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Jazz Piano Lab — MIN4335.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Bruce Williamson
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This course will utilize Bennington’s Piano Lab to explore and develop the skills and knowledge required to effectively play non-classical piano repertoire. Styles covered are: blues, reggae, salsa, bossa-nova and jazz. Students will take turns learning and playing bass lines, chord voicings, stylistic rhythms, melodies and improvised solos.  
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Jazz Piano Lab — MIN4335.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Bruce Williamson
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This course will utilize Bennington’s Piano Lab to explore and develop the skills and knowledge required to effectively play non-classical piano repertoire. Styles covered are: blues, reggae, salsa, bossa-nova and jazz. Students will take turns learning and playing bass lines, chord voicings, stylistic rhythms, melodies and improvised solos.
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Jazz Piano Lab — MIN4335.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Bruce Williamson
Credits: 2
This course will utilize Bennington’s Piano Lab to explore and develop the skills and knowledge required to effectively play non-classical piano repertoire. Styles covered are: blues, reggae, salsa, bossa-nova and jazz. Students will take turns learning and playing bass lines, chord voicings, stylistic rhythms, melodies and improvised solos. Corequisties: participation in Music
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Jazz Piano Lab — MIN4335.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Bruce Williamson
Credits: 2
This course will utilize Bennington's Piano Lab to explore and develop the skills and knowledge required to effectively play non-classical piano repertoire. Styles covered are: blues, reggae, salsa, bossa-nova and jazz. Students will take turns learning and playing bass lines, chord voicings, stylistic rhythms, melodies and improvised solos. Corequisites: Must participate in
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Jazz Piano Lab — MIN4335.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Bruce Williamson
Credits: 2
This course will utilize Bennington’s Piano Lab to explore and develop the skills and knowledge required to effectively play non-classical piano repertoire. Styles covered are: blues, reggae, salsa, bossa-nova and jazz. Students will take turns learning and playing bass lines, chord voicings, stylistic rhythms, melodies and improvised solos.
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Jazz Piano Workshop — MIN4239.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: jacob sacks
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
In this course, participants will work on developing the skills required to effectively play non-classical piano repertoire and to connect with improvising in a variety of ways. Students will both individually and collectively learn to play bass lines, chord voicings, melodies, basic rhythms, and improvise solos. Greater awareness of possibilities will be developed through
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Jazz Theory — MTH4119.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Jen Allen
Credits: 4
This course will review both diatonic and modal harmony as it applies to chord structures, chord progressions, scales used in jazz improvisation, how to interpret chord alterations, and how to identify key centers. We will learn how to translate the chord symbols found in “lead sheets” (music with only chord symbols and melody) and develop the necessary skills to create
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Jazz Theory I — MTH2280.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
This course will review both diatonic and modal harmony as it applies to chord structures, chord progressions and scales used in jazz improvisation. Students will learn how to translate the chord symbols found in “lead sheets” (music with only chord symbols and melody). Students must have the ability to read music notation and a basic understanding of major minor tonality.
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Jazz Theory II — MTH2279.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
Students will learn how to interpret chord alterations, and how to identify key centers. This course will help students learn the language of jazz and develop the necessary skills to create intelligent and musical improvised solos. Students should have the ability to read music notation and a basic understanding of major minor tonality.
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Jazz Trapset and Drums Ensemble — MPF4108.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Susie Ibarra
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Assembling the contraption, the trapset or the drumset, arose from the meeting and mixture of diverse cultures over the last century. This ensemble studies the music and musicians that have influenced the evolution of Jazz trapset and percussion playing over the last century. The class will examine African and Cuban clave influence, Asian and Middle Eastern influence, American
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Jazz Vocal Improvisation — MVO4203.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: yoon sun choi
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This performance workshop will explore vocal improvisation in jazz, both improvising within a form (jazz standards) and free improvisation. Students will learn to understand the language of jazz through listening and practicing, and there will be some ensemble singing. Students must be able to match pitch. There will be a performance scheduled at the end of term.
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Jazz Vocal Workshop — MPF4273.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Bruce Williamson; Kerry Ryer-Parke
Credits: 4
This will be a repertoire/performance class where vocalists will have the opportunity to work with both a vocal coach and jazz pianist. Bass and drums will be added towards the end of the term. Songs will be selected from the standard jazz repertoire, which will then be interpreted in a number of different jazz styles (swing, latin, ballad, blues, etc.). Emphasis will be on
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Jazz Vocal Workshop — MPF4273.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Bruce Williamson Kerry Ryer-Parke
Credits: 4
Students will gain a better understanding of jazz vocal styles by listening to recordings and studying the backgrounds of influential jazz singers. Students will learn and perform jazz vocal literature while receiving guidance from two faculty members, jazz pianist Bruce Williamson and vocal coach Kerry Ryer-Parke. Musical styles covered will include ballads, swing, blues
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Jazz Vocal Workshop — MPF4273.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Bruce Williamson, Kerry Ryer-Parke
Credits: 2
This will be a repertoire/performance class where vocalists will have the opportunity to work with both a vocal coach and jazz pianist. Bass and drums will be added towards the end of the term. Through extensive listening to jazz vocalists and their own practice, students will gain confidence in phrasing, microphone technique and jazz vocal idioms. Songs will be selected from
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Jazz Vocal Workshop — MPF4273.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Bruce Williamson; Tom Bogdan
Credits: 4
This will be a repertoire/performance class where vocalists will have the opportunity to work with both a vocal coach and jazz pianist. Bass and drums will be added towards the end of the term. Songs will be selected from the standard jazz repertoire, which will then be interpreted in a number of different jazz styles (swing, latin, ballad, blues, etc.). Emphasis will be on
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Jazz/ Improvisation Ensemble for Instrumentalists — MPF2163.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: jacob sacks
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This ensemble will explore extemporaneous improvisation in a jazz-oriented small group setting. Participants will play and study classic jazz compositions and standards in addition to composing and creating original works for the ensemble. A special focus of this small jazz ensemble will be on developing group interaction and musical communication skills. Another focus will be
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Jerzy Grotowski — DRA2304.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Jenny Rohn
Credits: 4
"No one else in the world, to my knowledge, no one since Stanislavski, has investigated the nature of acting, its phenomenon, its meaning, the nature and science of its mental, physical, emotional process as deeply and completely as Grotowski." - Peter Brook In this class we will explore, through readings and on our feet, the teachings and training techniques that Grotowski
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Journalism and Democracy — APA4213.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Brian Campion
Days & Time: TH 1:40pm-5:20pm
Credits: 4

