Spring 2020

Projects in Sculpture: Making It Personal — SCU4797.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Jon Isherwood

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Credits: 4

The question is what do you want to say? As we develop our interests in sculpture it becomes more and more imperative to find our own voice. The role of the artist is to interpret personal conditions and experiences and find the most effective expression for them. This course provides the opportunity for a self directed study in sculpture. Students are expected to produce a

Visual Arts

Protein Research Methods — BIO4109.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Amie McClellan

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Credits: 4

Research questions in cell biology and biochemistry often require the ability to study the proteins at the heart of the inquiry. This course will give students hands-on experience with techniques for quantifying proteins, detecting protein expression, assessing protein-protein interactions, purifying proteins, and visualizing fluorescently-labeled proteins in vivo. Additionally

Science and Mathematics

Psychology of Creativity: Making and Using Metaphors — PSY4226.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: David Anderegg

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Credits: 4

This course will address two large areas in the psychology of creativity: (1) special creativity, that is, the study of creative persons and the specific characteristics of high-level creative thinkers. We will look at how creativity is measured, what personal characteristics or life circumstances seem to foster creative achievement, and the contributions of history in making

Society Culture and Thought

Puzzles — MAT2108.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre

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Credits: 1

Much of higher mathematics has more in common with solving puzzles than it does with performing algebra drills. In this class, I will be proposing puzzles, and providing coaching and strategies for getting better at doing puzzles. Many of the reasoning skills will be valuable broadly in life, not only in mathematics. No special math knowledge will be needed. (February 18, 21,

Science and Mathematics

Queer Renaissance — AH4114.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Vanessa Lyon

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Credits: 4

A developmental, periodizing, and heteronormatively inflected approach to idiosyncratic male artist-geniuses such as Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, and Titian has dominated Renaissance art history. Yet given its cross-cultural, colonial origins, and paradoxical investment in both 'pagan' antiquity and Christian humanism, ‘pre-modern’ Renaissance visuality is anything but

Visual Arts

Quick Studies — DAN4144.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Dana Reitz

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Credits: 2

For each class, students will bring in short movement studies for performance that day. These can be made for solo or group exploration, and as soon as they are done, we will let them go and move on to the next work in the series. Throughout this practice, we will notice timing, spacing, and detail. By attending to the movement qualities, inherent technical challenges, and

Dance

Reading Writing Fiction: Plot and Suspense — LIT4144.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Manuel Gonzales

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Credits: 4

What is plot? What are stakes and how are they raised and can a story or a novel still compel a reader with small or smaller stakes? What is dramatic tension and what are the other ways a writer can build tension into a short story or a chapter? What, in other words, keeps a reader turning pages through a story or a novel and what happens when these same tools are applied to

Literature

Reading and Writing Literary Journalism — LIT4141.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Benjamin Anastas

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Credits: 4

With the practice of journalism undergoing its most profound changes since the invention of the television, this course will steep students in the traditions of criticism, literary non-fiction, reporting and cultural journalism that thrived during the golden age of print and have persisted in the Internet era. We’ll work our way through literary criticism from Robert Boswell to

Literature

Reading and Writing: Hybrid-Genre Works — LIT4140.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Anna Maria Hong

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Credits: 4

We will read and discuss an array of hybrid-genre works or writing that combines and coalesces two or more genres: poetry, fiction, criticism, and/or memoir. Some books will also cross media incorporating painting, photography, and film. Reading works by Rosa Alcalá, Dao Strom, Douglas Kearney, Mary-Kim Arnold, Evie Shockley, Elizabeth Powell, Tan Lin, Bhanu Kapil, and others,

Literature

Reading and Writing: Poetry of Trauma and Violence — LIT4290.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Phillip Williams

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Credits: 4

Students will read various poetry collections that deal with different forms of trauma: homophobia, lynching, war, sexual abuse, colonization, and the overall idea of how to define “violence.” There will be time to discuss prosodic interests of our poets as well as discuss how content and form work together to create a seamless work. We will then turn to our own work and

Literature

Reading Marx — PHI4106.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Paul Voice

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Credits: 2

Marx's ideas remain an important source of political and social science thought. This class requires students to engage in a close and critical reading of a number of Marx's essays and to assess his work in the light of critical philosophical responses.

