Courses
Fall 2022
A Brief Introduction to Astronomical Observing
Hugh CrowlActor’s Instrument
Kirk JacksonAdaptation
Sherry KramerAdvanced Chamber Music
Nathaniel ParkeAdvanced Dramaturgy
Maya CantuAdvanced Film/Video Projects I
Mariam GhaniAdvanced Jazz Piano
Jen AllenAdvanced Modular Synths
Sergei TcherepninAdvanced Piano
Christopher LewisAdvanced Piano – Intensive
Christopher LewisAdvanced Projects in Dance
Levi GonzalezAdvanced Sculpture
John UmphlettAdvanced Voice
Thomas BogdanAdvanced Voice
Kerry Ryer-ParkeAdvanced Workshop for Painting and Drawing: The Contemporary Idiom
J BlackwellAdvanced/Intermediate Printmaking: Refinement and New Methods (Laser Cut for the Print Studio)
Thorsten DennerlineAfter Super Flat
Yoko InoueAfter Super Flat
Yoko InoueAmerican Environmental Politics
John HultgrenAn Actor’s Technique: Nuts and Bolts
Jennifer RohnAnalysis
Kathryn MontovanAnimation 1
Sue ReesAnimation_Projects
Sue ReesArchitectural Analysis
Donald SherefkinArchitectural Graphics
Donald SherefkinArt of the Islamic World
Razan FrancisAvant-Garde Art in China
Ginger LinBanjo
John KirkBass Intensive
Michael BisioBass with Bisio
Michael BisioBasso Continuo & You – LAB
Kitty BrazeltonBasso Continuo & You – LAB
Kitty BrazeltonBasso Continuo & You—Remote
Kitty BrazeltonBeans Give Back 1.0
Alexis EltonBeat by Beat: Script Interpretation for Theatre Makers and their Friends
Dina JanisBeginning Cello I
Nathaniel ParkeBeginning Contact Improvisation
Tal Shibi, MFA Teaching FellowBeginning Guitar
Hui CoxBeginning Violin/Viola
Joana GenovaBennington Fall Brass Ensemble
Chris RoseBennington Review: A Practicum in Literary Editing and Publishing – Poetry
Michael DumanisBennington Review: A Practicum in Literary Editing and Publishing – Prose
Manuel GonzalesBeyond Plastic Pollution
Judith EnckBiological Clocks
Blake JonesBiological Invasions
Sara BebusBlack in Venice: Race, Representation, and the 59th Biennale, Renaissance to Contemporary
J. Vanessa LyonBlack Music: Black Music Division – Reimagined
Michael WimberlyBlackness in French
Maboula SoumahoroBodies in Inner and Outer Space
Terry BoddieBud Powell: How Bebop Changed the Modern Music Landscape
Jen AllenCello
Nathaniel ParkeChemistry 1: Chemical Principles (with Lab)
Abbey KillamChild Development
Emily WatermanChocolat
Noëlle Rouxel-CubberlyChoreographic Scores of Care: Artists, Contemporary Practices and Composition
Larissa Velez-JacksonChromophilia: Investigations in Color
Ann PibalCollaboration in Light, Movement and Clothes
Michael Giannitti, Dana Reitz & Charles SchoonmakerCommonplace Treasure
Annette LawrenceComposing for Instruments
Allen ShawnComputational Craft
TBAConfessional Poetry
Sandra SimondsContemporary Ukrainian Literature
Alexandar MihailovicCounseling Theory & Practice
Christine McAuliffeCreative Radioplay and Podcasting
Senem PirlerDalcroze Eurhythmics: la gymnastique rythmique
Chris RoseDance Intensive: Embodiment, Improvisation, Performance
Levi GonzalezDance Teleportation: Beyond Space and Time
Kota Yamazaki & Mina NishimuraDemocracy in America, from the Revolution to Trump
Casey BohlenDemocracy in America: Public Policy Forum
Brian CampionDialoguing with Modern Latin American Poetries
Lena Retamoso UrbanoDining Culture in Taiwan
Ginger LinDirecting II
