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Advanced Workshop in Photographic Practice — PHO4250.02

Spring 2016
Instructor:
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This course meets the second seven weeks of the term and supports advanced students who are working primarily with photography as they pursue self-directed projects. Regular group discussion will challenge, complicate, clarify and deepen students understanding of their work in progress as they resolve its production both formally and conceptually. We will examine specific
Visual Arts

Advanced Workshop in Recording — MSR4152.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: TBA
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Continuing studies in modern recording and production techniques. We will incorporate detail oriented listening and analysis of a variety of commercial and noncommercial recordings to discover technical and musical processes. All students will be expected to spend time in the studio each week and to bring works-in-progress to each class for listening and discussion.
Music

Advanced Workshop in Recording — MSR4152.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Julie Last
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Continuing studies in modern recording and production techniques. We will incorporate detail oriented listening and analysis of a variety of commercial and noncommercial recordings to discover technical and musical processes. All students will be expected to spend time in the studio each week and to bring works-in-progress to each class for listening and discussion. Members of
Music

Advanced/Senior Projects in Dance — DAN4712.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Days & Time: M 7:00PM-8:50PM, W 4:10PM-6:00PM
Credits: 4

This is an essential course for students wishing to make new work for performance this term, whether one project or a series. It is designed specifically to support each person’s artistic voice and manner of working.

Attention will be given to all elements involved in composition and production, including collaborative aspects. Students are expected to show their

Dance

Advanced/Senior Projects in Dance — DAN4712.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
For students with prior experience in dance composition who wish to be involved in making new work for performance or senior work. Taking into account specific circumstances related to the pandemic, we will consider an expanded notion of how work can be shared with the public. Attention will be given to all of the elements involved in composition and production,
Dance

Advanced/Senior Projects in Dance — DAN4712.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This is an essential course for students wishing to make new work for performance this term, whether one project or a series. It is designed specifically to support each person’s artistic voice and manner of working. Attention will be given to all elements involved in composition and production, including collaborative aspects. Students are expected to show their work
Dance

Advanced/Senior Projects in Dance — DAN4712.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Levi Gonzalez
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
For students with prior experience in dance making who wish to create new work for performance or senior work. We will share our work regularly, explore different feedback modalities, and reflect on our own individual artistic approaches and concerns. Attention will be given to the elements involved in composition, production, collaboration and presentation. Students are
Dance

Adventures in Max — MCO2122.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This course will look at the peculiarly versatile program of Max/MSP/Jitter, a high-level programming platform for sound and visuals. Our focus will be on the sonic capabilities of the program, though we will dip occasional into visuals, video, and sensing technologies. Students will develop independent research, and projects based on their interests and abilities, and must
Music Visual Arts

Aesthetics — PHI2253.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Karen Gover
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Why do we care about art? Why and how do artworks move us? What, if anything, do artworks mean, and how do we know? This course takes up these and other questions relating to the philosophy of art and artworks. This course will look at the philosophical tradition of aesthetics, including Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel, up to the present day. We will also look at the role of
Society Culture and Thought

Aesthetics — PHI2253.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Karen Gover
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Why do we care about art? Why and how do artworks move us? What, if anything, do artworks mean, and how do we know? This course takes up these and other questions relating to the philosophy of art and artworks. This course will look at the philosophical tradition of aesthetics, including Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel, up to the present day. We will also look at the role of
Society Culture and Thought Visual Arts

Aesthetics — PHI2253.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Karen Gover
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Why do we care about art? Why and how do artworks move us? What, if anything, do artworks mean, and how do we know? This course takes up these and other questions relating to the philosophy of art and artworks. This course will look at the philosophical tradition of aesthetics, including Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel, up to the present day. We will also look at the role of
Social Science

Aesthetics of Care: Visual Strategies for Community Engagement — APA2199.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: sTo Len
Days & Time: MO 1:40pm-5:20pm
Credits: 2

