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100 Experiments — PHO4131.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
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Credits: 4
This course is a hands-on exploration of the many photographic materials spanning the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Over the term, students will study ten specific processes and be asked to create ten experiments utilizing each one. Processes include digital camera lucida drawings, pinhole images, cyanotypes, analog color negatives, Polaroid images, scanograms, UV infrared
Visual Arts

A Brief Introduction to Astronomical Observing — PHY2212.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Hugh Crowl
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Credits: 1
In this course, students will learn the fundamentals of observing the night sky with a telescope. This course will teach how to find the basic constellations and how to use both manual and computerized telescopes to point at celestial objects in the night sky. While there will be some classroom time to teach fundamental concepts, the vast majority of the class will consist of
Science and Mathematics

A History of Economic Thought — PEC2268.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
This course explores how ideas about the economy 鈥 from money, to labor, to distribution 鈥 have changed over time. We will focus on modern theories of the economy, including those of the mercantilists, physiocrats, classical political economists, and neoclassical economists, placing these ideas in their global context. Our most central focus will be on thinkers working within
Society Culture and Thought

Advanced Animation — MA4128.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Sue Rees
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Credits: 4
This course is for mid-to-experienced animators. Our work may cover hand drawn animation, rotoscoping, stop motion, replacement animation, sand or paint animation. We will work on ambitious projects, and learn how to finish and polish them. Students will be expected to try new materials, play with scale, and design complex sequences. We will practice combining and layering
Visual Arts Music

Advanced Dramaturgy — DRA4190.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Maya Cantu
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Credits: 4
The dramaturg serves as a powerful medium in the theatre. They bridge the past and the present, the creative team and the audience, while providing critical generosity and historical and literary insight. Focusing upon the practical application of dramaturgy, this course will offer students a credited platform for dramaturgical work oriented toward production. Three groups
Drama Literature

Advanced Film/Video Projects I — FV4476.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Mariam Ghani
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Credits: 4
This course, intended for students who will continue to the Advanced Projects in Film/Video II course in spring 2024, supports advanced students in planning, pre-production, and early production for more complex, larger-scale, longer-duration, self-directed video projects. It also includes a screening series where we watch and analyze the process behind feature and mid-length
Visual Arts

Advanced Improvisation: Scene Work — DRA4386.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Shawtane Bowen
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Credits: 2
In this 7-week course, we will explore different approaches to improvised scene work with an emphasis on methods that exist outside the Upright Citizens Brigade paradigm. These include more Chicago-style improv exercises and techniques, with less emphasis on 'Game', and more of a focus on relationship and character. What time we do spend on 'Game' will be with respect to 'group
Drama

Advanced Printing and Projects in Lithography — PRI4118.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
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Credits: 4
This advanced level course is also an introduction to lithographic processes. Students will start by processing and printing images from limestone and end the semester by exploring the possibilities of making positive films to expose lithographic plates. This studio class is structured around a number of projects, each one ending with a group critique. Students should find the
Visual Arts

Advanced Projects in Dance — DAN4795.01) (new faculty as of 7/11/2023

Fall 2023
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
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Credits: 2
For students with prior experience in dance composition who wish to be involved in making new work for performance or writing project. Taking into account variety of circumstances in the field development, we will consider an expanded notion of how work can be shared with the public. Attention will be given to all of the elements involved in composition and production,
Dance

Advanced Workshop for Painting and Drawing — PAI4404.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Ann Pibal
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Credits: 4
This course is for experienced student artists with a firm commitment to serious work in the studio. Students will work primarily on self-directed projects in an effort to refine individual concerns and subject matter. Students will present work regularly for critique in class as well as for individual studio meetings with the instructor. There will be an emphasis on the
Visual Arts

Anatolian Rock Ensemble: Psychedelia and Social Change in Modern Turkey — MPF4244.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Joseph Alpar
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Credits: 2
This performance ensemble will immerse participants in the distorted lutes, fuzzy guitars, swirling electronic effects, driving percussion, and wailing vocals of rock music in Turkey. Inspired by the music of Elvis Presley and Fats Domino, the earliest Turkish rock musicians began to explore the sonic possibilities of adapting western instruments and amplification to the sounds
Music

