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Water: First Home of Life  — APA2148.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Burcu Seyben
Credits: 4
Water is the source of life. Scientists search for water in the universe to discover if there is life out there. Civilizations of the ancient world flourished near water. Over the centuries, we have established relationships with water other than merely using it to survive. How has our relationship with water been changing, and how has this affected water? What role do
CAPA Environment

Waterways: Exploring the Landscape and Watershed with Artist Marie Lorenz — VA2204.03

Spring 2019
Instructor: Anne Thompson
Credits: 1
In this class, taught on the occasion of Lorenz’s exhibition in Usdan Gallery, students study the landscape from Bennington to Stillwater, following the course of the Walloomsac and Hoosic Rivers. The group will look at the history of land use in the watershed, examine current ecological issues, and think about ways that current actions might affect the land. Each session,
Visual Arts

Wavians Among the Ruins — LIT4328.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Evelyn Waugh is often described as a Bright Young Thing, a master of farce, the 20th century’s ironist, a modernist, an anti-modernist, a Catholic apologist, or the victim of a particularly elegiac, unforgiving case of enantiodromia. We will read his major novels, though with an eye on their critical reception, both then and now, since part of the course will be devoted to
Literature

Ways to Manipulate the Two-Dimensional World — MA4102.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Sue Rees
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The class will be concerned with creating short animations utilizing two dimensional imagery. The animations will be created using both software and a MultiPlane Camera;MultiPlane set ups have been used for animators from Lotte Reiniger to Norman McLaren, Disney to Martha Colburn. The software programs used will be primarily After Effects, DragonFrame and Photoshop. Additional
Visual Arts

We, Unfortunately, Are Borges — SPA4219.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Credits: 4
Whether he is the last modernist, or the first postmodern, the least Latin American of all Latin American authors or perhaps the most, the grand destroyer of all illusions or ultimately their victim, in the wake of his own statement that “Every writer creates his own precursors” Jorge Luis Borges has already provided the theoretical premise for so much subsequent work that this
Cultural Studies and Languages

Wearable Paper Prints Experiment — PRI4215.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
Credits: 4
This course will explore the potential of wearable paper prints. To start, we will learn and practice simple printing methods that allow us to make prints into “use objects” that can be worn on the body. We will begin by looking at simple examples of paper dresses, party favors, disposable protection gear, and halloween costumes, as well as historical examples ranging from Dada
Visual Arts

Wearable Paper Prints Experiment — PRI4215.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
Credits: 4
This course will explore the potential of wearable paper prints. To start, we will learn and practice simple printing methods that allow us to make prints into “use objects” that can be worn on the body. We will begin by looking at simple examples of paper dresses, party favors, disposable protection gear, and halloween costumes, as well as historical examples ranging from Dada
Dance Music Visual Arts

Weird Covers — MCO4173.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Credits: 2
A cover song that veers from the original is a time-tested way for singers to plant a stylistic flag, from Captain Beefheart’s unhinged take on "Moonlight in Vermont" to Lauryn Hill’s pioneering "Killing Me Softly." In this class, you’ll be asked to write weird covers, versions of songs that rewrite style, affect, and genre. Sometimes we’ll work in groups and individually, and
Music

Westworld Their World (Season 2) — AH4318.01

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

Westworld (Season 2) HBO’s “science fiction western thriller” television series, drives a broadly-conceived visual culture/cultural studies course in which we identify and analyze various aesthetics and genres, histories and visions, typologies, theologies, and allegories on screen and off—both inside and outside the show’s narrative. Possibilities

Art History

Westworld/Our World — AH4115.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: J. Vanessa Lyon
Credits: 2
Season Two of Westworld, HBO’s “science fiction western thriller” television series, drives a broadly-conceived visual culture/cultural studies course in which we identify and analyze various themes, tropes, and genres, histories and visions, typologies and allegories on screen and off; both inside and outside the show’s narrative. Possibilities include: feminism, sexploitation
Visual Arts

Westworld/Our World — AH4115.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Credits: 2
Westworld, HBO's "science fiction western thriller" television series, drives a broadly-conceived visual culture/cultural studies course in which we identify and analyze various aesthetics and genres, histories and visions, typologies and allegories on screen and off; both inside and outside the show's narrative. Possibilities include: feminism, sexploitation, and the
Visual Arts

