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Writing on Music — MOD2124.03

Fall 2016
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Credits: 1
"Writing about music is like dancing about painting," goes a chestnut attributed to Elvis Costello. Yet the art of putting music into words is one of the oldest artistic collaborations. In this class, we'll look at examples of contemporary musical prose, and talk about this essential act of multidisciplinary translation. Students will write short concert and album reviews
Modules: Transferable Approaches

Writing on Music — MUS2156.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Credits: 1
A brief, intensive workshop on writing about music, an essential act of multidisciplinary translation. We will read a range of short-form journalistic essays from across the musical spectrum. Students will write short concert and album reviews, developing a musical ear for language, while providing feedback and editing for each other. Special attention will be focused on
Music

Written California, 1850s to the Present — LIT2374.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Kathleen Alcott
Credits: 4
“Though every prospect pleases, and only man is vile.” Traveling through the brand new state of California to conduct a survey of its geology, William. H. Brewer couldn’t help but think of this line from Heber. Even in its earliest iteration, California was a place where the fantasy of expansion—whether mental, geographical, technological—came at a dramatic cost. As the
Literature

YEAR ONE | SOCIAL PRACTICE as PUBLIC ACTION — APA4248.01) (cancelled 10/18/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: Elæ Moss, MFA Teaching Fellow
Credits: 4
The YEAR ONE project asks you to imagine that you begin a new timeline for yourself starting now: whenever you begin, that’s your YEAR ONE. To participate in YEAR ONE, the question you ask yourself is, essentially, this: if you came to the conclusion that you couldn’t rely on currently existing systems and institutions to teach you the skills you need for a range of
CAPA

Yeats and Visions of the Apocalypse — LIT4167.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Anna Maria Hong
Credits: 4
This course takes William Butler Yeats’s poem “The Second Coming” as its starting point, launching from this often invoked poem to other poems and writings by Yeats that concern his unusual concepts of time, aging, and apocalypse including his prose work A Vision. We will examine Yeats’s prosodic choices regarding meter, rhyme, and form and how these musical decisions enhance
Literature

Yoga: Mindfulness and Cultivating a Peaceful Practice — DAN2023.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 1
This course will introduce students to the basic shapes and movements of yoga, along with a close reading of the yoga sutras. The yoga sutras serve as a guide to obtain wisdom and practice yogic philosophy in our everyday lives. Students will learn how to practice yoga on and off their mats, and will engage in exercises for both the body and mind. Beginners, intermediate, and
Dance

You Do You, Feldenkrais and Dancing: Scores for Improvisation — DAN2144.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Miguel Gutierrez
Credits: 2
The Feldenkrais Method® reawakens, restores and revitalizes the capacity for movement and function in all bodies. It is an spectacularly generative practice for people who are devoted to movement as a means of exploration and expression. In this workshop we will begin each day with an Awareness Through Movement lesson and from there go into scores for embodied improvisational
Dance

Your French Films — FRE2112.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Noelle Rouxel-Cubberly
Credits: 4
Never seen a Godard film? You couldn't name a French female filmmaker? You wonder what French-speaking Arabic films look like? In this exploratory course on French cinema, each student will select, with the help of the instructor, the film they want to include in the syllabus. Critique and theoretical readings will be included in the analysis of the films. Group work and scene
Languages

Youth Politics in Bennington: A Group Research Project — ANT4225.01

Spring 2017
Instructor:
Credits:
This course seeks to answer the question: What are the avenues available for youth to mobilize politically in Bennington? The course will be structured around a team research project where students will practice skills such as interviewing, conducting surveys, participant-observation research and conceptual mapping. Students will survey various community organizations,
Society Culture and Thought

Zappa Meets P-Funk — MHI2107.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 2
Frank Zappa, (1940-1993) was one of the most innovative musicians of the 20th century. He led the sixties California psychedelic music scene and then went on to compose mind bending jazz and classical compositions. He was a prolific composer and also a hero of free speech by speaking out against proposed censorship laws in the ’80’s. George Clinton, (1941 - ), was the principal
Music

Zeitgeist and the Political Poem — LIT2325.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Natalie Scenters-Zapico
Credits: 4
“Poets are: a) clowns b) parasites c) legislators d) terrorists” —“Quiz” Linh Dinh In this course we will explore the ever changing role of the political poem. We will begin by reading Hegel’s Phenomenology of the Spirit to use as a lens with which to explore how art reflects the zeitgeist of the culture that creates it. What role does the poet play in reflecting the popular
Literature

Zen Buddhism — CHI4218.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Days & Time: TU,FR 4:10pm-6:00pm
Credits: 4

Although it was born in India, Buddhism has had a deep and profound influence on Chinese and East Asian culture, but this philosophy remains relevant to modern life in both the East and West. Students will be introduced to the spirit of Buddhism through modern Mandarin interpretations of classic Chinese Buddhist poems and stories. Students

