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Waste, Disgust, and the Body: Thinking in Social Science — PSY2110.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Ronald Cohen; Karen Gover
Credits: 4
We all do it multiple times a day without giving it a second thought. Everyone has to go. But while easy access to a private, safe toilet is simply taken for granted in our part of the world, two-thirds of the world's population do not have adequate sanitation. 2.6 billion people living today do not have access to a toilet. As a result, millions of people die every year because
Social Science

Watchmen: Watch US now — AH2287.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Credits: 2
The first and only season of Watchmen, HBO’s “alternate history” (based on the graphic novel that posited a real-life global crisis that, what?, perversely unites humanity) drives a broadly-conceived visual culture/cultural studies course in which we identify and analyze various themes, tropes, genres, histories, prophecies, and allegories on screen and off; both inside and
Visual Arts

Water Dialogues: Conflicts Over Our Most Valuable Resource — APA2220.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 2
Water is the essence of life. Access to Clean Water for drinking, fishing, irrigation and sanitation are basic human rights. In this course, we will use two texts: "Written in Water: Messages of Hope for Earth's Most Precious Resource" edited by Irena Salin and Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization by Steven Solomon. Water as a source of conflict for
CAPA Environment

Water Dialogues: Conflicts Over Our Most Valuable Resource — APA2220.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 2
Water is our most important resource in the world. Without it, human, animal and plant life cannot exist for very long. Where we live in the eastern United States,  water is plentiful.  We take it for granted that we can drink it freely, wash ourselves when we feel like it, and use it for industry and recreation. But in our own country (western U.S.) and other parts
CAPA Environment

Water Dialogues: The Future of Civilization — APA2016.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 4
This course fundamentally will address the following questions: How do we move out of the historical period of industrial waste and big dams to Water Systems that address climate change, water scarcity, water pollution and clean up, hydropower as a renewable resource and building new infrastructure? How does water affect our personal lives through health, sanitation, and
CAPA

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 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

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

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 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/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/^/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 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 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 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