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Researching Human Rights — POL4257.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This advanced course explores theories, concepts, methods, and cases in qualitative social science research on human rights, with the aim of preparing students to undertake independent, critical, work on the subject, using existing literature and databases. The course will begin with a discussion of contending conceptions and understandings of human rights, followed by a review
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Researching Human Rights — POL4257.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This advanced seminar explores theories, concepts, methods, and cases in qualitative social science research on human rights. It will provide a venue for students to undertake independent, critical, work on human rights, using existing literature and databases. The course will begin with a discussion of contending conceptions and understandings of human rights, followed by a
Society Culture and Thought

Resilience and Food Access in Bennington, VT — APA2241.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Tatiana Abatemarco
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
What is a resilient community food system? How is community health impacted by food access and quality? This class will explore these questions through community engagement and research with a focus on sustainable food system interventions in Bennington, Vermont. Resilience is the ability for a system to adapt to changing circumstances, including poverty, climate change, and
CAPA Environment

Resilience, Farming, and Food Access — APA2338.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Tatiana Abatemarco
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
What is a resilient community food system? How is community health impacted by food access and quality? How can we build food systems to adapt to changing climate, poverty, and health crises? What farming systems and practices best support community and ecological resilience? This class will explore these questions through the lens of resilience theory, which describes how
CAPA Environment

Resilience, Farming, and Food Access — APA2338.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Tatiana Abatemarco
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
What is a resilient community food system? How is community health impacted by food access and quality? How can we build food systems to adapt to changing climate, poverty, and health crises? What farming systems and practices best support community and ecological resilience? This class will explore these questions through the lens of resilience theory, which describes how
CAPA Environment Society Culture and Thought

Resilience: Analysis and Practice — APA2353.03) (cancelled 9/2/2024

Fall 2024
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Days & Time:
Credits: 1
The course will focus on social ecological systems integration framework to determine community resilience, enable smart design processes at the nexus of climate, food, energy and water systems and learn practical skills, such as ; the role of smart approaches to climate literacy and citizen science, digital storytelling, early warning systems and community based experiential
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Resisting Colonization: World Dance Histories — DAN2019.01) (day/time updated as of 9/26

Spring 2024
Instructor: Levi Gonzalez
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
The category of “world” dance, frequently used in the West to identify dance from various other cultural locations and traditions, begs the question: What kind of dance is not part of this world? This course introduces students to a selection of global dance practices via scholarship and video that, while not exhaustive, will serve to expand students’ understanding of the
Dance

Resisting The Stitch — DRA4027.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Richard MacPike
Days & Time: FR 4:10pm-6:00pm
Credits: 2

This class is an exploration in fabric modification through the use of dyes and various stitched resist techniques often referred to as shibori. Students will learn to work with acid, direct, cold process, union, and natural dyes. Concurrently students will learn a variety of resist techniques such as kanoko, mokume, orinui, makinui, karamatsu, boshi, arashi, itajime, adire

Drama

Resisting the Stitch — DRA2126.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Richard MacPike
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This class is an exploration in fabric modification through the use of dyes and various stitched resist techniques often referred to as shibori. Students will learn to work with acid, direct, cold process, union, and natural dyes. Concurrently students will learn a variety of resist techniques such as kanoko, mokume, orinui, makinui, karamatsu, boshi, arashi, itajime, adire
Dance Drama

Resisting the Stitch — DRA2126.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Richard MacPike
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This class is an exploration in fabric modification through the use of dyes and various stitched resist techniques often referred to as shibori. Students will learn to work with acid, direct, cold process, union, and natural dyes. Concurrently students will learn a variety of resist techniques such as kanoko, mokume, orinui, makinui, karamatsu, boshi, arashi, itajime, adire
Drama

Resisting the Stitch — DRA2126.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: richard macpike
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This class is an exploration in fabric modification through the use of dyes and various stitched resist techniques often referred to as shibori. Students will learn to work with acid, direct, cold process, union, and natural dyes. Concurrently students will learn a variety of resist techniques such as kanoko, mokume, orinui, makinui, karamatsu, boshi, arashi, itajime, adire
Drama

Resonance -relating to sound, movement, space and time - — DAN4378.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Martin Lanz
Days & Time: WE 4:10pm-6:00pm
Credits: 2

A class, a laboratory that explores the relationship between movement and sound, starting with the phenomenology of sound and acoustics, and considering the translation from sound to movement.

