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