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Fall 2018

(Re)Center: Reimagining a New Student Center
Andrew Schlatter & Donald Sherekfin
100 Places Where You Must Visit in Japan
Ikuko Yoshida
Activating Democracy 2018
Brian Campion
Actor’s Instrument
Jennifer Rohn
Actor’s Instrument
Dina Janis
Adaptation or Extinction: Animals & Climate Change (Canceled)
Elizabeth Sherman
Adler, Didion, and Sontag: Personal Politics
Kathleen Alcott
Adobe After Effects and CC for the Moving Image Artist
Colleen Murphy
Advanced Art History Practicum
J. Vanessa Lyon
Advanced Chamber Music
Nathaniel Parke
Advanced Improvisation Ensemble of Dancers and Musicians
Susan Sgorbati & Michael Wimberly
Advanced Improvisation Ensemble of Dancers and Musicians
Michael Wimberly
Advanced Musicianship
Andrew Greenwald
Advanced Sculpture: “Making it Personal”
Jon isherwood
Advanced Voice
Kerry Ryer-Parke
Advanced Voice
Thomas Bogdan
Advanced Workshop for Painting and Drawing: The Contemporary Idiom
Josh Blackwell
America and the Middle East
Mansour Farhang
America in the World: Past, Present, Future
Eileen Scully
American Environmental Politics
John Hultgren
American Food 2018
Ben Hall
American Theater Now
Jennifer Rohn
An Actor’s Technique-Nuts and Bolts
Dina Janis
Ancient Greek Philosophy
Doug Kremm
Another Roadside Attraction: Travel & Photography
Elizabeth White
Art Intervention Projects Class: Mapping Projects on Climate Change
Susie Ibarra
Art of Resistance: The Bennington College Poster Project (part 1)
Ann Pibal
Art of the Islamic World
Razan Francis
Artist’s Portfolio
Dana Reitz
Audiovisual Performance
Senem Pirler
Banjo
John Kirk
Bass Intensive
Michael Bisio
Bass with Bisio
Michael Bisio
Beginning Cello
Nathaniel Parke
Beginning Composing
Allen Shawn
Beginning Guitar
Hui Cox
Beginning Violin/Viola
Kaori Washiyama
Bennington Biodiversity Project
Kerry Woods
Bennington County Choral Society – Bach and Haydn
Kerry Ryer-Parke
Bernstein Seminar
Allen Shawn
Biogeography, Paleoecology, and Human Origins
Kerry Woods
Black Queer Writing and Theoretical Approaches
Phillip B. Williams
Calculus A
Andrew McIntyre
Cello
Nathaniel Parke
Chemistry 1: Chemical Principles (with Lab)
Janet Foley
Chemistry 3: Organic Reactions and Mechanisms (with lab)
Amber Hancock
Chinese Zen (Chan)
Ginger Lin
Chocolat
Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Choice and Consequence: Alternative History
Sherry Kramer
Collage, From 2D to 3D
Barry Bartlett
Composing for the Choir
Kitty Brazelton
Contemporary Asian American Literature
Anna Maria Hong
Conversation
Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Creating with Javascript
Anna Kroll
Creative Strategies for Artists
Aaron Landsman
Credibility in Social Media: Fake News and Fact Checking
Ursula Wolz
Critical Voice and Style
Maya Cantu
Data & Social Justice
Dan Phiffer
Data Visualization and Data Structures
Ursula Wolz
Democracy Under Siege
Brian Campion & Susan Sgorbati
Digital Life
Brian Michael Murphy
Dining Culture in China
Ginger Lin
Directing II
Kirk Jackson
Drawing Excess: the Low Pleasures of Decoration
Josh Blackwell
Droughts & Floods – an Economic Analysis of Natural Disasters
Lopamudra Banerjee
Earth Materials
Tim Schroeder
Economic Inequality
Lopamudra Banerjee
Environmental Geology
Tim Schroeder
Ethical Community Collaborations
Aaron Landsman
Experiential Anatomy/Somatic Practices
Elena Demyanenko
Experimental Making in Ceramics
Barry Bartlett
Experimental Sound Practices
Senem Pirler
Extinction and the Endangered Species Act
David Mears
Faculty Performance Production: The Christians
Kirk Jackson & Kerry Ryer-Parke
Faculty Performance Production: The Christians Onstage Gospel Choir
Kirk Jackson & Kerry Ryer-Parke
