Spring 2024

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.

Beginning to advanced lessons in bass technique and appropriate theory. Lessons on Tuesdays - Schedule TBA

Bebop, Rock and Beyond surveys numerous drum set innovators, architects, and developers of the American drum set. Students will investigate multiple music genres from Swing, Bebop, Funk, Fusion, and Rock from drummers such as, Max Roach, Art Blakey, Ed Blackwell, John Bonham, Steve Jordan, and Cindy Blackman, to global approaches on drum set by artists, Alex Acuna, Terry Lynn

The basics of cello, part two. In a small group or one-on-one, students will learn how to play cello, with an emphasis on performance at the term’s conclusion.

Introduces the fundamentals of guitar playing, including: posture, hand positions, tuning, chords, strumming, finger-picking, songs and tunes, major scales, and beginning to read music. History of the guitar and its past and current artists will be shared.

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

The DNA of Funk Music has its roots in Africa, which developed to fruition in the mid 60s and 70s through the music of James Brown, Sly and the Family Stone, Funkadelic, and others. There have been derivatives of this influence in the form of Afro-pop, Brazilian funk, Hip-Hop, and Reggaeton. The Bennington Funk Collective will investigate classic songs and compositions from

This two-credit course involves working on selecting and editing the content of Bennington’s recently relaunched national print literary magazine, Bennington Review. Students will serve as Editorial Assistants for the magazine, studying and practicing all aspects of magazine editing. The course will also engage students in discussions of contemporary print and digital

This two-credit course involves working on selecting and editing the content of Bennington’s national print literary magazine, Bennington Review. Students will serve as Editorial Assistants for the magazine, studying and practicing all aspects of magazine editing. The course will also engage students in discussions of contemporary print and digital literary culture, and of the

This is an action-packed public policy course that addresses the root problems of the plastic pollution crisis and what students and citizens of the world can do to address it.   There is no text book, but multiple reading requirements and lectures focused on the production, use and disposal of plastics. There will be a sharp focus on plastics impacts on: 

Biochemistry is an intermediate chemistry course in which students apply principles from general and organic chemistry, as well as general biology, to understand the molecular processes that characterize life. Biochemistry is a broad discipline that is growing rapidly in its scope – new developments and discoveries are being made daily. The goal of this class will be to give

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

This hands-on course co-taught by dance faculty Elena Demyanenko, with guests video-artists present will utilize camera/iPhone exercises, selected film screenings (to understand a range of perspectives), and improvisational games to give students an opportunity to expand and refine their own visual sensibilities with the goal of creating collaborative dance and camera

This course is for students who are doing advanced work in public action. Students create a digital portfolio that includes a project in a specific local, national or international community. Students will build this portfolio over the term that includes their research, documentation and a final showing of work. Most students connect this project to work in another discipline

This course will focus on visual evidence such as maps, graphic diagrams, drawings, and site records in relation to animals, bugs, pests, and plagues. How were insect plagues managed in various regions? How are bugs portrayed in different kinds of media? Our focus will be on historical instances of plague, natural disaster and political upheaval that overlap with the presence

Studio instruction in cello. There will be an emphasis on creating and working towards an end-of-term project for each student. A limited number of school cellos available for loan.

This is a continuation of Changing Our Lens Fall 2023. New students are encouraged to enroll in order to become acquainted with the philosophy and history of restorative justice as well as the psychological underpinnings of these practices. Students who have already been in other restorative justice classes will work at a deeper level and continue to practice restorative

This is a continuation of Changing Our Lens Fall 2023. New students are encouraged to enroll in order to become acquainted with the philosophy and history of restorative justice as well as the psychological underpinnings of these practices. Students who have already been in other restorative justice classes will work at a deeper level and continue to practice restorative

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

The final course in the Chemistry 1-4 sequence will examine the energetics of chemical changes. Focusing on the enthalpic and entropic contributions to free energy change, we will examine how energy or work can be extracted from chemical systems and how these systems behave as they tend toward equilibrium. The energetics of electron transfer reactions will be examined along

In this advanced acting class, students will learn some of the basic techniques of film acting, creating short form projects which will allow them to gain experience working for the lens rather than for the stage. Students will work with the book: Acting For Film by Cathy Haase, and using various selected monologue and scene material, will create and present short videos which

In this advanced acting class, students will learn some of the basic techniques of film acting, creating short form projects which will allow them to gain experience working for the lens rather than for the stage. Students will work with the book: Acting For Film by Cathy Haase, and using various selected monologue and scene material, will create and present short videos which

Over half of the world’s population is estimated to live in cities, with that number expected to grow significantly in the coming decade. Cities are not new a concept, by any measure, but this continued trajectory from rural to urban living changes how people interact with one another and is effectively redefining humanity. Historically, anthropologists focused on rural areas,

This course examines climate change through the lens of economic analysis. It delves into how economic activities have complex effects on climate patterns and how this, in turn, has profound implications for the global economy. Case studies are employed to scrutinize the disruptive consequences of climate change on people's well-being in different parts of the world.

Human activities have rapidly altered the climate at a global scale. Writer Lynda Mapes notes, “the climate is changing and with it, our seasons.” Ecosystems and the organisms they support are facing warmer and earlier springs, shifts in precipitation patterns, and altered growing seasons. The timing of seasonal activities of animals and plants are known to ecologists as