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Collage, From 2D to 3D — CER4223.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Barry Bartlett
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Investigate the nature of creating form using collaging techniques in both paper and clay. Paper collaging will be used to construct drawing/surfaces that will relate to forms to be made using ceramic slab techniques. The class will be working through a series of quick exercises throughout the term; each designed to explore the possibilities of interpretative actions and
Visual Arts

Collage/ Montage/ Essay: Found Material and the Moving Image — FV4141.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Warren Cockerham
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
*** Description Change *** This intermediate studio/seminar course centers on the history, theory, and technique of using found footage material in essayistic moving image work. Students will complete a series of essayistic film and video projects exploring approaches and techniques including but not limited to non-narrative, political, personal, abstract, structural, and
Visual Arts

Collecting and Vetting Public Data for Research — CS4137.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Michael Corey
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In this course we will go over major methods for collecting and vetting public data to be used in research or computing settings. The course will start by learning about publicly available data sets, then progress through using APIs to call data providers, web-scraping public data, and finally capturing streaming data and converting it into usable datasets. This course will be
Science and Mathematics Society Culture and Thought

Collecting Quantitative Data — SCT4154.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Emily Waterman
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
The purpose of this course is to guide students through their own quantitative data collection project. Initial course content will include a review of basic quantitative social science research methods, and content on the development of feasible research questions and sampling choices. Students will submit an institutional review board application, and we will discuss ethical
Society Culture and Thought

Collective dance practice and healing as creative process — DAN4363.01) (day/time updated as of 10/9/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: luciana achugar, MFA Teaching Fellow
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This course is open to students with prior experience with dance and improvisation; or to those who have taken any of achugar’s prior classes using the Pleasure Practice.  During this course we will engage in a creative process together, attempting to create a performance based work as a collective using methods from somatic healing modalities and achugar’s Pleasure
Dance

Collective Entrepreneurship: Full Circle Leadership — APA2282.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: RRansick@bennington.edu
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Building on the elements of the Future of Work courses (Future of Work: Alternative Organizations Future of Work: Individual Capacity) this practicum based course focuses on creating prototypes of organizing models that hold livelihood, participation and mutual support as equivalent. Optimising for impact and meaning, within the context of deliberate development, students will
CAPA

College and the American Dream — SOC4102.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Debbie Warnock
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
While college has long been viewed as the primary pathway to upward mobility, recent debates about higher education have called into question its utility and relevance in the new risk society. Is a college degree truly worth it, and, if so, for whom? Who enrolls in college and what are their reasons for doing so? How do access to, and experiences of, higher education vary by
Sociology

Color Investigated Through Light — VA4108.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Liz Deschenes
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course will focus on examples and strategies of the various disciplines that have used light and color as a central component to their work- we will closely look at photographers, light installation artists, and film and video artists. Students will be given short assignments in the first seven weeks and a project based on their inquiries (approved by the faculty member)
Visual Arts

Color Photography: History Practice — PHO4129.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course offers students the opportunity to explore the history of color photography and to research a wide range of work from the 20th 21st centuries. Working with either analog or digital capture, students will solve a series of creative assignments and conclude the term by producing a final portfolio of personal work that demonstrates sustained inquiry and engagement.
Visual Arts

Color Photography: History Practice — PHO4129.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This 4000 level course offers students the opportunity to explore the history of color photography and to research a wide range of work from the 20th 21st centuries. Working with either analog or digital capture, students will solve a series of creative assignments and conclude the term by producing a final portfolio of personal work. Expenses will vary depending on the nature
Visual Arts

Color Photography: History and Practice — PHO4266.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course offers students the opportunity to explore the history of color photography and to research a wide range of work from the 20th 21st centuries. Working with either analog or digital capture, students will solve a series of creative assignments and conclude the term by producing a final portfolio of personal work that demonstrates sustained inquiry and engagement.
Visual Arts

Come Share the Joy; Voices of Hope Choir — MUS2122.02

Spring 2026
Instructor: Kathy Bullock
Days & Time: M/Th 7:00PM-8:50PM
Credits: 2

This singing ensemble is dedicated to the preservation and performance of African-American sacred and inspirational music and other songs from the African diaspora (including South and West African and Caribbean songs). Messages of hope, faith, healing, of striving for justice and peace and of celebrating life will

