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Ethical Community Collaborations — APA2161.02

Fall 2018
Instructor: Aaron Landsman
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
The course welcomes playwrights and other writers, choreographers and visual artists, and could be applicable to students in Sociology and American Studies. We’ll look at the work of artists like video maker Phil Collins, conceptual and performance artists including Paul Chan, Ernesto Pujol, Lola Arias and Ralph Lemon. We will also use the course as a way to ask questions about
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Ethical Community Collaborations — APA2161.02

Fall 2019
Instructor: Aaron Landsman, MFA Teaching Fellow
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This course uses case studies from socially-engaged art projects along with in-class work and research on how to collaborate with specific communities in an ethical, mutually beneficial way. We will explore how to use a strategic planning process, transparent communications and realistic expectations around time and money in partnerships that cross boundaries of race, class,
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Ethical Translation: Eye on Race, Gender, and Queerness — LIT4392.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Designed to help students build their own ethical translation practices—with attention to issues of race, gender, and queerness—this course offers an introduction to translation via a hands-on approach. What pronouns do you use when translating from a language that doesn’t have gendered pronouns? Do you translate slurs? We will tackle these questions, plus the basics, thinking
Literature

Ethnographic Playwriting — APA4120.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Aaron Landsman, MFA Teaching Fellow
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course takes an ethnographic approach to making new theater works within community collaborations. This course is about engaging your most adventurous artist self in the context of delicate, politically loaded, dialogic processes. We will read, watch and discuss the work of subculture theorists, architects, theater-makers and other artists, all of whom use staged
CAPA Drama

Ethnography and Writing Across Cultures — ANT4213.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Noah Coburn
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course is an advanced exploration of theory and the history of anthropology by using the most basic of anthropological texts: the ethnography. By carefully analyzing a series of classic and more current ethnographies, students will look at the relationship between theoretical approaches, how ethnographic data is presented to the reader and how the shape of the text
Social Science

Ethnography of Latin America and the Caribbean — ANT4241.01) (cancelled 10/15/2024

Spring 2025
Instructor: Cecilia Salvi
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course explores contemporary processes of social, economic, and cultural change in Latin America and the Caribbean from an anthropological perspective. Through ethnographies of the region, we examine legacies of the colonial encounter, nation-building, migration, political conflict and urbanization, as well as the impact of transregional social movements. We pay special

Eugene Onegin-Singers — MVO4254.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2

This is a 2 credit course to support the Faculty Drama Production of Eugene Onegin. Voice and style instruction will be provided for the singers in the musical, and some research on American singing styles. 

Drama Voice

Europe and Islam: Art and Architecture of the Mediterranean — AH2114.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This introductory course explores, through the lens of cross-cultural exchange, artistic and architectural production from the late medieval period to the nineteenth century. It considers the Mediterranean and its related regions as dynamic settings where global contacts, prompted by trade, diplomacy, war and conquest, travel, and pilgrimage, strongly shaped material and visual
Visual Arts

European Literature Between the Wars — LIT4170.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Stuart Nadler
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In the immediate aftermath of WWI, Europe found itself dramatically reshaped. In the place of the now-dead Dual Monarchy were six new nation states set between borders haphazardly drawn by victors of the war in order to smite the losers. An economic crisis swept the continent, leaving millions starving and rendering the German Mark nearly worthless. In the east, the Soviet
Literature

Every Day Everyday Climate Change — APA2181.02

Spring 2020
Instructor: Marina Zurkow, MFA Teaching Fellow
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Daily practices connect makers over a duration of time to concepts, issues, and forms we care about. These practices are constrained by a set of guiding principles or frameworks, and are iterative by design. Because of the consistency of work (every day), a daily practice can change us and open us up to new ideas, techniques, and feelings. Daily practice as a concept is used in
CAPA Visual Arts

Everything Class — DAN2003.02

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 1
What if a water bottle were a teacher waiting for you in a classroom? What kind of class would the water bottle be offering----Sonic Meditation, Daily Beverage Curatorial Practice, Aquatic Ecology Research, Subconsciousness Activation, Invisible Color Therapy, Liquid Song Writing, Performance Score Composition for a Water Body, Taste-initiated Somatic Practice, Method of
Dance

