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Fall 2018

Renaissance and Reformation — HIS2110.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Carol Pal

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Credits: 4

This course is a survey of the cultural, social, and religious movements that transformed Europe between 1350 and 1700. These revolutions in Western thought gave birth to the Enlightenment, and the intellectual outlook that still characterizes our culture today. Using primary source materials such as letters, literature, court records, diaries, and paintings, we examine both

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Research Methods in the Social Sciences — SCT2139.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Ella Ben Hagai

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Credits: 4

In the information age and the era of fake news, the ability to critically assess empirical research is essential for a sound view of reality. In this introductory seminar, students will gain the tools to understand, evaluate, and conduct empirical research. Students will obtain research skills through active exploration of different research methodologies. First, students will

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Restorative Justice In Bennington — APA4123.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Alisa Del Tufo

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Credits: 2

Students will deepen their existing knowledge of restorative practices through reading, writing and reflection. There will also be substantial work in the field to develop programs that strengthen restorative justice in Bennington County. Specifically, students will work on three related activities that will have local impacts: 1. Working to implement restorative initiatives

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Rhetoric: The Art and Craft of Persuasion — PHI2144.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Karen Gover

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Credits: 4

The ability to speak and write persuasively is an essential skill for everyone. Whether you are writing a plan essay, applying for a job, or running for public office, you need to be persuasive and compelling. This course is a practical workshop in rhetoric. Students will write, deliver, and critique short speeches in class. We will learn classic rhetorical terms and techniques

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Rhythmic Fundamentals — MFN2117.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Susie Ibarra

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Credits: 2

This course is an introduction to rhythmic analysis, dictation, transcription and theory. Students will study these rhythmic concepts across several styles of music such as classical, jazz, pop, world music, electronic music and rock. It is preferable that each student has a beginner's knowledge of the fundamentals of music, but it is not required. Vocalists and

Music

Robert Frost and the Rural Authentic — LIT2353.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Stephen Metcalf

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Credits: 2

Robert Frost was born in 1873, the year Thomas Hardy published Far From The Madding Crowd, and he died in 1963, the year Bob Dylan brought out Freewheelin’. In a life that spanned the better part of the 20th century, Frost experienced the emergence of modern America. His poetry–with its focus on the small New England village and the family farm, and its exquisitely preserved

Literature

Sage City Symphony — MPF4100.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke

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Credits: 1

Sage City Symphony is a community orchestra which invites student participation. The Symphony is noted for the policy of commissioning new works by major composers, in some instances student composers, as well as playing the classics. There are openings in the string sections, and occasionally by audition for solo winds and percussion. There will be two concerts each term.

Music

Samurai and Art — JPN4301.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida

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Credits: 4

What is the relationship between samurai warriors and art? It is hard to imagine the two words – warriors and art - in one sentence. However, many of samurai warriors practiced and enjoyed various types of arts. For example, the powerful feudal samurai warriors, Nobunaga Oda and Hideyoshi Toyotomi, practiced closely with a tea master, Sen No Rikyu, and enjoyed tea ceremony.

Languages

Saxophone — MUS4049.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Michael Kolodny

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Credits: 2

Music

Screenwriting: Scene and Structure — LIT2326.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Manuel Gonzales

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Credits: 4

Reading contemporary screenplays and story treatments, we will discuss the structure and scene work that goes into writing a successful screenplay. Almost without fail, all screenplays utilize a familiar and easy to learn three-act structure, but the very best screenwriters manipulate this structure nimbly via character development, excellent dialogue, and strong storytelling

Literature

Senior Projects — LIT4795.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Phillip B. Williams

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Credits: 4

For seniors working on special projects or senior theses. Each student will devote the term to completing the draft of a unified manuscript–typically 75 pages of fiction or creative nonfiction, 50 pages of criticism, 30 pages of poetry, or a lengthy translation project. Each week, the class will critique individual manuscripts-in-progress. These peer critiques will be

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Senior Seminar in Society, Culture, and Thought — SCT4750.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Noah Coburn, Carol Pal and John Hultgren

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Credits: 4

This advanced research seminar offers students the opportunity to conduct culminating work in Society, Culture and Thought (SCT) in the form of an independent research project. For most students, this will be a one-semester project. For other students, this will be the first half of a year-long project that involves fieldwork, archival research, and/or the collection of data.

