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Art of Auditioning — DRA2178.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Jenny Rohn
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Credits: 2
Auditions are an opportunity to develop your artistic voice and your confidence in that voice through self-critique. In this class we will work to demystify the process of auditioning and understand how to prepare and present work under challenging circumstances. We will cover cold readings, monologues and prepared scenes, with an in-depth look at each step of the process, from
Drama

Art of the Sonnet: Conventions and Inventions — LIT4113.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
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Credits: 4
The sonnet, from the Italian sonnetto, or little song, has a long and rich history as a poetic form, described by contemporary poet Laynie Browne as 屎a controlled measure of sound and space within which one can do anything. An invitation.屎 This course, a literature seminar with a significant creative component, will invite you to study the sonnet in鈥恉epth, both as a traditional
Literature

Arts of Asia — AH2406.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
This course is an introductory survey of major artistic and cultural traditions of Asia. Selected works of art of India, China, and Japan from the prehistoric period to the twenty-first century in various medias including architecture, sculptures, bronzes, ceramics, paintings, calligraphy, and woodblock prints will be discussed. The course invites students to understand and
Visual Arts

Avant Garde Art in China — CHI4507.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Ginger Lin
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Credits: 4
Art is always somehow a reflection of the culture and society in which it is produced. In this class we will explore the ways in which contemporary (post-Mao) Chinese art reflects on modern Chinese culture and society. Each class or every other class, students will be given a packet with visual and written information on a particular work of art with a vocabulary list and
Cultural Studies and Languages

Balkan Ensemble — MPF4204.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
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Credits: 4
Balkan music is fierce brass, complex harmonies, and mind-bending asymmetrical dances. It is spirited Serbian wedding music, dissonant village songs, devastating Bosnian love ballads, saucy songs of the Greek underworld, and heart-pounding Turkish rhythms. In the Bennington Balkan Ensemble, we will learn to perform a variety of traditional, urban, village, and popular music
Music

Banjo — MIN2215.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: John Kirk
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Credits: 2
Beginning, intermediate, or advanced group lessons on the 5-string banjo in the claw-hammer/frailing style. Student will learn to play using simple song sheets with chords, tablature, and standard notation. Using chord theory and scale work, personal music-making skills will be enhanced. Awareness of traditional styles of playing the instrument will be furthered through a
Music

Bass Intensive — MIN4026.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Michael Bisio
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Credits: 2
Advanced studies in theory relating to performance. Students must be enrolled in Bass with Bisio (MIN4417) simultaneously, no exceptions. This class is only for advanced students and by permission of instructor.
Music

Bass with Bisio — MIN4417.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Michael Bisio
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Credits: 2
Private instruction covering techniques and theory appropriate to the student鈥檚 level and goals. Corequisite: Must participate in Music Workshop (Tuesday, 6:30 鈥 8:00 pm).
Music

Bebop, Rock Beyond (Fundamentals) — MIN4226.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
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Credits: 2
Bebop, Rock Beyond (Fundamentals) is a drum set course that looks at the drumming architects of Bebop and Rock while discovering the innovative drummers of today who are mapping traditional rhythms from various cultures and adapting them for drumset. We鈥檒l learn about Ed Blackwell, Art Blakey, Alex Acuna, Ignacio Berroa, John Bonham, Daphnis Prieto, Steve Jordan, and many
Music

Beginning Cello II — MIN4354.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Nat Parke
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Credits: 2
The basics of cello, part two. In a small group, students will learn how to play cello, with an emphasis on a group performance at the term's conclusion. Corequisites: Must attend Music Workshop 7 times per term.
Music

Beginning Guitar — MIN2247.01, section 1

Spring 2020
Instructor: Hui Cox
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Credits: 2
Introduces the fundamentals of acoustic guitar playing, including hand positions, tuning, reading music, major and pentatonic scales, major, minor, and seventh chords, chord progressions, blues progressions, and simple arrangements of songs. Corequisites: Must participate in Music Workshop (Tuesday, 6:30 鈥 8pm).
Music

Beginning Guitar — MIN2247.02, section 2

Spring 2020
Instructor: Hui Cox
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Credits: 2
Introduces the fundamentals of acoustic guitar playing, including hand positions, tuning, reading music, major and pentatonic scales, major, minor, and seventh chords, chord progressions, blues progressions, and simple arrangements of songs. Corequisites: Must participate in Music Workshop (Tuesday, 6:30 鈥 8pm).
Music

Beginning Potter's Wheel — CER2107.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Aysha Peltz
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Credits: 4
This class is an introduction to using the potter鈥檚 wheel as a tool for generating clay forms with an emphasis on pottery making. While focusing on the development of throwing skills, students will explore various possibilities for assembling wheel-thrown elements and will experiment with both functional and non-functional formats. Students will be introduced to the whole
Visual Arts

