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New Play Development: Rewriting in Company — DRA4213.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Sherry Kramer

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Credits: 4

For students with completed first drafts of plays. We will create a workshop environment, and all students in the class will make contributions to each play, serving as actors, directors, and dramaturges in turn. Different models for generating new work and presenting it will be studied and sampled. Two full drafts of plays are expected, culminating in a finished draft and a

Drama

New Work/New Voices — DRA2306.02

Fall 2020

Instructor: Dina Janis

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Credits: 4

This course is a dramatic literature course that will focus on new work by playwrights currently working today in the American Theatre. It is a class that is designed for actors, playwrights, directors, and designers who are interested in expanding their canon of contemporary dramatic literature, both published and unpublished, written by writers producing and generating work

Drama

New Works Ensemble — DRA4279.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Dina Janis

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Credits: 4

In this highly rigorous performance production class- students will work on new material by contemporary playwrights working in the theatre today with a special focus this term on Bennington playwrights current and past. During the term, some of these writers may visit as guest artists, working with the students directly on material they have been exploring as an

Drama

Newton's Principia: On the System of the World — MAT4161.01

Fall 2025

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre

Days & Time: TU,FR 8:30am-10:20am

Credits: 4

I would (and will) argue that Newton's Principia is the most important book yet written. It is certainly the most important book that a vanishingly small number of people have actually read.

Written about 150 CE, Ptolemy's Almagest collected and systematized the knowledge of astronomers of the time to give a system which roughly predicted the

Mathematics Physics History

NGO Workshop — APA2123.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Alison Dennis

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

The last few decades have seen tremendous growth in non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in almost all parts of the world, and in almost all realms of human interest. Today, NGOs are a highly visible (and consequently a highly criticized) component of civil society, and are major players in the broad fields of environmental protection and social justice at local, national and

CAPA

NGOs, Peacebuilding, and Development — SCT4109.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Kate Paarlberg-Kvam

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Credits: 4

In the last thirty years, non-governmental organizations have played an outsized role in global affairs, perhaps most notably in development and peacebuilding processes. How did the NGO form develop, and why? How do NGOs interact with states, global institutions, and grassroots populations in the Global South? What effects - positive, negative, and complicated - have NGOs had

CAPA Environment Society Culture and Thought

Niedecker, Graham, Ford — LIT4259.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Phillip B. Williams

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Credits: 4

This is an advanced literary study of three women poets who seem connected aesthetically through the modernist school of poetics, focusing on fragmentation, lyricism, formal inventiveness, and interrogation of self and self's participation/existence in their specific time. What bridges exist between Lorinne Niedecker, an early objectivist poet; Jorie Graham, arguably one of the

Literature

Nietzsche and His Followers — PHI4137.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Karen Gover

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Credits: 4

Postmodernism, for better or worse, is often traced back to the thought of Friedrich Nietzche. But what is postmodernism? Keeping this question in mind, we will ground ourselves in Nietzche’s thought, with an eye to his critique of the Western philosophical tradition. We will then turn to some of the important and influential philosophers of the 20th century as inheritors of

Society Culture and Thought

Nietzsche and His Followers — PHI4137.01

Spring 2014

Instructor: Karen Gover

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Credits: 4

Postmodernism, for better or worse, is often traced back to the thought of Friedrich Nietzche. But what is postmodernism? Keeping this question in mind, we will ground ourselves in Nietzche's thought, with an eye to his critique of the Western philosophical tradition. We will then turn to some of the important and influential philosophers of the 20th century as inheritors of

Social Science

Night of the Johnstown Flood — HIS2405.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Eileen Scully

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Credits: 4

On the afternoon of May 31, 1889 the people of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, heard "a roar like thunder," as the South Fork Dam broke high above them, unleashing 20 million tons of water in walls up to 60 feet high and speeds of 40 miles per hour. Initial casualties were 2,200 people, making it one of the worst national disasters in 19th-century America. Though the

