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

Spring 2024
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
CAPA

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

Fall 2018
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
CAPA

The Textual City — SPA4704.01

Spring 2014
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,
CAPA Languages

The Textual City — SPA4805.01

Spring 2025
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
Cultural Studies and Languages

The Textual City — SPA4805.01

Spring 2018
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
Languages

The Theory and Practice of Hardware Hacking — CS4121.01

Spring 2019
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
Science and Mathematics

The Third Decade of Life — PSY2241.01

Fall 2023
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
Society Culture and Thought

The Third Decade of Life — PSY2241.01

Spring 2021
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
Society Culture and Thought

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

Fall 2024
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
Literature

The Tudor Box — MCO2123.01

Spring 2017
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
Music Visual Arts

The Tuning in The Trees — MUS4279.01

Spring 2026
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,

Music Composition Music Theory Philosophy

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

Fall 2015
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
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

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

Fall 2024
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
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

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

Fall 2015
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
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

The Ultimate Record Album — MSR4107.01

Spring 2017
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. 
Music

The United States in the World — PEC2265.01

Spring 2022
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
Society Culture and Thought

The University as a Radical Experiment — SCT4148.01) (cancelled 10/17/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: Noah Coburn
Credits: 4
What does innovation look like in higher education?  This course explores the history of experimentation in colleges and universities in North America, from the utopian visions of learning communities to the radical rethinking of how learning happens.  It will examine the various waves of innovative institutions and how they reshaped higher education more broadly, and
Society Culture and Thought

The Veil and the Arts: Discourses and Experiences around the Veil in Contemporary Works — APA2201.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Burcu Seyben
Credits: 4
The veil, the headscarf or hijab has been a very controversial issue all over the world. It has also been the subject of many artworks produced both by veiled women themselves, or by others. Some of these art works serve and create the discourses of nationalism. colonialism, patriarchy, and Islamophobia, while others (especially those which have been created by veiled women)
CAPA Drama

The Vessel: Introduction to Ceramics through History — CER2227.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: bbartlett@bennington.edu
Credits: 4
This class will be based on research into the technical and aesthetic aspects of ceramic history. The class will focus on events, directions and issues which have influenced the making of ceramic objects over time. Students will work collabratively to develop presentations to share in class as a way to develop research skills, as well as to acquire knowledge of the history of
Visual Arts

The Victorian Novel — LIT4320.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Brooke Allen
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Many have thought the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901) the great age of the English novel.  We will begin with Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, published  in the first year of the Victorian Era, a novel full of the social concerns that obsessed Dickens and his contemporaries. We will move on to Middlemarch by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), a powerful
Literature

The Victorian Novel — LIT4320.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Brooke Allen
Credits: 4
In this class we will cover almost the entire Victorian period in England, starting with Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, published in the year of Queen Victoria's accession (1837), and finishing with Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). Between these two, we will read major novels by George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans), Thomas Hardy, and Anthony Trollope. The class will
Literature

The View Camera Contemporary Practice — PHO4256.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
Credits: 4
This course explores the many possibilities of using a large format camera to image the world and its unique ability to render light, texture, and form with exquisite detail. Particular attention will be paid to image manipulation employing tilts and swings, light meter techniques, and using three emulsions: black and white negatives, color negatives, and color transparencies.
Visual Arts

The Village Privileges of North Bennington — APA4153.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 4
In earlier years one had to obtain a Privilege in order to use the public waterways. That term has since been changed to “License” which has changed our perceptions; thus devaluing in name the right that comes with access to our most precious resource as a species. Through this course, entrepreneur, innovator, businessman and Bennington alum Bill Scully will collaborate with
CAPA Environment

The Visual Art of China — CHI4496.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Days & Time: TBA
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

The Visual Art of China — CHI4496.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Credits: 4
Whether it is the serenity of a classical Chinese landscape, the heroism of a CCP propaganda poster, or the humor of "The history of Chinese painting and the history of modern western art washed in the washing machine for two minutes", art is always somehow a reflection of the culture. In this class we will explore the ways in which art expresses culture. Each class or every
Languages