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Evolution — BIO4104.01

Fall 2017
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

Evolution — BIO4104.01

Spring 2014
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 selective theory (including some exploration of population genetics) and explore selected current
Science Mathematics and Computing Environment

Evolution: Making Sense Of Aging, Sex, Sociality, Families, and Disease — BIO4318.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: KWoods@bennington.edu
Credits: 4
Evolution provides conceptual unity for biology. Darwin’s basic concept, supplemented by 150 years of refinement and additional understanding, informs every area of life science, often in ways that are surprisingly different from the popular understanding (or misunderstanding) of evolutionary theory. This course will establish deep grounding in basic evolutionary theory with
Science and Mathematics Environment

Expanding Fields: Histories and New Practices of Curating the Rural — VA4152.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Anne Thompson
Credits: 4
Artists and curators have long embraced the southwestern U.S. desert as the landscape equivalent of the sublime yet neutral “white cube.” This course addresses the history of land art and landscape-based institutions alongside current strategies for moving these practices into literal and metaphorical new territories. Lecture-based discussions and research assignments examine
Environment Visual Arts

Extinction and the Endangered Species Act — POP2258.03

Spring 2019
Instructor: David Mears
Credits: 1
We are living in the midst of a mass extinction caused by humans, the most significant loss of living species since an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. In the United States, the Endangered Species Act has provided a framework for efforts by the federal government to protect the most critically threatened and endangered species. Despite evidence of
CAPA Environment

Field Ecology: Documenting Natural Areas of the Bennington Region — BIO4127.02

Spring 2021
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Credits: 2
The class will be dedicated to intensive study of the ecosystems of the Bennington region and direct observation and documentation of natural areas in the region. Each Thursday afternoon will be dedicated to intensive field study of selected natural areas. Students will be responsible for compiling descriptive documentation, to be published on-line to initiate a 'base-line'
Science and Mathematics Environment

Forests: An Introduction to Ecology and Evolution (with lab) — BIO2109.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Credits: 4
New England is one of the most heavily forested regions in the United States. 14,000 years ago it was covered by ice. When humans arrived about 11,000 years ago, they found forests already established — and began reshaping the landscape through hunting and fire and, beginning about 2000 years ago, farming. European colonists caused further ecological change by expanding
Science and Mathematics Environment

Forests: An Introduction to Ecology and Evolution (with lab) — BIO2109.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Credits: 4
New England is one of the most heavily forested regions in the United States. 14,000 years ago it was covered by ice. When humans arrived about 11,000 years ago, they found forests already established — and began reshaping the landscape through hunting and fire and, beginning about 2000 years ago, farming. European colonists caused further ecological change by expanding
Science and Mathematics Environment

Forests: An Introduction to Ecology and Evolution (with lab) — BIO2109.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Credits: 4
New England is one of the most heavily forested regions in the United States. 14,000 years ago it was covered by ice. When humans arrived about 11,000 years ago, they found extensive, well-established forests — and began reshaping the landscape through hunting and fire and, beginning about 2000 years ago, farming. European colonists caused further ecological change by expanding
Science and Mathematics Environment

Forests: An Introduction to Ecology and Evolution (with lab) — BIO2109.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Credits: 4
New England is one of the most heavily forested regions in the United States. 14,000 years ago it was covered by ice. When humans arrived about 11,000 years ago, they found forests already established — and began reshaping the landscape through hunting and fire and, beginning about 2000 years ago, farming. European colonists caused further ecological change by expanding
Science and Mathematics Environment

Foundations of Global Politics — POL2103.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Days & Time: TU,FR 8:30am-10:20am
Credits: 4

In this wide-ranging introduction to the study of international politics, we will be exploring how states and non-state actors negotiate their interactions in an increasingly interconnected, interdependent and globalized world. Core themes will include: contending theoretical approaches to international relations (realism, liberalism/idealism, constructivism,

CAPA Environment Politics

Foundations of Global Politics — POL2103.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
In this wide-ranging introduction to the study of international politics, we will be exploring how states and non-state actors negotiate their interactions in an increasingly interconnected, interdependent and globalized world. Core themes will include: contending theoretical approaches to international relations (realism, liberalism/idealism, constructivism, structuralism,
Environment Society Culture and Thought

From Ashes to Fascists: The Roots and Rise of our Anti-Environmental Age — ENV4257.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: John Hultgren
Credits: 4
Responding to climate change and other contemporary environmental crises (biodiversity loss, looming water shortages, toxic pollution, etc.) necessitates swift and serious action that continues to be undercut by a rearguard anti-environmental movement. What are the ideological roots, the political economic forces, and the organizational forms through which anti-environmentalism
CAPA Environment Society Culture and Thought