Music

Comics/Culture — SPA4401.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Sarah Harris
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
What are comics? Why study them? What do they have to do with Spanish culture? Students in this course will consider the theoretical and artistic concerns for graphic narratives, especially in the interaction between text and image. We will examine the gradual evolution of the so-called historieta from its historical relegation to the realm of the juvenile and lowbrow, to the
Cultural Studies and Languages

Coming of Age: Gender and Genre — DRA2314.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Jean Randich
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
"You can choose a lighter path, go through that door with nothing on your person, nothing on your back." --Anna Maria Hong, "H G" In this course we will investigate contemporary plays, films, and books in which the protagonists have the courage to question authority, lean into the unknown, survive despite harrowing odds, and allow time to help then unfold their identities.
Drama

Commonplace Treasure — PAI4406.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: J Blackwell
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
A course built around finding or recognizing the value, beauty, poetry, and remarkable power in mundane everyday occurrences, objects, and ephemera. Students will be encouraged to slow down and notice resources that they ordinarily rush by. Class exercises will include list making, photography, journaling, sketching, collecting and editing materials for paintings. The goal of
Visual Arts

Communicating Science to the Public — SCMA4106.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Hugh Crowl
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
One of the largest challenges scientists and media face is communication of complex scientific ideas to the public. This is despite the vast importance of this enterprise: if science is the advancement of human knowledge, scientists have an obligation to communicate what they learn to the public. In this class, we will learn strategies for communicating science to the public
Science Mathematics and Computing

Communities and the Environment — PEC2112.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Robin Kemkes
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
From the Himalayas to Mexico to New England communities past and present have served as stewards of the forests, fisheries and water resources upon which they depend for their livelihoods. This course will explore how communities retain, regain or form new governance structures for managing critical natural resources. We will begin by introducing a theoretical basis for
Environment Social Science

Community and Liberation Psychology — PSY4382.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Özge Savaş
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In this course, students will become familiar with the foundational texts of community and liberation psychology. We will read and discuss Latin American origins of Liberation Psychology using texts written by Ignacio Martin Baró, Paulo Freire and others, as well as the foundational decolonial texts that emerged from continental Europe such as ones written by Franz Fanon. We
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Community Transformation: A Multi-Party Negotiation over Trans-boundary Water Resources in the Indus Basin between Pakistan and Afghanistan — MED4208.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati with guest Michael Cohen
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This seven-week course will explore the complex issues involved in a multi-party collaborative problem-solving process. Systems analysis, conflict resolution models and negotiation strategies will all be covered as to their strategic utility in these types of complicated disputes. Students will read the AREU (Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit) report on the conflict over
CAPA Environment

Comparative Animal Physiology — BIO4201.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: elizabeth sherman
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Physiological processes of vertebrates and invertebrates are studied at the cellular, organ, organ system, and whole animal levels of organization. The unifying themes of the course are the phenomenon of homeostasis (whereby an animal maintains its organization in the face of environmental perturbations) and the relationship between structure and function. The student will
Science Mathematics and Computing Environment

Comparative Animal Physiology — BIO4201.01

Spring 2016
Instructor:
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
A rigorous course in which physiological processes of vertebrates and invertebrates are studied at the cellular, organ, organ system, and whole animal levels of organization. The unifying themes of the course are the phenomenon of homeostasis (whereby an animal maintains its organization in the face of environmental perturbations) and the relationship between structure and
Science Mathematics and Computing

Comparative Animal Physiology — BIO4201.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Elizabeth Sherman
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Physiological processes of vertebrates and invertebrates are studied at the cellular, organ, organ system, and whole animal levels of organization. The unifying themes of the course are the phenomenon of homeostasis (whereby an animal maintains its organization in the face of environmental perturbations) and the relationship between structure and function. The student will
Science Mathematics and Computing

Comparative Animal Physiology (with lab) — BIO4201.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Betsy Sherman
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
A rigorous course in which physiological processes of vertebrates and invertebrates are studied at the cellular, organ, organ system, and whole animal levels of organization. The unifying themes of the course are the phenomenon of homeostasis (whereby an animal maintains its organization in the face of environmental perturbations) and the relationship between structure and
Science and Mathematics Environment