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Shakespeare: The History Plays — LIT2214.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Annabel Davis-Goff

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Credits: 4

We will read and watch seven of Shakespeare history plays (two Roman and five English). We will examine the historical background of each play, the sources from which Shakespeare drew his material, and a range of critical responses to the plays. Classes will also include discussion, written responses, and student recitals of selected scenes or speeches. Students will write two

Literature

Slip Casting Ceramics for Functional Wares — CER2144.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Yoko Inoue

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Credits: 4

This is an introductory course to learn basic mold making and slip casting techniques for producing a series of functional tableware. It focuses on the development of design concept through exploration of material transformation and various casting methods. We will experiment with non-ceramic material to make prototypes for mass production. We will explore alteration and

Visual Arts

Small Books and Zines: The Sequential Image and Word — DRW4267.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Mary Lum

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Credits: 4

In the gap between individual images and motion pictures lies the world of artists’ books and zines. A wide range of literary, poetic, and fine art structures make up the history of these media, and some of the richest examples cross over into the underground and various subcultures. The focus of this course is on the conception, production, and critique of small, image based

Visual Arts

Social Practices in Art — DA4103.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Robert Ransick

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Credits: 4

In this course, we examine the history of social practice and focus in on how artists are moving out of the studio and into the public realm with their work. Social practices in art incorporates many diverse strategies that engage social forms from public discourse, activism, online networks, shared meals, street interventions, social sculpture, performance, artist

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Sociological Imagination — SOC2204.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Debbie Warnock

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Credits: 4

C. Wright Mills describes the sociological imagination as a “quality of mind” that enables one to view the relations between “history and biography” within society. The core work of sociology is to identify ways in which one’s own seemingly unique “personal troubles” are in fact connected to larger “public issues.” In this course students will work on developing and refining

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Software Engineering for the Liberal and Visual Arts — CS4107.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Ursula Wolz

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Credits: 4

According to Wikipedia “Software Engineering is the application of engineering to the development of software in a systematic method." Students in this class will participate as a team in the development of a single cross-platform software system that supports liberal and visual arts. A pitch concept will be collaboratively developed in August

Science and Mathematics

Spatial Interventions — VA4127.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Donald Sherefkin Dana Reitz

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Credits: 4

For this class, we will be constructing elements to directly interact with the structures and the spaces of the campus, with the intention of creating or revealing new understandings of our built environment. In the process of doing so, we will be exploring our own physical interactions with these shifting locations. Assignments will require that projects address the physical

Visual Arts Dance Drama

Special Topics in Video Production: Indirect Memory: Experimental Documentary and Parafictional Approaches to the Moving Image — FV4219.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Chelsea Knight

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Credits: 4

This course explores the boundaries between fiction and documentary in film and video, and registers shifts in contemporary art in relation to these forms. In particular, we will look at the way experimental movements in documentary and carefully constructed parafictions can engage and interact with political spaces differently than traditional documentary or fiction. Students

Visual Arts

Stage Management — DRA2241.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Michael Giannitti

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Credits: 4

The key role of the stage manager as both collaborative artist and manager in the production process is explored by students in this class. Readings, discussions, and projects on topics including scheduling, play breakdowns, prompt book preparation, blocking notation, ground plan and theatre layout, and the running of rehearsals and performances are included. The relationship

Drama

Stars and Galaxies — PHY2106.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Hugh Crowl

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Credits: 4

All but a handful of the objects you see in the night sky are stars in our Galaxy, the Milky Way. Although we know about these stars only from studying their light, we know today that they are not just points of light, but large, gravitationally‐bound balls of plasma governed by the laws of physics. Stars, together with dust, gas, and dark matter, are found in larger structures

Science and Mathematics

Studies in American Music History — MHI4103.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Kitty Brazelton

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Credits: 4

Citizens of 51�� make music---and listen to music---in America. What does that mean? Obscure corners of the American past still ring in the music we make, but we play on unaware. Why do we like this music but not that? How are our tastes shaped by a heritage we know little or nothing about? The dark sins of minstrel music that tracked into Broadway and Hollywood

Music

Studio Practices: Mixing Decades — MSR4053.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Senem Pirler

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Credits: 4

This course will offer an overview of studio recording through critical listening sessions, recording sessions, and hands-on exercises. We will reverse-engineer recordings - such as Pet Sounds, Betty Davis, Purple Rain, Mezzanine, Lemonade and others - and reproduce “sound-alikes” using various techniques such as minimalist drum miking, echo chambers, using spill and isolation

Music

Studying Place by Metes and Bounds — ENV4232.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Miroslava Prazak

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Credits: 4

In New England, parcels of land were traditionally described in reference to specific existing landscape features—a system called “metes and bounds.” This course, grounded in the ecology, history and culture of the Bennington region over its 250-plus year history, explores human interactions with the biophysical environment to produce livelihoods as well as economic commodities

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