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Nature in the Americas — ANT4215.01

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

Nature in the Americas — APA4148.01

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 near mythic form in scholarly and public debates, its content is culled again and

Navigating Media in Institutional History — MS4109.01

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
In this 4000-level course, students will develop an understanding of the ways in which visual media functions on the practices of archives that document the history of institutions including asylums, hospitals and schools. We will engage with archival sources through interdisciplinary approaches to media studies, drawing on visual culture studies, art history, and material

Ndaga - a way of making dance — DAN4486.01

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
We can define Ndaga as the awareness of legacy and debt, border crossing, re/invention, re/creation, and the desire to create new space for time travel. This is a self-journey. This course is for students who wish to find their artistic voices by exploring an interdisciplinary approach to making work. Using poetry, visual art, improvisation and various movement practices, we

Ndaga a way of making dance — DAN4486.01

Instructor: Kaolack Ndiaye
Days & Time: MO,TH 3:40pm-5:30pm
Credits: 4

We can define Ndaga as the awareness of legacy and debt, border crossing, re/invention, re/creation, and the desire to create new space for time travel. This is a self-journey. This course is for students who wish to find their artistic voices by exploring an interdisciplinary approach to making work. Using

Needs, Wants, and Economic Rights — PEC2279.01

Instructor: Emma Kast
Days & Time: TU,FR 10:30am-12:20pm
Credits: 4

Commodities such as cars, smartphones, laptops, and refrigerators were initially considered luxuries but are now widely viewed as everyday necessities. This shift suggests that our understanding of need is shaped by social, historical, and cultural context. In this class we will explore questions such as: how do we distinguish what we want from what we need to live a

Needs, Wants, and Economic Rights — PEC2279.01

Instructor: Emma Kast
Credits: 4
Commodities such as cars, smartphones, laptops, and refrigerators were initially considered luxuries but are now widely viewed as everyday necessities. This shift suggests that our understanding of need is shaped by social, historical, and cultural context. In this class we will explore questions such as: how do we distinguish what we want from what we need to live a dignified

Negatives on Glass — PHO4106.02

Instructor: Jonathan Kline
Credits: 2
This seven week course explores the process of creating photographic negatives using the 19th century process of collodion on glass, commonly referred to as "wet plate" by its early practitioners.  In addition to making negatives on glass using a large format camera, students will also explore the careers of noted photographers employing the collodion process such as

Negatives on Paper — PHO4107.01

Instructor: Jonathan Kline
Credits: 2
This 7 week course explores the various methods that 19th century photographers used to create negatives using paper.  We will be focusing on replicating British and French processes that were used by the first generation of photographic practitioners, from roughly 1840-1860, including  William Henry Fox Talbot, Gustave Le Gray, and Amelie Jacques-Michel Guilot

Network Science — MAT4222.01

Instructor: Katie Montovan
Credits: 4
A network is a set of nodes (which might be computers, people, websites, proteins, neurons...), some of which are connected by edges (which might be communications lines, friendships, links, transcription regulations, synapses...). This simple concept has amazingly diverse applications and involves surprisingly deep ideas. We will use a combination of proof-based approaches for

Neurons, Networks, and Behavior — BIO4202.01

Instructor: Betsy Sherman
Credits: 4
How does light energy falling on the back of our eye get interpreted as a particular image of our friend or a painting or a leaf? How does a cockroach escape imminent predation by a toad? How does a slug remember that a recent poke wasn’t dangerous? How do we remember? A rigorous consideration of general principles of neural integration at the cellular, sensory, central, and

Neurons, Networks, and Behavior — BIO4202.01

Instructor: Elizabeth Sherman
Credits: 4
How does light energy falling on the back of our eye get interpreted as a particular image of our friend or a painting or a leaf? How does a cockroach escape imminent predation by a toad? How does a slug remember that a recent poke wasn't dangerous? How do we remember? A rigorous consideration of general principles of neural integration at the cellular, sensory, central, and

Neuroscience — BIO4437.01

Instructor: Blake Jones
Credits: 4
This rigorous course provides a comprehensive introduction of the nervous system, including its structure, function, and development. Students will explore the principles of the cellular and molecular mechanisms that allow neurons and other specialized nervous cells to detect, encode, and transmit information; including signaling, synaptic transmission, and neuroplasticity.

