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The Business Side of Music — MHI2322.02

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 1
The business side of music, from contracts to audio distribution platforms, is an important component of an artist’s life. Kyoko Kitamura – musician, former journalist, former executive director of the arts organization Tri-Centric Foundation – will share real life examples as well as cover various topics of interest including the effects of the pandemic, music
Music

The Business Side of Music — MHI2322.02

Spring 2022
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 1
The business side of music, from contracts to audio distribution platforms, is an important component of an artist’s life which cannot be ignored. Kyoko Kitamura – musician, former journalist, former executive director of the arts organization Tri-Centric Foundation – will share real life examples and analyses, starting with the pandemic and the force majeure clause, its impact
Music

The Camp Aesthetic — DRA2167.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Maya Cantu
Credits: 4
An elusive sensibility that defies definition, camp is everywhere in 2023, as fueled by the worldwide juggernaut success of “RuPaul’s Drag Race.” Sometimes seen as gaudy, perverse or excessive, camp is a sophisticated and consummately theatrical style, doubly viewing life as theater and gender as performance. Camp’s essence “is its love of the unnatural: of artifice and
Drama Literature Society Culture and Thought

The Camp Aesthetic — DRA2167.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Maya Cantu
Credits: 4
Sometimes seen as gaudy, perverse or excessive, camp is a sophisticated and consummately theatrical style, doubly viewing life as theater and gender as performance. Camp’s essence “is its love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration,” as Susan Sontag argued in her epochal and controversial 1964 essay “Notes on Camp.” Developing historically as a language of the closet,
Drama

The Chemistry of Drugs and Natural Remedies — CHE2201.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Janet Foley
Credits: 4
We hear about new drugs all the time: on TV, in the news, the opioid crises, etc. There is also lots of advertising for alternative treatments for illness or well-being. People have many questions about how drugs, plants, or supplements work and how do you tell if they are effective. These and other questions are considered in this introductory course, open to all students. No
Science and Mathematics

The Chip Instrument — MCO2124.02

Spring 2017
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Credits: 1
Arduino interfaces have increased exponentially the ability to create stand-alone instruments and installations that have a visual immediacy while avoiding the use of outboard computers. We’ll learn Arduino code and the possibilities of small scale physical computing, from running solenoids and relays on mechanical instruments to turning the Arduino and other small circuits
Music Visual Arts

The Choreography of Poetics : The Poetics of Choreography — DAN2018.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Camille Guthrie
Credits: 2
This course is intended for dancers, poets, writers, and anyone else interested in interdisciplinary work. Through the exploration of the works of various poets and choreographers/dance-makers, we aim to show the connections and subversions between these two fields, be they thematic, formal, historical, theoretical (and so on). We will examine work across a broad and diverse
Dance Writing

The Comedy of Manners — LIT2207.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: brooke allen
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
An examination of a number of English comedies of manners, mostly novels but also a few plays, within their social contexts. Authors we study might include Jane Austen, Anthony Trollope, Elizabeth Gaskell, Oscar Wilde, Noel Coward, Aldous Huxley, P.G. Wodehouse, Barbara Pym, and Henry Green.
Literature

The Coming Community: Migration, Inclusion, and Obligation in the 21st Century — POL2204.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: John Hultgren
Credits: 4
What is the basis for granting someone membership within a political community? What obligations do we have toward those who are not formally members of our political community? Is “the nation” - today's dominant form of political community - capable of meeting the ethical challenges of a globalizing world? Is an alternative form of political community possible and/or desirable
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

The Concentrated Moment: The Art of Auditioning — DRA4103.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Jenny Rohn
Credits: 4
Auditions are an opportunity to develop your artistic voice and your confidence in that voice through self-critique. In this class we will work to demystify the process of auditioning and understand how to prepare and present work under challenging circumstances. We will cover cold readings, monologue and prepared scenes, with an in depth look at each step of the process, from
Drama

The Costumes of "Wolf Hall" — DRA4121.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: charles schoonmaker
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course will focus on an examination of Hilary Mantel's novel "Wolf Hall" from the vantage point of clothing. The novel details a dynamic period in history when King Henry VIII of England was attempting to annul his first marriage and marry Anne Boleyn. We will have the opportunity to study Tudor costume from both a historic and dramatic vantage point, and examine how this
Drama

The Courtly World: Lady Shonagon and Lady Murasaki — LIT2379.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Anna Maria Hong
Credits: 4
Written in eleventh century, The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu is considered the world’s first full novel and a masterwork of classical literature. Sei Shonagon’s The Pillow Book is a memoir recounting life in the Japanese court of the same time, also regarded as a masterpiece of observation and wit in evoking natural and human worlds. Both authors were ladies in waiting at
Literature

