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Spring 2020

100 Experiments
Jonathan Kline
A Dual Narrative Approach to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Michael Cohen
A Material World
John Umphlett
A Voice from a Wound: Trauma and Memory in Hispanophone Literature
Sarah Harris
Abstract Algebra
Carly Briggs
Action Research Lab for Food Sovereignty
Tatiana Abatemarco
Advanced Butoh Practice-Body as Landscape
Kota Yamazaki and Mina Nishimura, MFA teaching Fellow
Advanced Ceramics Projects – Self & Clay
Anina Major
Advanced Chamber Music
Nathaniel Parke
Advanced Digital Modeling and Animation
Sue Rees
Advanced Jazz Piano
Bruce Williamson
Advanced Mixing Techniques
Senem Pirler
Advanced Projects in Dance
David Thomson
Advanced Projects in Video II
Jen Liu
Advanced Voice
Kerry Ryer-Parke
Advanced Voice
Thomas Bogdan
Advanced Workshop for Painting and Drawing
Camille Hoffman
Advanced Workshop in CAPA
David Bond and Susan Sgorbati
After-School Education Module
Susan Sgorbati
An Actors Technique: Nuts and Bolts
Dina Janis
An Introduction to Dance Phrasemaking and Performing
Dana Reitz
Analyzing the Social Issues in Japan Through Online News
Ikuko Yoshida
Animal Social Behavior
Betsy Sherman
Animation Projects
Sue Rees
Art of Auditioning
Jennifer Rohn
Art of the Sonnet: Conventions and Inventions
Michael Dumanis
Arts of Asia
Seojeong Shin
Avant Garde Art in China
Ginger Lin
Balkan Ensemble
Joseph Alpar
Banjo
John Kirk
Bass Intensive
Michael Bisio
Bass with Bisio
Michael Bisio
Bebop, Rock & Beyond (Fundamentals)
Michael Wimberly
Beginning Cello II
Nathaniel Parke
Beginning Guitar
Hui Cox
Beginning Guitar
Hui Cox
Beginning Potter’s Wheel
Aysha Peltz
Beginning Violin/Viola
Kaori Washiyama
Bennington Plays
Jennifer Rohn and Dina Janis
Bennington Plays: Design
Michael Giannitti
Bennington Plays: Playwrights
Sherry Kramer
Bennington Review: A Practicum in Literary Editing and Publishing-Poetry
Michael Dumanis
Bennington Review: A Practicum in Literary Editing and Publishing-Prose
Benjamin Anastas
Bertolt Brecht
Maya Cantu
Biochemistry
Janet Foley
Book Club Italiano
Noelle Rouxel-Cubberly
Cello
Nathaniel Parke
Certainty
Andrew McIntyre
Chemistry 2: Organic Structure and Bonding (with Lab)
Amber Hancock
Chemistry Independent Research Projects
Janet Foley
Choice Theory
Lopamudra Banerjee
Chromophilia: Explorations in Color
Ann Pibal
Clarinet
Bruce Williamson
Cognitive Development: Where do our Brains Come From?
Megan Bulloch
Comics/Culture
Sarah Harris
Comparative Animal Physiology (with lab)
Betsy Sherman
Confucianism vs. Daoism
Ginger Lin
Contemporary Chinese Poetry
Ginger Lin
Creation of Statistics
Josef Mundt
Creative Economies
Caroline Woolard, MFA Teaching Fellow
Cup Lending Library
Aysha Peltz
Dalcroze Eurhythmics: Groove, Gesture, and Embodied Knowing
Chris Rose
Dance Making: The Ephemeral Artifact
Hilary Clark, MFA Teaching Fellow
Dancer as Maker
Hilary Clark, MFA Teaching Fellow
Delights of Ephemera
Anne Thompson
Design Patterns and Data Structures
Justin Vasselli
Development and Evolution of Language
Megan Bulloch
Devising: Moving through Time and Space
Jean Randich
Differential Equations and Non-linear Dynamical Systems
Kathryn Montovan
Digital Materiality
Brian Michael Murphy
Directing I: The Director’s Vision
Jean Randich
Discrimination and Audit Studies
Debbie Warnock
Distributed Systems (with Lab)
Andrew Cencini
Drawing As A Verb: Exploring Uncertainty
J Blackwell
Drumming: An Extension of Language
Michael Wimberly
Early-Modern French Libertine Literature
Stephen Shapiro
