Courses

Spring 2025

• Actors Instrument

  Kirk Jackson

• Advanced Design & Collaboration

  Tilly Grimes

• Advanced Forest Ecology & Conservation (with Lab)

  Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie

• Advanced Guitar: Folk Styles

  John Kirk

• Advanced Improvisation Ensemble for Dancers and Musicians

  Susan Sgorbati, Michael Wimberly, & Jesse Zaritt

• Advanced Improvisation: The Game of the Scene

  Shawtane Bowen

• Advanced Jazz Piano

  Jen Allen

• Advanced Printing and Projects in Lithography

  Thorsten Dennerline

• Advanced Project: Analog/Digital Process in Ceramics

  Anina Major

• Advanced Projects in Architecture and Design

  Farhad Mirza

• Advanced Projects in Dance

  Levi Gonzalez

• Advanced Projects in Film and Video

  Jen Liu

• Advanced Translation Workshop

  Mariam Rahmani

• Advanced Workshop in Painting and Drawing

  Beverly Acha

• African Conflict Resolution

  Rotimi Suberu

• After Superflat

  Yoko Inoue

• After Superflat Directed Project: Nuclear War

  Yoko Inoue

• AI and Ethics

  Darcy Otto

• Alexander Technique: Optimizing how you work when moving (advanced)

  Ros Warby

• All About Love: Advanced – Endurance Movement Practice

  Elena Demyanenko

• American Environmental Politics

  John Hultgren

• An Actor’s Technique: Nuts and Bolts

  Jennifer Rohn

• Analysis

  Kathryn Montovan

• Ancient Fashion

  Tilly Grimes

• Ancient to Modern Environments: Near and Far

  Tim Schroeder

• Anthropology and the Body

  Cecilia Salvi

• Applied/Engineering Physics

  Tim Schroeder

• Archive and Exhibition

  Anina Major & Anne Thompson

• Bass Intensive

  Michael Bisio

• Bass with Bisio

  Michael Bisio

• Beginning Cello II

  Nathaniel Parke

• Beginning Guitar

  John Kirk

• Beginning Violin II

  Joana Genova

• Beginning Voice- Moving Towards Singing

  Kerry Ryer-Parke

• Beginning Wheel Throwing

  Aysha Peltz

• Bennington Review: A Practicum in Literary Editing and Publishing — Prose

  Manuel Gonzales

• Bennington Review: A Practicum in Literary Editing and Publishing: Poetry

  Michael Dumanis

• Beyond Plastic Pollution

  Judith Enck

• Billy Shakes with Laughter

  Manuel Gonzales

• Biochemistry

  Fortune Ononiwu & John Bullock

• Boundaries

  John Umphlett

• Breaking good: Synthetic organic chemistry and the nature of drugs

  Fortune Ononiwu

• Butoh Intensive- In Search of Dance of Darkness

  Kota Yamazaki & Mina Nishimura

• Calculus: A Classical Approach

  Kathryn Montovan

• CAPA Advanced Workshop

  Susan Sgorbati

• CAPA BYC Catalogue 2025 (Building Your Community)

  Susan Sgorbati

• Cell Biology (with Lab)

  Amie McClellan

• Cello

  Nathaniel Parke

• Chemistry 2: Organic Structure and Bonding (with Lab)

