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Financing Social Value-Oriented Enterprise — APA2251.02

Spring 2018
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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First Hundred Days (Again) — APA2030.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 2
Marx once quipped that all historical personages happen twice, as it were: "First time as tragedy, second time as farce." Marx clearly got the second coming of Trump wrong: the first time was a farce, this time around its tragedy. The bewildering saga of the 2024 presidential election and bludgeoning start to the new administration in 2025 has overturned much of the
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Food and Politics: A Food Citizens Methodology Workshop — APA4160.02

Spring 2020
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
Credits: 2
This class will put focus on investigating various approaches to food studies while examining academic institutions’ curriculums and non-institutional models developed by civic and creative practitioners. This intensive Methodology Workshop provides opportunities to explore food as a pedagogical tool to “do food justice” and to practice trans-disciplinary research methods,
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Food and Politics: A Food Citizens Methodology Workshop — APA4160.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
Days & Time: WE 10:00am-11:50am & WE 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 4

This class will investigate various pedagogical approaches to food studies by examining curriculums, topics and discourses being taught at some academic institutions. More importantly, we will put focus on researching art collectives, contemporary civic engagement practices, and other non-institutional models developed by creative

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Foundations of Global Politics — POL2103.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Credits: 4
In this wide-ranging introduction to the study of international politics, we will be exploring how states and non-state actors negotiate their interactions in an increasingly interconnected, interdependent and globalized world. Core themes will include: contending theoretical approaches to international relations (realism, liberalism/idealism, constructivism, structuralism,
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Foundations of Global Politics — POL2103.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Credits: 4
In this wide-ranging introduction to the study of international politics, we will be exploring how states and non-state actors negotiate their interactions in an increasingly interconnected, interdependent and globalized world. Core themes will include: contending theoretical approaches to international relations (realism, liberalism/idealism, constructivism, structuralism,
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Foundations of Global Politics — POL2103.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Days & Time: TU,FR 8:30am-10:20am
Credits: 4

In this wide-ranging introduction to the study of international politics, we will be exploring how states and non-state actors negotiate their interactions in an increasingly interconnected, interdependent and globalized world. Core themes will include: contending theoretical approaches to international relations (realism, liberalism/idealism, constructivism,

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Foundations of Political Leadership — POL2115.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Credits: 4
As an interactive process between leaders and their followers or supporters, political leadership is a socially ubiquitous, yet analytically elusive and normatively contentious, concept. This exploration of the qualities of political leaders and the process of political leadership will accomplish five things: (1) Survey contributions to studies of political leadership from
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From Ashes to Fascists: The Roots and Rise of our Anti-Environmental Age — ENV4257.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: John Hultgren
Credits: 4
Responding to climate change and other contemporary environmental crises (biodiversity loss, looming water shortages, toxic pollution, etc.) necessitates swift and serious action that continues to be undercut by a rearguard anti-environmental movement. What are the ideological roots, the political economic forces, and the organizational forms through which anti-environmentalism
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From Concept to Reality: Participatory Action Research and Restorative Practice — APA4312.02

