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The Center’s curricular offerings address the challenges of effective citizenship in today’s world, inviting students to study the world’s most urgent problems as well as to confront what it means to attend to them. Bennington’s longstanding commitment to educating students toward constructive social purposes is evident throughout the curriculum as a whole; courses offered through the Center focus attention on pressing and evolving issues such as education, the environment, health, the distribution of wealth, the uses of force, and governance. The Center will also provide regular opportunities to acquire or build upon the capacities and skills necessary to effect change, among them design, rhetoric, mediation, improvisation, and negotiation.

Future Studio (VA4207.01)