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"Spain" Image and Ideology — SPA2110.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: luis gonzalez-barrios
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Students with little or no Spanish will learn the language through an immersion in the iconography associated with the 鈥淪pain鈥 created during the first third of the 20th century. This period witnessed the eruption of the mass media (press, radio, cinema, tv), which in conjunction with the plastic arts (drawing, painting, sculpture) was crucial in the construction of certain
Languages

3 Houses, 3 Sites — ARC4150.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: donald sherefkin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Using the constraints of a minimal house, students will design three dwellings for three distinct sites: A single, detached house in rural Vermont; a two-family in town; and a six story walk-up in New York City. In each project, the site analysis and mapping will provide the fundamental tools for developing spatial organization, form, materials, and orientation. Each proposal
Visual Arts

Acting Shakespeare: Play Upon the Text! — DRA4181.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: chris edwards
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course is an investigation of the principles and techniques of acting Shakespearean verse and prose. We will explore: scansion, phrasing, image clusters, operative words, rhetorical devices, imagery, textual analysis, physicalizing the text, textual clues and the challenges of weaving these concepts with the Stanislavski base of action and objective to help students
Drama

Adobe Creative Suite for Artists — DA2102.02

Fall 2014
Instructor: chris chenier
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This course introduces artists to Adobe's Creative Suite, one of the most ubiquitous tools for creative digital work available today. While we will explore key topics in creating and managing digital files, our sessions will emphasize the ways software can be used for project development, prototyping, and experimentation. Most of our time will be spent with pixels in Adobe
Visual Arts

Advanced Chamber Music — MPF4230.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: music faculty
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
An intensive, performance oriented exploration of the chamber music of literature. Corequisites: Must participate in Music Workshop (Tuesday, 6:30 - 8pm).
Music

Advanced Leadership and Strategic Planning Workshop — APA4130.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: alison dennis
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The problems we face today are too great for any one person to solve alone. But what does it practically take to lead meaningful change and advance public action? What leadership capacities are needed now to move ourselves and others forward strategically and adaptively in a changing world? This course will support student leaders and entrepreneurs who are engaged in forwarding
CAPA

Advanced Printmaking Research and Group Exhibition — PRI4402.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: thorsten dennerline
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course is an advanced printmaking research class. Within a basic structure of critiques and discussions, students will independently pursue their own research interests in a workshop environment. Demonstrations of techniques will be given according to the needs of the class. Students with experience in a diverse range media are encouraged to enroll. It is expected that
Visual Arts

Advanced Projects in Dance — DAN4795.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: dana reitz
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This is an essential course for students involved in making work for performance this term. Attention is given to all of the elements involved in composition and production, including collaborative aspects. Students are expected to show their work throughout stages of development, complete their projects, and perform them to the public by the end of the term. Dance Workshop is
Dance

Advanced Projects in E-Music — MCO4139.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: michael leczinsky
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This course will focus on composition in the electroacoustic medium. All students are expected to become proficient in 5.1 surround sound spatialization. Students may also choose to develop their technical skills in: digital sound synthesis, digital signal processing and digital audio recording. Students are expected to complete a composition in 5.1 surround sound at the end of
Music

Advanced Projects in Theater Design and Animation — MA4796.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: sue rees
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The course will be for sustained work on an animation or set design. Students will be expected to create a complete animation, or project. The expectation is that students will be fully engaged in their project, and with critiques. Locations will be explored for showing of work including investigating digital projections on different surfaces and forms. Animation students
Drama Visual Arts

Advanced Projects in Video — FV4304.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: kate purdie
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This is a workshop for advanced students pursuing self-directed projects in video. Class time will be spent on group critiques to be supplemented by screenings and analysis, readings, discussion, student research presentations, visiting artists, and individual meetings.
Visual Arts

Advanced Topics in Cell Biology — BIO4311.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: amie mcclellan
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
The Life and Death of Proteins: The viability of a cell, and therefore an organism, depends upon the proper synthesis, and ultimately the destruction, of the proteins therein. This course will focus on understanding how proteins are made and degraded in the cell, and will emphasize what happens in-between -- how proteins fold, function, and localize to their proper cellular
Science Mathematics and Computing

Advanced Voice — MVO4401.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: kerry ryer-parke
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Advanced study of vocal technique and the interpretation of the vocal repertoire, designed for advanced students who have music in their plan, and to assist graduating seniors with preparation for senior recitals. Students are required to study and perform a spectrum of vocal repertory for performance and as preparation for further study or graduate school. A class maximum of
Music

