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Reading and Writing: Autofiction — LIT4522.01

Fall 2020
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Credits: 4
The term “autofiction” originated in France in the late 1970s to describe a certain kind of knowing, renegade, and mock-heroic school of autobiographical fiction that fell somewhere between William Burroughs and Marcel Proust. It was “writing before or after literature,” meaning its pretensions were so pure as to be somehow super-literary—the ordinary terms (autobiographical
Literature

Reading the Photograph — PHO2306.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: JKline@bennington.edu
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Credits: 4
This course invites students to explore a range of writings on the photograph from the 19th, 20th, and current century. Readings will be shared by literary and cultural critics, artists, scholars including Lady Eastlake, Charles Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag, John Berger, Martha Rosler, Allan Sekula, bell hooks, T.J. Demos, and Mark Sealy. Students
Visual Arts

Redefining Scenography — DRA2308.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
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Credits: 1
In her book What is Scenography?, Pamela Howard states: "Scenography is the seamless synthesis of space, text, research, art, actors, directors and spectators that contributes to an original creation." While the term "scenography" was regarded for centuries as synonymous with "theater design," Howard’s definition does not mention theater or a stage, and other artists and
Drama

Remote but Intensively Collaborative Composition — MCO4126.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: KBrazelton@bennington.edu
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Credits: 2
How I imagine this course starting out: One person makes a melody—a single line—and records it. It is now a "thing." The next person takes that "thing" and adds another "thing." When the 2nd person shows the two "things," we talk about what "thing two" does to "thing one." In detail. In this way, we will incorporate theory and even history (through musical genre and cultural
Music

Remote but Intensively Collaborative Composition—again, new crew — MCO4127.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: KBrazelton@bennington.edu
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Credits: 2
How I imagine this course starting out (but I will have taught it once and may know more than I imagine at this writing—you will be new however): One person makes a melody—a single line—and records it. It is now a "thing." The next person takes that "thing" and adds another "thing." When the 2nd person shows the two "things," we talk about what "thing two" does to "thing one."
Music

Running for President in 2020 — APA2319.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: David Bond
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Credits: 2
The past four years has overturned long standing wisdom about American democracy. COVID-19 has further upended the status quo and eroded threadbare political norms without clarity about what exactly will come next. Whether as students or citizens or international visitors, the political present in the US seems to exceed the given forms of scholarly analysis, principled
CAPA

Screenwriting: The Story Studio — LIT2509.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Manuel Gonzales
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Credits: 4
A good movie begins with a good script. A good script begins with a good story. In this class, we will explore the basics of structure and format for a feature-length screenplay, but the majority of the course we will be focused on storytelling, the development and polishing of good, strong stories. We will ask what goes into a good story, and how do you take those elements and
Literature

Senior Projects in Literature — LIT4498.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: mfeitlowitz@bennington.edu
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Credits: 4
This class is for seniors writing extended manuscripts in a unified genre: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, or a hybrid form that combines genres. We welcome entirely hybrid-form manuscripts, but mixed collections, i.e. some poems with some prose, are not acceptable in this class, for we privilege extended immersion in a single genre. Think of your work as having two,
Literature

Senior Seminar in Society, Culture, and Thought — SCT4750.02 (section 2)

Fall 2020
Instructor: Paul Voice
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Credits: 4
This advanced research seminar offers students the opportunity to conduct culminating work in Society, Culture and Thought (SCT) in the form of an independent research project. For most students, this will be a one-semester project. For other students, this will be the first half of a year-long project that involves fieldwork, archival research, and/or the collection of data.
Society Culture and Thought

Senior Seminar in Society, Culture, and Thought — SCT4750.03 (section 3)

Fall 2020
Instructor: David Bond
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Credits: 4
This advanced research seminar offers students the opportunity to conduct culminating work in Society, Culture and Thought (SCT) in the form of an independent research project. For most students, this will be a one-semester project. For other students, this will be the first half of a year-long project that involves fieldwork, archival research, and/or the collection of data.
Society Culture and Thought

Senior Seminar in Society, Culture, and Thought — SCT4750.01 (section 1)

Fall 2020
Instructor: Tom Leddy-Cecere
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Credits: 4
This advanced research seminar offers students the opportunity to conduct culminating work in Society, Culture and Thought (SCT) in the form of an independent research project. For most students, this will be a one-semester project. For other students, this will be the first half of a year-long project that involves fieldwork, archival research, and/or the collection of data.
Society Culture and Thought

