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Aesthetics — PHI2253.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Karen Gover
Credits: 4
Why do we care about art? Why and how do artworks move us? What, if anything, do artworks mean, and how do we know? This course takes up these and other questions relating to the philosophy of art and artworks. This course will look at the philosophical tradition of aesthetics, including Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel, up to the present day. We will also look at the role of
Society Culture and Thought

Aesthetics — PHI2253.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Karen Gover
Credits: 4
Why do we care about art? Why and how do artworks move us? What, if anything, do artworks mean, and how do we know? This course takes up these and other questions relating to the philosophy of art and artworks. This course will look at the philosophical tradition of aesthetics, including Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel, up to the present day. We will also look at the role of
Social Science

Aesthetics of Care: Visual Strategies for Community Engagement — APA2199.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: sTo Len
Days & Time: MO 1:40pm-5:20pm
Credits: 2

With billions of images uploaded to the internet daily, we are bombarded by media content on corporately owned platforms from news outlets to algorithmic social media feeds and YouTube videos. How do we create meaningful independent media for each other in this current age of disinformation? What importance do physical materials such as books, zines, posters, and pamphlets

Advancement of Public Action

African American Music: An Overview — MHI2112.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This course will survey African-American music tracing its development from African origins to more contemporary forms. Studying the genres in order of chronological development, the course will cover both secular and religious music forms of African-American culture, identifying the characteristics that clearly delineate and define the African American music-culture. Study of
Music

African Conflict Resolution — POL4254.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Credits: 2
The prevention, management and resolution of African conflicts constitute a defining challenge for the international community, including the United Nations (UN), which has mounted multi‐billion dollar peace operations on the continent. Despite the peace dividend from these operations and other interventions, large segments of the African population continue to live in deadly
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

African Conflict Resolution — POL4254.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Credits: 2
The prevention, management and resolution of African conflicts is a major challenge for the international community and the continent’s peoples. Africa accounts for the largest and highest number of United Nations’ peacekeeping operations, but these “stabilization” missions have mostly failed to stabilize the continent, and  large segments of the African population
CAPA Black Studies Society Culture and Thought

African Music Ensemble — MHI4134.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: michael wimberly
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The African Music Ensemble explores folkloric and popular music from Africa, Cuba, Brazil and the African diaspora. Using rhythms and songs, drums and non-traditional African instruments such as, violin, viola, cello, electric and acoustic guitar, bass, flute, trumpet, and saxophone, we will learn songs and arrangements for performance on campus and for the greater Bennington
Music

African Music Ensemble — MHI4134.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This course is a continuation of the class Drumming: An Extension of Language. Using indigenous percussion instruments from West Africa, students will continue to develop hand and stick drumming patterns, techniques, and songs in several African languages. The class will expand on this music in preparation for outreach and performances at Bennington College,
Music

African Music Ensemble — MHI4134.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 4
African Music Ensemble explores the music, drumming and songs of West Africa and Mozambique. This performance ensemble will explore traditional bala (West African xylophone), djembe, dundunba, kpanlogo, n'todje, shakere, and songs in Wolof, Manding, Yoruba.
Music

Afro-Futurism and Black Horror — LIT4289.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Phillip Williams
Credits: 4
In this class we will read stories, novels, and essays that interrogate the execution and historicity of Black horror and and the Afro-future, using Black horror as the foundation for deeper intellectual and aesthetic delving into Afro-futuristic texts. We will engage with the question: How does Black horror reflect and shatter historical notions of horrific acts against Black
Literature

After Borges — SPA4117.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Whether he is the last modernist, or the first postmodern, the least Latin American of all Latin American authors or perhaps the most, the grand destroyer of all illusions or ultimately their victim, in the wake of his own statement that “Every writer creates his own precursors,” Jorge Luis Borges has already provided the theoretical premise for so much subsequent work that
Languages

