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How Do Animals Learn and Remember? — BIO2108.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: David Edelman
Credits: 4
For more than 60 years, modern experimental psychology has focused on characterizing the intimately linked processes of learning and memory. At the same time, neuroscientists have worked doggedly since the birth of their field to unravel the neural mechanisms underlying these fundamental processes. How does an animal acquire information about its world and access and recall
Science Mathematics and Computing

How Do Animals Work? — BIO2102.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Elizabeth Sherman
Credits: 4
How do animals work? Why do different animals work in different ways? The blue whale in the Pacific, the tapeworm lodged in the gut of a fox, and the flour beetle in your cupboard all must eat and grow and reproduce yet they differ enormously in size, longevity, and environment. The particular ways in which each of these animals has solved these problems are different yet there
Science Mathematics and Computing Environment

How Do Animals Work? — BIO2102.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Betsy Sherman
Credits: 4
How do animals work? Why do different animals work in different ways? The blue whale in the Pacific, the tapeworm lodged in the gut of a fox, and the flour beetle in your cupboard all must eat and grow and reproduce yet they differ enormously in size, longevity and environment. The particular ways in which each of these animals has "solved" these problems are different yet
Science and Mathematics

How Do Animals Work? (with lab) — BIO2102.01

Fall 2016
Instructor:
Credits: 4
The blue whale in the Pacific, the tapeworm lodged in the gut of a fox, and the flour beetle in your cupboard all must eat and grow and reproduce yet they differ enormously in size, longevity, and environment. The particular ways in which each of these animals has solved these problems are different yet there are also underlying similarities in their solutions. Evolutionary
Science and Mathematics

How Do You Know: The Culture of Information — APA4106.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Erika Mijlin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
On a daily basis, we each define a relationship to information, as a bearer of truth, evidence, authority, timeliness, social leverage, insight, etc. Part seminar and part workshop, this course will attempt to make that complex relationship visible. We will first focus on a history of knowledge, and the various ways in which it has been used to organize the world. We will then
Advancement of Public Action

How I feel is real but not eternal — PSY2243.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Anne Gilman
Days & Time: TU,FR 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 4

How have psychologists defined feelings over the years, and how is the field continuing to change?  We will begin with the 19th Century, when scientists like Wundt and Charcot brought human perception and mental health symptoms out of the realm of metaphysics.  After briefly considering Darwin’s view of emotion and new perspectives on artwork from early asylums, we

Psychology

How the "Boom" Went Bust — SPA4706.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Credits: 4
In 1961, Jorge Luis Borges shared the Formentor prize with Samuel Beckett, thus internationalizing Latin American culture and supposedly initiating the “Boom.” Whether the swagger of the ensuing decades marked the apex of the continent’s artistic production, or was simply the result of a single Spanish publishing house’s hype, feeding a neo-imperialist world’s expectations of
Literature Languages

How the "Boom" Went Bust — SPA4706.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: jonathan pitcher
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
In 1961, Jorge Luis Borges shared the Formentor prize with Samuel Beckett, thus internationalizing Latin American culture and supposedly initiating the Boom. Whether the swagger of the ensuing decades marked the apex of the continent's artistic production, or was simply the result of a single Spanish publishing house's hype, feeding a neo-imperialist world's expectations of
Languages

How to be a Radio DJ — APA2315.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Thom Loubet
Credits: 1
Webcasting radio and podcast are relatively new art forms that are transforming the way that people across the globe share ideas, music, and discourse.  This class focuses on the skills required to successfully communicate through live audio production. This will include discussions on how to: speak on a microphone, create a successful playlist, mix live from multiple
CAPA

How to Build a Forest — BIO2131.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie
Credits: 4
Bennington’s campus supports beautiful examples of temperate deciduous mixed hardwood forests. This class is a deep dive into forest ecology, land use change, and forest succession at a local scale. Students will explore the local forest community composition, structure, and function over the last 15,000 years and discuss the environmental conditions, disturbance dynamics, and
Science and Mathematics Environment

How to Build a Forest — BIO2131.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie
Days & Time: TU,FR 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 4

Bennington’s campus supports beautiful examples of temperate deciduous mixed hardwood forests. This class is a deep dive into forest ecology, land use change, and forest succession at a local scale. Students will explore the local forest community composition, structure, and function over the last 15,000 years and discuss the environmental conditions, disturbance

Biology

How to Build a Forest — BIO2131.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
Bennington’s campus supports beautiful examples of temperate deciduous mixed hardwood forests. This class is a deep dive into forest ecology, land use change, and forest succession at a local scale. Students will explore the local forest community composition, structure, and function over the last 15,000 years and discuss the environmental conditions, disturbance dynamics, and
Science and Mathematics

