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Sculpture Studio/Advanced practice — SCU4217.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: John Umphlett
Credits: 4
This course asks each student to work in a self-directed way among a community of critical thinkers. Finding one’s voice, as a maker, requires research sources of influence and inspiration. Students are expected to undertake a significant amount of work outside of regular class meetings. At this point in your Visual Arts Education you must be able to represent serious attention
Visual Arts

Searching for Light — DRA2141.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Jiyoun Chang
Credits: 4
Designing lights on stage is not just designing looks for each moment, but determining how lighting changes over time. At which moments do we choose to change it, and what triggers those changes? When do we choose not to change it at all? Students will learn how lighting emotionally affects us in real life, and how we interpret that emotional effect and transfer it to the stage
Drama

Second Language and Culture Acquisition — EDU2521.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: peter jones
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Language and cultural learning are potentially transformative, yet can seem evanescent, elusive, and difficult to name and deliberately provide for. What conditions contribute to second language and cultural learning? How does schooling both enable and constrain, opportunities for learning? We pay attention to the linguistic and non-linguistic conditions and outcomes of
Education

Second Language and Culture Acquisition — EDU2521.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Peter Jones
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Language and cultural learning are potentially transformative, yet can seem evanescent, elusive, and difficult to name and deliberately provide for. What conditions contribute to second language and cultural learning of the transformative kind? How does schooling both cooperate with, and block, opportunities for learning ? Sociocultural, interactionist, and linguistic
Languages

Seeds of Renewal: Cultivating Indigenous Crops — APA4307.02) (cancelled

Spring 2022
Instructor: Tatiana Abatemarco
Credits: 2
In this course, students will work together to start seeds and plant a garden at the Purple Carrot Farm in collaboration with the Elnu Abenaki people, on whose unceded land Bennington College is located. Students will read texts and engage in class discussion on the topics of indigenous food sovereignty, rematriatriation, and decolonization. The class will feature guest
CAPA

Seeing It Through: Developing Movement Material — DAN4121.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Trusting the experience of each individual body, we will make new movement material from a variety of sources. By asking questions about this newly found material, we will be able to locate the essential properties in an immediate, tangible way. Then, we will work on how to evolve and transform them. Students’ compositional drafts will be viewed and discussed
Dance

Self and Identity in Diaspora — PSY2378.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Özge Savas
Credits: 4
How have transnational diaspora communities become new sites for the rethinking core concepts of psychology such as self and identity alongside culture and nation? How do people build self, identity, and community in multiple homes? Who belongs in where? In this course, we will follow a migrant-centered approach in investigating macro (e.g., institutional), meso (e.g.,
Society Culture and Thought

Self and Identity in Diaspora — PSY2378.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Özge Savaş
Credits: 4
How have transnational diaspora communities become new sites for the rethinking core concepts of psychology such as self and identity alongside culture and nation? How do people build self, identity, and community in multiple homes? Who belongs in where? In this course, we will explore the social, cultural, and economic influences of globalization and neoliberalism on the lives
Society Culture and Thought

Self, Culture, Society — PSY2236.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Megan Bulloch
Credits: 4
Students reflect upon psychological, and anthropological issues in human populations, asking, “What does it mean to be human?” We consider a range of topics investigated in the social sciences, beginning with definitions of self, culture, and society along with issues of power, rights, and responsibilities. We also look beyond traditional definitions of “human” to intersections
Society Culture and Thought

Self, Identity, and Ideology — PSY2102.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Ella Ben Hagai
Credits: 4
In this introductory seminar we will examine basic questions exploring the relationship between a sense of self, social identity, and political decision making. We will engage with questions such as the differences between a sense of self and identity, cross-cultural variations in the formation of the self, and the processes associated with the emergence of sexual, ethnic and
Society Culture and Thought

Self, Identity, and Ideology — PSY2102.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Ella Ben Hagai
Credits: 4
In this introductory seminar we will examine basic questions exploring the relationship between a sense of self, social identity, and political decision making. We will engage with questions such as the differences between a sense of self and identity, cross-cultural variations in the formation of the self, and the processes associated with the emergence of sexual, ethnic and
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Seminar in Clinical/ Developmental Psychology — PSY4106.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: David Anderegg
Credits: 4
This course serves as a platform for senior work in clinical or developmental psychology. Students will work together as a group and also independently under supervision of the instructor. The final product will be a research paper or other project which demonstrates critical thinking and research in psychology at an advanced level. Projects may be one-term projects or the
Social Science

