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Education and Politics: What the Presidential Candidates Are Advocating and What that Means for Our Future — Cancelled

Spring 2020
Instructor: Karen Gross
Credits: 1
Each of the current candidates for the Office of President of the United States across the political spectrum has detailed positions on education: early childhood opportunities, public vs charter schools, free college and student debt loads, among other issues. This pop up course will look at the current candidates’ positions in the context of the broader policy debates

Education for a Democracy: The Patrick J. Leahy Public Policy Forum — APA2017.02, section 2

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
Patrick J. Leahy was United States Senator from Vermont from 1975 to 2023, a career that put him front and center in American history for almost fifty years. This course invites historians, politicians, and those who know Leahy best to discuss and analyze the key policies that impacted American democracy on the local, national, and international levels. We will examine how
CAPA

Education for a Democracy: The Patrick J. Leahy Public Policy Forum — APA2017.01, section 1

Fall 2023
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Credits: 4
Patrick J. Leahy was United States Senator from Vermont from 1975 to 2023, a career that put him front and center in American history for almost fifty years. This course invites historians, politicians, and those who know Leahy best to discuss and analyze the key policies that impacted American democracy on the local, national, and international levels. We will examine how
CAPA

Education Governance in Flux — MOD2155.03

Fall 2015
Instructor: Erika Mijlin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
Using the newly approved Vermont Education Bill as a starting point, we will examine the changing needs and responses of both the government, and its public constituency, with regard to public education. How do governing bodies view the challenge of modernizing public education differently than the general public, and how are assets being newly allocated to respond to those
Modules: Transferable Approaches

Education in Society: Purpose, Power and Possibility — SOC2111.02

Fall 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
“Education in Society: Purpose, Power and Possibility” comprises a series of interactive lectures, recorded for those unable to attend synchronously, and written assignments including an asynchronous discussion board to share your reactions to the lecture and reading materials. Additional information about this course will be forthcoming soon. This class meets once a week for
Society Culture and Thought

education policy —

Fall 2021
Instructor: Brian Campion
Credits:
Improving literacy, reforming school discipline, civic education, universal school meals. These are all issues that the Vermont legislature worked to advance in the 2021 biennium. This class will assess each of the major pieces of legislation. What did each initiative try to achieve, how it will impact education and what policies are still need to improve education in Vermont.
CAPA

Education, Inc. — SOC4104.02

Fall 2019
Instructor: Debbie Warnock
Credits: 2
In this course, we will examine the rise of market-based approaches to K-12 education reform in America. What are the theoretical arguments for implementing free market reforms in public schooling? What are examples of school choice policies and what are the consequences of these for students and families? How has the increased privatization and marketing of schools influenced
Society Culture and Thought

Educational Software Design — CS2277.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: justinvasselli@bennington.edu
Credits: 2
The fundamental goal of educational software is to teach or reinforce the user’s knowledge in a specific domain.  The system must be able to adapt to user needs and current level of domain knowledge to be truly effective. In this class, we will be using language learning as the primary domain for exploring the concepts of educational software design. Designing software
Science and Mathematics Cultural Studies and Languages

Effective Public Action: Case Studies — APA2116.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
What kind of world are we making? What kind of world should we be making? What kind of world can we be making? We explore these questions through case studies of successful public action, ranging from local projects to global initiatives. Working together to identify the complex variables and design principles of successful models, students collaboratively develop frameworks
Advancement of Public Action

Effort Lab — DAN4345.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Credits: 2
Dancers have been tuning their relationship to effort since the beginning. We know when we can do an estimation of the movement, just to tell if the steps will line up with the meter of a song. We also know when we need to practice with full momentum, otherwise our partner won’t be able to feel our weight shift. Effort Lab is a practice of naming and
Dance

EI - Embodied Intelligence — DAN2437.01

Fall 2026
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Days & Time: TU,FR 4:10pm-6:00pm
Credits: 2

Find ways to your own thinking, writing, speaking, and creating by listening to your body and moving. Intellectual activities exist as part of the body, are rooted in the body, and resonate throughout the body. Observing, reading, and listening are physical acts. So is deciding. Thoughts can be rearranged, spatially spread, and musically timed.

