Bennington College Spring 2014 Curriculum
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24 Stories of Filial Piety vs The Daoist Tales of Zhuang Zi
(CHI4213.01)
A Survey of Avant-Garde Exhibitions
(VA2109.01)
Absolutism and its Discontents
(FRE4715.01)
Adaptation
(DRA2111.01)
Advanced Architecture
(ARC4401.01)
Advanced Digital Modeling
(MA4204.01)
Advanced Mediation
(MOD4101.01)
Advanced Projects in E-Music
(MCO4139.01)
Advanced Voice
(MVO4401.01)
Advanced Voice
(MVO4401.02)
Advanced Workshop for Painting and Drawing
(VA4404.01)
Advanced Workshop in CAPA
(APA4124.01)
Advanced Workshop in Recording
(MSR4152.01)
Aesthetics
(PHI2253.01)
African Music Ensemble
(MHI4134.01)
America in Italy
(ITA4602.01)
American Theater Now
(DRA2151.01)
Analyzing Japanese Society Through Online News
(JPN4707.01)
And Process for All
(MED2110.01)
Animation Projects
(MA4201.01)
Architecture I – Elements
(ARC4115.01)
Banjo
(MIN2215.01)
Basic Design Techniques of Theatrical Sound
(DRA2245.01)
Bass with Bisio
(MIN4417.01)
Beginning Cello II
(MIN4354.01)
Beginning Guitar
(MIN2247.01)
Beginning Potters Wheel
(CER2107.01)
Beginning Potters Wheel
(CER2107.02)
Beginning Violin and Viola
(MIN2241.01)
Beginning Workshop in Recording
(MSR2152.01)
Belarusian Dream: Human Rights and Performance
(DRA4182.01)
Bennington Marching Band
(MPF4217.01)
Big: Exploring Large Scale Photography
(PHO4236.01)
Biochemistry
(CHE4335.01)
Brass Chamber Ensemble
(MPF4237.01)
Brass Instruments
(MIN4218.01)
Butoh
(DAN2105.01)
Calculus: Analysis of the Infinite
(MAT4145.01)
CAPA Workshop: Rethinking Education
(APA4208.01)
Capstone in Education Tutorial Group
(EDU4125.01)
Cello
(MIN4355.01)
Character and Modern Dress
(DRA2279.01)
Chemistry 2: Organic Structure and Bonding
(CHE4212.01)
Chemistry 2: Organic Structure and Bonding Lab
(CHE4212L.01)
Chemistry 4 – The Nature of Materials
(CHE4215.01)
Chemistry 4 Lab: Independent Research Projects
(CHE4216.01)
Chocolat
(FRE4223.01)
Chromophilia: Explorations in Color
(VA4215.01)
Cities Arts Forum
(APA2117.01)
Clarinet
(MIN4223.01)
Collage/ Montage/ Essay: Found Material and the Moving Image
(FV4141.01)
Communities and the Environment
(PEC2112.01)
Conflict Confident
(MOD2143.02)
Conflict Resolution: The Ideas and Practice
(MED2112.01)
Contained – Lidded Jars
(CER4126.01)
Contemporary Chinese Poetry
(CHI4119.01)
Contemporary Issues on Film
(SPA2109.01)
Cultural Localities II: Writing Culture
(ANT4136.01)
Dance Improvisation Ensemble
(DAN4311.01)
Dance Performance Project: “Further Afield”
(DAN4205.01)
Dance Performance Project: “Here, There, and Where”
(DAN4213.01)
Demystifying Scenic Design
(DRA2135.01)
Developmental Psychology After the Grand Theories
(PSY2207.01)
Digital Darkroom Essentials: Processing+Production
(PHO4235.01)
Directing I: The Director’s Vision
(DRA4332.01)
Discourse & Learning
(EDU2106.01)
Documentary Practice: Ethics of the Photographer
(PHO4109.01)
Drama Faculty Production: Backstage
(DRA4179.01)
Drawing Intensive Rome – FWT 2014
(AH4309.01)
Drums, Gongs and Bamboo
(MPF2252.01)
Electronic Music: Creativity and Sound
(MCO2109.01)
Emerging Constitutional Issues in Environmental Law
(ENV2208.01)
English as a Second Language
(LIT2101.01)
Entry to Mathematics
(MAT2100.01)
Environmental Ethics
(PHI2103.01)
Environmental Geology
(ES2102.01)
Ethnography and Writing Across Cultures
(ANT4213.01)
Evolution
(BIO4104.01)
Exploring the White Cube: A New York Intensive
(VA4125.01)
Fiddle
(MIN2227.01)
Field Course in Coral Reef Science
(BIO4239.01)
Field Research of Closed Cells – Part 1
(SCU2119.01)
Field Research of Closed Cells – Part 2
(SCU4119.01)
Foundations of Photography: Darkroom to Digital
(PHO2138.01)
Genocide and Mass Violence
(POL4212.01)
Global Activist Video Production
(FV4226.01)
Global Ethics/Global Justice
(PHI2110.01)
Global Politics
(POL2206.01)
Graduate Assistantship in Dance
(DAN5301.01)
Graduate Research in Dance
(DAN5305.01)
Greek Historians as Literature
(LIT4187.01)
Hans Christian Andersen
(LIT2285.01)
Historical Grievances & Retrospective Redress
(HIS4214.01)
History of Medicine: From Hippocrates to Harvey
(HIS2183.01)
Hold Still, Keep Going
(PHO4211.01)
Honors Seminar on Twain
(LIT4527.01)
How Do Animals Learn and Remember?
