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Keystone XL Pipeline — APA2130.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: david bond
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Whether ultimately approved or not, the Keystone XL Pipeline offers a telling window into the contemporary politics of hydrocarbons in North America. Although oil pipelines have been around for nearly a century, they have long been neglected in scholarship and public debate. Today, that is beginning to change. Whether as a vehicle of development or as a harbinger of climate
CAPA Social Science Environment

Landscape — FV4240.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Karthik Pandian
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This intermediate moving image production course challenges students to realize new works in film and video that participate in the lively and varied art historical tradition of representing the natural world and humankind’s place within it. Drawing on the technical capacities of time-based media and the rich environmental surroundings of Bennington’s campus, students will
Environment Visual Arts

Local Landscape A: Ecological Principles — BIO2127.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: KWoods@bennington.edu
Credits: 2
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

Local Landscape B: Field Ecology and Natural History — BIO2126.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: KWoods@bennington.edu
Credits: 2
This is a companion course to the 'classroom' section, "Local Landscape A", and will take place entirely in lab and field (primarily the latter). The class has two main aims: to deepen and reinforce understanding of ecological principles through experience and systematic observation in the field (along with use of some of the tools and instruments of the field researcher), and
Science and Mathematics Environment

Matter, Energy, and the Environment — ENV2326.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: John Bullock
Credits: 4
Environmental issues are inherently cross-disciplinary. To effectively grapple with them, their economic, social, and political dimensions must be considered. But to truly understand such problems, their underlying scientific aspects cannot be ignored. Basic principles of energy, including thermodynamics and the nature of light and heat, as well the principles that describe
Visual Arts Science Mathematics and Computing Environment

Module: Climate Change and Air Quality - Environmental Law and Policy — MOD2250.03

Fall 2015
Instructor: Elizabeth Goodman
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
Climate change has been described as one of the most serious challenges the world faces, threatening the environment and economic prosperity.  Obtaining a balance between economic growth and development and regulation of carbon emissions and other air pollution has never been more difficult or more critical than it is today. This course will examine environmental policy
Environment Modules: Transferable Approaches

Monitoring the Paran Creek Watershed — ES2113.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Tim Schroeder
Credits: 4
Much discussion of environmental protection is based on the unit of a local watershed. Fully considering a watershed requires relating landscapes, land cover, and human land use to the waterways that we rely upon to live. This field-based class will work with community groups and environmental professionals to begin a long-term watershed monitoring system for Paran Creek. This
CAPA Science and Mathematics Environment

Multi-Species Lab — APA2302.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: RRansick@bennington.edu
Credits: 4
The Multi-Species Lab is an art and research class focused on creative practices and strategies that decenter the human being in a world of ecological uncertainty and recalibration. Through collaborative and creative activities and assignments, we will research and question ideas of how to understand life—including human life—as a plural and ecologically enmeshed phenomenon.
CAPA Environment Visual Arts

Natural History of Plants — BIO2107.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Credits: 4
Plants define the biological environment. All other organisms depend on plants' capacity for photosynthesis. Plant structure and chemistry have shaped animal (including human) evolution, and we depend on plant products for food, medicine, structural materials, and many other things. Yet few people can name even the dominant plants in their environment and what determines their
Science Mathematics and Computing Environment

Natural History of Plants — BIO2107.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Credits: 4
Plants define the biological environment. All other organisms depend on plantsʹ capacity for photosynthesis. Plant structure and chemistry have shaped animal (including human) evolution, and we directly depend on plant products for food, medicine, structural materials, and many other things. Yet few people can name even the dominant plants in their environment and what
Science Mathematics and Computing Environment

Nature and Artifice - A History of Architecture — ARC2112.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Donald Sherefkin
Credits: 2
Because architecture seeks to establish a degree of permanence in the world, it is by definition, not natural, a work of human artifice. But our structures are very much of the earth, and the history of architecture is a record of the manifold ways in which cultures have understood, and responded to, their relationship to nature. This course will explore the ways in which the
Visual Arts Environment

Nature in the Americas — APA4128.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: david bond
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
What is Nature? And what can we do with Nature? Such questions have a lively history in the Americas. Indeed, while Nature has a near mythic form in many public debates, much of its content is culled again and again from salient American examples. This course, then, uses such thorny questions as provocations to reflect more precisely on the historical cases and empirical
CAPA Social Science Environment

