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Oral History for Social Change — APA4313.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Alisa Del Tufo
Credits: 2
In a world filled with algorithms and “big data”are the stories that express our experiences and values still important? How can we promote the use of narratives when our stories can be used in ways that are neither ethical nor supportive of our vision for change? This class will share ways that oral history and narrative can be used to promote equity and empathy that challenge
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Oral History, Restorative Justice and Youth Impacted by the Criminal Justice System — APA2147.02

Fall 2018
Instructor: Alisa Del Tufo
Credits: 2
Bennington County has the highest rate of incarceration in the State of Vermont. Why is this and how does this impact the community and those caught up in the criminal justice system? More importantly, what can be done to change the way the criminal justice system comes into contact with and treats youth? In this class we will discuss how participatory methods such as oral
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Oral History, Restorative Justice, and Youth Impacted by the Criminal Justice System in Bennington — APA2147.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Alisa Del Tufo
Credits: 2
Bennington County has the highest rate of incarceration in the State of Vermont. Why is this and how does this impact the community and those caught up in the criminal justice system? More importantly, what can be done to change the way the criminal justice system comes into contact with and treats youth? Using oral history and participatory problem solving strategies we will
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Organizational Structure Enterprise Law — APA2175.02

Fall 2019
Instructor: Charles Crowell
Credits: 2
The common startup mythologies tend to promote the glamor of entrepreneurship. You will work hard in a basement or a garage with no money, but the brilliance of your idea will make you into a heroic (wind-swept) figure to whom investors, customers, and clients (and the popular press) will all be irresistibly attracted. These stories don’t map to reality for most. In contrast,
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Participating in Politics: The Anthropology of Democracy — ANT2204.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Noah Coburn
Credits: 4
This course challenges students to think beyond basic institutional definitions of democracy. It will provide an introduction to some basic anthropological tools that approach political systems more holistically through participant-observation research, studying the ways in which people experience concepts such as civil society. By looking at a series of non-Western political
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Participation in a Democracy: What Can I Do to Make a Difference? — POP2351.02

Spring 2020
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati and Brian Campion
Credits: 1
According to Larry Diamond in his lecture on "What is Democracy?" Democracy consists of four basic elements: 1. A political system for choosing and replacing the government through free and fair elections. 2. The active participation of the people, as citizens, in politics and civic life. 3. Protection of the human rights of all citizens. 4. A rule of law, in which the laws
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Peacebuilding — APA2212.03

Spring 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 1
This Module will serve as an introduction to the work of Peacebuilding around the world, both in theory and practice. Vahidin Omanovic, Director of Center for Peacebuilding in Bosnia, will be joining us to reflect on his work and introduce us to key topics in peacebuilding. They include peacebuilding in a local community, obstacles for peace, identity, 
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Peacebuilding — APA2212.03

Spring 2022
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 1
This Module will serve as an introduction to the work of Peacebuilding around the world, both in theory and practice. Vahidin Omanovic, Director of Center for Peacebuilding in Bosnia, will be joining us to reflect on his work and introduce us to key topics in peacebuilding, including: peacebuilding in a local community, obstacles for peace, identity, discrimination, methods of
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Peacebuilding — APA2212.03

Spring 2020
Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 1
This Module will serve as an introduction to the work of Peacebuilding around the world, both in theory and practice. Vahidin Omanovic, Director of Center for Peacebuilding in Bosnia, will be joining us to reflect on his work and introduce us to key topics in peacebuilding, including: peacebuilding in a local community, obstacles for peace, identity, discrimination, methods of
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Peacebuilding — APA2212.03

Spring 2024
Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 1
This Module will serve as an introduction to the work of Peacebuilding around the world, both in theory and practice. Introduction to key topics in peacebuilding, including: peacebuilding in a local community, obstacles for peace, identity, discrimination, methods of sustainable peacebuilding. Module dates: April 12, 16, 19, 23, 26, 30
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Peacebuilding 2 — APA4209.03

Spring 2024
Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 1
This Module will be a chance for students to reflect on their identities, inner issues they are aware or not aware and the desire to be social change agents. Together we will explore key topics of non-violent communication, personal potentials for peacebuilding, community building skills and different methods to deal with our individual daily struggles to be more effective
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Peacebuilding 2 : Be the Change You Want to See in the World — APA4209.03

