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Spring 2017

Environmental Chemistry — CHE2128.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre

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Credits: 4

Are you interested in environmental issues, but never got around to taking chemistry? Do you wonder why PFOA is transported by water, what the effect of drugs in wastewater is, or if frog mutations are pesticide related? To understand these and many other environmental questions, you need to know some chemistry. This introductory class is for people who want to learn

Science and Mathematics Environment

Existentialism and Phenomenology — PHI2128.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Karen Gover

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Credits: 4

Phenomenology is the philosophical study of the structures of human experience, whereas existentialism is the study of human existence. These two movements intersect and overlap in the history of philosophy. This course undertakes a survey of these movements and their central concepts as they are found in the writings of such thinkers as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger,

Society Culture and Thought

Experimental Music Production — MSR4103.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: David Baron

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Credits: 2

Create experimental sound works in the Jennings recording studio. We will cover methods of recording, mic’ing, sampling, extreme processing, and mix techniques. Tape concrete, electro-acoustic, plunderphonics, and mangling audio mayhem.

Music

Explorations in Public History — Canceled

Spring 2017

Instructor: Eileen Scully

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Credits: 4

This class introduces students to the fundamentals of Public History, meaning history that is generated for wide audiences through collaborations with communities, stakeholders, and professional academics. Through student-led discussions and short weekly assignments, students will develop a working knowledge of Public History, its scope, controversies and opportunities. A major

CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Fascinating Rhythm: Costume Design for Musicals — DRA4266.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Charles Schoonmaker

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Credits: 4

In this class we will focus on designing the costumes for a series of increasingly complex stage musicals. We will listen to recordings, read and discuss scripts and investigate character. Possible projects might include a non- scripted work such as 'Songs for a New World' by Jason Robert Brown, a documentary based musical such as 'Grey Gardens' by Doug Wright, Scott Frankel

Drama Music

Fiddle — MIN4327.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: John Kirk

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Credits: 2

For the experienced (2+years of playing) violinist. Lessons in traditional styles of fiddling - Quebecois, New England, Southern Appalachian, Cajun, Irish, and Scottish. This tutorial is designed to heighten awareness of the variety of ways the violin is played regionally and socially in North America (and indeed around the world these days) and to give practical music skills

Music

Film Scores and Audio Post-Production — MSR4109.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: David Baron

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Credits: 2

Why do professional media productions sound so good? What are the tricks and tools of making a great soundtrack for visual presentation? Learn how to make compelling, dynamic, clear, and professional sounding audio productions for visual work. We will create entire audio soundtracks from scratch – music, dialog, foley, and sfx. Advanced mixing and

Music

Finding Form: Dance — DAN4319.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Dana Reitz

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Credits: 4

Looking at forms found in nature, architecture, music, drama, literature, etc., we search for examples to help formulate ideas and structures for movement-based compositional purposes. How can we as artists find form that best supports our investigations and challenges our working processes; how do we analyze, interpret and further utilize form that is inherent in work that is

Dance

Form and Process: Investigations in Painting — PAI2107.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Ann Pibal

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Credits: 4

This course introduces a variety of materials, techniques and approaches to painting. Emphasis is placed on developing and understanding of color, form and space as well as individual research and conceptual concerns. The daily experience of seeing, along with the history of art, provides a base from which investigations are made. Formal, poetic, and social implications within

Visual Arts

Form to Function/Digital Design to Analog Build — SCU2124.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Jon Isherwood

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Credits: 4

The practice of functional object making is undergoing an intense transition into digital production. Additive manufacturing has been posed as the next trillion dollar business; in your lifetime you will be able to download objects, tables, chairs, clocks and manufacture them in your own home. Designers, architects, and artists are finding digital design and fabrication

Visual Arts

France contemporaine: race, classe, et religion — FRE4495.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly

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Credits: 4

This course will explore socio-political issues of contemporary France. Themes will include the end of World War II and the disintegration of the French colonial empire. The period also produced migration waves originating from newly independent, post-colonial territories. The presence of these migrants and their offspring has profoundly transformed French

Languages

Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2394.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Michael Dumanis

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Credits: 4

This course, intended for students who have not yet taken a Reading and Writing course at Bennington, will serve as an intensive and comprehensive introduction to the workshop method. We will exploring the genres of poetry, literary fiction, and creative non-fiction in order to build working knowledge on the craft of creative writing. Students will complete weekly writing

Literature

Future Generations: Urban and Rural Revitalization and the Arts — APA2310.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: David Bond

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Credits: 4

This course examines the art practices in city, town and village communities both past and present to better understand its effectiveness with multiple generations in a community. How have artists and their communities engaged and intervened with public life? Students will study historical and current artists works in communities that address public issues of inequity, social

