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Object Oriented: Creating and Making with Technology — DA4208.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Robert Ransick; Jon Isherwood
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This class examines sophisticated technologies including , laser cutting, 3D printing, and CNC milling that provide new opportunities for conceiving and realizing creative ideas. We engage this new landscape of object making in relation to the fine arts and design. We will examine and respond to varying methodologies that have provoked a re-calibration of conceptual, aesthetic,
Visual Arts

Object-Oriented Programming — CS4153.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Andrew Cencini
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
***Time Change*** In this course, students will learn the principles and practice of object-oriented programming. While much introductory computer science coursework focuses on the fundamentals of programming (program structure, loops, conditionals, design), this course will dig deeper into working in the object-oriented paradigm. Students will learn to program in an object
Science Mathematics and Computing

Observation, Interpretation, and Construction in Ceramics — CER2143.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Barry Bartlett
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This class will investigate natural structures as a way to create form and surface. We will study organisms from the animal and plant kingdoms, investigating how they build structures such as hives, nests, tunnels, reefs, shells, growth structures of trees, plants, seed pods, and other natural growth patterns. This research will lead to students proposing a concept and method
Visual Arts

Observational and Stellar Astronomy — PHY2108.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Hugh Crowl
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
All information that astronomers are able to gather about the universe comes in the form of light. In this class, we will learn the details of observational astronomy and how what we learn from light can tell us about the size, structure, and evolution of stars. This class will involve significant nighttime observing, including observing at Stickney Observatory, so students are
Science Mathematics and Computing

Observational Astronomy — PHY2109.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Hugh Crowl
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
All information that astronomers are able to gather about the universe comes in the form of light. In this class, we will study how astronomers extract information about the universe from the light that reaches Earth, with a particular focus on the size, structure, and evolution of stars. Students will be expected to become familiar with the nighttime sky, the
Science and Mathematics

Observations: Photography and the Environment — PHO4113.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This class explores the many ways photographers have shifted our understanding of the global environment, from documentary projects to collaborative interventions completed over the past 50 years. In addition to studying the works of Ansel Adams, Robert Adams, Mary Mattingly, Trevor Paglen, there will be assigned readings by Elizabeth Kolbert and John McPhee. Students will also
Visual Arts

Observations: Photography and the Environment — PHO4113.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This class explores the many ways photographers have shifted our understanding of the global environment, from documentary projects to collaborative interventions completed over the past 50 years. In addition to studying the works of Ansel Adams, Robert Adams, Mary Mattingly, Trevor Paglen, there will be assigned readings by Elizabeth Kolbert and John McPhee. Students will also
Visual Arts

Occhio all'Italia I: Italian Culture in Depth — ITA4217.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This course takes its name from an online magazine that students of Italian at Bennington produced each Spring between 2016 and 2019. Our class will look closely at several aspects of Italian culture and history, with particular attention to art. Students will cap the course with a research project and create a multimedia journalistic piece for Occhio all'Italia's last issue,
Cultural Studies and Languages

Occhio all'Italia II: Italian Culture in Depth — ITA4218.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This course builds on the preceding "Occhio all'Italia I." It takes its name from an online magazine that students of Italian at Bennington produced each Spring between 2017 and 2019. The class keeps its focus on Italian culture and history, with particular attention to art that we will explore with the help of 3D technology. Students will cap the course with a research project
Cultural Studies and Languages

Odd Times — MPF4103.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Bruce Williamson
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This will be a performance-oriented ensemble exploring the rich and varied tradition of music written in odd time signatures (3/4, 5/4, 7/4, 9/8, 11/8 to name a few). We will choose songs from the folk traditions of Turkey, Bulgaria and other parts of the world, then look at how jazz composers started to embrace these non-duple meters (and still do so today). By examining and
Music

Of Disasters — PEC2103.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This seminar is concerned with the disaster phenomenon. It examines disasters as deviations from norms. Deviations are observed in nature as extreme conditions realize in people’s physical environment (for example, extreme temperature, immoderate rainfall, and violent earth movements), and deviations are experienced in people’s lives as the natural extremes bring
Environment Society Culture and Thought

Of Sound and Nature — MET4102.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Blake Jones
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Sound is critical to the survival, social structure, and well-being of many organisms, human and non-human alike. In this interdisciplinary course we will examine how animals, plants, humans, and other forms of life impact one another through the calls, songs, and other vibrations they make. Using various case studies about music, sound, and society in Papua New Guinea,
Science and Mathematics Environment Music

