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Movement Practice: The Principles of Allongé — DAN2279.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This dance class examines the principles of allongé in the dancing body. Allongé is the French adjective used to describe a “position” that is stretched or made longer. Otherwise known as ‘qi’, extension or pointing, allongé allows energy to move from the center of mass (in the pelvis) out through the spine, tail and limbs, extending into the distance (with the imagination) and
Dance

Movement Practice: Yoga, Gymnastics and Dance — DAN2213.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Terry Creach
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
For students interested in "moving-through" or flowing yoga asanas informed by attention to alignment, along with basic gymnastic floor-exercise skills that deal with momentum and more complex coordinated actions. We will warm-up with the stretching/strengthening poses and sequences from yoga and apply the alignment principles to rolls, handstands, and cartwheels in order to
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Movement Practice: Yoga, Gymnastics, and Dance — DAN2213.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Terry Creach
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
For students interested in "moving-through" or flowing yoga asanas informed by attention to alignment, along with basic gymnastic floor-exercise skills that deal with momentum and more complex coordinated actions. We will warm-up with the stretching/strengthening poses and sequences from yoga and apply the alignment principles to rolls, handstands, and cartwheels in order to
Dance

Movement Practice:  Dance Improvisation — DAN2153.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Terry Creach
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
For those seeking a rigorous and adventurous movement practice. No prior movement training necessary.  We will work with the essential aspects of moving, to develop basic skills of physical articulation, strength and endurance, and to expand our physical range and potential.    By actively engaging in the play of improvisation, we learn to respond
Dance

Moving and Forming (Dance Composition) — Canceled

Spring 2015
Instructor: Terry Creach
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
For both first-time and intermediate choreographers, this is an exploration of the basic components of moving and forming. We work improvisationally to build physical awareness, unearth movement ideas, images, and memories, and form many small dances. We develop improvisational scores as well as set pieces, and give particular attention to the performance site. Projects are
Dance

Moving into Creative Process — MOD2140.03

Spring 2015
Instructor: Terry Creach
Days & Time:
Credits: 1
No prior movement training required. The less the better. Looking to locate and deepen our creative impulses, we will use moving as the medium for forming a series of short studies. We will research practices that can support and expand our personal work processes and endeavor to rid ourselves of the distractions and habits that limit us. We will look at the preparation and
Dance Modules: Transferable Approaches

Moving into Creative Process — MOD2140.04

Spring 2015
Instructor: Terry Creach
Days & Time:
Credits: 1
No prior movement training required. The less the better. Looking to locate and deepen our creative impulses, we will use moving as the medium for forming a series of short studies. We will research practices that can support and expand our personal work processes and endeavor to rid ourselves of the distractions and habits that limit us. We will look at the preparation and
Dance Modules: Transferable Approaches

Moving/ Forming/ Partnering — DAN2118.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Terry Creach
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This beginning level course is for any students interested and/or curious about the dance-making process, whether or not they have previous dance experience. We will first work to develop physical awareness and physical facility and work to unearth movement ideas, images, and memories. In the partnering practices we will deal with many of the same questions found in Contact
Dance

Mozart's Idomeneo — MVO4265.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Gods, kings, princesses, sea serpents...at Bennington! This seven week class invites students to participate in a concert performance of Mozart's "choral opera" Idomeneo performed by the Bennington Choral Society with professional singers and orchestra. Students will learn the extensive choral sections and be considered for minor roles. The chorus will play different roles
Drama Music

Multi-Media Performance: Manipulating Time/ Space — MA4146.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Sue Rees; Jean Randich
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
The class will be concerned with investigating the interaction of projected manipulated imagery with performers, motion, and space. The course will be a forum for actors, animators, dancers, video artists, and others to explore the interaction of live performance and mediated images. Investigation will center on how projections can be integrated into performance and used to
Visual Arts

Multi-Party and Full Track Diplomacy — MED4203.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Michael Cohen
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
The world of diplomacy is traditionally divided into three tracks consisting of Track 1 (high-level political, military leaders, and official negotiators who discuss major agreements), Track 2 (academics, religious leaders, and managers who focus on relationships and problem solving often in new ways), and Track 3 (People to People diplomacy). Underutilized is a fourth track
CAPA

Multi-Species Lab — APA2302.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: RRansick@bennington.edu
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
The Multi-Species Lab is an art and research class focused on creative practices and strategies that decenter the human being in a world of ecological uncertainty and recalibration. Through collaborative and creative activities and assignments, we will research and question ideas of how to understand life—including human life—as a plural and ecologically enmeshed phenomenon.
CAPA Environment Visual Arts

