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French Through Films — FRE4154.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In this course, French films are used as linguistic and cultural textbooks. While honing their language skills (listening, reading, speaking and writing), students will focus their critical skills on selected cultural topics (food, clothes, history, gestures, etc.). Students will create film trailers that reflect their understanding of the French linguistic and cultural
Visual Arts Cultural Studies and Languages

French Through Films: On connait la chanson and Vers la tendresse — FRE4153.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
In this course, French films are used as linguistic and cultural textbooks. While honing their language skills (listening, reading, speaking and writing), students will focus their critical skills on selected cultural topics (food, clothes, history, gestures, etc.). Students will create film trailers that reflect their understanding of the French linguistic and cultural
Visual Arts Cultural Studies and Languages

French Through Films: Rue Cases-Nègres and Au revoir les enfants — FRE4152.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
In this course, French films are used as linguistic and cultural textbooks. While honing their language skills (listening, reading, speaking and writing), students will focus their critical skills on selected cultural topics (food, clothes, history, gestures, etc.). Students will create film trailers that reflect their understanding of the French linguistic and cultural
Visual Arts Cultural Studies and Languages

Frequency Rhythmic Assimilation: Drum Set Study with Will Calhoun — MIN4356.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Will Calhoun, a multi-Grammy award winning drummer from the legendary rock group “Living Color”, will offer Intermediate and advanced individual lessons on the drum set. The material presented in these lessons, Frequency Rhythmic Assimilation (FRA), are aimed to be universally applicable while geared toward developing each student’s individual ability. These lessons focus on
Music

From an Indigenous Point of View — ANT4205.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Miroslava Prazak
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Using the novel as ethnography, this course examines world cultures through literary works of authors from various parts of the world. We explore the construction of community in precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial times; independence movements; issues of individual and social identity; and the themes of change, adaptation and conflict. Student work includes an analytical
Society Culture and Thought

From an Indigenous Point of View — ANT4205.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: miroslava prazak
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Using the novel as ethnography, this course examines world cultures through literary works of authors from various parts of the world. We explore the construction of community in precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial times; independence movements; issues of individual and social identity; and the themes of change, adaptation and conflict. Student work includes an analytical
Social Science

From an Indigenous Point of View — ANT4205.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Miroslava Prazak
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Using the novel as ethnography, this course examines world cultures through literary works of authors from various parts of the world. We explore the construction of community in precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial times; independence movements; issues of individual and social identity; and the themes of change, adaptation and conflict. Student work includes an analytical
Society Culture and Thought

From April Fifth to June Fourth: Craze, Hunger, and Everydayness in China's Reform Era — CHI4604.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course invites students to examine the Reform Era in the history of PRC, that is, the Eighties (1978-1989). With the opening up of China in the 1980s, students, college professors, and artists ushered in an unprecedented wave of creativity. Due to temporary political freedom and the society’s “hunger” for knowledge, this decade featured a profound vigor that gave rise to
Cultural Studies and Languages

From Ashes to Fascists: The Roots and Rise of our Anti-Environmental Age — ENV4257.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: John Hultgren
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Responding to climate change and other contemporary environmental crises (biodiversity loss, looming water shortages, toxic pollution, etc.) necessitates swift and serious action that continues to be undercut by a rearguard anti-environmental movement. What are the ideological roots, the political economic forces, and the organizational forms through which anti-environmentalism
CAPA Environment Society Culture and Thought

From Concept to Reality: Participatory Action Research and Restorative Practice —

Fall 2021
Instructor: Alisa Del Tufo
Days & Time:
Credits:
In this seven week class we analyze the ways that Participatory Action Research (PAR) and Restorative Practice can work together to create and sustain programs that are truly transformative.How can we better align restorative theory and practice in our work? The concepts and values embodied in restorative justice should be consistent with the practices and structures through

From Concept to Reality: Participatory Action Research and Restorative Practice — APA4312.02

Fall 2023
Instructor: Alisa Del Tufo
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
In this seven week class we analyze the ways that Participatory Action Research (PAR) and Restorative Practice can work together to create and sustain programs that are truly transformative. How can we better align restorative theory and practice in our work? The concepts and values embodied in restorative justice should be consistent with the practices and structures through
CAPA

