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Resisting the Stitch — DRA2126.01

Fall 2014

Instructor: richard macpike

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 2

This class is an exploration in fabric modification through the use of dyes and various stitched resist techniques often referred to as shibori. Students will learn to work with acid, direct, cold process, union, and natural dyes. Concurrently students will learn a variety of resist techniques such as kanoko, mokume, orinui, makinui, karamatsu, boshi, arashi, itajime, adire

Drama

Resonance -relating to sound, movement, space and time - — DAN4378.01

Fall 2025

Instructor: Martin Lanz

Days & Time: WE 4:10pm-6:00pm

Credits: 2

A class, a laboratory that explores the relationship between movement and sound, starting with the phenomenology of sound and acoustics, and considering the translation from sound to movement.

Incorporates listening techniques and sensory perception and encourages participants, through improvisation, to draw from movement, sound, space and

Dance Composition Musical Performance

Responding to Site / Site Specific Dance — DAN4331.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Levi Gonzalez

Days & Time:

Credits: 2

In this course we will work with specific sites as the spark for dance. By developing an awareness of location through our senses, and propelled by symbiotic relationships, we will activate dances in partnership with place. We will explore indoor and outdoor locations. We will walk, sit, vocalize and move with an internal awareness of and relationship to the external conditions

Dance

Restorative Justice In Bennington — APA4123.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Alisa Del Tufo

Days & Time:

Credits: 2

Students will deepen their existing knowledge of restorative practices through reading, writing and reflection. There will also be substantial work in the field to develop programs that strengthen restorative justice in Bennington County. Specifically, students will work on three related activities that will have local impacts: 1. Working to implement restorative initiatives

CAPA

Restorative Practices and Sexual Misconduct on Campus — APA4114.02

Spring 2023

Instructor: Alisa Del Tufo

Days & Time:

Credits: 2

Restorative practices can bring accountability, repair and healing in situations where there has been harm, including situations of sexual misconduct. These highly structured and mediated processes are always voluntary and can provide outcomes that are much more meaningful than formal Title IX proceedings. In this seven-week class, we will explore current practices that are

Advancement of Public Action Society Culture and Thought

Restoring Juvenile Justice: Improved Outcomes for Emerging Adult Offenders in Vermont — APA4121.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Alisa del Tufo

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

The school-to-prison pipeline, is the result of the national trend towards increasingly harsh school and municipal policies, sometimes called Zero Tolerance. This problem has become a significant topic of debate in discussions surrounding educational discipline, juvenile justice and child welfare practices. In 2018, the State of Vermont took a bold step to address this problem,

CAPA

Rethinking Agriculture — POP2278.02

Spring 2020

Instructor:

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Credits: 1

It is essential that we feed one another but how we do it can be harmful to the water we drink, the land we use, our climate and to human health itself. This course offers a broad look at a range of issues and policy ideas in America’s agricultural system today with the goal of developing a curriculum of the most innovative agricultural practices. Students will hear from

CAPA

Rethinking Capitalism: Climate, Poverty, Jobs and Public Action — APA2454.02

Fall 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

Days & Time:

Credits: 1

This intensive weekend module begins with the premise that prevailing economic systems — and the theories and policies that support them — produce an enormous range of goods and services yet are failing to meet even the most basic needs of at least 45% of the people on earth while destroying the planet’s capacity to provide the resources and process the wastes on which life

CAPA

Reveries — ARC4124.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Donald Sherefkin

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

Students will develop solitary retreats for a writer/reader/dreamer. We will explore the links between poetics and architecture through the close study of texts and images. The structures will be inspired by poetry and conducive to reverie. There are aspects of poetry that share qualities with architecture: structure, rhythm, repetition, shape, etc. Particular to architecture

Visual Arts

Reveries — ARC4124.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Don Sherefkin and Farhad Mirza

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

Visual Arts

ReVisions Rebellions, Revolution: Latin American Women Writers — LIT2516.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

Since the 17th century women writers have been a steadily rebellious, even revolutionizing force in Latin American letters. A number of the writers we’ll read together are also visual and/or performance artists, and intensely political, dealing in formally challenging ways with the residues of 20th-century state terror; as well as the legacies of colonialism; themes of

Literature Cultural Studies and Languages

Revolution and Politics in Iran — APA2144.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Mansour Farhang

Days & Time:

Credits: 2

The Iranian revolution of 1979 replaced a secular autocratic monarchy with a populist, nationalist and theocratic political order. Since then, the Islamic Republic of Iran has become a major player in the Middle East region and a salient country to global affairs. This course examines the nature of the Iranian revolution and the intricate

CAPA

Revolutionary Foundations: Order and Dissent in American Political Thought — POL2207.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Crina Archer

