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Piano — MIN4333.03, section 3

Fall 2018
Instructor: Christopher Lewis
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Credits: 2
Individual private lessons for advanced students. Audition required. Weekly meetings times on scheduled class days arranged with the instructor. Corequisites: Participation in music workshop and end-of-term recital required. Please contact cjlewis@bennington.edu to schedule an audition.
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Piano — MIN4333.01, section 1

Fall 2018
Instructor: Yoshiko Sato
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Credits: 2
Individual private lessons for advanced students. Audition required. Weekly meetings times on scheduled class days arranged with the instructor. Corequisites: Participation in music workshop (Tuesday, 6:30 - 8:00pm) and end-of-term recital required. Auditions will take place Monday, May 14 from 6:00pm - 7:00pm in Jennings 232.
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Piano Lab I — cancelled

Fall 2018
Instructor: Michael Chinworth
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Credits: 2
Introductory course in basic keyboard skills. Topics include reading notation, rhythm, technique, and general musicianship.
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Piano Lab II — MIN4236.01, section 1

Fall 2018
Instructor: Joan Forsyth
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Credits: 2
The goals of this course are to gain ease and dexterity at the keyboard, developing a confident piano technique and the skill of reading musical notation. Students will expand upon the skills learned in Piano lab I, adding to a basic repertoire of scales and chords, use them in improvisation and harmonization of melodies. In addition they will explore a repertoire that utilizes
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Piano Lab II — MIN4236.02, section 2

Fall 2018
Instructor: Michael Chinworth
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Credits: 2
The goals of this course are to gain ease and dexterity at the keyboard, developing a confident piano technique and the skill of reading musical notation. Students will expand upon the skills learned in Piano lab I, adding to a basic repertoire of scales and chords, use them in improvisation and harmonization of melodies. In addition they will explore a repertoire that utilizes
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Plastic Pollution: What Can We Do Ź It? — APA2164.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Judith Enck
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Credits: 2
The cover on “National Geographic” had a powerful artist rendering of an ocean iceberg, with a giant plastic bag hidden below the surface of the water.  The magazine cover headlined: “Planet or Plastic?  18 billion pounds of plastic ends up in the ocean each year.  And that’s just “ the tip of the iceberg.”   Take a look at that edition of National
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Point, Curve, Surface, Solid - 3D Modeling and Fabrication — VA2117.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Farhad Mirza
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Credits: 2
This course explores methods of translating imagined shapes into three-dimensional objects. Students will study how sub-division, approximation, and discretization can be used to separate forms into component parts. Course work will focus on how systematic breaking-down of form reveals qualities that can be intentionally altered, thus changing their properties (visible or
Visual Arts

Politics and Governance in Africa — POL4237.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
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Credits: 4
Among regions of the world, Africa is more or less unique for its large number of fragile and unstable states, poor governance, explosive social and demographic pressures, and recent hopeful economic and political transitions. This course surveys the big questions, enduring challenges, and leading theories of contemporary African politics and governance. Themes to be explored
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Polynomials and Geometry — MAT2117.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
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Credits: 4
This course builds on and extends high school algebra, trigonometry, and geometry. It develops these topics from a classical and historical perspective. It is one good entry point for students who are confident with high school algebra and precalculus, and it may be used as a prerequisite for Calculus A, Linear Algebra, and some other more advanced mathematics classes. Topics
Science and Mathematics

Post-Mao Chinese Rock and Roll — CHI4511.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Ginger Lin
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Credits: 4
In this course, we will explore the ways in which modern and contemporary Chinese culture is expressed in music. Using authentic materials, such as popular songs, music videos and music articles as springboards, students will communicate about current events and culture in China. Each class or every other class, students will be given a different song, video or article with a
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Pre-Production for Advanced Projects in Video — FV4224.02

Fall 2018
Instructor: Mariam Ghani
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Credits: 2
This course, intended for students who will continue to the Advanced Projects course in spring 2019 with Jen Liu, will support advanced students in planning and pre-production for more complex, larger-scale, longer-duration, self-directed video projects. Students will learn how to use treatments, shooting scripts, storyboards, shot lists, and budgets to plan narrative,
Visual Arts

