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Form to Function — SCU2124.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Jon Isherwood
Credits: 4
The practice of functional object making is undergoing an intense transition into digital production. Additive manufacturing has been posed as the next trillion dollar business; in your lifetime you will be able to download objects, tables, chairs, clocks and manufacture them in your own home. Designers, architects, and artists are finding digital design and fabrication
Visual Arts

Form to Function Part Two — VA4112.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Jon Isherwood, Farhad Mirza John Umphlett
Credits: 4
Designers, architects, and artists continue to find digital design and fabrication processes to be common ground for communication and collaboration, in large part because many new projects necessitate multidimensional thinking about form and making. This self-directed studio course offers the opportunity for students to work at an advanced level to explore, research, and
Visual Arts

Form to Function/ Digital Design to Analog Build — SCU2124.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Jon Isherwood
Credits: 4
The practice of functional object making is undergoing an intense transition into digital production. Additive manufacturing has been posed as the next trillion dollar business; in your lifetime you will be able to download objects, tables, chairs, clocks and manufacture them in your own home. Designers, architects, and artists are finding digital design and fabrication
Visual Arts

Form to Function/Digital Design to Analog Build — SCU2124.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Jon Isherwood
Credits: 4
The practice of functional object making is undergoing an intense transition into digital production. Additive manufacturing has been posed as the next trillion dollar business; in your lifetime you will be able to download objects, tables, chairs, clocks and manufacture them in your own home. Designers, architects, and artists are finding digital design and fabrication
Visual Arts

Form to Function/Spatial Skin — SCU2110.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Jon Isherwood
Credits: 4
Sections, tessellations, folding, contouring and forming are all considerations when imagining the mantle that divides or establishes a “skin”. We will investigate the qualities that surfaces need to possess to develop new spatial paradigms, leading to sculptural responses to these conditions. Through a series of discrete exercises coupling digital fabrication and design
Visual Arts

Form to Function: The Chair — SCU2303.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: jisherwood@bennington.edu
Credits: 4
Think of all the chairs you have used in your life, from the high chair you sat in as a baby to the one you are probably using right now. How many of those chairs truly provided support for the actions you were attempting in those moments? How many of them were useful, comfortable, and even beautiful as they fulfilled their purpose? Is there a chair you could never live without
Visual Arts

Foundation of Software Design and Data Structure — CS2153.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Meltem Ballan
Credits: 4
This is the second course after CS 2127: Elements of Computers and Programming. I assume that you know a programming language (Python). The emphasis of this course will be on software development using object-oriented methodology. This course will not cover basic Python syntax in this course. We will learn how to analyze and design software. We will learn how to create
Science and Mathematics

Foundations in Ceramics: Roots of Form — CER2112.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Barry Bartlett
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Exploring the unique, material nature of clay as a medium for personal and visual expression will be the focus of this course. All ceramic forms, whether sculptural or utilitarian, require a basic knowledge of the ceramic medium. A variety of construction methods will be introduced, employing both hand building and wheel techniques to achieve this goal. Emphasis will be placed
Visual Arts

Foundations in Ceramics: Roots of Form —

Spring 2016
Instructor: Barry Bartlett
Credits: 4
Exploring the unique, material nature of clay as a medium for personal and visual expression will be the focus of this course. All ceramic forms, whether sculptural or utilitarian, require a basic knowledge of the ceramic medium. A variety of construction methods will be introduced, employing both hand building and wheel techniques to achieve this goal. Emphasis will be placed
Visual Arts

Foundations in Ceramics: The Hand as a Tool — CER2105.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Barry Bartlett
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Exploring the unique, material nature of clay as a medium for personal and visual expression will be the focus of this course. All ceramic forms, whether sculptural or utilitarian require a knowledge of the basic skills and an understanding of clay. A variety of construction methods will be introduced employing hand building techniques. Emphasis will be placed on developing a
Visual Arts

Foundations in Ceramics: The Hand as a Tool — CER2105.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Barry Bartlett
Credits: 4
Exploring the unique, material nature of clay as a medium for personal and visual expression will be the focus of this course. All ceramic forms, whether sculptural or utilitarian require a knowledge of the basic skills and an understanding of clay. A variety of construction methods will be introduced employing handbuilding techniques. Emphasis will be placed on developing a
Visual Arts

