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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
Thomas Bogdan
Advanced Voice
Kerry Ryer-Parke
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
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
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
Graduate Assistantship in Dance
Dana Reitz
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 Research in Public Action
Robert Ransick
Graduate Seminar on Pedagogy and Public Action
Robert Ransick and Susan Sgorbati
Graduate Teaching Fellow Assistantship in Dance
Dana Reitz
Hip Hop Archaeology
Brian Michael Murphy
History of Christianity: From the Hebrews to Henry VIII
Carol Pal
How to Build a Habitable Planet
Hugh Crowl and Tim Schroeder
How to Think Like a Data Scientist
Tim Schroeder
Hybrids: Alternative Photographic Methods
Terry Boddie
I am a Material
John Umphlett
Identità e cucina: Food in Italian Regional Cultures
Barbara Alfano
Identities and Affinities
Catherine McKeen
Improvisation Ensemble for Musicians and Dancers
Susan Sgorbati and Bruce Williamson
Improvisation Ensemble for Musicians and Dancers
Susan Sgorbati and Bruce Williamson
In Sickness and In Health: An Introduction to Medical Anthropology
Miroslava Prazak
In the Public Realm: Chiang Mai Project (Thailand)
Jon Isherwood and Susan Sgorbati
Inclusion Practices
Delia Saenz
Infinity
Andrew McIntyre
Insider Perspectives on the Francophone World II
Stephen Shapiro
Intermediate Guitar
Hui Cox
Intermediate Painting: Facture
J Blackwell
Intermediate Video
Kate Purdie
Intermediate Violin/Viola
Kaori Washiyama
Intermediate Voice
Thomas Bogdan
Intermediate Voice
Kerry Ryer-Parke
Intermediate Voice
Kerry Ryer-Parke
Intermediate Voice
Thomas Bogdan
International Human Rights Law
Andrea Galindo
Introduction to 3D Modeling: Point, Curve, Surface, Solid
Farhad Mirza
Introduction to Butoh Practice-Impulsive Body
Kota Yamazaki and Mina Nishimura, MFA Teaching Fellow
Introduction to Computer Science
Justin Vasselli
Introduction to Counterpoint
Nicholas Brooke
Introduction to Intaglio: The Alchemist’s Print
Thorsten Dennerline
Introduction to Peace Studies
Kate Paarlberg-Kvam
Introduction to Sculpture: Polychrome 3D
Jon Isherwood
Introduction to the Biology of Cancer
Amie McClellan
Introduction to Video
Jen Liu
Introduction to Video
Jen Liu
Investing in Futures: The Art of Worlding
Marina Zurkow, MFA Teaching Fellow
Isadora: Real-Time Media Manipulation for Performance
Anna Kroll
It’s Alive!: 19th Century Genre Fiction
Manuel Gonzales
Jazz Ensemble
Bruce Williamson
Jazz Piano Lab
Bruce Williamson
Keats and Stevens
Michael Dumanis
Kiln Firing: the Art and the Science
Joshua Primmer
Language and Society in Vermont and its Neighbors
Thomas Leddy-Cecere
Language Through Film
Sarah Harris
Lexicon of Forced Migration
John Hultgren
Life and Death: Buddhism in Modern Japanese Films
Ikuko Yoshida
Life Drawing Lab
Colin Brant
Linear Algebra
Carly Briggs
Logarithms
Andrew McIntyre
Making Music with Modular Soft Synths
Sergei Tcherepnin
Making the Third Ear
Sergei Tcherepnin
Mandolin
John Kirk
Markmaking and Representation
Mary Lum
Meisner Technique
Jennifer Rohn
Mindfulness Drawing: Meditation and the Art of Observation
Camille Hoffman
Modern Guitar
Hui Cox
Movement Practice: Advanced Dance Technique
Mina Nishimura, MFA Teaching Fellow
