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Biochemistry — CHE4335.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: John Bullock
Credits: 4
Biochemistry is an intermediate chemistry course in which students apply principles from general and organic chemistry, as well as general biology, to understand the molecular processes that characterize life. Biochemistry is a broad discipline that is growing rapidly in its scope – new developments and discoveries are being made daily. The goal of this class will be to give
Science and Mathematics

Biochemistry — CHE4335.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: John Bullock
Credits: 4
Biochemistry is an intermediate chemistry course in which students apply principles from general and organic chemistry, as well as general biology, to understand the molecular processes that characterize life. Biochemistry is a broad discipline that is growing rapidly in its scope – new developments and discoveries are being made daily. The goal of this class will be to give
Science and Mathematics

Biochemistry — CHE4335.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: John Bullock
Credits: 4
Biochemistry is an intermediate chemistry course in which students apply principles from general and organic chemistry, as well as general biology, to understand the molecular processes that characterize life. Biochemistry is a broad discipline that is growing rapidly in its scope – new developments and discoveries are being made daily. The goal of this class will be to give
Science and Mathematics

Biogeography, Paleoecology, and Human Origins — BIO4317.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Credits: 4
We explore ecological and evolutionary patterns in broadest spatial and temporal perspective — “big picture” biology. Our general questions are: What shapes patterns in the ranges and distributions of organisms and in overall biodiversity? How do ecological systems respond to long-term and large-scale changes in environment (glaciation, global climate change, plate tectonics,
Science and Mathematics Environment

Biogeography, Paleoecology, and Human Origins — BIO4317.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Credits: 4
An exploration of ecological and evolutionary patterns in broad spatial and temporal perspective -- "big picture" biology. Our questions are: What shapes patterns in biodiversity and in the ranges and distributions of organisms? How do ecological systems respond to long-term and large-scale changes in environment (glaciation, global climate change, plate tectonics, meteorite
Science Mathematics and Computing Environment

Biogeography, Paleoecology, and Human Origins — BIO4317.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Credits: 4
We explore ecological and evolutionary patterns in broadest spatial and temporal perspective — “big picture” biology. Our general questions are: What shapes patterns in the ranges and distributions of organisms and in overall biodiversity? How do ecological systems respond to long-term and large-scale changes in environment (glaciation, global climate change, plate
Science and Mathematics Environment

Biological Bases of Experience — CMH5122.01

Summer 2026
Instructor: Faculty TBA
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 3

This course examines the biological underpinnings of human experience and behavior with direct application to counseling practice. Students will explore the structure and function of the nervous system, endocrine system, and related physiological processes that contribute to mental health and mental illness. Emphasis is placed on

Clinical Mental Health Counseling (MA)

Biological Diversity: Ecology and Evolution — BIO2103.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The disciplines of ecology and evolution are integrally connected in the study of biological diversity.  Both are essential to intelligent management and conservation of natural systems.  We will explore current understanding of the evolutionary origins of biodiversity, the ecological processes that regulate and structure it, and how ecological principles may be
Science Mathematics and Computing Environment

Biomimicry in Architecture — ARC4206.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Karolina Kawiaka
Credits: 4
This is an advanced studio class for students who are self-directed and have a proficient understanding of basic architectural concepts, history and theory. Students will develop skills needed to communicate architectural concepts and develop personal approaches to the design process. Such factors as climate, place, orientation, program, cultural ideas about place and space,
Visual Arts

BLACK IS THE JOURNEY: sampling the intellectual and artistic productions of the African Diaspora — CSL2133.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Maboula Soumahoro
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4

The course offers a rhizomatic exploration of the African diaspora of the Black Atlantic (Europe-Africa-America), encompassing a wide array of the modalities of its expressions: historical, political, cultural, artistic, and intellectual. Using my book "Black is the Journey, Africana the Name" (Polity, 2021) as a point of departure, this seminar is an invitation to embark on

