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Creative Strategies for Artists — APA2162.01

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

Creative Writing in Spanish — SPA4723.01

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

Créatrices — FRE4721.01

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

Créatrices — FRE4721.01

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

Créatrices — FRE4721.01

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.).  

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

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)

Crisis Intervention and Trauma Counseling — CMH5108.01

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

This course prepares students to respond effectively to clients in crisis and those dealing with trauma. Students will learn crisis intervention models, trauma-informed care principles, and techniques for working with individuals, families, and communities impacted by trauma. Topics include suicide prevention, disaster response, and vicarious trauma in

Crisis Intervention and Trauma Counseling in Community Mental Health — CMC5000.01

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

This course prepares students to provide effective, trauma-informed responses to individuals, families, and communities experiencing crisis. Emphasizing both clinical and systems-level approaches, students learn evidence-based crisis intervention models, suicide prevention and postvention strategies, and techniques for addressing trauma in

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

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

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

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

Critical Dance Processes: Action Studies — DAN2509B.01

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

Critical Dance Processes: Actions I — DAN4800B.01

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

Critical Dance Processes: Actions II — DAN4820B.01

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,

Critical Dance Processes: Research Studies — DAN4801B.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, projects and discussions will yield imaginative and experimental directions for student’s

Critical Dance Studies — DAN5413B.01, section 1

Instructor: Donna Faye Burchfield
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4

In this course, we explore theoretical terms that incite dancing=s possibilities. How does dance emerge? When or whom has its processes served? What theoretical  lines of inquiry have served those processes, and how have they fared over time? What tools do scholars bring to bear on the study of dance, and where are these  tools most effective? Required reading and

Critical Dance Studies — DAN5413B.01, section 1

Instructor: Donna Faye Burchfield
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4

In this course, we explore theoretical terms that incite dancing=s possibilities. How does dance emerge? When or whom has its processes served? What theoretical  lines of inquiry have served those processes, and how have they fared over time? What tools do scholars bring to bear on the study of dance, and where are these  tools

Critical Dance Studies — DAN2500B.01

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This course looks through multiple modes of questioning, research, and a critically theoretical lens to put into consideration the complex ways that dance shapes and reflects our lives. We will look to scholars, artists, thinkers, and ourselves to process the elliptical paths people take to understand material existence through the relationality of dance. We will try to bring a

Critical Dance Studies — DAN5413B.02, section 2

Instructor: Donna Faye Burchfield
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 3

In this course, we explore theoretical terms that incite dancing=s possibilities. How does dance emerge? When or whom has its processes served? What theoretical  lines of inquiry have served those processes, and how have they fared over time? What tools do scholars bring to bear on the study of dance, and where are these  tools

Critical Dance Studies — DAN5413B.02, section 2

Instructor: Donna Faye Burchfield
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 3

In this course, we explore theoretical terms that incite dancing=s possibilities. How does dance emerge? When or whom has its processes served? What theoretical  lines of inquiry have served those processes, and how have they fared over time? What tools do scholars bring to bear on the study of dance, and where are these  tools most effective? Required reading and

Critical Dance Studies — DAN4830B.01

Instructor: Emily Wexler
Days & Time: W 10:00AM-11:50AM & 7:00PM-8:50PM
Credits: 4

This course looks through multiple modes of questioning, research, and a critically theoretical lens to put into consideration the complex ways that dance shapes and reflects our lives. We will look to scholars, artists, thinkers, and ourselves to process the elliptical paths people take to understand material existence through the relationality of dance. We will try to

Critical Practice Labs — DAN5429B.01

Instructor: Faculty TBA
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2

The labs are designed to include written and spoken language alongside dance improvisations to generate material that can be performed and witnessed. There will also be an emphasis on how the witness perceives the work and how language can be used to augment the experience of both offering performance and offering a response to the performance.

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