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The Dangers of Econ 101 — PEC2262.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: robin kemkes
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Most introductory economics courses represent the economy as detached from history, institutions and the environment and rely on assumptions about human behavior that typically do not line up with what we know about how people make decisions. Strict adherence to the dominant neoclassical model of economics has led us to financial crisis, environmental damage and rising income
Social Science

The Daoist Tales — CHI4113.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Credits: 4
If Confucianism is the Yang of Chinese culture, then Daoism is the Yin. Not only has Daoism had a profound influence on traditional Chinese art and thought, but this philosophy remains relevant to modern life in both the East and West. Students will be introduced to the main precepts of philosophical Daoism through modern Chinese interpretations of Taoist Tales. Students will
Cultural Studies and Languages

The Data Science Foundations — CS2132.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Meltem Ballan
Credits: 4
The Data Science Foundations provides an interactive introduction to common algorithms and techniques in data science. This class covers data preprocessing, regression techniques, supervised and unsupervised learning algorithms, decision trees, neural networks, ensemble methods,  model evaluation techniques and ethics. Throughout the course, students are encouraged to
CAPA Science and Mathematics

The Death and Life of Ash Trees: Emerald Ash Borer on the Bennington Campus — ENV2210.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie
Days & Time: TH 3:40pm-5:30pm
Credits: 1

The ash trees on campus are dying from an introduced beetle. Ash trees make up about 8% of Vermont’s forests and their foliage contributes to our iconic fall colors. They are culturally important trees with deep connections to art from Indigenous basket making to Beyonce’s Louisville slugger in Lemonade. The Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) beetle

Advancement of Public Action Environment

The Design Process: Concept - Analysis - Diagram - Presentation — ARC4212.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Karolina Kawiaka
Credits: 4
In this class students will develop and refine their design process through a series of sketch problems and design exercises. They will become familiar with the work of important architects and architectural writing and its role in creating culture, which will give inspiration and a sense of context for their own work. Analysis, CAD, and presentation skills will be advanced
Visual Arts

The Devil — LIT2404.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Phillip Williams
Credits: 4
The Devil has taken many shapes and sizes throughout history and around the world. His story of origin has inspired canonical works that delve into Judeo-Christian theological examinations of daily life, political life, and the metaphysical. Who we are as people on earth seems to depend heavily on how we view our relationship with "good" and "evil." This class will focus on
Literature

The Devil Finds Work — MS2108.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
In 1976 James Baldwin wrote his short work of film criticism The Devil Finds Work while in self-imposed exile in France. The work presents a personal film historical narrative as well as an intervention into the politics of aesthetics and the politics of visual cultural life from the perspective of a writer grappling with the realities of living as Queer and  
Society Culture and Thought

The Digital Photo Book — PHO4130.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
From photography's inception, photo books have been critical to the medium and have provided a way to understand our culture's use of images. In 1844 William Henry Fox Talbot utilized the book form with the first lens-based book, 'The Pencil of Nature'. In this course, students will explore the photo-based artist book as a vehicle for self-expression. A a variety of approaches
Visual Arts

The Digital Photo Book — PHO4130.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
From photography’s inception, photo books have been critical to the medium and have provided a way to understand our culture’s use of images. In 1844 William Henry Fox Talbot utilized the book form with the first lens-based book, ‘The Pencil of Nature’. In this course, students will explore the photo-based artist book as a vehicle for self-expression.  A variety of
Visual Arts

The Don Juan Project — DRA4146.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Jean Randich; Thomas Bogdan
Credits: 4
Seducer.  Atheist.  Rebel.  Scoundrel.  Hypocrite.  Don Juan, the most unrepentant libertine in all of literature, has dazzled and provoked for centuries.  This project interlaces two masterpieces: Moliere’s Don Juan, or the Feast of Stone (1682), with selections from Mozart’s opera, Don Giovanni (1787).  Don Juan’s furious drive to satisfy
Drama Music

The Drama-Free Workshop — DRA4123.01

Fall 2023
Instructor:
Credits: 2
This class will concentrate on confidence building for actors/performers or anyone tired of letting a smartphone dictate their feelings of success. Goals will include cultivating positivity and confidence around performing. We will explore as a group how criticism is the enemy of creativity. The goal for this class is that students gain confidence through games and exercises
Drama

