All Courses

Course System Home All Areas of Study

Select Filters and then click Apply to load new results

Term
Time & Day Offered
Level
Credits
Course Duration

The Anthropology of Science and Technology — ANT2119.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: David Bond
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course introduces students to science and technology studies. Studying the laboratory as a foreign culture, technology as a built argument, and objectivity as a disembodied vision, this course approaches science as a history of the present; that is, as an unfolding force that is actively shaping the texture and significance of social life in the present. Readings will
Unknown

The Anti-Imperialist Century in Latin America: From Sandino to Chávez and Beyond — SCT2129.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Kate Paarlberg-Kvam
Credits: 4
With the shift away from expansionism at the end of the 19th century, U.S. foreign policy assumed new forms. Marine occupations, dollar diplomacy, covert action, and economic interventions took the place of territorial annexations. How were these policies experienced on the ground? In what ways did they shape debates about Latin American identity, sovereignty, and the role
Society Culture and Thought

The Antiquity of Others — PHI4247.01) (cancelled 10/6/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: Catherine McKeen
Credits: 4
For us moderns, the statue of the elite male is emblematic of Greek and Roman antiquity. You may know this figure- able-bodied, athletic, impassive, and marble white. The figure represents societies shaped by unequal power relations which privileged men and masculinity, as well as the centering of elite male whiteness in historical narratives about Greek and Roman antiquity. In
Society Culture and Thought

The Architecture of a Play — DRA4354.01

Fall 2026
Instructor: Abe Koogler
Days & Time: FR 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

This is a course for playwrights (and others) who are interested in thinking about the relationship between architecture, character, and plot. We will read plays in which unusual buildings, specific rooms, and distinctive built environments of all kinds play a crucial role in the dramatic action.

Readings will likely include Michael Frayn’s Noises Off, 

Drama

The Architecture Of Black Improvised Music — MHI2323.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 1
This seminar will involve listening, discussing, and responding to the great music creators who contributed to the 1960’s free jazz movement. Many of these icons have lectured, performed, and walked the grounds of Bennington College. Students will examine the history, structures, and techniques developed during this creative period, including personal anecdotes about the music
Music

The Archive in Art — VA2209.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Liz Deschenes
Credits: 2
This seven-week course is an introduction to the archive and how it has been central to artistic production of the 20th and 21st centuries. Though the course is only a brief introduction, there will be an emphasis on how the archive has been utilized by artists to subvert and question conventional notions of the archive and related power structures. Students will be given short
Visual Arts

The Archive in Art — VA4216.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Liz Deschenes
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This seven-week course is an introduction to the archive and how it has been central to artistic production of the 20th and 21st centuries. We will read Walter Benjamins Archive, Archive Fever: Uses of The Document in Contemporary Art, and conclude with The Big Archive. There will be lectures on how the archive exists in specific artists works. Students will be given short
Visual Arts

The Archive in Art — VA4216.02

Spring 2019
Instructor: Liz Deschenes
Credits: 2
This seven-week course is an introduction to the archive and how it has been central to artistic production of the 20th and 21st centuries. We will read Walter Benjamin’s Archive, Archive Fever: Uses of The Document in Contemporary Art, and conclude with The Big Archive. There will be lectures on how the archive exists in specific artists works. Students will be given short
Visual Arts

The Art of Acoustic Recording — MSR4052.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: tba
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Building on the fundamentals developed in MSR2152 Beginning Workshop in Recording, this class will focus on specific techniques for creating quality recordings of a wide variety of instruments. We will develop an understanding of the sonic and musical properties that make each instrument unique as well as techniques for working with live instrumentalists and vocalists in the
Music

The Art of Acoustic Recording — MSR4052.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Julie Last
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Building on the fundamentals developed in MSR2152 Beginning Workshop in Recording, this class will focus on specific techniques for creating quality recordings of a wide variety of instruments. We will develop an understanding of the sonic and musical properties that make each instrument unique as well as techniques for working with live instrumentalists and vocalists in the
Unknown

The Art of Auditioning Virtually — DRA2310.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Jennifer Rohn
Credits: 4
Auditions are an opportunity to develop your artistic voice and your confidence in that voice. In this class, we will work to demystify the process of auditioning and understand how to prepare and present work under challenging circumstances. The current move to self-tape and virtual video formats presents unique challenges. This course will cover cold readings, monologues, and
Drama

The Art of Brevity: Linguistic Conciseness in the Spanish and Latin American Traditions — SPA4129.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Credits: 4
Baltasar Gracián, master of the aphorism, summed it up this way: "Something good, if brief, is twice as good." Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares sought in the microrrelato (a very short story) "the essence of narrative". In our time, compressed political slogans or tweets compete to attract the fragmented attention of the public. This course will explore the
Languages

The Art of Brevity: Linguistic Conciseness in the Spanish and Latin American Traditions — CANCELLED

Fall 2015
Instructor: Luis Gonzalez Barrios (See Sarah Harris or Jonathan Pitcher for registration.)
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Baltasar Gracián, master of the aphorism, summed it up this way: "something good, if brief, is twice as good." Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares sought in the microrrelato (a very short story) "the essence of narrative." In our time, compressed political slogans or tweets compete to attract the fragmented attention of the public. This course will explore the
Languages

The art of Letting Go: Daoism and Buddhism in Daily Life — CHI4405.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
Daoism and Buddhism hold a significant place in the daily lives of most Taiwanese people. These philosophical traditions influence spirituality, meditation practices, and ethical values. Many Taiwanese incorporate elements of these philosophies into their daily lives to reduce stress and improve mental wellbeing, and so can you. Students will be introduced to central concepts
Cultural Studies and Languages

The Art of Listening — MHI2239.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Joseph Alpar
Credits: 2
Composer Pauline Oliveros once said, "Listen to everything all the time and remind yourself when you are not listening." In this course, we will listen to a wide variety of music styles from all over the world and from different time periods. However, rather than organizing the course according to genre, each week we will focus on a particular theme—the natural world,
Music

The Art of Listening — MET2239.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Joseph Alpar
Credits: 2
Composer Pauline Oliveros once said, “Listen to everything all the time and remind yourself when you are not listening.” In this course, students will develop their musical knowledge and active listening skills through the examination of diverse musical practices and sounds in varied social, cultural, and historical contexts. Rather than organizing the course according to genre
Music

The Art of Literary Criticism — LIT4586.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Benjamin Anastas
Credits: 4
“We live in a golden age of criticism,” W.J.T. Mitchell famously declared in 1987, and by that he meant that the dominant literary forms of the late 20th Century—poetry, fiction, drama and film—had lost the supremacy they’d long held to the emergent high-minded fields of literary criticism and literary theory. The Critic and the Artist have always been at odds, though recent
Literature

The Art of Literary Translation — LIT4319.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz
Credits: 4
It may well be that the closest, most interpretative, and creative reading of a text involves translating it from one language to another. Questions of place, culture, epoch, voice, gender, and rhythm take on new urgency, helping us to deepen our writerly skills and sensibilities. As Joseph Brodsky put it: “You must memorize poems, do translation, study foreign languages. And
Literature

The Art of Literary Translation — LIT4319.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz
Credits: 4
It may well be that the closest, most interpretative, and creative reading of a text involves translating it from one language to another. Questions of place, culture, epoch, voice, gender, and rhythm take on new urgency, helping us to deepen our writerly skills and sensibilities. As Joseph Brodsky put it: “You must memorize poems, do translation, study foreign languages. And
Cultural Studies and Languages Literature

The Art of Literary Translation — LIT4319.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz
Credits: 4
It may well be that the closest, most interpretative, and creative reading of a text involves translating it from one language to another. Questions of place, culture, epoch, voice, gender, and rhythm take on new urgency, helping us to deepen our writerly skills and sensibilities. As Joseph Brodsky put it: “You must memorize poems, do translation, study foreign languages. And
Literature

The Art of Literary Translation — LIT4319.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
It may be that the closest, most interpretative and creative reading of a text involves translating from one language to another. Questions of place, culture, epoch, voice, gender, and rhythm take on new urgency, helping us deepen our skills and sensibilities in new ways. The seminar has a triple focus: comparing and contrasting existing translations of a single work; reading
Literature

The Art of Literary Translation — LIT4319.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz
Credits: 4
It may be that the closest, most interpretative and creative reading of a text involves translating from one language to another. Questions of place, culture, epoch, voice, gender, and rhythm take on new urgency, helping us deepen our skills and sensibilities in new ways. The seminar has a triple focus: comparing and contrasting existing translations of a single work; reading
Literature

The Art of Literary Translation: Your Histories, Texts, and Authorial Selves — LIT4319.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz
Credits: 4
It may well be that the closest, most interpretative, and creative reading of a text involves translating it from one language to another. Questions of place, culture, epoch, voice, gender, and rhythm take on new urgency, helping us to deepen our writerly skills and sensibilities. In this course, you will translate a myriad of texts, including works you have written, or are
Cultural Studies and Languages Literature