Bennington College Fall 2017 Curriculum
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“Why Not the Whole World?” Historical Perspectives on US Migration Politics
(HIS2176.01)
100 Places Where You Must Visit in Japan
(JPN2112.01)
2D-3D-2D – Animation in a Created World
(MA4203.01)
A Philosophy of Data
(DA2132.01)
Absolutism and Its Discontents
(FRE4803.01)
Adaptation
(DRA2249.01)
Advanced Chamber Music
(MPF4230.01)
Advanced Improvisation Ensemble for Dancers and Musicians
(DAN4673.01)
Advanced Linear Algebra, Group Theory, and Geometry I
(MAT4342.01)
Advanced Mixing and Mastering
(MSR4365.01)
Advanced Voice
(MVO4401.02; section 2)
Advanced Voice
(MVO4401.01; section 1)
Advanced Workshop for Painting and Drawing: The Contemporary Idiom
(PAI4216.01)
Afro-Futurism and Black Horror
(LIT4289.01)
After Borges
(SPA4302.01)
Alexander Technique
(DAN2151.01)
Alternative Facts: The Undoing of Science in America
(ENV2185.01)
Aluminum Casting
(SCU4104.01)
An Actor’s Technique-Nuts and Bolts
(DRA4127.01)
An Intro to Acting: Suzuki and Viewpoints
(DRA2174.01)
Animation 1
(MA2105.01)
Animation-Projections-Experiments
(MA4210.01)
Architectural Graphics
(ARC2104.01)
Architecture 1 – Elements
(ARC2101.01)
Art in the Public Realm II: Bennington and China
(APA4107.01)
Artist’s Portfolio
(DAN4366.01)
Avant Garde Art in China
(CHI4507.01)
Banjo
(MIN2215.01)
Bass with Bisio
(MIN4417.01)
Basso Continuo and You
(MTH4292.01)
Beginning Cello
(MIN2354.01)
Beginning Composing
(MCO4120.01)
Beginning Guitar
(MIN2247.01)
Beginning Violin and Viola
(MIN2241.01)
Bennington Campus: Real and Imagined
(ARC2117.01)
Bible and Conflict Resolution
(MOD2137.03)
Black Studies: Black Music Division
(MUS2149.01)
Canta che ti passa: Social Commentary in Music
(ITA4403.01)
Cello
(MIN4355.01)
Charles Dickens: Novels and Biography
(LIT2284.01)
Chekhov and the Russian Short Story
(LIT2272.01)
Chemistry 1: Chemical Principles (with Lab)
(CHE2211.01)
Chemistry 3: Organic Reactions and Mechanisms (with lab)
(CHE4213.01)
Chinese Zen
(CHI4324.01)
Choral Arrangement
(MCO4108.01)
Clarinet
(MIN4223.01)
Code Crafting
(CS2236.01)
Cognitive Neuroscience of Liking and Preference
(PSY4104.01)
Comparative Political Corruption
(POL4102.01)
Cross-cultural Psychology
(PSY2289.01)
Cut/Copy: Masking and Compositing Digital Images
(PHO4125.01)
Database Management Systems
(CS4311.01)
Designing a Light Plot
(DRA2235.02)
Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems
(MAT4108.01)
Digital Books
(PHO4242.01)
Digital Morphology/Rhino 3D Modeling
(VA2208.01)
Digital Technique for Architects
(ARC2206.01)
Dining Culture in China
(CHI2117.01)
Directing II
(DRA4376.01)
Distributed Systems (with Lab)
(CS4280.01)
Documentary Video Production – Experimental, Personal and Political
(FV4108.01)
Dress Up, Drag, and Fashion
(VA4219.01)
Drumming: An Extension of Language
(MIN2120.01)
Ecology and Design in Electronic Music
(MCO4168.01)
Economy and Ecology
(PEC2253.01)
Economy and Polity
(PEC2252.01)
Embodying Structure: Construction of the Corset
(DRA2213.01)
Energy and the Environment
(ENV2207.01)
Entry to Mathematics
(MAT2100.01)
Environment and Public Action
(APA2122.01)
Environmental Political Theory
(POL4240.01)
Evolution
(BIO4104.01)
Experimental Sound for Visual Media
(MSR2122.01)
Explorations in Public History
(HIS2232.01)
Extragalactic Astronomy
(PHY4216.01)
Faculty Performance Production: TBA
(DRA4168.01)
Feminist Theory and Electronic Music
(MHI2209.01)
Fiddle
(MIN2227.01)
Finding Form: Dance
(DAN4319.01)
First-Year Dance Intensive
(DAN2107.01)
Food in Italy
(ITA2114.01)
Forests: An Introduction to Ecology and Evolution (with lab)
(BIO2109.01)
Form and Process: Investigations in Painting
(PAI2107.01)
