Catalog: Fall 2007 - Spring 2008

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Family: Inspiration of Significant Others

Fall, Winter and Spring quarters

Faculty: David Rutledge (education, Native American studies), Yvonne Peterson (education, Native American studies), Raul Nakasone (education, Native American studies, Latin American studies, Spanish, Peruvian history)

Major areas of study include history of the Americas, political science, ethnography, cultural anthropology, Indigenous studies, and areas of study determined by student research projects.

Class Standing: This all-level program offers appropriate support for freshmen as well as supporting and encouraging those ready for advanced work.

Faculty Signature: No new students will be admitted into this program spring quarter

This program is for students who have a research topic (with a major focus on family) in mind, as well as for those who would like to learn how to do research in a student-centered environment. Students will be exposed to research methods, ethnographic research and interviewing techniques, writing workshops, computer literacy, library workshops, moving River of Culture Moments to documentary, educational technology and the educational philosophy that supports this program. Yvonne Peterson will offer a special series of workshops to support the particular academic needs of first- and second-year students.

We will ask students to take a very personal stake in their educational development. Within the program's family theme and subjects, students will pay special attention to what individual and group work they plan on doing, how they plan to learn, how they will know they learned it, and what difference the work will make in their lives and within their communities. Students will be encouraged to assume responsibility for their choices. Faculty and students together will work to develop habits of worthwhile community interaction in the context of the education process and liberation. The faculty are interested in providing an environment of collaboration where faculty and students will identify family topics of mutual interest and act as partners in the exploration of those topics.

In this program, students develop individual projects (with an academic focus on family) to examine what it means to live in a pluralistic society at the beginning of the 21st century. Through each student's area of interest, we will look at a variety of cultural and historical perspectives and use them to help address issues connected to the program theme.

Individual research will pay special attention to the value of human relationships to the land, to work, to others and to the unknown. Work will be concentrated in cultural studies, human resource development, and ethnographic studies to include historical and political implications of encounters, and cross-cultural communication. We shall explore Native American perspectives and look at issues that are particularly relevant to Indigenous People of the Americas.

Students whose research could be enriched by being immersed in a foreign culture will have the opportunity to live in Peru for five weeks or more during winter quarter. Our access to rural communities on the Peruvian northern coast offers students the opportunity to experience volunteer community work by learning in a safe and healthy pueblo environment. Learning about Latin America through Peru will expand the concept of Native American and Indigenous peoples.

In the fall, participants will state research questions. In late fall and winter, individually and in small study groups, students and faculty will develop the historical background for their chosen questions and do the integrative review of the literature and data collection. Ongoing workshops will allow students to learn the skills for completing their projects. Late winter and into spring quarter, students will write conclusions, wrap up print/non-print projects, and prepare for a public presentation. The last part of spring will be entirely dedicated to presentations.

Depending on their individual projects, students will develop, use and explore some of the following areas: Bloom's Taxonomy; the theory of multiple intelligence; the relationship among curriculum, assessment and instruction; expectations of an Evergreen graduate and the five foci; quantitative reasoning; self- and group-motivation; communication (to include dialogue, e-mail, resources on the Web and Web crossing). They will also develop skills in creating interactive Web pages and documentaries, as well as I-movie editing and presentations using PowerPoint.

Total: 16 credits each quarter.

Enrollment: 72

Internship Possibilities: With faculty approval.

Special Expenses: Approximately $2,000 for an optional five-week study abroad trip to Peru during winter quarter. Cost includes transportation, room and board. A $150 non-refundable deposit must be paid by September 28, 2007. For information about the study abroad component, contact Raul Nakasone, (360) 867-6065 or nakasonr@evergreen. edu.

Program is preparatory for careers and future studies in education, social sciences, the arts, multicultural studies, social work, human services and the humanities.

This program is also listed under Programs for Freshmen and Native American and World Indigenous Peoples Studies.

Program Updates:
02.19.2008:
The faculty signature requirements have been changed to reflect that no new students will be accepted spring quarter.

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Fairness in International Trade and Entrepreneurship

New

Spring quarter

Faculty: Larry Geri (management, international affairs, economics), Janet Luft Mobus (finance, accounting), Nelson Pizarro (business administration, entrepreneurship)

Major areas of study include business, international economics, fair trade, finance, accounting, marketing, management and entrepreneurship.