Animation Projects(cancelled 4/26/2023) — MA4202.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Sue Rees
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Credits: 4
The course will be for sustained work on an animation or design project, and should be a space for both experimentation, ambition and a consistent endeavor. Students will be expected to create a complete animation, a series of experiments or interactive project. The expectation is that students will be fully engaged in all aspects of the class from critiques, to experimenting
Visual Arts

ARCHIVE and ACCESS: PUBLICATION, PEDAGOGY, and MUTUAL AID as PUBLIC ACTION — APA2018.01

Fall 2023
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Credits: 4
In the Fall of 2023, Bennington students from all years and other invited guests are invited to participate in a special ARCHIVE AND ACCESS workshop cohort, in conjunction with the ongoing 鈥淧UBLICATION and PUBLIC ACTION鈥 and 鈥淵EAR ONE: SEED LAB鈥 public projects, running in Crossett Library, CAPA, and in other pop-up campus and local spaces from 2023-25. 鈥淎RCHIVE and ACCESS鈥 is
CAPA

Ballet Anarchy — DAN4181.01) (cancelled 7/11/2023

Fall 2023
Instructor: Mina Nishimura
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Credits: 2
This course is designed for students who have some ballet experience and are familiar withballet terms and movement vocabulary. While following basic structure and vocabularies that are being used in a traditional ballet class, this course, accompanied by non-traditional music scores such as pop music, offers an opportunity to recalibrate, reactivate, improve, deepen, expand,
Dance

Banjo — MIN2215.01

Fall 2023
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. Students 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. History of the African origins of banjo and its introduction to the western world will be
Music

Bass Intensive — MIN4026.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Michael Bisio
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Credits: 2
Advanced studies in theory relating to performance. Students must be enrolled in Bass with Bisio (MIN4417) simultaneously, no exceptions. This class is only for advanced students and by permission.
Music

Beginning Cello I — MIN2354.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Nat Parke
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Credits: 2
The basics of cello. In a small group or one on one, students will learn how to play the cello, with an emphasis on performance at the term鈥檚 conclusion.
Music

Beginning Guitar — MIN2247.01) (new faculty 9/4/2023

Fall 2023
Instructor: Hui Cox
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Credits: 2
Introduces the fundamentals of acoustic electric 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. Reviewing the history of the guitar and its pioneers and innovators.
Music

Beginning Voice: Movement and Flow — MVO2107.01) (new day/time as of 5/10/2023

Fall 2023
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
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Credits: 2
This class is for anyone wishing to use their body as a resonating instrument. Each class begins with gentle movements on the floor to develop physical awareness and ease, and will progress to vocal warmups, spatial games and exercises that allow the free flow of air, vibration, resonance and emotion. Students will investigate their existing habits and learn fundamentals of
Music

Beyond Plastic Pollution — APA2334.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Judith Enck
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Credits: 1
This is an environmental policy course with a focus on public action.  The class will explore the dimensions of the production, use and disposal of plastics, including climate change implications, alternatives to plastics, and the need for innovation.  Environmental justice implications will be a major part of the class focus, along how plastics impact health and the
CAPA

Beyond Story — FV2129.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Mariam Ghani
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Credits: 2
鈥淔orms are ethical, political, and cultural commitments in their own rights,鈥 as Alexandra Juhasz and Alisa Lebow wrote in their 2018 鈥淏eyond Story鈥 manifesto. The documentary form is also known by another name: 鈥渘on-narrative.鈥 But over the past two decades, documentary has been increasingly dominated by 鈥渟tory,鈥 in the sense popularized by mainstream fiction films. Stories
Visual Arts Society Culture and Thought

Beyond the Stage: Anthropological Approaches to Performance(cancelled 4/27/2023) — ANT2213.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Steve Moog
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Credits: 4
From wayang shadow-puppetry in Java, to kabuki theater in Japan, to Italian opera, there is a clear connection between culture and performance. Anthropologists have long noted so-called 鈥榗ultural performances鈥 are often imbued with and reflective of beliefs, values, and logics, making them invaluable tools for analyses of culture. Performance theorists have also made the
Society Culture and Thought