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Fall 2017

Artistic Interventions as a Form of Protest: Performance and Social Movements (HOLD FOR VISA) —

Fall 2017

Instructor: Burcu Şeyben

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Credits: 4

The arts have always been one of the most effective means of political or social protest in history. Sometimes a work of art itself becomes a part of the protest whether or not it was so intended. In spring 2011 right before the Gezi Protests, Mi Minör, a play by Meltem Arıkan, was staged by a Turkish actor, Mehmet Ali Alabora, near the Gezi Park. Although Alabora and his play

Artist’s Portfolio — DAN4366.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Dana Reitz

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Credits: 2

Explaining artwork often goes against the grain, yet artists are regularly called upon to articulate their processes, tools, and dynamics of collaboration. To help secure any of the myriad forms of institutional support including funding, venues, and engagements, artists must develop–creatively and flexibly–essential skills. Finding a public language for what is the private

Dance

Avant Garde Art in China — CHI4507.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Ginger Lin

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Credits: 4

Art is always somehow a reflection of the culture and society in which it is produced. In this class, we will explore the ways in which contemporary (post-Mao) Chinese art reflects on modern Chinese culture and society. Each class or every other class, students will be given a packet with visual and written information on a particular work of art with a vocabulary list and

Languages

Banjo — MIN2215.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: John Kirk

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Credits: 2

Beginning, intermediate, or advanced group lessons on the 5-string banjo in the claw-hammer/frailing style. Student will learn to play using simple song sheets with chords, tablature, and standard notation. Using chord theory and scale work, personal music-making skills will be enhanced. Awareness of traditional styles of playing the instrument will be furthered through a

Music

Bass with Bisio — MIN4417.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Michael Bisio

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Credits: 2

Private instruction covering technique and theory appropriate to the student’s level and goals. Corequisites: Must participate in Music Workshop Auditions will take place on Tuesday, May 16 in Jennings 335D. Please email mbisio@bennington.edu in advance to schedule an audition.

Music

Basso Continuo and You — MTH4292.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Kitty Brazelton

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Credits: 4

The practice of putting chords over a bass line and a melody on top – sound familiar? – exploded in the Early Baroque and we haven’t been the same since. Listening changed. Ensembles changed. And a new era of functional harmony began. Learn about figured bass, chordal voicing and interpretation, the Spanish rhythmic ostinati which fueled popular dances from the New World. We’ll

Music

Beginning Cello — MIN2354.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Nathaniel Parke

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Credits: 2

The basics of cello. In a small group, students will learn how to play the cello, with an emphasis on a group performance at the term’s conclusion. Corequisites: Attend Music Workshop (T 6:30pm – 8:00pm) seven times per term

Music

Beginning Composing — MCO4120.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Allen Shawn

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Credits: 4

This class explores and reviews notation and the rudiments of music through the act of composing small pieces for a variety of instruments. It is intended for students who have taken instrumental lessons for a few years or more and who can read music in at least one clef. It is meant for those who have never imagined composing music as well as for those who have already begun

Music

Beginning Guitar — MIN2247.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Hui Cox

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Credits: 2

Introduces the fundamentals of acoustic 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. Corequisites: Corequisite: Must participate in Music Workshop (Tuesday, 6:30 – 8:00 pm).

Music

Beginning Violin and Viola — MIN2241.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Kaori Washiyama

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Credits: 2

Basic techniques will include the reading of music in either treble/or alto clefs in the easy keys. Basic hand positions and appropriate fingerings will be shown, and a rudimentary facility with bow will be developed in order that all students may participate in simple ensemble performance by the end of term. Student must arrange for the use of a college instrument, if

Music

Bennington Campus: Real and Imagined — ARC2117.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Donald Sherefkin

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Credits: 4

Over the span of the past 90 years there have been multiple designs for the Campus and its buildings. This class will combine research into both the existing buildings and the never realized designs. We will look at the architecture of the campus in the context of the larger history of architecture in America and the world. Assignments will include the documentation of these

Visual Arts

Bible and Conflict Resolution — MOD2137.03

Fall 2017

Instructor: Michael Cohen

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Credits: 1

he Bible provides many examples and lessons about conflict resolution. This three-week module will focus on some of the most important texts in the Bible when it comes to conflict resolution. Those selected texts will be examined using two thousand years of commentary and analysis. Modern conflict resolution theories, which provide contemporary approaches, will be integrated

Modules: Transferable Approaches

Black Studies: Black Music Division — MUS2149.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Michael Wimberly

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Credits: 2

In the early 70s Bennington music faculty members Bill Dixon and Milford Graves guided Bennington students through the black aesthetic lens with music, words and deeds. Their compositions, teachings, and innovative approaches to creative music boldly addressed a multitude of issues inspired by the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements. This course reveals social, political and

