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Movement Practice: Stretching and Conditioning — DAN2428.01

Fall 2026

Instructor: Levi Gonzalez

Days & Time: TU,FR 10:30am-12:20pm

Credits: 2

This course is open to students at all levels of experience with body conditioning and/or dance. Class sessions will be approached as a form of exercise as well as a way to recover from injuries, misuse, excess or lack of physical activity. Incorporating tools and exercises from various physical practice modalities, including yoga,

Dance

Movement Practice: The Body Speaking — DAN2352.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Levi Gonzalez

Credits: 2

This course integrates various methods of speaking and sounding into our dance and movement practice. Employing multiple improvisational structures, we will access the healing, expressive and artistic possibilities of sound and language as an extension of the body. Additionally, we will look at the work of contemporary artists who engage with language and body-generated

Dance

Movement Practice: The Gentle Warrior — DAN2357.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Dana Reitz

Credits: 2

Through direct personal experience, students will gain a deeper understanding of the body in motion. We will engage in movement research from a multitude of improvisational, somatic, dance and movement approaches; will delve into using floor patterns and scores for sensing and tracking the body while moving; will discover alliance with breath, floor, imagination, and

Dance

Movement Practice: The Phenomenal State of Permeability — DAN4153.01) (cancelled

Fall 2021

Instructor: Maura Gahan

Credits: 2

This class, “The Phenomenal State of Permeability” (as coined by Margit Galanter), is a practice of engaging with the senses -- vision, touch, sound, and smell -- to compose movement, objects and space. ‘Warming ups’ will be offered followed by verbal “calls” and “scores” — primarily sourced, but not limited to, Lisa Nelson’s Tuning Scores—as a way of measuring, revealing, and

Dance

Movement Practice: The Principles of Allongé — DAN2279.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

Credits: 2

This dance class examines the principles of allongé in the dancing body. Allongé is the French adjective used to describe a “position” that is stretched or made longer. Otherwise known as ‘qi’, extension or pointing, allongé allows energy to move from the center of mass (in the pelvis) out through the spine, tail and limbs, extending into the distance (with the imagination) and

Dance

Movement Practice: Yoga, Gymnastics and Dance — DAN2213.01

Fall 2013

Instructor: Terry Creach

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 1

For students interested in "moving-through" or flowing yoga asanas informed by attention to alignment, along with basic gymnastic floor-exercise skills that deal with momentum and more complex coordinated actions. We will warm-up with the stretching/strengthening poses and sequences from yoga and apply the alignment principles to rolls, handstands, and cartwheels in order to

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Movement Practice: Yoga, Gymnastics, and Dance — DAN2213.01

Spring 2014

Instructor: Terry Creach

Credits: 2

Dance

Movement Practice: Your Toolkit of Divergent Strategies — DAN2240.01) (new course code as of 8/22/2022

Fall 2022

Instructor: Levi Gonzalez

Credits: 2

Dance

Movement Practice: Dance Improvisation — DAN2153.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Terry Creach

Credits: 2

For those seeking a rigorous and adventurous movement practice. No prior movement training necessary. We will work with the essential aspects of moving, to develop basic skills of physical articulation, strength and endurance, and to expand our physical range and potential. By actively engaging in the play of improvisation, we learn to respond

Dance

Moving and Forming (Dance Composition) — Canceled

Spring 2015

Instructor: Terry Creach

Credits: 4

For both first-time and intermediate choreographers, this is an exploration of the basic components of moving and forming. We work improvisationally to build physical awareness, unearth movement ideas, images, and memories, and form many small dances. We develop improvisational scores as well as set pieces, and give particular attention to the performance site. Projects are

Dance

Moving into Creative Process — MOD2140.03

Spring 2015

Instructor: Terry Creach

Credits: 1

No prior movement training required. The less the better. Looking to locate and deepen our creative impulses, we will use moving as the medium for forming a series of short studies. We will research practices that can support and expand our personal work processes and endeavor to rid ourselves of the distractions and habits that limit us. We will look at the preparation and

Dance Modules: Transferable Approaches

Moving into Creative Process — MOD2140.04

Spring 2015

Instructor: Terry Creach

Credits: 1

Dance Modules: Transferable Approaches

Moving/ Forming/ Partnering — DAN2118.01

Spring 2014

Instructor: Terry Creach

Credits: 4

This beginning level course is for any students interested and/or curious about the dance-making process, whether or not they have previous dance experience. We will first work to develop physical awareness and physical facility and work to unearth movement ideas, images, and memories. In the partnering practices we will deal with many of the same questions found in Contact