(BIO2108.01)
How to Build a Radio Telescope
(PHY4203.01)
How to Study a Disaster
(ANT2136.01)
How Water Behaves
(DRA4216.01)
Human Nature(s)
(PSY4209.01)
Incarceration in America
(APA2108.01)
Insider Perspectives on the Francophone World II
(FRE2104.01)
Intensive Introduction to Computer Science
(CS2137.01)
Intermediate Voice
(MVO4301.01)
Intermediate Voice
(MVO4301.02)
Intermediate Voice
(MVO4301.03)
Intermediate Voice
(MVO4301.04)
Introduction to Cell Biology
(BIO2111.01)
Introduction to Cell Biology Lab
(BIO2111L.01)
Introduction to Counterpoint
(MTH2118.01)
Introduction to Game Theory
(MAT2242.01)
Introduction to Intaglio
(PRI2109.01)
Introduction to Rhino 3-D Modeling
(SCU2112.01)
Introduction to Video
(FV2101.01)
Italian Genius Through the Centuries
(ITA2110.01)
Jazz Vocal Workshop
(MPF4273.01)
Journey: 1890s
(HIS2126.01)
Latin: Katabasis
(FLE4326.01)
Library City: A New Atlas for Crossett
(VA4109.01)
Life and Death: Buddhism in Modern Japanese Films
(JPN4117.01)
Lighting for Portraits
(PHO2137.01)
Making Yesterday New
(DRA4189.01)
Mandolin
(MIN2229.01)
Manipulating the Projected Image
(Canceled)
Markmaking and Representation
(DRW2149.01)
Masks
(DRA4331.01)
Mathematics of Fundamental Laws
(MAT4120.01)
Medieval Ritual
(MHI4132.01)
Meisner Technique
(DRA4268.01)
Metafiction and Authorship
(SPA4213.01)
Modern Guitar
(MIN4224.01)
Motion Capture: Interactivity
(DRA4208.01)
Mountain Dulcimer (Lap Dulcimer)
(MIN2224.01)
Movement Practice: Advanced Dance Technique
(DAN4344.01)
Movement Practice: Beginning Dance Technique
(DAN2214.01)
Movement Practice: Intermediate Dance Technique
(DAN4314.01)
Movement Practice: Yoga, Gymnastics, and Dance
(DAN2213.01)
Moving/ Forming/ Partnering
(DAN2118.01)
Music and Dance Collaboration
(DAN4132.01)
Music History Lecture Series
(MHI2000.01)
Music of Medieval Spain
(MPF2162.01)
Music Since 1968
(MHI2228.01)
Music Workshop
(MUS2001.01)
Narrative Cinema: Century One
(FV2113.01)
Natural History of Plants
(BIO2107.01)
Nature and Artifice – A History of Architecture
(ARC2112.01)
Neurons, Networks, and Behavior
(BIO4202.01)
Neurons, Networks, and Behavior Lab
(BIO4202L.01)
New Play Development – Rewriting in Company
(DRA4213.01)
Nietzsche and His Followers
(PHI4137.01)
Observational and Stellar Astronomy
(PHY2108.01)
Odd Times
(MPF4103.01)
Operating Systems
(CS4152.01)
Otherness in Performance
(DRA2218.01)
Painting in Context
(PAI2110.01)
Paris on Screen: Tradition and Modernity
(FRE4117.01)
Participating in Politics: The Anthropology of Democracy
(ANT2204.01)
Persons, Groups, and Environments
(PSY2141.01)
Physics II: Fields
(PHY4325.01)
Physics II: Fields Lab
(PHY4325L.01)
Piano
(MIN4333.01)
Piano
(MIN4333.02)
Piano
(MIN4333.03)
Piano Lab I
(MIN2232.01)
Piano Lab I
(MIN2232.02)
Piano Lab I
(MIN2232.03)
Piano Lab II
(MIN4236.01)
Point of Criticality: Problems of Complexity
(APA4203.01)
Projects in Lithography
(PRI4203.01)
Projects in Sculpture: Making it Personal
