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Personal Learning Plan: Vermont Act 77 Educational Reform — MOD2170.02

Spring 2018
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 1
Vermont Act 77 is a recent bill passed in the Vermont Legislature to enact educational reform. It includes implementing a Personal Learning Plan for all Middle and High School students in public education in Vermont. It is a radical new vision of public education and shares many of the same goals as a Bennington College Plan Process. This Module will introduce Bennington
CAPA Modules: Transferable Approaches

Personal Narrative, The Photograph and Psychoanalysis — PHO4254.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Rachelle Mozman
Credits: 4
The course will explore making and using photographs, created or found, that develop our personal stories as a platform to address social, political or public dialogues. The unconscious mind is revealed through narrative and symbols. We will be thinking about our unconscious as housing memories that structure our stories and this relationship to imagery, collective memory and
Visual Arts

Persons, Groups, and Environments — Canceled

Spring 2015
Instructor: Ronald Cohen
Credits: 4
We spend much of our time in the presence of others, and all of our time in particular spaces. In this course we'll examine several psychological and sociological perspectives on social interaction, that is, how people think, feel, and act in the presence of others, and how the particular spaces in which interaction occurs affect social interaction. Attention will focus on
Social Science

Persons, Groups, and Environments — PSY2141.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Ronald Cohen
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
We spend much of our time in the presence of others, and all of our time in particular spaces. This course will examine several psychological and sociological perspectives on social interaction– how people think, feel, and act in the presence of others–and how the particular spaces in which interaction occurs affect it. We will focus on the following issues 1. obedience,
Environment Society Culture and Thought

Persons, Groups, and Environments — PSY2141.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Ronald Cohen
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
We spend much of our time in the presence of others, and all of our time in particular spaces. This course will examine several psychological and sociological perspectives on social interaction-- how people think, feel, and act in the presence of others--and how the particular spaces in which interaction occurs affect it. We will focus on the following issues 1. obedience,
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Persons, Groups, and Environments — PSY2141.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Ronald Cohen
Credits: 4
We spend much of our time in the presence of others, and all of our time in particular spaces. In this course we'll examine several psychological and sociological perspectives on social interaction, that is, how people think, feel, and act in the presence of others, and how the particular spaces in which interaction occurs affect social interaction. Attention will focus on
Environment Social Science

Pessimism, Despair, and Hope — PHI4245.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Paul Voice
Credits: 4
The pessimist Arthur Schopenhauer writes, “In the first place, no man is happy but strives his whole life long after a supposed happiness which he seldom attains, and even if he does it is only to be disappointed with it.” What is the right attitude to the human condition? This advanced level course examines this question through the writings of philosophers who directly
Society Culture and Thought

Pessimism, Despair, and Hope — PHI4245.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Paul Voice
Credits: 4
The pessimist Arthur Schopenhauer writes, “In the first place, no man is happy but strives his whole life long after a supposed happiness which he seldom attains, and even if he does it is only to be disappointed with it.” What is the right attitude to the human condition? This advanced level course examines this question through the writings of philosophers who directly
Society Culture and Thought

Pessimism, Despair, and Hope — PHI4245.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Paul Voice
Credits: 4
The pessimist Arthur Schopenhauer writes, “In the first place, no man is happy but strives his whole life long after a supposed happiness which he seldom attains, and even if he does it is only to be disappointed with it.” What is the right attitude to the human condition? This advanced level course examines this question through the writings of philosophers who directly
Society Culture and Thought

Pessimism, Despair, and Hope — PHI4245.01

Spring 2027
Instructor: Paul Voice
Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

The pessimist Arthur Schopenhauer writes, “In the first place, no man is happy but strives his whole life long after a supposed happiness which he seldom attains, and even if he does it is only to be disappointed with it.” What is the right attitude to the human condition? This advanced level course examines this

Philosophy

Petronius — FLE4325.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
In this course we will read the Satyricon of Petronius, an experimental text that challenges modern notions of genre, serving up satire, philosophy, and literary criticism all within the context of a road trip through the ancient world. Weekly Latin readings will allow us to review and deepen an understanding of Latin grammatical structures and vocabulary, while readings in
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Phenomenology of the Strange — FV4243.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This seminar is a textual and cinematic study of specific categories of ineffable experiences. We will study altered states of consciousness, unexplainable phenomena, and unfathomable human experience, and analyze their representation in cinema. Grounded in film analysis and psychological, philosophical, and historical readings, we will address screenwriting, genre, lighting,
Visual Arts