Incorporates listening techniques and sensory perception and encourages participants, through improvisation, to draw from movement, sound, space and

Dance Composition Musical Performance

Responding to Site / Site Specific Dance — DAN4331.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Levi Gonzalez
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
In this course we will work with specific sites as the spark for dance. By developing an awareness of location through our senses, and propelled by symbiotic relationships, we will activate dances in partnership with place. We will explore indoor and outdoor locations. We will walk, sit, vocalize and move with an internal awareness of and relationship to the external conditions
Dance

Restorative Justice In Bennington — APA4123.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Alisa Del Tufo
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Students will deepen their existing knowledge of restorative practices through reading, writing and reflection. There will also be substantial work in the field to develop programs that strengthen restorative justice in Bennington County. Specifically, students will work on three related activities that will have local impacts: 1. Working to implement restorative initiatives
CAPA

Restorative Practices and Sexual Misconduct on Campus — APA4114.02

Spring 2023
Instructor: Alisa Del Tufo
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Restorative practices can bring accountability, repair and healing in situations where there has been harm, including situations of sexual misconduct. These highly structured and mediated processes are always voluntary and can provide outcomes that are much more meaningful than formal Title IX proceedings. In this seven-week class, we will explore current practices that are
Advancement of Public Action Society Culture and Thought

Restoring Juvenile Justice: Improved Outcomes for Emerging Adult Offenders in Vermont — APA4121.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Alisa del Tufo
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
The school-to-prison pipeline, is the result of the national trend towards increasingly harsh school and municipal policies, sometimes called Zero Tolerance. This problem has become a significant topic of debate in discussions surrounding educational discipline, juvenile justice and child welfare practices. In 2018, the State of Vermont took a bold step to address this problem,
CAPA

Rethinking Agriculture — POP2278.02

Spring 2020
Instructor: Brian Campion
Days & Time:
Credits: 1
It is essential that we feed one another but how we do it can be harmful to the water we drink, the land we use, our climate and to human health itself. This course offers a broad look at a range of issues and policy ideas in America’s agricultural system today with the goal of developing a curriculum of the most innovative agricultural practices. Students will hear from
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Rethinking Capitalism: Climate, Poverty, Jobs and Public Action — APA2454.02

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 1
This intensive weekend module begins with the premise that prevailing economic systems — and the theories and policies that support them — produce an enormous range of goods and services yet are failing to meet even the most basic needs of at least 45% of the people on earth while destroying the planet’s capacity to provide the resources and process the wastes on which life
CAPA

Reveries — ARC4124.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Don Sherefkin and Farhad Mirza
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Students will develop solitary retreats for a writer/reader/dreamer. We will explore the links between poetics and architecture through the close study of texts and images. The structures will be inspired by poetry and conducive to reverie. There are aspects of poetry that share qualities with architecture: structure, rhythm, repetition, shape, etc. Particular to architecture
Visual Arts

Reveries — ARC4124.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Donald Sherefkin
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Students will develop solitary retreats for a writer/reader/dreamer. We will explore the links between poetics and architecture through the close study of texts and images. The structures will be inspired by poetry and conducive to reverie. There are aspects of poetry that share qualities with architecture: structure, rhythm, repetition, shape, etc. Particular to architecture
Visual Arts

ReVisions Rebellions, Revolution: Latin American Women Writers — LIT2516.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Since the 17th century women writers have been a steadily rebellious, even revolutionizing force in Latin American letters. A number of the writers we’ll read together are also visual and/or performance artists, and intensely political, dealing in formally challenging ways with the residues of 20th-century state terror; as well as the legacies of colonialism; themes of
Literature Cultural Studies and Languages

Revolution and Politics in Iran — APA2144.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Mansour Farhang
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
The Iranian revolution of 1979 replaced a secular autocratic monarchy with a populist, nationalist and theocratic political order.  Since then, the Islamic Republic of Iran has become a major player in the Middle East region and a salient country to global affairs.  This course examines the nature of the Iranian revolution and the intricate 
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Revolutionary Foundations: Order and Dissent in American Political Thought — POL2207.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Crina Archer
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In this course, we will explore a selection of key texts from the colonial period to the 21st century that have helped to shape and to contest the contemporary ideals and ideas of American political thought. In the early weeks of the semester, we will cull intellectual themes from debates of the colonial and founding period, with a particular focus on moments in which
Social Science

Rhetoric: The Art and Craft of Persuasion — PHI2144.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Karen Gover
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The ability to speak and write persuasively is an essential skill for everyone.  Whether you are writing a plan essay, applying for a job, or running for public office, you need to be persuasive and compelling.  This course is a practical workshop in rhetoric.  Students will write, deliver, and critique short speeches in class.  We will learn classic
Society Culture and Thought

Rhetoric: The Art and Craft of Persuasion — PHI2144.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Karen Gover
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
The ability to speak and write persuasively is an essential skill for everyone. Whether you are writing a plan essay, applying for a job, or running for public office, you need to be persuasive and compelling. This course is a practical workshop in rhetoric. Students will write, deliver, and critique short speeches in class. We will learn classic rhetorical terms and techniques
Society Culture and Thought