Society, Culture, Thought Courses
Spring 2024
Anthropological linguistics and biocultural knowledge
Leah PappasAnthropology and the Body
Cecilia SalviBeyond Plastic Pollution
Judith EnckCartographies of force: bugs and media
Maia NicholsClimate Change and the Global Economy
Lopamudra BanerjeeClimate Science and Policy
John Hultgren & Tim SchroederCommunity and Liberation Psychology
Özge SavaşConspiracies: Past, Present, Always
Eileen ScullyCulture, Environment and Sustainable Living
Miroslava PrazakDigital Screens: Developmental and Cognitive Consequences
Emily Waterman & Blake JonesEmbodied Love: An exploration in psychology and movement
Elena Demyanenko & Özge SavaşEncountering the Abenaki Nation
Miroslava PrazakFeminist Freedom
Catherine McKeenField Methods
Leah PappasFoundations of Global Politics
Rotimi SuberuGame Theory
Lopamudra BanerjeeGender in Early Modern Europe
Carol PalGlobal Environmental Politics
John HultgrenMaterial culture in and of media
Maia NicholsMetrics of Prosperity: Data Analysis for Health, Well-being, and the Economy
Emma KastOther People’s Worlds
Miroslava PrazakPhilosophical Puzzles
Paul VoicePhilosophical Zombies and Super-Intelligent Robots
Catherine McKeenRace, Robots, and Asian American Literature
Franny ChoiRawls and Justice
Paul VoiceRe-Thinking Society: Radical Visions
Paul VoiceResearch Methods
Özge SavaşResearching Human Rights
Rotimi SuberuStatistics for Social Science
Emily WatermanStrategic thinking and social interactions
Lopamudra BanerjeeTerrible Choices: Philosophy & Tragedy
Catherine McKeenThe F-Word: Confronting Fascism in a World on Fire
John HultgrenThe Literature of Black Insurgency
Anaïs DuplanThe Philosophy of Hannah Arendt
Paul VoiceThe Silk Road
Carol PalThe Social Life of Trash
Cecilia SalviTrends in Adolescent Mental Health
Emily WatermanWicked Problems and Diabolical Dilemmas
Eileen Scully
Fall 2023
A History of Economic Thought
Emma KastBeyond Story
Mariam GhaniChild Development
Emily WatermanCollecting and Vetting Public Data for Research
Michael CoreyContemporary Feminisms of Latin America
Cecilia SalviCreative Practices in Sensory Geopolitics
Maia NicholsDisasters and Urban Modernity
Lopamudra BanerjeeExperimental Sound Practices
Senem PirlerFamilies: Love and Power in the Domestic Sphere
Miroslava PrazakFrom the Stoics to Ubuntu: Philosophies of the Good Life
Catherine McKeen & Paul VoiceGenesis
Carol PalHistory of Science: From Aristotle to Newton
Carol PalHistory of the Book
Carol PalHorror Writing and the (Postcolonial) Afterlife
Anaïs DuplanHuman Rights in Global Politics
Rotimi SuberuIn Sickness and In Health: An Introduction to Medical Anthropology
Miroslava PrazakIntroduction to Political Ideologies
John HultgrenKnowing the self and the other: Critical explorations of psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic case studies
Maxwell LevisLanguage and Culture in the Pacific
Leah PappasLanguage as System and Social Behavior
Thomas Leddy-CecereLanguage typology: Patterns and universals in language
Leah PappasNavigating Media in Institutional History
Maia NicholsOnce Upon a Time: Exploring Children’s Historical Fiction
Eileen ScullyPhilosophical Reasoning
Catherine McKeenQualitative Inquiry
Özge SavaşSeminar on International Mediation in Armed Conflicts
Rotimi SuberuSustainability and Social Justice
John HultgrenThe Animal that therefore I am
John HultgrenThe Blazing World
Catherine McKeenThe Camp Aesthetic
Maya CantuThe Musical “Other”: Exoticism, Appropriation, and Multiculturalism
Joseph AlparThe Personal and Political
Özge SavaşThe Third Decade of Life
Emily WatermanTheoretical Ethics: The Nature of Moral Judgments
Paul VoiceTrends in Adolescent Mental Health
Emily WatermanUnemployment and Inflation
Lopamudra BanerjeeWhat is Capitalism?
Emma KastWhat is economics?
Lopamudra BanerjeeWhat Was Critique and What Comes Next?