Phenomenology of the Strange — FV4243.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Laura Sofía Pérez
Credits: 4
This seminar is a textual and cinematic study of specific categories of ineffable experiences. We will study altered states of consciousness, unexplainable phenomena, and unfathomable human experiences and analyze their representation in cinema. Grounded in film analysis and psychological, philosophical, and historical readings, we will address screenwriting, genre, lighting,
Visual Arts

Philippine Kulintang Gong Ensemble — MPF2027.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Susie Ibarra
Credits: 2
Kulintang gong music is practiced in many styles from several groups in the Philippines, northern Indonesia. Its Philippine origins were in the 14th century where it was created as royal court music in Mindanao, the Southern island of the Philippines. Many different Indigenous tribes play kulintang music in Mindanao. This ensemble will introduce the history and culture of
Music

Philosopher Queens — PHI2118.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Credits: 4
Various stories of women philosophers in antiquity have come down to us. In Plato’s Symposium, for example, Socrates quotes a long speech on love by Diotima of Mantinea, who Socrates describes as a “wise woman” and his teacher. We also have accounts of Aesara, Arete, Aspasia, Hipparchia, Hypatia, and Theano. However, these accounts are all filtered through male-authored texts.
Society Culture and Thought

Philosophical Problems — PHI4239.01) (cancelled 2/14/2024

Spring 2024
Instructor: Paul Voice
Credits: 2
This course invites students to research and write a paper on a philosophical topic of their own choosing. Students will be required to clearly state the philosophical problem they want to research, construct a detailed bibliography, and write a paper that explains the problem, engages with the philosophical literature, and advances an argument.
Society Culture and Thought

Philosophical Problems — PHI4239.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Paul Voice
Credits: 2
This course invites students to research and write a paper on a philosophical topic of their own choosing. Students will be required to clearly state the philosophical problem they want to research, construct a detailed bibliography, and write a paper that explains the problem, engages with the philosophical literature, and advances an argument.
Society Culture and Thought

Philosophical Problems — PHI4239.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Paul Voice
Credits: 2
This course invites students to research and write a paper on a philosophical topic of their own choosing. Students will be required to clearly state the philosophical problem they want to research, construct a detailed bibliography, and write a paper that explains the problem, engages with the philosophical literature, and advances an argument.
Society Culture and Thought

Philosophical Problems — PHI4239.01

Fall 2026
Instructor: Paul Voice
Days & Time: WE 7:00pm-8:50pm
Credits: 2

This course invites students to research and write a paper on a philosophical topic of their own choosing. Students will be required to clearly state the philosophical problem they want to research, construct a detailed bibliography, and write a paper that explains the problem, engages with the philosophical literature, and advances an argument. This class is suitable for

Philosophy

Philosophical Puzzles — PHI2105.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Paul Voice
Credits: 2
This class invites students to analyze and assess a number of philosophical puzzles, paradoxes, and thought experiments including experience machines, the trolley problem, zombies, and the original position. You will read and discuss the original source and some of the critical literature.
Society Culture and Thought

Philosophical Puzzles — PHI2105.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Paul Voice
Credits: 2
This class invites students to analyze and assess a number of philosophical puzzles, paradoxes, and thought experiments including experience machines, the trolley problem, zombies, and the original position. You will read and discuss the original source and some of the critical literature.
Society Culture and Thought

Philosophical Reasoning — PHI2109.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Catherine McKeen
Credits: 4
What is the difference between belief and knowledge? What is it to have a mind? Is theism rational? Are our actions free? These are some of the questions this first course in philosophy asks. Our investigation will center on the 17th-19th c., a watershed period in Western Europe marked by major political, scientific, religious, and intellectual revolutions. This course has two
Society Culture and Thought

Philosophical Reasoning — PHI2109.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Karen Gover
Credits: 4
What is the difference between belief and knowledge? What is truth? What is the mind? Is there a purpose in life? These are some of the questions this first course in philosophy asks. It has two aims: To introduce you to the methods and procedures of philosophical argument and, second, to engage you in a critical dialogue with three central problems in philosophy – knowledge,
Society Culture and Thought

Philosophical Reasoning — PHI2109.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Paul Voice
Credits: 4
What is the difference between belief and knowledge? What is truth? What is the mind? Is there a purpose in life? These are some of the questions this first course in philosophy asks. It has two aims: To introduce you to the methods and procedures of philosophical argument and, second, to engage you in a critical dialogue with three central problems in philosophy - knowledge,
Society Culture and Thought