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Nature in the Americas — Canceled

Spring 2017
Instructor: David Bond
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Credits: 4
What is Nature? Is Nature the biological substratum of human society or the converging practices of local ecology? Is Nature a potent historical agent in its own right or a philosophical blunder of epic proportions? Such questions have a lively history in the Americas. Indeed, while Nature has a near mythic form in many public debates, much of its content is culled again
CAPA Society Culture and Thought Environment

New Works Ensemble — DRA4279.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Dina Janis
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Credits: 4
In this highly rigorous performance production class- students will work on new material by contemporary playwrights working in the theatre today with a special focus this term on Bennington playwrights current and past. During the term, some of these writers may visit as guest artists, working with the students directly on material they have been exploring as an
Drama

North of the Border: Mexican-American Literature — LIT2257.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
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Credits: 4
What does it mean to be American in a country that once belonged to your ancestors? 35 million Mexicans live in the United States, yet their own stories have been historically underrepresented in both literature and academia in comparison to other Hispanic groups. This course will read and discuss the Mexican-American experience as its evolved through various labels 鈥 Latino,
Literature

Observation, Interpretation, and Construction in Ceramics — CER2143.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Barry Bartlett
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Credits: 4
This class will investigate natural structures as a way to create form and surface. We will study organisms from the animal and plant kingdoms, investigating how they build structures such as hives, nests, tunnels, reefs, shells, growth structures of trees, plants, seed pods, and other natural growth patterns. This research will lead to students proposing a concept and method
Visual Arts

Of Disasters — PEC2103.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Eileen Scully
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Credits: 4
This seminar is concerned with the disaster phenomenon. It examines disasters as deviations from norms. Deviations are observed in nature as extreme conditions realize in people鈥檚 physical environment (for example, extreme temperature, immoderate rainfall, and violent earth movements), and deviations are experienced in people鈥檚 lives as the natural extremes bring
Environment Society Culture and Thought

One Man鈥檚 Treasure: Environmental Dispute Resolution — APA2210.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: David Bond
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Credits: 4
On this ever shrinking planet, the likelihood that one will be a stakeholder in a dispute over natural resources, property development or environmental injury has never been greater. Through experiential learning, this course in environmental dispute resolution is designed to help equip students to effectively engage such conflict. We will examine the complexity of
CAPA

Otherness in Performance — DRA2218.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Jean Randich
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Credits: 4
This course examines dramatic texts and films that thematize 鈥渙therness鈥 as a concern. How has 鈥渄ifference鈥 served as a compelling way of delimiting the normative? What role does stereotype play? How do artists of color, gender, and other cultures respond to the dominant culture to create alternate identifications? We will consider plays, films, and works of art that feature
Drama

Paris noir — FRE4802.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: No毛lle Rouxel-Cubberly
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Credits: 4
Because of its location in the Atlantic world, Paris occupies a specific place within the African Diaspora and Africana studies. The course is an invitation to reflect upon the widely accepted imagination developed around the City of Lights: a space of ancient and refined cultural, intellectual, artistic, and culinary traditions. However, seeking to go
Languages

Paris to Ars Nova — MTH4104.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Kitty Brazelton
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Credits: 4
Begin with the Notre Dame School composers in Paris at the end of the 12th century. Construct a narrative for the shape of musical thought as it progresses into the ornate musical experimentation of the French Ars Nova in the late 1400s. Study (and sing!) works by P茅rotin and teacher L茅onin, then compare our findings to the more contemporaneous theories of the prolific monk
Society Culture and Thought Music

Partnering Projects — DAN4242.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Terry Creach
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Credits: 2
For those with some prior dance training and a particular interest in the weight-oriented physicality of partnering. We will develop partnering skills through interactive exercises that involve weight sharing, cause-and-effect interactions, momentum and timing. Students will be expected to create partnering work collaboratively and develop material to be performed informally at
Dance

Patternmaking and Garment Construction — DRA4119.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Richard MacPike
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Credits: 2
This course is designed to teach the student the many steps involved in creating a finished garment from a simple idea, piece of research or sketch. Students will learn the basics of draping, flat patterning, and fitting. Construction of final garment will allow them to explore and employ sewing skills beyond the fundamentals.
Drama

