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Understanding PFOA: Science and Policy — ENV2173.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Tim Schroeder
Credits: 2
The water supply of Hoosick Falls, NY, Bennington’s western neighbor, has been contaminated with Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) by past industrial activity. PFOA is an “emerging contaminant” that is correlated with a range of health problems. This course will investigate the social and physical aspects of this ongoing disaster, from how the regulation of chemicals in the US
CAPA Environment

Understanding PFOA: Science and Policy — ENV2173.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Timothy Schroeder and John Hultgren
Credits: 2
The water supply of Hoosick Falls, NY, Bennington’s western neighbor, has been contaminated with Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) by past industrial activity. PFOA is an “emerging contaminant” that is correlated with a range of health problems. This course will investigate the social and physical aspects of this ongoing disaster, from how the regulation of chemicals in the US
Environment

Understanding PFOA: Science and Policy — ENV2173.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: David Bond and Janet Foley
Credits: 2
The water supply of Hoosick Falls, NY, Bennington’s western neighbor, has been contaminated with Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) by past industrial activity. PFOA is an “emerging contaminant” that is correlated with a range of health problems. This course will investigate the capdavidjanetsocial and physical aspects of this ongoing disaster, from how the regulation of chemicals
CAPA Environment

Undisciplined Approaches to Creative Writing — LIT2549.01) (cancelled 10/10/2024

Spring 2025
Instructor: An Duplan
Credits: 2
Who says you have to be disciplined to be a writer? After all, theorist Christina Sharpe writes in her book, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being, that undisciplined thinking can be waged as a weapon against the boundaries of traditional academic thought and practice. For Sharpe, being undisciplined isn’t about failing to be disciplined, it’s about aspiring to being

Unemployment — PEC2254.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee
Credits: 4
Employment not only provides access to livelihood, but also ensures other material conditions of people’s well-being. Yet, unemployment remains a ubiquitous problem of modern life. This seminar will explore microeconomic and macroeconomic theories of unemployment, and present empirical analysis of unemployment data to examine the causes and nature of the problem. The course
Society Culture and Thought

Unemployment and Inflation — PEC2257.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee
Credits: 4
Macroeconomics is very much about tying together facts and theories, and in this course, we will examine how macroeconomic principles can help us understand the nature and causes of inflation and unemployment that is plaguing the world economy in this post-Covid moment. We will also study the tension between policies that quell inflation but give rise to unemployment and worsen
Society Culture and Thought

Unfair distribution: Poverty, inequality and deprivation — PEC4128.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee
Credits: 4
Poverty [defined as absolute deprivation] and inequality [defined as relative deprivation] are the two key concepts that allow us to talk about unevenness in income distribution and the unfairness in distribution of economic goods and economic opportunities amongst people.  This course traces the roots of these two key concepts in welfare economics, and asks: What causes
Society Culture and Thought CAPA Environment

Unhomely Thoughts from Abroad — SPA4605.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Credits: 4
From Simón Bolívar’s recruitment of the exiled Francisco de Miranda in early nineteenth-century London, to the counter-revolutionary Guillermo Cabrera Infante’s Tres tristes tigres, written in a Hampstead flat, much of Latin America’s postcolonial identity has been forged outside its borders. Beyond defining home, exiles have defined their alternate environments. De Miranda’s
Cultural Studies and Languages

Unhomely Thoughts from Abroad — SPA4108.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Days & Time: TU,FR 10:30am-12:20pm
Credits: 4

From Simón Bolívar’s recruitment of the exiled Francisco de Miranda in early nineteenth-century London, to the counter-revolutionary Guillermo Cabrera Infante’s Tres tristes tigres, written in a Hampstead flat, much of Latin America’s postcolonial identity has been forged outside its borders. Beyond defining home,

Spanish

Unique Prints: 3-D Prints and Modular Works — PRI4272.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
Credits: 4
This course is an introduction to unique prints, or prints that are not necessarily printed as an edition. We will emphasize the making of mixed media prints using a broad range of methods from monotypes to digital prints. The class is structured around a series of projects where rigorous experimentation is encouraged. Students will learn various non-typical printmaking
Visual Arts

Unique Prints: 3-D Prints and Modular Works — PRI4272.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
Credits: 4
This course is an introduction to unique prints, or prints that are not necessarily printed as an edition. We will emphasize the making of mixed media prints using a broad range of methods from monotypes to digital prints. The class is structured around a series of projects where rigorous experimentation is encouraged. Students will learn various non-typical printmaking methods
Visual Arts

Unique Prints: 3-D Prints and Modular Works — PRI4272.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course is an introduction to unique prints, or prints that are not necessarily printed as an edition. We will emphasize the making of mixed media prints using a broad range of methods from monotypes to digital prints. The class is structured around a series of projects where rigorous experimentation is encouraged. Students will learn various non-typical printmaking
Visual Arts

Unique Prints: 3-D Prints and Modular Works — PRI4272.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
Days & Time: TH 1:40pm-5:20pm
Credits: 4

This course is an introduction to unique prints, or prints that are not necessarily printed as an edition. We will emphasize the making of mixed media prints using a broad range of methods from monotypes to digital prints. The class is structured around a series of projects where rigorous experimentation is encouraged.

