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Environment and Public Action — APA2122.01) (maximum enrollment increased 5/23/2023

Fall 2023
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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Environment and Public Action — APA2122.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: David Bond
Days & Time: TBA
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
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Environment and Public Action — APA2122.01

Spring 2021
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
CAPA Environment

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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Environment Awareness: Combining Fiction and Non-Fiction Elements in Moving-Image Making — FV4107.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Fern Silva
Credits: 4
A video production course for students interested in social and environmental issues, reportage, travelogues and other forms of non-fiction art making. Starting with the basics, students will be working in teams and individually; they will utilize the greater Bennington area and beyond as their set and travel to a variety of locations to cover particular events, landscape,
Environment Visual Arts

Environmental Action Post Fellowship Class — APA4161.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Judith Enck
Credits: 1
After successfully completing the environmental action fellowship during Field Work term, students will review the fellowship experience and what they learned.  Class time will be spent helping each student prepare for a high level presention on their individual fellowship.  There will be continued focus on sharpening advocacy skills and learning about and discussing
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Environmental Aesthetics — PHI4250.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Karen Gover
Credits: 2
***Time Change*** Environmental Aesthetics is a relatively new sub-field in philosophical aesthetics, though it has roots in the 18th and 19th centuries. In this course we will take a broad look at the different topics that fall under the heading of Environmental Aesthetics: the aesthetics of everyday life, the picturesque, earth art, and the relation of aesthetics to
Environment Social Science

Environmental Chemistry — CHE2128.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Credits: 4
Are you interested in environmental issues, but never got around to taking chemistry? Do you wonder why PFOA is transported by water, what the effect of drugs in wastewater is, or if frog mutations are pesticide related? To understand these and many other environmental questions, you need to know some chemistry. This introductory class is for people who want to learn
Science and Mathematics Environment

Environmental Ethics — PHI2103.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Paul Voice
Credits: 4
What ethical responsibilities do individuals have towards the environment? What does environmental justice require of national and international institutions? This course examines the philosophical issues and arguments that underlie these questions. Our complex relationship to the environment, as nature, as resource, and as shared world, invites questions concerning our ethical
Environment Social Science

Environmental Geology — ES2102.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Tim Schroeder
Credits: 4
Earthʹs life‐supporting environmental systems are controlled by a complex interplay between geologic and biological processes acting both on the surface and deep within the planetary interior. This course will explore how earth materials and physical processes contribute to a healthy environment, and how humans impact geologic processes. Topics covered will include: earth
Science and Mathematics Environment

Environmental Geology — ES2102.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: David De Simone
Credits: 4
This course will focus on the planets internal and surficial processes and how they both affect humans and are impacted by humans. The scope of environmental geology is broad and represents applied geology in a very practical sense. A basic understanding of minerals, rocks the modern plate tectonics paradigm is the foundation for appreciating internal processes and such
Science Mathematics and Computing Environment

Environmental Geology — ES2102.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Tim Schroeder
Credits: 4
Earthʹs life‐supporting environmental systems are controlled by a complex interplay between geologic and biological processes acting both on the surface and deep within the planetary interior. This course will explore how earth materials and physical processes contribute to a healthy environment, and how humans impact geologic processes. Topics covered will include: earth
Science and Mathematics Environment

Environmental Geology — ES2102.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Timothy Schroeder
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Earthʹs life‐supporting environmental systems are controlled by a complex interplay between geologic and biological processes acting both on the surface and deep within the planetary interior. This course will explore how earth materials and physical processes contribute to a healthy environment, and how humans impact geologic processes. Topics covered will
Science Mathematics and Computing Environment

Environmental Geology — ES2102.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Tim Schroeder
Credits: 4
Earthʹs life‐supporting environmental systems are controlled by a complex interplay between geologic and biological processes acting both on the surface and deep within the planetary interior. This course will explore how earth materials and physical processes contribute to a healthy environment, and how humans impact geologic processes. Topics covered will include: earth
Science and Mathematics Environment

Environmental Geology — ES2102.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Timothy Schroeder
Credits: 4
Earthʹs life‐supporting environmental systems are controlled by a complex interplay between geologic and biological processes acting both on the surface and deep within the planetary interior. This course will explore how earth materials and physical processes contribute to a healthy environment, and how humans impact geologic processes. Topics covered will include: earth
Science and Mathematics Environment

Environmental Geology — ES2102.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Tim Schroeder
Credits: 4
Earthʹs life‐supporting environmental systems are controlled by a complex interplay between geologic and biological processes acting both on the surface and deep within the planetary interior. This course will explore how earth materials and physical processes contribute to a healthy environment, and how humans impact geologic processes. Topics covered will include: earth
Science and Mathematics Environment

Environmental Hydrology — ES4105.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Tim Schroeder
Credits: 4
Fresh water is perhaps the world’s most critical resource. Giant engineering projects are built to control water distribution, wars and legal battles are fought over who controls water, and the problems will only get worse as populations grow. This course is a broad survey of hydrology, the study of the distribution, movement, and quality of water. Students will be
Science and Mathematics Environment

Environmental Hydrology — ES4105.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Tim Schroeder
Credits: 4
Fresh water is perhaps the world’s scarcest and most critical resource. Giant engineering projects are built to control water distribution, wars and legal battles are fought over who controls water, and across the world people face real concerns about the safety of their water. Problems will only become worse as populations grow and the climate changes. This course is a
Science and Mathematics Environment

Environmental Political Theory — POL4240.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: John Hultgren
Credits: 4
What is nature? Who gets to speak for nature? What is the institutional arrangement, political economic system, and form of political community best suited to cultivating a more sustainable relationship with the more-than-human realm?  These questions are best grappled with by putting political theory into conversation with environmental studies. In cultivating this
Environment Society Culture and Thought

Environmental Political Theory — ENV4240.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: John Hultgren
Credits: 4
What is nature? Who gets to speak for nature? What is the institutional arrangement, political economic system, and form of political community best suited to cultivating a more sustainable relationship with the more-than-human realm? These questions are most effectively grappled with by putting political theory into conversation with environmental studies. In cultivating this
Environment Society Culture and Thought

Environmental Political Theory — SCT4153.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: John Hultgren
Credits: 4
What is nature? Who gets to speak for nature? What is the institutional arrangement, political economic system, and form of political community best suited to cultivating a more sustainable relationship with the more-than-human realm? These questions are most effectively grappled with by putting political theory into conversation with environmental studies. In cultivating this
Environment Society Culture and Thought

Environmental Political Theory: Climate, Coronavirus, and the Commons — POL4258.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: John Hultgren
Credits: 4
What is nature? Who gets to speak for nature? What is the institutional arrangement, political economic system, and form of political community best suited to cultivating a more sustainable relationship with the more-than-human realm? These questions are most effectively grappled with by putting political theory into conversation with environmental studies. The first half of
Environment Society Culture and Thought

Environmental Studies Advanced Work Seminar — Canceled

Spring 2019
Instructor: Tim Schroeder John Hultgren
Credits: 1
This advanced work seminar offers students the opportunity to receive feedback on culminating/advanced work studying environmental problems. This course is ideal for two types of students: (1) 8th term students who are completing senior work in a particular discipline group (e.g. Science or Society, Culture, and Thought) but would benefit from having feedback from both
Environment

Evolution — BIO4104.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Credits: 4
Evolutionary theory provides conceptual unity for biology; Darwin’s concept and its derivatives inform every area of life science, from paleontology to molecular biology to physiology to plant and animal behavior to human nature. This course will establish deep grounding in basic evolutionary theory with particular focus on selective processes and life-history theory.
Science and Mathematics Environment