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Visual Arts Lecture Series — VA2999.01

Fall 2024

Instructor: Vanessa Lyon

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Credits: 1

Each term, Bennington Visual Arts offers a program of 4-5 lectures by visiting arts professionals: artists, curators, historians and critics, selected to showcase the diversity of contemporary art practices. Designed to enhance a broader and deeper knowledge of various disciplines and issues in the Visual Arts and to stimulate campus dialogue around topical issues in

Visual Arts

Visual Arts Lecture Series Seminar — VA4218.01

Fall 2024

Instructor: Vanessa Lyon

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Credits: 2

This discussion-animated, readings-based seminar provides art historical, cultural, and critical contexts for the Visual Arts Lecture Series (VALS). In addition to our ongoing interrogation of the public lecture as such, students present their own work (in any field) and analyze the technical and stylistic aspects of structuring an effective and engaging ‘talk.’ The course

Visual Arts

Voice Performance Intensive — MVO4404.01, section 1

Fall 2024

Instructor: Virginia Kelsey

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Credits: 4

For students of varying levels of singing ability. This course will teach fundamental concepts of healthy voice technique that can be applied to singing in any style. Students will work towards individual goals through regular practice of warmups, vocalizations, and awareness exercises, and progress will be assessed by preparation and performance of specific song assignments.

Music

Voice Performance Intensive — MVO4404.03, section 3) (cancelled 9/12/2024

Fall 2024

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 2

For students of varying levels of singing ability. This course will teach fundamental concepts of healthy voice technique that can be applied to singing in any style. Students will work towards individual goals through regular practice of warmups, vocalizations and awareness exercises, and progress will be assessed by preparation and performance of specific song assignments.

Music

Voice Performance Intensive — MVO4404.02, section 2

Fall 2024

Instructor: Virginia Kelsey

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Credits: 4

Music

Weird Covers — MCO4173.01

Fall 2024

Instructor: Nicholas Brooke

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Credits: 2

A cover song that veers from the original is a time-tested way for singers to plant a stylistic flag, from Captain Beefheart’s unhinged take on "Moonlight in Vermont" to Lauryn Hill’s pioneering "Killing Me Softly." In this class, you’ll be asked to write weird covers, versions of songs that rewrite style, affect, and genre. Sometimes we’ll work in groups and individually, and

Music

What Can One Person Do — DRA4394.01

Fall 2024

Instructor: Sherry Kramer

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Credits: 4

One of the primary jobs of the storytelling tradition is to sing the songs of a culture’s heroes. In this class we’re going to take a look at what a hero is and what it means to write and sing the songs that immortalize them. And by songs I mean…plays and movies. We will attempt to define what a hero is, what a hero was, what a hero could be. We will look at the everyman hero,

Drama

What is Capitalism? — PEC2267.01

Fall 2024

Instructor: Emma Kast

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Credits: 4

What is capitalism? When and where did it begin? This course introduces students to key features of capitalism as an economic system and a way of life that has had profound social and political consequences for human societies around the world. It is the primary aim of this course to get a better sense for what capitalism really is, and to uncover and evaluate some of the most

Society Culture and Thought

Women and Enlightenment — HIS4123.01

Fall 2024

Instructor: Carol Pal

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Credits: 4

The Enlightenment might be considered one of the most enduring revolutions in Europe. The invention of empirical science, new philosophies, and the secular discourse of the various Enlightenments (French, Scottish, English, and German) created the intellectual platform on which we are still standing today. It was also a movement in which women were visible and prominent –

Society Culture and Thought

Word Play In The Press Room — PRI4220.02) (cancelled 4/30/2024

Fall 2024

Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline

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Credits: 2

This class offers participants a unique chance to develop word-poem stories while simultaneously learning traditional letterpress relief printing techniques, making a distinctive multidisciplinary connection to letterforms on paper. Word play refers to the fact that we will be inventing poems spontaneously, using improvisation and therefore will become involved imaginatively

Visual Arts

World Building — DRA2381.01

Fall 2024

Instructor: Tilly Grimes

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Credits: 2

Every fictional universe has its own history and culture, geography and ecology that act as a backdrop to the narratives that inhabit it. This course will investigate the relationship between such a fantastical place and its characters – with a particular emphasis on the philosophy and symbology of their clothes. This class will be both an exploration of existing media

Drama

“Call Me Maybe”: The Telephone as Multimedia — MS4111.01

Fall 2024

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

From pop songs like “You Used to Call Me on My Cell Phone” (Hotline Bling) to “Call Me Maybe,” and from our contemporary uses, it’s clear that the telephone has become so much more than a phone. In this course, we will study the telephone as an interdisciplinary device with a long history and divergent uses in order to learn key topics in media studies that also apply to many

Society Culture and Thought

“My father said to my mother…”: Literary Portrayals of the Modern Italian Family — CSL2131.01) (course code changed 6/3/2024

Fall 2024

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

“Two years before leaving home, my father said to my mother that I was very ugly.” Thus begins Elena Ferrante’s coming-of-age novel that tells us, without qualms, about The Lying Life of Adults. This course will focus on Italian first-person fictional accounts of family life, which we will analyze with the support of relevant literary criticism, including love, Feminist, and

Cultural Studies and Languages Literature