Bennington College Fall 2015 Curriculum
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Four Credit
“A Celebration Service,” Meredith Monk
(MPF4109.01)
“If Spain Falls”: The Spanish Civil War through the Latin American Lens
(CANCELLED)
(Re)Presenting Culture
(ANT4204.01)
Advanced Printmaking Research and Group Exhibition
(PRI4402.01)
Advanced Projects in Video
(FV4304.01)
Advanced Slip Casting Project
(CER4103.01)
Advanced Workshop for Painting and Drawing
(PAI4302.01)
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)
Art of Stage Design
(DRA2250.01)
Art on the Brink of Modernity in the 18th Century
(AH4103.01)
Arts and Cities: Aural and Visual Cartographies of East and Southeast Asia
(APA2126.01)
Beat by Beat
(DRA4122.01)
Beckett (19×19)
(MA4103.01)
Bedrock Geology
(CANCELLED)
Beginning Composing
(MCO4120.01)
Biological Diversity: Ecology and Evolution
(BIO2103.01)
Canta che ti passa: Italian Commentary in Music
(ITA4117.01)
Chemistry 1: Chemical Principles
(CHE2211.01)
Chemistry 3: Organic Reactions and Mechanisms
(CHE4213.01)
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)
Cognition: How People Think
(PSY2208.01)
Composing with Sound
(MUS2254.01)
Cultural Identity in Modern Italian Novel (in English Translation)
(ITA2115.01)
Culture, Conflict, and Memory in Southeast Asia
(ANT2122.01)
Designing “Daughters of Io”
(DRA4118.01)
Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems
(MAT4108.01)
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)
Entry to Mathematics
(MAT2100.01)
Environment and Public Action
(APA2122.01)
Environmental Geology
(ES2102.01)
Exploring the World through Research
(ANT4238.01)
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
(BIO4207.01)
Genome Jumpstart: An Introduction to Bioinformatic Analysis
(BIO2117.01)
Genres and Forms of Poetry
(LIT4164.01)
Graduate Assistantship in Dance
(DAN5301.01)
Groundwork: What You Need to Know to Make Music
(MFN2110.01)
Hearing Horace: The Music of Horace Silver
(MPF4107.01)
Higher Education in the United States: Exploring Purpose and Practice
(APA2209.01)
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)
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)
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)
Linear Algebra
(MAT4115.01)
Literature of World War I
(LIT2345.01)
Lost and Found in the Nineteenth Century
(HIS2142.01)
Malamud, Bellow, and Roth
(LIT2391.01)
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)
Miles Davis (1926-1991): Jazz Pioneer
(MHI2226.01)
Modernist Poetry
(LIT2367.01)
Mother Figure and Motherly Figures
(ITA4603.01)
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)
Origins of the English Novel
(LIT4145.01)
Packaging the Body: The History of Fashion
(DRA2223.01)
Painting Studio
(PAI4204.01)
Paris on Screen : Tradition and Modernity
(FRE4117.01; section 1)
Paris on Screen : Tradition and Modernity
(FRE4117.02; section 2)
Pathways: An Introduction To Writing Essays
(LIT2393.01)
Performance Production: Daughters of Io
(DRA4306.01)
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)
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)
Research Methods in Psychology and Cognition
(PSY2209.01)
Rhetoric: The Art and Craft of Persuasion
(PHI2144.01)
Scripting for Computer Graphics
(CS2122.01)
Seeing It Through: Developing Movement Material
(DAN4121.01)
Senior Projects
(ARC4109.01)
Senior Projects
(LIT4322.01)
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)
Shakespeare: Comedies and Romances
(LIT2392.01)
Social Practices in Art
(DA4103.01)
Spaces, Places, and Identities
(PSY4190.01)
Spatial Data Analysis and GIS
(ES4126.01)
Special Projects in Spanish
(SPA4703.01)
Species of Spaces
(ARC2130.01)
Studio Projects and Practices in Ceramics
(CER4375.01)
Studying Place by Metes and Bounds
(ENV4232.01)
Style and Tone in Essay Writing
(LIT2397.01)
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 Body Politic
(POL2105.01; section 1)
The Body Politic
(POL2105.02; section 2)
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 Sababa Project: Media in Action
(APA2121.01)
The Scriptorium: Critical Theories
(LIT2227.01)
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)
Twelve Objects: An Introduction to Art History
(AH2108.01)
Urban Design and Development
(ANT4216.01)
Viewpoints Groundwork
(DRA2124.01)
Visionary Architecture
(ARC4123.01)
Wavians Among the Ruins
(LIT4328.01)
What is the Truth? – Learning WWII with History Textbooks in Japan
(JPN4233.01)
Word and Image Lab: Poems into Print
(PRI4250.01)
Workshop: Walking and Writing
(LIT2398.01)