David Bond“Culture” in a Globalized World: A Critique
Cecilia Salvi
Spring 2023
Anarchist Anthropologies
Steve MoogBennington Past and Present
Eileen ScullyComparing Political Institutions
Rotimi SuberuDecolonization of Work and Career in Psychology to Promote Equity and Social Justice
Shelley JacksonEconomic Inequality
Lopamudra BanerjeeEnvironmental Political Theory
John HultgrenEssays of Walter Benjamin
Anne ThompsonHaptic Media
Teddy PozoLanguage Contact and Shift
Leah PappasLanguage Documentation and Description
Leah PappasMarket Society
Lopamudra BanerjeeMarket Structure
Lopamudra BanerjeeOn the Question of Violence: Inquiry, Movement, and Rupture
David BondOne Day in New York City
Eileen ScullyPessimism, Despair, and Hope
Paul VoicePhilosophical Puzzles
Paul VoicePhilosophical Zombies and Super-intelligent Robots
Catherine McKeenPoesis: Calling Psychology Into Existence: Study of Expressive Arts’ influences on Psychology
Shelley JacksonPolitical Ideologies in Action: Socialism in the United States
John HultgrenPower
Catherine McKeenPunk Culture: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Steve MoogRe-Thinking Society: Radical Visions
Paul VoiceRepresenting Sexuality and Gender On Screen
Teddy PozoResearch Methods
Özge SavaşSelf and Identity in Diaspora
Özge SavaşSeminar in Comparative Democratization
Rotimi SuberuSocial Semiotics of Contemporary Literature
Anaïs DuplanSounding Home: Music, Migration and Diaspora
Joseph AlparSun Ra: Space is the Place
Michael WimberlyTechnology Entrepreneurship
Meltem BallanThe Beautiful City: Plato’s Republic
Catherine McKeenThe Renaissance
Carol PalWitchcraft and Magic in Premodern Europe
Carol Pal
Fall 2022
American Environmental Politics
John HultgrenBlack Music: Black Music Division – Reimagined
Michael WimberlyChild Development
Emily WatermanCounseling Theory & Practice
Christine McAuliffeElectronic Media
Teddy PozoFrom the Stoics to Ubuntu: Philosophies of the Good Life
Catherine McKeen & Paul VoiceGesture: Utterances as multimodal acts
Leah PappasGlobal Politics
Emma KastHistory of Christianity: From the Hebrews to Henry VIII
Carol PalJourney: The 1890s
Eileen ScullyLanguage as System and Social Behavior
Thomas Leddy-CecereLanguage, Thought, and Culture
Leah PappasLies, Damn Lies, and Conspiracy Theories
Catherine McKeenMacroeconomics 1: “Growth and Crisis”
Lopamudra BanerjeeMaking and Breaking International Law
Eileen ScullyMigration, Identity, & Belonging
Özge SavaşMusic and Culture: An Introduction to Ethnomusicology
Joseph AlparMusic of Brazil
Joseph AlparPandemic and the World Economy
Lopamudra BanerjeePhilosophical Reasoning
Catherine McKeenPhilosophy & Biography: Wittgenstein
Paul VoicePolitical Ideologies in Action: American Conservatism
John HultgrenPopular Culture, Politics, and Resistance
Steve MoogQualitative Inquiry
Özge SavaşQueerness and Games
Teddy PozoSenior Seminar in Society, Culture, and Thought
John Hultgren & Eileen ScullySenior Seminar in Society, Culture, and Thought
David BondShow and Tell: Visual Ethnography for Understanding the World Around Us
Steve MoogStatistics for the Social Sciences
Emily WatermanThe History of Medicine: From Hippocrates to Harvey
Carol PalThe Personal and Political
Özge SavaşTheories and Histories of Capitalism
Emma KastTopics in Applied Philosophy: War
Paul VoiceWellbeing @ Bennington
Alison Tartaglia & Kat DaleyWomen and Enlightenment
Carol PalWords Without Borders: Translation in Times of Crisis
Marguerite Feitlowitz
Spring 2022
Adult Psychopathology
Christine McAuliffeApproaches to Afghanistan
Noah CoburnBlackness, Fugitivity, and Visual Culture
Keisha KnightConspiracies: Past, Present, Always
Eileen ScullyEnglish(es) Past, Present and Future
Thomas Leddy-CecereFeminist Freedom
Catherine McKeenFrom an Indigenous Point of View
Miroslava PrazakGender in Early Modern Europe
Carol PalGlobal Environmental Politics
John HultgrenHelping Skills
Emily WatermanHuman Rights in Global Politics
Rotimi SuberuInternational Relations Theories
Rotimi SuberuIntersections in Black Feminist Movement and Research
Özge SavasLove & Happiness
Catherine McKeenMany Peoples, One World
Miroslava PrazakMusical Taste and Transformation: the Self, Algorithms and the Human Connection
Kyoko KitamuraPhilosophical Problems
Paul VoicePolitical Economy of Imperialism
Emma KastProblems of Political Development
Rotimi SuberuRe-Thinking Society: Radical Visions
Paul VoiceResilience, Farming, and Food Access
Tatiana AbatemarcoSCT Advanced Work Preparation Module
Eileen Scully, John Hultgren & David BondSelf and Identity in Diaspora
Özge SavasSenior Seminar in Society, Culture, and Thought II
Carol PalSocial Capital for Regenerative Communities