Spring 2022
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 1
This Module will be a chance for students to reflect on their identities, inner issues they are aware or not aware and the desire to be social change agents. Together we will explore key topics of non-violent communication, personal potentials for peacebuilding, community building skills and different methods to deal with our individual daily struggles. Module dates: 4/8, 4/12
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Peacebuilding Seminar — APA2212.02

Spring 2019
Instructor: Vahidin Omanovic
Credits: 1
This Module will serve as an introduction to the work of Peacebuilding around the world, both in theory and practice. Vahidin Omanovic, Director of Center for Peacebuilding in Bosnia, will be joining us to reflect on his work and introduce us to key topics in peacebuilding, including: peacebuilding in a local community, identity and discrimination, methods of sustainable
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Peacebuilding Seminar — MOD2171.02

Spring 2017
Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 1
This Module will serve as an introduction to the work of Peacebuilding around the world, both in theory and practice. Vahidin Omanovic, Director of Center for Peacebuilding in Bosnia, will be joining us to reflect on her work and introduce us to key topics in peacebuilding, including: peacebuilding in a local community, identity and discrimination, methods of sustainable
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Peacebuilding Seminar — MOD2171.03

Spring 2018
Instructor: Vahidin Omanovic
Credits: 1
This Module will serve as an introduction to the work of Peacebuilding around the world, both in theory and practice. Vahidin Omanovic, Director of Center for Peacebuilding in Bosnia, will be joining us to reflect on her work and introduce us to key topics in peacebuilding, including: peacebuilding in a local community, identity and discrimination, methods of sustainable
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Peacebuilding Training and Action — APA2363.03

Spring 2025
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 1
This Module will include discussion and training on the following Peacebuilding skills: identity, discrimination based on identity, prejudices that limit our capacities to live fully and trauma informed peacebuilding. Guests will include post-war peace builders from Bosnia and Herzegovina; guests that focus on memories in post-violence societies, and activists involved in
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Peacebuilding Two: Be the change you want to see in the World — APA2240.03

Spring 2020
Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 1
This Module will be a chance for students to reflect on their identities, inner issues they are aware or not aware and the desire to be social change agents. Together we will explore key topics of non-violent communication, personal potentials for peacebuilding, community building skills and different methods to deal with our individual daily struggles to be more effective
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Performance as Radicalism in Practice — MPF2165.02

Spring 2022
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 2
This class will explore performance as a tool for affecting social arrangements. We'll examine it from the perspective of the performer and the audience, moving from the hyper-local to the extended sites where change can take place. Performance as Radicalism in Practice names and works to understand the social phenomena that can affect a performance experience,
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Performance as Radicalism in Practice — MPF2165.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 2
This class will explore performance as a tool for affecting social arrangements. We'll examine it from the perspective of the performer and the audience, moving from the hyper-local to the extended sites where change can take place. Performance as Radicalism in Practice names and works to understand the social phenomena that can affect a performance experience,
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Performing Walks — APA2166.02

Spring 2019
Instructor: Aaron Landsman
Credits: 2
This course invites students to create performance walks that draw on history, landscape, personal stories, and media. We will work together on finding source material, crafting narratives that move around or through campus, integrate naturally occurring design and/or the use of other elements such as projection or sound, and allow viewers to be with us in more than one place
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Personal Learning Plan: Vermont Act 77 Educational Reform — MOD2170.02

Spring 2018
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 1
Vermont Act 77 is a recent bill passed in the Vermont Legislature to enact educational reform. It includes implementing a Personal Learning Plan for all Middle and High School students in public education in Vermont. It is a radical new vision of public education and shares many of the same goals as a Bennington College Plan Process. This Module will introduce Bennington
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Placing Art at the Heart of Community Building — APA2304.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Miroslava Prazak Kerry Ryer-Parke
Credits: 4
“Great art is like bypass surgery. It allows us to go around all of the psychological distancing mechanisms that turn people cold to the most vulnerable among us.” Lin-Manuel Miranda While recent crises have revealed troubling divides in most societies of the world, the resulting disruption invites the possibility of kinder, more peaceful and equitable communities. When the
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Plastic Pollution and What Students Can Do About It — APA2176.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Judith Enck
Credits: 2
Plastic pollution is gaining international attention for the damage it is doing to human health, fish and wildlife, the climate, the ocean and communities. This class will explore the dimensions of the problem, the root causes of plastic pollution and the need for innovation. The class will be taught in the Center for the Advancement of Public Action and will have a major focus
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