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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
CAPA Visual Arts

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
CAPA Visual Arts

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
CAPA

Social Semiotics of Contemporary Literature — LIT2561.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: An Duplan
Credits: 4
Writers don’t just tell stories. They live them. In Familiar Stranger: A Life between Two Islands, Stuart Hall describes his upbringing in 1930’s Jamaica, then a British colony. Eventually, Hall–– who is credited with being one of the founding figures of the field of Cultural Studies––made his way to the UK, where he went on to publish a number of seminal texts. Without a doubt
Literature Society Culture and Thought

Social Stratification — SOC2207.01) (cancelled

Fall 2021
Instructor: Debbie Warnock
Credits: 4
How is American society stratified on the basis of race and social class? What are the social categories of race and class and how are these defined and reified through institutional structures? What are the consequences of inequality for a democratic society? Through examinations of classical and contemporary sociological texts, we will identify and interrogate patterns of
Society Culture and Thought

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
CAPA Visual Arts

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
CAPA Visual Arts

Sociolinguistic Voices: Identities in Text Talk — Canceled

Spring 2015
Instructor: Peter Jones
Credits: 4
Identity has become an inevitable concept in social theory. Theorizing identity and examining how identity becomes relevant in communication contributes to understanding power, culture and agency. This course looks into identity from a sociolinguistic perspective, where identities are seen as coming into being through semiotic practices entailing gender, ethnicity and class, as
Education

Sociolinguistic Voices: Identities in Text and Talk — EDU2120.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Peter Jones
Credits: 4
Identity has become an inevitable concept in social theory. Theorizing identity and examining how identity becomes relevant in communication contributes to understanding power, culture and agency. This course looks into identity from a sociolinguistic perspective, where identities are seen as coming into being through semiotic practices entailing gender, ethnicity and class, as
Education

Sociological Imagination — SOC2204.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Debbie Warnock
Credits: 4
C. Wright Mills describes the sociological imagination as a “quality of mind” that enables one to view the relations between “history and biography” within society. The core work of sociology is to identify ways in which one’s own seemingly unique “personal troubles” are in fact connected to larger “public issues.” In this course students will work on developing and refining
Society Culture and Thought

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
CAPA Sociology

Sociology of Education — SOC2205.01) (cancelled

Fall 2021
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? In this course, we will employ sociological theories and research to explore current issues, debates, and policies
Society Culture and Thought

Sociology of Home — SOC2206.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Debbie Warnock
Credits: 4
What is home? What does it mean to have a home? What does it mean to leave home or to lose one’s home? To return home? To make a new home? How can we begin to explore these questions sociologically? In this class, we will move towards a sociology of home, as we read and grapple with many different meditations on and conceptualizations of home. Some topics we will explore
Society Culture and Thought

Software Engineering for the Liberal and Visual Arts — CS4107.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Ursula Wolz
Credits: 4
According to Wikipedia “Software Engineering is the application of engineering to the development of software in a systematic method." Students in this class will participate as a team in the development of a single cross-platform software system that supports liberal and visual arts. A pitch concept will be collaboratively developed in August
Science and Mathematics

Software Product Development — CS2152.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Michael Corey
Credits: 4
Why are some apps to hard to put down, while others break new ground and then go away? What are the commonalities across the digital surfaces you use everyday? What do you call that menu with three horizontal lines (a hamburger menu!). There are patterns and processes around making digital products that tie your digital life together. In this class we will examine the process
Science and Mathematics

Software, Algorithms and Computability — CS4131.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Ursula Wolz
Credits: 4
This course covers essential material from three traditional upper level courses in computer science: Data Structures/Software Design, Analysis of Algorithms, and Computability. The first half of the course provides an intensive immersion in these areas as either introduction or review, while students define a personal direction for study in the second half of the course to
Science and Mathematics

Solo Performance — DRA4322.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Kirk Jackson
Credits: 4
Students develop original and/or primary source material and explore its shape, arc and thematic whole in a performance medium that can involve text, movement, characterization and personal observation / examination. We may reference the work of solo performance artists. Students write, edit, rewrite multiple drafts and perform original memorized material. Class work will be
Drama

Solo Performance - Telling My Story — DRA4322.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Kirk Jackson
Credits: 4
Students develop original and/or primary source material and explore its shape, arc, and thematic whole in a performance medium that can involve text, movement, characterization, and personal examination and observation. We will view solo performance artists. Students write, edit, rewrite multiple drafts and perform original memorized material. Class work will be tailored
Drama

Solo Performance: Telling My Story — DRA4322.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Kirk Jackson
Credits: 4
Students develop original and/or primary source material and explore its shape, arc, and thematic whole in a performance medium that can involve text, movement, characterization, and personal examination and observation. We will view solo performance artists. Students write, edit, rewrite multiple drafts and perform original memorized material. Class work will be tailored
Drama

Solo Performance: Telling My Story — DRA4322.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Kirk Jackson
Credits: 4
Students develop original and/or primary source material and explore its shape, arc, and thematic whole in a performance medium that can involve text, movement, characterization, personal examination, and observation. Generating and receiving constructive feedback, with sensitivity to process, is an essential aspect of the work. Students write, edit, rewrite multiple drafts and
Drama

Solo Performance: Telling My Story — DRA4322.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Kirk Jackson
Credits: 4
Students develop original and/or primary source material and explore its shape, arc and thematic whole in a performance medium that can involve text, movement, characterization and personal observation / examination. We may reference the work of solo performance artists. Students write, edit, rewrite multiple drafts and perform original memorized material. Class work will be
Drama

Solo Performance: Telling My Story — DRA4322.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Kirk Jackson
Credits: 4
Students develop original and/or primary source material and explore its shape, arc, and thematic whole in a performance medium that can involve text, movement, characterization, personal examination, and observation. Generating and receiving constructive feedback, with sensitivity to process, is an essential aspect of the work. Students write, edit, rewrite multiple drafts and
Drama

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
CAPA

Solving the Impossible: Intractable Conflicts — MED2106.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course is about the challenge of solving conflicts that are firmly entrenched with little hope for change. Often these conflicts repeat a pattern of violence between groups that hold fixed positions and beliefs. We will look in depth at this type of conflict, analyzing the factors that contribute to intractibility. We will then look at people like Gandhi, Martin Luther
Conflict Resolution and Systems Design