Fiddle
John Kirk
Film/Video History: Insiders vs. Outsiders: The Position of the Filmmaker in Postcolonial and Ethnographic Film and Video
Chelsea Knight
Films by Photographers
Jonathan Kline
Finding Form: Dance
Dana Reitz
First-Year Dance Intensive
Terry Creach
Food in Italy
Barbara Alfano
Forests: An Introduction to Ecology and Evolution (with lab)
Kerry Woods
Form and Process: Investigations in Painting
Ann Pibal
Form and Process: Investigations in Painting
Josh Blackwell
Foundations of Photography: Digital Practice
Elizabeth White
GANAS
Jonathan Pitcher
Geographies of U.S. Empire: Immigration, Race, and Citizenship
Emily Mitchell-Eaton
Global Ethics/Global Justice
Paul Voice
Global History of Architecture
Razan Francis
Globalization
Miroslava Prazak
Graduate Assistantship in Dance
Terry Creach
Graduate Assistantship in Public Action
Sherry Kramer
Graduate Assistantship in Public Action
Robert Ransick
Graduate Research in Dance
Dana Reitz
Graduate Research in Public Action
Robert Ransick
Graduate Seminar on Pedagogy and Public Action
Robert Ransick and Susan Sgorbati
Graduate Teaching Fellow Assistantship in Dance
Terry Creach
Groundwork: What You Need to Know to Make Music
Kitty Brazelton & Andrew Greenwald
Group Composition Intensive
Kitty Brazelton
Hip Hop Archaeology
Brian Michael Murphy
History of Jazz on Drum Set
Susie Ibarra
History of Theater I
Maya Cantu
Honors Seminar: Korean American Feminist Poetry
Anna Maria Hong
How Do Animals Work?
Elizabeth Sherman
How the “Boom” Went Bust
Jonathan Pitcher
Human Rights
Mansour Farhang
Human Rights in Global Politics
Rotimi Suberu
Image Weaving: Unorthodox Practices in Contemporary Printmaking
Sarah Amos
Insider Perspectives on the Francophone World
Stephen Shapiro
Intermediate Guitar
Hui Cox
Intermediate Video: Contrapuntal & Contested Narratives
Mariam Ghani
Intermediate Violin/Viola
Kaori Washiyama
Intermediate Voice
Thomas Bogdan
Intermediate Voice
Thomas Bogdan
Intermediate Voice
Kerry Ryer-Parke
Intermediate Voice
Kerry Ryer-Parke
Intermediate-High and Advanced Italian: Special Projects
Barbara Alfano
International Relations Theories
Rotimi Suberu
Intro to Animation
Robby Gilbert
Intro to Maps and Geographic Information Systems
Tim Schroeder
Introduction to Cell Biology (with lab)
Amie McClellan
Introduction to Computer Science
Andrew Cencini
Introduction to Sculpture: What is Sculpture?
Jon Isherwood
Introduction to Video
Chelsea Knight
Introduction to Video
Mariam Ghani
Islamic Art and Modernity
Razan Francis
Italians About Their World(s)
Barbara Alfano
Jazz Ensemble
Hui Cox
Jazz Piano
Eric Hangen
Kant Seminar: The Three Critiques
Paul Voice
Kurdish Cinema: Images from a Longtime Stateless Nation
Burcu Seyben
La Generación del 98
Jonathan Pitcher
Language as System and Social Behavior
Thomas Leddy-Cecere
Language, Power and Belonging in the Middle East and North Africa
Thomas Leddy-Cecere
Latin American Art since Independence
Jonathan Pitcher
Latinx Avant-Garde
Natalie Scenters-Zapico
Letterpress: Technique, Materials, and Equipment
Julia Ferrari
Life and Death of Lorca
Sarah Harris
Life Drawing Lab
Colin Brant
Light & Lighting
Jonathan Kline
Logic, Proofs, Algebra, and Set Theory
Carly Briggs
Lost and Found in the Nineteenth Century
Eileen Scully
Low Tech Relief Printmaking
Sarah Amos
Makers & Making/Performance in the 21st Century
Elena Demyanenko
Making from Scratch/Sourcing the Body
Elena Demyanenko
Mallet Percussion Ensemble
Michael Wimberly
Mandolin
John Kirk
Many Peoples, One World
Miroslava Prazak
Markmaking and Representation
Mary Lum
Markmaking and Representation
Colin Brant
Meet Your Enemy: The Psychology of Generational Cohorts
David Anderegg
Meisner Technique
