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Sounding Home: Music, Migration and Diaspora — MET2240.01

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
We live in an era when millions of people across the globe—victims of forced migration, asylum seekers, refugees, and mobile workers—are on the move. Music often can tell more about the migration experience than statistical analysis and surveys. This course is about the experiences of immigrants and refugees in the United States and elsewhere, investigating the role

Sounding Physics — MCO4113.02

Instructor: Thessia Machado
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This class focuses on using simple mechanical devices (dc motors, solenoids, or vibration) to elicit sounds from myriad physical materials. We’ll discover the innate characteristics of materials themselves and manipulate forces that activate them, such as gravity, elasticity, tension, and friction. The class will workshop approaches to creating devices through the use of

Soundtracks for Media and Live Performance — MSR4261.01

Instructor: David Baron
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
A course on sound design for fixed media and live performance which looks at how we technically construct the “real”. We will begin by looking at soundtracking for film, and the often subtle line between sound design and music, by spotting, finding tempo and moods in film/video sources. We then look at various live sound design projects, culled from diverse dance and drama

Soup Thinking/Thinking Soup — APA2185.02

Instructor: benhall@bennington.edu
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course will present methods of soup preparation, soup making, and serving that will propose and present, various natural/biological and social/societal understandings of the world because first and foremost food is a narrative. Each of the methods can be combined and/or reduced/disassembled to create other soups. Participants will leave with a solid understanding of how

Space is the Place: The Music and Life of Sun Ra — MPF2146.01

Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This course takes a look at the life of Herman Blount, a prolific jazz composer, pioneer of electronic music and creator of the Sun Ra Arkestra. Blount, aka Sun Ra, was quite controversial because of his eclectic music, "theatrical" live performances and unorthodox lifestyle. He claimed that he was of the "Angel Race" and not from Earth, but from Saturn (after experiencing an

Space on Stage — DRA2142.01

Instructor: Jiyoun Chang
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
How do designers determine how a play will look on stage? How do they evoke the time, space, and future of the play, relate it to the world we know, but also reflect their own personal experience of architecture, time, and space? All these elements influence how we interpret a story, and the people who live in that story. Students will learn how to approach the design process

Space Shaping Image Making — ARC2208.01

Instructor: Farhad Mirza
Days & Time: WE 10:00am-11:50am & WE 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 4

Can architecture be understood in the same terms as a photograph? A piece of writing? A painting? A film? Or does it require its own vocabulary, rules, precedents, and sensibilities?

Space Shaping Image Making II: Readings — ARC4119.01

Instructor: Farhad Mirza
Days & Time: TU 4:10pm-6:00pm
Credits: 2

“Not long ago, a near prerequisite for vanguard architecture was an engagement with theory; lately it has become an acquaintance with art” or so observed Hal Foster in his 2011 book ‘The Art Architecture Complex.’ While ideas about what constitutes cutting edge architecture may have transformed in the decade since, entanglements between art and architecture and

Space Shaping Image Making: Readings — ARC2207.01

Instructor: Farhad Mirza
Days & Time: TU 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 2

“Not long ago, a near prerequisite for vanguard architecture was an engagement with theory; lately it has become an acquaintance with art” or so observed Hal Foster in his 2011 book ‘The Art Architecture Complex.’ While ideas about what constitutes cutting edge architecture may have transformed in the decade since, entanglements between art and architecture and

Space, Place, and Power — SCT4107.01

Instructor: Emily Mitchell-Eaton
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Critical political geography, at its core, is a field interested in the relationship between space, place, and power. How are power dynamics enforced, and contested, through spatial practices and discourses? How do space and place shape intersections of power and resistance? This course will explore these questions in a variety of places, contexts, and scales, using a range of

Spaces, Places, and Identities — PSY4190.01

Instructor: Ronald Cohen
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
"Spaces" have geographical coordinates, "places" are territories of meaning, and "identities" are the senses we have of ourselves and others. This course will examine links among these through (1) reading theory and research in several social science disciplines, (2) writing short essays, and (3) completing one or two research papers.

Spaces, Places, and Identities — PSY4190.01

Instructor: Ronald Cohen
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
“Spaces” have geographical coordinates, “places” are territories of meaning, and “identities” are the senses we have of ourselves and others. This course will examine links among these through (1) reading theory and research in several social science disciplines, (2) writing short essays, and (3) completing one or two research papers.

