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BC Chamber Singers — MVO4302.01

Instructor: Virginia Kelsey
Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 2

Bennington College Chamber Singers is a small, collaborative vocal ensemble focused on the craft of vocal chamber music. We’ll explore over 900 years of repertoire, from Medieval chant and Renaissance madrigals to Baroque oratorio, gems from the Classical and Romantic periods, and contemporary experimental vocal works!

Rehearsals will function as a shared

Beat By Beat Script Interpretation: Pulitzer Version — DRA2388.01

Instructor: Dina Janis
Days & Time: TU,FR 4:10pm-6:00pm
Credits: 4

Students in this class will read a weekly selection of Pulitzer Prize winning plays and be required to analyze and explore these plays beat by beat in class discussion and weekly critical writing exercises. This is an in-depth script interpretation class in which theme, dramatic structure, arc, character development, tone, style and extensive study of the given playwrights

Becoming Educated in Vermont — APA2458.01

Instructor: Brian Campion
Days & Time: FR 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

Taught by a former State Senator who Chaired the Senate Education Committee from 2020-2024, and is a current member of the Vermont State Board of Education, this course focuses on developing state and local policies to improve educational outcomes across the Pre-K through the grade 12 system. The class will ground its work in the 2026 Vermont State Report Card, issued

Beginning Guitar — MIN2247.01, section 1

Instructor: Hui Cox
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2

Correct posture for playing the guitar Several approaches to tuning the guitar

Twelve week study of twelve different guitarists of varying styles for awareness of the history of the guitar and the various styles the instrument is capable of. Enhances listening skills.

Beginning Violin — MIN2241.01

Instructor: Joana Genova
Days & Time: TBA
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.

Carceral Societies — ANT4127.01

Instructor: Marios Falaris
Days & Time: TU 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

How do prisons shape society? What socialities do carceral systems produce? What is revealed about societies through their practices of incarceration? Through key works in Black Studies, Anthropology, and Geography, we will explore these questions and more, considering the light that incarceration sheds on the study of society. In

CDP: Research Studies — DAN2510B.01

Instructor: Donna Faye Burchfield
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 4

This course utilizes a seminar and workshop format focusing on conceptual, relational, and material frameworks of the choreographic. Through shaping a bibliographic course archive, we will source current developments within the field of contemporary art making. The class investigations, assignments and discussions will yield imaginative

CDP: Senior Thesis Workshop — DAN4803B.01

Instructor: Jesse Zaritt
Days & Time: W 10:00AM-2:00PM
Credits: 4

This course is designed to be the culmination of the BFA Dance Lab program. Critical Dance Processes: Senior Thesis Workshop supports projects emerging from research in and through the study of dance and results in the public sharing of a thesis work. Each student will propose a project, develop goals and objectives for the

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

Instructor: Fortune Ononiwu
Days & Time: M/Th 10:00AM-11:50AM, W 2:10PM-5:50PM (Lab)
Credits: 5

Your journey toward learning the language of matter and its transformations on a molecular scale begins here. This course is the first in a four-course chemsitry sequence covering general chemistry, organic chemistry, and biochemistry. We will begin with a foundational question that has intrigued philosophers and scientist for centuries and remains relevant today: What

Chinese Calligraphy: Core Strokes and Techniques for beginners — CHI2132.01

Instructor: Ginger Lin
Days & Time: TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 2

Traditional Chinese calligraphy is an ancient art form that uses brush and ink to write Chinese characters in a refined and expressive style. It embodies visual beauty and emotion, reflecting the writer’s personality, philosophy, and cultural sensibility.

This course is designed not only as an introduction to calligraphy, but also as a space for relaxation and stress

Cinéma-monde — FRE4154.01

Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 4

In this course, films are used as textbooks to learn the French language and explore the French-speaking world. In order to hone their language skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing), students will listen to selected film dialogues to improve their listening comprehension, read and analyze excerpts from scenarios and reviews to strengthen their understanding of

CNC Fabrication: Modeling and Milling with Rhino 8 (Beta) — DES4112.01

Instructor: Derek Parker
Days & Time: TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 2

CNC Fabrication: Modeling and Milling with Rhino 8 is an intermediate course in Digital Fabrication focused on Computer Numerically Controlled (CNC) routing and the end-to-end workflow from digital model to fabricated object. This course will cover 3D modeling in Rhino 8 with an emphasis on designing for sheet material, including joinery, nesting, and

COLOR: Theory and Practice — DRW4114.01

Instructor: Beverly Acha
Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

This course is a deep dive into color theory through rigorous hands-on practice. In the first half of the term students will develop an awareness and understanding of color’s perceptual, sensory, and material properties through color investigations and exercises using specific materials such as gouache, pastels, and collage. In the second half of the term we will delve into

Composing for Instruments — MCO4151.01

Instructor: Allen Shawn
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
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, for those who may have composed a lot of music already but have trouble writing their music down, or for those who have never even imagined composing music but would like to try. There are specific

Composition Project: "Eighth Blackbird" — MCO4004.01

Instructor: Allen Shawn
Days & Time: WE 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 2

In the first half of the term students will compose pieces for the celebrated "Eighth Blackbird" ensemble, which consists of  flute(s), clarinet(s), piano, percussion, violin, and cello. In preparation for this, we will study a few important scores written for this combination of instruments. The ensemble will visit in November and read and record the

cover-up ; sublimate situation c-u;ss — SCU4228.01

Instructor: John Umphlett
Days & Time: TU 8:30am-12:10pm
Credits: 4

 How do I begin? What's happening already…we are the studio.
This course is designed to bring together creative minds who feel the need to take the next steps into understanding how to create an idea three dimensionally. How do I take an abstract idea and begin to

Creating a Digital Archive — APA2260.01

Instructor: Sharif Jamal
Days & Time: MO 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 2

This class will introduce students to creating digital archive that includes digitizing photographs, documents, art works, file management, and basic types of metadata. We will have discussions about why digitizing personal collections is so important. Students will be expected to bring their own materials to

Critical Dance Processes: Action Studies — DAN2509B.01

Instructor: Jesse Zaritt
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 4

Critical Dance Processes: Action Studies moves students through intensive and collaborative dance research practices including guided improvisation, the making of solo performance studies, and the co-creative design of collective movement research scores. Reading and