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Canta che ti passa: Social Commentary in Music — ITA4403.01

Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Credits: 4
Canta che ti passa,’ ‘Sing and you’ll feel better,’ says an old Italian adage. Yet, Italians do not always sing to forget their troubles. Much of the Italian musical tradition expresses social and political commentary, seriously or ironically. Songs as diverse and far apart in time as Toto Cotugno’s populist ‘L’italiano’ (An Italian, 1983), Giorgio Gaber’s intellectually

Canta che ti passa: Social Commentary in Music — ITA4117.01

Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
'Canta che ti passa,' 'Sing and you'll feel better,' says an old Italian adage. Yet, Italians do not always sing to forget their troubles. Much of the Italian musical tradition expresses social and political commentary, seriously or ironically. Songs as diverse and far apart in time as Toto Cotugno's populist 'L'italiano' (An Italian, 1983), Giorgio Gaber's intellectually

CAPA Advanced Workshop — APA4256.01

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Days & Time: WE 8:30am-12:10pm
Credits: 4

The CAPA Workshop is for Seniors who are engaged in their advanced work and want to complete a project as part of it in Public Action.Students are able to connect this work to any area of study at Bennington College. Each student will be required to assemble a digital portfolio that will include their research or thesis, along with a description and implementation of their

CAPA Advanced Workshop — APA4256.01

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 4
This class is for Seniors who are completing their advanced work in public action. Students will complete a digital portfolio that will include a description of their project, their research, and how they will implement their work in a specific location. The project can be local, regional, national or international. Students are encouraged to connect their Field Work Term to

CAPA Advanced Workshop — APA4256.01

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 4
This course is for Seniors who are focusing on Advanced Work in Public Action. It involves producing a digital portfolio that will be housed in the Crossett Library. The portfolio includes research, a mission statement, theory of change and a plan of action with supporting materials (video, photography, images, etc.). Students should be engaged in advanced work in a discipline

CAPA Advanced Workshop — APA4256.01

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Days & Time: WE 8:30am-12:10pm
Credits: 4

This class is for Seniors who are completing their advanced work related to public action. Students will complete a digital portfolio that will include a description of their project, their research, and how they will implement their work in a specific location. The project can be local, regional, national or international. Students are encouraged to connect their Field Work

CAPA Advanced Workshop — APA4256.01

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 4
This course is for students who are doing advanced work in public action. Students create a digital portfolio that includes a project in a specific local, national or international community. Students will build this portfolio over the term that includes their research, documentation and a final showing of work. Most students connect this project to work in another discipline

CAPA Advanced Workshop — APA4256.01

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This course is for Seniors who are focusing on Advanced Work in Public Action. It involves producing a digital portfolio that will be housed in the Crossett Library. The portfolio includes research, a mission statement, theory of change and a plan of action with supporting materials (video, photography, images, etc.). Students should be engaged in advanced work in a discipline

CAPA BYC Catalogue 2025 (Building Your Community) — APA2029.01

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 2
In 1968, during the heyday of the '60s counterculture and the turmoil of the Vietnam War, the Whole Earth Catalogue was published. The publication's motto was "access to tools" providing readers with 'do it yourself' advice that could allow them to be more self-reliant and get more in touch with nature. This class is for students to envision the Future Community Catalogue 2025.

CAPA Workshop: Rethinking Education — APA4208.01

Instructor: Liz Coleman
Credits: 4
We start with as deep and thoughtful an exploration as we can manage of what education should be, then look at what it is in order to take on the challenge of what it will take to close the gap between the two. We focus initially on the United States where its historic position as a model to the world with respect to public education has radically altered. Despite having a

CAPA Workshop: Rethinking Education — APA4208.01

Instructor: Elizabeth Coleman
Credits: 4
*** Time Change *** We start with as deep and thoughtful an exploration as we can manage of what education should be, then look at what it is in order to take on the challenge of what it will take to close the gap between the two. We focus initially on the United States where its historic position as a model to the world with respect to public education has radically altered.

