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Genres and Forms of Poetry — LIT4164.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course will closely examine various modes in which poetry is commonly written. We will master the vocabulary and practice of traditional prosody, acquire a familiarity with writing in meter, and attempt such traditional forms as the villanelle, the sestina, the pantoum, the rondel, and the ghazal. We will also closely examine various modes in which poetry is commonly
Literature

Genres and Forms of Poetry — LIT4164.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course will closely examine various modes in which poetry is commonly written, including the elegy, the ode, the ekphrastic, the prose poem, the pastoral, the aubade, and the litany. Students will also be introduced to the vocabulary and practice of traditional prosody, acquire a familiarity with writing in meter and using rhyme, and attempt traditional forms such as the
Literature

Genres and Forms of Poetry — LIT4164.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course will closely examine various genres of poetry, including the narrative poem, the elegy, the ode, the ekphrastic, the prose poem, the pastoral, the aubade, the list poem, and the erasure. Students will also be introduced to traditional prosody and acquire a familiarity with writing in meter, and will read poetry written in such traditional forms as the villanelle,
Literature

Genres and Forms of Poetry — LIT4164.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course will closely examine various modes in which poetry is commonly written, possibly including the narrative poem, the elegy, the ode, the ekphrastic, the prose poem, the pastoral, the litany or list poem, the documentary poem, the conceptual poem, and the erasure. Students will also be introduced to the vocabulary and practice of traditional prosody,
Literature

Geographies of Food Part II: Decolonizing, and Re-indigenizing Research Intensive — APA4303.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
The course examines food in relationship to land and race in the context of the political history of colonialism. We will explore indigenous voices within the theoretical framework of food sovereignty issues and the industrialized global food system. This is a transdisciplinary research-based class that investigates less obvious factors relating to space/place, heritage,
CAPA

Geographies of Food: De-industrializing, Decolonizing and Re-indigenizing — APA4244.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
The course examines food in relationship to land and politics in the context of the history of colonialism. We will explore indigenous voices within the theoretical framework of food sovereignty issues and the industrialized global food system. This is a transdisciplinary research-based class that investigates less obvious factors relating to space/place, heritage, cultural
CAPA

Geographies of U.S. Empire: Immigration, Race, and Citizenship — SCT2137.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Emily Mitchell-Eaton
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course examines the complex historical and contemporary formations that constitute U.S. empire, through a particular attention to immigration, race, and citizenship. Its aim is to provide students with a critical view of how immigration law has formed part of U.S. national and imperial projects. Using an geographically informed interdisciplinary approach, we will explore
Society Culture and Thought

Geology of the Bennington Region — ES2101.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Tim Schroeder
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
The stunning landscapes seen from Bennington’s campus were sculpted by geologic processes over millions of years. Bennington College lies near an ancient boundary, along which the Proto-North American continent’s coast collided with other continental fragments over 400 million years ago to build the continent as we see today. The Bennington region is an excellent natural
Science and Mathematics Environment

Geology of the Bennington Region — ES2101.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: tim schroeder
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The stunning landscapes seen from Bennington's campus were sculpted by geologic processes over millions of years. Bennington College lies near an ancient boundary, along which the Proto-North American continent's coast collided with other continental fragments over 400 million years ago to build the continent as we see today. The Bennington region is an excellent natural
Science Mathematics and Computing

Geometry — MAT2106.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In the nineteenth and twentieth (and twenty-first!) centuries, mathematicians have been stretching the idea of "geometry" far beyond the geometry of Euclid most people are familiar with: into the fourth (or higher) dimension, curved spaces, and more. This new geometry (the part I am referring to is called "differential geometry and topology") is philosophically and
Science and Mathematics

Geometry and Physics — MAT2245.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This is an introductory course on modern geometry and its relationship to physics. We will be looking at how space might have more than three dimensions, or be combined with time, or be closed in on itself in different ways (such as the surface of a sphere or a donut), or be curved in various ways. Our current theories and observations in physics indicate that space and time
Science and Mathematics