Advanced Workshop in CAPA — APA4126.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: erika mijlin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This workshop is designed to enable students to pursue work they have already begun that is focused on public action regardless of the particular issue/s they are addressing and to integrate Field Work Term into that work. Students will be presenting their own work to the workshop as it unfolds. Some portion of the workshop will be dedicated to common experience - in particular
CAPA

African Music Ensemble — MHI4134.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: michael wimberly
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The African Music Ensemble explores folkloric and popular music from Africa, Cuba, Brazil and the African diaspora. Using rhythms and songs, drums and non-traditional African instruments such as, violin, viola, cello, electric and acoustic guitar, bass, flute, trumpet, and saxophone, we will learn songs and arrangements for performance on campus and for the greater Bennington
Music

Americans in Paris — HIS2114.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: stephen shapiro
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course will survey the rich history of Americans' fascination and engagement with the city of Paris and France. Beginning with Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, we will look at succeeding generations of travelers and expatriates: 19th-century tourists who came to complete their cultural education, painters who discovered new techniques and inspiration in artistic
Social Science

An Actor's Technique - Nuts and Bolts — DRA4127.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: dina janis
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
How do actors bridge the gap between themselves and the role they are playing? How do actors rehearse with other actors in order to explore the world of the play? This non-performance based class is designed to help individual actors discover their own organic, thorough rehearsal process. Step by step we will clarify the actor's process: character research, character
Drama

Animating the 2-Dimensional World — MA4101.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: sue rees
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
The class will be concerned with creating short animations utilizing two dimensional imagery. The animations will be created using After Effects. Scanned and captured images will be manipulated with After Effects, Photoshop, and other software programmes. Original narratives, adopted stories, and historical references will be used for the animations. Various animators will be
Visual Arts

Animation 1 — MA2105.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: sue rees
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The class will be concerned with animating inanimate objects by stop motion, drawings, and cut out collages. A variety of filmmakers and techniques will be looked at during the course of the semester. Students will be expected to produce a variety of short projects followed by a longer more sustained project based on current events and environmental issues. Students will be
Drama Visual Arts

Another Roadside Attraction: Travel Photography — PHO2110.02

Fall 2014
Instructor: elizabeth white
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This seminar will examine the intertwined histories of travel and photography, considering social, philosophical, political, and artistic questions. Readings and slideshows will provide context for critical thinking about photographys relationship to tourism in general and to "the American road" in particular. We will look at a range of practices of image making, collecting,
Visual Arts

Architectural Graphics — ARC2104.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: donald sherefkin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
An introduction to a broad range of drawing techniques, including observational drawing, diagrammatic sketching, and geometric constructions. We will also master the conventions of architectural drawing, from plans and sections to three-dimensional projections. Weekly workshops and drawing assignments are required. Corequisites: Architecture 1 - Elements, ARC2101.
Visual Arts

Architecture I - Elements — ARC2101.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: donald sherefkin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Introduction to the discipline of architectural exploration. Architecture I focuses on the formation of architectural concepts through the development of spatial investigations. using scale models and drawings. We begin with a series of abstract exercises which explore ways in which meaning is embedded in form, space and movement. These exercises gradually build into more
Visual Arts

Art in America Since WWII — AH2286.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: andrew spence
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
After WWII, artists in U. S. cities played a major role in the transformation of contemporary art from Modernism to Post Modernism and the present. As a survey, this course looks at several of these artists' works and their connections to important movements such as Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and the proliferation of later movements including Photo Realism, Minimalism,
Visual Arts

Art in the Public Realm: Oslo Project — VA4107.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: jon isherwood; susan sgorbati
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Through the experience of developing with Jon Isherwood a site-specific, commissioned work of art for the U.S. Embassy in Oslo, Norway, students in this course will examine the definition, unique challenges, history, and implementation of public art. Over the course of the term, the class will conduct case studies of prior public art projects and explore the various dimensions
CAPA Visual Arts

Artist's Portfolio — DAN4366.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: dana reitz
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Explaining art work often goes against the grain, yet artists are regularly called upon to articulate their processes, tools, and dynamics of collaboration. To help secure any of the myriad forms of institutional support including funding, venues, and engagements, artists must develop, creatively and flexibly, essential skills. Finding a public language for what is the private
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