Spring 2026 Course Search

CAPA Advanced Workshop — APA4256.01

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Days & Time: WE 8:30am-12:10pm
Credits: 4

The CAPA Workshop is for Seniors who are engaged in their advanced work and want to complete a project as part of it in Public Action.Students are able to connect this work to any area of study at Bennington College. Each student will be required to assemble a digital portfolio that will include their research or thesis, along with a description and implementation of their project during the term. A proposal form will be required once admitted to the class. Projects, can be local, national or international. 

Imagining Our Futures: Conflict and/or Peace? — APA2284.01

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 2

This class will examine interesting thinkers about our future.  Artists, anthropologists, afro futurists, writers, scientists and philosophers have all thought about what we are facing in our futures. Books and essays such as “The Fourth Turning” by Neil Howe, “The Dawn of Everything” by David Graeber, “The End of History” by Francis Fukuyama,  "Emergent Strategies" by Adrienne Maree Brown, “A Paradise Built in Hell” by Rebecca Solnit, “The Work After Our Rage” by Kenneth Bailey and Lori Lobenstine”, "DeltasUNite and the UNCCRD" and others.

Saving Democracy Together: A Response to the Present Moment — APA2285.02

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Days & Time: MO,TH 7:00pm-8:50pm
Credits: 1
 
This Module will build on the work that was started in 2024 in a CAPA Public Policy Forum. We will be working with a comprehensive proposal on how to engage the public with the challenges we are facing right now maintaining our current democratic structures and imagining how to embolden and strengthen democratic freedoms in the future.