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Honors Seminar: Map to a Masterpiece — LIT4273.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: doug bauer
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
We'll be reading some of the principal works that Henry James, as a young aspiring novelist, absorbed and analyzed in the process of actively forming his own aesthetic, culminating in his first great novel, The Portrait of a Lady. It's a highly various and idiosyncratic tracing and the reading list will reflect it, drawn from among Turgenev's A Sportsman's Sketches, Eliot's
Literature

Honors Seminar: Recent African American Poetry — LIT4118.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This Honors Seminar will intensively explore the work of established and emerging African American poets of the past forty years. We will begin with a brief overview of African American poetry from the eighteenth century to the Black Arts Movement of the 1970s, then proceed to discuss a different poet each week. Along the way we will consider whether a distinctive "Black
Literature

Honors Seminar: The Man Without Qualities — LIT4283.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Benjamin Anastas
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
The Austrian writer Robert Musil (1880-1942) never lived to complete his multi-volume Modernist masterpiece The Man Without Qualities. Conceived of as an ironic epitaph to the culture of Mitteleuropa that slid blindly into the catastrophe of the First World War, the novel--and its author--became embroiled in the dark upheavals that would lead to another suicidal conflict
Literature

Honors Seminar: War and Peace — LIT4108.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Annabel Davis-Goff
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
War and Peace, Vanity Fair, and Shirley are novels that are set during the Napoleonic Wars. Charlotte Bronte’s novel is set in a Yorkshire deeply affected by the Peninsular wars, Tolstoy describes both Napoleon’s Russian campaign and the domestic and social life of a huge range of characters, and Thackeray’s greatest novel reaches its climax with the Battle of Waterloo.
Literature

Honors Seminar; Bowen and Pym — LIT4287.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Annabel Davis-Goff
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Elizabeth Bowen and Barbara Pym provide a record of England life - social, political, and cultural - from the end of the First World War until the 1960s. Elizabeth Bowen was an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer. Her novels describe political tension, love, and war. She is admired for her description of landscape, her descriptions of London during the Blitz, her use of
Literature

Horror Fiction — LIT4325.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Paul La Farge
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Pleasure is one part of the aesthetic experience of fiction; another part is terror. This course will be a survey of major works of horror fiction from the 19th century through the present. We’ll pay particular attention to the techniques of writing horror, and the uses to which fiction writers have put them, from psychological examination through social critique and beyond.
Literature

Horror Fiction and Film — LIT2333.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Pleasure is one part of the aesthetic experience of fiction; another part is terror. This course will be a survey of major works of horror fiction (whether classified as such or otherwise) from the 19th century through the present, and of some important horror films from the 20th 21st centuries. The emphasis in this class will be on techniques for creating horror in fiction,
Literature

Horror Writing and the (Postcolonial) Afterlife — LIT2538.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: An Duplan
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
It’s one thing to feel scared when we watch scary movies, and it’s another to feel that same fear as we read books. After all, in books, there’s no eerie music, nor the possibility of being jolted by a sudden jump scare. Yet still, horror writing abounds and writers throughout history have found ways of communicating dread, terror, paranoia, and anguish through the written word
Black Studies Visual Arts Literature Society Culture and Thought

House for the 21st Century: Advanced Studio — ARC4158.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Anthony Titus
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Architectural Design studio builds upon the lessons of subsequent design studio skills and the processes of critical inquiry, specifically as it relates to architectural investigations. These processes will be seen as interrelated and always informed by the societal, technological, and historical contexts within which architects work. The technological aspects
Visual Arts

Housing in America, Housing in Bennington — APA4171.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: David Bond
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Housing has become a crisis for many Americans, but how it is a crisis is still poorly understood. This class takes housing as an urgent question, and aims to use the classroom as a critical research hub to better grasp the national and local dimensions of the current housing crisis. Students will be expected not only to participate in the academic study of housing in America
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

How Do Animals Learn and Remember? — BIO2108.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: David Edelman
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
For more than 60 years, modern experimental psychology has focused on characterizing the intimately linked processes of learning and memory. At the same time, neuroscientists have worked doggedly since the birth of their field to unravel the neural mechanisms underlying these fundamental processes. How does an animal acquire information about its world and access and recall
Science Mathematics and Computing

How Do Animals Work? — BIO2102.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Elizabeth Sherman
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
How do animals work? Why do different animals work in different ways? The blue whale in the Pacific, the tapeworm lodged in the gut of a fox, and the flour beetle in your cupboard all must eat and grow and reproduce yet they differ enormously in size, longevity, and environment. The particular ways in which each of these animals has solved these problems are different yet there
Science Mathematics and Computing Environment

How Do Animals Work? — BIO2102.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Betsy Sherman
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
How do animals work? Why do different animals work in different ways? The blue whale in the Pacific, the tapeworm lodged in the gut of a fox, and the flour beetle in your cupboard all must eat and grow and reproduce yet they differ enormously in size, longevity and environment. The particular ways in which each of these animals has "solved" these problems are different yet
Science and Mathematics

How Do Animals Work? (with lab) — BIO2102.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Elizabeth Sherman
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
The blue whale in the Pacific, the tapeworm lodged in the gut of a fox, and the flour beetle in your cupboard all must eat and grow and reproduce yet they differ enormously in size, longevity, and environment. The particular ways in which each of these animals has solved these problems are different yet there are also underlying similarities in their solutions. Evolutionary
Science and Mathematics

How Do You Know: The Culture of Information — APA4106.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Erika Mijlin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
On a daily basis, we each define a relationship to information, as a bearer of truth, evidence, authority, timeliness, social leverage, insight, etc. Part seminar and part workshop, this course will attempt to make that complex relationship visible. We will first focus on a history of knowledge, and the various ways in which it has been used to organize the world. We will then
Advancement of Public Action

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

Fall 2025
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

Psychology

How the "Boom" Went Bust — SPA4706.01

Fall 2014
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
Languages

How the "Boom" Went Bust — SPA4706.01

Fall 2018
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
Literature Languages

How to be a Radio DJ — APA2315.01

Fall 2017
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
CAPA

How to Build a Forest — BIO2131.01

Fall 2023
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
Science and Mathematics

How to Build a Forest — BIO2131.01

Fall 2024
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
Science and Mathematics Environment

How to Build a Forest — BIO2131.01

Fall 2025
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

Biology

How to Build a Habitable Planet — PHY2118.01

Spring 2020
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
Environment Science and Mathematics

How to Build a Radio Telescope — PHY4203.01

Spring 2014
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
Science Mathematics and Computing