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Spring 2018

Experiential Anatomy/Somatic Practices — DAN2149.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Elena Demyanenko

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Credits: 4

This is a studio class for any discipline intended to deepen the understanding of your own moving body. We will be studying kinesthetic anatomy by approaching the material through visual, cognitive, kinesthetic, and sensory modes. Class time will be divided between discussion of anatomy and kinesthetic concepts, and engagement with the material experientially through movement

Dance

Experimental Narrative: Film/Video Production — FV4142.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Kate Purdie

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Credits: 4

This is an intermediate production course that will explore experimental narrative structures in film and video art practices. Emphasis will be on analyzing innovative storytelling in film and literary forms as we examine aspects of dramatic production: mise-en-scene, working with actors, script breakdown, storyboards and collaborative production units. Students will be

Visual Arts

Extreme Music Production Techniques — MSR2238.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Eli Crews

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Credits: 2

This course will dive deep into non-traditional music production techniques, and look at the history of pioneering musicians, engineers and producers whose work changed how we listen to recordings, including the work of Karlheinz Stockhausen, Joe Meek, George Clinton, Brian Eno, Sun Ra, Pierre Henry, The Residents, Mark Mothersbaugh, and Public Enemy. This history will be a

Music

Faculty Performance Production: Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull — DRA4141.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Jean Randich

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Credits: 4

Chekhov declared he was “flagrantly disregarding the basic tenets of the stage” in writing this comedy with “a view of a lake…little action, and five tons of love.” In the play’s openness, and its shunning of melodramatic plot in favor of the messiness of life, The Seagull feels as unconventional today as when it debuted. Our production of this ensemble-based play will also

Drama

Federalism and Peacebuilding — POL4103.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Rotimi Suberu

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Credits: 2

As a constitutional design for combining self-rule and shared rule, federalism often crops up in negotiations designed to rebuild or reconcile societies torn or threatened by civil wars in contexts as diverse as Bosnia-Herzegovina and Ukraine in Europe, Myanmar and the Philippines in Asia, Iraq and Syria in the Middle East, and South Sudan and Somalia in Africa. But are federal

Society Culture and Thought

Financing Social Value-Oriented Enterprise — APA2251.02

Spring 2018

Instructor: Charles Crowell

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Credits: 2

The aim of this 7-week course is to provide students with the knowledge and skillsets necessary for acquiring financing for start-ups and existing entrepreneurial firms. Beginning with Title III of the JOBS Act (2012), the environment for financing organizations, including arts and culture and socially-responsible initiatives, was broadly liberalized. In the context of that new

CAPA Visual Arts

Form and Process: Investigations in Painting — PAI2107.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Ann Pibal

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Credits: 4

This course introduces a variety of materials, techniques and approaches to painting. Emphasis is placed on developing and understanding of color, form and space as well as individual research and conceptual concerns. The daily experience of seeing, along with the history of art, provides a base from which investigations are made. Formal, poetic, and social implications within

Visual Arts

Form to Function — SCU2124.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Jon Isherwood

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Credits: 4

The practice of functional object making is undergoing an intense transition into digital production. Additive manufacturing has been posed as the next trillion dollar business; in your lifetime you will be able to download objects, tables, chairs, clocks and manufacture them in your own home. Designers, architects, and artists are finding digital design and fabrication

Visual Arts

Foundations of Photography: Darkroom to Digital — PHO2138.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Liz Deschenes and Elizabeth White

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Credits: 4

The objective of this course is to provide basic skills in both film and digital photography. Students will gain experience shooting with both 35mm and DSLR cameras, learn to develop and print black and white film in the darkroom, perform basic edits in Lightroom, and make quality inkjet prints. Hybrid analog and digital processes will also be introduced. Class time will be

Visual Arts

From the Stoics to Ubuntu: Philosophies of the Good Life — PHI2149.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Karen Gover and Paul Voice

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Credits: 4

This class examines variety of answers to the ancient question: How do I live a good life? The readings draw from philosophical traditions across both time and location, including Greek and Roman Stoicism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Christian theology, contemporary philosophers in the Anglo-American and European traditions, as well as the African ethic of Ubuntu.

Society Culture and Thought

Full Stack Mobile Artificial Intelligence — CS4161.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Ursula Wolz

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Credits: 4

Increasingly, mobile apps provide information based on server-side analytics driven by artificial intelligence algorithms. Full stack developers need skills set in both front-end (user interface, native mobile) and back-end (database, data mining) This course dives into object-oriented user interface design as well as essential algorithms from machine learning and artificial

Science and Mathematics

Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2394.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Annie DeWitt

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Credits: 4

This course, intended for students who have not yet taken a Reading and Writing course at Bennington, will serve as an intensive and comprehensive introduction to the workshop method. We will exploring the genres of poetry, literary fiction, and creative non-fiction in order to build working knowledge on the craft of creative writing. Students will complete weekly writing

Literature

Gender, Inequality and Social Change — ANT4121.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Miroslava Prazak

