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Fall 2016

Beginning Guitar — MIN2247.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Hui Cox

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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 (Tuesday, 6:30 - 8pm).

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Beginning Peacebuilding — APA2139.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Miroslava Prazak

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Credits: 2

Peacebuilding is an intervention that is designed to prevent the start or resumption of violent conflict by creating a sustainable peace. Students in this course will read about and research the types of peacebuilding programs and initiatives out there, which are effective, and which aim at engaging young people to become peacebuilders in the post conflict societies

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Beginning Potter's Wheel — CER2107.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Aysha Peltz

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Credits: 4

This class is an introduction to using the potter’s wheel as a tool for generating clay forms with an emphasis on pottery making. While focusing on the development of throwing skills, students will explore various possibilities for assembling wheel-thrown elements and will experiment with both functional and non-functional formats. Students will be introduced to the whole

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Beginning Violin and Viola — MIN2241.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Kaori Washiyama

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Credits: 2

Basic techniques will include the reading of music in either treble/or alto clefs in the easy keys. Basic hand positions and appropriate fingerings will be shown, and a rudimentary facility with bow will be developed in order that all students may participate in simple ensemble performance by the end of term. Student must arrange for the use of a college instrument, if needed

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Bennington Biodiversity Project — BIO4303.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Kerry Woods

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Credits: 2

An All-Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI) is an effort to compile the full list of species of all groups present in some area on the planet. No ATBI has ever been (or is ever likely to be) completed, but such efforts have provided striking insights into the largely undocumented diversity of the earth. This class is an ongoing effort towards a working ATBI for

Science and Mathematics Environment

Bennington Review: A Practicum in Literary Editing and Publishing—Poetry — LIT4330.02; section 2

Fall 2016

Instructor: Michael Dumanis

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Credits: 2

This two-credit course involves working on the editing, promotion, and production of Bennington’s newly relaunched national print literary magazine, Bennington Review. Students will serve as Editorial and Publicity Assistants for the magazine, studying and practicing all aspects of magazine editing, as well as helping with the journal’s day-to-day operations. The

Literature

Bennington Review: A Practicum in Literary Editing and Publishing—Prose — LIT4330.01; section 1

Fall 2016

Instructor: Michael Dumanis

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Credits: 2

Literature

Berlioz "Symphonie Fantastique" — MTH4422.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Kitty Brazelton

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Credits: 4

This is a course about musical timbre, contrasting timbre, manipulating timbre, "effects" outside the recording studio, timbral weight, opacity, transparency, how it colors what you hear. Color only visible to the mind. (Where does timbre end and harmony begin anyway?) Writer, critic, guitarist, self-taught iconoclast and musical inventor, Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)

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Biogeography, Paleoecology, and Human Origins — BIO4317.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Kerry Woods

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Credits: 4

We explore ecological and evolutionary patterns in broadest spatial and temporal perspective — “big picture” biology. Our general questions are: What shapes patterns in the ranges and distributions of organisms and in overall biodiversity? How do ecological systems respond to long-term and large-scale changes in environment (glaciation, global climate change, plate

Science and Mathematics Environment

Black Studies: Black Film Division — FV2309.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Karthik Pandian

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Credits: 2

This film history course examines the Black American independent cinema of the 1960s-80s. We will screen landmark works by filmmakers such as Charles Burnett, Haile Gerima, Kathleen Collins and Julie Dash along with videos by contemporary artists. Screenings will be followed by discussions exploring the key thematic and formal preoccupations of black filmmakers of the era

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Black Studies: Black Music Division — MUS2149.02

Fall 2016

Instructor: Michael Wimberly

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Credits: 2

In the early 70s Bennington music faculty members Bill Dixon and Milford Graves guided Bennington students through the black esthetic lens with music, words and deeds. Their compositions, teachings, and innovative approaches to creative music boldly addressed a multitude of issues inspired by the Civil Rights Movement. This 7 week course explores social, political and

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Black Studies: Black Video Division — FV4317.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Karthik Pandian

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Credits: 4

This intermediate video production course imagines the past, present and future of black lives at 51��. Through archival work on the history of the Black Music Division, research into contemporary issues of race on campus and speculative explorations of the future of these issues and the aesthetic problems they pose, students will work collaboratively to

