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Peacebuilding Seminar — APA2212.02

Spring 2019
Instructor: Vahidin Omanovic
Credits: 1
This Module will serve as an introduction to the work of Peacebuilding around the world, both in theory and practice. Vahidin Omanovic, Director of Center for Peacebuilding in Bosnia, will be joining us to reflect on his work and introduce us to key topics in peacebuilding, including: peacebuilding in a local community, identity and discrimination, methods of sustainable
CAPA

Peacebuilding Seminar —

Fall 2015
Instructor: Vahidin Omanovic with Susan Sgorbati
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
This Module will serve as an introduction to the work of Peacebuilding around the world, both in theory and practice. From looking at a case study of the Center for Peacebuilding in Sanski Most, Bosnia, the context of the conflict will be explored in depth as well as approaches to building sustainable structures in civil society that cross boundaries of ethnicity and religion.

Peacebuilding Seminar — MOD2171.02

Spring 2017
Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 1
This Module will serve as an introduction to the work of Peacebuilding around the world, both in theory and practice. Vahidin Omanovic, Director of Center for Peacebuilding in Bosnia, will be joining us to reflect on her work and introduce us to key topics in peacebuilding, including: peacebuilding in a local community, identity and discrimination, methods of sustainable
CAPA Modules: Transferable Approaches

Peacebuilding Seminar — MOD2171.03

Spring 2018
Instructor: Vahidin Omanovic
Credits: 1
This Module will serve as an introduction to the work of Peacebuilding around the world, both in theory and practice. Vahidin Omanovic, Director of Center for Peacebuilding in Bosnia, will be joining us to reflect on her work and introduce us to key topics in peacebuilding, including: peacebuilding in a local community, identity and discrimination, methods of sustainable
CAPA Modules: Transferable Approaches

Peacebuilding Training and Action — APA2363.03

Spring 2025
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 1
This Module will include discussion and training on the following Peacebuilding skills: identity, discrimination based on identity, prejudices that limit our capacities to live fully and trauma informed peacebuilding. Guests will include post-war peace builders from Bosnia and Herzegovina; guests that focus on memories in post-violence societies, and activists involved in
CAPA

Peacebuilding Two: Be the change you want to see in the World — APA2240.03

Spring 2020
Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 1
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 individual daily struggles to be more effective
CAPA

Pedagogies: Theory and Practice — EDU2113.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This course will focus on teaching methods. While applicable to college, they’ll mostly be of the K-12 variety. Proleptically, it should always already recognize the false dichotomy rather too neatly encapsulated in its subtitle. On the one hand, yes, weekly, we’ll scour the history of education, the issues most pertinent to it, its possibly reified institutions, rationales,
Education

Pedagogies: Theory and Practice — EDU2113.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Days & Time: MO,TH 3:40pm-5:30pm
Credits: 4

This course will focus on teaching methods. While applicable to college, they’ll mostly be of the K-12 variety. Proleptically, it should always already recognize the false dichotomy rather too neatly encapsulated in its subtitle.

On the one hand, yes, weekly, we’ll scour

Education

People/ Place — PHO4219.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
Credits: 4
This course offers students the opportunity to explore the historical and social landscape of the region surrounding Bennington College. Our goal will be to make compelling, insightful images that reflect the diversity of the people and the complexity of social issues they face. We will be experimenting with both digital and analog cameras and location lighting to explore
Visual Arts

Peoples and Cultures of Africa — ANT2118.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Miroslava Prazak
Credits: 4
Why is there so much famine? Why so many civil wars? Why so much misunderstanding? To place current events in Africa in a meaningful framework, this course explores indigenous African cultures, drawing on ethnographic examples from selected ethnic groups representing major subsistence strategies, geographical and ecological zones, and patterns of culture. We will explore how
Social Science

Perception and Augmentation in Computer Vision — CS4385.01) (cancelled 5/10/2024

Fall 2024
Instructor: Meltem Ballan
Credits: 4
In the first two weeks, we'll learn about how our eyes and brain work together to make sense of what we see. We'll also explore ways to make computer programs better at understanding images by changing them in different ways. We'll try out some of these changes ourselves using a computer program called Python with a special tool called OpenCV. Moving on, we'll dive into how we
Science and Mathematics

Perceptions of Reality in 20th Century Latin American Literature — SPA4722.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Lena Retamoso Urbano
Credits: 4
This advanced Spanish course is a study of the different mechanisms that are representative of what Latin American authors of the 20th century use to create a particular way of perceiving reality. By altering perceptions of space and time, rethinking the limits of language, and exploring the inner world of the subject and the unconscious, these authors attempt to produce a new
Cultural Studies and Languages

