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La novela de la tierra — SPA4720.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Whether or not they form a genre is debatable, but a series of books were published over the first thirty years of Spanish America’s twentieth century that were and are collectively known as “regional” novels. Their telluric inclination supposedly tends to reassert inherent origins, national symbolism, linguistic difference, environmentalism, the lower classes, and indigenous
Languages

La novela de la tierra — SPA4720.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Whether or not they form a genre is debatable, but a series of books were published over the first thirty years of Spanish America’s twentieth century that were and are collectively known as “regional” novels. Their telluric inclination supposedly tends to reassert inherent origins, national symbolism, linguistic difference, environmentalism, the lower classes, and indigenous
Cultural Studies and Languages

La Vie Quotidienne - Art of Everyday Life — FRE4310.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In this course, students will examine specific visual art representations of everyday life in French-speaking contexts as well as the realities they address, with a focus on race and gender issues. Through the reading of a variety of images – postcards, film opening sequences, statues, installations, memorials, and virtual reality experiments – students will hone their
Cultural Studies and Languages

Lab: Orchestrating Electronics — MIN2359.02

Spring 2024
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Days & Time:
Credits: 1
This Lab for Orchestrating Electronics will focus on the theory and practice in the use of live electronics in performance. Both hardware and software strategies will be considered. Discussions include historical examples dating back to the 1950s as well Sharp's wide-ranging approaches. This lab is designed for students interested in expanding their understanding of signal
Music

Labless Projects — PHO2208.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: JKline@bennington.edu
Days & Time:
Credits: 1
This course will guide students through a series of photographic projects that are possible without access to a darkroom or conventional materials and supplies. Students will learn to use household and found items, as well as other inexpensive materials, to make photographs and other "photogenic drawings." Students will learn about photosensitivity and the chemical processes
Visual Arts

Landforms and Surface Processes — ES2106.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: David De Simone
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Rivers, wind, glaciers, and time act on sediment and rock to develop the landforms we see around us. An understanding of the surface processes that produce our regional landforms will enable you to appreciate the soils we farm, the ground water we drink, and how we manage environmental issues that impact the landscape. Our investigations will primarily be field based
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Landmines: Displacement and Distorted Geographies — APA4131.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Noah Coburn
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Despite the 1997 comprehensive landmine ban, there are over 100 million landmines in 30 countries, with millions more still being produced each year. Landmines kill and injury 15,000 to 20,000 people annually, but beyond this, the presence of landmines reshape the ways that people live, the land they can cultivate and the communities that they are connected to. Landmine
CAPA

Landscape — FV4240.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Karthik Pandian
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This intermediate moving image production course challenges students to realize new works in film and video that participate in the lively and varied art historical tradition of representing the natural world and humankind’s place within it. Drawing on the technical capacities of time-based media and the rich environmental surroundings of Bennington’s campus, students will
Environment Visual Arts

Landscape Painting in China — AH4317.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course is a thematic seminar of Chinese ink painting, focusing on the development of the pictorial tradition of landscape from the tenth century to the nineteenth century. Along with the discussion of the history of landscape painting, we will explore various types of landscapes including the topographical landscape, the idealized or imaginary “mind landscape,” the sacred
Visual Arts

Landscapes of Injustice: Psychology and Social Change — PSY4238.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Sean Akerman
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
What role can psychology play in the aftermath of collective trauma? What are the responsibilities psychologists have to those who have suffered catastrophe? How does psychology engage with the realities of survival? In this course, we will we explore the ways in which psychology participates in social change. In particular, we will look at how psychology engages with the
Social Science

Landscaping Leftovers: Painting and the Expanded Field — PAI4403.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Camille Hoffman
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course explores landscape painting as an extension of site and salvage as an expanded portrait of self. While reinforcing formal painting knowledge and skills, students will investigate new strategies around the application and integration of non-traditional materials as a critical response to traditional painting histories. Some questions we will ask ourselves over the
Visual Arts

Language Across Time and Space — LIN4114.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Alexia Fawcett
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course explores the dynamic processes of language change: how languages evolve over time and influence each other when its users come into contact. Students will examine the mechanisms of phonetic, morphological, and syntactic change, along with phenomena such as grammaticalization and semantic shifts. Special attention will be given to the effects of language contact,
Cultural Studies and Languages Society Culture and Thought

