Bennington College Spring 2020 Curriculum
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100 Experiments
(PHO4131.01)
A Dual Narrative Approach to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
(APA2246.01)
A Material World
(SCU2113.01)
A Voice from a Wound: Trauma and Memory in Hispanophone Literature
(SPA4802.01)
Abstract Algebra
(MAT4144.01)
Action Research Lab for Food Sovereignty
(APA4239.01)
Advanced Butoh Practice-Body as Landscape
(DAN4139.01)
Advanced Ceramics Projects – Self & Clay
(CER4315.01)
Advanced Chamber Music
(MPF4230.01)
Advanced Digital Modeling and Animation
(MA2107.01)
Advanced Jazz Piano
(MIN4240.01)
Advanced Mixing Techniques
(MSR4365.01)
Advanced Projects in Dance
(DAN4795.01)
Advanced Projects in Video II
(FV4242.01)
Advanced Voice
(MVO4401.01, section 1)
Advanced Voice
(MVO4401.02, section 2)
Advanced Workshop for Painting and Drawing
(PAI4302.01)
Advanced Workshop in CAPA
(APA4109.01)
After-School Education Module
(APA2238.01)
An Actors Technique: Nuts and Bolts
(DRA4127.01)
An Introduction to Dance Phrasemaking and Performing
(DAN2136.01)
Analyzing the Social Issues in Japan Through Online News
(JPN4601.01)
Animal Social Behavior
(BIO4307.01)
Animation Projects
(MA4202.01)
Art of Auditioning
(DRA2178.01)
Art of the Sonnet: Conventions and Inventions
(LIT4113.01)
Arts of Asia
(AH2406.01)
Avant Garde Art in China
(CHI4507.01)
Balkan Ensemble
(MPF4204.01)
Banjo
(MIN2215.01)
Bass Intensive
(MIN4026.01)
Bass with Bisio
(MIN4417.01)
Bebop, Rock & Beyond (Fundamentals)
(MIN4226.01)
Beginning Cello II
(MIN4354.01)
Beginning Guitar
(MIN2247.01, section 1)
Beginning Guitar
(MIN2247.02, section 2)
Beginning Potter’s Wheel
(CER2107.01)
Beginning Violin/Viola
(MIN2241.01)
Bennington Plays
(DRA4151.01)
Bennington Plays: Design
(DRA4129.01)
Bennington Plays: Playwrights
(DRA4163.01)
Bennington Review: A Practicum in Literary Editing and Publishing-Poetry
(LIT4330.02, section 2)
Bennington Review: A Practicum in Literary Editing and Publishing-Prose
(LIT4330.01, section 1)
Bertolt Brecht
(LIT2341.01)
Biochemistry
(CHE4335.01)
Book Club Italiano
(ITA4612.01)
Cello
(MIN4355.01)
Certainty
(MAT2119.04)
Chemistry 2: Organic Structure and Bonding (with Lab)
(CHE4212.01)
Chemistry Independent Research Projects
(CHE4275.01)
Choice Theory
(PEC4130.01)
Chromophilia: Explorations in Color
(VA4215.01)
Clarinet
(MIN4223.01)
Cognitive Development: Where do our Brains Come From?