Perceptions of Reality in 20th Century Latin American Literature — SPA4722.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Sarah Harris
Credits: 4
This advanced Spanish course is a study of the different mechanisms that representative Latin American authors of the 20th century use to create a particular way of perceiving reality. By altering perceptions of space and time, rethinking the limits of language, and exploring the inner world of the subject and the unconscious, these authors attempt to produce a new literary
Cultural Studies and Languages

Perfect Vacuums: Critical Studies of Nonexistent Texts — LIT4177.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Manuel Gonzales
Credits: 4
In this class, using Stanislaw Lem's 1971 book, A Perfect Vacuum: Perfect Reviews of Nonexistent Books as a jumping off point, we will discuss the influence and power of nonexistent texts in literature and pop-culture, and we will turn our critical eye to our own invented and imagined nonexistent texts, bounding across space, time, and genre as we do, with the goal of
Literature

Performance Art — DAN2129.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Credits: 2
This class explores the concepts, questions and ideas of performance and performance practice. The class will cover a range of modalities in creating and developing performance, using text, scores and improvisation to generate material and expand the palette and practice of art making. This work will focus on the corporeal and experiential aspect of developing performance work.
Dance

Performance Art: Histories and Legacies — AH4307.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: carol stakenas
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course will explore performance art in the 1970's, emphasizing the evolution of performance within a broader drive toward artistic experimentation that cut across many spheres of cultural production. Celebrating the ways that performance art has grown organically – and in varied directions – this seminar will highlight connections between performance art and other
Visual Arts

Performance as Radicalism in Practice — MPF2165.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 2
This class will explore performance as a tool for affecting social arrangements. We'll examine it from the perspective of the performer and the audience, moving from the hyper-local to the extended sites where change can take place. Performance as Radicalism in Practice names and works to understand the social phenomena that can affect a performance experience,
CAPA Music

Performance as Radicalism in Practice — MPF2165.02

Spring 2022
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 2
This class will explore performance as a tool for affecting social arrangements. We'll examine it from the perspective of the performer and the audience, moving from the hyper-local to the extended sites where change can take place. Performance as Radicalism in Practice names and works to understand the social phenomena that can affect a performance experience,
CAPA Music

Performance Pedagogies of Dance — DAN4816B.03, section 3

Spring 2025
Instructor: Tania Perez
Credits: 3
PODs offer students the opportunity to make connections through multiple access points, especially in areas of performance. PODs are designed to help students recognize the tools and methodologies used in their own creative work both as performers and as choreographers. Structurally each POD is identified by a unique topic. PODs have required rehearsal times and culminate in a

Performance Pedagogies of Dance — DAN4816B.04, section 4

Spring 2025
Instructor: Tania Perez
Credits: 3
PODs offer students the opportunity to make connections through multiple access points, especially in areas of performance. PODs are designed to help students recognize the tools and methodologies used in their own creative work both as performers and as choreographers. Structurally each POD is identified by a unique topic. PODs have required rehearsal times and culminate in a

Performance Pedagogies of Dance — DAN4816B.01, section 1

Fall 2025
Instructor: Kyle Clark
Days & Time: See course description for days/times
Credits: 3

PODs offer students the opportunity to make connections through multiple access points, especially in areas of performance. PODs are designed to help students recognize the tools and methodologies used in their own creative work both as performers and as choreographers. Structurally each POD is identified by a unique topic. PODs have required rehearsal times and culminate in

Dance (BFA)

Performance Pedagogies of Dance — DAN4816B.02, section 2

Fall 2025
Instructor: Juel Lane
Days & Time: See course description for days/times
Credits: 3

PODs offer students the opportunity to make connections through multiple access points, especially in areas of performance. PODs are designed to help students recognize the tools and methodologies used in their own creative work both as performers and as choreographers. Structurally each POD is identified by a unique topic. PODs have required rehearsal times and culminate in

Dance (BFA)

Performance Pedagogies of Dance — DAN4816B.01, section 1

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 3
BFA students only PODs offer students the opportunity to make connections through multiple access points, especially in areas of performance. PODs are designed to help students recognize the tools and methodologies used in their own creative work both as performers and as choreographers. Structurally each POD is identified by a unique topic. PODs have required rehearsal times
Dance (BFA)