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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 BYC Catalogue 2025 (Building Your Community) — APA2029.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 2
In 1968, during the heyday of the '60s counterculture and the turmoil of the Vietnam War, the Whole Earth Catalogue was published. The publication's motto was "access to tools" providing readers with 'do it yourself' advice that could allow them to be more self-reliant and get more in touch with nature. This class is for students to envision the Future Community Catalogue 2025.
CAPA

CAPA Workshop: Rethinking Education — APA4208.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Elizabeth Coleman
Credits: 4
*** Time Change *** We start with as deep and thoughtful an exploration as we can manage of what education should be, then look at what it is in order to take on the challenge of what it will take to close the gap between the two. We focus initially on the United States where its historic position as a model to the world with respect to public education has radically altered.
CAPA

CAPA Workshop: Rethinking Education — APA4208.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Liz Coleman
Credits: 4
We start with as deep and thoughtful an exploration as we can manage of what education should be, then look at what it is in order to take on the challenge of what it will take to close the gap between the two. We focus initially on the United States where its historic position as a model to the world with respect to public education has radically altered. Despite having a
CAPA

Changing Our Lens Part 2 — APA4314.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This is a continuation of Changing Our Lens Fall 2023. New students are encouraged to enroll in order to become acquainted with the philosophy and history of restorative justice as well as the psychological underpinnings of these practices. Students who have already been in other restorative justice classes will work at a deeper level and continue to practice restorative
CAPA

Changing Our Lens Part 2 — APA2025.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Alisa Del Tufo
Credits: 4
This is a continuation of Changing Our Lens Fall 2023. New students are encouraged to enroll in order to become acquainted with the philosophy and history of restorative justice as well as the psychological underpinnings of these practices. Students who have already been in other restorative justice classes will work at a deeper level and continue to practice restorative
CAPA

Changing Our Lens: Restorative Justice on Campus and Off — APA2022.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Alisa Del Tufo
Credits: 4
Restorative Justice is a set of values and practices that are having a considerable impact on the way our justice system, schools, workplaces, conflict zones and communities think about and enact justice. Restorative Justice asks: What if harm doers were given the opportunity to take responsibility and make amends? If survivors were able to be active participants in defining
CAPA

Choreography of Attention — APA2342.02

Spring 2021
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 2
Attention is a primary way we shape experience from perception. In this class, makers in all disciplines are invited to examine the movements of attention in relation to their work and how this choreography affects the experience of the viewer, the reader, the listener, the participant. Through readings, we will deepen our understanding of attention as seen from different
CAPA

Cities Art Forum — APA4151.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Susie Ibarra
Credits: 4
Cities have defined many artist’s work, while artists have also defined and help build cities. Art has transformed public spaces and created economic growth. It has provided a critical eye and ear for what is not being seen or heard. While collaborating with health programs and supporting children’s education, art also grapples with poverty, and speaks out on human rights
CAPA

Cities Arts Forum — APA2117.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Susie Ibarra
Credits: 2
Cities Art Forum will explore and discuss the current trajectories of cities through the relationships and works of artists with cities. Cities have defined many artist’s work, while artists have also defined and help build cities. Art has transformed public spaces and created economic growth. It has provided a critical eye and ear for what is not being seen
CAPA

City and Hinterland — Canceled

Fall 2014
Instructor: valerie imbruce
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Cities have always been intimately connected to their rural hinterlands. The waterways and farmland surrounding cities gave rise to urban commerce and population density. In turn, urban growth resulted in the pollution and destruction of the natural environment. Now, as rural to urban migration continues at rapid rates, cities face the new challenge of housing over half of the
CAPA Environment

Civil Society in Conflict Resolution — POL4248.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Credits: 2
Civil society is the arena of autonomous associational organization and activity. It has been credited with promoting various virtuous outcomes, including democratization, development, and social peace. This course critically surveys civil society’s roles in peacemaking and peace building. We will explore theoretical controversies regarding civil society’s forms, norms, promise
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Civil Society in Conflict Resolution — POL4248.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Civil society or the arena of autonomous associational organization and activity has been credited with promoting various virtuous outcomes, including democratization, development, and social peace. This course critically surveys civil societies’ roles in peacemaking and peace building. It will explore theoretical controversies on the nature and roles of civil society as well
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Civil Society in Conflict Resolution — POL4248.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Credits: 2
Civil society or the arena of autonomous associational organization and activity has been credited with promoting various virtuous outcomes, including democratization, development, and social peace. This course critically surveys civil societies’ roles in peacemaking and peace building. It will explore theoretical controversies on the nature and roles of civil society as well
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Class, Race, and Gender: Rewriting the Rules of the Game — APA4155.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Mohammad Moeini Feizabadi
Credits: 4
“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.” —Edmund Burke “Institutions are the rules of the game.” —Douglass C. North In this course, first we will try to answer several questions: why is our society so polarized, and what are the roots of social conflict? Why do social groups confront each other at all, and how? Can we understand
CAPA