Fall 2023
Instructor: Alisa Del Tufo
Credits: 2
In this seven week class we analyze the ways that Participatory Action Research (PAR) and Restorative Practice can work together to create and sustain programs that are truly transformative. How can we better align restorative theory and practice in our work? The concepts and values embodied in restorative justice should be consistent with the practices and structures through
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From Concept to Reality: Restorative Practice and Participatory Action Research — APA2188.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
In this seven week class we analyze the ways that Participatory Action Research (PAR) and Restorative Practice can work together to create and sustain programs that are truly transformative. How can we better align restorative theory and practice in our work? The concepts and values embodied in restorative justice should be consistent with the practices and structures through
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From Job to Adventure - Designing New Normals in a Post Covid19 World — APA2321.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: RRansick@bennington.edu
Credits: 2
One of the realities that Covid19 has quickly exposed is how many of us live from paycheck to paycheck at best. This profound pause that we have been asked to endure has produced over 26 million unemployed in the U.S. alone. Up until this strange moment, we have been asked to accept this social arrangements as “normal.” Now activists, philosophers and the like are demanding the
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Fundamentals of Advancing Public Action — APA2101.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Elizabeth Coleman
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This country is facing challenges of unprecedented scale and urgency in the areas of health, education, inequalities in the distribution of wealth, environmental sustainability; the capacity of our governing structures to address the public interest; mounting threats to fundamental democratic processes, a dangerous predilection for the uses of force. We examine each of these
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Future Generations: Urban and Rural Revitalization and the Arts — APA2310.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 4
This course examines the art practices in city, town and village communities both past and present to better understand its effectiveness with multiple generations in a community. How have artists and their communities engaged and intervened with public life? Students will study historical and current artists works in communities that address public issues of inequity, social
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Future Histories, Speculative Sites II || YEAR ONE SEED LAB — APA4261.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
In this 4000-level iteration of the Future Histories, Speculative Sites Lab, students are invited to work together with Elæ Moss on envisioning and building the Speculative Solidarities : YEAR ONE Field Station / Community Care Hub as they develop their own original speculative proposals (for past, present, and future) and hone these into public-facing projects across a range
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Future of Work: Alternative Organizations — APA2248.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: RRansick@bennington.edu
Credits: 1
This course introduces organizations conceived to support human flourishing through readings (primarily Frederic Laloux’s Reinventing Organizations), case studies, and research projects. We will explore how the purpose, structure, and power dynamics of organizations have changed over time and continue to evolve to meet new challenges. A particular focus of the course will be
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Future of Work: Individual Capacity — APA2281.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: RRansick@bennington.edu
Credits: 1
To enable the potential of new ways of organizing, we need to unlearn assumptions about the workplace and build individual capacity to create alternatives. This wide-ranging course will explore elements of complexity theory, mindset, critical discernment and decision-making, as well as the practice of interpersonal communication and managing personal change. Highly practice
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Future Studio — VA4207.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Robert Ransick
Credits: 4
Future Studio is a creative incubator for the development and articulation of new non-profit or for-profit enterprises which can be launched with powerful economic potential and socially responsible missions. The studio emphasizes creativity, innovation, place-centered economies, worker-centered ownership, environmental sustainability, social justice and financial viability.
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Future Studio — VA4207.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Robert Ransick Charles Crowell
Credits: 4
Future Studio is a creative incubator designed for the development and articulation of new enterprises that value workers, local communities, sustainability, and the environment equally with profit. The course is designed to lay the foundation for building new enterprise of all types through the unique integration of creativity, arts culture, and sophisticated business
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Future Studio: Design Incubator — DA4206.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Robert Ransick
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
***TIME CHANGE*** This course is conceived and structured as a small incubator for product and business development.  Modeled after the Bennington Plan, which is inherently entrepreneurial, Future Studio engages business as a creative space that marries inquiry-based idea development, design, technology and new business models to generate constructive social purpose. 
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Future Studio: Idea to Prototype — DA4204.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: robert ransick; andrew cencini
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This two-part (fall and spring) course is conceived and structured as a small start-up. Modeled after the Bennington Plan, which is inherently entrepreneurial, Future Studio engages business as a creative space that marries collaborative inquiry-based idea development, technology and new business models to generate constructive social purpose. The course will progress over the
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Future Studio: Production to Launch — DA4204.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Robert Ransick; Andrew Cencini
Credits: 4
This two-part (fall and spring) course is conceived and structured as a small start-up. Modeled after the Bennington Plan, which is inherently entrepreneurial, Future Studio engages business as a creative space that marries collaborative inquiry-based idea development, technology and new business models to generate constructive social purpose. The course will progress over the
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Future Work: Systems of Evaluation — APA2339.03

Spring 2021
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 1
A truism often attributed to business guru Peter Drucker is “what isn’t measured isn’t managed.” This class provides an introduction to the theory and practice of measuring as a means to success. We’ll investigate why objective measurement and feedback is so prevalent at both the individual and organizational level. We’ll also investigate alternatives to feedback for building
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GANAS — APA4154.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Credits: 4
Combining a study of language, immigration and public action, GANAS remains a community-driven, cross-cultural association that provides students with volunteer opportunities to engage with the predominantly undocumented Latino migrant worker population. These opportunities are facilitated through partnerships with organizations such as the Vermont Migrant Education
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