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Media Technology and Social Change — APA2203.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: erika mijlin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
From the print revolution to the birth of photography, from moving images to social networking, we find that new media technologies are continually adapting to us, as we simultaneously, and more subtly, adapt to them. Every wave of technological innovation leaves human existence more closely intertwined with media of documentation and communication. A central question forms
CAPA Visual Arts

Media Technology and Social Change — APA2203.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Erika Mijlin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
From the print revolution to the birth of photography, from moving images to social networking, we find that new media technologies are continually adapting to us, as we simultaneously, and more subtly, adapt to them. Every wave of technological innovation leaves human existence more closely intertwined with media of documentation and communication. A central question forms
Advancement of Public Action

Media, Technology and Social Change — APA2203.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Erika Mijlin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
From the print revolution to the birth of photography, from moving images to social networking, we find that new media technologies are continually adapting to us, as we simultaneously, and more subtly, adapt to them. Every wave of technological innovation leaves human existence more closely intertwined with media of documentation and communication. A central question forms
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Meditation Among Us — APA2193.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Dor Ben-Amotz
Days & Time: TH 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 2

In this class we will explore the practice of meditation as a physical and mental training exercise. In class meditation and discussion, as well as outside reading and writing assignments, will explore Eastern and Western persepctives on ourselves and the world. Discussions will focus on the relationship between meditation, Buddhist philosophy and scientific

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Middle Eastern Diasporic Experience in Theatre and Cinema — APA2155.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Burcu Seyben
Credits: 4
This course will focus on the plays, films, playwrights, directors and theatre companies exploring the diasporic experience of the recent Middle Eastern migrants. The course will explore how Middle Eastern Diaspora Theatre responds to the recent political climate, the conflict and wars in the Middle East. The course will look at the works of those artists who have left their
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Migration and Migrants in Theatre, Film, and Documentaries — DRA2175.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Burcu Seyben
Credits: 4
Migration and migrants have been explored extensively in theatre, film and documentaries. The Immigrants’ Theatre Project by NYC-ARTS in New York, Royal Court Theatre in London, and Gorki Theatre in Berlin are some of the theatre companies that especially help immigrant playwrights to develop works about the experience of migration. Ariane Mnouchkine, Robert Lepage and Rimini
CAPA Drama

Migration, Diaspora and Exile: New Voices in the Literature of Global Dislocation — LIT2286.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Benjamin Anastas
Credits: 4
The recent mass migrations of people due to armed conflict, the globalized economy, the fall of the colonial world order and climate change have unsettled political establishments throughout the West and set of waves of pro-nationalist and anti-immigrant protests. In literature, however, the voices of the dispossessed have arguably never been stronger or more influential. This
CAPA Literature

Monitoring the Paran Creek Watershed — ES2113.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Tim Schroeder
Credits: 4
Much discussion of environmental protection is based on the unit of a local watershed. Fully considering a watershed requires relating landscapes, land cover, and human land use to the waterways that we rely upon to live. This field-based class will work with community groups and environmental professionals to begin a long-term watershed monitoring system for Paran Creek. This
CAPA Science and Mathematics Environment

More-than-human Dances — DAN2366.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Mina Nishimura
Credits: 4
Through creative embodied inquiry and somatic practice, we will disorient and deconstruct human-centric ways of being, doing and performing. We will engage the more-than-human as teacher, as agent, and collaborator, by attuning ourselves toward more-than-human timescales, spatialities, relationships, and modes of perception and embodiment. Physical investigations will be
CAPA Dance

Multi-Party and Full Track Diplomacy — MED4203.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Michael Cohen
Credits: 2
The world of diplomacy is traditionally divided into three tracks consisting of Track 1 (high-level political, military leaders, and official negotiators who discuss major agreements), Track 2 (academics, religious leaders, and managers who focus on relationships and problem solving often in new ways), and Track 3 (People to People diplomacy). Underutilized is a fourth track
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Multi-Species Lab — APA2302.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: RRansick@bennington.edu
Credits: 4
The Multi-Species Lab is an art and research class focused on creative practices and strategies that decenter the human being in a world of ecological uncertainty and recalibration. Through collaborative and creative activities and assignments, we will research and question ideas of how to understand life—including human life—as a plural and ecologically enmeshed phenomenon.
CAPA Environment Visual Arts