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

In this course, we will explore a selection of key texts from the colonial period to the 21st century that have helped to shape and to contest the contemporary ideals and ideas of American political thought. In the early weeks of the semester, we will cull intellectual themes from debates of the colonial and founding period, with a particular focus on moments in which

Social Science

Rhetoric: The Art and Craft of Persuasion — PHI2144.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Karen Gover

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

The ability to speak and write persuasively is an essential skill for everyone. Whether you are writing a plan essay, applying for a job, or running for public office, you need to be persuasive and compelling. This course is a practical workshop in rhetoric. Students will write, deliver, and critique short speeches in class. We will learn classic

Society Culture and Thought

Rhetoric: The Art and Craft of Persuasion — PHI2144.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Karen Gover

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

Society Culture and Thought

Rhythmic Fundamentals — MFN2117.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Susie Ibarra

Days & Time:

Credits: 2

This course is an introduction to rhythmic analysis, dictation, transcription and theory. Students will study these rhythmic concepts across several styles of music such as classical, jazz, pop, world music, electronic music and rock. It is preferable that each student has a beginner's knowledge of the fundamentals of music, but it is not required. Vocalists and

Music

Rhythmic Fundamentals — MFN2117.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Michael Wimberly

Days & Time:

Credits: 2

This course serves as an introduction to learning note values, rhythm notation and analysis, dictation, transcription, and ear training. Students will learn how to identify musical meters and rhythmic phrasing across several styles of music, including classical, jazz, folk, pop, electronic, and rock. It is preferable that each student has a beginner’s knowledge of the

Music

Richard Wright and James Baldwin — LIT2193.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Benjamin Anastas

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

“As writers we were about as unlike as any two writers could possible be,” James Baldwin wrote of his early mentor and later rival Richard Wright. “We were linked together, really, because both of us were black.” Now that the two writers have been found new relevance--and controversy--in a post-Black Lives Matter world, we can read their major works together, side by side, and

Black Studies Literature

Richard Wright and James Baldwin — LIT2193.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Benjamin Anastas

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

“As writers we were about as unlike as any two writers could possibly be,” James Baldwin wrote of his early mentor and sometimes rival Richard Wright. “We were linked together, really, because both of us were black.” Now that both writers have been canonized, we can read their major works together, side by side, and identify the resonances and irreconcilable differences that

Literature

Richard Wright and James Baldwin — LIT2193.01

Fall 2014

Instructor: benjamin anastas

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

"As writers we were about as unlike as any two writers could possible be," James Baldwin wrote of his early mentor and sometimes rival Richard Wright. "We were linked together, really, because both of us were black." Now that both writers have been canonized, we can read their major works together, side by side, and identify the resonances and irreconcilable differences that

Literature

Riffing with Shakespeare and his Doubles — DRA2380.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Jean Randich

Days & Time:

Credits: 2

Shakespeare not only inspires radical staging approaches, but has also provoked contemporary playwrights to reimagine, refashion, and retell his stories to include, as Sarah Mantell puts it, "Everything that Never Happened." In this course we will dive into some of Shakespeare's classics and read them alongside contemporary adaptations that plunge us into worlds that are both

Drama

Riso Printing: Photographs — PHO2209.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Veronica Melendez

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Credits: 2

A Risograph is a digital duplicator designed for high volume print jobs. Using technology that plays off of screen printing and color copiers, Riso prints retain a unique handmade aesthetic while having the convenience of digital editing and reproduction. In this class students will learn how to print photographs using a Risograph Duplicator. The first 7 weeks of this course

Visual Arts

Robert Frost and the Rural Authentic — LIT2353.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Stephen Metcalf

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Credits: 2

Robert Frost was born in 1873, the year Thomas Hardy published Far From The Madding Crowd, and he died in 1963, the year Bob Dylan brought out Freewheelin’. In a life that spanned the better part of the 20th century, Frost experienced the emergence of modern America. His poetry–with its focus on the small New England village and the family farm, and its exquisitely preserved

Literature

Roberto Bolaño — SPA4804.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

This is a paradoxical course. Roberto Bolaño explicitly shunned magical realism, the Boom years, the subsequent imitations, supposedly liberating Latin American literature from its hobnobbing with the establishment, and yet maintained filial ties to Dadaism, surrealism, modernism, Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar’s Rayuela, perhaps the first Boom novel. Despite the breadth

Languages

Robot Dreams: Artificial and Human Identities in Literature and Popular Culture — LIT2402.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Benjamin Anastas

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

In this course we will trace artificial intelligence (AI) in literature and film from the industrial revolution to the ‘hive mind’ of rave music and the age of the Internet. What is the proper response to the prospect of ‘dehumanization’, and to the absorption of individual identity into mass culture? In attempting to answer this question, writers and filmmakers often find

Literature