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A Celebration Service — MUS4232.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Thomas Bogdan Levi Gonzalez
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Credits: 4
This class will reconstruct and perform Meredith Monk’s “A Celebration Service” for the Bennington College community.  Tom Bogdan, an original cast member in the work, will cast and teach an ensemble of singer/ dancers to be joined by an ensemble of “Processional” dancers, supervised by Levi Gonzalez to perform this spiritually inspired performance piece, created by
Dance Music

A Celebration Service - The Dancer’s Ensembles — DAN4184.02

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 1
This class will reconstruct and perform Meredith Monk’s “A Celebration Service” for the Bennington College community.  Tom Bogdan, an original cast member in the work, will cast and teach an ensemble of singer/ dancers to be joined by an ensemble of “Processional” dancers, supervised by Levi Gonzalez to perform this spiritually inspired performance piece, created by
Dance Music

A Collective Portrait of America: Literary Memoir Since the Civil War — LIT2282.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
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Credits: 4
“Everyone must bear his own universe," wrote Henry Adams in his seminal autobiography, "and most persons are moderately interested in learning how their neighbors have managed to carry theirs.” In this course we will interest ourselves in the universes of American writers from Adams' time to the present, using autobiography, memoir, and personal essay as our entry points. From
Literature

A History of Mathematics — MAT2403.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Tim Kane
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Credits: 4
Symbolism has played a central role in the development of mathematics.  From Babylonian cuneiform tablets to today’s modern algebraic notation, the evolution of mathematical thought requires new symbols as new symbols allow for more abstract and analytical reasoning.  While exploring the general themes and historical periods of mathematics, this course will focus on
Science and Mathematics

Advanced CAPA Workshop — APA4256.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
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Credits: 4
This course is for students who are doing advanced work in public action. Students create a digital portfolio that includes a project in a specific local, national or international community. Students will build this portfolio over the term that includes their research, documentation and a final showing of work. Most students connect this project to work in another discipline
Advancement of Public Action

Advanced Ceramic Projects — CER4224.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Aysha Peltz
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Credits: 4
This course is designed for the intermediate or advanced ceramic student who is ready to focus intensely on a project. Projects will be conceptually based, requiring investigation on an individual level. Issues to be raised in this class will include functional and sculptural forms relating to the history of ceramic objects. Readings and research will supplement studio
Visual Arts

Advanced Improvisation Ensemble for Dancers and Musicians — DAN4673.02

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
This class is for advanced dance improvisers who will collaborate with musicians in creating ensemble forms for the performance of improvisation. We will meet once a week with musicians and will also collaborate with Thorsten Dennerline's Printmaking class to create a performance at the end of the term. Students will learn a Solo Practice and an Ensemble practice in
Dance Music Visual Arts

Advanced Improvisation: The Game of the Scene — DRA4380.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Shawtane Bowen
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Credits: 4
Advanced Improvisation is an in-depth study of improvised comedy scene work. The central theme of this course is finding and playing “Game.” In order to find a Game in a long form improvised scene, you typically need to be able to answer three questions: What is the situation? What is the first unusual thing? If this is true, then what else is true. We’ll be
Drama

Advanced Mixing Techniques — MSR4365.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Senem Pirler
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Credits: 2
This course will offer an advanced study in studio practices. We will explore various mixing objectives and techniques through critical listening sessions, analysis, and hands-on projects. We will focus on the fundamentals as well as advanced practices of mixing, shaping the sounds through dynamic range processors and modulation tools, and various other techniques. Students
Music

Advanced Piano — MIN4336.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Christopher Lewis
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Credits: 2
Individual private lessons for advanced students, with focus on the classical repertoire. Students will meet with the instructor weekly on scheduled class days, at times to be arranged with the instructor. A minimum of 30 minutes practice per day is expected. Two excused absences permitted, with every effort made for make-up lessons. Participation in Tuesday evening music
Music

Advanced Piano – Intensive — MIN4418.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Christopher Lewis
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Credits: 4
Individual private lessons for advanced students, with focus on the classical repertoire. Students will meet with the instructor twice per week on scheduled class days, at times to be arranged with the instructor. A minimum of one hour practice per day is expected. Two excused absences permitted, with every effort made for make-up lessons. Participation in Tuesday evening music
Music