How to Build a Habitable Planet — PHY2118.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Tim Schroeder
Credits: 4
This course will investigate the physical conditions and processes necessary for creating a habitable planet. We will study the formation of stars and planets, and the evolution of planets after formation into safe harbors for life. This will include investigation of how both stellar and geological processes affect the habitability of planets, and consideration of the possible
Environment Science and Mathematics

How to Build a Radio Telescope — PHY4203.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Hugh Crowl; Andrew Cencini
Credits: 2
Astronomy has gained great insights from Radio Astronomy - details of star formation, the first evidence for Dark Matter, evidence for massive galactic central black holes, and star formation in the early universe are all examples of things we have learned from observations of radio light. In this course, students will build an eight-foot radio telescope to be used in this
Science Mathematics and Computing

How to Build an Organism (with Lab) — BIO2220.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Blake Jones
Credits: 4
The organism sits at the heart of biological evolution. Judged on its form and performance, the organism is the ultimate object of natural selection, and thus understanding its development and function is key for understanding the evolution of life. In this course you will learn fundamentals across the levels of biological organization to understand how genetic information
Science and Mathematics

How to Collaborate: Threeing — APA2214.03

Fall 2019
Instructor: Caroline Woolard, MFA Teaching Fellow
Credits: 2
If group work is both the most necessary and the most difficult endeavor of our time, what methods are necessary for collaboration in the visual arts? In this seminar and studio, students will focus on a method for group work that was developed by the video-artist (not politician) Paul Ryan between 1971 and the end of his life, in 2013. Threeing is "a voluntary practice in
CAPA

How to Read a Story — LIT2179.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: doug bauer
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
The challenge in this class will be to read and then to write critically about great literature with an appreciation of its aims and ambitions, and with earned opinions regarding the writers' intentions. (In this effort you'll be reading criticism of the works that will inform but not dictate your own carefully considered views.) All that while also retaining the immediate
Literature

How to Read a Translation — LIT2187.02

Spring 2021
Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz
Credits: 2
What, exactly, is a literary translation? A faithful rendering of an original text? But then, what do we mean by “faithful”? What do we mean by “original”? Form, syntax, grammar, not to mention puns, wordplay, and allusion are all part of the action in reading, writing, and the interpretative art we call translation. Time, too, plays a role: languages are dynamic, even
Literature

How to Read a Translation — LIT2187.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz
Credits: 2
What, exactly, is a literary translation? A faithful rendering of an original text? But then, what do we mean by "faithful"? What do we mean by "original"? Form, syntax, grammar, not to mention puns, wordplay, and allusion are all part of the action in reading, writing, and the interpretative art we call translation. Time, too, plays a role: languages are dynamic, even
Literature

How to Study a Disaster — ANT2136.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 4
Disasters loom large in the contemporary. In films and front-page news, images of societies splintering apart proliferate. Surely one of the most remarkable things about social life in the present is the ease with which we can conjure up its spectacular destruction. The point of this seminar is to take disaster seriously. We will do this both by reviewing historical and
Social Science Environment

How to Think Like a Data Scientist — CS4115.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Tim Schroeder
Credits: 4
This class will cover the methods used to gather, clean, normalize, visualize, and analyze quantitative data to inform decision making in multiple fields of study. We will use spreadsheets, SQL and Python to work on real-world datasets using a combination of procedural and basic machine-learning algorithms. Students will also learn to ask good, exploratory questions and develop
Science and Mathematics

How to Think Like a Data Scientist — CS4115.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Hugh Crowl
Credits: 4
In this course, you will be introduced to the importance of gathering, cleaning, normalizing, visualizing and analyzing data to drive informed decision-making, no matter the field of study. You will learn to use a combination of tools and techniques, including spreadsheets, SQL, and Python to work on real-world datasets using a combination of procedural and basic machine
Science and Mathematics

How Water Behaves — DRA4216.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Dina Janis
Credits: 4
This class will be a Production Performance class designed to develop, explore and present this new work by playwright Sherry Kramer. It will be audition based and will have room for various ensemble members in addition to assistant directors, dramaturgs, and designers.
Drama

Human Mobility and Human Rights — MOD2167.03

Spring 2018
Instructor: Andrea Galindo
Credits: 1
Human mobility has been an inherent human condition throughout history. From earliest human history, people have migrated in search of a better life, to populate other places on the planet, or to escape and survive human-made or natural dangers. However, it was the creation of the concept of modern State that established geographic boundaries, and enabled States to exercise
CAPA Modules: Transferable Approaches