All Courses

Harmonic Spheres — MTH4130.01

Fall 2024

Instructor: Nicholas Brooke

Credits: 4

Composers and improvisers periodically reinvent the wheel, creating systems of scales and tunings, instruments, and even philosophies of harmony and rhythm. In this course, we’ll also explore how to invent your own systems. Beginning with tuning, students will build an acoustic or virtual instrument based on their own temperament. We will then explore harmonic systems that

Music

Harp — MIN2347.01

Spring 2026

Instructor: Rachel Clemente

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 2

This course will focus on the learning of traditional Scottish and Irish melodies on the harp as well as developing foundational technique. This will include looking at body posture, the importance of relaxation and its relationship to developing good tone, and finger placement. In group lessons, students will learn melodies and exercises the traditional aural way, by ear,

Instrumental Study

Harvest: Quyurciq — VA4319.02

Spring 2023

Instructor: Yoko Inoue

Credits: 2

Harvest: Quyurciq examines the Alaska Native harvest of sea otters and, by extension, broader topics of environmental management, Native science, and Indigenous sovereignty. We will view and thoroughly discuss various topics and subjects of a documentary film, Harvest: Quyurciq. The course content is particularly suitable for students studying environmental science, marine

Environment Visual Arts

Haunted by Unnameable Doom — LIT2576.01

Fall 2025

Instructor: Manuel Gonzales

Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-5:50pm

Credits: 4

Halfway through John Milton's epic poem, Paradise Lost, he admits to the reader in his call to the Muses that he has "fallen on evil days" and into unwelcome solitude, caught "[i]n darkness, with dangers compassed round." Milton wrote Paradise Lost under epically gnarly circumstances -- jailed and fined for backing the failed removal and execution of the King, going blind,

Literature

Hearing Herbie — MPF4242.01

Fall 2013

Instructor: Bruce Williamson

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 2

*** Time Change *** This will be a performance-oriented ensemble that will focus on the songs of jazz keyboardist Herbie Hancock. We will select examples from the various styles he explored during his long and productive career: soul-jazz songs such as 'Watermelon Man' 'Cantaloupe Island', modal-jazz songs such as 'Maiden Voyage' (and others he wrote while playing with Miles

Music

Hearing Horace: The Music of Horace Silver — MPF4107.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Bruce Williamson

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 2

This will be a performance-oriented ensemble that will focus on the songs of jazz composer and pianist Horace Silver (1928-2014). As a young musician, Silver played with Charlie Parker, Miles Davis and Art Blakey. He formed his own hard-bop group in the 1950s and from then on he was a mentor to talented up-and-coming jazz artists such as trumpeters Donald Byrd, Woody Shaw &

Music

Hearing Voices: a Master Class in Literary Journalism — LIT4395.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

Credits: 4

Voice, in writing, goes beyond style and tone to something like identity; at best, a writer’s voice is a direct conduit to their exact nature—their mind, their individuality, their blind spots, their soul. In this course, we’ll learn to hear voices more clearly. We’ll analyze what animates the work of writers like Patricia Lockwood, Ellen Willis, Greg Tate, John Jeremiah

Literature

Hello World: An Introduction to Drawing — DRW2122.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Colin Brant

Credits: 4

The practice of drawing from observation brings us into direct contact with experiencing the visual world. Working from the human figure, landscape, plants and animals, or any other subject that inspires the imagination, this course introduces the fundamentals of seeing and translation with various drawing materials and approaches. The goals of the course include the

Visual Arts

Hello World: An Introduction to Drawing — DRW2122.01

Fall 2024

Instructor: Colin Brant

Credits: 4

Visual Arts

Helping Skills — PSY2214.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Emily Waterman

Credits: 4

This course is an introduction to dyadic (one on one) helping and communication skills that prompt personal growth and development. Students will learn about theories, techniques, and research regarding effective helping skills and human behavior. We will cover a range of specific skills and the rationale for their use, and how to apply these skills appropriately during helping

Society Culture and Thought

Henrik Ibsen — DRA4391.01

Fall 2024

Instructor: Maya Cantu

Credits: 4

“All around is stone/And all is soft inside.” –Aurora Aksnes Described as the second most frequently produced playwright in the world after William Shakespeare, Henrik Ibsen continues to provoke, challenge and inspire contemporary audiences with the contradictions in his work. This course explores Ibsen’s immense influence and innovations as an architect of modern drama. The

Drama

Henrik Ibsen — LIT4531.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Maya Cantu

Credits: 4

This remote and synchronous course will explore Henrik Ibsen’s influence and innovations as an architect of modern drama. The Norwegian playwright restlessly experimented with theatrical genre while relentlessly pursuing themes of personal freedom. From early works such as Brand to his final play When We Dead Awaken, Ibsen’s plays urge the individual’s imperative toward moral

Literature

Higher Education in the United States: Exploring Purpose and Practice — APA2209.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Lydia Brassard

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

This course invites students to consider university and college life in the contemporary United States, focusing on where and how theory and practice align, overlap, and diverge. In an effort to actively confront and map the so-called “Bennington Bubble,” Bennington College will serve as an anchoring case study through which to consider the course’s themes.

