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Upside/down 2.0: Business in the 21st Century — APA2156.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Charles Crowell
Credits: 4
We have all unknowingly adsorbed business startup mythologies in our culture as fact – like the viability of starting in a garage or basement, starting small, and with little capital, as well as whatever clickbait faux news (“Young Billionaires!”) we read in the newest online forum dedicated to start-up culture. These success stories are all wrong, or “upside /down”, for the
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Upside/down: Business in the 21st Century — APA2300.01

Fall 2016
Instructor:
Credits: 4
We have all unknowingly adsorbed business startup mythologies in our culture as fact - like the viability of starting in a garage or basement, starting small, and with little capital, as well as whatever clickbait faux news (“Young Billionaires!”) we read in the newest online forum dedicated to start-up culture. These
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Uses and Abuses of Statistics — MAT2103.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Hugh Crowl
Credits: 4
This course will attempt to answer the question "What is valid data -- and how do you know?" By looking at real life data sets, we will work on reading, assessing, and producing statistics as they relate to different fields. We will work to locate the source data, understand statistical language, and look at how the visual representation of data can change how we perceive facts
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Volatile Futures/Earthly Matters — APA2275.01

Spring 2017
Instructor:
Credits: 2
Where and when does the Anthropocene come to matter? Looking at inundated low-lying islands, the melting Arctic, or the coastal wrath of super storms, many suggest such contemporary moments prophesy the future that awaits us all. Others, returning to the ecological fallout of the colonial plantation, hydrocarbon imperialism, or nuclear weapons, suggest our impending unraveling
CAPA Society Culture and Thought Environment

Water Dialogues: Conflicts Over Our Most Valuable Resource — APA2220.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 2
Water is our most important resource in the world. Without it, human, animal and plant life cannot exist for very long. Where we live in the eastern United States,  water is plentiful.  We take it for granted that we can drink it freely, wash ourselves when we feel like it, and use it for industry and recreation. But in our own country (western U.S.) and other parts
CAPA Environment

Water Dialogues: Conflicts Over Our Most Valuable Resource — APA2220.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 2
Water is the essence of life. Access to Clean Water for drinking, fishing, irrigation and sanitation are basic human rights. In this course, we will use two texts: "Written in Water: Messages of Hope for Earth's Most Precious Resource" edited by Irena Salin and Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization by Steven Solomon. Water as a source of conflict for
CAPA Environment

Water Dialogues: The Future of Civilization — APA2016.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 4
This course fundamentally will address the following questions: How do we move out of the historical period of industrial waste and big dams to Water Systems that address climate change, water scarcity, water pollution and clean up, hydropower as a renewable resource and building new infrastructure? How does water affect our personal lives through health, sanitation, and
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Water: First Home of Life  — APA2148.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Burcu Seyben
Credits: 4
Water is the source of life. Scientists search for water in the universe to discover if there is life out there. Civilizations of the ancient world flourished near water. Over the centuries, we have established relationships with water other than merely using it to survive. How has our relationship with water been changing, and how has this affected water? What role do
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What Comes After the State? — ANT2114.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Noah Coburn
Credits: 4
Particularly since the treaty of Westphalia the state has been the dominant feature of the international system. In almost every case its sovereignty is assumed. Yet from unauthorized US drone strikes in Pakistan to the European Union, there are examples of ways in which the power of the state as an organizing concept is beginning to erode. This course will look at
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What Happened in North Bennington? The Profound Struggle for the Soul of Education in America — MOD2405.02

Spring 2017
Instructor:
Credits: 1
In this course we will begin with an examination of the events that occurred in North Bennington, VT as the community voted to close its public school in response to Act 46, the new state law requiring school districts across Vermont to consolidate. The events surrounding Act 46 and the closing of the public school in North Bennington marked a “sea change” in education policy
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What is (and What is Not) US Empire  — APA4311.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 4
This course works to give a more exacting definition to the imperial shape of the United States, as much to name its haunting presence as to more effectively confront its unjust operations. As the first successful anti-colonial revolt, the United States has a long history of narrating itself against empire. Yet for anyone who has lived under the heavy hand of its territorial
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

