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Strategies of Display (The Museum as Muse) — PHO4102.01

Spring 2017
Instructor:
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This course will present a history of art exhibitions, that artists and curators have embarked upon that have shifted the way we think about exhibitions today. We will look closely at artist-driven exhibitions, and how these displays have impacted artistic production and institutions that exhibit Art. Students will be doing self-directed 
Visual Arts

Stravinsky — MHI2101.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Allen Shawn
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In this course we will explore the musical, intellectual and artistic world of Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), one of the most exciting artists of the 20th century, and a composer whose range of interests and influences connected him to five hundred years of music and to many of the dominant artistic figures of his own time. We will watch videos of his principal operas and some of
Music

Stravinsky Seminar — MTH4103.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Allen Shawn
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Stravinsky Seminar will meet for the first seven weeks of the term to focus on four musical works from different phases of Igor Stravinsky’s long creative life. In the class we will analyze, discuss, listen to and, in the case of the ballet scores and the oratorio, watch, Le Sacre du Printemps (1913), Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920), Oedipus Rex (1927), and Agon (1957).
Dance Music

String Chamber Ensemble — MPF4235.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: kaori washiyama
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Music for string ensemble to be selected according to number and level of participants. Students must have significant previous instrumental training and previous experience. Corequisite: Must participate in Music Workshop (Tuesday, 6:30 - 8pm).
Music

String Chamber Ensemble — MPF4235.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Kaori Washiyama
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
An intensive, performance-oriented exploration of the chamber music literature . Qualified students wishing to form a chamber music group should contact a supervising faculty member to propose a specific group of players and determine the repertoire. Co-requisite: Must participate in Music Workshop (Tues. 6:30pm-8pm)
Music

String Chamber Ensemble — MPF4235.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Kaori Washiyama
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Music for string ensemble to be selected according to number and level of participants. Corequisite: Must participate and perform in Music Workshop (T 6:30pm - 8:00pm).
Music

String Chamber Ensemble — MPF4235.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Kaori Washiyama
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Music for string ensemble to be selected according to number and level of participants. Students must have significant previous instrumental training and previous experience. Corequisite: Must participate in Music Workshop (Tuesday, 6:30-8pm).
Music

String Chamber Ensemble — MPF4235.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Kaori Washiyama
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Music for string ensemble to be selected according to number and level of participants. Corequisite: Must participate and perform in Music Workshop (T 6:30pm - 8:00pm)
Music

Structural Geology and Field Methods — ES4104.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Tim Schroeder
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Students in this course will learn to visualize and analyze the three-dimensional, dynamic complexity of the solid Earth. Understanding how our planet works requires knowing how to extrapolate limited surface data downward to unseen depths using geometric tools and logical abstractions. The class includes a significant field component to learn data collection techniques. In
Science and Mathematics Environment

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs — CS4380.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Jim Mahoney
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Credits: 4
A classic computer science textbook, SICP (Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, also known as "the wizard book") is a deep examination of some of the core ideas of programming and computer science, including an introduction to functional programming, mutable state, register machines, and building a compiler from first principles. This course will work through its
Science and Mathematics

Structures of Power in Society — ANT2210.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Miroslava Prazak
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Credits: 4
Behind any social scene, mundane or extraordinary, lie structures of power. The goals of anthropology include unmasking these structures–the deep complexities of how humans organize themselves in groups. In this course we will explore the structures of gender, kinship, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and class to learn and develop analytical tools to navigate carefully, see deeply
Society Culture and Thought

Structures of Power in Society — ANT2210.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: MPrazak@bennington.edu
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Behind any social scene, mundane or extraordinary, lie structures of power. The goals of anthropology include unmasking these structures--the deep complexities of how humans organize themselves in groups. In this course we will explore the structures of gender, kinship, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and class to learn and develop analytical tools to navigate carefully, see deeply
Society Culture and Thought

Student to Student: A College Access Mentoring Program at Mount Anthony Union High School — APA4132.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Debbie Warnock
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Credits: 2
In this course, college student mentors will work with high school student mentees to develop college aspirations and contribute to mentees’ knowledge about the college application process. Each week college students will travel to Mount Anthony Union High School to meet with their college student mentees for an hour. We will then return to Bennington College campus for the
CAPA