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Borders and Border Crossings — ANT2209.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Laura Nussbaum-Barberena

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Credits: 4

Why do people create borders? Are there borders we perceive but do not acknowledge? How do borders shape the ways we see each other, within and across borders? In what ways do borders influence the way people interact with those they encounter within and across borders? In this course, students will examine borders in a global perspective. The course will begin by discussing

Society Culture and Thought

Broadway Musicals and the American Dream — DRA2268.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Jean Randich

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Credits: 4

This course offers a chronological survey of American musical theater history, through a thematic focus on the Broadway musical’s circulations of the “American Dream.” The course examines not only changing notions of the American Dream from the late nineteenth through the early twenty-first centuries, but considers contrasting definitions of the myth, as articulated through

Drama

Broken Promises: Crime, Punishment, and Social Contract Theory — POL2112.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Crina Archer

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Credits: 4

In liberal democratic states, an important component of justification for punishing criminals is drawn from the social contract theory tradition of Western political thought. The state has a right to punish the lawbreaker, social contract theory tells us, because the state’s enforcement of the laws is authorized by a mutual promise that lies at the basis of all political

Society Culture and Thought

Cello — MIN4355.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Nat Parke

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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 (T 6:30pm - 8:00pm) seven times per term

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Chemistry 1: Chemical Principles (with lab) — CHE2211.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: John Bullock

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Credits: 4

This course is the first of a four-course chemistry sequence covering general, organic and biochemistry. Students do not need to take the entire sequence. We 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

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Chemistry 3: Organic Reactions and Mechanisms (with lab) — CHE4213.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: John Bullock

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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 and Mathematics

Chinese Guanxi — CHI2130.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Ginger Lin

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Credits: 4

Chinese has no verb conjugation, no plural, no gender, no articles or subject and object forms. It’s very easy to speak Chinese, because Chinese grammar is so simple. That’s because in Chinese language as in culture everything depends on context. Relationship (guanxi) is the most important. All the children of one’s parent’s siblings are just called cousin in English. However

Languages

Chinese Zen (Chan) — CHI4323.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Ginger Lin

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Credits: 4

Although commonly thought of as Japanese and known in America by it's Japanese name, Zen, Chan Buddhism was truly “made in China” and was heavily influenced by Daoism. Chan has had a profound influence on Chinese and East Asian art and thought, but this philosophy remains relevant to modern life in both the East and West. Students will be introduced to the spirit of Chan

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Choice and Consequence: Alternative History — DRA2277.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Sherry Kramer

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Credits: 4

“The theater is the place where we learn how to be. At its best, it is a rehearsal for the great moments of our life, including our happinesses. Love, death, we see it on stage and it prepares us for our life.” —John Guare A play is a metaphoric and empathic art form that seduces us into imaginatively making choices and suffering consequences along with the characters on stage.

Drama

Chromophilia: Explorations in Color — VA4215.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Ann Pibal

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Credits: 4

Chromophilia, a term coined by contemporary aesthetic philosopher David Batchelor, refers to intense passion and love for color. What is it about color that has the power to induce reverie, and conversely to manipulate, or disgust? How de we understand and respond to color from philosophical, phenomenological, and cultural vantage points? How as artists can we become the master

Visual Arts

Clarinet — MIN4223.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Bruce Williamson

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Credits: 2

Study of clarinet technique and repertoire with an emphasis on tone production, dexterity, reading skills, and improvisation. This course is for intermediate-advanced students only. Corequisite: Participation in Music Workshop (T 6:30pm – 8:00pm).

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Class, Race, and Gender: Rewriting the Rules of the Game — APA4155.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Mohammad Moeini Feizabadi

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Credits: 4

“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.” —Edmund Burke “Institutions are the rules of the game.” —Douglass C. North In this course, first we will try to answer several questions: why is our society so polarized, and what are the roots of social conflict? Why do social groups confront each other at all, and how? Can we understand

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Clay Formulation — CER2142.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Jack Yu

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Credits: 2

This course will focus on the technical requirements needed for beginning students to progress to intermediate or advanced projects in ceramics. In this course students will gain a fundamental understanding of the basic ceramic materials and their uses in the formulation of clay recipes and slip surfaces. Through a combination of lecture and hands-on experimentation students

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