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Spring 2019

3D Modeling for Painting, Drawing, and Printmaking
Farhad Mirza
Adaptation
Sherry Kramer
Addressing a Growing Environmental Problem: Plastic Pollution
Judith Enck
Adobe Creative Suite for Artists
Anna Kroll
Advanced Ceramic Projects
Aysha Peltz
Advanced Chamber Music
Nathaniel Parke
Advanced Counterpoint: Fugue Writing
Nicholas Brooke
Advanced Electronic Music Composition and Performance Workshop
Sergei Tcherepnin
Advanced Projects in Video
Jen Liu
Advanced Voice
Thomas Bogdan
Advanced Voice
Kerry Ryer-Parke
Advanced Workshop for Painting and Drawing
Ann Pibal
Advanced Workshop in CAPA
Eileen Scully & Susan Sgorbati
Aesthetics
Karen Gover
After Super Flat
Yoko Inoue
American Others: Experimental American Literature
Manuel Gonzales
Analyzing the Social Issues in Japan Through Online News
Ikuko Yoshida
Animal Tales: Fundamentals of Creative Writing
Anna Maria Hong
Animated Collage
Sue Rees
Animation Projects
Sue Rees
Architectural Analysis
Donald Sherefkin
Architectural Graphics
Donald Sherefkin
Architecture 1 – Elements
Donald Sherefkin
Art Exhibitions as Site for Contemplation and Research
Liz Deschenes
Art of Resistance: The Bennington College Poster Project (part 2)
Ann Pibal
Banjo
John Kirk
Bass Intensive
Michael Bisio
Bass with Bisio
Michael Bisio
Basso Continuo & You
Kitty Brazelton
Beethoven Seminar
Allen Shawn
Beginning Cello II
Nathaniel Parke
Beginning Guitar
Hui Cox
Beginning Potter’s Wheel
Aysha Peltz
Beginning Violin/Viola
Kaori Washiyama
Bennington County Choral Society-Parables, an Interfaith Oratorio
Kerry Ryer-Parke
Bennington Review: A Practicum in Literary Editing and Publishing-Prose
Michael Dumanis
Bennington Review: A Practicum in Literary Editing and Publishing–Poetry
Michael Dumanis
Biochemistry
John Bullock
Black Music: Black Music Division – A Retrospective
Michael Wimberly
Bodies of Sound
Sergei Tcherepnin
Budapest Band
Bruce Williamson
Butoh I: Body Weather Laboratory
Oguri
Butoh II: Body Weather Laboratory
Oguri
Calculus B
Carly Briggs
Camera Mounts I
John Umphlett
Camera Mounts II
John Umphlett
Cello
Nathaniel Parke
Century Plate Lithography
Corinne Rhodes
Chemistry 2: Organic Structure & Bonding (with lab)
Janet Foley
Chemistry Independent Research Projects
Janet Foley & Amber Hancock
Chicanx Literature
Natalie Scenters-Zapico
Child and Youth Migration: In Between Cultures
Burcu Seyben
Civil Society in Conflict Resolution
Rotimi Suberu
Clarinet
Bruce Williamson
Code Crafting
Ursula Wolz
Color Photography: History & Practice
Jonathan Kline
Comparative Animal Physiology (with lab)
Betsy Sherman
Comparative Democratization
Rotimi Suberu
Composition: Program, Position, Process
Eleanor Bauer
Computational Linguistics
Justin Vasselli
Conceptual art and the photograph
Liz Deschenes
Confucianism vs. Daoism
Ginger Lin
Contemporary African Dance I
Souleymane Badolo
Contemporary African Dance II
Souleymane Badolo
Contemporary African Writing
Phillip B. Williams
Contemporary Chinese Poetry
Ginger Lin
Creation of Statistics
Josef Mundt
Creative Economies
Caroline Woolard
Creative Strategies for Artists
Aaron Landsman
Cross-cultural Psychology
Ella Ben Hagai
Culture, Environment, and Sustainable Living
Miroslava Prazak
Dance Now/Africa
Souleymane Badolo
Dance on Film
Terry Creach
