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Negatives on Glass — PHO4106.02

Fall 2017
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This seven week course explores the process of creating photographic negatives using the 19th century process of collodion on glass, commonly referred to as "wet plate" by its early practitioners.  In addition to making negatives on glass using a large format camera, students will also explore the careers of noted photographers employing the collodion process such as
Visual Arts

Negatives on Paper — PHO4107.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This 7 week course explores the various methods that 19th century photographers used to create negatives using paper.  We will be focusing on replicating British and French processes that were used by the first generation of photographic practitioners, from roughly 1840-1860, including  William Henry Fox Talbot, Gustave Le Gray, and Amelie Jacques-Michel Guilot
Visual Arts

Network Science — MAT4222.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Katie Montovan
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
A network is a set of nodes (which might be computers, people, websites, proteins, neurons...), some of which are connected by edges (which might be communications lines, friendships, links, transcription regulations, synapses...). This simple concept has amazingly diverse applications and involves surprisingly deep ideas. We will use a combination of proof-based approaches for
Science and Mathematics

Neurons, Networks, and Behavior — BIO4202.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Elizabeth Sherman
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
How does light energy falling on the back of our eye get interpreted as a particular image of our friend or a painting or a leaf? How does a cockroach escape imminent predation by a toad? How does a slug remember that a recent poke wasn't dangerous? How do we remember? A rigorous consideration of general principles of neural integration at the cellular, sensory, central, and
Science Mathematics and Computing

Neurons, Networks, and Behavior — BIO4202.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Betsy Sherman
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
How does light energy falling on the back of our eye get interpreted as a particular image of our friend or a painting or a leaf? How does a cockroach escape imminent predation by a toad? How does a slug remember that a recent poke wasn’t dangerous? How do we remember? A rigorous consideration of general principles of neural integration at the cellular, sensory, central, and
Science and Mathematics

Neuroscience — BIO4437.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Blake Jones
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This rigorous course will introduce students to the most complex physiological system. Students will learn how the central and peripheral nervous systems integrate external and internal signals to produce physiological, behavioral, and emotional responses in humans and other animals. We will discover the molecular and cellular mechanisms that allow neurons and other specialized
Science and Mathematics

Neuroscience — BIO4437.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Blake Jones
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This rigorous course provides a comprehensive introduction of the nervous system, including its structure, function, and development. Students will explore the principles of the cellular and molecular mechanisms that allow neurons and other specialized nervous cells to detect, encode, and transmit information; including signaling, synaptic transmission, and neuroplasticity.
Science and Mathematics

Neuroscience — BIO4437.01

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

This rigorous course provides a comprehensive introduction of the nervous system, including its structure, function, and development. Students will explore the principles of the cellular and molecular mechanisms that allow neurons and other specialized nervous cells to detect, encode, and transmit information; including signaling, synaptic transmission, and neuroplasticity.

Biology

New Modes of Listening — MTH2273.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Andrew Greenwald
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This is a music-centric course for those interested in investigating new ways of thinking about and listening to music. Our received modes of comprehension will be questioned by theories of reception, network, and system in diverse fields of inquiry. The relationship of form and content in numerous musical works will act as a testing ground for developing these modes. Together
Music

New Play Development - Rewriting in Company — DRA4213.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Sherry Kramer
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Credits: 4
For students with completed first drafts of plays. We will create a workshop environment, and all students in the class will make contributions to each play, serving as actors, directors, and dramaturges in turn. Different models for generating new work and presenting it will be studied and sampled. Two full drafts of plays are expected, culminating in a finished draft and a
Drama

New Play Development: Rewriting in Company — DRA4213.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Sherry Kramer
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
For students with completed first drafts of plays. We will create a workshop environment, and all students in the class will make contributions to each play, serving as actors, directors, and dramaturges in turn. Different models for generating new work and presenting it will be studied and sampled. Two full drafts of plays are expected, culminating in a finished draft and a
Drama

New Work/New Voices — DRA2306.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Dina Janis
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course is a dramatic literature course that will focus on new work by playwrights currently working today in the American Theatre. It is a class that is designed for actors, playwrights, directors, and designers who are interested in expanding their canon of contemporary dramatic literature, both published and unpublished, written by writers producing and generating work
Drama

New Works Ensemble — DRA4279.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Dina Janis
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In this highly rigorous performance production class- students will work on new material by contemporary playwrights working in the theatre today with a special focus this term on Bennington playwrights current and past. During the term, some of these writers may visit as guest artists, working with the students directly on material they have been exploring as an
Drama

Newton's Principia: On the System of the World — MAT4161.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Days & Time: TU,FR 8:30am-10:20am
Credits: 4

I would (and will) argue that Newton's Principia is the most important book yet written. It is certainly the most important book that a vanishingly small number of people have actually read.

