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Resilience: Analysis and Practice — APA2353.03) (cancelled 9/2/2024

Fall 2024
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 1
The course will focus on social ecological systems integration framework to determine community resilience, enable smart design processes at the nexus of climate, food, energy and water systems and learn practical skills, such as ; the role of smart approaches to climate literacy and citizen science, digital storytelling, early warning systems and community based experiential
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Restorative Justice In Bennington — APA4123.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Alisa Del Tufo
Credits: 2
Students will deepen their existing knowledge of restorative practices through reading, writing and reflection. There will also be substantial work in the field to develop programs that strengthen restorative justice in Bennington County. Specifically, students will work on three related activities that will have local impacts: 1. Working to implement restorative initiatives
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Restoring Juvenile Justice: Improved Outcomes for Emerging Adult Offenders in Vermont — APA4121.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Alisa del Tufo
Credits: 4
The school-to-prison pipeline, is the result of the national trend towards increasingly harsh school and municipal policies, sometimes called Zero Tolerance. This problem has become a significant topic of debate in discussions surrounding educational discipline, juvenile justice and child welfare practices. In 2018, the State of Vermont took a bold step to address this problem,
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Rethinking Agriculture — POP2278.02

Spring 2020
Instructor: Brian Campion
Credits: 1
It is essential that we feed one another but how we do it can be harmful to the water we drink, the land we use, our climate and to human health itself. This course offers a broad look at a range of issues and policy ideas in America’s agricultural system today with the goal of developing a curriculum of the most innovative agricultural practices. Students will hear from
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Rethinking Capitalism: Climate, Poverty, Jobs and Public Action — APA2454.02

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 1
This intensive weekend module begins with the premise that prevailing economic systems — and the theories and policies that support them — produce an enormous range of goods and services yet are failing to meet even the most basic needs of at least 45% of the people on earth while destroying the planet’s capacity to provide the resources and process the wastes on which life
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Revolution and Politics in Iran — APA2144.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Mansour Farhang
Credits: 2
The Iranian revolution of 1979 replaced a secular autocratic monarchy with a populist, nationalist and theocratic political order.  Since then, the Islamic Republic of Iran has become a major player in the Middle East region and a salient country to global affairs.  This course examines the nature of the Iranian revolution and the intricate 
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Running for President in 2020 — APA2319.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 2
The past four years has overturned long standing wisdom about American democracy. COVID-19 has further upended the status quo and eroded threadbare political norms without clarity about what exactly will come next. Whether as students or citizens or international visitors, the political present in the US seems to exceed the given forms of scholarly analysis, principled
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S.230 From Start to Veto: Renewable in Vermont — MOD2302.02

Fall 2016
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati and Brian Campion
Credits: 1
Senate bill 230 was constructed in response to the interest of Vermonters in having a say in where renewable energy is sited in their communities. Although an important piece  of legislation to Vermonters, the constant interplay among science, emotion, business and an overwhelming amount of data caused this bill to regularly be in jeopardy of failing and was
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Sankofa & memoria: Archiving - Finding your history in order to go forward — DAN4381.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Kaolack Ndiaye
Days & Time: WE 10:00am-11:50am & WE 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 4

In this course, we will be uncovering, re-positioning, and affirming historical legacies and traditions that stand the risk of being lost forever, and explore how to use them to fight discrimination, racism and hate today. We will do so using Sankofa, a quest for knowledge through critical examination, patient investigation, and learning

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Saving Democracy Together — APA2026.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Credits: 2
Almost a century ago, Franklin D. Roosevelt alerted Americans to the impending global conflict pitting democracies founded on individual liberty against rising fascist dictatorships pursuing “final solutions.” Drawing inspiration from John Dewey’s progressive philosophy, FDR emphasized, "In this conflict the part which education plays in each ideology is crucial. Democracy
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Science as a History of the Present — APA2137.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 4
This course builds on the premise that scientific practice is a meaningful form of public action. This premise challenges popular understandings of science as a cloistered or abstracted world, turning attention instead to the lively interface between scientific practices and pressing problems. We will approach science as a history of the present; that is, as a cultivated way of
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Seeds of Renewal: Cultivating Indigenous Crops — APA4307.02) (cancelled

