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Conspiracies: Past, Present, Always — HIS2112.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Credits: 4
Conspiracy theories have a long and interesting history in American politics and culture. Indeed, some of today's most interesting and diabolical conspiracy theories actually took hold in the era of the American Revolution. They have persisted across generations and centuries, periodically exploding into epidemic-level mass paranoia. Through select case studies, primary
Society Culture and Thought

Conspiracies: Past, Present, Always — HIS2112.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
Conspiracy theories have a long and interesting history in American politics and culture. Indeed, some of today’s most diabolical conspiracy theories actually took hold in the era of the American Revolution. They have persisted across generations and centuries, periodically exploding into epidemic-level mass paranoia. Through select case studies, primary documents, cultural
Society Culture and Thought

Conspiracies: Past, Present, Always — HIS2112.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Credits: 4
Conspiracy theories have a long and interesting history in American politics and culture. Indeed, some of today's most diabolical conspiracy theories actually took hold in the era of the American Revolution. They have persisted across generations and centuries, periodically exploding into epidemic-level mass paranoia. Through select case studies, primary documents, cultural
Society Culture and Thought

Constructed Languages: Between Entertainment and Idealism — LIN4106.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Tom Leddy-Cecere
Credits: 2
This course will explore the world of artificial or constructed languages (“ConLangs”), and examine their characteristics, their use, and the motivations behind their development.  ConLangs have captured the public imagination as a creative product in literature, film, television, and gaming; this enriches the lesser known but equally engrossing history of artificial
Cultural Studies and Languages Society Culture and Thought

Constructed Languages: Between Entertainment and Idealism — LIN4106.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Tom Leddy-Cecere
Credits: 4
This course will explore the world of artificial or constructed languages (“ConLangs”), and examine their characteristics, their use, and the motivations behind their development.  ConLangs have captured the public imagination as a creative product in literature, film, television, and gaming; this enriches the lesser known but equally engrossing history of artificial
Society Culture and Thought

Constructing Language and Cultural Learning as a Social Activity — EDU2253.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Bryce Smedley
Credits: 4
In this course we will explore the socio-/psycholinguistic dimensions of language, literacy and culture. Models of theories of language acquisition will be examined including both oral and written language. Additionally, different types of discourse will be analyzed as to how they might impact literacy and language development for both first and second languages. The course
Education

Construction methods in a wood-shop — SCU2309.01) (cancelled 9/15/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: John Umphlett
Credits: 2
Have you ever wanted to understand how to safely build some of the most basic things in your life and not know where to start? This seven-week course is recommended for students interested in developing their technical skills by introducing building methods and understanding strategies within the wood-shop.. This class is designed for beginners who would like to understand how
Visual Arts

Contact Improvisation: Partnering Yourself, Partnering Others — DAN4374.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Londs Reuter
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 2

Contact improvisation is an American movement form that uses sustained physical touch to create a dance with a partner. According to founding practitioner Nancy Stark Smith, contact improvisation "resembles other familiar duet forms, such as the embrace, wrestling, surfing, martial arts, and the Jitterbug, encompassing a wide range of movement from stillness to highly

Dance

Contact Improvisation: Partnering Yourself, Partnering Others — DAN4374.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Londs Reuter
Days & Time: Tu 7:00PM-8:50PM, W 2:10PM-4:00PM
Credits: 2

Contact improvisation is an American movement form that uses sustained physical touch to create a dance with a partner. According to founding practitioner Nancy Stark Smith, contact improvisation "resembles other familiar duet forms, such as the embrace, wrestling, surfing, martial arts, and the Jitterbug, encompassing a wide range of movement from stillness to highly

Dance

Contact Improvisation: Tools for Life — DAN2356.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
In this course we will enliven both our individual and our partnering dance work, while learning the vocabulary that helps make Contact Improvisation an engaging non-verbal conversation. The ongoing learning process of Contact Improvisation involves developing skills related to weight sharing, jumping and rolling, sliding and gliding, finding a solo inside a duet, using the
Dance

Contained - Lidded Jars — CER4126.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Aysha Peltz
Credits: 4
In this ceramics class we will explore utilitarian and metaphorical concepts of containment through the making of lidded jars. These forms offer students the opportunity to solve the engineering problem of having two forms come together to make one while also presenting the wonderful challenge of making an interactive art object that requires the hand to engage with the piece
Visual Arts

Contemporary African Dance I — DAN2124.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Souleymane Badolo
Credits: 2
Students are guided through a series of isolations, progressions, and concepts that demonstrate neo-traditional African dance styles combined with Solo Badolo’s own movement approach. Cultural, philosophical and aesthetic concepts are shared to assist in understanding and embodying the technique. With emphasis placed on grounded movement, articulation (head, torso, legs, arms)
Dance

