Bennington College Fall 2015 Curriculum
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Adobe CC for the Moving Image Artist
(CANCELLED)
“A Celebration Service,” Meredith Monk
(MPF4109.01)
“A Celebration Service” – Dance Ensemble
(DAN2123.01)
“If Spain Falls”: The Spanish Civil War through the Latin American Lens
(CANCELLED)
(Re)Presenting Culture
(ANT4204.01)
Advanced Chamber Music
(MPF4230.01)
Advanced Printmaking Research and Group Exhibition
(PRI4402.01)
Advanced Projects in Dance
(DAN4795.01)
Advanced Projects in Video
(FV4304.01)
Advanced Slip Casting Project
(CER4103.01)
Advanced Voice
(MVO4401.01; section 1)
Advanced Voice
(MVO4401.02; section 2)
Advanced Workshop for Painting and Drawing
(PAI4302.01)
African Music Ensemble
(MHI4134.01)
After Borges
(SPA4117.01)
America’s History Through Her Music: 1500-1900
(MHI2103.01)
An Actor’s Technique – Nuts and Bolts
(DRA4127.01)
Animating the 2-Dimensional World
(MA4101.01)
Animation 1
(MA2105.01)
Another Roadside Attraction: Travel & Photo
(PHO2110.02)
Art of Stage Design
(DRA2250.01)
Art on the Brink of Modernity in the 18th Century
(AH4103.01)
Artist’s Portfolio
(DAN4366.01)
Arts and Cities: Aural and Visual Cartographies of East and Southeast Asia
(APA2126.01)
Augustine’s Confessions
(HIS4113.01)
Aural History
(HIS2144.01)
Banjo
(MIN2215.01)
Bass Intensive
(MIN4026.01)
Bass with Bisio
(MIN4417.01)
Beat by Beat
(DRA4122.01)
Beckett (19×19)
(MA4103.01)
Bedrock Geology
(CANCELLED)
Beginning Cello
(MIN2354.01)
Beginning Composing
(MCO4120.01)
Beginning Guitar
(MIN2247.01)
Beginning Intermediate Guitar
(MIN4238.01)
Beginning Violin And Viola
(MIN2241.01)
Bennington Review: a Practicum in Literary Editing and Publishing
(LIT4330.01)
Biological Diversity: Ecology and Evolution
(BIO2103.01)
Biological Diversity: Ecology and Evolution Lab
(BIO2103L.01)
Business Incubator
(MOD2145.02)
Calculus: Techniques & Applications
(MAT4130.01)
Canta che ti passa: Italian Commentary in Music
(ITA4117.01)
Cello
(MIN4355.01)
Chemistry 1: Chemical Principles
(CHE2211.01)
Chemistry 1: Chemical Principles Lab
(CHE2211L.01)
Chemistry 3: Organic Reactions and Mechanisms
(CHE4213.01)
Chemistry 3: Organic Reactions and Mechanisms Lab
(CHE4213L.01)
Chinese Chan (Zen)
(CHI4114.01)
Chocolat
(FRE4223.01)
Choice and Consequence: Alternative History
(DRA2277.01)
Christians, Muslims, and Jews in Medieval Spain
(HIS2143.01)
Chromophilia: Explorations in Color
(VA4215.01)
Civil Society in Conflict Resolution
(POL4248.01)
Clarinet
(MIN4223.01)
Clay Formulation
(CANCELLED)
Cognition: How People Think
(PSY2208.01)
Composing with Sound
(MUS2254.01)
Crafting a Foreign Policy Agenda: The case of US-India relations
(MOD2157.03)
Cultural Identity in Modern Italian Novel (in English Translation)
(ITA2115.01)
Culture, Conflict, and Memory in Southeast Asia
(ANT2122.01)
Dance Improvisation Ensemble
(DAN4311.01)
Designing “Daughters of Io”