CAPA

Higher Resolution — FV4102.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Karthik Pandian

Credits: 2

In this 7-week video production workshop, students will collaborate to make a film that explores the double meaning of resolution – video resolution and conflict resolution. After watching historical film precedents such as Abbas Kiarostami’s Close-up, we will devise and fully realize a narrative short that centers around a conflict using both 16mm film and

CAPA Visual Arts

Hip Hop Archaeology — MS2105.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Brian Michael Murphy

Credits: 4

Hip hop music producers have long practiced “diggin’ in the crates”—a phrase that denotes searching through record collections to find material to sample. In this course, we will examine the material and technological history of hip hop culture, with particular attention to hip hop’s tendency to sample, remix, mash-up, and repurpose existing media artifacts to create new works

Society Culture and Thought

Hip Hop Archaeology — MS2105.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Brian Michael Murphy

Credits: 4

CAPA Society Culture and Thought Music

Hip-Hop Dance in Context — Section 1 - DAN2308.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Moncell Durden

Credits: 1

Hip-Hop Dance in Context is a dynamic multi-dimensional mind body training experience that actively explores the genealogy of African American social dance formations from authentic Jazz to Hip-Hop. Students will gain a contextual/historical knowledge of American social dance formations; investigate personal voice; explore embodied pluralisms and tonal fluidity; and engage in

Dance

Hip-Hop Dance in Context — Section 2 - DAN2308.02

Spring 2015

Instructor: Moncell Durden

Credits: 1

Dance

Historic Preservation in the United States: An Intersectional Approach — EDU2216.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Lydia Brassard

Credits: 4

2016 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the U.S. National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as well as the U.S. National Park Service Centennial. Over the last half-century, the effects of the NHPA and the expansion of the National Park Service have radically reshaped urban cities and communities across the nation. An outcome of the accelerated preservation projects and

CAPA Education

Historical and Natural Alternative Processes in Photography — PHO4132.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Eddy Aldana

Credits: 2

This 2-credit course will explore working with classical and natural alternative processes including Cyanotypes, Anthotypes, and Chlorophyll prints among others. Students will learn the histories of each process and see how artists are working with those processes in today’s day and age. The Cyanotypes will be produced on fine art paper and fabric, and the Anthotypes will be

Visual Arts

Historical and Natural Alternative Processes in Photography — PHO4132.01

Fall 2025

Instructor: Eddy Aldana

Days & Time: FR 2:10pm-4:00pm

Credits: 2

Photography

Historical Dress: Baroque and Rococo — DRA2284.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Charles Schoonmaker

Credits: 2

This class will examine the fashions of the late 17th century and the 18th century in the western world. We will consider the fashions of the period in the context of the culture and the political and technological shifts of the time. We will familiarize ourselves with the silhouettes and fashion terms of the time.

Drama

Historical Dress: Building the Victorians — DRA4390.01

Fall 2024

Instructor: Tilly Grimes

Credits: 4

In this class we will explore the changing female silhouette of 19th century Victorian Eurocentric fashion. This will include researching the historical garment, determining a pattern, scaling and grading the pattern, creating a mockup, fitting the garment, and constructing the garment out of a fashion fabric and culminating in a fully realized period costume. Depending on

Drama

Historical Dress: Drawing Connections Exploring Historical Icons Through Representation in Film and Art — DRA2320.02

Fall 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

Credits: 2

Part lecture, part seminar and part student presentation, this course will be a detective mission in which students unpack contrasting depictions of historical costumes, learn to find the context around those depictions, and discover how clothes work by drawing and dimensionalizing garments. The source material will be representations in film and art, including work from Sofia

Drama

Historical Dress: the 1930's — DRA2287.02

Fall 2020

Instructor: CSchoonmaker@bennington.edu

Credits: 2

This class will examine the clothing and style of the 1930's. We will examine the topic in the context of Social/Political/Artistic movements and the effect and influence on Fashion and Style. Subjects we will touch on will include: the Paris couture of the era: Chanel, Vionnet, and Schiaparelli among them, American fashion designers such as Claire McCardell and Adrian, Art

Drama