  Fortune Ononiwu

• Chromophilia: Investigations in Color

  Ann Pibal

• Cinematic Shorts: Acting for Film and Video

  Dina Janis

• Clothes: Reduce, Reuse, Redux

  Tilly Grimes

• Composing for Improvisers: Analyses, Creation and Community

  Kyoko Kitamura

• Composition and Creation of New Vocal Works

  Virginia Warnken Kelsey & Allen Shawn

• Composition and Creation of New Vocal Works- Composers

  Allen Shawn

• Composition and Creation of New Vocal Works: Singers

  Virginia Warnken Kelsey

• Computability and Logic

  Darcy Otto

• Conflict Resolution and Dialogue

  Vahidin Omanovic & Susan Sgorbati

• Constructed Languages: Between Entertainment and Idealism

  Thomas Leddy-Cecere

• Contemporary Chinese Poetry

  Ginger Lin

• Conversation

  Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly

• Creating substance prevention programming on campus

  Alison Tartaglia

• Critical Dance Processes: Actions II

  Sidra Bell & kira shiina

• Critical Dance Processes: Research II

  Jesse Zaritt

• Critical Dance Processes: Research II

  Jesse Zaritt

• Crocheting the Classics: The Daisy and the Chain and Phoebe Junior

  Jenny Boully

• Culture and Public Health

  Rebecca Dinkel

• Decolonial Perspectives on Indigenous Mesoamerica

  Rebecca Dinkel

• Deep Looking: An Introduction to Drawing

  Beverly Acha

• Digital Book Project: Social and Cultural Values in Japan (Intermediate)

  Ikuko Yoshida

• Digital Modelling and Animation

  Sue Rees

• Digital Physical Cycles

  Farhad Mirza

• Digital Text Layout

  Gus Ramirez

• Digitizing Photographs

  Mohammad Sharif Jamal

• Directed Projects in Photography

  Terry Boddie

• Directing I: The Director’s Vision

  Jean Randich

• Disasters, Poverty, and Inequality

  Lopamudra Banerjee

• Drawing As A Verb: Exploring Uncertainty

  J Blackwell

• Drum Set Fundamentals

  Michael Wimberly

• Drumming: An Extension of Language

  Michael Wimberly

• Drumming: An Extension of Language

  Michael Wimberly

• Dynamic Spiraling: Grasping Nature’s Patterns to Generate Vital, Fluid Movement

  Martín Lanz, MFA Teaching Fellow

• Eat, Drink and Be Merry: Designing Pots for Utility and Serving

  Aysha Peltz

• Edible Matters: Cartography and the Cultural Biography of Food

  Yoko Inoue

• Embedded Arts: Exploring Social Practice Work

  sTo Len

• Enhancing Cultural Understanding and Embracing Cultural Differences Through Japanese Children’s Books

  Ikuko Yoshida

• Entry to Mathematics

  Timothy Kane

• Environmental Action Post Fellowship Class

  Alexis Goldsmith

• Ethnography of Latin America and the Caribbean

  Cecilia Salvi

• Expanded Performance

  Zeena Parkins

• Experiential Anatomy/Somatic Practices

  Elena Demyanenko

• Experimental Narrative in Moving Image

  Beatriz Santiago Muñoz

• Exploring Taiwanese Culture Through Mahjong: Rules and Strategies

  Ginger Lin

• Faculty Performance Production: Everything That Never Happened by Sarah Mantell

  Jean Randich

• Fake Revolution: Media Culture and Hollywood’s Insurrection Fantasy

  Jen Liu

• Feminist Freedom

  Catherine McKeen

• Fiddle

  John Kirk

• Fine Art Digital Printing

  Eddy Leonel Aldana

• Floor to Standing: How We Get Up, How We Go

  Londs Reuter, MFA Teaching Fellow

• Form and Process: Introduction to Painting

  Colin Brant

• Foundations of Photography: Digital Practice

  Luiza Folegatti

• Foundations of Political Leadership

  Rotimi Suberu

• From an Indigenous Point of View

  Miroslava Prazak

• Fundamentals of Creative Writing

  Devon Walker-Figueroa

• Gospel Music; Share the Joy

  Kathy Bullock

• Graduate Assistantship in Public Action

  Susan Sgorbati

• Graduate Music Pedagogy

  Nicholas Brooke

• Graduate Projects and Research in Music

  Nicholas Brooke

• Graduate Research in Dance

  Elena Demyanenko & Nicole Daunic

• Graduate Research in Public Action

  Susan Sgorbati

• Graduate Seminar

  Chang Yuchen

• Graduate Seminar on Pedagogy and Public Action

  Susan Sgorbati

• Graduate Teaching Fellowship in Dance

  Elena Demyanenko

• Graduate Thesis Continuation

  Donna Faye Burchfield

• Harlem & the Northern Renaissance: New/Amsterg@ddam, 1450-now

  J. Vanessa Lyon

• History of Medicine: From Hippocrates to Harvey

  Carol Pal

• History of Theater II

  Maya Cantu

• Housing in America, Housing in Bennington

  David Bond

• Human Rights in Action

  Andy Galindo

• Hyper Body! – Anarchic Ballet to Water Movement to African Dance to Floor Ninja to Body Architecture to Shining Zombie to Unknown Transformation…..

