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Advanced Workshop in CAPA — APA4109.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 4
This course is designed for seniors or second term juniors who are doing advanced work. Advanced work in CAPA is expected to build on proven strengths in other discipline areas with previous coursework relevant to their area of interest. This spring seminar provides a unique venue for students to better define and pursue the public implications of their education. Students are
CAPA

Advanced Workshop in CAPA — APA4109.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Eileen Scully Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 4
This course is designed for seniors or second term juniors who are doing advanced work. Advanced work in CAPA is expected to build on proven strengths in other discipline areas with previous coursework relevant to their area of interest. This spring seminar provides a unique venue for students to better define and pursue the public implications of their education. Students are
CAPA

Advanced Workshop in CAPA — APA4126.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 2
This workshop is designed to enable students to pursue work they have already begun that is focused on public action regardless of the particular issue/s they are addressing and to integrate Field Work Term into that work. Students will be presenting their own work to the workshop as it unfolds. Some portion of the workshop will be dedicated to common experience - in particular
CAPA

Advanced Workshop in CAPA — APA4124.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati; Erika Mijlin
Credits: 2
This workshop is designed to enable students to pursue work they have already begun that is focused on public action regardless of the particular issue/s they are addressing and to integrate Field Work Term into that work. Students will be presenting their own work to the workshop as it unfolds. Some portion of the workshop will be dedicated to common experience in particular
CAPA

Aesthetics of Care: Visual Strategies for Community Engagement — APA2199.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: sTo Len
Days & Time: MO 1:40pm-5:20pm
Credits: 2

With billions of images uploaded to the internet daily, we are bombarded by media content on corporately owned platforms from news outlets to algorithmic social media feeds and YouTube videos. How do we create meaningful independent media for each other in this current age of disinformation? What importance do physical materials such as books, zines, posters, and pamphlets

Advancement of Public Action

African Conflict Resolution — POL4254.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Credits: 2
The prevention, management and resolution of African conflicts is a major challenge for the international community and the continent’s peoples. Africa accounts for the largest and highest number of United Nations’ peacekeeping operations, but these “stabilization” missions have mostly failed to stabilize the continent, and  large segments of the African population
CAPA Black Studies Society Culture and Thought

African Conflict Resolution — POL4254.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Credits: 2
The prevention, management and resolution of African conflicts constitute a defining challenge for the international community, including the United Nations (UN), which has mounted multi‐billion dollar peace operations on the continent. Despite the peace dividend from these operations and other interventions, large segments of the African population continue to live in deadly
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

After Superflat Directed Project: Nuclear War — VA4407.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
Credits: 4
Conducted through research that focuses on the development of Japanese subcultures in the Post World War II period, this course poses various critical inquiries about the effects of nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on contemporary global consumer society and the production of art. We will also bring into focus the trauma revisited up on us by the more recent nuclear
CAPA Visual Arts

After-School Education Module — APA2238.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 1
This course will examine the readings of John Dewey and Paolo Friere as well as scholarly articles on After-School Education. Each student will develop a proposal for an After- School Education Workshop for Molly Stark Elementary School with the possibility of implementing this workshop in their After-School program later in the semester. (February 19, 26, March 4)
CAPA

AGAPE: Love in the Time of Pandemic, Hate and Insurrection — APA2444.02

Fall 2021
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 2
In the throes of a global increase of identity-based hatred and anti-democratic sentiment, this course will explore a concept present in virtually every world religion. Agape love (unconditional compassionate kindness) as a necessary value in movements for social justice. Agape requires action and sacrificial service in addition to the theoretical discourse of diversity, equity
CAPA

Alternate Visions: Seeing the world through Women and LGBTQIA+ Contemporary Photographers — APA2014.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This course will offer students an opportunity to look at some contemporary female and LGBTQIA+ photographers’ work. Students will get to talk directly with the photographers from different parts of the world. The invited photographers will include some emerging and well-established photographers. The focus of the course will be to find how contemporary female
Advancement of Public Action

Alternative Facts: The Undoing of Science in America — ENV2185.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Betsy Sherman
Credits:
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. (Isaac Asimov, 1980). Does the recent U.S. election suggest that the
CAPA Environment Science and Mathematics

