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The Social Life of Photographs — PHO4133.01

Instructor: Liz White
Days & Time: WE 8:30am-12:10pm
Credits: 4

This studio/ seminar invites students to engage both creatively and critically, by making work and through readings and discussions. Throughout the course, students will consider the social life of photographs, with particular emphasis on past and present ways of making and

The Social Life of Trash — ANT4126.01

Instructor: Cecilia Salvi
Credits: 4
The last decade has seen an explosion of people around the world making everyday products- handbags, books, cups, jewelry, art, bricks, etc.- from residual materials that are destined for the landfill. In addition to demonstrating concern over environmental issues, their endeavors demonstrate how repurposing can be an individual, social, and collective right. Using primarily

The Social Natures of Crude Oil — APA4127.01

Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 4
Crude oil keeps the contemporary in motion. This basic fact has become as bland a platitude as it is an unexamined process. From plastic bags to electricity, from synthetic fertilizers to the passenger plane, from heat for our homes to fuel for our cars, our world is cultivated, packaged, transported, and consumed in the general momentum of hydrocarbon expenditures. These well

The Social Psychology of Systems of Domination in the U.S. — PSY4250.01

Instructor: Audrey Devost
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 4

Social psychology is the scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another. This course will explore social thinking, influence, and social relations that shape our lived experiences through a U.S. contextual lens. Social psychologists are increasingly concerned with the effects of the various systems of

The Songwriter's Guitar — MIN4362.01

Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Credits: 2
Self-taught guitar playing often begins with the recognition of simple patterns, evolving into complexity. These patterns, while helping us gain familiarity, can eventually become a constrictive box, requiring new material to refresh the old. How do we make a song more effective through focusing on guitar, how can we make a song find its destination? This course develops each

The Songwriters Guitar — MIN4362.01

Instructor: Omeed Goodarzi
Days & Time: FR 4:10pm-6:00pm
Credits: 2

Self-taught guitar playing often begins with the recognition of simple patterns, evolving into complexity. These patterns, while helping us gain familiarity, can eventually become a constrictive box, requiring new material to refresh the old.  How do we make a song more effective through focusing on guitar, how can we make a song find its

The Songwriter’s Guitar — MIN4362.01

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
Self-taught guitar playing often begins with the recognition of simple patterns, evolving into complexity. These patterns, while helping us gain familiarity, can eventually become a constrictive box, requiring new material to refresh the old.  How do we make a song more effective through focusing on guitar, how can we make a song find its destination? This course develops

The Spanish Avant-Garde. From "Avignon Street" to "Guernica" — SPA4216.01

Instructor: luis gonzalez-barrios
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course is a survey of the avant-garde artistic movement in Spain, ranging from Pablo Picasso’s Las señoritas de la calle Avignon (1907) to the first appearance of Guernica (1937) in the international exhibition in Paris (1937). These two works by Picasso are used as an example of the increasing politicization of the -ismos (cubism, ultraism, surrealism), an artistic

The Special Immigrant Visa Program: A Research Seminar and Case Study of Immigration Reform — ANT4119.01

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
In his first months in office, President Biden announced a withdrawal of all US troops from Afghanistan, as well as a review of the Special Immigrant Visa Program, designed to provide protection for those Afghan nationals who worked with the United States. The current program is slow and confusing, and many Afghans are being killed while they wait for these visas. The situation

The State of American Democracy and the November 2024 Elections — POP2357.03

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 1
This Pop Up Module will be led by students under the facilitation of Susan Sgorbati and Vermont State Senator Brian Campion. Students will create and structure the Fall 2024 Public Policy Forum for Bennington students and students across the United States, focusing on the November elections. The Forum will be viewed in the context of the state of American democracy, viewed

The Study Center for Group Work: Threeing — APA2214.01

Instructor: Caroline Woolard
Credits: 2
If group work is both the most necessary and the most difficult endeavor of our time, what methods are necessary for collaboration in the arts? In this seminar and studio, students will focus on a method for group work that was developed by the video-artist (not politician) Paul Ryan between 1971 and the end of his life, in 2013. Threeing is "a voluntary practice in which three

The Textual City — SPA4805.01

Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Credits: 4
This course will chart the development of identity within the postcolonial Latin American city. The latter will be read both literally and as a guiding metaphor, as a reality ordered by ideas. We will use interdisciplinary theoretical models as discursive markers, selected from architecture, politics, philosophy, literature, and photography, in order to problematize urban

The Textual City — SPA4704.01

Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Credits: 4
This course will chart the development of identity within the postcolonial Latin American city, focusing on (though by no means limited to) Buenos Aires as a touchstone case. The latter will be read both literally and as a guiding metaphor, as a reality ordered by ideas. We will use interdisciplinary theoretical models as discursive markers, selected from history, architecture,

