Spring 2026 Course Search

Analyzing Blockchain/Web3 as an open distributed database — CS4391.01

Instructor: Michael Corey
Days & Time: TH 3:40pm-5:30pm
Credits: 2

Following up on the fall course on web3, this course helps students learn to track transactions and actions across blockchains, which are large distributed censorship resistant databases. The course starts by exploring the fundamental nature of the blockchain: how data is stored, accessed, and traversed. It then introduces common patterns and software used for blockchain analytics.

Bennington Review: A Practicum in Literary Editing and Publishing – Poetry — LIT4330.01

Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Days & Time: TH 3:40pm-5:30pm
Credits: 2

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 literary culture, and of the history of literary magazines. Students will be selected in part based on their familiarity with contemporary literature, as well as for prior experience in editing or publishing.

TMD: Practice + Process — DAN4831B.01, section 1

Instructor: Katie Swords Thurman
Days & Time: MO,TH 3:40pm-5:30pm
Credits: 2

Each Practice + Process course is designed around the research/pedagogic interests of the faculty member leading the class. The overall curricular structure positions studio practice, creative process and critical reading, thinking and languaging as integrated elements within one course, enabling students to move between modes of learning, reflection and making.

TMD: Practice + Process — DAN4831B.03, section 3

Instructor: Faculty TBA
Days & Time: MO,TH 3:40pm-5:30pm
Credits: 2

Each Practice + Process course is designed around the research/pedagogic interests of the faculty member leading the class. The overall curricular structure positions studio practice, creative process and critical reading, thinking and languaging as integrated elements within one course, enabling students to move between modes of learning, reflection and making.

Effort Lab: Improvisation Workshop — DAN2424.01

Instructor: Londs Reuter
Days & Time: MO,TH 3:40pm-5:30pm
Credits: 2

This class will introduce students to basic concepts of improvised dancing with particular focus on effort.  Class will begin with an embodied check-in and a gentle warm-up. Weekly exercises will move students through various investigations regarding effort, from organ systems to Buddhist teachings to personal preferences to the laws of Physics. While the course's references will be wide-ranging, the objective of the class will always be to learn by doing and to physicalize knowledge.