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13 Zines: Research, Drawing, Design — DRW2266.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Mary Lum
Credits: 4
This is a course for students who love to look into things. In it drawing is the means to communicate research, in the form of zines. We work closely with, in, and around the library to gather knowledge about a different topic each week. We then translate the research into handmade representations (words and images) that combined with empirical evidence and an organized design
Visual Arts

16mm Experimental Filmmaking — FV4238.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Warren Cockerham
Credits: 4
This intermediate studio course centers on experimentation with form in moving image making. Students will complete a series of 16mm film projects exploring approaches and techniques including but not limited to non-narrative, lyrical, abstract, structural, and materialist forms. The course will contextualize contemporary practice within the history of avant-garde and
Visual Arts

20th Century Afrocaribbean Writers — LIT2537.01) (day/time updated as of 10/9/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: An Duplan
Credits: 4
To date, the Afrocaribbean world has produced some of the most essential poetry, fiction, and scholarship of the Americas. Poets like the Barbadian Kamau Brathwaite also double as social scientists, as Brathwaite’s Development of Creole Society in Jamaica illuminates a picture of the linguistic development of Jamaica under British colonial rule. Similarly, Glissant’s idea of
Black Studies Literature Society Culture and Thought

24 Filial Piety vs. The Daoist Tales of Zhuang Zi — CHI4213.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Credits: 4
The Twenty-four Stories of Filial Piety are well known Chinese stories that exemplify the devotion of children to their parents that is the chief virtue in Confucianism. The Daoist Tales of Zhuangzi on the other hand offer a much different set of values. These tales "translated" from classical Chinese into modern Mandarin at the student's language level will serve as a starting
Languages

24 Hours, 4 Seasons, 77.8 Years — ARC4404.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Donald Sherefkin
Credits: 4
This studio course will develop plans for three distinct dwellings. Each project will focus on a specific time scale. The individual designs may choose to use the time constraints as the determinant of the life span of the structure, or simply as an ordering device.
Visual Arts

24 Stories of Filial Piety vs The Daoist Tales of Zhuang Zi — CHI4213.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Credits: 4
The Twenty-four Stories of Filial Piety are well known Chinese stories that exemplify the devotion of children to their parents that is the chief virtue in Confucianism. The Daoist Tales of Zhuangzi on the other hand offer a much different set of values. These tales "translated" from classical Chinese into modern Mandarin at the student's language level will serve as a starting
Languages

24 Stories of Filial Piety vs. The Daoist Tales of Zhuang Zi — CHI4213.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Credits: 4
The Twenty-four Stories of Filial Piety are well known Chinese stories that exemplify the devotion of children to their parents that is the chief virtue in Confucianism. The Daoist Tales of Zhuangzi on the other hand offer a much different set of values. These tales "translated" from classical Chinese into modern Mandarin at the student's language level will serve as a starting
Languages

2D-3D-2D – Animation in a Created World — MA4203.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Sue Rees
Credits: 4
The class will be concerned with manipulating two dimensional imagery, creating three dimensional forms and models by utilizing the laser cutter, and finally animating forms, drawings, objects combined with the three dimensional world using tracking cameras and a green screen. We will be moving backwards and forwards between creating worlds and manipulating these worlds,
Visual Arts

2D-3D-2D – Animation in a Created World — MA4203.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Sue Rees
Credits: 4
The class will be concerned with manipulating two dimensional imagery, creating three dimensional forms and models by utilizing the laser cutter and Illustrator, and finally animating forms, drawings, objects combined with the three dimensional world using tracking cameras and a green screen. We will be moving backwards and forwards between creating worlds and manipulating
Visual Arts

2D-3D-2D – Animation in a Created World — MA4203.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Sue Rees
Credits: 4
The class will be concerned with manipulating two dimensional imagery, creating three dimensional forms and models by utilizing the laser cutter and Illustrator, and finally animating forms, drawings, objects combined with the three dimensional world using tracking cameras and a green screen. We will be moving backwards and forwards between creating worlds and manipulating
Visual Arts

3 Houses, 3 Sites — ARC4150.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: donald sherefkin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Using the constraints of a minimal house, students will design three dwellings for three distinct sites: A single, detached house in rural Vermont; a two-family in town; and a six story walk-up in New York City. In each project, the site analysis and mapping will provide the fundamental tools for developing spatial organization, form, materials, and orientation. Each proposal
Visual Arts

3D Modeling for Painting, Drawing, and Printmaking — VA2225.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Farhad Mirza
Credits: 2
3D Modeling for Painting, Drawing, and Printmaking This seven week course will provide students with an opportunity to explore ways that they might fold digital fabrication into an ongoing studio // art-making practice. Laser-cutters, a CNC mill, 3D printers, and a 3D scanner will all be available for students to use toward individually developed investigations. Students will
Visual Arts