Contemporary African Dance I — DAN2124.02

Spring 2016
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 1
Students are guided through a series of isolations, progressions, and concepts that demonstrate neo-traditional African dance styles combined with Solo Badolo’s own movement approach. Cultural, philosophical and aesthetic concepts are shared to assist in understanding and embodying the technique. With emphasis placed on grounded movement, articulation (head, torso, legs, arms)
Dance

Contemporary African Dance I — DAN2124.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Souleymane Badolo
Credits: 1
Students are guided through a series of isolations, progressions, and concepts that demonstrate neo-traditional African dance styles combined with Solo Badolo’s own movement approach. Cultural, philosophical and aesthetic concepts are shared to assist in understanding and embodying the technique. With emphasis placed on grounded movement, articulation (head, torso, legs, arms)
Dance

Contemporary African Dance I — DAN2124.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Souleymane Badolo
Credits: 2
Students are guided through a series of isolations, progressions, and concepts that demonstrate neo-traditional African dance styles combined with Solo Badolo’s own movement approach. Cultural, philosophical and aesthetic concepts are shared to assist in understanding and embodying the technique. With emphasis placed on grounded movement, articulation (head, torso, legs, arms)
Dance

Contemporary African Dance II — DAN4675.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Souleymane Badolo
Credits: 2
Souleymane Badolo will teach his technique as well as choreographic segments from his larger works. Deeply involving ourselves in the harmonization of gesture, touch, listening and responding, we will work toward precision of movement in time and space, searching for the essence of movement.
Dance

Contemporary African Dance II — DAN4675.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Souleymane Badolo
Credits: 1
Souleymane Badolo will teach his technique as well as choreographic segments from his larger works. Deeply involving ourselves in the harmonization of gesture, touch, listening and responding, we will work toward precision of movement in time and space, searching for the essence of movement. This course will be offered the first seven weeks of term.
Dance

Contemporary African Dance II — DAN4675.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Souleymane Badolo
Credits: 2
Souleymane Badolo will teach his technique as well as choreographic segments from his larger works. Deeply involving ourselves in the harmonization of gesture, touch, listening and responding, we will work toward precision of movement in time and space, searching for the essence of movement. Registration: E-mail Dana Reitz on Nov 29 and include your experience; this will be
Dance

Contemporary African I/Burkina Faso — DAN2307.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Souleymane Badolo
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
Rooted in Contemporary African dance; dancing over/under/inside and outside the tradition. This is a course in Souleymane Badolo's own movement style. We always begin class with a warm-up that involves both physical and mental preparation. We listen to internal rhythms and the beat of the music, learn about how to use the body in the space it occupies, and find ways of
Dance

Contemporary African II/Burkina Faso — DAN4307.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Souleymane Badolo
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
Souleymane Badolo will teach his technique as well as choreographic segments from his larger works. Deeply involving ourselves in the harmonization of gesture, touch, listening and responding, we will work toward precision of movement in time and space, searching for the essence of movement. This course will be offered the first seven weeks of term.
Dance

Contemporary African Literature — LIT2564.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This course serves as an introduction to the vital stories and voices of contemporary African literature. We will devote ourselves to closely reading novels, short stories, poems, and plays that explore modern African lives, both as they exist in relation to and imagine futures beyond the cruel legacies of genocide, apartheid, and (neo)colonialism. In the pages we read, you
Black Studies Literature

Contemporary African Movement Practices — DAN2120.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
This course will engage students both physically and intellectually. The physical practice will be culled from traditional contemporary and popular dances from Burkina Faso (Louwaga, Wiré, Gurmantché, and Gurunsi), west and central Africa (N’dombolo), and urban Africa (such as Coupé-décalé), and western contemporary dance forms, including improvisation.  Students will
Dance

Contemporary African Writing — LIT2383.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Phillip B. Williams
Credits: 4
‘In your text, you treat Africa as if it were one country. It is hot and dusty with rolling grasslands and huge herds of animals and tall, thin people who are starving.’ —How to Write About Africa, Binyavanga Wainaina This class is an introductory survey of writing from Africa within the last few decades. The history of Africa has been captured in poetry, novels, plays, and
Literature

Contemporary Asian American Literature — LIT2373.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Anna Maria Hong
Credits: 4
This course provides an introduction to literature from 1990 to the present by Asian Pacific Islander American writers. This course does not comprise a historical survey of Asian American literature, which dates from the 19th century; instead, we will focus on recent Asian American writing, which has greatly expanded in both subject matter and modes of expression during the
Literature

Contemporary Ceramics Processes — CER2209.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: joshuaprimmer@bennington.edu
Credits: 2
Contemporary Ceramics Processes is a foundational overview of the techniques and materials common to a modern ceramics studio. Methodologies and medium explored will be (but not be limited to) wheel throwing, mold making and slip casting, slab building, extrusion, 3D printing, material science, electric and gas kiln firing, and mixed media. Each mode or material will be
Visual Arts