Bennington College Spring 2014 Curriculum
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Areas of Study
CAPA
Advancement of Public Action
Conflict Resolution and Systems Design
Dance
Drama
Education
Environment
Languages
Chinese
Foreign Language Education
French
Latin
Italian
Japanese
Spanish
Literature
Modules: Transferable Approaches
Music
Composition
Fundamentals
Instrumental Study
History
Performance
Sound Design and Recording
Theory
Voice
Science Mathematics and Computing
Biology
Chemistry
Computing
Earth Science
Mathematics
Physics
Science and Mathematics
Social Science
Anthropology
History
Philosophy
Political Economy
Politics
Psychology
Visual Arts
Architecture
Art History
Ceramics
Digital Arts
Drawing
Film and Video
Media Arts
Painting
Photography
Printmaking
Sculpture
Visual Arts (VA Courses)
Credit
One Credit
Two Credit
Four Credit
Level
2000
4000
Graduate
3- and 7-week courses
Three Week
First Seven Week
Second Seven Week
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Analyzing Japanese Society Through Online News
(JPN4707.01)
Motion Capture: Interactivity
(DRA4208.01)
Manipulating the Projected Image
(Canceled)
A Survey of Avant-Garde Exhibitions
(VA2109.01)
Rules of Engagement: Art & Curatorial Practices that Animate the Public Realm
(VA4122.01)
Beginning Potters Wheel
(CER2107.02)
Projects: Dance
(DAN4794.01)
Senior Projects in Dance
(DAN4796.01)
Genocide and Mass Violence
(POL4212.01)
Global Politics
(POL2206.01)
CAPA Workshop: Rethinking Education
(APA4208.01)
Cities Arts Forum
(APA2117.01)
Conflict Resolution: The Ideas and Practice
(MED2112.01)
Room Tone
(MCO4106.01)
Mountain Dulcimer (Lap Dulcimer)
(MIN2224.01)
Ukulele Comprehensive
(MIN2230.01)
Environmental Geology
(ES2102.01)
Basic Design Techniques of Theatrical Sound
(DRA2245.01)
Library City: A New Atlas for Crossett
(VA4109.01)
Latin: Katabasis
(FLE4326.01)
Paris on Screen: Tradition and Modernity
(FRE4117.01)
Absolutism and its Discontents
(FRE4715.01)
Stimulus, Sensation, and the Brain: Psychophysical Investigations of Perception
(BIO4126.01)
Mathematics of Fundamental Laws
(MAT4120.01)
Music Workshop
(MUS2001.01)
Insider Perspectives on the Francophone World II
(FRE2104.01)
Chocolat
(FRE4223.01)
Your French Films
(FRE2112.01)
Social Life of Sculpture
(SCU4106.01)
Italian Genius Through the Centuries
(ITA2110.01)
The Social Life of Crude Oil
(ANT4118.01)
How to Study a Disaster
(ANT2136.01)
Topics in Applied Philosophy: Privacy
(PHI2126.01)
Turgenev and Flaubert
(LIT4204.01)
Greek Historians as Literature
(LIT4187.01)
Projects in Sculpture: Making it Personal
(SCU4797.01)
The Language of Material and Process through Analog/ Digital Investigation
(CER4250.01)
Incarceration in America
(APA2108.01)
Demystifying Scenic Design
(DRA2135.01)
Moving/ Forming/ Partnering
(DAN2118.01)
Dance Improvisation Ensemble
(DAN4311.01)
Text Seminar: Plato’s Erotic Dialogues
(PHI4128.01)
Spaces, Places, and Identities
(PSY4190.01)
The Fine Art of Physical Computing
(DA4261.01)
How to Build a Radio Telescope
(PHY4203.01)
Field Research of Closed Cells – Part 2
(SCU4119.01)
Field Research of Closed Cells – Part 1
(SCU2119.01)
Big: Exploring Large Scale Photography
(PHO4236.01)
Persons, Groups, and Environments
(PSY2141.01)
Senior Projects
(MPF4104.01)
Field Course in Coral Reef Science
(BIO4239.01)
Drawing Intensive Rome – FWT 2014
(AH4309.01)
Exploring the White Cube: A New York Intensive
(VA4125.01)
Introduction to Rhino 3-D Modeling
(SCU2112.01)
Dance Performance Project: “Here, There, and Where”
