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The Question of Art in the Twentieth Century — AH2232.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
What is art? This question proved central to the evolution of artistic practice in the West during the twentieth century. The push to define and redefine art was entangled with several other queries: What cannot be considered art? What does an artist do (or not do)? What (or who) is “modern”? What distinguishes art from life itself? Looking at the social histories from
Visual Arts

The Real Betty Parsons — VA4121.02

Fall 2018
Instructor: Anne Thompson
Credits: 2
Gallerist Betty Parsons was every bit as maverick as the Abstract Expressionist painters she so famously debuted. An artist in her own right and a lesbian, she championed women, gay and bisexual artists and other practitioners outside the white, macho midcentury scene. A reconsideration of this history shapes a course that positions Parsons within today’s discourse as a hybrid
Visual Arts

The Real Housewives of Lit — LIT2528.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Manuel Gonzales
Credits: 4
Beginning with Medea and Lysistrata, we will look at various women, 'housewives' you might say (though I wouldn't, not to their faces) through literature, possibly moving into Taming of the Shrew and MacBeth, skipping ever so lightly into the 19th century to pop in on Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë, before moving firmly into the modern literature of the early- and mid- and
Literature

The Recording Studio as a Magical Escape Pod — MSR4367.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
In this course, students will learn how to take a simple song and develop it, over the course of the semester, into a maximalist, through-composed “freewave” masterpiece. Students will learn all of the basics of studio recording and become comfortable using the space to explore their wildest aural creativity. A focus will be given to learning how to use EQ, compressors,
Music

The Refugee Crisis: Where Can I Go? — MOD2156.03

Fall 2015
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati and David Bond
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
In response to the burgeoning crisis of migration-- people fleeing their homes in war-torn Syria and Afghanistan, in countries roiling with decades long upheaval like Libya, Ethiopia, Eritrea and the Sudan, drug lord tyranny and violence in Central America, and even new climate change refugees--CAPA will offer a Pop-Up course this term to examine how our global community has
Modules: Transferable Approaches

The Regeneration Generation: Rebuilding the Natural Abundance of Earth — APA2329.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 2
Practical steps can be taken today to reverse the major environmental, social, health, and political downward-spirals that have defined the previous few decades on Earth. The growing global tragedies are born from a system of industrial resource management that creates scarcity—empowering the few—as opposed to creating abundance—empowering the many. A movement is growing around
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The Renaissance — HIS2341.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Carol Pal
Credits: 4
This course is a survey of the cultural, social, and religious movements that transformed Europe between 1350 and 1700. These revolutions in Western thought gave birth to the Enlightenment, and the intellectual outlook that still characterizes our culture today. Using primary source materials such as letters, literature, court records, diaries, and paintings, we examine both
Society Culture and Thought

The Renaissance — HIS2341.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carol Pal
Credits: 4
This course is a survey of the cultural, social, and religious movements that transformed Europe between 1350 and 1600. These revolutions in Western thought gave birth to the Enlightenment and the intellectual outlook that still characterizes our culture today. Using primary source materials such as letters, literature, court records, diaries, and paintings, we examine both
Society Culture and Thought

The Renaissance — HIS2341.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carol Pal
Credits: 4
This course is a survey of the cultural, social, and religious movements that transformed Europe between 1350 and 1600. These revolutions in Western thought gave birth to the Enlightenment, and the intellectual outlook that still characterizes our culture today. Using primary source materials such as letters, literature, court records, diaries, and paintings, we examine both
Society Culture and Thought

The Return of All Things — MUS2031.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Credits: 2
In The Return of All Things, we are activated to investigate the Bennington College Archive as source material for the creation of sound works. These new works can take on a multitude of forms including collaborative cross-media projects, improvisations, variously notated compositions, radio plays, or installations. We will look at other ways in which the archeological dig of
Music

The Right/Wrong/Right Dance: Breaking the Rules of Composition — DAN2147.02

Spring 2016
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 1
In this lab we will look at certain (so-called) traditional aspects to a (good) dance and then attempt to break it down and reframe this tradition with a discipline that evokes creative (aleatoric) accidents and the inexplicable nature of the creative process.  A lab that examines how performance is thought about, considered and looked upon, watched, inside and out. 
Dance

The River in Literature — LIT2507.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Akiko Busch
Credits: 4
The river may be the geographic feature of the earth that speaks to us most deeply.  It divides and it connects; it is what takes us to things and away from things.  And it comes naturally to us to find some metaphor for human experience in the strength or flow or velocity of a river, to find the familiar in the sight of two rivers peaceably merging, or to imagine a
Literature