Movement Practice: Beginning Dance Technique
Molly Lieber, MFA Teaching Fellow
Movement Practice: Beginning-Intermediate Dance Technique
Mina Nishimura, MFA Teaching Fellow
Movement Practice: Intermediate-Advanced Dance Technique
Molly Lieber, MFA Teaching Fellow
Movement Practice: Partnering
Russell Stuart Lilie, MFA Teaching Fellow
Music Composition Intensive
Allen Shawn
Music Since 1968
Allen Shawn
Music Theory: Beats & Bars
John Kirk
NGOs, Peacebuilding, and Development
Kate Paarlberg-Kvam
Observations: Photography and the Environment
Jonathan Kline
Painterly Painters & Portraiture
Vanessa Lyon
Paris on Screen: Tradition and Modernity
Stephen Shapiro
Participating in the Archive
Nicole Daunic
Patternmaking and Garment Construction
Richard MacPike
Peacebuilding
Vahidin Omanovic
Peacebuilding Two: Be the change you want to see in the World
Vahidin Omanovic
Performance Art
David Thomson
Philosopher Queens
Catherine McKeen
Photo Now
Jonathan Kline
Photography Foundations
Terry Boddie
Physics II: Electricity and Magnetism (with lab)
Hugh Crowl
Piano
Christopher Lewis
Piano
Yoshiko Sato
Piano
Joan Forsyth
Piano Lab 1
Piano Lab I
Joan Forsyth
Piano Lab I
Joan Forsyth
Piano Lab II
Joan Forsyth
Plastic Pollution and What You Can Do About It
Judith Enck
Poets’ Love: The Song Cycle
Thomas Bogdan
Price Theory
Lopamudra Banerjee
Projection_Mapping_Design
Sue Rees
Projects in Sculpture: Making It Personal
Jon Isherwood
Protein Research Methods
Amie McClellan
Psychology of Creativity: Making and Using Metaphors
David Anderegg
Puzzles
Andrew McIntyre
Queer Renaissance
Vanessa Lyon
Quick Studies
Dana Reitz
Reading & Writing Fiction: Plot and Suspense
Manuel Gonzales
Reading and Writing Literary Journalism
Benjamin Anastas
Reading and Writing: Hybrid-Genre Works
Anna Maria Hong
Reading and Writing: Poetry of Trauma and Violence
Phillip Williams
Reading Marx
Paul Voice
Regardez
Noelle Rouxel-Cubberly
Resilience and Food Access in Bennington, VT
Tatiana Abatemarco
Reveries
Don Sherefkin and Farhad Mirza
Sage City Symphony
Nicholas Brooke
Saxophone
Bruce Williamson
Scene Painting
Seancolin Hankins
SCT Advanced Work Preparation Module
David Bond
Self, Culture, Society
Megan Bulloch
Seminar on Monolingualism
Thomas Leddy-Cecere
Senior Projects
Nicholas Brooke
Senior Seminar in Society, Culture and Thought II
Noah Coburn
Shorter Songs
Bruce Williamson
Simultaneous Occupancies
Donald Sherefkin
Sing
Kerry Ryer-Parke
Social Dynamics of Inclusion
Delia Saenz
Social Emergency Medicine to Prevent Gun Violence
Christopher Barsotti
Social Expectations for Japanese Children
Ikuko Yoshida
Social Practices: House Music vs Neoliberalism
Kenneth Bailey, MFA Teaching Fellow
Song for Ireland and Celtic Connections
John Kirk
Songs in the Key of Wonder
Michael Wimberly
Sounding Home: Music of Migration, Memory, and Exile
Joseph Alpar and Kerry Ryer-Parke
Spatial Audio Practices
Senem Pirler
Spatial Justice: Incorporating Social Theory into Artistic Practice
Kenneth Bailey, MFA Teaching Fellow
Speaking of Earth: Environmental Speeches that Moved the World
Michael Cohen
Special Projects in Advanced Japanese
Ikuko Yoshida
Stage Management
Michael Giannitti
Standard of Living
Lopamudra Banerjee
Strategies for Sustainability: Living Life as an Artist
David Thomson
Technical Topics: Video and Animation Post-Production
Colleen Murphy