With billions of images uploaded to the internet daily, we are bombarded by media content on corporately owned platforms from news outlets to algorithmic social media feeds and YouTube videos. How do we create meaningful independent media for each other in this current age of disinformation? What importance do physical materials such as books, zines, posters, and pamphlets

Advancement of Public Action

African American Music: An Overview — MHI2112.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course will survey African-American music tracing its development from African origins to more contemporary forms. Studying the genres in order of chronological development, the course will cover both secular and religious music forms of African-American culture, identifying the characteristics that clearly delineate and define the African American music-culture. Study of
Music

African Conflict Resolution — POL4254.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
The prevention, management and resolution of African conflicts is a major challenge for the international community and the continent’s peoples. Africa accounts for the largest and highest number of United Nations’ peacekeeping operations, but these “stabilization” missions have mostly failed to stabilize the continent, and  large segments of the African population
CAPA Black Studies Society Culture and Thought

African Conflict Resolution — POL4254.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
The prevention, management and resolution of African conflicts constitute a defining challenge for the international community, including the United Nations (UN), which has mounted multi‐billion dollar peace operations on the continent. Despite the peace dividend from these operations and other interventions, large segments of the African population continue to live in deadly
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

African Music Ensemble — MHI4134.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: michael wimberly
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The African Music Ensemble explores folkloric and popular music from Africa, Cuba, Brazil and the African diaspora. Using rhythms and songs, drums and non-traditional African instruments such as, violin, viola, cello, electric and acoustic guitar, bass, flute, trumpet, and saxophone, we will learn songs and arrangements for performance on campus and for the greater Bennington
Music

African Music Ensemble — MHI4134.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This course is a continuation of the class Drumming: An Extension of Language. Using indigenous percussion instruments from West Africa, students will continue to develop hand and stick drumming patterns, techniques, and songs in several African languages. The class will expand on this music in preparation for outreach and performances at Bennington College,
Music

African Music Ensemble — MHI4134.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
African Music Ensemble explores the music, drumming and songs of West Africa and Mozambique. This performance ensemble will explore traditional bala (West African xylophone), djembe, dundunba, kpanlogo, n'todje, shakere, and songs in Wolof, Manding, Yoruba.
Music

Afro-Futurism and Black Horror — LIT4289.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Phillip Williams
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In this class we will read stories, novels, and essays that interrogate the execution and historicity of Black horror and and the Afro-future, using Black horror as the foundation for deeper intellectual and aesthetic delving into Afro-futuristic texts. We will engage with the question: How does Black horror reflect and shatter historical notions of horrific acts against Black
Literature

After Borges — SPA4302.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Whether he is the last modernist, or the first postmodern, the least Latin American of all Latin American authors or perhaps the most, the grand destroyer of all illusions or ultimately their victim, in the wake of his own statement that “Every writer creates his own precursors” Jorge Luis Borges has already provided the theoretical premise for so much subsequent work that this
Languages

After Borges — SPA4117.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Whether he is the last modernist, or the first postmodern, the least Latin American of all Latin American authors or perhaps the most, the grand destroyer of all illusions or ultimately their victim, in the wake of his own statement that “Every writer creates his own precursors,” Jorge Luis Borges has already provided the theoretical premise for so much subsequent work that
Languages

After Oil: The Promise and Problems of Alternative Energy — SCI2119.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: John Bullock
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
It is conventional wisdom that we need to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels in coming years. The reasons include not only the growing problem of climate change, but the simple fact that supplies are finite and new energy sources must be developed on scales large enough to meet the ever-increasing demand throughout the world. This course will begin with an examination of how
Environment Science and Mathematics

After Super Flat — VA2207.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Manga or Japanese comic book and Anime images have become integrated into the global contemporary art context. While investigating the social codes that can be found in the various genres of manga and trends within the cultural specificities of Japan from 1945 to today, this course explores the influences of Manga/Anime on fine art and contemporary art making. This is a
Visual Arts