Courses
Spring 2024
Actor’s Instrument
Jennifer RohnAdaptations
Donald SherefkinAdobe Photoshop and Illustrator Basics
Gus RamirezAdvanced Art History Practicum
J. Vanessa LyonAdvanced Ceramic Sculpture: Build Big
Anina MajorAdvanced Chamber Music
Nathaniel ParkeAdvanced Facilitation, Mediation and Negotiation
Susan SgorbatiAdvanced Linear Algebra
Andrew McIntyreAdvanced Mixing Techniques
Senem PirlerAdvanced Projects in Dance
Dana ReitzAdvanced Projects in Film and Video
Jen LiuAdvanced Topics in Biology and Biochemistry: From the Cradle to the Grave – The Life and Death of Proteins
Amie McClellanAdvanced Workshop for Painting and Drawing: the Contemporary Idiom
J BlackwellAnimation Projects
Sue ReesAnne Carson
Sandra SimondsAnthropological linguistics and biocultural knowledge
Leah PappasAnthropology and the Body
Cecilia SalviBanjo
John KirkBass Intensive
Michael BisioBass with Bisio
Michael BisioBebop, Rock, and Beyond (Advanced Fundamentals)
Michael WimberlyBeginning Cello II
Nathaniel ParkeBeginning Guitar
John KirkBeginning Wheel Throwing
Aysha PeltzBennington Funk Collective
Michael WimberlyBennington Review: A Practicum in Literary Editing and Publishing – Poetry
Michael DumanisBennington Review: A Practicum in Literary Editing and Publishing — Prose
Libby FloresBeyond Plastic Pollution
Judith EnckBiochemistry
John BullockButoh Intensive- In Search of Dance of Darkness
Kota Yamazaki & Mina NishimuraCAPA Advanced Workshop
Susan SgorbatiCartographies of force: bugs and media
Maia NicholsCello
Nathaniel ParkeChanging Our Lens Part 2
Alisa Del TufoChanging Our Lens Part 2
Alisa del TufoChemistry 2: Organic Structure & Bonding (with Lab)
Fortune OnoniwuChemistry 4: Energetics, Equilibrium & Electrochemistry (with Lab)
John BullockCinematic Shorts: Acting for Film and Video
Dina JanisCinematic Shorts: Acting for Film and Video
Dina JanisClimate Change and the Global Economy
Lopamudra BanerjeeClimate Change, Ecology, and Seasons (with Lab)
Caitlin McDonough MacKenzieClimate Science and Policy
John Hultgren & Tim SchroederCollective dance practice and healing as creative process
luciana achugar, MFA Teaching FellowColor Photography: History and Practice
Jonathan KlineCommunity and Liberation Psychology
Özge SavaşComposing for Improvisers: Analyses, Creation and Community
Kyoko KitamuraComputer Science Principles
Meltem BallanConspiracies: Past, Present, Always
Eileen ScullyContemporary Chinese Poetry
Ginger LinCrocheting the Classics: Elizabeth Gaskell’s North & South
Jenny BoullyCuisine, Culture, and Identity
Stephen ShapiroCulture, Environment and Sustainable Living
Miroslava PrazakCurator, Artist, Impresario: Modes of Exhibition Making
Anne ThompsonCURRENT STRATEGIES FOR COMPOSITION AND PERFORMANCE: sound, movement, vision
Elliott SharpDance Workshop Extension
Elena DemyanenkoDeco Depression: Representing Race, Gender, and Sexuality between the Wars
J. Vanessa LyonDecolonizing Art Methods
Jen LiuDeep Looking: An Introduction to Drawing
Beverly AchaDesign With a Vintage Lens
Charles SchoonmakerDevising: Creation Stories
Jean RandichDifficult Dancing
Levi GonzalezDigital Modeling and Animation
Sue ReesDigital Screens: Developmental and Cognitive Consequences
Emily Waterman & Blake JonesDirected Projects in Photography
Terry BoddieDirecting I: The Director’s Vision
Jean RandichDoll House, Diorama – Created Worlds
Farhad Mirza & Sue ReesDouble Exposure: Acting for Singers, Singing for Actors
Kerry Ryer-Parke & Jennifer RohnDrawing As A Verb: Exploring Uncertainty
J BlackwellDrumming: An Extension of Language
Michael WimberlyDrumming: An Extension of Language
Michael WimberlyÉcocritique : Écologie et Littérature
Sophie Brunau-ZaragozaEmbodied Love: An exploration in psychology and movement
Elena Demyanenko & Özge SavaşEncountering the Abenaki Nation
