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ReVisions Rebellions, Revolution: Latin American Women Writers — LIT2516.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz
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Credits: 4
Since the 17th century women writers have been a steadily rebellious, even revolutionizing force in Latin American letters. A number of the writers we’ll read together are also visual and/or performance artists, and intensely political, dealing in formally challenging ways with the residues of 20th-century state terror; as well as the legacies of colonialism; themes of
Literature Cultural Studies and Languages

Scene Painting — DRA2168.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
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Credits: 2
This course will introduce students to the fundamentals of scenic art, including techniques, terminology, and commonly used tools. 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

Science, Drama and the Power of the Inquisitive Mind — DRA2259.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Dina Janis
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Credits: 4
"Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so" Galileo "To be or not to be, that is the question" Shakespeare How do the worlds of science and theatre connect and what do they share? What is the role of the revolutionary thinker in society? We will study a variety of dramatic texts that look at these questions, exploring the nature of the inquisitive mind and
Drama Science and Mathematics

SCT Advanced Work Preparation Module — SCT4104.04

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 1
This one-credit module is designed for students preparing to do advanced work in SCT during Fall 2022. 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

Seeds of Renewal: Cultivating Indigenous Crops — APA4307.02) (cancelled

Spring 2022
Instructor: Tatiana Abatemarco
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Credits: 2
In this course, students will work together to start seeds and plant a garden at the Purple Carrot Farm in collaboration with the Elnu Abenaki people, on whose unceded land Bennington College is located. Students will read texts and engage in class discussion on the topics of indigenous food sovereignty, rematriatriation, and decolonization. The class will feature guest
CAPA

Self and Identity in Diaspora — PSY2378.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Özge Savas
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Credits: 4
How have transnational diaspora communities become new sites for the rethinking core concepts of psychology such as self and identity alongside culture and nation? How do people build self, identity, and community in multiple homes? Who belongs in where? In this course, we will follow a migrant-centered approach in investigating macro (e.g., institutional), meso (e.g.,
Society Culture and Thought

Senior Projects — MCO4376.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
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Credits: 4
This course will serve as a workshop and forum for senior music concentrators who are planning to present their senior projects in Spring 2022. In this course, we will meet and discuss students’ projects produced through any creative practice, including, but not limited to, performance, installation, musical show, and lecture. Students will be expected to complete most of their
Music

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

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carol Pal
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Credits: 4
This advanced research seminar offers students the opportunity to continue their culminating work in SCT in the form of an independent research project. For some students, this will be the second half of a year-long thesis; for others, this will be a one-semester project. Writing will take place throughout term. Students will receive feedback from the instructor, a second
Society Culture and Thought

Set the Table- Tableware and Cups — CER4208.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Aysha Peltz
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Credits: 4
Throughout history, tableware has been an expression of a specific time and place. In this way, utilitarian objects embody the ideas that define culture. For this class, intermediate and advanced ceramic students will produce prototypes that are a thoughtful response to this problem. The emphasis will be on designing compelling pots rather than producing many matching sets.
Visual Arts

Shakespeare: The History Plays — LIT2214.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Maya Cantu
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Credits: 4
"An explosion of history plays appeared on the scene in Elizabethan England,” as Marjorie Garber describes England’s transition into a “political power, proud of its absolute monarch.” Of these plays, few offered more multifaceted portrayals of pageantry, tyranny, succession, and causality than the history plays of William Shakespeare. The playwright examined the power
Drama Literature

Social and Cultural Values in Japan: Digital Book Project (Intermediate) — JPN4402.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
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Credits: 4
This intermediate-level course is designed for students to create digital books which will teach Japanese children how to embrace cultural differences.  First, students will read short stories for Japanese children and watch Japanese animations to examine how Japanese children are expected to behave and communicate with others.  Students will also analyze social and
Cultural Studies and Languages

Social Capital for Regenerative Communities — APA2303.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Tatiana Abatemarco Susan Sgorbati
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Credits: 2
Social capital expands the measure of value to social support and connectedness, which are externalized by the neoclassical economic model. Regenerative agriculture is the movement to create agricultural systems that build soil biodiversity and sequester carbon dioxide. This class will explore the possibility for social capital as a means to ensure that regenerative agriculture
CAPA Environment Society Culture and Thought

