Bennington College Fall 2017 Curriculum
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Four Credit
“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 Linear Algebra, Group Theory, and Geometry I
(MAT4342.01)
Advanced Workshop for Painting and Drawing: The Contemporary Idiom
(PAI4216.01)
Afro-Futurism and Black Horror
(LIT4289.01)
After Borges
(SPA4302.01)
Alternative Facts: The Undoing of Science in America
(ENV2185.01)
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)
Architecture 1 – Elements
(ARC2101.01)
Avant Garde Art in China
(CHI4507.01)
Basso Continuo and You
(MTH4292.01)
Beginning Composing
(MCO4120.01)
Bennington Campus: Real and Imagined
(ARC2117.01)
Canta che ti passa: Social Commentary in Music
(ITA4403.01)
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)
Code Crafting
(CS2236.01)
Cognitive Neuroscience of Liking and Preference
(PSY4104.01)
Cross-cultural Psychology
(PSY2289.01)
Database Management Systems
(CS4311.01)
Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems
(MAT4108.01)
Digital Books
(PHO4242.01)
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)
Ecology and Design in Electronic Music
(MCO4168.01)
Economy and Polity
(PEC2252.01)
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)
Explorations in Public History
(HIS2232.01)
Extragalactic Astronomy
(PHY4216.01)
Faculty Performance Production: TBA
(DRA4168.01)
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 of Global Politics
(POL2103.01)
Foundations of Photography: Digital Practice
(PHO2153.01)
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)
Groundwork: What You Need to Know to Make Music
(MFN2110.01)
History of the Book
(HIS4109.01)
History of Theater II
(DRA2282.01)
Improvisation Ensemble for Musicians and Dancers
(MPF4233.01)
In Sickness and in Health: Introduction to Medical Anthropology and Global Health
(ANT4149.01)
Insider Perspectives on the Francophone World
(FRE2103.01)
Intro to Throwing: A Perspective in Practice
(CER2217.01)
Introduction to Cell Biology (with lab)
(BIO4114.01)
Introduction to Dramaturgy
(DRA4281.01)
Introduction to Harmony
(MTH2128.01)
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)
Kafka and Beckett
(LIT2273.01)
Letterpress Printing from Metal, Wood, and Photopolymer
(PRI4697.01)
Linear Algebra
(MAT2482.01)
Listening: Acting as Crafting the Visual and Listening with Intention
(DRA4128.01)
Logic, Proofs, Algebra, and Set Theory
(MAT2410.01)
Markmaking and Representation
(DRW2149.02)
Markmaking and Representation
(DRW2149.01)
Masters of Style
(LIT4362.01)
Media Archaeology: Signs and Representation
(APA2131.01)
Miles Davis (1926-1991): Jazz Pioneer
(MHI2226.01)
Miles Runs the Voodoo Down: Rock Drumming through a Jazz Lens
(MIN2260.01)
Musical Forms
(MHI2240.01)
Narrative Cinema: Century One
(FV2113.01)
Neurons, Networks, and Behavior
(BIO4202.01)
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)
Philosophical Reasoning
(PHI2109.01)
Photographic Portraiture: Rethinking Representation
(PHO4112.01)
Physics I: Forces and Motion (with lab)
(PHY2235.01)
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)
Prominent Works of Japanese Authors
(JPN4509.01)
Psychology of Class
(PSY4224.01)
Psychology of Language
(PSY2118.01)
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)
Researching Human Rights
(POL4257.01)
Samurai and Art
(JPN4301.01)
SCT: Applying Research Methods
(SCT4103.01)
Senior Projects
(LIT4795.01)
Senior Seminar in Society, Culture, and Thought
(SCT4750.01)
Shipwrecked
(LIT2289.01)
Social Kitchen: Ceramics, Food, and Community
(APA2269.01)
Sociology of Education
(SOC2205.01)
Software, Algorithms and Computability
(CS4131.01)
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 Baroque Imaginary
(AH4117.01)
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)
Theoretical Ethics: The Nature of Moral Judgments
(PHI4129.01)
Toward a Rigorous Art History
(AH2109.01)
Transcendentalism and its Discontents
(LIT2208.01)
Twentieth-Century American Women Playwrights
(DRA2183.01)
VAPA Evolving
(ARC4111.01)
Violence
(ANT4116.01)
Virginia Woolf: Honors Seminar
(LIT4526.01)
Visible Language: Word and/as Image
(DRW4401.01)
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)