Liberation Theology: East and West
Fall, Winter and Spring quarters
Faculty: Ryo Imamura (FW), Jorge Gilbert (FWS)
Enrollment: 50 (FW); 25 (S)
Prerequisites: None. Sophomore standing and above.
Faculty Signature: No
Special Expenses: No expenses during fall and winter quarters. Optional travel expenses spring quarter.
Internship Possibilities: Yes, with faculty approval.
Travel Component: Optional study trip to Chile spring quarter.

Within the past century the world's religions have grown in their awareness of the ways in which faith calls people to action in the world. This call has led to the emergence of two new and radical theories of social involvement. The first, known as Engaged Buddhism, emerged from the tragedy of the war that engulfed Vietnam in the 1960s and 1970s. The second, Liberation Theology (also called "The Option for the Poor" by many priests), was developed within the Roman Catholic Church amidst the suffering of the poor in Latin America. While these theories of social involvement come from disparate histories, geographical locations and scriptural traditions, Engaged Buddhism and Liberation Theology nonetheless share certain foundational principles. This program will explore the scriptural, historical and political foundations of Engaged Buddhism and Liberation Theology. It will trace these imperatives through the social action theories developed by the two traditions and investigate the common elements, which could be starting points for dialogue between the two practices. During the spring quarter, the program will offer interested students the opportunity to travel to Chile, with the faculty team, to study and experience firsthand the practices of Liberation Theology and also Buddhism, which is enjoying growing popularity with the increased presence and influence of Asian culture.
Credit awarded in: comparative religion, cultural studies, Spanish, political economy, Buddhist studies, peace and justice issues, Asian studies, Latin American studies, social communication, cross-cultural psychology.
Total: 16 credits each quarter.
Planning Unit(s): Society, Politics, Behavior and Change
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in religion, sociology, international studies, Spanish, social communication, Asian studies, Buddhist studies, psychology, political science and Latin American studies.

Program Updates:

(11/22/02) This program is now a fall, winter, spring quarter offering, with optional travel to Chile during spring quarter. (11/19/02) Faculty Signature added. (1/29/03) Please note that Ryo Imamura will not be in this program for spring quarter. Jorge Gilbert will travel abroad with the students in this program. Ryo will be assigned to the Individual Contract Pool for spring quarter. (3/4/03) Faculty Signature dropped.

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Life on Earth: Postcards from the Edge
Fall, Winter/Coordinated Study
Faculty: Gerardo Chin-Leo, Paul Butler, Paula Schofield
Enrollment: 69
Prerequisites: None
Faculty Signature: No
Special Expenses: Optional field trips at the end of winter quarter: the Grand Canyon dory trip, approximately $1,600; or the Eastern Washington, Sun Lakes trip, approximately $250.
Internship Possibilities: No

The origin and evolution of life on earth, along with changes in the earth itself, have always been sources of fascination and controversy. This program will examine significant events in the history of life, the large-scale geologic changes that have occurred in earth's history and extreme habitats in contemporary environments. Postcards suggest an image in time and space. The Edge is our way of portraying unusual settings where interesting things happened or happen geologically, biologically and chemically. Our goal is to select illustrative case studies from the dawn of life to the present day to illustrate the inextricable links between life and the physical/chemical environment. We will study the diversity of contemporary environments not only to learn how environmental changes affect life, but how biologic changes, in turn, alter the physical/chemical environment.
Fall quarter, we will study the origin of life, the evolution of living systems and the causes of mass extinction. Our study will include discussions of the evolution of the atmosphere, hydrosphere and lithosphere; and of the diversity of life (taxonomy and metabolism), all in the context of geologic time. Winter quarter, we will focus on understanding the biology, chemistry and geology of extreme environments, e.g., alpine glaciers, polar regions, deserts, coral reefs and geothermal vents. In addition, we will examine current environmental problems related to human activities, including global climate change and pollution. The program will conclude by examining what makes human presence on the planet sustainable.
Program material will be presented through lectures, seminars, labs and field trips. In seminar, we will learn how to critically read both popular and technical literature and learn about scientific reasoning and writing. We will read various perspectives on the origin and evolution of life and on mass extinctions. In addition, we will consider science in a cultural context and examine the ethical and societal implications of science.
In labs, we will learn basic skills in chemistry, geology, biology and ecology, with emphasis placed on illustrating principles presented in lecture. We will teach quantitative skills (algebra, estimation, orders of magnitude, simple modeling) using Excel spreadsheet software. We will also allow students to apply their knowledge and skills through research projects that will examine pollution in local environments.
Field trips will explore the local habitats of Budd Inlet, Mount Rainier, as well as the (optional) distant habitats of Eastern Washington or the Grand Canyon. The two optional field trips will run concurrently at the end of winter quarter. Students interested in the Grand Canyon trip should contact Paul Butler by November 20, 2002.
Credit awarded in: chemistry, environmental biology, geology, quantitative methods and technical and expository writing.
Total: 16 credits each quarter.
Planning Unit(s): Programs for First-Year Students
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in environmental studies, chemistry, biology and geology.

Program Updates:

Making of Modern America: The Founding Period to the Present
Fall, Winter, Spring/Coordinated Study
Faculty: Jerry Lassen, David Hitchens, Tom Grissom
Enrollment: 69
Prerequisites: None
Faculty Signature: No
Special Expenses: No
Internship Possibilities: No

This program charts the course of the development of the United States from the Constitutional period to the present. The battle between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson marked the beginning of the debate over the shape of the politics and the economics of the country for the next two centuries. Whereas Jefferson wanted an independent citizenry based on land ownership and agriculture, Hamilton advocated support for the development of an industrial economy focused on manufacturing. This difference was geographically significant in that the North became the center of manufacturing activity while the South depended on agriculture supported by the peculiar institution of slavery. Ultimately, this conflict was resolved in the Civil War.
The Reconstruction period that followed the war was also a time of unprecedented economic growth. The changes after the war inspired reform movements that had a major impact on the country. Populism, progressivism, prohibition and the suffrage movement all gained momentum during the half century after the war. Additionally, the United States became involved in World War I followed by a period of remarkable growth during the 1920s. The prosperity was short lived and the depression that followed was certainly the most traumatic economic period in our nation's history. World War II brought the economy out of the depression and the 50 years following the war strengthened the position of the country both domestically and internationally.
This program will explore three pivotal periods in the history of the nation. Fall quarter we will examine the 1790­1877 period, winter quarter we will focus on 1877­1945 and spring quarter we will study 1945 to the present.
Student's work will emphasize careful reading, seminar participation and weekly writing assignments.
Credit awarded in: American history, American literature, philosophy, political economy, history of science, writing, economic reasoning and quantitative reasoning.
Total: 16 credits each quarter.
Planning Unit(s): Programs for First-Year Students
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in the humanities, social science, law, journalism and science.

Program Updates:

(2/26/03) Will accept new students. Speak with faculty at Academic Fair about preparation.

