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Narrative Cinema: Century One — FV2113.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Erika Mijlin
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
A broad view of narrative cinema history : from the very origins of film genres, through the definitions of style in the ‘classical’ film era, to the institution of ‘master’ narratives provided by the studio system. The course will take on both the legacy of a century of formal innovations as well as outright challenges to the medium, including: New Wave cinema, the Dogma
Visual Arts

Narrative Cinema: Century One — FV2113.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Erika Mijlin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
A broad view of narrative cinema history : from the very origins of film genres, through the definitions of style in the ‘classical’ film era, to the institution of ‘master’ narratives provided by the studio system. The course will take on both the legacy of a century of formal innovations as well as outright challenges to the medium, including: New Wave cinema, the Dogma
Visual Arts

Narrative Filmmaking — FV2119.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Make your first short film - from idea to realization! This course is designed specifically for students with basic filmmaking skills or a background in media. The Narrative Filmmaking course provides an intensive introduction to the world of visual storytelling. Tailored to nurture creative talent, this course teaches the fundamentals of screenwriting (developing an idea into
Visual Arts

Narrative Therapy with Special Populations — CMN5208.01

Summer 2026
Instructor: Faculty TBA
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 3

Students will learn to adapt narrative therapy principles to meet the needs of clients from various backgrounds, including marginalized communities, individuals with chronic illness, trauma survivors, and those with unique identity experiences (e.g., LGBTQ+ clients, refugees, and individuals with disabilities), addressing the intersections of culture,

Clinical Mental Health Counseling (MA) Narrative Therapy

Narrative, Trauma, and Bearing Witness — PSY4134.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Ella Ben Hagai
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In this advanced psychology seminar, we will dive into foundational work in Narrative Psychology. We will study the relationship between the narrative structure and human cognitive processes including memory, perception, and conceptualization. We will learn how cultural differences shape children’s varied storytelling practices. Through the lens of social psychology research,
Society Culture and Thought

Narrative, Trauma, and Bearing Witness — PSY4134.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Ella Ben Hagai
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In this advanced psychology seminar, we will dive into foundational work in Narrative Psychology. We will study the relationship between the narrative structure and human cognitive processes including memory, perception, and conceptualization. We will learn how cultural differences shape children's varied storytelling practices. Through the lens of social psychology research,
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Nasty Women of Antiquity — LIT4278.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Monica Ferrell
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This seminar in comparative mythology will serve as a journey through the narratives produced by a number of ancient and pre-modern civilizations that feature a complex female character. In these stories, feminine archetypes are not nurturing mother or fertility goddesses but warriors, witches, choosers of the slain and of rulers, ethically ambiguous and often terrifying
Literature

Native (North) American Literature — LIT2567.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Native storytelling has thrived in recited, sung, painted, etched, sculpted, and danced forms since centuries before European colonists arrived on the North American continent. Against the backdrop of this long, linguistically complex, and multi-national artistic tradition, we will closely read the works of Indigenous North American authors, studying how their formal and
Literature

Natural History of Plants — BIO2107.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Plants define the biological environment. All other organisms depend on plants' capacity for photosynthesis. Plant structure and chemistry have shaped animal (including human) evolution, and we depend on plant products for food, medicine, structural materials, and many other things. Yet few people can name even the dominant plants in their environment and what determines their
Science Mathematics and Computing Environment

Natural History of Plants — BIO2107.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Plants define the biological environment. All other organisms depend on plantsʹ capacity for photosynthesis. Plant structure and chemistry have shaped animal (including human) evolution, and we directly depend on plant products for food, medicine, structural materials, and many other things. Yet few people can name even the dominant plants in their environment and what
Science Mathematics and Computing Environment

Nature and Artifice - A History of Architecture — ARC2112.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Donald Sherefkin
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Because architecture seeks to establish a degree of permanence in the world, it is by definition, not natural, a work of human artifice. But our structures are very much of the earth, and the history of architecture is a record of the manifold ways in which cultures have understood, and responded to, their relationship to nature. This course will explore the ways in which the
Visual Arts Environment

Nature and Artifice - A History of Architecture — ARC2112.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Donald Sherefkin
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Because architecture seeks to establish a degree of permanence in the world, it is by definition, not natural, a work of human artifice. But our structures are very much of the earth, and the history of architecture is a record of the manifold ways in which cultures have understood, and responded to, their relationship to nature. This course will explore the ways in which the
Visual Arts

