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Improvisation: Somatic Nuance — DAN2143.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Hilary Clark, MFA Teaching Fellow
Credits: 2
This is a class for those curious about their bodies’ potential for spontaneous, nuanced movement. We will begin with a slow warmup, emphasizing our natural desire to move. We will use varied improvisational structures or scores to create frames for attention. By gaining awareness in our bodies, we will improve our ability to move easily and articulately. We will explore
Dance

Improvisation: Survival, Adaptation, Invention — DAN2175.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Credits: 2
In this semester-long laboratory on improvisation, we will place ourselves attentively into particular environments and situations in order to access and develop the skills of individual and ensemble physical problem solving. Pattern recognition will be one lens through which we will view the role of perception in real time decision-making. Ultimately, our choices will activate
Dance

In and Out of Italy: Migration Fluxes Through the Boot — ITA4402.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Credits: 4
For many decades, Italy's geographical position in the center of the Mediterranean Sea has made the country a preferred port of entry into Europe for migrants coming from North Africa, joined over time by people coming from Eastern Europe, Albania, China, the Far East, South America,, and lately, from Syria. Some of Italy's Southern regions have been in a perpetual state of
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In and Out of Italy: Migration Fluxes Through the Boot — ITA4402.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Credits: 4
For many decades, Italy’s geographical position in the center of the Mediterranean Sea has made the country a preferred port of entry into Europe for migrants coming from North Africa, joined over time by people coming from Eastern Europe, Albania, China, the Far East, South America, and, lately, from Syria. Some of Italy’s Southern regions have been in a perpetual state of
CAPA Cultural Studies and Languages

In conversation with the exhibit Connected Diaspora: Central American Visuality in the Age of Social Media — VA2238.01) (cancelled 5/30/2023

Fall 2023
Instructor: Veronica Melendez
Credits: 2
This course will provide time and space for students to engage with the art and artists from the exhibit Connected Diaspora (on view in Usdan Gallery Fall 2023). Through lectures, workshops, and readings students will gain knowledge of established, mid career, and emerging artists from the Central American diaspora. Coursework will consist of creatively and critically
Visual Arts

In My Backyard — MOD2160.02

Fall 2016
Instructor:
Credits: 1
On this ever shrinking planet, the likelihood that one will be a stakeholder in a dispute over natural resources, land development or environmental injury has never been greater.  This module is designed to enrich students understanding and experience relative to effectively managing and participating in multi-party conflict resolution processes.  Students will study
Modules: Transferable Approaches

In Search of Elena Ferrante — LIT2351.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Benjamin Anastas
Credits: 2
No one knows who the author “Elena Ferrante” really is: not her publishers (allegedly), her reading public, the critics who greet each new novel with rapture, the acclaimed Italian film directors who’ve adapted two of her novels for the screen. In an international literary scene fueled by personality, publicity, and the celebrity machine, how has Ferrante managed to stay
Languages Literature

In Sickness and In Health: An Introduction to Medical Anthropology — ANT4149.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Miroslava Prazak
Credits: 4
In this course we will explore the social dimensions of medicine, the body, illness, health, healing, medical care and biotechnologies across societies and times from comparative, cross-cultural, ethnographic perspectives. We will examine the role of cultural differences in defining and dealing with health and illness and investigate health related factors that link humanity
Society Culture and Thought

In Sickness and In Health: An Introduction to Medical Anthropology — ANT4149.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Miroslava Prazak
Credits: 4
In this course we will explore the social dimensions of medicine, the body, illness, health, healing, medical care and biotechnologies across societies and times from comparative, cross-cultural, ethnographic perspectives. We will examine the role of cultural differences in defining and dealing with health and illness and investigate health related factors that link humanity
Society Culture and Thought

In Sickness and in Health: Introduction to Medical Anthropology and Global Health — ANT4149.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Miroslava Prazak
Credits: 4
In this course we will explore the social dimensions of medicine, the body, illness, health, healing, medical care and biotechnologies across societies and times from comparative, cross-cultural, ethnographic perspectives. We will examine the role of cultural differences in defining and dealing with health and illness and investigate health related factors that link
Society Culture and Thought

In the Box: Tools and Techniques for Working with Digital Audio — MSR4111.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
This course offers a thorough overview of digital audio tools, how they work, and techniques for putting them to use. Students will be guided through digital audio theory, compositional strategies and modern audio workflows covering digital synthesis, sample manipulation and impulse response design. Our focus will be on VST and VSTi plugins, impulse response based reverb and
Music

