Faculty Performance Production: TBA — DRA4168.01
This faculty-directed production will guide student actors toward a successful performance of the play, with preparation, rehearsals, and performances constituting the students’ commitment.
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Faculty Performance Production: The Christians Onstage Gospel Choir — MPF4224.01
The Christians, by Lucas Hnath, explores difficult questions surrounding faith and revelation, community and personal responsibility. Set in a contemporary American mega-church, fractured by dispute over salvation and damnation, the play operates as a series of contradictory arguments with no single argument deemed the winner. Not unlike any family break-up, whether the family
Faculty Performance Production: Unibeauty Her Wicked Daughters, a corporate fairy tale in process, by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig — DRA4152.01
In Spring 2023 Bennington students have the opportunity to collaborate with director/devisor Jean Randich, playwright Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig, and designer/video artist Sue Rees on the development of an in-progress script whose themes and form are situated in the crosshairs of Cowhig's teaching focus at Bennington: Crafting It-Narratives (stories centering non-human subjects
Faculty Performance Production: “H G, a great and terrible story,” by Anna Maria Hong, Jean Randich, Sue Rees, and Allen Shawn — DRA4407.01
This is a faculty performance production of a new multimedia music theater piece freely inspired by Anna Maria Hong’s novella, “H G,” a cubistic re-envisioning of the Grimm’s tale of Hansel and Gretel as a surreal, feminist hero’s journey. Here abandonment, enchantment, and the fear of being consumed challenge the protagonists to imagine the unimaginable: how do you give birth
Failure — CS4129.01
Why do systems fail? How do we determine what went wrong? How do we learn from failure to build better systems and prevent similar problems from occurring in the future? In this course we will examine a variety of ways that software and hardware systems can fail, their causes, impacts and (where applicable) remediation. We will learn about tools and techniques that can be used
Faith in Literature — LIT2562.01) (cancelled 8/22/2024
In his book The Secular Age, the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor writes about what he describes as a “widespread sense of loss … if not always of God, then at least of meaning.” This contemporary crisis of meaning has been well-considered by social scientists, journalists, and artists. In the wake of this, some wonder whether we are entering a “post-secular” age, with a
Fake Revolution: Media Culture and Hollywood's Insurrection Fantasy — FV4331.01
In this course, we will explore Hollywood's fixation with fictional revolutions as depicted in big budget sci fi and fantasy TV and films throughout the 20th and 21st century, often unified by themes such as the triumph of the underdog, traumatic but narratively low-stakes sacrifices, and totalitarian overlords who bear superficial resemblance to real world geopolitical powers,
Families: Love and Power in the Domestic Sphere — ANT2120.01
Interpersonal relations constitute the cement of society. What does it mean to be a sibling, a friend, a spouse or a lover? We will examine relatedness as a fundamental aspect of society and social organization by looking at some of the classic and most recent anthropological findings on the topic of family, kinship, friendship, networking, and community. We will analyze how
Families: Love and Power in the Domestic Sphere — ANT2120.01
Interpersonal relations constitute the cement of society. What does it mean to be a sibling, a friend, a spouse or a lover? We will examine relatedness as a fundamental aspect of society and social organization by looking at some of the classic and most recent anthropological findings on the topic of family, kinship, friendship, networking, and community. We will analyze how
Fantasy Literature: 4000 Years of Written Wonders — LIT2560.01
The earliest known pictorial record of storytelling is a cave painting found in Sulawesi, Indonesia. It’s a scene of eight hunters taking on a wild pig and some water buffalo – but the hunters themselves are therianthropes, combination human-animal creatures. This ancestor of contemporary fantastical graphic novels and comic books is about 45,000 years old. History has always
Fascinating Rhythm: Costume Design for Musicals — DRA4266.01
In this class we will focus on designing the costumes for a series of increasingly complex stage musicals. We will listen to recordings, read and discuss scripts and investigate character. Possible projects might include a non- scripted work such as 'Songs for a New World' by Jason Robert Brown, a documentary based musical such as 'Grey Gardens' by Doug Wright, Scott Frankel
Fascinating Rhythm: Costume Design for Musicals — DRA2283.01
This class will focus on designing the costumes for a series of increasingly complex stage musicals. We will listen to recordings, read and discuss scripts and investigate character. Possible projects might include a non- scripted work such as ‘Songs for a New World’ by Jason Robert Brown, a documentary based musical such as ‘Grey Gardens’ by Doug Wright, Scott Frankel and