Dancing & Drumming
Souleymane Badolo
Designing a Light Plot
Michael Giannitti
Digital Materiality
Brian Michael Murphy
Digital Modeling and Animation
Sue Rees
Digital Negatives & Alternative Processes
Jonathan Kline
Directing I: The Director’s Vision
Jean Randich
Doll House, Diorama
Farhad Mirza
Dostoevsky’s Major Novels
Alexandar Mihailovic
Double Exposure: Acting for Singers/Singing for Actors
Kerry Ryer-Parke & Jennifer Rohn
Drawing In Color
Mary Lum
Drumming: An Extension of Language
Michael Wimberly
Drums, Gongs and Bamboo Percussion Ensemble
Susie Ibarra
Edible Matters: Cartography and the Cultural Biography of Food
Yoko Inoue
Entry to Mathematics
Carly Briggs
Environmental Studies Advanced Work Seminar
Tim Schroeder & John Hultgren
Evolution
Kerry Woods
Expanding Fields: Histories and New Practices of Curating the Rural
Anne Thompson
Experiential Anatomy/Somatic Practices
Elena Demyanenko
Experimental Making in Ceramics
Barry Bartlett
Extinction and the Endangered Species Act
David Mears
Faculty Performance Production: Sarah Gancher’s “The Place We Built”
Jean Randich
Fiddle
John Kirk
Five Approaches to Acting
Kirk Jackson
Form and Process: Investigations in Painting
Ann Pibal
Form to Function Part Two
Jon Isherwood, Farhad Mirza & John Umphlett
Foundations in Ceramics: The Hand as a Tool
Barry Bartlett
Future Studio
Robert Ransick & Charles Crowell
Genetics: Principles and Practice (with lab)
Amie McClellan
Glaze-Redesigning the Ceramic Studio’s Glazes
Barry Bartlett
Graduate Assistantship in Dance
Elena Demyanenko
Graduate Assistantship in Public Action
Sherry Kramer
Graduate Assistantship in Public Action
Robert Ransick
Graduate Research in Dance
Terry Creach
Graduate Research in Public Action
Robert Ransick
Graduate Seminar on Pedagogy and Public Action
Robert Ransick & Susan Sgorbati
Happiness
Douglas Kremm
Harmonic Spheres
Nicholas Brooke
Historical Dress: The Great Couturiers
Charles Schoonmaker
Immortal Media
Brian Michael Murphy
Improvisation: Methods and Practice
Susie Ibarra
Incarceration in America
Annabel Davis-Goff
Inner Travel
Jonathan Pitcher
Insider Perspectives on the Francophone World II
Stephen Shapiro
Instrument Building
Nicholas Brooke
Interactive Multimedia Exhibits and Live Performances
Ursula Wolz
Interdisciplinary Computing Workshop
Ursula Wolz
Intermedia Performance
Senem Pirler
Intermediate Guitar
Hui Cox
Intermediate Painting: Scale, Process, and Presence
Josh Blackwell
Intermediate Video: Contemporary Approaches
Jen Liu
Intermediate Violin/Viola
Kaori Washiyama
Intermediate Voice
Thomas Bogdan
Intermediate Voice
Thomas Bogdan
Intermediate Voice
Kerry Ryer-Parke
Intermediate Voice
Kerry Ryer-parke
International Human Rights Law
Andrea Galindo
Intro to Sculpture II “From the Body”
Jon Isherwood
Introduction to Feminist and Queer Thought
Ella Ben Hagai
Introduction to Forensic Psychology
David Anderegg
Introduction to Intaglio: The Alchemist’s Print
Thorsten Dennerline
Introduction to Jazz Theory and Improvisation
Bruce Williamson
Introduction to Studio Recording
Senem Pirler
Introduction to Video
Chelsea Knight
Introduction to Video
Kate Purdie
Isadora: Real-Time Media Manipulation for Performance
Anna Kroll
Islamic Art and Modernity
Razan Francis
Javanese Gamelan
Nicholas Brooke
Jazz Piano
Bruce Williamson