Presentation of Statistics — MAT2246.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Josef Mundt
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Credits: 4
Data can come to us in many forms: tables, charts, graphs, observations, experimental results, and other less formal avenues. To best understand the world around us, we must be able to take that data, answer questions, and then convey those answers to others in a clear, concise manner. This course will show different methods for presenting statistical data to others as well
Science and Mathematics

Projects in Costume Design — DRA4210.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Charles Schoonmaker
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Credits: 4
This is a production class that will be centered on designing the costumes for both the Drama production directed by Kirk Jackson, and a new dance work by Dana Reitz. Students will work collaboratively on the design elements of the costumes and the realization of the costume design. Responsibilities will include conception, rendering, sourcing, shopping, fitting and working
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Projects: Dance — DAN4794.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Terry Creach
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Credits: 2
For students with prior experience in dance composition who wish to be involved in making new work for performance. Attention will be given to all of the elements involved in composition and production, including collaborative aspects. Students are expected to show their work throughout stages of development, complete their projects and perform them formally or informally by
Dance

Prominent Works of Japanese Authors — JPN4509.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
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Credits: 4
How many names of the Japanese authors can you list? Do you know which Japanese authors won the Nobel Prize in literature? Early works of Japanese literature demonstrate strong influences from Chinese literature, and again Japanese literature was influenced by Western literature in late-19th Century and early-20th Century. In this course, students will read the synopses of
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Public Policy Forum — APA2154.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Brian Campion and Susan Sgorbati
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Credits: 1
This seven week course on Thursday evenings from 7:10 to 9:00 PM will cover a range of important public policies that are currently being discussed, changed and implemented having to do with race, climate change, clean water, voting rights, health and international relations. Guest speakers from the private and public sector will address these topics. Students will be expected
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Queer French — FRE4805.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
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Credits: 4
In this advanced course, we will examine French culture's engagement with questions of sexuality and gender, with a focus on authors, artists, theorists, and others who have questioned ideas of normative sexuality from the Middle Ages through the 21st century. Authors and texts to be studied will include Marguerite de Navarre, l'Abbé de Choisy, Diderot, Monique Wittig, Virginie
Languages

Race, Class, Environment — SCT4102.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: John Hultgren
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Credits: 4
What is the relationship between racism, economic inequality, and environmental degradation? Are these modes of injustice the consequence of a single overarching structure (e.g. capitalism or colonialism) against which resistance should be aimed? Are they formed by overlapping, but relatively autonomous, structures that nonetheless form a Gordian knot of oppression? Or are they
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Reading and Writing Poetry: Word Choice and Linebreak — LIT4276.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
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Credits: 4
This workshop-based poetry course starts with the premise that every time we put a word down on a page or break a line at a particular point, we are making a choice of genuine consequence. The process of writing a poem is ultimately a sequence of these seemingly small choices and the particular arrangement of words and lines in our poems is more responsible for how the poems
Literature

Reading and Writing Short Stories: the Technology of Heartbreak — LIT4255.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Manuel Gonzales
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Credits: 4
Reading both contemporary short fiction and work from the canon, we will discuss voice, structure, plot, and character to explore the mechanics of breaking a reader's heart. How do you write a compelling and heartbreaking story that isn't simply a manipulative one-note dirge? How do you jump start that alchemical process that transforms tiny black and white symbols on the page
Literature

Reading and Writing the City — LIT4253.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Benjamin Anastas
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Credits: 4
In the beginning of the 20th century, when metropolitan life was being chronicled by some of the era’s greatest writers, artists, and thinkers for the depths of its miseries and high of its nervous splendors, only 10% of the world’s population lived in urban centers. Today, more than 75% of the world’s citizens live in cities. The city of our new century bears little
Literature

Reading Wilderness — LIT2236.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Akiko Busch
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Credits: 2
For generations, the passage west and notions of wilderness have provided resonant subject matter for American writers. In the words of Wallace Stegner, “the wilderness idea is something that has helped form our character and certainly shaped our history as a people.” But if that idea is rooted in perceived notions of untouched earth, today it has more to do with managed
Literature

Relational Psychoanalysis and it's Discontents — PSY4227.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: David Anderegg
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Credits: 4
This advanced seminar will feature developments in contemporary psychoanalytic theory. The 1980s saw a period of ferment in psychoanalytic theory during which several challenges to classical Freudian analysis were articulated. This course will begin with a brief review of these challenges, including object relations theory and self psychology. But the “winner,” so to speak, has
Society Culture and Thought