Fundamentals of Ecology — BIO2217.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie
Credits: 4
Ecology is the study of interactions among organisms and their environment. Studying these interactions provides us with the theoretical foundation for understanding many of the most pressing environmental problems. Ecology is a broad field, encompassing research at the scales of individuals, populations, communities, and ecosystems with methods that draw on
Science and Mathematics Environment

Gender, Subsistence, and Agriculture — APA4241.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: tatianaabatemarco@bennington.edu
Credits: 4
This course examines the intersections of gender, subsistence practice, and agriculture. Students will consider international and local contexts, with special attention to queer and women farmers and the role of capitalism. We will begin by considering case studies and personal stories of subsistence practice, homesteading, and small scale farming. From there, we will move into
CAPA Environment Society Culture and Thought

Geology of the Bennington Region — ES2101.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Tim Schroeder
Credits: 4
The stunning landscapes seen from Bennington’s campus were sculpted by geologic processes over millions of years. Bennington College lies near an ancient boundary, along which the Proto-North American continent’s coast collided with other continental fragments over 400 million years ago to build the continent as we see today. The Bennington region is an excellent natural
Science and Mathematics Environment

Global Change — BIO2113.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Credits: 4
More than at any other time in the history of human civilization, we can't project where we are heading by looking at where we have been. Why is our time unique? We are experiencing accelerating climate change due to human activities, and this will continue through the coming century, taking us into climates not previously experienced by modern humans. Our lifestyles are
Science Mathematics and Computing Environment

Global Change: Earth Systems in the Anthropocene — BIO2235.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Credits: 4
"Anthropocene" has been proposed as a name for the current period of Earth history, defined by the detectability of a global human 'signal' in the geological record; proposed starting dates range from ca. 12,000 years ago to the mid-20th century. Regardless of the acceptance of the term, human activities have induced large, global changes in atmospheric, biological, and
Science and Mathematics Environment

Global Environmental Politics — POL2108.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: John Hultgren
Days & Time: MO,TH 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 4

Contemporary efforts to confront our most pressing ecological problems are characterized by a tension between the global realities of these problems and the territorial borders and logics that define sovereign nation-states. This course will explore this tension in three parts. First, we will engage with a variety of theoretical and conceptual debates introduced by scholars

Environment Politics

Global Environmental Politics — ENV2176.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: John Hultgren
Credits: 4
Contemporary efforts to confront our most pressing ecological problems are characterized by a tension between the global realities of these problems and the territorial borders and logics that define sovereign nation-states. This course will explore this tension in three parts. First, we will engage with a variety of theoretical and conceptual debates introduced by
Environment Society Culture and Thought

Global Environmental Politics — POL2108.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Tim Schroeder
Credits: 4
Contemporary efforts to confront our most pressing ecological problems are characterized by a tension between the global realities of these problems and the territorial borders and logics that define "sovereign nation-states." This course will explore this tension in three parts. First, we will engage with a variety of theoretical and conceptual debates introduced by scholars
Environment Society Culture and Thought

Global Environmental Politics — POL2108.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: John Hultgren
Credits: 4
Contemporary efforts to confront our most pressing ecological problems are characterized by a tension between the global realities of these problems and the territorial borders and logics that define sovereign nation-states. This course will explore this tension in three parts. First, we will engage with a variety of theoretical and conceptual debates introduced by scholars of
Environment Society Culture and Thought

Global Environmental Systems in the Anthropocene — ENV4123.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Credits: 4
It's about anthropogenic climate change, but also the history of global systems over millennia and longer, effects of human civilization and agriculture on global nutrient and hydrological cycles, etc. -- with focus on planetary scale. This course views global processes through the lens of ecosystem science (sometimes called 'biogeochemistry', which tells you something about
Environment Science and Mathematics

Global Problems, Local Solutions — ENV2115.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: valerie imbruce
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The course uses environmental issues to explore how normative and empirically based arguments are used in public discourse to achieve change. We will consider how global environmental problems take on societal importance and what steps have been taken to deal with them. What is the role of science in describing environmental problems? How does ideology shape what is seen as a
Environment

Global Problems, Local Solutions — ENV2115.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Valerie Imbruce
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The course uses environmental issues to explore how normative and empirically based arguments are used in public discourse to achieve change. We will consider how global environmental problems take on societal importance and what steps have been taken to deal with them. What is the role of science in describing environmental problems? How does ideology shape what is seen as a
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