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Spring 2021

Digital Modeling and Animation — MA2103.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Sue Rees

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Credits: 2

This course introduces students to the basic language of 3D animation and modeling. Students will be expected to become familiar with the basic principles of the MAYA program. A series of modeled objects placed in locations will be created and animated. The emphasis will be on becoming proficient with modeling forms, texturing using Arnold Renderer, adding lights and cameras,

Visual Arts

Directed Projects — PHO4247.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

Students in this advanced level course will use research in both texts and images, and reflective writing, to hone their critical thinking skills to expand their photographic practice. Group critique will be a central component of the course, facilitating constructive evaluation of work in progress. By the end of the semester, students will produce a body of work

Visual Arts

Directing I: The Director's Vision — DRA4332.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Jean Randich

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Credits: 4

What is action? What is character? What are gesture, timing, rhythm and stakes? How do actors, playwrights, directors, and the audience collaborate to create an experience in space and time? This seminar offers young theater artists the chance to examine the craft from the inside out. Throughout the course everyone participates in all exercises and assignments. Non-writers

Drama

Discrete Mathematics — MAT4139.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Carly Briggs

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Credits: 4

Discrete mathematics studies problems that can be broken up into distinct pieces. Some examples of these sorts of systems are letters or numbers in a password, pixels on a computer screen, the connections between friends on Facebook, and driving directions (along established roads) between two cities. In this course we will develop the tools needed to solve relevant, real-world

Science and Mathematics

Dollhouse, Diorama — VA4131.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Farhad Mirza

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Credits: 4

The poet Susan Stewart compares the dollhouse to "the secret recesses of the heart: center within center, within within within." Paul Preciado likens a 1962 photo of Hugh Hefner beside a scale model of the first Playboy Club to similar portraits of modern architects like Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe—it suggests the “bonds of creation.” As a metaphor for interiority, or as

Visual Arts

Drawing As Record — DRW2121.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Mary Lum

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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 are complemented by independent, outside of class work and

Visual Arts

Drawing Everywhere — DRW4239.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Mary Lum

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Credits: 4

Interior and exterior, observed and imagined, expansive and intimate, this course revolves around drawings of place. In class we examine natural, architectural, and narrative spaces through readings and visual references that push the definition of drawing in many different directions. Students complete work weekly building a body of drawings that begins with assigned problems

Visual Arts

Earth Requiem — MIN2346.01) (cancelled

Spring 2021

Instructor: Joan Forsyth

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Credits: 2

Opportunity to workshop a new piece, Earth Requiem, with music by 4 different composers: Eve Beglarian, Jeff Beal, Errollyn Wallen and Sophy Him. It was commissioned by the artist Diana Wege, to be presented with a series of her paintings. It is for community and student choirs – from different parts of the country to present at the premier in New York City, COVID permitting in

Music

Educating for a Democracy — POP2281.02

Spring 2021

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 1

Democracy in the United States is being threatened and countless Americans do not understand enough of our country’s history or political systems to comprehend the threat. This has led to inaction by the American people, media outlets that share disinformation and individuals who care more about power than participating in democratic governance. To reach this point, it took

CAPA

Elements of Architecture — ARC2121.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Don Sherefkin

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Credits: 4

Introduction to the discipline of architectural exploration through direct experience, drawing and modeling. We begin with a series of abstract exercises which explore ways in which meaning is embedded in form, space, and movement. These exercises gradually build into more complex architectural compositions organized around particular problems. Workshops will focus on a range

Visual Arts

Environment and Public Action — APA2122.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: David Bond

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Credits: 4

Today it is clear that the environment matters. In activism and scholarship and public policy, the environment has become a potent (if sometimes obligatory) point of reference. Less attention, however, has focused on the emergence of the environment itself as a converging field of action for advocacy, science, and statecraft. In this seminar, we will reflect not only on what we

CAPA Environment

Environmental Action Post Fellowship Class — APA4246.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Judith Enck

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Credits: 1

This class is open to students who have participated in the Endeavor Foundation's Environmental Action Fellowship. The class will focus on the experiences each student had during their placement, what skills were enhanced, how to build on the new skills and how the cohort of students can learn from each others experiences. There will also be public policy

CAPA

Experiential Anatomy/Somatic Practices — DAN2149.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Elena Demyanenko

