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Spring 2023

Drumming: An Extension of Language — MIN2120.01, section 1

Spring 2023

Instructor: Michael Wimberly

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Credits: 2

This course serves as an introduction to rhythms, chants, and musical practices from Africa, Brazil, Cuba, Haiti, and the African Diaspora. Using indigenous percussion instruments from these territories, students will use their hands, mallets, and sticks to learn and play traditional folkloric rhythms and melodies. Additional conversations reveal history, culture, language, and

Music

Drumming: An Extension of Language — MIN2120.02, section 2

Spring 2023

Instructor: Michael Wimberly

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Credits: 2

Music

Dybbuks, Golems, Tradition Resistance: Isaaac Basheveis Singer, Cynthia Ozick, Grace Paley — LIT2071.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz

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Credits: 4

In this course, we’ll read fictions by read three major Jewish writers of the last and present century: I.B. Singer (1902-1991), the first Yiddish writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature; Cynthia Ozick (1928- ) and Grace Paley (1922-2007). Old World shtetls and the streets of Warsaw; Broadway, the Bronx, and Greenwich Village are settings rife with dybbuks, ghosts, and

Literature

Ecology — BIO4438.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

In this course, students will learn how organisms interact with each other and their environment. We will consider interactions at organismal, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere levels through case studies, lab activities, and field work. We will discuss basic principles, experimental approaches, concepts of modeling, and applications to ecological

Science and Mathematics

Economic Inequality — PEC4124.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

This seminar is concerned with three key interrelated problems of studying economic inequality: [1] inequality of what? [2] how do inequality occur? and [3] why is equality undesirable?. The first is a question of description and measurement of the unevenness in people's access to resources and opportunities in a society, the second is that of explaining the

Society Culture and Thought

Electroacoustic Band Workshop — MPF4122.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Senem Pirler

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Credits: 4

This course is an open forum for research and development of live performance methodologies and compositions involving electroacoustic sounds through collaborations. In this workshop, we will explore text scores, graphic scores, improvisation techniques using both acoustic and electronic sources. The research and practice areas include but are not limited to electroacoustic and

Advancement of Public Action Dance Music Visual Arts

Elements of Architecture — ARC2121.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Donald Sherefkin

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Credits: 4

An 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

Visual Arts

Enhancing Cultural Understanding and Embracing Cultural Differences: Digital Book Project (Introductory) — JPN4225.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida

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Credits: 5

In this second-term Japanese course, students will examine Japanese cultural values and create digital books which will teach Japanese children how to embrace cultural differences. Students will read Japanese children’s books and watch children’s TV shows to explore and analyze how social and cultural values are represented and taught. Based on their analyses and understanding

Cultural Studies and Languages

Environmental Action Fellowship Post Fellowship Class — APA4161.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Judith Enck

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Credits: 1

Students will have successfully completed the Endeavor Foundation Environmental Action Fellowship Class during the previous January term. The post fellowship class includes the cohort of students who learned new issues and new skills and who will be sharing their experiences for others to learn from. The class will also sharpen the advocacy skills that were addressed

Advancement of Public Action

Environmental Geology — ES2102.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Tim Schroeder

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Credits: 4

Earthʹs life‐supporting environmental systems are controlled by a complex interplay between geologic and biological processes acting both on the surface and deep within the planetary interior. This course will explore how earth materials and physical processes contribute to a healthy environment, and how humans impact geologic processes. Topics covered will include: earth

Science and Mathematics Environment

Environmental Political Theory — SCT4153.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: John Hultgren

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Credits: 4

What is nature? Who gets to speak for nature? What is the institutional arrangement, political economic system, and form of political community best suited to cultivating a more sustainable relationship with the more-than-human realm? These questions are most effectively grappled with by putting political theory into conversation with environmental studies. In cultivating this

Environment Society Culture and Thought

Essays of Walter Benjamin — VA4235.02

Spring 2023

Instructor: Anne Thompson

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Credits: 2

The works of German philosopher and cultural theorist Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) endure as sources of fascination, inspiration and critical reflection across disciplines. With a focus on his significance for artists and curators, this seminar looks at selections from Benjamin’s famous and lesser-known writing, from his seminal essay “The Work of Art in the Age of

Visual Arts Literature Society Culture and Thought

Europe and Islam: Art and Architecture of the Mediterranean — AH2114.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