Music as an Instrument for Social Change — MHI2114.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Bruce Williamson
Credits: 4
This course will examine how music has provided strength and solidarity to various protest movements of the 20th century, often with dedicated support from student populations. We will look for examples of injustice and oppression which resulted in powerful musical expressions of both descriptive concern and angry defiance. Some of the social movements with a rich partnership
CAPA Dance Music

Music, Gender, and Sexuality in the Middle East — MHI2252.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Joseph Alpar
Credits: 2
This course will explore the construction and experience of gender and sexuality in the Middle East through a musical lens. Drawing on ethnomusicological, historical, sociological and anthropological research in the region, the course will examine music-making as a process of representation, assertion, and sometimes transgression of sexuality and gender identities. We will talk
CAPA Music Society Culture and Thought

Narrative, Trauma, and Bearing Witness — PSY4134.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Ella Ben Hagai
Credits: 4
In this advanced psychology seminar, we will dive into foundational work in Narrative Psychology. We will study the relationship between the narrative structure and human cognitive processes including memory, perception, and conceptualization. We will learn how cultural differences shape children's varied storytelling practices. Through the lens of social psychology research,
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Nature in the Americas — APA4128.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: david bond
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
What is Nature? And what can we do with Nature? Such questions have a lively history in the Americas. Indeed, while Nature has a near mythic form in many public debates, much of its content is culled again and again from salient American examples. This course, then, uses such thorny questions as provocations to reflect more precisely on the historical cases and empirical
CAPA Social Science Environment

Nature in the Americas — APA4148.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 4
What is Nature? Is Nature the biological substratum of human society or the converging practices of local ecology? Is Nature a potent historical agent in its own right or a philosophical blunder of epic proportions? Such questions have a lively history in the Americas. Indeed, while Nature has near mythic form in scholarly and public debates, its content is culled again and
CAPA Environment Society Culture and Thought

Nature in the Americas — Canceled

Spring 2017
Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 4
What is Nature? Is Nature the biological substratum of human society or the converging practices of local ecology? Is Nature a potent historical agent in its own right or a philosophical blunder of epic proportions? Such questions have a lively history in the Americas. Indeed, while Nature has a near mythic form in many public debates, much of its content is culled again
CAPA Society Culture and Thought Environment

NGO Workshop — APA2123.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Alison Dennis
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The last few decades have seen tremendous growth in non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in almost all parts of the world, and in almost all realms of human interest. Today, NGOs are a highly visible (and consequently a highly criticized) component of civil society, and are major players in the broad fields of environmental protection and social justice at local, national and
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NGOs, Peacebuilding, and Development — SCT4109.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Kate Paarlberg-Kvam
Credits: 4
In the last thirty years, non-governmental organizations have played an outsized role in global affairs, perhaps most notably in development and peacebuilding processes. How did the NGO form develop, and why? How do NGOs interact with states, global institutions, and grassroots populations in the Global South? What effects - positive, negative, and complicated - have NGOs had
CAPA Environment Society Culture and Thought

On the Question of Violence: Inquiry, Movement, and Rupture — APA4253.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 4
We live in a violent world. It seems that everywhere we look, humans and other living (and non-living) beings are engulfed in overwhelming cyclones of intimate and catastrophic violence. In corners of the globe, wars have continued unabated for generations while new conflicts erupt on every continent. Elsewhere neoliberal regimes flirt with coercion as a more reliable basis of
Advancement of Public Action Society Culture and Thought

One Man’s Treasure: Environmental Dispute Resolution — APA2210.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 4
On this ever shrinking planet, the likelihood that one will be a stakeholder in a dispute over natural resources, property development or environmental injury has never been greater. Through experiential learning, this course in environmental dispute resolution is designed to help equip students to effectively engage such conflict. We will examine the complexity of
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Oral History for Social Change — APA4313.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Alisa Del Tufo
Credits: 2
In a world filled with algorithms and “big data”are the stories that express our experiences and values still important? How can we promote the use of narratives when our stories can be used in ways that are neither ethical nor supportive of our vision for change? This class will share ways that oral history and narrative can be used to promote equity and empathy that challenge
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