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The Magical Object - Visual Metaphor — DRA2116.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Sherry Kramer
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
There is a great difference between a prop and an object on stage that is built or filled with the dramatic forces of a play. Such objects become metaphors, they become fresh comprehensions of the world. In the theater, we believe in magic. Our gaze is focused on ordinary objects…a glass figurine, a pair of shoes, a wedding dress…and then our attention is shaped, and charged,
Drama Visual Arts

The Magical Object - Visual Metaphor — DRA2116.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Sherry Kramer
Credits: 4
There is a great difference between a prop and an object on stage that is built or filled with the dramatic forces of a play. Such objects become metaphors, they become fresh comprehensions of the world. In the theater, we believe in magic. Our gaze is focused on ordinary objects...a glass figurine, a pair of shoes, a wedding dress...and then our attention is shaped, and
Drama Visual Arts

The Magical Object – Visual Metaphor — DRA2116.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Sherry Kramer
Credits: 4
There is a great difference between a prop and an object on stage that is built or filled with the dramatic forces of a play. Such objects become metaphors, they become fresh comprehensions of the world. In the theater, we believe in magic. Our gaze is focused on ordinary objects…a glass figurine, a pair of shoes, a wedding dress…and then our attention is shaped, and charged,
Drama Visual Arts

The Magical Object: Visual Metaphor — DRA2116.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
There is a great difference between a prop and an object that is built or filled with the dramatic forces of a play or film. These objects fill with meaning and power and the hopes of the characters, and ours. But how do we generate a magical object that can organize an entire work of timebound art? We will pursue our investigation in the timebound arts of
Drama

The Making of a Poem — LIT4117.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Mark Wunderlich
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
How are poems made? What do we mean when we say something is 'lyrical' or 'poetic?' How do poets reward readers for the gift of their attention? In this course we will read the work of the poets who will come to campus as part of Poetry at Bennington and look at the strategies they use to shape poems that are distinctive, satisfying and rigorous. We will also examine their
Literature

The Manner of Moving — DAN2242.01) (cancelled 9/26/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
This is designed for those who are interested in excavating and investigating their own ways of moving. By becoming more grounded, more aware and more observant, students will be able to experience presence in motion. We will be thoroughly exploring, modifying, rearranging, expanding and ultimately reconsidering how we move. While creating small movement scenarios, students
Dance

The Manner of Moving — DAN2242.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
This is designed for those who are interested in excavating and investigating their own ways of moving. By becoming more grounded, more aware and more observant, students will be able to experience presence in motion. We will be thoroughly exploring, modifying, rearranging, expanding and ultimately reconsidering how we move. While creating small movement scenarios, students
Dance

The Manner of Moving — DAN2242.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
This is designed for those who are interested in excavating and investigating their own ways of moving. By becoming more grounded, more aware and more observant, students will be able to experience presence in motion. We will be thoroughly exploring, modifying, rearranging, expanding and ultimately reconsidering how we move. While creating small movement scenarios, students
Dance

The Manner of Moving — DAN2242.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
This is designed for those who are interested in excavating and investigating their own ways of moving. By becoming more grounded, more aware and more observant, students will be able to experience presence in motion. We will be thoroughly exploring, modifying, rearranging, expanding and ultimately reconsidering how we move. While creating small movement scenarios, students
Dance

The Materiality of Color: Drawing with Pigments — DRW4204.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Beverly Acha
Days & Time: MO 1:40pm-5:20pm
Credits: 2

This course is a hands-on color laboratory where students will explore the tactile, material, and physical characteristics of pigments. Working with both earth and synthetic colors, we’ll grind, mix, and transform pure pigments into drawing materials including watercolor paints and chalk pastels. If time allows, we will also make inks. Outside of class, students

Drawing

The Materiality of Color: Natural Pigments — DRW4204.01

Fall 2026
Instructor: Beverly Acha
Days & Time: WE 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 2

This course is a hands-on color laboratory, where students will explore the tactile, material, and physical properties of pigments derived from natural sources. Our investigations will focus primarily on pigments that can be sourced locally in and around Bennington, particularly those accessible during the fall season. We will also work with some historically significant

Painting Drawing

The Mathematics of Optimal Strategies: Introduction to Game Theory — MAT2250.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Katie Montovan
Credits: 4
We typically think of games (like football, scrabble, and bridge) as entertaining competitions where each player or team tries to outsmart, outrun, or generally be better than their opponent. In this course, we will broaden this definition of a game to be any interaction between individuals where there are well-defined rewards that depend on what the opponent decides to do. In
Science and Mathematics

The Meaning of Life — PHI2134.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Doug Kremm
Credits: 4
This course examines some of philosophy’s deepest and most central questions. What is the meaning of life? Is there a point to pursuing the things we pursue in life? How can we bring more meaning and happiness into our lives? Should we fear death? We will explore these and other questions from a variety of perspectives, engaging with historical and contemporary works by
Society Culture and Thought