Evolution — BIO4104.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Evolutionary theory provides conceptual unity for biology; Darwin’s concept and its derivatives inform every area of life science, from paleontology to molecular biology to physiology to plant and animal behavior to human nature. This course will establish deep grounding in basic evolutionary theory with particular focus on selective processes and life-history theory.
Science and Mathematics Environment

Evolution — BIO4440.01

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

Evolution is the unifying theory of biology, explaining the diversity of life on Earth and the mechanisms that drive adaptation and speciation. This course will explore the core principles of evolutionary biology, including natural selection, genetic drift, gene flow, mutation, and the interplay between evolutionary processes and

Biology

Evolution — BIO4104.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Evolutionary theory provides conceptual unity for biology; Darwin’s concept and its derivatives inform every area of life science, from paleontology to molecular biology to physiology to plant and animal behavior to human nature. This course will establish deep grounding in basic evolutionary theory with particular focus on selective processes and life-history theory.
Science and Mathematics Environment

Evolution — BIO4104.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Evolutionary theory provides conceptual unity for biology; Darwin’s concept and its derivatives inform every area of life science, from paleontology to molecular biology to physiology to plant and animal behavior to human nature. This course will establish deep grounding in basic selective theory (including some exploration of population genetics) and explore selected current
Science Mathematics and Computing

Evolution — BIO4104.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Evolutionary theory provides conceptual unity for biology; Darwin's concept and its derivatives inform every area of life science, from paleontology to molecular biology to physiology to plant and animal behavior to human nature. This course will establish deep grounding in basic selective theory (including some exploration of population genetics) and explore selected current
Science Mathematics and Computing Environment

Evolution and Artificial Selection — BIO2138.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course explores the role of artificial selection throughout human history, including in agriculture, the breeding of companion animals, and as a model for understanding evolution by natural and sexual selection. Topics include Mendelian genetics, how genotype leads to phenotype, mutations, domestication, landmark experiments in fox domestication, experimental evolution in
Science and Mathematics

Evolution, Cognition, and Behavior — BIO2130.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Blake Jones
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Are nonhuman animals ‘intelligent’? How do they communicate? Do they form life-long memories? Why have different cognitive abilities evolved in different animals? This course will explore these questions and more by integrating across disciplines all aimed at understanding how animals (including humans) have evolved to behave and think. The discovery that nonhuman animals
Science and Mathematics

Evolution: Making Sense Of Aging, Sex, Sociality, Families, and Disease — BIO4318.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: KWoods@bennington.edu
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Evolution provides conceptual unity for biology. Darwin’s basic concept, supplemented by 150 years of refinement and additional understanding, informs every area of life science, often in ways that are surprisingly different from the popular understanding (or misunderstanding) of evolutionary theory. This course will establish deep grounding in basic evolutionary theory with
Science and Mathematics Environment

Examining Equality and Equity through the Analysis of Japanese Society in the Edo Period and Meiji Period — JPN4302.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In this low-intermediate course students will learn and examine Japan’s drastic social changes during the Edo period and the Meiji period to investigate what equality and equity meant to Japanese people. During the Edo Period (1603-1868), Japan closed its doors to other countries for about two hundred fifty years, and this isolation helped Japan develop its own unique culture.
Cultural Studies and Languages

Examining Space — SCU2214.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: John Umphlett
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This introductory course will investigate basic building techniques and principles behind making Sculpture through experiential learning. Within the first couple of weeks of term we will participate in an Iron Pour. The students will shape wax and prepare sand-molds for participation. The students will also be introduced and immersed within a community of artists off campus.
Visual Arts

examining space — SCU2214.01

Fall 2026
Instructor: John Umphlett
Days & Time: FR 8:30am-12:10pm
Credits: 4

Are you interested in taking a closer look at the  immediate and collective spaces that we live in? What are some of the realities that exist around us and why/ how can we build work that pushes against these basic constructs.

This

Sculpture

Examining Space — SCU2214.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This introductory course will investigate basic building techniques and principles behind making Sculpture through experiential learning. A few weeks into term we will participate in an Iron Pour, understanding the practices of shaping wax and preparing sand-molds for participation. The students will also be introduced and immersed within a community of artists off campus. This
Visual Arts