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Musing on Miles - An American icon — MHI2214.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Days & Time: TH 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 2

Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American icon whose approach and innovation on the trumpet set him apart from the mainstream. Davis explored new approaches to creating and composing music. Davis was a trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. When

Black Studies Music History

Musique et Résistance — FRE4801.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Maboula Soumahoro
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4

Coming from the United States, Hip Hop culture arrived in France in the early 1980s. Since then, France has become one of the world’s most dynamic sites of production and consumption of Hip Hop cultures. With a focus on rap music, the course will delve into how social, political-economic, and historical issues of contemporary France have continuously 

Languages

Mutants: Genetic variation and human development — BIO2210.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Amie McClellan
Credits: 4
Why do humans have precisely 5 fingers and toes? How does a bone know to stop growing when it reaches the appropriate length? What controls our gender? While the human genome successfully encodes the information required to produce a “normal” human being, genetic variation dictates the subtle and not so subtle differences that make us each a unique individual. “Mutant” humans
Science and Mathematics

Mutants: Genetic Variation and Human Development — BIO2210.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: amie mcclellan
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Why do humans have precisely five fingers and toes? How does a bone know to stop growing when it reaches the appropriate length? What controls our gender? While the human genome successfully encodes the information required to produce a "normal" human being, genetic variation dictates the subtle and not so subtle differences that make us each a unique individual. "Mutant"
Science Mathematics and Computing

Mutants: Genetic Variation and Human Development — BIO2210.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Amie McClellan
Credits: 4
Why do humans have precisely 5 fingers and toes? How does a bone know to stop growing when it reaches the appropriate length? What controls our gender? While the human genome successfully encodes the information required to produce a “normal” human being, genetic variation dictates the subtle and not so subtle differences that make us each a unique individual. “Mutant” humans
Science and Mathematics

Mutants: Genetic Variation and Human Development — BIO2210.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Amie McClellan
Credits: 4
Why do humans have precisely 5 fingers and toes? How does a bone know to stop growing when it reaches the appropriate length? What controls our biological sex? While the human genome successfully encodes the information required to produce a “normal” human being, genetic variation dictates the subtle and not so subtle differences that make us each a unique individual. “Mutant”
Science and Mathematics

Myths and Legends from the Spanish-Speaking World — SPA2113.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Lena Retamoso Urbano
Credits: 5
Students with little or no background in Spanish will learn the language through an immersion in the study of wide array of rural, urban, modern, and ancient folk tales from the Spanish-speaking world. An examination of Spanish and Latin American foundational narratives, as well as popular texts and cultural artifacts, will allow students to consider
Cultural Studies and Languages

Narrative Cinema: Century One — FV2113.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Erika Mijlin
Credits: 4
A broad view of narrative cinema history : from the very origins of film genres, through the definitions of style in the ‘classical’ film era, to the institution of ‘master’ narratives provided by the studio system. The course will take on both the legacy of a century of formal innovations as well as outright challenges to the medium, including: New Wave cinema, the Dogma
Visual Arts

Narrative Cinema: Century One — FV2113.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Erika Mijlin
Credits: 4
A broad view of narrative cinema history : from the very origins of film genres, through the definitions of style in the 'classical' film era, to the institution of 'master' narratives provided by the studio system. The course will take on both the legacy of a century of formal innovations as well as outright challenges to the medium, including: New Wave cinema, the Dogma
Visual Arts

Narrative Cinema: Century One — FV2113.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Erika Mijlin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
A broad view of narrative cinema history : from the very origins of film genres, through the definitions of style in the ‘classical’ film era, to the institution of ‘master’ narratives provided by the studio system. The course will take on both the legacy of a century of formal innovations as well as outright challenges to the medium, including: New Wave cinema, the Dogma
Visual Arts

Narrative Filmmaking — FV2119.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
Make your first short film - from idea to realization! This course is designed specifically for students with basic filmmaking skills or a background in media. The Narrative Filmmaking course provides an intensive introduction to the world of visual storytelling. Tailored to nurture creative talent, this course teaches the fundamentals of screenwriting (developing an idea into
Visual Arts

