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Leaves of Grass — LIT2578.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Franny Choi
Days & Time: TU 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 2

This 2-credit course is an introduction to Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, which inaugurated a distinctly American free verse by breaking with European formal traditions of poetry. We will read the entire original 1855 version (a self-published volume with only twelve poems) as well as selections from some of the subsequent editions that Whitman published

Literature

Left To Their Own Devices — MUS4803.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Credits: 2
Often choreographers are left to produce their own sounds, whether it be the ambient sounds between gestures, or a sonic collage sampled from disparate musical fabrics. This course is an intro to technical and experimental approaches to scaffolding sound for choreographers. Topics looked at will be sampling and appropriation, effective music “cuts” in the studio, mild
Dance Music

Legacy and 3D Audio Mixing and Production — MSR4374.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Cristian Amigo
Days & Time: WE 10:00am-11:50am & WE 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 4

This course explores the art and science of mixing and producing audio for both emergent immersive formats and traditional legacy platforms. Students will gain hands-on experience with spatial audio technologies such as Dolby Atmos, Ambisonics, and binaural mixing, while also mastering industry-standard techniques for stereo and 5.1

Composition Sound Design and Recording

Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina — LIT2418.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina (1877) was a novel of bold ambitions. The book is about betrayal as a bid for freedom that is fraught with consequences. Anna Karenina tells the story of the title character’s infidelity in a soulless marriage, while also portraying the ways in which all people struggle to transcend the roles that are socially assigned to them. What
Literature

Letterpress Printing and Typography — PRI4117.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
Credits: 4
In this intermediate-advanced level course, we will study Letterpress printing and Typographic design within a framework of making visual art. This can be a precision process and it affords a huge range of possibilities for artists who wish to work with multiples and/or use text in their work. It is a rigorous course and each student will develop and design print projects that
Visual Arts

Letterpress Printing from Metal, Wood, and Photopolymer — PRI4697.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
Credits: 4
In this intermediate level course, we will focus on learning letterpress printing within a framework of making visual art. This can be a precision process and it affords a huge range of possibilities for artists who wish to work with multiples and/or use text in their work. It is a rigorous course and each student will develop and design print projects
Visual Arts

Letterpress Printing from Metal, Wood, and Photopolymer — PRI4697.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
Days & Time: WE 10:00am-11:50am & WE 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 4

In this intermediate level course, we will focus on learning letterpress printing within a framework of making visual art. This can be a precision process and it affords a huge range of possibilities for artists who wish to work with multiples and/or use text in their work. It is a rigorous course and each student will develop and design print projects that develop both

Design

Letterpress Printing from Metal, Wood, and Photopolymer — PRI4697.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
Credits: 4
In this intermediate level course, we will focus on learning letterpress printing within a framework of making visual art. This can be a precision process and it affords a huge range of possibilities for artists who wish to work with multiples and/or use text in their work. It is a rigorous course and each student will develop and design print projects that develop both their
Visual Arts

Letterpress Printing from Metal, Wood, and Photopolymer — PRI4697.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
Credits: 4
In this intermediate level course, we will focus on learning letterpress printing within a framework of making visual art. This can be a precision process and it affords a huge range of possibilities for artists who wish to work with multiples and/or use text in their work. It is a rigorous course and each student will develop and design print projects that develop both their
Visual Arts

Letterpress: Artisanal Polymer Platemaking — PRI4116.03

Spring 2019
Instructor: Brad Ewing with Thorsten Dennerline
Credits: 1
This workshop is an introduction to the Word Image Lab with a specific focus on using letterpress plates to make contemporary art. Students will participate in an intensive overview of making plates, using plates, and press work. This introductory course in letterpress and relief printing will explore techniques of making polymer plates by hand, and printing them on a press .
Visual Arts

Letterpress: Metal Type and Plastic Plates — PRI4236.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Art Larson and Michael Smoot
Credits: 4
This will be a studio art class during which students are introduced to the techniques, materials and equipment used in letterpress printing. Students will complete a series of assignments designed to give them practice in these techniques and for them to become more adept at using the materials and equipment. Ambitious students will be able to do more advanced work, as the
Visual Arts