What is Radicalism in Practice? — MPF2165.01) (cancelled

Fall 2021
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 2
What is radical? What is performance; when is it performative, and when/how can a performance be radical? How does one practice radicalism in everyday life? What is theory, and how does it advance or confuse radical pursuits? Embodiment, a faculty required for performance is, in part, radicalism in action. This is an introductory conversation and exercise series open to all
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What is Radicalism in Practice? — MPF2165.02) (cancelled

Fall 2021
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 2
What is radical? What is performance; when is it performative, and when/how can a performance be radical? How does one practice radicalism in everyday life? What is theory, and how does it advance or confuse radical pursuits? Embodiment, a faculty required for performance is, in part, radicalism in action. This is an introductory conversation and exercise series open to all
CAPA Music

What Was Critique and What Comes Next? — APA4207.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 4
If progressive scholarship holds anything sacred, perhaps it is critique. Over the past century, critique has become not only the guiding commitment of radical scholarship but also the unflappable identity of the public intellectual. Yet a number of unfortunate assumptions have been built into this manner of engaging the world. Among them, that intellectuals have privileged
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What Was Critique and What Comes Next? — APA4207.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 4
If progressive scholarship holds anything sacred, perhaps it is critique. Over the past century, critique has become not only the guiding commitment of radical scholarship but also the unflappable identity of the public intellectual. Yet a number of unfortunate assumptions have been built into this manner of engaging the world. Among them, that intellectuals have privileged
CAPA Social Science

What Was Critique and What Comes Next? — APA4207.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 4
If progressive scholarship holds anything sacred, perhaps it is critique. Over the past century, critique has become not only the guiding commitment of radical scholarship but also the unflappable identity of the public intellectual. Yet a number of unfortunate assumptions have been built into this manner of engaging the world. Among them, that intellectuals have privileged
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Whenever Wherever Festival: As a Celebration of Diverse Communities — APA2283.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
Playing with a concept of festival as celebration of our daily life and as a space to exchange individual history, creativity and expression, students will plan, develop, organize and conduct mini-events using any forms—such as workshop, performance, participatory installation, exploratory tour, tea ceremony or ritual. Students are encouraged to research, connect to and
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Wicked Problems and Diabolical Dilemmas — HIS4235.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Credits: 4
“Wicked problems” demand answers and resist remedies. They loom large yet cannot be located or pinned down. “Diabolical dilemmas” force us to make repugnant choices in favor of lesser evils. Examples of both include global warming, pandemics, terrorism, migration, healthcare, corruption, poverty, and human trafficking. After orienting ourselves in the relevant topology and
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Wicked Problems and Diabolical Dilemmas — HIS4235.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Credits: 4
“Wicked problems” demand answers and resist remedies. They loom large, yet cannot be located or pinned down. “Diabolical dilemmas” force us to make repugnant choices in favor of lesser evils. Examples of both include global warming, pandemics, terrorism, migration, healthcare, corruption, poverty, and human trafficking. After orienting ourselves in the relevant topology and
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Women Human Mobility — APA2213.04

Spring 2025
Instructor: Andrea Galindo
Days & Time: TU,FR 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 1

Human mobility has been an inherent human condition throughout history. From earliest human history, women and men have migrated in search of a better life, to populate other places on the planet, or to escape and survive human-made or natural dangers. Today migration is a fact of life for an increasing number of people around the world: there are more than 281 million

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Women and Human Mobility — APA2213.03

Spring 2020
Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 1
Human mobility has been an inherent human condition throughout history. From earliest human history, women and men have migrated in search of a better life, to populate other places on the planet, or to escape and survive human-made or natural dangers. Today migration is a fact of life for an increasing number of people around the world: there are more than 244 million migrants
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Women and Human Mobility — APA2213.03

Spring 2024
Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 1
Human mobility has been an inherent human condition throughout history. From earliest human history, women and men have migrated in search of a better life, to populate other places on the planet, or to escape and survive human-made or natural dangers. Today migration is a fact of life for an increasing number of people around the world: there are more than 244 million migrants
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