Marine Life: Marine Organisms and Their Environments
Winter, Spring/Group Contract
Faculty: Erik Thuesen, Amy Cook
Enrollment: 50
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing, transfer students welcome; at least two quarters of college chemistry and two quarters of biological sciences with labs; an ability to work easily with numbers and equations; experience using a personal computer.
Faculty Signature: Yes
Special Expenses: Up to $140 for overnight field trips.
Internship Possibilities: No

This program focuses on marine organisms, the sea as a habitat, relationships between organisms and the physical/chemical properties of their environments and their adaptations to those environments. Students will study marine organisms, elements of biological, chemical and physical oceanography and field sampling methods, with associated statistics and laboratory techniques. Throughout the program, students will focus on the identification of marine organisms and aspects of the ecology of selected species. Physiological adaptations to diverse marine environments and comparative anatomy will be also be emphasized. The class will study physical features of marine waters, nutrients, biological productivity and regional topics in marine science. Concepts will be applied via faculty-designed experiments and student-designed research projects. Data analysis will be facilitated through the use of Excel spreadsheets and elementary statistics. Seminars will analyze appropriate primary literature on topics from lectures and research projects.
The faculty will facilitate identification of student research projects, which may range from studies of trace metals in local organisms and sediments to ecological investigations of local estuarine animals. Students will design their research projects during winter quarter and write a research proposal that will undergo class-wide peer review. The research projects will then be carried out during spring quarter. The scientific process is completed when results of the research projects are documented in written papers and students give oral presentations during the last week of spring quarter.
Credit awarded in: marine biology*, oceanography*, marine ecology* and research*. Although circumstances may change, we anticipate that all credit will be designated upper-division science for those students completing both quarters of the program.
Total: 16 credits each quarter.
Planning Unit(s): Environmental Studies
A similar program is expected to be offered in 2004­05.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in marine science, environmental science and other life sciences.

Program Updates:

(2/19/03) Faculty Signature added. Not accepting new students in Spring.

Masculinities and Femininities Across the Globe: Sex is Fun, but Gender is a Drag
New, not in printed catalog
Spring quarter
Faculty: Toska Olson
Enrollment: 25
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing; transfer students are welcome.
Faculty signature: No
Special Expenses: Approximately $75 for program retreat.
Internship Possibilities: Yes, with faculty approval.

This program is a cross-cultural exploration of gender, masculinity and femininity. We will examine questions such as: How do expectations of masculine and feminine behavior manifest themselves worldwide in social institutions such as work, families and schools? How do social theorists explain the current state of gender stratification? How does gender intersect with issues of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation and social class identity? In the first two weeks of the program, students will examine how to conduct cross-cultural archival research on gender. In addition, we will consider issues related to ethnocentrism in cross-cultural and historical research. During the majority of the quarter, we will study cross-cultural variation in women's and men's experiences and opportunities within several different social institutions. Lectures and seminar readings will provide students with a common set of knowledge about gendered experiences in the United States. Peer research presentations will provide students with information about gender in other cultures. This program involves extensive student-initiated research and puts a heavy emphasis on public speaking and advanced group work. Students will be encouraged to produce a research paper that represents a culmination of their college writing and thinking abilities.
Credit awarded in: areas such as sociology*, cultural studies*, anthropology*, public speaking and library research.
Total: 12 or 16 credits.
Planning Unit(s): Society, Politics, Behavior and Change
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in the humanities and social sciences.
* Indicates upper-division credits

Program Updates:

(11/26/02) New, not in printed catalog

Mathematical Methods
Fall, Winter, Spring/Group Contract
Faculty: Don Middendorf
Enrollment: 25
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing, transfer students welcome; two quarters of calculus.
Faculty Signature: No
Special Expenses: Texts and supplies may cost over $300 and must be purchased by the second day of class, October 1, 2002. Students will be required to subscribe to two mathematical journals.
Internship Possibilities: No

This program will be a fun, intense adventure in applied mathematics. One major outcome of this program will be enhanced skills in model building and real-world application of mathematics. Ordinary and partial differential equations will be a major focus throughout the year including a treatment of nonlinear systems and chaos theory. We will cover analytical and numerical techniques. In addition to differential equations, we'll study linear algebra, functional analysis, calculus of variations and number theory. Although the emphasis will be on applications, we will spend considerable time on the mathematical foundations as well. A major theme will be the recent progress in the foundations of mathematics based on cooperation between pure and applied mathematicians and physicists. We'll examine the history and philosophy of mathematical thought as well as the lives of mathematicians. We will ask questions such as: What are some of the ramifications of embracing one model instead of another? What are the basic foundations of mathematics? How are mathematical innovations discovered or created? What role do personal and cultural beliefs play in the development of mathematics?
Some of our texts will come with software and we'll use Mathematica for an experimental study of mathematics. During fall quarter, all portions of the program (ordinary differential equations, numerical methods and linear algebra) will be linked, so students must enroll for the entire program during fall quarter. (Students who have earned credits in these subjects will be expected to pursue other topics in mathematics or science as independent study.) During winter quarter, the subject material will include partial differential equations, number theory and the calculus of variations. Students will have the option of focusing on any two of these topics for full credit. Throughout the year, students will have the opportunity to pursue topics of personal interest through individual research projects and presentations. Please check the Mathematical Methods Web page for more information on this program.
Credit awarded in: differential equations*, linear algebra*, chaos theory*, numerical methods*, calculus of variations*, number theory*, functional analysis*, history and philosophy of mathematics*. Upper-division credit is possible for all portions of the program contingent on upper-division performance.
Total: 16 credits each quarter. Students may enroll in a part-time option with faculty signature.
Planning Unit(s): Scientific Inquiry
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in mathematics, teaching, physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, economics and philosophy.

Program Updates:

(3/3/03) After reading the program description, if you feel you have adequate preparation to enter this program, please speak with the faculty before registering.

Matter and Motion
Fall, Winter, Spring/Coordinated Study
Faculty: Rob Knapp, Rachel Jameton
Enrollment: 50
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing, transfer students welcome; strong critical thinking skills; proficiency in pre-calculus and trigonometry. High school physics and chemistry helpful but not required.
Faculty Signature: Yes
Special Expenses: No
Internship Possibilities: No

This program is designed for students with a keen desire for a strong background in physics, chemistry and mathematics of the kind needed for serious work in the physical and biological sciences. The program's work will include lectures, readings (both technical and general), calculations, labs, reports and seminar discussion.
Program work will cover standard introductory topics in differential and integral calculus, university physics and university chemistry. We will attend to conceptual understanding as well as calculational skill and practice in framing and solving problems. In addition to work in the science subjects, the program will involve structured and exploratory laboratories, which will teach standard scientific techniques as well as how to determine successful approaches to investigating physical systems.
Seminar readings and discussions will investigate the human dimensions of discovery and cultural patterns within the physical sciences, together with their abilities and limitations in contributing to human affairs. Readings may be from classics in history/philosophy of science, literature, journal articles or other sources.
Credit awarded in: general chemistry, university physics, calculus and history, philosophy and cultural studies of science.
Total: 16 credits each quarter.
Planning Unit(s): Scientific Inquiry
A similar program is expected to be offered in 2003­04.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in medicine, engineering, physics, mathematics, chemistry, environmental science and philosophy of science.