Student to Student: A College Access Mentoring Program at Mount Anthony Union High School — APA4132.02

Spring 2019
Instructor: Debbie Warnock
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
In this course college student mentors will work with high school student mentees to develop college aspirations and contribute to mentees’ knowledge about the college application process. Each week college students will meet with the instructor for the first two hour block on the Bennington College campus in which we will discuss literature about mentoring and college access,
CAPA

Studies in American Music History — MHI4103.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Kitty Brazelton
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Credits: 4
Citizens of Bennington College make music---and listen to music---in America. What does that mean? Obscure corners of the American past still ring in the music we make, but we play on unaware. Why do we like this music but not that? How are our tastes shaped by a heritage we know little or nothing about? The dark sins of minstrel music that tracked into Broadway and Hollywood
Music

Studies Lab — DAN5402B.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Donna Faye Burchfield
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2

Where and how does study happen? What is the value of study and how do we recognize that value? What does it mean to think of our study of dance and performance as an encounter and how might that thinking offer up a chance for one to pay attention differently? Is it different from research?  Or, as Kevin Quashie suggests, does it perhaps re-situate the activities of

Dance (MFA Low-Residency)

Studies Lab — DAN5402B.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits:
Where and how does study happen? What is the value of study and how do we recognize that value? What does it mean to think of our study of dance and performance as an encounter and how might that thinking offer up a chance for one to pay attention differently? Is it different than research?  Or, as Kevin Quashie suggests, does it perhaps re-situate the activities of
Dance (MFA)

Studies Lab — DAN5402B.02

Spring 2025
Instructor: Donna Faye Burchfield
Days & Time:
Credits:
Where and how does study happen? What is the value of study and how do we recognize that value? What does it mean to think of our study of dance and performance as an encounter and how might that thinking offer up a chance for one to pay attention differently? Is study different than research?  How? Or, as Kevin Quashie suggests, does study perhaps re-situate the

Studies Lab — DAN5402B.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Donna Faye Burchfield
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2

Where and how does study happen? What is the value of study and how do we recognize that value? What does it mean to think of our study of dance and performance as an encounter and how might that thinking offer up a chance for one to pay attention differently? Is it different from research?  Or, as Kevin Quashie suggests, does it perhaps re-situate the activities of

Dance (MFA Low-Residency)

Studio Practice + Process: Afro-Contemporary Performance Making: Sampling + Poetics + Sonics — DAN4805B.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 3
Morning sessions of the course will explore the connection between traditional West African grooves and contemporary/modern modalities. The expression of polyrhythms through House Music, Afrobeat, Afro Jazz and traditional West African sonics act as a compass toward the manipulation of rhythm. Writing + improvisation will be tools we use to wander through the voicing of
Dance (BFA)

Studio Practice + Process: Dreaming as Code: Somatic Time Travels, Grooves, and Otherwise — DAN4823B.04

Spring 2025
Instructor: Tania Perez
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Credits: 2
Studio Practice sessions will be a divulgence into pleasure practices. Students will engage in improvisation practices rooted in methods of bone deep listening, memory work, call and response, collective dream mapping, and storytelling. Phrasework will be offered as an invitation to engage in polyrhythmic technicality, groove based aesthetics, and playfulness in rigor and risk

Studio Practice + Process: Insistence/Persistence: Dancing/Drawing/Writing — DAN4808B.03

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 3
Morning sessions will begin with guided research practices that examine relationships between curiosity, desire, strength, organizations of effort/force and ideology/aesthetics: practices of critical physicality! Phrase-work will be shared as a portal to play. Choreographed material will act as a set of coordinates that anchor an exploration of exaggeration and sensation. We’ll
Dance (BFA)

Studio Practice + Process: Love’s Alchemy: Transformative Practices That Merge Notions of Ritual, Care, and Study — DAN4829B.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Tania Perez
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Credits: 2
The practice sessions are inspired and influenced by artist and choreographer Camille Brown. The movement practices investigate various styles of the African diaspora including but not limited to step dancing, body percussion, fusing and contrasting footwork, hip hop, and street dance. Students will be encouraged to explore in and through movement the “possibilities of the