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Climate Science and Policy — ENV4109.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: John Hultgren and Chelsea Corr
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course interrogates the nexus between climate science and policy, allowing students to analyze one of our most pressing issues through an integrated socio-ecological lens. Students will examine major climate policies and proposals - like the Paris Agreement, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports, Clean Power Plan, and Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative - with
Environment

Climate Under Siege — POP2265.02

Spring 2019
Instructor: Brian Campion
Days & Time:
Credits: 1
Global warming is an existential threat to humanity. While the current federal executive administration actively undermines efforts to address this threat, states, municipalities and some industries, on the other hand, are working on strategies to best mitigate and prepare for the impacts of this crisis. Vermont is playing a role on both of these strategies. This course will

Climate Under Siege: Public Policy Forums@CAPA — APA2179.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Brian Campion Susan Sgorbati
Days & Time:
Credits: 1
Whether it’s in your community, your state, your country or in the world, understanding the impacts of global warming and how to participate in future policy decisions has become an essential role of the citizen.  This Fall 2019's Public Policy Forum @ CAPA presents an opportunity to learn from policy makers, academics, and leading thinkers and activists on many aspects of
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Close Encounters: Artists Affecting Change — SCU4109.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Jon Isherwood
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Can Artists contribute in some significant way to effect change at a social or political level? We will look at a range of artists from the 18 th to 21st Centuries who have attempted to make significant contributions to depict human atrocities. We will examine how the issues, methods of working, narratives, media, and approaches have been effective. This includes but is not
Visual Arts

Clothes: Reduce, Reuse, Redux — DES2108.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Tilly Grimes
Days & Time: TU 8:30am-12:10pm
Credits: 2

A sustainable design process with found clothing 

Every year, roughly 92 million tons of clothing end up in landfills. This course seeks to support students rescuing our cast-offs by upcycling fast fashion. Students will explore how to

Drama Design

Clothes: Reduce, Reuse, Redux — DRA2382.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Tilly Grimes
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
A sustainable design process with found clothing Every year, roughly 92 million tons of clothing end up in landfills. This course seeks to support students rescuing our cast-offs by upcycling fast fashion. Students will explore how to deconstruct garments, rethink their intention, and reconstruct them anew. We will conceptualize a mini collection for theoretical “clients”/
Drama

Clothing Beyond Binary — DRA2324.03

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Taught by visiting faculty Michael Sylvan Robinson ‘89, internationally exhibited genderqueer fiber artist and activist, this seven week module provides opportunities to develop costume and fashion designs with a focus on “beyond binary” expressions in clothing. We’ll research and recognize the people wearing and creating clothing that resists restrictive gendered "norms" of
Drama

Co/Lab: Mediating Performance — FV4325.02

Fall 2023
Instructor: Mariam Ghani
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This 7-week, intermediate-level course is designed to overlap with Dance in the Frame and to facilitate collaborations between performers and other makers, particularly moving image artists and creators interested in interactivity. Students will have the opportunity to work closely with dancers for the first half of class each week, staging and shooting material in weekly
Dance Visual Arts

Code Crafting — CS2236.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Ursula Wolz
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course is based on the national Computer Science Principles curriculum, but uses textile production as a vehicle for teaching software design and programming. The course addresses the history of computing and raises questions about the relationship between the Industrial Revolution and the Digital Age. The first half of the course uses a blocks language called Snap!
Science and Mathematics

Coding Workshop — CS4379.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Jim Mahoney
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Credits: 2
An opportunity to improve your programming skills, the Coding Workshop is a place to first work on some practice problems, then embark on a group project such as Google's "Tron Robot Challenge", and end with a final project of your choice. The specific languages and topics will depend in part on the participants, but may include Python, Javascript, web development, functional
Science and Mathematics

Coffee Clowns — DAN4183.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This is not a red-nose clown class, but rather one geared toward breaking open the definition of what clowning is and can be. We will use physical theater techniques, objects, and different locations to evoke characters that are of the human form and beyond. We will experiment with both solo and group practice. Warmups will include somatic training,
Dance

Cognition Society — Canceled

Fall 2013
Instructor: Karen Danna
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Why do we stomp on cockroaches yet marvel at butterflies? Why is it ok (at least in this country) to roast a deer, but not a dog, swallow a snail, but not a slug? What guidelines do “thought communities” rely upon to decide when a person’s class or race or age or gender or sexuality is – or is not – morally or legally relevant? How are personal memories and historical
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Cognition: How People Think — PSY2208.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Harlan Fichtenholtz
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course is intended to provide students with an overview of cognition. We will study various cognitive processes and principles and actively observe them in ourselves and in others. How do we pay attention to and perceive the outside world? How do we remember our experiences? How do we learn, communicate, solve problems, and make judgments? We will address such questions
Society Culture and Thought

