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Creating A Successful Residential Community — APA2027.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
Living on campus is an essential part of the Bennington student experience. As the College has one of the more economically and culturally diverse student bodies compared to other elite colleges and universities in the United States, how can students connect with and support one another in a meaningful way and create an inclusive and equitable residential community in this
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Creating Field Guides to Bennington — APA2217.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Marina Zurkow, MFA Teaching Fellow
Credits: 2
In this 7-week workshop we will uncover aspects of Bennington, perform research, tell stories, and design booklets using the familiar form of the field guide. A field guide is a manual used to identify things (birds, trees, minerals and more) in their natural environment. It follows certain rules, such as an identification system, a grammar, a map, and a how-to use section. All
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Creating Our Future: Improvisation for a Catastrophe — APA2301.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 2
This class will look at how we are all responsible to co-create the world that we want to live in, particularly right now during this global pandemic. What are the skills and capacities we need to learn and practice in improvisation, complex systems analysis, emergent structuring, conflict transformation and collaboration? We will hear from professional practitioners either on
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Creating Participatory Events at the Intersection of Choreographic and Conflict Engagement Practices — APA2447.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 2
The course will involve students in the practice of integrating choreographic thinking and conflict engagement through practical application in the process of creating dynamic structures and motion strategies for a series of sketches for participatory event models, while increasing their understanding of possible cross-disciplinary applications of this work. The course will
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Creating substance prevention programming on campus — APA2362.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
The use of substances (alcohol and common drugs of abuse) on campuses for recreation and stress management has had a long storied history. As more campuses focus on wellbeing, including Bennington, the emphasis has transitioned to creating space for students to think critically about these topics and dig deep into the myths and culture about use on campus. Using this as our
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Creating the CAPA Forum for Full Track Diplomacy — APA2149.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Michael Cohen
Credits: 4
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 
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Creative Economies — APA4306.02

Spring 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 1
This course is designed for students of all disciplines who are interested in connecting their discrete creations (a poem, a drawing, an artwork, a product, an event) to larger systems, organizations, and possible art worlds. In this course, we will examine the ways in which every aspect of your production and distribution process — from sourcing materials to
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Creative Economies — APA2167.02

Spring 2019
Instructor: Caroline Woolard
Credits: 2
This course is designed for students of all disciplines who are interested in connecting their discrete creations (a poem, a drawing, an artwork, a product, an event) to larger systems, organizations, and possible art worlds. In this course, we will examine the ways in which every aspect of your production and distribution process -- from sourcing materials to organizing your
CAPA

Creative Economies — APA2167.02

Spring 2020
Instructor: Caroline Woolard, MFA Teaching Fellow
Credits: 2
This course is designed for students of all disciplines who are interested in connecting their discrete creations (a poem, a drawing, an artwork, a product, an event) to larger systems, organizations, and possible art worlds. In this course, we will examine the ways in which every aspect of your production and distribution process — from sourcing materials to organizing your
CAPA Visual Arts

Creative Podcasting — MSR2125.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Senem Pirler
Credits: 2
In this course, we will explore the creative possibilities of the podcast medium and push the edges of verbal storytelling. We will investigate the forms of audio journalism and poetic soundscapes. We will use creative voice processing techniques working with electronics to transform the human voice. There will be an emphasis on production and experiential learning through
CAPA Music Visual Arts

Creative Strategies for Artists — APA2165.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Aaron Landsman
Credits: 2
This course examines production methods and career strategies for emerging artists, especially those working across genres. Specifically, we will focus on fundraising via donations, grants, commissions, day jobs and other sources; strategic planning, especially when looking at socially-engaged practice; written and verbal communications; working with venues; promotion and press
CAPA Dance Drama Visual Arts

Creative Strategies for Artists — APA2162.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Aaron Landsman
Credits: 2
This course examines production methods and career strategies for emerging artists, especially those working across genres. Specifically, we will focus on fundraising via donations, grants, commissions, day jobs and other sources; strategic planning, especially when looking at socially-engaged practice; written and verbal communications; working with venues; promotion and press
CAPA

