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Cognitive Neuroscience of Bilingualism — PSY4136.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Anne Gilman
Credits: 4
The majority of children in the world today are growing up in multilingual environments. In this advanced research course, you will read and discuss classic and current research into the ways that language status, i.e. monolingualism or bilingualism, shapes brain development and memory storage. With a classmate, you will present research findings twice during the semester, and
Society Culture and Thought

Cognitive Neuroscience of Liking and Preference — PSY4104.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Anne Gilman
Credits: 4
When people choose one painting over another to decorate their room, or when they like one type of music more than another, how do their brains store and communicate these preferences?  Cognitive neuroscience relates brain activity to the processes of noticing, remembering, liking, and choosing.  In the first few weeks, we will review basic brain anatomy and compare
Society Culture and Thought

Cognitive neuroscience of words and memory — PSY4246.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Anne Gilman
Days & Time: TU,FR 10:30am-12:20pm
Credits: 4

How do cognitive neuroscientists examine words and word meanings?  What are the different ways we can remember words, such as definitions (“pollo”, “ji”, “chicken”) and lyrics, and how do words work in our brains?   Why do we sometimes struggle to remember a word that comes to mind easily later on?  Are words and images stored together or separately in our

Psychology

Collaboration in Light, Movement & Clothes — DAN4286.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 4
Visual elements are a significant component of performance, whether it be theater, performance art, music or dance. With many performance projects, there is little time to contemplate, rethink or adjust designs in the actual performance space; there is rarely an opportunity to watch a collaborative art develop. In this class, equipped space is available to give the time to
Dance Drama

Collaboration in Light, Movement and Clothes — DAN4286.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Credits: 4
​​Visual elements are a significant component of performance, whether it be theater, performance art, music or dance. With many performance projects, there is little time to contemplate, rethink or adjust designs in the actual performance space; there is rarely an opportunity to watch a collaborative art develop. In this class, equipped space is available to give the time to
Dance Drama Visual Arts

Collaboration in Light, Movement, and Clothes — DAN4286.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Michael Giannitti, Dana Reitz, Charles Schoonmaker
Credits: 4
Visual elements are a significant component of performance, whether it be theater, performance art, music or dance. With many performance projects, there is little time to contemplate, rethink or adjust designs in the actual performance space; there is rarely an opportunity to watch a collaborative art develop. In this class, equipped space is available to give the time to
Dance Drama

Collaboration in Light, Movement, and Clothes — DAN4286.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Michael Giannitti, Dana Reitz, Charles Schoonmaker
Credits: 4
Visual elements are a significant component of performance, whether it be theater, performance art, music or dance. With many performance projects, there is little time to contemplate, rethink or adjust designs in the actual performance space; there is rarely an opportunity to watch a collaborative art develop. In this class, equipped space is available to give the time to
Dance Drama

Collaborative Opera — MPF4207.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Credits: 4
What do you think of when you think of “opera”? A star diva? A solitary “genius” composer? People often think of opera as being the product of singular artists performed on a giant stage. But opera began as an experiment in making exciting music theater, and has had different sizes and shapes throughout its history. Like other forms of theater, opera is collaborative and
Music

Collaborative Software Engineering — CS4132.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: justinvasselli@bennington.edu
Credits: 4
Software is rarely built by one person. It takes a team of people, technical and not, to make a piece of code become a product. This class will present ideas and techniques for designing and developing software from conception to deployment.  This class will provide experience working with version control, testing, debugging, refactoring, and programming with exceptions.
Science and Mathematics

Collaborative Worldbuilding: Social Justice Entrepreneurship — APA2324.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
Year 2020. The Republic, a fledgling, young country, has left decades of relative prosperity and entered an era marked by poor governance, a world-shaking pandemic, the open persecution of oppressed minority groups, and a ruling class determined to maintain its wealth and power. The first half of this course will deconstruct the foundational social, economic, and governance
CAPA

Collage, From 2D to 3D — CER4223.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Barry Bartlett
Credits: 2
Investigate the nature of creating form using collaging techniques in both paper and clay. Paper collaging will be used to construct drawing/surfaces that will relate to forms to be made using ceramic slab techniques. The class will be working through a series of quick exercises throughout the term; each designed to explore the possibilities of interpretative actions and
Visual Arts

Collage/ Montage/ Essay: Found Material and the Moving Image — FV4141.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Warren Cockerham
Credits: 4
*** Description Change *** This intermediate studio/seminar course centers on the history, theory, and technique of using found footage material in essayistic moving image work. Students will complete a series of essayistic film and video projects exploring approaches and techniques including but not limited to non-narrative, political, personal, abstract, structural, and
Visual Arts

