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The Art of Spectacle — DRA4291.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
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Credits: 4
This class will be a focused study of Spectacle - or writing the impossible play -- in conjunction with a short study of the Poetics.  We will investigate how spectacle can be deeply connected to the perception shift (when done correctly).  Reading will include a wide breadth of works from Robert LaPage and the Rude Mechs, to B.J. Jenkins and Young
Drama Literature

The Biological Sex Mosaic — BIO2241.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Amie McClellan
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Credits: 4
The evolution of sexual reproduction is arguably the single most consequential event in the evolution of life on Earth. This class will explore the diversity of biological sex. We will focus on sexual differentiation in animals, including humans. Students will learn the genetic, developmental, and hormonal mechanisms that give rise to sex phenotypes, while exploring the
Science and Mathematics

The Body Acoustic: Toward a Sense of Place — DAN2112.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Dana Reitz
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Credits: 2
How do we physically understand the spaces we are in? How is each of us affected by them? How do we develop a deeper sense of place? The Body Acoustic aims to heighten awareness of the reciprocal relationship between the built environment and our senses. Light and sound, distances, height, volume, surfaces, angles/curves and a/symmetries all affect one’s movement through
Dance

The Culinary Triangle and Ceramic Pot — APA2276.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
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Credits: 2
What is the transformative power of food and how did the invention of pottery contribute to innovations in cooking? We will look at how anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss’s culinary triangle analyzes three interrelated aspects of the food: raw, cooked and rotted and mechanisms of natural and cultural transformations of food. We will also examine how the evolution of ceramic pot
CAPA Visual Arts

The Jazz Age Revisited — LIT2304.02

Fall 2020
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Credits: 4
"It was an age of miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire," F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in his epitaph to the Jazz Age in 1931. It was something else too: a social and literary revolution fueled by new communications technology, mass popular entertainment, Jazz and the Blues, and a bold “collaborative energy” (Ann Douglas) between the
Literature

The Magic of Adolescence — PSY4380.02

Fall 2020
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Credits: 4
Adolescence sometimes has a bad reputation—teens are often seen as impulsive, hormonal, irresponsible beings who talk back, do drugs, have risky sex, and drive too fast. In this class, we will flip this belief. Backed by the science of adolescent brain development, we will discuss adolescence as a time of malleability, resilience, identity development, and power. We will
Society Culture and Thought

The Post-Pandemic House — ARC4402.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: DSherefkin@bennington.edu
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Credits: 4
The rapid and profound disruption to life prompted by COVID-19 will have lasting impacts on architecture and the built environment. Houses have become sites for both economic production and the education of children. We will examine alternative forms of domestic architecture from history, and from other cultures where multiple generations and multiple programs have co-existed.
Visual Arts Environment

The Scriptorium: Love — WRI2155.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Camille Guthrie
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Credits: 2
This scriptorium, a “place for writing,” functions as a class for writers interested in improving their academic essay-writing skills. We will read to write and write to read. Much of our time will be occupied with writing and revising—essai means “trial” or “attempt”—as we work to create new habits and strategies for our analytical writing. As we write in various essay
Writing

The Scriptorium: Love — WRI2155.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Camille Guthrie
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Credits: 2
This scriptorium, a “place for writing,” functions as a class for writers interested in improving their academic essay-writing skills. We will read to write and write to read. Much of our time will be occupied with writing and revising—essai means “trial” or “attempt”—as we work to create new habits and strategies for our analytical writing. As we write in various essay
Writing

The Vessel: Introduction to Ceramics through History — CER2227.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: bbartlett@bennington.edu
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Credits: 4
This class will be based on research into the technical and aesthetic aspects of ceramic history. The class will focus on events, directions and issues which have influenced the making of ceramic objects over time. Students will work collabratively to develop presentations to share in class as a way to develop research skills, as well as to acquire knowledge of the history of
Visual Arts

Theater Games and Improvisation — DRA2123.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
Whose class is this anyway? Improvisation is for everyone. Life is made up as it happens and improv is no different. This course will explore the basic elements of improvisation. Through short and long form theater games, pattern and rhythm exercises, we aim to heighten observation, listening skills, and ensemble building. Character, object, and environment work will be
Drama

Theoretical Ethics: The Nature of Moral Judgments — PHI4114.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Paul Voice
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Credits: 4
Theoretical Ethics aims to uncover the sources of moral knowledge and the foundations of moral obligation from a philosophical perspective. You will engage in a detailed reading of several major moral theories. In addition you will study contemporary interpretations and applications of these theories. You will be expected to contribute substantially to class discussion, write
Society Culture and Thought

