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Stars, Planets, Life — PHY2107.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Hugh Crowl
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Credits: 4
In the last thirty years, the study of life beyond our own planet has gone from science fiction to legitimate science. The course will initially focus on how stars form and evolve, starting from the formation of the universe, and continuing to a discussion of stars as both the synthesizers of heavy elements and the central energy source for stellar systems. From there, we will
Science and Mathematics

Statistical Methods for Data Analysis — MAT2104.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Katie Montovan
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Credits: 4
In this course, we will focus on developing the statistical skills needed to answer questions by collecting data, designing experimental studies, and analyzing large publicly available datasets. The skills learned will also help students to be critical consumers of statistical results. We will use a variety of datasets to develop skills in data management, analysis, and
Science and Mathematics

Statistics for the Social Sciences — SOC4103.01) (cancelled

Spring 2022
Instructor: Debbie Warnock
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Credits: 4
In this course students will learn to harness social statistics as a powerful tool for answering social science research questions, while becoming more educated consumers of statistical analyses presented in research and news sources. Using nationally representative data sets we will employ various inferential statistics techniques, such as confidence intervals, t-tests, chi
Society Culture and Thought

Storytelling with Lights — DRA2316.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
In this course, we will explore the idea and process of telling stories with light, and examine how the meaning and experience of a story may be changed by lighting choices, which influence our perception of time, space, mood, composition, focus and story content. Our source material will include illustrations, books, movies, and performing art pieces. We will use the
Drama

Style in Motion: Costume Design for Dance — DRA2315.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Charles Schoonmaker
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Credits: 4
We will be designing costumes that are unrealized ‘paper’ projects as well as realized costumes for new works. Class members may work with student choreographers, utilizing this class as a resource in the creative process. We will also work, as a group, on designing the clothes for a new work choreographed by Dance faculty member Maura Gahan.
Dance Drama

Teaching Languages and Cultures K-6 — CSL2000.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
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Credits: 2
Early exploration of foreign languages and cultures is a powerful tool towards social justice and intercultural understanding. This will be particularly important for a class age (6-11) that will have been significantly deprived of the practice of fundamental socialization skills because of Covid. This course is intended to help students gain a basic understanding of language
Cultural Studies and Languages Education

The Architecture Of Black Improvised Music — MHI2323.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
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Credits: 1
This seminar will involve listening, discussing, and responding to the great music creators who contributed to the 1960’s free jazz movement. Many of these icons have lectured, performed, and walked the grounds of Bennington College. Students will examine the history, structures, and techniques developed during this creative period, including personal anecdotes about the music
Music

The Art of Listening — MET2239.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Joseph Alpar
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Credits: 2
Composer Pauline Oliveros once said, “Listen to everything all the time and remind yourself when you are not listening.” In this course, students will develop their musical knowledge and active listening skills through the examination of diverse musical practices and sounds in varied social, cultural, and historical contexts. Rather than organizing the course according to genre
Music

The Art of Literary Translation — LIT4319.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz
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Credits: 4
It may well be that the closest, most interpretative, and creative reading of a text involves translating it from one language to another. Questions of place, culture, epoch, voice, gender, and rhythm take on new urgency, helping us to deepen our writerly skills and sensibilities. As Joseph Brodsky put it: “You must memorize poems, do translation, study foreign languages. And
Cultural Studies and Languages Literature

The Art of the Interview — APA2450.02

Spring 2022
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
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Credits: 2
****moved to 2nd 7 weeks as of 2/18/2022**** Interviewing has been called an “art” by many writers. Some interviews require extensive preparation, others cursory, while still others are conducted with none. Students in this course will get experience in a variety interviewing genres and techniques. We will also watch, listen to and read several examples of interviews to
CAPA

The Big Picture: Stewarding Artists' Legacies (FWT Course) — VA4406.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Liz White
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Credits: 1
What forces and individuals contribute to shaping an artist’s legacy? What happens to all of the objects, materials, and correspondence that artists create during their lifetime? What is a catalogue raisonné? This one-credit module will introduce students to the nascent field of artist-endowed foundations, and invite the consideration of philosophical and creative questions,
Visual Arts

The Biological Sex Mosaic — BIO2241.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
The evolution of sexual reproduction is arguably the single most consequential event in the evolution of life on Earth. This class will explore the diversity of biological sex. We will focus on sexual differentiation in animals, including humans. Students will learn the genetic, developmental, and hormonal mechanisms that give rise to sex
Science and Mathematics