Jennifer Rohn
Metal Sculpture Fabrication MSF
John Umphlett
Metal Workshop
John Umphlett
Modern Guitar
Hui Cox
Movement Practice: Advanced Dance Technique
Hilary Clark
Movement Practice: Beginning Dance Technique
Elena Demyanenko
Movement Practice: Beginning-Intermediate Dance Technique
Hilary Clark
Movement Practice: Dance Improvisation
Terry Creach
Movement Practice: Intermediate-Advanced Dance Technique
Russell Stuart Lilie
Multivariable Calculus and Electromagnetism
Andrew McIntyre
Music Composition Project
Allen Shawn
Music Theory I – Applied Fundamentals
John Kirk
Nature and Artifice – A History of Architecture
Donald Sherefkin
Number Theory and Cryptology
Carly Briggs
Oral History, Restorative Justice and Youth Impacted by the Criminal Justice System
Alisa Del Tufo
Painting Practice
Ann Pibal
Performance Project: Adaptable Score
Dana Reitz
Philosophical Reasoning
Paul Voice
Philosophies and Formal Elements of Animation and the Moving Image
Robby Gilbert
Photography Foundation
Jonathan Kline
Photography Projects: Visions and Versions
Elizabeth White
Physics I: Forces and Motion (with lab)
Hugh Crowl
Piano
Yoshiko Sato
Piano
Christopher Lewis
Piano
Joan Forsyth
Piano Lab I
Joan Forsyth
Piano Lab I
Michael Chinworth
Piano Lab II
Joan Forsyth
Piano Lab II
Michael Chinworth
Plastic Pollution: What Can We Do About It?
Judith Enck
Point, Curve, Surface, Solid – 3D Modeling and Fabrication
Farhad Mirza
Politics and Governance in Africa
Rotimi Suberu
Polynomials and Geometry
Andrew McIntyre
Post-Mao Chinese Rock and Roll
Ginger Lin
Pre-Production for Advanced Projects in Video
Mariam Ghani
Presentation of Statistics
Josef Mundt
Projects in Costume Design
Charles Schoonmaker
Projects: Dance
Terry Creach
Prominent Works of Japanese Authors
Ikuko Yoshida
Public Policy Forum
Brian Campion and Susan Sgorbati
Queer French
Stephen Shapiro
Race, Class, Environment
John Hultgren
Reading and Writing Poetry: Word Choice and Linebreak
Michael Dumanis
Reading and Writing Short Stories: the Technology of Heartbreak
Manuel Gonzales
Reading and Writing the City
Benjamin Anastas
Reading Wilderness
Akiko Busch
Relational Psychoanalysis and its Discontents
David Anderegg
Renaissance and Reformation
Carol Pal
Research Methods in the Social Sciences
Ella Ben Hagai
Restorative Justice In Bennington
Alisa del Tufo
Rhetoric: The Art and Craft of Persuasion
Karen Gover
Rhythmic Fundamentals
Susie Ibarra
Robert Frost and the Rural Authentic
Stephen Metcalf
Sage City Symphony
Kerry Ryer-Parke
Samurai and Art
Ikuko Yoshida
Screenwriting: Scene and Structure
Manuel Gonzales
Senior Projects
Phillip B. Williams
Senior Seminar in Society, Culture, and Thought
Noah Coburn, Carol Pal and John Hultgren
Shakespeare: The History Plays
Annabel Davis-Goff
Slip Casting Ceramics for Functional Wares
Yoko Inoue
Small Books and Zines: The Sequential Image and Word
Mary Lum
Social Practices in Art
Robert Ransick
Sociological Imagination
Debbie Warnock
Software Engineering for the Liberal and Visual Arts
Ursula Wolz
Spatial Interventions
Donald Sherefkin & Dana Reitz
Special Topics in Video Production: Indirect Memory: Experimental Documentary and Parafictional Approaches to the Moving Image
Chelsea Knight
Stage Management
Michael Giannitti
Stars and Galaxies
Hugh Crowl
Studies in American Music History
Kitty Brazelton
Studio Practices: Mixing Decades
Senem Pirler
Studying Place by Metes and Bounds
Miroslava Prazak
Sun Ra: Space is the Place
Michael Wimberly
Teaching Languages and Cultures K-6
Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly, Ikuko Yoshida & Sarah Harris
Ten Decades, Ten Exhibitions: Popular Art Narratives of the Twentieth Century
Anne Thompson
