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The Art of Mediation and Negotiation — MED2107.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Peter Pagnucco
Credits: 2
Conflict exists everywhere—with friends and roommates, within the family, between nations—but is conflict inevitable?  In this class we will explore the basic elements of conflict resolution, focusing on the process of Mediation.  We will learn and observe the differences between mediation, negotiation, and court processes.  We will examine which behaviors
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The Art of Mediation and Negotiation — MED2107.02

Fall 2016
Instructor: Daniel Michaelson
Credits: 2
Conflict exists everywhere—with friends and roommates, within the family, between nations—but is conflict inevitable?  In this class we will explore the basic elements of conflict resolution, focusing on the process of Mediation.  We will learn and observe the differences between mediation, negotiation, and court processes.  We will examine which behaviors
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The Art of Mediation and Negotiation — MED2107.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Daniel Michaelson
Credits: 2
Conflict exists everywhere—with friends and roommates, within the family, between nations—but is conflict inevitable?  In this class we will explore the basic elements of conflict resolution, focusing on the process of Mediation.  We will learn and observe the differences between mediation, negotiation, and court processes.  We will examine which behaviors
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The Art of Mediation and Negotiation — MED2107.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Daniel Michaelson
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
In this class we explore the basic elements of conflict resolution with a focus on Mediation.  Students will learn and observe the differences between Mediation, Negotiation, and Court Processes.  We will examine which behaviors escalate conflicts, and which ones build lasting foundations of peace.  Incorporated into this class is a certified twenty-hour training
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The Art of the Interview — APA2450.02

Spring 2022
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 2
****moved to 2nd 7 weeks as of 2/18/2022**** Interviewing has been called an “art” by many writers. Some interviews require extensive preparation, others cursory, while still others are conducted with none. Students in this course will get experience in a variety interviewing genres and techniques. We will also watch, listen to and read several examples of interviews to
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The Art of the Interview — APA2450.02

Spring 2024
Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 2
Interviewing has been called an “art” by many writers. Some interviews require extensive preparation, others cursory, while still others are conducted with none. Students in this course will get experience in a variety of interviewing genres and techniques. We will also watch, listen to, and read several examples of interviews to further analyze various approaches. We will
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The Bible and Conflict Resolution — MOD2137.02

Spring 2017
Instructor: Michael Cohen
Credits: 1
The Bible provides many examples and lessons about conflict resolution. This three-week module will focus on some of the most important texts in the Bible when it comes to conflict resolution. Those selected texts will be examined using two thousand years of commentary and analysis. Modern conflict resolution theories, which provide contemporary approaches, will be integrated
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The Bible and Conflict Resolution — MOD2137.02

Spring 2016
Instructor: Michael Cohen
Credits: 1
The Bible provides many examples and lessons about conflict resolution. This three-week module will focus on some of the most important texts in the Bible when it comes to conflict resolution. Those selected texts will be examined using two thousand years of commentary and analysis. Modern conflict resolution theories, which provide contemporary approaches, will be integrated
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The Bible and Conflict Resolution — MOD2137.04

Fall 2014
Instructor: michael cohen
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
The Bible provides many examples and lessons about conflict resolution. This three-week module will focus on some of the most important texts in the Bible when it comes to conflict resolution. Those selected texts will be examined using two thousand years of commentary and analysis. Modern conflict resolution theories, which provide contemporary approaches, will be integrated
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The Bible and the Environment — MOD2254.03

Spring 2017
Instructor: Michael Cohen
Credits: 1
This module will analyze the environmental dimensions and lessons of the Bible with a primary focus on the books of Genesis and Psalms. Through the use of ancient and contemporary commentators the environmental messages of the Biblical texts will be examined as a means to confront and explore our relationship to the environment. The course will also examine the scores of
CAPA Environment Modules: Transferable Approaches

The Bible as a Key to Environmental Thought — MED2120.02

Fall 2021
Instructor: Michael Cohen
Credits: 1
This survey course will analyze the environmental dimensions and lessons of the book of Genesis and other books of the Bible, and at times from other traditions as well. Through the use of mostly contemporary commentators the text of the Bible will also be read as an environmental text. The course will also examine the scores of references to nature and the environment with an
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The Bible as a Key to Environmental Thought — MED2120.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Michael Cohen
Credits: 1
This survey course will analyze the environmental dimensions and lessons of the book of Genesis and other books of the Bible, and at times from other traditions as well. Through the use of mostly contemporary commentators the text of the Bible will also be read as an environmental text. The course will also examine the scores of references to nature and the environment with an
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The Body Remembers: Embodiment, Representation, and the Racial Imaginary — APA4240.02

