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Light & Lighting — PHO4252.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
Credits: 2
This intermediate course will explore the way in which light conveys emotional, narrative, and psychological meaning. The goal is to increase students' experience in recognizing and shaping these effects. Lectures will draw from the history or photography, as well as cinema and contemporary art. Workshops will involve small collaborative teams in a variety of studio and on
Visual Arts

Light and Lighting — PHO4238.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
Credits: 4
This photography course will explore the way light conveys emotional, narrative, and psychological meaning. The goal is to increase students’ experience in recognizing and shaping these effects. Each week books by noted photographers will be assigned for study and discussion. Workshops and demos will involve small collaborative teams in a variety of studio and on-location
Visual Arts

Light and Lighting: Vocabulary and Tools — Canceled

Spring 2015
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
Credits: 4
The course will investigate the way in which light conveys emotional, narrative, and psychological meaning. The goal is to increase students' experience in recognizing and shaping these effects. Lectures will draw from the history of photography, as well as cinema and contemporary art. Workshops will involve small collaborative teams in a variety of studio and on-location
Visual Arts

Light! — DRA2376.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Credits: 1
Many people recognize the beauty of a magnificent sunset or the power of a strobe light, yet few develop the acuity to make choices about controlling light in their everyday environments, or regularly consider the impact of light on their artistic practices. In this course we will work on increasing awareness of the power of light and lighting, and develop basic tools for
Drama

Lighting for Portraits — PHO2137.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Jonathan Barber
Credits: 2
Created for students who have done previous course-work in basic photographic tools and technique, this hands-on lab will provide instruction and practice in continuous and strobe lighting equipment and provide an overview of lighting techniques for portraiture. Class work will include demonstrations and small group assignments in and out of the studio. The instructor will also
Visual Arts

Linear Algebra — MAT2482.01) (day/time change as of 5/16/2023

Fall 2023
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Credits: 4
Together with calculus, linear algebra is one of the foundations of higher-level mathematics and its applications. This is NOT just the algebra you know from high school. There are several perspectives one can take on linear algebra: it is a method for handling large systems of linear equations, it is a theory of linear geometry (including in dimensions larger than three), it
Science and Mathematics

Linear Algebra — MAT4115.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Credits: 4
Together with calculus, linear algebra is one of the foundations of higher level mathematics and its applications. There are several perspectives one can take on linear algebra: it is a method for handling large systems of equations, it is a theory of higher dimensional geometry, and it is a theoretical construct that appears throughout mathematics and physics, among other
Science and Mathematics

Linear Algebra — MAT4115.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Together with calculus, linear algebra is one of the foundations of higher level mathematics and its applications. There are several perspectives one can take on linear algebra: it is a method for handling large systems of equations, it is a theory of higher dimensional geometry, and it is a theoretical construct that appears throughout mathematics and physics, among other
Science Mathematics and Computing

Linear Algebra — MAT4115.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Carly Briggs
Credits: 4
Together with calculus, linear algebra is one of the foundations of higher level mathematics and its applications. This course is necessary for students concentrating in mathematics, is strongly recommended for students intending to study computer science, physics, or geology, and may be useful for students in economics or biology. This course is a prerequisite for
Science and Mathematics

Linear Algebra — MAT4115.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Carly Briggs
Credits: 4
Together with calculus, linear algebra is one of the foundations of higher level mathematics and its applications. This course is necessary for students concentrating in mathematics, is strongly recommended for students intending to study computer science, physics, or geology, and may be useful for students in economics or biology. This course is a prerequisite for
Science and Mathematics

Linear Algebra — MAT2482.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Credits: 4
Together with calculus, linear algebra is one of the foundations of higher-level mathematics and its applications. This is NOT just the algebra you know from high school. There are several perspectives one can take on linear algebra: it is a method for handling large systems of linear equations, it is a theory of linear geometry (including in dimensions larger than three), it
Science and Mathematics

Linear Algebra — MAT2482.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Credits: 4
Together with calculus, linear algebra is one of the foundations of higher level mathematics and its applications. There are several perspectives one can take on linear algebra: it is a method for handling large systems of equations, it is a theory of higher dimensional geometry, and it is a theoretical construct that appears throughout mathematics and physics, among other
Science and Mathematics

Linear Algebra — MAT2482.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Credits: 4
Together with calculus, linear algebra is one of the foundations of higher-level mathematics and its applications. This is NOT just the algebra you know from high school. There are several perspectives one can take on linear algebra: it is a method for handling large systems of linear equations, it is a theory of linear geometry (including in dimensions larger than three), it
Science and Mathematics