Written about 150 CE, Ptolemy's Almagest collected and systematized the knowledge of astronomers of the time to give a system which roughly predicted the

Physics Mathematics History

NGO Workshop — APA2123.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Alison Dennis
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The last few decades have seen tremendous growth in non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in almost all parts of the world, and in almost all realms of human interest. Today, NGOs are a highly visible (and consequently a highly criticized) component of civil society, and are major players in the broad fields of environmental protection and social justice at local, national and
CAPA

NGOs, Peacebuilding, and Development — SCT4109.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Kate Paarlberg-Kvam
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In the last thirty years, non-governmental organizations have played an outsized role in global affairs, perhaps most notably in development and peacebuilding processes. How did the NGO form develop, and why? How do NGOs interact with states, global institutions, and grassroots populations in the Global South? What effects - positive, negative, and complicated - have NGOs had
CAPA Environment Society Culture and Thought

Niedecker, Graham, Ford — LIT4259.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Phillip B. Williams
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This is an advanced literary study of three women poets who seem connected aesthetically through the modernist school of poetics, focusing on fragmentation, lyricism, formal inventiveness, and interrogation of self and self's participation/existence in their specific time. What bridges exist between Lorinne Niedecker, an early objectivist poet; Jorie Graham, arguably one of the
Literature

Nietzsche and His Followers — PHI4137.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Karen Gover
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Postmodernism, for better or worse, is often traced back to the thought of Friedrich Nietzche. But what is postmodernism? Keeping this question in mind, we will ground ourselves in Nietzche’s thought, with an eye to his critique of the Western philosophical tradition. We will then turn to some of the important and influential philosophers of the 20th century as inheritors of
Society Culture and Thought

Nietzsche and His Followers — PHI4137.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Karen Gover
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Postmodernism, for better or worse, is often traced back to the thought of Friedrich Nietzche. But what is postmodernism? Keeping this question in mind, we will ground ourselves in Nietzche's thought, with an eye to his critique of the Western philosophical tradition. We will then turn to some of the important and influential philosophers of the 20th century as inheritors of
Social Science

Night of the Johnstown Flood — HIS2405.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
On the afternoon of May 31, 1889 the people of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, heard "a roar like thunder," as the South Fork Dam broke high above them, unleashing 20 million tons of water in walls up to 60 feet high and speeds of 40 miles per hour. Initial casualties were 2,200 people, making it one of the worst national disasters in 19th-century America. Though the
Environment Society Culture and Thought

No Narratives No Rehearsals: A Performance Art Workshop — VA2114.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Josh Blackwell
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
“Forget all the standard art forms. The point is to make something new, something that doesn’t even remotely remind you of culture. You’ve got to be pretty ruthless about this, wiping out of your plans every echo of this or that story or jazz piece or painting that I can promise you will keep coming up unconsciously.” -Allan Kaprow, “How to Make a Happening” Performance art is
Visual Arts

Non-Fiction in Fiction: Writers and Their Work — JPN4708.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This advanced level course is designed for students to learn about six prominent contemporary Japanese writers and analyze their work. Students are required to research each Japanese contemporary writer and analyze how their personal background is reflected in their work of fiction. Students will also examine how Japanese society is depicted in their work and how the writers
Languages

Non-normative Bodies — DAN2351.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Levi Gonzalez
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course will examine representations of non-normative bodies and corporeal difference. Employing concepts from Disability Studies and queer theory as a lens, we will consider some of the paradigm-shifting propositions in these powerful fields of study, with a particular emphasis on the intersectionality of marginalized identities. We will learn to recognize and critique the
Dance