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Everything Class — DAN2003.02

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 1
What if a water bottle were a teacher waiting for you in a classroom? What kind of class would the water bottle be offering----Sonic Meditation, Daily Beverage Curatorial Practice, Aquatic Ecology Research, Subconsciousness Activation, Invisible Color Therapy, Liquid Song Writing, Performance Score Composition for a Water Body, Taste-initiated Somatic Practice, Method of
Dance

Evolution — BIO4104.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Credits: 4
Evolutionary theory provides conceptual unity for biology; Darwin’s concept and its derivatives inform every area of life science, from paleontology to molecular biology to physiology to plant and animal behavior to human nature. This course will establish deep grounding in basic evolutionary theory with particular focus on selective processes and life-history theory.
Science and Mathematics Environment

Evolution — BIO4104.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Credits: 4
Evolutionary theory provides conceptual unity for biology; Darwin’s concept and its derivatives inform every area of life science, from paleontology to molecular biology to physiology to plant and animal behavior to human nature. This course will establish deep grounding in basic evolutionary theory with particular focus on selective processes and life-history theory.
Science and Mathematics Environment

Evolution — BIO4104.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Credits: 4
Evolutionary theory provides conceptual unity for biology; Darwin’s concept and its derivatives inform every area of life science, from paleontology to molecular biology to physiology to plant and animal behavior to human nature. This course will establish deep grounding in basic selective theory (including some exploration of population genetics) and explore selected current
Science Mathematics and Computing

Evolution — BIO4440.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Blake Jones
Days & Time: TU,FR 10:30am-12:20pm
Credits: 4

Evolution is the unifying theory of biology, explaining the diversity of life on Earth and the mechanisms that drive adaptation and speciation. This course will explore the core principles of evolutionary biology, including natural selection, genetic drift, gene flow, mutation, and the interplay between evolutionary processes and

Biology

Evolution — BIO4104.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Credits: 4
Evolutionary theory provides conceptual unity for biology; Darwin's concept and its derivatives inform every area of life science, from paleontology to molecular biology to physiology to plant and animal behavior to human nature. This course will establish deep grounding in basic selective theory (including some exploration of population genetics) and explore selected current
Science Mathematics and Computing Environment

Evolution and Artificial Selection — BIO2138.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This course explores the role of artificial selection throughout human history, including in agriculture, the breeding of companion animals, and as a model for understanding evolution by natural and sexual selection. Topics include Mendelian genetics, how genotype leads to phenotype, mutations, domestication, landmark experiments in fox domestication, experimental evolution in
Science and Mathematics

Evolution, Cognition, and Behavior — BIO2130.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Blake Jones
Credits: 4
Are nonhuman animals ‘intelligent’? How do they communicate? Do they form life-long memories? Why have different cognitive abilities evolved in different animals? This course will explore these questions and more by integrating across disciplines all aimed at understanding how animals (including humans) have evolved to behave and think. The discovery that nonhuman animals
Science and Mathematics

Evolution: Making Sense Of Aging, Sex, Sociality, Families, and Disease — BIO4318.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: KWoods@bennington.edu
Credits: 4
Evolution provides conceptual unity for biology. Darwin’s basic concept, supplemented by 150 years of refinement and additional understanding, informs every area of life science, often in ways that are surprisingly different from the popular understanding (or misunderstanding) of evolutionary theory. This course will establish deep grounding in basic evolutionary theory with
Science and Mathematics Environment

Examining Equality and Equity through the Analysis of Japanese Society in the Edo Period and Meiji Period — JPN4302.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Credits: 4
In this low-intermediate course students will learn and examine Japan’s drastic social changes during the Edo period and the Meiji period to investigate what equality and equity meant to Japanese people. During the Edo Period (1603-1868), Japan closed its doors to other countries for about two hundred fifty years, and this isolation helped Japan develop its own unique culture.
Cultural Studies and Languages

Examining Space — SCU2214.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This introductory course will investigate basic building techniques and principles behind making Sculpture through experiential learning. A few weeks into term we will participate in an Iron Pour, understanding the practices of shaping wax and preparing sand-molds for participation. The students will also be introduced and immersed within a community of artists off campus. This
Visual Arts

examining space — SCU2214.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: John Umphlett
Days & Time: TH 8:30am-12:10pm
Credits: 4

Are you interested in taking a closer look at the  immediate and collective spaces that we live in? What are some of the realities that exist around us and why/ how can we build work that pushes against these basic constructs.

