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Animal Tales: Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2330.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Anna Maria Hong
Credits: 4
What do writings about animals reveal about their lives and their interactions with human beings? How do human beings engage with mammals, sea creatures, reptiles, and birds as food, competitors, and companions? We will explore these questions as we read excellent writings focusing on the real and imagined lives of animals from ancient fables through 21st-century stories, poems
Environment Literature

Applied Physics/Engineering Physics: Deformation of Solids — PHY4215.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Tim Schroeder
Credits: 4
This course applies mechanical physics concepts to practical engineering and environmental problems. In order to ensure peoples’ safety, any structure, be it a building, a nuclear reactor, a dam, an embankment, or a natural hillside, must be able to withstand the stresses that are placed on it by its environment. You will learn how forces cause stress within solid
Science Mathematics and Computing Environment

Approaches to Political Geography: Understanding Space, Territory, and Power — ENV2119.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
Political geography is the study of the spatial nature of political power. Political geographers explore both how power struggles shape space and how space shapes power. This includes examining uneven economic development, spatial segregation, urban politics, social movements, geopolitics, and environmental injustice—to name a just a few. In tracing how power is spatialized
Environment

Architecture 1 – Elements — ARC2101.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Donald Sherefkin
Credits: 4
Introduction to the discipline of architectural exploration. This studio focuses on the formation of architectural concepts through the development of spatial investigations. using scale models and drawings. In addition, a thematic history of architecture will be presented through slide lectures and readings. We begin with a series of abstract exercises which explore ways in
Visual Arts Environment

Architecture 1 – Elements — ARC2101.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Donald Sherefkin
Credits: 4
Introduction to the discipline of architectural exploration. This studio focuses on the formation of architectural concepts through the development of spatial investigations. using scale models and drawings. In addition, a thematic history of architecture will be presented through slide lectures and readings. We begin with a series of abstract exercises which explore ways in
Visual Arts Environment

Arts and Cities: Aural and Visual Cartographies of East and Southeast Asia — APA2126.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Susie Ibarra
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Much of the expected urban growth has been predicted to occur in Asian cities and its megacities. This class studies city communities in Asia with the use of artists' aural and visual cartographies. Alongside mapping are the artists and activists creative work that challenges social, political, and environmental issues, and reimagines time and space in these communities. Field
CAPA Environment

Astrogeology — ES2109.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Tim Schroeder; Hugh Crowl
Credits: 4
***Title Change from Planetology*** This course will investigate the physical conditions and processes necessary for creating a habitable planet. We will study the formation of stars and planets, and the evolution of planets after formation into safe harbors for life. This will include investigation of how both stellar and geological processes affect the habitability of
Science Mathematics and Computing Environment

Bedrock Geology — CANCELLED

Fall 2015
Instructor: Timothy Schroeder
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Understanding solid‐earth processes requires detailed observations of both the mineralogical/chemical makeup of rocks, and of textures and structures within rocks. The emphasis of the course will be on field and laboratory observation of rock textures and structures, including depositional features that allow us to interpret how the rocks formed, and tectonic
Science Mathematics and Computing Environment

Bennington Biodiversity Project — BIO4303.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Credits: 2
An All-Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI) is an effort to compile the full list of species of all groups present in some area on the planet. No ATBI has ever been (or is ever likely to be) completed, but such efforts have provided striking insights into the largely undocumented diversity of the earth.  This class is an ongoing effort towards a working ATBI for
Science and Mathematics Environment

Bennington Farm to Plate — ENV4256.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: valerie imbruce
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
In 2011, Vermont released its Farm to Plate Strategic Plan to provide a rationale and approach to increase economic development in Vermont's food and farm sector and improve access to healthy, local foods. In this course we will contribute to the statewide effort by conducting research on food and farm issues in the Bennington region. This is a research methods course in which
Environment

Beyond Plastic Pollution — APA2334.02

Spring 2021
Instructor: Judith Enck
Credits: 1
Beyond Plastic Pollution is a public policy course that focuses on the systemic reasons why millions of tons of plastics enter the ocean each year. This cutting-edge class will focus on the how plastic pollution is an urgent climate change issue; how the plastics industry spins the myth that we can recycle our way out of the problem; environmental justice and the the health
CAPA Environment

