All Courses

Economic Inequality — PEC4124.01

Fall 2020

Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee

Credits: 4

The questions of inequality and distributive justice are central to any study of the economy. In this seminar, we will investigate the nature and sources of economic inequality, and explore various approaches to redistribution and distributive justice. Inequality can be examined as unevenness in the distribution of income and wealth in a population, as well as that of non

Society Culture and Thought

Economic Minds — PEC2281.01

Spring 2026

Instructor: Emma Kast

Days & Time: MO,TH 10:00am-11:50am

Credits: 4

This course explores how ideas about the economy – from money, to labor, to distribution – have changed over time. We will focus on different schools of thought in economics, including mercantilism, physiocracy, classical political economy, the Austrian school, Post-Keynesianism, and neoclassical economics, placing these ideas in their global context. A central focus will be

Political Economy

Economic Reasoning: Models, Metrics, and Metaphors — PEC2260.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Robin Kemkes

Credits: 4

This course will explore ways of knowing in economics. How do economists use mathematical models, collect and analyze data in the field and lab, and employ rhetoric to describe and address contemporary economic issues? We will begin with an introduction to the broad philosophical questions surrounding our understanding of economics as a social science. From there, we will

Social Science

Economics in the Postcolonial Context — PEC4107.01

Fall 2025

Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee

Days & Time: MO,TH 3:40pm-5:30pm

Credits: 4

How have economic histories and past structures shaped present-day realities? Why do patterns of inequality persist between the Global North and South? This course examines these questions by exploring the long-lasting economic effects of colonial encounters—not just on the economies of formerly

Political Economy

Economics of Growth and Technological Change — PEC4123.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Mohammad Moeini Feizabadi

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

This course explores the tendencies and causes of economic growth in capitalism, with a focus on the role of technology. Students will investigate a variety of ways of understanding technology’s relation to economic growth, notable among these being four major paradigms and traditions in economic theory: Neoclassical, Schumpeterian, Endogenous Growth, and Marxian. Examining

Society Culture and Thought

Economics of Work and Employment — PEC4219.01

Fall 2024

Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee

Credits: 4

The seminar centers on fundamental questions concerning labor: Why do people work? What is the relationship between ‘work’ and ‘employment’? And how do the concerns of ‘nonwage work’—specifically care work within households—intersect with wage work within the labor market? These inquiries motivate our exploration. We will delve into established theories in labor economics and

Society Culture and Thought

Economy and Ecology — PEC2253.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee

Credits: 2

Simply put, economics deals with the material world, and ecology is concerned with the living world. How do the two worlds meet and interact? This seminar explores this intriguing question. This broad question can be analyzed in terms of more pointed queries: What are the feedbacks between the economic and the ecological systems? How do markets and incentives affect people’s

CAPA Environment Society Culture and Thought

Economy and Ecology — PEC2253.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee

Credits: 2

This seminar will explore how human economies and natural ecosystems interact and evolve over time and space. We will examine the dynamics of human relationship with ‘nature’, and the response they evoke to environmental issues. We will ask: how is human behavior connected to changes in hydrological, nutrient or carbon cycles? How do changes in climate and hydrology bring about

Environment Society Culture and Thought

Economy and Polity — PEC2252.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee

Credits: 4

Polity (Latin polītīa Greek polīteía) denotes citizenship and forms of government, while economy (Latin oeconomia Greek oikonomíā) denotes how a nation’s resources are managed and organized. In this seminar, we will explore how resources are put to use in a country and how goods and services are produced, consumed and distributed amongst its people. We

Society Culture and Thought

Economy and Work — PEC2269.01) (cancelled 8/9/2023

Fall 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

Credits: 4

Why do people work? How can we make sense of the relationship that workers have with their workplace? What determines the income they earn from work? And, how are the concerns of ‘nonremunerative work’ (especially care work carried in the realm of household) related to that of 'remunerative work' (carried in the realm of labor market)? This seminar is motivated by these

Society Culture and Thought

Ecopoetics: Earth, Air, Water, and Fire — LIT4381.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

Credits: 4

The course will be divided into four sections corresponding to four elements of nature that have been transformed in the anthropocene. In order to strengthen our environmental literacy, we will read scientific articles as well as news articles about wildfires in California, Europe, and Australia. We will educate ourselves about disappearing islands through the rise of sea

Literature

Edible Matters: Cartography and the Cultural Biography of Food — APA4149.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Yoko Inoue

Credits: 4

Food, place and politics. This course investigates food in the globalized world considering political economy, history of colonialism and cultural identity. Focusing on various geographical locales, we examine the economic factors, socio-political structures and cultural implications behind what determines a crop’s value based on power relationships and global trade strategies.

