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Fall 2015

Introduction To Quantitative Reasoning and Modeling — MAT2102.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Kathryn Montovan

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

This foundational class covers modes of reasoning used in all quantitative sciences and mathematics. We will start by interrogating numbers and equations, applying problem solving strategies, and practicing effective communication of mathematics. We will then apply these skills while learning the art of modeling, i.e. translating the physical systems/real-life situations into

Environment Science Mathematics and Computing

Introduction to Relief Printing — PRI2105.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

This course is an introductory level print class. Students will learn about relief printmaking through demonstrations of techniques, hands-on experience, and critiques. Techniques include but are not limited to wood cut and linoleum cut. With this simple process, we will be able to explore color printing in depth. Please note that this course may require additional

Visual Arts

Introduction to Sculpture: What is Sculpture? — SCU2101.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Jon Isherwood

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

How do we make it? How do we talk about it? And what does it mean? This course invites students to investigate the fundamental principals of sculpture while encouraging exploration of classical and contemporary approaches. Sessions are intensive explorations into a variety of techniques and materials including clay, plaster, wood, cardboard, Styrofoam and metal. Regular slide

Visual Arts

Introduction to Slip Casting — CER2168.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Yoko Inoue

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

This is an introductory course to basic mold making and slip casting techniques for producing multiple components to create sculptural ceramic objects or a series of functional ware. This class focuses on the development of design concept through exploration of various casting methods, applying alteration techniques and experimenting with prototype making. Basic

Visual Arts

Introduction to Video — FV2303.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Karthik Pandian

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

This production course introduces students to the fundamentals of working in video and the language of film form. Drawing on the energy, intensity and criticality of avant-garde film and contemporary video art practices, students will complete a series of projects exploring dimensions of cinematography, mise-en-scène, editing and sound design before producing a final self

Visual Arts

Javanese Gamelan — MPF2201.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Nick Brooke

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 2

A practicum in playing and hearing the gamelan, the Central Javanese percussion orchestra. Students will learn about court and local traditions of Indonesia while playing classic works of karawitan (loosely translated as “weaving”), the multilayered repertoire of Central Java. Weekly rehearsals will focus on navigating the intricate levels of irama (rhythm), pathet (tonality),

Music

Javascript and the Dynamic Web — DA2107.02

Fall 2015

Instructor: Jackson Moore

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 2

Web designers and developers use html for content, css for presentation, and javascript for behavior. In this course we will learn how to add dynamic interactive elements to websites using javascript. We will cover the basic ingredients of scripting languages, including data types and structures, variables, functions, and control flow. We will also learn about unique aspects of

Visual Arts

Jazz Piano Lab — MIN4335.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Bruce Williamson

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 2

This course will utilize Bennington’s Piano Lab to explore and develop the skills and knowledge required to effectively play non-classical piano repertoire. Styles covered are: blues, reggae, salsa, bossa-nova and jazz. Students will take turns learning and playing bass lines, chord voicings, stylistic rhythms, melodies and improvised solos.

Music

Jazz Trapset and Drums Ensemble — MPF4108.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Susie Ibarra

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

Assembling the contraption, the trapset or the drumset, arose from the meeting and mixture of diverse cultures over the last century. This ensemble studies the music and musicians that have influenced the evolution of Jazz trapset and percussion playing over the last century. The class will examine African and Cuban clave influence, Asian and Middle Eastern influence, American

Music

Kant Seminar — PHI4266.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Paul Voice

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

This seminar explores the writings of Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) whose work remains at the foundation of much of contemporary western philosophy. The course will focus on The Critique of Pure Reason, a text that reshaped the disciplines of epistemology and metaphysics. We will also look at Kant's writings on morality and aesthetics.

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Landscape — FV4240.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Karthik Pandian

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

This intermediate moving image production course challenges students to realize new works in film and video that participate in the lively and varied art historical tradition of representing the natural world and humankind’s place within it. Drawing on the technical capacities of time-based media and the rich environmental surroundings of Bennington’s campus, students will

Environment Visual Arts

Latin American Art Since Independence — SPA2111.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

This course ranges from the republican art of nation-building in the 19th century to modernism, magical realism, and the postmodern. While there will be some discussion of standard tactics such as stylistic nuances and artists’ biographies, it is expected that we will rapidly develop sufficient ability to focus on movements, theory, and politics, thus treating the works as

Visual Arts Languages

Learning Japanese Language and Culture with Manga — JPN2109.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