3D Modeling for Painting, Drawing, and Printmaking — DA2379.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Farhad Mirza
Credits: 4
This course is about folding digital fabrication into an ongoing art-making practice. We will learn how to use basic 3D fabrication equipment to assist our work in the studio, and as a means to realize our ideas. Basic techniques involving 3D Modeling, laser-cutting, CNC milling, and 3D printing will be covered. The first half of the course will comprise of a series of
Visual Arts

A Brief Introduction to Astronomical Observing — PHY2212.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Hugh Crowl
Credits: 1
In this course, students will learn the fundamentals of observing the night sky with a telescope. This course will teach how to find the basic constellations and how to use both manual and computerized telescopes to point at celestial objects in the night sky. While there will be some classroom time to teach fundamental concepts, the vast majority of the class will consist of
Science and Mathematics

A Brief Introduction to Astronomical Observing — PHY2212.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Hugh Crowl
Days & Time: M/T/W/Th/F/Sa/Su 7:30PM-9:20PM
Credits: 1

In this course, students will learn the fundamentals of observing the night sky with a telescope. This course will teach how to find the basic constellations and how to use both manual and computerized telescopes to point at celestial objects in the night sky. While there will be some classroom time to teach fundamental concepts, the vast majority of the class will consist

Physics

A Brief Introduction to Astronomical Observing — PHY2212.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Hugh Crowl
Credits: 1
In this course, students will learn the fundamentals of observing the night sky with a telescope. This course will teach how to find the basic constellations and how to use both manual and computerized telescopes to point at celestial objects in the night sky. While there will be some classroom time to teach fundamental concepts, the vast majority of the class will consist of
Science and Mathematics

A Brush with Western Music History 1600-1900+ — MHI2243.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: KBrazelton@bennington.edu
Credits: 2
This course will expose you to that "classical" stuff you always thought you should know something about—and help you to "know something." Just a brush though—you won't know everything. Just something. Enough to know 1) how this music affects you and why 2) how to talk about that, 3) where you—one little human—fit into the grander human scheme over time, and most important 4)
Music

A Brush with Western Music History 800-1600 — MHI2242.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: KBrazelton@bennington.edu
Credits: 2
This course will look at what Western music was like before it was "classical." Modal, melismatic, expressive underlying ideas and belief systems that are foreign to us today. Pretty exciting. Hopefully you'll find out that your ignorance is vast! But your small knowledge connects to much more of the world than you ever thought possible. And in ways you could not have imagined.
Music

A Celebration Service — MUS4232.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Thomas Bogdan Levi Gonzalez
Credits: 4
This class will reconstruct and perform Meredith Monk’s “A Celebration Service” for the Bennington College community.  Tom Bogdan, an original cast member in the work, will cast and teach an ensemble of singer/ dancers to be joined by an ensemble of “Processional” dancers, supervised by Levi Gonzalez to perform this spiritually inspired performance piece, created by
Dance Music

A Celebration Service - The Dancer’s Ensembles — DAN4184.02

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 1
This class will reconstruct and perform Meredith Monk’s “A Celebration Service” for the Bennington College community.  Tom Bogdan, an original cast member in the work, will cast and teach an ensemble of singer/ dancers to be joined by an ensemble of “Processional” dancers, supervised by Levi Gonzalez to perform this spiritually inspired performance piece, created by
Dance Music

A Collective Portrait of America: Literary Memoir Since the Civil War — LIT2282.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Credits: 4
“Everyone must bear his own universe," wrote Henry Adams in his seminal autobiography, "and most persons are moderately interested in learning how their neighbors have managed to carry theirs.” In this course we will interest ourselves in the universes of American writers from Adams' time to the present, using autobiography, memoir, and personal essay as our entry points. From
Literature

A Community Health Approach to Social Emergencies, American Racism, and Firearm Injury Prevention — APA2325.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 2
This course introduces students to the confluence of factors related to firearm injury - a leading cause of premature death in the United States. Sessions will explore multi-level health strategies that may be developed to prevent and treat firearm injury in American society. Students will gain exposure and experience in program design by creating, operationalizing, and
CAPA

A Community Health Approach to Social Emergencies, American Racism, and Firearm Injury Prevention — APA2325.01) (cancelled

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 1
Poor health outcomes in modern, advanced societies are influenced largely by a series of critical social factors known collectively as social determinants of health: economic inequity, racism, community violence and food insecurity, among others. Social determinants of health contribute directly to medical and social emergencies, and as the nexus of the US healthcare safety net
CAPA