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From Job to Adventure - Designing New Normals in a Post Covid19 World — APA2321.01

Instructor: RRansick@bennington.edu
Credits: 2
One of the realities that Covid19 has quickly exposed is how many of us live from paycheck to paycheck at best. This profound pause that we have been asked to endure has produced over 26 million unemployed in the U.S. alone. Up until this strange moment, we have been asked to accept this social arrangements as “normal.” Now activists, philosophers and the like are demanding the

From Mary Wollstonecraft to Rachel Zucker: Toward a Postmodern Matriarchy — LIT2508.01

Instructor: Elisa Albert
Credits: 4
As the 21st century awakens to the human rights issues within childbearing and rearing, Wollstonecraft and Zucker can serve as illuminating bookends.  From the Vindication of The Rights of Women to Home/Birth: A Poemic, poetry and prose will help guide our understanding of an essential movement toward a politically and spiritually evolved biological feminism.

From Process to Performance — DRA4253.01

Instructor: Jennifer Rohn
Credits: 4
In this course we will use Viewpoints, Meisner and other improvisation based acting techniques to fully explore, rehearse and present a play. The goal of our work will be to retain the truth, life and presence that we discover in the process of improvisation as we move into performance. How do you hold on to the fullest expression of what was discovered when you have to repeat

From the Edo to Meiji Period: Examining Equality and Equity through the Examinations of Japanese Society — JPN4302.01

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.

From the Edo to Meiji Period: Examining Equality and Equity through the Examinations of Japanese Society — JPN4302.01

Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Days & Time: TU,FR 8:30am-10:20am
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

From the Edo to the Meiji Period: Examining Equality and Equity through the Examinations of Japanese Society — JPN4302.01

Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Credits: 4
This is the third term Japanese course. In this 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

From the Stoics to Ubuntu: Philosophies of the Good Life — PHI2149.01

Instructor: Catherine McKeen
Credits: 4
This class examines a variety of answers to the ancient question: How do I live a good life? We’ll engage with thinkers from diverse traditions across time and space as we clarify our own understanding of what makes life worth living and as we articulate a more developed conception of the good life. Readings will include texts from Greek and Roman antiquity, selections from

From the Stoics to Ubuntu: Philosophies of the Good Life — PHI2149.01

Instructor: Paul Voice
Days & Time: TU,FR 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 4

This class examines a variety of answers to the ancient question: How do I live a good life? We’ll engage with thinkers from diverse traditions across time and space as we clarify our own understanding of what makes life worth living and as we articulate a more developed conception of the good life. Readings will include texts from Greek and Roman

From the Stoics to Ubuntu: Philosophies of the Good Life — PHI2149.01

Instructor: Karen Gover and Paul Voice
Credits: 4
This class examines variety of answers to the ancient question: How do I live a good life? The readings draw from philosophical traditions across both time and location, including Greek and Roman Stoicism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Christian theology, contemporary philosophers in the Anglo-American and European traditions, as well as the African ethic of Ubuntu.

From “Modern Woman” to “Iron Girl” to “Left-over Woman” — CHI4404.01

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This course invites students to explore how the Chinese female has been represented differently from the early 20th century to the present in various literature, films, and visual arts. Students will also investigate the changing historical, social, and cultural contexts that have caused the different representations and misrepresentations of individual and/or collective

Fugue — MTH4249.01

Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Credits: 2
An advanced course in counterpoint, focusing on the virtuosic practice of creating fugues. We’ll focus on the watershed fugues of Bach and later touch on contemporary versions by Amy Beach, Bela Bartok, and Astor Piazzolla. Students will be expected to write fugues for two, three, and four voices. Students will work out challenges in writing for particular performers, who will

Full Stack Mobile Artificial Intelligence — CS4161.01

Instructor: Ursula Wolz
Credits: 4
Increasingly, mobile apps provide information based on server-side analytics driven by artificial intelligence algorithms. Full stack developers need skills set in both front-end (user interface, native mobile) and back-end (database, data mining) This course dives into object-oriented user interface design as well as essential algorithms from machine learning and artificial

Functional Programming and Computation—Exploring the foundations of Computer Science — CS4110.01