Language and Culture in the Pacific — LIN2108.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Leah Pappas
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
There are approximately 2,000 languages spoken on the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, and they tell us a story of impressive migrations, millennia of contact, and island resilience. We will explore this story by discussing the two primary language groups in the Pacific: the Austronesian language family and the non-Austronesian languages of New Guinea. Tracing two
Society Culture and Thought

Language and Society in Vermont and its Neighbors — LIN4102.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Thomas Leddy-Cecere
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
The purpose of this course is twofold: first, to immerse students in the rich linguistic setting of Vermont and its immediate neighbors, and, second, to introduce them to the basic methodologies of field research in sociolinguistics and related disciplines. Thematically, the course will consider language diversity at three different scales. We will begin by examining the
Languages Society Culture and Thought

Language and Space — LIN4113.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
The physical space around us may seem to be universal, but differences in how people interact with/in their environment (e.g. via settlement patterns, architecture, or agriculture) have long been topics of scholarly inquiry. This course continues this legacy by studying how humans perceive, conceptualize, and describe spatial relationships and their surrounds through the
Society Culture and Thought

Language as System and Social Behavior — LIN2101.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Tom Leddy-Cecere
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In this course, students will examine the building blocks which make up the interlocking systems of language and observe how those systems are enacted and granted layers of meaning through social practice. Beyond developing an understanding of the basic mechanics of sound systems, word-meaning relations, and the expression of grammatical values in languages of the world, we
Cultural Studies and Languages Society Culture and Thought

Language as System and Social Behavior — LIN2101.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Tom Leddy-Cecere
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In this course, students will examine the building blocks which make up the interlocking systems of language and observe how those systems are enacted and granted layers of meaning through social practice. Beyond developing an understanding of the basic mechanics of sound systems, word-meaning relations, and the expression of grammatical values in languages of the world, we
Cultural Studies and Languages Society Culture and Thought

Language as System and Social Behavior — LIN2101.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Thomas Leddy-Cecere
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In this course, students will examine the building blocks which make up the interlocking systems of language and observe how those systems are enacted and granted layers of meaning through social practice. Beyond developing an understanding of the basic mechanics of sound systems, word-meaning relations, and the expression of grammatical values in languages of the world, we
Languages Society Culture and Thought

Language as System and Social Behavior — LIN2101.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Tom Leddy-Cecere
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In this course, students will examine the building blocks which make up the interlocking systems of language and observe how those systems are enacted and granted layers of meaning through social practice. Beyond developing an understanding of the basic mechanics of sound systems, word-meaning relations, and the expression of grammatical values in languages of the world, we
Cultural Studies and Languages Society Culture and Thought

Language as System and Social Behavior — LIN2101.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Thomas Leddy-Cecere
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In this course, students will examine the building blocks which make up the interlocking systems of language and observe how those systems are enacted and granted layers of meaning through social practice. Beyond developing an understanding of the basic mechanics of sound systems, word-meaning relations, and the expression of grammatical values in languages of the world, we
Cultural Studies and Languages Society Culture and Thought

Language as System and Social Behavior — LIN2101.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Tom Leddy-Cecere
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In this course, students will examine the building blocks which make up the interlocking systems of language and observe how those systems are enacted and granted layers of meaning through social practice. Beyond developing an understanding of the basic mechanics of sound systems, word-meaning relations, and the expression of grammatical values in languages of the world, we
Cultural Studies and Languages Society Culture and Thought

Language as System and Social Behavior — LIN2101.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Alexia Fawcett
Days & Time: TU,FR 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 4

In this course, students will examine the building blocks which make up the interlocking systems of language and observe how those systems are enacted and granted layers of meaning through social practice. Beyond developing an understanding of the basic mechanics of sound systems, word-meaning relations, and the expression of grammatical values in languages of the world, we

Sociolinguistics Linguistics

Language at the Margins — LIN2111.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Alexia Fawcett
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Do emoji count as language? What about birdsong? How about the gestures of people and other primates? Can we consider ‘boom’ and ‘pow’ words of the English language? This course investigates forms of communication often considered peripheral to the linguistic system, focusing on how meaning is created and shared through “marginal” language practices. We will analyze how systems
Cultural Studies and Languages Society Culture and Thought

Language Contact and Shift — LIN2107.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Leah Pappas
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Languages shift and change over time, and while much of this is due to new innovations by speakers, languages can also change due to contact with other languages. Throughout the course, we will examine various situations of contact and how the sociocultural factors shape the languages. We will examine English’s own history of contact, particularly with the French language, and
Society Culture and Thought