Society Culture and Thought

Comparative Political Corruption — POL4102.01

Instructor: Rotimi Suberu

Credits: 2

Political corruption is broadly understood to involve the exploitation of public office for private gain. It is a longstanding problem, and it persists more or less in every society, including old democracies and developing countries. This course explores the definitions, drivers, patterns, effects and control of political corruption from a global perspective. Key topics

CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Comparative Political Corruption — POL4102.01

Instructor: Rotimi Suberu

Credits: 2

Political corruption is broadly understood to involve the exploitation of public office for private gain. It is a longstanding problem, and it persists more or less in every society, including old democracies and developing countries. This course explores the definitions, drivers, patterns, effects and control of political corruption from a global perspective. Key topics

Society Culture and Thought

Comparing Political Institutions — POL2101.01

Instructor: Rotimi Suberu

Credits: 4

Political institutions are the decision norms and organizations that govern political life. Academic and policy interest in such institutions is flourishing as many previously authoritarian states seek to craft their first democratic political institutions or constitutions. This basic course introduces students to major political institutions and the debates about their

Society Culture and Thought

Comparing Political Institutions — POL2101.01

Instructor: Rotimi Suberu

Credits: 4

Political institutions are the decision norms and organizations that govern political life. Academic and policy interest in such institutions is flourishing as previously authoritarian states seek to craft democratic constitutions, while established and new democracies contend with non-democratic, illiberal, or populist challenges to their political systems. This course

CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Comparing Political Institutions — POL2101.01

Instructor: Rotimi Suberu

Credits: 4

Political institutions are the decision norms and organizations that govern political life. Academic and policy interest in such institutions is flourishing as previously authoritarian states seek to craft democratic constitutions, while established and new democracies contend with non-democratic, illiberal, or populist challenges to their political systems. This course

Society Culture and Thought

Comparing Political Institutions — POL2101.01

Instructor: Rotimi Suberu

Credits: 4

Political institutions are the decision norms and organizations that govern political life. Academic and policy interest in such institutions is flourishing as previously authoritarian states seek to craft democratic constitutions, while established and new democracies contend with non-democratic, illiberal, or populist challenges to their political systems. This course

Society Culture and Thought

Comparing Political Institutions — POL2101.01

Instructor: Rotimi Suberu

Credits: 4

Political institutions are the decision norms and organizations that govern political life. Academic and policy interest in such institutions is flourishing as many previously authoritarian states seek to craft their first democratic political institutions or constitutions. This basic course introduces students to major political institutions and the debates about their

Society Culture and Thought

Conducting Social Research — ANT4221.01

Instructor: Laura Nussbaum-Barberena

Credits: 4

Research is a creative endeavor for social scientists and others who use their methods. How do social scientists design projects that answer the questions they wish to pose? How do they gather information about people and culture? What are the concerns of researchers vis-à-vis the methods they use? In this workshop course, we will first consider elements such as research design

Society Culture and Thought

Conspiracies: Past, Present, Always — HIS2112.01

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

Credits: 4

Conspiracy theories have a long and interesting history in American politics and culture. Indeed, some of today’s most diabolical conspiracy theories actually took hold in the era of the American Revolution. They have persisted across generations and centuries, periodically exploding into epidemic-level mass paranoia. Through select case studies, primary documents, cultural

Society Culture and Thought

Conspiracies: Past, Present, Always — HIS2112.01

Instructor: Eileen Scully

Credits: 4

Conspiracy theories have a long and interesting history in American politics and culture. Indeed, some of today’s most interesting and diabolical conspiracy theories actually took hold in the era of the American Revolution. They have persisted across generations and centuries, periodically exploding into epidemic-level mass paranoia. Through select case studies,

Society Culture and Thought

Conspiracies: Past, Present, Always — HIS2112.01

Instructor: Eileen Scully

Credits: 4

Conspiracy theories have a long and interesting history in American politics and culture. Indeed, some of today's most interesting and diabolical conspiracy theories actually took hold in the era of the American Revolution. They have persisted across generations and centuries, periodically exploding into epidemic-level mass paranoia. Through select case studies, primary

Society Culture and Thought

Conspiracies: Past, Present, Always — HIS2112.01

Instructor: Eileen Scully

Credits: 4

Conspiracy theories have a long and interesting history in American politics and culture. Indeed, some of today's most diabolical conspiracy theories actually took hold in the era of the American Revolution. They have persisted across generations and centuries, periodically exploding into epidemic-level mass paranoia. Through select case studies, primary documents, cultural

Society Culture and Thought

Constructed Languages: Between Entertainment and Idealism — LIN4106.01

Instructor: Tom Leddy-Cecere

Credits: 2

This course will explore the world of artificial or constructed languages (“ConLangs”), and examine their characteristics, their use, and the motivations behind their development. ConLangs have captured the public imagination as a creative product in literature, film, television, and gaming; this enriches the lesser known but equally engrossing history of artificial