CAPA Visual Arts

Edible Matters: Cartography and the Cultural Biography of Food — APA4149.01) (cancelled 10/7/2024

Spring 2025

Instructor: Yoko Inoue

Credits: 4

Editing for Moving Image — FV2305.02

Fall 2016

Instructor: Katie Soule

Credits: 1

This course is a 1-credit, seven-week course focused on providing video and animation students with the skills to edit in Premiere Pro CC 2015. The first third of the course will provide the essential training of capturing, editing, audio mixing, and performing special effects, as well as review methods of best practice when organizing footage and exporting finished

Visual Arts

Editing for Moving Image — FV2305.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Katie Soule

Credits: 1

Visual Arts

Edo to Meiji: Isolation to Modernization — JPN4168.01

Fall 2013

Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

During the Edo period (1600 - 1867), Japan closed its doors to other countries for about two hundred years, and this isolation helped Japan develop its own unique culture. It, however, ended in 1867 when Japanese culture was introduced to the Western world at an International Exposition in Paris. On the contrary to the Edo period, the next era, Meiji, brought rapid

Languages

Edo to Meiji: Isolation to Modernization — JPN4168.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

During the Edo period (1600-1867), Japan closed its doors to other countries for about two hundred fifty years, and this isolation helped Japan develop its own unique culture. However, it ended in 1867 when Japanese culture was introduced to the Western world at an International Exposition in Paris. Contrary to the Edo period, the next era—the Meiji—brought rapid westernization

Languages

Edo to Meiji: Isolation to Modernization — JPN4168.01

Fall 2014

Instructor: ikuko yoshida

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

During the Edo period (1600-1867), Japan closed its doors to other countries for about two hundred fifty years, and this isolation helped Japan develop its own unique culture. It, however, ended in 1867 when Japanese culture was introduced to the Western world at an International Exposition in Paris. On the contrary to the Edo period, the next era, Meiji, brought rapid

Languages

Eduardo — ITA4710.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Barbara Alfano

Credits: 4

In Italy, they call him simply Eduardo. His legacy is timeless like the texture of humanity that he portrayed in his plays. A playwright, an actor, a poet, a film director, and above all a poignant interpreter of the ephemeral, the Neapolitan Eduardo De Filippo has earned worldwide admiration for his work. This course focuses on his theatrical productions in the years soon

Languages

Educating for a Democracy — POP2281.02

Spring 2021

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

Credits: 1

Democracy in the United States is being threatened and countless Americans do not understand enough of our country’s history or political systems to comprehend the threat. This has led to inaction by the American people, media outlets that share disinformation and individuals who care more about power than participating in democratic governance. To reach this point, it took

CAPA

Educating For A Democracy —

Fall 2021

Instructor: Brian Campion

Credits:

Democracy in the United States continues to be under threat and countless Americans do not understand enough of our country’s history or political systems to comprehend the threat. This has led to inaction by the American people, media outlets that share disinformation and individuals who care more about power than participating in democratic governance. To reach this point, it

Education and Politics: What the Presidential Candidates Are Advocating and What that Means for Our Future — Cancelled

Spring 2020

Instructor:

Credits: 1

Each of the current candidates for the Office of President of the United States across the political spectrum has detailed positions on education: early childhood opportunities, public vs charter schools, free college and student debt loads, among other issues. This pop up course will look at the current candidates’ positions in the context of the broader policy debates

Education for a Democracy: The Patrick J. Leahy Public Policy Forum — APA2017.01, section 1

Fall 2023

Instructor: Eileen Scully

Credits: 4

Patrick J. Leahy was United States Senator from Vermont from 1975 to 2023, a career that put him front and center in American history for almost fifty years. This course invites historians, politicians, and those who know Leahy best to discuss and analyze the key policies that impacted American democracy on the local, national, and international levels. We will examine how

CAPA

Education for a Democracy: The Patrick J. Leahy Public Policy Forum — APA2017.02, section 2

Fall 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

Credits: 2

CAPA

Education Governance in Flux — MOD2155.03

Fall 2015

Instructor: Erika Mijlin

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 1

Using the newly approved Vermont Education Bill as a starting point, we will examine the changing needs and responses of both the government, and its public constituency, with regard to public education. How do governing bodies view the challenge of modernizing public education differently than the general public, and how are assets being newly allocated to respond to those

Modules: Transferable Approaches