Capital Punishment — PSY4223.01

Instructor: Ronald Cohen
Credits: 4
Capital punishment is the state‐sanctioned killing of a person convicted of committing a crime. Its existence as public policy requires the approval or acquiescence of individual citizens and social groups, and its implementation requires the approval, acquiescence, and participation of a wide range of individuals and institutions. Attitudes toward capital punishment ‐ as

Capstone II (Personal Development) — CMH5103.01

Instructor: Faculty TBA
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 3

The Capstone process is a 6-credit project (3 credits for the Professional Development Capstone, 3 credits for the Personal Development Capstone) that students may elect to use as their final project requirement. Students will acquire a deep and well-explored understanding of their own growth across the journey of their program. Working

Carceral Societies — ANT4127.01

Instructor: Marios Falaris
Days & Time: TU 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

How do prisons shape society? What socialities do carceral systems produce? What is revealed about societies through their practices of incarceration? Through key works in Black Studies, Anthropology, and Geography, we will explore these questions and more, considering the light that incarceration sheds on the study of society. In

Career Development — CMH5104.01

Instructor: Faculty TBA
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 3

This course covers the major theories and practices in career counseling and development. Students will explore the impact of life roles, personal values, and cultural factors on career decisions. Topics include career assessment, job search strategies, and helping clients navigate career transitions. Students will develop skills in career counseling,

Career Development — CMH5104.02

Instructor: Kristal Owens
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 3

This course covers the major theories and practices in career counseling and development. Students will explore the impact of life roles, personal values, and cultural factors on career decisions. Topics include career assessment, job search strategies, and helping clients navigate career transitions. Students will develop skills in career counseling,

Careers in Music — MUS2033.01

Instructor: Virginia Kelsey
Days & Time: MO 3:40pm-5:30pm
Credits: 1

What does it actually look like to build and sustain a career in music right now? This course approaches that question through the lived reality of professional musicians working across a range of musical ecosystems.

Topics will include living as a touring musician, networking and visibility, the recording industry, auditions, grants and funding, management and

Cartographies of force: bugs and media — MS4110.01

Instructor: Maia Nichols
Credits: 4
This course will focus on visual evidence such as maps, graphic diagrams, drawings, and site records in relation to animals, bugs, pests, and plagues. How were insect plagues managed in various regions? How are bugs portrayed in different kinds of media? Our focus will be on historical instances of plague, natural disaster and political upheaval that overlap with the presence

Cartography of Desire in Latin American and Spanish Poetry — SPA4811.01

Instructor: Sarah Harris
Credits: 4
This advanced Spanish course will examine the diverse literary manifestations of desire throughout a wide array of Latin American and Spanish poets that configure eroticism, the lover and the beloved in radical ways. We will discuss the varied approaches from which desire is written, from a surrealist perspective, through philosophical-poetic traditions and a Non-Western

Cartoon Culture — SPA4112.01

Instructor: Sarah Harris
Credits: 4
What are cartoons? Why study them? What do they have to do with Spanish culture? Students in this course will consider the theoretical and artistic concerns that graphic narratives raise, especially in the interaction between text and image. We will examine the gradual evolution of the so-called historieta from its historical relegation to the realm of the juvenile and lowbrow,

CDP: Research Studies — DAN2510B.01

Instructor: Donna Faye Burchfield
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 4

This course utilizes a seminar and workshop format focusing on conceptual, relational, and material frameworks of the choreographic. Through shaping a bibliographic course archive, we will source current developments within the field of contemporary art making. The class investigations, assignments and discussions will yield imaginative

CDP: Senior Seminar — DAN4802B.01

Instructor: Jesse Zaritt
Days & Time: TU 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 2

This seminar course explores and enacts multidirectional modes of research in and through dance. The course moves through lectures, workshops and experiments that activate processes of creation/performance and guide each student in the development of a portfolio of documents related to professional practice. Students will create social and

CDP: Senior Seminar — DAN4802B.01

Instructor: Shayla-Vie Jenkins
Days & Time: TU 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 2

This seminar course explores and enacts multidirectional modes of research in and through dance. The course moves through lectures, workshops and experiments that activate processes of creation/performance and guide each student in the development of a portfolio of documents related to professional practice. Students will create social and public platforms for their research