Class Standing: Sophomores or above; transfer students welcome.

This one-quarter program will explore the concept of fair trade. The backlash against globalization and neoliberal trade policies that gained momentum in Seattle in December 1999 has focused on the policies promoted by international organizations, multinational corporations, and many governments. These policies include free trade, elimination of controls on capital and foreign direct investment, and others that are generally known as the "Washington Consensus." These policies have often led to the exploitation of workers, the degradation of the environment, and the growing inequality of incomes around the world. As an alternative to these policies, many have demanded a new regime based on "fair trade," that seeks a more just and equitable global economic system.

This program will ask the following questions: What is fair trade? What is the history of trade law and the World Trade Organization? What are the effects of trade policies? What are the effects of domestic policies on international trade? Why do trade policies often create market imperfections and distortions? Are fair trade businesses viable? How can they be financed?

We will also critique "fairness," since the international institutions and others who generally favor globalization often use arguments that rely on this concept. For example, multinational corporations who pay workers low wages in less developed countries will say their wages are fairly set because they are above the "legal" minimum wage standards of these countries.

Fairness in International Trade will look closely at examples of entrepreneurs in the U.S. and in the developing world that use fair trade principles. Students will develop a business plan for a business idea of their choice or for an existing business that would like to expand and would like to include fair trade principles. The work will involve economics, market research, strategy management, marketing, finance and team work, including opportunities to explore social organizations locally and internationally. Texts will be drawn from business, economics, the social sciences and humanities. We will also see films and hear from an array of guest speakers. For students without a background in economics, the program will provide an introduction to important concepts in micro and macroeconomics needed to critique the world trading system and to understand the impact of a fair trade system on companies.

Total: 16 credits

Enrollment: 75

Program is preparatory for careers and future studies in business, management, economics and entrepreneurship.

Program Updates:
01.10.2008:
This is a new program for spring 2008.

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Fashioning the Body: Versions of the Citizen, the Self and the Subject 

Fall and Winter quarters

Faculty: Elizabeth Williamson (English literature), Julia Zay (media production, cinema studies)

Major areas of study include cultural studies, gender studies, cinema studies, photography, humanities, social and cultural history, history of art and visual culture.

Class Standing: Juniors or seniors; transfer students welcome.

Prerequisites: For WINTER quarter admission, students must demonstrate the following: 1. evidence of successful study of critical theory and philosophy in the form of a writing sample; 2. a completed and approved winter project proposal (guidelines available at academic advising and from faculty); and 3. at least intermediate skills in the medium of the independent project proposed.

Faculty Signature: For admission into the program winter quarter, students should contact Elizabeth Williamson at (360) 867-6015 or meet with faculty at the Academic Fair, November 28, 2007. Qualified students will be accepted on a space available basis.

Do you have a body? Are you interested in how culture shapes that body? Are you ready to pursue research, writing, and creative projects in the context of a program that will give your work richness, depth, and conceptual rigor? This upper-level program combines the history of art and visual culture, theater studies, literature, and critical theory and includes a significant individual project component in winter quarter.

Fashioning the Body explores the ways in which Western cultural forces have shaped our bodies and our images of them, as well as our efforts to "fashion" our own identities through the negotiation of these forces. Throughout the program we will move among traditional models of performance, in which actors recreate fictional roles within a theatrical space, a wider range of mediated performances represented in photography, film and video, and the social performances that structure everyday life.

During the early modern period, "fashion," from the Latin verb facio ("to make") actively molded and defined personhood. But because it was detachable, and thus transferable, clothing also provided a space for resistance, allowing the body to function as a site for questions about the relationship between individual identity and social roles.

Bodily fashioning becomes more complicated with the advent of photography and the moving image, but continues to raise questions of how individuals negotiate body imperatives. Early criminology, for instance, relied heavily on photographic portraiture, and early motion studies shot on film were used by scientists to explore human and animal movement. Using these and other examples, we will consider the central role photography and cinema play in molding 20th- and 21st-century ideas about embodied personhood.

