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Spring 2025

Understanding Media — APA2443.02

Spring 2025

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati

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Credits: 2

Understanding Media is a critique and analysis of media including television, radio, film, social media and the internet, focusing on contemporary popular genres, such as movies, talk shows, news programs, children’s programs, and advertisements. There will be a strong focus on corporate media consolidation and its impact on content, uses, functions, and audiences. Students

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Undisciplined Approaches to Creative Writing — LIT2549.01) (cancelled 10/10/2024

Spring 2025

Instructor: An Duplan

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Credits: 2

Who says you have to be disciplined to be a writer? After all, theorist Christina Sharpe writes in her book, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being, that undisciplined thinking can be waged as a weapon against the boundaries of traditional academic thought and practice. For Sharpe, being undisciplined isn’t about failing to be disciplined, it’s about aspiring to being

Victorian Children's Literature: Girls in the Underworld — LIT4592.01) (cancelled 10/8/2024

Spring 2025

Instructor: Jenny Boully

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Credits: 4

Quintessential to the Victorian cult of the girl-child, both Alice Liddell and Wendy Darling have emerged as contemporary mythic icons of both traditional and subversive femininity. In this class, we will investigate how girl-children are entrapped and enchanted in the works of men, focusing on J.M. Barrie’s Peter and Wendy and Lewis Carroll’s Alice books, including the

Viola — MIN4241.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Ariel Rudiakov

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Credits: 2

This course is for students who have prior experience with the instrument. Students are expected to practice daily (minimum 30 minutes). End-of -semester performance is required. Lessons will be tailored to the experience of each student.

Music

Violin — MIN4345.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Joana Genova

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Credits: 2

The course is for intermediate to advanced students. Students are expected to practice daily (minimum of 30 minutes). End-of-semester performance is required.

Music

Virginia Woolf and the Craft of Consciousness — LIT4598.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

In addition to being one of the major novelists of the twentieth century, Virginia Woolf was also an incisive literary critic, an influential editor and publisher, a member of the Bloomsbury Group, a prolific diarist, and a public figure whose lectures and essays re-shaped the discourse on women’s roles in literature and society. This course is a close study of Woolf’s major

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Visual Arts Lecture Series — VA2999.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Vanessa Lyon

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Credits: 1

Each term, Bennington Visual Arts offers a program of 4-5 lectures by visiting arts professionals: artists, curators, historians and critics, selected to showcase the diversity of contemporary art practices. Designed to enhance a broader and deeper knowledge of various disciplines and issues in the Visual Arts and to stimulate campus dialogue around topical issues in

Visual Arts

Visual Arts Lecture Series Seminar — VA4218.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Vanessa Lyon

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Credits: 2

This discussion-animated, readings-based seminar provides art historical, cultural, and critical contexts for the Visual Arts Lecture Series (VALS). In addition to our ongoing interrogation of the public lecture as such, students present their own work (in any field) and analyze the technical and stylistic aspects of structuring an effective and engaging ‘talk.’ The course

Visual Arts

Voice Performance Intensive — MVO4404.01, section 1

Spring 2025

Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke

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Credits: 4

For students of varying levels of singing ability. This course will teach fundamental concepts of healthy voice technique that can be applied to singing in any style. Students will work towards individual goals through regular practice of warmups, vocalizations, and awareness exercises, and progress will be assessed by preparation and performance of specific song assignments.

Music

Voice Performance Intensive — MVO4404.02, section 2

Spring 2025

Instructor: Virginia Kelsey

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Credits: 4

Music

Westworld/^/Whose World? — AH4115.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Vanessa Lyon

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Credits: 2

Season One of Westworld, HBO’s “science fiction western thriller” series, drives a broadly-conceived visual studies/cultural theory course in which we identify and analyze various themes, tropes, and genres, histories and visions, typologies and allegories on screen and off; both inside and outside the show’s narrative. Possibilities include: feminism, sexploitation, artificial

Visual Arts

Wind and Brass Chamber Ensemble — MPF4129.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Chris Rose

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Credits: 2

Do you play a wind or brass instrument? Do you like making music in a group? Consider auditioning for Wind and Brass Chamber Ensemble! This spring, we’ll meet weekly to read through repertoire from the past, present and future. We’ll finish the term with an outdoor concert on the Jennings or Commons Porch! As a chamber ensemble, choices about arrangements, interpretation,

Music

Witchcraft and Magic in Premodern Europe — HIS4104.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Carol Pal

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Credits: 4

What is magic? What is a witch? Who is a witch? And in the increasingly rational culture of Europe after the Renaissance, how and why did nearly 100,000 people – predominantly women – come to be tried for the crime of witchcraft? In many ways, the investigation of these questions hangs on another question: how do we differentiate science, magic, and religion? In premodern

Society Culture and Thought

Women Human Mobility — APA2213.04

Spring 2025

Instructor: Andy Galindo

Days & Time: TU,FR 2:10pm-4:00pm

Credits: 1

Human mobility has been an inherent human condition throughout history. From earliest human history, women and men have migrated in search of a better life, to populate other places on the planet, or to escape and survive human-made or natural dangers. Today migration is a fact of life for an increasing number of people around the world: there are more than 281 million

CAPA

Woodcut/Linocut Printmaking on the Vandercook Proofing Press — PRI2123.02

Spring 2025

Instructor: Corinne Rhodes

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Credits: 2

Vandercook Proofing Presses were once a vital aspect of the printing industry and have been adopted widely by artists for letterpress printing and book arts. 51�� is fortunate to possess three Vandercooks, housed in the Word and Image Lab. Using type-high plywood and linoleum blocks and oil-based, non-toxic, water-soluble inks, we will examine different approaches

Visual Arts

Working With Light — DRA2234.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Michael Giannitti

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Credits: 2

Lighting design has the powerful ability to shape the experience of an audience. Its practice incorporates elements of artistry and craft, and should interest those working in all aspects of visual and performing arts. In addition to hands-on work with theatrical lighting equipment in and outside of class, awareness of light, play analysis and conceptualization, color, angle,

Dance Drama

Yoga: Mindfulness and Cultivating a Peaceful Practice — DAN2023.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 1

This course will introduce students to the basic shapes and movements of yoga, along with a close reading of the yoga sutras. The yoga sutras serve as a guide to obtain wisdom and practice yogic philosophy in our everyday lives. Students will learn how to practice yoga on and off their mats, and will engage in exercises for both the body and mind. Beginners, intermediate, and

Dance

“Beastly and Beautiful”: Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita — LIT2571.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Jenny Boully

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Credits: 4

(Important Notice: This course focuses on the novel Lolita, which can be disturbing to some readers. Our class discussions will not be able to circumvent the narrative of an older man exploiting a child. Please be aware of this difficult material before registering for the course.) In Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita (1955), Humbert Humbert writes, “I am

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