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Cello — MIN4355.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Nathaniel Parke
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Studio instruction in cello. There will be an emphasis on creating and working towards an end-of-term project for each student. Students must have had at least three years of cello study. Corequisite: Attend Music Workshop 7 times per term.
Music

Cello — MIN4355.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Nathaniel Parke
Credits: 2
Studio instruction in cello. There will be an emphasis on creating and working towards an end-of-term project for each student. Students must have had at least three years of cello study.
Music

Cello — MIN4355.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Nat Parke
Credits: 2
Studio instruction in cello. There will be an emphasis on creating and working towards an end-of-term project for each student. Students must have had at least three years of cello study. Corequisite: Attend Music Workshop (Tuesday, 6:30 - 8pm) seven times per term
Music

Century Plate Lithography — PRI2121.02

Spring 2019
Instructor: Corinne Rhodes
Credits: 2
This class will introduce Bennington students to Non-toxic Century Plate lithography - a new, sustainable and environmentally friendly process using re-grainable Century Plates and biologically-based, biodegradable processing materials. Students who have learned to print with polyester lithographic plates (Pronto Plates) will really enjoy the richer tonality, reciprocity of
Visual Arts

Ceramic History: Global Perspectives — CER2119.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
Credits: 4
The study of ceramics is the study of human history in all of its cultural diversity, from artisanal pottery to highly sophisticated modern product design or contemporary sculpture. This course will explore ancient, indigenous and historical ceramics with lectures and discussions around clay materials, technology, art, and culinary traditions. Students will travel the world
Visual Arts

Ceramic Tile — CER2114.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Aysha Peltz
Credits: 4
This beginning level ceramics class will introduce students to working with clay through the format of the ceramic tile. Students will explore making tiles using various building methods including hand building and working from molds. Assignments will incorporate: building in relief, geometry, surface imagery and glazing techniques (color). Slide lectures, individual research
Visual Arts

Ceramics Projects: Exploration in Perspective — CER4170.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: bbartlett@bennington.edu
Credits: 4
The process of building a practice and developing a vision of how your work interfaces with the larger community will be the major focus of this class. This class is designed to be a combination of research and making with the materials that one has at hand. The class is meant to build and support the development of comprehensive work. Each student will develop projects based
Visual Arts

Ceramics: History and Place — CER4232.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Barry Bartlett
Credits: 4
This class will be based on research into the history of European and American ceramic arts, covering both ceramic production and the aesthetic outcomes. We will focus on events, directions and issues, which have influenced the making of ceramic objects in these countries from ancient times to the turn of the Century. Students will work on the preparation and presentation of 2
Social Science Visual Arts

Ceramics: Roots of Form — CER2138.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Barry Bartlett
Credits: 4
Exploring the unique, material nature of clay as a medium for personal and visual expression will be the focus of this course. All ceramic forms, whether sculptural or utilitarian require a basic knowledge of the ceramic medium and a variety of construction methods will be introduced employing hand building techniques to achieve this goal. The primary study will be to explore
Visual Arts

Certainty — MAT2119.04

Spring 2020
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Credits: 1
Advanced mathematics is largely about logical argument, as much as it is computation or calculation. Over time, as each generation extended their ideas into new realms, they looked at the logical arguments of their predecessors and found that there were gaps, elisions, things that were not fully understood. One could imagine that this process might continue forever, but it does
Science and Mathematics

Chance — PEC4104.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Credits: 4
What is chance? Why are some events seemingly more random than others? How do such events affect the economic world? And, what implications do chances have for the decisions that people take in their economic life and the outcomes they experience? This seminar will be concerned with these questions. It will explore certain grand theories of probabilistic thinking
Society Culture and Thought

Chance Encounters — LIT4358.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
Do we have a theme? Well, we have many; the relationship between focus and wandering, between the error, the errant, and the errand; between the past, present, and future; chance and the foregone conclusion. These (and more) will be intertwined in four seminal texts and a tome (Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust, Aqua Viva by Clarice Lispector, Three Poems by John Ashbery, In Fond
Literature

Changing Our Lens Part 2 — APA2025.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Alisa Del Tufo
Credits: 4
This is a continuation of Changing Our Lens Fall 2023. New students are encouraged to enroll in order to become acquainted with the philosophy and history of restorative justice as well as the psychological underpinnings of these practices. Students who have already been in other restorative justice classes will work at a deeper level and continue to practice restorative
CAPA