(PSY2235.01)
Comics/Culture
(SPA4401.01)
Comparative Animal Physiology (with lab)
(BIO4201.01)
Confucianism vs. Daoism
(CHI4402.01)
Contemporary Chinese Poetry
(CHI4216.01)
Creation of Statistics
(MAT2247.01)
Creative Economies
(APA2167.02)
Cup Lending Library
(CER4108.01)
Dalcroze Eurhythmics: Groove, Gesture, and Embodied Knowing
(MFN2114.01)
Dance Making: The Ephemeral Artifact
(DAN2137.01)
Dancer as Maker
(DAN4149.01)
Delights of Ephemera
(VA4128.01)
Design Patterns and Data Structures
(CS4106.01)
Development and Evolution of Language
(PSY4116.01)
Devising: Moving through Time and Space
(DRA2177.01)
Differential Equations and Non-linear Dynamical Systems
(MAT4108.01)
Digital Materiality
(MS4101.01)
Directing I: The Director’s Vision
(DRA4332.01)
Discrimination and Audit Studies
(SOC4105.01)
Distributed Systems (with Lab)
(CS4280.01)
Drawing As A Verb: Exploring Uncertainty
(DRW2120.01)
Drumming: An Extension of Language
(MIN2120.01)
Early-Modern French Libertine Literature
(FRE2107.02)
Eastern European Literature and Cinema: From the Cold War to the Present
(LIT2171.01)
Electroacoustic Band Workshop
(MPF4122.01)
English Restoration and 18th Century Drama
(LIT4240.01)
Entry to Mathematics
(MAT2100.01)
Ethnographic Playwriting
(APA4120.01)
Every Day Everyday Climate Change
(APA2181.02)
Experimental Radioplay
(MSR2139.01)
Failure
(CS4129.01)
Families: Love and Power in the Domestic Sphere
(ANT2120.01)
Fashion and Modernism
(VA4129.01)
Feminist Geographies of Dis/ability
(SCT2133.01)
Fiddle
(MIN4327.01)
Field Course in Coral Reef Biology
(BIO4239.01)
Film Adaptations of French Literature
(FRE4492.01)
Financing Social Value Oriented Enterprise
(cancelled)
Finding Form: Dance
(DAN4319.01)
FLEABAG: A Workshop about Structure
(DRA2224.01)
Food and Politics: A Food Citizens Methodology Workshop
(APA4160.02)
Form and Process: Investigations in Painting
(PAI2107.01)
Fundamentals of Creative Writing
(LIT2394.01)
Future Studio
(VA4207.01)
Geometry
(MAT2106.01)
Graduate Assistantship in Dance
(DAN5301.01)
Graduate Assistantship in Public Action
(APA5101.01, section 1)
Graduate Assistantship in Public Action
(APA5101.02, section 2)
Graduate Research in Dance
(DAN5305.01)
Graduate Research in Public Action
(APA5102.01, section 1)
Graduate Research in Public Action
(APA5102.02, section 2)
Graduate Seminar on Pedagogy and Public Action
(APA5103.01)
Graduate Teaching Fellow Assistantship in Dance
(DAN5304.01)
Hip Hop Archaeology
(MS2105.01)
History of Christianity: From the Hebrews to Henry VIII
(HIS2227.01)
How to Build a Habitable Planet
(PHY2118.01)
How to Think Like a Data Scientist
(CS4115.01)
Hybrids: Alternative Photographic Methods
(PHO4215.01)
I am a Material
(SCU4112.02)
Identità e cucina: Food in Italian Regional Cultures
(ITA4216.01)
Identities and Affinities
(PHI4109.01)
Improvisation Ensemble for Musicians and Dancers
(MPF4233.01)
Improvisation Ensemble for Musicians and Dancers
(DAN4357.01)
In Sickness and In Health: An Introduction to Medical Anthropology
(ANT4149.01)
In the Public Realm: Chiang Mai Project (Thailand)
(APA2182.01)
Inclusion Practices
(SCT4149.01)
Infinity
(MAT2109.03)
Insider Perspectives on the Francophone World II
(FRE4224.01)
Intermediate Guitar
(MIN4025.01)
Intermediate Painting: Facture
(PAI4106.01)
Intermediate Video
(FV4143.01)
Intermediate Violin/Viola
(MIN4232.01)
Intermediate Voice
(MVO4301.01, section 1)
Intermediate Voice
