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Learning By Doing: Progressive Education in a Public High School Classroom — APA2127.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 4
In a collaborative effort between Bennington College and two Mount Anthony Union High School programs (the Quantum Leap Exhibit Program and the Bridges Summer Transitional Program), the Sababa Project ( a joint classroom for Bennington College and MAUHS students) attempts to demystify the college experience while providing high school students with hands-on, real-world,
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Lexicon of Forced Migration — APA2170.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: John Hultgren
Credits: 4
The course is intended to provide students an introduction to foundational concepts of migration studies. The course will navigate this complex topic through four thematic anchors: (1) Time and Space, which will explore the history of migration from a global perspective, emphasizing the uneven development, colonial encounters, and environmental pressures that give rise to
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Lexicon of Forced Migration — APA2170.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: John Hultgren
Credits: 4
The course is intended to provide students an introduction to foundational concepts of migration studies. The course will navigate this complex topic through four thematic anchors: (1) Time and Space, which will explore the history of migration from a global perspective, emphasizing the uneven development, colonial encounters, and environmental pressures that give rise to
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Lexicon of Forced Migration — APA2170.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: John Hultgren
Credits: 4
The course is intended to provide students an introduction to foundational concepts of migration studies. The course will navigate this complex topic through four thematic anchors: (1) Time and Space, which will explore the history of migration from a global perspective, emphasizing the uneven development, colonial encounters, and environmental pressures that give rise to
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Listening and Making — APA2340.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 2
This class, for makers in any discipline, explores sound as a resource for creative practice. In our sessions we will engage in specific listening protocols and respond through writing, drawing, recording, moving, and experimental forms of notation. We will gather a wide variety of sounds as source material: reading texts aloud to each other, listening to field recordings,
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Living in Translation: A Student-Run Literary and Cultural Publication — LIT2347.02

Fall 2019
Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz
Credits: 2
This course, while rooted in Literature, is part of the Lexicons of Migration cluster. Taking as a point of departure Isabelle de Courtivron's touchstone Bilingual Lives: Writers and Identity, students will update, complicate, and enrich the binary orientation of this collection, originally published in 2003. We will delve into the personal, familial, communal, and political
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Make Kitchen Communal Again: Culinary Participation and Storytelling — APA4245.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
Credits: 2
Building strong community support infrastructure is essential in the age of global pandemics as it has been during past emergencies and disasters. At this pivotal moment, communal kitchens can be reframed as vital, alternative social spaces to foster democratic learning. In this space we can regain the importance of cross-generational skillsharing and reclaiming community
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Make Kitchen Communal Practicum — APA4302.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
Credits: 4
Building strong community support infrastructure is essential in the age of global pandemics, as it has been during past emergencies and natural disasters. Civic engaged actions and intentional social practices which are embedded in the locale have become more crucial when government agencies’ responses to the emergencies are slow or delayed. Can we revitalize or create new
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Making and Breaking International Law — HIS2130.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Credits: 4
International law is no longer merely "out there" somewhere, relevant only to travelers, merchants and diplomats. Quite the contrary. International law is being globalized, and 'glocalized,' so that it now covers complex contested areas such as civil unions, health insurance, sexual orientation, migration. This is an introduction to the fundamentals of twenty
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Making and Breaking International Law — HIS4218.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Credits: 4
International law is no longer merely "out there" somewhere, relevant only to travelers, merchants and diplomats. International law is being globalized, and glocalized, so that it now covers complex contested areas such as civil unions, health insurance, sexual orientation, migration. We will focus on the fundamentals of twenty-first century international law, delving into
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Making Sense of World Events — POP2356.03

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 1
Once again, Gaza has burst into view at the center of world events. More refugee camp than nation-state, Gaza is home to 2.2 million Palestinians (half of whom are under the age of 18) squeezed into a narrow sliver of land 25 miles long and 7 miles wide. One of the most densely populated, barricaded, and now bombed places on the planet, Gaza now demands attention on several
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Managing Complexity for an Abundant Future — APA2013.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
