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Graduate Seminar on Pedagogy and Public Action — APA5103.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Brian Michael Murphy
Credits: 4
This course is centered on conducting research and mapping the field of socially and civically engaged pedagogy within a global context. What capacities and skills do students who create artworks in collaboration with the public need to acquire and what is the history of teaching these practices?
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Graduate Seminar on Pedagogy and Public Action — APA5103.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: TBA
Credits: 4
This course is centered on conducting research and mapping the field of socially and civically engaged pedagogy within a global context. What capacities and skills do students who create artworks in collaboration with the public need to acquire and what is the history of teaching these practices?
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Graduate Seminar on Pedagogy and Public Action — APA5103.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This course is centered on conducting research and mapping the field of socially and civically engaged pedagogy within a global context. What capacities and skills do students who create artworks in collaboration with the public need to acquire and what is the history of teaching these practices?
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Graduate Seminar on Pedagogy and Public Action — APA5103.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This course is centered on conducting research and mapping the field of socially and civically engaged pedagogy within a global context. What capacities and skills do students who create artworks in collaboration with the public need to acquire and what is the history of teaching these practices?
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Graduate Seminar on Pedagogy and Public Action — APA5103.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 4
This course is centered on conducting research and mapping the field of socially and civically engaged pedagogy within a global context. What capacities and skills do students who create artworks in collaboration with the public need to acquire and what is the history of teaching these practices?
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Graduate Seminar on Pedagogy and Public Action — APA5103.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Robert Ransick Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 4
This course is centered on conducting research and mapping the field of socially and civically engaged pedagogy within a global context. What capacities and skills do students who create artworks in collaboration with the public need to acquire and what is the history of teaching these practices?
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Graduate Seminar on Pedagogy and Public Action — APA5103.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Robert Ransick and Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 4
This course is centered on conducting research and mapping the field of socially and civically engaged pedagogy within a global context. What capacities and skills do students who create artworks in collaboration with the public need to acquire and what is the history of teaching these practices?
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Graduate Seminar on Pedagogy and Public Action — APA5103.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This course is centered on conducting research and mapping the field of socially and civically engaged pedagogy within a global context. What capacities and skills do students who create artworks in collaboration with the public need to acquire and what is the history of teaching these practices?
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Higher Education in the United States: Exploring Purpose and Practice — APA2209.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Lydia Brassard
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course invites students to consider university and college life in the contemporary United States, focusing on where and how theory and practice align, overlap, and diverge. In an effort to actively confront and map the so-called “Bennington Bubble,” Bennington College will serve as an anchoring case study through which to consider the course’s themes.
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Higher Resolution — FV4102.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Karthik Pandian
Credits: 2
In this 7-week video production workshop, students will collaborate to make a film that explores the double meaning of resolution –  video resolution and conflict resolution. After watching historical film precedents such as Abbas Kiarostami’s Close-up, we will devise and fully realize a narrative short that centers around a conflict using both 16mm film and
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Hip Hop Archaeology — MS2105.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Brian Michael Murphy
Credits: 4
Hip hop music producers have long practiced “diggin’ in the crates”—a phrase that denotes searching through record collections to find material to sample. In this course, we will examine the material and technological history of hip hop culture, with particular attention to hip hop’s tendency to sample, remix, mash-up, and repurpose existing media artifacts to create new works
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Historic Preservation in the United States: An Intersectional Approach — EDU2216.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Lydia Brassard
Credits: 4
2016 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the U.S. National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as well as the U.S. National Park Service Centennial. Over the last half-century, the effects of the NHPA and the expansion of the National Park Service have radically reshaped urban cities and communities across the nation. An outcome of the accelerated preservation projects and
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Historical Grievances and Retrospective Redress — APA4129.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Credits: 4
This course is an opportunity to explore the politics of history-based grievances, including slavery, forced labor, genocide, mass violence, wartime plunder, and localized state-sanctioned violence. We will also explore an emerging array of reconciliation models, including trials, truth commissions, reparations, community mediation, and revisions of national narratives. The
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Historical Grievances and Retrospective Redress — APA2124.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
Using readings and role plays focused around a case study involving Turkey, Armenia, and Azerbaijan, we will explore and develop successful mediation strategies for working with parties in conflict over contested memories and historical grievances. Students will become familiar with mediation fundamentals, and test out ideas and approaches in the emerging field of historical
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Housing in America, Housing in Bennington — APA4171.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 4
Housing has become a crisis for many Americans, but how it is a crisis is still poorly understood. This class takes housing as an urgent question, and aims to use the classroom as a critical research hub to better grasp the national and local dimensions of the current housing crisis. Students will be expected not only to participate in the academic study of housing in America
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How to be a Radio DJ — APA2315.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Thom Loubet
Credits: 1
Webcasting radio and podcast are relatively new art forms that are transforming the way that people across the globe share ideas, music, and discourse.  This class focuses on the skills required to successfully communicate through live audio production. This will include discussions on how to: speak on a microphone, create a successful playlist, mix live from multiple
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How to Collaborate: Threeing — APA2214.03

Fall 2019
Instructor: Caroline Woolard, MFA Teaching Fellow
Credits: 2
If group work is both the most necessary and the most difficult endeavor of our time, what methods are necessary for collaboration in the visual arts? In this seminar and studio, students will focus on a method for group work that was developed by the video-artist (not politician) Paul Ryan between 1971 and the end of his life, in 2013. Threeing is "a voluntary practice in
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Human Mobility and Human Rights — MOD2167.03

Spring 2018
Instructor: Andrea Galindo
Credits: 1
Human mobility has been an inherent human condition throughout history. From earliest human history, people have migrated in search of a better life, to populate other places on the planet, or to escape and survive human-made or natural dangers. However, it was the creation of the concept of modern State that established geographic boundaries, and enabled States to exercise
CAPA Modules: Transferable Approaches

Human Rights and Covid-19 — APA2344.03

Spring 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 1
States are not responsible for COVID-19, but they are responsible for how they respond to it. The virus cannot be used as an excuse to roll back on fundamental human rights. Human rights are universal legal guarantees that protect individuals and groups against actions that interfere with fundamental freedoms and human dignity. Under international human 
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Human Rights in Action — APA2349.02

Spring 2025
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 2
In 1948, Eleanor Roosevelt, instrumental for the approval of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, said “In a true sense, human rights are a fundamental object of law and government in a just society. Human rights exist to the degree that they are respected by people in relations with each other and by governments in relations with their citizens.” We have come a long way
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Human Rights in Global Politics — POL2111.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Credits: 4
Human rights are universal in principle, but often they are systematically violated in practice, especially in developing countries of the global south. This introductory course explores the international politics of human rights, with a particular focus on the developing world. Topics to be examined in lectures, written assignments, discussions, presentations, simulations and
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Human Rights in Global Politics — POL2111.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Credits: 4
Human rights are universal in principle, but often they are systematically violated in practice, especially in developing countries of the global south. This introductory course explores the international politics of human rights, with a particular focus on the developing world. Topics to be examined in lectures, written assignments, discussions, presentations, simulations and
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Human Rights in Global Politics — POL2111.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Credits: 4
Human rights are universal in principle, but often they are systematically violated in practice, especially in developing countries of the global South. This introductory course explores the international politics of human rights, with a particular focus on the developing world. Topics to be examined through lectures, written assignments, discussions, presentations, simulations
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