America and the Middle East — Canceled

Fall 2018
Instructor: Mansour Farhang
Credits: 2
This course is a study of U. S. geopolitical involvement in national and regional affairs of the Middle East from World War I to the present. It is designed to enable the students to place today’s headlines into historical context and provide a range of analytic perspectives to evaluate the motives, methods of implementation and consequences of decisions intended to advance U.
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

American Environmental Politics — POL2109.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: John Hultgren
Credits: 4
This course will explore American environmental politics, from the late 1800s to the present day, with a focus on understanding the actors, institutions and structural power dynamics that impact environmental struggles. We will proceed by engaging with a variety of historical and contemporary case studies related to toxic waste, clean air and water, fracking, national parks,
CAPA Environment Society Culture and Thought

American Food 2018 — APA2151.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Ben Hall
Credits: 4
In this survey we will examine the way food is used as social tool to produce power, exploitation, and waste. We will review the use of food in political movements such as the Catholic Worker House and Black Panthers Free Food Program, as well as hunger strikes as an individual tool of political freedom and not eating animals as a form of political resistance. We will also
CAPA Environment

American Food 2021 — APA2343.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 4
In this class we will examine the way food is used as social tool to produce power, exploitation, and waste. We will review the use of food in political movements such as the Catholic Worker House and Black Panthers Free Food Program, as well as hunger strikes as an individual tool of political freedom and not eating animals as a form of political resistance. We will also
CAPA Environment

American Food 2022 — APA4308.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
In this class we will examine the way food is used as social tool to produce power, exploitation, and waste. We will review the use of food in political movements such as the Black Panthers Free Food Program, as well as hunger strikes as an individual tool of political freedom and not eating animals as a form of political resistance. We will also review the way contemporary
CAPA

American Neo-Imperialism: The Anthropology of Mercenaries, Contractors, Bankers and other Rogues — ANT4220.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Noah Coburn
Credits: 4
This course takes an anthropological approach to look at the ways in which America has projected its power internationally since 2001.  This ranges from its military invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, its more passive policies on Syria and Libya and its more subtle use of development funds and soft power to shape the world beyond its borders.  These attempts, however,
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

And Process for All — MED2110.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Peter Pagnucco
Credits: 4
In American society, conflict resolution need not mean a punch in the nose-instead, we have process. This course is an experiential examination of two primary conflict resolution processes, litigation and mediation; and is intended for students willing to try things out. First, we will explore what society might want from a conflict resolution process and examine some of the
CAPA

And Process for All — MED2110.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Peter Pagnucco
Credits: 4
In American society, conflict resolution need not mean a punch in the nose-instead, we have process.  This course is an experiential examination of two primary conflict resolution processes, litigation and mediation; and is intended for students willing to try things out.  First, we will explore what society might want from a conflict resolution process and examine
CAPA

And Process for All — MED2110.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Peter Pagnucco
Credits: 4
In American society, conflict resolution need not mean a punch in the nose-instead, we have process. This course is an experiential examination of two primary conflict resolution processes, litigation and mediation; and is intended for students willing to try things out. First, we will explore what society might want from a conflict resolution process and examine some of the
CAPA

Anthropology of Science and Technology — APA2352.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 4
This course introduces students to the anthropology of science and technology, with fieldtrips taken into adjacent fields of inquiry like STS and the history of science. This course approaches science and technology as a history of the present; that is, as an unfolding set of epistemic deployments that is actively shaping the texture and significance of social life in the
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

APA Workshop: Focus: Cities — APA4150.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Elizabeth Coleman; Susie Ibarra
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This workshop is designed to enable students to pursue a variety of issues relating to the advancing of public action. Cities serves both as a shared focus and a place to integrate a wide and rich variety of perspectives. Students will also be presenting their work to the workshop as it unfolds. Some portion of the workshop will also be dedicated to exploring concepts and
Advancement of Public Action

ARCHIVE and ACCESS: PUBLICATION, PEDAGOGY, and MUTUAL AID as PUBLIC ACTION — APA2018.01

Fall 2023
Instructor:
Credits: 4
In the Fall of 2023, Bennington students from all years and other invited guests are invited to participate in a special ARCHIVE AND ACCESS workshop cohort, in conjunction with the ongoing “PUBLICATION and PUBLIC ACTION” and “YEAR ONE: SEED LAB” public projects, running in Crossett Library, CAPA, and in other pop-up campus and local spaces from 2023-25. “ARCHIVE and ACCESS” is
CAPA