Climate Change and Advocacy — APA2187.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
This course will expose students to the various advocacy methods on the climate issue. The course will include readings, class discussion, group projects, and hands-on advocacy efforts (e.g., lobbying, organizing events, social media, public education). Students will select a particular climate campaign or organization to do advocacy with. The class will address key issues
CAPA

Climate Change and the Food System — APA2019.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
This course will help prepare students for one of the fastest growing fields of journalism, research and practice. Farmers, reliant on sun, water, and predictable temperature variations, are at the frontline of climate disruptions, as well as being major contributors to those disruptions. The backstory to the food we eat—how it’s grown, who owns it and who eats it—is
CAPA

Climate Under Siege: Public Policy Forums@CAPA — APA2179.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Brian Campion Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 1
Whether it’s in your community, your state, your country or in the world, understanding the impacts of global warming and how to participate in future policy decisions has become an essential role of the citizen.  This Fall 2019's Public Policy Forum @ CAPA presents an opportunity to learn from policy makers, academics, and leading thinkers and activists on many aspects of
CAPA Environment

Collaborative Worldbuilding: Social Justice Entrepreneurship — APA2324.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
Year 2020. The Republic, a fledgling, young country, has left decades of relative prosperity and entered an era marked by poor governance, a world-shaking pandemic, the open persecution of oppressed minority groups, and a ruling class determined to maintain its wealth and power. The first half of this course will deconstruct the foundational social, economic, and governance
CAPA

Collective Entrepreneurship: Full Circle Leadership — APA2282.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: RRansick@bennington.edu
Credits: 2
Building on the elements of the Future of Work courses (Future of Work: Alternative Organizations Future of Work: Individual Capacity) this practicum based course focuses on creating prototypes of organizing models that hold livelihood, participation and mutual support as equivalent. Optimising for impact and meaning, within the context of deliberate development, students will
CAPA

Community and Liberation Psychology — PSY4382.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Özge Savaş
Credits: 4
In this course, students will become familiar with the foundational texts of community and liberation psychology. We will read and discuss Latin American origins of Liberation Psychology using texts written by Ignacio Martin Baró, Paulo Freire and others, as well as the foundational decolonial texts that emerged from continental Europe such as ones written by Franz Fanon. We
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Community Transformation: A Multi-Party Negotiation over Trans-boundary Water Resources in the Indus Basin between Pakistan and Afghanistan — MED4208.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati with guest Michael Cohen
Credits: 2
This seven-week course will explore the complex issues involved in a multi-party collaborative problem-solving process. Systems analysis, conflict resolution models and negotiation strategies will all be covered as to their strategic utility in these types of complicated disputes. Students will read the AREU (Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit) report on the conflict over
CAPA Environment

Comparative Political Corruption — POL4102.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Credits: 2
Political corruption is broadly understood to involve the exploitation of public office for private gain. It is a longstanding problem, and it persists more or less in every society, including old democracies and developing countries. This course explores the definitions, drivers, patterns, effects and control of political corruption from a global perspective. Key topics
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Comparing Political Institutions — POL2101.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Credits: 4
Political institutions are the decision norms and organizations that govern political life. Academic and policy interest in such institutions is flourishing as previously authoritarian states seek to craft democratic constitutions, while established and new democracies contend with non-democratic, illiberal, or populist challenges to their political systems. This course
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Computer Science Principles — CS2131.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Meltem Ballan
Credits: 4
This course is designed for all students. Computer Science Principles is an introductory course that introduces students to the breadth of the field of computer science. Students will learn to design and evaluate solutions and to apply computer science to solve problems through the development of algorithms and programs. Students will be provided real world  insights,
CAPA Science and Mathematics