Nature in the Americas — Canceled

Spring 2017
Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 4
What is Nature? Is Nature the biological substratum of human society or the converging practices of local ecology? Is Nature a potent historical agent in its own right or a philosophical blunder of epic proportions? Such questions have a lively history in the Americas. Indeed, while Nature has a near mythic form in many public debates, much of its content is culled again
CAPA Society Culture and Thought Environment

Nature in the Americas — APA4148.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 4
What is Nature? Is Nature the biological substratum of human society or the converging practices of local ecology? Is Nature a potent historical agent in its own right or a philosophical blunder of epic proportions? Such questions have a lively history in the Americas. Indeed, while Nature has near mythic form in scholarly and public debates, its content is culled again and
CAPA Environment Society Culture and Thought

NGOs, Peacebuilding, and Development — SCT4109.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Kate Paarlberg-Kvam
Credits: 4
In the last thirty years, non-governmental organizations have played an outsized role in global affairs, perhaps most notably in development and peacebuilding processes. How did the NGO form develop, and why? How do NGOs interact with states, global institutions, and grassroots populations in the Global South? What effects - positive, negative, and complicated - have NGOs had
CAPA Environment Society Culture and Thought

Night of the Johnstown Flood — HIS2405.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Credits: 4
On the afternoon of May 31, 1889 the people of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, heard "a roar like thunder," as the South Fork Dam broke high above them, unleashing 20 million tons of water in walls up to 60 feet high and speeds of 40 miles per hour. Initial casualties were 2,200 people, making it one of the worst national disasters in 19th-century America. Though the
Environment Society Culture and Thought

Of Disasters — PEC2103.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Credits: 4
This seminar is concerned with the disaster phenomenon. It examines disasters as deviations from norms. Deviations are observed in nature as extreme conditions realize in people’s physical environment (for example, extreme temperature, immoderate rainfall, and violent earth movements), and deviations are experienced in people’s lives as the natural extremes bring
Environment Society Culture and Thought

Of Sound and Nature — MET4102.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Blake Jones
Credits: 4
Sound is critical to the survival, social structure, and well-being of many organisms, human and non-human alike. In this interdisciplinary course we will examine how animals, plants, humans, and other forms of life impact one another through the calls, songs, and other vibrations they make. Using various case studies about music, sound, and society in Papua New Guinea,
Science and Mathematics Environment Music

Of Sound and Nature — MET4102.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Blake Jones
Credits: 4
Sound is critical to the survival, social structure, and well-being of many organisms, human and non-human alike. In this interdisciplinary course we will examine how animals, plants, humans, and other forms of life impact one another through the calls, songs, and other vibrations they make. Using various case studies about music, sound, and society in Papua New Guinea,
Science and Mathematics Environment Music

Persons, Groups, and Environments — PSY2141.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Ronald Cohen
Credits: 4
We spend much of our time in the presence of others, and all of our time in particular spaces. In this course we'll examine several psychological and sociological perspectives on social interaction, that is, how people think, feel, and act in the presence of others, and how the particular spaces in which interaction occurs affect social interaction. Attention will focus on
Environment Social Science

Persons, Groups, and Environments — PSY2141.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Ronald Cohen
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
We spend much of our time in the presence of others, and all of our time in particular spaces. This course will examine several psychological and sociological perspectives on social interaction– how people think, feel, and act in the presence of others–and how the particular spaces in which interaction occurs affect it. We will focus on the following issues 1. obedience,
Environment Society Culture and Thought

Placing Anthropocene Stories: The Place of Imagination within Environmental Transformation — ENV4112.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
Extreme weather events, rising sea levels, species extinctions, chemical contamination, and uneven human suffering mark the Anthropocene. In this new epoch, humanity’s influence on the Earth system has become a geological and planetary force. Telling stories about planetary and geological change that resonate with people is critically important, yet also deeply challenging. The
Environment

Planet Earth — ES2108.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Chelsea Corr
Credits: 4
In 1972, the crew aboard the Apollo 17 spacecraft captured what would become one of the most widely used photos of all time: an image of Earth as seen from 45,000 km above.  From this view, it was apparent that our home planet is a complex system consisting of a web of interconnected biological, chemical, and physical components. We will explore the physical aspects of
Science and Mathematics Environment