Program Updates:

(2/19/03) Will accept new students. They will need two quarters of calculus, and the more first-year physics and chemistry, the better. A significant portion, perhaps half, of the program time will go to project work. Continuing students will have formulated projects before the quarter starts; incoming students should be ready to do this as soon as possible (with help from the Matter and Motion faculty).

Mediaworks
Fall, Winter, Spring/Coordinated Study
Faculty: P. Ju-Pong Lin, Anne Fischel
Enrollment: 44
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing, transfer students welcome; successful completion of college-level work involving critical reading and writing and/or work in visual arts, media, music or performance.
Faculty Signature: Yes. Evergreen students must submit a written application plus a copy of a faculty evaluation and a self-evaluation of a coordinated studies program. Transfer students should submit the application, a transcript and two letters of recommendation that speak to the quality of your academic work. Applications will be available by mid-April and can be picked up from the Program Secretaries in COM 301 or the Academic Advising office. Submit applications to P. Ju-Pong Lin, The Evergreen State College, COM 301, Olympia, WA 98505. In considering applications the faculty will look for evidence of critical reading and writing skills, interest in the arts or media, willingness to engage in intensive study and research, commitment to nonfiction production and willingness to work collaboratively.
Special Expenses: Approximately $100­$300 each quarter for film and video materials and post-production fees.
Internship Possibilities: Spring quarter only.

Mediaworks is the entry-level program in film and video production, history and theory. Our focus is on the nonfiction image, a broad category that includes documentary, experimental film, installation, video art, autobiography and mixed-genre work. In Mediaworks, as in all moving image programs at Evergreen, we stress the linkage of theory and practice through analyzing the politics of representation and working to support each student's development of a critical perspective on image-making.
Mediaworks is a flexible program that responds to current issues in production and theory. We will investigate questions about the relationship between art and social life, the politics of representing ourselves and of those we perceive as "others," and the relationship between technology and ways of knowing. Our work will emphasize both forms of documentary and experimental film and video, including contemporary new media such as installation, performance, mixed genre and interactive forms. The ethical and aesthetic dilemmas that experimental image-makers historically have faced will be at the forefront of our study. We will introduce students to production in film, video and audio, using 16mm, digital video, installations and performance techniques. Possible texts include: Representation: Cultural Representation and Signifying Practices, Stuart Hall, ed.; An Introduction to Film Studies, Jill Nemes, ed.; New Media in Late 20th Century Art, Michael Rush.
In fall and winter, we will introduce students to production skills and students will produce short, primarily collaborative projects in a variety of media. We will begin with composition and framing through the manipulation of still images, then move on to pre-production design, cinematography, lighting, film and video editing, sound recording and post-production strategies. We will pay attention to the process as well as the product of media production, with emphasis on experimentation, screening work in progress, group discussion and critique and the development of individual critical and aesthetic perspectives. Students will also do extensive research on a significant filmmaker or film movement and present their research verbally and in writing. In spring quarter each student will have the opportunity to produce an extended independent project informed by the themes studied in the program.
Credit awarded in: film history, film theory, film production, video production, installation art and media arts history.
Total: 16 credits each quarter.
Planning Unit(s): Expressive Arts
A similar program is expected to be offered in 2003­04.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in media, visual arts and communications.

Program Updates:

(2/19/03) Not accepting new students in Spring.

The Mexican Nation State: History, Political Economy and Community
Spring, Group Contract
Faculty: Dan Leahy
Enrollment: 15
Prerequisites: Intermediate Spanish fluency.
Faculty Signature: Yes. Students must demonstrate facility in Intermediate Spanish, agree to participate in a weekend orientation February 23 and 24, 2002, agree and sign the program covenant.
Special Expenses: Students must pay a $150 non-refundable program fee by February 4, 2001, and payment of another $150 before we leave. Approximate cost above tuition and $300 fee is $1,950 for round-trip airfare, hotels, bus, food and books.
Internship Possibilities: No
Travel Component: Mexico: four week travel to sites of the Mexican Independence and the Mexican Revolution; four weeks residency in San Patricio, Jalisco.

Students will learn about the creation of the Mexican nation state, its revolutionary history and current political economy through travel, reading, lectures and community residence. This program will travel together by bus for the first month, visiting the important sites of Mexican Independence and the Mexican Revolution. We will meet in Chihuahua in early April, retrace the southward movement of Villa's army through Zacatecas, visit Aquascalientes where the revolutionary forces met in 1914, stop in Queretaro where the 1917 Revolutionary Constitution was signed, spend a week in Mexico city and then visit Emiliano Zapata's home state of Morelos.
In late April, we take up a four week residence in the small, seaside village of San Patricio, Jalisco, where we live in Mexican homes, participate in Mexican family life and possibly work on community projects depending on the student's language fluency.
Students must complete all readings, maintain a journal and portfolio of class materials, complete and present an analytical project to the class, and write and present, in Mexico, an extensive evaluation of your learning.
Possible readings include Bonfil's Mexico Profundo, Shorris' Under the Fifth Sun: A Novel of Pancho Villa, Reed's Insurgent Mexico, Womack's Zapata and the Mexican Revolution, Castellanos' The Book of Lamentations, Poniatowska's Tinisima, Fuentes' Death of Artemio Cruz, and Collier's Basta! Land and the Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas.
Credit awarded in: Mexican nation-state history, revolutionary social movements, cross cultural analysis and Mexican literature.
Total: 16 credits.
Planning Unit(s): Society, Politics, Behavior and Change

Program Updates:

Molecule to Organism
Fall, Winter, Spring/Coordinated Study
Faculty: Jim Neitzel, Nancy Murray, Donald Morisato
Enrollment: 75
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing, transfer students welcome; one year of college chemistry required; and college general biology preferred.
Faculty Signature: Yes
Special Expenses: No
Internship Possibilities: Yes, spring quarter only.

This program develops and interrelates concepts in experimental (laboratory) biology, organic chemistry and biochemistry by providing a foundation in experimental biology for students who plan to continue studies in chemistry, field biology, laboratory biology and medicine. The program includes organic chemistry and upper-division work in biochemistry, microbiology, physiology, cellular, molecular and developmental biology in a yearlong sequence.
The program integrates two themesone at the "cell" level and the other at the "molecule" level. In the cell theme, we start with the cell and microbiology and proceed to the whole organism with the examination of structure/function relationships at all levels including some anatomy and physiology.
In the molecular theme, we will examine organic chemistry, the nature of organic compounds and reactions and carry this theme into biochemistry and the fundamental chemical reactions of living systems. As the year progresses, the two themes continually merge through studies of cellular and molecular processes in molecular biology, developmental biology and physiology.
Each aspect of the program will contain a significant laboratory component. On a weekly basis, students will be writing papers and maintaining laboratory notebooks. All laboratory work, and approximately one half of the non lecture time will be spent working in collaborative problem solving groups. The program will also contain field trips to other laboratories and industries, as well as reading and discussion of topics of current and historic scientific interest and controversy.
Spring quarter will allow more flexibility for students who wish to take part of this program in conjunction with other work.
Credit awarded in: physiology*, cell biology*, molecular biology*, organic chemistry I, organic chemistry II*, organic chemistry III*, biochemistry*, microbiology* and developmental biology*.
Total: Fall quarter: 6, 10 or 16 credits; Winter and spring quarter: 16 credits each quarter. During fall quarter, students may register for organic chemistry or biology as an 8-credit option/with faculty signature.
Planning Unit(s): Scientific Inquiry
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in biology, chemistry, health sciences, environmental studies and education.

