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Fall 2023

Black Mountain/Beat Poetry — LIT2525.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

The Beats were a mid-20th century group of writers who rebelled against the oppressive societal and cultural norms of 1950s America. These writers celebrated the freedom of the open road, dropping out of school, spoken-word poetry set to jazz, and drug culture. At roughly same time, another community of antiestablishment writers and artists sprung-up at Black Mountain College,

Literature

Bodies in Inner and Outer Spaces — PHO4361.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Terry Boddie

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Credits: 4

What are the ways in which the space the human body occupies affects how we experience it in a photograph? How does the gendered and racialized body communicate through a photograph made in these spaces? What is communicated when figure and space intertwine? Throughout the history of photography, the human figure has been used to intentionally occupy and alter physical spaces.

Visual Arts

Calculus: A Classical Approach — MAT4288.01) (day/time change as of 5/16/2023

Fall 2023

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre

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Credits: 4

This course covers the breadth of university calculus: differentiation, integration, infinite series, and ordinary differential equations. It focuses on concepts and interconnections. In order to cover this much material, computational techniques are de-emphasized. The approach is historically based and classical, following original texts where possible. Further techniques and

Science and Mathematics

Cello — MIN4355.01

Fall 2023

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. A limited number of school cellos are available for loan.

Music

Changing Our Lens: Restorative Justice on Campus and Off — APA2022.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Alisa Del Tufo

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Credits: 4

Restorative Justice is a set of values and practices that are having a considerable impact on the way our justice system, schools, workplaces, conflict zones and communities think about and enact justice. Restorative Justice asks: What if harm doers were given the opportunity to take responsibility and make amends? If survivors were able to be active participants in defining

CAPA

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

Fall 2023

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 properties. The

Science and Mathematics

Chemistry 2: Organic Structure and Bonding (with Lab) — CHE4212.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: John Bullock

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Credits: 4

Building on structural and reactivity insights developed in Chemistry 1, this course delves into molecular structure and modern theories of bonding, especially as they relate to the reaction patterns of functional groups. We will focus on the mechanisms of reaction pathways and develop an understanding for how those mechanisms are experimentally explored. There will be numerous

Science and Mathematics

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

Fall 2023

Instructor: John Bullock

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Credits: 4

Chemistry 3 focuses on the nature and pathways of organic reactions: what the steps are, how we experimentally determine them, and how we can use them to solve practical problems, such as the synthesis of a drug, or understanding the action of an enzyme. Emphasis will be using the general principles of nucleo- and and electrophilicity to provide a logical framework for

Science and Mathematics

Child Development — PSY2212.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Emily Waterman

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Credits: 4

It is trite but true: kids grow up so fast. In this course we will discuss the incredible growth of infants, toddlers, and children in multiple domains (physical, cognitive, emotional/social). We will discover how growth in each domain affects the others. We will explore enduring topics of discourse in child development, such as nature and nurture, individual differences, and

Society Culture and Thought

Chosen Family Style: Queer Asian Pacific American Literature — LIT2529.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Franny Choi

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Credits: 4

To be LGBTQIA and AAPI is to occupy two disparate, marginalized identities that seem constantly to be shifting. What might the literature of this intersection teach us about larger questions of community, belonging, and resistance? This 2000-level class attempts to locate a Queer Asian Pacific America through literature, from the work of early Chinese American lesbian poets

Literature

Chromophilia: Investigations in Color — PAI4215.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Ann Pibal

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Credits: 4

Chromophilia, a term coined by contemporary artist 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 does color work? What is the role of color in painting? In language? How do we understand and respond to color from phenomenological, poetic, philosophical,

Visual Arts

Class Brass: Brass instruments for all levels — MPF2255.01, section 1

Fall 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 1

Let’s get together and make some noise! This class will be a chance to get together once a week and play brass instruments together. You can bring your own brass instrument (trumpet, horn, trombone, baritone, or tuba) or borrow a trumpet or trombone from Jennings. There will be two sections: first seven weeks and second seven weeks, one credit each. You can join one or both.

