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Music Theory I - Applied Fundamentals — MTH2274.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: John Kirk
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Credits: 4
An introduction to music theory course. Music theory fundamentals will be taught utilizing voice (singing) and an instrument in hand. Knowledge of the piano keyboard will be learned and utilized. Curriculum will span the harmonic series, circle of 5ths, scales and chords to ear training, harmonic and rhythmic dictation, and beginning composition. Course will include singing,
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Musical Explorations — MTH2278.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Allen Shawn
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Credits: 4
This Course is open to any and all students hoping to learn more about music who have limited [or no] experience reading music and limited or no experience studying music theory. The class will explore music notation through small composing assignments. We will also explore the basics of music theory, will study some of the high points of music history, with an emphasis on 20th
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Nature in the Americas — APA4148.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: David Bond
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Credits: 4
What is Nature? Is Nature the biological substratum of human society or the converging practices of local ecology? Is Nature a potent historical agent in its own right or a philosophical blunder of epic proportions? Such questions have a lively history in the Americas. Indeed, while Nature has near mythic form in scholarly and public debates, its content is culled again and
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Normality and Abnormality: Defining the Limits — PSY2206.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: David Anderegg
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Credits: 4
This course is an examination of the idea of normality as a central organizing principle in psychology. We begin with an effort to define normality and/or psychological health, and then move on to examine the limits or borders of normality. The course examines the value-laden, historically determined, and political nature of psychological normality. Topics discussed include:
Society Culture and Thought

Orchestration — MUS4013.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
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Credits: 2
A primer in orchestration, for students who are selected to write for Sage City Symphony for their Spring concert. We will pore over the 19th and 20th century orchestral repertoire, getting to know instruments, ranges, and agilities. Analysis, piano reduction, and orchestration from grand staff will be used to internalize and hear orchestration. Students will be expected
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Organizational Structure Enterprise Law — APA2175.02

Fall 2019
Instructor: Charles Crowell
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Credits: 2
The common startup mythologies tend to promote the glamor of entrepreneurship. You will work hard in a basement or a garage with no money, but the brilliance of your idea will make you into a heroic (wind-swept) figure to whom investors, customers, and clients (and the popular press) will all be irresistibly attracted. These stories don’t map to reality for most. In contrast,
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Our Curated World: Seeing a Trend Through the Lens of Tradition — VA2243.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Anne Thompson
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Credits: 4
From bookstore shelves to restaurant menus, a widening swath of contemporary life seems to involve, even require, the hand of a curator. So what exactly does it mean to BE a curator? Where did the profession of curator originate and how has it evolved? This introductory class considers historical examples of acquisition and display from the sixteenth century to today;
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Performance Project : Ephemeral Archive — DAN4138.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Hilary Clark, MFA Teaching Fellow
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Credits: 2
We will collectively generate a new work; each person will play an integral role in the development of the project.  We will amass a large kind of historical archive from which we choose how to stage the work.  Using the voice and text,  we will push into rigorous physicality, exploring range and nuance. We will perform this in a concert at the end of the term.
Dance

Performance Project: The Dynamic Group — DAN4137.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Russell Stuart Lilie, MFA Teaching Fellow
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Credits: 2
How are groups identified, formed, reformed, sustained, absorbed, or disbanded? What is an individual's responsibility towards the group? How is individuality acknowledged within the group? How do individuals handle becoming inseparable from the group? In this project, we will investigate these questions though movement and discussion. We will work in groups, shifting
Dance

Philosophical Reasoning — PHI2109.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Paul Voice
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Credits: 4
What is the difference between belief and knowledge? What makes me the same person now and in the future? Is there a purpose in life? These are some of the questions this first course in philosophy asks. It has two aims: To introduce you to the methods and procedures of philosophical argument and, second, to engage you in a critical dialogue with three central problems in
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Philosophy Biography: Wittgenstein — PHI4105.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Paul Voice
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Credits: 4
Ludwig Wittgenstein is one of the most influential and important of twentieth century philosophers and one of its most enigmatic characters. In this course you will read two of Wittgenstein's central works, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations. We will arrive at a detailed understanding of Wittgenstein's philosophy, its themes, arguments and
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Photography Foundations (Analog) — PHO2136.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
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Credits: 4
What does it mean to study photography at Bennington? This course explores a wide range of approaches to the medium and introduces students to the various photographic genres with an emphasis on contemporary practice. The class will be devoted to both black and white and color analog materials and processes, including cameras, light kits, and light meters available at the
Visual Arts