Peacebuilding Seminar — MOD2171.02

Spring 2017
Instructor: David Bond
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Credits: 1
This Module will serve as an introduction to the work of Peacebuilding around the world, both in theory and practice. Vahidin Omanovic, Director of Center for Peacebuilding in Bosnia, will be joining us to reflect on her work and introduce us to key topics in peacebuilding, including: peacebuilding in a local community, identity and discrimination, methods of sustainable
CAPA Modules: Transferable Approaches

Performance Project: Hanou — DAN4122.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Dana Reitz
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Credits: 2
Hanou, from the language of Gurunsi, means 鈥渕yself.鈥  This piece will be built upon the individual stories of the participants who will contribute not only fragments of their own histories but also spatial scenarios. The collected scenarios will form the base of the larger structure that will weave them into an interconnected fabric of movement, sound and space.  The
Dance

Performance Project: Object as a Mirror — DAN4123.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Dana Reitz
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Credits: 2
In this dance project, we will investigate how to apply the body as both tool and material. We will observe our responses to and projections upon multiple objects, combining our personal understandings with the generally held definitions of those objects. Our practice will be to deconstruct these findings and transfer them to physical actions. Then, these will be woven into a
Dance

Performance Project: Triptych — DAN4672.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
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Credits: 2
In this performance project, we will assemble personal, intimate portraits and counter-narratives which then fracture and multiply through deliberate organization. Some of the emotions are familiar, some alien. Throughout the creative process, what is revealed is a dedication to observation and the search for the solutions in this improbable attempt to exist together. The
Dance

Philosophy of Mind — PHI4170.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Eileen Scully
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Credits: 4
What could we possibly know better than our own mind? It turns out to be a pretty complicated question.  What is the nature of mind? Is it fundamentally non-physical? Is it just the brain?  If not, how can it make a difference in the world? If it is, can we account for the richness of conscious experience? We鈥檒l talk about these questions along with issues such as the
Society Culture and Thought

Photography Foundations — PHO2302.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Liz Deschenes
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Credits: 4
The objective of this course is to provide students with a proficiency in the basics of 35mm black and white photography. Class time will be spent working in the darkroom, lab demonstrations discussions of student work. In addition to technical lectures and reviews, a selection of images from the history of photography will be shown and discussed throughout the semester. The
Visual Arts

Photography Now / 1980-Present — PHO2460.01

Spring 2017
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Credits: 2
This course explores the evolution of contemporary photography from the 1980鈥檚 to the present day. We will be looking at a wide range of influences from identity politics, TV and film, social media, and the move from analog to digital technologies. Covering established photographers such as Nan Goldin, Lorna Simpson, Rineke Dijkstra, we will also look at more recent work by
Visual Arts

Physical Computing — DA4108.01

Spring 2017
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Credits: 4
The physical and the digital are often thought of as distinct and disparate. This class will be an investigation into notions of physicality and interface with respect to the computer, microcontrollers, and explorations of related analog and digital technologies. Basic electronics and various sensor mechanisms will be used in conjunction with toolkits such as Arduino. The
Visual Arts

Physics II: Electricity and Magnetism (with lab) — PHY4327.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Tim Schroeder
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Credits: 4
How does influence travel from one thing to another? In Newton鈥檚 mechanics of particles and forces, influences travel instantaneously across arbitrarily far distances. Newton himself felt this to be incorrect, but he did not suggest a solution to this problem of 鈥渁ction at a distance.鈥 To solve this problem, we need a richer ontology: The world is made not only of particles,
Science and Mathematics

Piano — MIN4333.01; section 1

Spring 2017
Instructor: Christopher Lewis
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Credits: 2
One-on-one lessons, scheduled individually, available to students with previous study. Corequisite: Must participate in Music Workshop (Tuesday, 6:30 鈥 8pm).
Music

Piano — MIN4333.02; section 2

Spring 2017
Instructor: Yoshiko Sato
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Credits: 2
One-on-one lessons, scheduled individually, available to students with previous study. Corequisite: Must participate in Music Workshop (Tuesday, 6:30 鈥 8pm).
Music

Piano — MIN4333.03; section 3

Spring 2017
Instructor: Joan Forsyth
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Credits: 2
One-on-one lessons, scheduled individually, available to students with previous study. Corequisite: Must participate in Music Workshop (Tuesday, 6:30 鈥 8pm).
Music

Piano — MIN4333.04; section 4

Spring 2017
Instructor: Matthew Edwards
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Credits: 2
One-on-one lessons, scheduled individually, available to students with previous study. Corequisite: Must participate in Music Workshop (Tuesday, 6:30 鈥 8pm).
Music