Program Updates:

(12/06/02) Donald Morisato (Biochemistry/Molecular Biology) has been added to the faculty team. New credit options are available: 6, 10 or 16 credits. (2/19/03) Not accepting new students in Spring.

Multicultural Counseling
Fall, Winter, Spring/Group Contract
Faculty: Mukti Khanna
Enrollment: 25
Prerequisites: Junior or Senior standing, minimum of one year of psychological course studies, one year of study in an interdisciplinary liberal arts program.
Faculty Signature: Yes. Obtain an application from Academic Advising. Email application to Mukti Khanna, khannam@evergreen.edu.
Special Expenses: Approximately $70 for art supplies.
Internship Possibilities: 16 hours per week required winter and spring quarters.

As the world's people demand freedom and self-determination, it is urgent that we learn how diverse communities of empowered individuals, with freedom to construct their own stories and identities might live together in mutual peace. Perhaps it is not a vain hope that life in such communities might lead to the advance in human consciousness beyond anything we have yet experienced.
--Maureen O'Hara, Past President of the Association for Humanistic Psychology

In this yearlong program we will explore ways in which the field of psychology can be of service in an increasingly diverse society. We will address concepts of mental health, the mental health system and psychological counseling that are critical to the creation and maintenance of healthy communities and a more just and peaceful world.
This is a senior-level program involving internships and skills-based training in counseling psychology, nonviolent communication and person-centered, expressive arts therapies. The program will integrate the study of personality theory, abnormal psychology, counseling skills, multicultural psychology, healthcare systems, transpersonal psychology, research methods of inquiry and professional ethics. We will address theoretical and experiential aspects of multicultural psychology in a U. S. context, as well as ways in which psychology can contribute to the current United Nations Decade of Nonviolence. Multimodal expressive arts therapies based on the work of Carl and Natalie Rogers will be explored throughout the program. Students need to be willing to explore their own self-knowledge through engaging in expressive arts therapy laboratories, co-counseling and cultural identity work. No previous art or movement experience is required. Students will be working in psychological internships throughout the Puget Sound area for six months for a minimum of 16 hours per week.
Credit awarded in: counseling skills, personality theory, abnormal psychology, expressive arts therapies, methods of inquiry, professional ethics, healthcare systems, multicultural psychology and nonviolent communication.
Total: 16 credits each quarter.
Planning Unit(s): Society, Politics, Behavior and Change
A similar program is expected to be offered in 2003­04.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in psychological counseling, clinical psychology, social work, school counseling, conflict resolution and cross-cultural studies.

Program Updates:

(2/19/03) Not accepting new students in Spring.

Music in Culture
Fall, Winter/Group Contract
Faculty: Andrew Buchman
Enrollment: 25
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing, transfer students welcome; two quarters in a coordinated studies program or the equivalent.
Faculty Signature: No
Special Expenses: Approximately $150 for a soprano recorder and tickets to performances.
Internship Possibilities: No

We will study several music cultures comparatively, and explore the issues such studies inevitably raise, such as differing definitions of music, tradition and pedagogy. Studying music in this way is important because it forces one to reexamine one's own assumptions about music and its cultural meanings. We will learn to listen analytically and write papers about pieces of music. We will explore various theories and histories of music, read relevant novels and plays and watch films and documentaries to gain creative insights into culture and music. We will try various notation systems, but make fluency in standard music notation a goal. Learning to read and write music, like becoming a sophisticated reader, thinker and writer of words, opens up new ways of understanding and experiencing the complex phenomenain this case, bound in time. We will explore the world of musical instruments. We will study the soprano recorder and learn tunes.
Having established a common vocabulary and knowledge base for informed discussion, during winter quarter students will work in groups on a music culture of their choice, sharing their research with the rest of the program. We will continue comparative studies (perhaps reframed around a vital issue, such as nationalism or modernity) and explore one music culture together in more depth.
Credit awarded in: comparative musicology, music theory, cultural studies, quantitative reasoning, independent research and writing and recorder group lessons.
Total: 16 credits each quarter.
Planning Unit(s): Expressive Arts
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in musicology, performing arts and cultural studies.

Program Updates:

The Myth of Memory
Spring/Coordinated Study/Group Contract
Faculty: Stacey Davis, Lance Laird
Enrollment: 50
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing, transfer students welcome; college-level expository writing skills.
Faculty Signature: No
Special Expenses: No
Internship Possibilities: No

Situated somewhere between fact and dream, memory shapes our individual lives in countless ways each day. But memory affects groups as well as individuals: just as the average French citizen identifies with the crucial moments of a great Revolution that occurred more than 200 years ago, so too are the identities of African Americans today shaped by the "memories" of slavery and the civil rights movement, even for individuals who experienced neither firsthand.
This program will explore the links between collective memory and group or national identity. How do collective memories, whether "real" or constructed, help create and sustain a people's self-image, values and goals? What happens to minority groups who get excluded from the nation's collective memory? Does the myth of memory shatter when contested? How can memory be used as a weapon? And how do groups use the lack of memory, or shared forgetting, to further their collective identity?
We will look at specific moments, myths and memories of the 20th century, starting with the impact memories of the Holocaust have had on Jewish identity, and how the selective memory of World War II and the Franco-Algerian war of the 1950s has allowed modern German and French citizens to ignore moments in their pasts which might topple their national self-image. We will continue with an in-depth study of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, focusing on how the selective appropriation of religious symbols and stories has helped shape Israeli and Palestinian memory and politics. We will conclude with a study of the ways the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War disrupted and reshaped the collective national myth of Americans, and how monuments, memorials and holidays continue to challenge or to rebuild those myths by shaping our memories.
Students will work both with primary source material and secondary scholarly essays. They will complete intensive writing assignments, lead seminars and conduct an oral history project.
Credit awarded in:comparative religion, European and Middle Eastern history and cultural studies. Students who complete upper-division work will earn upper-division credit.
Total: 16 credits.
Planning Unit(s): Culture, Text and Language
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in comparative religion, history and cultural studies.

Program Updates:

Nature Writing: An Interaction Between Humans and the Natural World
New, not in printed catalog
Fall/Coordinated Study
Faculty: Amy Cook, Priscilla Bowerman
Enrollment: 42
Prerequisites: None. This all-level program accepts up to 12 first-year students.
Faculty Signature: No
Special Expenses: None
Travel Component: None

Natural history writing has been used as a way of educating and inspiring people for over 150 years. Authors have varied from professional writers and amateur naturalists writing about a favorite organism or environment that they want to share with others to professional biologists who want to write about the organisms that they study outside of the rather restrictive format of scientific writing. Books and essays have been written about environments that range from the mountains of California to the lowly dungheap. Writers have tried to give their readers insight into the lives of whales as well as the lives of cockroaches. In some instances natural history writing has been a powerful tool in conservation biology. This program will introduce students to several types and styles of natural history writing. It will focus on improving students' writing and try to make them better observers of the natural world. We will also examine the roll of scientific knowledge in how we view nature and humans' place in nature. Weekly activities include workshops aimed at teaching specific writing and observational skills and seminars focused on a variety of natural history writings including books and essays.
Credit awarded in: literature, natural history and creative writing.
Total: 16 credits.
Planning Unit(s): Programs for First-Year Students; Environmental Studies and Society, Politics, Behavior and Change.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in writing, conservation biology, journalism, social and environmental policy.

