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Markmaking and Representation — DRW2149.02

Fall 2013
Instructor: Colin Brant
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The fundamentals of drawing are the basic tools for this investigation into seeing and translation. Using simple methods and means, the practice of drawing is approached from both traditional and experimental directions. The focus of this inquiry is on drawing from observation, broadly defined. In class drawing sessions are complemented by independent, outside of class work and
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Markmaking and Representation — DRW2149.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Mary Lum
Credits: 4
The fundamentals of drawing are the basic tools for this investigation into seeing and translation. Using simple methods and means, the practice of drawing is approached from both traditional and experimental directions. The focus of this inquiry is on drawing from observation, broadly defined. In class drawing sessions are complemented by independent, outside of class work and
Visual Arts

Markmaking and Representation — DRW2149; section 1

Fall 2016
Instructor: Colin Brant
Credits: 4
The fundamentals of drawing are the basic tools for this investigation into seeing and translation. Using simple methods and means, the practice of drawing is approached from both traditional and experimental directions. The focus of this inquiry is on drawing from observation, broadly defined. In class drawing sessions are complemented by independent, outside of class work and
Visual Arts

Markmaking and Representation — DRW2149.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Mary Lum
Credits: 4
The fundamentals of drawing are the basic tools for this investigation into seeing and translation. Using simple methods and means, the practice of drawing is approached from both traditional and experimental directions. The focus of this inquiry is on drawing from observation, broadly defined. In class drawing sessions are complemented by independent, outside of class work and
Visual Arts

Markmaking and Representation — DRW2149; section 2

Fall 2016
Instructor: Colin Brant
Credits:
The fundamentals of drawing are the basic tools for this investigation into seeing and translation. Using simple methods and means, the practice of drawing is approached from both traditional and experimental directions. The focus of this inquiry is on drawing from observation, broadly defined. In class drawing sessions are complemented by independent, outside of class work and
Visual Arts

Markmaking and Representation — DRW2149.01, section 1

Fall 2019
Instructor: Colin Brant
Credits: 4
The fundamentals of drawing are the basic tools for this investigation into seeing and translation. Using simple methods and means, the practice of drawing is approached from both traditional and experimental directions. The focus of this inquiry is on drawing from observation, broadly defined. In class drawing sessions are complemented by independent, outside of class work and
Visual Arts

Marx, Keynes, and Hayek — PEC4127.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Credits: 4
In this course we study the economic system we live in through theoretical perspectives provided by three major economists, Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, and Friedrich Hayek. We will start with an introduction to Marxian critical analysis of capitalism, emphasizing the concept of capital as a social relationship, the theory of the production of surplus-value and its
Society Culture and Thought

Masks — DRA4331.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Janis Young
Credits: 4
Masks' is dedicated to the opening up of physical and vocal expression. To further that goal, this advanced performance class works with several groups of masks. In general masks can be used to hide and reveal, to disguise and transform, to attract, arouse and fire the imagination. Beginning with Jacques Lecoq's neutral mask exercises involving economy of effort and Mexican
Dance Drama

Masks — DRA4135.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Janis Young
Credits: 4
Masks is dedicated to the opening of individual and group physical and vocal expression. To further that goal, this performance class works with several groups of masks. Beginning with Jacques Lecoq's neutral mask exercises involving physical economy of effort, Mexican mask improvisations and group exercises, the work extends to vocal development and verse expression. Using
Drama

Mass Affect: Media Culture and Theory — FV2153.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Jen Liu
Credits: 2
In this hybrid course, we will trace the development of audiovisual media (film, video, and sound art) and hybrid media practices through an interdisciplinary lens. Through screenings, listening sessions, theoretical readings, and discussion, we will investigate core ideas at the center of modern and contemporary time-based work, from experimental practices to the mass popular
Visual Arts Society Culture and Thought Music

Mass Affect: Media Culture and Theory — FV2153.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: senempirler@bennington.edu
Credits: 2
In this remote course, we will trace the development of audiovisual media (film, video, and sound art) and hybrid media practices through an interdisciplinary lens. Through screenings, listening sessions, theoretical readings, and discussion, we will investigate core ideas at the center of modern and contemporary time-based work, from experimental practices to the mass media
Visual Arts Music

Mass Incarceration, an American Invention — APA2326.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 1
This course is a primer that serves to lay the backdrop for more specialized studies in American Justice systems. It is not a criminology course. It is a cultural exploration of the growth of incarceration in the United States and its peculiar connection to racial identity. With 2 million incarcerated people, the United States has had the highest rate of incarceration for more
CAPA

