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Toward a Just Transition — ENV2121.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: John Hultgren
Days & Time: TU,FR 10:30am-12:20pm
Credits: 4

How do we transition to a low-carbon economy in a manner that doesn’t reinscribe the social and environmental injustices that have plagued our fossil-fueled economy? On one hand, the continued burning of fossil fuels is producing environmental crises that threaten to destabilize the very foundations of collective life, with poor and historically

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Transnational Feminist Geography — SCT2138.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Emily Mitchell-Eaton
Credits: 4
What is the global? What is the transnational? Are these spaces of connection, of division, of possibility, or dislocation? What does solidarity mean, how is it practiced (or critiqued), and whom does it benefit? This course aims to grapple with the complexities and contradictions of such questions in the context of transnational feminist theory and praxis. In particular, we
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Transnational Feminist Geography — SCT2138.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Emily Mitchell-Eaton
Credits: 4
What is the global? What is the transnational? Are these spaces of connection, of division, of possibility, or dislocation? What does solidarity mean, how is it practiced (or critiqued), and whom does it benefit? This course aims to grapple with the complexities and contradictions of such questions in the context of transnational feminist theory and praxis. In particular, we
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Transpacific Worlds — canceled

Spring 2019
Instructor: Emily Mitchell-Eaton
Credits: 4
In recent years, the concept of the “transpacific” has attained new significance, in geography and beyond, as a way of naming the two-way “traffic in peoples, cultures, capital, and ideas between ‘America’ and ‘Asia’, as well as across the troubled ocean that lends its name to this model” (Hoskins and Nguyen, 2014: 2). This interdisciplinary field of inquiry has approached the
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Trends in Adolescent Mental Health — PSY4381.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Emily Waterman
Credits: 2
Adolescent mental health has become a topic of public discourse, due to research showing increases in depressed mood and anxiety among teens. This course is for students interested in a rigorous reading of the recent (past five years) literature on adolescent mental health. We will discuss methodologies to research adolescent mental health, as well as statistical techniques.
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Trends in Adolescent Mental Health — PSY4381.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Emily Waterman
Credits: 2
Adolescent mental health has become a topic of public discourse, due to research showing increases in depressed mood and anxiety among teens. This course is for students interested in a rigorous reading of the recent (past five years) literature on adolescent mental health. We will discuss methodologies to research adolescent mental health, as well as statistical techniques.
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Trends in Adolescent Mental Health — PSY4381.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Emily Waterman
Credits: 2
Adolescent mental health has become a topic of public discourse, due to research showing increases in depressed mood and anxiety among teens. This course is for students interested in a rigorous reading of the recent (past five years) literature on adolescent mental health. We will discuss methodologies to research adolescent mental health, as well as statistical techniques.
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Truth, Beauty, and Goodness: The Philosophy of Iris Murdoch — PHI4108.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Douglas Kremm
Credits: 4
Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) was a provocative and profoundly original thinker whose significance for contemporary philosophy is still being processed and absorbed today. Her work engages a wide range of topics, including art and religion, morals and politics, metaphysics and mysticism, the nature of the imagination, and the nature of the self. In this course, we will engage with
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U.S.-Asian Relations (c. 1800-Present) — HIS2146.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This course explores US relations with East and Southeast Asia from the early 1800s up through the present. We examine how transnational and international forces have shaped pivotal moments across three centuries, including the Opium Wars (1840s-1860s), the Meiji Restoration (1868-1889), US seizure of the Philippines (1899-1902), the two World Wars, the Vietnam War (1954-1975),
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Understanding and Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences — PSY4229.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Emily Waterman
Credits: 4
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are potentially traumatic events that occur when individuals are under 18 years old that undermine children’s sense of safety, stability, and bonding with other people (for example, child abuse, food insecurity, witnessing intimate partner violence, caregiver incarceration). In this course we will define ACEs, ACE scores, and trauma, and
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Understanding Food Insecurity in Bennington 2 — APA2253.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: tatianaabatemarco@bennington.edu
Credits: 4
As part of the Mellon Foundation grant addressing Food Insecurity in Bennington County, this class will engage with last year's overview of the programs currently being offered in Bennington, the best practices in our area and afar, and new projects that have been developed moving forward. Understanding Food Insecurity in Bennington County 2 will develop and sustain current
CAPA Environment Society Culture and Thought