Program Updates:

(11/26/02) New, not in printed catalog

Organizations, Entrepreneurship and Management: Advanced Topics in Management
Fall, Winter, Spring/Group Contract
Faculty: John Filmer
Enrollment: 25
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing, transfer students welcome; successful completion of a management program at Evergreen or the equivalent.
Faculty Signature: Yes
Special Expenses: No
Internship Possibilities: No

This group contract will be tailored to the needs of students who have previously studied management at Evergreen or elsewhere and desire an opportunity for further study and exploration in management related topics. The specific content will vary from quarter to quarter depending upon the interests, expertise and preferred direction of the group and faculty. Applications will cover nonprofit, for-profit and government organizations. Topics will include economic development, community studies, critical analysis, leadership, team building, entrepreneurism, small business development, marketing, project management, international commerce, communications, global economics, global strategies and public and private sector alliances. Program activities will consist of lectures, workshops, seminars, case studies, field trips and group and individual research projects.
Credit awarded in: organizational strategy, community development, planning, international business, marketing, public policy, decision-making, small business management, communications, project management and public relations. Credits may vary depending upon the structure, makeup and focus of each quarter.
Total: 8, 12 or 16 credits each quarter.
Planning Unit(s): Society, Politics, Behavior and Change
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in public administration, non-profit organizational management and business management.

Program Updates:

(2/26/03) Faculty Signature added. Not accepting new students in Spring.

Patterns across Space and Time
Fall, Winter/Coordinated Study
Faculty: Ruth Hayes, David McAvity
Enrollment: 46
Prerequisites: None
Faculty Signature: Yes
Special Expenses: $150 for art supplies.
Internship Possibilities: No

In the physical world there are patterns, forms and rhythms that can teach us about how the universe is ordered. In this program, we will study many of these phenomena and the physical laws that govern them. We will work with static and dynamic forms in multiple dimensions: the linear, the planar, the spherical and the temporal. We will analyze phenomena that are similar in spite of their occurrence in different orders of magnitude. For example, what are the similarities between the spiral of a seashell and that of a galaxy? Does the rate of energy loss in a bouncing ball mirror the rate of color loss in an autumn leaf? How are the interference patterns of sound, light and ocean waves alike? We will investigate cyclical patterns that occur at both the cosmic and the personal level, such as planetary motion, tides and our own circadian rhythms. As we analyze these and other patterns, we will gain an understanding of their origins and the forces that shape them.
Our approach will be from two perspectives, as scientists and as artists, as we engage in quantitative reasoning and creative expression. First we will address the question: What makes something a pattern? Then we will engage in a variety of activities to explore the nature and structure of different kinds of patterns. Students will work to develop techniques of observation, measurement, documentation, analysis and description. They will employ drawing, time-lapse photography, motion analysis and animation to study and represent phenomena they have observed. They will use clay to explore shape and spatial relationships. They will learn to describe patterns and change quantitatively and create mathematical models based on the physical laws that shape them.
Part of our inquiry will focus on the differences between creative and quantitative representations. We will explore the limitations inherent in each approach and we will investigate the roles that abstraction in science and art play in our understanding of reality. Many of our lectures, readings and seminar discussions will be about epistemology, or the history and theory of knowledge, as it relates to our subject. The diverse ways humans employ and recognize patterns are culturally and historically determined. We will, therefore, also explore the perception, interpretation and use of patterns in several different cultures, both ancient and modern.
Credit awarded in mathematics, physics, history of science, epistemology, drawing, animation, animation studies, expository writing, quantitative reasoning, scientific methods and cultural studies.
Total: 16 credits each quarter.
Planning Unit(s): Programs for First-Year Students
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in the arts and sciences.
Program Web Site

Program Updates:

(11/19/02) Faculty Signature added

Philosophy, Society and Globalization: How We Got Where We Are
New, not in printed catalog
Fall and Winter quarters
Faculty: Alan Nasser
Enrollment: 25
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing, transfer students welcome. Political Economy or Economics is recommended, but not required.
Faculty Signature: Yes. Students should submit copies of all evaluations written of them by their teachers, and samples of their most recent writing to Alan. Transfer students can send transcripts and writing samples to Alan Nasser, The Evergreen State College, SE 3127, Olympia, WA 98505. For more information call (360) 867-6759.
Special Expenses: No
Internship Possibilities: No

This class will trace the philosophical and historical background of the currently dominant global ideology of "neoliberalism/globalization." This term refers to the reliance by policymakers, in their attempts to address important social, political and economic problems, on a model of pure, market-driven capitalism. This model is now being put into practice, for the first time in history, on a global scale. Philosophy, political economy and history will be studied to clarify the historical process leading up to neoliberalism/globalization. We begin with the history of modern Western political philosophy, including Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Adam Smith, Rousseau, J. S. Mill, Hegel and Marx. Here we trace the development of the notions of the modern individual, natural rights, liberty, the modern State, democracy and the free market. We will relate these notions to the emergence, in the 19th and 20th centuries, of industrial capitalism and representative democracy. Capitalism and democracy, once established, have evolved oddly since 1900: from pure capitalism with no democratic welfare state (1898–1947), to capitalism modified by democratic welfare-state policies (1947–1980), back to pure capitalism and the dismantling of welfare-state democracy (1980–the present). We will examine the historical dynamics of these major political, economic, social and philosophical transformations. This will involve an introduction both to the basic principles of political economics and to some of the major political philosophers of the 20th century, e.g. F. A. Hayek, John Rawls and Robert Nozick. In the course of these studies, we will both describe in detail the workings of contemporary neoliberalism/globalization, and understand how and why it came about. This is a demanding, bookish, analytical program concerned exclusively with the careful analysis of challenging readings.
Credit awarded in: classical liberalism, critiques of classical liberalism, fundamentals of political economy, and 20th century political philosophy and globalization.
Total: 16 credits each quarter.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in teaching, economics, politics, government, philosophy and history.
Planning Unit(s): Society, Politics, Behavior and Change

Program Updates:

(11/26/02) New, not in printed catalog

Physical Systems
Fall, Winter, Spring/Coordinated Study
Faculty: E.J. Zita
Enrollment: 25
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing, transfer students welcome; successful completion of at least one year of college-level, calculus-based physics (such as Matter and Motion); facility with integration and differentiation; and good writing skills.
Faculty Signature: Yes. New students should contact E.J. Zita, Email zita@evergreen.edu or (360) 867- 6853.
Special Expenses: Expensive textbooks, up to $500 total, required for the first week of class, to be used all year.
Internship Possibilities: Yes

