An introduction to the functions of an operating system and their underlying implementation. Topics include file systems, CPU and memory management, concurrent communicating processes, deadlock, and access and protection issues. Programming projects will implement and explore algorithms related to several of these topics. Prerequisite: 231

Topics course. The life and thought of C.S. Lewis (1898?1963), the literary historian, novelist, poet, critic, satirist and popular Christian philosopher.

This course is a gateway for the Five College Bio-mathematical Sciences Program and Certificate. It also provides an introduction to collaborative research across the Five College Biomath Consortium (5CBC). The first four weeks of the course are devoted to practice with a software package (Matlab, Rstudio, etc). Afterward, two 4-week modules are presented by pairs of faculty including one from mathematical and statistical sciences, and one from the life sciences. Each pair provides the background and data that motivates the research, then introduces a question for students to investigate.

Through the close study of contemporary Italian culture students acquire a deep understanding and develop awareness of both cultural unity and regional diversity in Italy. This course offers an in-depth introduction to Italian culture and broadens awareness and understanding of the role of cultural heritage in customs and lifestyles and the way Italians respond to the new challenges of globalization, immigration and multiculturalism. Key concepts, such as politics, economy, social environment, traditions, religion, that are at the core of contemporary Italian society and culture are explored.

In this class, students take the skills and insights gained in introductory production courses and, working individually or in pairs, develop them over the length of the semester through the creation of one short project, 10 minutes long. Students may choose to work in narrative, documentary, experimental or hybrid forms. We learn by making work as well as by researching, reading and watching films related to our projects. We may take this opportunity to delve into and learn the conventions of our chosen form. Or we may decide that our content demands formal experimentation and risk-taking.

Among the claims made for the newness of new media is the assertion that new media are interactive, turning the passive consumers of "old" media into active, engaged participants. This course explores the shape of this technologically-enabled "participatory culture" and will also investigate cracks in the foundation of the alleged digital utopia. To what extent are new technologies democratizing and to what extent do they offer new forms of surveillance and control to the powers that be?

This class examines national film movements after the Second World War. The post-war period was a time of increasing globalization, which brought about a more interconnected and international film culture. But it was also a time during which certain key national cinemas defined, or redefined, themselves. This course examines both trends, as well as focuses on the work and influence of significant directors and landmark films, emphasizing not only cinematic and cultural specificity, but also cross-cultural and transhistorical concerns. What makes a film Italian or Brazilian or British?

The beginning of the 21st century has witnessed an explosion of creative writing by women that is being recognized in an unprecedented way within the traditionally male-dominated world of Russian literature. As we read some of the best contemporary fiction and drama written by Russian women authors-encompassing diverse genres of realism, folklore and fantasy-we discuss the moral, historical and social questions related to both Russia and the individual that arise across a broad spectrum of female experience. Conducted in English. No previous knowledge of Russian is required. (E)

Concentration on selected poems of the major Romantics (Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats) as well as their lesser-known contemporaries, with prose writings by the poets themselves and by Austen and Wollstonecraft.

An advanced laboratory course in which students make use of advanced signal recovery methods to design and perform laboratory experiments covering a wide range of topics in modern physics. Available experimental modules include pulsed and CW NMR, optical pumping of atoms, single photon quantum interference, magneto-optical polarization, the Franck-Hertz experiment and the Hall effect. Experimental methods include signal averaging, filtering, modulation techniques and phase-sensitive detection.