Japanese pop culture has gained popularity in the US, and many American children read Japanese manga and watch various Japanese animations while growing up. However, lack of Japanese cultural knowledge sometimes makes it hard for the American audience to fully understand what is going on in the Japanese character's mind. In this introductory Japanese language and culture

Languages

Libertinage — FRE4718.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Stephen Shapiro

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

This course examines libertinage, the movement of early‐modern freethinkers who championed individual autonomy and questioned the authority of religious, moral, social, and political thought. We will focus particular attention on questions of pleasure and morality, sexuality and power, authority and subversion. Writers studied will include Molière (Dom Juan), Prévost (Manon

Languages

Life Drawing Lab — DRW2118.01; section 1

Fall 2015

Instructor: Colin Brant

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 2

Drawing Lab provides an opportunity for student artists of all experience levels to further develop their skills with observationally-based drawing. Working primarily with the human figure, students build increased understanding of the poetic, dynamic, and inherently abstract nature of drawing, while paying close attention to the potential of

Visual Arts

Life Drawing Lab — DRW2118.02; section 2

Fall 2015

Instructor: Colin Brant

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 2

Visual Arts

Linear Algebra — MAT4115.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

Together with calculus, linear algebra is one of the foundations of higher level mathematics and its applications. There are several perspectives one can take on linear algebra: it is a method for handling large systems of equations, it is a theory of higher dimensional geometry, and it is a theoretical construct that appears throughout mathematics and physics, among other

Science Mathematics and Computing

Literary Bennington — LIT2390.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Benjamin Anastas

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 2

We all know the literary generation that Bennington produced in the 1980s and early 90s: Donna Tartt, Bret Easton Ellis, Jonathan Lethem and Kiran Desai. But how seriously have we read their work? And what about the illustrious faculty who prepared the literary ground for those who came after: Bernard Malamud, Kenneth Burke, Stanley Edgar Hyman (and his wife the novelist

Literature

Literature of World War I — LIT2345.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Brooke Allen

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

The First World War, 1914-18, was a cataclysm that left ten million dead and created the modern world. It was also a period of tremendous artistic innovation and activity. In this class we will read the work of writers who fought the war, on both sides: soldier-poets like Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, and Edmund Blunden; novelists like Henri Barbusse, Ernest

Literature

Lost and Found in the Nineteenth Century — HIS2142.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Eileen Scully

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

This is an immersion in "portraiture," a unique methodology that "seeks to unveil the universal truths and resonant stories that lie in the specifics and complexity of everyday life." Using online materials, including historical newspapers, censuses and vital records, we will draw up a list of people to "look for," such as runaway slaves, absconding debtors, eloping spouses,

Society Culture and Thought

Malamud, Bellow, and Roth — LIT2391.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Douglas Bauer

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

We will immerse ourselves in the novels and stories of three extraordinary American writers of the mid-20th and early 21st centuries, Bernard Malamud, Saul Bellow and Philip Roth. We'll be starting with Malamud, then turning to Bellow, and finally to Roth, almost twenty years the youngest and still very much a dominant -- if self-proclaimed "retired" -- figure in

Literature

Mallet Percussion Ensemble — MPF4106.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Michael Wimberly

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 2

Mallet Percussion Ensemble explores a variety of compositions for the mallet keyboard instrument. This includes compositions for Marimba, Xylophone, Glockenspiel, Vibraphone, Balafon and Tubular Bells. Compositions are adapted from composers such as, Bach, Fernando Sor, Gordon Stout, Franz Schubert, Latin and African music, as well as popular songs for the ensemble. No

Music

Mandolin — MIN2229.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: John Kirk

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 2

Beginning, intermediate, and advanced group lessons on the mandolin will be offered. Students will learn classical technique on the mandolin and start to develop a repertoire of classical and traditional folk pieces. Simple song sheets with chords, tablature, and standard notation, chord theory, and scale work will all be used to further skills. Students will be expected

Music

Manga Into Art: After Super Flat — VA2207.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Yoko Inoue

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

Japanese comic book images have become integrated into our contemporary art context. While investigating the social systems that can be found in the various genres of manga and within the cultural specificities of the post World War II era, this course explores the relationship of Manga and fine art. This is a research based studio art class and requirements include weekly

Visual Arts

Many Peoples, One World — ANT2101.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Miroslava Prazak

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

Why are cultures and societies so different, and simultaneously, so similar? We explore these questions by reading various ethnographic studies, meanwhile developing an anthropological perspective on economy and politics, social organization, kinship and family life, ideology and ritual, ecology and adaptation. We also focus on the sources and dynamics of inequality. Against

Society Culture and Thought