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Constructed Languages: Between Entertainment and Idealism — LIN4106.01

Instructor: Tom Leddy-Cecere

Credits: 4

This course will explore the world of artificial or constructed languages (“ConLangs”), and examine their characteristics, their use, and the motivations behind their development. ConLangs have captured the public imagination as a creative product in literature, film, television, and gaming; this enriches the lesser known but equally engrossing history of artificial

Society Culture and Thought

Contemporary Feminisms of Latin America — ANT4112.01

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

Credits: 4

From LasTesis’ 2019 performance going viral to recent victories for reproductive rights in Colombia and Argentina, Latin American feminists have garnered recent international attention and, more importantly, made significant and recognized contributions to feminist theory globally. Using several different sources (ethnographies, documentaries, testimonials, and visual art),

Society Culture and Thought

Counseling Theory Practice — PSY4240.01

Instructor: Emily Waterman

Credits: 4

Society Culture and Thought

Creation of Statistics — MAT2247.01

Instructor: Josef Mundt

Credits: 4

The amount of data in the world is vast and is increasing exponentially. It is easy to become overwhelmed and lose sight of the goal of data: to answer questions we have about the world in a specific, concise manner. The goal of this course is to help craft answerable questions---and then answer them. In order to do this, we will be using a programming language ("R") to help us

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Creative Practices in Sensory Geopolitics — MS2111.01

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

Credits: 4

This 2000-level media studies course is an introductory course on media studies that draws on case studies from around the world to consider media practices, amongst individual makers and communities as they engage with geopolitics. What are the dimensions of creative practices embedded in global crises? How can we draw out the sensory experiences of media such as touch, sound,

Society Culture and Thought

Critical Conversations in Society, Culture Thought: The Great Transformation at 75 — SCT2132.01

Instructor: John Hultgren, David Bond, Lopamudra Banerjee

Credits: 4

This course will introduce students to Society, Culture Thought by engaging with the work of one of Bennington College's most remarkable former professors, Karl Polanyi. Seventy-five years ago, fleeing the rise of Naziism in Europe, Polanyi arrived at Bennington, and gave a series of public lectures that offered a bold new interpretation of what had gone wrong as the world

Society Culture and Thought

Critical Conversations in Society, Culture, and Thought: Truth and Lies — SCT2106.01

Instructor: Carol Pal

Credits: 4

This course introduces students to some of the key questions, perspectives, and debates that enliven scholarly work within Society, Culture, and Thought (SCT). This course also explores how fluency in the social sciences can inform critical and creative engagements with contemporary problems. Four faculty members will take students through four different approaches to a

CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Critical Theory in Qualitative Research — SCT4112.01

Instructor: Audrey Devost

Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-5:50pm

Credits: 4

Qualitative inquiry seeks to discover and to describe in narrative reporting what particular people do in their everyday lives and what the actions mean to them. This course is intended for students who wish to learn more about the impact of theoretical frameworks on their ongoing knowledge projects at Bennington College. A critical theoretical lens in

Black Studies Society Culture and Thought

Cross-cultural Psychology — PSY2289.01

Instructor: Ella Ben Hagai

Credits: 4

In this course, we will carefully consider the ways in which certain cultural practices and ideologies shape individual psychology. Using a comparative lens, we will explore how people’s sense of self and identity differ in individualistic compared to collectivist cultures. How do differences in cultural codes associate with differences in thinking styles, emotional expression,

Society Culture and Thought

Cross-cultural Psychology — PSY2289.01

Instructor: Ella Ben Hagai

Credits: 4

In this course, we will carefully consider the ways in which certain cultural practices and ideologies shape individual psychology. Using a comparative lens, we will explore how people’s sense of self and identity differ in individualistic compared to collectivist cultures. How do differences in cultural codes associate with differences in thinking styles, emotional expression,

Society Culture and Thought

Culture and Public Health — ANT2112.01

Instructor: Rebecca Dinkel

Credits: 4

Public health policies, practices, and the communication thereof, have radically been altered since the COVID-19 pandemic. This cultural shift has been encouraged through social media, which many have argued have spread misinformation about public health and medicine. This course examines how anthropology can be a tool for understanding societal and cultural framing of public

Society Culture and Thought

Culture in a Globalized World(cancelled 4/27/2023) — ANT4151.01

Instructor: Steve Moog

Credits: 4

People have always been connected, but in the last 40 years, the frequency and magnitude of people’s global interactions have dramatically increased. Look at the clothing you have on today and think of how many people from how many different places were involved in what you are wearing. Social theorists have understood globalization as a consequence of economic forces that

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