Bennington College Fall 2013 Curriculum
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F13 – All courses
Areas of Study
CAPA
Advancement of Public Action
Conflict Resolution and Systems Design
Dance
Drama
Education
Environment
Languages
Chinese
Foreign Language Education
French
Italian
Japanese
Spanish
Literature
Modules: Transferable Approaches
Music
Composition
Fundamentals
Instrumental Study
History
Performance
Sound Design and Recording
Theory
Voice
Science Mathematics and Computing
Biology
Chemistry
Computing
Earth Science
Mathematics
Physics
Science and Mathematics
Social Science
Anthropology
History
Philosophy
Political Economy
Politics
Psychology
Visual Arts
Architecture
Art History
Ceramics
Digital Arts
Drawing
Film and Video
Media Arts
Painting
Photography
Printmaking
Sculpture
Visual Arts (VA Courses)
Credit
One Credit
Two Credit
Four Credit
Level
2000
4000
3- and 7-week courses
Three Week
First Seven Week
Second Seven Week
Updates (08/09/13)
Category Archives:
Credit
(In)Justice and (In)Equality
(PSY4208.01)
100 Drawings
(ARC4118.01)
A Play Takes Place in the Audience
(DRA4133.01)
Advanced Portfolio Projects in Costume Design
(DRA4157.01)
Advanced Printmaking Research and Group Exhibition
(PRI4402.01)
Advanced Projects in Dance
(DAN4795.01)
Advanced Projects in E-Music
(MCO4139.01)
Advanced Projects in Video
(FV4304.01)
Advanced Slip Casting Project
(CER4103.01)
Advanced Voice
(MVO4401.01)
Advanced Voice
(MVO4401.02)
Advanced Workshop in CAPA
(APA4124.01)
Agroecology
(BIO4101.01)
America in the World: Past, Present, Future
(HIS4204.01)
America’s History Through Her Music: 1500-1900
(MHI2103.01)
An Actor’s Technique – Nuts and Bolts
(DRA4127.01)
Ancient Philosophy
(PHI2135.01)
Animation Projects
(MA4201.01)
Anthropological Research Methodologies
(ANT4110.01)
APA Workshop: Focus: Cities
(APA4150.01)
Applying Anthropological Research Methodologies
(ANT4111.01)
Art in America Since WWII
(AH2286.01)
Artist’s Portfolio
(DAN4366.01)
Banjo
(MIN2215.01)
Basic Anatomy
(DAN2132.01)
Bass with Bisio
(MIN4417.01)
Basso Continuo and You
(MTH2110.01)
Beat by Beat
(DRA4122.01)
Beginning Cello
(MIN4354.01)
Beginning Composing
(MCO4120.01)
Beginning Guitar
(MIN2247.01)
Beginning Violin and Viola
(MIN2241.01)
Brass Chamber Ensemble
(MPF4237.01)
Brass Instruments
(MIN4218.01)
Business Incubator
(MOD2145.02)
Business, Ethics, & Society
(MOD2146.03)
Canta che ti passa: Social Commentary in Music
(ITA4117.01)
Cello
(MIN4355.01)
Charles Dickens: Novels and Biography
(LIT2284.01)
Chemistry 1: Chemical Principles
(CHE2211.01)
Chemistry 3: Organic Reactions and Mechanisms
(CHE4213.01)
Chinese Chan (Zen)
(CHI4114.01)
Chinese Characters and Chinese Culture
(CHI2120.01)
Choice and Consequence: Alternative History
(DRA2277.01)
Civil Society in Conflict Resolution
(POL4248.01)
Clarinet
(MIN4223.01)
Cognition & Society
(Canceled)
Color Investigated Through Light
(VA4108.01)
Communicating Science to the Public
(SCMA4106.01)
Comparative Animal Physiology
(BIO4201.01)
Comparing Political Institutions
