Bennington College Spring 2015 Curriculum
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Advancement of Public Action
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Dance
Drama
Environment
Languages
Chinese
French
Italian
Japanese
Language Education
Spanish
Literature
Modules: Transferable Approaches
Music
Composition
Fundamentals
Instrumental Study
History
Performance
Sound Design and Recording
Theory
Voice
Science Mathematics and Computing
Biology
Chemistry
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Earth Science
Mathematics
Physics
Science and Mathematics
Social Science
Anthropology
History
Philosophy
Political Economy
Politics
Psychology
Social Science (SS)
Visual Arts
Architecture
Art History
Ceramics
Digital Arts
Drawing
Film and Video
Media Arts
Painting
Photography
Printmaking
Sculpture
Visual Arts (VA Courses)
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One Credit
Two Credit
Four Credit
Level
2000
4000
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Second Seven Week
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16mm Experimental Filmmaking
(FV4238.01)
24 Filial Piety vs. The Daoist Tales of Zhuang Zi
(CHI4213.01)
A Survey of Avant-Garde Exhibitions
(VA2109.01)
Adaptation or Extinction: Animals and Climate Change
(BIO4222.01)
Adobe Creative Suite for Artists
(Canceled)
Advanced Ceramic Studio
(CER4227.01)
Advanced Chamber Music
(MPF4230.01)
Advanced Digital Modeling
(MA4204.01)
Advanced Explorations in Experiential Anatomy
(DAN4107.01)
Advanced Improvisation and Partnering
(DAN4292.01)
Advanced Mediation Training
(MED4301.02)
Advanced Multivariable Calculus and Introductory Differential Geometry
(MAT4318.01)
Advanced Painting & Drawing: The Contemporary Idiom
(PAI4209.01)
Advanced Projects in Dance
(DAN4795.01)
Advanced Projects in Video
(FV4304.01)
Advanced Voice
(Section 1 - MVO4401.01)
Advanced Voice
(Section 2 - MVO4401.02)
Advanced Workshop in CAPA
(APA4126.01)
Agroecology
(ENV2118.01)
Agroecology Lab
(ENV2118L.01)
Am I Charlie?
(MOD2151.04)
American Literacies in School and Out
(Canceled)
An Introduction to Dance Phrasing
(DAN2321.01)
And Process for All
(MED2110.01)
Animation Projects
(MA4201.01)
Archive Fever
(MA2124.01)
Art in the Public Realm: Oslo Project II
(VA4107.01)
Asceticism
(HIS4131.01)
Astrogeology
(ES2109.01)
Banjo
(MIN2215.01)
Bass with Bisio
(MIN4417.01)
Beginning Cello II
(MIN4354.01)
Beginning Guitar
(MIN2247.01)
Beginning Guitar Intermediate
(MIN4238.01)
Beginning Potters Wheel
(CER2107.01)
Beginning Violin and Viola
(MIN2241.01)
Bennington Biodiversity Project
(BIO4303.02)
Biochemistry
(CHE4301.01)
Biogeography, Paleoecology, and Human Origins
(BIO4317.01)
Biomimicry in Architecture
(ARC4206.01)
Black Markets
(Canceled)
Brass Chamber Ensemble
(Canceled)
Brass Instruments
(Canceled)
Calculus: Analysis of the Infinite
(MAT4145.01)
Camera Mounts I
(SCU2117.01)
Camera Mounts II
(SCU4117.02)
CAPA Workshop: Rethinking Education
(APA4208.01)
Cartoon Culture
(SPA4112.01)
Cello
(MIN4355.01)
Ceramic Tile
(CER2114.01)
Ceramics: History and Place
(CER4232.01)
Chemistry 2 Lab
(CHE4212L.01)
Chemistry 2: Organic Structure and Bonding
(CHE4212.01)
