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Entangled Worlds — APA4152.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 4
Human works alter the composition of natural worlds and the works of nature impinge upon social worlds. Yet so many of our inherited modes of thinking and acting are premised on a hard and fast distinction between Culture and Nature, the human and non-human, the subject and the object. In this seminar, we will explore a growing body of scholarship that privileges moments of
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Environment and Public Action — APA2122.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: David Bond
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 4

Today it is clear that the environment matters. In activism and scholarship and public policy, the environment has become a potent (if sometimes obligatory) point of reference. Less attention, however, has focused on the emergence of the environment itself as a converging field of action for advocacy, science, and statecraft. In this seminar, we

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Environment and Public Action — APA2122.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: David Bond
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Today, it is clear that the environment matters. In activism and scholarship and public policy, the environment has become a potent (if sometimes obligatory) point of reference. Less attention, however, has focused on the emergence of the environment itself as a converging field of action for advocacy, science, and statecraft. In this seminar, we will reflect not only on what
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Environment and Public Action — APA2122.01) (maximum enrollment increased 5/23/2023

Fall 2023
Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 4
Today it is clear that the environment matters. In activism and scholarship and public policy, the environment has become a potent (if sometimes obligatory) point of reference. Less attention, however, has focused on the emergence of the environment itself as a converging field of action for advocacy, science, and statecraft. In this seminar, we will reflect not only on what we
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Environment and Public Action — APA2122.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 4
Today it is clear that the environment matters. In activism and scholarship and public policy, the environment has become a potent (if sometimes obligatory) point of reference. Less attention, however, has focused on the emergence of the environment itself as a converging field of action for advocacy, science, and statecraft. In this seminar, we will reflect not only on what we
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Environment and Public Action — APA2122.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 4
Today it is clear that the environment matters. In activism and scholarship and public policy, the environment has become a potent (if sometimes obligatory) point of reference. Less attention, however, has focused on the emergence of the environment itself as a converging field of action for advocacy, science, and statecraft. In this seminar, we will reflect not only on what we
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Environmental Action Fellowship Post Fellowship Class — APA4161.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Judith Enck
Credits: 1
Students will have successfully completed the Endeavor Foundation Environmental Action Fellowship Class during the previous January term. The post fellowship class includes the cohort of students who learned new issues and new skills and who will be sharing their experiences for others to learn from.  The class will also sharpen the advocacy skills that were addressed
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Environmental Action Post Fellowship Class — APA4246.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Judith Enck
Credits: 1
This class is open to students who have participated in  the Endeavor Foundation's Environmental Action Fellowship.  The class will focus on the experiences each student had during their placement, what skills were enhanced, how to build on the new skills and how the cohort of students can learn from each others experiences. There will also be public policy
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Environmental Action Post Fellowship Class — APA4161.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Judith Enck
Credits: 1
After successfully completing the environmental action fellowship during Field Work term, students will review the fellowship experience and what they learned.  Class time will be spent helping each student prepare for a high level presention on their individual fellowship.  There will be continued focus on sharpening advocacy skills and learning about and discussing
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Envisioning Information: Mapping Complexity — MOD2139.03

Fall 2014
Instructor: susan sgorbati
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
This Module explores how complex systems can be mapped visually. Often, non-linear structures are difficult to see and understand. They happen at different levels and at different scales. These classes will be devoted to learning the skills of visual mapping. Certain websites will be investigated, such as bubbl.org, visualcomplexity.com and informationisbeautiful.org. Books by
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Ethical Community Collaborations — APA2161.02

Fall 2019
Instructor: Aaron Landsman, MFA Teaching Fellow
Credits: 2
This course uses case studies from socially-engaged art projects along with in-class work and research on how to collaborate with specific communities in an ethical, mutually beneficial way. We will explore how to use a strategic planning process, transparent communications and realistic expectations around time and money in partnerships that cross boundaries of race, class,
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Ethical Community Collaborations — APA2161.02

