Courses
Spring 2025
Advanced Design & Collaboration
Tilly GrimesAdvanced Forest Ecology & Conservation (with Lab)
Caitlin McDonough MacKenzieAdvanced Guitar: Folk Styles
John KirkAdvanced Improvisation Ensemble for Dancers and Musicians
Susan Sgorbati, Michael Wimberly, & Jesse ZarittAdvanced Improvisation: The Game of the Scene
Shawtane BowenAdvanced Jazz Piano
Jen AllenAdvanced Printing and Projects in Lithography
Thorsten DennerlineAdvanced Project: Analog/Digital Process in Ceramics
Anina MajorAdvanced Projects in Architecture and Design
Farhad MirzaAdvanced Projects in Dance
Levi GonzalezAdvanced Projects in Film and Video
Jen LiuAdvanced Translation Workshop
Mariam RahmaniAdvanced Workshop in Painting and Drawing
Beverly AchaAfrican Conflict Resolution
Rotimi SuberuAfter Superflat
Yoko InoueAfter Superflat Directed Project: Nuclear War
Yoko InoueAI and Ethics
Darcy OttoAlexander Technique: Optimizing how you work when moving (advanced)
Ros WarbyAll About Love: Advanced – Endurance Movement Practice
Elena DemyanenkoAmerican Environmental Politics
John HultgrenAn Actor’s Technique: Nuts and Bolts
Jennifer RohnAnalysis
Kathryn MontovanAncient to Modern Environments: Near and Far
Tim SchroederApplied/Engineering Physics
Tim SchroederBass Intensive
Michael BisioBass with Bisio
Michael BisioBeginning Cello II
Nathaniel ParkeBeginning Guitar
John KirkBeginning Violin II
Joana GenovaBeginning Wheel Throwing
Aysha PeltzBennington Review: A Practicum in Literary Editing and Publishing — Prose
Manuel GonzalesBennington Review: A Practicum in Literary Editing and Publishing: Poetry
Michael DumanisBeyond Plastic Pollution
Judith EnckBilly Shakes and the Comedic Six
Manuel GonzalesBiochemistry
Fortune Ononiwu & John BullockBoundaries
John UmphlettButoh Intensive- In Search of Dance of Darkness
Kota Yamazaki & Mina NishimuraCalculus: A Classical Approach
Kathryn MontovanCAPA Advanced Workshop
Susan SgorbatiCell Biology (with Lab)
Amie McClellanCello
Nathaniel ParkeChemistry 2: Organic Structure and Bonding (with Lab)
Fortune OnoniwuCinematic Shorts: Acting for Film and Video
Dina JanisClothes: Reduce, Reuse, Redux
Tilly GrimesComposing for Improvisers: Analyses, Creation and Community
Kyoko KitamuraComposition and Creation of New Vocal Works
Virginia Warnken Kelsey & Allen ShawnComposition and Creation of New Vocal Works- Composers
Allen ShawnComposition and Creation of New Vocal Works: Singers
Virginia Warnken KelseyComputability and Logic
Darcy OttoConflict Resolution and Dialogue
Vahidin Omanovic & Susan SgorbatiConstructed Languages: Between Entertainment and Idealism
Thomas Leddy-CecereContemporary Chinese Poetry
Ginger LinConversation
Noëlle Rouxel-CubberlyCreating substance prevention programming on campus
Alison TartagliaCritical Dance Processes: Actions II
Sidra Bell & Kira ShiinaCritical Dance Processes: Research II
Jesse ZarittCritical Dance Processes: Research II
Jesse ZarittCrocheting the Classics: The Daisy and the Chain and Phoebe Junior
Jenny BoullyDeep Looking: An Introduction to Drawing
Beverly AchaDigital Book Project: Social and Cultural Values in Japan (Intermediate)
Ikuko YoshidaDigital Modelling and Animation
Sue ReesDigital Text Layout
Gus RamirezDigitizing Photographs
Mohammad Sharif JamalDirected Projects in Photography
Terry BoddieDirecting I: The Director’s Vision
Jean RandichDisasters, Poverty, and Inequality
Lopamudra BanerjeeDrawing As A Verb: Exploring Uncertainty
J BlackwellDrumming: An Extension of Language
Michael WimberlyDrumming: An Extension of Language
Michael WimberlyDynamic Spiraling: Grasping Nature’s Patterns to Generate Vital, Fluid Movement
Martín Lanz, MFA Teaching FellowEat, Drink and Be Merry: Designing Pots for Utility and Serving
Aysha PeltzEmbedded Arts: Exploring Social Practice Work
sTo LenEnhancing Cultural Understanding and Embracing Cultural Differences Through Japanese Children’s Books
