Course Listing | 51��

Spring 2021

Art in Captivity: The Images, Sounds, and Rhetoric of Freedom — APA2345.03

Spring 2021

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 1

The course will expand on the initial ideas presented in the Fall workshop, Blood, Sweat, and Tears which focused on the work of contemporary justice artist Russell Craig. Through work that is both confrontational and contemplative, Craig’s pieces create a platform to help unify all who have struggled through trauma and advocate for positive

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Art of Alterity: Representation and Otherness in American Visual Culture, 1839-1939 — AH2347.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Vanessa Lyon

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Credits: 4

From the advent of photography to the start of the second World War, American art, the cultural product of a former British colony younger than many of its foreign-born citizens, had what many perceived as "otherness" to contend with. Immigrants, enslaved and later freed, blacks, women of all sorts, sexual “deviants,” religious outsiders, the disabled, among other and

Visual Arts

Banjo — MIN2215.01

Spring 2021

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

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Basic Audio Technology for Drama/Dance Productions — MSR2212.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Michael Giannitti

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Credits: 1

With a focus on Q Lab software and basic computer concepts, students will run audio/video from a computer through A/V distribution (mixing board, video switcher) and out into a theater space. The basics of wiring audio gear and how to think about sound will be covered. Having a Mac Laptop is a plus, but there will be a lab computer available.

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Bass Intensive — MIN4026.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Michael Bisio

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Credits: 2

This class is in addition to individual instruction and deals with the application of theory. It includes drills both on and off the instrument to ensure the studied information is available in real time, along with idiomatic considerations and construction of bass lines as well as solo ideas. We will also take a look at the masters in recording and by transcription. Not

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Bass with Bisio — MIN4417.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Michael Bisio

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Credits: 2

Private instruction covering techniques and theory appropriate to the student’s level and goals.

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Basso Continuo You - Lab — MTH4402.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Kitty Brazelton

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Credits: 2

Intimacy is one of the strange benefits of remote learning when the distance education occurs in small groups. The unexpected attention to detail that results in online learning, is a great boon to advancing the study of music theory. It has long been known that the most effective way to work towards an understanding of tonal harmony, its theory and history, is to physically

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Basso Continuo You—Remote — MTH4292.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Kitty Brazelton

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Credits: 4

The practice of putting chords over a bass line and a melody on top – sound familiar? – exploded in the Early Baroque and we haven’t been the same since. Listening changed. Ensembles changed. And a new era of functional harmony began. Learn about figured bass, chordal voicing and interpretation, the Spanish rhythmic ostinati which fueled popular dances from the New World. We’ll

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Beginning Cello II — MIN4354.01

Spring 2021

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.

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Beginning Guitar — MIN2247.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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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.

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Beginning Violin/Viola — MIN2241.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Kaori Washiyama

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Credits: 2

Basic techniques will include the reading of music in either treble/alto clef in the easy keys. Basic hand positions and appropriate fingerings will be shown, and a rudimentary facility with bow will be developed in order that all students may participate in simple ensemble performance by the end of term. Student must arrange for the use of a college instrument, if needed

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Beginning-Intermediate Potter's Wheel — CER2107.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Aysha Peltz

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Credits: 4

This class is for students new to throwing on the potter’s wheel and for students who would like to expand their skills. The focus will be using the potter’s wheel as a tool for generating clay forms with an emphasis on pottery making. While developing and expanding their throwing skills, students will also explore various possibilities for assembling wheel-thrown elements and

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Bennington Biodiversity Project — BIO4214.02

Spring 2021

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 2

An All-Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI) is an effort to compile the full list of species of all taxa present in some area on the planet. No ATBI has ever been (or ever will be?) completed, but this class is an ongoing effort towards a working ATBI for the 51�� campus (which is unusually diverse for its area). Past terms have addressed fungi, various invertebrate

Science and Mathematics

Bennington Review: A Practicum in Literary Editing and Publishing--Prose — LIT4529.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Ben Anastas

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Credits: 2

This two-credit course involves working on selecting and editing the content of Bennington’s 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

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Bennington Review: A Practicum in Literary Editing and Publishing-Poetry — LIT4330.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Michael Dumanis

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Credits: 2

Literature

Beyond Butoh - A Body Not To Be Consumed — DAN4327.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Mina Nishimura

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Credits: 2

This advanced level movement-based course is designed for students with prior experience in dance technique or movement practice. By using a series of breath, somatic, improvisational and compositional practices inspired by butoh, we will develop ways of embodying unorthodox and complex ideas dealing with the ever-becoming, inconsumable, and vaporizing body. Students will be

Dance

Beyond Plastic Pollution — APA2334.02

Spring 2021

Instructor: Judith Enck

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Credits: 1

Beyond Plastic Pollution is a public policy course that focuses on the systemic reasons why millions of tons of plastics enter the ocean each year. This cutting-edge class will focus on the how plastic pollution is an urgent climate change issue; how the plastics industry spins the myth that we can recycle our way out of the problem; environmental justice and the the health

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Beyond Plastic Pollution — APA2334.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Judith Enck

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Credits: 1

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Biochemistry — CHE4301.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Janet Foley (new faculty as of 2/10/2021)

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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 – new developments and discoveries are being made daily. The goal of this class will be to give

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Black Playwrights of the Civil Rights Era — LIT2343.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Maya Cantu

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Credits: 4

In 1959, the resounding success of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun transformed the “Great White Way,” kicking open Broadway’s doors to the generations of African American playwrights that followed. Yet, as Hansberry herself acknowledged, she was only part of a larger wave of Black playwrights who, responding to the progress and protests of the Civil Rights Movement,

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Brass/Trumpet: Individual Lessons — MIN2221.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Chris Rose

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Credits: 2

Through weekly one on one lessons, deepen the connection between your abilities on your instrument (any level) with your listening diet. Develop spotify playlists that spotlight your aspirations as a musician, and use the fundamentals of brass playing to get closer to those aspirations. Each week will include some amount of transcription, composition, and/or improvisation.

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Calculus: A Classical Approach — MAT4288.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre

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Credits: 4

This course covers the breadth of university calculus: differentiation, integration, infinite series, and ordinary differential equations. It focuses on concepts and interconnections. In order to cover this much material, computational techniques are de-emphasized. The approach is historically based and classical, following original texts where possible. Further techniques and

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Camera Mounts I — SCU2117.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: John Umphlett

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Credits: 2

Have you ever wanted to mount a camera somewhere, or on something to capture a shot otherwise unreachable? Catapult a phone in a directed safe controlled path for a smooth shot of Jill smoldering her cigarette into the heel of her shoe. Sure there are endless attachments for your devices on Kickstarter that someone else is making, but how about you take a shot at it. This seven

Visual Arts

Camera Mounts II — SCU4117.02

Spring 2021

Instructor: John Umphlett

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Credits: 2

This second part seven-week intensive course is a continuation of part one. Here you will be responsible for the image capture theme and will need to develop drawings, working products, and maintain a research and development log. The video or still camera must be considered seriously as now your image will carry and equal value as the mounting mechanism for your evaluation.

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CAPA Advanced Workshop — APA4256.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati

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Credits: 4

This course is for Seniors who are focusing on Advanced Work in Public Action. It involves producing a digital portfolio that will be housed in the Crossett Library. The portfolio includes research, a mission statement, theory of change and a plan of action with supporting materials (video, photography, images, etc.). Students should be engaged in advanced work in a discipline

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