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
What is computation?  This is the question that birthed Computer Science as a discipline, and serves as the focal point of this course.  Our plan for answering it is twofold.  First, we will introduce functional programming through Scheme (a dialect of Lisp).  Unlike imperative languages, functional programming tends to emphasize techniques such as lambda

Fundamentals of Advancing Public Action — APA2101.01

Instructor: Elizabeth Coleman
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This country is facing challenges of unprecedented scale and urgency in the areas of health, education, inequalities in the distribution of wealth, environmental sustainability; the capacity of our governing structures to address the public interest; mounting threats to fundamental democratic processes, a dangerous predilection for the uses of force. We examine each of these

Fundamentals of Buddhism and Meditation — DAN2411.01

Instructor: John Bullock
Credits: 2
In this class we will investigate the basic tenets of Buddhism and the practice of meditation. The class will focus on discussions of the reading and writing materials as well as in-class meditation experience. The goal of this course is to deepen our collective understanding of the intimate connection and complementarity of Buddhist ideas and meditation. The class discussions

Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2566.01

Instructor: Benjamin Anastas
Days & Time: WE 10:00am-11:50am & WE 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 4

In an interview with the Paris Review in 1984, James Baldwin spoke of creative writing as a means of "finding out": "When you’re writing, you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know. The whole language of writing for me is finding out what you don’t want to know, what you don’t want to find out. But something forces you to anyway." This is writing as a form of

Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2394.01

Instructor: Jenny Boully
Credits: 4
In this class, we will begin by investigating sound, music, image, and form in poetry and how these poetic elements are presented in fiction. From fiction, we will study narrative, character, plot, and setting. Finally, we will progress towards personal nonfiction, fusing the elements of our poetry and fiction investigations. We will read classical and contemporary texts from

Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2394.01

Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Credits: 4
In this class, we will begin by investigating sound, music, image, and form in poetry and how these poetic elements are presented in fiction. From fiction, we will study narrative, character, plot, and setting. Finally, we will progress towards personal nonfiction, fusing the elements of our poetry and fiction investigations. Students will read a variety of texts, both

Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2394.01) (new faculty as of 8/22/2024

Instructor: Benjamin Anastas
Credits: 4
The art of creative writing is also the art of being a witness to the world. In this class, we will learn what forms creative writing can take—focusing primarily on fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction—and discover new ways to see the raw materials of our lives.We will exercise our imaginations through generative experiments and keeping an observation notebook; identify

Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2394.01, section 1

Instructor: Jenny Boully
Credits: 4
In this highly generative class, we will begin by investigating sound, music, image, and form in poetry and how these poetic elements are presented in fiction. From fiction, we will study narrative, character, plot, and setting. Finally, we will progress towards personal nonfiction, fusing the elements of our poetry and fiction investigations. We will read classical and

Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2394.01

Instructor: Jenny Boully
Days & Time: TU,FR 10:30am-12:20pm
Credits: 4

In this class, we will begin by investigating sound, music, image, and form in poetry and how these poetic elements are presented in fiction. From fiction, we will study narrative, character, plot, and setting. Finally, we will progress towards personal nonfiction, fusing the elements of our poetry and fiction investigations. We will read classical and contemporary texts

Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2527.01) (time updated as of 10/17/2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
What makes a poem a poem as opposed to a piece of fiction or an essay? Does every essay have to “tell the truth”? What about fiction that is purely autobiographical? This class will look at the various genres of creative writing and think about how, where, and why we draw lines between these modes. We will begin by studying the basic elements of poetry (line, image, stanza),

Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2394.01

Instructor: Jenny Boully
Credits: 4
In this class, we will begin by investigating sound, music, image, and form in poetry and how these poetic elements are presented in fiction. From fiction, we will study narrative, character, plot, and setting. Finally, we will progress towards personal nonfiction, fusing the elements of our poetry and fiction investigations. We will read classical and contemporary texts from

Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2394.01

Instructor: Stuart Nadler
Credits: 4
This class will serve as a comprehensive introduction both to the craft of creative writing and also to the workshop method. Throughout the term, we will explore poetry, literary fiction, and creative non-fiction in order to build a working knowledge of the craft and to help students begin to find their way into their own narratives and poems. Every week class will feature