Pop-Up Courses Announced

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Monday, Oct 17 - Wednesday, Nov 30 2016, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Monday, Oct 17 2016 8:00 AM Wednesday, Nov 30 2016 5:00 PM America/New_York Pop-Up Courses Announced Pop-ups, short term courses that bring unfolding events into the classroom, have been announced. Bennington College

Pop-ups, short term courses that bring unfolding events into the classroom, have been announced. Current pop-ups are looking at the election and the outing of Elena Ferrante.

“We came to think we needed the possibility of a more responsive curriculum structure. We plan year to year, term to term—other colleges plan much farther ahead. But there are still things that can’t be captured, even as much as we plan, so close to terms. So we asked, ‘How can we capture [responses] to what’s going in the world?’” Isabel Roche, provost and dean of the College, on how pop-up courses came to be

More information and past courses are listed on the curriculum.