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Education Governance in Flux — MOD2155.03

Fall 2015
Instructor: Erika Mijlin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
Using the newly approved Vermont Education Bill as a starting point, we will examine the changing needs and responses of both the government, and its public constituency, with regard to public education. How do governing bodies view the challenge of modernizing public education differently than the general public, and how are assets being newly allocated to respond to those
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English as a Second Language — LIT2101.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Wayne Hoffmann-Ogier
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This class will guide international students through the stages of the writing process with weekly papers which explore several rhetorical modes, including description, nonfiction narration, and with particular emphasis on constructing academic essays. We will also have the opportunity to review grammar, punctuation, diction, and sentence structure. Additional work is
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Entry to Mathematics — MAT2100.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Josef Mundt
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Mathematics is inherent across all disciplines and undertakings. It is necessary for building structures, assessing risk in everyday life, mixing paint for specific shades, creating business models of growth and decay, setting traffic lights, and can even help assess the correct time to propose. This course will show how math has evolved from counting to the combination of
Science Mathematics and Computing

Environment and Public Action — APA2122.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: David Bond
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Today, it is clear that the environment matters. In activism and scholarship and public policy, the environment has become a potent (if sometimes obligatory) point of reference. Less attention, however, has focused on the emergence of the environment itself as a converging field of action for advocacy, science, and statecraft. In this seminar, we will reflect not only on what
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Environmental Geology — ES2102.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Timothy Schroeder
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Earth使s life鈥恠upporting environmental systems are controlled by a complex interplay between geologic and biological processes acting both on the surface and deep within the planetary interior. This course will explore how earth materials and physical processes contribute to a healthy environment, and how humans impact geologic processes. Topics covered will
Science Mathematics and Computing Environment

Exploring the World through Research — ANT4238.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Miroslava Prazak
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
How do social scientists gather primary data for the study of social life? This workshop course provides an opportunity for students to learn and practice the fundamental non-positivist research techniques necessary to study of social phenomena, namely interviewing, participant observation, and focus group discussions. Workshops and field projects will provide the opportunity
Society Culture and Thought

Feminist Philosophy — PHI4130.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Karen Gover
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This course provides an introduction to the key concepts and debates that pertain to feminist philosophy, including the nature of sex, gender, and the body, essentialism, oppression, care ethics, and feminist theories of knowledge.  Students will learn what it is to approach these topics from a philosophical angle, while at the same time keeping an eye on the historical,
Society Culture and Thought

Fiction from Fact — LIT2389.02

Fall 2015
Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
In this writing intensive class, students will develop fictions from documented historical, scientific, urban, and pastoral events, including mysteries, texts, and rumors. Our readings will include stories by Andrea Barrett, Ricardo Piglia, Patrick Modiano, Natalia Ginzburg, among others. Some research will be involved. This course is offered in the second seven weeks of the
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Fiddle — MIN4327.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: John Kirk
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
For the experienced (2+ years of playing) violinist. Lessons in traditional styles of fiddling: Quebecois, New England, Southern Appalachian, Cajun, Irish, and Scottish. This tutorial is designed to heighten awareness of the variety of ways the violin is played regionally and socially in North America (and indeed around the world these days) and to give practical music
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Films by Photographers — PHO2151.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This class explores the rich area between still and moving pictures from the perspective of noted photographers who have gone on to create films. Whether working in a documentary, narrative, or experimental mode, we will be screening a wide range of 20th and 21st century practitioners from Ruth Orkin to Anton Corbijn. Each week students will research still photographs by each
Visual Arts

Finding Form: Dance — DAN4319.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Looking at forms found in nature, architecture, music, drama, literature, etc., we search for examples to help formulate ideas and structures for movement-based compositional purposes. How can we as artists find form that best supports our investigations and challenges our working processes; how do we analyze, interpret and further utilize form that is inherent in work that is
Dance

