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History of Theater II — DRA2282.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Maya Cantu
Credits: 4
This course offers a continuing introduction to the history and development of world theater and drama. We will experience the vibrant pageant of theater history through an exploration of its conventions and aesthetics, as well as its social and cultural functions. Starting in the nineteenth century, we will read representative plays ranging from the advent of stage Realism and
Drama

History of Theater II — DRA2282.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Maya Cantu
Credits: 4
This course offers a continuing introduction to the history and development of world theater and drama. We will experience the vibrant pageant of theater history through an exploration of its conventions and aesthetics, as well as its social and cultural functions. Starting in the nineteenth century, we will read representative plays ranging from the advent of stage Realism and
Drama

History of Theater II — DRA2282.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Maya Cantu
Credits: 4
This course offers a continuing introduction to the history and development of world theater and drama. We will experience the vibrant pageant of theater history through an exploration of its conventions and aesthetics, as well as its social and cultural functions. Starting in the nineteenth century, we will read representative plays ranging from the advent of stage Realism and
Drama

History of Theater II — DRA2282.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Maya Cantu
Credits: 4
This course offers a continuing introduction to the history and development of world theater and drama. We will experience the vibrant pageant of theater history through an exploration of its conventions and aesthetics, as well as its social and cultural functions. Starting in the nineteenth century, we will read representative plays ranging from the advent of stage Realism and
Drama

History of Theater II — DRA2282.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Maya Cantu
Credits: 4
This course offers a continuing introduction to the history and development of world theater and drama. We will experience the vibrant pageant of theater history through an exploration of its conventions and aesthetics, as well as its social and cultural functions. Starting in the nineteenth century, we will read representative plays ranging from the advent of stage Realism and
Drama

History of Theater II: Modern Drama — DRA2154.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Kathleen Dimmick
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course examines the history and aesthetics of the theater, including the development of staging, production, and acting methods and styles. In the fall of 2015 we will read representative plays from the modern canon, beginning with the experiments in Naturalism in the nineteenth century through twentieth century modernism to the contemporary drama of today. Along with the
Drama Literature

History of Theater II: Modern Drama — DRA2154.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Kathleen Dimmick
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course examines the history and aesthetics of the theater, including the development of staging, production, and acting methods and styles. In the fall of 2013 we will read representative plays from the modern canon, beginning with the experiments in Naturalism in the nineteenth century through twentieth century modernism to the contemporary drama of today. Along with the
Drama

History, Race, and Survivor — HIS2217.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Alexander Jin
Days & Time: WE 4:10pm-6:00pm & TH 3:40pm-5:30pm
Credits: 4

In 2006, the long-running reality television show Survivor decided to do something novel for its thirteenth season: they split contestants into tribes based on race. Controversy immediately followed. Advertisers pulled out and elected officials lobbied CBS not to air the season. But CBS stuck to their guns and released

Black Studies History

Hold Still, Keep Going — PHO4211.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Elizabeth White; Warren Cockerham
Credits: 4
This advanced studio/seminar course examines the intersection between still and moving photography and provides a rigorous environment for cross-disciplinary dialogue. Students will pursue self-directed photo and/or video projects while developing a common critical vocabulary and communicative tools. Regular group discussion will challenge, complicate, clarify and deepen
Visual Arts

Home and Other Figments: Immigration, Exile, and Uprootedness — PSY2238.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Sean Akerman
Credits: 4
The unique experience of uprootedness provides an opportunity to ask questions about home, identity, and the transmission of the past. In this course, we will look closely at the experience of exile as one that we can all relate to, in addition to the many meanings that the word "home" carries. We will also examine several populations around the world that have been displaced
Social Science

Honors Seminar "The Invention of the Nineteenth Century": Readings in Balzac — LIT4329.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Oscar Wilde liked to say that Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) invented the 19th century. The Human Comedy (La Comédie Humaine) comprises approximately 3,000 characters in a total of 92 novels, sketches, stories, and philosophical tales. For the first time in the history of the novel, characters recur—a star of one book may reappear as a minor figure in the intricate social
Literature

Honors Seminar on Twain — LIT4527.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Rebecca Godwin
Credits: 4
According to Sam Clemens himself, “The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.” In this course, we’ll read several “good books”—along with stories, essays, and letters—penned by one of the most prolific and complex of American writers. One of the funniest, too, so expect to have a good time, in the midst of a rigorous reading and
Literature

Honors Seminar: Theory and Practice of Dramaturgy — CANCELLED

Fall 2015
Instructor: Kathleen Dimmick
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
In this course weʹll look at the history and practice of dramaturgy and introduce some tools and methods of that practice, including text analysis, editing, and adaptation. Along with assignments on individual texts, students will observe rehearsals in DRA4376 Directing II and prepare rehearsal notes. The studentʹs major work for the term will be the preparation of a Protocol,
Drama Literature

