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Language Documentation and Description — LIN4109.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Leah Pappas
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In this course, we will learn about the current language endangerment crisis and methods that can be implemented to mitigate it. The course will be both theoretical and practical, starting with a discussion of the reasons for the loss of linguistic diversity around the world and what linguists are doing as a response. Students will concurrently learn language documentation
Society Culture and Thought

Language Documentation and Description — LIN4111.01) (cancelled 10/9/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: Leah Pappas
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course is designed to equip students with the basic methodologies necessary to carry out linguistic fieldwork on un(der)documented languages. Students will be trained in the skills and tools of language documentation and description by working with a speaker of a language previously unknown to them. Students will learn techniques of data collection, elicitation, management
Society Culture and Thought

Language Documentation, Revitalization, and Reclamation — LIN4115.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Alexia Fawcett
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 4

This course addresses the theories, methods, ethics, and actual outcomes of language documentation, revitalization, and reclamation work. Students will examine the causes and consequences of language endangerment, strategies for revitalization, and community-led initiatives in reclaiming linguistic and cultural heritage. Case studies from around the world will

Sociolinguistics Linguistics

Language Evolution, Extinction and Survival — LIN2102.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Thomas Leddy-Cecere
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In this class, we will explore the life cycles of human languages: their genesis, their continual change, how they give rise to descendants and how they, in many cases, come to disappear. The 21st century represents a watershed moment in the history of the world’s language population, as expert estimates predict that anywhere from 40-80% of its 7,000+ languages may cease to be
Languages Society Culture and Thought

Language in Greater Vermont: Diversity and Relationships — LIN4102.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
In this course, students will utilize primary and secondary sources to explore language and language use in Vermont and surrounding regions.  Our exploration will span from the pre-Columbian era till present, and address the diversity and inter-relationships of the languages and language varieties utilized in and around Bennington, and how these link to broader phenomena
Society Culture and Thought

Language in the Mediterranean: Integration, Fragmentation and Movement — LIN4103.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Thomas Leddy-Cecere
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
The Mediterranean represents a critical site of interaction between speakers of three of the world’s largest language families; nevertheless, linguists typically treat this contact and cross-pollination as an incidental, even distorting product of the families’ southern/northern/western peripheries, rather than as constituting a dynamic center of gravity for linguistic and
Cultural Studies and Languages Society Culture and Thought

Language Series —

Fall 2016
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Days & Time:
Credits:
The Isabelle Kaplan Center for Languages and Cultures presents the Language Series every term.  The purpose of the Language Series is to provide students opportunities to explore and deepen their knowledge in the study of foreign languages and cultures.  The Language Series events such as presentations and workshops are related to the foreign language courses that are

Language through Film — SPA4223.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Students with burgeoning linguistic skills will learn the language through an immersion in Latin American and Spanish film in the second half of this full-year introduction to the Spanish-speaking world. While there will be some discussion of more common tactics such as stylistic nuances, script-writing, acting, dubbing, and directors’ biographies, it is expected that we will
Languages

Language Through Film — SPA4223.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Sarah Harris
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Students in this course will continue to learn the Spanish language through an examination of films. While there will be some necessary discussion about cinematographic components, the focus of discussion will be on historical and political moments present in the films. A consideration, for instance, of national and regional identity, political violence, border crossing,
Languages

Language Through Film — SPA4223.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Sarah Harris
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Students in this course will continue to learn the Spanish language through an examination of films. While there will be some necessary discussion about cinematographic components, the focus of discussion will be on historical and political moments present in the films. A consideration, for instance, of national and regional identity, political violence, border crossing,
Cultural Studies and Languages

Language Through Film — SPA4118.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Students with burgeoning linguistic skills will learn the language through an immersion in Latin American and Spanish film in the second half of this full-year introduction to the Spanish-speaking world. While there will be some discussion of more common tactics such as stylistic nuances, script-writing, acting, dubbing, and directors biographies, it is expected that we will
Languages

Language Through Film — SPA4223.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Sarah Harris
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Students in this course will continue to learn the Spanish language through an examination of films. While there will be some necessary discussion about cinematographic components, the focus of discussion will be on historical and political moments present in the films. A consideration, for instance, of national and regional identity, political violence, border crossing,
Languages

