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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

Creative Economies — APA4306.02

Spring 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 1
This course is designed for students of all disciplines who are interested in connecting their discrete creations (a poem, a drawing, an artwork, a product, an event) to larger systems, organizations, and possible art worlds. In this course, we will examine the ways in which every aspect of your production and distribution process — from sourcing materials to
CAPA

Creative Economies — APA2167.02

Spring 2020
Instructor: Caroline Woolard, MFA Teaching Fellow
Credits: 2
This course is designed for students of all disciplines who are interested in connecting their discrete creations (a poem, a drawing, an artwork, a product, an event) to larger systems, organizations, and possible art worlds. In this course, we will examine the ways in which every aspect of your production and distribution process — from sourcing materials to organizing your
CAPA Visual Arts

Creative Economies — APA2167.02

Spring 2019
Instructor: Caroline Woolard
Credits: 2
This course is designed for students of all disciplines who are interested in connecting their discrete creations (a poem, a drawing, an artwork, a product, an event) to larger systems, organizations, and possible art worlds. In this course, we will examine the ways in which every aspect of your production and distribution process -- from sourcing materials to organizing your
CAPA

Creative Music Ensemble — MPF4697.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Susie Ibarra
Credits: 2
Creative Music Ensemble will explore the practice of music that is created by Composer/Performers/Improvisers. Students will study and play music through scores, notation systems, game pieces, structured improvisations and conceptual drawings, created by various composers/performers  such as Pauline Oliveros, Wadada Leo Smith, John Zorn, Lukas Ligeti, among others. Open to
Music

Creative Music Ensemble — MPF2104.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Susie Ibarra
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Creative Music Ensemble will explore the practice of music that is created by Composer/Improvisers. Students will study and play music through the scores, notation systems, game pieces, structured improvisations and conceptual drawings, created by contemporary composer/improvisers such as Pauline Oliveros, Wadada Leo Smith, John Zorn, Anthony Davis, Lukas Ligeti, Ikue Mori,
Music

Creative Podcasting — MSR2125.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Senem Pirler
Credits: 2
In this course, we will explore the creative possibilities of the podcast medium and push the edges of verbal storytelling. We will investigate the forms of audio journalism and poetic soundscapes. We will use creative voice processing techniques working with electronics to transform the human voice. There will be an emphasis on production and experiential learning through
CAPA Music Visual Arts

Creative Practices in Sensory Geopolitics — MS2111.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This 2000-level media studies course is an introductory course on media studies that draws on case studies from around the world to consider media practices, amongst individual makers and communities as they engage with geopolitics. What are the dimensions of creative practices embedded in global crises? How can we draw out the sensory experiences of media such as touch, sound,
Society Culture and Thought

Creative Strategies for Artists — APA2162.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Aaron Landsman
Credits: 2
This course examines production methods and career strategies for emerging artists, especially those working across genres. Specifically, we will focus on fundraising via donations, grants, commissions, day jobs and other sources; strategic planning, especially when looking at socially-engaged practice; written and verbal communications; working with venues; promotion and press
CAPA

Creative Strategies for Artists — APA2165.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Aaron Landsman
Credits: 2
This course examines production methods and career strategies for emerging artists, especially those working across genres. Specifically, we will focus on fundraising via donations, grants, commissions, day jobs and other sources; strategic planning, especially when looking at socially-engaged practice; written and verbal communications; working with venues; promotion and press
CAPA Dance Drama Visual Arts

Creative Writing in Spanish — SPA4723.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Lena Retamoso Urbano
Credits: 4
In this course we will explore different literary strategies that several key contemporary authors (known and lesser known) from the Spanish-Speaking World, such as Roberto Bolaño, Pedro Lemebel, Mariana Enríquez, Montserrat Álvarez, Blanca Varela, Leopoldo María Panero, Juan Villoro, Enrique Vila-Matas, among others, have used to configure their imaginary and alternative
Cultural Studies and Languages

Créatrices — FRE4721.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Credits: 4
Their films, their books, their work, their lives have marked and shaped other lives, and still do. This course will focus on selected works of French women creators – authors, choreographers, stand-up comedians, scholars, etc. We will explore a variety of genres and forms of expressions. Readings include excerpts from Histoire de ma vie (George Sand, 1855), Le deuxième sexe
Cultural Studies and Languages