The Migrant Worker issue in Chinese Film — CHI4602.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Credits: 4
While movies such as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon have helped Chinese cinema broadened its appeal and consolidate its position as a significant force in international cinema, such historical fantasies may not do much to help us understand modern Chinese culture. Fortunately, there is much more to contemporary Chinese cinema, and many fine Chinese language films are available
CAPA Languages

The Modal Concept — MUS2150.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Credits: 2
In this class, we’ll listen to the classical musical systems of the Middle East, South Asia, and Southeast Asia, while looking at the basic scales of dastgah, maqam, raga, and pathet. We’ll unpack the concept of mode in cross-cultural perspective, looking at how a simple series of notes can have myriad meanings. Through examining performances, improvisations, venues, historical
Music

The Modern Chinese Family — CHI2113.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
All the children of one’s parent’s siblings are all just called cousin in English. However in Chinese there is a different word for each particular relationship. This stems from how in traditional Chinese Confucian culture each individual’s duties and obligations towards others are dictated by their relationships, with family relationships being the most important. But then in
Languages

The Music of Beethoven — MHI2241.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Allen Shawn
Credits: 4
This course will be a group exploration of the extraordinary music of Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770-1827). Approaching his music chronologically, we will attempt to become acquainted with some of his major works, including his String Quartets, Piano Sonatas, Symphonies, his opera Fidelio, the Missa Solemnis, and others less well known, while also becoming familiar with his life
Music

The Music of J.S. Bach — MHI2177.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Allen Shawn
Credits: 4
A group exploration of some of the high points in the glorious music of Johann Sebastian Bach, including the Mass in B minor, the Saint Matthew Passion, the Magnificat, the Brandenburg Concertos, the Well-Tempered Clavier, the Musical Offering, and the unaccompanied Suites for Cello. We will also consider Bach's continuing influence on the music of the twentieth and twenty
Music

The Music of J.S.Bach — MHI2177.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Allen Shawn
Credits: 4
This course is intended for those who want to learn about Bach's music, whether or not they read music or have studied music before. Those who can study the musical and theoretical aspects of Bach's beautiful work will be encouraged to do so, and those who can approach it from historical, philosophical, scientific, or poetic point of view will be encouraged to do that.
Music

The Musical "Other": Exoticism, Appropriation, and Multiculturalism — MHI4131.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Joseph Alpar
Credits: 4
This seminar examines how the cultural “Other” has been represented in Western music. We will study a large repertory of orchestral, operatic, chamber, and solo works from the early Baroque period through the twenty-first century, investigating the uses and abuses of non-Western musical sources by composers and centering how politics and ideology inform the creation of these
Music Society Culture and Thought

The Musical “Other”: Exoticism, Appropriation, and Multiculturalism — MHI4131.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
Credits: 4
How has the cultural "Other” been represented in Western music? How can composers and performers create with a clear conscience and use source material ethically? We will examine a large repertory of works from the early Baroque period through the Twenty-first century, investigating the uses and abuses of non-Western musical sources. Beyond the classics, we'll talk about mid
Music

The Muslim World from the Rise of Islam to the Present — HIS2116.01

Spring 2017
Instructor:
Credits: 4
How can Rumi’s belief in loving all existence stem from the same religious tradition as ISIS’s jihadist ideology calling for unrestricted violence against everything considered “un-Islamic”? In this course, we examine changing interpretations of Islam across time and space. We study religious, intellectual, cultural, and socio-political developments in the societies of the
Society Culture and Thought

The Mystery that Keeps Us Humble: St. Augustine, Simone Weil, Thomas Merton — LIT2539.01) (day/time updated as of 10/17/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: Benjamin Anastas
Credits: 4
"Late have I loved you," St. Augustine wrote in one of the many direct appeals to God in his Confessions. "O Beauty so ancient and so new, late have I loved you." With these lines, the confessional impulse in the early Christian tradition makes the jump into spiritual autobiography, and a new genre of literature is born. In this class, we'll pair the discussion of faith and
Literature

The New Hampshire Primary — POP2266.04

Fall 2019
Instructor: Brian Campion
Credits: 1
What is it like to be a part of a massive effort to win the office of the President of the United States? Focusing on the New Hampshire primary, this class will let you explore the process that is currently underway by candidates to win the Presidency. The class will comprise two field trips to New Hampshire (Saturday, November 16 and Saturday, December 7) where you’ll choose
CAPA

The New York School of Poetry — LIT2198.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Credits: 4
This course will serve as an immersion in the work of several major American poets of the 1950s and 1960s, noted for their humor, irreverence, disjunctive experimentation, charm, and wildness, and collectively known as the New York School. We will begin by focusing on the original generation of New York School poets: John Ashbery, Frank OHara, Kenneth Koch, James Schuyler, and
Literature