Fashion and Modernism — VA4129.01
“Let There Be Fashion, Down With Art” –Max Ernst
The rise of capitalism and the Industrial Revolution led to radical shifts in politics and art in the late 19th century. Fashion acts as a powerful analogue to and forecaster of Modernism. Artists such as Henri Matisse, Leon Bakst, Sonia Delaunay and Salvador Dali took note of fashion's nascent agency and created clothing as a
Fashion and Modernism — DRW4109.01
“Let There Be Fashion, Down With Art” –Max Ernst
The rise of capitalism and the Industrial Revolution led to radical shifts in politics and art in the late 19th century. Fashion acts as a powerful analogue to and forecaster of Modernism. Artists such as Henri Matisse, Leon Bakst, Sonia Delaunay and Salvador Dali took note of fashion's nascent agency and created clothing as a
Federalism and Peacebuilding — POL4103.01
As a constitutional design for combining self-rule and shared rule, federalism often crops up in negotiations designed to rebuild or reconcile societies torn or threatened by civil wars in contexts as diverse as Bosnia-Herzegovina and Ukraine in Europe, Myanmar and the Philippines in Asia, Iraq and Syria in the Middle East, and South Sudan and Somalia in Africa. But are federal
Federalism and Peacebuilding — POL4103.01
As a constitutional structure for combining self-rule and shared rule, federalism often crops up in negotiations designed to rebuild or reconcile societies torn or threatened by civil wars in contexts as diverse as Bosnia-Herzegovina and Ukraine in Europe, Myanmar and the Philippines in Asia, Iraq and Syria in the Middle East, and South Sudan and Somalia in Africa. But are
Female Architect / Fictive Archive — VA4130.01
A readings course centered on the Usdan Gallery survey of fictional twentieth-century Czech architect Petra Andrejova-Molnár, created by artist Katarina Burin as a feminist meditation on the absence and erasure of women designers within the modernist canon. Exhibition components such as biographical texts, staged photographs, drawings, furniture, décor, and models provide the
Feminist Fabulist Fiction — LIT2298.01
Reading works by Ursula LeGuin, Octavia Butler, Angela Carter, Clarice Lispector, A. S. Byatt, Natsuo Kirino, James Tiptree, Jr., John Keene, Lindsey Drager, Han Kang, and others, we will investigate the realm of fabulist fiction or literary works invoking the genres of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. We will read short stories, novels, and novellas that emphasize
Feminist Freedom — PHI2254.01) (day/time updated as of 10/6/2023
Feminism imagines a world free of gender-based oppression and injustice. But what exactly does such freedom involve? In this course, we’ll investigate the interplay between gender, feminist theory, and philosophical views about freedom. Some prompting questions include: Is individual freedom enough? Does feminist freedom include freedom from gender? Is affirmative consent
Feminist Freedom — PHI2254.01
Feminism imagines a world free of gender-based oppression and injustice. But what exactly does such freedom involve? In this course, we’ll investigate the interplay between gender, feminist theory, and philosophical views about freedom. Some prompting questions include: Is individual freedom enough? Does feminist freedom include freedom from gender? Is affirmative consent
Feminist Freedom — PHI2254.01
Feminism imagines a world free of gender-based oppression and injustice. But what exactly does such freedom involve? In this course, we’ll investigate the interplay between gender, feminist theory, and philosophical views about freedom. Some prompting questions include: Is individual freedom enough? What does ubiquitous pornography mean for sexual freedom? How does politics
Feminist Freedom — PHI2254.01
Feminism imagines a world free of gender-based oppression and injustice. But what exactly does such freedom involve? In this course, we’ll investigate the interplay between gender, feminist theory, and philosophical views about freedom. Some prompting questions include: Is individual freedom enough? What does ubiquitous pornography mean for sexual freedom? How does politics
Feminist Geographies of Dis/ability — SCT2133.01
In this course we will engage anti-racist feminist theory, crip theory, and human geography to think critically about dis/ability. We will draw on critical geographies of disability to think about the built environment and institutional design; geographic scales of the body and the body-mind; spaces of the home and institutions; and im/mobility and spatial access. We will also
Feminist Geographies of Dis/ability, Care, and Embodiment — SCT2133.01
In this course we will engage anti-racist feminist theory, crip theory, and human geography to think critically about dis/ability. Topics include: the built environment and institutional design; geographic scales of the body, the home, and institutions; trauma, pathology, illness, and recovery; desire and pain; and im/mobility. We will consider how disability is shaped by (and