  Kota Yamazaki

• I am a Material

  John Umphlett

• Improvisation Ensemble for Dancers and Musicians

  Michael Wimberly

• In the Eastern, Green Mountains: Poetry through an Experimental Buddhist Lens

  Farnoosh Fathi

• Independent Study

  TBA

• Individualized Lab

  Donna Faye Burchfield

• Individualized Practice

  Donna Faye Burchfield

• Individualized Studio Practice + Process

  Donna Faye Burchfield

• Inequality in a Globalized World

  Miroslava Prazak

• Insider Perspectives on the Francophone World II

  Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly

• Intermediate Drawing: Beyond Representation

  Beverly Acha

• Intermediate Drum Set (Fundamentals)

  Michael Wimberly

• Intermediate Ear Training

  Nicholas Brooke

• Intermediate Guitar

  John Kirk

• Intermediate Painting: Beyond the Easel

  J Blackwell

• Intermediate Painting: Facture

  J Blackwell

• Intermediate Piano

  Yoshiko Sato

• Intermediate Video: The Archive

  Laura Sofía Pérez

• Intermediate Voice

  Virginia Warnken Kelsey

• Intermediate Voice

  Virginia Warnken Kelsey

• Intermediate Voice

  Kerry Ryer-Parke

• Intro to Maps and Geographic Information Systems

  Tim Schroeder

• Intro to Scene Painting

  Seancolin Hankins

• Intro to VR

  John Crowe

• Intro to Woodshop

  Olivia Saporito

• Introduction to Computer Science 2: Algorithms and Application

  Darcy Otto

• Introduction to Cybersecurity

  Meltem Ballan

• Introduction to Dramaturgy

  Maya Cantu

• Introduction to Git and Github

  Meltem Ballan

• Introduction to Intaglio: The Alchemist’s Print

  Thorsten Dennerline

• Introduction to Sustainable Agriculture

  Kelie Bowman

• Introduction to Video

  Beatriz Santiago Muñoz

• Introduction to Video

  Jen Liu

• Introduction to Video

  Laura Sofía Pérez

• Introduction to Viola

  Ariel Rudiakov

• Javanese Gamelan

  Nicholas Brooke

• Jazz Ensemble

  Jen Allen

• Kafka

  Stuart Nadler

• Keats and Stevens

  Michael Dumanis

• Kilns and Firing Techniques

  Anina Major

• Language Across Time and Space

  Alexia Fawcett

• Language at the Margins

  Alexia Fawcett

• Left To Their Own Devices

  Omeed Goodarzi, MFA Teaching Fellow

• Let’s Get the Show on the Road: Touring Live Performance

  Davison Scandrett

• Life and Death: Buddhism in Modern Japanese films

  Ikuko Yoshida

• Life Drawing Lab

  Colin Brant

• Lost and Found in the Nineteenth Century

  Eileen Scully

• Magical Realism and Black Speculative Fiction: On Radical Cosmogony

  Anaïs Duplan

• Making Technical Theatre with Advanced Design & Collaboration

  Tilly Grimes

• Mandolin

  John Kirk

• Maps, Translations, and Movement

  Martín Lanz, MFA Teaching Fellow

• Market Power: Advanced topics in Microeconomics

