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Fall 2016

2D-3D-2D – Animation in a Created World — MA4203.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Sue Rees

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Credits: 4

The class will be concerned with manipulating two dimensional imagery, creating three dimensional forms and models by utilizing the laser cutter and Illustrator, and finally animating forms, drawings, objects combined with the three dimensional world using tracking cameras and a green screen. We will be moving backwards and forwards between creating worlds and manipulating

Visual Arts

Actor's Instrument — DRA2170.02; section 2

Fall 2016

Instructor: Jenny Rohn

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Credits: 4

The craft of acting will be the main focus of this class. Through physical and vocal warm-up exercises, sensory exploration, improvisation, scene work, and extensive reading students will be asked to develop an awareness of their own unique instrument as actors and learn to trust their inner impulses where this is concerned. Extensive out of class preparation of specific

Drama

Actor's Instrument — DRA2170.01; section 1

Fall 2016

Instructor: Dina Janis

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Credits: 4

Drama

Adaptation — DRA2249.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Sherry Kramer

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Credits: 4

Appropriation, repurpose, pastiche, hybrid, sampling, remix, in conversation, mash up. Everyone knows that when you steal, steal from the best. When we write we may borrow the structure of a sonata, the plot from a story, the tang and tone of a novel, and characters from our own lives. Is everything we write adaptation? We will read 3-5 works of literature, watch movie and

Drama

Adaptation or Extinction: Animals and Climate Change — BIO4222.01

Fall 2016

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Credits: 4

Global climate change has been implicated in the extinction of some animal species, changes in the geographic ranges of others, and many species appear to be increasingly vulnerable to both biotic (e.g. disease, competitors) and abiotic (e.g. temperature, acidification, pollutants, drought) stressors. Will different animal species adapt to global climate change or disappear?

Science and Mathematics Environment

Advanced Chamber Music — MPF4230.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Nat Parke

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Credits: 2

An intensive, performance oriented exploration of the chamber music of literature. Corequisite: Attend Music Workshop (T 6:30pm - 8:00pm) seven times per term.

Music

Advanced Improvisation Ensemble for Dancers Musicians — DAN4673.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati

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Credits: 1

This advanced course focuses on work in the performance of improvisation. For dancers, special attention is given to the development of individual movement vocabularies, pattern recognition and the exploration of forms and structures. Dancers are expected to have experience with improvisation in performance and are asked to develop a structure for the group. This class

Dance

Advanced Projects in Dance — DAN4795.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Terry Creach

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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. Corequisite:

Dance

Advanced Voice — MVO4401.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke

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Credits: 2

Advanced study of vocal technique and the interpretation of the vocal repertoire, designed for advanced students who have music as a plan concentration and to assist graduating seniors with preparation for senior recitals. Students are required to study and to perform a varied spectrum of vocal repertory for performance and as preparation for further study or graduate

Music

Advanced Workshop for Drawing and Painting: The Contemporary Idiom — PAI4209.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: J Blackwell

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Credits: 4

Ongoing studio projects will be discussed and evaluated with an emphasis on their relationship to contemporary issues in art, criticism, and theory. Questions to be addressed include: Where does art belong in contemporary culture? What is the role of art today? How do we reconcile art discourse with politics, social networks, pop culture or art history? Critiques will focus on

Visual Arts

After-School Education Design in Bennington — MOD2301.02

Fall 2016

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Credits: 1

What students do after-school has become as important as what goes on during the school day. Youth in the public schools in Bennington, Vermont are in need of programs that 51�� students can create based on their understanding of progressive education and the Plan Process. In this Module, students will be expected to design after-school

CAPA Education Modules: Transferable Approaches

Alexander Technique — DAN2151.01; section 1

Fall 2016

Instructor: Rebecca Brooks, MFA Teaching Fellow (supervised by Terry Creach)

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Credits: 2

The Alexander Technique begins with the premise that the human organism is perfectly designed for an expansive range of activities. It is our own misuse that gets in the way of this potential. The Alexander Technique maps a neuromuscular process by which we use our thinking to undo habitual layers of use, and make conscious choices that create more freedom and range, resulting

Dance Drama

Alexander Technique — DAN2151.02; section 2

Fall 2016

Instructor: Rebecca Brooks, MFA Teaching Fellow (supervised by Terry Creach)

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Credits: 2

Dance Drama

America in Italy After 9/11: Special Projects — ITA4706.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Barbara Alfano

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Credits: 4

This is a high-intermediate/advanced course in which students will do independent research on portrayals of the USA in post- 9/11 Italian literature and cinema and write a final research paper. Corequisite: Students must attend at least two Languages Series events (Mondays, 7:00pm – 8:00pm)

Languages

American Environmental Politics — POL2109.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Tim Schroeder

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Credits: 4

This course will explore American environmental politics, from the late 1800s to the present day, with a focus on understanding the actors, institutions and structural power dynamics that impact environmental struggles. We will proceed by engaging with a variety of historical and contemporary case studies related to toxic waste, clean air and water, fracking, national parks,

Environment Society Culture and Thought

American Neo-Imperialism: The Anthropology of Mercenaries, Contractors, Bankers and other Rogues — ANT4220.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Noah Coburn

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Credits: 4

This course takes an anthropological approach to look at the ways in which America has projected its power internationally since 2001. This ranges from its military invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, its more passive policies on Syria and Libya and its more subtle use of development funds and soft power to shape the world beyond its borders. These attempts, however,

CAPA Society Culture and Thought

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

Fall 2016

Instructor: Dina Janis

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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

Animation 1 — MA2105.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Sue Rees

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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. Students will be instructed in using ‘Dragonframe’ Software, the

Visual Arts

Animation Projects — MA4202.02

Fall 2016

Instructor: Sue Rees

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Credits: 2

The course will be for sustained work on an animation or preparatory work for a longer animation. The expectation is that students will be fully engaged in their project, with fellow students' projects and with critiques. The expectation is that storyboards, character designs, backgrounds, sets will be designed, fabricated and filmed or prepared to be filmed.

Visual Arts

Another Roadside Attraction: Travel Photo — PHO2110.02

Fall 2016

Instructor: Liz White

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Credits: 2

This seminar examines the intertwined histories of travel and photography, considering social, philosophical, political, and artistic questions. Readings and slideshows will provide context for critical thinking about photography’s relationship to tourism in general and to “the American road” in particular. We will look at a range of practices of image making, collecting, and

Visual Arts

Artist's Portfolio — DAN4366.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Dana Reitz

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Credits: 2

Explaining artwork 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

Dance Drama Music Visual Arts

Banjo — MIN2215.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: John Kirk

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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 with Bisio — MIN4417.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Michael Bisio

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Credits: 2

Private instruction covering techniques and theory appropriate to the student's level and goals. Corequisites: Must participate in Music Workshop (Tuesday, 6:30 - 8:00 pm).

Music

Beginning Cello — MIN2354.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Nat Parke

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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's conclusion. Corequisite: Attend Music Workshop (T 6:30pm - 8:00pm) seven times per term

Music

Beginning Composing — MCO4120.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Allen Shawn

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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