Of Sound and Nature — MET4102.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Blake Jones
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Sound is critical to the survival, social structure, and well-being of many organisms, human and non-human alike. In this interdisciplinary course we will examine how animals, plants, humans, and other forms of life impact one another through the calls, songs, and other vibrations they make. Using various case studies about music, sound, and society in Papua New Guinea,
Science and Mathematics Environment Music

Off The Chart — DRW4104.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Annette Lawrence
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Athletes accumulate statistics. Musicians write scores. Sailors keep logs. Courts keep records. Artists turn quantitative observations into qualitative experiences. We will look at the works of Charles Gaines, Mark Lombardi, Howardena Pindell, Guillermo Kuitca, Sofie Calle, On Kawara, Alfred Jensen, and Alighiero Boetti as examples for discussion. Students will engage in the
Visual Arts

Off The Chart — DRW4104.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Annette Lawrence
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Athletes accumulate statistics. Musicians write scores. Sailors keep logs. Courts keep records. Artists turn quantitative observations into qualitative experiences. We will look at the works of Charles Gaines, Mark Lombardi, Howardena Pindell, Guillermo Kuitca, Sofie Calle, On Kawara, Alfred Jensen, and Alighiero Boetti as examples for discussion. Students will engage in the
Visual Arts

Off the Page: Conceptualization and Collaboration — DRA2105.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The collaborative process is central to the development of most theatrical work, yet it is often first experienced when people come together to work on a project with imminent production deadlines. Students in this course will have the opportunity to experience the initial portions of the collaborative process several times over, through a series of class projects, free of the
Drama

Offstage — DRA4339.01

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

One secret to great playwriting is that what you put offstage is just as important as what you put on. In this class, we will explore a variety of offstage worlds: from realistic to fantastical, from richly detailed to deliciously sparse. We will think about how playwrights bring offstage environments to life through language—how a single

Drama

On Collecting: Writings of Walter Benjamin — VA4209.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Anne Thompson
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course examines major themes in the writings of German philosopher and cultural theorist Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) including history, politics, aesthetics, technology, urban life, archives, and collections. Our goal is to gain a greater understanding of Benjamin’s significance for cultural producers across disciplines, in particular artists, critics, and curators. Texts
Visual Arts

On Sustaining a Practice of Documentation — LIT2002.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
The violence enacted on marginalized people is met with a poetry of resistance: art and literature as a political tool accessible to the masses. What service do poetics and artists' practices offer to liberation, memory, and grief? Through a critical analysis of documentary poetic practices within a Black feminist framework, this course seeks to identify a common thread across
Literature

On the Question of Violence: Inquiry, Movement, and Rupture — APA4253.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: David Bond
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
We live in a violent world. It seems that everywhere we look, humans and other living (and non-living) beings are engulfed in overwhelming cyclones of intimate and catastrophic violence. In corners of the globe, wars have continued unabated for generations while new conflicts erupt on every continent. Elsewhere neoliberal regimes flirt with coercion as a more reliable basis of
Advancement of Public Action Society Culture and Thought

One Day in New York City — HIS2271.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
January 25, 1929 – this was not a day of any grand consequence, but as a microcosm, it takes us into more significant topics and longer timelines. What was this day like for an individual living in New York City? What difference in that day’s demands and experiences arose from the fact of this individual’s gender, race, age, heritage, and location in the city? How were these
Society Culture and Thought

One Day in New York City — HIS2271.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
January 25, 1929 - this was not a day of any grand consequence in the scheme of time and history. What was this lived day like for ordinary residents of New York City? In what ways were the day's demands and experiences shaped by one or another individual's birth, gender, race, age and heritage? What changes in daily routines and ways of thinking did the decades after 1929
Society Culture and Thought

One Man’s Treasure: Environmental Dispute Resolution — APA2210.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: David Bond
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
On this ever shrinking planet, the likelihood that one will be a stakeholder in a dispute over natural resources, property development or environmental injury has never been greater. Through experiential learning, this course in environmental dispute resolution is designed to help equip students to effectively engage such conflict. We will examine the complexity of
CAPA

Onstage Games: Danger and Revelation — DRA4371.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Abe Koogler
Days & Time: FR 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

Three-Card Monte. Blind Man's Bluff. Poker. Charades. Chicken. What do onstage games reveal about our characters? Are onstage games always dangerous? How can the play itself become a game played with the audience? In this course, we will read plays in which characters play games onstage (The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter, Topdog/Underdog by

Drama