First-Year Dance Intensive — DAN2107.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Terry Creach
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Primarily for first-years, but for any student who has a serious interest in dance, whether or not they have previous dance experience. We will consider many aspects of dance making, including an investigation of the physical sensations and impulses that inform our moving; the development of one鈥檚 own physical awareness and movement skills; improvisational structures that test
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Food in Italy — ITA2114.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
In many ways, Italy is a country made of its food in and outside of its national borders. If, after more than one hundred and fifty years from the birth of the nation, Italians are still debating whether or not they can relate to one specific national identity, they have no doubt about this when it comes to the dining table. In this course, you will learn about Italian food,
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Form and Process: Investigations in Painting — PAI2107.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Ann Pibal
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course introduces a variety of materials, techniques and approaches to painting. Emphasis is placed on developing and understanding of color, form and space as well as individual research and conceptual concerns. The daily experience of seeing, along with the history of art, provides a base from which investigations are made. Formal, poetic, and social implications within
Visual Arts

Foundations in Ceramics: Roots of Form — CER2112.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Barry Bartlett
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Exploring the unique, material nature of clay as a medium for personal and visual expression will be the focus of this course. All ceramic forms, whether sculptural or utilitarian, require a basic knowledge of the ceramic medium. A variety of construction methods will be introduced, employing both hand building and wheel techniques to achieve this goal. Emphasis will be placed
Visual Arts

Foundations of Global Politics — POL2103.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
In this wide-ranging introduction to the study of international politics, we will be exploring how states and non-state actors negotiate their interactions in an increasingly interconnected, interdependent and globalized world. Core themes will include: contending theoretical approaches to international relations (realism, liberalism/idealism, constructivism, structuralism,
Environment Society Culture and Thought

French Film Adaptations — FV2302.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: No毛lle Rouxel-Cubberly
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Students will examine a variety of adaptations, focusing on the strategies used to turn a book into a film. Issues of adaptation theory will be explored, as well as the underlying ideology behind the rediscovery of specific authors through cinema. Students will discuss notions such as 鈥渇aithfulness鈥 to a source text, but more importantly intermediality and intertextuality, the
Visual Arts Languages

Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2394.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course, intended for students who have not yet taken a Reading Writing course at Bennington, will serve as an intensive and rigorous introduction to the workshop method. We will experiment with various approaches to the craft of writing in three different genres: poetry, literary fiction, and creative nonfiction. Students will complete writing assignments every
Literature

Future Studio: Design Incubator — DA4206.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Robert Ransick
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
***TIME CHANGE*** This course is conceived and structured as a small incubator for product and business development.  Modeled after the Bennington Plan, which is inherently entrepreneurial, Future Studio engages business as a creative space that marries inquiry-based idea development, design, technology and new business models to generate constructive social purpose. 
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Generative Art with Processing — DA2108.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Gene Kogan
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course will explore strategies for producing code-based generative art and computational design. Students will acquire methods for creating compelling artworks using algorithms and autonomous processes inspired from nature, statistics, biology, and computer science, with applications to interactive installation, digital fabrication, web apps, and others. The course will
Visual Arts

Genetics 鈥 Principles and Practice — BIO4207.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Amie Jo McClellan
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
What are genes? How do they work? How are they passed on? This course will provide an introduction to modes of inheritance as well as to genes, their structure, and their regulation. Topics discussed in this class will include, but are not limited to, the molecular structure of DNA and RNA, Mendelian inheritance, molecular properties of genes, and the regulation of gene
Science Mathematics and Computing

Genome Jumpstart: An Introduction to Bioinformatic Analysis — BIO2117.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Amie Jo McClellan
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course offers an immersive experience into the world of DNA, genes, and genomes in eukaryotic organisms.  In addition to getting a grasp of the foundational biology, we will become familiar with the computational algorithms and methodologies used to analyze and mine the ever-increasing data generated from whole-genome sequencing, high-throughput proteomic analyses,
Science Mathematics and Computing

Genres and Forms of Poetry — LIT4164.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course will closely examine various modes in which poetry is commonly written, possibly including the narrative poem, the elegy, the ode, the ekphrastic, the prose poem, the pastoral, the litany or list poem, the documentary poem, the conceptual poem, and the erasure. Students will also be introduced to the vocabulary and practice of traditional prosody,
Literature

Getting Good at Change: Systemic Thinking and Practice — APA2125.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Robert Ransick and Howard Silverman, Workshop leader
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
The promises of innovation, creativity, and design are the promises of change. But how can you know if the promises are real? What does it mean to 鈥済et good at change鈥? In this workshop, we will critically examine theories and practices for purposeful change. We will pay particular attention to relationships between personal and social change, models and methods
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