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Culture, Environment and Sustainable Living — ANT2117.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Miroslava Prazak
Credits: 4
In this seminar, we examine how Western and non-Western cultures, both past and present, perceive and shape key environmental and social issues. Through readings, discussions and films we will evaluate the potential of environmental and cultural studies to address some of the most urgent contemporary problems. To work toward an understanding of what is today called
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Culture, Environment and Sustainable Living — ANT2117.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Miroslava Prazak
Credits: 4
In this seminar, we examine how Western and non-Western cultures, both past and present, perceive and shape key environmental and social issues. Through readings, discussions and films we will evaluate the potential of environmental and cultural studies to address some of the most urgent contemporary problems. To work toward an understanding of what is today called
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Culture, Environment and Sustainable Living — ANT2117.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Miroslava Prazak
Credits: 4
In this seminar, we examine how Western and non-Western cultures, both past and present, perceive and shape key environmental and social issues. Through readings, discussions and films we will evaluate the potential of environmental and cultural studies to address some of the most urgent contemporary problems. To work toward an understanding of what is today called
Society Culture and Thought Environment

Culture, Environment, and Sustainable Living — ANT2117.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Miroslava Prazak
Credits: 4
In this seminar, we examine how Western and non-Western cultures, both past and present, perceive and shape key environmental and social issues. Through readings, discussions and films we will evaluate the potential of environmental and cultural studies to address some of the most urgent contemporary problems. To work toward an understanding of what is today called
Society Culture and Thought Environment

Darwin and the Naturalists — BIO4223.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Credits: 2
Much of modern biology is rooted in insights of a series of 18th and 19th-century naturalist-scientist-explorers who built upon extensive and inspired observation, sometimes in the course of travels in (then) remote and challenging parts of the world. Their writings often took the form of journals interlarded with theoretical speculation, and some achieved great popularity
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Darwin and the Naturalists — BIO4223.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Credits: 2
Much of modern biology is rooted in the insights of a series of 18th and 19th-century naturalist-scientist-explorers who built upon extensive and inspired observation, sometimes in the course of travels in (then) remote and challenging parts of the world.  Their writings often took the form of journals interlarded with theoretical speculation, and achieved great popularity
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Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems — MAT4108.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Kathryn Montovan
Credits: 4
Differential equations are the most powerful and most pervasive mathematical tool in the sciences and are fundamental in pure mathematics as well. Almost every system whose components interact continuously over time can be modeled by a differential equation, for example, planets, stars, fluids, electric circuits, predator and prey populations, epidemics, and economics. We will
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Digital Materiality — MS4101.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Brian Michael Murphy
Credits: 4
“The cloud” is not in the sky, but is comprised of thousands of securitized data centers and fiber optic networks that span continents. Undersea cables still carry nearly all internet traffic that travels across oceans. How can we critically analyze these massive systems that are often either invisible or too large to see all at once? This course will explore the materiality of
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Digital Materiality — MS4101.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: bmurphy@bennington.edu
Credits: 4
“The cloud” is not in the sky, but is comprised of thousands of securitized data centers and fiber optic networks that span continents. Undersea cables still carry nearly all internet traffic that travels across oceans. How can we critically analyze these massive systems that are often either invisible or too large to see all at once? This course will explore the materiality of
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Digital Materiality — MS4101.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Brian Michael Murphy
Credits: 4
“The cloud” is not in the sky, but is comprised of thousands of securitized data centers and fiber optic networks that span continents. Undersea cables still carry nearly all internet traffic that travels across oceans. How can we critically analyze these massive systems that are often either invisible or too large to see all at once? This course will explore the materiality of
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Disasters and Urban Modernity — PEC2258.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee
Credits: 2
Catastrophic events with atmospheric, geological, and hydrological origins (e.g., droughts, earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, landslides) are rising all around the world today; and, with a rising mass of the world’s population living in urban areas now, the nature and consequences of these extreme natural events are taking a certain specific and violent turn in today's
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Diversity of Coral Reef Animals — BIO2339.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Elizabeth Sherman
Credits: 4
Coral reefs are among the most diverse, unique and beautiful of ecosystems on the planet. Alas, they are also quite vulnerable to various environmental assaults and most of the reefs on earth are in real jeopardy. Students will learn the taxonomy, identification and characteristics of the animals which live in coral reefs. We will discuss the major biological innovations that
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Droughts Floods - an Economic Analysis of Natural Disasters — PEC2107.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee
Credits: 4
Extreme fluctuations in rainfall and temperature may bring about drought and flood conditions in a region, but, the experiences of these natural extremes are not similar for all regions of the world. Neither are their effects similar for all people living in an affected region. Why are the disaster experiences spatially different? Why are the disaster exposure effects unequal
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Earth Materials — ES4102.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Tim Schroeder
Credits: 4
The study of minerals and rocks is fundamental to earth science as well as understanding and developing solutions for most environmental problems. All products consumed by people are either directly removed from the earth or grown in a medium consisting largely of earth materials. The nature of the earth materials in any region has great bearing on how human activities will
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Earth Materials — ES4102.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Timothy Schroeder
Credits: 4
The study of minerals and rocks is fundamental to earth science as well as understanding and developing solutions for most environmental problems. All products consumed by people are either directly removed from the earth or grown in a medium consisting largely of earth materials. The nature of the earth materials in any region has great bearing on how human activities will
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Earth Materials (with Lab) — ES4102.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Tim Schroeder
Credits: 4
The study of minerals and rocks is fundamental to earth science as well as understanding and developing solutions for most environmental problems. All products consumed by people are either directly removed from the earth or grown in a medium consisting largely of earth materials. The nature of the earth materials in any region has great bearing on how human activities will
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Ecological Research: Taconic Landscape — BIO4107.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
An advanced, research-driven course in ecology, focusing on the the communities and landscapes of  the Taconics Mountains surrounding Bennington.  The course will revolve around reading and discussion of the primary literature and the development and implementation of individual and group research projects.  Students will learn both field techniques and
Science Mathematics and Computing Environment