Foundations in Ceramics: The Hand as a Tool
(CER2105.01)
Foundations in Kiln Technologies
(CER2147.01)
Foundations of Global Politics
(POL2103.01)
Foundations of Photography: Digital Practice
(PHO2153.01)
Fundamentals of Observational Astronomy
(PHY4204.01)
Future Studio
(VA4207.01)
GANAS
(APA4154.01)
Gender in Early Modern Europe
(HIS2102.01)
Genesis
(HIS2220.01)
Genome Jumpstart: An Introduction to Bioinformatic Analysis
(BIO2117.01)
Graduate Assistantship in Dance
(DAN5301.01)
Graduate Research in Dance
(DAN5305.01)
Groundwork: What You Need to Know to Make Music
(MFN2110.01)
Historical Dress: Baroque and Rococo
(DRA2284.01)
Historical Dress: The 19th Century
(DRA2285.02)
History of Animation
(MA2137.01)
History of Photography/19th Century
(PHO2142.01)
History of the Book
(HIS4109.01)
History of Theater II
(DRA2282.01)
How to be a Radio DJ
(APA2315.01)
Improvisation Ensemble for Musicians and Dancers
(MPF4233.01)
In Sickness and in Health: Introduction to Medical Anthropology and Global Health
(ANT4149.01)
In Translation: Lives, Texts, Cities
(LIT2370.01)
Incarceration in America
(APA2108.01)
Intermediate Guitar
(MIN4025.01)
Intermediate Violin/Viola
(MIN4232.01)
Intermediate Voice
(MVO 4301.04; section 4)
Intermediate Voice
(MVO4301.03; section 3)
Intermediate Voice
(MVO4301.02; section 2)
Intermediate Voice
(MVO4301.01; section 1)
Intro to Throwing: A Perspective in Practice
(CER2217.01)
Introduction to Cell Biology (with lab)
(BIO4114.01)
Introduction to Dramaturgy
(DRA4281.01)
Introduction to Editing in Premiere
(FV2322.01)
Introduction to Harmony
(MTH2128.01)
Introduction to Maps and Geographic Information Systems
(ES2110.01)
Introduction to Mold Making and Slip Casting
(CER2208.01)
Introduction To Quantitative Reasoning and Modeling
(MAT2102.01)
Introduction to Relief Printing
(PRI2105.01)
Introduction to Video
(FV2303.01)
Italo Calvino: Narrating the Unfamiliar
(ITA4611.01)
Javanese Gamelan
(MPF2201.01)
Jazz Ensemble
(MPF4250.01)
Jazz Piano
(MIN4237.01)
Kafka and Beckett
(LIT2273.01)
Letterpress Printing from Metal, Wood, and Photopolymer
(PRI4697.01)
Life Drawing Lab
(DRW2118.01)
Linear Algebra
(MAT2482.01)
Listening: Acting as Crafting the Visual and Listening with Intention
(DRA4128.01)
Literary Bennington
(LIT2390.01)
Logic, Proofs, Algebra, and Set Theory
(MAT2410.01)
Mallet Percussion Ensemble
(MPF4106.01)
Mandolin
(MIN2229.01)
Markmaking and Representation
(DRW2149.02)
Markmaking and Representation
(DRW2149.01)
Masters of Style
(LIT4362.01)
Media Archaeology: Signs and Representation
(APA2131.01)
Metal Shop
(SCU2107.02)
Miles Davis (1926-1991): Jazz Pioneer
(MHI2226.01)
Miles Runs the Voodoo Down: Rock Drumming through a Jazz Lens
(MIN2260.01)
Modern Guitar
(MIN4224.01)
Morning Plainchant
(MPF2202.01)
Movement Practice: Advanced Dance Technique
(DAN4344.01)
Movement Practice: Advanced-Intermediate Dance Technique
(DAN4351.01)
Movement Practice: Beginning Dance Technique
(DAN2121.01)
Movement Practice: Beginning-Intermediate Dance Technique
(DAN2119.01)
Movement Practice: Moving from the Spine
(DAN2152.01)
Movement Practice: Partnering
(DAN2179.01)
Multi-Party and Full Track Diplomacy
(MED4203.01)
Music Composition Intensive
(MCO4801.01)
Musical Forms
(MHI2240.01)
Narrative Cinema: Century One
(FV2113.01)
Negatives on Glass
(PHO4106.02)
Negatives on Paper
(PHO4107.01)
Neurons, Networks, and Behavior
(BIO4202.01)
Orchestration
(MUS4013.01)
Other People’s Worlds
(ANT4129.01)
Our Curated World: Seeing a Trend through the Lens of Tradition
(VA2243.01)
Our Monsters, Ourselves
(SPA4715.01)
Paris on Screen: Tradition and Modernity
(FRE4498.01)
Performance Project: Natural State of Error
(DAN2125.01)
Performance Project: Why Dance Now?
