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Animation Projects — MA4202.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Sue Rees
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Credits: 4
The course will be for sustained work on an animation or design project, and should be a space for both experimentation, ambition and a consistent endeavor. Students will be expected to create a complete animation, a series of experiments or interactive project. The expectation is that students will be fully engaged in all aspects of the class from critiques, to experimenting
Visual Arts

Another Audience: Performance with/for/of/by/through/between the More-than-Human — DAN4186.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Levi Gonzalez
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Credits: 4
Orienting ourselves away from the traditional performance/audience relationship of Western European dance lineages, particularly the human-centric relationships through which performance is typically produced and shared, this course proposes an attunement toward another, expanded audience or web of relations through which to perform. With a critical eye towards what
Dance

Anti-Perspective — DRW4402.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Farhad Mirza
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Credits: 4
"One could even compare the function of Renaissance perspective with that of critical philosophy... The result was a translation of psychophysiological space into mathematical space; in other words, an objectification of the subjective." -- Erwin Panofsky, Perspective as Symbolic Form This course is about how an image might represent a codified or systematic way of thinking. We
Visual Arts

Architectural Graphics — ARC2104.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Donald Sherefkin
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Credits: 2
This course provides an introduction to a range of drawing processes, including observational drawing, diagrammatic sketching, and geometric constructions. We will also master the conventions of architectural graphics, from plans and sections to three-dimensional projections. Weekly workshops and drawing assignments are required. All of the drawings will be
Visual Arts

Bad Citizen: letting go of being good for a better world and A New Dream — MPF2167.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Being, FKA Kriss Mincey, MFA Teaching Fellow
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Credits: 4
This class examines what it means to perform the identity of a good artist, from the perspective of the performer, and how the tenets of good citizenship get in the way of doing our most radical—from the root—work. By making this inquiry, we reclaim the performance process as both a medium and a model for building relationships that
Music

Bad Romance: Shakespeare's Poetry — LIT4380.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
We will immerse ourselves in reading Shakespeare’s Sonnets and his Neoclassical poems, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece. Shakespeare invented his own style of the sonnet, originally popularized by Petrarch in the 14th century. In the 154 sonnets published in 1609, Shakespeare dazzles us with his lexical, semantic, aural, syntactic, and
Literature

Balkan Music Ensemble — MPF4227.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
Balkan music is fierce brass, complex harmonies, and mind-bending asymmetrical dances. It is spirited Serbian wedding music, dissonant village songs, devastating Bosnian love ballads, saucy songs of the Greek underworld, and heart-pounding Turkish rhythms. In the Bennington Balkan Ensemble, we will learn to perform a variety of traditional, urban, village, and popular music
Music

Ballet Anarchy — DAN4181.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Mina Nishimura
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Credits: 2
This course is designed for students who have some ballet experience and are familiar with basic ballet terms and movement vocabulary. While following a basic structure and flow of a traditional ballet class, this course, accompanied by non-traditional music scores such as pop music, offers an opportunity to recalibrate, reactivate, improve, deepen, expand, develop or break
Dance

Bass Intensive — MIN4026.01

Spring 2023
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

Beans Give Back 2.0 — APA4263.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
Beans have a long shelf life packed with nutrition. How could this food source extend itself to the local community? Beans are a legume coming from the French word légume and the Latin word leger meaning to gather or to pick. With a cultural significance across several continents, beans have nourished humans, animals and soil health. As a seasonal progression of Beans Give Back
Advancement of Public Action

Beginning Cello II — MIN4354.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Nat Parke
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Credits: 2
The basics of cello. In a small group or one on one, students will learn how to play the cello, with an emphasis on a group performance at the term’s conclusion.
Music

Beginning Guitar — MIN2247.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Hui Cox
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Credits: 2
Introduces the fundamentals of acoustic electric guitar playing, including hand positions, tuning, reading music, major and pentatonic scales, major, minor, and seventh chords, chord progressions, blues progressions, and simple arrangements of songs. Reviewing the history of the guitar and its pioneers and innovators.
Music

Beginning Violin/Viola — MIN4141.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 1
Group or individual violin/viola lessons for students with no prior string instrument experience or minimal experience of holding the bow/instrument and basic note reading. A limited number of school instruments are available.
Music

