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Social innovation and entrepreneurship: Food and water edition — MOD2158.02

Spring 2016
Instructor:
Credits: 1
Calling all food innovators, catalysts and designers: this three-week module is for students interested in the process of developing creative solutions and ventures in response to real societal needs. Specific areas of investigation and action will be driven by participant interest; topics and projects may include sustainable food production and land use, hunger, obesity, food
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Social Kitchen Ceramics Lab — APA2219.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
Credits: 2
Social Kitchen project links a community service organization (Greater Bennington Interfaith Community Services or GBICS) and local residents with students, staff and faculty of Bennington College through various workshops and collective activities that includes the fundraising supper, 2019 Empty Bowls Bennington. To achieve high volume production of ceramic bowls
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Social Kitchen: Ceramics, Food and Community — APA2269.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
Credits: 4
Social Kitchen: Ceramics, Food and Community will provide an opportunity to learn about creative community engaged practices in contemporary art. We will explore the issues of local food insecurity in the Bennington region and how artistic process can join forces with activism to expand awareness and seek imaginative solutions. Through direct dialog and face-to-face interaction
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Social Kitchen: Ceramics, Food, and Community — APA2269.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
Credits: 4
This course will provide an opportunity to learn about creative community engaged practices of contemporary art and ethical processes in the context of local food insecurity. Through direct dialog and face-to-face interaction with local residents and by investigating creative interventions devised by artists/activists dealing with issues of food sovereignty and social justice,
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Social Marketing — MOD2147.03

Fall 2015
Instructor: Alison Dennis
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
The everyday choices we make as citizens and consumers directly impact human and environmental health. From the food we eat to the clothing we wear, each choice has upstream and downstream impacts. The more global our society becomes, the more challenging it is to understand the impacts of our choices and to make informed decisions. This three-week module will explore social
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Social Marketing — MOD2147.03

Fall 2014
Instructor: alison dennis
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
The everyday choices we make as citizens and consumers directly impact human and environmental health. From the food we eat to the clothing we wear, each choice has upstream and downstream impacts. The more global our society becomes, the more challenging it is to understand the impacts of our choices and to make informed decisions. This three-week module will explore social
CAPA Modules: Transferable Approaches

Social Practice: Your Art is in My __________ — DA4270.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Nancy Nowacek
Credits: 4
Now over 10 years old, “Social Practice” is a term broadly applied to a variety of art-making strategies that implicates other people and/or social systems in their making. The genre has diversified from representing social forms (dinner parties, conversations) into stand-alone museums, real estate cooperatives, and schools: projects that intervene into real-world systems on
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Social Practices in Art — DA4103.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Robert Ransick
Credits: 4
In this course, we examine the history of social practice and focus in on how artists are moving out of the studio and into the public realm with their work.  Social practices in art incorporates many diverse strategies that engage social forms from public discourse, activism, online networks, shared meals, street interventions, social sculpture, performance, artist
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Social Practices in Art — DA4103.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: robert ransick
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Social practices in art incorporates many diverse strategies from tactical media, online networking, manifestos, street interventions, social sculpture, design, performance, activism, open systems, public discourse and more. In this course we examine the history of social practice and focus in on current practitioners. Students work collaboratively on projects that critically
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Social Practices in Art — DA4103.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Robert Ransick
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
In this course we examine the history of social practice and focus in on how artists are moving out of the studio and into the public realm with their work.  Social practices in art incorporates many diverse strategies from interactive media, online networks, public discourse, activism, manifestos, street interventions, social sculpture, design, performance, open systems
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Social Practices: House Music vs Neoliberalism — APA2184.02