Advanced Projects in Dance — DAN4795.02, section 2

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
This is an essential course for students wishing to make new work for performance this term, whether one project or a series. It is designed specifically to support each person’s artistic voice and manner of working. Attention will be given to all of elements involved in composition and production, including collaborative aspects. Students are expected to show their work
Dance

Advanced Projects in Dance — DAN4795.01, section 1

Spring 2023
Instructor: Dana Reitz
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Credits: 2
This is an essential course for students wishing to make new work for performance this term, whether one project or a series. It is designed specifically to support each person’s artistic voice and manner of working. Attention will be given to all of elements involved in composition and production, including collaborative aspects. Students are expected to show their work
Dance

Advanced Projects in Video II — FV4242.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Jen Liu
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Credits: 4
Students will work towards completing one piece or body of work of their own devising during the course of the semester, while participating in weekly critiques of each others’ work.  During this course students will also participate in discussions of readings/screenings, as well as technical workshops - as needed and led by the interests and needs centered in student work
Visual Arts

Advanced Sculpture — SCU4118.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
This course provides the opportunity for a self-directed study in finding one’s voice as a sculptor by researching sources of influence and inspiration. Students are expected to undertake a significant amount of work outside of regular class meetings. The goal is for students to become fully versed in issues that define traditional and contemporary sculpture. Regular individual
Visual Arts

Advanced Voice — MVO4401.01, section 1

Spring 2023
Instructor: Thomas Bogdan
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Credits: 2
Advanced study of vocal technique and the interpretation of the vocal repertoire, designed for advanced students who have music as a plan concentration and to assist graduating seniors with preparation for senior recitals. Students are required to study and to perform a varied spectrum of vocal repertory for performance and as preparation for further study or graduate school. A
Music

Advanced Voice — MVO4401.02, section 2

Spring 2023
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
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Credits: 2
Advanced study of vocal technique and the interpretation of vocal repertoire, designed for advanced students who have music as a plan concentration and to assist graduating seniors with preparation for senior recitals. Students are required to study and to perform a varied spectrum of vocal repertory for performance and as preparation for further study or graduate school. A
Music

Advanced Workshop for Painting and Drawing — PAI4404.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Ann Pibal
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Credits: 4
This course is for experienced student artists with a firm commitment to serious work in the studio. Students will work primarily on self-directed projects in an effort to refine individual concerns and subject matter. Students will present work regularly for critique in class as well as for individual studio meetings with the instructor. There will be an emphasis on the
Visual Arts

Alternate Visions: Seeing the world through Women and LGBTQIA+ Contemporary Photographers — APA2014.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
This course will offer students an opportunity to look at some contemporary female and LGBTQIA+ photographers’ work. Students will get to talk directly with the photographers from different parts of the world. The invited photographers will include some emerging and well-established photographers. The focus of the course will be to find how contemporary female
Advancement of Public Action

An Introduction to the Rust Programming Language — CS4381.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Michael Corey
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Credits: 4
Rust is a new programming language focused on reliability and efficiency. Rust uses very specific approaches to types, memory-safety, and inheritance which make it an increasingly popular language for backend and system programming. In this course we will start by working through the the core learning documentation offered by the language community. After getting a firm footing
Science and Mathematics

Analog Avatars — DAN2685.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Levi Gonzalez
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Credits: 2
In this class we will explore the image, qualities, and superpowers of constructed avatars outside of a cyber reality and computer domain, in an analog way, in real time. We will view the stage as the computer, the dancing body as the avatar. We may witness the dance of the slimy sea moss underwater being, and the flying, fire-breathing rapture. We will imagine the world they
Dance

Anarchist Anthropologies — ANT2185.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Steve Moog
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Credits: 4
Anthropology is an invaluable tool for understanding the world around us. The discipline is also inextricable from problematic histories and inherent power dynamics embedded in its research methodologies. Several decades of efforts to “decolonize” anthropology have led to significant gains in addressing power imbalances created by perspectives mired in colonial, racist, and
Society Culture and Thought

Ancient to Modern Environments: Near and Far — ES4106.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Tim Schroeder
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Credits: 2
To study a planet’s climatic variation over geologic time we must look for subtle clues in the sedimentary rock record. We are currently doing this on two planets, and scientists have their sights set on more planetary bodies around the solar system. At the same time, the James Webb telescope is offering an unprecedented glimpse of what planets may look like outside of our
Science and Mathematics Environment