Beginning Wheel Throwing — CER2107.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Aysha Peltz
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Credits: 4
This class is an introduction to using the potter's wheel as a tool for generating clay forms with an emphasis on pottery making. While focusing on throwing skills, students will explore various possibilities for assembling wheel-thrown elements and experiment with functional and non-functional formats. Students will be introduced to the whole ceramic process from wet working
Visual Arts

Bennington Past and Present — HIS4408.01) (cancelled 12/19/2022

Spring 2023
Instructor: Eileen Scully
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Credits: 4
We explore the history of Bennington County, including Bennington College, in the broad context of political, social, and environmental history across several centuries. Readings and online materials situate students in the vibrant enterprise of local history, often defined as "the study of the everyday struggles and triumphs of ordinary people," recognizing "that our lives are
Society Culture and Thought

Bennington Past and Present — HIS2408.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
We explore the history of Bennington County, including Bennington College, in the broad context of political, social, and environmental history across several centuries. Readings and online materials situate students in the vibrant enterprise of local history, often defined as “the study of the everyday struggles and triumphs of ordinary people,” recognizing “that our lives are
Society Culture and Thought

Beyond Le Triangle et l'Hexagone: Narrating the (Hi)story and the Self — FRE4612.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Maboula Soumahoro
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4

Departing from my book Le Triangle et l’Hexagone: Réflexions sur une identité noire (La Découverte, 2020), the course proposes an analysis of the racial context of contemporary France, at times in comparison with that of the United States. The focus of the course will be set on narrations: historical, sociological and artistic (literature, film, music). Participants to this

Cultural Studies and Languages

Beyond Plastic Pollution — APA2334.02

Spring 2023
Instructor: Judith Enck
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Credits: 1
Beyond Plastic Pollution is an environmental policy class that focuses on the systemic reasons why millions of tons of plastics enter the ocean each year.  Through the lense of environmental justice, this cutting-edge class focuses on how plastic pollution is a climate change issue; how the plastics industry spins the myth that we can recycle our way out of the
Advancement of Public Action

BLACK IS THE JOURNEY: sampling the intellectual and artistic productions of the African Diaspora — CSL2133.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Maboula Soumahoro
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4

The course offers a rhizomatic exploration of the African diaspora of the Black Atlantic (Europe-Africa-America), encompassing a wide array of the modalities of its expressions: historical, political, cultural, artistic, and intellectual. Using my book "Black is the Journey, Africana the Name" (Polity, 2021) as a point of departure, this seminar is an invitation to embark on

Cultural Studies and Languages

Butoh Intensive—In search of dance of darkness — DAN4245.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Mina Nishimura
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Credits: 4
This advanced level intensive butoh course is designed for students, who have prior experience of making a work around a body, especially (yet not limited) in dance, theater and visual arts context. Inspired by butoh-based movement practice and eastern philosophies, students will seek a way of liberating a body from socially pre-conditioned self. While studying particular
Dance Drama

Call and Response: A Practical Storytelling Method to Build Food Based Community — VA4320.03

Spring 2023
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
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Credits: 2
For the past 4 decades Gillian Goddard has been exploring the relationship between Land, food and community. These interests have led to an intense collective praxis utilizing cacao and chocolate to empower ex-colonial countries in their process of economic decoloniality. Over 3 weekends in April, Goddard will lead an intimate group of students in a call and response process
Visual Arts

Cell Biology (with Lab) — BIO4114.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Amie McClellan
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Credits: 4
The cell is the fundamental organizational unit of all living organisms on Earth. In this class we will investigate cell structure and function, learn about DNA replication and transcription, find out how proteins are synthesized, folded, localized, and regulated, ultimately coming to understand how interfering with cell biological processes can result in disease. In the lab,
Science and Mathematics

Cello — MIN4355.01

Spring 2023
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. School cellos available for loan.
Music

Chemistry 2: Organic Structure Bonding —

Spring 2023
Instructor: John Bullock
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Credits: 4
Building on structural and reactivity insights developed in Chemistry 1, this course delves into molecular structure and modern theories of bonding, especially as they relate to the reaction patterns of functional groups. We will focus on the mechanisms of reaction pathways and develop an understanding for how those mechanisms are experimentally explored. There will be numerous