Eastern European Literature and Cinema: From the Cold War to the Present
Alexandar Mihailovic
Education and Politics: What the Presidential Candidates Are Advocating and What that Means for Our Future
Karen Gross
Electroacoustic Band Workshop
Senem Pirler
English Restoration and 18th Century Drama
Maya Cantu
Entry to Mathematics
Carly Briggs
Ethnographic Playwriting
Aaron Landsman, MFA Teaching Fellow
Every Day Everyday Climate Change
Marina Zurkow, MFA Teaching Fellow
Experimental Radioplay
Senem Pirler
Failure
Andrew Cencini
Families: Love and Power in the Domestic Sphere
Miroslava Prazak
Fashion and Modernism
J Blackwell
Feminist Geographies of Dis/ability
Emily Mitchell-Eaton
Fiddle
John Kirk
Field Course in Coral Reef Biology
Betsy Sherman
Film Adaptations of French Literature
Noelle Rouxel-Cubberly
Financing Social Value Oriented Enterprise
Charles Crowell
Finding Form: Dance
Dana Reitz
FLEABAG: A One Day Workshop about Structure
Sherry Kramer
Food and Politics: A Food Citizens Methodology Workshop
Yoko Inoue
Form and Process: Investigations in Painting
Ann Pibal
Fundamentals of Creative Writing
Stuart Nadler
Future Studio
Robert Ransick
Geometry
Andrew McIntyre

Spring 2021

3D Modeling for Painting, Drawing, and Printmaking
Farhad Mirza
A Community Health Approach to Social Emergencies, American Racism, and Firearm Injury Prevention
Dr. Christopher Barsotti
Action Research Lab for Food Sovereignty
Tatiana Abatemarco
Actors Instrument
Kirk Jackson
Advanced Chamber Music
Nathaniel Parke
Advanced Jazz Piano
Bruce Williamson
Advanced Linear Algebra
Andrew McIntyre
Advanced Mixing Techniques
Senem Pirler
Advanced Modular Soft Synths
Sergei Tcherepnin
Advanced Piano
Christopher Lewis
Advanced Piano – Intensive
Christopher Lewis
Advanced Projects in Film and Video
Jen Liu
Advanced Screenwriting
Manuel Gonzales
Advanced Voice
Kerry Ryer-Parke
Advanced Voice
Tom Bogdan
Advanced Workshop for Painting and Drawing: The Contemporary Idiom
J Blackwell
Advanced/Senior Projects in Dance
Elena Demyanenko & Levi Gonzales
Algorithms and Data Structures
Jim Mahoney
American Food 2021
Ben Hall
American Theater NEXT
Jenny Rohn
An Actors Technique: Nuts and Bolts
Dina Janis
An Environmental History of Food and Farming
Kerry Woods
Animation Projects
Sue Rees
Applied/Engineering Physics
Tim Schroeder
Art Deco Style
Charles Schoonmaker
Art in Captivity: The Images, Sounds, and Rhetoric of Freedom
Vivian Nixon
Art of Alterity: Representation and Otherness in American Visual Culture, 1839-1939
J. Vanessa Lyon
Banjo
John Kirk
Basic Audio Technology for Drama/Dance Productions
Curt Wells
Bass Intensive
Michael Bisio
Bass with Bisio
Michael Bisio
Basso Continuo & You – Lab
Kitty Brazelton
Basso Continuo & You—Remote
Kitty Brazelton
Beginning Cello II
Nat Parke
Beginning Guitar
Hui Cox
Beginning Violin/Viola
Kaori Washiyama
Beginning-Intermediate Potter’s Wheel
Aysha Peltz
Bennington Review: A Practicum in Literary Editing and Publishing-Poetry
Michael Dumanis
Bennington Review: A Practicum in Literary Editing and Publishing–Prose
Benjamin Anastas
Beyond Butoh – A Body Not To Be Consumed
Mina Nishimura and Kota Yamazaki
Beyond Plastic Pollution
Judith Enck
Beyond Plastic Pollution
Judith Enck
Biochemistry
Amber Hancock
Black Playwrights of the Civil Rights Era
Maya Cantu
Brass/Trumpet: Individual Lessons
Chris Rose
Calculus: A Classical Approach
Andrew McIntyre
Camera Mounts I
John Umphlett
Camera Mounts II
John Umphlett
CAPA Advanced Workshop
Susan Sgorbati & David Bond
Cello
Nathaniel Parke
Characters Welcome
Shawtane Bowen