The Business Side of Music — MHI2322.02

Spring 2022
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
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Credits: 1
The business side of music, from contracts to audio distribution platforms, is an important component of an artist’s life which cannot be ignored. Kyoko Kitamura – musician, former journalist, former executive director of the arts organization Tri-Centric Foundation – will share real life examples and analyses, starting with the pandemic and the force majeure clause, its impact
Music

The Devil Finds Work — MS2108.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
In 1976 James Baldwin wrote his short work of film criticism The Devil Finds Work while in self-imposed exile in France. The work presents a personal film historical narrative as well as an intervention into the politics of aesthetics and the politics of visual cultural life from the perspective of a writer grappling with the realities of living as Queer and  
Society Culture and Thought

The Dustbin of History — HIS4407.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Eileen Scully
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Credits: 4
Let us consider Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky's October 1917 curse upon moderate socialists resisting the ongoing Bolshevik coup d'etat: "You are pitiful, isolated individuals. You are bankrupts. Your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on—into the dustbin of history!” In this course, we find our own way into the "dustbin of history" in search of things--ideas
Society Culture and Thought

The Improvising and Composing Vocalist — MVO2302.02) (new course code as of 11/1/2021

Spring 2022
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
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Credits: 1
Voice is an instrument with an incredible range of expression, and there is much to explore in the realm of vocal improvisation and composition. Through a series of exercises developed for the vocal improviser, with an emphasis on strengthening the foundation of theory and ear training, students will be encouraged to think holistically about the possibilities of voice. Students
Music

The Magic of Adolescence — PSY4380.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Emily Waterman
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Credits: 4
Adolescence sometimes has a bad reputation—teens are often seen as impulsive, hormonal, irresponsible beings who talk back, do drugs, have risky sex, and drive too fast. In this class, we will flip this belief. Backed by the science of adolescent brain development, we will discuss adolescence as a time of malleability, social engagement, resilience, identity development,
Society Culture and Thought

The Manner of Moving — DAN2242.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Dana Reitz
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Credits: 2
This is designed for those who are interested in excavating and investigating their own ways of moving. By becoming more grounded, more aware and more observant, students will be able to experience presence in motion. We will be thoroughly exploring, modifying, rearranging, expanding and ultimately reconsidering how we move. While creating small movement scenarios, students
Dance

The Philosophy of Hannah Arendt — PHI4131.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Paul Voice
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Credits: 4
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was a political theorist whose work has become increasingly influential in recent years. A student of Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers, her extensive writings cover such topics as the nature of power, the meaning of the political, and the problem of revolution. This course is a detailed exploration of some of her major works, including The Human
Society Culture and Thought

The Prose Poem — LIT4280.02

Spring 2022
Instructor: Phillip B. Williams
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Credits: 2
The prose poem challenges the very notion of genre—but what are the implications of this challenge and how does it reframe the perceived disciplinary limits of literature itself? Students will learn the history of the prose poem beginning in 19th-century France through its contemporary usage. Reading a book a week, there will be discussion about form and function, the nuance of
Literature

The Question of Art in the Twentieth Century — AH2232.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
What is art? This question proved central to the evolution of artistic practice in the West during the twentieth century. The push to define and redefine art was entangled with several other queries: What cannot be considered art? What does an artist do (or not do)? What (or who) is “modern”? What distinguishes art from life itself? Looking at the social histories from
Visual Arts

The Russian Modernist Poets — LIT4175.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
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Credits: 2
The period between the 1890s and 1920s was known as the Silver Age of Russian poetry, a time of invention and innovation against the backdrop of revolution, war, societal upheaval, and the eventual formation of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union's repressive authoritarian regime sought to stamp out artistic experimentation and personal expression that wasn't in service to the
Literature

The Scriptorium: Love — WRI2155.02

Spring 2022
Instructor: Camille Guthrie
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Credits: 4
This scriptorium, a “place for writing,” functions as a class for writers interested in improving their academic essay-writing skills. We will read to write and write to read. Much of our time will be occupied with writing and revising—essai means “trial” or “attempt”—as we work to create new habits and strategies for our analytical writing. Our learning outcomes include
Writing

The Scriptorium: Love — WRI2155.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Camille Guthrie
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This scriptorium, a “place for writing,” functions as a class for writers interested in improving their academic essay-writing skills. We will read to write and write to read. Much of our time will be occupied with writing and revising—essai means “trial” or “attempt”—as we work to create new habits and strategies for our analytical writing. Our learning outcomes include
Writing

The United States in the World — PEC2265.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
The aim of this course is to use a political economic lens to explore the “inside-outside” connections between violence and struggle within the United States and beyond its borders. To do this, we will examine the political, economic, cultural, and militaristic reach of the United States in the global political economy. We will look at the political economic basis of the US’s
Society Culture and Thought