Bennington College Fall 2014 Curriculum
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Spanish
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Composition
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Psychology
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Art History
Ceramics
Digital Arts
Drawing
Film and Video
Media Arts
Painting
Photography
Printmaking
Sculpture
Visual Arts (VA Courses)
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Four Credit
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4000
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“Spain” Image and Ideology
(SPA2110.01)
3 Houses, 3 Sites
(ARC4150.01)
Acting Shakespeare: Play Upon the Text!
(DRA4181.01)
Adobe Creative Suite for Artists
(DA2102.02)
Advanced Chamber Music
(MPF4230.01)
Advanced Leadership and Strategic Planning Workshop
(APA4130.01)
Advanced Printmaking Research and Group Exhibition
(PRI4402.01)
Advanced Projects in Dance
(DAN4795.01)
Advanced Projects in E-Music
(MCO4139.01)
Advanced Projects in Theater Design and Animation
(MA4796.01)
Advanced Projects in Video
(FV4304.01)
Advanced Topics in Cell Biology
(BIO4311.01)
Advanced Voice
(MVO4401.01)
Advanced Workshop in CAPA
(APA4126.01)
African Music Ensemble
(MHI4134.01)
Americans in Paris
(HIS2114.01)
An Actor’s Technique – Nuts and Bolts
(DRA4127.01)
Animating the 2-Dimensional World
(MA4101.01)
Animation 1
(MA2105.01)
Another Roadside Attraction: Travel & Photography
(PHO2110.02)
Architectural Graphics
(ARC2104.01)
Architecture I – Elements
(ARC2101.01)
Art in America Since WWII
(AH2286.01)
Art in the Public Realm: Oslo Project
(VA4107.01)
Artist’s Portfolio
(DAN4366.01)
Aspects of the Novel
(LIT4193.01)
Banjo
(MIN2215.01)
Basic Anatomy of the Moving Body
(DAN2132.01)
Bass with Bisio
(MIN4417.01)
Beginning Cello
(MIN2354.01)
Beginning Composing
(MCO4120.01)
Beginning Guitar
(MIN2247.01)
Beginning Guitar Intermediate
(MIN4238.01)
Beginning Playwriting: One-Act Structures
(DRA2146.01)
Beginning Potters Wheel
(CER2107.01)
Beginning Violin and Viola
(MIN2241.01)
Beginning Voice
(MVO2102.01)
Bennington Farm to Plate
(ENV4256.01)
Brass Chamber Ensemble (Canceled)
(MPF4237.01)
Brass Instruments
(MIN4218.01)
Buddha Mind in China
(CHI4120.01)
Business Incubator
(MOD2145.02)
Calculus: Techniques & Applications
(MAT4130.01)
Cello
(MIN4355.01)
Chemistry 1: Chemical Principles
(CHE2211.01)
Chemistry 1: Chemical Principles Lab
(CHE2211L.01)
Chemistry 3: Organic Reactions & Mechanisms
(CHE4213.01)
Chemistry 3: Organic Reactions & Mechanisms Lab
(CHE4213L.01)
Chinese Characters and Chinese Culture
(CHI2118.01)
City and Hinterland
(Canceled)
Clay Formulation
(CER2118.01)
Comparative Animal Physiology
(BIO4201.01)
Comparative Animal Physiology Lab
(BIO4201L.01)
Composing for the Choir
(MCO4130.01)
Coordination, Conflict, and Competition
(PEC4126.01)
Costume Design for Multimedia
(DRA2246.02)
Creating the Sensory World of a Play
(DRA2136.01)
Critical Response in Painting
(PAI4309.01)
Cultural Localities 1: Researching Culture
(ANT4117.01)
Cultural Studies: Amanda Knox in Translation
(MOD2138.02)
Cultural Studies: Learning Culture Through Ikebana
(MOD2148.01)
Dance on Film
(DAN2277.01)
Democracy in America: Tocqueville’s Past, Our Present
(POL2242.01)
Designing a Light Plot
(DRA2235.02)
Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” and Public Action
(MOD2136.04)
Digital Analogues
(MCO4107.01)
Digital Darkroom Essentials
(PHO4235.01)
Directing II
(DRA4376.01)
Displaying Culture
(ANT4211.01)
Early American Literature
(LIT2197.01)
Edo to Meiji: Isolation to Modernization
(JPN4168.01)
Electronic Music: Creativity and Sound
(MCO2109.01)
Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama
(DRA4361.01)
Embracing Difference
(ANT2107.01)
English as a Second Language
(LIT2101.01)
Envisioning Information: Mapping Complexity
(MOD2139.03)
Existentialism and Phenomenology
(PHI2128.01)
Experimental Sound and Immersive Audio for Media