Spring 2020
Instructor: Kenneth Bailey, MFA Teaching Fellow
Credits: 2
Neoliberal culture asks us to see ourselves exclusively through our capacity to buy, sell, accumulate “likes” and “followers” and to do it as individuals. And the neoliberal cultural project tends to render invisible or illegitimate any alternatives to it as an orientation to social life. However there exists examples of cultural projects that remained on the outside of
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Social Practices: House Music vs Neoliberalism — APA2322.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: RRansick@bennington.edu
Credits: 2
Neoliberal culture asks us to see ourselves exclusively through our capacity to buy, sell, accumulate “likes” and “followers” and to do it as individuals. And the neoliberal cultural project tends to render invisible or illegitimate any alternatives to it as an orientation to social life. However there exists examples of cultural projects that remained on the outside of
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Socially Engaged Art Seminar: Creative Repair — VA4408.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
Credits: 4
Threading together. This course focuses on developing collaborative group projects which reflect the concept of collective sharing that lies at the heart of various arts collectives in Asia. We start by creating a place and space for a communal gathering centered on the collective action of repairing and transforming clothing. Core topics are anchored in the cultural discourse
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Socially Engaged Art Seminar: Critical Kitchen Pedagogy — APA4113.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This course focuses on developing an independent, self-directed research project, anchored in cultural discourse and social-political context of food and to be pursued through various creative practices. Research topics include but are not limited to decolonization, migration, identity, community activism, mutual care and collective healing. Engaging with creative
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Sociology of Education — SOC2205.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Debbie Warnock
Credits: 4
What is the purpose of schooling in modern society? Does everyone have access to equal educational opportunities? How do experiences of education vary by race, class, and gender? What role does education policy play in maintaining or reducing social inequalities? How has and how might education policy change under the leadership of Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos? In this
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Solving The Impossible: Breaking Bread — MED2118.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 2
Why are certain conflicts so difficult to resolve? This course will examine conflicts that are long-standing and elude resolution. We will explore the factors that contribute to complex disputes and the conditions that allow groups to begin to address them. Can individuals like Martin Luther King, Jr., Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela transform historical conflict? What role
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Solving the Impossible: Mediation, Negotiation and Complex Systems — APA2191.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Days & Time: TU,FR 10:30am-12:20pm
Credits: 4

This class will examine contemporary challenges through the lens of complex systems. The class will include a training in Mediation and Negotiation skills. Through readings, discussion, exercises and role-plays, the class will examine and deconstruct the complexities of current democratic and environmental issues related to local, national and global governance, We will

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Sounding Home: Music of Migration, Memory, and Exile — MHI2109.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
Credits: 4
We live in an era when millions of people across the globe—victims of forced migration, asylum seekers, refugees, and mobile workers—are on the move. Music often can tell more about the migration experience than statistical analysis and surveys. How might songs transcribe and preserve the identities, memories, traumas, joys, and hopes of individuals and whole communities?
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Soup Thinking/Thinking Soup — APA2185.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: benhall@bennington.edu
Credits: 4
This course will present methods of soup preparation, soup making, and serving that will propose and present, various natural/biological and social/societal understandings of the world because first and foremost food is a narrative. Each of the methods can be combined and/or reduced/disassembled to create other soups. Participants will leave with a solid understanding of how
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Spaceships — APA2341.02

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
Exploring the intersections of spatial and experience design. Explorers will get the opportunity to discover locations/spaces on campus [or off campus] that could be reimagined for new purposes and functions for learning.  Spaceships is a 7 week journey where we all will immerse ourselves into rapid prototyping labs as individuals and groups to create what I call
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Spaceships — APA2341.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
Exploring the intersections of spatial and experience design. Explorers will get the opportunity to discover locations/spaces on campus [or off campus] that could be reimagined for new purposes and functions for learning.  Spaceships is a 7 week journey where we all will immerse ourselves into rapid prototyping labs as individuals and groups to create what I call
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Spaceships — APA2341.02

Spring 2021
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 2
Exploring the intersections of spatial and experience design. Explorers will get the opportunity to discover locations/spaces on campus [or off campus] that could be reimagined for new purpose and function. Spaceships is a 7 week journey where we all will immerse ourselves into rapid prototyping labs as individuals and groups to create “spaceships”. The culminating project will
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