(DAN4213.01)
Dance Performance Project: “Further Afield”
(DAN4205.01)
Working with Movement: Cinema & Dance
(DAN2116.01)
Drama Faculty Production: Backstage
(DRA4179.01)
Redefining Economic Development
(PEC4103.01)
Communities and the Environment
(PEC2112.01)
Systemic & Generative Visual Investigations
(CS4160.01)
Graduate Research in Dance
(DAN5305.01)
Movement Practice: Yoga, Gymnastics, and Dance
(DAN2213.01)
Beginning Workshop in Recording
(MSR2152.01)
Masks
(DRA4331.01)
Advanced Workshop in Recording
(MSR4152.01)
Rediscovering Early American Vocal Music
(MPF2203.01)
Music of Medieval Spain
(MPF2162.01)
Medieval Ritual
(MHI4132.01)
Graduate Assistantship in Dance
(DAN5301.01)
Drums, Gongs and Bamboo
(MPF2252.01)
Space is the Place: The Music and Life of Sun Ra
(MPF2146.01)
African Music Ensemble
(MHI4134.01)
The Key to Songs
(MTH4419.01)
Emerging Constitutional Issues in Environmental Law
(ENV2208.01)
Nature and Artifice – A History of Architecture
(ARC2112.01)
Statistics and Their Presentation
(MAT2236.01)
Capstone in Education Tutorial Group
(EDU4125.01)
Through Syntax to Style: A Grammar of Writing
(LIT2169.01)
Piano Lab I
(MIN2232.03)
Piano Lab I
(MIN2232.02)
Piano
(MIN4333.03)
Piano
(MIN4333.02)
The Scriptorium: Ekphrasis
(LIT2225.01)
Sociolinguistic Voices: Identities in Text and Talk
(EDU2120.01)
Conflict Confident
(MOD2143.02)
Advanced Mediation
(MOD4101.01)
Visual Arts Lecture Series
(VA2999.01)
Entry to Mathematics
(MAT2100.01)
Projects in Lithography
(PRI4203.01)
Introduction to Intaglio
(PRI2109.01)
Silkscreen/Serigraphy Workshop
(PRI2112.02)
Lighting for Portraits
(PHO2137.01)
Intermediate Voice
(MVO4301.04)
Intermediate Voice
(MVO4301.03)
And Process for All
(MED2110.01)
Markmaking and Representation
(DRW2149.01)
Movement Practice: Intermediate Dance Technique
(DAN4314.01)
Movement Practice: Advanced Dance Technique
(DAN4344.01)
Movement Practice: Beginning Dance Technique
(DAN2214.01)
Butoh
(DAN2105.01)
The Web as Artistic Platform
(DA2110.01)
Painting in Context
(PAI2110.01)
Discourse & Learning
(EDU2106.01)
Subject and Meaning in Painting
(PAI4202.01)
Character and Modern Dress
(DRA2279.01)
Narrative Cinema: Century One
(FV2113.01)
History of Medicine: From Hippocrates to Harvey
(HIS2183.01)
Global Activist Video Production
(FV4226.01)
Advanced Workshop in CAPA
(APA4124.01)
Witchcraft and Magic in Pre-Modern Europe
(HIS4104.01)
Beginning Violin and Viola
(MIN2241.01)
Observational and Stellar Astronomy
(PHY2108.01)
Social Expectations for Japanese Children
(JPN2107.01)
String Chamber Ensemble
(MPF4235.01)
Physics II: Fields Lab
(PHY4325L.01)
Introduction to Cell Biology
(BIO2111.01)
Otherness in Performance
(DRA2218.01)
Introduction to Cell Biology Lab
(BIO2111L.01)
Developmental Psychology After the Grand Theories
(PSY2207.01)
The Jazz Age Revisited
(LIT2304.01)
Wounded Literature: Trauma and Representation
(LIT2262.01)
Psychology of Creativity: Making & Using Metaphors
(PSY4226.01)
Seminar in Clinical/Developmental Psychology
(PSY4106.01)
Introduction to Game Theory
(MAT2242.01)
Chemistry 2: Organic Structure and Bonding
(CHE4212.01)
Chemistry 2: Organic Structure and Bonding Lab
(CHE4212L.01)
Biochemistry
(CHE4335.01)
Collage/ Montage/ Essay: Found Material and the Moving Image
(FV4141.01)
The Textual City
(SPA4704.01)
Theories of Revolution
(SPA4119.01)
English as a Second Language
(LIT2101.01)
Style and Tone in Nonfiction Writing
(LIT2104.01)
Writing Essays about Literature
(LIT2102.01)
How Do Animals Learn and Remember?
