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The Migrant Worker issue in Chinese Film — CHI4602.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Credits: 4
While movies such as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon have helped Chinese cinema broadened its appeal and consolidate its position as a significant force in international cinema, such historical fantasies may not do much to help us understand modern Chinese culture. Fortunately, there is much more to contemporary Chinese cinema, and many fine Chinese language films are available
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The New Hampshire Primary — POP2266.04

Fall 2019
Instructor: Brian Campion
Credits: 1
What is it like to be a part of a massive effort to win the office of the President of the United States? Focusing on the New Hampshire primary, this class will let you explore the process that is currently underway by candidates to win the Presidency. The class will comprise two field trips to New Hampshire (Saturday, November 16 and Saturday, December 7) where you’ll choose
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The Personal Learning Plan and After-School Workshop: Vermont Act 77 Educational Reform — APA2169.02

Spring 2019
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 the Bennington College Plan Process. This Module will introduce Bennington
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The Personal Learning Plan: Vermont Act 77 Educational Reform — MOD2170.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: David Bond
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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The Poetics of Protest — LIT2541.01) (cancelled 4/23/2024

Fall 2024
Instructor: Franny Choi
Credits: 2
What makes a poem political? Why do some poems, chants, and slogans circulate in political contexts, while others don’t? In this course, we will read poems from the 20th and 21st Century that have gone under the banner of “protest poetry” and examine the tools of craft that socially-engaged poets have utilized to further their work. Beginning with poets writing under Soviet
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The Political Economy of the Twenty-First Century Refugee Crisis in North Africa and the Middle East — APA2143.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Mohammad Moeini Feizabadi
Credits: 4
“To be truly radical is to make hope possible, rather than despair convincing.” —Raymond Williams In this course, we will begin by discussing the causes of the numerous wars in the Middle East over the past several decades (the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, recent wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, etc.), addressing their causes as well as their consequences. Then, we
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The Power and Ethics of Photography — APA4172.01) (cancelled 2/5/2025

Spring 2025
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This course delves into the influence and impact of photography by examining the works of iconic and contemporary photographers. Students will explore how photography has shaped visual culture and society, gaining a deeper understanding of its power as an artistic and documentary medium. Ethical considerations are central to the course, as students will analyze the
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The Power of Art — APA2142.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 1
Art has the power to help people in communities to communicate, to mobilize, to educate and to understand their living situation.  Art can help political movements find their voice, and connect people to planning visions for the future.  Beginning in 2014, protests in Burkina Faso organized against the current political dictatorship.  Life was very difficult for
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The Power of Art — APA2142.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Souleymane Badolo
Credits: 2
Art has the power to help people in communities to communicate, to mobilize, to educate and to understand their living situation. Art can help political movements find their voice, and connect people to planning visions for the future. Beginning in 2014, protests in Burkina Faso organized against the current political dictatorship. Life was very difficult for the people.
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The Power of Art — APA2142.02

