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Modernizing the Nation: From the Edo Period to the Meiji Period — JPN4120.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
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Credits: 4
During the Edo Period (1603-1868, Japan closed its doors to other countries for about two hundred fifty years, and this isolation helped Japan develop its own unique culture. It, however, ended in 1867 when Japanese culture was introduced to the Western world at an International Exposition in Paris. On the contrary to the Edo period, the next era, Meiji, brought rapid
Cultural Studies and Languages

Movement and Language: Colliding Bodies and Words — DAN4408.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Dana Reitz
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Credits: 4
This course examines ways in which language, through written and vocalized forms, can be employed as potentially expansive tools within movement-based performance. We will look at language through a choreographic and corporeal lens, combining research on artists who engage with language and body-generated speaking and sounding, as well as our own improvisational and creative
Dance

Movement Practice: Advanced Dance Technique — DAN4344.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Dana Reitz
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Credits: 2
This advanced level movement practice is designed for students with prior experience in dance technique. In this class, we will hone in on the importance of balancing controlled and spontaneous action as well as internal and external movement through using a series of improvisational, compositional, writing and drawing practices. We will be also learning longer and more complex
Dance

Movement Practice: Beginning Dance Technique — DAN2121.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Dana Reitz
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Credits: 2
This beginning dance course requires no previous dance training. Students are introduced to some basic principles of dancing by learning various movement patterns and simple choreographed phrases. The class also introduces the use of breath, somatic, improvisational and compositional practices, which reflect some principles of Zen and Japanese somatic practices such as butoh
Dance

Movement Practice: Material for the Spine — DAN2168.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Dana Reitz
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Credits: 2
This introductory class is based on the principles and forms in “Material for the Spine” developed by dance artist Steve Paxton. Students will be investigating basic anatomy and sensory exploration. Specific exercises, puzzles, and forms are repeated each class, providing a way to measure new sensations. These sensations can then offer instructions/movement material for
Dance

Multi-Species Lab — APA2302.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: RRansick@bennington.edu
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Credits: 4
The Multi-Species Lab is an art and research class focused on creative practices and strategies that decenter the human being in a world of ecological uncertainty and recalibration. Through collaborative and creative activities and assignments, we will research and question ideas of how to understand life—including human life—as a plural and ecologically enmeshed phenomenon.
CAPA Environment Visual Arts

Multivariable Calculus — MAT4301.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: carlybriggs@bennington.edu
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Credits: 4
This course covers the standard topics in multivariable calculus, including derivatives as linear transformations, Lagrange multipliers, and vector derivatives div, grad, and curl. If time allows, we will look at applications in electromagnetism, and in particular towards developing Maxwell’s equations, in both their classical vector form and their modern expression in
Science and Mathematics

Music Theory I - Applied Fundamentals — MTH2274.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: John Kirk
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Credits: 4
An introduction to music theory course. Music theory fundamentals will be taught utilizing voice (singing) and an instrument in hand. Knowledge of the piano keyboard will be learned and utilized. Curriculum will span the harmonic series, circle of 5ths, scales and chords to ear training, harmonic and rhythmic dictation, and beginning composition. Course will include singing,
Music

Music Theory I - Applied Fundamentals — MTH2274.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: John Kirk
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Credits: 4
An introduction to music theory course. Music theory fundamentals will be taught utilizing voice (singing) and an instrument in hand. Knowledge of the piano keyboard will be learned and utilized. Curriculum will span the harmonic series, circle of 5ths, scales and chords to ear training, harmonic and rhythmic dictation, and beginning composition. Course will include singing,
Music

Music, Gender, and Sexuality in the Middle East — MHI2252.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Joseph Alpar
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Credits: 2
This course will explore the construction and experience of gender and sexuality in the Middle East through a musical lens. Drawing on ethnomusicological, historical, sociological and anthropological research in the region, the course will examine music-making as a process of representation, assertion, and sometimes transgression of sexuality and gender identities. We will talk
CAPA Music Society Culture and Thought

Nature and Artifice 2 — ARC2239.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: DSherefkin@bennington.edu
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Credits: 4
Because architecture seeks to establish a degree of permanence in the world, it is by definition, not natural, a work of human artifice. But our structures are very much of the earth, and the history of architecture is a record of the manifold ways in which cultures have understood, and responded to, their relationship to nature. This history of architecture will be organized
Visual Arts

New Work/New Voices — DRA2306.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Dina Janis
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Credits: 4
This course is a dramatic literature course that will focus on new work by playwrights currently working today in the American Theatre. It is a class that is designed for actors, playwrights, directors, and designers who are interested in expanding their canon of contemporary dramatic literature, both published and unpublished, written by writers producing and generating work
Drama

