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Reading as a Collective Act: Thinking Through Dance and Performance — DAN4819B.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Donna Faye Burchfield
Days & Time: M 1:40PM-3:30PM, W 10:00AM-11:50AM
Credits: 4

This course aims to experiment with generative and alternative forms of reading that can be thought of as not only a methodology, but as a practice that supports us as we engage in research with, alongside and through study in dance and performance. We will ask ourselves what it means to read and “make sense” of texts and events today…together. 

Dance (BFA)

Reading as a Collective Act: Thinking Through Dance and Performance — DAN4819B.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Tania Perez
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course aims to experiment with generative and alternative forms of reading that can be thought of as not only a methodology, but as a practice that supports us as we engage in research with, alongside and through study in dance and performance. We will ask ourselves what it means to read and “make sense” of texts and events today…together.  *For BFA students this

Reading Ethnography — ANT4218.01) (cancelled 10/17/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: Noah Coburn
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course is an advanced exploration of theory and the history of anthropology by using the most basic of anthropological texts, the ethnography. By carefully analyzing a series of classic and more current ethnographies, students will look at the relationship between approaches, how ethnographic data is presented to the reader and how the shape of the text determines how the
Society Culture and Thought

Reading Ethnography — ANT2126.01

Fall 2026
Instructor: Marios Falaris
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 4

Ethnography is one of the key genres of writing in the discipline of anthropology and is employed across the social sciences. Proponents celebrate this genre for the nuance with which it describes social phenomena – while skeptics accuse it of getting too bogged down in detail. This course will consider how anthropologists read ethnography

Anthropology

Reading Ethnography — ANT4218.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Noah Coburn
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This course is an advanced exploration of theory and the history of anthropology by using the most basic of anthropological texts, the ethnography. By carefully analyzing a series of classic and more current ethnographies, students will look at the relationship between approaches, how ethnographic data is presented to the reader and how the shape of the text determines how the
Society Culture and Thought

Reading into Refuge: Stories of Migration — LIT2340.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Stuart Nadler
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
The repercussions of the refugee crisis in Syria and at our southern border have once again thrust the politics of migration and refuge into the public discussion. In this course we will investigate the literature of forced exile and resettlement in order to understand how our collective narratives about emigration are formed, and to ask what it means for a writer to
Literature

Reading Marx — PHI4106.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Paul Voice
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Marx's ideas remain an important source of political and social science thought. This class requires students to engage in a close and critical reading of a number of Marx's essays and works. The aim of this short course is to acquire a firm understanding of Marx’s central concepts.
Society Culture and Thought

Reading Marx — PHI4106.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Paul Voice
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
***Time Change*** Marx's ideas remain an important source of political and social science thought. This class requires students to engage in a close and critical reading of a number of Marx's essays and to assess his work in the light of critical philosophical responses. This course will be offered the first seven weeks of term.
Social Science

Reading Marx — PHI4106.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Paul Voice
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Marx's ideas remain an important source of political and social science thought. This class requires students to engage in a close and critical reading of a number of Marx's essays and to assess his work in the light of critical philosophical responses.
Society Culture and Thought

Reading Poetry: A Basic Course — LIT2357.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In what ways is reading poetry a fundamentally different practice from reading prose? What can we discover about a poem by examining its structure and the choices the poet made? In this introductory course we will trace the chronological development of poetry in English as we carefully consider a range of different poems from different historical periods, as well as
Literature

Reading Poetry: A Basic Course — LIT2357.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In what ways is reading poetry a fundamentally different practice from reading prose? What can we discover about a poem by examining its structure and the choices the poet made? In this introductory course we will carefully consider a range of different poems from different historical periods, as well as a number of contemporary works, as we try to ascertain what a poem is,
Literature