Environment Society Culture and Thought

No Narratives No Rehearsals: A Performance Art Workshop — VA2114.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Josh Blackwell

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Credits: 4

“Forget all the standard art forms. The point is to make something new, something that doesn’t even remotely remind you of culture. You’ve got to be pretty ruthless about this, wiping out of your plans every echo of this or that story or jazz piece or painting that I can promise you will keep coming up unconsciously.” -Allan Kaprow, “How to Make a Happening” Performance art is

Visual Arts

Non-Fiction in Fiction: Writers and Their Work — JPN4708.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

This advanced level course is designed for students to learn about six prominent contemporary Japanese writers and analyze their work. Students are required to research each Japanese contemporary writer and analyze how their personal background is reflected in their work of fiction. Students will also examine how Japanese society is depicted in their work and how the writers

Languages

Non-normative Bodies — DAN2351.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Levi Gonzalez

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Credits: 4

This course will examine representations of non-normative bodies and corporeal difference. Employing concepts from Disability Studies and queer theory as a lens, we will consider some of the paradigm-shifting propositions in these powerful fields of study, with a particular emphasis on the intersectionality of marginalized identities. We will learn to recognize and critique the

Dance

Non-normative Bodies — DAN4364.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Levi Gonzalez

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Credits: 4

This course will combine theory and practice to explore representations of non-normative bodies and corporeal difference, their impacts on embodied experience, and the role artistic work can play in expanding and/or challenging limited and often harmful notions of normativity. This class is designed for students interested in the intersections of embodiment, art, corporeality,

Dance Society Culture and Thought

Non-Stop Moving — DAN4359.01

Fall 2020

Instructor: Dana Reitz

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Credits: 1

When I first started studying butoh at the age of 18, I had a desire to dance anytime and anywhere. On a subway on my way to the dance studio, I practiced my stillness and internal dance without being noticed by anyone. Since then, I believe that dance can happen in any situation and environment by taking various different forms throughout our daily lives. In this class, as

Dance

Nonlinear Dynamical Systems — MAT4127.01

Fall 2025

Instructor: Katie Montovan

Days & Time: MO,TH 10:00am-11:50am

Credits: 4

Differential equations are a powerful and pervasive mathematical tool in the sciences and are fundamental in pure mathematics as well. Almost every system whose components interact continuously over time can be modeled by a differential equation, and differential equation models and analyses of these systems are common in the literature in many fields including physics,

Mathematics

Nonlinear Dynamical Systems — MAT4127.01

Fall 2013

Instructor: Kathryn Montovan

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

Dynamical systems are interactions that change in somewhat predictable ways. For these systems, rules can be written to describe the future state of a system from knowledge of present and past states. These rules are used to model a wide variety of phenomena in the physical, biological, social and economic sciences. This course will build on calculus skills and visual intuition

Science Mathematics and Computing

Nonlinear Dynamical Systems — MAT4127.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Katie Montovan

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Credits: 4

Science and Mathematics

Nonlinear Dynamical Systems — MAT4127.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Katie Montovan

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

Science and Mathematics

Nonsense, Surrealism, and The Absurd — LIT2407.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Michael Dumanis

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Credits: 4

This course will consider the multifarious ways writers have sought to subvert linearity, coherence, logic, and reason. We will begin with contemporary prose poet and fabulist Sabrina Orah Mark and then move backwards into the strange and satirical 1970s fictions of Donald Barthelme, a master of the collage form; the surrealist short fictions of Argentina's Julio Cortazar; and

Literature

Normality and Abnormality — PSY2204.01

Fall 2013

Instructor: David Anderegg

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

This course is an examination of the idea of normality as a central organizing principle in psychology. We begin with an effort to define normality and/or psychological health, and then move on to examine the limits or borders of normality. The course examines the value-laden, historically determined, and political nature of psychological normality. Topics discussed include:

Social Science