Letterpress: Technique, Materials, and Equipment — PRI4208.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Julia Ferrari and Mike Smoot
Credits: 4
This will be a studio art class during which students are introduced to the techniques, materials and equipment used in letterpress printing. Students will complete a series of assignments designed to give them practice in these techniques and for them to become more adept at using the materials and equipment. Ambitious students will be able to do more advanced work, as the
Visual Arts

Letters to a Young Poet: Rainer Maria Rilke — LIT4528.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: MWunderlich@bennington.edu
Credits: 4
From 1903 to 1908, the German-language poet Rainer Marie Rilke wrote ten letters to a young military cadet who wanted to become a poet. These letters have become some of the most widely-read and quoted letters on the art of writing poetry the world has ever known. In the spirit of these inspiring and philosophical letters, and in an exercise of analog exchange, this course will
Literature

Let’s Get the Show on the Road: Touring Live Performance — DRA4245.01) (cancelled 9/18/2024

Spring 2025
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
Touring is not all about groupies and wrecking hotel rooms; it is one of the most common ways for independent performing artists of all levels to have their work seen and financed.  With the goal of preparing Bennington’s creators to have their future time-based art presented, this course will investigate the practical aspects of touring for the performing arts. Through

Lexicon of Forced Migration — APA2170.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: John Hultgren
Credits: 4
The course is intended to provide students an introduction to foundational concepts of migration studies. The course will navigate this complex topic through four thematic anchors: (1) Time and Space, which will explore the history of migration from a global perspective, emphasizing the uneven development, colonial encounters, and environmental pressures that give rise to
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Lexicon of Forced Migration — APA2170.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: John Hultgren
Credits: 4
The course is intended to provide students an introduction to foundational concepts of migration studies. The course will navigate this complex topic through four thematic anchors: (1) Time and Space, which will explore the history of migration from a global perspective, emphasizing the uneven development, colonial encounters, and environmental pressures that give rise to
CAPA

Lexicon of Forced Migration — APA2170.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: John Hultgren
Credits: 4
The course is intended to provide students an introduction to foundational concepts of migration studies. The course will navigate this complex topic through four thematic anchors: (1) Time and Space, which will explore the history of migration from a global perspective, emphasizing the uneven development, colonial encounters, and environmental pressures that give rise to
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Liberalism and Religion — SPA4254.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Credits: 4
One of the more ubiquitous problems in formulating thought on Latin America, evident in anything from a page-long critique of a painting to governmental policy, is the premise that liberalism, for all its apparent flaws, has good intentions, and is coupled to the increasing obsolescence of religion, which only serves to divide theory and practice. The development of political,
Languages

Liberalism: For and Against — PHI4104.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Paul Voice
Credits: 4
This course invites students to critically engage with liberalism, the dominant political theory in Anglo-American philosophy. Students will read some of the main texts in the various traditions of contemporary liberal thought, including libertarianism, Rawlsian liberalism and utilitarian liberalism, and survey some of the central critical responses to the liberal project. The
Social Science

Libertinage — FRE4718.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course examines libertinage, the movement of early‐modern freethinkers who championed individual autonomy and questioned the authority of religious, moral, social, and political thought. We will focus particular attention on questions of pleasure and morality, sexuality and power, authority and subversion. Writers studied will include Molière (Dom Juan), Prévost (Manon
Languages

Library City: A New Atlas for Crossett — VA4109.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Mary Lum
Credits: 4
This course will inhabit the library as a 21st century city of knowledge. After introductory lectures and readings about contemporary cities and libraries, students will spend the term mapping highly individual paths of research through the collections of Crossett Library. Intensive directed reading and looking, will result in the creation of written and visual essays, through
Visual Arts

Library City: Practicing Curiosity — VA4113.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Mary Lum
Credits: 4
This course will inhabit the library as a 21st century city of knowledge. After introductory lectures and readings about cities and libraries, students will spend the term mapping highly individual paths of research through the collections of Crossett Library. Intensive directed reading and looking, will result in the creation of written and visual essays, through which
Visual Arts