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Spring 2025

Introduction to Git and Github — CS4387.01) (cancelled 5/10/2024

Spring 2025

Instructor: Meltem Ballan

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Credits: 4

This course, "Introduction to Git and GitHub," serves as an extension to the two-part Python class taught in Fall 2024.This course aims to equip learners with essential skills in version control, Git, and GitHub, enabling them to effectively manage and collaborate on coding projects. It's designed for beginners with no prior experience required, offering a comprehensive

Introduction to Intaglio: The Alchemist’s Print — PRI2111.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline

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Credits: 4

This course is an introduction to copper plate Intaglio. We will explore various techniques to prepare our plates including hand working and acid etching with materials such as rosin resists and sugar lifts. By the end of term, we will be printing in color. Ultimately, the overall goal of our endeavors will be to begin a dialog about artistic production in a contemporary

Visual Arts

Introduction to Sustainable Agriculture — APA2189.02

Spring 2025

Instructor: Kelie Bowman

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Credits: 2

This course explores the broad field of sustainable agriculture. This class consists of a series of field trips, meeting with a cross-section of local producers ranging from traditional organic vegetable farms, mushroom cultivation, livestock, flower farms. Other field trips could include non-profit organizations working on community food insecurity, ecological

CAPA

Introduction to Video — FV2303.01, section 1

Spring 2025

Instructor: Jen Liu

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Credits: 4

This production course introduces students to the fundamentals of working in video and the language of film. Drawing on the energy and experimentation of avant-garde film and contemporary video art practices, students will complete a series of projects exploring cinematography, mise-en-scène, editing and sound design before producing a final self-determined project.

Visual Arts

Introduction to Video — FV2303.02, section 2

Spring 2025

Instructor: Laura Sofía Pérez

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Credits: 4

This course covers fundamental techniques to create moving image works, including cinematography, lighting, sound recording, and editing. It also provides a conceptual framework for video as an art medium. Students will build individual technical skills while developing an aesthetic vocabulary based on medium-specific audiovisual qualities. Throughout the term we will screen a

Visual Arts

Introduction to Video — FV2303.01) (cancelled 10/17/2024

Spring 2025

Instructor: Beatriz Santiago Muñoz

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Credits: 4

This production course introduces students to the fundamentals of working in video and the language of film form. Drawing on the energy, intensity and criticality of avant-garde film and contemporary video art practices, students will complete a series of projects exploring dimensions of cinematography, mise-en-scène, editing and sound design before producing a final self

Introduction to Viola — MIN2214.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Ariel Rudiakov

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Credits: 1

The course is designed for students with no prior string instrument experience. Admission is on a first come, first served basis. Classes will be one-on-one, individual lessons. Daily practice of 10 to 15 minutes is expected, in order for students to become familiar and comfortable with the basic mechanics of playing viola. Experience with reading music, playing piano or any

Music

Javanese Gamelan — MPF2201.01) (day/time updated 11/11/2024

Spring 2025

Instructor: Nicholas Brooke

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Credits: 2

A practicum in playing and hearing the gamelan, the Central Javanese percussion orchestra. Students will learn about court and local traditions of Indonesia while playing classic works of karawitan (loosely translated as “weaving”), the multilayered repertoire of Central Java. Weekly rehearsals will focus on navigating the intricate levels of irama (rhythm), pathet (tonality),

Music

Jazz Ensemble — MPF4250.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Jen Allen

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Credits: 2

This ensemble will perform a wide range of Jazz music (a genre that is constantly evolving), with an emphasis on both ensemble playing and improvisation skills. By playing together, students will learn how blues, swing, Latin, and rock elements have all fueled this music called jazz. Students will also learn how major Jazz artists such as Ellington, Monk, Mingus, Wayne Shorter,

Music

Kafka — LIT2572.02

Spring 2025

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 2

When he died at age 40 in a sanitarium outside Vienna, Franz Kafka left the bulk of his literary effort in a drawer in the desk of his parent’s home in Prague. What he wanted was for his friend Max Brod to burn everything. In this class, we will read what was not burned, including the two major novels—The Trial, and The Castle, as well as his shorter masterpieces, The

Literature

Keats and Stevens — LIT2299.02

Spring 2025

Instructor: Michael Dumanis

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Credits: 2

This introductory seminar will consider and juxtapose the 19th century British Romantic poet John Keats and the 20th century American modernist poet Wallace Stevens, both of whom were rigorous craftsmen, provocative thinkers, and aesthetic theorists who argued fervently for the supremacy of the imagination, the interconnectedness of truth and beauty, and the importance of

Literature

Kilns and Firing Techniques — CER4203.01) (day/time updated 2/6/2025

Spring 2025

Instructor: Anina Major

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Credits: 4

This course will look into the use of the kiln as an integral tool and part of the creative process in ceramic art. We will explore various different kilns and firing techniques, learning the roles of fire and atmosphere in transforming glaze components into desired surfaces. We will also discuss the history of kiln technology and how it has influenced the development of

Visual Arts

Language Across Time and Space — LIN4114.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Alexia Fawcett

