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:
Four Credit
(In)Justice and (In)Equality
(PSY4208.01)
100 Drawings
(ARC4118.01)
A Play Takes Place in the Audience
(DRA4133.01)
Advanced Printmaking Research and Group Exhibition
(PRI4402.01)
Advanced Projects in Video
(FV4304.01)
Advanced Slip Casting Project
(CER4103.01)
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)
APA Workshop: Focus: Cities
(APA4150.01)
Art in America Since WWII
(AH2286.01)
Basso Continuo and You
(MTH2110.01)
Beat by Beat
(DRA4122.01)
Beginning Composing
(MCO4120.01)
Canta che ti passa: Social Commentary in Music
(ITA4117.01)
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)
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 Chinese Culture in Music
(CHI4118.01)
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)
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)
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)
Electronic Music: Creativity and Sound
(MCO2109.01)
Experimental Filmmaking
(FV4307.01)
Faculty Performance Production: Great Expectations
(DRA4575.01)
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)
Historical Processes
(PHO4321.01)
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)
Insider Perspectives on the French Speaking World
(FRE2103.01)
Interdisciplinary Studio/Seminar: Context and Original Documents
(VA4123.01)
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)
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)
Markmaking and Representation
(DRW2149.01)
Markmaking and Representation
(DRW2149.02)
Masters of Style
(LIT4362.01)
Media Technology and Social Change
(APA2203.01)
Microeconomics
(PEC2250.01)
Modernist Monuments: Yeats, Pound and Eliot
(LIT4218.01)
Music Composition Intensive
(MCO4801.01)
Musical Forms
(MHI2240.01)
Nature in the Americas
(ANT4215.01)
Nonlinear Dynamical Systems
(MAT4127.01)
Normality and Abnormality
(PSY2204.01)
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)
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)
Political Economy of the Environment
(PEC4215.01)
Politics and Governance in Africa
(POL4237.01)
Projects in Dance/Tool Box
(DAN4483.01)
Projects in Sculpture: Making It Personal
(SCU4797.01)
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)
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)
Social Practices in Art
(VA4104.01)
Solving the Impossible: Intractable Conflicts
(MED2106.01)
Special Projects
(HIS4750.01)
Special Projects in Advanced Japanese
(JPN4705.01)
Steal This Book: Literature of the 60s and 70s
(LIT2248.01)
Style and Tone in Nonfiction Writing
(LIT2104.01)
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 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 Language of Material and Process
(CER4250.01)
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)
Time, History, and Memory
(Canceled)
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)
Viewpoints Groundwork
(DRA2124.01)
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)
Women in Latin America
(SPA4256.01)
Women in Science: Ancient Greece to Enlightenment
(HIS4110.01)