Techniques of fashioning the body can mean radically different things in different historical contexts. In contemporary Western societies, individuals have a variety of permanent and non-permanent options for fashioning their own bodies. Conceptual artists such as Adrian Piper and the French performer "Orlan" explore the tensions between modern and post-modern conceptions of embodied identity in provocative ways, helping to draw our attention to the cultural norms and hypocrisies around discourses of the body. In these and other contemporary examples, resistance is not a simple dynamic of pushing against social norms, but rather reconfiguring a wide range of cultural signifiers.

During fall quarter, we will examine numerous examples of social fashioning and self-fashioning within particular cultural contexts. Students will view films and still images, read important pieces of theoretical literature and learn to engage with various cultural productions as thoughtful, professional critics. Critical reflections will take both written and visual form (essays and photography), and we will make regular use of online blogs as parallel discussion spaces and places to respond to weekly prompts given by faculty. During winter quarter, students will embark on faculty-guided independent projects, written or creative, informed by the theoretical models introduced fall quarter, as well as by original research.

Total: 16 credits each quarter.

Enrollment: 50

Internship Possibilities: With faculty approval. Students are welcome to arrange for an internship at a gallery, a historical society, museum, library or archive as part of their independent project during winter quarter.

Special Expenses: Approximately $25 for field trip expenses and admission fees to museums.

Program is preparatory for careers and future studies in history of art and visual culture, teaching, fine arts, media studies and communications.

This program is also listed under Culture, Text and Language.

Program Updates:
06.06.2007:
The prerequisites, program narrative and faculty signature requirements have been modified.
06.18.2007: The signature requirement for this program has been removed.
11.06.2007: Prerequisites and signature requirements for entry into the program winter quarter were added.
11.19.2007: Prerequisites for entry into the program winter quarter were changed. The signature requirement section was corrected.

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Field Ecology

Spring quarter

Faculty: Dylan Fischer (forest, plant ecology)

Major areas of study include botany, ecosystem science, forest structure, ecological restoration, riparian ecology, fire history, plant-insect interactions, disturbance ecology and biocomplexity. Upper-division science credit will be awarded for upper-division work.

Class Standing: Juniors or seniors; transfer students welcome.

Prerequisites: One year of college-level science. Faculty signature required (see below).

Faculty Signature: Students must submit an application. Assessment will be based primarily on previous coursework and experience. Application forms are available from Dylan Fischer, fischerd@evergreen.edu, or outside Lab II, 3265. Applications received by the Academic Fair, March 5, 2008, will be given priority. Qualified students will be accepted until the program fills. Dylan will be on another program field trip and cannot be at the Academic Fair, so students should return their application to Lab II 3265. Information will be available at the Academic Fair, or at http://academic.evergreen.edu/curricular/fieldecology/

This program will focus on intensive group and individual field research on current topics in ecology. Students will be expected to intensively use the primary literature and student-driven field research to address observations about ecological composition, structure, and function in natural environments. Students will participate in a two-week field trip to a remote field site in eastern Washington, the Pasayten Wilderness (east side of the north Cascades) where we will conduct a series of ecological studies. We will be working with a local land cooperative to help develop long-term studies on plant biodiversity and ecology. This field trip will be from May 15th to May 29th.

Students will be expected to develop multiple independent and group research projects in local forests in the South Sound, the Evergreen forest campus, national forests, national parks, state forest, and other relevant natural settings. Students are expected to "hit the ground running" and should develop research projects for the entire quarter within the first weeks of the program. These research projects will be formally presented by groups and individuals in the final weeks of the quarter.

Topics of study will include botany, ecosystem science, forest structure, ecological restoration, riparian ecology, fire history, insect-plant interactions, disturbance ecology, and the broad fields of biocomplexity and ecological interactions. These topics and student projects will be crystallized through a series of intensive multi-day paper-writing workshops in which group and individual papers will be produced. We will emphasize identification of original field research problems in diverse habitats, experimentation, data analyses, oral presentation of findings, and writing in journal format.

Total: 16 credits.

Enrollment: 25

Special Expenses: Approximately $400 for a two-week field trip to a remote field site.

Program is preparatory for careers and future studies in forest resources, ecology, botany, environmental sciences, education, forest ecology, environmental journalism, science writing and natural history.

A similar program is expected to be offered in 2009–10.

Program Updates:
02.29.2008:
The location of the program field trip has been changed as indicated in the updated narrative. Faculty signature information has been updated.

