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This course will be an introduction to music practices of the Mediterranean, encompassing Southern Europe, West Asia, and North Africa. Our central aim will be to develop familiarity with a range of music traditions—folk, religious, popular, and classical—by studying their underlying melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic principles. We will also examine the function of these

A revival of an old tradition in the playing of Shakespeare has been rocking stages around the world: cross-gender casting. Shakespeare’s plays were originally performed by men and boys. But when the Globe Theater’s all male double bill of Twelfth Night and Richard III hit Broadway in 2013, theatergoers screamed with delight. Similarly, when Phyllida Lloyd and Harriet Walter

This course will be an exploration of metafiction and authorship in Spanish literature, film, and other arts. Through a careful consideration of several important, often playful, yet sharply critical works in Spanish, as well as their most significant theoretical underpinnings, students will read and discuss text that calls attention to itself as an artifice, and therefore,

This course is designed to introduce students to the processes involved in casting Iron and Aluminum. Students will work with foundry wax and learn how to produce a sculpted object either by hand or that of some other method covered in class. These additional methods could include machining parts, 3d printing objects or casting from the body. After a form has been produced the

This course is designed to introduce students to the processes involved in casting Iron and Aluminum. Students will work with foundry wax and learn how to produce a sculpted object either by hand or that of some other method covered in class. These additional methods could include machining parts, 3d printing objects or casting from the body. After a form has been produced the

This course is designed to introduce students to the processes involved in casting iron and aluminum. Students will work with foundry wax and learn how to produce a sculpted object either by hand or that of some other method covered in class. These additional methods could include machining parts, 3d printing objects, or casting from the body. After a form has been produced,

This seven-week intensive studio class will focus on enhancing skills that were taught in the introduction metal-shop class and further develop these techniques based on the manipulation of mild and cold rolled steel. Many sculptural processes will be demonstrated within this seven-week intensive course that builds further on the knowledge and practice covered in prior classes

T­­­­­his seven week intensive metal shop course will involve basic safety instruction for all stationary power tools and hand tools. Demonstrations will be observed and understood before practicing on your own. The following processes will be covered in this course: introduction to the material, oxygen and acetylene cutting and welding, plasma cutting, arc welding (stick), and

This course is recommended for all students considering working in sculpture. It is open to other students with a curiosity about materials and building processes. There are fundamental introductions to gas and electric welding, forging, fabrication techniques, and general shop safety. This course will be offered the first seven weeks of term.

This course is recommended for all students considering working in sculpture and interested in mild steel design methods. It is open to all students with a curiosity about materials and building processes. There are fundamental introductions to gas and electric welding, forging, fabrication techniques, and general shop safety. Please note that this course may require

This course is recommended for all students considering working in sculpture and interested in mild steel design methods. It is open to all students with a curiosity about materials and building processes. There are fundamental introductions to gas and electric welding (MIG and TIG), forging, fabrication techniques, and general shop safety. Please note that this course may

This course is recommended for all students considering working in sculpture and interested in mild steel design methods. It is open to all students with a curiosity about materials and building processes. There are fundamental introductions to gas and electric welding (electrode/stick,GMAW), forging (cold and hot), fabrication techniques, and general shop safety. Please note

This course is recommended for all students considering working in sculpture. It is open to other students with a curiosity about materials and building processes. There are fundamental introductions to gas and electric welding, forging, fabrication techniques, and general shop safety. This course will be offered the first seven weeks of the term.

This course is project based and students are evaluated on their ability to use the shop tools with proficiency and safety.Metal workshop is recommended for all students considering working in sculpture and interested in any ferrous fabrication methods. There are fundamental introductions to acetylene cutting / welding, electric welding (GMAW and stick welding) forging,

This seven week intensive class will involve basic safety instruction for all stationary power tools and hand tools. All demonstrations will be observed and understood before practicing on your own. The following processes will be covered in this course: introduction to the mild steel, oxygen and acetylene cutting and welding, plasma cutting, arc welding, MIG welding, hot and

This course is project based and students are evaluated on their ability to use the shop tools with proficiency and safety. For this second seven weeks we will work from a plan and fabricate the North Gate here at Bennington College. As it stands a temporary chain acts as the membrane between North Bennington and Bennington College.  This is an opportunity to be a part of

This course is project based and is a second part to the first seven weeks metal workshop course. In this course we will focus on cutting and welding non-ferrous metals. Hand cutting and CNC assisted plasma cutting will be the methods in which stock will be cut. The fabrication processes will begin through brazing methods (acetylene) for connecting non-similar metals. We will

For the second seven weeks we will develop skills in working with equipment that lends itself to non- ferrous metals, other exotic alloys, and stainless steel. We will gain knowledge of GTAW welding in the areas of direct current electrode negative (DCEN), direct current electrode positive (DCEP), and also AC welding. With new technologies we are able to adjust the output

This course is project based and students are evaluated on their ability to use the shop tools with proficiency and safety. For the second seven weeks we will develop skills in working with equipment that lends itself to non- ferrous metals, other exotic alloys, and stainless steel. We will gain knowledge of GTAW welding in the areas of direct current electrode negative (DCEN),

This course is recommended for all students considering working in sculpture and interested in mild steel design/fabrication methods. It is open to anyone with a curiosity about materials and building processes. There are fundamental introductions to gas, arc, electric welding, forging, fabrication techniques like cutting and grinding

This course on devised theater is aimed at students who have experienced living in more than one culture and are interested in creating a multilingual theater piece inspired by their own experiences of crossing cultures, sensing boundaries, and the role of transformation. We will read selections from contemporary writers, such as Marjane Satrapi, Gloria Anzaldua, and Kapka

Through this course, students will develop practical and theoretical familiarity with the essential “toolkit” of sociophonetic methods and analytical techniques, including but not limited to: principles of experimental design, ethical field practice, acoustic analysis, and statistical techniques in language research.  Students will refine and advance these skills via their

Everything is geometry! This class is about two things: first, about how mathematicians have extended the concept of "geometry" beyond triangles and circles, into higher-dimensional spaces, curved spaces, spaces of functions, discrete spaces, and more. Second, about how this extension of "geometry" can allow us to apply our powerful geometric intuition to a wide range of

This course introduces students to econometric approaches to asking and answering questions about the economy, with a specific focus on labor markets. We will analyze data sets to explore socioeconomic questions centered around labor such as: What factors affect a person’s income, and how do we know? How might we investigate the main causes of