Spaceships — APA2341.02

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Exploring the intersections of spatial and experience design. Explorers will get the opportunity to discover locations/spaces on campus [or off campus] that could be reimagined for new purpose and function. Spaceships is a 7 week journey where we all will immerse ourselves into rapid prototyping labs as individuals and groups to create “spaceships”. The culminating project will

Spaceships — APA2341.01

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Exploring the intersections of spatial and experience design. Explorers will get the opportunity to discover locations/spaces on campus [or off campus] that could be reimagined for new purpose and function. Spaceships is a 7 week journey where we all will immerse ourselves into rapid prototyping labs as individuals and groups to create “spaceships”. The culminating project will

Spaceships — APA2341.02

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Exploring the intersections of spatial and experience design. Explorers will get the opportunity to discover locations/spaces on campus [or off campus] that could be reimagined for new purposes and functions for learning.  Spaceships is a 7 week journey where we all will immerse ourselves into rapid prototyping labs as individuals and groups to create what I call

Spaceships — APA2341.01

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Exploring the intersections of spatial and experience design. Explorers will get the opportunity to discover locations/spaces on campus [or off campus] that could be reimagined for new purposes and functions for learning.  Spaceships is a 7 week journey where we all will immerse ourselves into rapid prototyping labs as individuals and groups to create what I call

Spanish Through Film — SPA4222.01

Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Days & Time: MO,WE,TH 8:30am-9:50am
Credits: 4

Students with burgeoning linguistic skills will learn the language through an immersion in Latin American and Spanish film in the second half of this full-year introduction to the Spanish-speaking world. While there will be some discussion of more common tactics such as stylistic nuances, script-writing, acting, dubbing, and directors’ biographies, it is expected that we

Spanish Through Film — SPA4222.01) (cancelled 6/3/2024

Instructor: Sarah Harris
Days & Time:
Credits: 5
Students in this course will continue to learn the Spanish language through an immersion in Latin American and Spanish films. While there will be some focus on stylistic nuances, script-writing, acting, dubbing, and directors’ biographies, it is expected that we will continue to develop sufficient linguistic ability to focus on cinematographic and social movements. A

Spanish Through Film — SPA4222.01

Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Days & Time:
Credits: 5
Students with burgeoning linguistic skills will learn the language through an immersion in Latin American and Spanish film in the second half of this full-year introduction to the Spanish-speaking world. While there will be some discussion of more common tactics such as stylistic nuances, script-writing, acting, dubbing, and directors’ biographies, it is expected that we will

Spanish Through Film — SPA4222.01

Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Days & Time:
Credits: 5
Students with burgeoning linguistic skills will learn the language through an immersion in Latin American and Spanish film in the second half of this full-year introduction to the Spanish-speaking world. While there will be some discussion of more common tactics such as stylistic nuances, script-writing, acting, dubbing, and directors’ biographies, it is expected that we will

Spanish Through Song — SPA4259.01

Instructor: Lena Retamoso Urbano
Days & Time:
Credits: 5
Students in this course will continue to learn the Spanish language through an examination of music. The focus of discussion will be on social, cultural, historical, and aesthetical aspects present in music. A consideration, for instance, of local, national, regional, and transnational identity; social justice; expressions of freedom; gender identity; different styles; and

Spanish Through Song — SPA4259.01

Instructor: Lena Retamoso Urbano
Days & Time:
Credits: 5
Students in this course will continue to learn the Spanish language through an examination of music. The focus of discussion will be on social, cultural, historical, and aesthetical aspects present in music. A consideration, for instance, of local, national, regional, and transnational identity; social justice; expressions of freedom; gender identity; different styles; and

Spatial Audio Practices — MSR4051.01

Instructor: Senem Pirler
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This course will offer an introduction to the principles of spatial audio and its function in creative sound practices. The topics will include multichannel audio, Ambisonics and binaural sound, 360 spatial audio recording and mixing, sound design for VR, and immersive electroacoustic music. Along with readings and discussions, we will look at various current sound practices

Spatial Audio Practices — MSR4051.01

Instructor: Senem Pirler
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This course will offer an introduction to the principles of spatial audio and its function in creative sound practices. The topics will include multichannel audio, Ambisonics and binaural sound, 360 spatial audio recording and mixing, sound design for VR, and immersive electroacoustic music. Along with readings and discussions, we will look at various current sound practices

Spatial Data Analysis and GIS — ES4126.01

Instructor: Tim Schroeder
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This is a practical course in the methods used to collect, analyze, display, and communicate spatial information. These methods are critical to the fields of geology, hydrology, ecology, environmental science and engineering, and include: compass and GPS data collection, projections, 3-D analysis, map and cross section construction, and use of analysis tools in geographic