The River, The Forest, The Glacier: Classics of American Environmental Literature — LIT4139.02

Fall 2019
Instructor: Akiko Busch
Credits: 2
How to take measure of place is a question that has long resonated in the American imagination, and this course considers both the geography and the voices that provide the foundation for current environmental writing. The Exploration of the Colorado River and its Canyons by John Wesley Powell, The Maine Woods by H. D. Thoreau, and Travels in Alaska by John Muir offer occasion
Environment Literature

The Romantic Poets — LIT2249.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: mark wunderlich
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Toward the end of the 18th century, writers, thinkers and artists began to react against the rationalism of the Enlightenment, the coming Industrial Revolution and the political claustrophobia of Europe, and they set out on a new path. The result was the Romantic movement, and it gave us some of the most enduring poetic works. In this course, we will look at both the German and
Environment Literature

The Romantic Poets — LIT2249.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Credits: 4
This course provides an immersion into the work of a group of late 18th century and early 19th century British poets and thinkers who reacted against the rationalism of Enlightenment thought, the tumultuous politics of the day, and the birth of the Industrial Revolution by valorizing imagination over reason, mystery over certainty, nature over artifice, and the sensuous over
Literature

The Room Where it Happens: Introduction to Costume Design — DRA2150.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Charles Schoonmaker
Credits: 4
This class will serve to introduce and build skills as a costume designer. We will read, analyze and chart scripts, develop research skills and build a fluency in rendering design ideas by working on graphic skills. We will also work on some non-scripted projects, and in various genres of performance possibly including ballet, opera, television and film. We will have in class
Drama

The Russian Modernist Poets — LIT4175.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Credits: 2
The period between the 1890s and 1920s was known as the Silver Age of Russian poetry, a time of invention and innovation against the backdrop of revolution, war, societal upheaval, and the eventual formation of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union's repressive authoritarian regime sought to stamp out artistic experimentation and personal expression that wasn't in service to the
Literature

The Sababa Project at Mount Anthony Union High School — APA2250.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 4
The Sababa Project is a Bennington College course taught on the campus of Mount Anthony Union High School. In a collaborative effort between Bennington College and two Mount Anthony Union High School programs (the Quantum Leap Exhibit Program and the Bridges Summer Transitional Program), the Sababa Project attempts to demystify the college experience while providing high school
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The Sababa Project at Mount Anthony Union High School — APA2250.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati with Danielle Crosier
Credits: 4
The Sababa Project is a Bennington College course taught on the campus of Mount Anthony Union High School. In a collaborative effort between Bennington College and two Mount Anthony Union High School programs (the Quantum Leap Exhibit Program and the Bridges Summer Transitional Program), the Sababa Project attempts to demystify the college experience while providing high school
CAPA

The Sababa Project at Mount Anthony Union High School —

Fall 2015
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati with Danielle Crosier
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
  The Sababa Project is a Bennington College course taught on the campus of Mount Anthony Union High School. In a collaborative effort between Bennington College and two Mount Anthony Union High School programs (the Quantum Leap Exhibit Program and the Bridges Summer Transitional Program), the Sababa Project attempts to demystify the college experience while providing

The Sababa Project at Mount Anthony Union High School: Civic Education — APA2250.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 2
The Sababa Project is a Bennington College course taught on the campus of Mount Anthony Union High School. In a collaborative effort between Bennington College and two Mount Anthony Union High School programs (the Quantum Leap Exhibit Program and the Bridges Summer Transitional Program), the Sababa Project attempts to demystify the college experience while providing high school
CAPA

The Sababa Project: Children in Crisis — MED4202.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
There are similarities in children and adolescents all over the world who are in crisis, whether they are youth at-risk in the United States as a result of domestic violence, poverty, drug abuse, or for academic reasons, or if they are youth at-risk in countries that are at-risk, for example, because of horrific violence or issues of economic or environmental sustainability.
Conflict Resolution and Systems Design

The Sababa Project: Media in Action — APA2121.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Erika Mijlin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The Sababa Project: Media in Action is a unique class composed of both Bennington College students and high school students from the Quantum Leap* Exhibit Program at the local high school. Sababa means cool in both Hebrew and Arabic, a word popularized by youth culture in a region of conflict. The Bennington College students in this class are both learners and mentors.
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The Sababa Project: Youth in Crisis — MED4207.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: daniel michaelson
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
***Time Change*** There are similarities in children and adolescents all over the world, whether they live in the United States and are in crisis as a result of domestic violence, poverty or drug abuse, or if they live in other countries around the world, where there is horrific violence or issues of economic or environmental sustainability. The Sababa Project: Youth in Crisis
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