In the Eastern, Green Mountains: Poetry through an Experimental Buddhist Lens — LIT2568.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
While we conventionally read poetry through a western critical academic lens, in this course, we will approach western poetry from an experimental eastern lens, in an effort to experience the mutually illuminating relationship between poetry and contemplative study and deepen our relationship to the mystical nature of American poetry. In the first part of the semester,
Literature

In the Public Realm: Chiang Mai Project (Thailand) — APA2182.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Jon Isherwood and Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 4
The Center for the Advancement of Public Action at Bennington College has received its second commission from the U.S. State Department's Office of Art in Embassies for the art collection at the new U.S. Consulate in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Students in this course will examine the definition, unique challenges, history, and implementation of public art. Over the course of the
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In the Public Realm: Chiang Mai, Thailand Art in U.S. Embassy Project (Part 2) — APA4242.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: jisherwood@bennington.edu
Credits: 2
The Center for the Advancement of Public Action at Bennington College has received its second commission from the U.S. State Department's Office of Art in Embassies for the art collection at the new U.S. Consulate in Chiang Mai, Thailand. This course is the second half of a year-long experience that began in the spring of 2020. Students who participated in the first term are
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In the Public Realm: Chiang Mai, Thailand Art in U.S. Embassy Project (Part 3) — APA4243.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: jisherwood@bennington.edu
Credits: 2
The Center for the Advancement of Public Action at Bennington College has received its second commission from the U.S. State Department's Office of Art in Embassies for the art collection at the new U.S. Consulate in Chiang Mai, Thailand. This course is the 2nd half of a year-long experience that began in the spring of 2020. Students who participated in the 1st and 2nd
CAPA

In Translation: Lives, Texts, Cities — LIT2370.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz
Credits: 2
In this course, we will study writers who live and write in more than one language (Beckett, de la Torre, Stavans, Djebar, Huston, etc.); multiple translations (linguistic, temporal, geographic) of particular texts; and several cities, which in their multi-lingual, multi-cultural essences are dramatic cases in point of a rapidly changing world. Questions of legibility,
Literature

Incarceration in America — APA2108.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Annabel Davis-Goff
Credits: 2
7 million Americans are under correctional supervision. The United States of America has the highest documented rate of incarceration in the world. Too many people are in prison, and in many cases the current system doesn't work. It is inefficient, inhumane, and does not accomplish rehabilitation. It also costs too much - financially as well as in terms of human suffering - the
CAPA

Incarceration in America — APA2108.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Annabel Davis-Goff
Credits: 2
7 million Americans are under correctional supervision. The United States of America has the highest documented rate of incarceration in the world. Too many people are in prison, and in many cases the current system doesn’t work. It is inefficient, inhumane, and does not accomplish rehabilitation. It also costs too much – financially as well as in terms of human suffering – the
CAPA

Incarceration in America — APA2108.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: annabel davis-goff
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
7 million Americans are under correctional supervision. The United States of America has the highest documented rate of incarceration in the world. Too many people are in prison, and in many cases the current system doesn't work. It is inefficient, inhumane, and does not accomplish rehabilitation. It also costs too much - financially as well as in terms of human suffering - the
CAPA

Incarceration in America — APA2108.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Annabel Davis-Goff
Credits: 2
7 million Americans are under correctional supervision. The United States of America has the highest documented rate of incarceration in the world. Too many people are in prison, and in many cases the current system doesn’t work. It is inefficient, inhumane, and does not accomplish rehabilitation. It also costs too much – financially as well as in terms of human suffering – the
CAPA

Incarceration in America — APA2108.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Annabel Davis-Goff
Credits: 2
7 million Americans are under correctional supervision. The United States of America has the highest documented rate of incarceration in the world. Too many people are in prison, and in many cases the current system doesn’t work. It is inefficient, inhumane, and does not accomplish rehabilitation. It also costs too much – financially as well as in terms of human suffering – the
CAPA

Incarceration in America — APA2108.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Annabel Davis-Goff
Credits: 2
7 million Americans are under correctional supervision. The United States of America has the highest documented rate of incarceration in the world. Too many people are in prison, and in many cases the current system doesn’t work. It is inefficient, inhumane, and does not accomplish rehabilitation. It also costs too much – financially as well as in terms of human suffering – the
CAPA

Inclusion Practices — SCT4149.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Delia Saenz
Credits: 1
Students enrolled in this course will meet weekly with the instructor to design and deliver programming for a spring term diversity conference.  Enrolled students will be expected to familiarize themselves with readings provided by the instructor and will submit weekly updates of proposed conference activities.  The final product will involve independent or
Society Culture and Thought