Thresholds of Identity: Films and Novels of Migration — SPA4807.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Sarah Harris
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Credits: 4
Thresholds of Identity offers the study of novels and films of Spanish migration, domestic and international, through contextualized engagement with selected contemporary texts. Our primary literature and films correspond to each of three recent Spanish migratory trends: 1) mass movement from rural to urban areas in the early twentieth century 2) emigration from Spain during
Cultural Studies and Languages

Topology — MAT4220.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
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Credits: 4
On the surface of a doughnut, there are fundamentally two different ways to wrap a closed path on the surface (through the whole or around the ring); every possible way is a combination of these two. This doesn’t depend on the exact dimensions of the doughnut. For another example, a loop of string tied into a trefoil knot can’t be deformed into a square knot. Topology can be
Science and Mathematics

Tristram Shandy and the Pointless Novel — LIT4766.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
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Credits: 4
“Nothing odd will do long. Tristram Shandy did not last,” Samuel Johnson wrote in 1776, a decade after Laurence Sterne’s novel was published. Tristram Shandy is indeed an odd book: an autobiographical novel which takes hundreds of pages to get to the moment of its own narrator’s birth; a story which is forever interrupting itself with digressions and typographical oddities, and
Literature

Tuning Scores for the Present Moment — DAN4334.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Dana Reitz
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Credits: 2
This composition class is based on the work of dance artist Lisa Nelson. Students will learn techniques to bring awareness to the body’s senses, space, and one another through a series of ‘warm-ups’, ‘scores’ and group compositions, collectively known as Tuning Scores. Warm-ups are designed to bring sensorial awareness to the animal body that extends into space and surrounding
Dance

Typography for Artists and Designers — PRI4213.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
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Credits: 4
In this intermediate-advanced level course, we will study Typographic design and its application to making visual art. We will learn design fundamentals, some history, and use this knowledge to produce unusual art works. If this course can be taught in person, it will take place in The Word Image Lab, Letterpress studio. If we cannot meet in person, this course will take
Visual Arts

Ukulele Comprehensive — MIN2230.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: John Kirk
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Credits: 1
A comprehensive course in learning skills on the ukulele. We will learn the history of the uke and both traditional and contemporary styles of playing it. Music theory and playing techniques will be covered and students will be expected to perform as a group or individually at Music Workshop. Students must have their own soprano or tenor ukulele.
Music

Ukulele Comprehensive — MIN2230.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: John Kirk
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Credits: 1
A comprehensive course in learning skills on the ukulele. We will learn the history of the uke and both traditional and contemporary styles of playing it. Music theory and playing techniques will be covered and students will be expected to perform as a group or individually at Music Workshop. Students must have their own soprano or tenor ukulele.
Music

Understanding and Responding to Covid-19, Crisis and Quarantine: An Interdisciplinary Course — PLN2102.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
The unfolding crisis brought on by the spread of Covid-19 is changing our world as we speak. This health crisis that upended the economy, reshaped politics and altered the ways that we socialize cannot be understood simply epidemiologically. Ź’s interdisciplinary approach to the most pressing issues of our time, uniquely situates us to engage with the many ways this

Understanding Food Insecurity in Ź 2 — APA2253.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: tatianaabatemarco@bennington.edu
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Credits: 4
As part of the Mellon Foundation grant addressing Food Insecurity in Ź County, this class will engage with last year's overview of the programs currently being offered in Ź, the best practices in our area and afar, and new projects that have been developed moving forward. Understanding Food Insecurity in Ź County 2 will develop and sustain current
CAPA Environment Society Culture and Thought

Up/Side/Down: Drawing = Movement — DRW2164.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: J Blackwell
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Credits: 4
This is a practice for participants of any discipline who are interested in exploring the intersections between movement and drawing. We invite you to join us in an experiment. We want to consider/reconsider/resist/undermine/overwhelm/explode the question of how to make work under uncertain circumstances. These explorations will take the form of happenings. Happenings depend
Dance Visual Arts

Version: The Art of Translating from French — FRE4807.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
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Credits: 2
In this course we will practice version, the art of translating from French into English. We will work on developing a mindfulness about language use as well as a comparative eye focused on English and French’s stylistic and structural preferences. Grammar and lexical development will also be on offer and will highlight points where the two languages converge and diverge.
Cultural Studies and Languages

Violin/Viola — MIN4345.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 1
Studies in all left-hand position and shifting and an exploration of various bow techniques. Students can select from the concerto, sonata suites repertoire, short pieces and etudes for study designed to develop technique, advance musicianship, and prepare for performance for the end of the term. Students are permitted 2 absences for appropriate reasons. Students will arrange
Music

Violin/Viola — MIN4345.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 1
Studies in all left-hand position and shifting and an exploration of various bow techniques. Students can select from the concerto, sonata suites repertoire, short pieces and etudes for study designed to develop technique, advance musicianship, and prepare for performance for the end of the term. Students are permitted 2 absences for appropriate reasons. Students will arrange
Music