CAPA

Genetics: Principles and Practice (with lab) — BIO4207.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Amie McClellan

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Credits: 4

What are genes? How do they work? How are they passed on? This course will provide an introduction to modes of inheritance as well as to genes, their structure, and their regulation. Topics discussed in this class will include, but are not limited to, the molecular structure of DNA and RNA, Mendelian inheritance, molecular properties of genes, and the regulation of gene

Science and Mathematics

Geometry and Physics — MAT2245.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre

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Credits: 4

This is an introductory course on modern geometry and its relationship to physics. We will be looking at how space might have more than three dimensions, or be combined with time, or be closed in on itself in different ways (such as the surface of a sphere or a donut), or be curved in various ways. Our current theories and observations in physics indicate that space and time

Science and Mathematics

Glaze Chemistry — CER2141.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Jack Yu

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Credits: 2

This course will focus on the technical requirements needed for beginning students to progress to intermediate or advanced projects in ceramics. This course will focus on the exploration of fired ceramic surfaces and the fundamentals of formulating glazes for use in ceramic art. An emphasis will be placed on understanding the chemistry behind glazes and how the molecular

Visual Arts

Global Environmental Politics — POL2108.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Tim Schroeder

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Credits: 4

Contemporary efforts to confront our most pressing ecological problems are characterized by a tension between the global realities of these problems and the territorial borders and logics that define "sovereign nation-states." This course will explore this tension in three parts. First, we will engage with a variety of theoretical and conceptual debates introduced by scholars

Environment Society Culture and Thought

GLocalization Projects — APA4157.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Eileen Scully

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Credits: 4

This course provides opportunities for students to pursue individual and collaborative projects focused on improving state and local governments (villages, towns, counties, states, provinces, and regions) in the United States or elsewhere. Weekly class meetings are opportunities to present and discuss work-in-progress, and to consult one-on-one with the instructor. Some

CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Gothic Vision: Specters of Subversion, Medieval to Now — AH4108.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Vanessa Lyon

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Credits: 4

The Gothic is a worldview equally at home in nostalgia and strangeness. It thirsts for arcane, even perverse, knowledge and is frequently motivated by a fearful fascination with the foreign. In Gothic novels (the first of which appeared in London in 1764) psychic ‘interiority’ is revealed in dark spaces tainted by unthinkable crimes or haunted by spirits. But if seeing is

Visual Arts Literature

Graduate Assistantship in Dance — DAN5301.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Dana Reitz

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Credits: 4

Graduate students in Dance are integrated into the dance program as teaching assistants, production assistants or dance archival assistants. In consultation with their academic advisor and the dance faculty, MFA candidates develop an assistantship schedule of approximately ten hours weekly.

Dance

Graduate Research in Dance — DAN5305.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Terry Creach

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Credits: 6

This class is designed for MFA students to show works-in-progress, try out ideas with their colleagues, and discuss issues involved in the development of new work. The weekly format is determined with the students. Outside of class, students develop their own independent creative projects that will be presented to the public, either formally or informally, by the end of the

Dance

Higher Resolution — FV4102.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Karthik Pandian

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Credits: 2

In this 7-week video production workshop, students will collaborate to make a film that explores the double meaning of resolution – video resolution and conflict resolution. After watching historical film precedents such as Abbas Kiarostami’s Close-up, we will devise and fully realize a narrative short that centers around a conflict using both 16mm film and

CAPA Visual Arts

Honors Seminar: War and Peace — LIT4108.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Annabel Davis-Goff

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Credits: 4

War and Peace, Vanity Fair, and Shirley are novels that are set during the Napoleonic Wars. Charlotte Bronte’s novel is set in a Yorkshire deeply affected by the Peninsular wars, Tolstoy describes both Napoleon’s Russian campaign and the domestic and social life of a huge range of characters, and Thackeray’s greatest novel reaches its climax with the Battle of Waterloo.

Literature

I am a Material — SCU4112.02

Spring 2017

Instructor: John Umphlett

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Credits: 2

What is a more valuable piece of matter? Could it be something that will degrade in this art world and be okay? String, cotton-balls and rubber bands may be what should be affixed to your unique prosthetic to complete a task given. This course will cover information and techniques related to body casting, wire rope rigging, fabricating, building processes and encourage

Visual Arts

Inquiry in the Visual Arts: Outside the Frame — VA4160.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Liz Deschenes

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Credits: 4

This class welcomes students from all of the Visual Arts disciplines who are interested in working and discussing work in an interdisciplinary environment. The course will have two main components that will interspersed throughout the course. Students will learn about how to research for the visual artist. Simultaneously, we will look at how to embark upon inquiry through a

Visual Arts