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From Digital Models to Technical Drawings — DA4250.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
The historian Robin Evans thought of technical drawings as an “intervening medium” between object and thought. By protracting the distance between thoughts and the objects they produce, what alterations can be made in the process? What previously invisible things do we see? Do we also lose some control? This course is about understanding the technical drawing not only as an
Visual Arts

From Job to Adventure - Designing New Normals in a Post Covid19 World — APA2321.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: RRansick@bennington.edu
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
One of the realities that Covid19 has quickly exposed is how many of us live from paycheck to paycheck at best. This profound pause that we have been asked to endure has produced over 26 million unemployed in the U.S. alone. Up until this strange moment, we have been asked to accept this social arrangements as “normal.” Now activists, philosophers and the like are demanding the
CAPA

From Mary Wollstonecraft to Rachel Zucker: Toward a Postmodern Matriarchy — LIT2508.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Elisa Albert
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
As the 21st century awakens to the human rights issues within childbearing and rearing, Wollstonecraft and Zucker can serve as illuminating bookends.  From the Vindication of The Rights of Women to Home/Birth: A Poemic, poetry and prose will help guide our understanding of an essential movement toward a politically and spiritually evolved biological feminism.
Literature

From Process to Performance — DRA4253.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Jennifer Rohn
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In this course we will use Viewpoints, Meisner and other improvisation based acting techniques to fully explore, rehearse and present a play. The goal of our work will be to retain the truth, life and presence that we discover in the process of improvisation as we move into performance. How do you hold on to the fullest expression of what was discovered when you have to repeat
Drama

From the Edo to Meiji Period: Examining Equality and Equity through the Examinations of Japanese Society — JPN4302.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Days & Time: TU,FR 8:30am-10:20am
Credits: 4

In this low-intermediate course, students will learn and examine Japan’s drastic social changes during the Edo period and the Meiji period to investigate what equality and equity meant to Japanese people.  During the Edo Period (1603-1868), Japan closed its doors to other countries for about two hundred fifty years, and this isolation helped Japan

Japanese

From the Edo to Meiji Period: Examining Equality and Equity through the Examinations of Japanese Society — JPN4302.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In this low-intermediate course students will learn and examine Japan’s drastic social changes during the Edo period and the Meiji period to investigate what equality and equity meant to Japanese people. During the Edo Period (1603-1868), Japan closed its doors to other countries for about two hundred fifty years, and this isolation helped Japan develop its own unique culture.
Cultural Studies and Languages

From the Edo to the Meiji Period: Examining Equality and Equity through the Examinations of Japanese Society — JPN4302.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This is the third term Japanese course. In this course students will learn and examine Japan’s drastic social changes during the Edo period and the Meiji period to investigate what equality and equity meant to Japanese people. During the Edo Period (1603-1868), Japan closed its doors to other countries for about two hundred fifty years, and this isolation helped Japan develop
Cultural Studies and Languages

From the Stoics to Ubuntu: Philosophies of the Good Life — PHI2149.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Catherine McKeen
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This class examines a variety of answers to the ancient question: How do I live a good life? We’ll engage with thinkers from diverse traditions across time and space as we clarify our own understanding of what makes life worth living and as we articulate a more developed conception of the good life. Readings will include texts from Greek and Roman antiquity, selections from
Society Culture and Thought

From the Stoics to Ubuntu: Philosophies of the Good Life — PHI2149.01

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

This class examines a variety of answers to the ancient question: How do I live a good life? We’ll engage with thinkers from diverse traditions across time and space as we clarify our own understanding of what makes life worth living and as we articulate a more developed conception of the good life. Readings will include texts from Greek and Roman

Philosophy

From the Stoics to Ubuntu: Philosophies of the Good Life — PHI2149.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Karen Gover and Paul Voice
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This class examines variety of answers to the ancient question: How do I live a good life? The readings draw from philosophical traditions across both time and location, including Greek and Roman Stoicism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Christian theology, contemporary philosophers in the Anglo-American and European traditions, as well as the African ethic of Ubuntu.
Society Culture and Thought

From “Modern Woman” to “Iron Girl” to “Left-over Woman” — CHI4404.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course invites students to explore how the Chinese female has been represented differently from the early 20th century to the present in various literature, films, and visual arts. Students will also investigate the changing historical, social, and cultural contexts that have caused the different representations and misrepresentations of individual and/or collective
Cultural Studies and Languages