Miroslava PrazakEndeavor Environmental Action Post-Fellowship Class
Judith EnckEnhancing Cultural Understanding and Embracing Cultural Differences Through Japanese Children’s Books
Ikuko YoshidaEnvironmental Hydrology
Tim SchroederExperiential Anatomy/Somatic Practices
Elena DemyanenkoExperimental Fiction by Women
Bruna Dantas LobatoExperimental Narrative in Moving Image
Beatriz Santiago MuñozExploring Contemporary Society through Films and Media
Ginger LinExploring Taiwanese Culture Through Mahjong: Rules and Strategies
Ginger LinExtragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology
Hugh CrowlFaculty Performance Production: Sweat by Lynn Nottage
Shawtane BowenFeminist Freedom
Catherine McKeenFiddle
John KirkField Methods
Leah PappasField Tuning: art, agriculture and attuning to the land
Alexis EltonFinding Form: Dance
Dana ReitzForm and Process: Introduction to Painting
Colin BrantFoundations of Global Politics
Rotimi SuberuFoundations of Photography: Digital Practice
Luiza FolegattiFunctional Programming and Computation—Exploring the foundations of Computer Science
Darcy OttoFundamentals of Creative Writing
Sandra SimondsGame Theory
Lopamudra BanerjeeGames and Probability
Josef MundtGames, Puzzles, and Modular Systems
Anna HeplerGender in Early Modern Europe
Carol PalGlobal Environmental Politics
John HultgrenGospel Music; Share the Joy
Kathy BullockGraduate Assistantship in Public Action
Susan SgorbatiGraduate Research in Dance
Dana ReitzGraduate Research in Public Action
Susan SgorbatiGraduate Seminar on Pedagogy and Public Action
Susan SgorbatiGraduate Teaching Fellowship in Dance
Dana ReitzGrids and Layouts
Farhad MirzaHearing Voices: a Master Class in Literary Journalism
Jia TolentinoHistorical and Natural Alternative Processes in Photography
Eddy Leonel AldanaHistories of Numbers
Timothy KaneHistory of Directing: Traditions and Experiments
Jean RandichHistory of Theater II
Maya CantuHyper Body!- Anarchic Ballet to Water Movement to African Dance to Floor Ninja to Body Architecture to Shining Zombie to Unknown Transformation…..
Kota YamazakiImprovisation Ensemble for Musicians
Michael Wimberly & Susan SgorbatiIn the Box: Tools and Techniques for Working with Digital Audio
Jen KutlerInsider Perspectives on the Francophone World II
Sophie Brunau-ZaragozaIntergroup Dialogue: The Art and Practice of Having Difficult Conversations Across the Lines of Difference
Maurice Hall & Susan SgorbatiIntermediate Drawing: Beyond Representation
Beverly AchaIntermediate Ear Training
Joseph AlparIntermediate Guitar
John KirkIntermediate Painting: Facture
J BlackwellIntermediate Potter’s Wheel: Implementation for Form Development
Aysha PeltzIntermediate Video: The Future
Jen LiuIntermediate Voice
Virginia Warnken KelseyIntermediate Voice
Virginia Warnken KelseyIntermediate Voice
Kerry Ryer-ParkeInternal Landscapes of the Listening Body
Erin Ellen Kelly, MFA Teaching FellowInternational Human Rights Law
Andy GalindoIntro to Maps and Geographic Information Systems
Tim SchroederIntro to Scene Painting
Seancolin HankinsIntro to the Woodshop
Olivia SaporitoIntroduction to 16mm
John CroweIntroduction to Cell Biology (with Lab)
Amie McClellanIntroduction to Dramaturgy
Maya CantuIntroduction to Intaglio: Alchemy & Surprise
Anna HeplerIntroduction to Sound Recording and Mixing
Senem PirlerIntroduction to Spectroscopy
Fortune OnoniwuIntroduction to Sustainable Agriculture
Kelie BowmanIntroduction to Video
Beatriz Santiago MuñozIntroduction to Video
Beatriz Santiago MuñozIntroduction to Viola
Ariel RudiakovIntroduction to Violin
Joana GenovaIntuitive Electronics for Sound
Jen KutlerJazz Ensemble
Jen AllenKeeping Close: Journals & Notebooks
Jenny BoullyKinetic Solutions
John UmphlettKlezmer Ensemble
Joseph AlparLab: Orchestrating Electronics
Elliott SharpLatin American Critical Theory
