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Critical Response in Painting — PAI4309.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: andrew spence
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
In order to make successful work, artists must know when to follow their instincts, take risks or try new approaches toward developing ideas. Self-confidence and the ability to be critical of one's own work are the tools that come with experience. This course is intended to offer students feedback on their work as it develops. Their work is addressed within the context of
Visual Arts

Critical Response in Painting — PAI4309.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Andrew Spence
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
In order to make successful work, artists must know when to follow their instincts, take risks or try new approaches toward developing ideas. Self-confidence and the ability to be critical of one's own work are the tools that come with experience. This course is intended to offer students feedback on their work as it develops. Their work is addressed within the context of
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Critical Texts in Recent Art — VA4154.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: James Voorhies
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course is a reading seminar of important texts on art and culture by critics, theorists and artists from late modernism through postmodernism to the present moment. It will include close readings and discussions of essays from 1960 to 2013 to consider the changing conditions under which art is conceived, produced, distributed and experienced. A departure point for the
Art History

Critical Theory in Qualitative Research — SCT4112.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Audrey Devost
Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

Qualitative inquiry seeks to discover and to describe in narrative reporting what particular people do in their everyday lives and what the actions mean to them. This course is intended for students who wish to learn more about the impact of theoretical frameworks on their ongoing knowledge projects at Bennington College. A critical theoretical lens in

Black Studies Society Culture and Thought

Crocheting the Classics: Elizabeth Gaskell's North South — LIT2530.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Jenny Boully
Credits: 4
The Great Exhibition of 1851 was meant to showcase the greatest inventions and industries of the Victorian age. Included among the various treasures from around the world, such as machinery, paintings, and gems, were samples of crochet, an art that became increasingly popular during the Victorian age. The idea of domestic handcrafts seemed to be counter to the industrial
Literature

Crocheting the Classics: Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford — LIT2512.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Jenny Boully
Credits: 4
The Great Exhibition of 1851 was meant to showcase the greatest inventions and industries of the Victorian age. Included among the various treasures from around the world, such as machinery, paintings, and gems, were samples of crochet, an art that became increasingly popular during the Victorian age. The idea of domestic handcrafts seemed to be counter to the industrial
Literature

Crocheting the Classics: The Daisy and the Chain and Phoebe Junior — LIT2546.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Jenny Boully
Credits: 4
The Great Exhibition of 1851 was meant to showcase the greatest inventions and industries of the Victorian age. Included among the various treasures from around the world, such as machinery, paintings, and gems, were samples of crochet, an art that became increasingly popular during the Victorian age. The idea of domestic handcrafts seemed to be counter to the industrial
Literature

Cross-cultural Psychology — PSY2289.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Ella Ben Hagai
Credits: 4
In this course, we will carefully consider the ways in which certain cultural practices and ideologies shape individual psychology. Using a comparative lens, we will explore how people’s sense of self and identity differ in individualistic compared to collectivist cultures. How do differences in cultural codes associate with differences in thinking styles, emotional expression,
Society Culture and Thought

Cross-cultural Psychology — PSY2289.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Ella Ben Hagai
Credits: 4
In this course, we will carefully consider the ways in which certain cultural practices and ideologies shape individual psychology. Using a comparative lens, we will explore how people’s sense of self and identity differ in individualistic compared to collectivist cultures. How do differences in cultural codes associate with differences in thinking styles, emotional expression,
Society Culture and Thought

Crossing Cultures: American Poetry Now — LIT2352.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Credits: 2
This two-credit course is intended as an immersive introduction to the multicultural and polyphonic contemporary poetry landscape, as well as a more general discussion on how to read, discuss, analyze, and write critically about poems. We will read the equivalent of a book a week by an emerging contemporary American poet. Writers to be discussed may include Ken Chen,
Literature

Crossroads: Race, Gender and Justice in Higher Education — APA2327.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
Explicit and implicit biases contribute to inequity and significant achievement gaps in education.  Research has shown a connection between success in early childhood education and imprisonment. Equity in Education is equitable when outcomes are similar for all students without regard to race, gender, ethnicity, class, language, ability, or sexual orientation. 
CAPA

Cuisine, Culture, and Identity — FRE4226.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Credits: 4
“Tell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are” –Brillat-Savarin While food sustains life, it also gives it meaning. This course will focus on how the culture of food and eating has played an important role in the construction of the religious, national, ethnic, and individual identities of the French-speaking world. How have migration and the realities of the post
Cultural Studies and Languages

Cuisine, Culture, and Identity — FRE4405.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Days & Time: MO,TH 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 4

“Tell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are” –Brillat-Savarin

While food sustains life, it also gives it meaning. This course will focus on how the culture of food and eating has played an important role in the construction of the religious, national, ethnic, and individual identities of the French-speaking world. How have migration and the realities of

French

Cuisine, Culture, and Identity — FRE4226.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Credits: 4
“Tell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are” –Brillat-Savarin While food sustains life, it also gives it meaning. This course will focus on how the culture of food and eating has played an important role in the construction of the religious, national, ethnic, and individual identities of the French-speaking world. How have migration and the realities of the post
Cultural Studies and Languages

Cultural Identity in Modern Italian Novel (in English Translation) — ITA2115.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
How is Italy, and its cultures, reflected in its literature? How have Italian writers positioned themselves vis à vis the history of their country? How much of it all can we grasp in translation?  These are some of the questions that will guide us in our exploration of Modern Italian fiction. We will read in English a few Italian masterpieces that went on to win
Languages Literature

Cultural Legacies of Argentina's "Dirty War" — LIT4263.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz
Credits: 4
The "Gentleman's Coup" of 1976 ushered in years of terror, the forced disappearances of 30,000 citizens, and the establishment of hundreds of secret torture centers. We will study not only the repression itself, but literary, artistic, architectural, and cinematic works of the repressive 1970s and their complicated aftermath to this day. You will be expected to keep a reading
Literature

Cultural Localities 1: Researching Culture — ANT4117.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: miroslava prazak
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This advanced research seminar offers the opportunity for the student to design an anthropological research project similar to the type encountered in anthropology graduate programs. The project allows for detailed study of a society of the world, including its culture, politics, economy, world view, religion, expressive practices, and historical transformations. The initial
Social Science

Cultural Localities I: Researching Culture — ANT4117.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Noah Coburn
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This advanced research seminar offers the opportunity for the student to design an anthropological research project similar to the type encountered in anthropology graduate programs. The project allows for detailed study of a society of the world, including its culture, politics, economy, world view, religion, expressive practices, and historical transformations. The initial
Social Science

Cultural Localities II: Writing Culture — ANT4136.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Miroslava Prazak
Credits: 4
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 such as ethics, the
Social Science

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