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Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama — DRA4361.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: kathleen dimmick
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course investigates the great flourishing of drama in late 16th and early 17th century England, a period of little more than fifty years that produced the most robust theater in the English-speaking world. We read plays by several of the major writers of the period, with the exception of Shakespeare: Kyd, Marlowe, Green, Jonson, Dekker, Heywood, Webster, Middleton, and
Drama Literature

Embedded Arts: Exploring Social Practice Work — APA2361.04

Spring 2025
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 1

This course examines diverse methodologies used in the creation and presentation of socially engaged public artwork. Utilizing interdisciplinary research and community collaboration, students will investigate local issues and explore real-world interventions that unlock the civic imagination. How can artistic approaches to social interaction develop conversations, raise

CAPA

Embodied Love: An exploration in psychology and movement — DAN4422.02

Spring 2024
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko Özge Savaş
Credits: 2
Join us in experimentation, research, data analysis, self-reflexivity, and play! This is a laboratory for participants of any discipline who are interested in exploring the fluidity of mind, body, consciousness, and action. A dreamlike space where you will learn to think, feel, and practice radical self-love despite uncertainty. “The search for love continues even in the face
Dance Society Culture and Thought

Embodying Shakespeare's Language — DRA4403.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Kirk Jackson
Credits: 4
We will engage in an investigation of textual analysis for performance of Shakespeare: scansion, rhythm, sense stress, image work, phonetic phraseology, etc. We will study the structure of the verse and the elements of rhetoric as the primary source for an actor’s investigation and performance of a role. We will explore techniques for enlivening that analysis in the performer’s
Drama

Embodying Structure: Construction of the Corset — DRA2213.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Richard MacPike
Credits: 2
In order to construct a historical costume accurately one often needs to start with the foundation garments of that period. This course will examine how corsets and their construction play a role in re-creating period silhouettes. Students will learn how to reproduce period corset patterns as well as construct the corsets with all their structural elements. Particular attention
Dance Drama

Embodying Structure: Construction of the Corset — DRA2213.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Richard MacPike
Credits: 2
In order to construct a historical costume accurately one often needs to start with the foundation garments of that period. This course will examine how corsets and their construction play a role in re-creating period silhouettes. Students will learn how to reproduce period corset patterns as well as construct the corsets with all their structural elements. Particular attention
Drama

Embodying Structure: Construction of the Corset — DRA2213.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Richard MacPike
Credits: 2
In order to construct a historical costume accurately one often needs to start with the foundation garments of that period. This course will examine how corsets and their construction play a role in recreating period silhouettes. Students will learn how to reproduce period corset patterns as well as construct the corsets with all their structural elements. Particular attention
Dance Drama

Embodying Text — DRA4162.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Kirk Jackson
Credits: 4
We will engage in an investigation of textual analysis for performance of Shakespeare: scansion, rhythm, sense stress, image work, phonetic phraseology, etc. We will study the structure of the verse and the elements of rhetoric as the primary source for an actor’s investigation and performance of a role. We will explore techniques for enlivening that analysis in the performer’s
Drama

Embodying Text — DRA4162.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Kirk Jackson
Credits: 4
We will engage in an investigation of textual analysis for performance of Shakespeare: scansion, rhythm, sense stress, image work, phonetic phraseology, etc. We will study the structure of the verse and the elements of rhetoric as the primary source for an actor’s investigation and performance of a role. We will explore techniques for enlivening that analysis in the performer’s
Drama

Embodying Text: Shakespeare and Beyond — DRA2264.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Kirk Jackson
Credits: 4
We will engage in deep investigation of text analysis for performance of Shakespeare: scansion, rhythm, sense stress, image work, phonetic phraseology, etc. Additionally, we will explore techniques for enlivening that analysis with a performing body. We will study the structure of the verse and the elements of rhetoric as the primary source for an actor's investigation of a
Drama

Embracing Difference — ANT2107.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Miroslava Prazak
Credits: 4
Why are cultures and societies so different, and simultaneously, so similar? This introductory course examines some of the theoretical and methodological approaches of anthropology in exploring human culture and society. We explore various ethnographic examples to develop an anthropological perspective on economy and politics, social organization, kinship and family life,
Society Culture and Thought CAPA

Embracing Difference — ANT2107.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: miroslava prazak
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Why are cultures and societies so different, and simultaneously, so similar? This introductory course examines some of the theoretical and methodological approaches of anthropology in exploring human culture and society. We explore various ethnographic examples to develop an anthropological perspective on economy and politics, social organization, kinship and family life,
Social Science

