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Sociology of Home — SOC2206.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Debbie Warnock
Credits: 4
What is home? What does it mean to have a home? What does it mean to leave home or to lose one’s home? To return home? To make a new home? How can we begin to explore these questions sociologically? In this class, we will move towards a sociology of home, as we read and grapple with many different meditations on and conceptualizations of home. Some topics we will explore
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Sonic Ethnography — MSR2213.01) (cancelled 10/6/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: Senem Pirler Joseph Alpar
Credits: 4
Sonic ethnography is an emerging field that sits at the intersection of studies of sound and ethnographic methodologies. In this course, we will focus on investigating the “sonic” in relation to social and environmental structures. We will focus on how putting our attention to sound-making, recording, and listening practices can bring innovative contributions to the field of
Music Society Culture and Thought

Sounding Home: Music, Migration and Diaspora — MET2240.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
We live in an era when millions of people across the globe—victims of forced migration, asylum seekers, refugees, and mobile workers—are on the move. Music often can tell more about the migration experience than statistical analysis and surveys. This course is about the experiences of immigrants and refugees in the United States and elsewhere, investigating the role
Music Society Culture and Thought

Space, Place, and Power — SCT4107.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Emily Mitchell-Eaton
Credits: 4
Critical political geography, at its core, is a field interested in the relationship between space, place, and power. How are power dynamics enforced, and contested, through spatial practices and discourses? How do space and place shape intersections of power and resistance? This course will explore these questions in a variety of places, contexts, and scales, using a range of
Society Culture and Thought

Spaces, Places, and Identities — PSY4190.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Ronald Cohen
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
“Spaces” have geographical coordinates, “places” are territories of meaning, and “identities” are the senses we have of ourselves and others. This course will examine links among these through (1) reading theory and research in several social science disciplines, (2) writing short essays, and (3) completing one or two research papers.
Environment Society Culture and Thought

Spatial Inequality — PEC4129.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee
Credits: 4
Economic inequality is a matter not only of unequal distribution in income and wealth, but also of unevenness in people’s access to basic needs, such as health, nutrition, and environmental conditions of well-being. This advanced seminar will explore issues of inequality from a spatial perspective, focusing on how people’s geographic locations shape their ability to access
Environment Society Culture and Thought

Standard of Living — PEC2219.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee
Credits: 2
Economics is concerned with improvements in people's living standards. But standard of living has different meanings for different people. This course explores the different ways to think about the living standards, and investigates long-term trends and socioeconomic differences in quality of life. This is an introductory course. No prior knowledge of economics is necessary to
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Statistics for Social Science — SOC4103.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Emily Waterman
Credits: 4
In this course students will learn to use social science statistics to test their own research questions, while becoming more educated consumers of statistical analyses presented in research and news sources. Students will employ various inferential statistics techniques commonly used in social science, such as confidence intervals, t-tests, chi-square testing, correlation,
Society Culture and Thought

Statistics for Social Science — SOC4103.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Emily Waterman
Credits: 4
In this course students will learn to use social science statistics to test their own research questions, while becoming more educated consumers of statistical analyses presented in research and news sources. Students will employ various inferential statistics techniques commonly used in social science, such as confidence intervals, t-tests, chi-square testing, correlation,
Society Culture and Thought

Statistics for Social Science — SOC4103.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Emily Waterman
Credits: 4
In this course students will learn to use social science statistics to test their own research questions, while becoming more educated consumers of statistical analyses presented in research and news sources. Students will employ various inferential statistics techniques commonly used in social science, such as confidence intervals, t-tests, chi-square testing, correlation,
Society Culture and Thought

Statistics for Social Science — SOC4103.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Emily Waterman
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 4

In this course students will learn to use social science statistics to test their own research questions, while becoming more educated consumers of statistical analyses presented in research and news sources. Students will employ various inferential statistics techniques commonly used in social science, such as confidence intervals, t-tests, chi

Sociology

Statistics for the Social Sciences — SOC4103.01) (cancelled

Spring 2022
Instructor: Debbie Warnock
Credits: 4
In this course students will learn to harness social statistics as a powerful tool for answering social science research questions, while becoming more educated consumers of statistical analyses presented in research and news sources. Using nationally representative data sets we will employ various inferential statistics techniques, such as confidence intervals, t-tests, chi
Society Culture and Thought