The Actor’s Instrument
Shawtane Bowen
The Art of Literary Translation
Marguerite Feitlowitz
The Courtly World: Lady Shonagon and Lady Murasaki
Anna Maria Hong
The Devil
Phillip Williams
The Five Obstructions
Nicholas Brooke
The Hand as Tool
Anina Major
The History of Directing
Jean Randich
The Human Condition: Hannah Arendt
Paul Voice
The Invention of the 19th Century: A seminar on Honoré de Balzac
Marguerite Feitlowitz
The Jewish Annotated New Testament
Michael Cohen
The Magical Object – Visual Metaphor
Sherry Kramer
The Musical “Other”: Exoticism, Appropriation, and Multiculturalism
Joseph Alpar
The Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro
Stuart Nadler
The Ocean, The Creek, The Lake: Writing Water
Akiko Busch
The Politics of Student Movements in the ’60s
Janet Foley and John Hultgren
The Scriptorium: Borders and Boundaries
Camille Guthrie
The Scriptorium: Ekphrasis
Camille Guthrie
The Self, the Soul, and St. Augustine
Benjamin Anastas
Theater Games and Improvisation
Shawtane Bowen
Theory of Impressionism
Nicholas Brooke
Topics in Applied Philosophy: Privacy
Paul Voice
Topics In Video: Experimental Documentary
Kate Purdie
Traces, Mistakes, and Leftovers
Mary Lum
Traditional Music Ensemble
John Kirk
Transformative Voice
Sergei Tcherepnin
Tuesday Soup-er Club Intensive: Bennington Foodscape
Yoko Inoue
Ukulele Comprehensive
John Kirk
Understanding PFOA: Science and Policy
Tim Schroeder, Janet Foley and David Bond
Unhomely Thoughts from Abroad
Jonathan Pitcher
Unique Prints: 3-D Prints and Modular Works
Thorsten Dennerline
Violin/Viola
Kaori Washiyama
Visible Language: Word And/As Image
Mary Lum
Visual Arts Lecture Series
Visual Arts Faculty
Visual Arts Lecture Series Seminar
Vanessa Lyon
Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson
Mark Wunderlich
Women and Human Mobility
Andrea Galindo
Women in Science: Ancient Greece to Enlightenment
Carol Pal
Woodcut Printmaking on the Vandercook Proofing Press
Corinne Rhodes

Fall 2019

100 Places Where You Must Visit in Japan
Ikuko Yoshida
2D-3D-2D – Animation in a Created World
Sue Rees
Adaptation
Sherry Kramer
Adaptation or Extinction: Animals & Climate Change
Elizabeth Sherman
Adobe Creative Suite for Artists
Anna Kroll
Advanced Chamber Music
Nathaniel Parke
Advanced Class in Reducing Plastic Pollution Through Community Action
Judith Enck
Advanced Computer Graphics
Justin Vasselli
Advanced Printmaking: Refinement and New Methods
Thorsten Dennerline
Advanced Projects in Dance
Dana Reitz
Advanced Projects in Film and Video
Mariam Ghani
Advanced Scene Study
Jennifer Rohn
Advanced Sculpture: Is that Sculpture: What’s up with that?
Baseera Khan
Advanced Voice
Kerry Ryer-Parke
Advanced Voice
Thomas Bogdan
Advanced Workshop for Painting and Drawing: The Contemporary Idiom
J Blackwell
After Utopia
Jonathan Pitcher
Aluminum and Stainless Steel Fabrication
John Umphlett
An Actors Technique: Nuts and Bolts
Dina Janis
Analog/Digital Process in Ceramics
Barry Bartlett with Farhad Mirza
Analysis
Andrew McIntyre
Animation 1
Sue Rees
Animation Projects – Pre-Production Class
Sue Rees
Anthropology of Art
Miroslava Prazak
Applied Computing: Foundations of Python Programming
Amber Hancock
Architectural Graphics
Donald Sherefkin
Architecture I – Elements
Donald Sherefkin
Artist’s Portfolio
Dana Reitz
Banjo
John Kirk
Bass Intensive
Michael Bisio