Kirk JacksonDiscrete Mathematics
Kathryn MontovanDoll House, Diorama – Created Worlds
Farhad Mizra & Sue ReesDoubleness
Sherry KramerDrawing As A Verb: Exploring Uncertainty
J BlackwellDrawing As Record
Annette LawrenceDrawing with Steel
John UmphlettDrumming: An Extension of Language
Michael WimberlyEarly American Confessions
Benjamin AnastasElectronic Media
Teddy PozoElements of Computers and Programming
Meltem BallanElements of Data Engineering
Meltem BallanEntry to Mathematics
Tim KaneEnvironmental Action Fellowship Pre-Fellowship Class
Judith EnckEuclid’s Elements
Tim KaneExamining Equality and Equity through the Examinations of Japanese Society in the Edo Period and Meiji Period
Ikuko YoshidaExperimental Sound Practices
Senem PirlerFaculty Performance Production: Small Mouth Sounds by Bess Wohl
Shawtane BowenFall Birds and Birding
Sara BebusForaging from Within: Cellular Awakening – Humans, Animals, Plants & Fungi
Maura Gahan, MFA Teaching FellowForm and Process: Introduction to Painting
Ann PibalForm and Process: Introduction to Painting
Colin BrantFoundations of Photography/Analog
Jonathan KlineFoundations of Photography/Analog
Jonathan KlineFrom the Stoics to Ubuntu: Philosophies of the Good Life
Catherine McKeen & Paul VoiceFuture Histories, Speculative Sites
Elae Moss, MFA Teaching FellowGANAS
Jonathan PitcherGenetics: Principles and Practice (with lab)
Amie McClellanGenome Jumpstart – An Introduction to Bioinformatic Analysis
Amie McClellanGenres and Forms of Poetry
Michael DumanisGesture: Utterances as multimodal acts
Leah PappasGhostly Body- The Art of Absence
Mina NishimuraGlobal Politics
Emma KastGloom, Glory, and Tons of Copper Sulfate: Representations of Mental Health in Literature
Paul La FargeGoing Backstage: Musicals, Plays, and Novels about Theater
Maya CantuGraduate Assistantship in Public Action
Susan SgorbatiGraduate Research in Dance
Dana ReitzGraduate Research in Public Action
Brian Michael MurphyGraduate Seminar on Pedagogy and Public Action
Brian Michael MurphyGraduate Teaching Fellow Assistantship in Dance
Dana ReitzGroup Composition Intensive
Kitty BrazeltonHistory of Christianity: From the Hebrews to Henry VIII
Carol PalHistory of Theater I
Maya CantuImprovisation for a Catastrophe
Susan SgorbatiIn Quest of the “New” Latin American Chronicle
Lena Retamoso UrbanoInsider Perspectives on the Francophone World I
Noëlle Rouxel-CubberlyInterdisciplinary Seminar: Time
Mariam GhaniIntermediate Guitar
Hui CoxIntermediate Painting Intensive: Conditions for Visual Inquiry
Ann PibalIntermediate Video: Contrapuntal & Contested Narratives
Mariam GhaniIntermediate Violin/Viola
Joana GenovaIntermediate Voice
Thomas BogdanIntermediate Voice
Thomas BogdanIntermediate Voice
Kerry Ryer-ParkeIntermediate Voice
Kerry Ryer-ParkeIntro to Mass Communication
Joe DonahueIntro to Modular Soft Synths
Sergei TcherepninIntroducing Python Programming for Ecology
Kattia Palacio-LopezIntroduction to 16mm
John CroweIntroduction to Counterpoint
Nicholas BrookeIntroduction to Mold Making and Slip Casting
Yoko InoueIntroduction To Quantitative Reasoning and Modeling
Kathryn MontovanIntroduction to Relief Printing
Thorsten DennerlineIntroduction to Restorative Justice – PAX
Alisa Del TufoIntroduction to Sculpture: What is sCULpTURE?
