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Dance Teleportation: Beyond Space and Time — DAN2355.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Mina Nishimura
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
How can we be together and create something together, when we are physically not in the same space and time? In light of the above question, this course will be fully remote, facilitated through a combination of synchronous remote sessions and individual outside-class projects. Throughout the course, with body-centered minds, we will interview each other, and exchange
Dance

Dance Teleportation: Beyond Space and Time — DAN4686.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Days & Time:
Credits: 1
How can we be together and create something together, when we are physically not in the same space and time? In weekly sessions, with body-centered minds, we will interview each other, and exchange conversations, poems, ideas, songs, drawings and inspirations. In addition, movement practices will be introduced in each weekly session in order to activate and facilitate the body
Dance

Dance Workshop — DAN2001.02

Spring 2021
Instructor: Levi Gonzalez
Days & Time:
Credits: 1
Dance Workshop has been held at Bennington College since its beginning in 1932. It is a meeting place for all dance students, dance faculty, and staff. Here, students of all levels, undergraduate through graduate, show and discuss works in progress. All of the participants practice articulating and refining their own processes, and all are involved in learning how to see and
Dance

Dance Workshop — DAN2000.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Days & Time:
Credits: 1
Dance Workshop has been held at Bennington College since its beginning in 1932. It is a meeting place for all dance students, dance faculty, and staff. Here, students of all levels, undergraduate through graduate, show and discuss works in progress. All of the participants practice articulating and refining their own processes, and all are involved in learning how to see and
Dance

Dance Workshop — DAN2000.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Days & Time:
Credits: 1
Dance Workshop has been held at Bennington College since its beginning in 1932. It is a meeting place for all dance students, dance faculty, and staff. Here, students of all levels, undergraduate through graduate, show and discuss works in progress. All of the participants practice articulating and refining their own processes, and all are involved in learning how to see and
Dance

Dance Workshop Extension — DAN2000.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Days & Time:
Credits: 1
Dance Workshop has been held at Bennington College since its beginning in 1932. It is a meeting place for all dance students, dance faculty, and staff. Here, students of all levels, undergraduate through graduate, show and discuss works in progress. All of the participants practice articulating and refining their own processes, and all are involved in learning how to see and
Dance

Dance Workshop Extension — DAN2000.01) (cancelled 7/11/2023

Fall 2023
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Days & Time:
Credits: 1
Dance Workshop has been held at Bennington College since its beginning in 1932. It is a meeting place for all dance students, dance faculty, and staff. Here, students of all levels, undergraduate through graduate, show and discuss works in progress. All of the participants practice articulating and refining their own processes, and all are involved in learning how to see and
Dance

Dance Workshop-Extension — DAN2000.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Days & Time:
Credits: 1
Dance Workshop has been held at Bennington College since its beginning in 1932. It is a meeting place for all dance students, dance faculty, and staff. Here, students of all levels, undergraduate through graduate, show and discuss works in progress. All of the participants practice articulating and refining their own processes, and all are involved in learning how to see and
Dance

Dancer as Maker — DAN4149.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Hilary Clark, MFA Teaching Fellow
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Dancers working presently in the contemporary, experimental dance world do so in relation to the historical definitions of “the dancer,” all while deconstructing and recontextualizing its meaning. Dancers are makers in their own right inside choreographic structures. In this course, we will work with specific choreographic structures and scores, and use them as a frame to help
Dance

Dancing Drumming — DAN2134.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Souleymane Badolo
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This class is aimed to instruct dancers on the Art of Drumming , and drummers on the Art of Dancing. The drummers are in conversation with the dancers and the dancers in conversation with the drummers; they learn from each other. In Africa, to become a dancer you had to learn to be a drummer; if you are a drummer you had to learn to move. Movement and sound are connected to the
Dance Music

Dancing Through the Sentient Archive — DAN2203.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Levi Gonzalez
Days & Time: MO,TH 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 4

This is a multi-modal course that examines how the body serves as a repository for knowledge. It is open to any student who wishes to explore the complex ways in which histories form around discourses of the body, culture, aesthetic philosophy, and power. Specifically, we will examine the theoretical proposals embedded in the history of

Dance

Dante's "Inferno" — LIT4271.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Benjamin Anastas
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
"The Inferno" will be read in a large variety of highly creative English translations. Dante will be considered as a poet, a religious thinker, and an exiled public servant enraged at the bad governance of his native Florence. Students will be encouraged to debate Dante's poetic inventions, lyrical, rhetorical, and metaphysical, as well as his principal social
Literature