(DRA4118.01)
Designing a Light Plot
(DRA2235.02)
Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” and Public Action
(MOD2136.04)
Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems
(MAT4108.01)
Digital Morphology/Rhino 3D Modeling
(VA2208.01)
Digital Morphology/Rhino 3D Modeling
(VA2208.02; second seven weeks)
Directing II
(DRA4376.01)
Drawing Excess: the Low Pleasures of Decoration
(DRW4260.01)
Ecological Research: Taconic Landscape
(BIO4107.01)
Economics of Growth and Technological Change
(PEC4123.01)
Edo to Meiji: Isolation to Modernization
(JPN4168.01)
Education Governance in Flux
(MOD2155.03)
English as a Second Language
(LIT2101.01)
Entry to Mathematics
(MAT2100.01)
Environment and Public Action
(APA2122.01)
Environmental Geology
(ES2102.01)
Exploring the World through Research
(ANT4238.01)
Feminist Philosophy
(PHI4130.01)
Fiction from Fact
(LIT2389.02)
Fiddle
(MIN4327.01)
Films by Photographers
(PHO2151.01)
Finding Form: Dance
(DAN4319.01)
First-Year Dance Intensive
(DAN2107.01)
Food in Italy
(ITA2114.01)
Form and Process: Investigations in Painting
(PAI2107.01)
Foundations in Ceramics: Roots of Form
(CER2112.01)
Foundations of Global Politics
(POL2103.01)
French Film Adaptations
(FV2302.01)
Fundamentals of Creative Writing
(LIT2394.01)
Future Studio: Design Incubator
(DA4206.01)
Generative Art with Processing
(DA2108.01)
Genetics – Principles and Practice Lab
(BIO4207L.01)
Genetics – Principles and Practice
(BIO4207.01)
Genome Jumpstart: An Introduction to Bioinformatic Analysis
(BIO2117.01)
Genres and Forms of Poetry
(LIT4164.01)
Getting Good at Change: Systemic Thinking and Practice
(APA2125.01)
Glaze Chemistry
(CANCELLED)
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)
Hearing Horace: The Music of Horace Silver
(MPF4107.01)
Higher Education in the United States: Exploring Purpose and Practice
(APA2209.01)
Historical Grievances and Retrospective Redress
(APA2124.01)
History of Animation
(MA2137.01)
History of Theater II: Modern Drama
(DRA2154.01)
Honors Seminar “The Invention of the Nineteenth Century”: Readings in Balzac
(LIT4329.01)
Honors Seminar: Theory and Practice of Dramaturgy
(CANCELLED)
Insider Perspectives on the French-Speaking World
(FRE2103.01)
InSights: Digitally Fabricated Site-Specific Installations
(VA4217.01)
Instrument Building
(MUS4014.01)
Intermediate Violin/Viola
(MIN4232.01)
Intermediate Voice
(MVO4301.02; section 2)
Intermediate Voice
(MVO4301.01; section 1)
Intermediate Voice
(MVO4301.03; section 3)
Intermediate Voice
(MVO4301.04; section 4)
Introduction to Game Programming
(CS2121.01)
Introduction to Harmony
(MTH2128.01)
Introduction to Mathematical Structures and Logical Reasoning
(MAT2101.01)
Introduction to Microeconomics
(PEC2217.01)
Introduction To Quantitative Reasoning and Modeling
(MAT2102.01)
Introduction to Relief Printing
(PRI2105.01)
Introduction to Sculpture: What is Sculpture?
