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Lives of Quiet Desperation: the Transcendentalists vs. America — LIT2420.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Benjamin Anastas

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Credits: 4

In this course we will undertake a comprehensive survey of the Transcendentalist movement through a close examination of the major writings from this tumultuous time in America's intellectual life. We will read the major figures (Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau), as well as a host of lesser known members of the Transcendental Club (Orestes Brownson,

Literature

Living in Translation: A Student-Run Literary and Cultural Publication — LIT2347.02

Fall 2019

Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz

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Credits: 2

This course, while rooted in Literature, is part of the Lexicons of Migration cluster. Taking as a point of departure Isabelle de Courtivron's touchstone Bilingual Lives: Writers and Identity, students will update, complicate, and enrich the binary orientation of this collection, originally published in 2003. We will delve into the personal, familial, communal, and political

CAPA Literature

Living to Learn, Learning to Live: Readings in Contemporary South American Fiction — LIT2255.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz

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Credits: 4

Contemporary South American fiction is rife with urgency, politics, and history, as well as narrative mischief, layering and literary gamesmanship. In this course we will read a selection of novels and stories from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and El Salvador from such authors as Cesar Aira, Roberto Bolano, Alicia Borinsky, Sergio Chefec, Claudia Hernandez,

Literature Languages

Local Governance in Comparative Perspective — POL4239.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Rotimi Suberu

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Credits: 4

Around the world, there is renewed interest in empowering institutions of local governance (county, city, town/township, municipal, village, or special-purpose local government, and non-governmental local associations) in order to promote political democracy, enhance socio-economic welfare, and accommodate subnational identities, among other goals. This course will examine the

Society Culture and Thought

Local Governance in Comparative Perspective — POL4239.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Rotimi Suberu

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Credits: 4

Social Science

Local Land-use History and Landscape Ecology — BIO4113.01

Fall 2013

Instructor: Kerry Woods

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

Landscape ecology works across multiple scales in space and time to understand the drivers of ecosystem function and pattern in broad context. Can diversity and productivity of particular pieces of the landscape be better predicted given knowledge of spatial and historical context? How do parts of the landscape interact as sources and sinks in population dynamics of plants and

Science Mathematics and Computing

Local Landscape A: Ecological Principles — BIO2127.01

Fall 2020

Instructor: KWoods@bennington.edu

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Credits: 2

New England is one of the most heavily forested regions in the United States. 14,000 years ago it was covered by ice. When humans arrived about 11,000 years ago, they found extensive, well-established forests — and began reshaping the landscape through hunting and fire and, beginning about 2000 years ago, farming. European colonists caused further ecological change by expanding

Science and Mathematics Environment

Local Landscape B: Field Ecology and Natural History — BIO2126.01

Fall 2020

Instructor: KWoods@bennington.edu

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Credits: 2

This is a companion course to the 'classroom' section, "Local Landscape A", and will take place entirely in lab and field (primarily the latter). The class has two main aims: to deepen and reinforce understanding of ecological principles through experience and systematic observation in the field (along with use of some of the tools and instruments of the field researcher), and

Science and Mathematics Environment

Logarithms — MAT2107.02

Spring 2020

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre

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Credits: 1

Logarithms are one of the parts of mathematics that often remain a bit mysterious to people, even if they had no difficulty solving problems with them in school. In fact, logarithms are of far broader importance and interest than the narrow applications one usually sees; and seeing this broader picture helps in dispelling some of the mystery and in understanding what they are.

Science and Mathematics

Logic and Proof: The Art of Mathematics and the Limits of Knowledge — MAT2378.01

Fall 2024

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre

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Credits: 4

How do we know something “beyond a reasonable doubt”? What is the relationship of insight to logical argument? How can we have certain knowledge about concepts which are infinite? These questions are at the core of mathematics, but also at the core of liberal arts. In mathematics, people have found rather detailed answers to how much certainty is possible, and have found

Science and Mathematics Society Culture and Thought

Logic and Proof: The Art of Mathematics and the Limits of Knowledge — MAT2378.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

How do we know something "beyond a reasonable doubt"? What is the relationship of insight to logical argument? How can we have certain knowledge about concepts which are infinite? These questions are at the core of mathematics, but also at the core of liberal arts. In mathematics, people have found rather detailed answers to how much certainty is possible, and have found

Science and Mathematics

Logic, Proofs, Algebra, and Set Theory — MAT2410.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre

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Credits: 4

This introductory course will cover key foundations needed for more advanced mathematics; it should also be of interest to students not primarily studying mathematics. Topics will include symbolic logic and rules of inference; how to write mathematical proofs; the beginnings of abstract algebra, including Boolean algebras; extensions of high school polynomial algebra; and set

