All Courses

cover-up ; sublimate situation c-u;ss — SCU4228.01

Fall 2025

Instructor: John Umphlett

Days & Time: TU 8:30am-12:10pm

Credits: 4

How do I begin? What's happening already…we are the studio.
This course is designed to bring together creative minds who feel the need to take the next steps into understanding how to create an idea three dimensionally. How do I take an abstract idea and begin to translate it

Sculpture

COVID19: Pandemic Policy — APA2317.01

Fall 2020

Instructor: Brian Campion

Credits: 4

COVID19 paralyzed much of the United States, and it will permanently alter the way we think and behave. But pandemics are not new. This course starts by examining the history of pandemics and how they have influenced human history and culture. Using Vermont as a model we will then focus on how the COVID19 pandemic has impacted this state. We will look at the origin of the

CAPA

Crafting a Book Review — LIT4176.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Michael Dumanis

Credits: 4

Writing a book review requires a complex set of skills from keen observation to close reading. In this course, we will survey the changing landscape of book reviews by reading book reviews from the 1960s to the present. What biases did reviewers from decades past hold? How does the reviewer’s subject position affect or not affect the way that they interpret the text? Is it

Literature

Crafting a Foreign Policy Agenda: The case of US-India relations — MOD2157.03

Fall 2015

Instructor: Mariko Silver

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 1

This summer and into the fall President Silver served on a CFR Task Force on the future of U.S. relations with India. The group is comprised of people with academic, business, and policy making expertise and is tasked with making a set of policy recommendations regarding United States Government relations with India. This course will explore the components of a U.S. foreign

Modules: Transferable Approaches

Crafting the "It Narrative" — DRA4237.01) (cancelled12/19/2022

Spring 2023

Instructor: Dina Janis

Credits: 4

If a plastic bottle could talk, what could it tell us about where it comes from and where it is going? What can we learn about labor, natural resources, extraction and global capitalism by researching and imagining the human and non-human worlds a single object has moved through? “It-Narratives” are stories inspired by commerce and the circulation of goods that became popular

Advancement of Public Action Drama

Crafting the “It Narrative” — DRA2181.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

Credits: 4

If a plastic duck could talk, what could it tell us about where it comes from and where it is going? What can we learn about labor, natural resources, extraction and global capitalism by researching and imagining the human and non-human worlds a single object has moved through? In this interdisciplinary course we will enter the realm of object-centered storytelling through

CAPA Drama

Crafting the “It Narrative” — DRA2326.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

Credits: 4

Drama

Crash and Learn: Latin American Art since Independence in Intensive Beginner’s Spanish — SPA2112.02

Fall 2020

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

Credits: 4

This course ranges from the republican art of nation-building in the 19th century to modernism, magical realism, and the postmodern. While there will be some discussion of standard tactics such as stylistic nuances and artists’ biographies, it is expected that we will rapidly develop sufficient ability to focus on movements, theory, and politics, thus treating the works as

Cultural Studies and Languages

Creating a Digital Archive — APA2260.01

Spring 2026

Instructor: Sharif Jamal

Days & Time: MO 8:30am-12:10pm

Credits: 4

This class will introduce students to creating digital archive that includes digitizing photographs, documents, videotapes and basic types of metadata. We will have discussions about why digitizing personal collections is so important. Students will be expected to bring their own materials to the class.

Advancement of Public Action

Creating A Successful Residential Community — APA2027.01

Fall 2024

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

Credits: 2

Living on campus is an essential part of the Bennington student experience. As the College has one of the more economically and culturally diverse student bodies compared to other elite colleges and universities in the United States, how can students connect with and support one another in a meaningful way and create an inclusive and equitable residential community in this

CAPA

Creating Field Guides to Bennington — APA2217.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Marina Zurkow, MFA Teaching Fellow

Credits: 2

In this 7-week workshop we will uncover aspects of Bennington, perform research, tell stories, and design booklets using the familiar form of the field guide. A field guide is a manual used to identify things (birds, trees, minerals and more) in their natural environment. It follows certain rules, such as an identification system, a grammar, a map, and a how-to use section. All

CAPA

Creating Immersive Soundscapes from Information: An introduction to data sonification — MSR4239.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

Credits: 2

In this course, students will learn tools and strategies for creating sound and music from any kind of data. The course will touch on a wide range of topics for using data sonification in sound installation, music performance and audio recording. Students will learn to design and build their own Arduino based sensors, MIDI controllers, Pure Data patches and mechanisms for

Music

Creating New Work from Traditional African Forms — DAN4134.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Souleymane Badolo