Westworld/^/Whose World? — AH4115.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Credits: 2
Season One of Westworld, HBO’s “science fiction western thriller” series, drives a broadly-conceived visual studies/cultural theory course in which we identify and analyze various themes, tropes, and genres, histories and visions, typologies and allegories on screen and off; both inside and outside the show’s narrative. Possibilities include: feminism, sexploitation, artificial
Visual Arts

Wharton and James: Gender and Power — LIT2331.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Kathleen Alcott
Credits: 4
Long before ideas about the 'performativity' of gender entered the cultural conversation, the Progressive-era writers Henry James and Edith Wharton—who were also correspondents and travel companions—produced fiction that subtly examined the ways that factors including class, region, age, and travel operated upon our conceptions of personhood, and particularly as they related to
Literature

What Can One Person Do — DRA4394.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Sherry Kramer
Credits: 4
One of the primary jobs of the storytelling tradition is to sing the songs of a culture’s heroes. In this class we’re going to take a look at what a hero is and what it means to write and sing the songs that immortalize them. And by songs I mean…plays and movies. We will attempt to define what a hero is, what a hero was, what a hero could be. We will look at the everyman hero,
Drama

What Comes After the State? — ANT2114.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Noah Coburn
Credits: 4
Particularly since the treaty of Westphalia the state has been the dominant feature of the international system. In almost every case its sovereignty is assumed. Yet from unauthorized US drone strikes in Pakistan to the European Union, there are examples of ways in which the power of the state as an organizing concept is beginning to erode. This course will look at
Society Culture and Thought

What Comes After the State? — ANT2114.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Noah Coburn
Credits: 4
Particularly since the treaty of Westphalia the state has been the dominant feature of the international system. In almost every case its sovereignty is assumed. Yet from unauthorized US drone strikes in Pakistan to the European Union, there are examples of ways in which the power of the state as an organizing concept is beginning to erode. This course will look at
Social Science CAPA

What Happened in North Bennington? The Profound Struggle for the Soul of Education in America — MOD2405.02

Spring 2017
Instructor:
Credits: 1
In this course we will begin with an examination of the events that occurred in North Bennington, VT as the community voted to close its public school in response to Act 46, the new state law requiring school districts across Vermont to consolidate. The events surrounding Act 46 and the closing of the public school in North Bennington marked a “sea change” in education policy
CAPA Modules: Transferable Approaches

What is (and What is Not) US Empire  — APA4311.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 4
This course works to give a more exacting definition to the imperial shape of the United States, as much to name its haunting presence as to more effectively confront its unjust operations. As the first successful anti-colonial revolt, the United States has a long history of narrating itself against empire. Yet for anyone who has lived under the heavy hand of its territorial
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

What is Capitalism? — PEC2267.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Emma Kast
Credits: 4
What is capitalism? When and where did it begin? This course introduces students to key features of capitalism as an economic system and a way of life that has had profound social and political consequences for human societies around the world. It is the primary aim of this course to get a better sense for what capitalism really is, and to uncover and evaluate some of the most
Society Culture and Thought

What is Capitalism? — PEC2267.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
What is capitalism? When and where did it begin? This course introduces students to key features of capitalism as an economic system and a way of life that has had profound social and political consequences for human societies around the world. It is the primary aim of this course to get a better sense for what capitalism really is, and to uncover and evaluate some of the most
Society Culture and Thought

What is economics? — PEC2270.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
"Economics is what economists do" says Jacob Viner. But what do economists do? And, how do they do it? This seminar will be concerned with these two questions. Our main objective will be to develop an understanding of economics as a field of study and to explore how economics is applied to understand the large issues of our time that affect our everyday material wellbeing. Our
Society Culture and Thought

What is Economics? — SCT2136.02

Fall 2018
Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee
Credits: 1
You may have some familiarity with economics, from a course in high school or through various insights gleaned from news reports. But many people who need to consider the economic implications of policy, or who want to understand issues about how resources and wealth are allocated, have scant understanding of the key ideas of the field. This seminar addresses that: it is an
Society Culture and Thought

What is Economics? — SCT2136.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee
Credits: 2
"Economics is what economists do" says Jacob Viner. But what do economists do? And, how do they do it? This seminar will be concerned with these two questions. Our main objective will be develop an understanding of economics as a field of study and to explore how economics is applied to understand everyday issues that affect our material wellbeing. We will look at big issues,
Society Culture and Thought