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Beyond Plastic Pollution — APA2334.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Judith Enck
Credits: 1
An environmental policy class which closely examines the environmental and public health implications of the production, use and disposal of plastics.  The class is taught on zoom and there are many communty people from around the country who audit the class, which results in a nice exchange of ideas between Bennington students and community people who love to learn. 
CAPA Environment

Beyond Plastic Pollution — APA2334.02

Spring 2024
Instructor: Judith Enck
Credits: 1
This is an action-packed public policy course that addresses the root problems of the plastic pollution crisis and what students and citizens of the world can do to address it.   There is no text book, but multiple reading requirements and lectures focused on the production, use and disposal of plastics. There will be a sharp focus on plastics impacts on: 
CAPA Environment Society Culture and Thought

Beyond Plastic Pollution — APA2334.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Judith Enck
Credits: 1
Beyond Plastic Pollution is a public policy course that focuses on the systemic reasons why millions of tons of plastics enter the ocean each year. This cutting-edge class will focus on the how plastic pollution is an urgent climate change issue; how the plastics industry spins the myth that we can recycle our way out of the problem; environmental justice and the the health
CAPA Environment

Beyond Plastic Pollution — APA2334.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Judith Enck
Credits: 1
An enviornmental policy class which closely examines the environmental and public health impacts of the production, transport, use and disposal of plastics.  It is taught on-line and includes many community people who audit the class  - creating a nice exchange of ideas between Bennington students and grassroots environmental advocates from across the country. 
CAPA

Beyond the Boss: Organizational Models for the 21st Century — APA2247.02

Fall 2019
Instructor: David Zicarelli
Credits: 1
Almost all work in the world is performed in groups and all groups involve some kind of organization. Whether it’s a fast-food restaurant, a band, an activist group, or even a college class, we investigate ideas of organization — often invisible — that we picked up from somewhere: families, teachers, bad bosses, and/or movies just to name a few. This course offers the
CAPA

Black Lives in Context: Brazil — APA2323.01) (cancelled

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
With the current focus on anti blackness in the USA, this course will demonstrate a much larger problem. We will show where black populations are within this hemisphere, then quickly focus on black life and struggle in Brazil. We will focus on how anti blackness is organized in Brazilian life and lifts up forms of black resistance in art, culture, and politics. Course dates:
CAPA

Black Studies: Black Film Division — FV2309.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Karthik Pandian
Credits: 2
This film history course examines the Black American independent cinema of the 1960s-80s. We will screen landmark works by filmmakers such as Charles Burnett, Haile Gerima, Kathleen Collins and Julie Dash along with videos by contemporary artists. Screenings will be followed by discussions exploring the key thematic and formal preoccupations of black filmmakers of the era
CAPA Visual Arts

Black Studies: Black Music Division — MUS2149.02

Fall 2016
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 2
In the early 70s Bennington music faculty members Bill Dixon and Milford Graves guided Bennington students through the black esthetic lens with music, words and deeds. Their compositions, teachings, and innovative approaches to creative music boldly addressed a multitude of issues inspired by the Civil Rights Movement. This 7 week course explores social, political and
CAPA Music

Black Studies: Black Music Division — MHI4102.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 2
This seven-week course encourages students who have taken Black Studies: Black Film Division or Black Studies: Black Video Division courses in the Fall 2016 term to take Black Studies: Black Music Division course spring term. Students will use this course to collaborate and realize an exhibition in the Usdan Gallery based on their work and research into the past, present and
CAPA Music

Black Studies: Black Spring I — FV4318.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Karthik Pandian
Credits: 2
Students who have taken Black Studies courses in the Fall 2016 term will use this course to realize an exhibition in the Usdan Gallery based on their work and research into the past, present and future of black lives at Bennington College. While the centerpiece of the exhibition will be the collaborative video produced in Black Studies: Black Video Division course, it will be
CAPA Visual Arts Music

Black Studies: Black Spring II — FV4320.02

Spring 2017
Instructor: Karthik Pandian
Credits: 2
Students who have taken Black Studies courses in the Fall 2016 term will use this course to realize physical and digital documentation of their work and research into the past, present and future of black lives at Bennington College. Participants in this practical course will archive and disseminate the work of Black Studies engaging technologies of print media, video
CAPA Visual Arts Music