(SCU4797.01)
Projects: Dance
(DAN4794.01)
Psychology of Creativity: Making & Using Metaphors
(PSY4226.01)
Reading and Writing Poetry
(LIT4313.01)
Reading and Writing Short Stories
(LIT4211.01)
Reading the Body
(ANT4208.01)
Real Analysis
(MAT4128.01)
Redefining Economic Development
(PEC4103.01)
Rediscovering Early American Vocal Music
(MPF2203.01)
Room Tone
(MCO4106.01)
Rules of Engagement: Art & Curatorial Practices that Animate the Public Realm
(VA4122.01)
Sage City Symphony
(MPF4100.01)
Saxophone
(MIN4237.01)
Seminar in Clinical/Developmental Psychology
(PSY4106.01)
Senior Projects
(MPF4104.01)
Senior Projects in Dance
(DAN4796.01)
Shakespeare: The Tragedies
(LIT2217.01)
Shorter Songs
(MTH4110.01)
Silkscreen / Serigraphy Workshop
(PRI2112.01)
Silkscreen/Serigraphy Workshop
(PRI2112.02)
Social Expectations for Japanese Children
(JPN2107.01)
Social Life of Sculpture
(SCU4106.01)
Sociolinguistic Voices: Identities in Text and Talk
(EDU2120.01)
Song for Ireland and Celtic Connections
(MHI2251.01)
Space is the Place: The Music and Life of Sun Ra
(MPF2146.01)
Spaces, Places, and Identities
(PSY4190.01)
Special Projects
(HIS4750.01)
Stage Management
(DRA2241.01)
Statistics and Their Presentation
(MAT2236.01)
Stimulus, Sensation, and the Brain: Psychophysical Investigations of Perception
(BIO4126.01)
String Chamber Ensemble
(MPF4235.01)
Style and Tone in Nonfiction Writing
(LIT2104.01)
Subject and Meaning in Painting
(PAI4202.01)
Systemic & Generative Visual Investigations
(CS4160.01)
Text Seminar: Plato’s Erotic Dialogues
(PHI4128.01)
The Actor’s Instrument
(DRA2170.01)
The Concentrated Moment: The Art of Auditioning
(DRA4103.01)
The Fine Art of Physical Computing
(DA4261.01)
The Hollow Form
(CER2221.01)
The Jazz Age Revisited
(LIT2304.01)
The Key to Songs
(MTH4419.01)
The Language of Material and Process through Analog/ Digital Investigation
(CER4250.01)
The Magical Object – Visual Metaphor
(DRA2116.01)
The Science of Consciousness
(BIO4123.01)
The Scriptorium: Ekphrasis
(LIT2225.01)
The Social Life of Crude Oil
(ANT4118.01)
The Textual City
(SPA4704.01)
The Visual Art of China
(CHI4496.01)
The Web as Artistic Platform
(DA2110.01)
Theories of Revolution
(SPA4119.01)
This is Not a Novel: Experimental American Fiction
(LIT2211.01)
Through Syntax to Style: A Grammar of Writing
(LIT2169.01)
Topics in Applied Philosophy: Privacy
(PHI2126.01)
Traditional Music Ensemble
(MPF4221.01)
Turgenev and Flaubert
(LIT4204.01)
Ukulele Comprehensive
(MIN2230.01)
Unlocking Italian Culture II
(ITA2108.01)
Violin/Viola
(MIN4345.01)
Visual Arts Lecture Series
(VA2999.01)
Voltaire and Rousseau
(LIT4143.01)
Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson
(LIT2199.01)
Witchcraft and Magic in Pre-Modern Europe
(HIS4104.01)
Working with Movement: Cinema & Dance
(DAN2116.01)
Wounded Literature: Trauma and Representation
(LIT2262.01)
Writing Essays about Literature
(LIT2102.01)
Your French Films
(FRE2112.01)