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Finance: Personal to Global

New

Fall and Winter quarters

Faculty: Janet Luft Mobus (finance, accounting), Tom Womeldorff (economics, political economy)

Major areas of study include: Finance, accounting, economics, political economy, quantitative reasoning and writing.

Class Standing: This lower division program is designed for 50 percent freshmen and 50 percent sophomores.

Prerequisites: For WINTER quarter admission, faculty signature required.

Faculty Signature: For admission into the program winter quarter, students should contact Tom Womeldorff or (360) 867-6064 or meet with program faculty at the Academic Fair, November 28, 2007. Qualified students will be accepted on a space available basis.

No matter what we study or where we work, our lives involve money: income, budgets, savings, credit cards, mortgages, car loans, investments, retirement plans and more. Yet we spend surprisingly little time learning what it means to save and spend. Many people become burdened by large debts and feel powerless because they do not comprehend the basics of financial management. We can better control our lives if we understand the fundamentals of finance.

Beyond managing our own lives, to be responsible global citizens, we need to understand how international financial flows contribute to the relative wealth and poverty of nations and individuals. In this program, we will learn the fundamentals of finance and money, on both a personal and a global level.

During fall quarter we will focus on personal finance. We will develop a framework for approaching personal financial decisions, from incurring debts (e.g., credit card, student loans, car loans and house mortgages) to planning for the future (e.g., retirement and savings plans). In the process, we will explore the history and development of money use in capitalism.

During winter quarter, we will turn our attention to finance on a global level. Beginning with micro-lending and ending with global corporate finance, we will examine how money flows determine the relative wealth and poverty of nations, individuals and corporations.

We will explore these themes through lectures and seminars. Our workshops will focus on the fundamentals of economics and accounting necessary to understand the role of money and finance in our lives. In the process, we will develop the basic quantitative reasoning and spreadsheet skills necessary to be financially literate in today's society.

Total: 16 credits.

Enrollment: 46

Program is preparatory for careers and future studies in: business, finance, accounting, economics, education and the social sciences.

This program is also listed under: Programs for Freshmen and Society, Politics, Behavior and Change

Program Updates:
03.16.2007:
This new program for fall 2007 and winter 2008 is not printed in the catalog.
11.07.2007: Prerequisites and signature requirements for entry into the program winter quarter were added.

Foundations of Economics

New

Spring quarter

Faculty: Tom Womeldorff (economics)

Major areas of study include: micro- and macro-economics, economic theory and history of economic thought.

Class Standing: This lower division program is designed for 50 percent freshmen and 50 percent sophomores.

Neoclassical economic theory provides powerful tools for understanding most issues we face today as communities, nations and globally. This does not mean there is agreement among economists about what the theory tells us or what policies are appropriate. At the center of debates among economists, and in society as a whole, is the appropriate balance between relying on the marketplace and the need for government intervention. This question will be at the center of our inquiry.

This program is designed to provide a broad and in-depth introduction to economic theory in the context of current economic issues. We will study introduction to micro- and macro-economics with close attention to how these theories have evolved over time (history of economic thought), and how they are applied across a broad spectrum of issues. We will critically assess both the usefulness and limitations of economic theory.

In addition to developing a strong foundation in micro- and macro-economic theory, each student will select a field of economics for more in-depth inquiry (e.g., feminist, labor, environmental and international economics; economic development; monetary policy; and the role of the IMF in promoting and impeding economic development). Students who have previously studied either micro- or macro-economics will have an additional project. Students who have previously studied both micro- and macro-economics should consult with the faculty before registering.

Total: 16 credits.

Enrollment: 23

Program is preparatory for careers and future studies in: economics, political economy, environmental studies, public policy and social science in general.

This program is also listed under: Programs for Freshmen and Society, Politics, Behavior and Change.

Program Updates:
01.16.2008:
This is a new program for Spring 2008, not printed in the catalog

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Foundations of Health Science

Fall, Winter and Spring quarters

Faculty: Rebecca Sunderman (chemistry), Benjamin Simon (biology), TBA

Major areas of study include introductory general chemistry, organic chemistry, biochemistry, microbiology, immunology, anatomy and physiology, genetics and nutrition. All credits are lower-division science credits.

Class Standing: This all-level program offers appropriate support for freshmen as well as supporting and encouraging those ready for advanced work.