Fall 2018
Instructor: Aaron Landsman
Credits: 2
The course welcomes playwrights and other writers, choreographers and visual artists, and could be applicable to students in Sociology and American Studies. We’ll look at the work of artists like video maker Phil Collins, conceptual and performance artists including Paul Chan, Ernesto Pujol, Lola Arias and Ralph Lemon. We will also use the course as a way to ask questions about
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Ethnographic Playwriting — APA4120.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Aaron Landsman, MFA Teaching Fellow
Credits: 4
This course takes an ethnographic approach to making new theater works within community collaborations. This course is about engaging your most adventurous artist self in the context of delicate, politically loaded, dialogic processes. We will read, watch and discuss the work of subculture theorists, architects, theater-makers and other artists, all of whom use staged
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Every Day Everyday Climate Change — APA2181.02

Spring 2020
Instructor: Marina Zurkow, MFA Teaching Fellow
Credits: 2
Daily practices connect makers over a duration of time to concepts, issues, and forms we care about. These practices are constrained by a set of guiding principles or frameworks, and are iterative by design. Because of the consistency of work (every day), a daily practice can change us and open us up to new ideas, techniques, and feelings. Daily practice as a concept is used in
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Experimental Radioplay — MSR2139.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Senem Pirler
Credits: 2
In this course, we will explore the possibilities of radio and sonic narration through experimental sound practices. How can we portray political and social events through sonic practices without relying on verbal communication? What are the ways of creating speculative worlds through radio broadcasting? Along with readings and discussions, we will examine previous experimental
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Explorations in Public History — HIS4106.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Credits: 4
This class introduces students to the fundamentals of Public History, meaning history that is generated for wide audiences through collaborations with communities, stakeholders, and professional academics. Working closely with the independent Village School in North Bennington, and various guest specialists, students will develop a working knowledge of Public History, and gain
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Explorations in Public History — Canceled

Spring 2017
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Credits: 4
This class introduces students to the fundamentals of Public History, meaning history that is generated for wide audiences through collaborations with communities, stakeholders, and professional academics. Through student-led discussions and short weekly assignments, students will develop a working knowledge of Public History, its scope, controversies and opportunities. A major
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Explorations in Public History — HIS4106.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Credits: 4
This course introduces students to the fundamentals of Public History, meaning history generated for wide general audiences through collaborations among community activists, historians, museum professionals, artists, preservationists, archivists, and policymakers. Public History is an umbrella for the fascinating universe of museums, landmarks, historic sites, memorials,
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Extinction and the Endangered Species Act — POP2258.03

Spring 2019
Instructor: David Mears
Credits: 1
We are living in the midst of a mass extinction caused by humans, the most significant loss of living species since an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. In the United States, the Endangered Species Act has provided a framework for efforts by the federal government to protect the most critically threatened and endangered species. Despite evidence of
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Faculty Performance Production: “H G, a great and terrible story,” by Anna Maria Hong, Jean Randich, Sue Rees, and Allen Shawn — DRA4407.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Jean Randich
Credits: 4
This is a faculty performance production of a new multimedia music theater piece freely inspired by Anna Maria Hong’s novella, “H G,” a cubistic re-envisioning of the Grimm’s tale of Hansel and Gretel as a surreal, feminist hero’s journey. Here abandonment, enchantment, and the fear of being consumed challenge the protagonists to imagine the unimaginable: how do you give birth
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Federalism and Peacebuilding — POL4103.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Credits: 2
As a constitutional structure for combining self-rule and shared rule, federalism often crops up in negotiations designed to rebuild or reconcile societies torn or threatened by civil wars in contexts as diverse as Bosnia-Herzegovina and Ukraine in Europe, Myanmar and the Philippines in Asia, Iraq and Syria in the Middle East, and South Sudan and Somalia in Africa. But are
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Field Tuning: art, agriculture and attuning to the land — APA2023.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
Exploring land based practice through the senses. This course will focus on connecting students with the local landscape and engage with the Robert Frost House terrain. Using experimental methods to heighten our senses for deep observation of the seen and unseen rhythms around us, we can generate curiosities from the poetic to ecological shifts in the landscape. Looking at land
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Financing Social Value Oriented Enterprise — cancelled

Spring 2020
Instructor: Charles Crowell
Credits: 2
The aim of this 7-week course is to provide students with the knowledge and skillsets necessary for acquiring financing for start-ups and existing entrepreneurial firms. Beginning with Title III of the JOBS Act (2012), the environment for financing organizations, including arts and culture and socially-responsible initiatives, was broadly liberalized. In the context of that new
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