Tracey CockrellIntroduction to Studio Recording and Mixing
Senem PirlerIntroduction to Video
Chelsea KnightIntroduction to Video
Chelsea KnightJazz Ensemble
Jen AllenJazz Theory
Jen AllenJourney: The 1890s
Eileen ScullyKilns and Firing Techniques
Anina MajorKilns and Firing Techniques
Anina MajorLanguage as System and Social Behavior
Thomas Leddy-CecereLanguage, Thought, and Culture
Leah PappasLatin American Art Since Independence
Jonathan PitcherLeo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina
Alexandar MihailovicLetterpress Printing from Metal, Wood, and Photopolymer
Thorsten DennerlineLies, Damn Lies, and Conspiracy Theories
Catherine McKeenLife Drawing Lab
Colin BrantLight and Lighting
Jonathan KlineLiterature of the AIDS Pandemic
Michael DumanisMacroeconomics 1: “Growth and Crisis”
Lopamudra BanerjeeMad Props: Theatrical Property Design and Production
Seancolin HankinsMakers & Making/Performance in the 21st Century
Levi GonzalezMaking and Breaking International Law
Eileen ScullyMaking the Invisible, Visible: Creating from the Margins
Lena Retamoso UrbanoMaking Work: In Usdan Gallery with artist Allana Clarke
Anne ThompsonMallet Percussion Ensemble
Michael WimberlyMandolin
John KirkMediation and Negotiation for Complex Conflicts
Susan SgorbatiMetalshop
John UmphlettMigration, Identity, & Belonging
Özge SavaşModern Guitar
Hui CoxModern Islamic Art
Razan FrancisMorning Ritual – A Practice of Renewing Self
Mina Nishimura & Kota YamazakiMother Figure and Motherly Figures in Italian Literature and Culture – Taught in English
Barbara AlfanoMovement Practice: Presence in Motion
Tal Shibi, MFA Teaching FellowMovement Practice: African Mandingo Traditional Dances
Aguibou Bougobali SanouMovement Practice: Ballet Anarchy
Kota YamazakiMovement Practice: Contemporary Dance using West African Dance and Daily Corporal Movements
Aguibou Bougobali SanouMovement Practice: Internal Landscapes of the Listening Body
Erin Ellen Kelly, MFA Teaching FellowMovement Practice: Morning Chi (Qi), Waking Up the Body
Erin Ellen Kelly, MFA Teaching FellowMovement Practice: Pleasure Practice
luciana achugar, MFA Teaching FellowMovement Practice: Strengthening & Stretching
luciana achugar, MFA Teaching FellowMovement Practice: Your Toolkit of Divergent Strategies
Larissa Velez-JacksonMusic and Culture: An Introduction to Ethnomusicology
Joseph AlparMusic Composition and Research Projects
Allen ShawnMusic Lecture Series
Nicholas BrookeMusic of Brazil
Joseph AlparMusic Theory I – Applied Fundamentals
John KirkNature and Artifice
Donald SherefkinNew Play Development: Rewriting in Company
Sherry KramerNovice Violin/Viola
Joana GenovaOral History for Social Change
Alisa Del TufoPandemic and the World Economy
Lopamudra BanerjeePatternmaking and Garment Construction
Richard MacPikePerformance as Radicalism in Practice, Second Edition
Kriss Mincey, MFA Teaching FellowPerformance as Radicalism in Practice, Second Edition
Kriss MinceyPerformance Project: Somatic Savage
Tal Shibi, MFA Teaching FellowPhilosophical Reasoning
Catherine McKeenPhilosophy & Biography: Wittgenstein
Paul VoicePhotographs as Narratives
Terry BoddiePhysics I: Forces and Motion (with Lab)
Hugh CrowlPiano
Yoshiko SatoPiano
Yoshiko SatoPiano Lab I
Chris RosePiano Lab I
Chris RosePiano Lab I
Chris RosePiano Lab II
Yoshiko SatoPolitical Ideologies in Action: American Conservatism
John HultgrenPop Culture in Taiwan and China
Ginger LinPopular Culture, Politics, and Resistance
Steve MoogPoverty and Vulnerability
Lopamudra BanerjeePracticum in Environmental Justice
David BondPresentation of Statistics
Josef MundtPrinciples of Animal Behavior
Sara BebusProcedures from Shadows: Black and Indigenous Art Practice in the Brazilian Context
Kenneth BaileyPROTOTYPIA [PLAY! -Lab]
Divine Bradley, MFA Teaching FellowPROTOTYPIA [PLAY! -Lab]
Divine Bradley, MFA Teaching FellowQualitative Inquiry
Özge SavaşQueerness and Games
Teddy PozoRacialized Chronologies: Alternative Temporal Structures in Contemporary Poetry
Anaïs DuplanRadio Plays: Making Theatre for Radio and Podcast
Dina JanisRakugo and Humor: The Art of Storytelling
Ikuko YoshidaReading & Writing Multilingual Texts: When One Language Isn’t Enough
Marguerite FeitlowitzReading and Writing Poetry: The Speculative Lyric
Franny ChoiReading and Writing: Autofiction
Benjamin AnastasRebetiko Ensemble: Songs of the Greek Underworld
Joseph AlparRedefining Scenography
Michael GiannittiRegardez
Noëlle Rouxel-CubberlyRomance Literature of the Middle Ages
Sandra SimondsSampling
Nicholas BrookeScreenwriting: The Story Studio
Manuel GonzalesSeen and Unseen Rhythms: Field Lab Into Embodied Landscape
Alexis EltonSenior Projects in Literature
Manuel GonzalesSenior Seminar in Society, Culture, and Thought
John Hultgren & Eileen ScullySenior Seminar in Society, Culture, and Thought
David BondShakespeare: Comedies and Romances
Paul La FargeShow and Tell: Visual Ethnography for Understanding the World Around Us
Steve MoogSilkscreen Printmaking
Corinne RhodesSing!