Beyond Plastic Pollution — APA2334.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Judith Enck
Credits: 1
An environmental policy class which closely examines the environmental and public health implications of the production, use and disposal of plastics.  The class is taught on zoom and there are many communty people from around the country who audit the class, which results in a nice exchange of ideas between Bennington students and community people who love to learn. 
CAPA Environment

Beyond Plastic Pollution — APA2334.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Judith Enck
Credits: 1
Beyond Plastic Pollution is a public policy course that focuses on the systemic reasons why millions of tons of plastics enter the ocean each year. This cutting-edge class will focus on the how plastic pollution is an urgent climate change issue; how the plastics industry spins the myth that we can recycle our way out of the problem; environmental justice and the the health
CAPA Environment

Beyond Plastic Pollution — APA2334.02

Spring 2024
Instructor: Judith Enck
Credits: 1
This is an action-packed public policy course that addresses the root problems of the plastic pollution crisis and what students and citizens of the world can do to address it.   There is no text book, but multiple reading requirements and lectures focused on the production, use and disposal of plastics. There will be a sharp focus on plastics impacts on: 
CAPA Environment Society Culture and Thought

Beyond Plastic Pollution — APA2334.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Judith Enck
Days & Time: WE 7:00pm-8:50pm
Credits: 1

Plastic pollution has emerged as a significant environmental issue in the past few years, particularly on how plastics affects health, environmental justice, climate change and water quality.  This is an environmental policy class iwth a focus on public action.  This class will explore the dimensions of the production, use and disposal of plastics and the need for

Advancement of Public Action Environment Politics

Biogeography, Paleoecology, and Human Origins — BIO4317.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Credits: 4
We explore ecological and evolutionary patterns in broadest spatial and temporal perspective — “big picture” biology. Our general questions are: What shapes patterns in the ranges and distributions of organisms and in overall biodiversity? How do ecological systems respond to long-term and large-scale changes in environment (glaciation, global climate change, plate tectonics,
Science and Mathematics Environment

Biogeography, Paleoecology, and Human Origins — BIO4317.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Credits: 4
An exploration of ecological and evolutionary patterns in broad spatial and temporal perspective -- "big picture" biology. Our questions are: What shapes patterns in biodiversity and in the ranges and distributions of organisms? How do ecological systems respond to long-term and large-scale changes in environment (glaciation, global climate change, plate tectonics, meteorite
Science Mathematics and Computing Environment

Biogeography, Paleoecology, and Human Origins — BIO4317.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Credits: 4
We explore ecological and evolutionary patterns in broadest spatial and temporal perspective — “big picture” biology. Our general questions are: What shapes patterns in the ranges and distributions of organisms and in overall biodiversity? How do ecological systems respond to long-term and large-scale changes in environment (glaciation, global climate change, plate
Science and Mathematics Environment

Biological Diversity: Ecology and Evolution — BIO2103.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The disciplines of ecology and evolution are integrally connected in the study of biological diversity.  Both are essential to intelligent management and conservation of natural systems.  We will explore current understanding of the evolutionary origins of biodiversity, the ecological processes that regulate and structure it, and how ecological principles may be
Science Mathematics and Computing Environment

Black Markets — Canceled

Spring 2015
Instructor: Robin Kemkes
Credits: 4
Why do some transactions -- the sale of illegal drugs and weapons, human trafficking, finance, piracy, trade in endangered species, and harvesting of Siberian timber -- operate outside the formal economy? In this course we will study how the boundaries of the formal economy are negotiated, how black markets arise in relation to the formal economy, and the conditions under which
Environment Social Science

Black Nature Writing — LIT2278.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Phillip B. Williams
Credits: 4
In this class you will investigate the many faces that nature bears in the poetry of writers of African-descent. You will read poems from the Antebellum period through the contemporary period, poems that defy the myth that Black poets solely write about an urban experience in predictable ways. For Black poets, nature serves as a catalyst for contemplating freedom, complicating
Environment Literature

Calculus: Techniques Applications — MAT4130.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Kathryn Montovan
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Calculus can be used to solve a wide range of problems in science, environmental studies, economics, and human behavior. For example: derivatives enable us to optimize functions and find the best way to do all sorts of things, and we can use integrals to compute areas and volumes of complex shapes. This course will build on MAT4145: Calculus: Analysis of the Infinite by
Environment Science Mathematics and Computing