All Courses

Select Filters and then click Apply to load new results

Term
Time & Day Offered
Level
Credits
Course Duration

Latinx Avant-Garde — LIT4125.01

Instructor: Natalie Scenters-Zapico
Credits: 4
“Rather than sit at our drafting table as aesthetic innovators, we Latin@ poets are expected to normalize our histories and tell the ancestral tales of our colorful otherness” write Carmen Giménez Smith and John Chávez in their introduction to the anthology Angels of the Americlypse. How do expectations of the Latinx experience as filled with colorful papel picado, calaveras,

Laura Gilpin & The Platinum Print — PHO4251.01

Instructor: Jonathan Kline
Credits: 4
This intermediate/advanced course will explore the life and work of the American photographer Laura Gilpin, (1891-1979), and culminate in a class-curated exhibition in Usdan Gallery. Her work will be situated within the context of 20th century photography movements of the Photo Secessionists, Pictorialism, and Modernism. Students will also learn the platinum/palladium process

Layers Upon Layers - Animated Collages — MA4326.01

Instructor: Sue Rees
Credits: 4
The class will include a mixture of creating assemblages in a variety of means and materials. Objects will be cut out with scissors or the laser cutter, animated with pins or digital pins in software (After Effects), layers will be used to create depth in three dimensions, a multiplane or using the Z axis. Movement will be animated using software or an animation track and

Layers upon Lines — MA4313.01

Instructor: Sue Rees
Days & Time: FR 8:30am-12:10pm
Credits: 4

The class will be both looking at abstraction as well as more figurative based work. The class will include a mixture of creating assemblages in a variety of means and materials, and using both digital and analogue means from paint, to sand to animated forms. Objects will be cut out with scissors or the laser cutter, animated

Le cinéma-monde d’Alice Diop — FRE4723.01) (day/time updated 5/2/2023

Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Credits: 4
Alice Diop has offered, for decades now, a deep and powerful cinematographic representation of France and the world. In this course, students will refine their linguistic, cultural, and critical skills while studying Alice Diop’s films, from “Les Sénégalaises et la Sénégauloise” (2007) until “Nous” (2020). Students will also closely examine the composition of her literary and

Leadership impact accelerator — MOD4205.02

Instructor:
Credits: 1
The problems we face today are too great for any one person to solve alone. But what does it practically take to lead meaningful change and advance public action? What leadership capacities are needed now to move ourselves and others forward strategically and adaptively in a changing world? This three-session leadership retreat will support student leaders and change agents who

Leadership in Diverse Groups — MOD2260.01

Instructor:
Credits: 1
This module will examine the components of leadership in groups. Coverage will be given to empirical work that focuses on different styles of leadership and their intersection with group elements such as composition and diversity, negotiation, intra- and intergroup relations, and social justice. Key outcome dimensions to be considered include performance, interpersonal

Leading in Uncertain Times — APA2171.04

Instructor: Alexis Frasz with Robert Ransick
Credits: 1
We are living at a time of great flux, where many of the political, economic and social systems and structures that prior generations took for granted are breaking down. It is now clear that many of these systems are not serving a majority of people or the planet, and we are at a moment where the survival of human beings and the natural ecosystem is at risk. This

Learning By Doing: Progressive Education in a Public High School Classroom — APA2127.01

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 4
In a collaborative effort between Bennington College and two Mount Anthony Union High School programs (the Quantum Leap Exhibit Program and the Bridges Summer Transitional Program), the Sababa Project ( a joint classroom for Bennington College and MAUHS students) attempts to demystify the college experience while providing high school students with hands-on, real-world,

Learning Japanese Language and Culture with Manga — JPN2109.01

Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Japanese pop culture has gained popularity in the US, and many American children read Japanese manga and watch various Japanese animations while growing up. However, lack of Japanese cultural knowledge sometimes makes it hard for the American audience to fully understand what is going on in the Japanese character's mind. In this introductory Japanese language and culture

Learning Japanese Language and Culture with Manga — JPN2109.01

Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Credits: 4
Have you read manga before?  Did you watch Japanese animation when you were a child?  The Japanese pop culture has gained popularity in the US, and many American children read Japanese manga and watch various Japanese animations while growing up. However, lack of Japanese cultural knowledge sometimes makes it difficult for the American audience to fully understand the

Learning Japanese Language and Culture with Manga — JPN2109.01

Instructor: ikuko yoshida
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The Japanese pop culture has gained popularity in the US, and many American children read Japanese manga and watch various Japanese animations, while growing up. However, lack of Japanese cultural knowledge sometimes makes it hard for the American audience to fully understand what is going on in the Japanese character's mind. In this introductory Japanese language and culture

Leaves of Grass — LIT2578.01

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

Left To Their Own Devices — MUS4803.01

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

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

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

Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina — LIT2418.02

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

Letterpress Printing and Typography — PRI4117.01

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Letterpress: Artisanal Polymer Platemaking — PRI4116.03

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 .

Letterpress: Metal Type and Plastic Plates — PRI4236.01

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