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Dynamic Spiraling: Grasping Nature’s Patterns to Generate Vital, Fluid Movement — DAN2414.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
We can find incredibly fluid movement by exploring nature’s phenomena - structuring through spiraling and shaping the environment. In this course we will explore spiraling, sinking in and growing out of the floor. This is a rigorous movement class that focuses on traveling through space, using the spirals embedded in the body and exploring how these will help us to separate
Dance

Early American Confessions — LIT2251.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Benjamin Anastas
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
From the Puritans’ first unpromising glimpse aboard the Mayflower of this “hideous desolate wilderness, full of wild beasts and wild men,” America has inspired, even required, bold new feats of language and the imagination to capture it in literature. This course will explore the beginnings of the American literary tradition and its roots in Puritan 'confession,' from the
Literature

Early American Literature — LIT2197.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: benjamin anastas
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
From the Puritans' first unpromising glimpse aboard the Mayflower of this "hideous & desolate wilderness, full of wild beats and wild men," America has inspired, even required, bold new feats of language and the imagination to capture it in literature. This course will survey the beginnings of the American literary tradition, from the poetry of Anne Bradstreet and the
Literature

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
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
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
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 Mathematics and Computing Environment

Earth Materials (with Lab) — ES4102.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Tim 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 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