(DAN4141.01)
Philosophical Reasoning
(PHI2109.01)
Photo Documentation for Artists
(PHO2203.01)
Photographic Portraiture: Rethinking Representation
(PHO4112.01)
Physics I: Forces and Motion (with lab)
(PHY2235.01)
Piano
(MIN4333.02; section 2)
Piano
(MIN4333.01; section 1)
Piano Lab I
(MIN2232.02; section 2)
Piano Lab I
(MIN2232.01; section 1)
Piano Lab II
(MIN4236.02; section 2)
Piano Lab II
(MIN4236.01; section 1)
Planet Earth
(ES2108.01)
Political Ideologies in Action: American Conservatism
(SCT2107.01)
Practicing Peacebuilding: An Experiential Course
(APA2249.01)
Projects in Lithography
(PRI4203.01)
Projects in Sculpture: Making It Personal
(SCU4797.01)
Projects: Dance
(DAN4794.01)
Prominent Works of Japanese Authors
(JPN4509.01)
Psychology of Class
(PSY4224.01)
Psychology of Language
(PSY2118.01)
Queer Space: Desire and Sex in Public
(FRE2106.01)
Radio Journalism
(APA2316.02)
Re-Creating the Classics
(LIT2318.01)
Reading and Writing Human Frailty
(LIT4343.01)
Reading and Writing Poetry
(LIT4313.01)
Recording and Mixing Music
(MSR2116.01)
Reinventing the Frost House
(LIT2324.02)
Researching Human Rights
(POL4257.01)
Revolution and Politics in Iran
(APA2144.01)
Samurai and Art
(JPN4301.01)
Saxophone
(MIN4237.01)
SCT: Applying Research Methods
(SCT4103.01)
Senior Projects
(LIT4795.01)
Senior Projects
(MPF4104.01)
Senior Projects in Dance
(DAN4796.01)
Senior Seminar in Society, Culture, and Thought
(SCT4750.01)
Shipwrecked
(LIT2289.01)
Silkscreen/Serigraphy Workshop
(PRI2210.02)
Social Kitchen: Ceramics, Food, and Community
(APA2269.01)
Sociology of Education
(SOC2205.01)
Software, Algorithms and Computability
(CS4131.01)
Solving The Impossible: Breaking Bread
(MED2118.01)
Sports
(FV4105.01)
Stage Management
(DRA2241.01)
Stars, Planets, Life
(PHY2107.01)
Structural Geology and Field Methods
(ES4104.01)
Style in Motion
(DRA4310.01)
The Actor’s Instrument
(DRA2170.01)
The Anglo-Irish Novel
(LIT2167.01)
The Art of Mediation and Negotiation
(MED2107.02)
The Art of Mediation and Negotiation
(MED2107.01)
The Baroque Imaginary
(AH4117.01)
The Body Acoustic: Toward a Sense of Place
(DAN2112.01)
The Film Trailer Project
(FRE4603.01)
The Grand Vessel
(CER4319.01)
The History of English Prosody
(LIT2276.01)
The Language of Persuasion
(SPA2103.01)
The Magical Object
(DRA2116.01)
The Nouveau Roman
(LIT4181.01)
The Philosophy of Democracy
(PHI2132.01)
The Prose Poem
(LIT4280.01)
Theoretical Ethics: The Nature of Moral Judgments
(PHI4129.01)
Toward a Rigorous Art History
(AH2109.01)
Traditional Music Ensemble
(MPF4221.01)
Traditional Music of North America
(MHI2135.01)
Transcendentalism and its Discontents
(LIT2208.01)
Twentieth-Century American Women Playwrights
(DRA2183.01)
Unpacking The Vault: Hidden Narratives in the Bennington Art Collection
(VA4137.02)
VAPA Evolving
(ARC4111.01)
Violence
(ANT4116.01)
Violin/Viola
(MIN4345.01)
Virginia Woolf: Honors Seminar
(LIT4526.01)
Visible Language: Word and/as Image
(DRW4401.01)
Visual Arts Lecture Series
(VA2999.01)
Visual Arts Lecture Series Seminar
(VA4218.01)
Walking and Writing
(LIT2398.01)
What is Sculpture?
(SCU2106.01)
What Is the Truth? World War II from the Japanese Perspective
(JPN4709.01)
Women in Latin America
(SPA4502.01)
Working With Light
(DRA2234.01)
World Vocal Ensemble
(MPF4126.01)