Kerry Ryer-Parke & John KirkSlow Project Lab
Sal RandolphSocial Issues in Japan Through Online News
Ikuko YoshidaSocial Kitchen 2.0 Lab: Culinary Space/Kitchen Practicum
Yoko InoueSocial Kitchen 2.0: Collective Wellness, Engagement, and Inclusion
Yoko InoueSocial Kitchen 2.0: Other Kitchens
Yoko InoueSoftware Product Development
Michael CoreySongwriting I: From your Room to the World (REMOTE)
Kitty BrazeltonSongwriting I: Melody, Rhythm & Harmony LAB
Kitty BrazeltonSongwriting I: Melody, Rhythm & Harmony LAB
Kitty BrazeltonSonic Theater: Tender Monsters
Sergei TcherepninStage Management Process
Michael GiannittiStatistics for the Social Sciences
Emily WatermanTai Chi 37 Forms
Ginger LinTechnology Pathways Seminar
Meltem BallanTen Decades, Ten Exhibitions: Popular Art Narratives of the Twentieth Century
Anne ThompsonTessellation
Farhad MirzaThe Actor’s Instrument
Dina JanisThe Body Acoustic: Toward a Sense of Place
Dana ReitzThe Curatorial: Your Top Ten
Anne ThompsonThe Elasticity of Time: The Art of Phrasing
Dana ReitzThe End of Privacy – Self-impersonation and Survival in the Media
Chelsea KnightThe Evolving Campus – Bennington College’s Next 100 Years
Donald Sherefkin & Andrew SchlatterThe Ghosts of Rimbaud, Baudelaire, and the Brontës
Sandra SimondsThe Hand as Tool
Anina MajorThe Hand As Tool
Anina MajorThe History of Medicine: From Hippocrates to Harvey
Carol PalThe Line of Clothing: Rendering for Costume Design
Charles SchoonmakerThe Personal and Political
Özge SavaşThe Physics of Light and Color
Hugh CrowlThe Physics of Sound
Hugh CrowlThe Right to Opacity: Reading Fred Moten and Édouard Glissant
Anaïs DuplanThe Scriptorium: The Beautiful, Ugly, True, and Cute
Camille GuthrieThe Scriptorium: The Beautiful, Ugly, True, and Cute
Camille GuthrieTheater Games and Improvisation
Shawtane BowenTheories and Histories of Capitalism
Emma KastTopics in Applied Philosophy: War
Paul VoiceTraditional Music Ensemble
John KirkTraditional Music of North America
John KirkVermont Education Policy
Brian CampionViolin/Viola
Joana GenovaVirtual Tours of Japan: Explore and Learn About Japan
Ikuko YoshidaVisual Arts Lecture Series
Veronica MelendezWearable Art: Intersections of Art, Activism, and Fashion
Michael Sylvan RobinsonWellbeing @ Bennington
Alison Tartaglia & Kat DaleyWhat is Performing, Anyway?
Dana ReitzWomen and Enlightenment
Carol PalWords Without Borders: Translation in Times of Crisis
Marguerite FeitlowitzWork, Work, Work
Charles SchoonmakerWorld Theater Now
Jennifer RohnZoology (with Lab)
Blake Jones
Spring 2022
100 Drawings
Donald Sherefkin2000-level Sculpture class
TBA24 Hours, 4 Seasons, 77.8 Years
Donald SherefkinAbout Time
Nicholas BrookeAcoustic/Electronic
Allen Shawn & Senem PirlerActor’s Instrument
Dina JanisAdult Psychopathology
Christine McAuliffeAdvanced Ceramics Projects – Self & Clay
Anina MajorAdvanced Chamber Music
Nathaniel ParkeAdvanced Improvisation: The Game of the Scene
Shawtane BowenAdvanced Level Chinese
TBDAdvanced Mixing Techniques
Senem PirlerAdvanced Piano
Christopher LewisAdvanced Piano – Intensive
Christopher LewisAdvanced Projects in Film and Video
Jen LiuAdvanced Projects in Sound Practices
Senem Pirler