Chemistry 4 – The Nature of Materials
(CHE4215.01)
Chemistry 4 Lab: Independent Research Projects
(CHE4216.01)
Children’s Classics
(LIT2322.01)
Cinematic Rome: Space, Urban Life, and Film Culture
(ITA4493.01)
Clarinet
(MIN4223.01)
Collaboration in Light, Movement, and Clothes
(DAN4286.01)
Comparative Democratization
(POL2102.01)
Computer Architecture and Organization
(Canceled)
Conflict Confident
(MED2109.01)
Conflict Resolution: Theory & Practice
(MED2116.01)
Contemporary Chinese Poetry
(CHI4121.01)
Contemporary Youth in Italy
(ITA4121.01)
Conversations
(FRE4219.01)
Cultural Localities II: Writing Culture
(ANT4136.01)
Current Issues in Chinese Film
(CHI4320.01)
Design: The Ballets Russes
(DRA2147.01)
Developmental Psychology After the Grand Theories
(PSY2207.01)
Directing I: The Director’s Vision
(DRA4332.01)
Discrete Mathematics
(MAT4107.01)
Documentary Production: Personal and Political
(FV4313.01)
Drumming: An Extension of Language
(MIN2120.01)
Earth Materials
(ES4102.01)
Earth Materials Lab
(ES4102L.01)
Eastern European Literature and Cinema
(LIT2171.01)
Economic Reasoning: Models, Metrics, and Metaphors
(PEC2260.01)
Electronic Music: Creativity and Sound
(MCO2109.01)
Electronic Music: Creativity and Sound II
(MCO4122.01)
English as a Second Language
(LIT2101.01)
Entry to Mathematics
(MAT2100.01)
Environmental Aesthetics
(PHI4250.01)
Exhibition Thematic Exposure
(AH4101.01)
Experimental Making in Ceramics
(CER4214.01)
Feminist Perspective and Practices in Contemporary Art
(AH2107.01)
Fiddle
(MIN4327.01)
Five Approaches to Acting
(DRA4170.01)
Food for Thought in Modern Japanese Literature
(JPN4507.01)
Form and Process: Investigations in Painting
(PAI2107.01)
Form to Function/ Digital Design to Analog Build
(SCU2124.01)
French Comedy
(FRE4122.01)
French Poetry
(FRE4123.01)
Future Studio: Production to Launch
(DA4204.01)
Genesis
(HIS2220.01)
Glaze Chemistry
(CER2132.01)
Global Change
(BIO2113.01)
Graduate Research in Dance
(DAN5305.01)
Hip-Hop Dance in Context
(Section 1 - DAN2308.01)
Hip-Hop Dance in Context
(Section 2 - DAN2308.02)
History and Practice of Analog Color Photography
(PHO4117.01)
Home and Other Figments: Immigration, Exile, and Uprootedness
(PSY2238.01)
Honors Seminar: Recent African American Poetry
(LIT4118.01)
Horror Fiction
(LIT4325.01)
How Do Animals Work?
(BIO2102.01)
How Do Animals Work? Lab
(BIO2102L.01)
Incarceration in America
(APA2108.01)
Inquiry in the Visual Arts
(VA4160.01)
Insider Perspectives on the Francophone World II
(FRE2104.01)
Interdisciplinary Improvisation Ensemble
(APA2135.01)
Intermediate Video Production: Reversing the Eye and Ear
(FV4308.01)
Intermediate Violin/ Viola
(MIN4232.01)
Intermediate Voice
(Section 1 - MVO4301.01)
Intermediate Voice
(Section 2 - MVO4301.02)
Intermediate Voice
(Section 3 - MVO4301.03)
Intermediate Voice
(Section 4 - MVO4301.04)
Introduction to Intaglio: The Alchemist’s Print
(PRI2111.01)
Introduction to Jazz Theory and Improvisation
(MTH2272.01)
Introduction to the Moving Image
(FV2175.01)
Japanese Communication Styles through the Lens of Popular Film
(JPN4214.01)
Jazz Ensemble
(MPF4250.01)
Jerzy Grotowski
(DRA2304.01)
Landscapes of Injustice: Psychology and Social Change
