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In My Backyard — MOD2160.02

Fall 2016

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Credits: 1

On this ever shrinking planet, the likelihood that one will be a stakeholder in a dispute over natural resources, land development or environmental injury has never been greater. This module is designed to enrich students understanding and experience relative to effectively managing and participating in multi-party conflict resolution processes. Students will study

Modules: Transferable Approaches

In Quest of the “New” Latin American Chronicle — SPA4717.01

Fall 2022

Instructor: Lena Retamoso Urbano

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Credits: 4

Cultural Studies and Languages

In Search of Elena Ferrante — LIT2351.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Benjamin Anastas

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Credits: 2

No one knows who the author “Elena Ferrante” really is: not her publishers (allegedly), her reading public, the critics who greet each new novel with rapture, the acclaimed Italian film directors who’ve adapted two of her novels for the screen. In an international literary scene fueled by personality, publicity, and the celebrity machine, how has Ferrante managed to stay

Languages Literature

In Sickness and In Health: An Introduction to Medical Anthropology — ANT4149.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Miroslava Prazak

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Credits: 4

In this course we will explore the social dimensions of medicine, the body, illness, health, healing, medical care and biotechnologies across societies and times from comparative, cross-cultural, ethnographic perspectives. We will examine the role of cultural differences in defining and dealing with health and illness and investigate health related factors that link humanity

Society Culture and Thought

In Sickness and In Health: An Introduction to Medical Anthropology — ANT4149.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Miroslava Prazak

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Credits: 4

Society Culture and Thought

In Sickness and in Health: Introduction to Medical Anthropology and Global Health — ANT4149.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Miroslava Prazak

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Credits: 4

Society Culture and Thought

In the Box: Tools and Techniques for Working with Digital Audio — MSR4111.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 2

This course offers a thorough overview of digital audio tools, how they work, and techniques for putting them to use. Students will be guided through digital audio theory, compositional strategies and modern audio workflows covering digital synthesis, sample manipulation and impulse response design. Our focus will be on VST and VSTi plugins, impulse response based reverb and

Music

In the Eastern, Green Mountains: Poetry through an Experimental Buddhist Lens — LIT2568.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

While we conventionally read poetry through a western critical academic lens, in this course, we will approach western poetry from an experimental eastern lens, in an effort to experience the mutually illuminating relationship between poetry and contemplative study and deepen our relationship to the mystical nature of American poetry. In the first part of the semester,

Literature

In the Public Realm: Chiang Mai Project (Thailand) — APA2182.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Jon Isherwood and Susan Sgorbati

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Credits: 4

The Center for the Advancement of Public Action at Bennington College has received its second commission from the U.S. State Department's Office of Art in Embassies for the art collection at the new U.S. Consulate in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Students in this course will examine the definition, unique challenges, history, and implementation of public art. Over the course of the

CAPA

In the Public Realm: Chiang Mai, Thailand Art in U.S. Embassy Project (Part 2) — APA4242.01

Fall 2020

Instructor: jisherwood@bennington.edu

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Credits: 2

The Center for the Advancement of Public Action at Bennington College has received its second commission from the U.S. State Department's Office of Art in Embassies for the art collection at the new U.S. Consulate in Chiang Mai, Thailand. This course is the second half of a year-long experience that began in the spring of 2020. Students who participated in the first term are

CAPA

In the Public Realm: Chiang Mai, Thailand Art in U.S. Embassy Project (Part 3) — APA4243.02

Fall 2020

Instructor: jisherwood@bennington.edu

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Credits: 2

The Center for the Advancement of Public Action at Bennington College has received its second commission from the U.S. State Department's Office of Art in Embassies for the art collection at the new U.S. Consulate in Chiang Mai, Thailand. This course is the 2nd half of a year-long experience that began in the spring of 2020. Students who participated in the 1st and 2nd

CAPA

In Translation: Lives, Texts, Cities — LIT2370.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz

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Credits: 2

In this course, we will study writers who live and write in more than one language (Beckett, de la Torre, Stavans, Djebar, Huston, etc.); multiple translations (linguistic, temporal, geographic) of particular texts; and several cities, which in their multi-lingual, multi-cultural essences are dramatic cases in point of a rapidly changing world. Questions of legibility,

Literature

Incarceration in America — APA2108.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Annabel Davis-Goff

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Credits: 2

7 million Americans are under correctional supervision. The United States of America has the highest documented rate of incarceration in the world. Too many people are in prison, and in many cases the current system doesn’t work. It is inefficient, inhumane, and does not accomplish rehabilitation. It also costs too much – financially as well as in terms of human suffering – the

CAPA

Incarceration in America — APA2108.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Annabel Davis-Goff

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Credits: 2

CAPA

Incarceration in America — APA2108.01

Spring 2014

Instructor: Annabel Davis-Goff

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Credits: 2

7 million Americans are under correctional supervision. The United States of America has the highest documented rate of incarceration in the world. Too many people are in prison, and in many cases the current system doesn't work. It is inefficient, inhumane, and does not accomplish rehabilitation. It also costs too much - financially as well as in terms of human suffering - the

CAPA

Incarceration in America — APA2108.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Annabel Davis-Goff

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Credits: 2

CAPA

Incarceration in America — APA2108.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Annabel Davis-Goff

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Credits: 2

CAPA

Incarceration in America — APA2108.01

Fall 2014

Instructor: annabel davis-goff

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 2

7 million Americans are under correctional supervision. The United States of America has the highest documented rate of incarceration in the world. Too many people are in prison, and in many cases the current system doesn't work. It is inefficient, inhumane, and does not accomplish rehabilitation. It also costs too much - financially as well as in terms of human suffering - the

CAPA

Inclusion Practices — SCT4149.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Delia Saenz

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Credits: 1

Students enrolled in this course will meet weekly with the instructor to design and deliver programming for a spring term diversity conference. Enrolled students will be expected to familiarize themselves with readings provided by the instructor and will submit weekly updates of proposed conference activities. The final product will involve independent or

Society Culture and Thought

Independent Study — DAN5410B.01

Fall 2024

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Students propose an independent study plan with approval from Donna Faye Burchfield and select an approved advisor. Credits to be determined between faculty and student.

Dance (MFA)