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Neurons, Networks, and Behavior — BIO4202.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Elizabeth Sherman
Credits: 4
How does light energy falling on the back of our eye get interpreted as a particular image of our friend or a painting or a leaf? How does a cockroach escape imminent predation by a toad? How does a slug remember that a recent poke wasn't dangerous? How do we remember? A rigorous consideration of general principles of neural integration at the cellular, sensory, central, and
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Nonlinear Dynamical Systems — MAT4127.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Kathryn Montovan
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Dynamical systems are interactions that change in somewhat predictable ways. For these systems, rules can be written to describe the future state of a system from knowledge of present and past states. These rules are used to model a wide variety of phenomena in the physical, biological, social and economic sciences. This course will build on calculus skills and visual intuition
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Number Theory — MAT4110.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Credits: 4
Number theory concerns properties of whole numbers: can two perfect cubes (like 8 or 27) ever add up to a third perfect cube? Are there infinitely many pairs of primes who differ by 2 (like 29 and 31)? Problems in number theory are often simple to understand and state. However, the problems are often ferociously difficult to solve, and in modern times, a wide range of
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Object-Oriented Programming — CS4153.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Andrew Cencini
Credits: 4
***Time Change*** In this course, students will learn the principles and practice of object-oriented programming. While much introductory computer science coursework focuses on the fundamentals of programming (program structure, loops, conditionals, design), this course will dig deeper into working in the object-oriented paradigm. Students will learn to program in an object
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Observational and Stellar Astronomy — PHY2108.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Hugh Crowl
Credits: 4
All information that astronomers are able to gather about the universe comes in the form of light. In this class, we will learn the details of observational astronomy and how what we learn from light can tell us about the size, structure, and evolution of stars. This class will involve significant nighttime observing, including observing at Stickney Observatory, so students are
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Operating Systems — CS4152.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Andrew Cencini
Credits: 4
Students will study the theory and practice of operating system development. Topics will include processes, memory management, threads, i/o, file systems, scheduling, naming, security, and current trends in operating system design (low-power systems, mobile computing, hardware disaggregation). Students will read key research in the field, as well as engage in several moderate
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Orders of Magnitude — MOD2102.02

Spring 2016
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Credits: 1
We all have an intuitive sense of how large a number like 10 or 100 is. But is it possible to get some direct grasp on the world’s population, the national debt, the distance to the nearest galaxies, or the time that has passed since the formation of the earth? Mathematicians and scientists do have good ways of understanding and estimating very large numbers, which we’ll
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Orders of Magnitude — Canceled

Spring 2015
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Credits: 1
We all have an intuitive sense of how large a number like 10 or 100 is. But is it possible to get some direct grasp on the world's population, the national debt, the distance to the nearest galaxies, or the time that has passed since the formation of the earth? Mathematicians and scientists do have good ways of understanding very large numbers, which we'll discuss in this class
Science Mathematics and Computing Modules: Transferable Approaches

Physics I — PHY4235.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Hugh Crowl
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Physics is the study of what Newton called 'the System of the World.' To know the System of the World is to know what forces are out there and how those forces operate on things. These forces explain the dynamics of the world around us: from the path of a falling apple to the motion of a car down the highway to the flight of a rocket from the Earth. Careful analysis of the
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Physics I: Forces and Motion — PHY2235.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Hugh Crowl
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Physics is the study of what Newton called "the System of the World." To know the System of the World is to know what forces are out there and how those forces operate on things. These forces explain the dynamics of the world around us: from the path of a falling apple to the motion of a car down the highway to the flight of a rocket from the Earth. Careful analysis of the
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Physics I: Forces and Motion — PHY2235.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: tim schroeder
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Physics is the study of what Newton called ‘the System of the World.’ To know the System of the World is to know what forces are out there and how those forces operate on things. These forces explain the dynamics of the world around us: from the path of a falling apple to the motion of a car down the highway to the flight of a rocket from the Earth. Careful analysis of the
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Physics II: Fields — PHY4325.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Hugh Crowl
Credits: 4
How does influence travel from one thing to another? In Newton's mechanics of particles and forces, influences travel instantaneously across arbitrarily far distances. Newton himself felt this to be incorrect, but he did not suggest a solution to this problem of "action at a distance." To solve this problem, we need a richer ontology: The world is made not only of particles,
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Physics II: Fields — PHY4325.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Hugh Crowl
Credits: 4
How does influence travel from one thing to another? In Newton's mechanics of particles and forces, influences travel instantaneously across arbitrarily far distances. Newton himself felt this to be incorrect, but he did not suggest a solution to this problem of "action at a distance." To solve this problem, we need a richer ontology: The world is made not only of particles,
Science Mathematics and Computing

Physics II: Fields — PHY4325.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Tim Schroeder
Credits: 4
How does influence travel from one thing to another? In Newton’s mechanics of particles and forces, influences travel instantaneously across arbitrarily far distances. Newton himself felt this to be incorrect, but he did not suggest a solution to this problem of “action at a distance.” To solve this problem, we need a richer ontology: The world is made not only of particles,
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Pop-Up: Gravitational Waves: Observing Spacetime for the First Time — POP2256.02

Spring 2016
Instructor: Hugh Crowl
Credits: 1
Early in the morning on September 14, 2015, two 4 kilometer long laser tunnels in opposite corners of the country measured a very subtle expansion and contraction, significantly smaller than the diameter of an atom. The minuscule flexing of space, detected by the LIGO project, was caused by gravitational waves passing through Earth. These waves originated from the merger of two
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Pop-Up: Understanding PFOA in Our Water — POP2257.02

Spring 2016
Instructor: David Bond, Janet Foley, Tim Schroeder
Credits: 2
The water supply of Hoosick Falls, NY, Bennington’s western neighbor, has been contaminated with Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) by past industrial activity. PFOA is an “emerging contaminant” that is correlated with a range of health problems. This course will investigate the social and physical aspects of this ongoing disaster, from how the regulation of chemicals in the US
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Programming and Data Structures in C — CS4170.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: andrew cencini
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
In this class, students will learn the C programming language, as well as the design and implementation of computer science's foundational data structures: stacks, queues, linked lists, trees, and their various and sundry variants. Since virtually every piece of software in existence relies upon several of these key data structures, the class will also look at examples of
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Programming for iOS — CS4102.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Justin Vasselli
Credits: 4
Mobile technology has been advancing quickly in recent years, expanding into tablets and even watches. The desktop is no longer the most important platform, and more and more of the most innovative advances in software are hitting mobile devices first. The industry trend is to develop first for iOS, so regardless of your personal preference for Apple vs Android, iOS
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