Society Culture and Thought

Regardez — FRE4496.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly

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Credits: 4

In this course, students will examine specific visual representations within the context of French culture. Through the reading of a wide variety of French images, including among other works Chartres cathedral’s stained glass, La Tour’s chiaroscuro paintings, Haitian art, as well as virtual reality experiments, students will hone their linguistic skills and enrich their

Cultural Studies and Languages

Resilience and Food Access in Bennington, VT — APA2241.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Tatiana Abatemarco

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Credits: 4

What is a resilient community food system? How is community health impacted by food access and quality? This class will explore these questions through community engagement and research with a focus on sustainable food system interventions in Bennington, Vermont. Resilience is the ability for a system to adapt to changing circumstances, including poverty, climate change, and

CAPA Environment

Rethinking Agriculture — POP2278.02

Spring 2020

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Credits: 1

It is essential that we feed one another but how we do it can be harmful to the water we drink, the land we use, our climate and to human health itself. This course offers a broad look at a range of issues and policy ideas in America’s agricultural system today with the goal of developing a curriculum of the most innovative agricultural practices. Students will hear from

CAPA

Reveries — ARC4124.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Don Sherefkin and Farhad Mirza

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Credits: 4

Students will develop solitary retreats for a writer/reader/dreamer. We will explore the links between poetics and architecture through the close study of texts and images. The structures will be inspired by poetry and conducive to reverie. There are aspects of poetry that share qualities with architecture: structure, rhythm, repetition, shape, etc. Particular to architecture

Visual Arts

Sage City Symphony — MPF4100.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke

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Credits: 1

Sage City Symphony is a community orchestra which invites student participation. The Symphony is noted for the policy of commissioning new works by major composers, in some instances student composers, as well as playing the classics. There are openings in the string sections, and occasionally by audition for solo winds and percussion. There will be two concerts each term.

Music

Saxophone — MIN4237.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Bruce Williamson

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Credits: 2

Study of saxophone technique and standard repertoire (jazz or classical), with an emphasis on tone production, dexterity, reading skills, and improvisation. This course is for intermediate-advanced students only. Corequisite: Must participate in Music Workshop (T 6:30pm-8:00pm)

Music

Scene Painting — DRA2168.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Michael Giannitti

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Credits: 2

This class will introduce students to the fundamentals of scenic art, including terminology, commonly used tools and techniques. Students will learn to create processes that will guide them from a rendering or scenic finish to a completed project. Skills we will develop include color mixing, surface preparation for soft goods and hard scenery, translating small renderings to

Drama Visual Arts

SCT Advanced Work Preparation Module — SCT4104.04

Spring 2020

Instructor: David Bond

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Credits: 1

This one credit module is designed for students preparing to do advanced work in SCT during Fall 2020. In a series of workshops, students will work on formulating clear lines of inquiry and developing a research plan for their advanced work in SCT. Students will look at various examples of advanced work as presented by current seniors. Various SCT faculty members will present

Society Culture and Thought

Self, Culture, Society — PSY2236.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Megan Bulloch

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Credits: 4

Students reflect upon psychological, and anthropological issues in human populations, asking, “What does it mean to be human?” We consider a range of topics investigated in the social sciences, beginning with definitions of self, culture, and society along with issues of power, rights, and responsibilities. We also look beyond traditional definitions of “human” to intersections

Society Culture and Thought

Seminar on Monolingualism — LIN2103.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Thomas Leddy-Cecere

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Credits: 4

Scholarly estimates consistently place the percentage of the world’s population able to communicate proficiently in more than one language over 50%. Yet multilingual competence is regularly treated as a secondary or even aberrant state requiring explanation and interpretation, while monolingualism is assumed as default despite its numerically inferior status. In

Cultural Studies and Languages Society Culture and Thought

Senior Projects —

Spring 2020

Instructor: Donald Sherefkin

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Credits: 4

This is an advanced studio class for seniors who have a proficient understanding of architectural concepts, history and theory. Each student will develop a personal project. Students must submit a detailed proposal for their project in advance.

Senior Projects — MPF4226.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Nicholas Brooke

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Credits: 2

This course will serve as a forum for technical planning and feedback for seniors scheduling a musical show or installation in Spring 2020. The majority of work for any senior show will be expected to be composed and/or collected by the beginning of the term. Students will be required to pick an advisor from appropriate music faculty to advise their particular projects as they

Music

Senior Seminar in Society, Culture and Thought II — SCT4751.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Noah Coburn

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Credits: 4

This is the second half of the SCT senior seminar, designed as a venue for students to complete their advanced work. For most students, this seminar will focus on analyzing data collected for their senior work during the first term or during Field Work Term and using that analysis to complete their senior projects. Aside from a few shared readings, the bulk of what individuals

Society Culture and Thought

Shorter Songs — Cancelled

Spring 2020

Instructor: Bruce Williamson

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Credits: 2

What elements set certain composers apart from their contemporaries? In any genre, there are those who “raise the bar” and gain respect both for being prolific and breaking traditions of harmony and form. Jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter took his cue from ground-breaking composers before him such as Duke Ellington and Thelonius Monk, helping to create new directions in jazz while

Music