies and medium explored will be (but not be limited to) wheel throwing, mold making and slip casting, slab building, extrusion, 3D printing, material science, electric and gas kiln firing, and mixed media. Each mode or material will be
Visual Arts

Contemporary Chinese Culture in Music — CHI4118.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
In this course we will explore the ways in which modern and contemporary Chinese culture is expressed in music. Using authentic materials, such as popular songs, music videos and music articles as springboards, students will communicate about current events and culture in China. Each class or every other class, students will be given a different song, video or article with a
Languages

Contemporary Chinese Culture in Music — CHI4322.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Credits: 4
In this course we will explore the ways in which contemporary Chinese culture is expressed in music. Using authentic materials, such as popular songs, music videos and music articles as springboards, students will communicate about current events and culture in China. Each class or every other class, students will be given a different song, video or article with a vocabulary
Languages

Contemporary Chinese Poetry — CHI4220.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Credits: 5
While the language of classical Chinese poetry is practically inaccessible to even today’s native speakers of Chinese, the poetry of the five contemporary poets studied in this course is written in the vernacular and serves as a rich source of authentic texts for this course, which integrates language learning with poetry study. The five poets, all born after 1980, each offers
Cultural Studies and Languages

Contemporary Chinese Poetry — CHI4121.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Credits: 4
While the language of classical Chinese poetry is practically inaccessible to even today's native speakers of Chinese, the poetry of the five contemporary poets studied in this course is written in the vernacular and serves as a rich source of authentic texts for this course, which integrates language learning with poetry study. The five poets, all born after 1980, each offer a
Languages

Contemporary Chinese Poetry — CHI4216.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Credits: 4
While the language of classical Chinese poetry is practically inaccessible to even today’s native speakers of Chinese, the poetry of the five contemporary poets studied in this course is written in the vernacular and serves as a rich source of authentic texts for this course, which integrates language learning with poetry study. The five poets, all born after 1980, each offers
Cultural Studies and Languages

Contemporary Chinese Poetry — CHI4119.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Credits: 4
While the language of classical Chinese poetry is practically inaccessible to even today's native speakers of Chinese, the poetry of the five contemporary poets studied in this course is written in the vernacular and serves as a rich source of authentic texts for this course, which integrates language learning with poetry study. The five poets, all born after 1980, each offer a
Languages

Contemporary Chinese Poetry — CHI4216.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Credits: 4
While the language of classical Chinese poetry is practically inaccessible to even today’s native speakers of Chinese, the poetry of the five contemporary poets studied in this course is written in the vernacular and serves as a rich source of authentic texts for this course, which integrates language learning with poetry study. The five poets, all born after 1980, each offer a
Languages

Contemporary Chinese Poetry — CHI4220.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Credits: 5
While the language of classical Chinese poetry is largely inaccessible to today’s native Chinese speakers, the poetry of the ten contemporary poets featured in this course is written in the vernacular, providing a rich source of authentic texts. This course integrates language learning with the study of poetry, focusing on poets ranging from the "Mist Poet" Gu Cheng to Feng
Cultural Studies and Languages

Contemporary Chinese Poetry — CHI4121.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Credits: 4
While the language of classical Chinese poetry is practically inaccessible to even today’s native speakers of Chinese, the poetry of the five contemporary poets studied in this course is written in the vernacular and serves as a rich source of authentic texts for this course, which integrates language learning with poetry study. The five poets, all born after 1980, each offers
Cultural Studies and Languages

Contemporary Chinese Poetry — CHI4121.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Credits: 4
While the language of classical Chinese poetry is practically inaccessible to even today’s native speakers of Chinese, the poetry of the five contemporary poets studied in this course is written in the vernacular and serves as a rich source of authentic texts for this course, which integrates language learning with poetry study. The five poets, all born after 1980, each offer a
Languages

Contemporary Chinese Poetry — CHI4121.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Credits: 5
While the language of classical Chinese poetry is practically inaccessible to even today’s native speakers of Chinese, the poetry of the five contemporary poets studied in this course is written in the vernacular and serves as a rich source of authentic texts for this course, which integrates language learning with poetry study. The five poets, all born after 1980, each offer a
Cultural Studies and Languages