Unemployment — PEC2254.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee
Credits: 4
Employment not only provides access to livelihood, but also ensures other material conditions of people’s well-being. Yet, unemployment remains a ubiquitous problem of modern life. This seminar will explore microeconomic and macroeconomic theories of unemployment, and present empirical analysis of unemployment data to examine the causes and nature of the problem. The course
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Unemployment and Inflation — PEC2257.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee
Credits: 4
Macroeconomics is very much about tying together facts and theories, and in this course, we will examine how macroeconomic principles can help us understand the nature and causes of inflation and unemployment that is plaguing the world economy in this post-Covid moment. We will also study the tension between policies that quell inflation but give rise to unemployment and worsen
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Unfair distribution: Poverty, inequality and deprivation — PEC4128.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee
Credits: 4
Poverty [defined as absolute deprivation] and inequality [defined as relative deprivation] are the two key concepts that allow us to talk about unevenness in income distribution and the unfairness in distribution of economic goods and economic opportunities amongst people.  This course traces the roots of these two key concepts in welfare economics, and asks: What causes
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Urban Design and Development — ANT4216.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Timothy Karis
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course applies the perspectives and methods of anthropology to explore and critique patterns of urban design and development around the world, paying attention to the interactions between structural forces (urban planning and design practices, global capitalism, city and state policies) and locally produced cultural meanings and political activities involving the use of
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Urban Disasters: Economics, Risk, and the City — PEC2286.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee
Days & Time: TU 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 2

Catastrophic events—droughts, earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, and landslides—are growing in frequency and intensity around the world. As more of the global population concentrates in urban areas, the nature and consequences of these natural hazards are taking on a distinct and often violent shape in today’s metropolises and megacities. This course investigates how urban

Advancement of Public Action Environment Political Economy

US-Africa Relations — POL4252.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Credits: 2
US foreign policy toward Africa has been characterized variously as one of indifference, neglect, selective/constructive engagement, disengagement, reengagement, and so on. This course probes the US‐Africa relationship in the light of the seeming reprioritization of that interaction by the United States since 9/11. Topics, readings, assignments, and presentations will explore
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US-Russian Relations, Past and Present — HIS4115.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Credits: 4
In 1852, a leading American newspaper proposed that, “As we look into the future, with the past and the present for our guides, we see two great objects looming up conspicuously above all others, Russia and the United States …. What is to be their mysterious fate and their mission in the World? What can we now seize upon to guide us in calculating their future history?” Though
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Uses and Abuses of Statistics — MAT2103.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Hugh Crowl
Credits: 4
This course will attempt to answer the question "What is valid data -- and how do you know?" By looking at real life data sets, we will work on reading, assessing, and producing statistics as they relate to different fields. We will work to locate the source data, understand statistical language, and look at how the visual representation of data can change how we perceive facts
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Violence — ANT4116.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Noah Coburn
Credits: 4
This course is a cross‐cultural exploration of violence.   We will ask: What is violence?  How do we experience, perceive, think and write about violence as a political concept?  The course will begin with the political philosophy of violence.  It will then move to ethnographies written about violence and look at how other
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Volatile Futures/Earthly Matters — APA2275.01

Spring 2017
Instructor:
Credits: 2
Where and when does the Anthropocene come to matter? Looking at inundated low-lying islands, the melting Arctic, or the coastal wrath of super storms, many suggest such contemporary moments prophesy the future that awaits us all. Others, returning to the ecological fallout of the colonial plantation, hydrocarbon imperialism, or nuclear weapons, suggest our impending unraveling
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War in the 21st Century — ANT2112.01) (cancelled 10/17/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: Noah Coburn
Credits: 4
This course explores the ways in which war has (or has not) changed over the past two decades. Using anthropological tools we will ask questions about: the role of drones and other new technologies, the changing nature of the American Empire, strategic approaches to warfare including counterinsurgency and nuclear deterrence, the economic impact of global economies and migration
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War in the 21st Century — ANT4124.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Noah Coburn
Credits: 4
This seminar explores the ways in which war has (or has not) changed over the past two decades. Using anthropological tools we will ask questions about: the role of drones and other new technologies, the changing nature of the American Empire, strategic approaches to warfare including counterinsurgency and nuclear deterrence, the economic impact of global economies and
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