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Environmental Studies Advanced Work Seminar — Canceled

Spring 2019

Instructor: Tim Schroeder John Hultgren

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Credits: 1

This advanced work seminar offers students the opportunity to receive feedback on culminating/advanced work studying environmental problems. This course is ideal for two types of students: (1) 8th term students who are completing senior work in a particular discipline group (e.g. Science or Society, Culture, and Thought) but would benefit from having feedback from both

Environment

Envisioning Information: Mapping Complexity — MOD2139.03

Fall 2014

Instructor: susan sgorbati

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 1

This Module explores how complex systems can be mapped visually. Often, non-linear structures are difficult to see and understand. They happen at different levels and at different scales. These classes will be devoted to learning the skills of visual mapping. Certain websites will be investigated, such as bubbl.org, visualcomplexity.com and informationisbeautiful.org. Books by

CAPA Modules: Transferable Approaches

Epistemic Justice — PHI2162.01

Fall 2025

Instructor: Catherine McKeen

Days & Time: TU,FR 10:30am-12:20pm

Credits: 2

How does one’s social positionality affect one’s status as a knower? Who is heard? Who is believed? This seven-week course is focused on questions of justice and power in relation to knowledge. We will engage with recent work in social epistemology—philosophical theories of belief and knowledge—with an emphasis on feminist epistemologies, anti-racist epistemologies, and

Philosophy

Essays of Walter Benjamin — VA4235.02

Spring 2023

Instructor: Anne Thompson

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Credits: 2

The works of German philosopher and cultural theorist Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) endure as sources of fascination, inspiration and critical reflection across disciplines. With a focus on his significance for artists and curators, this seminar looks at selections from Benjamin’s famous and lesser-known writing, from his seminal essay “The Work of Art in the Age of

Visual Arts Literature Society Culture and Thought

Ethical Community Collaborations — APA2161.02

Fall 2019

Instructor: Aaron Landsman, MFA Teaching Fellow

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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,

CAPA

Ethical Community Collaborations — APA2161.02

Fall 2018

Instructor: Aaron Landsman

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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

CAPA

Ethical Translation: Eye on Race, Gender, and Queerness — LIT4392.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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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

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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

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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 Lab — ANT4128.01

Fall 2026

Instructor: Marios Falaris

Days & Time: TH 10:00am-11:50am

Credits: 2

This class will serve as a space for students to develop independent research projects in the field of anthropology and using ethnographic methods. Shared readings and exercises will center around ethnographic methods, ethics, and writing. Students’ independent projects will anchor their work in this class.<

Advancement of Public Action Anthropology

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

Spring 2025

Instructor: Cecilia Salvi

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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

Euclid's Elements — MAT2483.01

Fall 2022

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

Science and Mathematics

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

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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

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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

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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 2014

Instructor: Kerry Woods

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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 — BIO4104.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Kerry Woods

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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

Fall 2017

Instructor: Kerry Woods

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Credits: 4

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

Spring 2016

Instructor: Kerry Woods

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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 and Artificial Selection — BIO2138.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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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

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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

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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