This

Sculpture

Examining Space — SCU2214.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: John Umphlett
Credits: 4
This introductory course will investigate basic building techniques and principles behind making Sculpture through experiential learning. Within the first couple of weeks of term we will participate in an Iron Pour. The students will shape wax and prepare sand-molds for participation. The students will also be introduced and immersed within a community of artists off campus.
Visual Arts

Exhibition Thematic Exposure — AH4101.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Andrew Spence
Credits: 4
The primary goal in this class is for each student to create a theoretical thematic exhibition consisting of objects, artifacts, images or anything that has justifiable relevance. Originally born out of a visual art context, broader themes outside of visual art are possible. Students are expected to do independent research using source material from the library and the Internet
Visual Arts

Existentialism and Phenomenology — PHI2128.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Karen Gover
Credits: 4
Phenomenology is the philosophical study of the structures of human experience, whereas existentialism is the study of human existence. These two movements intersect and overlap in the history of philosophy. This course undertakes a survey of these movements and their central concepts as they are found in the writings of such thinkers as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger,
Society Culture and Thought

Existentialism and Phenomenology — PHI2128.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: karen gover
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Phenomenology is the philosophical study of the structures of human experience, whereas existentialism is the study of human existence. These two movements intersect and overlap in the history of philosophy. This course undertakes a survey of these movements and their central concepts as they are found in the writings of such thinkers as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger,
Social Science

Expanded Performance — MPF4279.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Credits: 4
Expanded and invented instruments utilizing electronics, object preparations, field recordings, and non-traditional performance techniques will be used to develop unique sonic vocabularies. Working with the premise that any sound can be an instrument we will work collaboratively to share our sounds, our scores and various approaches to music making. This seminar will serve as a
Music

Expanding Fields: Histories and New Practices of Curating the Rural — VA4152.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Anne Thompson
Credits: 4
Artists and curators have long embraced the southwestern U.S. desert as the landscape equivalent of the sublime yet neutral “white cube.” This course addresses the history of land art and landscape-based institutions alongside current strategies for moving these practices into literal and metaphorical new territories. Lecture-based discussions and research assignments examine
Environment Visual Arts

Experiential Anatomy/Somatic Practices — DAN2149.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Credits: 4
This is a studio class for any discipline intended to deepen the understanding of your own moving body. We will be studying kinesthetic anatomy by approaching the material through visual, cognitive, kinesthetic, and sensory modes. Class time will be divided between discussion of anatomy and kinesthetic concepts, and engagement with the material experientially through movement
Dance

Experiential Anatomy/Somatic Practices — DAN2149.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Credits: 4
This is a studio class for any discipline intended to deepen the understanding of your own moving body. We will be studying kinesthetic anatomy: approaching the material through visual, cognitive, kinesthetic, and sensory modes. Class time will be divided between discussion of anatomy and kinesthetic concepts, and engagement with the material experientially through movement
Dance

Experiential Anatomy/Somatic Practices — DAN2149.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Credits: 4
This is a studio class for any discipline intended to deepen the understanding of your own moving body. We will be studying kinesthetic anatomy by approaching the material through visual, cognitive, kinesthetic, and sensory modes. Class time will be divided between discussion of anatomy and kinesthetic concepts, and engagement with the material experientially through movement
Dance

Experiential Anatomy/Somatic Practices — DAN4106.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This is a studio class intended to deepen the understanding of your own moving body. We will be studying kinesthetic anatomy: approaching the material through visual, cognitive, kinesthetic, and sensory modes. Class time will be divided between discussion of anatomy and kinesthetic concepts, and engagement with the material experientially through movement visualization and
Dance

Experiential Anatomy/Somatic Practices — DAN2149.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Credits: 4
This is a studio class for any discipline intended to deepen the understanding of your own moving body. We will be studying kinesthetic anatomy by approaching the material through visual, cognitive, kinesthetic, and sensory modes. Class time will be divided between discussion of anatomy and kinesthetic concepts, and engagement with the material experientially through movement
Dance