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Credits: 4

This course explores the dynamic processes of language change: how languages evolve over time and influence each other when its users come into contact. Students will examine the mechanisms of phonetic, morphological, and syntactic change, along with phenomena such as grammaticalization and semantic shifts. Special attention will be given to the effects of language contact,

Cultural Studies and Languages Society Culture and Thought

Language at the Margins — LIN2111.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Alexia Fawcett

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Credits: 4

Do emoji count as language? What about birdsong? How about the gestures of people and other primates? Can we consider ‘boom’ and ‘pow’ words of the English language? This course investigates forms of communication often considered peripheral to the linguistic system, focusing on how meaning is created and shared through “marginal” language practices. We will analyze how systems

Cultural Studies and Languages Society Culture and Thought

Left To Their Own Devices — MUS4803.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Nicholas Brooke

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Credits: 2

Often choreographers are left to produce their own sounds, whether it be the ambient sounds between gestures, or a sonic collage sampled from disparate musical fabrics. This course is an intro to technical and experimental approaches to scaffolding sound for choreographers. Topics looked at will be sampling and appropriation, effective music “cuts” in the studio, mild

Dance Music

Let’s Get the Show on the Road: Touring Live Performance — DRA4245.01) (cancelled 9/18/2024

Spring 2025

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 2

Touring is not all about groupies and wrecking hotel rooms; it is one of the most common ways for independent performing artists of all levels to have their work seen and financed. With the goal of preparing Bennington’s creators to have their future time-based art presented, this course will investigate the practical aspects of touring for the performing arts. Through

Life and Death: Buddhism in Modern Japanese films — JPN4604.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida

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Credits: 4

In this sixth term Japanese course, students will examine how Buddhism influenced Japanese thought on the after-life and analyze how Japanese views on the relationship between life and death are depicted in Japanese films. In the first seven weeks of the course, students will examine and discuss the history, beliefs, and deities of Buddhism and their influences on society. In

Cultural Studies and Languages

Life Drawing Lab — DRW2118.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Ann Pibal

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Credits: 2

Drawing Lab provides an opportunity for student artists of all experience levels to further develop their skills with observational-based drawing. Working primarily with the human figure, students build an increased understanding of the poetic, dynamic, and inherently abstract nature of drawing, while paying close attention to the potential of formal elements such as shape,

Visual Arts

Lost and Found in the Nineteenth Century — HIS2142.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Eileen Scully

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Credits: 4

Revolutions in transportation across the nineteenth century wrapped a “girdle of steam around the world,” giving people a sense of wider horizons in a shrinking universe. Indeed, Frederick Douglass’ newspaper spoke in the 1850s of “walls…giving way before the physical, mental and moral pressure of a world, whose business by land and water, is shot over its surface by steam, and

Society Culture and Thought

Magical Realism and Black Speculative Fiction: On Radical Cosmogony — LIT4603.01) (course description title updated as of 11/11/2024

Spring 2025

Instructor: An Duplan

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Credits: 4

Writers like Nnedi Okorafor, N.K. Jemisin, and Samuel Delany have helped define the field of Black speculative fiction. Fantasy, sci-fi, and horror seem to all meld together in this field, allowing writers to combine the supernatural with the technological. Likewise, writers of Central and South America like Isabel Allende, Gabriel García Márquez, and Elena Garro have largely

Black Studies Literature

Making Technical Theatre with Advanced Design Collaboration — DRA2383.02

Spring 2025

Instructor: Tilly Grimes

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Credits: 2

Working in conjunction with Advanced Design and Collaboration, students will be invited to join the process of bringing the shows to life. When theater starts with a script, visuals tend to follow the narrative. But what happens when bold visuals lead the way? Students will explore each discipline of technical theatre and participate in collaborating to create each of the

Drama

Mandolin — MIN2229.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: John Kirk

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Credits: 2

Beginning, intermediate and advanced group lessons on the mandolin will be offered. Students will learn classical technique on the mandolin and start to develop a repertoire of classical and traditional folk pieces. Simple song sheets with chords, tablature, and standard notation, chord theory, and scale work will all be used to further skills. History of the Italian origins of

Music

Maps, Translations, and Movement — DAN4154.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Levi Gonzalez

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Credits: 2

This course will explore translation, maps and movement through embodied practice. Translations: The sessions will be structured in such a way that daily practice is established between movement, speaking, writing, and touching, changing from one task to the other without interruption. The participants will have the possibility and freedom to explore and establish these

Dance

Market Power: Advanced topics in Microeconomics — PEC2278.01) (cancelled 10/4/2024

Spring 2025

Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee

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Credits: 2

In this applied course in microeconomics, we draw upon game theory models to explore the strategic decisions firms must make to compete in the market and compete for the market. Throughout the course, our emphasis will be on market structure and its influence on market power, and we will integrate theory with real-world case studies to delve into critical topics such as pricing

Meisner Technique II — DRA4269.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Jenny Rohn

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Credits: 4

This course will advance the work of Meisner I into the exploration of text and scene work. We will discover how to transform words on the page into vital improvisation by continually giving up our ideas of how we think a scene should be acted and trusting in what is actually happening between the actors on stage, in the moment. We will embark on a process of character

Drama