Students will learn various non-typical

Printmaking Drawing

Unique Prints: 3-D Prints and Modular Works — PRI4272.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
Credits: 4
This course is an introduction to unique prints, or prints that are not necessarily printed as an edition. We will emphasize the making of mixed media prints using a broad range of methods from monotypes to digital prints. The class is structured around a series of projects where rigorous experimentation is encouraged. Students will learn various non-typical printmaking
Visual Arts

Unique Prints: 3-D Prints and Modular Works — PRI4272.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
Credits: 4
This course is an introduction to unique prints, or prints that are not necessarily printed as an edition. We will emphasize the making of mixed media prints using a broad range of methods from monotypes to digital prints. The class is structured around a series of projects where rigorous experimentation is encouraged. Students will learn various non-typical printmaking
Visual Arts

Unique Prints: 3-D Prints and Modular Works — PRI4272.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
Credits: 4
This course is an introduction to unique prints, or prints that are not necessarily printed as an edition. We will emphasize the making of mixed media prints using a broad range of methods from monotypes to digital prints. The class is structured around a series of projects where rigorous experimentation is encouraged. Students will learn various non-typical printmaking
Visual Arts

Unlocking Italian Culture II — ITA4214.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Credits: 4
Entering the worlds of Italy is an integral part of learning the language. We will continue exploring Italian culture through the lens of journalism: you will be journalists exploring Italy and reporting about it. In this, you will be supported by specific web tools, role-play, videos, and online newspaper and magazines. The class will create its own magazine. Meanwhile, you
Languages

Unlocking Italian Culture II — ITA2108.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Credits: 4
Entering the worlds of Italy is an integral part of learning the language. Students will continue exploring Italian culture through ideas of space, supported by role-play, music, film, videos, and the Internet, along with different authentic materials. In this course, we will focus in particular on public spaces and their social activities. Meanwhile, students will also advance
Languages

Unlocking Italian Culture II — ITA4122.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Credits: 4
Entering the worlds of Italy is an integral part of learning the language. We will keep exploring Italian culture through ideas of space, supported by role-play, music, film, videos, and the Internet. Meanwhile, you will advance in the study of the language. Students will continue developing their ability to carry out everyday and more complex tasks in Italian. By the end of
Languages

Unlocking Italian Culture II: Reporting Italy — ITA4214.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Credits: 4
Entering the worlds of Italy is an integral part of learning the language. We will continue exploring Italian culture through journalism: you will be journalists exploring Italy and reporting about it. In this, you will be supported by specific web tools, role-play, videos, and on line newspaper and magazines. The class will create its own magazine. Meanwhile, you will advance
Languages

Unlocking Italian Culture II: Reporting Italy — ITA4214.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Credits: 4
Entering the worlds of Italy is an integral part of learning the language. We will continue exploring Italian culture through the lens of journalism: you will be journalists exploring Italy and reporting about it. In this, you will be supported by specific web tools, role-play, videos, and on line newspaper and magazines. The class will create its own magazine. You will also
Languages

Unlocking Italian Culture: I — ITA2106.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This is an introductory course in Italian that will open the door to the inner aspects of the Boot's culture. Most of Italian social life revolves around close interpersonal relationships and attachment to places. Both aspects, for the good and the bad, shape an Italian's day from the morning coffee to the late dinner at home and do affect an individual's entire life. Through
Languages

Unpacking The Vault: Hidden Narratives in the Bennington Art Collection — VA4137.02

Fall 2017
Instructor: Anne Thompson
Credits: 2
The Bennington art collection is a kind of mystery. Sequestered in a basement space called "the vault,” the collection’s contents—its depth and breadth—are not fully known. On display around campus are some Abstract Expressionist–era paintings by celebrated former students, faculty, and area residents such as Helen Frankenthaler, Paul Feeley, and Jules
Visual Arts

Up/Side/Down — VA4321.01) (cancelled 7/17/2023

Fall 2023
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Credits: 4
This is a practice for participants of any discipline who are interested in exploring the intersections between movement and drawing, actions and traces. We invite you to join us in an experiment. We want to consider/reconsider/resist/undermine/overwhelm/explode the question of how to make work under uncertain circumstances. These explorations will take the form of happenings.
Dance Visual Arts

Up/Side/Down — VA2237.01) (cancelled 7/17/2023

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This is a practice for participants of any discipline who are interested in exploring the intersections between movement and drawing, actions and traces. We invite you to join us in an experiment. We want to consider/reconsider/resist/undermine/overwhelm/explode the question of how to make work under uncertain circumstances. These explorations will take the form of happenings.
Dance Visual Arts