Linear Algebra — MAT2482.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Carly Briggs
Credits: 4
Together with calculus, linear algebra is one of the foundations of higher-level mathematics and its applications. This course is necessary for students concentrating in mathematics, is strongly recommended for students intending to study computer science, physics, or geology, and may be useful for students in economics or biology. This course is a prerequisite for
Science and Mathematics

Linear Algebra — MAT2482.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: carlybriggs@bennington.edu
Credits: 4
Together with calculus, linear algebra is one of the foundations of higher level mathematics and its applications. This course is necessary for students concentrating in mathematics, is strongly recommended for students intending to study computer science, physics, or geology, and may be useful for students in economics or biology. This course is a prerequisite for
Science and Mathematics

Linear Algebra: An Introduction — MAT2482.01

Fall 2026
Instructor: Joe Mundt
Days & Time: T/Th 6:30PM-8:30PM
Credits: 4

Together with calculus, linear algebra is one of the foundations of higher-level mathematics and its applications. This is NOT just the algebra you know from high school. There are several perspectives one can take on linear algebra: it is a method for handling large systems of linear equations, it is a theory of linear geometry (including in dimensions larger than three),

Computer Science Mathematics

Linear Algebra: An Introduction — MAT2482.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Joe Mundt
Days & Time: T/Th 6:30PM-8:30PM
Credits: 4

Together with calculus, linear algebra is one of the foundations of higher-level mathematics and its applications. This is NOT just the algebra you know from high school. There are several perspectives one can take on linear algebra: it is a method for handling large systems of linear equations, it is a theory of linear geometry (including in dimensions larger than three),

Mathematics Computer Science

Linguistic Field Methods — LIN4116.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Alexia Fawcett
Days & Time: MO,TH 3:40pm-5:30pm
Credits: 4

This course is designed to equip students with the basic methodologies necessary to carry out linguistic fieldwork with speakers/users of un(der)documented languages. Students will be trained in the skills and tools of language documentation and description by working with a speaker of a language previously unknown to them. Learning and

Sociolinguistics Linguistics

Linguistics of Music — MTH4258.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Kitty Brazelton
Credits: 4
Students collaborate with instructor to generate a set of grammatical "rules" for various musical genres. We review existing theories and grammars of Western classical and other musics, compare parallels between 20th-c. theories of Heinrich Schenker and Noam Chomsky, and gather musical data from scores, recordings and our own transcription. The course will culminate in
Music

Linguistics of Music — MTH4258.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Kitty Brazelton
Credits: 4
(Formerly "Towards a Theory of Rock") Students in this course will collaborate with instructor to generate a set of grammatical "rules" for various rock genres. To do this, we will review existing theories and grammars of Western classical and other musics. We will investigate existing scholarly studies of rock. After that, much of the course will be student-directed with a
Music

Listening and Making — APA2340.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 2
This class, for makers in any discipline, explores sound as a resource for creative practice. In our sessions we will engage in specific listening protocols and respond through writing, drawing, recording, moving, and experimental forms of notation. We will gather a wide variety of sounds as source material: reading texts aloud to each other, listening to field recordings,
CAPA

Listening to psyche: an interdisciplinary method of generating choreography — DAN2259.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Levi Gonzalez
Credits: 1
This course is for people who are developing a choreographic voice. In this course, Parijat Desai will offer processes she is using to develop choreographic material for her project How Do I Become WE as well as for her ongoing artistic practice.  How Do I Become WE is a participatory performance ritual based on a Tamil folk narrative in which a woman keeps a story
Dance

Listening: Acting as Crafting the Visual and Listening with Intention — DRA4128.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Gian-Murray Gianino
Credits: 4
This class gives theater artists the time and space to further develop their understanding of listening as a fundamental tenet of acting and necessary tool. Through exercises and prepared studies of scenes, students will explore listening as defined as absorbing and responding to the truth, moment by moment. Stanislavski's Active Analysis and its relationship to the Viewpoints
Drama

Literary Bennington — LIT2390.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Benjamin Anastas
Credits: 2
We all know the literary generation that Bennington produced in the 1980s and early 90s: Donna Tartt, Bret Easton Ellis, Jonathan Lethem, and Kiran Desai. But how seriously have we read their work? And what about the illustrious faculty who prepared the literary ground for those who came after: Bernard Malamud, Kenneth Burke, Stanley Edgar Hyman (and his wife the novelist
Literature