This introductory course explores, through the lens of cross-cultural exchange, artistic and architectural production from the late medieval period to the nineteenth century. It considers the Mediterranean and its related regions as dynamic settings where global contacts, prompted by trade, diplomacy, war and conquest, travel, and pilgrimage, strongly shaped material and visual

Visual Arts

Experiential Anatomy/Somatic Practices — DAN2149.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Levi Gonzalez

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Credits: 4

This is a studio class for students of any discipline intended to deepen the understanding of your own moving body. We will study kinesthetic anatomy by approaching material through visual, cognitive, linguistic, kinesthetic, and sensory modes. Tools such as drawing and writing will become some of the building blocks for learning. Class time will be divided between discussion

Dance

Explorations in Movement and Sound — DAN4029.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Levi Gonzalez

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Credits: 4

In this course we will explore the myriad ways that sound and movement can intersect in a performative practice. Designed for students interested in compositional and co-creation strategies for both music and dance, we will consider historical and contemporary innovations in pairing sound and movement from a broad range of cultural and aesthetic perspectives. Regardless of

Dance Music

Faculty Performance Production: Unibeauty Her Wicked Daughters, a corporate fairy tale in process, by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig — DRA4152.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Jean Randich

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Credits: 4

In Spring 2023 Bennington students have the opportunity to collaborate with director/devisor Jean Randich, playwright Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig, and designer/video artist Sue Rees on the development of an in-progress script whose themes and form are situated in the crosshairs of Cowhig's teaching focus at Bennington: Crafting It-Narratives (stories centering non-human subjects

Drama

Fantasy Literature: 4000 Years of Written Wonders — LIT2560.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Maria Dahvana Headley

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Credits: 4

The earliest known pictorial record of storytelling is a cave painting found in Sulawesi, Indonesia. It’s a scene of eight hunters taking on a wild pig and some water buffalo – but the hunters themselves are therianthropes, combination human-animal creatures. This ancestor of contemporary fantastical graphic novels and comic books is about 45,000 years old. History has always

Literature

Finding Form: Dance — DAN4319.01

Spring 2023

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 Drama Visual Arts

FOCUS FLOW: Developing a Generative Playwriting Practice — DRA2318.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Dina Janis

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Credits: 4

There has been a war on our attention spans, and yet it is this attention span that must be cultivated and strengthened in order to create meaningful work. How can we become the artists and thinkers we wish to be if we can’t find clear, lucid focus within ourselves on a regular basis—and learn how to safeguard it? This course is offered in the spirit of rebuilding our attention

Drama

FOCUS FLOW: Developing a Generative Playwriting Practice — DRA2318.02, section 2

Spring 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

Drama

Form and Process: Introduction to Painting — PAI2107.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Ann Pibal

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Credits: 4

This course introduces a variety of materials, techniques and approaches to working with oil paint. 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 examples from art history and contemporary art, provide a base from which investigations are made. Formal

Visual Arts

Foundation of Software Design and Data Structure — CS2153.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Meltem Ballan

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Credits: 4

This is the second course after CS 2127: Elements of Computers and Programming. I assume that you know a programming language (Python). The emphasis of this course will be on software development using object-oriented methodology. This course will not cover basic Python syntax in this course. We will learn how to analyze and design software. We will learn how to create

Science and Mathematics

Foundations of Photography/Analog — PHO2204.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Jonathan Kline

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Credits: 4

This course is designed to allow students to explore photography using analog cameras and black and white film. Students will acquire basic skills in 35mm camera handling, light meters and exposure, film development, and making enlargements in the wet labs. In addition the class will research the formal and socio-political content of contemporary practitioners working globally

Visual Arts

Foundations of Photography: Digital Practice — PHO2153.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

This course will address practices and ethics around digital photography and experiment with foundational tools and techniques. It aims to create space for students to foster their own interests and reflections on the impacts of digital photography on society. Classes will combine technical demonstrations, practical exercises, group critiques, a final self

Visual Arts

Framed? Literature Heroines on Screen — FRE4809.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly

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Credits: 4

French literature and film have always reciprocally inspired one another - as early as 1897, Lumière represented the main characters of Hugo’s Les Misérables. This course will offer students the opportunity to analyze literary representations of women and their film adaptations in terms of intermediality and intertextuality. Adaptations will include: La Princesse de Clèves (La

Cultural Studies and Languages