(PSY4238.01)
Language Through Film
(SPA4118.01)
Liberalism and Religion
(SPA4254.01)
Liberalism: For and Against
(PHI4104.01)
Life into Art: A Reading and Writing Seminar
(LIT4258.01)
Light and Lighting: Vocabulary and Tools
(Canceled)
Linguistics of Music
(MTH4258.01)
Literature of the Renaissance
(LIT2265.01)
Local Governance in Comparative Perspective
(POL4239.01)
Makers and Making/ Performance in the 21st Century
(DAN2131.01)
Mandolin
(MIN2229.01)
Markmaking and Representation
(DRW2149.01)
Measles and the (sometimes unnatural) history of outbreaks
(MOD2153.04)
Media Convergence and Culture
(APA4102.01)
Medieval Britain and Shakespeare’s History Plays
(LIT2317.01)
Medieval Masculinities
(HIS2158.01)
Modern Guitar
(MIN4224.01)
Mountain Dulcimer (Lap Dulcimer)
(MIN2224.01)
Movement Practice: Advanced Dance Technique
(DAN4344.01)
Movement Practice: Advanced Intermediate Dance Technique
(DAN4351.01)
Movement Practice: Basic Gymnastic Floor Exercise
(DAN2167.01)
Movement Practice: Beginning Dance Technique
(DAN2214.01)
Movement Practice: Beginning Intermediate Technique
(DAN4147.01)
Movement Practice: Intermediate Dance Technique
(Canceled)
Moving and Forming (Dance Composition)
(Canceled)
Moving into Creative Process
(MOD2140.04)
Moving into Creative Process
(MOD2140.03)
Multi-Media Performance: Manipulating Time/ Space
(MA4146.01)
Muriel Spark and Jeanette Winterson
(LIT2267.01)
Music and Mathematics
(MAT4124.01)
Music as an Instrument for Social Change
(MHI2114.01)
Music Composition for Dance
(MHI2105.01)
Music Composition Project
(MUS4355.01)
Musical Theatre Writing – Book & Lyrics
(DRA4154.01)
Noticing, Choosing and Writing to Describe
(MOD2107.01)
Noticing, Choosing and Writing to Describe
(MOD2107.02)
Object-Oriented Programming
(CS4153.01)
Orders of Magnitude
(Canceled)
Origins of the English Novel
(Canceled)
Our Monsters, Ourselves
(SPA4715.01)
People/ Place
(PHO4219.01)
Peoples and Cultures of Africa
(ANT2118.01)
Persons, Groups, and Environments
(Canceled)
Philippine Kulintang Gong Ensemble
(MPF2027.01)
Philosophy of Love and Friendship
(PHI2123.01)
Photography Foundation
(PHO2302.01)
Physics II: Fields
(PHY4325.01)
Physics II: Fields Lab
(PHY4325L.01)
Piano
(Section 1 - MIN4333.01)
Piano
(Section 2 - MIN4333.02)
Piano
(Section 3 - MIN4333.03)
Piano Lab I
(Section 1 - MIN2232.01)
Piano Lab I
(Section 2 - MIN2232.02)
Piano Lab II
(Section 1 - MIN4236.01)
Piano Lab II
(Section 2 - MIN4236.02)
Playwriting
(DRA2260.01)
Point of Criticality: Problems of Complexity
(APA4203.01)
Pop-Up> Nepal: Before and After the Earthquake
(MOD2154.01)
Power and Place: A United States Perspective
(SS2107.01)
Projects in Sculpture: Making it Personal
(SCU4797.01)
Psychological Experimentation
(PSY2109.01)
Racine
(LIT4157.01)
Re-Creating the Classics
(LIT2318.01)
Reading and Writing Poetry: Poetics and Perception
(LIT4356.01)
Reading and Writing the City
(LIT4253.01)
Reading and Writing the Lyric Essay
(LIT4166.01)
Reading Marx
(PHI4106.01)
Reading Wilderness
(LIT2236.01)
Readings in Chaucer
(LIT2124.01)
Recording and Mixing Music II
(MSR2208.01)
Revolutionary Foundations: Order and Dissent in American Political Thought
