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Literature of the Holocaust — LIT2526.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
Philosopher Theodor Adorno famously claimed that writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric. Adorno didn’t write this statement to silence poets. Specifically referencing the poet Paul Celan, he meant that poetry after the Holocaust would need to be radically different to account for these historic atrocities. We will begin by reading Franz Kafka’s unfinished novel, The Castle,
Literature

Literature of the Renaissance — LIT2265.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Brooke Allen
Credits: 4
The literature of the European Renaissance did much to help shape the modern mind and the modern world. In this class we will begin in Italy with Petrarch and Boccaccio, then go on to works by Pico della Mirandola, Machiavelli, Castiglione, Erasmus, Wyatt, Sir Thomas More, Cervantes, Rabelais, Vasari, and Montaigne, discussing them in the context of their time and in terms of
Literature

Literature of the Spanish Civil War — LIT2396.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Sarah Harris
Credits: 4
"Hitherto, the rights and wrongs had seemed so beautifully simple." (George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia) Technically a Civil War, the Spanish Civil War (1936 to 1939) was also an intensely international conflict in a number of ways: though no other nations officially entered the war, German forces used it to rehearse the blitzkrieg tactics they would employ in World War II;
Society Culture and Thought Literature

Literature of Travel and Discovery — FRE4222.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Credits: 4
In this course, we will explore the representation of travel and discovery in a variety of genres (essay, theatre, novel, poetry, film, bande dessinée). By examining both fictive and real travel narratives, we will look at how reality is transformed into a text and how fictions help us to imagine and discover new ways of thinking and living. Central themes will include exile
Languages

Literature of Travel and Discovery — FRE4605.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Credits: 4
In this course, we will explore the representation of travel and discovery in a variety of genres (essay, theatre, novel, poetry, film, bande dessinée). By examining both fictive and real travel narratives, we will look at how reality is transformed into a text and how fictions help us to imagine and discover new ways of thinking and living. Central themes will include exile
Languages

Literature of World War I — LIT2345.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Brooke Allen
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The First World War, 1914-18, was a cataclysm that left ten million dead and created the modern world. It was also a period of tremendous artistic innovation and activity. In this class we will read the work of writers who fought the war, on both sides: soldier-poets like Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, and Edmund Blunden; novelists like Henri Barbusse, Ernest
Literature

Live Sound - Load In to Load Out — MSR4368.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
Students will learn all the ways the audio travels through cables, into processing equipment, through amplification and out of speakers. Processors will include compression, EQ, delay, reverb, and crossovers. Students will learn about different live sound contexts, from the band gig to theater sound, and will be setting up and breaking down small sound systems. There will be
Music

Live Sound Technology — MSR2124.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Curt Wells
Credits: 2
This will be a hands-on, bare-bones, system-focused class on audio electronics. We will explore the smallest inputs to the largest outputs that are used in artistic performance. The class will focus on the technical applications of microphones, mixers, speakers and software for live productions such as plays, concerts, Dance performances and installations. Students will use
Dance Drama Music

Lives of Quiet Desperation: the Transcendentalists vs. America — LIT2420.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Benjamin Anastas
Credits: 4
In this course we will undertake a comprehensive survey of the Transcendentalist movement through a close examination of the major writings from this tumultuous time in America's intellectual life. We will read the major figures (Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau), as well as a host of lesser known members of the Transcendental Club (Orestes Brownson,
Literature

Lives of Quiet Desperation: the Transcendentalists vs. America — LIT2420.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Benjamin Anastas
Days & Time: M/Tu 7:00PM-8:50PM
Credits: 4

In this course we will undertake a comprehensive survey of American Transcendentalism through a close examination of the major writings from this tumultuous period. We will read the major figures (Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau), as well as a host of lesser known members of the Transcendental Club (Orestes Brownson, Ellery Channing, poet Jones Very

Literature

Living in Translation: A Student-Run Literary and Cultural Publication — LIT2347.02

Fall 2019
Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz
Credits: 2
This course, while rooted in Literature, is part of the Lexicons of Migration cluster. Taking as a point of departure Isabelle de Courtivron's touchstone Bilingual Lives: Writers and Identity, students will update, complicate, and enrich the binary orientation of this collection, originally published in 2003. We will delve into the personal, familial, communal, and political
CAPA Literature

Living to Learn, Learning to Live: Readings in Contemporary South American Fiction — LIT2255.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz
Credits: 4
Contemporary South American fiction is rife with urgency, politics, and history, as well as narrative mischief, layering and literary gamesmanship. In this course we will read a selection of novels and stories from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and El Salvador from such authors as Cesar Aira,  Roberto Bolano, Alicia Borinsky, Sergio Chefec, Claudia Hernandez,
Literature Languages

Local Governance in Comparative Perspective — POL4239.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Credits: 4
Around the world, there is renewed interest in empowering institutions of local governance (county, city, town/township, municipal, village, or special-purpose local government, and non-governmental local associations) in order to promote political democracy, enhance socio-economic welfare, and accommodate subnational identities, among other goals. This course will examine the
Society Culture and Thought

Local Governance in Comparative Perspective — POL4239.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Credits: 4
Around the world, there is renewed interest in empowering institutions of local governance (county, city, town/township, municipal, village, or special-purpose local government, and non-governmental local associations) in order to promote political democracy, enhance socio-economic welfare, and accommodate subnational identities, among other goals. This course will examine the
Social Science

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

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

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

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

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