Beginning Violin/Viola — MIN2241.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Kaori Washiyama
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Credits: 2
Basic techniques will include the reading of music in either treble/or alto clefs in the easy keys. Basic hand positions and appropriate fingerings will be shown, and a rudimentary facility with the bow will be developed in order that all students may participate in simple ensemble performance by the end of the term. The student must arrange for the use of a college instrument
Music

Bennington Plays — DRA4151.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Jenny Rohn
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Credits: 4
This project-based class is for directors and actors engaged in the process and techniques of analyzing, exploring, and staging (original) works of theater. 鈥淭eams鈥 of Director Cast work in collaboration with corresponding courses for student playwrights and designers whose work has been chosen for participation in the Bennington Plays Festival. Directors will be chosen
Drama

Bennington Plays: Design — DRA4129.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
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Credits: 2
This project-based class is for designers developing and implementing scenic, lighting, or costume designs for productions of new student written plays. Teams of directors and designers will work with other students in corresponding courses for playwrights, directors and actors, who are participating in the Bennington Plays Festival. In a laboratory atmosphere, we will
Drama

Bennington Plays: Playwrights — DRA4163.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Sherry Kramer
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Credits: 4
This project-based class is for playwrights engaged in the process and techniques of rewriting and staging their plays. The majority of rewrites may happen prior to the semester, but substantial rewrites could emerge as essential during the production period. Collaborating with the director, actors, and designers will be the heart of this class. Playwrights are expected to
Drama

Bennington Review: A Practicum in Literary Editing and Publishing-Poetry — LIT4330.02, section 2

Spring 2020
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
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Credits: 2
This two-credit course involves working on selecting and editing the content of Bennington鈥檚 recently relaunched national print literary magazine, Bennington Review. Students will serve as Editorial Assistants for the magazine, studying and practicing all aspects of magazine editing. The course will also engage students in discussions of contemporary print and digital literary
Literature

Bennington Review: A Practicum in Literary Editing and Publishing-Prose — LIT4330.01, section 1

Spring 2020
Instructor: Ben Anastas
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Credits: 2
This two-credit course involves working on selecting and editing the content of Bennington鈥檚 recently relaunched national print literary magazine, Bennington Review. Students will serve as Editorial Assistants for the magazine, studying and practicing all aspects of magazine editing. The course will also engage students in discussions of contemporary print and digital literary
Literature

Bertolt Brecht — LIT2341.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Maya Cantu
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Credits: 4
This course will explore Brecht鈥檚 development of epic theater dramaturgy, at the intersection of his synthetic genius and collective inspirations. Students will learn about Brecht鈥檚 development of such techniques as Verfremdungseffekt (distancing effect), historification, gestus, and separation of the elements, while exploring his radical adaptations of
Drama Literature

Biochemistry — CHE4335.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: John Bullock
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Credits: 4
Biochemistry is an intermediate chemistry course in which students apply principles from general and organic chemistry, as well as general biology, to understand the molecular processes that characterize life. Biochemistry is a broad discipline that is growing rapidly in its scope 鈥 new developments and discoveries are being made daily. The goal of this class will be to give
Science and Mathematics

Book Club Italiano — ITA4612.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: No毛lle Rouxel-Cubberly
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Credits: 2
Designed like a book club, this course will allow students to read books and discuss them as a class. Titles include Sei personaggi in cerca d鈥檃utore (Pirandello, 1921), L鈥檌sola di Arturo (Morante, 1957), and Pecore nere: racconti (Kuruvilla, Scego, Mubiayi, Wadia, 2012). While the main focus is on developing reading and speaking skills, this course will also include writing
Cultural Studies and Languages

Cello — MIN4355.01

Spring 2020
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 performance for each student. Students must have had at least three years of cello study. Corequisites: Music Workshop attendance 7 times per term.
Music

Certainty — MAT2119.04

Spring 2020
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
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Credits: 1
Advanced mathematics is largely about logical argument, as much as it is computation or calculation. Over time, as each generation extended their ideas into new realms, they looked at the logical arguments of their predecessors and found that there were gaps, elisions, things that were not fully understood. One could imagine that this process might continue forever, but it does
Science and Mathematics

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

Spring 2020
Instructor: John Bullock
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Credits: 4
Building on our understanding of the relationship between molecular structural and reactivity developed in Chemistry 1, this course delves into modern theories of bonding, especially as they relate to the reaction patterns of functional groups.  These theories will be used to rationalize the patterns of electron flow in chemical reactions with a focus on the understanding
Science and Mathematics Environment