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Credits: 4

This is a studio class for any discipline intended to deepen the understanding of your own moving body. We will be studying kinesthetic anatomy by approaching the material through visual, cognitive, kinesthetic, and sensory modes. Class time will be divided between discussion of anatomy and kinesthetic concepts, and engagement with the material experientially through movement

Dance

Experimental Projects in Ceramics — CER4171.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

The process of developing within ceramics a vision of how your work interfaces with contemporary art making practices will be the major focus of this class. This class is designed to be a combination of research and making that can include ceramic and non-ceramic materials. The class is meant to support the development of continuing advance work and new experimental

Visual Arts

Experimental Radioplay — MSR2139.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Senem Pirler

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Credits: 2

In this course, we will explore the possibilities of radio and sonic narration through experimental sound practices. How can we portray political and social events through sonic practices without relying on verbal communication? What are ways of creating speculative worlds through radio broadcasting? Along with readings and discussions, we will examine previous experimental

Music

Explorations in Public History — HIS4106.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Eileen Scully

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Credits: 4

This course introduces students to the fundamentals of Public History, meaning history generated for wide general audiences through collaborations among community activists, historians, museum professionals, artists, preservationists, archivists, and policymakers. Public History is an umbrella for the fascinating universe of museums, landmarks, historic sites, memorials,

CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Exploring the World through Research — ANT4238.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

How do social scientists gather primary data for the study of social life? This workshop course provides an opportunity for students to learn and practice the fundamental non-positivist research techniques necessary to study of social phenomena, namely interviewing, participant observation, and focus group discussions. Workshops and field projects will provide

Society Culture and Thought

Faculty Performance Production: Phillip Christian Smith's 2017 political thriller, "The Chechens" — DRA4143.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Jean Randich

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Credits: 4

This is a faculty performance production of a new play, “The Chechens,” by Phillip Christian Smith, Black playwright and 2020-2021 Playwrights Realm Writing Fellow. “In modern Chechnya homosexuals are rumored to be held in camps. Can one family protect their brother suspected of being gay, or will they honor kill him to protect the name of the family? What prevails in the end

Drama

Feminist Philosophy — PHI2102.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Catherine McKeen

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Credits: 4

Contemporary feminism is a multi-faceted social justice movement to end gender-based oppression. Throughout its history, feminism has had a complicated relationship with philosophy. In this course, we will explore that relationship, as well as various contested conceptual terrains, such as: agency, affinity, equality, difference, freedom, intersectionality, power, sexuality,

Society Culture and Thought

Field Ecology: Documenting Natural Areas of the Bennington Region — BIO4127.02

Spring 2021

Instructor: Kerry Woods

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Credits: 2

The class will be dedicated to intensive study of the ecosystems of the Bennington region and direct observation and documentation of natural areas in the region. Each Thursday afternoon will be dedicated to intensive field study of selected natural areas. Students will be responsible for compiling descriptive documentation, to be published on-line to initiate a 'base-line'

Science and Mathematics Environment

Finding Form: Dance — DAN4319.01

Spring 2021

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 creation. When making new artwork, we are constantly balancing and integrating the need for exploratory freedom and the desire for structural integrity. How do we use spontaneous impulse to help find form, and how do we

Dance

Funk...as Rhythmic Counterpoint — MPF4111.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Michael Wimberly

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Credits: 2

This course explores approaches to interlocking patterns within a rhythm section by looking at funk based genres such as Afro-pop performed by artists Fela Kuti, Amadou and Mariam, Youssou N’Dour, Oumou Sangare etc, some Brazilian funk, such as George Duke, and American artists such as James Brown, Sly Stone, P-Funk and Prince. Composing, arranging, transcribing and notating

Music

Future Work: Systems of Evaluation — APA2339.03

Spring 2021

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati

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Credits: 1

A truism often attributed to business guru Peter Drucker is “what isn’t measured isn’t managed.” This class provides an introduction to the theory and practice of measuring as a means to success. We’ll investigate why objective measurement and feedback is so prevalent at both the individual and organizational level. We’ll also investigate alternatives to feedback for building

CAPA

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

Spring 2021

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

Genres and Forms of Poetry — LIT4164.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Michael Dumanis

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Credits: 4

This course will closely examine various modes in which poetry is commonly written. We will master the vocabulary and practice of traditional prosody, acquire a familiarity with writing in meter, and attempt such traditional forms as the villanelle, the sestina, the pantoum, the rondel, and the ghazal. We will also closely examine various modes in which poetry is commonly

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