This program will examine the principal concepts and theories by which we describe and understand the physical world, from the realm of our immediate senses (classical physics) to the very small (quantum mechanics) to the vast (astrophysics and cosmology). We will emphasize understanding the nature and formal structure of quantitative physical theories. We will focus on the unifying concepts and common mathematical structures that organize various physical theories into a coherent body of knowledge. This program is necessarily mathematical; required mathematical methods will be developed as needed and in the context of their use in the physical sciences. The central role of mathematics in describing nature is one of the core intellectual issues in this program. Quantitative problem solving will be emphasized.
This program will be organized around the concepts of energy and symmetries, with components in classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, electromagnetism, thermodynamics, astrophysics and selected topics in contemporary physics. Mathematical topics will include multivariable calculus, linear algebra, differential equations. Computers and computer graphics will be used as appropriate for obtaining numerical solutions and for gaining qualitative insight into physical processes. Laboratory investigations will also be undertaken.
Students will be responsible for library research on topics of interest and for peer instruction in the classroom. Faculty and student presentations will include lectures, seminars, hands-on workshops and group problem-solving workshops.
Integrated seminars on history, literature, philosophy and cultural studies of science will stimulate ongoing consideration of the contexts and meanings of science knowledge systems and practices, through history and across cultures. All students must participate in seminar.
This program will constitute serious preparation for more advanced work, including graduate study in physics, applied mathematics or the physical sciences.
Credit awarded in: physics*, mathematics*, numerical methods* and/or philosophy, history and cultural studies of science.
Total: 16 credits each quarter.
Planning Unit(s): Scientific Inquiry
A similar program is expected to be offered in 2003­04.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in physical sciences, engineering and applied mathematics, and/or philosophy, history and cultural studies of science.
Program Web site

Program Updates:

E.J. Zita is also teaching the eight-credit class, Science Seminar, which is open to all students with no signature requirement and no prerequisites. Check it out on the Web. (2/19/03) There might be a small number of openings for well-prepared, upper-level students.

Picturing Plants
Fall, Winter, Spring/Coordinated Study
Faculty: Frederica Bowcutt, Lucia Harrison
Enrollment: 48
Prerequisites: None. This all-level program accepts up to 25 percent or 12 first-year students.
Faculty Signature: Yes
Special Expenses: In-state field trips during fall and spring quarters, approximately $200 for two, week-long field trips; up to $200 for art supplies.
Internship Possibilities: Yes, optional six credits spring quarter only.

Plants play profound roles in our lives. Throughout history, plants have been the focus of storytelling, mythology, religious ceremony, healing, scientific investigation, material culture and artistic expression. This program explores scientific, cultural (folklore) and aesthetic (artistic) perspectives of plants. We will ask: Why and how do we create meanings out of plants? What actions can we take in the world to create ethical relations with plants and the ecosystems they live in? How can we use plants as points of departure for our own creative work?
Our exploration entails a highly integrative blend of art and science as well as humanities-based thought. To develop the perspective of a scientist, we will study plant-cell biology, evolution, anatomy, physiology, taxonomy and ecology. The visual arts components of the program will stress drawing from observation as well as an understanding of how plants have inspired artistic expression in different cultural traditions. We will study scientists as natural observers and learn to keep fully illustrated field journals. We will study artists who use plant forms as a point of departure for introspection and abstraction. Students will gain technical skills in drawing, botanical illustration, watercolor painting, digital imaging and some beginning printmaking.
Although our focus will be on science and art, we will also study the folkloric knowledge of herbalists, farmers, loggers, mystics and environmental activists. We will explore how different forms of knowing might inform one another, and how historical processes shift our experience of plants.
Attendance at week-long retreats in fall and spring is required of all students in the program.
Credit awarded in: art appreciation, botanical illustration, drawing, painting, writing, ethnobotany, field natural history, introductory botany, ecology* and plant taxonomy*. Upper-division science credit will be awarded spring quarter for students working at an advanced level in taxonomy and ecology.
Total: 16 credits each quarter.
Planning Unit(s): Programs for First-Year Students; Environmental Studies and Expressive Arts.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in art, botany, education, environmental studies and natural resource management.

Program Updates:

(2/19/03) New students must have introductory botany (plant anatomy, morphology, evolution, physiology, diversity). The faculty want to see an evaluation or transcript demonstrating the student has this background. Plant identification alone is not adequate preparation. There will be the possibility of upper division science credit (about 10 units) for prepared students.

Pillars of Fire: Jewish Contributions to European and American Culture
Fall, Winter/Coordinated Study
Faculty: Ariel Goldberger, Carrie Margolin
Enrollment: 48
Prerequisites: None. This all-level program accepts up to 25 percent or 12 first-year students.
Faculty Signature: No
Special Expenses: Estimated $150 for art and media materials and theater tickets per quarter. Total expenses depend on student projects.
Internship Possibilities: No

This interdisciplinary program will focus on the study of the Jewish diaspora and Jewish contributions to the culture of Europe and the Americas. We will explore some of the following questions in areas such as philosophy, cultural studies, humanities, sciences and art. Are there quintessentially Jewish ideas? What Jewish ideas were co-opted by other cultures after the Roman sack of Jerusalem in the year 70 CE? Which ones made it into the larger culture? What are unique Jewish contributions to American culture?
We will study possible connections among avant-garde movements, political movements and the Yiddish culture. We will investigate Jewish contributions and connections to American popular culture components such as Hollywood, Broadway, Tin Pan Alley, jazz and TV. We will explore Yiddish theater and its surrounding culture in Europe and America, including figures such as Gertrude Stein, Paul Klee, Chaim Soutine, Marc Chagall, Alberto Giacommetti, Herman Wouk, Steven Spielberg, Jackie Mason, Woody Allen, Leonard Bernstein, Rodgers and Hammerstein.
We will look for possible connections among Jewish Messianic ideas, laws and ethics, immigration, politics and the labor movement in America and Europe.
As part of our studies of Jewish beliefs and mysticism we will look into the oral and written law, the mystical tradition of the Kabbalah and current Jewish thought about religion and mysticism. We will examine Jewish rituals, cooking and life-cycle events, and Jewish men and women's traditional roles. We will also explore the changing role of Jewish women as Jewish feminist leaders exert their influence on the culture.
An inevitable aspect of these studies will be a journey into the dark abyss of the Holocaust. We will look at the Holocaust's impact on the cultural life and arts of Europe and the Jewish world, and emerging responses to the tragedy. We will also explore readings and studies on Jewish views on religion and mysticism.
Credit awarded in: psychology, cultural studies, Jewish studies, performance studies, writing, design, theater, installation and individual project work.
Total: 16 credits each quarter.
Planning Unit(s): Programs for First-Year Students; Culture, Text and Language; Expressive Arts; and Society, Politics, Behavior and Change.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in Judaic studies, cultural studies, performance, writing and literature.

Program Updates:

(11/20/02) Enrollment change: This all-level program accepts up to 35% or 17 first-year students.

