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Kilns and Firing Techniques — CER4203.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Anina Major

Credits: 4

This course will look into the use of the kiln as an integral tool and part of the creative process in ceramic art. We will explore various different kilns and firing techniques, learning the roles of fire and atmosphere in transforming glaze components into desired surfaces. We will also discuss the history of kiln technology and how it has influenced the development of wares,

Visual Arts

Kilns and Firing Techniques — CER4203.01

Spring 2026

Instructor: Anina Major

Days & Time: WE 8:30am-12:10pm

Credits: 4

Ceramics

Kinetic Solutions — SCU2305.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: John Umphlett

Credits: 4

This is a dynamic world. Have you ever found yourself mesmerized at how the conveyor belt works at the airport? Have you ever wondered or questioned a device's purpose with the way it functions? Do you want to learn how to communicate your thoughts and interests by making a sculpture that has movement? This class is designed for the student who is interested in learning basic

Visual Arts

Kipling — LIT2192.01

Fall 2013

Instructor: Brooke Allen

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 2

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was the most popular poet and fiction writer of the late Victorian era. He is nowadays, in many circles, the most reviled, perceived as embodying the very spirit of British imperialism. In this class we will explore Kipling's poetry, short stories, and a couple of longer books (probably 'Kim') in some depth, attempting to draw our own conclusions

Literature

Klezmer Ensemble — MPF4128.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Joseph Alpar

Credits: 2

Klezmer is a musical tradition of the Ashkenazi Jewish communities of Central and Eastern Europe. With its breakneck dance tunes, soulful strings, and wailing horns, Klezmer has been an ever-evolving fixture of Jewish cultural life since its beginnings in the sixteenth century, incorporating elements from Ottoman Turkish music, Baroque music, Slavic and German folk dances, and

Music

Knowing the self and the other: Critical explorations of psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic case studies — PSY2121.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

Credits: 4

This course serves as an introduction to psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic theory and practice. We will focus on clinical case studies and associated theoretical literature, tracing from psychoanalytic foundations to contemporary evidenced-based models. The course prioritizes engagement with original sources, including case studies, provider and client reflections, and

Society Culture and Thought

Kulintang Gong Ensemble — MPF2027.01

Fall 2013

Instructor: Susie Ibarra

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 2

Kulintang gong music is practiced in many styles from several groups in the Philippines, northern Indonesia. Its Philippine origins were in the 14th century where it was created as royal court music in Mindanao, the Southern island of the Philippines. Many different Indigenous tribes play kulintang music in Mindanao. This ensemble will introduce the history and culture of

Music

Kurdish Cinema: Images from a Longtime Stateless Nation — DRA2149.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Burcu Seyben

Credits: 4

Kurds live in many different countries in the Middle East and Asia, but until recently they were forced to live without a self-governing region. Nevertheless, Kurdish cinema has flourished, especially since the turn of the 21stcentury. Both feature films and documentaries proliferate throughout the region. This course will look closely at contemporary Kurdish films and

Drama

L'Afrance: Identité(s) francophone(s) en question(s) — FRE4225.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly

Credits: 4

Vive « l’Afrance »! This film title (Gomis, 2001) summarizes the goal of this course: an exploration of the rich variety of shared and conflicting francophone identities. Constructed within or outside of France, the identities studied in this course will encompass West African, Maghrebi, Caribbean and French spaces. The discussion of notions such as «

Languages

La famiglia: Literary Portrayals of the Modern Italian Family — ITA4610.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Barbara Alfano

Credits: 4

In Italy, no other institution has been credited as much as the family for keeping the country afloat during periods of financial decay, and cursed, at the same time, for hindering the country’s social progress. Three short novels will guide us in the exploration of the modern Italian family: Melania Mazzucco’s Sei come sei, Elena Ferrante’s I giorni dell’abbandono, and

Cultural Studies and Languages

La Generación del 98 — SPA4503.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher

Credits: 4

Paradoxically initiated by the loss of its last colonies in the Spanish-American War of 1898 and a Nicaraguan poet’s invention of modernism, Spain’s rebirth, its Silver Age, was marked by an increasingly cosmopolitan, radical egoism. This cultural revitalization, particularly the newfound gravitas of the philosophical essay, fed by America to Europe then back to America once

Languages

La novela de la tierra — SPA4720.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher

Credits: 4

Whether or not they form a genre is debatable, but a series of books were published over the first thirty years of Spanish America’s twentieth century that were and are collectively known as “regional” novels. Their telluric inclination supposedly tends to reassert inherent origins, national symbolism, linguistic difference, environmentalism, the lower classes, and indigenous