Neuroscience — BIO4437.01

Instructor: Blake Jones
Credits: 4
This rigorous course will introduce students to the most complex physiological system. Students will learn how the central and peripheral nervous systems integrate external and internal signals to produce physiological, behavioral, and emotional responses in humans and other animals. We will discover the molecular and cellular mechanisms that allow neurons and other specialized

Neuroscience — BIO4437.01

Instructor: Blake Jones
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 4

This rigorous course provides a comprehensive introduction of the nervous system, including its structure, function, and development. Students will explore the principles of the cellular and molecular mechanisms that allow neurons and other specialized nervous cells to detect, encode, and transmit information; including signaling, synaptic transmission, and neuroplasticity.

New Modes of Listening — MTH2273.01

Instructor: Andrew Greenwald
Credits: 2
This is a music-centric course for those interested in investigating new ways of thinking about and listening to music. Our received modes of comprehension will be questioned by theories of reception, network, and system in diverse fields of inquiry. The relationship of form and content in numerous musical works will act as a testing ground for developing these modes. Together

New Play Development - Rewriting in Company — DRA4213.01

Instructor: Sherry Kramer
Credits: 4
For students with completed first drafts of plays. We will create a workshop environment, and all students in the class will make contributions to each play, serving as actors, directors, and dramaturges in turn. Different models for generating new work and presenting it will be studied and sampled. Two full drafts of plays are expected, culminating in a finished draft and a

New Play Development: Rewriting in Company — DRA4213.01

Instructor: Sherry Kramer
Credits: 4
For students with completed first drafts of plays. We will create a workshop environment, and all students in the class will make contributions to each play, serving as actors, directors, and dramaturges in turn. Different models for generating new work and presenting it will be studied and sampled. Two full drafts of plays are expected, culminating in a finished draft and a

New Work/New Voices — DRA2306.02

Instructor: Dina Janis
Credits: 4
This course is a dramatic literature course that will focus on new work by playwrights currently working today in the American Theatre. It is a class that is designed for actors, playwrights, directors, and designers who are interested in expanding their canon of contemporary dramatic literature, both published and unpublished, written by writers producing and generating work

New Works Ensemble — DRA4279.01

Instructor: Dina Janis
Credits: 4
In this highly rigorous performance production class- students will work on new material by contemporary playwrights working in the theatre today with a special focus this term on Bennington playwrights current and past. During the term, some of these writers may visit as guest artists, working with the students directly on material they have been exploring as an

Newton's Principia: On the System of the World — MAT4161.01

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Days & Time: TU,FR 8:30am-10:20am
Credits: 4

I would (and will) argue that Newton's Principia is the most important book yet written. It is certainly the most important book that a vanishingly small number of people have actually read.

Written about 150 CE, Ptolemy's Almagest collected and systematized the knowledge of astronomers of the time to give a system which roughly predicted the

NGO Workshop — APA2123.01

Instructor: Alison Dennis
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The last few decades have seen tremendous growth in non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in almost all parts of the world, and in almost all realms of human interest. Today, NGOs are a highly visible (and consequently a highly criticized) component of civil society, and are major players in the broad fields of environmental protection and social justice at local, national and

NGOs, Peacebuilding, and Development — SCT4109.01

Instructor: Kate Paarlberg-Kvam
Credits: 4
In the last thirty years, non-governmental organizations have played an outsized role in global affairs, perhaps most notably in development and peacebuilding processes. How did the NGO form develop, and why? How do NGOs interact with states, global institutions, and grassroots populations in the Global South? What effects - positive, negative, and complicated - have NGOs had