Collecting and Vetting Public Data for Research — CS4137.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Michael Corey
Credits: 4
In this course we will go over major methods for collecting and vetting public data to be used in research or computing settings. The course will start by learning about publicly available data sets, then progress through using APIs to call data providers, web-scraping public data, and finally capturing streaming data and converting it into usable datasets. This course will be
Science and Mathematics Society Culture and Thought

Collecting Quantitative Data — SCT4154.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Emily Waterman
Credits: 4
The purpose of this course is to guide students through their own quantitative data collection project. Initial course content will include a review of basic quantitative social science research methods, and content on the development of feasible research questions and sampling choices. Students will submit an institutional review board application, and we will discuss ethical
Society Culture and Thought

Collective dance practice and healing as creative process — DAN4363.01) (day/time updated as of 10/9/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: luciana achugar, MFA Teaching Fellow
Credits: 2
This course is open to students with prior experience with dance and improvisation; or to those who have taken any of achugar’s prior classes using the Pleasure Practice.  During this course we will engage in a creative process together, attempting to create a performance based work as a collective using methods from somatic healing modalities and achugar’s Pleasure
Dance

Collective Entrepreneurship: Full Circle Leadership — APA2282.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: RRansick@bennington.edu
Credits: 2
Building on the elements of the Future of Work courses (Future of Work: Alternative Organizations Future of Work: Individual Capacity) this practicum based course focuses on creating prototypes of organizing models that hold livelihood, participation and mutual support as equivalent. Optimising for impact and meaning, within the context of deliberate development, students will
CAPA

College and the American Dream — SOC4102.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Debbie Warnock
Credits: 4
While college has long been viewed as the primary pathway to upward mobility, recent debates about higher education have called into question its utility and relevance in the new risk society. Is a college degree truly worth it, and, if so, for whom? Who enrolls in college and what are their reasons for doing so? How do access to, and experiences of, higher education vary by
Sociology

Color Investigated Through Light — VA4108.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Liz Deschenes
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course will focus on examples and strategies of the various disciplines that have used light and color as a central component to their work- we will closely look at photographers, light installation artists, and film and video artists. Students will be given short assignments in the first seven weeks and a project based on their inquiries (approved by the faculty member)
Visual Arts

Color Photography: History Practice — PHO4129.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This course offers students the opportunity to explore the history of color photography and to research a wide range of work from the 20th 21st centuries. Working with either analog or digital capture, students will solve a series of creative assignments and conclude the term by producing a final portfolio of personal work that demonstrates sustained inquiry and engagement.
Visual Arts

Color Photography: History Practice — PHO4129.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
Credits: 4
This 4000 level course offers students the opportunity to explore the history of color photography and to research a wide range of work from the 20th 21st centuries. Working with either analog or digital capture, students will solve a series of creative assignments and conclude the term by producing a final portfolio of personal work. Expenses will vary depending on the nature
Visual Arts

Color Photography: History and Practice — PHO4266.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
Credits: 4
This course offers students the opportunity to explore the history of color photography and to research a wide range of work from the 20th 21st centuries. Working with either analog or digital capture, students will solve a series of creative assignments and conclude the term by producing a final portfolio of personal work that demonstrates sustained inquiry and engagement.
Visual Arts

Come Share the Joy; Voices of Hope Choir — MUS2122.02

Spring 2026
Instructor: Kathy Bullock
Days & Time: M/Th 7:00PM-8:50PM
Credits: 2

This singing ensemble is dedicated to the preservation and performance of African-American sacred and inspirational music and other songs from the African diaspora (including South and West African and Caribbean songs). Messages of hope, faith, healing, of striving for justice and peace and of celebrating life will

Music

Comics/Culture — SPA4401.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Sarah Harris
Credits: 4
What are comics? Why study them? What do they have to do with Spanish culture? Students in this course will consider the theoretical and artistic concerns for graphic narratives, 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, to the
Cultural Studies and Languages

Coming of Age: Gender and Genre — DRA2314.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Jean Randich
Credits: 4
"You can choose a lighter path, go through that door with nothing on your person, nothing on your back." --Anna Maria Hong, "H G" In this course we will investigate contemporary plays, films, and books in which the protagonists have the courage to question authority, lean into the unknown, survive despite harrowing odds, and allow time to help then unfold their identities.
Drama