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Avant-Garde Art in China — CHI4507.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Ginger Lin
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Credits: 4
During the Mao era, artistic expression in China was completely relegated to serving the propaganda interests of the CCP. After the post Mao opening, avant-garde artists, such as the Stars group, seized upon the opportunity to explore western artistic influences and champion individualism and freedom of expression. In this class we will explore the ways in which post-Mao
Cultural Studies and Languages

Bad Romance: Shakespeare's Poetry — LIT4380.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Camille Guthrie
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Credits: 4
We will immerse ourselves in reading Shakespeare’s Sonnets and his Neoclassical poem, Venus and Adonis. Shakespeare invented his own style of the sonnet, now called the English sonnet. The word sonnet comes from the Italian sonetto, which means “a little sound or song”; it was a poetic form originally popularized by Petrarch in the 14th century. In the 154 sonnets, first
Literature

Banjo — MIN2215.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: John Kirk
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Credits: 2
Beginning, intermediate, or advanced group lessons on the 5-string banjo in the claw-hammer/frailing style. Students will learn to play using simple song sheets with chords, tablature, and standard notation. Using chord theory and scale work, personal music-making skills will be enhanced. History of the African origins of banjo and its introduction to the western world will be
Music

Barriers to Democracy in Modern and Modernizing Nations — APA2359.03

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 1
The idea of democracy is rooted in the preconception that citizens of modern or modernizing nations often face competing positions on economic, political and sociocultural issues. There are two ways such challenges can be addressed: authoritarianism and democracy. Authoritarians claim that leaders know the answers to all questions and the citizens must obey the leaders –
CAPA

Bass Intensive — MIN4026.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Michael Bisio
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Credits: 2
Advanced studies in theory relating to performance. Students must be enrolled in Bass with Bisio (MIN4417) simultaneously, no exceptions. This class is only for advanced students and by permission.
Music

Beauty — PHI4111.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Catherine McKeen
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Credits: 4
The purpose of education is to bring us to love beauty. This, at least, according to Socrates in Plato’s Republic (403c5-6). The Greek word Plato uses for ‘love,’ here is ‘erotika,’ that is: erotics: passionate, intense desire such as one has for a lover. It is this kind of love that Plato insists we should have for the beautiful (the fine, to kalon). What does it mean to
Society Culture and Thought

Beginning Cello I — MIN2354.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Nat Parke
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Credits: 2
Studio instruction in cello. There will be an emphasis on creating and working towards an end-of-term project for each student. A limited number of school cellos are available for loan.
Music

Beginning Guitar — MIN2247.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
Introduces the fundamentals of guitar playing, including: posture, hand positions, tuning, chords, strumming, finger-picking, songs and tunes, major scales, and beginning to read music. History of the guitar and its past and current artists will be shared.
Music

Beginning Violin — MIN2241.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Joana Genova
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Credits: 2
The course is designed for students with no prior string instrument experience. Admission is on a first come first serve basis. Classes will be individual (usually 20-25 min. long). Daily practice (10-15 min.) is expected so students can become familiar and comfortable with the instrument.
Music

Best laid plans: an introduction to design — DES2103.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Farhad Mirza
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Credits: 4
The word design is often associated with the standardized, and the mass produced. It might signify tools for what Achille Mbembe calls “the frenzied codification of social life according to…various categories of abstraction that claim to rationalize the world on the basis of corporate logic.” Pier Vittorio Aureli observes the emergence of the English word In the late sixteenth
Visual Arts

Beyond Plastic Pollution — APA2334.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Judith Enck
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Credits: 1
An enviornmental policy class which closely examines the environmental and public health impacts of the production, transport, use and disposal of plastics.  It is taught on-line and includes many community people who audit the class  - creating a nice exchange of ideas between Bennington students and grassroots environmental advocates from across the country. 
CAPA

Black Music: Black Music Division (a 50 year retrospective) — MHI2238.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
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Credits: 2
Beginning in the Fall of 1974 through the spring of 1984, Bill Dixon, a Bennington music faculty member, American composer, and visual artist who was a seminal figure in free jazz, implemented a curriculum entitled Black Music: Black Music Division. This menu of courses introduced innovative pioneers of music who contributed to the lexicon and history of the black experience in
Black Studies Music