Cheap Art Dance Circus
Maura Gahan, MFA Teaching Fellow
Chemistry 2 (with Lab)
Amber Hancock
Chemistry 3: Organic Reactions & Mechanism (with Lab)
John Bullock
Chocolat
Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Choreography of Attention
Sal Randolph
Circuit Building for Sound Makers: Oscillators, Amplifiers and Distortion Circuits
Thessia Machado
Color Photography: History & Practice
Jonathan Kline
Comparing Political Institutions
Rotimi Suberu
Computational Craft
Dakota Pace
Confucianism vs. Daoism
Ginger Lin
Constructed Languages: Between Entertainment and Idealism
Thomas Leddy-Cecere
Contemporary Chinese Poetry
Ginger Lin
Contemporary Japanese Culture
Huang-wen Lai
Contemporary Japanese Fiction and Film
Huang-wen Lai
Courting Interpretation
Jonathan Pitcher
Creation of Statistics
Josef Mundt
Creative Economies
Caroline Woolard
Creative Podcasting
Senem Pirler
Dalcroze Eurhythmics: The Body Indispensable
Chris Rose
Dance Workshop
Levi Gonzalez
Dance Workshop
Elena Demyanenko
Darwin and the Naturalists
Kerry Woods
Decolonizing Ethnomusicology
Joseph M. Alpar
Digital Modeling and Animation
Sue Rees
Directed Projects
Terry Boddie
Directing I: The Director’s Vision
Jean Randich
Discrete Mathematics
Carly Briggs
Dollhouse, Diorama
Farhad Mirza
Drawing As Record
Mary Lum
Drawing Everywhere
Mary Lum
Earth Requiem
Joan Forsyth
Elements of Architecture
Don Sherefkin
Environment and Public Action
David Bond
Environmental Action Post Fellowship Class
Judith Enck
Experiential Anatomy/Somatic Practices
Elena Demyanenko
Experimental Projects in Ceramics
Barry Bartlett
Experimental Radioplay
Senem Pirler
Explorations in Public History
Eileen Scully
Exploring the World through Research
Miroslava Prazak
Faculty Performance Production: Phillip Christian Smith’s 2017 political thriller, “The Chechens”
Jean Randich
Feminist Philosophy
Catherine McKeen
Field Ecology: Documenting Natural Areas of the Bennington Region
Kerry Woods
Finding Form: Dance
Dana Reitz
Funk…as Rhythmic Counterpoint
Bruce Williamson & Michael Wimberly
Future Work: Systems of Evaluation
David Zicarelli
Genetics: Principles and Practice (with lab)
Amie McClellan
Genres and Forms of Poetry
Michael Dumanis
Geographies of Food Part II: Decolonizing, and Re-indigenizing Research Intensive
Yoko Inoue

Fall 2020

A Brush with Western Music History 1600-1900+
Kitty Brazelton
A Brush with Western Music History 800-1600
Kitty Brazelton
A Community Health Approach to Social Emergencies, American Racism, and Firearm Injury Prevention
Dr. Christopher Barsotti
Adobe Workflow: Photoshop and Bridge
May Hemler
Advanced Art History Practicum
J. Vanessa Lyon
Advanced Art History Practicum
J. Vanessa Lyon
Advanced Chamber Music
Nathaniel Parke
Advanced Chamber Music
Christopher Lewis
Advanced Chamber Music
Christopher Lewis
Advanced Chamber Music
Nathaniel Parke
Advanced Film/Video Projects IA
Mariam Ghani
Advanced Film/Video Projects IB
Mariam Ghani
Advanced Garment Construction
Richard MacPike
Advanced Jazz Piano
Jennifer Allen
Advanced Jazz Piano
Jennifer Allen
Advanced Piano
Christopher Lewis
Advanced Piano
Christopher Lewis
Advanced Piano – Intensive
Christopher Lewis
Advanced Piano – Intensive
Christopher Lewis
Advanced Projects in Dance
Dana Reitz
Advanced Projects in Sound Practices
Senem Pirler
Advanced Restorative Justice Seminar
Alisa Del Tufo
Advanced Voice
Kerry Ryer-Parke
Advanced Voice
Kerry Ryer-Parke
Advanced Voice
Thomas Bogdan
Advanced Voice
Thomas Bogdan
Advanced Voice: Singing in Character
Kerry Ryer-Parke
Advanced Workshop for Painting and Drawing