Jazz Piano Lab
Bruce Williamson
Landmines: Displacement and Distorted Geographies
Noah Coburn
Language and Society in Vermont and its Neighbors
Thomas Leddy-Cecere
Language Evolution, Extinction and Survival
Thomas Leddy-Cecere
Language Through Film
Sarah Harris
Latin America: A Paratext
Jonathan Pitcher
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
Literature of Barcelona and Madrid
Sarah Harris
Literature of Travel and Discovery
Stephen Shapiro
Local Governance in Comparative Perspective
Rotimi Suberu
Making Work
Miguel Gutierrez
Mandolin
John Kirk
Markmaking and Representation
Mary Lum
Material Science
Joshua Primmer
Medieval Travelers on the Silk Road
Carol Pal
Metamorphoses: Borders and Beyond — Devising Multicultural Theater
Jean Randich
Middle Eastern Diasporic Experience in Theatre and Cinema
Burcu Seyben
Mixing Techniques
Senem Pirler
Modern Guitar
Hui Cox
Mother Figure and Motherly Figures in Italian Culture – Taught in English
Barbara Alfano
Movement Practice: Advanced Dance Technique
Hilary Clark
Movement Practice: Beginning Dance Technique
Hilary Clark
Movement Practice: Intermediate Dance Technique
Elena Demyanenko
Movement Practice: Intermediate-Advanced Dance Technique
Russell Lilie
Music Composition Project: Acoustic/Electronic
Allen Shawn & Sergei Tcherepnin
Mutants: Genetic Variation and Human Development
Amie McClellan
Narrative, Trauma, and Bearing Witness
Ella Ben Hagai
New Play Development: Rewriting in Company
Sherry Kramer
Niedecker, Graham, Ford
Phillip B. Williams
No Narratives No Rehearsals: A Performance Art Workshop
Josh Blackwell
Normality and Abnormality
David Anderegg
Paris on Screen: Tradition and Modernity
Stephen Shapiro
Partial Differential Equations and Fourier Series
Andrew McIntyre
Peacebuilding Seminar
Vahidin Omanovic
Performance Project: A New Collective Work
Souleymane Badolo
Performance Project: Natural State of Error
Elena Demyanenko
Performance: Attention, Sensation, Perception
Eleanor Bauer
Performing Walks
Aaron Landsman
Photographic Narratives
Terry Boddie
Photography Foundations
Terry Boddie
Physics II: Electricity and Magnetism (with lab)
Timothy Schroeder
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
Plant Diversity and Ecology
Kerry Woods
Plastic Pollution: What Can We Do About It?
Judith Enck
Poverty Analysis
Lopamudra Banerjee
Price Theory
Lopamudra Banerjee
Programming and Data Structures in C++
Andrew Cencini
Projection – Mapping
Sue Rees
Projects in Sculpture: Making It Personal
Jon Isherwood
Projects: Dance
Elena Demyanenko
Propaganda in Modern Chinese Culture
Ginger Lin
Psychological Assessment Workshop
David Anderegg
Psychology of Gender and Sexuality
Ella Ben Hagai
Quantitative Reasoning and Mathematical Modeling
Kathryn Montovan
Quantum Mechanics
Hugh Crowl
Race and Gender in Franco-Maghrebi Literature and Film
Blase Provitola
Reading and Writing Poetry: the Art of Revision
Natalie Scenters-Zapico
Reading and Writing the Lyric Essay
Mark Wunderlich
Reading and Writing: the Missing Person
Kathleen Alcott
Reading Poetry: A Basic Course
Michael Dumanis
Reinventing Radio
Thom Loubet
Religious Architecture of Islamic Cultures
Razan Francis
Rhythmic Fundamentals
Michael Wimberly
Sage City Symphony
Kerry Ryer-Parke
Saxophone
Bruce Williamson
Scripting for Computer Graphics
Justin Vasselli