Ikuko YoshidaEntry to Mathematics
Timothy KaneEnvironmental Action Post Fellowship Class
Alexis GoldsmithExpanded Performance
Zeena ParkinsExperiential Anatomy/Somatic Practices
Elena DemyanenkoExploring Taiwanese Culture Through Mahjong: Rules and Strategies
Ginger LinFaculty Performance Production: Everything That Never Happened by Sarah Mantell
Jean RandichFake Revolution: Media Culture and Hollywood’s Insurrection Fantasy
Jen LiuFeminist Freedom
Catherine McKeenFiddle
John KirkFine Art Digital Printing
Eddy Leonel AldanaFloor to Standing: How We Get Up, How We Go
Londs Reuter, MFA Teaching FellowForm and Process: Introduction to Painting
Colin BrantFoundations of Photography: Digital Practice
Luiza FolegattiFoundations of Political Leadership
Rotimi SuberuFrom an Indigenous Point of View
Miroslava PrazakFundamentals of Creative Writing
Devon Walker-FigueroaGospel Music; Share the Joy
Kathy BullockGraduate Assistantship in Public Action
Susan SgorbatiGraduate Music Pedagogy
Nicholas BrookeGraduate Projects and Research in Music
Nicholas BrookeGraduate Research in Dance
Elena Demyanenko & Nicole DaunicGraduate Seminar
Chang YuchenGraduate Seminar on Pedagogy and Public Action
Susan SgorbatiGraduate Teaching Fellowship in Dance
Elena DemyanenkoHarlem & the Northern Renaissance: New/Amsterg@ddam, 1450-now
J. Vanessa LyonHistory of Medicine: From Hippocrates to Harvey
Carol PalHistory of Theater II
Maya CantuHousing in America, Housing in Bennington
David BondHuman Rights in Action
Andy GalindoHyper Body! – Anarchic Ballet to Water Movement to African Dance to Floor Ninja to Body Architecture to Shining Zombie to Unknown Transformation…..
Kota YamazakiI am a Material
John UmphlettIn the Eastern, Green Mountains: Poetry through an Experimental Buddhist Lens
Farnoosh FathiIndependent Study
TBAIndividualized Lab
Donna Faye BurchfieldIndividualized Practice
Donna Faye BurchfieldIndividualized Studio Practice + Process
Donna Faye BurchfieldInequality in a Globalized World
Miroslava PrazakInsider Perspectives on the Francophone World II
Noëlle Rouxel-CubberlyIntermediate Drawing: Beyond Representation
Beverly AchaIntermediate Drum Set (Fundamentals)
Michael WimberlyIntermediate Ear Training
Nicholas BrookeIntermediate Guitar
John KirkIntermediate Painting: Beyond the Easel
J BlackwellIntermediate Piano
Yoshiko SatoIntermediate Video: The Archive
Laura Sofía PérezIntermediate Voice
Virginia Warnken KelseyIntermediate Voice
Virginia Warnken KelseyIntermediate Voice
Kerry Ryer-ParkeIntro to Maps and Geographic Information Systems
Tim SchroederIntro to Scene Painting
Seancolin HankinsIntro to VR
John CroweIntro to Woodshop
Olivia SaporitoIntroduction to Computer Science 2: Algorithms and Application
Darcy OttoIntroduction to Dramaturgy
Maya CantuIntroduction to Intaglio: The Alchemist’s Print
Thorsten DennerlineIntroduction to Sustainable Agriculture
Kelie BowmanIntroduction to Video
Jen LiuIntroduction to Video
Laura Sofía PérezJavanese Gamelan
Nicholas BrookeJazz Ensemble
Jen AllenKafka
Stuart NadlerKeats and Stevens
Michael DumanisKilns and Firing Techniques
Anina MajorLanguage Across Time and Space
Alexia FawcettLanguage at the Margins
Alexia FawcettLeft To Their Own Devices
Omeed Goodarzi, MFA Teaching FellowLife and Death: Buddhism in Modern Japanese films
Ikuko YoshidaLife Drawing Lab
Colin BrantLost and Found in the Nineteenth Century
Eileen ScullyMagical Realism and Black Speculative Fiction: On Radical Cosmogony
Anaïs DuplanMaking Technical Theatre with Advanced Design & Collaboration
Tilly GrimesMandolin
John KirkMaps, Translations, and Movement
Martín Lanz, MFA Teaching FellowMeisner Technique II
Jennifer RohnMetrics of Prosperity II: Labor Markets
Emma KastMiddle Eastern Ensemble
Joseph AlparMore-than-human Dances
Nicole Daunic & Mina NishimuraMorning Dance: Beginning-level Dance Technique
