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Jazz Ensemble — MPF4250.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 1
This ensemble will perform a wide range of Jazz music (a genre that is constantly evolving), with an emphasis on both ensemble playing and improvisation skills. By playing together, students will learn how blues, swing, Latin, and rock elements have all fueled this music called jazz. Students will also learn how major Jazz artists such as Ellington, Monk, Mingus, Wayne Shorter,
Music

Jazz Theory I — MTH2280.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
This course will review both diatonic and modal harmony as it applies to chord structures, chord progressions and scales used in jazz improvisation. Students will learn how to translate the chord symbols found in “lead sheets” (music with only chord symbols and melody). Students must have the ability to read music notation and a basic understanding of major minor tonality.
Music

Jazz Theory II — MTH2279.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
Students will learn how to interpret chord alterations, and how to identify key centers. This course will help students learn the language of jazz and develop the necessary skills to create intelligent and musical improvised solos. Students should have the ability to read music notation and a basic understanding of major minor tonality.
Music

La novela de la tierra — SPA4720.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
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Credits: 4
Whether or not they form a genre is debatable, but a series of books were published over the first thirty years of Spanish America’s twentieth century that were and are collectively known as “regional” novels. Their telluric inclination supposedly tends to reassert inherent origins, national symbolism, linguistic difference, environmentalism, the lower classes, and indigenous
Cultural Studies and Languages

Labless Projects — PHO2208.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: JKline@bennington.edu
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Credits: 1
This course will guide students through a series of photographic projects that are possible without access to a darkroom or conventional materials and supplies. Students will learn to use household and found items, as well as other inexpensive materials, to make photographs and other "photogenic drawings." Students will learn about photosensitivity and the chemical processes
Visual Arts

Language as System and Social Behavior — LIN2101.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Tom Leddy-Cecere
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Credits: 4
In this course, students will examine the building blocks which make up the interlocking systems of language and observe how those systems are enacted and granted layers of meaning through social practice. Beyond developing an understanding of the basic mechanics of sound systems, word-meaning relations, and the expression of grammatical values in languages of the world, we
Cultural Studies and Languages Society Culture and Thought

Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina — LIT2418.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina (1877) was a novel of bold ambitions. The book is about betrayal as a bid for freedom that is fraught with consequences. Anna Karenina tells the story of the title character’s infidelity in a soulless marriage, while also portraying the ways in which all people struggle to transcend the roles that are socially assigned to them. What
Literature

Letters to a Young Poet: Rainer Maria Rilke — LIT4528.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: MWunderlich@bennington.edu
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Credits: 4
From 1903 to 1908, the German-language poet Rainer Marie Rilke wrote ten letters to a young military cadet who wanted to become a poet. These letters have become some of the most widely-read and quoted letters on the art of writing poetry the world has ever known. In the spirit of these inspiring and philosophical letters, and in an exercise of analog exchange, this course will
Literature

Life Drawing Lab — DRW2118.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Colin Brant
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Credits: 2
Drawing Lab provides an opportunity for student artists of all experience levels to further develop their skills with observational-based drawing. Working primarily with the human figure, students build increased understanding of the poetic, dynamic, and inherently abstract nature of drawing, while paying close attention to the potential of formal elements such as shape, line,
Visual Arts

Light! — DRA2376.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
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Credits: 1
Many people recognize the beauty of a magnificent sunset or the power of a strobe light, yet few develop the acuity to make choices about controlling light in their everyday environments, or regularly consider the impact of light on their artistic practices. In this course we will work on increasing awareness of the power of light and lighting, and develop basic tools for
Drama

Linear Algebra — MAT2482.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: carlybriggs@bennington.edu
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Credits: 4
Together with calculus, linear algebra is one of the foundations of higher level mathematics and its applications. This course is necessary for students concentrating in mathematics, is strongly recommended for students intending to study computer science, physics, or geology, and may be useful for students in economics or biology. This course is a prerequisite for
Science and Mathematics

Literature of the AIDS Pandemic — LIT2513.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
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Credits: 2
In the 1980s and early 1990s, the AIDS epidemic was regarded as a global catastrophe with no hope of remedy. For many, the disease was an uncomfortable subject, one that some at first refused to address by name and others chose to ignore entirely, an illness intertwined in the collective imagination with mainstream culture’s perceptions of, and fears of, gay culture. In this
Literature

Local Landscape A: Ecological Principles — BIO2127.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: KWoods@bennington.edu
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Credits: 2
New England is one of the most heavily forested regions in the United States. 14,000 years ago it was covered by ice. When humans arrived about 11,000 years ago, they found extensive, well-established forests — and began reshaping the landscape through hunting and fire and, beginning about 2000 years ago, farming. European colonists caused further ecological change by expanding
Science and Mathematics Environment

