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In the Eastern, Green Mountains: Poetry through an Experimental Buddhist Lens — LIT2568.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
While we conventionally read poetry through a western critical academic lens, in this course, we will approach western poetry from an experimental eastern lens, in an effort to experience the mutually illuminating relationship between poetry and contemplative study and deepen our relationship to the mystical nature of American poetry. In the first part of the semester,
Literature

Independent Study — DAN5410B.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Donna Faye Burchfield
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Students propose an independent study plan with approval from Donna Faye Burchfield and select an approved thinking partner/mentor. Credits to be determined between faculty and student.

Individualized Lab — DAN5403B.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Donna Faye Burchfield
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This course allows students to self-design practice/research by combining topics and approaches from the Practice LABs and/or the Studies LABs to meet required hours. The Labs take the form of a series of workshops, and include both lecture/discussion and studio formats. 

Individualized Practice — DAN5400B.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Donna Faye Burchfield
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Through mentor approved independent work, students develop and schedule their own weekly creative practices using student-initiated resources and/or classes.  In consultation with mentors, students develop a weekly practice that extends and/or expands their creative practice and research. Mentors guide students through the plan that may include a

Individualized Studio Practice + Process — DAN4817B.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Tania Perez
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Students will work with their advisor to self design study in practices + processes through combining and creating new pathways through the curriculum. *BFA students may take the Studio Practice + Process course for CS credit.

Inequality in a Globalized World — ANT2457.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Miroslava Prazak
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Credits: 4
Globalization has transformed the way we live. The world is experiencing an unprecedented interaction of people, ideas, images, and things that continues to intensify. Communication technologies link people instantaneously across the globe. Economic activities challenge national boundaries. People are on the move within and between countries. The complexities of the global
Society Culture and Thought

Insider Perspectives on the Francophone World II — FRE4224.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: No毛lle Rouxel-Cubberly
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Credits: 5
Viewed from the outside, the French-speaking world offers enticing images of beauty, pleasure, and freedom. From the inside, however, it is a complicated, often contradictory world where implicit codes and values shape the most basic aspects of daily life. This course will give you an insider使s perspective on a cultural and communicative system whose ideas, customs, and belief
Cultural Studies and Languages

Intermediate Drawing: Beyond Representation — DRW4103.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Beverly Acha
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Credits: 4
In this intermediate drawing course students will expand on basic representational drawing skills through the investigation of the ways drawing is interdisciplinary, intersecting with painting, sculpture, printmaking, and performance. For inspiration along the way we will study artists who work in interdisciplinary ways including: Ana Mendieta, Mirtha Dermisache, David
Visual Arts

Intermediate Drum Set (Fundamentals) — MIN4023.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
This course is for students who have experience in playing drum set. In this 7 week class, students will fine-tune their stick control, hi-hat, cymbal, and bass drum technique, grooves, and drum fills. Listening, viewing, and reviewing drummers who have contributed to the innovation of the art of the drum set is a weekly part of our class discussion. We will use 2 drum sets in
Music

Intermediate Ear Training — MTH4284.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
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Credits: 2
In this course, students will develop intermediate skills in aural perception, learning to visualize, sing, and notate music through melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic exercises. Classwork will include singing melodies with solfege (prepared and at sight); performing rhythms, eventually incorporating syncopation, cross-rhythms, small subdivisions, and changing meters; taking
Music

Intermediate Guitar — MIN4025.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: John Kirk
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Credits: 2
Instrumental Study on Guitar. Continued studies from Beginning Guitar. Advanced study in fret-board harmony and theory, play in different tunings, increase chord vocabulary and repertoire.
Music

Intermediate Painting: Beyond the Easel — PAI4218.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: J Blackwell
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Credits: 4
In the summer of 1943, Peggy Guggenheim commissioned Jackson Pollock to create a monumental painting. Marcel Duchamp suggested that Pollock use a canvas instead of painting directly on a wall, ensuring the work could be moved. Pollock later wrote of the project, "I鈥檝e had to tear out the partition between the front and middle room [of my apartment] to get the damned thing up. I
Visual Arts

Intermediate Painting: Facture — PAI4106.01) (cancelled 10/7/2024

Spring 2025
Instructor: J Blackwell
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Credits: 4
鈥淔acture refers to the manner in which a painting, drawing, or object is made. It is the combination of brushstrokes, marks, material, and the texture of the surface. Facture is critical to the success of any object. Much of the fascination that accrues to all manual media comes from what can be observed at close range. That distance reveals the foundation, the touch, the