Song for Ireland and Celtic Connections — MHI2251.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: John Kirk
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Credits: 2
Celtic history and music from Ireland, Scotland, Bretagne, Galatia, and Cape Breton will be experienced, researched, studied, and performed using instruments and voices. We will find and cross the musical bridges between regions – from the ballads of Ireland, Scotland and Wales to the Alalas of Spain and dance tunes of Brittany. An end-of-term presentation will be prepared
Music

Songwriting I: From your Room to the World (REMOTE) — MCO2113.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Kitty Brazelton
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Credits: 4
Have you always wanted to write songs? Maybe you’ve already written a few, and you are wondering if you should show them to anyone. In this class, we will talk about the basics of songwriting. You will need to be able to show us your ideas (sing them, play them on guitar or keyboard as you sing, record them, show us however you can)—but they don’t have to be finished. Because
Music

Songwriting I: Melody, Rhythm Harmony LAB — MCO2114.02

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
This online LAB is to help those with little or no musical training, learn the basics of harmony, rhythm and melody in order to write better songs. This strengthened understanding of the details will allow you to look at how your song’s melody fits over the chords you have chosen and why. And you’ll understand better how beats affect your song, so your rhythmic choices are
Music

Songwriting I: Melody, Rhythm Harmony LAB — MCO2114.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Kitty Brazelton
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Credits: 2
This online LAB is to help those with little or no musical training, learn the basics of harmony, rhythm and melody in order to write better songs. This strengthened understanding of the details will allow you to look at how your song’s melody fits over the chords you have chosen and why. And you’ll understand better how beats affect your song, so your rhythmic choices are
Music

Songwriting II: Defining and Deepening Your “Brand”(REMOTE) — MCO4169.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Kitty Brazelton
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Credits: 4
This is a course for advanced songwriter/composers, music makers who are ready to create bands, albums, shows, that transcend the single song into a larger listening experience. Knowing which songs/compositions represent your “voice” with resonance predictive of what you will write in the future, but combine, with integrity, strong material you’ve already written—is difficult
Music

Sound and Cadence for the Contemporary Ear/Era — LIT2200.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
Sounds make us feel things. Sometimes, sound even unites us in feeling things. We might hear the words of Bob Marley swooning, “Let’s get together and feel alright.” Yet the effects (and affects) of music can also be detrimental. In Sonic Warfare, musician Steve Goodman (aka Kode9) argues that sound can be—and has been—used to express social threat and to create widespread
Literature

Sound Design for Moving Images — MSR4120.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Senem Pirler
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Credits: 4
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 audio post-production for moving images and focus on the role of the sound designer. We will focus on designing sounds using Foley, sound effects editing, and post-processing. Students will learn
Music Visual Arts

Spaceships — APA2341.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
Exploring the intersections of spatial and experience design. Explorers will get the opportunity to discover locations/spaces on campus [or off campus] that could be reimagined for new purposes and functions for learning.  Spaceships is a 7 week journey where we all will immerse ourselves into rapid prototyping labs as individuals and groups to create what I call
CAPA

Spaceships — APA2341.02

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
Exploring the intersections of spatial and experience design. Explorers will get the opportunity to discover locations/spaces on campus [or off campus] that could be reimagined for new purposes and functions for learning.  Spaceships is a 7 week journey where we all will immerse ourselves into rapid prototyping labs as individuals and groups to create what I call
CAPA

Spanish Through Film — SPA4222.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
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Credits: 5
Students with burgeoning linguistic skills will learn the language through an immersion in Latin American and Spanish film in the second half of this full-year introduction to the Spanish-speaking world. While there will be some discussion of more common tactics such as stylistic nuances, script-writing, acting, dubbing, and directors’ biographies, it is expected that we will
Cultural Studies and Languages

Special Relativity — PHY4210.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Hugh Crowl
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Credits: 2
Classical physics describes the motions of large things moving at slow speeds. That description of the universe, which physicists used to describe the motion of objects from apples to planets for hundreds of years, does not hold for objects moving very fast. In this class, we will look at how traveling close to the speed of light affects the physical properties of objects.
Science and Mathematics

Speculative Fiction — LIT2422.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Paul La Farge
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Credits: 4
For the last hundred years or so, speculative fiction has been a way for writers to imagine the future, but also, implicitly or explicitly, to think about the present. We’ll read genre, mainstream, and hard-to-classify works from the 1920s to the 2010s, with particular attention to the ways in which speculative fiction uses language to create a world, and the ways in which its
Literature