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Ukulele Comprehensive — MIN2230.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: John Kirk
Days & Time: W 11:00AM-11:50AM
Credits: 2

A comprehensive course in learning musical skills on the ukulele. We will learn the history of the uke, from its Portuguese and Indigenous Hawaiian origins, and both traditional and contemporary styles. Music theory and playing techniques will be learned and practiced. Awareness of traditional styles of playing the instrument will be furthered through a listening component

Education Ethnomusicology Instrumental Study

Understanding and Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences — PSY4229.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Emily Waterman
Credits: 4
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are potentially traumatic events that occur when individuals are under 18 years old that undermine children’s sense of safety, stability, and bonding with other people (for example, child abuse, food insecurity, witnessing intimate partner violence, caregiver incarceration). In this course we will define ACEs, ACE scores, and trauma, and
Society Culture and Thought

Understanding and Responding to Covid-19, Crisis and Quarantine: An Interdisciplinary Course — PLN2102.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
The unfolding crisis brought on by the spread of Covid-19 is changing our world as we speak. This health crisis that upended the economy, reshaped politics and altered the ways that we socialize cannot be understood simply epidemiologically. Ź’s interdisciplinary approach to the most pressing issues of our time, uniquely situates us to engage with the many ways this

Understanding Ceramic Glazes — CER4251.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Anina Major
Credits: 4
Learn how and why ceramic glazes work. This course focuses on the science behind glazes. No more myths and legends about how glazes work, only facts and science. ​The course provides information and science to help students utilize glazes in ways that will help them take control of materials and advance their work. This course is a hybrid in-person, online course consisting of
Visual Arts

Understanding Food Insecurity in Ź 2 — APA2253.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: tatianaabatemarco@bennington.edu
Credits: 4
As part of the Mellon Foundation grant addressing Food Insecurity in Ź County, this class will engage with last year's overview of the programs currently being offered in Ź, the best practices in our area and afar, and new projects that have been developed moving forward. Understanding Food Insecurity in Ź County 2 will develop and sustain current
CAPA Environment Society Culture and Thought

Understanding Food Insecurity in Ź 3 — APA2442.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Tatiana Abatemarco Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 4
As part of the Mellon Foundation grant addressing Food Insecurity in Ź County, this class will engage with the last two years’ overview of the programs currently being offered in Ź, the best practices in our area and afar, and new projects that have been developed moving forward. Understanding Food Insecurity in Ź County 3 will develop and sustain
CAPA Environment

Understanding Food Insecurity in Ź County 1 — APA2173.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 4
The issue of food insecurity has long been on the minds of those who live in Southern Vermont. In fact, Ź County has been identified by the USDA as a “food desert”, meaning significant portions of its residents have limited access to healthy or locally-produced food. This course, the first in a sequence of three, will explore and review past initiatives, best practices
CAPA

Understanding Historically Black Colleges and Universities — EDU2215.02

Spring 2016
Instructor:
Credits: 2
The higher education landscape is far from homogenous and is fraught with problems, many of which are chronicled virtually daily in the media. Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), the first of which was founded in 1837, are struggling to survive despite their government supported, and some would say noble, history. They are having enrollment challenges; they
Education

Understanding Media — APA2443.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 2
Understanding Media is a critique and analysis of media including television, radio, film, social media and the internet, focusing on contemporary popular genres, such as movies, talk shows, news programs, children's programs, and advertisements. There will be a strong focus on corporate media consolidation and its impact on content, uses, functions, and audiences. Students
CAPA

Understanding Media — APA2443.02

Spring 2025
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 2
Understanding Media is a critique and analysis of media including television, radio, film, social media and the internet, focusing on contemporary popular genres, such as movies, talk shows, news programs, children’s programs, and advertisements. There will be a strong focus on corporate media consolidation and its impact on content, uses, functions, and audiences. Students
CAPA

Understanding PFOA in Our Water — APA2158.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 2
In 2014, the chemical Perfluorooctanoic acid (C8 or PFOA) was discovered in the drinking water in the Village of Hoosick Falls, NY. As concern over this groundwater contamination grew, other communities began testing their water for PFOA. As of March 2016, PFOA has been discovered in the groundwater of Petersburgh, NY, Merrimack, NH, and in North Ź, VT (the public
CAPA Science and Mathematics Environment

Understanding PFOA: Science and Policy — ENV2173.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: David Bond and Janet Foley
Credits: 2
The water supply of Hoosick Falls, NY, Ź’s western neighbor, has been contaminated with Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) by past industrial activity. PFOA is an “emerging contaminant” that is correlated with a range of health problems. This course will investigate the capdavidjanetsocial and physical aspects of this ongoing disaster, from how the regulation of chemicals
CAPA Environment