Science and Mathematics

Logic, Proofs, Algebra, and Set Theory — MAT2410.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre

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Credits: 4

This introductory course should be of interest to students planning additional study in mathematics as well as those wanting looking for a mathematics course of more general interest. The topics and skills covered in this class will be fundamental in all advanced mathematics classes. The class should also be of interest to students of computer science or philosophy, and to

Science and Mathematics

Logic, Proofs, Algebra, and Set Theory — MAT2410.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Carly Briggs

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Credits: 4

This introductory course will cover key foundations needed for more advanced mathematics; it should also be of interest to students not primarily studying mathematics. For students wanting to go on in mathematics, the topics and skills covered in this class will be fundamental in all advanced mathematics classes. In particular, this class may be used as a prerequisite for

Science and Mathematics Society Culture and Thought

Logic, Proofs, Algebra, and Set Theory — MAT2410.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre

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Credits: 4

Science and Mathematics Society Culture and Thought

Logic, Proofs, Algebra, and Set Theory — MAT2410.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Carly Briggs

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

This introductory course should be of interest to students planning additional study in mathematics as well as those wanting looking for a mathematics course of more general interest. The topics and skills covered in this class will be fundamental in all advanced mathematics classes and may therefore be used as a prerequisite for Calculus A and Linear Algebra. The class should

Science and Mathematics

Looking at the Big Picture: Large Format Photography — PHO4372.01

Fall 2026

Instructor: Eddy Aldana

Days & Time: TU 2:10pm-4:00pm

Credits: 2

This 2-credit course will introduce the use of large format cameras and explore the 4x5 film format to analyze the differences between this format and the smaller ones. Students will be using pinhole cameras, 4x5 field cameras, 4x5 monorail cameras, and some extra tools that the photography area has dedicated for large format photography.

Photography

Looking closer; making work — SCU4122.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

This course asks each student to work in a self-directed way among a community of critical thinkers. Finding one’s voice, as a maker, requires researching sources of influence and inspiration. Students are expected to undertake a significant amount of work outside of regular class meetings. At this point in your Visual Arts Education, you must be able to represent serious

Visual Arts

Looking closer; making work — SCU4122.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: John Umphlett

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

Visual Arts

Looking, Perceiving, and Attending — PSY2384.01

Fall 2024

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

Cognitive neuroscience applies scientists' ongoing discoveries about the brain to explain people's everyday experiences. In this course, we will learn about the physical structures and functional networks that enable human vision and visual attention. Identifying what you see as a juice glass or a coffee cup depends on a complex interplay of brain functions, and attention

Society Culture and Thought

Lost and Found in the Nineteenth Century — HIS2142.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Eileen Scully

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Credits: 4

This is an immersion in “portraiture,” a unique methodology that “seeks to unveil the universal truths and resonant stories that lie in the specifics and complexity of everyday life.” Using online materials, including historical newspapers, censuses and vital records, we will draw up a list of people to “look for,” such as runaway slaves, absconding debtors, eloping spouses,

Society Culture and Thought

Lost and Found in the Nineteenth Century — HIS2142.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Eileen Scully

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

This is an immersion in "portraiture," a unique methodology that "seeks to unveil the universal truths and resonant stories that lie in the specifics and complexity of everyday life." Using online materials, including historical newspapers, censuses and vital records, we will draw up a list of people to "look for," such as runaway slaves, absconding debtors, eloping spouses,

Society Culture and Thought

Lost and Found in the Nineteenth Century — HIS2142.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Eileen Scully

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Credits: 4

Revolutions in transportation across the nineteenth century wrapped a “girdle of steam around the world,” giving people a sense of wider horizons in a shrinking universe. Indeed, Frederick Douglass’ newspaper spoke in the 1850s of “walls…giving way before the physical, mental and moral pressure of a world, whose business by land and water, is shot over its surface by steam, and

Society Culture and Thought

Lost and Found in the Nineteenth Century — HIS2142.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Eileen Scully

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

Revolutions in transportation across the nineteenth century wrapped a “girdle of steam around the world,” giving people a sense of wider horizons in a shrinking universe. Indeed, Frederick Douglass' newspaper spoke in the 1850s of "walls…giving way before the physical, mental and moral pressure of a world, whose business by land and water, is shot over its surface by steam, and

Society Culture and Thought

Lost and Found in the Nineteenth Century — HIS2142.02

Fall 2021

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

Society Culture and Thought