Darwin and the Naturalists — BIO4223.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Much of modern biology is rooted in the insights of a series of 18th and 19th-century naturalist-scientist-explorers who built upon extensive and inspired observation, sometimes in the course of travels in (then) remote and challenging parts of the world.  Their writings often took the form of journals interlarded with theoretical speculation, and achieved great popularity
Science and Mathematics Environment

Darwin and the Naturalists — BIO4223.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Much of modern biology is rooted in insights of a series of 18th and 19th-century naturalist-scientist-explorers who built upon extensive and inspired observation, sometimes in the course of travels in (then) remote and challenging parts of the world. Their writings often took the form of journals interlarded with theoretical speculation, and some achieved great popularity
Science and Mathematics Environment

Data Social Justice — DA2135.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Dan Phiffer
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Digital technologies have fundamentally shifted how social justice movements operate. "Organizing without organizations" and "laptop activism" are no longer novel or fringe activities. The social media tools we rely on to gather in public can also be antagonistic toward individual participants. This course explores the digital tools and data archives that inform modern
CAPA Visual Arts

Data Mining and You — PSY2131.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Anne Gilman
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Have you ever seen advertisements on your personal email site directly related to some messages you sent? Social scientists employ some of the same text-mining tools that advertisers do, drawing conclusions about individuals' moods, political views, personalities, and power relationships based on Twitter feeds and Facebook posts. In this course, you will learn the basic
Society Culture and Thought

Data Structures and Algorithms — CS4388.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Darcy Otto
Days & Time: TU,FR 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 4

How do we organize data to solve complex problems efficiently? This course studies the fundamental structures and algorithms that form the cornerstone of computational problem-solving. Building upon the programming foundations established in CS1, we will explore how algorithmic thinking and sophisticated data organization enables us to tackle increasingly challenging

Computer Science

Data Visualization and Data Structures — CS2235.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Ursula Wolz
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Data in a computer is simply patterns of bits, often represented as ‘1’s and ‘0’s. But what that data represents ranges from complex text (poetry, dialog, exposition, debate) to rich graphics in 2 or 3 dimensions, either still or animated, and increasingly as physical sculpture, robot choreography, mixed media, and augmented reality. Data visualization is the study of how to
Science and Mathematics

Database Management Systems — CS4311.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Andrew Cencini
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In the age of “Big Data”, the problem of storing, managing and gaining insight from data is more pressing than ever. Additionally, the world of data management has exploded, with more products and services on offer than ever before. In this class, we will explore the problem of storing, managing and querying structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data by learning how
Science and Mathematics

Deadly Writing – Reading Salman Rushdie — LIT4605.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Faculty TBA
Days & Time: TU 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

Born to a multilingual family and culture, with connections to both India and Pakistan, and educated at Cambridge in the UK, Rushdie was already a celebrated writer when an Iranian clerical fatwa against him in 1989 launched him to another level of fame (or infamy). Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini charged Rushdie with blasphemy in his novel, Satanic

Literature

Deco Depression: Representing Race, Gender, and Sexuality between the Wars — AH2111.01) (new course code 2/14/2024

Spring 2024
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
The raucous and repressive but also radical and recalcitrantly white supremacist period c. 1918-1941 has many names. In the U.S. this generation-long span between the two World Wars encompasses or overlaps, e.g. The Harlem Renaissance, The Jazz Age, The Depression, Prohibition, The Dust Bowl, The Progressive Era, and Jim Crow. In this visual studies course, we’ll investigate
Visual Arts

Decolonial Approaches to Settler Colonialism in American Visual Arts — AH4124.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In this upper-level seminar, we will study the history of American art and visual culture in light of decolonial thought produced by Indigenous peoples in their ongoing resistance to the colonization of so-called North America. This approach will teach us to see the arts’ entanglements in the operations of colonial power and sustain our goal to decolonize the practice
Visual Arts

Decolonial Perspectives on Indigenous Mesoamerica — ANT4223.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Rebecca Dinkel
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course focuses on the ethnohistory of Indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica that spans parts of Mexico and Central America, through an Indigenous perspective from native authored texts spanning pre-Columbian, colonial, and contemporary times. The course develops a decolonial perspective on Indigenous Mesoamerica – challenging accounts of Indigenous Mesoamerican cultures and
Society Culture and Thought

Decolonization of Work and Career in Psychology to Promote Equity and Social Justice — PSY2242.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course will examine post colonization aspects of career development (which is a branch of psychology that studies the progression of an individual's work-related experiences throughout their lifespan). Students will examine how colonization has affected the definition of success and achievement in the United States. Students will explore how to decolonize career
Society Culture and Thought