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How I feel is real but not eternal — PSY2243.01

Instructor: Anne Gilman
Days & Time: TU,FR 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 4

How have psychologists defined feelings over the years, and how is the field continuing to change?  We will begin with the 19th Century, when scientists like Wundt and Charcot brought human perception and mental health symptoms out of the realm of metaphysics.  After briefly considering Darwin’s view of emotion and new perspectives on artwork from early asylums, we

How the "Boom" Went Bust — SPA4706.01

Instructor: jonathan pitcher
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
In 1961, Jorge Luis Borges shared the Formentor prize with Samuel Beckett, thus internationalizing Latin American culture and supposedly initiating the Boom. Whether the swagger of the ensuing decades marked the apex of the continent's artistic production, or was simply the result of a single Spanish publishing house's hype, feeding a neo-imperialist world's expectations of

How the "Boom" Went Bust — SPA4706.01

Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In 1961, Jorge Luis Borges shared the Formentor prize with Samuel Beckett, thus internationalizing Latin American culture and supposedly initiating the “Boom.” Whether the swagger of the ensuing decades marked the apex of the continent’s artistic production, or was simply the result of a single Spanish publishing house’s hype, feeding a neo-imperialist world’s expectations of

How to be a Radio DJ — APA2315.01

Instructor: Thom Loubet
Days & Time:
Credits: 1
Webcasting radio and podcast are relatively new art forms that are transforming the way that people across the globe share ideas, music, and discourse.  This class focuses on the skills required to successfully communicate through live audio production. This will include discussions on how to: speak on a microphone, create a successful playlist, mix live from multiple

How to Build a Forest — BIO2131.01

Instructor: Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Bennington’s campus supports beautiful examples of temperate deciduous mixed hardwood forests. This class is a deep dive into forest ecology, land use change, and forest succession at a local scale. Students will explore the local forest community composition, structure, and function over the last 15,000 years and discuss the environmental conditions, disturbance dynamics, and

How to Build a Forest — BIO2131.01

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Bennington’s campus supports beautiful examples of temperate deciduous mixed hardwood forests. This class is a deep dive into forest ecology, land use change, and forest succession at a local scale. Students will explore the local forest community composition, structure, and function over the last 15,000 years and discuss the environmental conditions, disturbance dynamics, and

How to Build a Forest — BIO2131.01

Instructor: Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie
Days & Time: TU,FR 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 4

Bennington’s campus supports beautiful examples of temperate deciduous mixed hardwood forests. This class is a deep dive into forest ecology, land use change, and forest succession at a local scale. Students will explore the local forest community composition, structure, and function over the last 15,000 years and discuss the environmental conditions, disturbance

How to Build a Habitable Planet — PHY2118.01

Instructor: Tim Schroeder
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course will investigate the physical conditions and processes necessary for creating a habitable planet. We will study the formation of stars and planets, and the evolution of planets after formation into safe harbors for life. This will include investigation of how both stellar and geological processes affect the habitability of planets, and consideration of the possible

How to Build a Radio Telescope — PHY4203.01

Instructor: Hugh Crowl; Andrew Cencini
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Astronomy has gained great insights from Radio Astronomy - details of star formation, the first evidence for Dark Matter, evidence for massive galactic central black holes, and star formation in the early universe are all examples of things we have learned from observations of radio light. In this course, students will build an eight-foot radio telescope to be used in this

How to Build an Organism (with Lab) — BIO2220.01

Instructor: Blake Jones
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
The organism sits at the heart of biological evolution. Judged on its form and performance, the organism is the ultimate object of natural selection, and thus understanding its development and function is key for understanding the evolution of life. In this course you will learn fundamentals across the levels of biological organization to understand how genetic information

How to Collaborate: Threeing — APA2214.03

Instructor: Caroline Woolard, MFA Teaching Fellow
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
If group work is both the most necessary and the most difficult endeavor of our time, what methods are necessary for collaboration in the visual arts? In this seminar and studio, students will focus on a method for group work that was developed by the video-artist (not politician) Paul Ryan between 1971 and the end of his life, in 2013. Threeing is "a voluntary practice in

How to Read a Story — LIT2179.01

Instructor: doug bauer
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
The challenge in this class will be to read and then to write critically about great literature with an appreciation of its aims and ambitions, and with earned opinions regarding the writers' intentions. (In this effort you'll be reading criticism of the works that will inform but not dictate your own carefully considered views.) All that while also retaining the immediate

