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Early Christian and Sufi Mystics — LIT2579.01

Fall 2025

Instructor: An Duplan

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

Credits: 4

Mystics––historically portrayed as passionate, dangerous, romantic, heretical, satanic––are a thorn in the side of organized religion. From the very beginnings of recorded human time, the presence and practice of mystics has been controversial. Sufi mystic al-Hallaj’s pronouncement that he was “the Truth” was received as blasphemy by the

Literature Society Culture and Thought History

Early-Modern French Libertine Literature — FRE2107.02

Spring 2020

Instructor: Stephen Shapiro

Days & Time:

Credits: 2

This course examines the movement of early‐modern freethinkers who championed individual autonomy and questioned the authority of religious, moral, social, and political thought. We will focus particular attention on questions of pleasure and morality, sexuality and power, authority and subversion. Writers studied will include Prévost (Manon Lescaut), Laclos (Liaisons

Cultural Studies and Languages

Early-Modern French Libertine Literature — FRE2107.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Stephen Shapiro

Days & Time:

Credits: 2

Languages

Earth Journalism — APA4249.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

Days & Time:

Credits: 2

Living as we do in the era of the Anthropocene, in which human activities are the main force reshaping our planet, it has become increasingly important to communicate and improve public understanding of global environmental challenges. These include the transformative impacts of climate change, the loss of biodiversity, the vulnerability of food systems, the

CAPA

Earth Materials — ES4102.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Timothy Schroeder

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

The study of minerals and rocks is fundamental to earth science as well as understanding and developing solutions for most environmental problems. All products consumed by people are either directly removed from the earth or grown in a medium consisting largely of earth materials. The nature of the earth materials in any region has great bearing on how human activities will

Science and Mathematics Environment

Earth Materials — ES4102.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Tim Schroeder

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

Science Mathematics and Computing Environment

Earth Materials (with Lab) — ES4102.01

Fall 2024

Instructor: Tim Schroeder

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

Science and Mathematics Environment

Earth Materials Lab — ES4102L.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Tim Schroeder

Days & Time:

Credits: 0

***Time Change*** Lab to accompany Earth Materials lecture.

Science Mathematics and Computing Environment

Earth Requiem — MIN2346.02

Fall 2020

Instructor: joanforsyth@bennington.edu

Days & Time:

Credits: 1

Opportunity to workshop a new piece, Earth Requiem, with music by 4 different composers: Eve Beglarian, Jeff Beal, Errollyn Wallen and Sophy Him. It was commissioned by the artist Diana Wege, to be presented with a series of her paintings. It is for community and student choirs - from different parts of the country to present the premier in New York City, late spring 2021. The

Music

Earth Requiem — MIN2346.01) (cancelled

Spring 2021

Instructor: Joan Forsyth

Days & Time:

Credits: 2

Opportunity to workshop a new piece, Earth Requiem, with music by 4 different composers: Eve Beglarian, Jeff Beal, Errollyn Wallen and Sophy Him. It was commissioned by the artist Diana Wege, to be presented with a series of her paintings. It is for community and student choirs – from different parts of the country to present at the premier in New York City, COVID permitting in

Music

Eastern European Literature and Cinema — LIT2171.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Alexandar Mihailovic

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

In this course we will examine contemporary literature and cinema from Eastern Europe from the Cold War to the present, exposing the intricacies of daily life in a region where the past is always present. The cinematic and literary texts will be drawn from the former East Bloc nations and their successor states in post-Communist Europe, including iconoclastic writers and film

Literature

Eastern European Literature and Cinema: From the Cold War to the Present — LIT2171.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Michael Dumanis

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

In this course, we will examine contemporary literature and cinema in the “other” Europe, exposing the intricacies of daily life in a region where the past is always present. The cinematic and literary texts will be drawn from the former Yugoslavia and the successor states of East Bloc nations in post-Communist Europe. We will consider the work of iconoclastic writers and film

Literature

Eat, Drink and Be Merry: Designing Pots for Utility and Serving — CER4316.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Aysha Peltz

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

Previously titled Set the Table: Tableware Design; Eat, Drink and Be Merry: Designing Pots for Utility and Serving is a new course. In this class, we will explore similar pottery forms while broadening our understanding of where these pots function beyond the Western cultural idea of the “table.” Throughout history, pots for utility and serving have expressed a specific time

Visual Arts

Echoes of Africa: Subjectivities, Dreams and Impressions — HIS4112.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Maboula Soumahoro