The Art of the Staged Reading
Dina Janis
The Concept Musical
Maya Cantu
The Ecstasy of Influence: Style in Fiction
Kathleen Alcott
The French New Wave
Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
The Hollow Form
Barry Bartlett
The Land of Immigrants: US Policy and Immigration in the 20th and 21st Centuries
Susan Sgorbati with Mariko Silver and John Hultgren
The Language of Drawing: Investigating Abstraction
Mary Lum
The Life and Death of Proteins
Amie McClellan
The Line of Clothing: Rendering for Costume Design
Charles Schoonmaker
The Magical Object – Visual Metaphor
Sherry Kramer
The Meaning of Life
Doug Kremm
The Psychology of Feelings and the Social Construction of Emotions
Ella Ben Hagai
The Real Betty Parsons
Anne Thompson
The Scriptorium: Borders and Boundaries
Camille Guthrie
The Study Center for Group Work: Threeing
Caroline Woolard
The Whiteness of the Whale: Moby-Dick and Melville’s America
Benjamin Anastas
Theories of Psychotherapy
David Anderegg
Thing Library Project
Yoko Inoue
Topping It Off
Richard MacPike
Toward a Rigorous Art History
J. Vanessa Lyon
Traditional Music Ensemble
John Kirk
Traditional Music of North America
John Kirk
Transnational Feminist Geography
Emily Mitchell-Eaton
Upside/down 2.0: Business in the 21st Century
Charles Crowell
Violin/Viola
Kaori Washiyama
Visual Arts Lecture Series
Visual Arts Faculty
Visual Arts Lecture Series Seminar
J. Vanessa Lyon
War in the 21st Century
Noah Coburn
Water Dialogues: Conflicts Over Our Most Valuable Resource
Susan Sgorbati
Water: First Home of Life
Burcu Seyben
What is Economics?
Lopamudra Banerjee
What is the Truth? World War II from the Japanese Perspective
Ikuko Yoshida
Witchcraft and Magic in Pre-Modern Europe
Carol Pal
Written California, 1850s to the Present
Kathleen Alcott
Zeitgeist and the Political Poem
Natalie Scenters-Zapico

Spring 2018

A Play Takes Place in the Audience
Sherry Kramer
Actor’s Instrument
Dina Janis
Adaptation
Sherry Kramer
Advanced Chamber Music
Nathaniel Parke
Advanced Linear Algebra, Group Theory, and Geometry II
Andrew McIntyre
Advanced Projects in Dance
Dana Reitz
Advanced Projects in Dance
Elena Demyanenko
Advanced Projects in Film and Video
Fern Silva
Advanced Voice
Tom Bogdan
Advanced Voice
Kerry Ryer-Parke
Advanced Workshop for Painting and Drawing
Ann Pibal
Advanced Workshop in CAPA
Erika Mijlin
Alexander Technique
Rebecca Brooks, MFA Teaching Fellow
All Movies Matter: Representation in Entertainment
James Smith III
American Undergrounds
Anna Bean
Amplified Realities / Maxwell Render for Rhino
Michael Stradley
An Introduction to Dance Phrasing
Dana Reitz
Analyzing the Social Issues in Japan Through Online News
Ikuko Yoshida
Animal Social Behavior
Elizabeth Sherman
Animation/Design Projects
Sue Rees
Art Exhibitions as Site for Contemplation and Research
Liz Deschenes
Avant Improv Ensemble
Michael Wimberly
Banjo
John Kirk
Bass Intensive
Michael Bisio
Bass with Bisio
Michael Bisio
Beginning Cello II
Nathaniel Parke
Beginning Guitar
Hui Cox
Beginning Violin and Viola
Kaori Washiyama
Bennington County Choral Society
Kerry Ryer-Parke
Bennington Review: A Practicum in Literary Editing and Publishing—Poetry
Michael Dumanis
Bennington Review: A Practicum in Literary Editing and Publishing—Prose
Michael Dumanis
Biochemistry
John Bullock
Black Nature Writing
Phillip B. Williams
Caribbean Arts, Theory, and Literature
Michael Wimberly and Heather Vermeulen
Cello
Nathaniel Parke
Ceramics: Roots of Form
Barry Bartlett
Chemistry 2: Organic Structure & Bonding (with lab)
Janet Foley
Chemistry 4 Lab: Independent Research Projects
Janet Foley
Choice and Consequence: Alternative History
Sherry Kramer
Chromophilia: Explorations in Color
Ann Pibal