Music

Class Brass: Brass instruments for all levels — MPF2255.02, section 2

Fall 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 1

Music

Climate Change and the Food System — APA2019.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 2

This course will help prepare students for one of the fastest growing fields of journalism, research and practice. Farmers, reliant on sun, water, and predictable temperature variations, are at the frontline of climate disruptions, as well as being major contributors to those disruptions. The backstory to the food we eat—how it’s grown, who owns it and who eats it—is

CAPA

Co/Lab: Mediating Performance — FV4325.02

Fall 2023

Instructor: Mariam Ghani

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Credits: 2

This 7-week, intermediate-level course is designed to overlap with Dance in the Frame and to facilitate collaborations between performers and other makers, particularly moving image artists and creators interested in interactivity. Students will have the opportunity to work closely with dancers for the first half of class each week, staging and shooting material in weekly

Dance Visual Arts

Collaborative Opera — MPF4207.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Nicholas Brooke

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Credits: 4

What do you think of when you think of “opera”? A star diva? A solitary “genius” composer? People often think of opera as being the product of singular artists performed on a giant stage. But opera began as an experiment in making exciting music theater, and has had different sizes and shapes throughout its history. Like other forms of theater, opera is collaborative and

Music

Collecting and Vetting Public Data for Research — CS4137.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Michael Corey

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Credits: 4

In this course we will go over major methods for collecting and vetting public data to be used in research or computing settings. The course will start by learning about publicly available data sets, then progress through using APIs to call data providers, web-scraping public data, and finally capturing streaming data and converting it into usable datasets. This course will be

Science and Mathematics Society Culture and Thought

Composing for Instruments — MCO4151.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Allen Shawn

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Credits: 4

This class gives composers hands-on practice notating their music and hearing it played by performers playing a variety of instruments. It is meant for fledgling composers, for those who may have composed a lot of music already but have trouble writing their music down, or for those who have never even imagined composing music but would like to try. There are specific

Music

Conservation Paleobiology — BIO4190.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 2

Most conservation biology studies are fairly short-term: years to decades. But, many of the threats to biodiversity, including environmental change, unfold over longer timelines, and dynamic ecological responses to disturbances may not be fully captured in short studies. Paleobiology — the study of fossil organisms — can extend our understanding of population and community

Science and Mathematics

Contemporary Feminisms of Latin America — ANT4112.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

From LasTesis’ 2019 performance going viral to recent victories for reproductive rights in Colombia and Argentina, Latin American feminists have garnered recent international attention and, more importantly, made significant and recognized contributions to feminist theory globally. Using several different sources (ethnographies, documentaries, testimonials, and visual art),

Society Culture and Thought

Costume Design: clothing, body, context — DRA4387.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

We will follow a “page to stage” process on a Broadway Premiere: I Need That by Theresa Rebeck, starring Danny and Lucy Devito at The American Airlines Theatre. Logistics permitting, the course will include a field trip to watch technical rehearsals or a preview performance in New York. In response to reading the play, observing a design meeting and a technical rehearsal

Drama

Creative Practices in Sensory Geopolitics — MS2111.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

This 2000-level media studies course is an introductory course on media studies that draws on case studies from around the world to consider media practices, amongst individual makers and communities as they engage with geopolitics. What are the dimensions of creative practices embedded in global crises? How can we draw out the sensory experiences of media such as touch, sound,

Society Culture and Thought

Culture in a Globalized World(cancelled 4/27/2023) — ANT4151.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Steve Moog

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Credits: 4

People have always been connected, but in the last 40 years, the frequency and magnitude of people’s global interactions have dramatically increased. Look at the clothing you have on today and think of how many people from how many different places were involved in what you are wearing. Social theorists have understood globalization as a consequence of economic forces that

Society Culture and Thought

Dalcroze Eurhythmics: Experiencing Body, Expressive Body — MFN2119.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 2

Dalcroze Eurhythmics is a music class where we practice sensing the body through sound. What do you know that your sentient, feeling body did not first experience? How does music help you express yourself? Can music help you get to know someone else? The feeling body is the single constant throughout all of our experiences, but can be easily forgotten amidst the notes and

Music

Dance Intensive: Embodiment, Technique, Improvisation, Performance — DAN2016.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Levi Gonzalez

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Credits: 4

This course serves as an introduction to dance studies at 51��. It is intended for students new to Bennington who have a serious interest in dance, as well as those with a desire to deeply explore movement and embodied practice as an artistic form, whether or not you have previous dance experience. Through a broad range of cultural and artistic perspectives, we

Dance