Changing Our Lens Part 2 — APA4314.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This is a continuation of Changing Our Lens Fall 2023. New students are encouraged to enroll in order to become acquainted with the philosophy and history of restorative justice as well as the psychological underpinnings of these practices. Students who have already been in other restorative justice classes will work at a deeper level and continue to practice restorative
CAPA

Changing Our Lens: Restorative Justice on Campus and Off — APA2022.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Alisa Del Tufo
Credits: 4
Restorative Justice is a set of values and practices that are having a considerable impact on the way our justice system, schools, workplaces, conflict zones and communities think about and enact justice. Restorative Justice asks: What if harm doers were given the opportunity to take responsibility and make amends? If survivors were able to be active participants in defining
CAPA

Character and Modern Dress — DRA2279.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Charles Schoonmaker
Credits: 4
This class will examine the utilization of fashion as a tool to tell the story of a character and a script. We will possibly have the opportunity to work with "How Water Behaves" and/ or "Bellarusian Dream" as part of the class.
Drama

Characters Welcome — DRA4421.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Shawtane Bowen
Credits: 4
Comedy while fun is a lot of work and, unlike, the more traditional "actor's" life, it's all about self-generating material. Characters Welcome is a course designed to help you create original characters and impressions that can sharpen your comedic voice and create content that can eventually (hopefully) be monetized. While we actors toil away in the dank dark basements of
Drama

Charles Dickens: Novels and Biography — LIT2284.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Doug Bauer
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Dickens’ novels are works of approachable genius, transmitted through their comedy, pulsing energy and relentless life. They also reflect fictional shapings of Dickens’ life, obsessions in the man that regularly recur in the art. We will be reading a biography of Dickens, three of his major novels, including the two most autobiographical, David Copperfield and Great
Literature

Charles Dickens: Novels and Biography — LIT2284.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Doug Bauer
Credits: 4
Dickens’ novels are works of approachable genius, transmitted through their comedy, pulsing energy and relentless life. They also reflect fictional shapings of Dickens’ life, obsessions in the man that regularly recur in the art. We will be reading three of his major novels, including the two most autobiographical, David Copperfield and Great Expectations. The classroom
Literature

Cheap Art Dance Circus — DAN2236.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
Based on the circus making style of the Bread and Puppet Theater, this is a class for anyone interested in making a fast, cheap, beautiful, frenetic dance/puppet circus. Students will learn techniques in: lo-tech, fast puppet/mask building with basic tools and materials; Cantastoria (story-singer) crafting; choreographing for large groups; singing/ music making; and editing
Dance

Chekhov and the Russian Short Story — LIT2272.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Alexandar Mihailovic
Credits: 4
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) transformed the genre of the short story into a polished mirror for reflecting the dramatic shifts in Russia life at the cusp of the twentieth century. Chekhov’s short stories reflect the larger stories that culminated in the Revolution of 1917: the emancipation of women, the compensation of families freed from serfdom in 1861, and the struggles
Literature

Chekhov's World — DRA4378.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Jennifer Rohn
Credits: 4
“People are sitting at a table having dinner, that's all, but at the same time their happiness is being created, or their lives are being torn apart."-Anton Chekhov In this advanced acting course, we will delve deeply into the life and plays of Anton Chekhov through research, discussion, and performance. Chekhov’s plays present an actor with both unique challenges (buried
Drama

Chemistry 1: Chemical Principles — CHE2211.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Janet Foley
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This class is the first of a four course chemistry sequence covering general,  organic and biochemistry. Students do not need to take the entire sequence. This course will focus on introductory chemical principles, including atomic theory, classical and quantum bonding concepts, molecular structure, organic functional groups, and the relationship between structure and
Science Mathematics and Computing

Chemistry 1: Chemical Principles — CHE2211.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: john bullock
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This class is the first of a four course sequence covering General and Organic Chemistry. Students do not need to take the entire sequence. This course will focus on introductory chemical principles, including atomic theory, classical and quantum bonding concepts, molecular structure, organic functional groups, and the relationship between structure and properties. The class
Science Mathematics and Computing

Chemistry 1: Chemical Principles — CHE2211.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Janet Foley
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This class is the first of a four course sequence covering General and Organic Chemistry. Students do not need to take the entire sequence. This course will focus on introductory chemical principles, including atomic theory, classical and quantum bonding concepts, molecular structure, organic functional groups, and the relationship between structure and properties. The class
Science Mathematics and Computing