Ann Pibal
American Theater Now
Jenny Rohn
Animation 1
Sue Rees
Anti-Perspective
Farhad Mirza
Artist’s Portfolio
Dana Reitz
Bass Intensive
Michael Bisio
Bass Intensive
Michael Bisio
Bass with Bisio
Michael Bisio
Bass with Bisio
Michael Bisio
Beginning Cello
Nathaniel Parke
Beginning Cello
Nathaniel Parke
Beginning Guitar
Hui Cox
Beginning Guitar
Hui Cox
Beginning Guitar
Hui Cox
Beginning Guitar
Hui Cox
Beginning Violin
Kaori Washiyama
Beginning Violin
Kaori Washiyama
Black Lives in Context: Brazil
Kenneth Bailey and Tiago Gualberto
Brass/Trumpet
Chris Rose
Brass/Trumpet
Chris Rose
Cello
Nathaniel Parke
Cello
Nathaniel Parke
Ceramics Projects: Exploration in Perspective
Barry Bartlett
Chekhov’s World
Jenny Rohn
Chemistry 1: Chemical Principles (with Lab)
John Bullock
Chemistry 2 (with Lab)
Amber Hancock
Child Development
Emily Waterman
Chromophilia: Explorations in Color
Ann Pibal
Collaborative Software Engineering
Justin Vasselli
Collaborative Worldbuilding: Social Justice & Entrepreneurship
Lauren Ruffin
Collective Entrepreneurship: Full Circle Leadership
Alanna Irving
Composing In Traditional Forms
Allen Shawn
Composition Intensives and Music Research Projects
Allen Shawn
Computational Craft
Dakota Pace
Computer Systems
Jim Mahoney
Confidently Unsure: Interpreting Statistical Tests Wisely
Josef Mundt
Conflict Resolution: Theory & Practice
Michael M. Cohen
Contemporary Ceramics Processes
Joshua Primmer
COVID19: Pandemic Policy
Brian Campion
Crash and Learn: Latin American Art since Independence in Intensive Beginner’s Spanish
Jonathan Pitcher
Creating Our Future: Improvisation for a Catastrophe
Susan Sgorbati
Crossroads: Race, Gender and Justice in Higher Education
Vivian Nixon
Current Affairs: Taiwan, Hong Kong and China
Ginger Lin
Dalcroze Eurhythmics: Time, Space, Energy
Chris Rose
Dance Teleportation: Beyond Space and Time
Kota Yamazaki
Dance Workshop
Dana Reitz
Design Collaboration: Visualizing the Script
Michael Giannitti
Digital Life
Brian Michael Murphy
Digital Materiality
Brian Michael Murphy
Dining Culture in Taiwan and China
Ginger Lin
Directed Projects
Jonathan Kline
Directing II
Kirk Jackson
Earth Requiem
Joan Forsyth
Economic Inequality
Lopamudra Banerjee
Educational Software Design
Justin Vasselli
Embodying Shakespeare’s Language
Kirk Jackson
Environmental Political Theory: Climate, Coronavirus, and the Commons
John Hultgren
Evolution: Making Sense Of Aging, Sex, Sociality, Families, and Disease
Kerry Woods
Experimental Biology: Behavioral Physiology
Blake Jones
Experimental Sound Practices Goes Remote
Senem Pirler
First-Year Dance Intensive
Elena Demyanenko
Form to Function: The Chair
Jon Isherwood & John Umphlett
Foundations of Photography: Digital Practice
Liz White
French Through Films: On connait la chanson and Vers la tendresse
Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
French Through Films: Rue Cases-Nègres and Au revoir les enfants
Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Frequency Rhythmic Assimilation: Drum Set Study with Will Calhoun
Michael Wimberly
From Job to Adventure – Designing New Normals in a Post Covid19 World
Kenneth Bailey
Fundamentals of Creative Writing
Jenny Boully
Future of Work: Alternative Organizations
David Zicarelli
Future of Work: Individual Capacity
Susan Basterfield
GANAS
Jonathan Pitcher
GANAS
Jonathan Pitcher
Gender, Subsistence, and Agriculture
Tatiana Abatemarco
Genome Jumpstart: An Introduction to Bioinformatic Analysis
Amie McClellan
Geographies of Food: De-industrializing, Decolonizing and Re-indigenizing
Yoko Inoue