(MSR4121.01)
Explorations in Public History
(HIS4106.01)
Extragalactic Astronomy
(PHY4216.01)
Fiddle
(MIN4327.01)
Film Music
(MCO4101.01)
Finding Form: Dance
(DAN4319.01)
First-Year Dance Intensive
(DAN2107.01)
Fitzgerald and Hemingway
(LIT2275.01)
Food in Italy
(ITA2114.01)
Form and Process: Investigations in Painting
(Section 1 - PAI2107.01)
Form and Process: Investigations in Painting
(Section 2 - PAI2107.02)
Foundations of Physical Science
(SCMA2104.01)
From an Indigenous Point of View
(ANT4205.01)
Fundamentals of Neuroscience: A Beginner’s Guide
(Canceled)
Fundamentals of Reading and Writing Poetry
(LIT2323.01)
Future Studio: Idea to Prototype
(DA4204.01)
Gender and Development
(PEC4218.01)
Gender in Early Modern Europe
(HIS2102.01)
Geology of the Bennington Region
(ES2101.01)
Global Problems, Local Solutions
(ENV2115.01)
Governing America
(HIS2257.01)
Graduate Assistantship in Dance
(DAN5301.01)
Graduate Research in Dance
(DAN5305.01)
Groundwork: What You Need to Know to Make Music
(MFN2110.01)
Groundwork: What You Need to Know to Make Music Lab
(MFN2110L.01)
Harmonic Spheres
(MTH4130.01)
History of Theater I
(DRA2153.01)
Honors Seminar: Map to a Masterpiece
(LIT4273.01)
How the “Boom” Went Bust
(SPA4706.01)
How to Read a Story
(LIT2179.01)
Improvisation Ensemble for Dancers & Musicians
(DAN4357.01)
Improvisation Ensemble for Musicians & Dancers
(MPF4233.01)
Incarceration in America
(APA2108.01)
Insider Perspectives on the French-Speaking World
(FRE2103.01)
Intensive Introduction to Computer Science
(CS2137.01)
Intermediate Painting: Facture
(PAI4207.01)
Intermediate Playwriting: The Scene and Structure
(DRA4140.01)
Intermediate Violin/ Viola
(MIN4232.01)
Intermediate Voice
(Section 1 - MVO4301.01)
Intermediate Voice
(Section 2 - MVO4301.02)
Intermediate Voice
(Section 3 - MVO4301.03)
Introduction to Applied Mathematics
(MAT2111.01)
Introduction to Cell Biology
(BIO2111.01)
Introduction to Cell Biology Lab
(BIO2111L.01)
Introduction to Jazz Harmony
(MTH2276.01)
Introduction to Mold Making and Slip Casting
(CER2208.01)
Introduction to Pure Mathematics
(MAT2115.01)
Introduction to Relief Printing
(PRI2105.01)
Introduction to the History of Western Art
(AH2124.01)
Introduction to the Moving Image
(FV2175.01)
Introduction to Video
(FV2101.01)
Italians About Their World(s)
(ITA4108.01)
Japanese Aesthetics Through the Tale of Genji
(JPN4209.01)
Jazz Piano Workshop
(MIN4239.01)
Jazz Vocal Improvisation
(MVO4203.01)
Jazz/ Improvisation Ensemble for Instrumentalists
(MPF2163.01)
Juxtaposition: Drawing and Collage
(DRW4106.01)
Keystone XL Pipeline
(APA2130.01)
Learning Japanese Language and Culture with Manga
(JPN2109.01)
Life Stories
(FRE4214.01)
Making From Scratch/ Sourcing the Body
(DAN4119.01)
Mandolin
(MIN2229.01)
Markmaking and Representation
(Section 1 - DRW2149.01)
Markmaking and Representation
(Section 2 - DRW2149.02)
Media and Democracy Workshop
(APA2207.01)
Media Technology and Social Change
(APA2203.01)
Medicinal Chemistry
(CHE4130.01)
Metal Workshop
(SCU2206.01)
Metal Workshop Part II
(SCU4110.02)
Modern Guitar
(MIN4224.01)
Mountain Dulcimer
(MIN2224.01)
Movement Practice: Advanced Dance Technique
(DAN4344.01)
Movement Practice: Beginning Dance Technique
(DAN2214.01)
Movement Practice: Contact Improvisation
(DAN2210.01)
Movement Practice: Intermediate Contact Improvisation
(DAN4118.01)
Movement Practice: Intermediate Dance Technique
(DAN4314.01)
Movement Practice: Moving Out – Beginning Dance Technique
(DAN2212.01)
Music and Mathematics
(Canceled)
Music Composition Intensive
(MCO4801.01)
Music Composition Intensive
(MCO4801.02)
Mutants: Genetic Variation and Human Development
(BIO2210.01)
Nature and Artifice – A History of Architecture
(ARC2112.01)
Nature in the Americas
(APA4128.01)
Normality and Abnormality
(PSY2204.01)
Pathways: An Introduction to Writing
(LIT2110.01)
Performance Art: Histories and Legacies
(AH4307.01)
Performance Production: Dancing at Lughnasa
