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Art of Resistance: The Bennington College Poster Project (part 2) — VA2119.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Ann Pibal
Credits: 2
This course will provide a collaborative site for the production of distributable protest and resistance imagery, as well as a shared investigation into the rich international history of political posters and related ephemera. Students will be provided structure both in which to work together on research, and on the design, production, and distribution of imagery. Discussion of
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Arts and Cities: Aural and Visual Cartographies of East and Southeast Asia — APA2126.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Susie Ibarra
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Much of the expected urban growth has been predicted to occur in Asian cities and its megacities. This class studies city communities in Asia with the use of artists' aural and visual cartographies. Alongside mapping are the artists and activists creative work that challenges social, political, and environmental issues, and reimagines time and space in these communities. Field
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Attention Studio — APA4112.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Sal Randolph
Credits: 4
The Attention Studio is a lab class where we will engage in protocols and practices of sustained attention, most often in relation to works of art. Through these experiments we will explore the way objects and performances choreograph our attention, and study the internal movements of our own response. Our collective work will engage questions of attention that reach beyond
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Barriers to Democracy in Modern and Modernizing Nations — APA2359.03

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 1
The idea of democracy is rooted in the preconception that citizens of modern or modernizing nations often face competing positions on economic, political and sociocultural issues. There are two ways such challenges can be addressed: authoritarianism and democracy. Authoritarians claim that leaders know the answers to all questions and the citizens must obey the leaders –
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Beginning Peacebuilding — APA2139.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Miroslava Prazak
Credits: 2
Peacebuilding is an intervention that is designed to prevent the start or resumption of violent conflict by creating a sustainable peace. Students in this course will read about and research  the types of peacebuilding programs and initiatives out there, which are effective, and which aim at engaging young people to become peacebuilders in the post conflict societies
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Belarus: A Critical Understanding Of Democracy — POP2279.02) (new time as of 10/16/2020

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
This course aims to provide a critical understanding of democracy by examining what is happening in Belarus, with the space for students to respond creatively. Together we will explore different historical and current perspectives, media coverage (and what is not covered), personal accounts, and conversations with activists. This class will draw on writings by scholars, artists
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Belarusian Dream: Human Rights and Performance — DRA4182.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Jean Randich
Credits: 4
This course will be part of an international festival of short plays commemorating Belarusian Freedom Day, 25 March, the unofficial holiday invoked to express opposition to the current regime (referred to as the last dictatorship in Europe). The eight plays, four Belarusian and four international, explore human rights issues and promote social action. We will rehearse and stage
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Beloved and Halfway Home: Narrating the Aftermaths of Slavery and Mass Incarceration in the United States — APA4165.02) (cancelled

Spring 2022
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 2
This course examines Beloved, by Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, Toni Morrison and a contemporary nonfiction work in the social sciences by Reuben Jonathan Miller. Together, these works of literature embody an intersectional approach to critical race theory, which incorporates race, gender, social policy, structural violence, and culture in experiences
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Beyond Plastic Pollution — APA2334.02

Spring 2021
Instructor: Judith Enck
Credits: 1
Beyond Plastic Pollution is a public policy course that focuses on the systemic reasons why millions of tons of plastics enter the ocean each year. This cutting-edge class will focus on the how plastic pollution is an urgent climate change issue; how the plastics industry spins the myth that we can recycle our way out of the problem; environmental justice and the the health
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Beyond Plastic Pollution — APA2334.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Judith Enck
Credits: 1
An enviornmental policy class which closely examines the environmental and public health impacts of the production, transport, use and disposal of plastics.  It is taught on-line and includes many community people who audit the class  - creating a nice exchange of ideas between Bennington students and grassroots environmental advocates from across the country. 
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Beyond Plastic Pollution — APA2334.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Judith Enck
Credits: 1
Beyond Plastic Pollution is a public policy course that focuses on the systemic reasons why millions of tons of plastics enter the ocean each year. This cutting-edge class will focus on the how plastic pollution is an urgent climate change issue; how the plastics industry spins the myth that we can recycle our way out of the problem; environmental justice and the the health
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Beyond Plastic Pollution — APA2334.02) (cancelled

