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Graduate Research in Public Action — APA5102.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Robert Ransick
Credits: 6
This class is designed for MFA students to research and develop new work, show work-in-progress, be in critical dialogue with their colleagues, and discuss issues involved in the development of new work. The weekly format is determined with the students. Outside of class, students develop their own independent creative projects that will be presented to the public, either
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Graduate Research in Public Action — APA5102.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 6
This class is designed for MFA students to research and develop new work, show work-in-progress, be in critical dialogue with their colleagues, and discuss issues involved in the development of new work. The weekly format is determined with the students. Outside of class, students develop their own independent creative projects that will be presented to the public, either
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Graduate Research in Public Action — APA5102.01, section 1

Spring 2020
Instructor: Robert Ransick
Credits: 6
This class is designed for MFA students to research and develop new work, show work-in-progress, be in critical dialogue with their colleagues, and discuss issues involved in the development of new work. The weekly format is determined with the students. Outside of class, students develop their own independent creative projects that will be presented to the public, either
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Graduate Research in Public Action — APA5102.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 6

This course is required for all graduate students enrolled in the MFA in Public Action program. In-depth research connected to their Plan, their professional work and their teaching is required. This research can take the form of reading, writing, archival work,
interviews and creative practice. A body of research is required at the end of each term related to their

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Graduate Research in Public Action — APA5102.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 6
This class is designed for MFA students to research and develop new work, show work-in-progress, be in critical dialogue with their colleagues, and discuss issues involved in the development of new work. The weekly format is determined with the students. Outside of class, students develop their own independent creative projects that will be presented to the public, either
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Graduate Research in Public Action — APA5102.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Robert Ransick
Credits: 6
This class is designed for MFA students to research and develop new work, show work-in-progress, be in critical dialogue with their colleagues, and discuss issues involved in the development of new work. The weekly format is determined with the students. Outside of class, students develop their own independent creative projects that will be presented to the public, either
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Graduate Seminar on Pedagogy and Public Action — APA5103.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: TBA
Credits: 4
This course is centered on conducting research and mapping the field of socially and civically engaged pedagogy within a global context. What capacities and skills do students who create artworks in collaboration with the public need to acquire and what is the history of teaching these practices?
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Graduate Seminar on Pedagogy and Public Action — APA5103.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 4
This course is centered on conducting research and mapping the field of socially and civically engaged pedagogy within a global context. What capacities and skills do students who create artworks in collaboration with the public need to acquire and what is the history of teaching these practices?
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Graduate Seminar on Pedagogy and Public Action — APA5103.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This course is centered on conducting research and mapping the field of socially and civically engaged pedagogy within a global context. What capacities and skills do students who create artworks in collaboration with the public need to acquire and what is the history of teaching these practices?
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Graduate Seminar on Pedagogy and Public Action — APA5103.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Robert Ransick and Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 4
This course is centered on conducting research and mapping the field of socially and civically engaged pedagogy within a global context. What capacities and skills do students who create artworks in collaboration with the public need to acquire and what is the history of teaching these practices?
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Graduate Seminar on Pedagogy and Public Action — APA5103.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Robert Ransick Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 4
This course is centered on conducting research and mapping the field of socially and civically engaged pedagogy within a global context. What capacities and skills do students who create artworks in collaboration with the public need to acquire and what is the history of teaching these practices?
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Graduate Seminar on Pedagogy and Public Action — APA5103.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This course is centered on conducting research and mapping the field of socially and civically engaged pedagogy within a global context. What capacities and skills do students who create artworks in collaboration with the public need to acquire and what is the history of teaching these practices?
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Graduate Seminar on Pedagogy and Public Action — APA5103.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This course is centered on conducting research and mapping the field of socially and civically engaged pedagogy within a global context. What capacities and skills do students who create artworks in collaboration with the public need to acquire and what is the history of teaching these practices?
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Graduate Seminar on Pedagogy and Public Action — APA5103.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4

The Graduate Seminar in Public Action is required of all students in the MFA in Public Action program. This seminar focuses on their current professional work. Each student will identify at the beginning of each term the professional work to be accomplished. This can be located at Bennington College or in another professional venue anywhere in the world. This professional

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Graduate Seminar on Pedagogy and Public Action — APA5103.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Robert Ransick, Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 4
This course is centered on conducting research and mapping the field of socially and civically engaged pedagogy within a global context. What capacities and skills do students who create artworks in collaboration with the public need to acquire and what is the history of teaching these practices?
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Graduate Seminar on Pedagogy and Public Action — APA5103.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Robert Ransick Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 4
This course is centered on conducting research and mapping the field of socially and civically engaged pedagogy within a global context. What capacities and skills do students who create artworks in collaboration with the public need to acquire and what is the history of teaching these practices?
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Graduate Seminar on Pedagogy and Public Action — APA5103.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Brian Michael Murphy
Credits: 4
This course is centered on conducting research and mapping the field of socially and civically engaged pedagogy within a global context. What capacities and skills do students who create artworks in collaboration with the public need to acquire and what is the history of teaching these practices?
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Higher Education in the United States: Exploring Purpose and Practice — APA2209.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Lydia Brassard
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course invites students to consider university and college life in the contemporary United States, focusing on where and how theory and practice align, overlap, and diverge. In an effort to actively confront and map the so-called “Bennington Bubble,” Bennington College will serve as an anchoring case study through which to consider the course’s themes.
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Higher Resolution — FV4102.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Karthik Pandian
Credits: 2
In this 7-week video production workshop, students will collaborate to make a film that explores the double meaning of resolution –  video resolution and conflict resolution. After watching historical film precedents such as Abbas Kiarostami’s Close-up, we will devise and fully realize a narrative short that centers around a conflict using both 16mm film and
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Hip Hop Archaeology — MS2105.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Brian Michael Murphy
Credits: 4
Hip hop music producers have long practiced “diggin’ in the crates”—a phrase that denotes searching through record collections to find material to sample. In this course, we will examine the material and technological history of hip hop culture, with particular attention to hip hop’s tendency to sample, remix, mash-up, and repurpose existing media artifacts to create new works
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Historic Preservation in the United States: An Intersectional Approach — EDU2216.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Lydia Brassard
Credits: 4
2016 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the U.S. National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as well as the U.S. National Park Service Centennial. Over the last half-century, the effects of the NHPA and the expansion of the National Park Service have radically reshaped urban cities and communities across the nation. An outcome of the accelerated preservation projects and
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Historical Grievances and Retrospective Redress — APA4129.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Credits: 4
This course is an opportunity to explore the politics of history-based grievances, including slavery, forced labor, genocide, mass violence, wartime plunder, and localized state-sanctioned violence. We will also explore an emerging array of reconciliation models, including trials, truth commissions, reparations, community mediation, and revisions of national narratives. The
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