(DRA4214.01)
Personal and Social Interaction
(PSY2150.01)
Philosophical Reasoning
(PHI2109.01)
Philosophy of the Performing Arts
(PHI2131.01)
Philosophy Senior Seminar
(PHI4401.01)
Photography Foundation
(Section 1 - PHO2302.01)
Photography Foundation
(Section 2 - PHO2302.02)
Photography Foundation
(Section 3 - PHO2302.03)
Photography Foundation
(Section 4 - PHO2302.04)
Photography in the Expanded Field
(PHO4111.01)
Physics I: Forces and Motion
(PHY2235.01)
Physics I: Forces and Motion Lab
(PHY2235L.01)
Piano
(Section 1 - MIN4333.01)
Piano
(Section 2 - MIN4333.02)
Piano
(Section 3 - MIN4333.03)
Piano
(Section 4 - MIN4333.04)
Piano Lab I
(Section 1 - MIN2232.01)
Piano Lab I
(Section 2 - MIN2232.02)
Piano Lab II
(Section 1 - MIN4236.01)
Piano Lab II
(Section 2 - MIN4236.02)
Pieces of Time
(MPF4105.01)
Power and Culture in the Middle East
(ANT2106.01)
Practicum: National Undergrad Literary Anthology
(LIT4360.01)
Programming and Data Structures in C
(CS4170.01)
Projects in Sculpture: Making it Personal
(SCU4797.01)
Propaganda and Modern Chinese Culture
(CHI4495.01)
Proust
(FRE4720.01)
Reading and Writing Poetry in the Age of Social Media
(LIT4254.01)
Reading and Writing Short Stories
(LIT4219.01)
Reading the Photograph
(PHO4218.01)
Rebuilding Cities with the Arts
(APA2109.01)
Recording and Mixing Music
(MSR2116.01)
Resisting the Stitch
(DRA2126.01)
Richard Wright and James Baldwin
(LIT2193.01)
Sage City Symphony
(MPF4100.01)
Schoenberg and Stravinsky
(MHI2179.01)
Science and Math Fifth Term Seminar
(SCMA4105.01)
Sculptural Equilibrium: Containers for Ikebana
(CER4206.01)
Second Language and Culture Acquisition
(EDU2521.01)
Senior Projects
(LIT4795.01)
Sensation and Movement in the Ocean
(Canceled)
Setting the Stage
(DRA2128.01)
Shakespeare: The Poetry
(LIT2218.01)
Simple Book Multiples
(PRI4238.01)
Sister City Project
(APA2110.01)
Skillshare: Ceramics as a Tool for Placemaking
(VA4111.01)
Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship
(MOD2144.01)
Social Marketing
(MOD2147.03)
Social Practices in Art
(DA4103.01)
Song Production Workshop
(MSR4105.01)
Special Projects
(HIS4750.01)
Special Projects in Advanced Japanese
(JPN4705.01)
String Chamber Ensemble
(MPF4235.01)
Style and Tone in Nonfiction Writing
(LIT2104.01)
Swift and Pope
(LIT4252.01)
Symmetry
(MAT4138.01)
The Actor’s Instrument
(Section 1 - DRA2170.01)
The Actor’s Instrument
(Section 2 - DRA2170.02)
The Art of Mediation and Negotiation
(MED2107.01)
The Bible and Conflict Resolution
(MOD2137.04)
The Body Acoustic: Toward a Sense of Place
(DAN2112.01)
The Comedy of Manners
(LIT2207.01)
The Costumes of “Wolf Hall”
(DRA4121.01)
The Dangers of Econ 101
(PEC2262.01)
The Experimental Narrative
(FV4229.01)
The French Eye
(FRE4121.01)
The History of Science: From Hippocrates to Newton
(HIS4111.01)
The Latin American Short Story
(SPA4006.01)
The Politics of Freedom
(POL2256.01)
The Romantic Poets
(LIT2249.01)
The Sababa Project: Youth in Crisis
(MED4207.01)
The Scriptorium: Critical Theories
(LIT2227.01)
The Spanish Avant-Garde. From “Avignon Street” to “Guernica”
(SPA4216.01)
The Web as Artistic Platform
(DA2110.01)
Theoretical Ethics: The Nature of Moral Judgments
(PHI4114.01)
Theories of Psychotherapy
(PSY4108.01)
Thermal Physics
(PHY4104.01)
Thought, Action, and Passion: Fundamentals of CAPA
(APA2118.01)
Topics in Applied Philosophy: War
(PHI2140.01)
Traditional Music Ensemble
(MPF4221.01)
Traditional Music of North America
(MHI2135.01)
Transformations of the Self
(PSY4130.01)
Ukulele
(MIN2230.01)
Upending Clay: Non-Traditional Methods & Alternative Techniques
(CER2122.02)
Video Design for Dance
(FV4104.01)
Violin/ Viola
(MIN4345.01)
Visual Arts Lecture Series
(VA2999.01)
What is Sculpture?
(SCU2106.01)
William Maxwell: Writer and Editor
(LIT2281.02)
Women and Men: The Biology of the Sexes
(BIO2203.01)
Women’s Writing, Women’s Voices
(ITA4605.01)
Working with Light
(DRA2234.01)
Writing Landscape
(LIT2201.01)