Seminar in Clinical/Developmental Psychology — PSY4106.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: David Anderegg
Credits: 4
This course serves as a platform for senior work in clinical or developmental psychology. Students will work together as a group and also independently under supervision of the instructor. The final product will be a research paper or other project which demonstrates critical thinking and research in psychology at an advanced level. Projects may be one-term projects or the
Social Science

Seminar in Comparative Democratization — SCT4101.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Days & Time: WE 8:30am-12:10pm
Credits: 4

Against a background of what is often described as a worldwide democratic recession or regression, this advanced seminar surveys current theoretical debates, empirical analyses, and policy conversations on the emergence, survival, challenges, breakdowns, and prospects of global democratization. Themes to be explored include:

CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Seminar in Comparative Democratization — SCT4101.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Credits: 4
Against a background of what is often described as a worldwide democratic recession or regression, this advanced seminar surveys current theoretical debates, empirical analyses, and policy conversations on the emergence, survival, challenges, breakdowns, and prospects of global democratization. Themes to be explored include: conceptualizing and measuring varieties of democracy
Advancement of Public Action Society Culture and Thought

Seminar in Political Leadership — POL4213.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Credits: 2
Political leadership is one of the most under-researched and under-theorized subjects in contemporary political science, despite an abundance of political biographies and a rich literature on organizational and managerial leadership. This 7-week seminar is devoted to exploring and analyzing leadership from a political perspective. We will examine different prescriptive and
Society Culture and Thought

Seminar in Political Leadership — POL4213.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Credits: 2
Political leadership is one of the most under-researched and under-theorized subjects in contemporary political science, despite an abundance of political biographies and a rich literature on organizational and managerial leadership. This 7-week seminar is devoted to exploring and analyzing leadership from a political perspective. We will examine different prescriptive and
Social Science

Seminar on International Mediation in Armed Conflicts — POL4242.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Credits: 4
International mediation research is an important, expanding, and intriguing field of study in international relations. This advanced seminar focuses on international, external or third-party mediation in interstate and intrastate warfare as an instrument of conflict resolution, termination, de-escalation, or transformation. Topics to be explored in readings, guest lectures,
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Seminar on Monolingualism — LIN2103.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Tom Leddy-Cecere
Credits: 4
Scholarly estimates consistently place the percentage of the world’s population able to communicate proficiently in more than one language over 50%.  Yet multilingual competence is regularly treated as a secondary or even aberrant state requiring explanation and interpretation, while monolingualism is assumed as default despite its numerically inferior status.  In
Cultural Studies and Languages Society Culture and Thought

Seminar on Monolingualism — LIN2103.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Thomas Leddy-Cecere
Credits: 4
Scholarly estimates consistently place the percentage of the world’s population able to communicate proficiently in more than one language over 50%.  Yet multilingual competence is regularly treated as a secondary or even aberrant state requiring explanation and interpretation, while monolingualism is assumed as default despite its numerically inferior status.  In
Cultural Studies and Languages Society Culture and Thought

Seminar on Virginia Woolf — LIT4526.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz
Credits: 4
In this Seminar, we focus intensively on the fiction and nonfiction of Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) whose enormous output, experimental techniques, and intellectual reach revolutionized the form and subject matter of both the novel and the essay. As a thinker and social critic, Woolf is artful, radical, and full of complication—a foundation for modern feminism and pacifism, and a
Literature

Seminar: Advanced Topics in Chemistry — CHE4276.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Janet Foley
Credits: 2
This advanced seminar is an opportunity for students to explore chemical topics in more detail than in previous courses. Topics of student and faculty interest will be pursued mainly through reading the research literature with background from other sources as appropriate. Students will present articles and facilitate the discussions. Evaluation will be based on student
Science Mathematics and Computing

Seminar: Building Ethical Data Governance for Organizational Excellence — CS4389.01) (cancelled 5/10/2024

Spring 2025
Instructor: Meltem Ballan
Credits: 2
In today's data-driven world, organizations must prioritize data privacy, ethics, and governance to build trust with customers, comply with regulations, and harness the power of AI responsibly. This course explores the fundamental concepts of data governance, ethics, and their interplay in organizational success. Participants will learn practical strategies for implementing and

Seminar: Musicmaking In Realtime — MHI2230.02

Spring 2024
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 1
In this seminar students will engage in discussions and conversations on the experience of creating music in today's world. Topics include the notion of "art for art's sake", changing economic and esthetic conditions approaching the music industry, and making sense of the growing use of AI. As part of this seminar, Sharp will share his own experience from decades of composing,
Music