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Creating A Successful Residential Community — APA2027.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
Living on campus is an essential part of the Bennington student experience. As the College has one of the more economically and culturally diverse student bodies compared to other elite colleges and universities in the United States, how can students connect with and support one another in a meaningful way and create an inclusive and equitable residential community in this
CAPA

Creative Writing in Spanish — SPA4723.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Lena Retamoso Urbano
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In this course we will explore different literary strategies that several key contemporary authors (known and lesser known) from the Spanish-Speaking World, such as Roberto Bola帽o, Pedro Lemebel, Mariana Enr铆quez, Montserrat 脕lvarez, Blanca Varela, Leopoldo Mar铆a Panero, Juan Villoro, Enrique Vila-Matas, among others, have used to configure their imaginary and alternative
Cultural Studies and Languages

Cr茅atrices — FRE4721.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: No毛lle Rouxel-Cubberly
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Their films, their books, their work, their lives have marked and shaped many lives, and still do. This course will focus on selected works of French and francophone women creators 鈥 authors, painters, choreographers, stand-up comedians, advocates, and scholars. We will explore a variety of genres and forms of expressions.  Readings include excerpts from Histoire de
Cultural Studies and Languages

Critical Dance Processes: Actions I — DAN4800B.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
BFA students only This course gives students the opportunity to encounter, participate in and design choreographic practices with an emphasis on the vast approaches to process and artistic research that are current and emergent in the expanded field of dance. The course challenges students to develop relationships to performance/performative action as research. We will engage
Dance (BFA)

Critical Dance Processes: Research I — DAN4801B.01, section 1

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
BFA students only This course utilizes a seminar and workshop format focusing on conceptual, relational, and material frameworks of the choreographic. Through shaping a bibliographic course archive, we will source current developments within the field of contemporary art making. The class investigations, projects and discussion will yield imaginative and experimental
Dance (BFA)

Critical Dance Processes: Research I — DAN4801B.02, section 2

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
BFA students only This course utilizes a seminar and workshop format focusing on conceptual, relational, and material frameworks of the choreographic. Through shaping a bibliographic course archive, we will source current developments within the field of contemporary art making. The class investigations, projects and discussion will yield imaginative and experimental directions
Dance (BFA)

Critical Dance Studies — DAN2500B.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course looks through multiple modes of questioning, research, and a critically theoretical lens to put into consideration the complex ways that dance shapes and reflects our lives. We will look to scholars, artists, thinkers, and ourselves to process the elliptical paths people take to understand material existence through the relationality of dance. We will try to bring a
Dance (BFA)

CUPS: Mold Making and Slip Casting — CER2208.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This is an introductory course of basic mold making and slip casting techniques for producing systemic components to create a series of functional ware. This course focuses on the development of design concepts through exploration of slip casting methods, application of alteration and assemblage techniques and experimentation of prototype makings to produce ceramic multiples
Visual Arts

Dalcroze Eurhythmics: Music and Motion — MFN2215.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Chris Rose
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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 know and express yourself? Can music help you understand someone else? Emile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865-1950) saw all music as a metaphor for the body experiencing itself. We don鈥檛 just hear music
Music

Dance Intensive: Embodiment through Improvisation and Performance — DAN2354.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course is for students who have a serious interest in dance or desire to explore embodied practice and cognition, whether or not you have previous dance experience. We will consider many aspects of dance making, embodiment, and performance. We will work towards constantly evolving ways to be one鈥檚 own teacher鈥攔ecognizing patterns, heightening awareness of observation, and
Dance

Deep Fakes: An Introduction to Oil Painting — PAI2109.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: J Blackwell
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Fake news, reality television, 鈥淚RL鈥 - asserting the veracity of our perceptions is a constant preoccupation in contemporary culture. What is real? Realism is a widely used term with multiple connotations: verisimilitude, authenticity, objectivity, truth, fact. In this course we will consider how painting reflects and/or perverts 鈥渞eality鈥 by making imitations of historical
Visual Arts

Dickinson and Hopkins — LIT2542.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This seminar will look in depth at the work of two idiosyncratic mid-to-late 19th-century devotional poets, the legendary American recluse Emily Dickinson and the tormented British Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins, both of whom reimagined the lyric poem and revolutionized poetic language, transforming the sound and texture of English verse through their original approaches
Literature

Digital Design Basics — DES2100.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Gus Ramirez
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Credits: 2
This class will cover the essentials of Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Students will learn the foundations of each interface and how to use basic and advanced functions of each program including, but not limited to: artboard and layer management, pen tools and path-finders, text and type formatting, color management, selection tools, and clipping masks. Through a mix of
Visual Arts