Cultural Studies and Languages

Black Lives in Context: Brazil — APA2323.01) (cancelled

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
With the current focus on anti blackness in the USA, this course will demonstrate a much larger problem. We will show where black populations are within this hemisphere, then quickly focus on black life and struggle in Brazil. We will focus on how anti blackness is organized in Brazilian life and lifts up forms of black resistance in art, culture, and politics. Course dates:
CAPA

Black Lives Matter, Transatlantic Occurences: The Case of France and the United States — POP2353.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
The death of George Floyd at the hands of the police forces of Minneapolis (MN), late May of this year sparked weeks-long mobilizations unprecedented in U.S. history. Those marches, protests, and unrest were unprecedented in their geographic scope, the numbers of people involved, the age and multicultural/racial/ethnic demographics they encompassed. Almost immediately following

Black Markets — Canceled

Spring 2015
Instructor: Robin Kemkes
Credits: 4
Why do some transactions -- the sale of illegal drugs and weapons, human trafficking, finance, piracy, trade in endangered species, and harvesting of Siberian timber -- operate outside the formal economy? In this course we will study how the boundaries of the formal economy are negotiated, how black markets arise in relation to the formal economy, and the conditions under which
Environment Social Science

Black Mountain/Beat Poetry — LIT2525.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
The Beats were a mid-20th century group of writers who rebelled against the oppressive societal and cultural norms of 1950s America. These writers celebrated the freedom of the open road, dropping out of school, spoken-word poetry set to jazz, and drug culture. At roughly same time, another community of antiestablishment writers and artists sprung-up at Black Mountain College,
Literature

Black Music: Black Music Division (a 50 year retrospective) — MHI2238.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 2
Beginning in the Fall of 1974 through the spring of 1984, Bill Dixon, a Bennington music faculty member, American composer, and visual artist who was a seminal figure in free jazz, implemented a curriculum entitled Black Music: Black Music Division. This menu of courses introduced innovative pioneers of music who contributed to the lexicon and history of the black experience in
Black Studies Music

Black Music: Black Music Division – A Retrospective — MHI2238.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 4
In the early 70s Bennington music faculty members Bill Dixon and Milford Graves guided Bennington students through a black aesthetic, an awakening using music, words and deeds. Their compositions, teachings, and innovative approach to creative music boldly addressed a multitude of issues in the wake of the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements. This ever-evolving course
Music

Black Nature Writing — LIT2278.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Phillip B. Williams
Credits: 4
In this class you will investigate the many faces that nature bears in the poetry of writers of African-descent. You will read poems from the Antebellum period through the contemporary period, poems that defy the myth that Black poets solely write about an urban experience in predictable ways. For Black poets, nature serves as a catalyst for contemplating freedom, complicating
Literature

Black Nature Writing — LIT2278.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Phillip B. Williams
Credits: 4
In this class you will investigate the many faces that nature bears in the poetry of writers of African-descent. You will read poems from the Antebellum period through the contemporary period, poems that defy the myth that Black poets solely write about an urban experience in predictable ways. For Black poets, nature serves as a catalyst for contemplating freedom, complicating
Environment Literature

Black Playwrights of the Civil Rights Era — LIT2343.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Maya Cantu
Credits: 4
In 1959, the resounding success of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun transformed the “Great White Way,” kicking open Broadway’s doors to the generations of African American playwrights that followed. Yet, as Hansberry herself acknowledged, she was only part of a larger wave of Black playwrights who, responding to the progress and protests of the Civil Rights Movement,
Literature

Black Queer Writing and Theoretical Approaches — LIT2327.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Phillip B. Williams
Credits: 4
This class serves an introduction to Black queer writing and the theories that feed into and are inspired from said writing. We will read poetry, fiction, and essays by writers who revolutionized and made possible Black queer expression in the United States. What is the necessary vocabulary for Black writers left out of white academic and creative circles? When white gender and
Literature