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String Chamber Ensemble — MPF4235.01

Instructor: kaori washiyama
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Music for string ensemble to be selected according to number and level of participants. Students must have significant previous instrumental training and previous experience. Corequisite: Must participate in Music Workshop (Tuesday, 6:30 - 8pm).

String Chamber Ensemble — MPF4235.01

Instructor: Kaori Washiyama
Credits: 2
Music for string ensemble to be selected according to number and level of participants. Students must have significant previous instrumental training and previous experience. Corequisite: Must participate in Music Workshop (Tuesday, 6:30-8pm).

String Chamber Ensemble — MPF4235.01

Instructor: Kaori Washiyama
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
An intensive, performance-oriented exploration of the chamber music literature . Qualified students wishing to form a chamber music group should contact a supervising faculty member to propose a specific group of players and determine the repertoire. Co-requisite: Must participate in Music Workshop (Tues. 6:30pm-8pm)

Structural Geology and Field Methods — ES4104.01

Instructor: Tim Schroeder
Credits: 4
Students in this course will learn to visualize and analyze the three-dimensional, dynamic complexity of the solid Earth. Understanding how our planet works requires knowing how to extrapolate limited surface data downward to unseen depths using geometric tools and logical abstractions. The class includes a significant field component to learn data collection techniques. In

Structure and Function of Biomolecules — CHE4278.01

Instructor: Fortune Ononiwu
Days & Time: FR 4:10pm-6:00pm
Credits: 2

How do collections of inanimate molecules drive complex biological processes that define what it means to be living? There is no simple answer. This course introduces the chemical and physical properties of biological building blocks, with an emphasis on the structure and reactivity of biological macromolecules. These macromolecules are examined in detail to understand how

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs — CS4380.01

Instructor: Jim Mahoney
Credits: 4
A classic computer science textbook, SICP (Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, also known as "the wizard book") is a deep examination of some of the core ideas of programming and computer science, including an introduction to functional programming, mutable state, register machines, and building a compiler from first principles. This course will work through its

Structures of Power in Society — ANT2210.01

Instructor: Miroslava Prazak
Credits: 4
Behind any social scene, mundane or extraordinary, lie structures of power. The goals of anthropology include unmasking these structures–the deep complexities of how humans organize themselves in groups. In this course we will explore the structures of gender, kinship, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and class to learn and develop analytical tools to navigate carefully, see deeply

Structures of Power in Society — ANT2210.01

Instructor: MPrazak@bennington.edu
Credits: 4
Behind any social scene, mundane or extraordinary, lie structures of power. The goals of anthropology include unmasking these structures--the deep complexities of how humans organize themselves in groups. In this course we will explore the structures of gender, kinship, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and class to learn and develop analytical tools to navigate carefully, see deeply

Student to Student: A College Access Mentoring Program at Mount Anthony Union High School — APA4132.02

Instructor: Debbie Warnock
Credits: 2
In this course college student mentors will work with high school student mentees to develop college aspirations and contribute to mentees’ knowledge about the college application process. Each week college students will meet with the instructor for the first two hour block on the Bennington College campus in which we will discuss literature about mentoring and college access,

Student to Student: A College Access Mentoring Program at Mount Anthony Union High School — APA4132.01

Instructor: Debbie Warnock
Credits: 2
In this course, college student mentors will work with high school student mentees to develop college aspirations and contribute to mentees’ knowledge about the college application process. Each week college students will travel to Mount Anthony Union High School to meet with their college student mentees for an hour. We will then return to Bennington College campus for the

Studies in American Music History — MHI4103.01

Instructor: Kitty Brazelton
Credits: 4
Citizens of Bennington College make music---and listen to music---in America. What does that mean? Obscure corners of the American past still ring in the music we make, but we play on unaware. Why do we like this music but not that? How are our tastes shaped by a heritage we know little or nothing about? The dark sins of minstrel music that tracked into Broadway and Hollywood

Studies Lab — DAN5402B.01

Instructor: Donna Faye Burchfield
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2