(POL2207.01)
Sage City Symphony
(MPF4100.01)
Salman Rushdie’s “Midnight’s Children”
(MOD2150.01)
Salts of Silver, Salts of Iron
(PHO4123.01)
Saxophone
(MIN4237.01)
Scene Study/ Modern Classics: Abaire, Letts, & Rebeck
(DRA4134.01)
Schools and Movements in American Poetry
(LIT2315.01)
Science as a History of the Present
(APA2137.01)
Science, Drama, & The Power of the Inquisitive Mind
(DRA2259.01)
Seminar in Clinical/ Developmental Psychology
(PSY4106.01)
Seminar in Political Leadership
(POL4213.01)
Senior Projects
(MPF4104.01)
SHHH! The Social Construction of Silence
(PSY4205.01)
Silkscreen/ Serigraphy Workshop
(Section 1 - PRI2112.01)
Silkscreen/ Serigraphy Workshop
(Section 2 - PRI2112.02)
Sociolinguistic Voices: Identities in Text & Talk
(Canceled)
Solo Performance – Telling My Story
(DRA4322.01)
Song for Ireland and Celtic Connections
(MHI2251.01)
Sound Installation
(Canceled)
Soundtracks for Media and Live Performance
(MSR4261.01)
Special Relativity
(PHY4210.01)
Stage Management
(DRA2241.01)
Statistics and Their Presentation
(MAT2114.01)
String Chamber Ensemble
(MPF4235.01)
Studying Place by Metes and Bounds
(ENV4232.01)
Style and Tone in Nonfiction Writing
(LIT2104.01)
Subject and Meaning in Painting
(PAI4202.01)
Super Producer Primer: Archaeology of Classic Tracks
(MSR4238.01)
Technique, Phrasing, and Performance
(DAN4321.01)
Text Seminar: Plato’s Republic
(PHI4244.01)
The Actor’s Instrument
(DRA2170.01)
The Art of Literary Translation
(LIT4319.01)
The Design Process: Concept – Analysis – Diagram – Presentation
(ARC4212.01)
The Don Juan Project
(DRA4146.01)
The Ethnography of Things
(ANT4108.01)
The Ferguson Report: A Living Document
(MOD2152.04)
The History of the Book
(HIS4109.01)
The Hollow Form
(CER2221.01)
The Infinite
(Canceled)
The Japanese Language and its Reflection of Values and Morals in Folktales
(JPN2110.01)
The Kiln as a Tool
(CER2136.02)
The Music of J.S. Bach
(MHI2177.01)
The Scriptorium: Visual Culture
(Section 1 - LIT2252.01)
The Scriptorium: Visual Culture
(Section 2 - LIT2252.02)
The Web as Artistic Platform
(DA2110.01)
Through Syntax to Style: A Grammar of Writing
(LIT2169.02)
Topping it Off
(DRA2138.01)
Total Theory
(HIS4215.01)
Traces, Mistakes, and Leftovers
(Canceled)
Traditional Music Ensemble
(MPF4221.01)
Traditional Music of North America
(MHI2135.01)
Turbulent Transitions
(PEC4122.01)
Ukulele Comprehensive
(MIN2230.01)
Unique Prints: 3-D Prints and Modular Works
(PRI4272.01)
Viewpoints – Exploring a Play and its Characters
(DRA4226.01)
Violin/ Viola
(MIN4345.01)
Virgil, Ovid, Horace: Latin Poets in Translation
(LIT4185.01)
Visible Language: Word And/As Image
(DRW4401.01)
Visual Arts Lecture Series
(VA2999.01)
Voice and Speech Workshop
(DRA2114.01)
Waste, Disgust, and the Body: Thinking in Social Science
(PSY2110.01)
What Comes After the State?
(ANT2114.01)
What Was Critique and What Comes Next?
(APA4207.01)
Who is Gloria Steinem?
(MOD2149.04)
Whose Opera?
(MCO4361.01)
Woodwind Chamber Ensemble
(Canceled)
World Percussion Ensemble
(MPF2253.01)
World Vocal Ensemble
(MPF4126.01)
Wounded Literature: Trauma, Memory, and Representation
(LIT2262.01)
Writing Essays About Literature
(LIT2102.01)