Spring 2018
Instructor: Souleymane Badolo
Credits: 2
Art has the power to help people in communities to communicate, to mobilize, to educate and to understand their living situation. Art can help political movements find their voice, and connect people to planning visions for the future. Beginning in 2014, protests in Burkina Faso organized against the current political dictatorship. Life was very difficult for the people.
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The Power of Art — APA2142.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Souleymane Badolo
Credits: 1
Art has the power to help people in communities to communicate, to mobilize, to educate and to understand their living situation.  Art can help political movements find their voice, and connect people to planning visions for the future.   Beginning in 2014, protests in Burkina Faso organized against the current political dictatorship.  Life was very difficult for
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The Regeneration Generation: Rebuilding the Natural Abundance of Earth — APA2329.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 2
Practical steps can be taken today to reverse the major environmental, social, health, and political downward-spirals that have defined the previous few decades on Earth. The growing global tragedies are born from a system of industrial resource management that creates scarcity—empowering the few—as opposed to creating abundance—empowering the many. A movement is growing around
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The Sababa Project at Mount Anthony Union High School — APA2250.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 4
The Sababa Project is a Bennington College course taught on the campus of Mount Anthony Union High School. In a collaborative effort between Bennington College and two Mount Anthony Union High School programs (the Quantum Leap Exhibit Program and the Bridges Summer Transitional Program), the Sababa Project attempts to demystify the college experience while providing high school
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The Sababa Project at Mount Anthony Union High School — APA2250.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati with Danielle Crosier
Credits: 4
The Sababa Project is a Bennington College course taught on the campus of Mount Anthony Union High School. In a collaborative effort between Bennington College and two Mount Anthony Union High School programs (the Quantum Leap Exhibit Program and the Bridges Summer Transitional Program), the Sababa Project attempts to demystify the college experience while providing high school
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The Sababa Project at Mount Anthony Union High School: Civic Education — APA2250.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 2
The Sababa Project is a Bennington College course taught on the campus of Mount Anthony Union High School. In a collaborative effort between Bennington College and two Mount Anthony Union High School programs (the Quantum Leap Exhibit Program and the Bridges Summer Transitional Program), the Sababa Project attempts to demystify the college experience while providing high school
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The Sababa Project: Media in Action — APA2121.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Erika Mijlin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The Sababa Project: Media in Action is a unique class composed of both Bennington College students and high school students from the Quantum Leap* Exhibit Program at the local high school. Sababa means cool in both Hebrew and Arabic, a word popularized by youth culture in a region of conflict. The Bennington College students in this class are both learners and mentors.
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The Sababa Project: Youth in Crisis — MED4207.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: daniel michaelson
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
***Time Change*** There are similarities in children and adolescents all over the world, whether they live in the United States and are in crisis as a result of domestic violence, poverty or drug abuse, or if they live in other countries around the world, where there is horrific violence or issues of economic or environmental sustainability. The Sababa Project: Youth in Crisis
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The Scriptorium: Borders and Boundaries — WRI2152.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Camille Guthrie
Credits: 4
This scriptorium, a “place for writing,” will function as a class for multilingual writers interested in improving their essay-writing skills. We will read to write and write to read, following the originator of the form, Montaigne. Much of our time will be occupied with writing and revising—essai means “trial” or “attempt”—as we work to create new habits and strategies for our
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The Social Natures of Crude Oil — APA4127.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 4
Crude oil keeps the contemporary in motion. This basic fact has become as bland a platitude as it is an unexamined process. From plastic bags to electricity, from synthetic fertilizers to the passenger plane, from heat for our homes to fuel for our cars, our world is cultivated, packaged, transported, and consumed in the general momentum of hydrocarbon expenditures. These well
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The State of American Democracy and the November 2024 Elections — POP2357.03

Spring 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 1
This Pop Up Module will be led by students under the facilitation of Susan Sgorbati and Vermont State Senator Brian Campion. Students will create and structure the Fall 2024 Public Policy Forum for Bennington students and students across the United States, focusing on the November elections. The Forum will be viewed in the context of the state of American democracy, viewed
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The Study Center for Group Work: Threeing — APA2214.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Caroline Woolard
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 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 which three
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The Textual City — SPA4704.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Credits: 4
This course will chart the development of identity within the postcolonial Latin American city, focusing on (though by no means limited to) Buenos Aires as a touchstone case. The latter will be read both literally and as a guiding metaphor, as a reality ordered by ideas. We will use interdisciplinary theoretical models as discursive markers, selected from history, architecture,
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The U.S. Constitution: Amendments and Updates — HIS2141.02

Fall 2024
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Credits: 2
The United States Constitution is an “invitation to struggle,” an arena and set of principles for unending battles between irreconcilable visions of freedom, well-being, consent, obligation, and community. Far from enshrining answers, it defends questions. Battles over constitutional interpretation and amendment have been battles to open or close core questions. In this seven
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The U.S. Constitution: Amendments and Updates — HIS2141.02

Fall 2015
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
The United States Constitution is an "invitation to struggle," an arena and set of principles for unending battles between irreconcilable visions of freedom, well-being, consent, obligation, and community. Far from enshrining answers, it defends questions. Battles over constitutional interpretation and amendment have been battles to open or close core
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The U.S. Constitution: Rough Drafts and Ratification — HIS2139.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
The United States Constitution began as a idea and a rough draft. Indeed, when first presented to delegates at the Philadelphia Convention, the draft was a proposed treaty among thirteen erstwhile British colonies. In this seven-week seminar, we delve into the pivotal events, people, and debates that produced the final draft. We go on to explore the year-long ratification
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