The Textual City — SPA4805.01

Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Credits: 4
This course will chart the development of identity within the postcolonial Latin American city. The latter will be read both literally and as a guiding metaphor, as a reality ordered by ideas. We will use interdisciplinary theoretical models as discursive markers, selected from architecture, politics, philosophy, literature, and photography, in order to problematize urban

The Theory and Practice of Hardware Hacking — CS4121.01

Instructor: Andrew Cencini Hugh Crowl
Credits: 4
This class will focus on the fundamentals of electronics and how we can use our understanding of electronics to build internet-connected systems that measure and/or interact with the environment around us. Students will learn the fundamentals of electronics and circuits and hardware/software programming, and then apply that knowledge to group and individual projects, such as

The Third Decade of Life — PSY2241.01

Instructor: Emily Waterman
Credits: 4
In this course we will draw from the fields of developmental psychology and sociology to discuss the third decade of life, or approximately ages 18 to 30. We will ask questions such as: When does adolescence end, and when does adulthood begin? Is ‘emerging adulthood’ an accurate term to describe this period? What should be the purpose of our 20s? Are recent demographic trends

The Third Decade of Life — PSY2241.01

Instructor: Emily Waterman
Credits: 2
In this course we will draw from the fields of developmental psychology and sociology to discuss the third decade of life, or approximately ages 18 to 30. We will ask questions such as: When does adolescence end, and when does adulthood begin? Is ‘emerging adulthood’ an accurate term to describe this period? What should be the purpose of our 20s? Are recent demographic trends

The Thousand and One Nights and the Roots of Fabulism — LIT2565.01

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
Our primary text for this class will be Yasmine Seale’s The Annotated Arabian Nights, which we will open in the spirit of pleasure and curiosity. Seale’s annotated edition makes de- orientalizing gestures while also mapping many of the instances in which this corpus of stories has inspired other works of art and literature. ’Alf Laylah wa-Laylah, known in English as the

The Tudor Box — MCO2123.01

Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Credits: 1
This course will examine the DIY world of homebuilt acoustic electronics, by looking at experimental instruments that can fit inside a soap dish. We will work through Nic Collins classic book on hardware hacking, while having outside workshops on building alternative guitar pedals, circuit bending, and proto-synthesizer circuits. We will also look at the history of experiments

The Tuning in The Trees — MUS4279.01

Instructor: Omeed Goodarzi
Days & Time: FR 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 2

The Tuning in the Trees is an advanced seminar in microtonality that treats tuning systems as both technical structures and living landscapes. Students will explore how musical intervals emerge from natural patterns—such as tree bifurcations, harmonic ratios, and number sequences—while engaging deeply with Just intonation, Meantone,

The U.S. Constitution: Amendments and Updates — HIS2141.02

Instructor: Eileen Scully
Credits: 2
The United States Constitution is an “invitation to struggle,” an arena and set of principles for unending battles between irreconcilable visions of freedom, well-being, consent, obligation, and community. Far from enshrining answers, it defends questions. Battles over constitutional interpretation and amendment have been battles to open or close core questions. In this seven

The U.S. Constitution: Amendments and Updates — HIS2141.02

Instructor: Eileen Scully
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
The United States Constitution is an "invitation to struggle," an arena and set of principles for unending battles between irreconcilable visions of freedom, well-being, consent, obligation, and community. Far from enshrining answers, it defends questions. Battles over constitutional interpretation and amendment have been battles to open or close core

The U.S. Constitution: Rough Drafts and Ratification — HIS2139.01

Instructor: Eileen Scully
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
The United States Constitution began as a idea and a rough draft. Indeed, when first presented to delegates at the Philadelphia Convention, the draft was a proposed treaty among thirteen erstwhile British colonies. In this seven-week seminar, we delve into the pivotal events, people, and debates that produced the final draft. We go on to explore the year-long ratification

The Ultimate Record Album — MSR4107.01

Instructor: David Baron
Credits: 4
Soup to nuts advanced course on all the skills involved in making a great album. This is the ultimate primer on being a producer, programmer, and engineer.  What are the roles in making an album? What is the business involved?  How do you make a compelling sonic landscape?  We will create an album of works though our own in-class and individual recordings. 

The United States in the World — PEC2265.01

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
The aim of this course is to use a political economic lens to explore the “inside-outside” connections between violence and struggle within the United States and beyond its borders. To do this, we will examine the political, economic, cultural, and militaristic reach of the United States in the global political economy. We will look at the political economic basis of the US’s