Spring 2017
Instructor:
Credits: 2
This course will engage the socio-historical processes and technologies through which the gendered and racialized black body circulates in the public realm. Toggling between the present, past and future, students will engage with specific visual and material representations of black bodies and their attendant consumption, including “runaway slave” listings; the Clarence Thomas
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The Book of Deuteronomy the Book of Jonah — MED2122.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Michael Cohen
Credits: 2
The Book of Deuteronomy and the Book of Jonah are two pivotal books of the Bible. The former stands apart from the first four books of the Bible as a retelling of what previously occurred according to the text. In that retelling changes were made to many relevant topics and issues essential for the advancement of public well being. We will explore those areas ranging from
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The Book of Deuteronomy and the Advancement of Society — MED2114.03

Fall 2015
Instructor: Michael M. Cohen
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
The Book of Deuteronomy stands apart from the first four books of the Bible as a retelling of what previously occurred according to the text. In that retelling changes were made to so many relevant topics and issues essential for the advancement of public well being. This class will explore those areas ranging from humans the environment, the setting up a judicial
CAPA Environment Modules: Transferable Approaches

The Coming Community: Migration, Inclusion, and Obligation in the 21st Century — POL2204.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: John Hultgren
Credits: 4
What is the basis for granting someone membership within a political community? What obligations do we have toward those who are not formally members of our political community? Is “the nation” - today's dominant form of political community - capable of meeting the ethical challenges of a globalizing world? Is an alternative form of political community possible and/or desirable
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The Culinary Triangle and Ceramic Pot — APA2276.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
Credits: 2
What is the transformative power of food and how did the invention of pottery contribute to innovations in cooking? We will look at how anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss’s culinary triangle analyzes three interrelated aspects of the food: raw, cooked and rotted and mechanisms of natural and cultural transformations of food. We will also examine how the evolution of ceramic pot
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The Data Science Foundations — CS2132.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Meltem Ballan
Credits: 4
The Data Science Foundations provides an interactive introduction to common algorithms and techniques in data science. This class covers data preprocessing, regression techniques, supervised and unsupervised learning algorithms, decision trees, neural networks, ensemble methods,  model evaluation techniques and ethics. Throughout the course, students are encouraged to
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The Economic Mind — PEC2207.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee
Credits: 4
A set of questions keeps on bugging the economic mind. They run from the smallest immediate ones, such as, do I buy this salad or that sandwich for my lunch today, to the more solemn ones, such as, do I accept this job or the other one? Other profound questions arise as well. Why does the economy not grow continually over time, but rather, economic upsurges are marred by
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The F-Word: Confronting Fascism in the Wake of an Insurrection — POP2280.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 1
In the United States, recent months have witnessed an upsurge in right-wing organizing and violence, culminating in an insurrection at the United States Capitol that sought to overturn the legitimate results of a democratic election. This is not a uniquely American problem. Across much of the globe, political parties organized around hyper-nationalism have gained steam, in some
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The First Hundred Days — APA4250.01

Spring 2017
Instructor:
Credits: 4
The bewildering saga of the presidential election has overturned much of the established political wisdom. So what happened? What happens next? And what’s at stake? This course takes a journalistic, comparative, and critical look at the elected direction of American democracy. Tracking back and forth between the unfolding events of the first hundred days of the new presidency
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The Great Transformation in 2024 — SCT2109.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 4
This course will introduce students to Society, Culture Thought by engaging with the work of one of Bennington College’s most remarkable former professors, Karl Polanyi. Nearly 80 years ago, fleeing the rise of Naziism in Europe, Polanyi arrived at Bennington, and gave a series of public lectures that offered a bold new interpretation of what had gone wrong as the world fell
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The Jewish Annotated Gospels — MED2121.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Michael Cohen
Credits: 4
Jesus, Paul, Peter, James, Jesus' mother Mary and Mary Magdalene were all Jews even though they appear prominently in the Christian Bible, also known as the New Testament. Their lives were imbued with Jewish history, beliefs, and practices. Often those nuances and meanings are lost when those texts are read without that understanding. In this class we will read some of the
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The Jewish Annotated New Testament — APA2180.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Michael Cohen
Credits: 2
Jesus, Paul, Peter, James, Jesus' mother Mary and Mary Magdalene were all Jews even though they appear prominently in the Christian Bible, also known as the New Testament. Their lives were imbued with Jewish history, beliefs, and practices. Often those nuances and meanings are lost when those texts are read without that understanding. In this class we will read some of the
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