Narrative, Trauma, and Bearing Witness — PSY4134.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Ella Ben Hagai
Credits: 4
In this advanced psychology seminar, we will dive into foundational work in Narrative Psychology. We will study the relationship between the narrative structure and human cognitive processes including memory, perception, and conceptualization. We will learn how cultural differences shape children's varied storytelling practices. Through the lens of social psychology research,
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Narrative, Trauma, and Bearing Witness — PSY4134.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Ella Ben Hagai
Credits: 4
In this advanced psychology seminar, we will dive into foundational work in Narrative Psychology. We will study the relationship between the narrative structure and human cognitive processes including memory, perception, and conceptualization. We will learn how cultural differences shape children’s varied storytelling practices. Through the lens of social psychology research,
Society Culture and Thought

Nasty Women of Antiquity — LIT4278.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Monica Ferrell
Credits: 2
This seminar in comparative mythology will serve as a journey through the narratives produced by a number of ancient and pre-modern civilizations that feature a complex female character. In these stories, feminine archetypes are not nurturing mother or fertility goddesses but warriors, witches, choosers of the slain and of rulers, ethically ambiguous and often terrifying
Literature

Native (North) American Literature — LIT2567.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
Native storytelling has thrived in recited, sung, painted, etched, sculpted, and danced forms since centuries before European colonists arrived on the North American continent. Against the backdrop of this long, linguistically complex, and multi-national artistic tradition, we will closely read the works of Indigenous North American authors, studying how their formal and
Literature

Natural History of Plants — BIO2107.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Credits: 4
Plants define the biological environment. All other organisms depend on plants' capacity for photosynthesis. Plant structure and chemistry have shaped animal (including human) evolution, and we depend on plant products for food, medicine, structural materials, and many other things. Yet few people can name even the dominant plants in their environment and what determines their
Science Mathematics and Computing Environment

Natural History of Plants — BIO2107.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Credits: 4
Plants define the biological environment. All other organisms depend on plantsʹ capacity for photosynthesis. Plant structure and chemistry have shaped animal (including human) evolution, and we directly depend on plant products for food, medicine, structural materials, and many other things. Yet few people can name even the dominant plants in their environment and what
Science Mathematics and Computing Environment

Nature and Artifice - A History of Architecture — ARC2112.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Donald Sherefkin
Credits: 2
Because architecture seeks to establish a degree of permanence in the world, it is by definition, not natural, a work of human artifice. But our structures are very much of the earth, and the history of architecture is a record of the manifold ways in which cultures have understood, and responded to, their relationship to nature. This course will explore the ways in which the
Visual Arts

Nature and Artifice - A History of Architecture — ARC2112.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Donald Sherefkin
Credits: 2
Because architecture seeks to establish a degree of permanence in the world, it is by definition, not natural, a work of human artifice. But our structures are very much of the earth, and the history of architecture is a record of the manifold ways in which cultures have understood, and responded to, their relationship to nature. This course will explore the ways in which the
Visual Arts Environment

Nature and Artifice - A History of Architecture — ARC2112.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: donald sherefkin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Because architecture seeks to establish a degree of permanence in the world, it is by definition, not natural, a work of human artifice. But our structures are very much of the earth, and the history of architecture is a record of the manifold ways in which cultures have understood, and responded to, their relationship to nature. This course will explore the ways in which the
Visual Arts

Nature and Artifice 2 — ARC2239.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: DSherefkin@bennington.edu
Credits: 4
Because architecture seeks to establish a degree of permanence in the world, it is by definition, not natural, a work of human artifice. But our structures are very much of the earth, and the history of architecture is a record of the manifold ways in which cultures have understood, and responded to, their relationship to nature. This history of architecture will be organized
Visual Arts

Nature and Artifice – A History of Architecture — ARC2112.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Donald Sherefkin
Credits: 2
Because architecture seeks to establish a degree of permanence in the world, it is by definition, not natural, a work of human artifice. But our structures are very much of the earth, and the history of architecture is a record of the manifold ways in which cultures have understood, and responded to, their relationship to nature. This course will explore the ways in which the
Visual Arts

Nature in the Americas — ANT4215.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: David Bond
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Nature has played a key role in shaping social life in the Americas. Yet nature refuses easy definition. This course reflects on the many presences of nature and their uses across the Americas. In this course, we will learn how the agency of germs, cattle, and sugar shaped the formation of European conceit, how some of the earliest capitalistic ventures were built atop the
Unknown

Nature in the Americas — Canceled

Spring 2017
Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 4
What is Nature? Is Nature the biological substratum of human society or the converging practices of local ecology? Is Nature a potent historical agent in its own right or a philosophical blunder of epic proportions? Such questions have a lively history in the Americas. Indeed, while Nature has a near mythic form in many public debates, much of its content is culled again
CAPA Society Culture and Thought Environment