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Local Land-use History and Landscape Ecology — BIO4113.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Landscape ecology works across multiple scales in space and time to understand the drivers of ecosystem function and pattern in broad context. Can diversity and productivity of particular pieces of the landscape be better predicted given knowledge of spatial and historical context? How do parts of the landscape interact as sources and sinks in population dynamics of plants and
Science Mathematics and Computing

Local Landscape A: Ecological Principles — BIO2127.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: KWoods@bennington.edu
Credits: 2
New England is one of the most heavily forested regions in the United States. 14,000 years ago it was covered by ice. When humans arrived about 11,000 years ago, they found extensive, well-established forests — and began reshaping the landscape through hunting and fire and, beginning about 2000 years ago, farming. European colonists caused further ecological change by expanding
Science and Mathematics Environment

Local Landscape B: Field Ecology and Natural History — BIO2126.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: KWoods@bennington.edu
Credits: 2
This is a companion course to the 'classroom' section, "Local Landscape A", and will take place entirely in lab and field (primarily the latter). The class has two main aims: to deepen and reinforce understanding of ecological principles through experience and systematic observation in the field (along with use of some of the tools and instruments of the field researcher), and
Science and Mathematics Environment

Logarithms — MAT2107.02

Spring 2020
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Credits: 1
Logarithms are one of the parts of mathematics that often remain a bit mysterious to people, even if they had no difficulty solving problems with them in school. In fact, logarithms are of far broader importance and interest than the narrow applications one usually sees; and seeing this broader picture helps in dispelling some of the mystery and in understanding what they are.
Science and Mathematics

Logic and Proof: The Art of Mathematics and the Limits of Knowledge — MAT2378.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Credits: 4
How do we know something “beyond a reasonable doubt”? What is the relationship of insight to logical argument? How can we have certain knowledge about concepts which are infinite? These questions are at the core of mathematics, but also at the core of liberal arts. In mathematics, people have found rather detailed answers to how much certainty is possible, and have found
Science and Mathematics Society Culture and Thought

Logic and Proof: The Art of Mathematics and the Limits of Knowledge — MAT2378.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Credits: 4
How do we know something "beyond a reasonable doubt"? What is the relationship of insight to logical argument? How can we have certain knowledge about concepts which are infinite? These questions are at the core of mathematics, but also at the core of liberal arts. In mathematics, people have found rather detailed answers to how much certainty is possible, and have found
Science and Mathematics

Logic, Proofs, Algebra, and Set Theory — MAT2410.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Carly Briggs
Credits: 4
This introductory course should be of interest to students planning additional study in mathematics as well as those wanting looking for a mathematics course of more general interest. The topics and skills covered in this class will be fundamental in all advanced mathematics classes and may therefore be used as a prerequisite for Calculus A and Linear Algebra. The class should
Science and Mathematics

Logic, Proofs, Algebra, and Set Theory — MAT2410.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Carly Briggs
Credits: 4
This introductory course will cover key foundations needed for more advanced mathematics; it should also be of interest to students not primarily studying mathematics. For students wanting to go on in mathematics, the topics and skills covered in this class will be fundamental in all advanced mathematics classes. In particular, this class may be used as a prerequisite for
Science and Mathematics Society Culture and Thought

Logic, Proofs, Algebra, and Set Theory — MAT2410.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Credits: 4
This introductory course will cover key foundations needed for more advanced mathematics; it should also be of interest to students not primarily studying mathematics. Topics will include symbolic logic and rules of inference; how to write mathematical proofs; the beginnings of abstract algebra, including Boolean algebras; extensions of high school polynomial algebra; and set
Science and Mathematics

Logic, Proofs, Algebra, and Set Theory — MAT2410.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Credits: 4
This introductory course should be of interest to students planning additional study in mathematics as well as those wanting looking for a mathematics course of more general interest. The topics and skills covered in this class will be fundamental in all advanced mathematics classes. The class should also be of interest to students of computer science or philosophy, and to
Science and Mathematics

Logic, Proofs, Algebra, and Set Theory — MAT2410.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Credits: 4
This introductory course will cover key foundations needed for more advanced mathematics; it should also be of interest to students not primarily studying mathematics. Topics will include symbolic logic and rules of inference; how to write mathematical proofs; the beginnings of abstract algebra, including Boolean algebras; extensions of high school polynomial algebra; and set
Science and Mathematics Society Culture and Thought

Looking closer; making work — SCU4122.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This course asks each student to work in a self-directed way among a community of critical thinkers. Finding one’s voice, as a maker, requires researching sources of influence and inspiration. Students are expected to undertake a significant amount of work outside of regular class meetings. At this point in your Visual Arts Education, you must be able to represent serious
Visual Arts

Looking closer; making work — SCU4122.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: John Umphlett
Credits: 4
This course asks each student to work in a self-directed way among a community of critical thinkers. Finding one’s voice, as a maker, requires researching sources of influence and inspiration. Students are expected to undertake a significant amount of work outside of regular class meetings. At this point in your Visual Arts Education you must be able to represent serious
Visual Arts