Multilingualism and Cognition — PSY4249.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Anne Gilman
Days & Time: MO,TH 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 4

How are language and thought connected, and does speaking multiple languages affect these connections?  Most people have had the experience of struggling to come up with a particular word or phrase, sometimes recalling it after a substantial delay.  This course will unpack the mental processes involved in that experience and explore the ways that cognitive

Cultural Studies and Languages Linguistics Psychology

Multivariable Calculus — MAT4301.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 4

Multivariable calculus is one of the core parts of an undergraduate mathematics curriculum. Introductory calculus mostly concentrates on situations where there is one input and one output variable; multivariable extends differentiation, integration, and differential equations to cases where there are multiple input and output variables. In this way, multivariable calculus

Mathematics

Multivariable Calculus — MAT4301.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Multivariable calculus is one of the core parts of an undergraduate mathematics curriculum. Introductory calculus mostly concentrates on situations where there is one input and one output variable; multivariable extends differentiation, integration, and differential equations to cases where there are multiple input and output variables. In this way, multivariable calculus
Science and Mathematics

Multivariable Calculus — MAT4301.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: carlybriggs@bennington.edu
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course covers the standard topics in multivariable calculus, including derivatives as linear transformations, Lagrange multipliers, and vector derivatives div, grad, and curl. If time allows, we will look at applications in electromagnetism, and in particular towards developing Maxwell’s equations, in both their classical vector form and their modern expression in
Science and Mathematics

Multivariable Calculus and Differential Geometry — MAT4147.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This class will cover multivariable calculus at an advanced level: vector spaces, div, grad and curl, differential forms, and Stokes’ theorems. The coverage will be at the level of Loomis and Sternberg’s Advanced Calculus. The course will also provide an introduction to the rudiments of differential geometry: connections, curvature, and the Gauss-Bonnet theorem. Applications
Science and Mathematics

Multivariable Calculus and Electromagnetism — MAT4132.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course covers the standard topics in multivariable calculus, including derivatives as linear transformations, Lagrange multipliers, and vector derivatives div, grad, and curl. It is organized towards applications in electromagnetism, and in particular towards developing Maxwell's equations, in both their classical vector form and their modern expression in differential
Science and Mathematics

Muriel Spark and Jeanette Winterson — LIT2267.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Benjamin Anastas
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
***Time Change*** One was born half-Jewish in Edinburgh, Scotland and found Christ while starving in a London bedsit and taking Benzedrine to stay up writing; the other came from Manchester and was raised to be an evangelist by the Pentecostal family that had adopted her until her first lesbian affair got her kicked out of church and family and she had to work her way through
Literature

Muriel Spark and the Vanishing Novel — LIT4534.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Benjamin Anastas
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Muriel Spark, beginning in the late 1950s, produced a string of fiercely ambitious and savagely witty novels that harnessed the experimental power of the French nouveau roman and skewered the pieties of life in the postwar period of the 20th century. The problem of knowing; the relationship of art to life; the godlike power of authorship; the criminal scheming of flesh-driven
Literature

Muriel Spark and the Vanishing Novel — LIT4534.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Benjamin Anastas
Days & Time: TU 4:10pm-6:00pm
Credits: 2

Muriel Spark, beginning in the late 1950s, produced a string of fiercely ambitious and savagely witty novels that harnessed the experimental power of the French nouveau roman and skewered the pieties of life in the postwar period of the 20th century. The problem of knowing; the relationship of art to life; the godlike power of authorship; the criminal

Literature

Music and Culture: An Introduction to Ethnomusicology — MET2136.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Joseph Alpar
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course will be a hands-on introduction to ethnomusicology, the study of music in its social and cultural contexts. Ethnomusicologists think about the role music plays in everyday life. How do music and musicians build community, ignite protest and revolution, articulate racial identity, express and complicate gender and sexuality, or affirm faith? Some ethnomusicologists
Music Society Culture and Thought

Music and Culture: An Introduction to Ethnomusicology — MHI2206.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Joseph Alpar
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course will be a hands-on introduction to ethnomusicology, the study of music in its social and cultural contexts. Ethnomusicologists think about the role music plays in everyday life. How do music and musicians build community, ignite protest and revolution, articulate racial identity, express and complicate gender and sexuality, or affirm faith? Some ethnomusicologists
Music