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Fall 2012 Curriculum Table of Contents Center for the Advancement of Public Action…………………………………………………………………………… 1 Advancement of Public Action............................................................................................................................... 1 Design Labs ............................................................................................................................................................... 5 Conflict Resolution................................................................................................................................................... 6 Modules: Transferable Approaches....................................................................................................................... 6 Center for Creative Teaching………………………………………………………………………………………………. 9 Dance………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………... 11 Drama……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 19 The Environment………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 29 Foreign Languages………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 31 Chinese..................................................................................................................................................................... 31 Foreign Language Education................................................................................................................................32 French....................................................................................................................................................................... 33 Italian ....................................................................................................................................................................... 35 Japanese ................................................................................................................................................................... 36 Spanish..................................................................................................................................................................... 38 Literature…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 40 Music………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………... 49 Music Composition ................................................................................................................................................ 50 Music History.......................................................................................................................................................... 53 Music Performance................................................................................................................................................. 55 Music Sound Design and Recording ................................................................................................................... 65 Music Theory .......................................................................................................................................................... 66 Science, Math, and Computing……………………………………………………………………………………………67 Biology ..................................................................................................................................................................... 67 Chemistry ................................................................................................................................................................ 71 Computing .............................................................................................................................................................. 72 Earth Science ........................................................................................................................................................... 73 Mathematics............................................................................................................................................................ 74 Physics ..................................................................................................................................................................... 77 Science and Mathematics ...................................................................................................................................... 78 Social Science………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 80 Anthropology.......................................................................................................................................................... 80 History ..................................................................................................................................................................... 82 Political Economy................................................................................................................................................... 84 Philosophy............................................................................................................................................................... 85 Politics and International Relations..................................................................................................................... 87 Psychology .............................................................................................................................................................. 89 Visual Arts…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 92 Art History .............................................................................................................................................................. 92 Visual Arts / Studios .............................................................................................................................................. 93 Visual Arts / Related Studies .............................................................................................................................. 110 Graduate Programs………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 111 Center for Creative Teaching.............................................................................................................................. 111 MFA in Dance ....................................................................................................................................................... 111 Fall 2012 Curriculum – Updated 08/28/12 CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC ACTION The Center’s curricular offerings address the challenges of effective citizenship in today’s world, inviting students to study the world’s most urgent problems as well as to confront what it means to attend to them. Bennington’s longstanding commitment to educating students toward constructive social purposes is evident throughout the curriculum as a whole; courses offered through the Center focus attention on pressing and evolving issues such as education, the environment, health, the distribution of wealth, the uses of force, and governance. Featured content areas will include media, religion, and law. The Center will also provide regular opportunities to acquire or build upon the capacities and skills necessary to effect change, among them design, rhetoric, mediation, improvisation, and negotiation. Related courses can be found throughout the curriculum. ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC ACTION APA2112.01 Rhetoric: The Art and Craft of Persuasion Karen Gover The ability to speak and write persuasively is an essential skill for everyone. Whether you are writing a plan essay, applying for a job, or running for public office, you need to be persuasive and compelling. This course is a practical workshop in rhetoric. Students will write, deliver, and critique short (two‐minute) persuasive speeches in each class. We will learn classic rhetorical terms and techniques, and apply them in our analysis of famous political speeches. At the end of the course, students will compete by delivering a five‐minute speech on a topic of their choice to a distinguished panel of judges. Prerequisites: None. Credits: 4 Time: MTh 4:10 ‐ 6pm 1 Fall 2012 Curriculum – Updated 08/28/12 APA2150.01 APA Workshop: Focus: Cities Eileen Scully In 2008, for the first time in human history, more people inhabited cities than the countryside. Cities have always played a fundamental role in the economic and cultural development of human society. Many of society’s greatest challenges are intensified by the density of urban populations: slums, crime, poor educational and health outcomes, environmental hazards, and more. Yet increasingly, cities are being viewed as potential laboratories for solving many of these same challenges. This is as true in the developed world as it is in the developing world. The focus of this workshop will be to look at cities through the lens of public action. How can we understand more about the role cities play in contemporary human society? How can we take advantage of what cities have to offer in terms of large‐scale public problem solving? As a CAPA workshop, this course will be one of shared discovery. It is not a course on urban planning or a history of cities, though we will likely learn about both. The method of the course will be to read together and to investigate what cities have to offer us in terms of public action. We will have a shared reading list to get us started, but the curriculum will adapt as we work together to understand better the subject we are exploring. Work will include frequent reading responses, in class presentations, and a final independent project of your design that looks at how cities and