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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

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

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 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 - 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 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 — APA4148.01

Fall 2019
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
CAPA Environment Society Culture and Thought

Nature in the Americas — APA4128.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: david bond
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
What is Nature? And what can we do with Nature? 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 and again from salient American examples. This course, then, uses such thorny questions as provocations to reflect more precisely on the historical cases and empirical
CAPA Social Science Environment

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

Navigating Media in Institutional History — MS4109.01

Fall 2023
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
Society Culture and Thought

Ndaga - a way of making dance — DAN4486.01

Fall 2024
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
Dance

Ndaga a way of making dance — DAN4486.01

Fall 2025
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

Dance

Needs, Wants, and Economic Rights — PEC2279.01

Fall 2024
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
Society Culture and Thought

Needs, Wants, and Economic Rights — PEC2279.01

Spring 2026
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

Political Economy

Negatives on Glass — PHO4106.02

Fall 2017
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
Visual Arts

Negatives on Paper — PHO4107.01

Fall 2017
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
Visual Arts

Network Science — MAT4222.01

Fall 2023
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
Science and Mathematics

Neurons, Networks, and Behavior — BIO4202.01

Spring 2014
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
Science Mathematics and Computing

Neurons, Networks, and Behavior — BIO4202.01

Fall 2017
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
Science and Mathematics

Neuroscience — BIO4437.01

Fall 2023
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.
Science and Mathematics

Neuroscience — BIO4437.01

Spring 2021
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
Science and Mathematics