SCT Advanced Work Preparation Module
SCT Faculty
Senior Projects in Music – A Deeper Look
Kitty Brazelton
Senior Seminar in Society, Culture and Thought
Miroslava Prazak
Sewing Fundamentals
Richard MacPike
Sewing Fundamentals
Richard MacPike
Shakespeare: The Comedies
Manuel Gonzales
Social Change Agents: Advanced Peacebuilding
Vahidin Omanovic
Social Dynamics of Inclusion
Delia Saenz
Social Expectations for Japanese Children
Ikuko Yoshida
Solo Performance: Telling My Story
Kirk Jackson
Song for Ireland and Celtic Connections
John Kirk
Space, Place, and Power
Emily Mitchell-Eaton
Special Projects in Advanced Japanese
Ikuko Yoshida
Special Relativity
Hugh Crowl
Special Topics in Video Production: Misogyny in the Media
Chelsea Knight
Statistics for the Social Sciences
Debbie Warnock
Sustainable Chemistry in the Modern World
Amber Hancock
Technical Topics: Virtual Reality
Colleen Murphy
The Actor’s Instrument
Shawtane Bowen
The Archive in Art
Liz Deschenes
The Art of Stage Design
Michael Giannitti
The History of Medicine: From Hippocrates to Harvey
Carol Pal
The Journey II: The World Between the Great Wars
Eileen Scully
The Literature of Matriarchy
Elisa Albert
The Personal Learning Plan and After-School Workshop: Vermont Act 77 Educational Reform
Susan Sgorbati
The Politics of Bodies in Motion
Nicole Daunic
The Sababa Project at Mount Anthony Union High School: Civic Education
Susan Sgorbati
The Scriptorium: Borders and Boundaries
Camille Guthrie
The Scriptorium: The Body and Society
Camille Guthrie
The Theory and Practice of Hardware Hacking
Andrew Cencini & Hugh Crowl
The Working Class
Debbie Warnock
Traditional Music Ensemble
John Kirk
Transformation: an Approach to Character
Oliver Wadsworth
Transpacific Worlds
Emily Mitchell-Eaton
Traveling in Italian Film
Barbara Alfano
Tribes, Traditions & Modern Practices of African Dance
Souleymane Badolo
Truth, Beauty, and Goodness: The Philosophy of Iris Murdoch
Douglas Kremm
Tuesday Soup-er Club: Cooking is Power
Yoko Inoue
Ukulele Comprehensive
John Kirk
Understanding PFOA: Science and Policy
Timothy Schroeder and John Hultgren
Unique Prints: 3-D Prints and Modular Works
Thorsten Dennerline
Unlocking Italian Culture II: Reporting Italy
Barbara Alfano
US-Russian Relations, Past and Present
Eileen Scully
Viewpoints Groundwork
Jennifer Rohn
Violin/Viola
Kaori Washiyama
Visual Arts Lecture Series
visual arts faculty
Visual Arts Lecture Series Seminar
J Vanessa Lyon
Visual Cultures of the Americas, 1500-Now
J Vanessa Lyon
War/Disaster: The Ethics of the Photographer
Jonathan Kline
Westworld/Our World
J. Vanessa Lyon
Wharton and James: Gender and Power
Kathleen Alcott
What Comes After the State?
Noah Coburn
Windfall
Sherry Kramer & Susan Sgorbati
Women and Human Mobility
Andrea Galindo
Women and Men: The Biology of the Sexes
Betsy Sherman
Women and Moving Image Arts
Kate Purdie
Women Composers
Allen Shawn
Working With Light
Michael Giannitti
Yeats and Visions of the Apocalypse
Anna Maria Hong
You Do You, Feldenkrais and Dancing: Scores for Improvisation
Miguel Gutierrez

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
Dina Janis
Actor’s Instrument
Jennifer Rohn
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
Thomas Bogdan
Advanced Voice
Kerry Ryer-Parke
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