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African Conflict Resolution — POL4254.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Rotimi Suberu

Credits: 2

The prevention, management and resolution of African conflicts is a major challenge for the international community and the continent’s peoples. Africa accounts for the largest and highest number of United Nations’ peacekeeping operations, but these “stabilization” missions have mostly failed to stabilize the continent, and large segments of the African population

CAPA Black Studies Society Culture and Thought

African Conflict Resolution — POL4254.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Rotimi Suberu

Credits: 2

The prevention, management and resolution of African conflicts constitute a defining challenge for the international community, including the United Nations (UN), which has mounted multi‐billion dollar peace operations on the continent. Despite the peace dividend from these operations and other interventions, large segments of the African population continue to live in deadly

CAPA Society Culture and Thought

After Superflat Directed Project: Nuclear War — VA4407.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Yoko Inoue

Credits: 4

Conducted through research that focuses on the development of Japanese subcultures in the Post World War II period, this course poses various critical inquiries about the effects of nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on contemporary global consumer society and the production of art. We will also bring into focus the trauma revisited up on us by the more recent nuclear

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After-School Education Design in Bennington — MOD2301.02

Fall 2016

Instructor:

Credits: 1

What students do after-school has become as important as what goes on during the school day. Youth in the public schools in Bennington, Vermont are in need of programs that Bennington College students can create based on their understanding of progressive education and the Plan Process. In this Module, students will be expected to design after-school

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After-School Education Module — APA2238.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati

Credits: 1

This course will examine the readings of John Dewey and Paolo Friere as well as scholarly articles on After-School Education. Each student will develop a proposal for an After- School Education Workshop for Molly Stark Elementary School with the possibility of implementing this workshop in their After-School program later in the semester. (February 19, 26, March 4)

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AGAPE: Love in the Time of Pandemic, Hate and Insurrection — APA2444.02

Fall 2021

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati

Credits: 2

In the throes of a global increase of identity-based hatred and anti-democratic sentiment, this course will explore a concept present in virtually every world religion. Agape love (unconditional compassionate kindness) as a necessary value in movements for social justice. Agape requires action and sacrificial service in addition to the theoretical discourse of diversity, equity

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Alternative Facts: The Undoing of Science in America — ENV2185.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Betsy Sherman

Credits:

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. (Isaac Asimov, 1980). Does the recent U.S. election suggest that the

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America and the Middle East — Canceled

Fall 2018

Instructor: Mansour Farhang

Credits: 2

This course is a study of U. S. geopolitical involvement in national and regional affairs of the Middle East from World War I to the present. It is designed to enable the students to place today’s headlines into historical context and provide a range of analytic perspectives to evaluate the motives, methods of implementation and consequences of decisions intended to advance U.

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American Environmental Politics — POL2109.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: John Hultgren

Credits: 4

This course will explore American environmental politics, from the late 1800s to the present day, with a focus on understanding the actors, institutions and structural power dynamics that impact environmental struggles. We will proceed by engaging with a variety of historical and contemporary case studies related to toxic waste, clean air and water, fracking, national parks,

CAPA Environment Society Culture and Thought

American Food 2018 — APA2151.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Ben Hall

Credits: 4

In this survey we will examine the way food is used as social tool to produce power, exploitation, and waste. We will review the use of food in political movements such as the Catholic Worker House and Black Panthers Free Food Program, as well as hunger strikes as an individual tool of political freedom and not eating animals as a form of political resistance. We will also

CAPA Environment

American Food 2021 — APA2343.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati

Credits: 4

In this class we will examine the way food is used as social tool to produce power, exploitation, and waste. We will review the use of food in political movements such as the Catholic Worker House and Black Panthers Free Food Program, as well as hunger strikes as an individual tool of political freedom and not eating animals as a form of political resistance. We will also

CAPA Environment

American Food 2022 — APA4308.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

Credits: 4

In this class we will examine the way food is used as social tool to produce power, exploitation, and waste. We will review the use of food in political movements such as the Black Panthers Free Food Program, as well as hunger strikes as an individual tool of political freedom and not eating animals as a form of political resistance. We will also review the way contemporary

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American Neo-Imperialism: The Anthropology of Mercenaries, Contractors, Bankers and other Rogues — ANT4220.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Noah Coburn

Credits: 4

This course takes an anthropological approach to look at the ways in which America has projected its power internationally since 2001. This ranges from its military invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, its more passive policies on Syria and Libya and its more subtle use of development funds and soft power to shape the world beyond its borders. These attempts, however,