Dance

Ekphrastic Poetry — LIT4122.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Camille Guthrie
Credits: 4
In the earliest known example of ekphrasis, at a crucial moment in the Iliad, Homer interrupts the epic battle with a long description of the Shield of Achilles so powerfully cinematic that the listener or reader often forgets that the shield is a static and imagined object. This shield has become a paradigm in the history of ekphrasis—the genre of writing in
Literature

Electroacoustic Band Workshop — MPF4122.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Senem Pirler
Credits: 2
This course is an open forum for research and development of live performance methodologies through collaborations involving electronic, electroacoustic, and acoustic sources. In this workshop, we will explore text scores, improvisation techniques using both acoustic and electronic sources. The research and practice areas include but are not limited to electroacoustic and
Music

Electroacoustic Band Workshop — MPF4122.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Senem Pirler
Credits: 4
This course is an open forum for research and development of live performance methodologies and compositions involving electroacoustic sounds through collaborations. In this workshop, we will explore text scores, graphic scores, improvisation techniques using both acoustic and electronic sources. The research and practice areas include but are not limited to electroacoustic and
Advancement of Public Action Dance Music Visual Arts

Electroacoustic Improvisation Workshop — MPF2147.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
This course is a hands-on workshop for electroacoustic music, focusing on improvisation as a key tool for exploration, creation and collaboration. In this course, students will develop skills in individual and collaborative music performance with electronics, including completely electronic instruments and hybrids that combine acoustic instruments with digital/analog
Music

Electronic Music Composition — MCO4114.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Sergei Tcherepnin
Credits: 4
This class will focus on historical methods of electronic music composition through a contemporary lens. We will study synthesis in depth, and the development of early analog synthesizers, while learning how these techniques have influenced contemporary software design. While the class will focus on composing, students will be expected to learn how to use Ableton Live, Reaktor,
Music

Electronic Music Production — MSR2120.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: David Baron
Credits: 2
Electronic music is arguably the most important form of popular music production. Learn to create, produce and mix electronic pop music. What makes the music of Kraftwerk, Nine Inch Nails, EDM, even candy-electro-pop music tick? Why has electronic music taken over the airwaves? Learn to use vocoders, drum machines, synthesizers, and extreme signal processing to create dynamic
Music

Electronic Music: Creativity and Sound — MCO2109.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Michael Leczinsky
Credits: 2
How do you compose when any sound can be used in music? This course provides an exploration into strategies for sound-based composition and the digital transformation of sound. Students will create original sounds and compositions in the electronic music studio. Students are expected to complete short readings, participate in discussions, present their creative work on a
Music

Electronic Music: Creativity and Sound — MCO2109.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Randall Neal
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
How do you compose when any sound can be used in music? This course provides a wide-ranging exploration into strategies for sound-based composition and the digital transformation of sound. Students will create original sounds and compositions in the electronic music studio. Students are expected to complete short readings, participate in discussions, present their creative work
Music

Electronic Music: Creativity and Sound — MCO2109.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Randall Neal
Credits: 4
How do you compose when any sound can be used in music? This course provides a wide-ranging exploration into strategies for sound-based composition and the digital transformation of sound. Students will create original sounds and compositions in the electronic music studio. Students are expected to complete short readings, participate in discussions, present their creative work
Music

Electronic Music: Creativity and Sound — MCO2109.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: michael leczinsky
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
How do you compose when any sound can be used in music? This course provides an exploration into strategies for sound-based composition and the digital transformation of sound. Students will create original sounds and compositions in the electronic music studio. Students are expected to complete short readings, participate in discussions, present their creative work on a
Music

Electronic Music: Creativity and Sound II — MCO4122.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Michael Leczinsky
Credits: 2
An intermediate to advanced level tutorial that builds on ideas in Creativity in Sound (MCO2109). Students may choose to develop skills in digital sound synthesis, signal processing, audio recording/sampling, and 5.1 surround sound. Students are expected to complete short readings, participate in class discussions and present their creative work on a regular basis in class
Music

Electronics and the Voice — MSR2242.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
In this course we will examine various examples of vocal interactions with electronics, historically and in contemporary contexts of improvisation, song and composition. We will treat electronics as a broad concept, from simple manipulation of a standard vocal mic to analog/digital processing, feedback, hardware, and software interactions. The course will focus on collaboration
Music

Electronics Lab — PHY2213.01

Spring 2027
Instructor: Hugh Crowl
Days & Time: MO 1:40pm-5:20pm
Credits: 2

This course will serve as an introduction to working with circuits in a lab setting. We will learn about the relatively simple rules necessary for working with analog circuits and how those rules can be used to build objects of growing complexity. We will then move on to understanding how to build circuits that can measure properties of and interact with their

Computer Science Physics