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

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

From the Stoics to Ubuntu: Philosophies of the Good Life — PHI2149.01

Instructor: Paul Voice
Days & Time: TU,FR 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 4

This class examines a variety of answers to the ancient question: How do I live a good life? We’ll engage with thinkers from diverse traditions across time and space as we clarify our own understanding of what makes life worth living and as we articulate a more developed conception of the good life. Readings will include texts from Greek and Roman

From the Stoics to Ubuntu: Philosophies of the Good Life — PHI2149.01

Instructor: Karen Gover and Paul Voice
Credits: 4
This class examines variety of answers to the ancient question: How do I live a good life? The readings draw from philosophical traditions across both time and location, including Greek and Roman Stoicism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Christian theology, contemporary philosophers in the Anglo-American and European traditions, as well as the African ethic of Ubuntu.

From the Stoics to Ubuntu: Philosophies of the Good Life — PHI2149.01

Instructor: Catherine McKeen
Credits: 4
This class examines a variety of answers to the ancient question: How do I live a good life? We’ll engage with thinkers from diverse traditions across time and space as we clarify our own understanding of what makes life worth living and as we articulate a more developed conception of the good life. Readings will include texts from Greek and Roman antiquity, selections from

Game Theory — PEC2272.01

Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee
Credits: 4
This course introduces game theory and strategic decision-making in economics. We use this framework to study how incentives and interdependence influence economic behavior. Throughout the course, you will learn essential economic concepts such as rationality and decision-making under uncertainty. Additionally, you will analyze canonical game forms, including static games,

Gender and Security in the 21st Century — SCT2130.01

Instructor: Kate Paarlberg-Kvam
Credits: 4
This course is designed to critically examine twenty-first century security discourse and the ways it interacts with the gendered constructions of people’s lives. Combining the interdisciplinary approaches of feminist studies, cultural political economy, and critical security studies, we will examine the meanings of “security,” its manifestations around the world, and the ways

Gender in Early Modern Europe — HIS2102.01

Instructor: Carol Pal
Credits: 4
The aim of this course is to interrogate historical perceptions of women and gender in the early modern era, and to develop a critical approach to primary source documents. We attempt to complicate constructions of ideal feminine behavior by examining the evidence that shows what women were actually up to. In addition to the ways in which major writers and thinkers saw women,

Gender in Early Modern Europe — HIS2102.01

Instructor: Carol Pal
Credits: 4
The aim of this course is to interrogate historical perceptions of women and gender in the early modern era, and to develop a critical approach to primary source documents. We attempt to complicate constructions of ideal feminine behavior by examining the evidence that shows what women actually were up to. In addition to the ways in which major writers and thinkers saw women,

Gender in Early Modern Europe — HIS2102.01

Instructor: Carol Pal
Credits: 4
The aim of this course is to interrogate historical perceptions of women and gender in the early modern era, and to develop a critical approach to primary source documents. We attempt to complicate constructions of ideal feminine behavior by examining the evidence that shows what women actually were up to. In addition to the ways in which major writers and thinkers saw women,

Gender, Inequality and Social Change — ANT4121.01

Instructor: Miroslava Prazak
Credits: 4
This course explores the social construction of gender categories both historically and in the present as socially, historically, and culturally contingent concepts. We will examine how major societal institutions, including the family, education, religion, medicine, economy, polity, and the global system are structured to eliminate, maintain or reproduce gendered inequalities

Gender, Inequality and Social Change — ANT4121.01

Instructor: Miroslava Prazak
Credits: 4
This course explores the social construction of gender categories both historically and in the present as socially, historically, and culturally contingent concepts. We will examine how major societal institutions, including the family, education, religion, medicine, economy, polity, and the global system are structured to eliminate, maintain or reproduce gendered inequalities

Gender, Sexuality, and U.S. Empire — HIS4117.01

Instructor: Alexander Jin
Days & Time: TH 8:30am-12:10pm
Credits: 4

This course examines the entangled histories of race, gender, and sexuality within the expansion and maintenance of U.S. Empire. We will explore histories ranging from the selective exclusion of nineteenth century migrants, America’s global war on sex work in the early twentieth century, to the gendered dimensions of twentieth

Gender, Subsistence, and Agriculture — APA4241.02

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

Genders and Sexualities — PSY4135.01

Instructor: Ella Ben Hagai
Credits: 2
This class is a hybrid of a speaker series and a research seminar. Students will be actively involved in organizing the SCT Colloquium and engaging with invited distinguished scholars. Throughout the term students will read and discuss foundational theories in the study of gender and sexuality. We will also examine recent research on gender and sexual identity development in

Genesis — HIS2220.01

Instructor: Carol Pal
Credits: 4
Genesis is the first book in a compilation known collectively as the Bible. It is a text of enormous literary value, and one of our earliest historical chronicles, providing foundational material for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Yet how many of us know what it actually says? How did it come together, what is the narrative, and how does it relate to the ideas and events of

Genesis — HIS2220.01

Instructor: Carol Pal
Credits: 4
Genesis is the first book in a compilation known collectively as the Bible. It is a text of enormous literary value, and one of our earliest historical chronicles, providing foundational material for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Yet how many of us know what it actually says? How did it come together, what is the narrative, and how does it relate to ideas, cultures, and

Genesis — HIS2220.01

Instructor: Carol Pal
Days & Time: TU,FR 10:30am-12:20pm
Credits: 4

Genesis is the first book in a compilation known collectively as the Bible. It is a text of enormous literary value, and one of our earliest historical chronicles, providing foundational material for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Yet how many of us know what it actually says?  How did it come together, what is the narrative, and how does it relate to

Genesis — HIS2220.01

Instructor: Carol Pal
Credits: 4
Genesis is the first book in a compilation known collectively as the Bible. It is a text of enormous literary value, and one of our earliest historical chronicles, providing foundational material for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Yet how many of us know what it actually says? How did it come together, what is the narrative, and how does it relate to the ideas and events of

Geographies of U.S. Empire: Immigration, Race, and Citizenship — SCT2137.01

Instructor: Emily Mitchell-Eaton
Credits: 4
This course examines the complex historical and contemporary formations that constitute U.S. empire, through a particular attention to immigration, race, and citizenship. Its aim is to provide students with a critical view of how immigration law has formed part of U.S. national and imperial projects. Using an geographically informed interdisciplinary approach, we will explore

Gifts and Gift Exchange — PSY4131.01

Instructor: Ronald Cohen
Credits: 4
Whether between two people, or among several in a gathering or a small group, people usually manage to coordinate their activity with others. The rules that underlie, create, and maintain orderliness and permit people to carry on their activities are usually out of immediate, conscious awareness, and their existence is recognized only when they are violated. We will examine

Glitch Feminism — FV4326.01) (cancelled 10/11/2023

Instructor: Jen Liu
Credits: 4
This course borrows its name from Legacy Russell's essay, then book of the same name, but uses it as a container to consider the history of fembots in science fiction in the 20th century, then arrive in the 21st century with various takes on cyberfeminism and hybrid biobodies, with a particular interest in the global south and diasporic perspectives.  We will look at a

Global Capitalism — ANT4135.01

Instructor: Miroslava Prazak
Credits: 4
We are all familiar with a culture and society dedicated to the idea of consumption as the ultimate source of well-being. Its technology, wealth, and power are monuments to its success. But its spread around the globe has been accompanied by growing social and economic inequality, environmental destruction, mass starvation, and social unrest. Though most members of this society

Global Environmental Politics — POL2108.01

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