Shipwrecked — LIT2289.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
Alienation, deprivation, solitude, and starting anew may be prevalent ideas in contemporary dystopian storytelling, but the physical and psychological circumstances of running aground have long been fertile ground for writers. The course will reflect on the precursors of such narratives, beginning in the eighteenth century with Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and
Literature

Silkscreen Printmaking (Serigraphy)/ DIY Silkscreen Printmaking — PRI2122.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
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Credits: 2
Silkscreen Printmaking (Serigraphy): Screen printing is an extremely versatile means of reproducing a 2-D image onto a variety of objects. Hand-drawn, painted, photographic and digital images can all be used singularly and in combination with each other. Preparation and processing is relatively simple and multiples can be produced quickly. In this class, we will print with non
Visual Arts

Sing — MUS2148.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
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Credits: 1
Open to the entire College community. We will gather once a week to sing rounds, chant, chorales, work songs, protest songs, sea chanteys, Sacred Harp, and folk songs from around the world. The words are less important than the joy of singing as a community. Do you play an instrument that can accompany singing? Bring it- and come to sing and play. No performances- evaluation is
Music

Sing — MUS2148.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
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Credits: 1
Open to the entire College community. We will gather once a week to sing rounds, chant, chorales, work songs, protest songs, sea chanteys, Sacred Harp, and folk songs from around the world. The words are less important than the joy of singing as a community. Do you play an instrument that can accompany singing? Bring it- and come to sing and play. No performances- evaluation is
Music

Sing What You Write — MVO4403.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
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Credits: 1
Do you compose songs but lack confidence in your singing? Learn skills to get your ideas across clearly while preserving your unique sound. We’ll study successful singer-songwriters to see how they do it, then study and apply breath, alignment, diction, phrasing, mic technique and timing to help you sing anything you can imagine writing. You will be expected to show progress
Music

Social Inquiry in an Age of Upheaval — SCT2143.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: David Bond
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Credits: 2
For quite some time, social research aspired to access the bedrock of social existence, the underlying order or logic upon which all else rested. Recent events suggest the emergence of a very different social world, one no longer anchored but caught in rising currents of disorder (many of them, very much of our own making). While the storms of economic inequality and ecological
Society Culture and Thought

Social Practices: House Music vs Neoliberalism — APA2322.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: RRansick@bennington.edu
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Credits: 2
Neoliberal culture asks us to see ourselves exclusively through our capacity to buy, sell, accumulate “likes” and “followers” and to do it as individuals. And the neoliberal cultural project tends to render invisible or illegitimate any alternatives to it as an orientation to social life. However there exists examples of cultural projects that remained on the outside of
CAPA

Sound Design for Moving Images — MSR4120.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: senempirler@bennington.edu
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Credits: 2
This class is an introduction to the creative approaches and applications of sound design and audio production for moving images. In this course, we will explore the techniques used in the audio post-production for moving images and focus on the role of the sound designer. We will focus on designing sounds using Foley recordings, sound effects editing, and post-processing.
Visual Arts Music

Soup Thinking/Thinking Soup — APA2185.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: benhall@bennington.edu
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Credits: 4
This course will present methods of soup preparation, soup making, and serving that will propose and present, various natural/biological and social/societal understandings of the world because first and foremost food is a narrative. Each of the methods can be combined and/or reduced/disassembled to create other soups. Participants will leave with a solid understanding of how
CAPA

Stars and Galaxies — PHY2106.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Hugh Crowl
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Credits: 4
All but a handful of the objects you see in the night sky are stars in our Galaxy, the Milky Way. Although we know about these stars only from studying their light, we know today that they are not just points of light, but large, gravitationally‐bound balls of plasma governed by the laws of physics. Stars, together with dust, gas, and dark matter, are found in larger structures
Science and Mathematics

Structures of Power in Society — ANT2210.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: MPrazak@bennington.edu
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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

Tessellation — DRW2265.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
This drawing and modeling course is an introduction to tessellation, also known as space filling, or packing. Through drawing exercises on various grids (which also happen to be tessellations), we will learn about edges and vertices, moving to regular and semi-regular tessellation, and edge tessellation among others, eventually proceeding from planar tiling to packing in three
Visual Arts

The Actor’s Instrument — DRA2170.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
Acting, when done well, is the pure expression of human emotion and spirit through text. To do so effectively, one must have adequate training. The actor’s voice, body, mind, and spirit are the tools of the trade and in this course, we will work to hone each one. This course provides a safe environment for the actor to explore and play in the pursuit of bringing texts to life.
Drama