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Fiddle — MIN2227.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: John Kirk
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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 skills
Music

Film/Video History: Insiders vs. Outsiders: The Position of the Filmmaker in Postcolonial and Ethnographic Film and Video — FV4217.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Chelsea Knight
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Credits: 4
This course examines various filmmaking strategies around the representation of social conflict and post-colonialism. In particular, it examines the ethics around how we look out into the world as film and video makers from a given position and a given time: either as placed within a community or outside of it. The course
Visual Arts

Films by Photographers — PHO2151.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
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Credits: 2
We will be looking at a wide range of films made by internationally recognized photographers from the mid-20th century to the present moment. The Populi site for this class will provide weekly essays about the photographer and also a small pdf gallery of 15-20 photographs for you to look through before our weekly film screenings. I have also identified books on reserve in
Visual Arts

Finding Form: Dance — DAN4319.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Dana Reitz
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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 creation. When making new artwork, we are constantly balancing and integrating the need for exploratory freedom and the desire for structural integrity. How can we use spontaneous impulses to help find form, and how can
Dance

First-Year Dance Intensive — DAN2107.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Terry Creach
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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’s own physical awareness and movement skills; improvisational structures that test
Dance

Food in Italy — ITA2114.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
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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
Languages

Forests: An Introduction to Ecology and Evolution (with lab) — BIO2109.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Kerry Woods
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Credits: 4
New England is one of the most heavily forested regions in the United States. 14,000 years ago it was covered by ice. When humans arrived about 11,000 years ago, they found forests already established — and began reshaping the landscape through hunting and fire and, beginning about 2000 years ago, farming. European colonists caused further ecological change by expanding
Science and Mathematics Environment

Form and Process: Investigations in Painting — PAI2107.01, section 1

Fall 2018
Instructor: Ann Pibal
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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

Form and Process: Investigations in Painting — PAI2107.02, section 2

Fall 2018
Instructor: Josh Blackwell
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Credits: 4
This course introduces a variety of materials, techniques and approaches to painting with oils. 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
Visual Arts

Foundations of Photography: Digital Practice — PHO2153.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Elizabeth White
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Credits: 4
This course offers an overview of foundational tools and techniques in digital photographic practice. Students will learn to shoot with digital SLR cameras, process raw files in Lightroom, properly scan negatives, and produce digital portfolios and high quality inkjet prints. In addition to technical instruction, a selection of images from historical and contemporary
Visual Arts

GANAS — APA4154.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
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Credits: 4
In terms of public action, GANAS remains a community-driven, cross-cultural association that provides students with volunteer opportunities to engage with the predominantly undocumented Latino migrant worker population. These opportunities are facilitated by the group itself, in addition to partnerships with organizations such as Head Start, the Bennington Free Clinic, and the
CAPA Languages

Geographies of U.S. Empire: Immigration, Race, and Citizenship — SCT2137.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Emily Mitchell-Eaton
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Credits: 4
This course examines the complex historical and contemporary formations that constitute U.S. empire, through a particular attention to immigration, race, and citizenship. Its aim is to provide students with a critical view of how immigration law has formed part of U.S. national and imperial projects. Using an geographically informed interdisciplinary approach, we will explore
Society Culture and Thought

Global Ethics/Global Justice — PHI2110.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Paul Voice
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Credits: 4
What do we owe to distant others? What responsibilities do we have to address the misfortunes of citizens of other countries? What, if anything, do we owe future generations? Does the idea of global justice make sense? These and other questions are addressed through a careful reading and analysis of a variety of philosophical arguments.
Society Culture and Thought

Global History of Architecture — AH2127.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Razan Francis
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Credits: 4
This introductory course examines major monuments and urban developments from the early modern period (roughly 1400 C.E.) to the present. Moving away from a Eurocentric focus, it examines architecture globally across time and space. For example, we will analyze the plan of Tenochtitlán (Mexico) and the Forbidden City (Beijing, China). We will explore, when discernible, regional
Visual Arts

Globalization — ANT4107.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Miroslava Prazak
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Credits: 4
The world is changing rapidly in the 21st century, but what shape is it taking? People are on the move, spurred by shifts in the global economy, political systems, communication and technology. What is the effect of such change on human cultures and the environment? We begin by exploring some of the principal historical and contemporary drivers of change: the development of
Society Culture and Thought

Graduate Assistantship in Dance — DAN5301.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Terry Creach
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Credits: 4
Graduate students in Dance are integrated into the dance program as teaching assistants, production assistants or dance archival assistants. In consultation with their academic advisors and the dance faculty, MFA candidates develop an assistantship schedule of approximately ten hours weekly.
Dance

Graduate Research in Dance — DAN5305.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Dana Reitz
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Credits: 6
This class is designed for MFA students to show works-in-progress, try out ideas with their colleagues, and discuss issues involved in the development of new work. The weekly format is determined with the students. Outside of class, students develop their own independent creative projects that will be presented to the public, either formally or informally, by the end of the
Dance

Graduate Research in Public Action — APA5102.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Robert Ransick
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Credits: 6
This class is designed for MFA students to research and develop new work, show work-in-progress, be in critical dialogue with their colleagues, and discuss issues involved in the development of new work. The weekly format is determined with the students. Outside of class, students develop their own independent creative projects that will be presented to the public, either
CAPA

Graduate Seminar on Pedagogy and Public Action — APA5103.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Robert Ransick Susan Sgorbati
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Credits: 4
This course is centered on conducting research and mapping the field of socially and civically engaged pedagogy within a global context. What capacities and skills do students who create artworks in collaboration with the public need to acquire and what is the history of teaching these practices?
CAPA

Groundwork: What You Need to Know to Make Music — MFN2110.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Kitty Brazelton Andrew Greenwald
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Credits: 4
You may or may not play an instrument. It doesn't matter. What matters is how you think, how you hear, how you communicate, and your willingness to adapt that knowledge to the musical field. We will learn to listen to music, talk about music, improvise music, write music, write about music, read music, and read about music, but most of all we will learn to collaborate to make
Music

Group Composition Intensive — MCO4116.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Kitty Brazelton
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Credits: 2
In a group salon, students present and critique compositions written for their bands. Students are encouraged to integrate broad music learning experience: music theory, history and composition, sound design and recording, and/or voice and instrumental instruction. The object is to use this educational breadth to make more discerning and innovative choices in songwriting,
Music