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Open Call — CUR2208.02

Fall 2025
Instructor: Anne Thompson
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 2

Join a public dialogue about global contemporary art and ideas! Each year the New York nonprofit apexart holds an open call for curatorial proposals. Out of hundreds of submissions from around the world, three are chosen to become apexart exhibitions through an online jury process. Students in this class will be part of the jury. Initial readings and

Curatorial Studies

Open Source Software in Practice — CS4387.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Michael Corey
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
The majority of complex computer systems are built on open source software. From webpages and blogs through to trillion dollar companies, open source software (OSS) is at the heart of these endeavors. Open source is simultaneously a license, rallying cry, political philosophy, and a practice of creation and curation. Popular examples of open source software include: the LAMP
Science and Mathematics

Operating Systems — CS4152.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Andrew Cencini
Days & Time:
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
Science Mathematics and Computing

Operating Systems — CS4124.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Meltem Ballan
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course provides insight into the underlying relationship between the software and hardware. Core topics include processes, threads, resources, scheduling, concurrency, memory management, file systems, I/O, security, and distributed systems. The operating system provides an established, convenient, and efficient interface between user programs and the bare hardware of the
Science and Mathematics

Oral History for Social Change — APA4313.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Alisa Del Tufo
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
In a world filled with algorithms and “big data”are the stories that express our experiences and values still important? How can we promote the use of narratives when our stories can be used in ways that are neither ethical nor supportive of our vision for change? This class will share ways that oral history and narrative can be used to promote equity and empathy that challenge
CAPA

Oral History, Restorative Justice and Youth Impacted by the Criminal Justice System — APA2147.02

Fall 2018
Instructor: Alisa Del Tufo
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Bennington County has the highest rate of incarceration in the State of Vermont. Why is this and how does this impact the community and those caught up in the criminal justice system? More importantly, what can be done to change the way the criminal justice system comes into contact with and treats youth? In this class we will discuss how participatory methods such as oral
CAPA

Oral History, Restorative Justice, and Youth Impacted by the Criminal Justice System in Bennington — APA2147.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Alisa Del Tufo
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Bennington County has the highest rate of incarceration in the State of Vermont. Why is this and how does this impact the community and those caught up in the criminal justice system? More importantly, what can be done to change the way the criminal justice system comes into contact with and treats youth? Using oral history and participatory problem solving strategies we will
CAPA

Orchestration — MCO4133.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
A primer in orchestration, for students who are selected to write for Sage City Symphony. We will pore over the 19th and 20th century orchestral repertoire, getting to know instruments, ranges, and agilities. Analysis, piano reduction, and orchestration from grand staff will be used to internalize and hear orchestration. Students will be expected to create and get feedback on
Music

Orchestration — MCO4133.01

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

A primer in orchestration, for students who are selected to write for Sage City Symphony. We will pore over the 19th and 20th century orchestral repertoire, getting to know instruments, ranges, and agilities. Analysis, piano reduction, and orchestration from grand staff will be used to internalize and hear orchestration. Students will be expected to create and

Composition

Orchestration — MUS4013.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Nick Brooke
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
A primer in orchestration, for students who are selected to write for Sage City Symphony for their March 2016 concert. We will pore over the 19th and 20th century orchestral repertoire, getting to know instruments, ranges, and agilities. Analysis, piano reduction, and orchestration from grand staff will be used to internalize and hear orchestration
Music

Orchestration — MUS4013.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Nick Brooke
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
A primer in orchestration, for students who are selected to write for Sage City Symphony for their March 2018 concert. We will pore over the 19th and 20th century orchestral repertoire, getting to know instruments, ranges, and agilities. Analysis, piano reduction, and orchestration from grand staff will be used to internalize and hear 
Music

Orchestration — MUS4013.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
A primer in orchestration, for students who are selected to write for Sage City Symphony for their Spring concert. We will pore over the 19th and 20th century orchestral repertoire, getting to know instruments, ranges, and agilities. Analysis, piano reduction, and orchestration from grand staff will be used to internalize and hear orchestration. Students will be expected
Music

Orchestration —

Spring 2022
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
A primer in orchestration, for students who are selected to write for Sage City Symphony. We will pore over the 19th and 20th century orchestral repertoire, getting to know instruments, ranges, and agilities. Analysis, piano reduction, and orchestration from grand staff will be used to internalize and hear orchestration. Students will be expected to create and get feedback on
Music

Orders of Magnitude — MOD2102.02

Spring 2016
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Days & Time:
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
Science Mathematics and Computing Modules: Transferable Approaches

Orders of Magnitude — Canceled

Spring 2015
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Days & Time:
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

Orders of Magnitude — MAT2251.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Days & Time:
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
Science and Mathematics

Ordinary Differential Equations — MAT4331.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Differential equations are the most powerful and most pervasive mathematical tool in the sciences. Any time a law is expressed in the form "what happens in the next moment", we have a differential equation; and determining the long-term behavior is the domain of differential equations. Planets, stars, fluids, electric circuits, predator and prey populations, epidemics: almost
Science and Mathematics

Organizational Structure Enterprise Law — APA2175.02

Fall 2019
Instructor: Charles Crowell
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
The common startup mythologies tend to promote the glamor of entrepreneurship. You will work hard in a basement or a garage with no money, but the brilliance of your idea will make you into a heroic (wind-swept) figure to whom investors, customers, and clients (and the popular press) will all be irresistibly attracted. These stories don’t map to reality for most. In contrast,
CAPA

Orientalism and Exoticism — FRE4808.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This class will focus on how French and Francophone cultures have imagined and represented non-westerners and, in particular the civilization of the Middle East, the Maghreb, and Africa. We will study the visual arts, literature (Abdellah Taia and Maryse Condé), and film with a thematic focus on the issues of race and sexuality. Theoretical and critical texts will also inform
Cultural Studies and Languages

Origins of the English Novel — Canceled

Spring 2015
Instructor: Annabel Davis-Goff
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
The first English novel appeared more than a hundred years after the publication (and translation into English) of Don Quixote. Where did the English novel come from? And how did it develop? We will read Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, among others. Students will write two essays.
Literature

Origins of the English Novel — LIT4145.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Annabel Davis-Goff
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The first English novel appeared more than a hundred years after the publication, and translation into English, of Don Quixote. Where did the English novel come from? And how did it develop? We will read the works of Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, and excerpts from those who came before them. Students will write two essays. Corequisite: Students are required to be in
Literature

Ornithology — BIO2208.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Blake Jones
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Discover birds like you’ve never seen or heard them before. This class takes an integrative approach to ornithology, as we will explore avian species from the perspective of  human culture, evolution, natural history, development, ecology, conservation, physiology, genetics, behavior, functional morphology, and even quantum mechanics. This course will explore topics
Science and Mathematics

Ornithology (with Lab) — BIO2208.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Blake Jones
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Discover birds like you’ve never seen or heard them before. This class takes an integrative approach to ornithology, as we will explore avian species from the perspective of evolution, natural history, development, ecology, conservation, physiology, genetics, behavior, functional morphology, and even quantum mechanics. This course will explore topics essential to understanding
Science and Mathematics

Other People's Worlds — ANT4129.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: MPrazak@bennington.edu
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century a European based world-economy came into existence. Fueled by the philosophy of mercantilism, traders followed, and sometimes were, explorers seeking riches in the lands discovered in the search for trade routes. The resulting contact between cultures led to fundamental transformations of all the societies and cultures involved.
Society Culture and Thought