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

What is Africa? This is a significant intellectual question that this course will seek to explore. Can the continent be confined to its physical and geographical materiality? Is the African continent a discourse, a project, a memory, or a desire? Each developed, envisioned or expressed by its inhabitants as well as the members of its diaspora? Surveying

Black Studies Society Culture and Thought

Écocritique : Écologie et Littérature — FRE4609.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

What can literature do for the ecological crisis? What does ecological thought do to literature? This course introduces students to ecocriticism: the study of literature through an environmental lens. We will delve into critical themes of environmental thought such as the Anthropocene, decolonialism, and the divisions of life (human/animal/natural/the Other). Materials studied

Cultural Studies and Languages

Ecological Research: Taconic Landscape — BIO4107.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Kerry Woods

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

An advanced, research-driven course in ecology, focusing on the the communities and landscapes of the Taconics Mountains surrounding Bennington. The course will revolve around reading and discussion of the primary literature and the development and implementation of individual and group research projects. Students will learn both field techniques and

Science Mathematics and Computing Environment

Ecologies and Ethics of the Soundscape — MS2113.01

Fall 2024

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

What is a soundscape, and how does it matter to our daily lives, our environments, and the media we consume? The term soundscape refers to the range of sounds in a certain place and time, from a hospital’s array of beeping medical machines to the familiar noises of the places you call home. In this course, students will explore the concepts and creation of soundscapes in visual

Society Culture and Thought

Ecology — BIO4438.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

In this course, students will learn how organisms interact with each other and their environment. We will consider interactions at organismal, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere levels through case studies, lab activities, and field work. We will discuss basic principles, experimental approaches, concepts of modeling, and applications to ecological

Science and Mathematics

Ecology and Design in Electronic Music — MCO4168.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Suzanne Thorpe

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

This class will explore incorporating logics of ecology into compositional designs, from interrelatedness with a particular environment or place, to expression of a system of nature in musicking. We will explore a variety of investigative practices including deep listening and somatic techniques, data research, dérives, psychogeography, and narrative gathering. The expression

Music

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology of Marine Mammals — BIO4189.02

Spring 2022

Instructor: Sara Bebus

Days & Time:

Credits: 2

Whales and dolphins evolved from a terrestrial deer-like mammal about 50 million years ago. In this course we will explore the unique evolutionary histories, ecological strategies, and conservation concerns of marine mammals. We will focus on cetaceans, a group comprised of 90 diverse species ranging the 88 lb. vaquita to the 165 ton blue whale. Topics will include, adaptations

Science and Mathematics

Econometrics — PEC2282.01

Spring 2026

Instructor: Emma Kast

Days & Time: WE 10:00am-11:50am & WE 2:10pm-4:00pm

Credits: 4

This course introduces students to econometric approaches to asking and answering questions about the economy relating to employment, health, and well-being. The primary aim of the course is to understand how economists analyze data to determine causal effect. We will analyze data sets to ask and answer socioeconomic questions such as: What factors affect a person’s

Political Economy

Economic Development — PEC4105.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee

Days & Time:

Credits: 2

Much of economics is concerned with problems of development, as the essential object of the entire economic exercise is improvement in people’s material conditions of living and their quality of life. In this seminar we will examine the evolution in economic thinking about development—its nature, its causes, and the choice of strategies for facilitating the process of economic

Society Culture and Thought

Economic Inequality — PEC4124.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

This seminar is concerned with three key interrelated problems of studying economic inequality: [1] inequality of what? [2] how do inequality occur? and [3] why is equality undesirable?. The first is a question of description and measurement of the unevenness in people's access to resources and opportunities in a society, the second is that of explaining the

Society Culture and Thought

Economic Inequality — PEC4124.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

Economic inequality is not only a matter of uneven distribution of resources, income and wealth amongst people, but, more importantly, that of asymmetries in their access to options, opportunities and advantages. Why do some people have better quality of life than the others? Why do some people have better chances of achieving favorable outcomes in their life than the others?

Society Culture and Thought

Economic Inequality — PEC4124.01

Fall 2020

Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

The questions of inequality and distributive justice are central to any study of the economy. In this seminar, we will investigate the nature and sources of economic inequality, and explore various approaches to redistribution and distributive justice. Inequality can be examined as unevenness in the distribution of income and wealth in a population, as well as that of non

Society Culture and Thought