After Borges — SPA4302.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Credits: 4
Whether he is the last modernist, or the first postmodern, the least Latin American of all Latin American authors or perhaps the most, the grand destroyer of all illusions or ultimately their victim, in the wake of his own statement that “Every writer creates his own precursors” Jorge Luis Borges has already provided the theoretical premise for so much subsequent work that this
Languages

After Oil: The Promise and Problems of Alternative Energy — SCI2119.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: John Bullock
Credits: 4
It is conventional wisdom that we need to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels in coming years. The reasons include not only the growing problem of climate change, but the simple fact that supplies are finite and new energy sources must be developed on scales large enough to meet the ever-increasing demand throughout the world. This course will begin with an examination of how
Environment Science and Mathematics

After Super Flat — VA2207.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
Credits: 4
Manga or Japanese comic book and Anime images have become integrated into the global contemporary art context. While investigating the social codes that can be found in the various genres of manga and trends within the cultural specificities of Japan from 1945 to today, this course explores the influences of Manga/Anime on fine art and contemporary art making. This is a
Visual Arts

After Superflat — VA2207.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
Credits: 4
Manga or Japanese comic book and Anime images have become integrated into the global contemporary art context. While investigating the social codes that can be found in the various genres of manga and trends within the cultural specificities of Japan from 1945 to today, this course explores the influences of Manga/Anime on Fine Art and contemporary context of art making. This
Visual Arts

After Superflat Directed Project: Nuclear War — VA4407.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
Credits: 4
Conducted through research that focuses on the development of Japanese subcultures in the Post World War II period, this course poses various critical inquiries about the effects of nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on contemporary global consumer society and the production of art. We will also bring into focus the trauma revisited up on us by the more recent nuclear
CAPA Visual Arts

After Superflat Directed Project: Nuclear War — VA4407.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
Days & Time: FR 10:30AM-12:20PM & FR 2:10PM-4:00PM
Credits: 4

Conducted through research that focuses on the development of Japanese subcultures in the Post World War II period, this course poses various critical inquiries about the effects of nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on contemporary global consumer society, visual culture and the production of art. We will also bring into

Visual Arts

After Superflat: Nuclear War (Introduction) — VA2210.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
Days & Time: FR 10:30AM-12:20PM & FR 2:10PM-4:00PM
Credits: 4

Conducted through research that focuses on the development of Japanese subcultures in the Post World War II period, this course poses various critical inquiries about the effects of nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on contemporary global consumer society, visual culture and the production of art. We will also bring into

Visual Arts

After Utopia — SPA4504.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Credits: 4
This is a course on the postcolonial philosophical projects of Latin America, though that may be a misnomer. Even the most cursory glance at studies on the continent’s appropriation of the Western philosophical tradition would show that the appropriation is so distinctive that apparently it is still possible to question its existence as philosophy. The course will include some
Cultural Studies and Languages

After-School Education Module — APA2238.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 1
This course will examine the readings of John Dewey and Paolo Friere as well as scholarly articles on After-School Education. Each student will develop a proposal for an After- School Education Workshop for Molly Stark Elementary School with the possibility of implementing this workshop in their After-School program later in the semester. (February 19, 26, March 4)
CAPA

AGAPE: Love in the Time of Pandemic, Hate and Insurrection — APA2444.02

Fall 2021
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 2
In the throes of a global increase of identity-based hatred and anti-democratic sentiment, this course will explore a concept present in virtually every world religion. Agape love (unconditional compassionate kindness) as a necessary value in movements for social justice. Agape requires action and sacrificial service in addition to the theoretical discourse of diversity, equity
CAPA

Agroecology — ENV2118.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Valerie Imbruce
Credits: 4
This course is for students interested in the ecology of agricultural systems. Students will gain an in-depth understanding of inputs and outputs in agricultural systems and their relation to primary productivity, nutrient cycling, energy flows, and species interactions on farms.  We will consider agroecology as a science based in, although fundamentally different from,
Science Mathematics and Computing Environment