Cognitive Development: Where do our Brains Come From? — PSY2235.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Megan Bulloch
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Students are introduced to the major theories, methods, and research findings of cognitive development, particularly as they apply to infancy and childhood. In order to best understand the findings of the field, students will read journal articles in cognitive development. These will include research on topics as varied as the development of problem solving and reasoning
Society Culture and Thought

Cognitive Neuroscience of Bilingualism — PSY4136.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Anne Gilman
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
The majority of children in the world today are growing up in multilingual environments. In this advanced research course, you will read and discuss classic and current research into the ways that language status, i.e. monolingualism or bilingualism, shapes brain development and memory storage. With a classmate, you will present research findings twice during the semester, and
Society Culture and Thought

Cognitive Neuroscience of Liking and Preference — PSY4104.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Anne Gilman
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
When people choose one painting over another to decorate their room, or when they like one type of music more than another, how do their brains store and communicate these preferences?  Cognitive neuroscience relates brain activity to the processes of noticing, remembering, liking, and choosing.  In the first few weeks, we will review basic brain anatomy and compare
Society Culture and Thought

Cognitive neuroscience of words and memory — PSY4246.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Anne Gilman
Days & Time: TU,FR 10:30am-12:20pm
Credits: 4

How do cognitive neuroscientists examine words and word meanings?  What are the different ways we can remember words, such as definitions (“pollo”, “ji”, “chicken”) and lyrics, and how do words work in our brains?   Why do we sometimes struggle to remember a word that comes to mind easily later on?  Are words and images stored together or separately in our

Psychology

Collaboration in Light, Movement & Clothes — DAN4286.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Visual elements are a significant component of performance, whether it be theater, performance art, music or dance. With many performance projects, there is little time to contemplate, rethink or adjust designs in the actual performance space; there is rarely an opportunity to watch a collaborative art develop. In this class, equipped space is available to give the time to
Dance Drama

Collaboration in Light, Movement and Clothes — DAN4286.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
​​Visual elements are a significant component of performance, whether it be theater, performance art, music or dance. With many performance projects, there is little time to contemplate, rethink or adjust designs in the actual performance space; there is rarely an opportunity to watch a collaborative art develop. In this class, equipped space is available to give the time to
Dance Drama Visual Arts

Collaboration in Light, Movement, and Clothes — DAN4286.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Michael Giannitti, Dana Reitz, Charles Schoonmaker
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Visual elements are a significant component of performance, whether it be theater, performance art, music or dance. With many performance projects, there is little time to contemplate, rethink or adjust designs in the actual performance space; there is rarely an opportunity to watch a collaborative art develop. In this class, equipped space is available to give the time to
Dance Drama

Collaboration in Light, Movement, and Clothes — DAN4286.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Michael Giannitti, Dana Reitz, Charles Schoonmaker
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Visual elements are a significant component of performance, whether it be theater, performance art, music or dance. With many performance projects, there is little time to contemplate, rethink or adjust designs in the actual performance space; there is rarely an opportunity to watch a collaborative art develop. In this class, equipped space is available to give the time to
Dance Drama

Collaborative Opera — MPF4207.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
What do you think of when you think of “opera”? A star diva? A solitary “genius” composer? People often think of opera as being the product of singular artists performed on a giant stage. But opera began as an experiment in making exciting music theater, and has had different sizes and shapes throughout its history. Like other forms of theater, opera is collaborative and
Music

Collaborative Software Engineering — CS4132.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: justinvasselli@bennington.edu
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Software is rarely built by one person. It takes a team of people, technical and not, to make a piece of code become a product. This class will present ideas and techniques for designing and developing software from conception to deployment.  This class will provide experience working with version control, testing, debugging, refactoring, and programming with exceptions.
Science and Mathematics

Collaborative Worldbuilding: Social Justice Entrepreneurship — APA2324.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Year 2020. The Republic, a fledgling, young country, has left decades of relative prosperity and entered an era marked by poor governance, a world-shaking pandemic, the open persecution of oppressed minority groups, and a ruling class determined to maintain its wealth and power. The first half of this course will deconstruct the foundational social, economic, and governance
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