Jonathan PitcherLife and Death: Buddhism in Modern Japanese films
Ikuko YoshidaLife Drawing Lab
Colin BrantLogic and Proof: The Art of Mathematics and the Limits of Knowledge
Andrew McIntyreLooking closer; making work
John UmphlettMandolin
John KirkMaterial culture in and of media
Maia NicholsMetrics of Prosperity: Data Analysis for Health, Well-being, and the Economy
Emma KastModern Guitar
Hui CoxMorning Butoh – A Practice of Renewing and Redefining Self
Mina NishimuraMovement Practice: Growing a body like a plant
luciana achugar, MFA Teaching FellowMusic Composition Project
Allen ShawnMusical Taste and Monetization – The Business Side of Music
Kyoko KitamuraNonlinear Dynamical Systems
Kathryn MontovanOperating Systems
Meltem BallanOral History for Social Change
Alisa Del TufoOrders of Magnitude
Andrew McIntyreOrnithology (with Lab)
Blake JonesOther People’s Worlds
Miroslava PrazakPainters and Fashion
Charles SchoonmakerPapermaking With Plants
Lily CaronePeacebuilding
Vahidin OmanovicPeacebuilding 2
Vahidin OmanovicPhilosophical Puzzles
Paul VoicePhilosophical Zombies and Super-Intelligent Robots
Catherine McKeenPhotographs as Narratives
Terry BoddiePhotography Foundations: Analog
Jonathan KlinePhysics II: Electricity and Magnetism (with Lab)
Hugh CrowlPiano
Yoshiko SatoPiano
Christopher LewisPiano Lab I: Beginning Piano
Ben AprilPiano Lab I: Beginning Piano
Yoshiko SatoPiano Lab I: Beginning Piano
Chris RosePiano Lab II
Yoshiko SatoPlastics and Public Health
Megan WolffPoetry and Technology
Franny ChoiProcessing and Making with Rhino 7
Derek ParkerProduction and Design Projects
Michael GiannittiProduction and Design Projects
Michael GiannittiProfessor Milford Graves: Improvisor, Naturalist, Activist
Michael WimberlyQueer French
Stephen ShapiroQueering Creation in the Arts of Latin America
Lena Retamoso UrbanoRace, Robots, and Asian American Literature
Franny ChoiRawls and Justice
Paul VoiceRe-Thinking Society: Radical Visions
Paul VoiceReading and Knitting the Forested Landscape
Caitlin McDonough MacKenzieReading and Writing Nonfiction: Dreamwork
Jenny BoullyReading and Writing Poetry: Games and Experiments
Franny ChoiReading and Writing the Short Story: The Body
Bruna Dantas LobatoReading and Writing: the First Novel
Benjamin AnastasResearch Methods
Özge SavaşResearching Human Rights
Rotimi SuberuResisting Colonization: World Dance Histories
Levi GonzalezReveries
Donald SherefkinSeminar: Musicmaking In Realtime
Elliott SharpSenior Projects
Joseph AlparSewing Fundamentals
Richard MacPikeSewing Fundamentals
Richard MacPikeShakespeare: The Tragedies
Michael DumanisSocial and Cultural Values in Japan: Digital Book Project (Intermediate)
Ikuko YoshidaSong for Ireland and Celtic Connections
John KirkSongwriting
Jen AllenSonorous and Silent: Transatlantic Poetry in Spanish
Lena Retamoso UrbanoSound Design for Moving Images
Senem PirlerSpanish Through Film
Jonathan PitcherSpecial Projects in Advanced Japanese
Ikuko YoshidaStage Management Process
Michael GiannittiStatistical Methods for Data Analysis
Kathryn MontovanStatistics for Social Science
Emily WatermanStrategic thinking and social interactions
Lopamudra BanerjeeStravinsky
Allen ShawnSurvival Skills: Building a Career in the Performing Arts
Levi Gonzalez & Elena DemyanenkoSystems 1: Hardware Architecture and Design—From circuits to machine code
Darcy OttoTechnology Pathways and Independent Study
Meltem BallanTerrible Choices: Philosophy & Tragedy
Catherine McKeenThe art of Letting Go: Daoism and Buddhism in Daily Life
Ginger LinThe Art of the Interview
Joe DonahueThe Big Picture: Stewarding Artists’ Legacies (FWT Course)
Elizabeth WhiteThe Choreography of Poetics : The Poetics of Choreography
Levi Gonzalez & Camille GuthrieThe Curatorial: Your Top Ten
Anne ThompsonThe Eclipse!