Embracing Difference — ANT2107.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Miroslava Prazak
Credits: 4
Why are cultures and societies so different, and simultaneously, so similar? This introductory course examines some of the theoretical and methodological approaches of anthropology in exploring human culture and society. We explore various ethnographic examples to develop an anthropological perspective on economy and politics, social organization, kinship and family life,
Society Culture and Thought

Embracing Difference — ANT2107.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Miroslava Prazak
Credits: 4
Why are cultures and societies so different, and simultaneously, so similar? This introductory course examines some of the theoretical and methodological approaches of anthropology in exploring human culture and society. We explore various ethnographic examples to develop an anthropological perspective on economy and politics, social organization, kinship and family life,
Society Culture and Thought

Emerging Constitutional Issues in Environmental Law — ENV2208.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Elisabeth Goodman
Credits: 4
Lines are being drawn for a battle over who will control environmental problems now and in the future, and the U.S. Constitution is the ammunition.  Our Constitution has a profound influence on laws and policies that address the most pressing environmental issues of our time: climate change, species and biodiversity conservation, pollution control, sustainability, rights
Environment

Emerging Research in Integrative Physiology — BIO4128.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Blake Jones
Credits: 2
This course will focus on reading, synthesizing, and critiquing primary scientific literature at the frontiers of modern organismal research. We will focus on current, cutting edge research that integrates across disciplines to 1) explore fundamental questions about physiological systems, and 2) understand how such systems can help elucidate the ultimate and proximate
Science and Mathematics

Emily Dickinson: a World at Every Plunge — LIT4158.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Stefania Heim
Credits: 2
Despite having published fewer than a dozen poems in her lifetime, Emily Dickinson has become one of the most iconic American poets. Few writers are as radical and mysterious as Dickinson. Few have been as caricatured (the recluse-spinster in a white dress) or as misunderstood: the earliest collections of her work, published shortly after her death, famously “fixed” her
Literature

Emotion and the Brain — PSY2117.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Harlan Fichtenholtz
Credits: 4
How do people understand end express emotions? How do emotions change brain function? Does emotional information make us more or less able to focus and engage with the world? The goal of this course is to understand the intricate ways in which the brain processes and expresses emotions. We will take a neuroscientific approach to understanding the interrelationship between
Science Mathematics and Computing Society Culture and Thought

Encountering the Abenaki Nation — ANT2212.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Miroslava Prazak
Credits: 2
Bennington College is located on the ancestral lands of the Abenaki, the People of the Dawnland. How do we come to know about their lives, their culture, society and their history? This course offers an exploration of sources and knowledge, of discovery and of ways of seeing. Using films, stories, archaeological evidence and scholarly texts we will begin to explore and
Society Culture and Thought

Encounters: Drawing On-Site — DRW4119.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
In course we will engage drawing’s portability, flexibility, and expressive potential by primarily working outside of the studio art classroom. Students will be invited to engage and question what is prioritized in their representation of an experience or encounter in the world, outside the set conditions of the studio classroom. At its core this course asks: How can drawing
Visual Arts

Encounters: Drawing On-Site — DRW4119.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Beverly Acha
Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

In this course we will engage drawing’s portable and responsive nature by working outside of the studio art classroom, opening the possibility of encounters that influence your subject matter and approaches to drawing. Students will practice and expand their skills of drawing from direct observation (not from photographs or other images) by working on-site in different

Drawing

Endangered Psychotherapies — PSY2170.01

Spring 2016
Instructor:
Credits: 4
Health insurance companies and Federal regulators are moving the American health care system--including psychotherapy--toward "evidence-based treatment." For psychotherapy, that means a movement in the direction of short-term behaviorally-focused treatments, which can be manualized and evaluated quickly and cleanly. This movement thus imperils a rich tradition of
Society Culture and Thought

Endeavor Environmental Action Post Fellowship Class — APA4161.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Judith Enck
Credits: 1
Students who spent their field work term as Environmental Action fellows will meet as a cohort to report on their experiences to other students about their host organizations, what worked and what didn't work, and what they learned.  There will be focus on skills building that will support the students in their work to advance environmental justice and social justice
CAPA

Endeavor Environmental Action Post-Fellowship Course — APA4161.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Alexis Goldsmith
Days & Time: Th 7:00PM-8:50PM
Credits: 1

This is the post-fellowship course for students selected to participate in the Endeavor Environmental Action Fellowship Program. The class is designed to sharpen each student’s skills and capacities for success in their future work, and ultimately, to successfully advance environmental justice issues, address complex societal challenges,

Advancement of Public Action