Languages

La novela de la tierra — SPA4720.01

Fall 2020

Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher

Credits: 4

Cultural Studies and Languages

La Vie Quotidienne - Art of Everyday Life — FRE4310.01

Fall 2024

Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly

Credits: 4

In this course, students will examine specific visual art representations of everyday life in French-speaking contexts as well as the realities they address, with a focus on race and gender issues. Through the reading of a variety of images – postcards, film opening sequences, statues, installations, memorials, and virtual reality experiments – students will hone their

Cultural Studies and Languages

Lab: Orchestrating Electronics — MIN2359.02

Spring 2024

Instructor: Michael Wimberly

Credits: 1

This Lab for Orchestrating Electronics will focus on the theory and practice in the use of live electronics in performance. Both hardware and software strategies will be considered. Discussions include historical examples dating back to the 1950s as well Sharp's wide-ranging approaches. This lab is designed for students interested in expanding their understanding of signal

Music

Labless Projects — PHO2208.02

Fall 2020

Instructor: JKline@bennington.edu

Credits: 1

This course will guide students through a series of photographic projects that are possible without access to a darkroom or conventional materials and supplies. Students will learn to use household and found items, as well as other inexpensive materials, to make photographs and other "photogenic drawings." Students will learn about photosensitivity and the chemical processes

Visual Arts

Landforms and Surface Processes — ES2106.01

Fall 2013

Instructor: David De Simone

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

Rivers, wind, glaciers, and time act on sediment and rock to develop the landforms we see around us. An understanding of the surface processes that produce our regional landforms will enable you to appreciate the soils we farm, the ground water we drink, and how we manage environmental issues that impact the landscape. Our investigations will primarily be field based

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Landmines: Displacement and Distorted Geographies — APA4131.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Noah Coburn

Credits: 2

Despite the 1997 comprehensive landmine ban, there are over 100 million landmines in 30 countries, with millions more still being produced each year. Landmines kill and injury 15,000 to 20,000 people annually, but beyond this, the presence of landmines reshape the ways that people live, the land they can cultivate and the communities that they are connected to. Landmine

CAPA

Landscape — FV4240.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Karthik Pandian

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

This intermediate moving image production course challenges students to realize new works in film and video that participate in the lively and varied art historical tradition of representing the natural world and humankind’s place within it. Drawing on the technical capacities of time-based media and the rich environmental surroundings of Bennington’s campus, students will

Environment Visual Arts

Landscape Painting in China — AH4317.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

Credits: 4

This course is a thematic seminar of Chinese ink painting, focusing on the development of the pictorial tradition of landscape from the tenth century to the nineteenth century. Along with the discussion of the history of landscape painting, we will explore various types of landscapes including the topographical landscape, the idealized or imaginary “mind landscape,” the sacred

Visual Arts

Landscapes of Injustice: Psychology and Social Change — PSY4238.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Sean Akerman

Credits: 4

What role can psychology play in the aftermath of collective trauma? What are the responsibilities psychologists have to those who have suffered catastrophe? How does psychology engage with the realities of survival? In this course, we will we explore the ways in which psychology participates in social change. In particular, we will look at how psychology engages with the

Social Science

Landscaping Leftovers: Painting and the Expanded Field — PAI4403.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Camille Hoffman

Credits: 4

This course explores landscape painting as an extension of site and salvage as an expanded portrait of self. While reinforcing formal painting knowledge and skills, students will investigate new strategies around the application and integration of non-traditional materials as a critical response to traditional painting histories. Some questions we will ask ourselves over the

Visual Arts

Language Across Time and Space — LIN4114.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Alexia Fawcett

Credits: 4

This course explores the dynamic processes of language change: how languages evolve over time and influence each other when its users come into contact. Students will examine the mechanisms of phonetic, morphological, and syntactic change, along with phenomena such as grammaticalization and semantic shifts. Special attention will be given to the effects of language contact,

Cultural Studies and Languages Society Culture and Thought

Language and Culture in the Pacific — LIN2108.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Leah Pappas

Credits: 4

There are approximately 2,000 languages spoken on the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, and they tell us a story of impressive migrations, millennia of contact, and island resilience. We will explore this story by discussing the two primary language groups in the Pacific: the Austronesian language family and the non-Austronesian languages of New Guinea. Tracing two

Society Culture and Thought

Language and Society in Vermont and its Neighbors — LIN4102.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Thomas Leddy-Cecere

Credits: 4

The purpose of this course is twofold: first, to immerse students in the rich linguistic setting of Vermont and its immediate neighbors, and, second, to introduce them to the basic methodologies of field research in sociolinguistics and related disciplines. Thematically, the course will consider language diversity at three different scales. We will begin by examining the

Languages Society Culture and Thought