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Social Inquiry in an Age of Upheaval — SCT2143.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 2
For quite some time, social research aspired to access the bedrock of social existence, the underlying order or logic upon which all else rested. Recent events suggest the emergence of a very different social world, one no longer anchored but caught in rising currents of disorder (many of them, very much of our own making). While the storms of economic inequality and ecological
Society Culture and Thought

Social Issues in Japan Through Online News — JPN4119.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Credits: 4
The course is designed for students to deepen their understanding of Japanese language and culture through analysis of Japanese newspapers online and examination of Japanese articles from various contexts.  Students will practice various reading strategies, which will help them become independent learners.  Mass media is the reflection of a society and the mirror of a
Languages

Social Issues in Japan Through Online News — JPN4601.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Credits: 4
The course is designed for students to deepen their understanding of Japanese language and culture through analysis of Japanese online newspapers and examination of Japanese news articles from various contexts.  Students will practice various reading strategies, which will help them become independent learners.  Mass media is the reflection of a society and the mirror
Languages

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
CAPA

Social Kitchen: Ceramics, Food and Community — CER2139.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
Credits: 4
This course will provide students with an opportunity to learn about creative community engaged practices and ethical processes that take up issues of food insecurity in the Bennington region. The class activities will be centered around a collaborative project, Empty Bowls, that links a community service organization (Greater Bennington Interfaith Community Service Inc.) with
Visual Arts

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
CAPA

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,
CAPA Visual Arts

Social Life of Sculpture — SCU4106.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
Credits: 4
This class aims to explore opportunities for making and locating sculpture in a broader socio-cultural context. In-class presentations and discussions are structured to identify important examples of contemporary art practice and serve as a platform for the exchange of ideas and debate. Students will pursue projects that expand considerations of public audience engagement. We
Visual Arts

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
CAPA Modules: Transferable Approaches

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 Marketing — MOD2147.04

Fall 2013
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 Movements in Latin America — ANT2111.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Credits: 4
What circumstances prompt people to disrupt their daily lives, with the goal of bringing about social change? Through literature, journalistic accounts and ethnographies of social movements, this course will explore the contexts in which social movements arise, the strategies they use and the issues they address, throughout Latin America. We will explore how the shared
Society Culture and Thought

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
CAPA Visual Arts

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
CAPA Visual Arts Environment

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
CAPA Visual Arts Environment

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 in Art — VA4104.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Robert Ransick
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Social practices in art incorporates many diverse strategies from interactive media, online networks, 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 how media and technology are impacting and shifting current practice. Students
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