Critical Conversations in Society, Culture, and Thought: Truth and Lies — SCT2106.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Carol Pal
Credits: 4
This course introduces students to some of the key questions, perspectives, and debates that enliven scholarly work within Society, Culture, and Thought (SCT). This course also explores how fluency in the social sciences can inform critical and creative engagements with contemporary problems.  Four faculty members will take students through four different approaches to a
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Crossroads: Race, Gender and Justice in Higher Education — APA2327.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
Explicit and implicit biases contribute to inequity and significant achievement gaps in education.  Research has shown a connection between success in early childhood education and imprisonment. Equity in Education is equitable when outcomes are similar for all students without regard to race, gender, ethnicity, class, language, ability, or sexual orientation. 
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Cultural Studies: Amanda Knox in Translation — MOD2138.02

Fall 2014
Instructor: barbara alfano
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
This is the second of a two-module series that discusses the importance of approaching a different culture from its own perspective. The series, which includes "Cultural Studies: Learning Cultural Perspectives Through Ikebana," will help students experience the process of cross-cultural understanding. One of the interesting and controversial aspects of Knox's trial in Italy is
CAPA Languages Modules: Transferable Approaches

Cultural Studies: Learning Culture Through Ikebana — MOD2148.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: ikuko yoshida
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
This is the first of a two-module series that discusses the importance of approaching a different culture from its own perspective. The series, which includes Cultural Studies: Amanda Knox in Translation (MOD2138), will help students experience the process of cross-cultural understanding. The capacity to sense, let alone experience, another's point of view seems critical in
CAPA Visual Arts Modules: Transferable Approaches

Dance Now/Africa — APA2157.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Souleymane Badolo
Credits: 2
A great deal of what we know of Non-Western dance makers is through written critiques, reviews, and social media. Contemporary dance artists in West and East Africa are essentially unknown in the United States. Dance as an art form is situated in a context of politics, history and the environment. In this course, we will look at, not only the critiques and reviews, but also the
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Data Social Justice — DA2135.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Dan Phiffer
Credits: 4
Digital technologies have fundamentally shifted how social justice movements operate. "Organizing without organizations" and "laptop activism" are no longer novel or fringe activities. The social media tools we rely on to gather in public can also be antagonistic toward individual participants. This course explores the digital tools and data archives that inform modern
CAPA Visual Arts

Decolonizing Ethnomusicology — MHI4306.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Joseph Alpar
Credits: 4
What does it mean to decolonize a field of study? Ethnomusicologists are currently grappling with this question, rethinking how to research, write, teach, and listen in ways that engage with people and perspectives that have been historically suppressed, marginalized, and silenced. Social justice is at the heart of the decolonial project. How can ethnomusicology empower the
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

DeltasUNite: The United Nations Convention on Saving the River Deltas — APA2192.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Days & Time: WE 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 2

This class will examine the current diplomacy and process of a new Convention for the United Nations on Conserving the River Deltas. We will hear from some of the lead partners on the project: The Transboundary Water In-Cooperation Network (TWIN), co-founded by CAPA and the Institute for Environmental Diplomacy and Security at the University of Vermont, and the African

Advancement of Public Action

Democracy Under Siege — APA2163.02

Fall 2018
Instructor: Brian Campion Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 1
Money in politics, disrespect for the Constitution, low voter turnout, attacks on the press, the office of the President...Is the American Democracy under siege? What are the signs that it is or isn’t? If it is, what signs should Americans be looking for? Can it survive? What is a true democracy and where does it exist in the world? This series will bring together artists,
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Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" and Public Action — MOD2136.04

Fall 2014
Instructor: brooke allen; alison dennis
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
Since its publication in 1843, Charles Dickens' allegorical tale about a miserly businessman has never gone out of print. While the novella's holiday-themed story is widely known, a close reading of the original text reveals sharp criticism of industrial capitalism and its devastating impact on social welfare. In this module we will read A Christmas Carol aloud together and
CAPA Literature Modules: Transferable Approaches