All Courses

Photography Foundations, Analog + Digital — PHO2136.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Jonathan Kline

Credits: 4

What does it mean to study photography at Bennington? This course explores a wide range of approaches to the medium and introduces students to the various photographic genres with an emphasis on contemporary practice. The first half of the class will be primarily devoted to black and white analog materials and processes, including an introduction to medium format cameras,

Visual Arts

Photography Foundations: Analog — PHO2136.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Jonathan Kline

Credits: 4

This course allows students to explore the practice of photography using analog cameras and black and white film. Students will acquire basic skills in 35mm camera handling, light meters and exposure, film development, and making enlargements in the wet labs. In addition, the class will research the formal and socio-political content of contemporary practitioners working

Visual Arts

Photography in the Expanded Field — PHO4111.01

Fall 2014

Instructor: elizabeth white

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

This studio/seminar invites students to explore some of the various ways photography has been used by artists over the last fifty years, including intersections with video, installation, conceptual art, performance, and collaborative social practices. Assignments encourage experimentation with formal and conceptual strategies while readings provide historical and theoretical

Visual Arts

Photography in the Expanded Field — PHO4127.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Liz Deschenes

Credits: 2

Photography in the expanded field is a new 7 week, advanced course, which will allow students, who are working primarily with Photography, to make progress with their work and projects in relation to presentation or exhibition of their project/s. We will examine opportunities for display to support student work while at Bennington. The "groundwork" developed in this

Visual Arts

Photography in Zeros and Ones — PHO4126.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Elizabeth White

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

Designed for students who have experience working with manual cameras and printing in the darkroom, this course offers an overview of tools and techniques basic to digital photographic practice and invites students to think critically about photography’s uses in to contemporary digital culture. Students will learn to shoot with digital SLR cameras, process raw files in

Visual Arts

Photography Now / 1980-Present — PHO2460.01

Spring 2017

Instructor:

Credits: 2

This course explores the evolution of contemporary photography from the 1980’s to the present day. We will be looking at a wide range of influences from identity politics, TV and film, social media, and the move from analog to digital technologies. Covering established photographers such as Nan Goldin, Lorna Simpson, Rineke Dijkstra, we will also look at more recent work by

Visual Arts

Photography Projects: Visions and Versions — PHO4127.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Elizabeth White

Credits: 4

This course offers students the opportunity to develop their creative vision and technical skills in photography through experimentation, revision, and refinement. Inspired by their own curiosity and concerns, students will generate work each week, and will push themselves to explore multiple approaches and techniques. Assignments will include open ended prompts as well as

Visual Arts

Photography Remade — PHO2155.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Elizabeth White

Credits: 2

This 2-credit course invites students to remake existing images, and explores digital techniques for adding, removing, combining, rearranging, and distorting content. Students are welcome to shoot their own photographs, however this is not required, and it is not necessary to have a camera. Instead, the emphasis will be on how to work creatively with image selection,

Visual Arts

Photography Remade — PHO2155.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Liz White

Credits: 2

This 2-credit course invites students to remake existing photographs by adding, removing, combining, rearranging, and distorting content, and to create synthetic images using artificial intelligence (AI). Students are welcome to shoot their own photographs, however this is not required, and it is not necessary to have a camera. Instead, the emphasis will be on how to work

Visual Arts

Photography, Materiality, and Storytelling — PHO4213.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

Credits: 4

This course draws on feminist and queer theory and visual anthropology methods to explore how photographers work with materiality to create representations of desired realities and criticize curatorial practices and “official histories,” especially those connected to migration, displacement, and colonization. The course will look at examples of photography

Visual Arts

Photography, Visual Culture and the Internet — PHO4253.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Oliver Wasow

Credits: 4

This class will explore the increasingly important relationship between visual culture and the Internet. with an emphasis on understanding the profound effect the shift from analog to digital technology has had on how we make, look at, talk about and distribute images in contemporary culture. Focusing on the myriad ways in which individuals and social organizations engage

Visual Arts

Physical Computing — DA4108.01

Spring 2017

Instructor:

Credits: 4

The physical and the digital are often thought of as distinct and disparate. This class will be an investigation into notions of physicality and interface with respect to the computer, microcontrollers, and explorations of related analog and digital technologies. Basic electronics and various sensor mechanisms will be used in conjunction with toolkits such as Arduino. The

Visual Arts

Physics I — PHY4235.01

Fall 2013

Instructor: Hugh Crowl

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

Physics is the study of what Newton called 'the System of the World.' To know the System of the World is to know what forces are out there and how those forces operate on things. These forces explain the dynamics of the world around us: from the path of a falling apple to the motion of a car down the highway to the flight of a rocket from the Earth. Careful analysis of the

Science Mathematics and Computing

Physics I Lab — PHY4235L.01

Fall 2013

Instructor: Hugh Crowl

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 0

This is the required lab for PHY4235 - Physics I.

Science Mathematics and Computing

Physics I: Forces and Motion — PHY2235.01

Fall 2014

Instructor: tim schroeder

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

Physics is the study of what Newton called ‘the System of the World.’ To know the System of the World is to know what forces are out there and how those forces operate on things. These forces explain the dynamics of the world around us: from the path of a falling apple to the motion of a car down the highway to the flight of a rocket from the Earth. Careful analysis of the

Science Mathematics and Computing

Physics I: Forces and Motion — PHY2235.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Hugh Crowl

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

Physics is the study of what Newton called "the System of the World." To know the System of the World is to know what forces are out there and how those forces operate on things. These forces explain the dynamics of the world around us: from the path of a falling apple to the motion of a car down the highway to the flight of a rocket from the Earth. Careful analysis of the

Science Mathematics and Computing

Physics I: Forces and Motion (with lab) — PHY2235.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Tim Schroeder

Credits: 4

Physics is the study of what Newton called “the System of the World.” To know the System of the World is to know what forces are out there and how those forces operate on things. These forces explain the dynamics of the world around us: from the path of a falling apple to the motion of a car down the highway to the flight of a rocket from the Earth. Careful analysis of the

Science and Mathematics