Black Studies: Black Video Division — FV4317.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Karthik Pandian
Credits: 4
This intermediate video production course imagines the past, present and future of black lives at Bennington College. Through archival work on the history of the Black Music Division, research into contemporary issues of race on campus and speculative explorations of the future of these issues and the aesthetic problems they pose, students will work collaboratively to
CAPA Visual Arts

Bringing Creativity to B Corporations — MOD2253.03

Spring 2016
Instructor: Laura Callanan and Robert Ransick
Credits: 1
Certified B Corporations are for profit companies that voluntarily meet standards of transparency, accountability, and performance.  B Corps share a commitment to create higher quality jobs and improve the quality of life in their communities.  Currently certification standards for B Corps consider: the company’s governance structure, how it treats its workers, how it
CAPA Modules: Transferable Approaches

Building Regenerative and Resilient Communities — APA2441.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 2
This course will be an introduction into a new CAPA Initiative called Building Regenerative and Resilient Communities. In response to the pandemic, climate change, social justice inequity, and the problem of food insecurity, there is an opportunity to build our communities whether they are local, regional or global; to imagine the community that we want to live in. Through a
CAPA

Business Incubator — MOD2145.02

Fall 2015
Instructor: Alison Dennis
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
Do you imagine someday starting your own venture? Do you have an idea for a business, organization or social enterprise? Are you a working artist, musician or entrepreneur? Are you considering a self-employed career path? Group sessions and one-on-one coaching will help entrepreneurs develop and hone practical plans to support, strengthen and forward their business ideas.
CAPA Modules: Transferable Approaches

Business Incubator — MOD2145.02

Fall 2014
Instructor: alison dennis
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
Do you imagine someday starting your own venture? Do you have an idea for a business, organization or social enterprise? Are you a working artist, musician or entrepreneur? Are you considering a self-employed career path? Group sessions and one-on-one coaching will help entrepreneurs develop and hone practical plans to support, strengthen and forward their business ideas.
CAPA Modules: Transferable Approaches

Business, Ethics, Society — MOD2146.03

Fall 2014
Instructor: alison dennis
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
What are the relationships between economic, social and ecological prosperity? Is the creation of a just, equitable, humane and sustainable society possible given today's economic models and market dynamics? What are our obligations as individuals to contribute to setting the economic agenda for our society? What new approaches and models are redefining the relationship between
CAPA Modules: Transferable Approaches

Campaign Coverage in an Age of Disinformation — APA2350.01) (day/time change 7/8/2024

Fall 2024
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 2
Taking Hannah Arendt’s 1967 New Yorker article “Truth and Politics” as a foundational text, this course will examine how the 2024 election is being covered, and should be covered, in an age when basic facts about politics, history, and voting itself are in dispute. Truth and politics have always lived in a wary co-existence, as Arendt writes, but the modern tools of campaigning
CAPA

Can Restorative Justice Work in Cases of Intimate Violence? — APA4163.02

Fall 2021
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 2
Restorative practices have been considered inappropriate and even dangerous for situations in which there has been sexual an intimate violence. Why is this and are there ways to bring a restorative approach to harms of this nature? In this class we will read trauma and feminist theory in order to ground ourselves in some of the background literature that has traditionally been
CAPA

CAPA Advanced Workshop — APA4256.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 4
This course is for Seniors who are focusing on Advanced Work in Public Action. It involves producing a digital portfolio that will be housed in the Crossett Library. The portfolio includes research, a mission statement, theory of change and a plan of action with supporting materials (video, photography, images, etc.). Students should be engaged in advanced work in a discipline
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CAPA Advanced Workshop — APA4256.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Days & Time: WE 8:30am-12:10pm
Credits: 4

The CAPA Workshop is for Seniors who are engaged in their advanced work and want to complete a project as part of it in Public Action.Students are able to connect this work to any area of study at Bennington College. Each student will be required to assemble a digital portfolio that will include their research or thesis, along with a description and implementation of their

Advancement of Public Action

CAPA Advanced Workshop — APA4256.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 4
This course is for students who are doing advanced work in public action. Students create a digital portfolio that includes a project in a specific local, national or international community. Students will build this portfolio over the term that includes their research, documentation and a final showing of work. Most students connect this project to work in another discipline
CAPA

CAPA Advanced Workshop — APA4256.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 4
This class is for Seniors who are completing their advanced work in public action. Students will complete a digital portfolio that will include a description of their project, their research, and how they will implement their work in a specific location. The project can be local, regional, national or international. Students are encouraged to connect their Field Work Term to
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