Journalism & Democracy is the result of a grant and partnership with the Center for Community News at the University of Vermont, a national network of student journalism programs around the United States. The course recognizes the essential role that the arts and

Advancement of Public Action

Journalism and Democracy — APA4213.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Brian Campion
Days & Time: TH 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 2

Journalism & Democracy is the result of a grant and partnership with the Center for Community News at the University of Vermont, a national network of student journalism programs around the United States. The course recognizes the essential role that the arts and culture play in a healthy democracy. Arts and culture invite us to experience perspectives and ways of life

Advancement of Public Action

Journey: 1890s — HIS2126.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Credits: 4
Students sign on to travel the world in the world-changing decade of the 1890s. In early weeks, students each create an historically credible persona, whom they will then lead and follow around the globe, starting out in Chicago at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893.
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Juxtaposition: Drawing and Collage — DRW4106.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: mary lum
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Since the beginning of the 20th century, collage has existed as a vehicle for the most diverse ideas and political concerns of the times. Collage is not simply a method of assembly, a way to bring unrelated fragments into new contexts, but a way of thinking that reflects revolution of all kinds. From Picasso and Braque to Hannah Hoch and John Heartfield, and more recently
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Juxtaposition: Drawing and Collage — DRW4106.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Mary Lum
Credits: 4
Since the beginning of the 20th century, collage has existed as a vehicle for the most diverse ideas and concerns of the times. Collage is not simply a method of assembly, a way to bring unrelated fragments into new contexts, but a way of thinking that reflects revolution of all kinds. From Picasso and Braque to Hannah Hoch and John Heartfield, and more recently Martha Rosler
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Kafka — LIT2572.02

Spring 2025
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
When he died at age 40 in a sanitarium outside Vienna, Franz Kafka left the bulk of his literary effort in a drawer in the desk of his parent’s home in Prague. What he wanted was for his friend Max Brod to burn everything. In this class, we will read what was not burned, including the two major novels—The Trial, and The Castle, as well as his shorter masterpieces, The
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