Photography Remade — PHO2155.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Elizabeth White
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Credits: 2
This 2-credit course invites students to remake existing images, and explores digital techniques for adding, removing, combining, rearranging, and distorting content. Students are welcome to shoot their own photographs, however this is not required, and it is not necessary to have a camera. Instead, the emphasis will be on how to work creatively with image selection,
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Physics I: Forces and Motion (with lab) — PHY2235.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Tim Schroeder
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Credits: 4
Physics is the study of what Newton called “the System of the World.” To know the System of the World is to know what forces are out there and how those forces operate on things. These forces explain the dynamics of the world around us: from the path of a falling apple to the motion of a car down the highway to the flight of a rocket from the Earth. Careful analysis of the
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Piano — MIN4333.02, section 2

Fall 2019
Instructor: Christopher Lewis
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Credits: 2
Individual private lessons for advanced students. Audition required. Weekly meetings times on scheduled class days arranged with the instructor. Participation in music workshop and end-of-term recital required. Corequisites: Must participate in Music Workshop (Tuesday, 6:30 - 8pm)
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Piano — MIN4333.03, section 3

Fall 2019
Instructor: Joan Forsyth
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Credits: 2
Individual private lessons for advanced students. Audition required. Weekly meetings times on scheduled class days arranged with the instructor. Participation in music workshop and end-of-term recital required. Corequisites: Must participate in Music Workshop (Tuesday, 6:30 - 8pm)
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Piano — MIN4333.01, section 1

Fall 2019
Instructor: Yoshiko Sato
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Credits: 2
Individual private lessons for advanced students. Audition required. Weekly meetings times on scheduled class days arranged with the instructor. Participation in music workshop and end-of-term recital required. Corequisites: Must participate in Music Workshop (Tuesday, 6:30 - 8pm)
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Piano Lab II — MIN4236.02, section 2

Fall 2019
Instructor: Joan Forsyth
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Credits: 2
The goals of this course are to gain ease and dexterity at the keyboard, developing a confident piano technique and the skill of reading musical notation. Students will expand upon the skills learned in Piano lab I, adding to a basic repertoire of scales and chords, use them in improvisation and harmonization of melodies. In addition they will explore a repertoire that utilizes
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Piano Lab II — cancelled

Fall 2019
Instructor: Music Faculty
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Credits: 2
The goals of this course are to gain ease and dexterity at the keyboard, developing a confident piano technique and the skill of reading musical notation. Students will expand upon the skills learned in Piano lab I, adding to a basic repertoire of scales and chords, use them in improvisation and harmonization of melodies. In addition they will explore a repertoire that utilizes
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Place: Setting - the Dining Room — ARC4146.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Donald Sherefkin
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Credits: 4
The place of the shared meal is a locus of multiple design problems, from the place setting to the chair, and from the table to the room itself. It is a site of routine and ritual where, along with sustenance, we enjoy sensory and aesthetic pleasures, and social interaction. The routines and rituals of eating have changed significantly over the past several generations. This
Visual Arts

Plastic Pollution and What Students Can Do About It — APA2176.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Judith Enck
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Credits: 2
Plastic pollution is gaining international attention for the damage it is doing to human health, fish and wildlife, the climate, the ocean and communities. This class will explore the dimensions of the problem, the root causes of plastic pollution and the need for innovation. The class will be taught in the Center for the Advancement of Public Action and will have a major focus
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Practicing Discernment in Social Practice Art — APA2177.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Kenneth Bailey, MFA Teaching Fellow
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Credits: 2
How do you discern if your desired social practice art project is ethically sound as well as aesthetically relevant? This class will survey a series of social practice art projects, from high profile “art world” ones to small community-generated gestures, with the goal of evaluating if the project was properly thought through ethically and aesthetically. The class will also
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