(SCU2101.01)
Introduction to Slip Casting
(CER2168.01)
Introduction to Video
(FV2303.01)
Javanese Gamelan
(MPF2201.01)
Javascript and the Dynamic Web
(DA2107.02)
Jazz Piano Lab
(MIN4335.01)
Jazz Trapset and Drums Ensemble
(MPF4108.01)
Kant Seminar
(PHI4266.01)
Landscape
(FV4240.01)
Latin American Art Since Independence
(SPA2111.01)
Learning Japanese Language and Culture with Manga
(JPN2109.01)
Libertinage
(FRE4718.01)
Life Drawing Lab
(DRW2118.01; section 1)
Life Drawing Lab
(DRW2118.02; section 2)
Linear Algebra
(MAT4115.01)
Literary Bennington
(LIT2390.01)
Literature of World War I
(LIT2345.01)
Lost and Found in the Nineteenth Century
(HIS2142.01)
Malamud, Bellow, and Roth
(LIT2391.01)
Mallet Percussion Ensemble
(MPF4106.01)
Mandolin
(MIN2229.01)
Manga Into Art: After Super Flat
(VA2207.01)
Many Peoples, One World
(ANT2101.01)
Markmaking and Representation
(DRW2149.01)
Masters of Style
(LIT4362.01)
Media, Technology and Social Change
(APA2203.01)
Mediated Movement: Camera and the Body in Hybrid Performance
(FV4239.01)
Meisner Technique
(DRA4268.01)
Metal Workshop
(SCU2107.01)
Metal Workshop North Gate
(SCU4107.02)
Miles Davis (1926-1991): Jazz Pioneer
(MHI2226.01)
Modern Guitar
(MIN4224.01)
Modernist Poetry
(LIT2367.01)
Module: Climate Change and Air Quality – Environmental Law and Policy
(MOD2250.03)
Mother Figure and Motherly Figures
(ITA4603.01)
Mountain Dulcimer (Lap Dulcimer)
(MIN2224.01)
Movement Practice: Advanced Dance Technique
(DAN4344.01)
Movement Practice: Advanced Intermediate Dance Technique
(DAN4351.01)
Movement Practice: Beginning Dance Technique
(DAN2214.01)
Movement Practice: Beginning-Intermediate Dance Technique
(DAN2119.01)
Movement Practice: Moving Out–Beginning Dance Technique
(DAN2212.01)
Music Composition Intensive
(MCO4801.01)
Music of the Future Past
(MTH4126.01)
Musical Forms
(MHI2240.01)
Narrative Cinema: Century One
(FV2113.01)
NGO Workshop
(APA2123.01)
Non-Fiction in Fiction: Writers and Their Work
(JPN4708.01)
Normality and Abnormality: Defining the Limits
(PSY2206.01)
Orchestration
(MUS4013.01)
Origins of the English Novel
(LIT4145.01)
Packaging the Body: The History of Fashion
(DRA2223.01)
Paganism
(HIS4107.02)
Painting Studio
(PAI4204.01)
Paris on Screen : Tradition and Modernity
(FRE4117.01; section 1)
Paris on Screen : Tradition and Modernity
(FRE4117.02; section 2)
Partnering Projects
(DAN4242.01)
Pathways: An Introduction To Writing Essays
(LIT2393.01)
Performance Production: Daughters of Io
(DRA4306.01)
Performance Project: Not Knowing
(DAN4108.01)
Persons, Groups, and Environments
(PSY2141.01)
Philosophical Reasoning
(PHI2109.01)
Photographic Portraiture: Friends and Strangers
(PHO4262.01)
Photography Foundation
(PHO2302.01)
Photography Foundation
(PHO2302.02)
Photography in Zeros and Ones
(PHO4126.01)
Physics I: Forces and Motion
(PHY2235.01)
Physics I: Forces and Motion Lab
(PHY2235L.01)
Piano
(MIN4333.02; section 2)
Piano
(MIN4333.03; section 3)
Piano
(MIN4333.04; section 4)
Piano
(MIN4333.01; section 1)
Piano Lab 1
(MIN2232.01; section 1)
Piano Lab 1
(MIN2232.02; section 2)
Piano Lab II
(MIN4236.01; section 1)
Piano Lab II
(MIN4236.02; section 2)
Plays From Plays From Plays
(DRA2155.01; first seven weeks)
Preparing for Field Work in Public Action
(CANCELLED)
Problems of Political Development
(POL4255.01)
Projects in Sculpture: Making it Personal
(SCU4797.01)
Quantum Mechanics
(PHY4211.01)
Reader’s Theater Ensemble
(DRA2247.01)
Reading and Writing Short Stories
