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Aural History — HIS2144.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Stephen Higa
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
From religious chant to village bells to elevator muzak to noise pollution, sound has played a major role in human cultures and human experience since time immemorial.  In this 2-credit course, students will approach and engage critically with sound, listening, hearing, and aurality as categories of historical analysis.  In the first part of the course,
Society Culture and Thought

Banjo — MIN2215.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: John Kirk
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Beginning, intermediate, or advanced group lessons on the 5-string banjo in the claw-hammer/frailing style. Student will learn to play using simple song sheets with chords, tablature, and standard notation. Using chord theory and scale work, personal music-making skills will be enhanced. Awareness of traditional styles of playing the instrument will be furthered through a
Music

Bass Intensive — MIN4026.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Michael Bisio
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This class is the application of theory. It includes drills both on and off the instrument to insure the studied information (theory) is available to the performer in real time along with idiomatic considerations: construction of bass lines and solo ideas. We will also study masters in recording and by transcription.
Music

Bass with Bisio — MIN4417.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Michael Bisio
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Private instruction covering technique and theory appropriate to the student's level and goals. Corequisites: Must participate in Music Workshop (T 6:30pm - 8:00 pm).  
Music

Beat by Beat — DRA4122.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Dina Janis
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Students in this class will read a selection of plays and be required to analyze and explore these plays beat by beat in class discussion and weekly critical writing exercises.  This is a script interpretation class in which theme, dramatic structure and arc, character development, tone, style and extensive study of the given playwrights and their influences will be
Drama

Beckett (19x19) — MA4103.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Sue Rees
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The class will use a variety of texts of Samuel Beckett as the basis for the class. These will include the short stories, plays and radio plays.  We will watch a selection of the Beckett on Film (19 films x 19 directors) series produced by Michael Colgan and Alan Moloney.  The series includes a number of interpretations for the plays from the directors. This approach
Drama Visual Arts

Bedrock Geology — CANCELLED

Fall 2015
Instructor: Timothy Schroeder
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Understanding solid鈥恊arth processes requires detailed observations of both the mineralogical/chemical makeup of rocks, and of textures and structures within rocks. The emphasis of the course will be on field and laboratory observation of rock textures and structures, including depositional features that allow us to interpret how the rocks formed, and tectonic
Science Mathematics and Computing Environment

Beginning Cello — MIN2354.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Nathaniel Parke
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
The basics of cello. In a small group, students will learn how to play the cello, with an emphasis on a group performance at the term鈥檚 conclusion. Co-requisite: Attend Music Workshop seven times per term
Music

Beginning Composing — MCO4120.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Allen Shawn
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This class explores and reviews notation and the rudiments of music through the act of composing small pieces for a variety of instruments. It is intended for students who have taken instrumental lessons for a few years or more and who can read music in at least one clef. It is meant for those who have never imagined composing music as well as for those who have already begun
Music

Beginning Guitar — MIN2247.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Hui Cox
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Introduces the fundamentals of acoustic guitar playing, including hand positions, tuning, reading music, major and pentatonic scales, major, minor, and seventh chords, chord progressions, blues progressions, and simple arrangements of songs.  Corequisites: Must participate in Music Workshop (T 6:30pm - 8:00pm).
Music

Beginning Intermediate Guitar — MIN4238.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Hui Cox
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Continues the fundamentals of acoustic guitar playing, including hand positions, tuning, reading music, major and pentatonic scales, major, minor, and seventh chords, chord progressions, blues progressions, and simple arrangements of songs explored in Beginning Guitar course. Previous musical experience is required, and the student must have own instrument.
Music

Beginning Violin And Viola — MIN2241.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Kaori Washiyama
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Basic techniques will include the reading of music in alto and /or treble clefts in various "easy keys." Hand positions and appropriate fingerings will be shown, and rudimentary facility with bow will be developed in order that all students may participate in simple ensemble performances by the end of the term. All students are allowed 2 absences with appropriate reason.
Music

Bennington Review: a Practicum in Literary Editing and Publishing — LIT4330.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This two-credit course involves working on the conceptualization, editing, design, and production of  the first issue of Bennington's newly relaunched national print literary magazine, Bennington Review. Students will serve as Assistant Editors for the 2015-16 academic year, studying and practicing all aspects of magazine editing, production and design, as well as
Literature

Biological Diversity: Ecology and Evolution — BIO2103.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The disciplines of ecology and evolution are integrally connected in the study of biological diversity.  Both are essential to intelligent management and conservation of natural systems.  We will explore current understanding of the evolutionary origins of biodiversity, the ecological processes that regulate and structure it, and how ecological principles may be
Science Mathematics and Computing Environment

Business Incubator — MOD2145.02

Fall 2015
Instructor: Alison Dennis
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
Do you imagine someday starting your own venture? Do you have an idea for a business, organization or social enterprise? Are you a working artist, musician or entrepreneur? Are you considering a self-employed career path? Group sessions and one-on-one coaching will help entrepreneurs develop and hone practical plans to support, strengthen and forward their business ideas.
CAPA Modules: Transferable Approaches

Calculus: Techniques Applications — MAT4130.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Kathryn Montovan
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Calculus can be used to solve a wide range of problems in science, environmental studies, economics, and human behavior. For example: derivatives enable us to optimize functions and find the best way to do all sorts of things, and we can use integrals to compute areas and volumes of complex shapes. This course will build on MAT4145: Calculus: Analysis of the Infinite by
Environment Science Mathematics and Computing

Canta che ti passa: Italian Commentary in Music — ITA4117.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
"鈥楥anta che ti passa," (Sing and you鈥檒l feel better), says an old Italian adage. Yet, Italians do not always sing to forget their troubles. Much of the Italian musical tradition expresses social and political commentary, seriously or ironically. Songs as diverse and far apart in time as Toto Cotugno鈥檚 populist "L鈥檌taliano" (An Italian, 1983), Giorgio Gaber鈥檚 intellectually
Languages

Cello — MIN4355.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Nathaniel Parke
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Studio instruction in cello. There will be an emphasis on creating and working towards an end-of-term project for each student. Students must have had at least three years of cello study. Corequisite: Attend Music Workshop 7 times per term.
Music

Chemistry 1: Chemical Principles — CHE2211.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Janet Foley
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This class is the first of a four course chemistry sequence covering general,  organic and biochemistry. Students do not need to take the entire sequence. This course will focus on introductory chemical principles, including atomic theory, classical and quantum bonding concepts, molecular structure, organic functional groups, and the relationship between structure and
Science Mathematics and Computing

Chemistry 3: Organic Reactions and Mechanisms — CHE4213.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Janet Foley
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Chemistry 3 focuses on how reactions happen: what the steps are, how we discover them, and how we use this to look at some practical systems: the synthesis of a drug, the kinetics of substitution. Emphasis will be on mastering  general principles of chemistry such as  nucleophiles and electrophiles, molecular orbital concepts, thermodynamics and kinetics in order to
Science Mathematics and Computing Environment

Chemistry 3: Organic Reactions and Mechanisms Lab — CHE4213L.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Janet Foley
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The lab will allow students to apply what they learn in class to experimental questions. They will synthesize and characterize compounds using NMR, IR, and UV-vis spectroscopy and explore experimental design by developing labs based on kinetics and substitutions as well as explore "green" synthesis options for experiments. Corequisite: Chemistry 3
Science Mathematics and Computing

Chinese Chan (Zen) — CHI4114.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Although it was born in India, Buddhism has had a deep and profound influence on Chinese and East Asian culture, and 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
Languages