Spring 2022
Instructor: Tatiana Abatemarco
Credits: 2
In this course, students will work together to start seeds and plant a garden at the Purple Carrot Farm in collaboration with the Elnu Abenaki people, on whose unceded land Bennington College is located. Students will read texts and engage in class discussion on the topics of indigenous food sovereignty, rematriatriation, and decolonization. The class will feature guest
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Self, Identity, and Ideology — PSY2102.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Ella Ben Hagai
Credits: 4
In this introductory seminar we will examine basic questions exploring the relationship between a sense of self, social identity, and political decision making. We will engage with questions such as the differences between a sense of self and identity, cross-cultural variations in the formation of the self, and the processes associated with the emergence of sexual, ethnic and
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Seminar in Comparative Democratization — SCT4101.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Days & Time: WE 8:30am-12:10pm
Credits: 4

Against a background of what is often described as a worldwide democratic recession or regression, this advanced seminar surveys current theoretical debates, empirical analyses, and policy conversations on the emergence, survival, challenges, breakdowns, and prospects of global democratization. Themes to be explored include:

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Seminar on International Mediation in Armed Conflicts — POL4242.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Credits: 4
International mediation research is an important, expanding, and intriguing field of study in international relations. This advanced seminar focuses on international, external or third-party mediation in interstate and intrastate warfare as an instrument of conflict resolution, termination, de-escalation, or transformation. Topics to be explored in readings, guest lectures,
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Senior Seminar in Society, Culture, and Thought and CAPA — SCT4750.04; section 4

Fall 2015
Instructor: David Bond
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This advanced research seminar offers students the opportunity to conduct advanced work in social science and public action in the form of an independent research project. For some students, this will be the first half of a year-long thesis that involves field work and/or the collection of data. For others, this will be a one-semester long project. For all students, however,
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Sister City Project — APA2110.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: susie ibarra
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
In this course, Bennington students will participate in the research, design, and development of a sister city project between Tagum City and Bennington, Vermont. Situated in the heart of a rich agricultural island, Mindanao in the Philippines, Tagum City is known as a city that is progressive in education as well as a music capital of the Philippines. 20 minutes from central
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Slow Studio — APA4164.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Sal Randolph
Credits: 4
“An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.” — Bonnie Friedman This studio class will explore slow aesthetics and slow politics in relation to our lived experience in time. We will come together in an experimental lab, devoting generous time to slow experiences of looking, listening, moving, making, reading, and being. Our collective investigation of slow
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Social Capital for Regenerative Communities — APA2303.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Tatiana Abatemarco Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 2
Social capital expands the measure of value to social support and connectedness, which are externalized by the neoclassical economic model. Regenerative agriculture is the movement to create agricultural systems that build soil biodiversity and sequester carbon dioxide. This class will explore the possibility for social capital as a means to ensure that regenerative agriculture
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Social Change Agents: Advanced Peacebuilding — APA4122.02

Spring 2019
Instructor: Vahidin Omanovic
Credits: 1
Be the change you want to see in the world. 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
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Social Emergency Medicine to Prevent Gun Violence — Cancelled

Spring 2020
Instructor: Christopher Barsotti
Credits: 1
Firearm-related victimization, injury and death are among the most urgent public health problems facing our country, but there exists no utilitarian set of solutions.  Firearm injuries create an expansive series of direct and indirect negative health outcomes that ripple throughout communities, and each episode of gun violence is the consequence of a complex interrelated
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Social Innovation Entrepreneurship — MOD2144.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Alison Dennis
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
Calling all innovators, catalysts and designers: this three-week module is for students interested in the process of developing creative solutions and ventures in response to societal needs. Participants are invited, as individuals or teams, to enter the workshop with a specific social or environmental issue or area of interest, from campus or community issues to national and
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Social Innovation Entrepreneurship — MOD2144.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: alison dennis
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
Calling all innovators, catalysts and designers: this three-week module is for students interested in the process of developing creative solutions and ventures in response to societal needs. Participants are invited, as individuals or teams, to enter the workshop with a specific social or environmental issue or area of interest, from campus or community issues to national and
CAPA Modules: Transferable Approaches