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Linear Algebra — MAT4115.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Carly Briggs

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Credits: 4

Together with calculus, linear algebra is one of the foundations of higher level mathematics and its applications. This course is necessary for students concentrating in mathematics, is strongly recommended for students intending to study computer science, physics, or geology, and may be useful for students in economics or biology. This course is a prerequisite for

Science and Mathematics

Linear Algebra — MAT2482.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Carly Briggs

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Credits: 4

Together with calculus, linear algebra is one of the foundations of higher-level mathematics and its applications. This course is necessary for students concentrating in mathematics, is strongly recommended for students intending to study computer science, physics, or geology, and may be useful for students in economics or biology. This course is a prerequisite for

Science and Mathematics

Linear Algebra — MAT4115.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Carly Briggs

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Credits: 4

Science and Mathematics

Linear Algebra — MAT4115.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

Together with calculus, linear algebra is one of the foundations of higher level mathematics and its applications. There are several perspectives one can take on linear algebra: it is a method for handling large systems of equations, it is a theory of higher dimensional geometry, and it is a theoretical construct that appears throughout mathematics and physics, among other

Science Mathematics and Computing

Linear Algebra — MAT2482.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre

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Credits: 4

Science and Mathematics

Linear Algebra — MAT2482.01) (day/time change as of 5/16/2023

Fall 2023

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

Together with calculus, linear algebra is one of the foundations of higher-level mathematics and its applications. This is NOT just the algebra you know from high school. There are several perspectives one can take on linear algebra: it is a method for handling large systems of linear equations, it is a theory of linear geometry (including in dimensions larger than three), it

Science and Mathematics

Linear Algebra — MAT4115.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre

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Credits: 4

Science and Mathematics

Linear Algebra — MAT2482.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

Science and Mathematics

Linear Algebra — MAT2482.01

Fall 2020

Instructor: carlybriggs@bennington.edu

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

Science and Mathematics

Linear Algebra: An Introduction — MAT2482.01

Fall 2025

Instructor: Joe Mundt

Days & Time: T/Th 6:30PM-8:30PM

Credits: 4

Mathematics Computer Science

Linguistic Field Methods — LIN4116.01

Spring 2026

Instructor: Alexia Fawcett

Days & Time: MO,TH 3:40pm-5:30pm

Credits: 4

This course is designed to equip students with the basic methodologies necessary to carry out linguistic fieldwork with speakers/users of un(der)documented languages. Students will be trained in the skills and tools of language documentation and description by working with a speaker of a language previously unknown to them. Learning and

Sociolinguistics Linguistics

Linguistics of Music — MTH4258.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Kitty Brazelton

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Credits: 4

(Formerly "Towards a Theory of Rock") Students in this course will collaborate with instructor to generate a set of grammatical "rules" for various rock genres. To do this, we will review existing theories and grammars of Western classical and other musics. We will investigate existing scholarly studies of rock. After that, much of the course will be student-directed with a

Music

Linguistics of Music — MTH4258.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Kitty Brazelton

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Credits: 4

Students collaborate with instructor to generate a set of grammatical "rules" for various musical genres. We review existing theories and grammars of Western classical and other musics, compare parallels between 20th-c. theories of Heinrich Schenker and Noam Chomsky, and gather musical data from scores, recordings and our own transcription. The course will culminate in

Music

Listening and Making — APA2340.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati

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Credits: 2

This class, for makers in any discipline, explores sound as a resource for creative practice. In our sessions we will engage in specific listening protocols and respond through writing, drawing, recording, moving, and experimental forms of notation. We will gather a wide variety of sounds as source material: reading texts aloud to each other, listening to field recordings,

CAPA

Listening to psyche: an interdisciplinary method of generating choreography — DAN2259.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Levi Gonzalez

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Credits: 1

This course is for people who are developing a choreographic voice. In this course, Parijat Desai will offer processes she is using to develop choreographic material for her project How Do I Become WE as well as for her ongoing artistic practice. How Do I Become WE is a participatory performance ritual based on a Tamil folk narrative in which a woman keeps a story