Credits: 4

This advanced course explores the process of re-imagining traditional dance techniques to create a contemporary aesthetic. Souleymane Badolo utilizes customary dances to generate new movement. The students will experience his creative practice of using concepts like rhythm, space and time to build vocabulary that reflects the metamorphosis of traditional forms. Students are

Dance

Creating Our Future: Improvisation for a Catastrophe — APA2301.02

Fall 2020

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati

Credits: 2

This class will look at how we are all responsible to co-create the world that we want to live in, particularly right now during this global pandemic. What are the skills and capacities we need to learn and practice in improvisation, complex systems analysis, emergent structuring, conflict transformation and collaboration? We will hear from professional practitioners either on

CAPA

Creating Participatory Events at the Intersection of Choreographic and Conflict Engagement Practices — APA2447.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati

Credits: 2

The course will involve students in the practice of integrating choreographic thinking and conflict engagement through practical application in the process of creating dynamic structures and motion strategies for a series of sketches for participatory event models, while increasing their understanding of possible cross-disciplinary applications of this work. The course will

CAPA

Creating substance prevention programming on campus — APA2362.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

Credits: 2

The use of substances (alcohol and common drugs of abuse) on campuses for recreation and stress management has had a long storied history. As more campuses focus on wellbeing, including Bennington, the emphasis has transitioned to creating space for students to think critically about these topics and dig deep into the myths and culture about use on campus. Using this as our

CAPA

Creating the CAPA Forum for Full Track Diplomacy — APA2149.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Michael Cohen

Credits: 4

The world of diplomacy is traditionally divided into three tracks consisting of Track 1 (high-level political, military leaders, and official negotiators who discuss major agreements), Track 2 (academics, religious leaders, and managers who focus on relationships and problem solving often in new ways), and Track 3 (People to People diplomacy). Underutilized

CAPA

Creating the Sensory World of a Play — DRA2136.01

Fall 2014

Instructor: dina janis

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

How do you create imaginary rain or cold or heat? Where are you coming from when you enter a stage from the wings? How do you personalize and endow the set and props your character thinks of as real? What is substitution and how can it help bring the relationships of a play to life? In this class, we will work with the basic canon of sensory exercises designed to give the

Drama

Creating the World of the Play- Sensory Exploration Lab — DRA4142.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Dina Janis

Credits: 4

This class is fundamentally an advanced rehearsal techniques class for actors and directors. The questions investigated include: What is substitution and how can it help bring the relationships of a play to life? I How do you create the physical, sensory world of the play? Where are you coming from when you enter a stage from the wings? How do you personalize and endow the set

Drama

Creating with Javascript — DA2134.02

Fall 2018

Instructor: Anna Kroll

Credits: 2

This course is an introduction to programming interactive and graphic experiences for the web browser. Using the Javascript library p5.js, we will get to know the basics of writing script and learn how to use them to implement dynamic sites and web applications. Together we will learn to break down interaction into logical steps, how to articulate those steps using the

Visual Arts

Creation of Statistics — MAT2247.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre

Credits: 4

The amount of data in the world is vast and is increasing exponentially. It is easy to become overwhelmed and lose sight of the goal of data: to answer questions we have about the world in a specific, concise manner. The goal of this course is to help craft answerable questions—and then answer them. In order to do this, we will be using a programming language (“R”) to help us

Science and Mathematics

Creation of Statistics — MAT2247.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Josef Mundt

Credits: 4

The amount of data in the world is vast and is increasing exponentially. It is easy to become overwhelmed and lose sight of the goal of data: to answer questions we have about the world in a specific, concise manner. The goal of this course is to help craft answerable questions---and then answer them. In order to do this, we will be using a programming language ("R") to help us

Environment Science and Mathematics Society Culture and Thought

Creation of Statistics — MAT2247.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Josef Mundt

Credits: 4

Science and Mathematics

Creative Collaboration in Writing and Performance — DRA4261.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Kirk Jackson

Credits: 4

This class is about surviving the crucible of creative collaboration to satisfy the instant gratification of a hungry audience. Students write, produce and perform serialized stories. The class will divide into storyline teams; each team writes and performs three scenes of a developing narrative every week. Each episode will necessitate meeting at least four times per week with

Drama

Creative Collaboration in Writing and Performance — DRA4261.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Kirk Jackson

Credits: 4

This class is about surviving the crucible of creative collaboration to satisfy the instant gratification of a hungry audience. Students write, produce and perform serialized stories. The class will divide into story line teams; each team writes and performs three scenes of a developing narrative every week. Each episode will necessitate meeting at least four times per week

Drama