Tatiana Abatemarco & Susan SgorbatiThe Devil Finds Work
Keisha KnightThe Dustbin of History
Eileen ScullyThe Magic of Adolescence
Emily WatermanThe Philosophy of Hannah Arendt
Paul VoiceThe United States in the World
Emma KastTHIS, THAT and the OTHER: An Introduction to Linguistic Referring
Thomas Leddy-CecereTotal Theory
Jonathan Pitcher
Fall 2021
Child Development
Emily WatermanCine-Ecologies
Keisha KnightCivil Society in Conflict Resolution
Rotimi SuberuCulture, Environment and Sustainable Living
Miroslava PrazakDecolonize Everything! Anthropology and Empire in the Global South and Global North
David BondFoundations of Global Politics
Rotimi SuberuGender, Inequality and Social Change
Miroslava PrazakGenesis
Carol PalGlobal Political Economy
Emma KastGlobal Political Economy
Emma KastHistory of Science: From Aristotle to Newton
Carol PalHistory of the Book
Carol PalInfrastructures of Imagination
Keisha KnightKant Seminar: The Three Critiques
Paul VoiceLanguage as System and Social Behavior
Thomas Leddy-CecereLanguage, Power and Belonging in the Middle East and North Africa
Thomas Leddy-CecereLost and Found in the Nineteenth Century
Eileen ScullyLost and Found in the Nineteenth Century
Eileen ScullyMass Affect: Media Culture and Theory
Jen Liu, Mariam Ghani & Senem PirlerPhilosophical Reasoning
Catherine McKeenPlacing Art at the Heart of Community Building
Miroslava Prazak & Kerry Ryer-ParkePsychological Study of Sex and Gender
Özge SavasPsychological Study of Sex and Gender
Özge SavasResearching Human Rights
Rotimi SuberuSeminar on Monolingualism
Thomas Leddy-CecereSenior Seminar in Society, Culture, and Thought
Tatiana Abatemarco, Özge Savas & Eileen ScullyThe Philosophy of Democracy
Paul VoiceThe Special Immigrant Visa Program: A Research Seminar and Case Study of Immigration Reform
Noah CoburnTheories and Histories of Capitalism
Emma KastTheories and Histories of Capitalism
Emma KastThinking Like A Greek
Catherine McKeenTopics in Applied Philosophy: Privacy
Paul VoiceUnderstanding and Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences
Emily Waterman
Spring 2021
Comparing Political Institutions
Rotimi SuberuConstructed Languages: Between Entertainment and Idealism
Thomas Leddy-CecereDecolonizing Ethnomusicology
Joseph M. AlparExplorations in Public History
Eileen ScullyExploring the World through Research
Miroslava PrazakFeminist Philosophy
Catherine McKeenImmortal Media
Brian Michael MurphyInequality in a Globalized World
Miroslava PrazakIntersections in Black Feminist Movement and Research
Özge SavasLanguage: The Endangerment Concept
Thomas Leddy-CecereLanguage: The Evolution Concept
Thomas Leddy-CecereLexicon of Forced Migration
John HultgrenManaging Ethnic Conflicts
Rotimi SuberuPessimism, Despair, and Hope
Paul VoicePrice Theory
Lopamudra BanerjeeRe-Thinking Society: Radical Visions
Paul VoiceReading Ethnography
Noah CoburnReally Cold Cases: Investigating America’s Most Notorious Unsolved Crimes, 1850-1950
Eileen ScullySenior Seminar in Society, Culture and Thought II
John HultgrenStatistics for Social Science
Emily WatermanThe Beautiful City: Plato’s Republic
Catherine McKeenThe Personal and Political
Özge SavasThe Politics of Soul: Music, Emotion, Embodiment
Joseph Alpar and Brian Michael MurphyThe Renaissance
Carol PalThe Third Decade of Life
Emily WatermanWitchcraft and Magic in Premodern Europe
Carol PalWork
Lopamudra Banerjee
Fall 2020
Child Development
Emily WatermanDigital Life
Brian Michael MurphyDigital Materiality
Brian Michael MurphyEconomic Inequality
Lopamudra BanerjeeEnvironmental Political Theory: Climate, Coronavirus, and the Commons
John HultgrenGender, Subsistence, and Agriculture
Tatiana AbatemarcoGoverning America
Eileen ScullyGoverning America
Eileen ScullyLanguage as System and Social Behavior
Thomas Leddy-CecereLove & Happiness
Catherine McKeenMigration, Identity, & Belonging
Özge SavaşMusic, Gender, and Sexuality in the Middle East
Joseph AlparOther People’s Worlds
Miroslava PrazakPhilosophical Reasoning
Catherine McKeenPolitical Ideologies in Action: American Conservatism
John HultgrenPopular Culture and Music in Post-Colonial Africa: From Palm Wine to Kuduro
Joseph AlparProduction, Employment, Prices
Lopamudra BanerjeePsychological Study of Sex and Gender
Özge SavaşSenior Seminar in Society, Culture, and Thought
David BondSenior Seminar in Society, Culture, and Thought
Paul VoiceSocial Inquiry in an Age of Upheaval
David BondStructures of Power in Society
Miroslava PrazakThe Magic of Adolescence
Emily WatermanTheoretical Ethics: The Nature of Moral Judgments
Paul VoiceUnderstanding Food Insecurity in Bennington 2
Tatiana Abatemarco & Susan SgorbatiWicked Problems and Diabolical Dilemmas
Eileen Scully