(MVO4301.02, section 2)
Intermediate Voice
(MVO4301.03, section 3)
Intermediate Voice
(MVO4301.04, section 4)
International Human Rights Law
(APA2221.03)
Introduction to 3D Modeling: Point, Curve, Surface, Solid
(VA2117.01)
Introduction to Butoh Practice-Impulsive Body
(DAN2180.01)
Introduction to Computer Science
(CS2124.01)
Introduction to Counterpoint
(MTH2118.01)
Introduction to Intaglio: The Alchemist’s Print
(PRI2111.01)
Introduction to Peace Studies
(SCT2142.01)
Introduction to Sculpture: Polychrome 3D
(SCU2114.01)
Introduction to the Biology of Cancer
(BIO2104.01)
Introduction to Video
(FV2303.02, section 2)
Introduction to Video
(FV2303.01, section 1)
Investing in Futures: The Art of Worlding
(APA2218.01)
Isadora: Real-Time Media Manipulation for Performance
(DA2136.02)
It’s Alive!: 19th Century Genre Fiction
(LIT2338.01)
Jazz Ensemble
(MPF4250.01)
Jazz Piano Lab
(MIN4335.01)
Keats and Stevens
(LIT2299.02)
Kiln Firing: the Art and the Science
(CER4272.01)
Landscape Painting in China
(AH4317.01)
Language in Greater Vermont: Diversity and Relationships
(LIN4102.01)
Language Through Film
(SPA4223.01)
Lexicon of Forced Migration
(APA2170.01)
Life and Death: Buddhism in Modern Japanese Films
(JPN4401.01)
Life Drawing Lab
(DRW2118.01)
Linear Algebra
(MAT4115.01)
Logarithms
(MAT2107.02)
Making Music with Modular Soft Synths
(MCO4124.01)
Making the Third Ear
(MUS4356.01)
Mandolin
(MIN2229.01)
Markmaking and Representation
(DRW2149.01)
Meisner Technique
(DRA4268.01)
Methods and Analysis in Sociophonetics
(LIN4105.02)
Mindfulness Drawing: Meditation and the Art of Observation
(DRW2116.01)
Modern Guitar
(MIN4224.01)
Movement Practice: Advanced Dance Technique
(DAN4344.01)
Movement Practice: Beginning Dance Technique (cancelled)
(DAN2121.01)
Movement Practice: Beginning-Intermediate Dance Technique
(DAN2119.01)
Movement Practice: Intermediate-Advanced Dance Technique
(DAN4148.01)
Movement Practice: Partnering
(DAN2179.01)
Music Composition Intensive
(MCO4801.01)
Music Since 1968
(MHI2228.01)
Music Theory: Beats & Bars
(MTH2129.01)
NGOs, Peacebuilding, and Development
(SCT4109.01)
Observations: Photography and the Environment
(PHO4113.01)
Painterly Painters & Portraiture
(AH4122.01)
Paris on Screen: Tradition and Modernity
(FRE4498.01)
Participating in the Archive
(DAN2138.02) (cancelled)
Participation in a Democracy: What Can I Do to Make a Difference?
(POP2351.02)
Patternmaking and Garment Construction
(DRA4119.01)
Peacebuilding
(APA2212.03)
Peacebuilding Two: Be the change you want to see in the World
(APA2240.03)
Performance Art
(DAN2129.01)
Philosopher Queens
(PHI2118.01)
Photo Now
(PHO2141.01)
Photography Foundations
(PHO2136.01)
Physics II: Electricity and Magnetism (with lab)
(PHY4327.01)
Piano
(MIN4333.03, section 3)
Piano
(MIN4333.01, section 1)
Piano
(MIN4333.02, section 2)
Piano Lab I
(MIN2232.01, section 1)
Piano Lab I
(MIN2232.02, section 2)
Piano Lab I
(MIN2232.03, section 3)
Piano Lab II
(MIN4236.01)
Plastic Pollution and What You Can Do About It
(APA2176.01)
Poets’ Love: The Song Cycle
(MVO4127.01)
Price Theory
(PEC2218.01)
Projection_Mapping_Design
(MA4106.01)
Projects in Sculpture: Making It Personal
(SCU4797.01)
Protein Research Methods
(BIO4109.01)
Psychology of Creativity: Making and Using Metaphors
(PSY4226.01)
Puzzles
(MAT2108.01)
Queer Renaissance
(AH4114.01)
Quick Studies
(DAN4144.01)
Reading & Writing Fiction: Plot and Suspense