Political Economy and Social Change: Globalization and Resistance
Fall, Winter/Coordinated Study
Faculty: Peter Dorman, Grace Chang
Enrollment: 50
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing, transfer students welcome.
Faculty Signature: Yes
Special Expenses: No
Internship Possibilities: No

This is a two-quarter introduction to the study of political economy at Evergreen. The subject matter is global capitalism: its structure and trajectory, the forces that shape it, the effects it has on people in this country and elsewhere, and the movements that have arisen to challenge it. Methodologically, this program is interdisciplinary and encompasses multiple perspectives. Capitalism is viewed through the lenses of political and economic theory, both mainstream and critical, as well as cultural studies. Throughout the program, theoretical approaches will be combined with detailed case studies, so that topics can be viewed from both "outside" and "inside" vantage points.
Specific content areas will include: political theory (democracy, the state in capitalist society, international political economy), economics (micro- and macroeconomics), cultural theory (the culture industry, critical analysis of discourse and representation, post-colonialism), social hierarchies (race, gender, class) and the dynamics of movements for social change. The program will also provide an introduction to radical traditions, such as Marxism, anarchism, and the "new" social movements. Program work will include readings, seminars, lectures, workshops, films and a major research-and-writing project.
Credit awarded in:political science, economics, cultural studies, international political economy and modern history.
Total: 16 credits each quarter.
Planning Unit(s): Society, Politics, Behavior and Change
A similar program is expected to be offered in 2003­04.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in economics, political economy and international relations.

Program Updates:

Grace Chang (Political Economy of Racism) joins the program.

Postbellum
Winter/Group Contract
Faculty: Michael Pfeifer
Enrollment: 25
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing, transfer students welcome.
Faculty Signature: No
Special Expenses: No
Internship Possibilities: No

An odd historical era ensued between the convulsion of the American Civil War and the dramatic technological advances and world warfare of the second decade of the 20th century. Those Americans who looked back from the perspective of the 20th century saw a quainter, quieter, simpler time, one that lacked major wars, divisive politics and the full panoply of "modernity." Yet the Postbellum period was one of vast social and cultural change. Rapid industrialization, immigration and urbanization created large if somewhat ill-defined and fragmented middle classes and working classes. White southerners, forced by the war's result to make a new negotiation with African Americans no longer held in bondage, used violence and law to sustain the prerogatives of white supremacy. The U.S. army shifted from the preservation of Union to a new duty, the subjugation of First Peoples in the lands from the plains to the Pacific. Transcontinental railroads then brought immigrants from back East and elsewhere to fill out the West. Farmers and laborers at certain moments challenged the predominance of capital, monopoly and the two-party political system.
We will investigate the American period from 1865­1915 through historical, literary, musical and visual texts. This will include intensive reading in the key works of the secondary historical literature on the period (books and articles), as well as primary sources of many kinds. We will thoroughly consider the implications of ethnicity, class, religiosity, gender, race and sexuality for historical experience. In our seminar discussions and our short and long essays, we will be most concerned with what was old and new in this ambiguous era, and its legacy for us.
Credit awarded in: American social and cultural history, American studies, and the history of music.
Total: 16 credits.
Planning Unit(s): Culture, Text and Language
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in the humanities, teaching, law and other professions.

Program Updates:

Babacar M'Baye joins the program. The enrollment has increased to 50.

Postcolonial Literature
New, not in printed catalog
Spring/Coordinated Study
Faculty: Therese Saliba, Babacar M'Baye
Enrollment: 48
Prerequisites: None. This all-level program accepts up to 25 percent or 12 first-year students.
Faculty Signature: No
Special Expenses: No
Internship Possibilities: No

The concepts "postcolonialism" and "neo-colonialism" often describe the enduring effects of colonialism and imperialism on formerly colonized nations. This program will examine the works of major African and Arab writers and how they represent the social, political, cultural and economic conditions of their nations since the era of independence in the 1950s. We will explore the historical and political realities that have influenced Arab and African literary production through the study of anti-colonialist essays, postcolonial theory, fiction, poetry and film. Crossing linguistic and geographic barriers, the program will emphasize the dualisms, inequalities and contradictions that have shaped African and Arab nations as they search for freedom, sovereignty and development in a world that is becoming increasingly diverse, heterogeneous and global. Using a bottom-up historical approach, we will engage with the works of writers, artists, politicians and underprivileged groups who have sought to address inequalities of race, ethnicity, class, gender and sexuality within their societies, even as they struggle to redress colonial legacies of power. Above all, this program is designed to help students refine their skills in writing, literary analysis and cultural studies, as they develop a more complex picture of Africa and the Arab world that challenges the stereotypical images promoted by the Western media.
Total: 16 credits.
Planning Unit(s): Programs for First-Year Students; Culture, Text and Language

Program Updates:

(11/20/02) New, not in printed catalog

Postmodernity and Postmodernism: Barth, Pynchon, DeLillo, Murakami and World Cinema
Fall/Group Contract
Faculty: Harumi Moruzzi
Enrollment: 25
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing, transfer students welcome.
Faculty Signature: No
Special Expenses: Up to $30 for a field trip.
Internship Possibilities: No

The 19th century was a heady century for the West and Japan. In Europe and North America, the Enlightenment ideology, which was theorized in the 18th century at the wake of the science and technology nexus, was set in motion, causing some segments of humanity to embrace the utopian notion of perfectibility of human society. Meanwhile in Japan, where the "Meiji Enlightenment" was necessitated by the Western powers that used the threat of technologically enhanced violence (a fleet of gun-boats) to engage Japan in trading relationships, many people were nevertheless ecstatic about its newly discovered sense of human equality and progress. By the beginning of the 20th century, however, this giddy sense of human perfectibility was severely diminished by iconoclastic ideas, such as Freudian psychoanalytical theory, Einstein's theory of relativity and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. For instance, in 1921, W. B. Yeats wrote in "The Second Coming":
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold,
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The bloom-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
The sense of confusion, anarchy and dread expressed in this poem is strikingly similar to that of our time, which suffers perhaps a more radical and real disillusionment regarding the humanity and its future through its experience of the Nazi holocaust and the atomic bomb explosions in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Our time, at the dawn of the 21st century, is generally and vaguely called the postmodern time or postmodernity. But, what is postmodernity? What is postmodernism?
We will examine the state of our contemporary world as manifested in the literary works of John Barth, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo and Haruki Murakami, as well as in the films directed by Godard, Bunuel and other contemporary filmmakers, as well as the significance and implications of such literary and cinematic works through the study of Baudrillard, Lyotard, Jameson, Habermas and the like.
Credit awarded in: literary theory, cultural theory, Japanese culture, Japanese literature, American literature, film studies, psychology and sociology.
Total: 16 credits.
Planning Unit(s): Culture, Text and Language
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in literature, cultural studies, film studies and sociology.

