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Sculptural Equilibrium: Contemporary Context of Ikebana — CER4206.01

Instructor: Yoko Inoue
Days & Time: TH 1:40pm-5:20pm
Credits: 4

Understanding the form of a container is an integral part of the aesthetic reconfiguration of nature in Ikebana. The concept of activating an interior architectural space with collected cut plants and their arrangement stems from ancient Japanese animism. The container is considered a mysterious receptacle for the sustainability of

Sculptural Equilibrium: Contemporary Context of Ikebana — CER4206.01

Instructor: Yoko Inoue
Credits: 4
Understanding the form of a container is an integral part of the aesthetic reconfiguration of nature in Ikebana. The concept of activating an interior architectural space with collected cut plants and their arrangement stems from ancient Japanese animism. The container is considered a mysterious receptacle for the sustainability of life and acts as a symbolic focal point in its

Sculpture Studio/ advanced practice — SCU4217.01

Instructor: John Umphlett
Days & Time: TU 8:30am-12:10pm
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

Sculpture Studio/ advanced practice — SCU4217.01

Instructor: John Umphlett
Days & Time: TU 8:30am-12:10pm
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

Sculpture Studio/Advanced practice — SCU4217.01

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

Sculpture Studio/Advanced practice — SCU4217.01

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

Searching for Light — DRA2141.01

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

Second Language and Culture Acquisition — EDU2521.01

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

Second Language and Culture Acquisition — EDU2521.01

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

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

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

Seeing It Through: Developing Movement Material — DAN4121.01

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

Self and Identity in Diaspora — PSY2378.01

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.,

Self and Identity in Diaspora — PSY2378.01

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

Self, Culture, Society — PSY2236.01

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

Self, Identity, and Ideology — PSY2102.01

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

Self, Identity, and Ideology — PSY2102.01

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

Seminar in Clinical/ Developmental Psychology — PSY4106.01

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

Seminar in Clinical/Developmental Psychology — PSY4106.01

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

Seminar in Comparative Democratization — SCT4101.01

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:

Seminar in Comparative Democratization — SCT4101.01

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

Seminar in Political Leadership — POL4213.01

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

Seminar in Political Leadership — POL4213.01

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

Seminar on International Mediation in Armed Conflicts — POL4242.01

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,