Créatrices — FRE4721.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Noelle Rouxel-Cubberly
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Their films, their books, their work, their lives have marked and shaped other lives. This course will focus on selected works of French and francophone women creators – authors, painters, scientists, stand-up comedians, entrepreneurs. We will explore a variety of genres and forms of expressions (essays, novels, films, Skype and live interviews, stand-up acts, etc.).  
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Créatrices — FRE4721.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Credits: 4
Their films, their books, their work, their lives have marked and shaped many lives, and still do. This course will focus on selected works of French and francophone women creators – authors, painters, choreographers, stand-up comedians, advocates, and scholars. We will explore a variety of genres and forms of expressions.  Readings include excerpts from Histoire de
Cultural Studies and Languages

Credibility in Social Media: Fake News and Fact Checking — CS2234.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Ursula Wolz
Credits: 2
How do you know what is credible on social media news feeds? This seven week course introduces the emerging field of Algorithm Accountability as it is applied to natural language processing and interactive journalism systems. Using application programmer interfaces, students, regardless of prior programming knowledge, will develop the expertise to experiment with (1)
Science and Mathematics

Critical Conversations in Society, Culture Thought: The Great Transformation at 75 — SCT2132.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: John Hultgren, David Bond, Lopamudra Banerjee
Credits: 4
This course will introduce students to Society, Culture Thought by engaging with the work of one of Bennington College's most remarkable former professors, Karl Polanyi. Seventy-five years ago, fleeing the rise of Naziism in Europe, Polanyi arrived at Bennington, and gave a series of public lectures that offered a bold new interpretation of what had gone wrong as the world
Society Culture and Thought

Critical Conversations in Society, Culture, and Thought: Truth and Lies — SCT2106.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Carol Pal
Credits: 4
This course introduces students to some of the key questions, perspectives, and debates that enliven scholarly work within Society, Culture, and Thought (SCT). This course also explores how fluency in the social sciences can inform critical and creative engagements with contemporary problems.  Four faculty members will take students through four different approaches to a
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Critical Dance Processes: Action Studies — DAN2509B.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Jesse Zaritt
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 4

This course gives students the opportunity to encounter, participate in and design choreographic practices with an emphasis on the vast approaches to process and artistic research that are current and emergent in the expanded field of dance. The course challenges students to develop relationships to performance/performative action as research. We will engage practices where

Dance (BFA)

Critical Dance Processes: Actions I — DAN4800B.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
BFA students only This course gives students the opportunity to encounter, participate in and design choreographic practices with an emphasis on the vast approaches to process and artistic research that are current and emergent in the expanded field of dance. The course challenges students to develop relationships to performance/performative action as research. We will engage
Dance (BFA)

Critical Dance Processes: Actions II — DAN4820B.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Tania Perez
Credits: 4
CONTEMPORARY SYSTEMS - an interior material approach to movement encourages provocative thought and an immersive approach to the subject matter of the body. The work demands a high degree of physicality and input from the dancers, encouraging them to execute movement with intention, curiosity, and empathy. The pedagogical approach emphasizes immersive collaborative models in

Critical Dance Processes: Research I — DAN4801B.01, section 1

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
BFA students only 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, projects and discussion will yield imaginative and experimental
Dance (BFA)

Critical Dance Processes: Research I — DAN4801B.02, section 2

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
BFA students only 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, projects and discussion will yield imaginative and experimental directions
Dance (BFA)

Critical Dance Processes: Research II — DAN4818B.01, section 1

Spring 2025
Instructor: Tania Perez
Credits: 2
Critical Dance Processes: Research II positions research as a multifaceted practice that includes dancing, reading, writing, drawing, sound-making and theatrical design. The course weaves studio practice and group study in a variety of collaborative, experimental and performative configurations. Time in class will be devoted to combinations of lectures, workshops, exercises,

Critical Dance Processes: Research II — DAN4818B.02, section 2

Spring 2025
Instructor: Tania Perez
Credits: 4
Critical Dance Processes: Research II positions research as a multifaceted practice that includes dancing, reading, writing, drawing, sound-making and theatrical design. The course weaves studio practice and group study in a variety of collaborative, experimental and performative configurations. Time in class will be devoted to combinations of lectures, workshops, exercises,