Bodies in Inner and Outer Space — PHO4306.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Terry Boddie
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Credits: 4
What are the ways in which the spaces that the human body occupies affects how we view it in a photograph? How does the gendered and racialized body communicate through a photograph made in these spaces? What is communicated when figure and space intertwine? Throughout the history of photography, the human figure has been used to intentionally occupy and alter physical
Visual Arts

Camera Performances — PHO2114.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Luiza Folegatti
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Credits: 4
This class will look at the intersection of photography and performance art inside the contributions of feminist and queer practices. Students will respond to different performance prompts thinking about the role of the camera as an artistic and documentation tool. They will also engage in readings and analysis of works from BIPOC and LGBTQIA+
Visual Arts

Campaign Coverage in an Age of Disinformation — APA2350.01) (day/time change 7/8/2024

Fall 2024
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
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Credits: 2
Taking Hannah Arendt’s 1967 New Yorker article “Truth and Politics” as a foundational text, this course will examine how the 2024 election is being covered, and should be covered, in an age when basic facts about politics, history, and voting itself are in dispute. Truth and politics have always lived in a wary co-existence, as Arendt writes, but the modern tools of campaigning
CAPA

Cello — MIN4355.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Nat Parke
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Credits: 2
One-on-one instruction in cello. There will be an emphasis on creating and working towards an end-of-term project for each student.
Music

Chemistry 1: Chemical Principles (with Lab) — CHE2211.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: John Bullock
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Credits: 4
This course is the first of a four-course chemistry sequence covering general, organic and biochemistry. Students do not need to take the entire sequence. We will focus on introductory chemical principles, including atomic theory, classical and quantum bonding concepts, molecular structure, organic functional groups, and the relationship between structure and properties. The
Science and Mathematics

Chemistry 3: Organic Reactions and Mechanisms (with Lab) — CHE4213.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Fortune Ononiwu
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Credits: 4
Chemistry 3 focuses on the nature and pathways of organic reactions: what the steps are, how we experimentally determine them, and how we can use them to solve practical problems, such as the synthesis of a drug, or understanding the action of an enzyme. Emphasis will be using the general principles of nucleo- and and electrophilicity to provide a logical framework for
Science and Mathematics

Child Development — PSY2212.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Emily Waterman
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Credits: 4
It is trite but true: kids grow up so fast. In this course we will discuss the incredible growth of infants, toddlers, and children in multiple domains (physical, cognitive, emotional/social). We will discover how growth in each domain affects the others. We will explore enduring topics of discourse in child development, such as nature and nurture, individual differences, and
Society Culture and Thought

Collaboration in Light, Movement and Clothes — DAN4286.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
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Credits: 4
​​Visual elements are a significant component of performance, whether it be theater, performance art, music or dance. With many performance projects, there is little time to contemplate, rethink or adjust designs in the actual performance space; there is rarely an opportunity to watch a collaborative art develop. In this class, equipped space is available to give the time to
Dance Drama Visual Arts

Collecting Quantitative Data — SCT4154.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Emily Waterman
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Credits: 4
The purpose of this course is to guide students through their own quantitative data collection project. Initial course content will include a review of basic quantitative social science research methods, and content on the development of feasible research questions and sampling choices. Students will submit an institutional review board application, and we will discuss ethical
Society Culture and Thought

Comparing Political Institutions — POL2101.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
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Credits: 4
Political institutions are the decision norms and organizations that govern political life. Academic and policy interest in such institutions is flourishing as previously authoritarian states seek to craft democratic constitutions, while established and new democracies contend with non-democratic, illiberal, or populist challenges to their political systems. This course
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Composing for Instruments — MCO4151.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Allen Shawn
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Credits: 4
This class gives composers hands-on practice notating their music and hearing it played by performers playing a variety of instruments. It is meant for fledgling composers, those who have never even imagined composing music but would like to try, as well as for those who may have composed a lot of music already but need more experience writing it down. There are specific
Music

Contemporary African Literature — LIT2564.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
This course serves as an introduction to the vital stories and voices of contemporary African literature. We will devote ourselves to closely reading novels, short stories, poems, and plays that explore modern African lives, both as they exist in relation to and imagine futures beyond the cruel legacies of genocide, apartheid, and (neo)colonialism. In the pages we read, you
Black Studies Literature