Kota Yamazaki & Mina NishimuraMusic and Culture: An Introduction to Ethnomusicology
Joseph AlparMusic and Moving Image
Nicholas BrookeMusical Taste and Monetization – The Business Side of Music
Kyoko KitamuraMutants: Genetic variation and human development
Amie McClellanNative (North) American Literature
Devon Walker-FigueroaNon-normative Bodies
Levi GonzalezOf Sound and Nature
Blake Jones & Joseph AlparParis on Screen
Stephen ShapiroPatternmaking and Garment Construction
Richard MacPikePeacebuilding Training and Action
Vahidin OmanovicPerformance Pedagogies of Dance
Paul MattesonPerformance Pedagogies of Dance
Gary JeterPerformance Pedagogies of Dance
Shayla-Vie JenkinsPerformance Pedagogies of Dance
Netta YerushalmyPerformance Project: New Territory / Place
Ros WarbyPerforming & Collaborating with Advanced Design
Tilly GrimesPessimism, Despair, and Hope
Paul VoicePhenomenology of the Strange
Laura Sofía PérezPhilosophical Problems
Paul VoicePhotobooks
Luiza FolegattiPiano
Christopher LewisPiano
Yoshiko SatoPiano Lab I: Beginning Piano
Chris RosePiano Lab I: Beginning Piano
Yoshiko SatoPlatform: Projects in Drama
Dina Janis & Jennifer RohnPolitical Ideologies in Action: Socialism in the United States
John HultgrenPortfolio 2
Emily WexlerPoverty and Vulnerability
Lopamudra BanerjeePractice Lab
Paul MattesonPrice Theory
Lopamudra BanerjeeProblems of Political Development
Rotimi SuberuProcessing and Making with Rhino 8
Derek ParkerProjection of Images
Sue ReesProjections – Animation Projects
Sue ReesPropaganda in Modern Chinese Culture
Ginger LinPsychology of Gender and Sexuality
Arita BalaramQuantum Mechanics
Hugh CrowlQueer French (in English)
Stephen ShapiroQueering Creation in the Arts of Latin America
Lena Retamoso UrbanoRadio Plays: Making Theatre for Radio and Podcast
Dina JanisRe-Thinking Society: Radical Visions
Paul VoiceReading & Writing: Spectacular Failure
Manuel GonzalesReading and Knitting the Forested Landscape
Caitlin McDonough MackenzieReading and Writing Fiction & Nonfiction: The Emergence of Prose
Renee GladmanReading and Writing Nonfiction: Archival Work
Anaïs DuplanReading and Writing Poetry: Image and Detail
Michael DumanisReading as a Collective Act: Thinking Through Dance and Performance
Donna Faye BurchfieldReading Revolution
Farnoosh FathiReimagining Representation
Terry BoddieRiffing with Shakespeare and his Doubles
Jean RandichSculpture Studio/Advanced practice
John UmphlettSenior Projects
Nicholas Brooke & Michael WimberlySenior Thesis Workshop
Jesse Zaritt & Shayla-Vie JenkinsSing What You Write
Kerry Ryer-ParkeSocial and Emotional Learning
Emily WatermanSocially Engaged Art Seminar: Creative Repair
Yoko InoueSoftware Product Development
Michael CoreySolo Performance
Kirk JacksonSong for Ireland and Celtic Connections
John KirkSongwriting
Jen AllenSongwriting Crimes and Recording Atrocities
Kevin BarnesSpanish Through Song
Lena Retamoso UrbanoSpecial Projects: Writers and Their Work
Ikuko YoshidaSpecial Relativity
Hugh CrowlSpecial Topics in Trans Lit: Spirituality
Zoe TuckStars, Planets, Life
Hugh CrowlStatistical Methods for Data Analysis
Josef MundtStatistics for Social Science
Emily WatermanStudies Lab
TBAStudio Practice + Process: Dreaming as Code: Somatic Time Travels, Grooves, and Otherwise
Song Aziza TuckerStudio Practice + Process: Love’s Alchemy: Transformative Practices That Merge Notions of Ritual, Care, and Study
Mikhail CallisteStudio Practice + Process: The Ecstasy of Influence
Niall JonesStudio Practice + Process: Unfolding the Arc in Storytelling, Uncertainty/Improvisation, and Filmmaking
Kayla FarrishStudio Practice: Architectures of Strength
Cameron ChildsStudio Practice: Ballet Forms/Neoclassical and Contemporary Explorations
Michael SheridanStudio Practice: Ballet Forms/Neoclassical and Contemporary Explorations