Intermediate Piano — MIN4236.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Yoshiko Sato
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Credits: 2
This course is intended for students with some playing and reading experience, who have passed Piano Lab I or its equivalent. The goals of this course are to gain ease and dexterity at the keyboard, further developing a con铿乨ent piano technique, musical expression, and the skill of reading musical notation. Students will expand upon a repertoire of scales and chords. They will
Music

Intermediate Video: The Archive — FV4332.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Laura Sof铆a P茅rez
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Credits: 4
Intermediate Video builds on the concepts and technical skills introduced in Intro to Video, and has a different theme each term. During this semester of Intermediate Video we will focus on the thematic of the archive and the role of the video artist as archivist. How may an archive inform our video work? How do we interact with or readdress a museum or institution archive? How
Visual Arts

Intermediate Voice — MVO4301.01, section 1

Spring 2025
Instructor: Virginia Kelsey
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Credits: 2
For students of varying levels of singing ability. Vocal production and physiology will be discussed. Group warm-ups and vocalizations will incorporate exercises to develop breath control, resonance, projection, range, color, and agility. The fundamental concepts of singing will be explored in the preparation of specific song assignments. Personalization of text and emotional
Music

Intermediate Voice — MVO4301.02, section 2

Spring 2025
Instructor: Virginia Kelsey
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Credits: 2
For students of varying levels of singing ability. Vocal production and physiology will be discussed. Group warm-ups and vocalizations will incorporate exercises to develop breath control, resonance, projection, range, color, and agility. The fundamental concepts of singing will be explored in the preparation of specific song assignments. Personalization of text and emotional
Music

Intermediate Voice — MVO4301.03, section 3

Spring 2025
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
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Credits: 2
For students of varying levels of singing ability. Vocal production and physiology will be discussed. Group warm-ups and vocalizations will incorporate exercises to develop breath control, resonance, projection, range, color, and agility. The fundamental concepts of singing will be explored in the preparation of specific song assignments. Personalization of text and emotional
Music

Intro to Maps and Geographic Information Systems — ES2110.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Tim Schroeder
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Credits: 4
This is an introductory course on the theory and practice of analyzing and displaying geo-spatial information. The methods that students will learn have wide-ranging applications in the natural and social sciences. Students will learn how to utilize mapping and spatial geographic information systems software to analyze patterns within spatial datasets and communicate
Science and Mathematics Environment

Intro to Scene Painting — DRA2168.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Seancolin Hankins
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Credits: 2
This class will introduce students to the fundamentals of scenic art, including terminology, and commonly used tools and techniques. Students will learn to create processes that will guide them from a rendering or scenic finish to a completed project. Skills we will develop include color mixing, surface preparation for soft goods and hard scenery, translating small renderings
Drama

Intro to VR — MA2128.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: John Crowe
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Credits: 2
Introduction to VR will cover the basics of VR hardware, 360 video acquisition, and content production for 3D environments. No experience is required; we will evaluate VR experiences, and design and test our created experiences. Unity and Adobe software will be used to build prototype immersive experiences. While not focusing on game development, this course will explore
Visual Arts

Intro to Woodshop — SCU2306.01) (time change as of 11/8/2024

Spring 2025
Instructor: Olivia Saporito聽
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Credits: 2
Have you ever wanted to understand how to safely build some of the most basic things and not know where to start?  The course is developed for students who want to learn the fundamentals to operate the many tools and machinery the Bennington woodshop has to offer. Students will undertake many tasks that will help develop technical skills and how to utilize the woodshop as
Visual Arts

Introduction to Computer Science 2: Algorithms and Application — CS4384.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Darcy Otto
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Credits: 4
Embark on a deeper exploration of computer science, where the focus shifts from programming and foundations of computer science, to the intricacies of algorithms and their real-world applications. This course reinforces and builds upon the concepts introduced in Introduction to CS 1, and provides an introduction to algorithm design, data analysis, and the practical application
Science and Mathematics

Introduction to Cybersecurity — CS4388.01) (cancelled 5/10/2024

Spring 2025
Instructor: Meltem Ballan
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Credits: 4
Introduction to Cybersecurity provides students with an overview of the fundamental concepts, principles, and practices in the field of cybersecurity. The course covers various topics including the cybersecurity landscape, international and national perspectives, legal considerations, threat actors, and more. Students will gain insights into the importance of cybersecurity,

Introduction to Dramaturgy — DRA4281.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Maya Cantu
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Credits: 4
The dramaturg serves as a powerful medium in the theatre. They bridge the past and the present, the creative team and the audience, while providing critical generosity and historical and literary insight. In this course, we will learn about the history and practice of dramaturgy, while learning how the critical and research skills of the dramaturg can apply to a wide array of
Drama