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A Brief Introduction to Astronomical Observing — PHY2212.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Hugh Crowl
Days & Time:
Credits: 1
In this course, students will learn the fundamentals of observing the night sky with a telescope. This course will teach how to find the basic constellations and how to use both manual and computerized telescopes to point at celestial objects in the night sky. While there will be some classroom time to teach fundamental concepts, the vast majority of the class will consist of
Science and Mathematics

A Brief Introduction to Astronomical Observing — PHY2212.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Hugh Crowl
Days & Time: M/T/W/Th/F/Sa/Su 7:30PM-9:20PM
Credits: 1

In this course, students will learn the fundamentals of observing the night sky with a telescope. This course will teach how to find the basic constellations and how to use both manual and computerized telescopes to point at celestial objects in the night sky. While there will be some classroom time to teach fundamental concepts, the vast majority of the class will consist

Physics

A Brush with Western Music History 1600-1900+ — MHI2243.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: KBrazelton@bennington.edu
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This course will expose you to that "classical" stuff you always thought you should know something about—and help you to "know something." Just a brush though—you won't know everything. Just something. Enough to know 1) how this music affects you and why 2) how to talk about that, 3) where you—one little human—fit into the grander human scheme over time, and most important 4)
Music

A Brush with Western Music History 800-1600 — MHI2242.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: KBrazelton@bennington.edu
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This course will look at what Western music was like before it was "classical." Modal, melismatic, expressive underlying ideas and belief systems that are foreign to us today. Pretty exciting. Hopefully you'll find out that your ignorance is vast! But your small knowledge connects to much more of the world than you ever thought possible. And in ways you could not have imagined.
Music

A Celebration Service — MUS4232.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Thomas Bogdan Levi Gonzalez
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This class will reconstruct and perform Meredith Monk’s “A Celebration Service” for the Bennington College community.  Tom Bogdan, an original cast member in the work, will cast and teach an ensemble of singer/ dancers to be joined by an ensemble of “Processional” dancers, supervised by Levi Gonzalez to perform this spiritually inspired performance piece, created by
Dance Music

A Celebration Service - The Dancer’s Ensembles — DAN4184.02

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 1
This class will reconstruct and perform Meredith Monk’s “A Celebration Service” for the Bennington College community.  Tom Bogdan, an original cast member in the work, will cast and teach an ensemble of singer/ dancers to be joined by an ensemble of “Processional” dancers, supervised by Levi Gonzalez to perform this spiritually inspired performance piece, created by
Dance Music

A Collective Portrait of America: Literary Memoir Since the Civil War — LIT2282.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
“Everyone must bear his own universe," wrote Henry Adams in his seminal autobiography, "and most persons are moderately interested in learning how their neighbors have managed to carry theirs.” In this course we will interest ourselves in the universes of American writers from Adams' time to the present, using autobiography, memoir, and personal essay as our entry points. From
Literature

A Community Health Approach to Social Emergencies, American Racism, and Firearm Injury Prevention — APA2325.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This course introduces students to the confluence of factors related to firearm injury - a leading cause of premature death in the United States. Sessions will explore multi-level health strategies that may be developed to prevent and treat firearm injury in American society. Students will gain exposure and experience in program design by creating, operationalizing, and
CAPA

A Community Health Approach to Social Emergencies, American Racism, and Firearm Injury Prevention — APA2325.01) (cancelled

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 1
Poor health outcomes in modern, advanced societies are influenced largely by a series of critical social factors known collectively as social determinants of health: economic inequity, racism, community violence and food insecurity, among others. Social determinants of health contribute directly to medical and social emergencies, and as the nexus of the US healthcare safety net
CAPA

A Dot and a Line: Literary Representations of the US-Mexico Border — SPA4221.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
The border between Mexico and the U.S. is a physical space as well as a symbolic one, a place of exchange and hybridity, but also a place of violence and xenophobia. El Paso, Ciudad Juárez, Tijuana, and Mexicali are all zones where the North and the South meet, areas of conflict that contemporary literature has profusely portrayed. Writers like Rulfo, Fuentes, Poniatowska, P.
Languages

A Dual Narrative Approach to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict — APA2246.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Michael Cohen
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Sari Nusseibeh, a Palestinian philosopher and past President of Al-Quds University, and Yossi Klein Halevi, an Israeli journalist, have each authored books from their perspectives, analysis, and insights into the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Nusseibeh’s book is called, “Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life,” while Halevi’s book is called, “Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor
CAPA

A Food Citizens Methodology Workshop: Social Kitchen for Collective Wellness — APA4316.01

Spring 2027
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
Days & Time: WE 7:00pm-8:50pm
Credits: 4