Everywhere we look—ecologically, economically, politically, socially—it seems we’re looking at disaster. Under a barrage of bad news, it is easy to understand why humans around the globe are suffering from depression, anxiety, anti-humanistic sentiment, and a devastating lack of hope. But it does not need to be so. A new and hopeful movement is growing around the globe—one
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Managing Ethnic Conflicts — POL4101.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Credits: 4
How should states and the international community respond to protracted and violent conflicts involving ethnic, linguistic, religious or other identity groups? This is/was one of the central challenges of politics and governance in places as diverse as Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Fiji, Iraq, India, Indonesia, Israel/Palestine, Lebanon, Northern Ireland, Nigeria, Rwanda
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Mapping Public Art, Performance and Intervention — APA2211.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Susie Ibarra
Credits: 4
This course will examine public art , performance and intervention in urban and rural settings of different regions. Historically what have been some of the practices in these communities? What are some of the contemporary practices presently? What happens in communities built around conflict? The class will look at art, performance and intervention in cultures that emphasize
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Mass Incarceration, an American Invention — APA2326.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 1
This course is a primer that serves to lay the backdrop for more specialized studies in American Justice systems. It is not a criminology course. It is a cultural exploration of the growth of incarceration in the United States and its peculiar connection to racial identity. With 2 million incarcerated people, the United States has had the highest rate of incarceration for more
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Media and Democracy — APA2132.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Erika Mijlin
Credits: 4
In the midst of the heat and noise of an election season, we will pursue an inquiry into the deeply entangled, complicit, and often conflicted role of media in a democratic society.  Topics may include:  historical precedence for media influence before and beyond American democracy, the role and responsibilities of a free press, the implications of corporate media
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Media and Democracy Workshop — APA2207.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: erika mijlin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
A laboratory for learning and working through the complexities of media's role in a democratic society. We will zero in on some of the pressing issues of this year's midterm elections, and use them as a lens onto topics such as : campaign finance, media ownership, information visualization (or distortion) by media, and some new strategies for media as a platform for ideas and a
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Media Archaeology: Signal and Data — APA4156.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Erika Mijlin
Credits: 4
A course exploring the 20th and 21st century media technologies, and various understandings of their social significance. Beginning with the development of radio and television, through the emergence of the computer and network technologies such as the internet and social media - this course takes up the questions of the transition from mechanical technologies to signal-based
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Media Archaeology: Signs and Representation — APA2131.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Erika Mijlin
Credits: 4
An introduction to the study of media technologies and their social impact. We will move somewhat chronologically from the emergence of writing systems through the printing press, photography, and the development of moving images - these mechanical technologies of documentation and communication each initiated a subsequent ripple of social and cultural changes in their time.
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Media Archaeology: Signs and Representation — APA2131.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Erika Mijlin
Credits: 4
An introduction to the study of media technologies and their social impact. We will move somewhat chronologically from the emergence of writing systems through the printing press, photography, and the development of moving images – these mechanical technologies of documentation and communication each initiated a subsequent ripple of social and cultural changes in their time.
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Media Convergence and Culture — APA4102.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Erika Mijlin
Credits: 4
A seminar on the changing nature of the relationship between consumption and production of media, and how these newly intersect. With a perspective rooted in the cultural history of forms such as quotation, parody, and collage, in this course we will explore the many transitions in the present media paradigm — the changing aesthetics of digital media content and context, the
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Media Convergence and Culture — APA4102.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Erika Mijlin
Credits: 4
A seminar on the changing nature of the relationship between consumption and production of media, and how these newly intersect. With a perspective rooted in the cultural history of forms such as quotation, parody, and collage, in this course we will explore the many transitions in the present media paradigm — the changing aesthetics of digital media content and context, the
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Media Convergence and Culture — APA4102.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Erika Mijlin
Credits: 4
A seminar on the changing nature of the relationship between consumption and production of media, and how these newly intersect. With a perspective rooted in the cultural history of forms such as quotation, parody, and collage, in this course we will explore the many transitions in the present media paradigm -- the changing aesthetics of digital media content and context, the
CAPA Visual Arts