Honors Seminar: George Orwell — LIT4135.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Brooke Allen
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Perhaps more than any other writer of his century, George Orwell (1903-1950) combined a penetrating political intelligence with significant literary gifts. In this class we will read most of Orwell's novels ('Burmese Days,' 'Keep the Aspidistra Flying,' 'Coming Up for Air,' 'Animal Farm,' '1984') and major non-fiction works ('Down and Out in Paris and London,' 'The Road to
Literature

Honors Seminar: Korean American Feminist Poetry — LIT4159.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Anna Maria Hong
Credits: 4
Poetry by Korean American female and feminist writers has burgeoned in the 21st century with a new generation of poets contributing to life of American letters. Reading poets such as Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Myung Mi Kim, Monica Youn, Don Mee Choi, Arlene Kim, EJ Koh, Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Hannah Sanghee Park, and Franny Choi, we will discuss how each writer negotiates
Literature

Honors Seminar: Map to a Masterpiece — LIT4273.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: doug bauer
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
We'll be reading some of the principal works that Henry James, as a young aspiring novelist, absorbed and analyzed in the process of actively forming his own aesthetic, culminating in his first great novel, The Portrait of a Lady. It's a highly various and idiosyncratic tracing and the reading list will reflect it, drawn from among Turgenev's A Sportsman's Sketches, Eliot's
Literature

Honors Seminar: Recent African American Poetry — LIT4118.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Credits: 4
This Honors Seminar will intensively explore the work of established and emerging African American poets of the past forty years. We will begin with a brief overview of African American poetry from the eighteenth century to the Black Arts Movement of the 1970s, then proceed to discuss a different poet each week. Along the way we will consider whether a distinctive "Black
Literature

Honors Seminar: The Man Without Qualities — LIT4283.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Benjamin Anastas
Credits: 4
The Austrian writer Robert Musil (1880-1942) never lived to complete his multi-volume Modernist masterpiece The Man Without Qualities. Conceived of as an ironic epitaph to the culture of Mitteleuropa that slid blindly into the catastrophe of the First World War, the novel--and its author--became embroiled in the dark upheavals that would lead to another suicidal conflict
Literature

Honors Seminar: War and Peace — LIT4108.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Annabel Davis-Goff
Credits: 4
War and Peace, Vanity Fair, and Shirley are novels that are set during the Napoleonic Wars. Charlotte Bronte’s novel is set in a Yorkshire deeply affected by the Peninsular wars, Tolstoy describes both Napoleon’s Russian campaign and the domestic and social life of a huge range of characters, and Thackeray’s greatest novel reaches its climax with the Battle of Waterloo.
Literature

Honors Seminar; Bowen and Pym — LIT4287.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Annabel Davis-Goff
Credits: 4
Elizabeth Bowen and Barbara Pym provide a record of England life - social, political, and cultural - from the end of the First World War until the 1960s. Elizabeth Bowen was an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer. Her novels describe political tension, love, and war. She is admired for her description of landscape, her descriptions of London during the Blitz, her use of
Literature

Horror Fiction — LIT4325.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Paul La Farge
Credits: 4
Pleasure is one part of the aesthetic experience of fiction; another part is terror. This course will be a survey of major works of horror fiction from the 19th century through the present. We’ll pay particular attention to the techniques of writing horror, and the uses to which fiction writers have put them, from psychological examination through social critique and beyond.
Literature

Horror Fiction and Film — LIT2333.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Credits: 4
Pleasure is one part of the aesthetic experience of fiction; another part is terror. This course will be a survey of major works of horror fiction (whether classified as such or otherwise) from the 19th century through the present, and of some important horror films from the 20th 21st centuries. The emphasis in this class will be on techniques for creating horror in fiction,
Literature

Horror Writing and the (Postcolonial) Afterlife — LIT2538.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: An Duplan
Credits: 4
It’s one thing to feel scared when we watch scary movies, and it’s another to feel that same fear as we read books. After all, in books, there’s no eerie music, nor the possibility of being jolted by a sudden jump scare. Yet still, horror writing abounds and writers throughout history have found ways of communicating dread, terror, paranoia, and anguish through the written word
Black Studies Visual Arts Literature Society Culture and Thought

House for the 21st Century: Advanced Studio — ARC4158.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Anthony Titus
Credits: 4
Architectural Design studio builds upon the lessons of subsequent design studio skills and the processes of critical inquiry, specifically as it relates to architectural investigations. These processes will be seen as interrelated and always informed by the societal, technological, and historical contexts within which architects work. The technological aspects
Visual Arts

Housing in America, Housing in Bennington — APA4171.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 4
Housing has become a crisis for many Americans, but how it is a crisis is still poorly understood. This class takes housing as an urgent question, and aims to use the classroom as a critical research hub to better grasp the national and local dimensions of the current housing crisis. Students will be expected not only to participate in the academic study of housing in America
CAPA Society Culture and Thought