The Drama-Free Workshop — DRA4123.02

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
This class will concentrate on confidence building for actors/performers or anyone tired of letting a smartphone dictate their feelings of success. Goals will include cultivating positivity and confidence around performing. We will explore as a group how criticism is the enemy of creativity. The goal for this class is that students gain confidence through games and exercises
Drama

The Dual Narrative and the Arab-Israeli Conflict — MED4206.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Michael Cohen
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course will look at one of the longest protracted conflicts in the world today. A complex conflict with many components this course will use the dual narrative approach to gain a deeper understanding of this century old war. Historical events and documents will be examined through the prism of the dual narrative. The dual narrative approach to the Arab-Israeli Conflict was
Unknown

The Dustbin of History — HIS4407.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Credits: 4
Let us consider Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky's October 1917 curse upon moderate socialists resisting the ongoing Bolshevik coup d'etat: "You are pitiful, isolated individuals. You are bankrupts. Your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on—into the dustbin of history!” In this course, we find our own way into the "dustbin of history" in search of things--ideas
Society Culture and Thought

The Eclipse! — PHY2279.02) (day/time updated as of 10/13/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: Hugh Crowl
Credits: 1
On April 8, 2024, the second total solar eclipse in seven years will cross North America, starting in northwest Mexico, crossing west Texas, large parts of the midwest, and the northern reaches of New York, before skimming the most northern reaches of Vermont and exiting the continent through the Canadian maritimes. In this course, we will learn about the orbital mechanics of a
Science and Mathematics

The Economic Mind — PEC2207.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee
Credits: 4
A set of questions keeps on bugging the economic mind. They run from the smallest immediate ones, such as, do I buy this salad or that sandwich for my lunch today, to the more solemn ones, such as, do I accept this job or the other one? Other profound questions arise as well. Why does the economy not grow continually over time, but rather, economic upsurges are marred by
CAPA Environment Society Culture and Thought

The Economics of Our Time — PEC2283.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee
Days & Time: TU 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 2

In this seminar, we will dive into the complexities of today’s global economy, engaging with the most pressing economic challenges of our time. We will explore how economic policies, geopolitical dynamics, and global trends intersect, shaping the economic landscape. Through real-time data, contemporary research, and

Political Economy

The Ecstasy of Influence: Style in Fiction — LIT4124.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Kathleen Alcott
Credits: 4
“Nothing is inherently interesting,” wrote John Gardner, discoursing on the crucial center of any fictive work: style. When it comes to writing short fiction and novels, the ideas we’ve absorbed about narrativizing from our outside lives often don’t apply. Even the most thrilling story, if written without a reverence to form, loses its audience quickly. In this seminar on
Literature

The Emerson Problem: American Transcendentalism, Then and Now — LIT2546.01) (cancelled 10/8/2024

Spring 2025
Instructor: Benjamin Anastas
Credits: 4
A comprehensive survey of American Transcendentalism through the writing of its major figures (Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller) as well as more overshadowed club members like Orestes Brown, Bronson Alcott and Ellery Channing. We will explore the debates the movement set off among thinkers of the 19th Century, especially concerning slavery, Abolitionism

The Essay Film — FV4319.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Erika Mijlin
Credits: 2
An intermediate 7-week production course. Students will enter with a concept for a project ready to begin producing, and to complete by the end of the course.  The essay film has a long tradition as a film form - often departing stylistically from the social issue concerns often associated with documentary film, the essay film is a focused meditation around a theme. It may
Visual Arts

The Ethnography of Things — ANT4108.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Noah Coburn
Credits: 4
***Title change from The Anthropology of Things Time change*** Most ethnographic studies begin by focusing on a group of people. This course asks what the implications are of reversing such an approach and beginning with a specific thing. In what ways do things create culture? By carefully analyzing a series of classic and more current ethnographies, students will look at the
Social Science

The Experimental Narrative — FV4229.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: warren cockerham
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This intermediate visual arts studio course will explore the hybrid approach of experimental film practice and moving-image story telling. The course's focus will be on cinematic language, visual storytelling, and audio-visual correspondence rather than performance and dialogue centered narrative. Students will utilize classical and non-traditional methods of pre-production
Visual Arts