Music

Camera and the Body: Peculiar Ways of Knowing — DAN4142.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Elena Demyanenko Erika Mijlin

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Credits: 4

This hands-on course will utilize moving camera exercises, selected film screenings and improvisational games to give students an opportunity to expand and refine their own visual sensibilities, with the goal of creating collaborative dance-film projects. We will explore and analyze the creative choices available and practical tools needed when we instigate an

Canta che ti passa: Social Commentary in Music — ITA4403.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Barbara Alfano

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Credits: 4

Canta che ti passa,’ ‘Sing and you’ll feel better,’ says an old Italian adage. Yet, Italians do not always sing to forget their troubles. Much of the Italian musical tradition expresses social and political commentary, seriously or ironically. Songs as diverse and far apart in time as Toto Cotugno’s populist ‘L’italiano’ (An Italian, 1983), Giorgio Gaber’s intellectually

Languages

Cello — MIN4355.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Nathaniel 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. Students must have had at least three years of cello study. Corequisites: Music Workshop attendance 7 times per term (Tuesday, 6:30 – 8:00 pm). Auditions will take place on Tuesday, May 16 from 2:00pm - 3:00pm in Jennings 214.

Music

Charles Dickens: Novels and Biography — LIT2284.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Doug Bauer

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Credits: 4

Dickens’ novels are works of approachable genius, transmitted through their comedy, pulsing energy and relentless life. They also reflect fictional shapings of Dickens’ life, obsessions in the man that regularly recur in the art. We will be reading three of his major novels, including the two most autobiographical, David Copperfield and Great Expectations. The classroom

Literature

Chekhov and the Russian Short Story — LIT2272.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Alexandar Mihailovic

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Credits: 4

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) transformed the genre of the short story into a polished mirror for reflecting the dramatic shifts in Russia life at the cusp of the twentieth century. Chekhov’s short stories reflect the larger stories that culminated in the Revolution of 1917: the emancipation of women, the compensation of families freed from serfdom in 1861, and the struggles

Literature

Chemistry 1: Chemical Principles (with Lab) — CHE2211.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: John Bullock

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Credits: 4

This course is the first of a four-course chemistry sequence covering general, organic and biochemistry. Students do not need to take the entire sequence. We will focus on introductory chemical principles, including atomic theory, classical and quantum bonding concepts, molecular structure, organic functional groups, and the relationship between structure and

Science and Mathematics Environment

Chemistry 3: Organic Reactions and Mechanisms (with lab) — CHE4213.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: facultyname: Janet Foley

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Credits: 4

Chemistry 3 focuses on how reactions happen: what the steps are, how we discover them, and how we use this to look at some practical systems: the synthesis of a drug, the kinetics of substitution. Emphasis will be on mastering general principles of chemistry such as nucleophiles and electrophiles, molecular orbital concepts, thermodynamics and kinetics in order to guide an

Science and Mathematics

Chinese Zen — CHI4324.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Ginger Lin

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Credits: 4

Although it was born in India, Buddhism has had a deep and profound influence on Chinese and East Asian culture, but this philosophy remains relevant to modern life in both the East and West. Students will be introduced to the spirit of Buddhism through modern Mandarin interpretations of classic Chinese Buddhist poems and stories. Students will explore Chinese Buddhist concepts

Languages

Choral Arrangement — MCO4108.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Nick Brooke

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Credits: 2

In this course, students will work towards a translation and arrangement of musical work for the World Vocal Ensemble, accompanied by a research project surrounding their chosen work. We will examine approaches to arranging choral music from around the world, and will consider choral arrangement as a specific cultural and political act of translation, looking at music from

Music

Clarinet — MIN4223.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Bruce Williamson

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Credits: 2

Study of clarinet technique and repertoire with an emphasis on tone production, dexterity, reading skills, and improvisation. This course is for intermediate-advanced students only. Corequisites: Must participate in Music Workshop (Tuesdays, 6:30-8pm). Auditions will take place on Tuesday, May 16 from 4:30pm - 6:30pm in Jennings 335A.

Music

Code Crafting — CS2236.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Ursula Wolz

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Credits: 4

This course is based on the national Computer Science Principles curriculum, but uses textile production as a vehicle for teaching software design and programming. The course addresses the history of computing and raises questions about the relationship between the Industrial Revolution and the Digital Age. The first half of the course uses a blocks language called Snap!

Science and Mathematics

Cognitive Neuroscience of Liking and Preference — PSY4104.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Anne Gilman

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Credits: 4

When people choose one painting over another to decorate their room, or when they like one type of music more than another, how do their brains store and communicate these preferences? Cognitive neuroscience relates brain activity to the processes of noticing, remembering, liking, and choosing. In the first few weeks, we will review basic brain anatomy and compare

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