Contemporary Chinese Poetry — CHI4216.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Credits: 4
While the language of classical Chinese poetry is practically inaccessible to even today’s native speakers of Chinese, the poetry of the five contemporary poets studied in this course is written in the vernacular and serves as a rich source of authentic texts for this course, which integrates language learning with poetry study. The five poets, all born after 1980, each offers
Languages

Contemporary Feminisms of Latin America — ANT4112.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
From LasTesis’ 2019 performance going viral to recent victories for reproductive rights in Colombia and Argentina, Latin American feminists have garnered recent international attention and, more importantly, made significant and recognized contributions to feminist theory globally. Using several different sources (ethnographies, documentaries, testimonials, and visual art),
Society Culture and Thought

Contemporary Issues on Film — SPA2109.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Sarah Harris
Credits: 4
Students in this course will continue to learn the Spanish language through an examination of contemporary issues in films in Spanish. While there will be some necessary discussion about cinematographic components, the focus of discussion will be on social and political issues present in the films. A consideration, for instance, of national and regional identity, violence,
Languages

Contemporary Japanese Culture — JPN4217.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
Today, Japanese manga, anime, J-pop, and film have a global audience. But these exports can only be truly understood in light of longstanding domestic anxieties about sex, violence, “the kids these days,” and vulnerability to natural and anthropogenic disaster. This course traces some of these anxieties through critical examinations of manga, anime, teen fiction (light novels),
Cultural Studies and Languages

Contemporary Japanese Fiction and Film — JPN4602.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This course will explore fiction and film in contemporary Japan, from around 1945 to the present. Topics will include literary and cinematic representation of Japan’s war experience and post-war reconstruction, negotiation with traditional Japanese aesthetics, artistic confrontation with state and society, and changing ideas of gender and sexuality. We will explore these and
Cultural Studies and Languages

Contemporary Native American Literature — LIT4126.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Manuel Gonzales
Credits: 4
As Stephen Graham Jones writes in his essay, "Letter to a Just-Starting-Out-Indian-Writer and Maybe to Myself": So many readers and critics and students and professors, they don't engage [Native] writing as art, they engage it as an ethnographic lens they can use to focus attention on peoples and cultures and issues and crimes and travesties and all the 'other' that'll fit in a
Literature

Contemporary Poetry and Song: Taiwan and China — CHI4517.01

Spring 2027
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Days & Time: M/Th 7:00PM-8:50PM
Credits: 4

“Poetry and Song Are Inseparable” is a long-standing tradition in Chinese literature and music, and many modern songs are derived from poetry. This course introduces students to contemporary poets such as Gu Cheng, Feng Tang, Chun Shu, Duo Hai, Li Shasha, and others. The poetry of the contemporary poets studied in this course is written in the vernacular and serves as

Cultural Studies and Languages Chinese Literature Society Culture and Thought Politics History

Contemporary Postcolonial Women Writers and Filmmakers — LIT4121.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Alexandar Mihailovic
Credits: 4
Contemporary women artists, memoirists and essayists are often uniquely positioned to confront the legacies of empire.  Focusing on the United Kingdom, North America, and the former British colonies, we will examine the construction of women’s identity in multicultural contexts over the past quarter century. Through fiction, memoirs, plays, and film, contemporary women
Literature

Contemporary Youth in Italy — ITA4121.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Edward Bowen
Credits: 4
This second-semester language course centers on the theme of growing up in Italy today, specifically the challenges that young Italians face in school, the workforce, and in their relationships. Students will further their knowledge of Italian by engaging in speaking, reading, and writing exercises linked to the theme of the course. The assigned readings and films focus on
Languages

Conversation — FRE4602.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Credits: 4
Montaigne considered conversations as the “most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds.” From 17th-century French salons to the current social debates, conversations reflect and shape our lives. This natural penchant for causeries not only continues to permeate the whole society, it also impregnates other forms of representation. Magritte’s “Art of conversation” where
Cultural Studies and Languages

Conversation — FRE4602.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Credits: 4
Montaigne considered conversations as the “most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds.” Conversations became indeed a favorite exercise in French salons, most notably around Madame de Rambouillet (17th century), Madame du Deffand (18th century), and Madame de Staël (19th century). This natural penchant for causeries not only permeated the whole society, it also
Languages