(POL2101.01)
Computing in the Developing World
(CS2108.01)
Contemporary African I/Burkina Faso
(DAN2307.01)
Contemporary African II/Burkina Faso
(DAN4307.01)
Contemporary Chinese Culture in Music
(CHI4118.01)
Costume Construction Studio Basics
(DRA2211.01)
Creative Music Ensemble
(MPF2104.01)
Créatrices
(FRE4721.01)
Critical Response in Painting
(PAI4309.01)
Critical Texts in Recent Art
(VA4154.01)
Cultural Localities I: Researching Culture
(ANT4117.01)
Deconstructing and Reconstructing Identity
(JPN2108.01)
Designing a Light Plot
(DRA2235.01)
Directing II
(DRA4376.01)
Distributed Systems
(CS4125.01)
Diversity of Coral Reef Animals
(BIO2339.01)
Don Quixote: “The First and Most Completest Novel”
(LIT2182.01)
Double Portrait: Of a Lady and Her Novel
(LIT2223.01)
Drawing Everywhere
(DRW4239.01)
Drawing Intensive Rome – FWT 2014
(AH4309.01)
Drumming: An Extension of Language
(MIN2120.01)
Edo to Meiji: Isolation to Modernization
(JPN4168.01)
Effective Public Action: Case Studies
(APA2116.01)
Electronic Music: Creativity and Sound
(MCO2109.01)
English as a Second Language
(LIT2101.01)
Experiential Anatomy/Somatic Practices
(DAN4106.01)
Experimental Filmmaking
(FV4307.01)
Exploring 20th Century American & British Art Song
(MHI2119.01)
Exploring the White Cube: A New York Intensive
(VA4125.01)
Faculty Performance Production: Great Expectations
(DRA4575.01)
Fiddle
(MIN4327.01)
Field Course in Coral Reef Science
(BIO4239.01)
Finding Form: Dance
(DAN4319.01)
First-Year Dance Intensive
(DAN2107.01)
Forests: An Introduction to Ecology and Evolution
(BIO2109.01)
Form and Process: Investigations in Painting
(PAI2107.01)
Foundations in Ceramics: The Hand as a Tool
(CER2105.01)
Foundations of Physical Science
(SCMA2104.01)
French America
(FRE4221.01)
Fundamentals of Advancing Public Action
(APA2101.01)
Fundamentals of Neuroscience: A Beginner’s Guide
(BIO2212.01)
Genesis
(HIS2220.01)
Genetics – Principles and Practice
(BIO4207.01)
Genres and Forms of Poetry
(LIT4164.01)
Global Problems, Local Solutions
(ENV2115.01)
Greek Tragedy: Plays and Theory
(DRA4105.01)
Groundwork: What You Need to Know to Make Music
(MFN2110.01)
Hearing Herbie
(MPF4242.01)
Historical Processes
(PHO4321.01)
History of Animation
(MA2137.01)
History of Theater II: Modern Drama
(DRA2154.01)
Honors Seminar: George Orwell
(LIT4135.01)
How Do You Know: The Culture of Information
(APA4106.01)
Improvisation Ensemble for Musicians & Dancers
(MPF4233.01)
Improvisation Ensemble for Musicians & Dancers
(DAN4357.01)
Insider Perspectives on the French Speaking World
(FRE2103.01)
Interdisciplinary Studio/Seminar: Context and Original Documents
(VA4123.01)
Intermediate Voice
(MVO4301.01)
Intermediate Voice
(MVO4301.02)
Intermediate Voice
(MVO4301.03)
Intermediate Voice
(MVO4301.04)
Introduction to Applied Mathematics
(MAT2111.01)
Introduction to Pure Mathematics
(MAT2115.01)
Introduction to Relief Printing
(PRI2105.01)
Introduction To Rhino 3-D Modeling
(VA2113.01)
Introduction to Slip Casting
(CER2168.01)