Geometry and Physics — MAT2245.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In the nineteenth and twentieth (and twenty-first!) centuries, mathematicians have been stretching the idea of “geometry” far beyond the geometry of Euclid's triangles and circles most people are familiar with: into the fourth (or higher) dimension, curved spaces, and more. This new geometry (the part I am referring to is technically called “differential geometry and topology”)
Science and Mathematics

Getting Good at Change: Systemic Thinking and Practice — APA2125.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Robert Ransick and Howard Silverman, Workshop leader
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
The promises of innovation, creativity, and design are the promises of change. But how can you know if the promises are real? What does it mean to “get good at change”? In this workshop, we will critically examine theories and practices for purposeful change. We will pay particular attention to relationships between personal and social change, models and methods
CAPA

Getting the Story, Getting in Close: Longform Journalism in Conflict Zones — LIT2296.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
In this course, we will read the work a range of long-form journalism--reporting that depends on deep research, cultural and linguistic immersion and/or reliance of interpreters, translators, and local guides; knowledge of history, geography, and politics; military embedments; and medical training. Expect to read Luke Mogelson ('07), Robin Wright, Dexter Filkins, Alma
Literature

Ghost Stories — DRA2386.01

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

In this course, we will read and write ghost stories. We will pay particular attention to the uses of ghosts in plays, with some diversions into film, fiction, and our own personal ghost experiences. You do not need to believe in the paranormal to take this class: we will consider traditional ghosts (the spooky kind) while also thinking more broadly about memory, absence,

Drama

Ghostly Body- The Art of Absence — DAN2349.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Mina Nishimura
Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 2

This course requires no previous dance experience, and is open to anyone who is interested in the art of absence or art that deals with the presence of things we cannot see — the invisibles, empty space and silence – found across different art forms and practices.

Dance

Ghostly Body- The Art of Absence — DAN2349.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Mina Nishimura
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This course requires no previous dance experience, and is open to anyone who is interested in the art of absence or art that deals with the presence of things we cannot see -- the invisibles, empty space and silence – found across different art forms and practices. We will investigate the potentiality of “in-between space” and “subject-less body,” while introducing some
Dance

Ghostly Body- The Art of Absence — DAN2349.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Mina Nishimura
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This course requires no previous dance experience, and is open to anyone who is interested in the art of absence or art that deals with the presence of things we cannot see -- the invisibles, empty space and silence – found across different art forms and practices. We will investigate the potentiality of “in-between space” and “subject-less body,” while introducing some
Dance

Ghosts and Demons in Japan — JPN4403.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course explores the supernatural world and its inhabitants as imagined in Japanese literature and visual culture from ancient times to the present day. Our survey will take in a wide variety of fantastic phenomena, including spirit possession and exorcism in Japanese literature, the “hungry ghosts” of medieval Buddhist folklore, interwar Gothic tales of the bizarre,
Cultural Studies and Languages

Gifts and Gift Exchange — PSY4131.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Ronald Cohen
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Whether between two people, or among several in a gathering or a small group, people usually manage to coordinate their activity with others. The rules that underlie, create, and maintain orderliness and permit people to carry on their activities are usually out of immediate, conscious awareness, and their existence is recognized only when they are violated. We will examine
Society Culture and Thought

Glaze and Kiln Technology — CER2137.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Jack Yu; see Barry Bartlett for registration
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This course will focus on fundamental technical requirements needed by intermediate and advanced level students pursuing advanced level projects in ceramics. Students will gain specific skills through focused training, learn about clay and glaze components in depth and the mechanics of kilns. An emphasis will be placed on understanding the chemistry behind glazes and how the
Visual Arts

Glaze Chemistry — CER2141.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Jack Yu
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This course will focus on the technical requirements needed for beginning students to progress to intermediate or advanced projects in ceramics. This course will focus on the exploration of fired ceramic surfaces and the fundamentals of formulating glazes for use in ceramic art. An emphasis will be placed on understanding the chemistry behind glazes and how the molecular
Visual Arts