Fugue — MTH4249.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
An advanced course in counterpoint, focusing on the virtuosic practice of creating fugues. We’ll focus on the watershed fugues of Bach and later touch on contemporary versions by Amy Beach, Bela Bartok, and Astor Piazzolla. Students will be expected to write fugues for two, three, and four voices. Students will work out challenges in writing for particular performers, who will
Music

Full Stack Mobile Artificial Intelligence — CS4161.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Ursula Wolz
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Increasingly, mobile apps provide information based on server-side analytics driven by artificial intelligence algorithms. Full stack developers need skills set in both front-end (user interface, native mobile) and back-end (database, data mining) This course dives into object-oriented user interface design as well as essential algorithms from machine learning and artificial
Science and Mathematics

Functional Programming and Computation—Exploring the foundations of Computer Science — CS4110.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
What is computation?  This is the question that birthed Computer Science as a discipline, and serves as the focal point of this course.  Our plan for answering it is twofold.  First, we will introduce functional programming through Scheme (a dialect of Lisp).  Unlike imperative languages, functional programming tends to emphasize techniques such as lambda
Science and Mathematics

Fundamentals of Advancing Public Action — APA2101.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Elizabeth Coleman
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This country is facing challenges of unprecedented scale and urgency in the areas of health, education, inequalities in the distribution of wealth, environmental sustainability; the capacity of our governing structures to address the public interest; mounting threats to fundamental democratic processes, a dangerous predilection for the uses of force. We examine each of these
Advancement of Public Action

Fundamentals of Buddhism and Meditation — DAN2411.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: John Bullock
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
In this class we will investigate the basic tenets of Buddhism and the practice of meditation. The class will focus on discussions of the reading and writing materials as well as in-class meditation experience. The goal of this course is to deepen our collective understanding of the intimate connection and complementarity of Buddhist ideas and meditation. The class discussions
Cultural Studies and Languages Dance

Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2394.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course, intended for students who have not yet taken a Reading Writing course at Bennington, will serve as an intensive and rigorous introduction to the workshop method. We will experiment with various approaches to the craft of writing in three different genres: poetry, literary fiction, and creative nonfiction. Students will complete writing assignments every
Literature

Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2394.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Stuart Nadler
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This class will serve as a comprehensive introduction both to the craft of creative writing and also to the workshop method. Throughout the term, we will explore poetry, literary fiction, and creative non-fiction in order to build a working knowledge of the craft and to help students begin to find their way into their own narratives and poems. Every week class will feature
Literature

Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2394.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In this class, we will begin by investigating sound, music, image, and form in poetry and how these poetic elements are presented in fiction. From fiction, we will study narrative, character, plot, and setting. Finally, we will progress towards personal nonfiction, fusing the elements of our poetry and fiction investigations. Students will read a variety of texts, both
Literature

Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2394.01, section 1

Fall 2023
Instructor: Jenny Boully
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In this highly generative class, we will begin by investigating sound, music, image, and form in poetry and how these poetic elements are presented in fiction. From fiction, we will study narrative, character, plot, and setting. Finally, we will progress towards personal nonfiction, fusing the elements of our poetry and fiction investigations. We will read classical and
Literature

Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2394.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course, intended for students who have not yet taken a Reading and Writing course at Bennington, will serve as an intensive and comprehensive introduction to the workshop method. We will exploring the genres of poetry, literary fiction, and creative non-fiction in order to build working knowledge on the craft of creative writing. Students will complete weekly writing
Literature

Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2394.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Jenny Boully
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In this class, we will begin by investigating sound, music, image, and form in poetry and how these poetic elements are presented in fiction. From fiction, we will study narrative, character, plot, and setting. Finally, we will progress towards personal nonfiction, fusing the elements of our poetry and fiction investigations. We will read classical and contemporary texts from
Literature

Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2394.01) (new faculty as of 8/22/2024

Fall 2024
Instructor: Benjamin Anastas
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
The art of creative writing is also the art of being a witness to the world. In this class, we will learn what forms creative writing can take—focusing primarily on fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction—and discover new ways to see the raw materials of our lives.We will exercise our imaginations through generative experiments and keeping an observation notebook; identify
Literature

Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2394.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Annie DeWitt
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course, intended for students who have not yet taken a Reading and Writing course at Bennington, will serve as an intensive and comprehensive introduction to the workshop method. We will exploring the genres of poetry, literary fiction, and creative non-fiction in order to build working knowledge on the craft of creative writing. Students will complete weekly writing
Literature