From Concept to Reality: Restorative Practice and Participatory Action Research — APA2188.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
In this seven week class we analyze the ways that Participatory Action Research (PAR) and Restorative Practice can work together to create and sustain programs that are truly transformative. How can we better align restorative theory and practice in our work? The concepts and values embodied in restorative justice should be consistent with the practices and structures through
CAPA

From Digital Models to Technical Drawings — DA4250.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
The historian Robin Evans thought of technical drawings as an “intervening medium” between object and thought. By protracting the distance between thoughts and the objects they produce, what alterations can be made in the process? What previously invisible things do we see? Do we also lose some control? This course is about understanding the technical drawing not only as an
Visual Arts

From Job to Adventure - Designing New Normals in a Post Covid19 World — APA2321.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: RRansick@bennington.edu
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
One of the realities that Covid19 has quickly exposed is how many of us live from paycheck to paycheck at best. This profound pause that we have been asked to endure has produced over 26 million unemployed in the U.S. alone. Up until this strange moment, we have been asked to accept this social arrangements as “normal.” Now activists, philosophers and the like are demanding the
CAPA

From Mary Wollstonecraft to Rachel Zucker: Toward a Postmodern Matriarchy — LIT2508.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Elisa Albert
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
As the 21st century awakens to the human rights issues within childbearing and rearing, Wollstonecraft and Zucker can serve as illuminating bookends.  From the Vindication of The Rights of Women to Home/Birth: A Poemic, poetry and prose will help guide our understanding of an essential movement toward a politically and spiritually evolved biological feminism.
Literature

From Process to Performance — DRA4253.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Jennifer Rohn
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In this course we will use Viewpoints, Meisner and other improvisation based acting techniques to fully explore, rehearse and present a play. The goal of our work will be to retain the truth, life and presence that we discover in the process of improvisation as we move into performance. How do you hold on to the fullest expression of what was discovered when you have to repeat
Drama

From the Edo to Meiji Period: Examining Equality and Equity through the Examinations of Japanese Society — JPN4302.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Days & Time: TU,FR 8:30am-10:20am
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

Japanese

From the Edo to Meiji Period: Examining Equality and Equity through the Examinations of Japanese Society — JPN4302.01

Fall 2023
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

From the Edo to the Meiji Period: Examining Equality and Equity through the Examinations of Japanese Society — JPN4302.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This is the third term Japanese course. In this 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
Cultural Studies and Languages

From the Stoics to Ubuntu: Philosophies of the Good Life — PHI2149.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Catherine McKeen
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This class examines a variety of answers to the ancient question: How do I live a good life? We’ll engage with thinkers from diverse traditions across time and space as we clarify our own understanding of what makes life worth living and as we articulate a more developed conception of the good life. Readings will include texts from Greek and Roman antiquity, selections from
Society Culture and Thought

From the Stoics to Ubuntu: Philosophies of the Good Life — PHI2149.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Paul Voice
Days & Time: TU,FR 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 4

This class examines a variety of answers to the ancient question: How do I live a good life? We’ll engage with thinkers from diverse traditions across time and space as we clarify our own understanding of what makes life worth living and as we articulate a more developed conception of the good life. Readings will include texts from Greek and Roman

Philosophy

From the Stoics to Ubuntu: Philosophies of the Good Life — PHI2149.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Karen Gover and Paul Voice
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This class examines variety of answers to the ancient question: How do I live a good life? The readings draw from philosophical traditions across both time and location, including Greek and Roman Stoicism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Christian theology, contemporary philosophers in the Anglo-American and European traditions, as well as the African ethic of Ubuntu.
Society Culture and Thought

From “Modern Woman” to “Iron Girl” to “Left-over Woman” — CHI4404.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course invites students to explore how the Chinese female has been represented differently from the early 20th century to the present in various literature, films, and visual arts. Students will also investigate the changing historical, social, and cultural contexts that have caused the different representations and misrepresentations of individual and/or collective
Cultural Studies and Languages

Fugue — MTH4249.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
An advanced course in counterpoint, focusing on the virtuosic practice of creating fugues. We’ll focus on the watershed fugues of Bach and later touch on contemporary versions by Amy Beach, Bela Bartok, and Astor Piazzolla. Students will be expected to write fugues for two, three, and four voices. Students will work out challenges in writing for particular performers, who will
Music