Introduction to the Biology of Cancer
(BIO2104.01)
Introduction to Video
(FV2101.01)
Introduction to Video
(FV2101.02)
Italo Calvino: Narrating the Unfamiliar
(ITA4213.01)
Japanese Aesthetics: Jomon Pottery to Superflat
(JPN4216.01)
Jazz Piano Lab
(MIN4335.01)
Kipling
(LIT2192.01)
Kulintang Gong Ensemble
(MPF2027.01)
Landforms and Surface Processes
(ES2106.01)
Late Twentieth Century British Fiction
(LIT2195.01)
Local Land-use History and Landscape Ecology
(BIO4113.01)
Low Fire Clay and Glazes, History & Application
(CER4328.01)
Mandolin
(MIN2229.01)
Maps, Diagrams and Projections
(ARC2113.01)
Markmaking and Representation
(DRW2149.01)
Markmaking and Representation
(DRW2149.02)
Masters of Style
(LIT4362.01)
Media Technology and Social Change
(APA2203.01)
Mediation and Negotiation
(MOD2110.01)
Mediation and Negotiation
(MOD2110.02)
Metal Workshop
(SCU2206.01)
Metal Workshop Part II
(SCU4110.01)
Microeconomics
(PEC2250.01)
Modern Guitar
(MIN4224.01)
Modernist Monuments: Yeats, Pound and Eliot
(LIT4218.01)
Movement Practice: Advanced Dance Technique
(DAN4344.01)
Movement Practice: Beginning Dance Technique
(DAN2214.01)
Movement Practice: Contact Improvisation
(DAN2210.01)
Movement Practice: Intermediate Ballet
(DAN4217.01)
Movement Practice: Intermediate Contact Improvisation
(DAN4118.01)
Movement Practice: Intermediate Dance Technique
(DAN4314.01)
Movement Practice: Yoga, Gymnastics and Dance
(DAN2213.01)
Music Composition Intensive
(MCO4801.01)
Music Compositions for Dance
(MHI2105.01)
Music Maps
(MTH4115.01)
Musical Forms
(MHI2240.01)
Nature in the Americas
(ANT4215.01)
Nonlinear Dynamical Systems
(MAT4127.01)
Normality and Abnormality
(PSY2204.01)
Noticing, Choosing and Writing to Describe
(MOD2107.03)
Noticing, Choosing, and Writing to Describe
(MOD2107.04)
Object Oriented: Creating and Making with Technology
(DA4208.01)
Off the Page: Conceptualization and Collaboration
(DRA2105.01)
Our Monsters, Ourselves
(SPA4715.01)
Packaging the Body: The History of Fashion
(DRA2223.01)
Painting Studio
(PAI4204.01)
Pathways: An Introduction to Writing
(LIT2110.01)
Persons, Groups, and Environments
(PSY2141.01)
Petronius
(FLE4325.01)
Philosophical Reasoning
(PHI2109.01)
Philosophy & Biography: Wittgenstein
(PHI4105.01)
Philosophy of Art and Language
(PHI4215.01)
Photography Foundation
(PHO2302.01)
Photography Foundation
(PHO2302.02)
Physics I
(PHY4235.01)
Piano
(MIN4333.01)
Piano
(MIN4333.02)
Piano
(MIN4333.03)
Piano Lab I
(MIN2232.01)
Piano Lab I
(MIN2232.02)
Piano Lab I
(MIN2232.03)
Piano Lab II
(MIN4236.01)
Political Economy of the Environment
(PEC4215.01)
Politics and Governance in Africa
(POL4237.01)
Practicum: National Undergrad Literary Anthology
(LIT4360.01)
Projects in Dance/Tool Box
(DAN4483.01)
Projects in Sculpture: Making It Personal
(SCU4797.01)
Psychological Experimentation
(PSY2109.01)
Puppets and Animation I
(MA2325.01)
Reading and Writing Poetry: The Poet’s Toolkit
(LIT4251.01)
Reading and Writing: The Novel
(LIT4326.01)
Recent Fiction From India and Pakistan
(LIT2132.01)