  Lopamudra Banerjee

• Meisner Technique II

  Jennifer Rohn

• Metrics of Prosperity II: Labor Markets

  Emma Kast

• Middle Eastern Ensemble

  Joseph Alpar

• More-than-human Dances

  Nicole Daunic & Mina Nishimura

• Morning Dance: Beginning-level Dance Technique

  Mina Nishimura

• Movement Practice: Spiraling around…

  Martín Lanz, MFA Teaching Fellow

• Music and Culture: An Introduction to Ethnomusicology

  Joseph Alpar

• Music and Moving Image

  Nicholas Brooke

• Musical Taste and Monetization – The Business Side of Music

  Kyoko Kitamura

• Mutants: Genetic variation and human development

  Amie McClellan

• Native (North) American Literature

  Devon Walker-Figueroa

• Non-normative Bodies

  Levi Gonzalez

• Of Sound and Nature

  Blake Jones & Joseph Alpar

• Paris on Screen

  Stephen Shapiro

• Patternmaking and Garment Construction

  Richard MacPike

• Peacebuilding Training and Action

  Vahidin Omanovic

• Performance Pedagogies of Dance

  Paul Matteson

• Performance Pedagogies of Dance

  Gary Jeter

• Performance Pedagogies of Dance

  Shayla-Vie Jenkins

• Performance Pedagogies of Dance

  Netta Yerushalmy

• Performance Project: Dancing Chavela Vargas

  Levi Gonzalez

• Performance Project: New Territory / Place

  Ros Warby

• Performing & Collaborating with Advanced Design

  Tilly Grimes

• Pessimism, Despair, and Hope

  Paul Voice

• Phenomenology of the Strange

  Laura Sofía Pérez

• Philosophical Problems

  Paul Voice

• Photobooks

  Luiza Folegatti

• Piano

  Christopher Lewis

• Piano

  Yoshiko Sato

• Piano Lab I: Beginning Piano

  Benjamin April

• Piano Lab I: Beginning Piano

  Yoshiko Sato

• Piano Lab I: Beginning Piano

  Yoshiko Sato

• Plastics and Public Health

  Megan Wolff

• Plastics, Microplastics and Human Health

  Megan Wolff

• Platform: Projects in Drama

  Dina Janis & Jennifer Rohn

• Political Ideologies in Action: Socialism in the United States

  John Hultgren

• Portfolio 2

  Emily Wexler

• Post-Mao Chinese Rock and Roll

  Ginger Lin

• Poverty and Vulnerability

  Lopamudra Banerjee

• Practice Lab

  Paul Matteson

• Price Theory

  Lopamudra Banerjee

• Problems of Political Development

  Rotimi Suberu

• Processing and Making in Rhino 7

  Derek Parker

• Processing and Making with Rhino 8

  Derek Parker

• Producing the Sound of Tomorrow’s Albums and Television Shows

  Nathaniel Reichman

• Projection of Images

  Sue Rees

• Projections – Animation Projects

  Sue Rees

• Propaganda in Modern Chinese Culture

  Ginger Lin

• Psychology of Gender and Sexuality

  Arita Balaram

• Quantum Mechanics

  Hugh Crowl

• Queer Asian Pacific American Literature

  Franny Choi

• Queer French (in English)