Fall 2021
Instructor: Judith Enck
Credits: 2
Beyond Plastic Pollution is an environmental policy class with an emphasis on building your skills to take action on this growing environmental justice and climate justice problem.  The class will focus on the production, use and disposal of plastic, including one class on how the US and Europe exports its plastic waste problems to  countries in Asia and Africa. 
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Beyond Plastic Pollution — APA2334.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Judith Enck
Credits: 1
This is an environmental policy course with a focus on public action.  The class will explore the dimensions of the production, use and disposal of plastics, including climate change implications, alternatives to plastics, and the need for innovation.  Environmental justice implications will be a major part of the class focus, along how plastics impact health and the
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Beyond Plastic Pollution — APA2334.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Judith Enck
Credits: 1
Beyond Plastic Pollution is an environmental policy course with an emphasis on taking public action to address the problem. The class will focus on the production, use and disposal of plastics, with a focus on environmental justice. The class will examine the systemic reasons why millions of tons of plastic enter rivers and oceans each year. This cutting edge class will examine
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Beyond Plastic Pollution — APA2334.02

Spring 2022
Instructor: Judith Enck
Credits: 1
This is a public policy class, with a focus on public action.  Plastic pollution is an important issue that requires a systemic response, far beyond individual consumer choices. Readings and discussion will be on the latest cutting edge information on this topic. The class will explore the dimensions of the production, use, and disposal of plastics (often in low income
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Beyond Plastic Pollution — APA2334.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Judith Enck
Credits: 1
An environmental policy class which closely examines the environmental and public health implications of the production, use and disposal of plastics.  The class is taught on zoom and there are many communty people from around the country who audit the class, which results in a nice exchange of ideas between Bennington students and community people who love to learn. 
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Beyond Plastic Pollution — APA2334.02

Spring 2024
Instructor: Judith Enck
Credits: 1
This is an action-packed public policy course that addresses the root problems of the plastic pollution crisis and what students and citizens of the world can do to address it.   There is no text book, but multiple reading requirements and lectures focused on the production, use and disposal of plastics. There will be a sharp focus on plastics impacts on: 
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Beyond the Boss: Organizational Models for the 21st Century — APA2247.02

Fall 2019
Instructor: David Zicarelli
Credits: 1
Almost all work in the world is performed in groups and all groups involve some kind of organization. Whether it’s a fast-food restaurant, a band, an activist group, or even a college class, we investigate ideas of organization — often invisible — that we picked up from somewhere: families, teachers, bad bosses, and/or movies just to name a few. This course offers the
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Black Lives in Context: Brazil — APA2323.01) (cancelled

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
With the current focus on anti blackness in the USA, this course will demonstrate a much larger problem. We will show where black populations are within this hemisphere, then quickly focus on black life and struggle in Brazil. We will focus on how anti blackness is organized in Brazilian life and lifts up forms of black resistance in art, culture, and politics. Course dates:
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Black Studies: Black Film Division — FV2309.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Karthik Pandian
Credits: 2
This film history course examines the Black American independent cinema of the 1960s-80s. We will screen landmark works by filmmakers such as Charles Burnett, Haile Gerima, Kathleen Collins and Julie Dash along with videos by contemporary artists. Screenings will be followed by discussions exploring the key thematic and formal preoccupations of black filmmakers of the era
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Black Studies: Black Music Division — MUS2149.02

Fall 2016
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 2
In the early 70s Bennington music faculty members Bill Dixon and Milford Graves guided Bennington students through the black esthetic lens with music, words and deeds. Their compositions, teachings, and innovative approaches to creative music boldly addressed a multitude of issues inspired by the Civil Rights Movement. This 7 week course explores social, political and
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Black Studies: Black Music Division — MHI4102.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 2
This seven-week course encourages students who have taken Black Studies: Black Film Division or Black Studies: Black Video Division courses in the Fall 2016 term to take Black Studies: Black Music Division course spring term. Students will use this course to collaborate and realize an exhibition in the Usdan Gallery based on their work and research into the past, present and
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