How to Read a Translation — LIT2187.01

Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
What, exactly, is a literary translation? A faithful rendering of an original text? But then, what do we mean by "faithful"? What do we mean by "original"? Form, syntax, grammar, not to mention puns, wordplay, and allusion are all part of the action in reading, writing, and the interpretative art we call translation. Time, too, plays a role: languages are dynamic, even

How to Read a Translation — LIT2187.02

Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
What, exactly, is a literary translation? A faithful rendering of an original text? But then, what do we mean by “faithful”? What do we mean by “original”? Form, syntax, grammar, not to mention puns, wordplay, and allusion are all part of the action in reading, writing, and the interpretative art we call translation. Time, too, plays a role: languages are dynamic, even

How to Restore a Forest — BIO2151.01

Instructor: Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie
Days & Time: TU,FR 10:30am-12:20pm
Credits: 4

Bennington’s campus supports beautiful examples of temperate deciduous mixed hardwood forests. Our forests are also impacted by legacies of past land-use and introduced plant species that affect biodiversity and ecological function. This class is a hands-on exploration of ecological restoration and invasive species removal in our own back yard. Students will

How to Study a Disaster — ANT2136.01

Instructor: David Bond
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Disasters loom large in the contemporary. In films and front-page news, images of societies splintering apart proliferate. Surely one of the most remarkable things about social life in the present is the ease with which we can conjure up its spectacular destruction. The point of this seminar is to take disaster seriously. We will do this both by reviewing historical and

How to Think Like a Data Scientist — CS4115.01

Instructor: Tim Schroeder
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This class will cover the methods used to gather, clean, normalize, visualize, and analyze quantitative data to inform decision making in multiple fields of study. We will use spreadsheets, SQL and Python to work on real-world datasets using a combination of procedural and basic machine-learning algorithms. Students will also learn to ask good, exploratory questions and develop

How to Think Like a Data Scientist — CS4115.01

Instructor: Hugh Crowl
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In this course, you will be introduced to the importance of gathering, cleaning, normalizing, visualizing and analyzing data to drive informed decision-making, no matter the field of study. You will learn to use a combination of tools and techniques, including spreadsheets, SQL, and Python to work on real-world datasets using a combination of procedural and basic machine

How Water Behaves — DRA4216.01

Instructor: Dina Janis
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This class will be a Production Performance class designed to develop, explore and present this new work by playwright Sherry Kramer. It will be audition based and will have room for various ensemble members in addition to assistant directors, dramaturgs, and designers.

Human Growth and Development — CMH5110.01

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

This course examines the biological, psychological, social, and cognitive development of individuals across the lifespan. Students will explore key theories of human development, including those of Erikson, Piaget, and Vygotsky, and their implications for counseling practice. Special attention is given to developmental challenges, transitions, and crises

Human Mobility and Human Rights — MOD2167.03

Instructor: Andrea Galindo
Days & Time:
Credits: 1
Human mobility has been an inherent human condition throughout history. From earliest human history, people have migrated in search of a better life, to populate other places on the planet, or to escape and survive human-made or natural dangers. However, it was the creation of the concept of modern State that established geographic boundaries, and enabled States to exercise

Human Nature(s) — PSY4209.01

Instructor: Ronald Cohen; Elizabeth Sherman
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course will address recent developments in several fields (evolutionary biology and evolutionary psychology among them) which have reinvigorated fundamental questions about humans, their conduct, and the cultures and societies they produce. We will examine several of these questions in detail: what is the nature of altruism? of aggression? of conflict? of reconciliation?

Human Neuroscience and Psychophysiology Lab — PSY4133.01

Instructor: Harlan Fichtenholtz
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
There are numerous methods to assess neurological function. In this course students will be introduced to the field of Psychophysiology. Psychophysiology is concerned with physiological responses as reflections of psychological traits, states, and processes. Students will study the form and function of major physiological response systems and gain laboratory experience in the

Human Neuroscience and Psychophysiology Projects — PSY4225.01

Instructor: Harlan Fichtenholtz
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Students will investigate the relationship between psychological constructs and physiological responses through term long research projects. Equipment is available for students to collect data from multiple modalities including, cardiovascular function (electrocardiogram, ECG), muscle responses (electromyogram, EMG), neural responses (electroencephalogram, EEG ERP), eye

Human Rights — Canceled

Instructor: Mansour Farhang
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This course is designed to study the origins and evolution of the idea of human rights and probe the development of the international human rights movement since World War II. Following a general examination of the concept of individual rights, the course focuses on the history, theory, practice and possibilities of universal human rights standards. Topics include the notion of