Understanding PFOA: Science and Policy — ENV2173.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Timothy Schroeder and John Hultgren
Credits: 2
The water supply of Hoosick Falls, NY, Ź’s western neighbor, has been contaminated with Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) by past industrial activity. PFOA is an “emerging contaminant” that is correlated with a range of health problems. This course will investigate the social and physical aspects of this ongoing disaster, from how the regulation of chemicals in the US
Environment

Understanding PFOA: Science and Policy — ENV2173.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Tim Schroeder
Credits: 2
The water supply of Hoosick Falls, NY, Ź’s western neighbor, has been contaminated with Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) by past industrial activity. PFOA is an “emerging contaminant” that is correlated with a range of health problems. This course will investigate the social and physical aspects of this ongoing disaster, from how the regulation of chemicals in the US
CAPA Environment

Undisciplined Approaches to Creative Writing — LIT2549.01) (cancelled 10/10/2024

Spring 2025
Instructor: An Duplan
Credits: 2
Who says you have to be disciplined to be a writer? After all, theorist Christina Sharpe writes in her book, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being, that undisciplined thinking can be waged as a weapon against the boundaries of traditional academic thought and practice. For Sharpe, being undisciplined isn’t about failing to be disciplined, it’s about aspiring to being

Unemployment — PEC2254.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee
Credits: 4
Employment not only provides access to livelihood, but also ensures other material conditions of people’s well-being. Yet, unemployment remains a ubiquitous problem of modern life. This seminar will explore microeconomic and macroeconomic theories of unemployment, and present empirical analysis of unemployment data to examine the causes and nature of the problem. The course
Society Culture and Thought

Unemployment and Inflation — PEC2257.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee
Credits: 4
Macroeconomics is very much about tying together facts and theories, and in this course, we will examine how macroeconomic principles can help us understand the nature and causes of inflation and unemployment that is plaguing the world economy in this post-Covid moment. We will also study the tension between policies that quell inflation but give rise to unemployment and worsen
Society Culture and Thought

Unfair distribution: Poverty, inequality and deprivation — PEC4128.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee
Credits: 4
Poverty [defined as absolute deprivation] and inequality [defined as relative deprivation] are the two key concepts that allow us to talk about unevenness in income distribution and the unfairness in distribution of economic goods and economic opportunities amongst people.  This course traces the roots of these two key concepts in welfare economics, and asks: What causes
Society Culture and Thought CAPA Environment

Unhomely Thoughts from Abroad — SPA4605.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Credits: 4
From Simón Bolívar’s recruitment of the exiled Francisco de Miranda in early nineteenth-century London, to the counter-revolutionary Guillermo Cabrera Infante’s Tres tristes tigres, written in a Hampstead flat, much of Latin America’s postcolonial identity has been forged outside its borders. Beyond defining home, exiles have defined their alternate environments. De Miranda’s
Cultural Studies and Languages

Unique Prints: 3-D Prints and Modular Works — PRI4272.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
Credits: 4
This course is an introduction to unique prints, or prints that are not necessarily printed as an edition. We will emphasize the making of mixed media prints using a broad range of methods from monotypes to digital prints. The class is structured around a series of projects where rigorous experimentation is encouraged. Students will learn various non-typical printmaking
Visual Arts

Unique Prints: 3-D Prints and Modular Works — PRI4272.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
Credits: 4
This course is an introduction to unique prints, or prints that are not necessarily printed as an edition. We will emphasize the making of mixed media prints using a broad range of methods from monotypes to digital prints. The class is structured around a series of projects where rigorous experimentation is encouraged. Students will learn various non-typical printmaking
Visual Arts

Unique Prints: 3-D Prints and Modular Works — PRI4272.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
Credits: 4
This course is an introduction to unique prints, or prints that are not necessarily printed as an edition. We will emphasize the making of mixed media prints using a broad range of methods from monotypes to digital prints. The class is structured around a series of projects where rigorous experimentation is encouraged. Students will learn various non-typical printmaking
Visual Arts

Unique Prints: 3-D Prints and Modular Works — PRI4272.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
Days & Time: TH 1:40pm-5:20pm
Credits: 4

This course is an introduction to unique prints, or prints that are not necessarily printed as an edition. We will emphasize the making of mixed media prints using a broad range of methods from monotypes to digital prints. The class is structured around a series of projects where rigorous experimentation is encouraged.

Students will learn various non-typical

Printmaking Drawing

Unique Prints: 3-D Prints and Modular Works — PRI4272.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
Credits: 4
This course is an introduction to unique prints, or prints that are not necessarily printed as an edition. We will emphasize the making of mixed media prints using a broad range of methods from monotypes to digital prints. The class is structured around a series of projects where rigorous experimentation is encouraged. Students will learn various non-typical printmaking methods
Visual Arts