Foundations in Ceramics: The Hand as a Tool — CER2105.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Barry Bartlett
Credits: 4
Exploring the unique, material nature of clay as a medium for personal and visual expression will be the focus of this course. All ceramic forms, whether sculptural or utilitarian require a knowledge of the basic skills and an understanding of clay. A variety of construction methods will be introduced employing hand building techniques. Emphasis will be placed on developing a
Visual Arts

Foundations in Ceramics: The Hand as a Tool — CER2105.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Barry Bartlett
Credits: 4
Exploring the unique, material nature of clay as a medium for personal and visual expression will be the focus of this course. All ceramic forms, whether sculptural or utilitarian require a knowledge of the basic skills and an understanding of clay. A variety of construction methods will be introduced employing handbuilding techniques. Emphasis will be placed on developing a
Visual Arts

Foundations in Kiln Technologies — CER2147.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Jack Yu
Credits: 2
As a student of ceramics, kiln technology is one of the most important tools towards attaining comprehensive form and surface unity This course is an opportunity for the ceramic students to research a variety of traditional and experimental ceramic firing techniques. The course includes basic thermodynamics/kiln atmospheres, problem-solving specific firing needs, kiln building,
Visual Arts

Foundations of Global Politics — POL2103.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Credits: 4
In this wide-ranging introduction to the study of international politics, we will be exploring how states and non-state actors negotiate their interactions in an increasingly interconnected, interdependent and globalized world. Core themes will include: contending theoretical approaches to international relations (realism, liberalism/idealism, constructivism, structuralism,
Society Culture and Thought

Foundations of Global Politics — POL2103.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Credits: 4
In this wide-ranging introduction to the study of international politics, we will be exploring how states and non-state actors negotiate their interactions in an increasingly interconnected, interdependent and globalized world. Core themes will include: contending theoretical approaches to international relations (realism, liberalism/idealism, constructivism, structuralism,
Society Culture and Thought

Foundations of Global Politics — POL2103.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
In this wide-ranging introduction to the study of international politics, we will be exploring how states and non-state actors negotiate their interactions in an increasingly interconnected, interdependent and globalized world. Core themes will include: contending theoretical approaches to international relations (realism, liberalism/idealism, constructivism, structuralism,
Environment Society Culture and Thought

Foundations of Global Politics — POL2103.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Days & Time: TU,FR 8:30am-10:20am
Credits: 4

In this wide-ranging introduction to the study of international politics, we will be exploring how states and non-state actors negotiate their interactions in an increasingly interconnected, interdependent and globalized world. Core themes will include: contending theoretical approaches to international relations (realism, liberalism/idealism, constructivism,

CAPA Environment Politics

Foundations of Global Politics — POL2103.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Credits: 4
In this wide-ranging introduction to the study of international politics, we will be exploring how states and non-state actors negotiate their interactions in an increasingly interconnected, interdependent and globalized world. Core themes will include: contending theoretical approaches to international relations (realism, liberalism/idealism, constructivism, structuralism,
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Foundations of Global Politics — POL2103.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Credits: 4
In this wide-ranging introduction to the study of international politics, we will be exploring how states and non-state actors negotiate their interactions in an increasingly interconnected, interdependent and globalized world. Core themes will include: contending theoretical approaches to international relations (realism, liberalism/idealism, constructivism, structuralism,
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Foundations of Photography/Analog — PHO2204.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Terry Boddie
Credits: 4
This is an analog film-based black-and-white photography course designed for those with little or no experience in photography. Emphasis will be placed on the application of technique in terms of personal expression through the selection and composition of subject matter. The course comprises technical lectures, darkroom demonstrations; lectures on historical and contemporary
Visual Arts

Foundations of Photography/Analog — PHO2204.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Terry Boddie
Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

This is an analog film-based black-and-white photography course designed for those with little or no experience in photography. Emphasis will be placed on the application of technique in terms of personal expression through the selection and composition of subject matter. The course comprises technical lectures, darkroom demonstrations; lectures on historical

Photography

Foundations of Photography/Analog — PHO2204.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
Credits: 4
This course is designed to allow students to explore photography using analog cameras and black and white film. Students will acquire basic skills in 35mm camera handling, light meters and exposure, film development, and making enlargements in the wet labs. In addition the class will research the formal and socio-political content of contemporary practitioners working globally
Visual Arts