Masters of Style — LIT4362.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Doug Bauer
Credits: 4
This course is founded on the belief that the way to a writer’s personal style and voice is through the close study, absorption, and imitation of others’. We will be reading and replicating many contemporary master stylists, from Doctorow to DeLillo to Toni Morrison to Denis Johnson to Julie Otsuka, and others. In every case, we will conduct a three-part examination of the work
Literature

Masters of Style — LIT4362.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Douglas Bauer
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course is founded on the belief that the way to a writer’s personal style and voice is through the close study, absorption, and imitation of others’. We will be reading and replicating many contemporary master stylists, from Doctorow to DeLillo to Toni Morrison to Denis Johnson to Amy Hempel, and others. In every case, we will conduct a three-part examination of the work
Literature

Masters of Style — LIT4362.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Doug Bauer
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course is founded on the belief that the way to a writer’s personal style and voice is through the close study, absorption, and imitation of others’. We will be reading and replicating many contemporary master stylists, from Doctorow to DeLillo to Toni Morrison to Denis Johnson to Amy Hempel, and others. In every case, we will conduct a three-part examination of the work
Literature

Material culture in and of media — MS2112.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Maia Nichols
Credits: 4
This course will focus on material culture: clothing, objects, art, tools, machines, toys, crafts and the physical stuff in and of media. By focusing on the material cultures of television, film, and images, the physical and material things in movies and photographs, and the beliefs and practices related to mediation through objects, students will gain knowledge in
Society Culture and Thought

Material Science — CER4106.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Joshua Primmer
Credits: 2
In Material Science students will be exploring the science of glaze chemistry beginning with developing an understanding of the major components of a glaze and culminating with establishing the ability to create original glazes designed to fulfill predetermined traits. Some of the subjects explored will be color development, surface, glazes designed for the three major firing
Visual Arts

Material World — SCU2113.02

Fall 2024
Instructor: John Umphlett
Credits: 2
This course is directed at the student who is interested in furthering a visual vocabulary and conceptual enhancement through material introductions and demonstrations. The class will be based primarily on mastering methods of working with materials that we come across in this everyday modern life. Foundational understanding of these materials in their raw states; synthetic
Visual Arts

Materials and Methods: Painting Practicum — PAI4110.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Ann Pibal
Credits: 2
*****Prerequisites Updated as of 2/11/2022***** This seven-week intensive course is designed for students who may not have had the opportunity to enroll in fully studio-based introductory level painting courses in recent terms due Covid and the temporary shift to online teaching. Topics covered will be techniques and protocols for the use of VAPA and remote studios, including
Visual Arts

Mathematics of Fundamental Laws — MAT4120.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Credits: 4
This is a course in advanced calculus, including vector calculus (div, grad, curl), ordinary differential equations, and partial differential equations. The goal is to learn enough mathematics to understand the formulation of the fundamental physical laws, and their most important solutions: Newtons laws and planetary motion; Maxwells laws and electromagnetic waves; Einstein's
Science Mathematics and Computing

Matter, Energy, and the Environment — ENV2326.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: John Bullock
Credits: 4
Environmental issues are inherently cross-disciplinary. To effectively grapple with them, their economic, social, and political dimensions must be considered. But to truly understand such problems, their underlying scientific aspects cannot be ignored. Basic principles of energy, including thermodynamics and the nature of light and heat, as well the principles that describe
Visual Arts Science Mathematics and Computing Environment

Measles and the (sometimes unnatural) history of outbreaks — MOD2153.04

Spring 2015
Instructor: Zeke Bernstein
Credits: 1
We will use the recent measles outbreak in the United States as a lens into the history and also (murky) future of infectious disease outbreaks in our human race. We'll cover outbreaks and outbreak dynamics, along with foundational topics in microbiology, immunology, and infectious disease. We’ll also situate the current measles outbreak in the context of the ongoing
Modules: Transferable Approaches

Media and Democracy — APA2132.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Erika Mijlin
Credits: 4
In the midst of the heat and noise of an election season, we will pursue an inquiry into the deeply entangled, complicit, and often conflicted role of media in a democratic society.  Topics may include:  historical precedence for media influence before and beyond American democracy, the role and responsibilities of a free press, the implications of corporate media
CAPA

Media and Democracy Workshop — APA2207.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: erika mijlin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
A laboratory for learning and working through the complexities of media's role in a democratic society. We will zero in on some of the pressing issues of this year's midterm elections, and use them as a lens onto topics such as : campaign finance, media ownership, information visualization (or distortion) by media, and some new strategies for media as a platform for ideas and a
CAPA Visual Arts