(LIT4219.01)
Recording and Mixing Music
(MSR2116.01)
Recording Studio as an Instrument
(MSR2210.01)
Research Methods in Psychology and Cognition
(PSY2209.01)
Rhetoric: The Art and Craft of Persuasion
(PHI2144.01)
Saxophone
(MIN4237.01)
Science and Math Fifth Term Seminar
(SCMA4105.01)
Scripting for Computer Graphics
(CS2122.01)
Seeing It Through: Developing Movement Material
(DAN4121.01)
Senior Projects
(ARC4109.01)
Senior Projects
(LIT4322.01)
Senior Projects
(MPF4104.01)
Senior Seminar in Society, Culture, and Thought
(SCT4750.02; section 2)
Senior Seminar in Society, Culture, and Thought
(SCT4750.03; section 3)
Senior Seminar in Society, Culture, and Thought
(SCT4750.01; section 1)
Senior Seminar in Society, Culture, and Thought and CAPA
(SCT4750.04; section 4)
Sewing Fundamentals
(DRA2130.01; section 1)
Sewing Fundamentals
(DRA2130.02; section 2)
Sewing Fundamentals
(DRA2130.03; section 3)
Shakespeare: Comedies and Romances
(LIT2392.01)
Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship
(MOD2144.01)
Social Marketing
(MOD2147.03)
Social Practices in Art
(DA4103.01)
Sonic, Mnemonic, Identity, and Memory
(MSR2209.01)
Spaces, Places, and Identities
(PSY4190.01)
Spatial Data Analysis and GIS
(ES4126.01)
Special Projects in Spanish
(SPA4703.01)
Species of Spaces
(ARC2130.01)
String Chamber Ensemble
(MPF4235.01)
Studio Projects and Practices in Ceramics
(CER4375.01)
Studying Place by Metes and Bounds
(ENV4232.01)
Style and Tone in Essay Writing
(LIT2397.01)
Sun Ra…Space Is The Place
(MPF2146.01)
Technology and Improvisation
(MUS4105.01)
The Actor’s Instrument
(DRA2170.02; section 2)
The Actor’s Instrument
(DRA2170.01; section 1)
The Art of Brevity: Linguistic Conciseness in the Spanish and Latin American Traditions
(CANCELLED)
The Art of Mediation and Negotiation
(MED2107.01)
The Body Politic
(POL2105.01; section 1)
The Body Politic
(POL2105.02; section 2)
The Book of Deuteronomy and the Advancement of Society
(MED2114.03)
The Dance Archive Project
(DAN4105.01)
The Digital Photo Book
(PHO4130.01)
The History of Argentina
(SPA4217.01)
The Literature of Artistic Obsession
(LIT2250.01)
The Magical Object – Visual Metaphor
(DRA2116.01)
The Modern Chinese Family
(CHI2113.01)
The Politics of Freedom
(POL2104.01)
The Refugee Crisis: Where Can I Go?
(MOD2156.03)
The Sababa Project: Media in Action
(APA2121.01)
The Scriptorium: Critical Theories
(LIT2227.01)
The U.S. Constitution: Amendments and Updates
(HIS2141.02)
The U.S. Constitution: Rough Drafts and Ratification
(HIS2139.01)
The Victorian Novel
(LIT4320.01)
The Visual Art of China
(CHI4496.01)
The Web as Artistic Platform
(DA2110.01)
Theatre and the Arts for Peace and Reconciliation
(MED4102.01)
Through Syntax to Style: A Grammar of Writing
(LIT2169.01)
Tolstoy’s Short Fiction
(LIT2395.01)
Topics in Applied Philosophy: Privacy
(PHI2126.01)
Traditional Music Ensemble
(MPF4221.01)
Traditional Music of North America
(MHI2135.01)
Twelve Objects: An Introduction to Art History
(AH2108.01)
Urban Design and Development
(ANT4216.01)
Viewpoints Groundwork
(DRA2124.01)
Violin and Viola
(MIN4345.01)
Visionary Architecture
(ARC4123.01)
Visual Arts Lecture Series
(VA2999.01)
Wavians Among the Ruins
(LIT4328.01)
What is the Truth? – Learning WWII with History Textbooks in Japan
(JPN4233.01)
Woodwind Workshop
(MIN2235.01)
Word and Image Lab: Poems into Print
(PRI4250.01)
Working With Light
(DRA2234.01)
Workshop: Walking and Writing
(LIT2398.01)