CAPA Society Culture and Thought

And Process for All — MED2110.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Peter Pagnucco

Credits: 4

In American society, conflict resolution need not mean a punch in the nose-instead, we have process. This course is an experiential examination of two primary conflict resolution processes, litigation and mediation; and is intended for students willing to try things out. First, we will explore what society might want from a conflict resolution process and examine some of the

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And Process for All — MED2110.01

Spring 2014

Instructor: Peter Pagnucco

Credits: 4

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And Process for All — MED2110.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Peter Pagnucco

Credits: 4

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Anthropology of Science and Technology — APA2352.01

Fall 2024

Instructor: David Bond

Credits: 4

This course introduces students to the anthropology of science and technology, with fieldtrips taken into adjacent fields of inquiry like STS and the history of science. This course approaches science and technology as a history of the present; that is, as an unfolding set of epistemic deployments that is actively shaping the texture and significance of social life in the

CAPA Society Culture and Thought

ARCHIVE and ACCESS: PUBLICATION, PEDAGOGY, and MUTUAL AID as PUBLIC ACTION — APA2018.01

Fall 2023

Instructor:

Credits: 4

In the Fall of 2023, Bennington students from all years and other invited guests are invited to participate in a special ARCHIVE AND ACCESS workshop cohort, in conjunction with the ongoing “PUBLICATION and PUBLIC ACTION” and “YEAR ONE: SEED LAB” public projects, running in Crossett Library, CAPA, and in other pop-up campus and local spaces from 2023-25. “ARCHIVE and ACCESS” is

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Art and Entrepreneurship — APA2445.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati

Credits: 2

This course will explore the intersection of art and entrepreneurship while providing artists and arts administrators with the essential knowledge needed to create an arts-related enterprise, whether a nonprofit, a for-profit business, or a “business of one.” We will look at the innovative ways that artists and individuals have gone beyond the traditional art world model to

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Art in Captivity: The Images, Sounds, and Rhetoric of Freedom — APA2345.03

Spring 2021

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

Credits: 1

The course will expand on the initial ideas presented in the Fall workshop, Blood, Sweat, and Tears which focused on the work of contemporary justice artist Russell Craig. Through work that is both confrontational and contemplative, Craig’s pieces create a platform to help unify all who have struggled through trauma and advocate for positive

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Art in Public Spaces as connective tissue — DAN4380.01

Spring 2026

Instructor: Martin Lanz

Days & Time: MO,TH 10:00am-11:50am

Credits: 2

In this course, we will explore various projects that aim to connect people with their surroundings and communities.
We will also explore the strategies that various artists have implemented to increase their audiences and interest in the arts.
We will analyze and design projects that seek sustainability, diversification, and access to the experience of art and

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Art in the Public Realm II: Bennington and China — APA4107.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Jon Isherwood and Susan Sgorbati

Credits: 2

This course will research, develop and implement public art for two projects: Bennington We will research existing models nationally and internationally that have provided integrations for public spaces. We will explore opportunities on the Bennington campus including, but not limited to, the Commons project. Through dialogue and collaboration, we will assess what spaces are

CAPA Visual Arts

Art in the Public Realm: Oslo Project — VA4107.01

Fall 2014

Instructor: jon isherwood; susan sgorbati

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

Through the experience of developing with Jon Isherwood a site-specific, commissioned work of art for the U.S. Embassy in Oslo, Norway, students in this course will examine the definition, unique challenges, history, and implementation of public art. Over the course of the term, the class will conduct case studies of prior public art projects and explore the various dimensions

CAPA Visual Arts

Art in the Public Realm: Oslo Project II — VA4107.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Jon Isherwood; Susan Sgorbati

Credits: 2

Through the experience of developing with Jon Isherwood a site-specific, commissioned work of art for the U.S. Embassy in Oslo, Norway, students in this course will examine the definition, unique challenges, history, and implementation of public art. In the second-half of this year-long course, the class will continue to conduct case studies of public art projects and to

CAPA Visual Arts

Art Intervention Projects Class: Mapping Projects on Climate Change — APA2216.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Susie Ibarra

Credits: 4

The students will study a creative model and methods used by Composer/Percussionist Susie Ibarra and Glaciologist/Geomorphologist Michele Koppes that sonically maps water sources, downstream communities and shifting landscapes in the Himalayas used to create an acoustic story on climate change. Each student will map an individual project of their own over the term using

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