Reading Revolution — LIT4602.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In this seminar, we join in consideration of our consciousness in the act of creation on and off the page, as a means and expression of revolution. We explore what a revolution in reading as writing and writing as reading means, in experience, for each of us; rather than relegating our understanding of consciousness to total mystery, the object of this class is to directly and
Literature

Reading the Body — ANT4208.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Miroslava Prazak; Susan Sgorbati
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Should boys be robust and ruddy? Should girls be wan, lithe and prone to vapors? Unlike the Western scientific, biomedical constructions of the body, a cultural constructionist approach accepts the body, the self, and the person as culturally shaped, constrained, and invented. In this course, we will explore how social values and hierarchies are written in, on, and through the
Social Science Dance

Reading the Headlines through the Conflict Resolution Theory Lens — MED2132.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Michael Cohen
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This course will take a critical look at how news is reported in the media with a particular focus on stories dealing with conflicts. We will read articles from the news with, if you will, conflict resolution glasses on as we analyze the dynamics of different conflicts. We will also examine what gets reported, what does not get reported, and how stories are reported.
CAPA

Reading the Photograph — PHO4218.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: jonathan kline
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course invites students to explore the myriad ways that the photograph has been considered over past 175 years. From the early observations of Charles Baudelaire, Lady Eastlake, and Fox Talbot through the 20th century insights of Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, and John Berger, we will investigate the aesthetic, social, and political aspects of the medium. More recent
Visual Arts

Reading the Photograph — PHO2306.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: JKline@bennington.edu
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course invites students to explore a range of writings on the photograph from the 19th, 20th, and current century. Readings will be shared by literary and cultural critics, artists, scholars including Lady Eastlake, Charles Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag, John Berger, Martha Rosler, Allan Sekula, bell hooks, T.J. Demos, and Mark Sealy. Students
Visual Arts

Reading Wilderness — LIT2236.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Akiko Busch
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
For generations, the passage west and notions of wilderness have provided resonant subject matter for American writers. In the words of Wallace Stegner, “the wilderness idea is something that has helped form our character and certainly shaped our history as a people.” But if that idea is rooted in perceived notions of untouched earth, today it has more to do with managed
Literature

Reading Wilderness — LIT2236.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Akiko Busch
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
For generations, the passage west and the idea of wilderness have provided resonant subject matter for American writers. In the words of Wallace Stegner, "the wilderness idea is something that has helped form our character and certainly shaped our history as a people." The course will explore how our understanding of wilderness has evolved from perceived notions of untouched
Environment Literature

Readings in Chaucer — LIT2124.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Rebecca Godwin
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Our overriding aim is simple: to read, discuss, write about, and generally immerse ourselves in Geoffrey Chaucer's masterworks, The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde. In that process, we'll aim to get sufficiently comfortable with Middle English to read, delight in, and even imitate that rich language. We'll also consider something of Chaucer's life and times as
Literature

Real Analysis — MAT4146.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Katie Montovan
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In this course we will develop a rigorous understanding of the real number system and the foundations of calculus with an emphasis on proof writing and mathematical communication. Topics covered will include: the structure of the real number line, convergence, continuity, limits, and differentiation. Additional topics such as power series, countability, integration, and metric
Science and Mathematics

Real Analysis — MAT4128.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Differential and integral calculus - nowadays referred to together as simply "calculus" - were developed in the late 1600s and early 1700s to allow infinitely small numbers and formulas with infinitely many terms. These techniques turned out to be immensely powerful, and it is impossible to imagine modern physics, engineering or mathematics without them. However, for almost two
Science Mathematics and Computing

Reality and Dreams: Robert Musil and the Vienna Secession — LIT4148.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Benjamin Anastas
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
The Austrian writer Robert Musil (1880-1942) never lived to complete his multi-volume Modernist masterpiece The Man Without Qualities. Written obsessively over more than twenty years and conceived of as an ironic epitaph to the culture of Mitteleuropa that had slid blindly into the catastrophe of the First World War, the novel–and its author–became embroiled in the dark
Literature