Program Updates:

Protecting Washington Wildness
Fall, Winter, Spring/Group Contract
Faculty: Ted Whitesell, Oscar Soule, Benjamin Shaine
Enrollment: 50
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing, transfer students welcome; advanced college-level writing skills and equivalent of one year of introductory college biology.
Faculty Signature: Yes. Faculty will assess college-level writing skills and degree of knowledge and commitment to research and writing about the protection of wildness in Washington state. Contact Ted Whitesell at (360) 867-6768 or whiteset@evergreen.edu.
Special Expenses: Up to $200 per quarter for approximately 12 overnight trips to field stations throughout Washington, roughly during weeks two, four, six and eight of each quarter.
Internship Possibilities: No

This three-quarter group contract is designed to produce a book, tentatively titled Picking Up the Pieces: Protecting the Remnant Wildness of Washington State, to be written by the students, edited by the faculty and published by a major publisher. Most of Washington's designated wilderness areas owe their existence to citizens who worked hard to gather and disseminate information about the importance of these areas and the threats they faced. More remains to be done to preserve and restore other wild areas, yet there is currently no comprehensive guide to wild Washington. To meet this need, students and faculty will produce a book about the status of wild Washington, options for additional wilderness designations throughout the state, plans of government agencies and citizen groups and legal and political tools for wilderness preservation.
Educational activities will include fieldwork and instruction in natural history, geography, environmental history, conservation biology and writing. Not all students will become authors of book chapters, due to limitations of space. The program coordinator will judge manuscript submissions primarily on writing quality and contribution to the book's content. Manuscripts not selected for the book should contribute to public education as articles in conservation journals or through other media.
Credit awarded in: natural history, geography, environmental history, conservation biology, environmental policy and writing.
Total: 16 credits each quarter.
Planning Unit(s): Environmental Studies
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in conservation, land use planning and management, geography, natural history and writing.

Program Updates:

(11/20/02) Benjamin Shaine has been added to this program for winter quarter only. Steve Herman will not be teaching the program spring quarter. Enrollment has been lowered to 25 for spring. (2/26/03) Not accepting new students in Spring.

Power and Limitations of Dialogue
New, not in printed catalog
Fall, Winter/Coordinated Study
Faculty: Patrick Hill, Angela Gilliam (F)
Enrollment: 25
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing, transfer students welcome. At least two years of college-level study of the humanities and social sciences. Prospective students must read and agree to the program Covenant before admission to the program.
Faculty Signature: Yes. Contact Patrick Hill, (360) 867-6595 or The Evergreen State College, L 3220, Olympia, WA 98505, for signature information.
Special Expenses: No
Internship Possibilities: Embedded in the winter quarter.

The United States is an extremely diverse society. In some areas, like music or food, we seem to revel in that diversity. In other areas, like organized religions, we merely tolerate the diversity as a civic obligation. And in still other areas we downright avoid our differences, polarizing and segregating them, unless forced to do otherwise. This program explores the power and limitations of dialogue through a study of a variety of dialogues, including our most difficult and most avoided ones.
In the Fall quarter, the more theoretical of the two quarters, the emphasis is on models of human differences, on the variety of dialogues (beyond the overemphasized face-to-face conversation) and on dialogical skills, strategies and expectations. Particularly instructive dialogues, such as men and women, environmentalists and loggers and blacks and whites, will be introduced. The Winter quarter will focus on two or three dialogues, emphasizing interracial issues, particularly reconciliation and reparation.
Throughout the program, close attention will be paid to the development of the wisdom and personal skills that could maximize our own contributions to the limited power of dialogue. While a major focus of the program is on the more or less genuine dialogues of American society, these dialogues are being approached not as exhaustive studies of, e.g., racism or sexism, but as case studies for understanding the power and limitations of dialogue. Each student will sense over the course of the program that he/she can internalize the dialogical skills as add-ons to one's already existing strategies of survival; and/or as the adoption of fundamentally de-polarizing habits of mind and heart now widely seen as vital to a pluralistic age in need of a more functional understanding of our differences.
This program might well be described as a six-month experiment in understanding, in unprecedented, radical or respectful listening. Such an experiment is one of a few crucial prerequisites to both assessing the power and limitations of dialogue and to improving our own dialogical skills and wisdom. As a consequence, the program will require an unusually strong Covenant. While the instructors, in their parts of that Covenant, will guarantee that no student will be intentionally embarrassed or forced to participate in any dialogue that is seriously discomforting, each student will be required to commit for six months (at least during class hours!) to listening with non judgmental, philosophically cleansed ears to each and every classmate no matter how off-the-wall those opinions might previously have been judged to be. But no student will be allowed to dominate the seminars or to use them as a platform for proselytizing. The full Covenant, addressing all student and faculty expectations, will be available on the program's Web page and at the Academic Fair. Prospective students must read and agree to it before admission to the program.
In a normal two-week period, there will be two–three lectures, one–two films or videos, one book-seminar and one integrative seminar. Students will in the Fall quarter be required to write response-papers for the assigned books, take a comprehensive mid term exam, compose an end-of-quarter paper on her/his personal assessment of the powers and limitations of dialogue and maintain a journal and program portfolio. Winter quarter assignments will be more tailored to the dialogues upon which the class focuses.
Sample texts: Tannen's You Just Don't Understand, Brown's In Timber Country, Hacker's Two Nations, Senge's The Fifth Discipline, Dyson's I May Not Get There With You: the True Martin Luther King, Jr., Tutu's No Future Without Forgiveness and Rittner's Living With Our Differences.
Credit awarded in: Philosophy, anthropology, sociology (contemporary and American society), political economy and the theory and practice of interpersonal communication.
Total: 12 or 16 credits each quarter.
Planning Unit(s): Culture, Text and Language; Society, Politics, Behavior and Change.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in mediation, educational, business and governmental administration, teaching, anthropology, philosophy and ethnic, cultural and gender studies.
Program Web site

Program Updates:

(11/20/02) New, not in printed catalog. Faculty approval is required prior to registering. Details on preparation are available on the Program Web Site. (2/19/03) Not accepting new students in Spring.

Puppet and Object Theater
Spring/Group Contract
Faculty: Ariel Goldberger
Enrollment: 24
Prerequisites: None. This all-level program accepts up to 25 percent or 6 first-year students.
Faculty Signature: No
Special Expenses: $150 for art and media materials and theater tickets.
Internship Possibilities: No

The main goal of this program is to create a learning community of students interested in investigating the nature of puppet theater and object theater through performance. Experimentation, risk-taking, self-directed work, design process and learning how to tackle unknowns will be emphasized. Participants will be encouraged to write or devise their own script or storyboard and required to research puppet techniques, design the puppets and the production and perform. Exploration of new and innovative materials and tools will be encouraged. The faculty will facilitate student-originated work. The program will require weekly showing of works-in-progress to emphasize learning about all participants' different artistic processes. Weekly presentations will focus on issues related to contemporary puppetry, technical issues and/or manipulation techniques. Depending upon student demand, a movement workshop will be offered.
Some possible puppet masters studied may be: Philippe Genty, Henk Boerwinkel, Bruce Schwartz, Julie Taymor, Theodora Skipitares, Janie Geyser, Roman Pasca and notable emerging American puppeteers.
Credit awarded in: puppet and object theater, performing arts, performance, design and other subjects depending on student work.
Total: 16 credits.
Planning Unit(s): Programs for First-Year Students; Expressive Arts.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in fields that require facility with collaborative processes, imagination, creative writing, research skills, artistic processes, intuitive and visual thinking, design and performing arts.

Program Updates: