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Augustine's Confessions — HIS4113.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Stephen Higa
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
It has been said that St. Augustine's Confessions--the spiritual autobiography of an Amazigh bishop from Roman North Africa--was a formative event in the history of subjectivity.  Here we find an early and influential enunciation of many of the major themes that would come to preoccupy Western writers, philosophers, and theologians for centuries to come:  memory,
Society Culture and Thought

Aural History — HIS2144.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Stephen Higa
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
From religious chant to village bells to elevator muzak to noise pollution, sound has played a major role in human cultures and human experience since time immemorial.  In this 2-credit course, students will approach and engage critically with sound, listening, hearing, and aurality as categories of historical analysis.  In the first part of the course,
Society Culture and Thought

Authenticity and Modernity — PHI4107.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Credits: 4
“Just be yourself”:  there is perhaps no piece of advice so trite and yet so confounding.  We have all given and received the injunction to be our “true” selves, as if there were such a thing; we have criticized poseurs and pretenders; we have all stood in line for tickets to see a favorite artwork or performer up close and in person.  We value
Society Culture and Thought

Autobiographical Memory — PSY2246.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Anne Gilman
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 4

What do we remember about our lives, and how do these memories contribute to our sense of self?  This course will begin with an introduction to the scientific study of human memory to better understand how autobiographical memory brings episodic, semantic, and other types of memory together.  We will then explore what autobiographical memory has revealed about the

Cultural Studies and Languages Linguistics Psychology

Avant Garde Art in China — CHI4507.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Credits: 4
Art is always somehow a reflection of the culture and society in which it is produced. In this class, we will explore the ways in which contemporary (post-Mao) Chinese art reflects on modern Chinese culture and society. Each class or every other class, students will be given a packet with visual and written information on a particular work of art with a vocabulary list and
Languages

Avant Garde Art in China — CHI4507.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Credits: 4
Art is always somehow a reflection of the culture and society in which it is produced. In this class we will explore the ways in which contemporary (post-Mao) Chinese art reflects on modern Chinese culture and society. Each class or every other class, students will be given a packet with visual and written information on a particular work of art with a vocabulary list and
Cultural Studies and Languages

Avant Improv Ensemble — MIN4334.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 2
Avant Improv Ensemble is an experimental group of musicians who learn to take risks while improvising in the jazz and noise music traditions. The ensemble will touch on melodies and harmonic material in the vein of Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra, Charles Gayle, Brian Eno, Albert Ayler, Misha Mengelberg and others. Students must have a mid to advanced working knowledge on their
Music

Avant-Garde Art in China — CHI4507.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Credits: 4
During the Mao era, artistic expression in China was completely relegated to serving the propaganda interests of the CCP. After the post Mao opening, avant-garde artists, such as the Stars group, seized upon the opportunity to explore western artistic influences and champion individualism and freedom of expression. In this class we will explore the ways in which post-Mao
Cultural Studies and Languages

Bad Citizen: letting go of being good for a better world and A New Dream — MPF2167.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Being, FKA Kriss Mincey, MFA Teaching Fellow
Credits: 4
This class examines what it means to perform the identity of a good artist, from the perspective of the performer, and how the tenets of good citizenship get in the way of doing our most radical—from the root—work. By making this inquiry, we reclaim the performance process as both a medium and a model for building relationships that
Music

Bad Romance: Shakespeare's Poetry — LIT4380.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
We will immerse ourselves in reading Shakespeare’s Sonnets and his Neoclassical poems, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece. Shakespeare invented his own style of the sonnet, originally popularized by Petrarch in the 14th century. In the 154 sonnets published in 1609, Shakespeare dazzles us with his lexical, semantic, aural, syntactic, and
Literature

Bad Romance: Shakespeare's Poetry — LIT4380.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Camille Guthrie
Credits: 4
We will immerse ourselves in reading Shakespeare’s Sonnets and his Neoclassical poem, Venus and Adonis. Shakespeare invented his own style of the sonnet, now called the English sonnet. The word sonnet comes from the Italian sonetto, which means “a little sound or song”; it was a poetic form originally popularized by Petrarch in the 14th century. In the 154 sonnets, first
Literature

Balkan Ensemble — MPF4204.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
Credits: 4
Balkan music is fierce brass, complex harmonies, and mind-bending asymmetrical dances. It is spirited Serbian wedding music, dissonant village songs, devastating Bosnian love ballads, saucy songs of the Greek underworld, and heart-pounding Turkish rhythms. In the Bennington Balkan Ensemble, we will learn to perform a variety of traditional, urban, village, and popular music
Music

Balkan Ensemble — MPF4204.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Joseph Alpar
Days & Time: WE 10:00am-11:50am & WE 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 4

Balkan music is fierce brass, complex harmonies, and mind-bending asymmetrical dances. It is spirited Macedonian wedding music, dissonant village songs, devastating Bosnian love ballads, Greek polyphonic songs, and heart-pounding Turkish rhythms. In the Bennington Balkan Ensemble, we will learn to perform a variety of traditional, urban, village, and popular music from

Ethnomusicology Musical Performance

Balkan Music Ensemble — MPF4227.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
Balkan music is fierce brass, complex harmonies, and mind-bending asymmetrical dances. It is spirited Serbian wedding music, dissonant village songs, devastating Bosnian love ballads, saucy songs of the Greek underworld, and heart-pounding Turkish rhythms. In the Bennington Balkan Ensemble, we will learn to perform a variety of traditional, urban, village, and popular music
Music

Ballet Anarchy — DAN4181.01) (cancelled 7/11/2023

Fall 2023
Instructor: Mina Nishimura
Credits: 2
This course is designed for students who have some ballet experience and are familiar withballet terms and movement vocabulary. While following basic structure and vocabularies that are being used in a traditional ballet class, this course, accompanied by non-traditional music scores such as pop music, offers an opportunity to recalibrate, reactivate, improve, deepen, expand,
Dance

Ballet Anarchy — DAN4181.01) (cancelled 9/28/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: Mina Nishimura
Credits: 2
This course is designed for students who have some ballet experience and are familiar withballet terms and movement vocabulary. While following basic structure and vocabularies that are being used in a traditional ballet class, this course, accompanied by non-traditional music scores such as pop music, offers an opportunity to recalibrate, reactivate, improve, deepen, expand,
Dance

Ballet Anarchy — DAN4181.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Mina Nishimura
Credits: 2
This course is designed for students who have some ballet experience and are familiar with basic ballet terms and movement vocabulary. While following a basic structure and flow of a traditional ballet class, this course, accompanied by non-traditional music scores such as pop music, offers an opportunity to recalibrate, reactivate, improve, deepen, expand, develop or break
Dance

Banjo — MIN2215.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: John Kirk
Credits: 2
Beginning, intermediate, or advanced group lessons on the 5-string banjo in the claw-hammer/frailing style. Student will learn to play using simple song sheets with chords, tablature, and standard notation. Using chord theory and scale work, personal music-making skills will be enhanced. Awareness of traditional styles of playing the instrument will be furthered through a
Music

Banjo — MIN2215.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: John Kirk
Credits: 2
Beginning, intermediate, or advanced group lessons on the 5-string banjo in the claw-hammer/frailing style. Student will learn to play using simple song sheets with chords, tablature, and standard notation. Using chord theory and scale work, personal music-making skills will be enhanced. Awareness of traditional styles of playing the instrument will be furthered through a
Music

Banjo — MIN2215.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: John Kirk
Days & Time: W 11:00AM-11:50AM
Credits: 2

Beginning, intermediate, or advanced group lessons on the 5-string banjo in the claw-hammer/frailing style. Students will learn to play using simple song sheets with chords, tablature, and standard notation. Using chord theory and scale work, personal music-making skills will be enhanced. History of the African origins of banjo and its introduction to the western world will

Black Studies Instrumental Study

Banjo — MIN2215.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: John Kirk
Credits: 2
Beginning, intermediate, or advanced group lessons on the 5-string banjo in the claw-hammer/frailing style. Student will learn to play using simple song sheets with chords, tablature, and standard notation. Using chord theory and scale work, personal music-making skills will be enhanced. Awareness of traditional styles of playing the instrument will be furthered through a
Music

Banjo — MIN2215.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: John Kirk
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Beginning, intermediate, or advanced group lessons on the 5-string banjo in the claw-hammer/frailing style. Student will learn to play using simple song sheets with chords, tablature, and standard notation. Using chord theory and scale work, personal music-making skills will be enhanced. Awareness of traditional styles of playing the instrument will be furthered through a
Music

Banjo — MIN2215.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: John Kirk
Credits: 2
Beginning, intermediate, or advanced group lessons on the 5-string banjo in the claw-hammer/frailing style. Student will learn to play using simple song sheets with chords, tablature, and standard notation. Using chord theory and scale work, personal music-making skills will be enhanced. Awareness of traditional styles of playing the instrument will be furthered through a
Music