Hugh CrowlThe F-Word: Confronting Fascism in a World on Fire
John HultgrenThe Female Grotesque
Camille GuthrieThe Flower Songs of the Hungry Coyote: Pre-Columbian Indigenous Poetry
Anaïs DuplanThe Hand as Tool
Anina MajorThe Immigrant Novel
Bruna Dantas LobatoThe Literature of Black Insurgency
Anaïs DuplanThe Mystery that Keeps Us Humble: St. Augustine, Simone Weil, Thomas Merton
Benjamin AnastasThe Philosophy of Hannah Arendt
Paul VoiceThe Process and Ethics of Using Hacked and Leaked Data
Michael CoreyThe Prose Poem
Michael DumanisThe Scriptorium: The Short Story
Camille GuthrieThe Silk Road
Carol PalThe Social Life of Trash
Cecilia SalviThe State of American Democracy and the November 2024 Elections
Susan Sgorbati & Brian CampionTheater Games and Improvisation
Shawtane BowenTraditional Music Ensemble
John KirkTrends in Adolescent Mental Health
Emily WatermanUkulele Comprehensive
John KirkUnderstanding Ceramic Glazes
Matt KatzViewpoints Groundwork
Jennifer RohnViola
Ariel RudiakovViolin
Joana GenovaVisual Arts Lecture Series
J. Vanessa LyonVisual Arts Lecture Series Seminar
J. Vanessa LyonVoice Performance Intensive
Virginia Warnken KelseyVoice Performance Intensive
Kerry Ryer-ParkeVoice Performance Intensive
Kerry Ryer-ParkeWhat is (and What is Not) US Empire
David BondWhat is Performing, Anyway?
Dana ReitzWhen Technology and the Human Body become Partners, Who Leads?
Cathy WeisWicked Problems and Diabolical Dilemmas
Eileen ScullyWomen and Human Mobility
Andy GalindoWomen Rock: Dancing with the Erotic Feminine
Erin Ellen Kelly, MFA Teaching FellowWood Firing Kiln
Nicholas OhWoodcut Printmaking on the Vandercook Proofing Press
Corinne RhodesWord Play In The Press Room
Julia FerrariWorking With Light
Michael GiannittiWriters, Directors Workshop
Kirk JacksonWriters, Directors Workshop
Kirk Jackson
Fall 2023
100 Experiments
Jonathan KlineA Brief Introduction to Astronomical Observing
Hugh CrowlA History of Economic Thought
Emma KastAdvanced Animation
Bronwyn MaloneyAdvanced Chamber Music
Nathaniel ParkeAdvanced Dramaturgy
Maya CantuAdvanced Film/Video Projects I
Mariam GhaniAdvanced Improvisation: Scene Work
Shawtane BowenAdvanced Printing and Projects in Lithography
Thorsten DennerlineAdvanced Projects in Architecture
Donald SherefkinAdvanced Projects in Dance
Dana ReitzAdvanced Workshop for Painting and Drawing
Ann PibalAnatolian Rock Ensemble: Psychedelia and Social Change in Modern Turkey
Joseph AlparARCHIVE and ACCESS: PUBLICATION, PEDAGOGY, and MUTUAL AID as PUBLIC ACTION
Elæ Moss, MFA Teaching FellowBanjo
John KirkBass Intensive
Michael BisioBass with Bisio
Michael BisioBeginning Cello I
Nathaniel ParkeBeginning Guitar
John KirkBeginning Voice: Movement and Flow
Kerry Ryer-ParkeBeyond Plastic Pollution
Judith EnckBeyond Story
Mariam GhaniBlack Mountain/Beat Poetry
Sandra SimondsBodies in Inner and Outer Spaces
Terry BoddieCalculus: A Classical Approach
Andrew McIntyreCello
Nathaniel ParkeChanging Our Lens: Restorative Justice on Campus and Off
Alisa Del TufoChemistry 1: Chemical Principles (with Lab)
John BullockChemistry 2: Organic Structure and Bonding (with Lab)
John BullockChemistry 3: Organic Reactions & Mechanisms (with Lab)
Fortune OnoniwuChild Development
Emily WatermanChosen Family Style: Queer Asian Pacific American Literature
Franny ChoiChromophilia: Investigations in Color
Ann Pibal