Chinese

Zen Buddhism — CHI4405.01) (cancelled 10/9/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Credits: 4
Although it was born in India, Buddhism has had a deep and profound influence on Chinese and East Asian culture, but this philosophy remains relevant to modern life in both the East and West. Students will be introduced to the spirit of Buddhism through modern Mandarin interpretations of classic Chinese Buddhist poems and stories. Students will explore Chinese Buddhist concepts
Cultural Studies and Languages

Zen Buddhism — CHI4218.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Credits: 4
Although it was born in India, Buddhism has had a deep and profound influence on Chinese and East Asian culture, but this philosophy remains relevant to modern life in both the East and West. Students will be introduced to the spirit of Buddhism through modern Mandarin interpretations of classic Chinese Buddhist poems and stories. Students will explore Chinese Buddhist concepts
Cultural Studies and Languages

Zen Buddhism — CHI4218.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Credits: 4
Although it was born in India, Buddhism has had a deep and profound influence on Chinese and East Asian culture, but this philosophy remains relevant to modern life in both the East and West. Students will be introduced to the spirit of Buddhism through modern Mandarin interpretations of classic Chinese Buddhist poems and stories. Students will explore Chinese Buddhist concepts
Cultural Studies and Languages

[BBA class-don't publish] Conflict Resolution: Theory and Practice — APA2128.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Michael Cohen
Credits: 3
This course will present an interdisciplinary approach to the theory of conflict resolution. Theories of conflict resolution will be introduced and then explored through a number of different prisms. These will include the macro issues of the nature of peace, the environment, the media, NGOs, as well as the role of religion and the Bible. There will also be a focus for part of
CAPA

[Hold:] Language Series —

Spring 2017
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Credits:
The Isabelle Kaplan Center for Languages and Cultures presents the Language Series every term.  The purpose of the Language Series is to provide students opportunities to explore and deepen their knowledge in the study of foreign languages and cultures.  The Language Series events such as presentations and workshops are related to the foreign language courses that are

“Beastly and Beautiful”: Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita — LIT2571.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Jenny Boully
Credits: 4
(Important Notice: This course focuses on the novel Lolita, which can be disturbing to some readers. Our class discussions will not be able to circumvent the narrative of an older man exploiting a child. Please be aware of this difficult material before registering for the course.) In Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita (1955), Humbert Humbert writes, “I am
Literature

“Call Me Maybe”: The Telephone as Multimedia — MS4111.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
From pop songs like “You Used to Call Me on My Cell Phone” (Hotline Bling) to “Call Me Maybe,” and from our contemporary uses, it’s clear that the telephone has become so much more than a phone. In this course, we will study the telephone as an interdisciplinary device with a long history and divergent uses in order to learn key topics in media studies that also apply to many
Society Culture and Thought

“Culture” in a Globalized World: A Critique — ANT2115.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
The ability to easily share culture across borders is often viewed as one of the benefits of globalization. But while enjoying the next Bad Bunny or BTS track, we should keep in mind that powerful global institutions like the United Nations also participate in globalizing culture, frequently with serious consequences. This introductory course explores the ways that the 
Society Culture and Thought

“First World Problems” in Chinese Microcinema — CHI4520.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Credits: 4
“First world problems” has become a prolific meme generating phrase. However, it can have deeper meaning. How is Chinese society dealing with its own “First world problems,” while simultaneously dealing with those of its own unique history? These are some of the questions we will explore through the lenses of Chinese Microcinema makers. Students will naturally advance their
Languages

“First World Problems” in Chinese Microcinema — CHI4520.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Credits: 4
“First world problems” has become a prolific meme generating phrase. However, it can have deeper meaning. How is Chinese society dealing with its own “First world problems” , while simultaneously dealing with those of its own unique history? These are some of the questions we will explore through the lenses of Chinese Microcinema makers. Students will naturally advance their
Cultural Studies and Languages

“If Spain Falls”: The Spanish Civil War through the Latin American Lens — CANCELLED

Fall 2015
Instructor: Luis Gonzalez Barrios (See Sarah Harris or Jonathan Pitcher for registration.)
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The Spanish Civil War (1936-39) aroused enormous international interest, including in the Americas. Many Latin American authors visited the Peninsula to participate in the conflict, leaving an important body of testimonial and artistic work. In this course we will explore the Spanish civil conflict through a transatlantic approach. The first part of the course will define the
Languages

“My father said to my mother…”: Literary Portrayals of the Modern Italian Family — CSL2131.01) (course code changed 6/3/2024

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
“Two years before leaving home, my father said to my mother that I was very ugly.” Thus begins Elena Ferrante’s coming-of-age novel that tells us, without qualms, about The Lying Life of Adults. This course will focus on Italian first-person fictional accounts of family life, which we will analyze with the support of relevant literary criticism, including love, Feminist, and
Cultural Studies and Languages Literature