Local Landscape B: Field Ecology and Natural History — BIO2126.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: KWoods@bennington.edu
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Credits: 2
This is a companion course to the 'classroom' section, "Local Landscape A", and will take place entirely in lab and field (primarily the latter). The class has two main aims: to deepen and reinforce understanding of ecological principles through experience and systematic observation in the field (along with use of some of the tools and instruments of the field researcher), and
Science and Mathematics Environment

Love Happiness — PHI2160.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Catherine McKeen
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Credits: 4
The legendary Al Green sang it best. Love and happiness seem to be inextricably intertwined. Popular narratives stress that we can’t have one without the other – but, if we do find love, we’ll live “happily ever after.” These popular ideas invite many questions: To what extent is happiness under my control? Can circumstances make my life less happy? How is feeling happy related
Society Culture and Thought

L’Afrance: un livre/un film — FRE4607.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
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Credits: 4
Vive l’Afrance! This film title (Gomis, 2001) summarizes the goal of this course: an exploration of the rich variety of shared and conflicting francophone identities. Constructed within or outside of France, the identities studied in this course will encompass West African, French, and/or Caribbean spaces. The discussion of notions such as « créolisation » and «
Cultural Studies and Languages

Mail Art — VA2229.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Anne Thompson
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Credits: 4
This course examines the history, politics and ephemeral nature of mail art, a format seeing a renaissance with COVID-19 social distancing. Activities consider how artists and art movements have used the mail to subvert institutional structures, restrictive conditions and oppressive regimes, often leading to new forms of art making and distribution. Parallel to looking at mail
Visual Arts

Make Kitchen Communal Again: Culinary Participation and Storytelling — APA4245.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
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Credits: 2
Building strong community support infrastructure is essential in the age of global pandemics as it has been during past emergencies and disasters. At this pivotal moment, communal kitchens can be reframed as vital, alternative social spaces to foster democratic learning. In this space we can regain the importance of cross-generational skillsharing and reclaiming community
CAPA

Mandolin — MIN2229.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: John Kirk
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Credits: 1
Beginning, intermediate and advanced group or individual lessons on the mandolin will be offered. Students will learn classical technique on the mandolin and start to develop a repertoire of classical and traditional folk pieces. Simple song sheets with chords, tablature, and standard notation, chord theory, and scale work will all be used to further skills. Students will be
Music

Mandolin — MIN2229.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: John Kirk
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Credits: 1
Beginning, intermediate and advanced group or individual lessons on the mandolin will be offered. Students will learn classical technique on the mandolin and start to develop a repertoire of classical and traditional folk pieces. Simple song sheets with chords, tablature, and standard notation, chord theory, and scale work will all be used to further skills. Students will be
Music

Mass Affect: Media Culture and Theory — FV2153.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: senempirler@bennington.edu
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Credits: 2
In this remote course, we will trace the development of audiovisual media (film, video, and sound art) and hybrid media practices through an interdisciplinary lens. Through screenings, listening sessions, theoretical readings, and discussion, we will investigate core ideas at the center of modern and contemporary time-based work, from experimental practices to the mass media
Visual Arts Music

Mass Incarceration, an American Invention — APA2326.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 1
This course is a primer that serves to lay the backdrop for more specialized studies in American Justice systems. It is not a criminology course. It is a cultural exploration of the growth of incarceration in the United States and its peculiar connection to racial identity. With 2 million incarcerated people, the United States has had the highest rate of incarceration for more
CAPA

Migration, Identity, Belonging — PSY4379.01

Fall 2020
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Credits: 4
How are refugees, asylum-seekers, and immigrants different? What are the reasons people migrate? What creates the conditions for illegality? Why are people being deported? What does integration mean and who is integrated? In this course, we will follow a migrant-centered approach in investigating macro (e.g., institutional), meso (e.g., intergroup) and micro level (e.g.,
Society Culture and Thought

Modern Guitar — MIN4224.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 1
Individual training is available in jazz, modern and classical guitar technique and repertoire, song accompaniment (finger style), improvisation, and arranging and composing for the guitar. Course material is tailored to the interests and level of the individual student.
Music

Modern Guitar — MIN4224.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 1
Individual training is available in jazz, modern and classical guitar technique and repertoire, song accompaniment (finger style), improvisation, and arranging and composing for the guitar. Course material is tailored to the interests and level of the individual student
Music