This class will investigate meaningful pedagogical approaches to Food Studies. Building on the various “Social Kitchen” activities previously pursued at Bennington College through classes, FWT initiatives, internships, work study, extracurricular activities and independent research undertaken by Bennington College students,  we will

Advancement of Public Action

A Food Citizens Methodology Workshop: Social Kitchen for Collective Wellness — APA4316.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
Days & Time: WE 7:00pm-8:50pm
Credits: 4

This class will investigate meaningful pedagogical approaches to Food Studies. Building on the various “Social Kitchen” activities previously pursued at Bennington College through classes, FWT initiatives, internships, work study, extracurricular activities and independent research undertaken by Bennington College students,  we will

Advancement of Public Action

A History of Economic Thought — PEC2268.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course explores how ideas about the economy – from money, to labor, to distribution – have changed over time. We will focus on modern theories of the economy, including those of the mercantilists, physiocrats, classical political economists, and neoclassical economists, placing these ideas in their global context. Our most central focus will be on thinkers working within
Society Culture and Thought

A History of Mathematics — MAT2403.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Tim Kane
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Symbolism has played a central role in the development of mathematics.  From Babylonian cuneiform tablets to today’s modern algebraic notation, the evolution of mathematical thought requires new symbols as new symbols allow for more abstract and analytical reasoning.  While exploring the general themes and historical periods of mathematics, this course will focus on
Science and Mathematics

A Material World — SCU2113.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: John Umphlett
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This course is directed at the student who is interested in furthering a visual vocabulary and conceptual enhancement through material introductions and demonstrations. The class will be based primarily on mastering methods of working with both thermo forming and thermo setting plastics. Often I have students come to me and ask how they can find some solution to the way a
Visual Arts

A Material World — SCU2113.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: John Umphlett
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This course is directed at the student who is interested in furthering a visual vocabulary and conceptual enhancement through material introductions and demonstrations.  The class will be based primarily on mastering methods of working with both thermo forming and thermo setting plastics. Often I have students come to me and ask how they can find some solution to the way a
Visual Arts

A Philosophy of Data — DA2132.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Mimi Onuoha
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
We live in a world where more data has been and is being collected than ever before. But what does that mean? What information can we glean from the data? How do we represent what is being collected, and more importantly, what is missed? This intro-level course examines the emergent fields of data collection, analysis, and visualization from an art perspective, asking how the
Visual Arts

A Play Takes Place in the Audience — DRA4133.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Sherry Kramer
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
A play is a unique, self organizing process which generates new states of order spontaneously out of nothing. It uses this order to create a perception shift in the audience. We will read 10 plays together to investigate the way that plays generate meaning. There will be a series of short writing exercises, and students will write a 30-60 minute play as their final project.
Drama

A Play Takes Place in the Audience — DRA4133.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Sherry Kramer
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
A play is a unique, self organizing process which generates new states of order spontaneously out of nothing. It uses this order to create a perception shift in the audience. We will read 10 plays together to investigate the way that plays generate meaning. There will be a series of short writing exercises, and students will write a 30-90 minute play as their final project.
Drama

A Practical Introduction to Material Science — CER4379.01

Fall 2026
Instructor: Joshua Primmer
Days & Time: MO 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 2

In a Practical Introduction to Material Science, students will be exploring the science of glaze and clay chemistry. This course is designed to enable students with the confidence to understand material science and to overcome any trepidation they may feel about glaze and clay formulation. Beginning with developing an understanding of the major components

Ceramics

A Survey of Avant-Garde Exhibitions — VA2109.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Carol Stakenas
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course will examine a selection of landmark art exhibitions in Europe and the United States from the middle of the 19th century to the early 2000s. Starting with the Salon des Refusés in 1863, we will focus on controversial exhibitions associated with individuals and movements such as Gustave Courbet, Edouard Manet, Impressionism, Fauvism, German Expressionism, Surrealism,
Visual Arts

A Survey of Avant-Garde Exhibitions — VA2109.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Carol Stakenas
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
*** New faculty and updated description *** This course will examine a selection of art exhibitions in Europe and the United States from the middle of the 19th century to the early 2000s. The course will focus on controversial exhibitions associated with individuals and movements such as Gustave Courbet, Edouard Manet, Impressionism, Fauvism, the Armory Show, Alfred Stieglitz,
Visual Arts

A Voice from a Wound: Trauma and Memory in Hispanophone Literature — SPA4802.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Sarah Harris
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This advanced Spanish course is a study of the paradox of trauma literature. Stories that compel their telling, yet are unassimilated and unspeakable, trauma narratives grow out of disaster and crisis on an individual and/or collective scale. To better understand Anne Whitehead’s assertion that “Novelists have frequently found that the impact of trauma can only adequately be
Cultural Studies and Languages