Michael SheridanStudio Practice: Ballet Forms/Shared Practices
Michael Sheridan & Mark CasertaStudio Practice: Ballet Forms/Shared Practices
Michael Sheridan & Mark CasertaStudio Practice: Contemporary Forms/Diving In and Springing Out
Paul MattesonStudio Practice: Contemporary Forms/Expansion and Continuity
Katie Swords-ThurmanStudio Practice: Contemporary Forms/Expansion and Continuity
Katie Swords-ThurmanStudio Practice: Contemporary Forms/Unearthing Physicality
Kira ShiinaStudio Practice: Contemporary Forms/Unearthing Physicality
Kira ShiinaStudio Practice: Hip Hop Under the Scope Intensive – The Clark Method, Street Dance Training Module
Kyle ClarkStudio Practice: Hip Hop Under the Scope Intensive – The Clark Method, Street Dance Training Module
Kyle ClarkStudio Practice: Hip Hop Under the Scope Intensive – The Clark Method, Street Dance Training Module
Kyle ClarkStudy Group 2
Donna Faye BurchfieldSun Ra: Space is the Place
Michael WimberlySustainable Agriculture: Advanced Projects
Kelie BowmanTeaching Languages and Cultures K-6
Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly & Ikuko YoshidaTen Decades, Ten Exhibitions: Art Narratives of the Twentieth Century
Anne ThompsonTessellation
Farhad MirzaThe Art of Losing: Composing and Editing Dances and Writing
Londs Reuter, MFA Teaching FellowThe Big Picture: Stewarding Artists’ Legacies (FWT Course)
Elizabeth WhiteThe Body Speaking
Levi GonzalezThe Curatorial: Your Top Ten
Anne ThompsonThe Global Music Classroom
Joseph AlparThe Hand as Tool
Anina MajorThe Latin American Short Story
Jonathan PitcherThe Lives of Wives
Zoe TuckThe Magic of Adolescence
Emily WatermanThe Music of J.S.Bach
Allen ShawnThe Power and Ethics of Photography
Farzana Wahidy, MFA Teaching FellowThe Puppet Project
Tilly GrimesThe Return of All Things
Zeena ParkinsThe Scriptorium: Found Families
Alex CreightonThe Scriptorium: Multiverses, Utopias, and Dreamscapes, Oh My!
Alex CreightonThe Sins of Nature: The Dark Side of Animal Behavior
Blake JonesThe Songwriter’s Guitar
Omeed Goodarzi, MFA Teaching FellowThe Textual City
Jonathan PitcherThème et Version
Stephen ShapiroTheory of Impressionism
Nicholas BrookeThesis Forms: Thinking Partners 1
Donna Faye BurchfieldThesis Practice (Research as Action)
Niall JonesThesis Practice: Artist’s Book
Ben PrangerThinking Like A Greek
Catherine McKeenTile: Expanding the Parameters
Aysha PeltzTime-Travel 101: Toni Morrison and Octavia Butler
Anaïs DuplanTopics in Applied Philosophy: War
Paul VoiceTraditional Music Ensemble
John KirkTransformative Justice
Alisa Del TufoTrusting the Body: Form, Balance and Letting Go
Ros WarbyTV Comedy Pilot I
Shawtane BowenTV Shows, Social media and The Contemporary Taiwanese Society
Ginger LinU.S.-Asian Relations (c. 1800-Present)
Eileen ScullyUkulele Comprehensive
John KirkUnderstanding Media
Joe DonahueViolin
Joana GenovaVirginia Woolf and the Craft of Consciousness
Devon Walker-FigueroaVisual Arts Lecture Series
J. Vanessa LyonVisual Arts Lecture Series Seminar
J. Vanessa LyonVoice Performance Intensive
Kerry Ryer-ParkeVoice Performance Intensive
Virginia Warnken KelseyWestworld/^/Whose World?
J. Vanessa LyonWind and Brass Chamber Ensemble
Chris RoseWitchcraft and Magic in Premodern Europe
Carol PalWoodcut/Linocut Printmaking on the Vandercook Proofing Press
Corinne RhodesWorking With Light
Michael GiannittiYoga: Mindfulness and Cultivating a Peaceful Practice
Carly Rudzinski“Beastly and Beautiful”: Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita
Jenny Boully
Fall 2024
Abstract Algebra and Number Theory
Andrew McIntyreAccidents, Glitches and Errors/From Content to Form
Elena DemyanenkoActing Ensemble: The Cherry Orchard
Jennifer RohnActors Instrument
Avery GlymphActors Instrument
Avery GlymphAdaptation
Sherry KramerAdvanced Dramaturgy
Maya CantuAdvanced Film/Video Projects I
Mariam Ghani