Looking, Perceiving, and Attending — PSY2384.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
Cognitive neuroscience applies scientists' ongoing discoveries about the brain to explain people's everyday experiences. In this course, we will learn about the physical structures and functional networks that enable human vision and visual attention. Identifying what you see as a juice glass or a coffee cup depends on a complex interplay of brain functions, and attention
Society Culture and Thought

Lost and Found in the Nineteenth Century — HIS2142.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This is an immersion in "portraiture," a unique methodology that "seeks to unveil the universal truths and resonant stories that lie in the specifics and complexity of everyday life." Using online materials, including historical newspapers, censuses and vital records, we will draw up a list of people to "look for," such as runaway slaves, absconding debtors, eloping spouses,
Society Culture and Thought

Lost and Found in the Nineteenth Century — HIS2142.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Credits: 4
Revolutions in transportation across the nineteenth century wrapped a “girdle of steam around the world,” giving people a sense of wider horizons in a shrinking universe. Indeed, Frederick Douglass’ newspaper spoke in the 1850s of “walls…giving way before the physical, mental and moral pressure of a world, whose business by land and water, is shot over its surface by steam, and
Society Culture and Thought

Lost and Found in the Nineteenth Century — HIS2142.02

Fall 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This is an immersion in “portraiture,” a unique methodology that “seeks to unveil the universal truths and resonant stories that lie in the specifics and complexity of everyday life.” Using online materials, including historical newspapers, censuses and vital records, we will draw up a list of people to “look for,” such as runaway slaves, absconding debtors, eloping spouses,
Society Culture and Thought

Lost and Found in the Nineteenth Century — HIS2142.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Credits: 4
This is an immersion in “portraiture,” a unique methodology that “seeks to unveil the universal truths and resonant stories that lie in the specifics and complexity of everyday life.” Using online materials, including historical newspapers, censuses and vital records, we will draw up a list of people to “look for,” such as runaway slaves, absconding debtors, eloping spouses,
Society Culture and Thought

Lost and Found in the Nineteenth Century — HIS2142.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Credits: 4
Revolutions in transportation across the nineteenth century wrapped a “girdle of steam around the world,” giving people a sense of wider horizons in a shrinking universe. Indeed, Frederick Douglass' newspaper spoke in the 1850s of "walls…giving way before the physical, mental and moral pressure of a world, whose business by land and water, is shot over its surface by steam, and
Society Culture and Thought

Love Happiness — PHI2160.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Catherine McKeen
Credits: 4
The legendary Al Green sang it best. Love and happiness seem to be inextricably intertwined. Popular narratives stress that we can’t have one without the other. But if we do find love, they say, we’ll live “happily ever after.” These popular ideas invite many questions: To what extent is happiness under my control? Can circumstances make my life less happy? How is feeling happy
Society Culture and Thought

Love Happiness — PHI2160.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Catherine McKeen
Credits: 4
The legendary Al Green sang it best. Love and happiness seem to be inextricably intertwined. Popular narratives stress that we can’t have one without the other – but, if we do find love, we’ll live “happily ever after.” These popular ideas invite many questions: To what extent is happiness under my control? Can circumstances make my life less happy? How is feeling happy related
Society Culture and Thought

Love and Other Italian Disasters — ITA4607.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Credits: 4
In his film “Ricomincio da tre” (I’m Starting Back at Three), the Italian director and protagonist Massimo Troisi responds to his girlfriend, who reminds him that “When you have love, you have everything,”: ”No, you’re wrong, That is health.” This course focuses on representations of love, partnership, and their (im)possibilities in contemporary Italian literature and film, as
Languages

Love in the Time of War — ANT4157.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Marios Falaris
Days & Time: TU 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

How does love emerge under conditions of war? This seminar explores what it means to sustain intimate relations in the face of overwhelming violence. Through the Anthropology of Kinship, as well as through methods developed across the fields of Queer Studies, Black Studies, and Postcolonial Studies, this course considers how intimacy and love 

Anthropology

Low Fire Clay and Glazes, History Application — CER4328.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Barry Bartlett
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This class will explore the use of low temperature clay and glazes. A large part of ceramic history is based in these materials. All early civilizations moving into the 14-century and many contemporary styles depend on low temperature material in terms of both technical and artistic style. Students will be asked to do research into different styles and types of low fire clay
Visual Arts

Low Tech Relief Printmaking — PRI2118.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Sarah Amos
Credits: 4
This class will explore the many varied techniques within the Relief family. We will be working with the following materials: linoleum, soft cut rubber, Mat board for Collagraphs and plastic plates for Carborundum Relief prints. We will also be looking at Monoprinting and Stencils to be used in collaboration with one or two of the other techniques. All of these techniques in
Visual Arts