Dance

Mozart's Idomeneo — MVO4265.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke

Credits: 2

Gods, kings, princesses, sea serpents...at Bennington! This seven week class invites students to participate in a concert performance of Mozart's "choral opera" Idomeneo performed by the Bennington Choral Society with professional singers and orchestra. Students will learn the extensive choral sections and be considered for minor roles. The chorus will play different roles

Drama Music

Multi-Media Performance: Manipulating Time/ Space — MA4146.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Sue Rees; Jean Randich

Credits: 4

The class will be concerned with investigating the interaction of projected manipulated imagery with performers, motion, and space. The course will be a forum for actors, animators, dancers, video artists, and others to explore the interaction of live performance and mediated images. Investigation will center on how projections can be integrated into performance and used to

Visual Arts

Multi-Party and Full Track Diplomacy — MED4203.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Michael Cohen

Credits: 2

The world of diplomacy is traditionally divided into three tracks consisting of Track 1 (high-level political, military leaders, and official negotiators who discuss major agreements), Track 2 (academics, religious leaders, and managers who focus on relationships and problem solving often in new ways), and Track 3 (People to People diplomacy). Underutilized is a fourth track

CAPA

Multi-Species Lab — APA2302.02

Fall 2020

Instructor: RRansick@bennington.edu

Credits: 4

The Multi-Species Lab is an art and research class focused on creative practices and strategies that decenter the human being in a world of ecological uncertainty and recalibration. Through collaborative and creative activities and assignments, we will research and question ideas of how to understand life—including human life—as a plural and ecologically enmeshed phenomenon.

CAPA Environment Visual Arts

Multicultural Counseling — CMH5114.01

Summer 2026

Instructor: Faculty TBA

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 3

Students in this course will explore the impact of culture, ethnicity, race, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, and other factors on the counseling process. The course emphasizes developing cultural competence and sensitivity, as well as addressing issues of power, privilege, and oppression. Students will engage in self-reflection and case

Clinical Mental Health Counseling (MA)

Multicultural Counseling in Community Mental Health — CMC5002.01

Summer 2026

Instructor: Faculty TBA

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 3

This course examines the impact of culture, identity, and systemic inequities on the counseling process. Students explore mental health needs within diverse communities, including racial, ethnic, LGBTQ+, rural, and urban populations, and analyze how intersecting factors such as socioeconomic status, gender, and geography influence access

Clinical Mental Health Counseling (MA) Community Mental Health Counseling

Multicultural Counseling: Cultural Issues in Expressive Arts Therapy — CME5007.01

Summer 2026

Instructor: Faculty TBA

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 3

Clinical Mental Health Counseling (MA) Expressive Arts Therapy

Multilingualism and Cognition — PSY4249.01

Spring 2026

Instructor: Anne Gilman

Days & Time: MO,TH 10:00am-11:50am

Credits: 4

How are language and thought connected, and does speaking multiple languages affect these connections? Most people have had the experience of struggling to come up with a particular word or phrase, sometimes recalling it after a substantial delay. This course will unpack the mental processes involved in that experience and explore the ways that cognitive

Cultural Studies and Languages Linguistics Psychology

Multivariable Calculus — MAT4301.02

Fall 2020

Instructor: carlybriggs@bennington.edu

Credits: 4

This course covers the standard topics in multivariable calculus, including derivatives as linear transformations, Lagrange multipliers, and vector derivatives div, grad, and curl. If time allows, we will look at applications in electromagnetism, and in particular towards developing Maxwell’s equations, in both their classical vector form and their modern expression in

Science and Mathematics

Multivariable Calculus — MAT4301.01

Spring 2026

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre

Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm

Credits: 4

Multivariable calculus is one of the core parts of an undergraduate mathematics curriculum. Introductory calculus mostly concentrates on situations where there is one input and one output variable; multivariable extends differentiation, integration, and differential equations to cases where there are multiple input and output variables. In this way, multivariable calculus

Mathematics

Multivariable Calculus — MAT4301.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre

Credits: 4

Science and Mathematics

Multivariable Calculus and Differential Geometry — MAT4147.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre

Credits: 4

This class will cover multivariable calculus at an advanced level: vector spaces, div, grad and curl, differential forms, and Stokes’ theorems. The coverage will be at the level of Loomis and Sternberg’s Advanced Calculus. The course will also provide an introduction to the rudiments of differential geometry: connections, curvature, and the Gauss-Bonnet theorem. Applications

Science and Mathematics