  Stephen Shapiro

• Queering Creation in the Arts of Latin America

  Lena Retamoso Urbano

• Race and the Poetic Avant-Garde

  Franny Choi

• Race in Publishing

  Mariam Rahmani & Michael Corey

• Radio Plays: Making Theatre for Radio and Podcast

  Dina Janis

• Re-Thinking Society: Radical Visions

  Paul Voice

• Reading & Writing: Spectacular Failure

  Manuel Gonzales

• Reading and Knitting the Forested Landscape

  Caitlin McDonough Mackenzie

• Reading and Writing Fiction & Nonfiction: The Emergence of Prose

  Renee Gladman

• Reading and Writing Nonfiction: Archival Work

  Anaïs Duplan

• Reading and Writing Poetry: Image and Detail

  Michael Dumanis

• Reading and Writing: Archival Work

  Benjamin Anastas

• Reading as a Collective Act: Thinking Through Dance and Performance

  Donna Faye Burchfield

• Reading Revolution

  Farnoosh Fathi

• Reimagining Representation

  Terry Boddie

• Riffing with Shakespeare and his Doubles

  Jean Randich

• Sculpture Studio/Advanced practice

  John Umphlett

• Seminar: Building Ethical Data Governance for Organizational Excellence

  Meltem Ballan

• Senior Projects

  Nicholas Brooke & Michael Wimberly

• Senior Thesis Workshop

  Jesse Zaritt & Shayla-Vie Jenkins

• Sing What You Write

  Kerry Ryer-Parke

• Social and Emotional Learning

  Emily Waterman

• Socially Engaged Art Seminar: Creative Repair

  Yoko Inoue

• Software Product Development

  Michael Corey

• Solo Performance

  Kirk Jackson

• Song for Ireland and Celtic Connections

  John Kirk

• Songwriting

  Jen Allen

• Songwriting Crimes and Recording Atrocities

  Kevin Barnes

• Spanish Through Film

  Sarah Harris

• Spanish Through Song

  Lena Retamoso Urbano

• Special Projects in Advanced Japanese

  Ikuko Yoshida

• Special Projects: Writers and Their Work

  Ikuko Yoshida

• Special Relativity

  Hugh Crowl

• Special Topics in Trans Lit: Spirituality

  Zoe Tuck

• Stars, Planets, Life

  Hugh Crowl

• Statistical Methods for Data Analysis

  Josef Mundt

• Statistics for Social Science

  Emily Waterman

• Studies Lab

  TBA

• Studio Practice + Process: Dreaming as Code: Somatic Time Travels, Grooves, and Otherwise

  Song Aziza Tucker

• Studio Practice + Process: Love’s Alchemy: Transformative Practices That Merge Notions of Ritual, Care, and Study

  Mikhail Calliste

• Studio Practice + Process: The Ecstasy of Influence

  Niall Jones

• Studio Practice + Process: Unfolding the Arc in Storytelling, Uncertainty/Improvisation, and Filmmaking

  Kayla Farrish

• Studio Practice: Architectures of Strength

  Cameron Childs

• Studio Practice: Ballet Forms/Neoclassical and Contemporary Explorations

  Michael Sheridan

• Studio Practice: Ballet Forms/Neoclassical and Contemporary Explorations

  Michael Sheridan

• Studio Practice: Ballet Forms/Shared Practices

  Michael Sheridan & Mark Caserta

• Studio Practice: Ballet Forms/Shared Practices

  Michael Sheridan & Mark Caserta

• Studio Practice: Contemporary Forms/Diving In and Springing Out

  Paul Matteson

• Studio Practice: Contemporary Forms/Expansion and Continuity

  Katie Swords Thurman

• Studio Practice: Contemporary Forms/Expansion and Continuity

  Katie Swords Thurman

• Studio Practice: Contemporary Forms/Unearthing Physicality

  kira shiina

• Studio Practice: Contemporary Forms/Unearthing Physicality

  kira shiina

• Studio Practice: Hip Hop Under the Scope Intensive – The Clark Method, Street Dance Training Module

  Kyle Clark

• Studio Practice: Hip Hop Under the Scope Intensive – The Clark Method, Street Dance Training Module

  Kyle Clark

• Studio Practice: Hip Hop Under the Scope Intensive – The Clark Method, Street Dance Training Module

  Kyle Clark

• Study Group 2

  Donna Faye Burchfield

• Sun Ra: Space is the Place

  Michael Wimberly

• Sustainable Agriculture: Advanced Projects

  Kelie Bowman

• Teaching Languages and Cultures K-6

  Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly & Ikuko Yoshida

• Ten Decades, Ten Exhibitions: Art Narratives of the Twentieth Century

  Anne Thompson

• Tessellation

  Farhad Mirza

• The Art of Losing: Composing and Editing Dances and Writing

  Londs Reuter, MFA Teaching Fellow

• The Big Picture: Stewarding Artists’ Legacies (FWT Course)

  Elizabeth White

• The Body Speaking

  Levi Gonzalez

• The Curatorial: Your Top Ten

  Anne Thompson

• The Emerson Problem: American Transcendentalism, Then and Now

  Benjamin Anastas

• The Global Music Classroom

  Joseph Alpar

• The Hand as Tool

  Anina Major

• The Latin American Short Story

  Jonathan Pitcher

• The Lives of Wives

  Zoe Tuck

• The Magic of Adolescence

  Emily Waterman

• The Music of J.S.Bach

  Allen Shawn

• The Politics of Pedro Almodóvar

  Sarah Harris

• The Power and Ethics of Photography

  Farzana Wahidy, MFA Teaching Fellow

• The Puppet Project

  Tilly Grimes

• The Return of All Things

  Zeena Parkins

• The Scriptorium: Found Families

  Alex Creighton

• The Scriptorium: Multiverses, Utopias, and Dreamscapes, Oh My!

  Alex Creighton