"New Ways of Knowing" is a senior seminar that searches for a moral epistemology. It guides its participants to see how their work can best serve society (and their own values) by going beyond outmoded notions of disciplinary purity.

"Quantum Mechanics for the Myriad" uses simple two-dimensional complex vectors explain the quantum mechanics to students early in their careers, building up to the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger disproof of Einstein's ideas of microscopic reality and quantum teleportation effects by using tensor product states

"Search for Simplicity" is a qualitative physics course, based on book manuscript drafted with Victor Weisskopf. It became the basis of eleven monthly columns in the American Journal of physics in 1985. It and similar efforts that help explain science to the public led to the Sigma Xi Procter Prize. [see e.g. AJP*volume 53*, p.400 May 1985.]

"How Things Work" Innovated in 1973 when that book first came out; it was a large lecture class. At least large for Hampshire. Over 120 students, all in "practical science" courses, came together weekly to hear Bernstein give the program's central lectures. In follow-up years, other colleagues carried the course forward, possibly influencing Louis Bloomfield, Amherst College physics major. Many years later Prof Bloomfield pioneered a national effort: University of Virginia's very large class version for non-majors' introductory physics. He has now written a freshman textbook; Heb has adopted Bloomfield's text for his first-year course at Hampshire.

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