(LIT4144.01)
Reading and Writing Literary Journalism
(LIT4141.01)
Reading and Writing: Hybrid-Genre Works
(LIT4140.01)
Reading and Writing: Poetry of Trauma and Violence
(LIT4290.01)
Reading Marx
(PHI4106.01)
Regardez
(FRE4496.01)
Resilience and Food Access in Bennington, VT
(APA2241.01)
Rethinking Agriculture
(POP2278.02)
Reveries
(ARC4124.01)
Sage City Symphony
(MPF4100.01)
Saxophone
(MIN4237.01)
Scene Painting
(DRA2168.01)
SCT Advanced Work Preparation Module
(SCT4104.04)
Self, Culture, Society
(PSY2236.01)
Seminar on Monolingualism
(LIN2103.01)
Senior Projects
(MPF4226.01)
Senior Seminar in Society, Culture and Thought II
(SCT4751.01)
Shorter Songs
(Cancelled)
Simultaneous Occupancies
(ARC4239.01)
Sing
(MUS2148.01)
Social Dynamics of Inclusion
(SCT2134.01)
Social Emergency Medicine to Prevent Gun Violence
(Cancelled)
Social Expectations for Japanese Children
(JPN4224.01)
Social Practices: House Music vs Neoliberalism
(APA2184.02)
Song for Ireland and Celtic Connections
(MHI2251.01)
Songs in the Key of Wonder
(MTH4148.01)
Sounding Home: Music of Migration, Memory, and Exile
(MHI2109.01)
Spatial Audio Practices
(MSR4051.01)
Spatial Justice: Incorporating Social Theory into Artistic Practice
(APA2183.01)
Speaking of Earth: Environmental Speeches that Moved the World
(MOD2163.01)
Special Projects in Advanced Japanese
(JPN4801.01)
Stage Management
(DRA2241.01)
Standard of Living
(PEC2219.01)
Strategies for Sustainability: Living Life as an Artist
(DAN4143.01)
Technical Topics: Video and Animation Post-Production
(FV2143.01)
The Actor’s Instrument
(DRA2170.01)
The Art of Literary Translation
(LIT4319.01)
The Courtly World: Lady Shonagon and Lady Murasaki
(LIT2379.01)
The Devil
(LIT2404.01)
The Five Obstructions
(MCO4125.01)
The Hand as Tool
(CER2317.01)
The History of Directing
(DRA2169.01)
The Human Condition: Hannah Arendt
(PHI4101.01)
The Invention of the 19th Century: A seminar on Honoré de Balzac
(LIT4329.01)
The Jewish Annotated New Testament
(APA2180.01)
The Magical Object – Visual Metaphor
(DRA2116.01)
The Musical “Other”: Exoticism, Appropriation, and Multiculturalism
(MHI4131.01)
The Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro
(LIT4291.01)
The Ocean, The Creek, The Lake: Writing Water
(LIT2405.02)
The Politics of Student Movements in the ’60s
(SCT2141.01)
The Scriptorium: Borders and Boundaries
(WRI2152.01)
The Scriptorium: Ekphrasis
(WRI2154.01)
The Self, the Soul, and St. Augustine
(LIT2339.01)
Theater Games and Improvisation
(DRA2123.01)
Theory of Impressionism
(MTH4112.01)
Topics in Applied Philosophy: Privacy
(PHI2126.01)
Topics In Video: Experimental Documentary
(FV4236.01)
Traces, Mistakes, and Leftovers
(DRW4237.01)
Traditional Music Ensemble
(MPF4221.01)
Transformative Voice
(MCO4117.01)
Tuesday Soup-er Club Intensive: Bennington Foodscape
(APA2168.02)
Ukulele Comprehensive
(MIN2230.01)
Understanding PFOA: Science and Policy
(ENV2173.01)
Unhomely Thoughts from Abroad
(SPA4605.01)
Unique Prints: 3-D Prints and Modular Works
(PRI4272.01)
Violin/Viola
(MIN4345.01)
Visible Language: Word And/As Image
(DRW4401.01)
Visual Arts Lecture Series
(VA2999.01)
Visual Arts Lecture Series Seminar
(VA4218.01)
Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson
(LIT2199.01)
Women and Human Mobility
(APA2213.03)
Women in Science: Ancient Greece to Enlightenment
(HIS4110.01)
Woodcut Printmaking on the Vandercook Proofing Press
(PRI2123.02)