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Credits: 4

This course explores the social construction of gender categories both historically and in the present as socially, historically, and culturally contingent concepts. We will examine how major societal institutions, including the family, education, religion, medicine, economy, polity, and the global system are structured to eliminate, maintain or reproduce gendered inequalities

Society Culture and Thought

Genders and Sexualities — PSY4135.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Ella Ben Hagai

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Credits: 2

This class is a hybrid of a speaker series and a research seminar. Students will be actively involved in organizing the SCT Colloquium and engaging with invited distinguished scholars. Throughout the term students will read and discuss foundational theories in the study of gender and sexuality. We will also examine recent research on gender and sexual identity development in

Society Culture and Thought

Getting the Story, Getting in Close: Longform Journalism in Conflict Zones — LIT2296.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz

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Credits: 2

In this course, we will read the work a range of long-form journalism--reporting that depends on deep research, cultural and linguistic immersion and/or reliance of interpreters, translators, and local guides; knowledge of history, geography, and politics; military embedments; and medical training. Expect to read Luke Mogelson ('07), Robin Wright, Dexter Filkins, Alma

Literature

Glaze Chemistry — CER2141.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Jack Yu

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Credits: 2

This course will focus on the technical requirements needed for beginning students to progress to intermediate or advanced projects in ceramics. This course will focus on the exploration of fired ceramic surfaces and the fundamentals of formulating glazes for use in ceramic art. An emphasis will be placed on understanding the chemistry behind glazes and how the molecular

Visual Arts

Global Change: Earth Systems in the Anthropocene — BIO2235.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Kerry Woods

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Credits: 4

"Anthropocene" has been proposed as a name for the current period of Earth history, defined by the detectability of a global human 'signal' in the geological record; proposed starting dates range from ca. 12,000 years ago to the mid-20th century. Regardless of the acceptance of the term, human activities have induced large, global changes in atmospheric, biological, and

Science and Mathematics Environment

Graduate Assistantship in Dance — DAN5301.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Dana Reitz

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Credits: 4

Graduate students in Dance are integrated into the dance program as teaching assistants, production assistants or dance archival assistants. In consultation with their academic advisor and the dance faculty, MFA candidates develop an assistantship schedule of approximately ten hours weekly.

Dance

Graduate Research in Dance — DAN5305.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Terry Creach

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Credits: 6

This class is designed for MFA students to show works-in-progress, try out ideas with their colleagues, and discuss issues involved in the development of new work. The weekly format is determined with the students. Outside of class, students develop their own independent creative projects that will be presented to the public, either formally or informally, by the end of the

Dance

Hans Christian Andersen — LIT2285.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Brooke Allen

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Credits: 2

Hans Christian Andersen (1805-75) is one of the most famous names in world literature, but the Hollywoodization of his most famous stories--not to mention of his own biography--have obscured, for many, the delicate, painful artistry of his incomparable tales. In this class we will read a wide selection of Andersen's stories, including classics like "The Emperor's New Clothes,"

Literature

Historical Fictions/Fictional Histories — LIT4165.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz

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Credits: 4

In this Writing Intensive Seminar, we will consider the demands and complexities of working with history in fiction. When, where, why, and how do facts abet and/or intrude on the creation of plot, character, place, framing, rhythm, and other details of style in novels and stories? How do questions of representation—selection and emphasis, vocabulary and tone, pacing and texture

Literature

Historical Grievances and Retrospective Redress — APA4129.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Eileen Scully

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Credits: 4

This course is an opportunity to explore the politics of history-based grievances, including slavery, forced labor, genocide, mass violence, wartime plunder, and localized state-sanctioned violence. We will also explore an emerging array of reconciliation models, including trials, truth commissions, reparations, community mediation, and revisions of national narratives. The

CAPA Society Culture and Thought

History of Photography/20th Century — PHO2154.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Jonathan Kline

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Credits: 2

This class explores the various ways photography was intertwined with the artistic, political, and scientific developments of the 20th century on a global level. Students will do weekly research connecting to online sites hosted by major institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Victoria & Albert Museum, The Getty and others. Class discussions, identification

Visual Arts

History of Science: from Hippocrates to Newton — HIS2254.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Carol Pal

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Credits: 4

History tells us that humans have always wondered about the natural world. For thousands of years, our ancestors gazed in wonder at the heavens, experimented with plants and medicines, and tried to comprehend their own mortality. But when did "science" actually begin to be its own field, separate from philosophy, astrology, or faith? Beginning with human origins and prehistoric

Society Culture and Thought

Honors Seminar; Bowen and Pym — LIT4287.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Annabel Davis-Goff

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Credits: 4

Elizabeth Bowen and Barbara Pym provide a record of England life - social, political, and cultural - from the end of the First World War until the 1960s. Elizabeth Bowen was an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer. Her novels describe political tension, love, and war. She is admired for her description of landscape, her descriptions of London during the Blitz, her use of

Literature