Non-Stop Moving — DAN4359.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Dana Reitz
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Credits: 1
When I first started studying butoh at the age of 18, I had a desire to dance anytime and anywhere. On a subway on my way to the dance studio, I practiced my stillness and internal dance without being noticed by anyone. Since then, I believe that dance can happen in any situation and environment by taking various different forms throughout our daily lives. In this class, as
Dance

Occhio all'Italia I: Italian Culture in Depth — ITA4217.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
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Credits: 2
This course takes its name from an online magazine that students of Italian at Ź produced each Spring between 2016 and 2019. Our class will look closely at several aspects of Italian culture and history, with particular attention to art. Students will cap the course with a research project and create a multimedia journalistic piece for Occhio all'Italia's last issue,
Cultural Studies and Languages

Occhio all'Italia II: Italian Culture in Depth — ITA4218.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
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Credits: 2
This course builds on the preceding "Occhio all'Italia I." It takes its name from an online magazine that students of Italian at Ź produced each Spring between 2017 and 2019. The class keeps its focus on Italian culture and history, with particular attention to art that we will explore with the help of 3D technology. Students will cap the course with a research project
Cultural Studies and Languages

Orientalism and Exoticism — FRE4808.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
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Credits: 2
This class will focus on how French and Francophone cultures have imagined and represented non-westerners and, in particular the civilization of the Middle East, the Maghreb, and Africa. We will study the visual arts, literature (Abdellah Taia and Maryse Condé), and film with a thematic focus on the issues of race and sexuality. Theoretical and critical texts will also inform
Cultural Studies and Languages

Other People's Worlds — ANT4129.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: MPrazak@bennington.edu
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Credits: 4
In the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century a European based world-economy came into existence. Fueled by the philosophy of mercantilism, traders followed, and sometimes were, explorers seeking riches in the lands discovered in the search for trade routes. The resulting contact between cultures led to fundamental transformations of all the societies and cultures involved.
Society Culture and Thought

Patternmaking: A Remote Class in Flat Pattern Development — DRA4420.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Richard MacPike
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Credits: 2
This remote course will cover many of the basic practices of flat pattern development. Students will learn how to draft patterns and slopers, enlarge and alter historical patterns, and how to manipulate these patterns in order to create and complete assignments that cover a wide variety of garments. Topics covered will include bodices, sleeves, skirts, pants, collars, cuffs,
Dance Drama

Philosophical Reasoning — PHI2109.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Catherine McKeen
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Credits: 4
What is the difference between belief and knowledge? What is truth? What is the good? These are some of the questions this first course in philosophy asks. It has two aims: To introduce you to the methods and procedures of philosophical argument and, second, to engage you in a critical dialogue with three central problems in philosophy - knowledge, metaphysics, and meaning in
Society Culture and Thought

Philosophies and Formal Elements of Animation and the Moving Image — MA4104.02) (canceled

Fall 2020
Instructor: Sue Rees
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Credits: 4
Zoetropes, phenakistascopes, pepper’s ghosts, puppets, VR, film, projection, games, music, dance, and animation are just a few examples of ways to explore the elements of movement in time-based media. In this course, we delve into the formal elements of the illusion of motion and apply these concepts to the creation of kinetic works in a variety of formats. Emphasis will be
Drama Visual Arts

Physics I: Forces and Motion (with lab) — PHY2235.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Hugh Crowl
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Credits: 4
Physics is the study of what Newton called “the System of the World.” To know the System of the World is to know what forces are out there and how those forces operate on things. These forces explain the dynamics of the world around us: from the path of a falling apple to the motion of a car down the highway to the flight of a rocket from the Earth. Careful analysis of the
Science and Mathematics

Physics II: Electricity and Magnetism (with lab) — PHY4327.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Tim Schroeder
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Credits: 4
How does influence travel from one thing to another? In Newton’s mechanics of particles and forces, influences travel instantaneously across arbitrarily far distances. Newton himself felt this to be incorrect, but he did not suggest a solution to this problem of “action at a distance.” To solve this problem, we need a richer ontology: The world is made not only of particles,
Science and Mathematics

Piano — MIN4333.01, section 1

Fall 2020
Instructor: Allen Shawn
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Credits: 1
Individual private lessons for advanced students. Audition required. Weekly meetings times on scheduled class days arranged with the instructor. Participation in music workshop and end-of-term recital required.
Music

Piano — MIN4333.03, section 3

Fall 2020
Instructor: joanforsyth@bennington.edu
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Credits: 1
Individual private lessons for advanced students. Audition required. Weekly meetings times on scheduled class days arranged with the instructor. Participation in music workshop and end-of-term recital required.
Music

Piano — MIN4333.04

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 1
Individual private lessons for advanced students. Audition required. Weekly meetings times on scheduled class days arranged with the instructor. Participation in music workshop and end-of-term recital required.
Music