Nature and Artifice - A History of Architecture — ARC2112.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: donald sherefkin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Because architecture seeks to establish a degree of permanence in the world, it is by definition, not natural, a work of human artifice. But our structures are very much of the earth, and the history of architecture is a record of the manifold ways in which cultures have understood, and responded to, their relationship to nature. This course will explore the ways in which the
Visual Arts

Nature and Artifice 2 — ARC2239.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: DSherefkin@bennington.edu
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Because architecture seeks to establish a degree of permanence in the world, it is by definition, not natural, a work of human artifice. But our structures are very much of the earth, and the history of architecture is a record of the manifold ways in which cultures have understood, and responded to, their relationship to nature. This history of architecture will be organized
Visual Arts

Nature and Artifice – A History of Architecture — ARC2112.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Donald Sherefkin
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Because architecture seeks to establish a degree of permanence in the world, it is by definition, not natural, a work of human artifice. But our structures are very much of the earth, and the history of architecture is a record of the manifold ways in which cultures have understood, and responded to, their relationship to nature. This course will explore the ways in which the
Visual Arts

Nature in the Americas — Canceled

Spring 2017
Instructor: David Bond
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
What is Nature? Is Nature the biological substratum of human society or the converging practices of local ecology? Is Nature a potent historical agent in its own right or a philosophical blunder of epic proportions? Such questions have a lively history in the Americas. Indeed, while Nature has a near mythic form in many public debates, much of its content is culled again
CAPA Society Culture and Thought Environment

Nature in the Americas — APA4148.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: David Bond
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
What is Nature? Is Nature the biological substratum of human society or the converging practices of local ecology? Is Nature a potent historical agent in its own right or a philosophical blunder of epic proportions? Such questions have a lively history in the Americas. Indeed, while Nature has near mythic form in scholarly and public debates, its content is culled again and
CAPA Environment Society Culture and Thought

Nature in the Americas — APA4128.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: david bond
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
What is Nature? And what can we do with Nature? Such questions have a lively history in the Americas. Indeed, while Nature has a near mythic form in many public debates, much of its content is culled again and again from salient American examples. This course, then, uses such thorny questions as provocations to reflect more precisely on the historical cases and empirical
CAPA Social Science Environment

Nature in the Americas — ANT4215.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: David Bond
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Nature has played a key role in shaping social life in the Americas. Yet nature refuses easy definition. This course reflects on the many presences of nature and their uses across the Americas. In this course, we will learn how the agency of germs, cattle, and sugar shaped the formation of European conceit, how some of the earliest capitalistic ventures were built atop the
Unknown

Navigating Media in Institutional History — MS4109.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In this 4000-level course, students will develop an understanding of the ways in which visual media functions on the practices of archives that document the history of institutions including asylums, hospitals and schools. We will engage with archival sources through interdisciplinary approaches to media studies, drawing on visual culture studies, art history, and material
Society Culture and Thought

Ndaga - a way of making dance — DAN4486.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
We can define Ndaga as the awareness of legacy and debt, border crossing, re/invention, re/creation, and the desire to create new space for time travel. This is a self-journey. This course is for students who wish to find their artistic voices by exploring an interdisciplinary approach to making work. Using poetry, visual art, improvisation and various movement practices, we
Dance

Ndaga a way of making dance — DAN4486.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Kaolack Ndiaye
Days & Time: MO,TH 3:40pm-5:30pm
Credits: 4

We can define Ndaga as the awareness of legacy and debt, border crossing, re/invention, re/creation, and the desire to create new space for time travel. This is a self-journey. This course is for students who wish to find their artistic voices by exploring an interdisciplinary approach to making work. Using

Dance

Needs, Wants, and Economic Rights — PEC2279.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Emma Kast
Days & Time: TU,FR 10:30am-12:20pm
Credits: 4

Commodities such as cars, smartphones, laptops, and refrigerators were initially considered luxuries but are now widely viewed as everyday necessities. This shift suggests that our understanding of need is shaped by social, historical, and cultural context. In this class we will explore questions such as: how do we distinguish what we want from what we need to live a

Political Economy

Needs, Wants, and Economic Rights — PEC2279.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Emma Kast
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Commodities such as cars, smartphones, laptops, and refrigerators were initially considered luxuries but are now widely viewed as everyday necessities. This shift suggests that our understanding of need is shaped by social, historical, and cultural context. In this class we will explore questions such as: how do we distinguish what we want from what we need to live a dignified
Society Culture and Thought