The Creation of Spain's Image: Myths Archetypes — SPA4102.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Sarah Harris
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset once remarked of his compatriots, 'We prefer the lively sensation of things to the things themselves.' This course will focus on these 'lively sensations,' national myths of Spain that may or may not maintain much direct connection to the original 'things themselves.' National myths contain symbolic cultural significance and can
Languages

The Creation of Spain's Image: Myths and Archetypes — SPA4301.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Sarah Harris
Credits: 4
The Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset once remarked of his compatriots, ‘We prefer the lively sensation of things to the things themselves.’ This course will focus on these ‘lively sensations,’ national myths of Spain that may or may not maintain much direct connection to the original ‘things themselves.’ National myths contain symbolic cultural significance and can
Languages

The Culinary Triangle and Ceramic Pot — APA2276.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
Credits: 2
What is the transformative power of food and how did the invention of pottery contribute to innovations in cooking? We will look at how anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss’s culinary triangle analyzes three interrelated aspects of the food: raw, cooked and rotted and mechanisms of natural and cultural transformations of food. We will also examine how the evolution of ceramic pot
CAPA Visual Arts

The Culture of Italian Opera — ITA4215.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Credits: 4
This course explores Italian culture through one of its most celebrated traditions--opera. Students will discuss plots, settings, characters, and themes while strengthening their speaking skills and acquiring new vocabulary. Through the comparison of past and present cultural norms and habits, and through the relationship between those cultural norms and romantic love, students
Languages

The Curatorial: Multiple Variations — VA4208.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Anne Thompson
Credits: 4
This class will curate an experimental exhibition of prints, photographs, artist books and other editions from Bennington College collections. In taking the multiple—or reproducible object—as a starting point, we open up a field that connects Crossett Library with campus art holdings and allows for strategizing about expanded exhibition structures. After an initial survey of
Visual Arts

The Curatorial: Your Top Ten — CUR2230.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
This class explores curatorial thinking through the process of compiling a Top Ten, a media staple that invites cultural producers to discuss ten things they like or recommend. Creating a Top Ten, like curating, involves making selections within parameters including (but not limited to) history, context, aesthetics, politics, style and preference. A good Top Ten is a cohesive
Visual Arts

The Curatorial: Your Top Ten — VA2230.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Anne Thompson
Credits: 2
This class explores curatorial thinking through the process of compiling a Top Ten, a media staple that invites cultural producers to discuss ten things they like or recommend. Creating a Top Ten, like curating, involves making selections within parameters including (but not limited to) history, context, aesthetics, politics, style and preference. A good Top Ten is a cohesive
Visual Arts

The Curatorial: Your Top Ten — VA2230.02

Fall 2021
Instructor: Anne Thompson
Credits: 2
This class explores curatorial thinking through the process of compiling a Top Ten, a media staple that invites cultural producers to discuss ten things they like or recommend. Creating a Top Ten, like curating, involves making selections within parameters including (but not limited to) history, context, aesthetics, politics, style and preference. A good Top Ten is a cohesive
Visual Arts

The Dance Archive Project — DAN4105.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 1
The Bennington Dance Archive holds significant photos, tapes, programs and curricula information that dates back to the early 1930′s.  With great care, we will explore some of this material, help find missing links, catalog and categorize, and add our own research about those who have participated all these years. Students will be expected to find biographies, explore the
Dance

The Dance Archive Project — DAN4105.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
The Bennington Dance Archive holds significant photos, tapes, programs and curricula information that dates back to the early 1930's.  With great care, we will explore some of this material, help find missing links, catalog and categorize, and add our own research about those who have participated all these years. Students will be expected to find biographies, explore the
Dance

The Dangers of Econ 101 — PEC2262.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: robin kemkes
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Most introductory economics courses represent the economy as detached from history, institutions and the environment and rely on assumptions about human behavior that typically do not line up with what we know about how people make decisions. Strict adherence to the dominant neoclassical model of economics has led us to financial crisis, environmental damage and rising income
Social Science

The Daoist Tales — CHI4113.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Credits: 4
If Confucianism is the Yang of Chinese culture, then Daoism is the Yin. Not only has Daoism had a profound influence on traditional Chinese art and thought, but this philosophy remains relevant to modern life in both the East and West. Students will be introduced to the main precepts of philosophical Daoism through modern Chinese interpretations of Taoist Tales. Students will
Cultural Studies and Languages