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Virtual Tours of Japan: Explore and Learn About Japan — JPN2113.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
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Credits: 4
What do you know about Japan? Would you like to visit Mount Fuji in Shizuoka, the Imperial Palace in Kyoto, or Ghibli Museum in Tokyo? What do you want to see? Do you want to see traditional performing arts like Noh and Kabuki? Do you want to eat sushi, tonkatsu, ramen, or pizza that is topped with corn, tuna, and mayonnaise? Technology such as Google Earth and Street View has
Cultural Studies and Languages

Visual Arts Lecture Series (VALS) — VA2999.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
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Credits: 1
Each term, Bennington offers a program of five-six lectures by emerging and illustrious visiting artists, curators, and historians who demonstrate the diversity of contemporary art practices. Toward a broader knowledge of various disciplines in the Visual Arts and to stimulate campus dialogue around topical issues related to inclusion, representation, and identity each thematic
Visual Arts

Watchmen: Watch US now — AH2287.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
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Credits: 2
The first and only season of Watchmen, HBO鈥檚 鈥渁lternate history鈥 (based on the graphic novel that posited a real-life global crisis that, what?, perversely unites humanity) drives a broadly-conceived visual culture/cultural studies course in which we identify and analyze various themes, tropes, genres, histories, prophecies, and allegories on screen and off; both inside and
Visual Arts

We, Unfortunately, Are Borges — SPA4219.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
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Credits: 4
Whether he is the last modernist, or the first postmodern, the least Latin American of all Latin American authors or perhaps the most, the grand destroyer of all illusions or ultimately their victim, in the wake of his own statement that 鈥淓very writer creates his own precursors鈥 Jorge Luis Borges has already provided the theoretical premise for so much subsequent work that this
Cultural Studies and Languages

Why Bodies Matter: An Introduction to Dance Studies — DAN2348.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Dana Reitz
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Credits: 4
Even now, or perhaps especially now, the state of our moving and breathing bodies is critical to how we operate in the world. Dance Studies is an emergent interdisciplinary field of academic inquiry that considers dance, corporeality and embodied experience as important and valuable forms of knowledge in the creation and distribution of cultural discourse. This course will
Dance

Wicked Problems and Diabolical Dilemmas — HIS4235.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Eileen Scully
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Credits: 4
鈥淲icked problems鈥 demand answers and resist remedies. They loom large, yet cannot be located or pinned down. 鈥淒iabolical dilemmas鈥 force us to make repugnant choices in favor of lesser evils. Examples of both include global warming, pandemics, terrorism, migration, healthcare, corruption, poverty, and human trafficking. After orienting ourselves in the relevant topology and
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Zen Buddhism — CHI4218.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Ginger Lin
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Credits: 4
Although it was born in India, Buddhism has had a deep and profound influence on Chinese and East Asian culture, but this philosophy remains relevant to modern life in both the East and West. Students will be introduced to the spirit of Buddhism through modern Mandarin interpretations of classic Chinese Buddhist poems and stories. Students will explore Chinese Buddhist concepts
Cultural Studies and Languages