Where and how does study happen? What is the value of study and how do we recognize that value? What does it mean to think of our study of dance and performance as an encounter and how might that thinking offer up a chance for one to pay attention differently? Is it different from research?  Or, as Kevin Quashie suggests, does it perhaps re-situate the activities of

Studies Lab — DAN5402B.02

Instructor: Donna Faye Burchfield
Credits:
Where and how does study happen? What is the value of study and how do we recognize that value? What does it mean to think of our study of dance and performance as an encounter and how might that thinking offer up a chance for one to pay attention differently? Is study different than research?  How? Or, as Kevin Quashie suggests, does study perhaps re-situate the

Studies Lab — DAN5402B.01

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits:
Where and how does study happen? What is the value of study and how do we recognize that value? What does it mean to think of our study of dance and performance as an encounter and how might that thinking offer up a chance for one to pay attention differently? Is it different than research?  Or, as Kevin Quashie suggests, does it perhaps re-situate the activities of

Studies Lab — DAN5402B.01, section 1

Instructor: Donna Faye Burchfield
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1

Where and how does study happen? What is the value of study, and how do we recognize that value? What does it mean to think of our study of dance and performance as an encounter, and how might that thinking offer up a chance for one to pay attention differently? Is it different from research? Or, as Kevin Quashie suggests, does it perhaps

Studies Lab — DAN5402B.02, section 2

Instructor: Donna Faye Burchfield
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1

Where and how does study happen? What is the value of study, and how do we recognize that value? What does it mean to think of our study of dance and performance as an encounter, and how might that thinking offer up a chance for one to pay attention differently? Is it different from research? Or, as Kevin Quashie suggests, does it perhaps

Studies Lab — DAN5402B.01

Instructor: Donna Faye Burchfield
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2

Where and how does study happen? What is the value of study and how do we recognize that value? What does it mean to think of our study of dance and performance as an encounter and how might that thinking offer up a chance for one to pay attention differently? Is it different from research?  Or, as Kevin Quashie suggests, does it perhaps re-situate the activities of

Studies Lab — DAN5402B.01, section 1

Instructor: Donna Faye Burchfield
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1

Where and how does study happen? What is the value of study, and how do we recognize that value? What does it mean to think of our study of dance and performance as an encounter, and how might that thinking offer up a chance for one to pay attention differently? Is it different from research? Or, as Kevin Quashie suggests, does it perhaps

Studies Lab — DAN5402B.02, section 2

Instructor: Faculty TBA
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2

Where and how does study happen? What is the value of study, and how do we recognize that value? What does it mean to think of our study of dance and performance as an encounter, and how might that thinking offer up a chance for one to pay attention differently? Is it different from research? Or, as Kevin Quashie suggests, does it perhaps

Studio Practice + Process: Afro-Contemporary Performance Making: Sampling + Poetics + Sonics — DAN4805B.01

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 3
Morning sessions of the course will explore the connection between traditional West African grooves and contemporary/modern modalities. The expression of polyrhythms through House Music, Afrobeat, Afro Jazz and traditional West African sonics act as a compass toward the manipulation of rhythm. Writing + improvisation will be tools we use to wander through the voicing of

Studio Practice + Process: Dreaming as Code: Somatic Time Travels, Grooves, and Otherwise — DAN4823B.04

Instructor: Tania Perez
Credits: 2
Studio Practice sessions will be a divulgence into pleasure practices. Students will engage in improvisation practices rooted in methods of bone deep listening, memory work, call and response, collective dream mapping, and storytelling. Phrasework will be offered as an invitation to engage in polyrhythmic technicality, groove based aesthetics, and playfulness in rigor and risk

Studio Practice + Process: Insistence/Persistence: Dancing/Drawing/Writing — DAN4808B.03

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 3
Morning sessions will begin with guided research practices that examine relationships between curiosity, desire, strength, organizations of effort/force and ideology/aesthetics: practices of critical physicality! Phrase-work will be shared as a portal to play. Choreographed material will act as a set of coordinates that anchor an exploration of exaggeration and sensation. We’ll