Reimagining Memory in Biology and Beyond
(BIO2140.01)
Renaissance and Reformation
(HIS2110.01)
Sacred Harp College
(MPF4125.01)
Sacred Harp Singing School
(MPF2100.01)
Sage City Symphony
(MPF4100.01)
Saxophone
(MIN4237.01)
Science and Math Fifth Term Seminar
(SCMA4105.01)
Science, Drama & The Power of the Inquisitive Mind
(DRA2259.01)
Second Language and Culture Acquisition
(EDU2521.01)
Senior Projects
(LIT4795.01)
Sensation and Movement in the Ocean
(Canceled)
Sets, Measure and Topology
(MAT4106.01)
Shakespeare: Comedies and Romances
(LIT2215.01)
Silkscreen / Serigraphy Workshop
(PRI2112.01)
So Far from God: A Border Project
(POL4238.01)
Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship: Idea to Launch
(MOD2144.01)
Social Marketing
(MOD2147.04)
Social Practices in Art
(VA4104.01)
Solving the Impossible: Intractable Conflicts
(MED2106.01)
Song Production
(MSR4362.01)
Special Projects
(HIS4750.01)
Special Projects in Advanced Japanese
(JPN4705.01)
Steal This Book: Literature of the 60s and 70s
(LIT2248.01)
String Chamber Ensemble
(MPF4235.01)
Style and Tone in Nonfiction Writing
(LIT2104.01)
Technique, Phrasing, and Performance
(DAN4321.01)
The Actor’s Instrument
(DRA2170.01)
The Actor’s Instrument
(DRA2170.02)
The Anthropology of Religion
(ANT2108.01)
The Anthropology of Science and Technology
(ANT2119.01)
The Archive in Art
(VA4216.01)
The Art of Acoustic Recording
(MSR4052.01)
The Art of Literary Translation
(LIT4319.01)
The Art of Spanish I: Language Through Painting
(SPA2107.01)
The Creation of Spain’s Image: Myths & Archetypes
(SPA4102.01)
The Digital Photo Book
(PHO4130.01)
The Dual Narrative and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
(MED4206.01)
The Film Trailer Project
(FRE4119.01)
The Human Condition: Hannah Arendt
(PHI4101.01)
The Language of Material and Process
(CER4250.01)
The Making of a Poem
(LIT4117.01)
The New York School of Poetry
(LIT2198.01)
The Sababa Project: Children in Crisis
(MED4202.01)
The Scriptorium: Critical Theories
(LIT2227.01)
Theatre and the Arts for Peace and Reconciliation
(MED4102.01)
Thinking Like a Social Scientist
(PSY2108.01)
Through Syntax to Style: A Grammar of Writing
(LIT2169.01)
Time, History, and Memory
(Canceled)
Traditional Music Ensemble
(MPF4221.01)
Traditional Music of North America
(MHI2135.01)
Twisted Siblings: Relationships Between Painting and Architecture
(ARC4215.01)
Unique Prints: 3-D Prints and Modular Works
(PRI4272.01)
Unlocking Italian Culture: I
(ITA2106.01)
Video Installation
(FV2127.01)
Video/Performance
(FV2140.01)
Viewpoints Groundwork
(DRA2124.01)
Violin/Viola
(MIN4345.01)
Visual Arts Lecture Series
(VA2999.01)
Vocal Chamber Ensemble
(MVO4126.01)
Voice and Speech Workshop
(DRA2114.01)
War and Peace
(LIT4108.01)
Ways to Manipulate the Two-Dimensional World
(MA4102.01)
What is Sculpture?
(SCU2106.01)
Wicked Problems
(MOD2126.02)
Wicked Problems
(MOD2126.04)
Women in Latin America
(SPA4256.01)
Women in Science: Ancient Greece to Enlightenment
(HIS4110.01)
Working With Light
(DRA2234.01)