Economy and Ecology — PEC2253.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee
Credits: 2
This seminar will explore how human economies and natural ecosystems interact and evolve over time and space. We will examine the dynamics of human relationship with ‘nature’, and the response they evoke to environmental issues. We will ask: how is human behavior connected to changes in hydrological, nutrient or carbon cycles? How do changes in climate and hydrology bring about
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Economy and Ecology — PEC2253.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee
Credits: 2
Simply put, economics deals with the material world, and ecology is concerned with the living world. How do the two worlds meet and interact? This seminar explores this intriguing question. This broad question can be analyzed in terms of more pointed queries: What are the feedbacks between the economic and the ecological systems? How do markets and incentives affect people’s
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Emerging Constitutional Issues in Environmental Law — ENV2208.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Elisabeth Goodman
Credits: 4
Lines are being drawn for a battle over who will control environmental problems now and in the future, and the U.S. Constitution is the ammunition.  Our Constitution has a profound influence on laws and policies that address the most pressing environmental issues of our time: climate change, species and biodiversity conservation, pollution control, sustainability, rights
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Energy and the Environment — ENV2207.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Chelsea Corr
Credits: 4
Access to cheap fossil fuels has fueled advancements that have improved reliable access to food, medicine, and shelter, drastically improving the quality of life for humankind over the past century. Our fossil-fueled society, however, not come without repercussions. The extraction, processing, and burning of fossil fuels has degraded water and air quality, reduced biodiversity
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Energy, Environment, and Climate — ENV2120.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Tim Schroeder
Days & Time: MO,TH 3:40pm-5:30pm
Credits: 4

The comforts and amenities of modern life require vast inputs of energy to power an industrial society. While the benefits of industrial society are significant, if unevenly shared, the environmental costs of energy extraction and production are significant. These environmental costs are also unevenly shared. This course will cover the

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Entangled Worlds — APA4152.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 4
Human works alter the composition of natural worlds and the works of nature impinge upon social worlds. Yet so many of our inherited modes of thinking and acting are premised on a hard and fast distinction between Culture and Nature, the human and non-human, the subject and the object. In this seminar, we will explore a growing body of scholarship that privileges moments of
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Environment and Public Action — APA2122.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 4
Today it is clear that the environment matters. In activism and scholarship and public policy, the environment has become a potent (if sometimes obligatory) point of reference. Less attention, however, has focused on the emergence of the environment itself as a converging field of action for advocacy, science, and statecraft. In this seminar, we will reflect not only on what we
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