Dining Culture In Taiwan — CHI2131.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Days & Time:
Credits: 5
鈥淗ave you eaten yet?鈥 This common Chinese greeting is just one of many common phrases that shows the centrality of food to Taiwanese and Chinese culture. In this course we will focus on the theme of Chinese and Taiwanese food and dining culture as an entr茅e into the study of Chinese language and culture. As Chinese grammar is very simple with no verb conjugation, no plural, no
Cultural Studies and Languages

Directing II — DRA4376.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Kirk Jackson
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
We will address the process of discerning a text鈥檚 dramatic potential and realizing that potential in performance by developing and implementing a directorial approach through analysis and rehearsal techniques. The term is divided between exercises and rehearsal of individual projects. The work of the course includes a midterm Director鈥檚 Approach Essay, a final Rehearsal Log,
Drama

Dis/orientation in Spatial Sound Composition and Expanded Image — MSR4112.01) (cancelled 5/6/2024

Fall 2024
Instructor: Mariam Ghani Senem Pirler
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This course will be based on Sara Ahmed鈥檚 theories on orientation and dis/orientation and her questioning of 鈥淲hat do such moments of disorientation tell us? What do they do, and what can we do with them?鈥 The course will focus on finding recipes for the concept of dis/orientation using immersive audio technologies and expanded images and will focus on materializing the texts
Visual Arts Society Culture and Thought Music

Dramaturgies of Care — APA4169.02

Fall 2024
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Days & Time:
Credits: 1
We all need more care. That much is clear. As it pertains to modern social justice and public action projects, the imperative to incorporate systems of care and healing into the greater conversation has increased dynamically. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and increased environmental issues due to climate change, it has become even more vital to consider holistic care
CAPA Dance Drama

Drawing as Record — DRW2121.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: J Blackwell
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Credits: 4
The fundamentals of drawing are the basic tools for this investigation into seeing and translation. Using simple methods and means, the practice of drawing is approached from both traditional and experimental directions. The focus of this inquiry is on drawing from observation, broadly defined. In class drawing sessions and discussions are complemented by independent, outside
Visual Arts

Drawing Excess: Gesamtkunstwerk — DRW4403.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: J Blackwell
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Credits: 4
The German term Gesamtkunstwerk roughly translates as a "total work of art" and refers to an artistic endeavor wherein various art forms are melded together to form a unified whole. Through the amalgamation of art, craft, music, and performance, Gesamtkunstwerk evokes a realm distinct from our everyday experience. In this course, we will explore the concept of Gesamtkunstwerk
Visual Arts

Drawing Intensive: Conditions for Visual Inquiry — DRW4238.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Ann Pibal
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Credits: 4
What strategies do artists use to efficiently develop an initial idea? How does one sustain a meaningful, vital, creative inquiry? How can a direct connection be made between daily life and making images, and between the personal, and public or political worlds? This intermediate level course will address these questions through an intensive immersion in drawing and
Visual Arts

Drum Set Fundamentals — MIN2261.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This course is for students who have moderate experience in playing drum set, but also for novice. Students who have some background in playing drum set will have an opportunity to fine-tune their fundamentals by working on rudimentary stick control and overall drum set technique, which includes grooves (beats) and drum fills. Students who are new to the drum set will begin
Music

Duets: Making and Moving — DAN4368.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Dana Reitz
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Credits: 2
This course invites students to create duets using a number of compositional tools and improvisational and performance strategies. Dancers working together will inspire each other based on their relationship. As material reveals itself, moment to moment, consider that the dancers will be 鈥渢eaching鈥 each other as they work. This premise will allow us to learn from one another.
Dance

Dynamic Anatomy — DAN2359.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Levi Gonzalez
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Credits: 2
This course creates a space for the study of anatomy and its application to movement techniques. This work examines different sections of the skeleton such as the pelvis, legs, spine, and shoulder girdle. We will also address the psoas muscle as the pillar(s) of the body connecting our lower and upper halves. This work aims to release the joints and increase the space within.
Dance

Earth Materials (with Lab) — ES4102.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Tim Schroeder
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Credits: 4
The study of minerals and rocks is fundamental to earth science as well as understanding and developing solutions for most environmental problems. All products consumed by people are either directly removed from the earth or grown in a medium consisting largely of earth materials. The nature of the earth materials in any region has great bearing on how human activities will
Science and Mathematics Environment