Statistics for the Social Sciences — SCT4105.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Debbie Warnock
Credits: 4
In this course students will learn to harness social statistics as a powerful tool for answering social science research questions, while becoming more educated consumers of statistical analyses presented in research and news sources. Using nationally representative data sets we will employ various inferential statistics techniques, such as confidence intervals, t-tests, chi
Society Culture and Thought

Statistics for the Social Sciences — SOC4103.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Debbie Warnock
Credits: 4
In this course students will learn to harness social statistics as a powerful tool for answering social science research questions, while becoming more educated consumers of statistical analyses presented in research and news sources. Using nationally representative data sets we will employ various inferential statistics techniques, such as confidence intervals, t-tests, chi
Sociology

Strategic thinking and social interactions — PEC2271.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
This course explores strategic thinking in social interactions, analyzing these interactions in a game-theoretic framework. We will textually explore the fundamental concepts of the course, employing case studies to provide evidential support for our arguments. Our emphasis will be on the core ideas and intuitions behind the theory rather than their mathematical expressions,
Society Culture and Thought

Structures of Power in Society — ANT2210.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: MPrazak@bennington.edu
Credits: 4
Behind any social scene, mundane or extraordinary, lie structures of power. The goals of anthropology include unmasking these structures--the deep complexities of how humans organize themselves in groups. In this course we will explore the structures of gender, kinship, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and class to learn and develop analytical tools to navigate carefully, see deeply
Society Culture and Thought

Structures of Power in Society — ANT2210.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Miroslava Prazak
Credits: 4
Behind any social scene, mundane or extraordinary, lie structures of power. The goals of anthropology include unmasking these structures–the deep complexities of how humans organize themselves in groups. In this course we will explore the structures of gender, kinship, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and class to learn and develop analytical tools to navigate carefully, see deeply
Society Culture and Thought

Studying Place by Metes and Bounds — ENV4232.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Miroslava Prazak
Credits: 4
In New England, parcels of land were traditionally described in reference to specific existing landscape features—a system called “metes and bounds.” This course, grounded in the ecology, history and culture of the Bennington region over its 250-plus year history, explores human interactions with the biophysical environment to produce livelihoods as well as economic commodities
Society Culture and Thought Environment

Studying Place by Metes and Bounds — ENV4232.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Miroslava Prazak
Credits: 4
In New England, parcels of land were traditionally described in reference to specific existing landscape features—a system called “metes and bounds.” This course, grounded in the ecology, history and culture of the Bennington region over its 250-plus year history, explores human interactions with the biophysical environment to produce livelihoods as well as economic commodities
Society Culture and Thought Environment

Sun Ra: Space is the Place — MPF2146.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 2
SUN RA…SPACE IS THE PLACE unfolds the life of Herman Poole Blount, (May 22, 1914 – May 30, 1993) founder and creator of the Sun Ra Arkestra. Considered a prolific composer of jazz and a pioneer of electronic music, Herman Blount, aka Le Sony’r Ra, better known as Sun Ra, was quite controversial for his electronic music and unorthodox lifestyle. He claimed he was of the “Angel
Music Society Culture and Thought

Sustainability and Social Justice — POL4256.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Tim Schroeder
Credits: 4
This course will explore how different social movements have incorporated principles of ecological sustainability and social justice into their activism. We will examine how environmentalists (mainstream and radical), indigenous rights activists, feminists, immigrants’ rights activists, anti-immigrant groups, religious organizations, conservatives and labor unions have
CAPA Environment Society Culture and Thought

Sustainability and Social Justice — POL2257.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: John Hultgren
Credits: 4
This course will explore how different social movements have incorporated principles of ecological sustainability and social justice into their activism. We will examine how environmentalists (mainstream and radical), environmental justice organizers, indigenous rights activists, feminists, immigrants’ rights activists, anti-immigrant groups, religious organizations,
Environment Society Culture and Thought

Sustainable Development — PEC2255.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee
Credits: 2
Concerns for economic growth and income generation are often in conflict with the pursuit of environmental sustainability and ecological adaptations. The notion of sustainable development has been put forward to bring together these concerns. This seminar will explore sustainable development, looking at how it can address issues including environmental stewardship, economic
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Sustainable Development — PEC2255.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee
Credits: 2
In simple terms, economic development aims to enhance people's material well-being. However, achieving this without harming the environment or compromising the needs of diverse groups across different contexts and timeframes is a challenge. How can we reconcile this tension and balance these competing priorities? This is the central question of sustainable development. In this
Society Culture and Thought