(BIO2108.01)
This is Not a Novel: Experimental American Fiction
(LIT2211.01)
Music History Lecture Series
(MHI2000.01)
Music Since 1968
(MHI2228.01)
The Science of Consciousness
(BIO4123.01)
Modern Guitar
(MIN4224.01)
Reading and Writing Poetry
(LIT4313.01)
Contemporary Issues on Film
(SPA2109.01)
The Hollow Form
(CER2221.01)
Introduction to Video
(FV2101.01)
Metafiction and Authorship
(SPA4213.01)
The Concentrated Moment: The Art of Auditioning
(DRA4103.01)
Advanced Workshop for Painting and Drawing
(VA4404.01)
Chromophilia: Explorations in Color
(VA4215.01)
Calculus: Analysis of the Infinite
(MAT4145.01)
Real Analysis
(MAT4128.01)
Documentary Practice: Ethics of the Photographer
(PHO4109.01)
The Magical Object – Visual Metaphor
(DRA2116.01)
Adaptation
(DRA2111.01)
Cello
(MIN4355.01)
New Play Development – Rewriting in Company
(DRA4213.01)
Intermediate Voice
(MVO4301.02)
Advanced Voice
(MVO4401.02)
Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson
(LIT2199.01)
Hans Christian Andersen
(LIT2285.01)
Silkscreen / Serigraphy Workshop
(PRI2112.01)
Voltaire and Rousseau
(LIT4143.01)
Directing I: The Director’s Vision
(DRA4332.01)
Belarusian Dream: Human Rights and Performance
(DRA4182.01)
Beginning Cello II
(MIN4354.01)
Beginning Potters Wheel
(CER2107.01)
Ethnography and Writing Across Cultures
(ANT4213.01)
Contained – Lidded Jars
(CER4126.01)
Neurons, Networks, and Behavior
(BIO4202.01)
Neurons, Networks, and Behavior Lab
(BIO4202L.01)
The Actor’s Instrument
(DRA2170.01)
Natural History of Plants
(BIO2107.01)
Participating in Politics: The Anthropology of Democracy
(ANT2204.01)
24 Stories of Filial Piety vs The Daoist Tales of Zhuang Zi
(CHI4213.01)
The Visual Art of China
(CHI4496.01)
How Water Behaves
(DRA4216.01)
Evolution
(BIO4104.01)
America in Italy
(ITA4602.01)
Contemporary Chinese Poetry
(CHI4119.01)
Intensive Introduction to Computer Science
(CS2137.01)
American Theater Now
(DRA2151.01)
Unlocking Italian Culture II
(ITA2108.01)
Physics II: Fields
(PHY4325.01)
Operating Systems
(CS4152.01)
Meisner Technique
(DRA4268.01)
Music and Dance Collaboration
(DAN4132.01)
Sage City Symphony
(MPF4100.01)
Introduction to Counterpoint
(MTH2118.01)
Journey: 1890s
(HIS2126.01)
Foundations of Photography: Darkroom to Digital
(PHO2138.01)
Life and Death: Buddhism in Modern Japanese Films
(JPN4117.01)
Special Projects
(HIS4750.01)
Historical Grievances & Retrospective Redress
(HIS4214.01)
Hold Still, Keep Going
(PHO4211.01)
Digital Darkroom Essentials: Processing+Production
(PHO4235.01)
Stage Management
(DRA2241.01)
Aesthetics
(PHI2253.01)
Shakespeare: The Tragedies
(LIT2217.01)
Cultural Localities II: Writing Culture
(ANT4136.01)
Piano
(MIN4333.01)
Brass Chamber Ensemble
(MPF4237.01)
Brass Instruments
(MIN4218.01)
Nietzsche and His Followers
(PHI4137.01)
Piano Lab II
(MIN4236.01)
Point of Criticality: Problems of Complexity
(APA4203.01)
Bass with Bisio
(MIN4417.01)
Chemistry 4 – The Nature of Materials
(CHE4215.01)
Chemistry 4 Lab: Independent Research Projects
(CHE4216.01)
Environmental Ethics
(PHI2103.01)
Global Ethics/Global Justice
(PHI2110.01)
Human Nature(s)
(PSY4209.01)
Reading and Writing Short Stories
(LIT4211.01)
Honors Seminar on Twain
(LIT4527.01)
Clarinet
(MIN4223.01)
Saxophone
(MIN4237.01)
Shorter Songs
(MTH4110.01)
Odd Times
(MPF4103.01)
Jazz Vocal Workshop
(MPF4273.01)
Bennington Marching Band
(MPF4217.01)
Making Yesterday New
(DRA4189.01)
Electronic Music: Creativity and Sound
(MCO2109.01)
Advanced Digital Modeling
(MA4204.01)
Animation Projects
(MA4201.01)
Advanced Projects in E-Music
(MCO4139.01)
Banjo
(MIN2215.01)
Fiddle
(MIN2227.01)
Mandolin
(MIN2229.01)
Song for Ireland and Celtic Connections
(MHI2251.01)
Beginning Guitar
(MIN2247.01)
Piano Lab I
(MIN2232.01)
Advanced Voice
(MVO4401.01)
Traditional Music Ensemble
(MPF4221.01)
Intermediate Voice
(MVO4301.01)
Violin/Viola
(MIN4345.01)
Reading the Body
(ANT4208.01)
Architecture I – Elements
(ARC4115.01)
Advanced Architecture
(ARC4401.01)