Dance

Listening: Acting as Crafting the Visual and Listening with Intention — DRA4128.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Gian-Murray Gianino

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Credits: 4

This class gives theater artists the time and space to further develop their understanding of listening as a fundamental tenet of acting and necessary tool. Through exercises and prepared studies of scenes, students will explore listening as defined as absorbing and responding to the truth, moment by moment. Stanislavski's Active Analysis and its relationship to the Viewpoints

Drama

Literary Bennington — LIT2390.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Benjamin Anastas

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 2

We all know the literary generation that Bennington produced in the 1980s and early 90s: Donna Tartt, Bret Easton Ellis, Jonathan Lethem and Kiran Desai. But how seriously have we read their work? And what about the illustrious faculty who prepared the literary ground for those who came after: Bernard Malamud, Kenneth Burke, Stanley Edgar Hyman (and his wife the novelist

Literature

Literary Bennington — LIT2390.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Benjamin Anastas

Days & Time:

Credits: 2

We all know the literary generation that Bennington produced in the 1980s and early 90s: Donna Tartt, Bret Easton Ellis, Jonathan Lethem, and Kiran Desai. But how seriously have we read their work? And what about the illustrious faculty who prepared the literary ground for those who came after: Bernard Malamud, Kenneth Burke, Stanley Edgar Hyman (and his wife the novelist

Literature

Literature and History of the Holocaust — LIT2582.01

Spring 2026

Instructor: Michael Dumanis

Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm

Credits: 4

The Holocaust is one of the most ethically challenging, traumatic, and consequential occurrences in modern history. This seminar aims to give students a granular understanding of the mass oppression, enslavement, and genocide that occurred in Europe in the 1930s and 1940s, in order to then consider how it has been represented in poetry, drama, fiction, and nonfiction both by

Literature History

Literature as Resistance: The works of Rosario Castellanos — SPA4304.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Rosario de Swanson

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Credits: 4

Although Rosario Castellanos (1925-1974) is recognized as one of Mexico’s most important writers, she did not live to see the impact of her contributions to the feminist revolution of the latter half of the twentieth century, participate in the first Conferencia Mundial de la Mujer that took place in 1975 in Mexico City, or in the recent Encuentro Internacional de Mujeres que

Cultural Studies and Languages

Literature of Barcelona and Madrid — SPA4806.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Sarah Harris

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Credits: 4

Only two cities in Spain have over one million inhabitants, and these same two cities often seem at odds with each other. One city is geographically and politically central, the seat of the royal family, while the other is on the periphery, with a government that is currently in exile. Architecturally, one is largely neoclassical and monumental, while the other can seem

Languages

Literature of Barcelona and Madrid — SPA4218.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Sarah Harris

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Credits: 4

Only two cities in Spain have over one million inhabitants, and these same two cities often seem at odds with each other. One city is geographically and politically central, the seat of the royal family, while the other is on the periphery. Architecturally, one is largely neoclassical and monumental, while the other can seem dreamlike and surreal. One speaks what Antonio

Languages

Literature of the AIDS Pandemic — LIT2513.02

Fall 2020

Instructor: Michael Dumanis

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Credits: 2

In the 1980s and early 1990s, the AIDS epidemic was regarded as a global catastrophe with no hope of remedy. For many, the disease was an uncomfortable subject, one that some at first refused to address by name and others chose to ignore entirely, an illness intertwined in the collective imagination with mainstream culture’s perceptions of, and fears of, gay culture. In this

Literature

Literature of the AIDS Pandemic — LIT2513.01

Fall 2022

Instructor: Michael Dumanis

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Credits: 2

Literature

Literature of the Holocaust — LIT2526.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

Philosopher Theodor Adorno famously claimed that writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric. Adorno didn’t write this statement to silence poets. Specifically referencing the poet Paul Celan, he meant that poetry after the Holocaust would need to be radically different to account for these historic atrocities. We will begin by reading Franz Kafka’s unfinished novel, The Castle,

Literature