Language through Film — SPA4721.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Students with burgeoning linguistic skills will learn the language through an immersion in Latin American and Spanish film in the second half of this full-year introduction to the Spanish-speaking world. While there will be some discussion of more common tactics such as stylistic nuances, script-writing, acting, dubbing, and directors’ biographies, it is expected that we will
Cultural Studies and Languages

Language Through Film — SPA4118.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Sarah Harris
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Students in this course will continue to learn the Spanish language through an examination of films. While there will be some necessary discussion about cinematographic components, the focus of discussion will be on historical and political moments present in the films. A consideration, for instance, of national and regional identity, political violence, border crossing,
Languages

Language typology: Patterns and universals in language — LIN4110.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Leah Pappas
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Linguistic typology refers to the classification of languages based on their features. In this course, we’ll conduct a cross-linguistic examination of various concepts pertaining to the sounds, grammar, and meanings of words and phrases. We’ll further consider possible language universals—features that may belong to all languages. Through this focus on linguistic code, we’ll
Society Culture and Thought

Language, Culture, and Society — LIN2112.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Alexia Fawcett
Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 2

This course examines the complex relationship between language, culture, and society through an interdisciplinary lens, incorporating perspectives from linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, and discourse analysis. Students will explore how linguistic practices both reflect and shape identities, power dynamics, cultural norms, and worldviews as we cover

Linguistics Sociolinguistics Anthropology

Language, Politics and Identity — EDU2252.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Bryce Smedley
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course will explore language in its social context and examine the role of language in constructing, preserving and influencing political and national identities. Topics will include linguistic rights, language conflict, language variation, language shift, language policy, language discrimination, standard language and the construction of identity through language. The
Education

Language, Power and Belonging in the Middle East and North Africa — LIN4101.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Tom Leddy-Cecere
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course addresses the ways in which language defines and projects power and identity, as well as its role as a societal force with the capacity to embrace or marginalize individuals and entire communities. The course will consider what language is in these contexts as well as public and official conceptions of what it ought to be, and will utilize a combination of primary
Cultural Studies and Languages Society Culture and Thought

Language, Power and Belonging in the Middle East and North Africa — LIN4101.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Thomas Leddy-Cecere
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course addresses the ways in which language defines and projects power and identity, as well as its role as a societal force with the capacity to embrace or marginalize individuals and entire communities. The course will consider what language is in these contexts as well as public and official conceptions of what it ought to be, and will utilize a combination of primary
Languages Society Culture and Thought

Language: The Endangerment Concept — LIN2102.02

Spring 2021
Instructor: Tom Leddy-Cecere
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
The 21st century represents a watershed moment in the history of the world’s languages, as expert estimates predict that anywhere from 40-80% of their 7,000+ number may cease to be spoken within the next hundred years. Awareness of this state of affairs is rapidly increasing, and public and scholarly sentiment have been dramatically captured by the identification of these
Society Culture and Thought

Language: The Evolution Concept — LIN2102.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Tom Leddy-Cecere
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Human language systems never stop changing, and this change is frequently cast -- by experts on nonexperts alike, as far back as Darwin -- in terms borrowed from understandings of biological reproduction and evolution: languages are "born", they have "ancestors" and "family trees", and their "traits" are altered as they "evolve" and "adapt" to shifting circumstances.  Why,
Society Culture and Thought

Languaging the Contemporary — DAN5412B.01

Summer 2025
Instructor: Chang Yuchen
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2

This course explores the failures and possibilities of language to describe ourselves and our worlds. In this class, students will be invited to participate in language through 5 acts: 
1. Listening: the act of intentionally turning one’s attention toward the other 2. Coinage: the act of finding one’s language 
3. Translating: the act of ingesting and

Dance (MFA Low-Residency)

Late Twentieth Century British Fiction — LIT2195.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Annabel Davis-Goff
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
1960 to 2000. We will read English and Irish novels which reflect the literature and culture of final forty years of the Twentieth Century. Reading will include Anita Brookner, John Banville, Penelope Fitzgerald, Kazuo Ishiguro. Students will write two essays.
Literature

Later is Too Late: Dance Design & Production — DAN2425.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Davison Scandrett
Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 2

Borrowed from the subtitle of Lois Ellfeldt & Edwin Carne's seminal 1971 Dance Production Handbook, "Later is Too Late" became a mantra for the course instructor after finding a well-worn copy of the paperback in his roadbox for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.  In this course we will examine the specific technical challenges and design

Dance Drama Design