Prerequisites: For WINTER quarter admission, students must have completed previous college study in general chemistry, organic chemistry, cell biology. Students entering winter quarter will take a short quiz to assess their skills in areas such as cell structure, mitosis, molar mass, stoicheimetry and organic functional groups before a signature will be given.

Faculty Signature: No new students will be admitted into this program spring quarter

Foundations of Health Science is designed for students contemplating work in the healthcare field, who want to learn more about how the body functions on both a macroscopic and microscopic level, and those who are interested in learning more about science in an integrated and thematic context. This course is also appropriate for students interested in public health/policy and the social sciences who need a good basis in the science of biology and chemistry.

This is a yearlong, laboratory-based program exploring introductory concepts of biology and chemistry with a focus on health and medicine. Over the course of three quarters, we will study general chemistry, organic chemistry, biochemistry, microbiology, immunology, anatomy and physiology, genetics and nutrition. Topics will be spread out over multiple quarters, as content will be organized around themes. We will focus on cancer in fall quarter, obesity in winter quarter and infectious disease in spring quarter.

In our explorations, we will incorporate laboratory work, lectures, group projects, seminars, textbook homework assignments, workshops and field trips. Communication skills, both written and oral, will be emphasized. Concepts and techniques of thesis-driven writing and scientific writing will be studied and applied.

Completion of this program will give students many of the prerequisites they need for allied health careers in nursing, physical therapy, midwifery, athletic training, nutrition, and others. If you are anticipating enrolling in Molecule to Organism, supplementary chemistry courses may be needed.

Total: 16 credits each quarter.

Enrollment: 48

Program is preparatory for careers and future studies in health sciences, education, biology, chemistry and public health.

This program is also listed under Programs for Freshmen and Scientific Inquiry.

A similar program is expected to be offered in 2008–09.

Program Updates:
04.27.2007:
Michael Paros has left the program. The enrollment is now 48 students.
11.07.2007: Prerequisites and signature requirements for entry into the program winter quarter were added.
12.14.2007: The signature requirement for winter quarter entry has been removed. Qualified students may register without the instructor's permission as long as seats remain available in the program.
02.20.2008: The faculty signature requirements have been changed to reflect that no new students will be accepted spring quarter.

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Foundations of Visual Art

Fall, Winter and Spring quarters

Faculty: Matthew Hamon (photography, visual arts) , Shawn Ferris (F) (fine arts) , Susan Aurand, (visual arts)

Class Standing: Sophomores and above; transfer students welcome.

Prerequisites: Students should have at least one year of art experience in drawing, painting and art history and should present a portfolio of their work for review. Faculty signature required (see below).

Faculty Signature: This program can accept a few new students in spring 08. Students should present their portfolio (see prerequisites) to program faculty Matt Hamon or Susan Aurand for evaluation and to obtain a signature. Qualified students will be accepted on a space available basis.

Foundations of Visual Art is the entry-level program for students who are interested in emphasizing the visual arts in their Evergreen education. This yearlong program offers an intensive introduction to making two- and three-dimensional art forms, while studying art history and aesthetics. The primary program goals are to develop visual literacy, to learn to use art materials to express one's ideas and to make a sustained visual investigation of ideas or topics through work in series. This program is designed for students who are passionate about art, open to new ideas and willing to take risks. Students must be able to do focused work for extended periods, to share their work with their peers and to actively support others' learning. The program functions as a community of working artists who are learning together and sharing ideas through intensive in-studio work and art history study.

In fall quarter, students will build skills in drawing, painting and black-and-white photography. During winter quarter, students will advance these skills, begin to develop three-dimensional design and technical skills, and concentrate on developing a visual vocabulary through their own theme work. In spring quarter, students will continue their study of studio art and art history, focusing on developing a sustained body of work of two-dimensional and/or sculptural work in an approach of their choosing.

Total: 16 credits each quarter.

Enrollment: 40

Special Expenses: Approximately $300 to $350 each quarter for art supplies.

Program is preparatory for careers and future studies in art, design, humanities and education.

A similar program is expected to be offered in 2008–09.

Program Updates
04.24.2007:
Faculty contact information for signatures/more information has changed to Matt Hamon.
04.27.2007:
Shawn Ferris has joined this program as faculty for the fall quarter.
02.19.2008: The faculty signature requirements have been changed to reflect that no new students will be accepted spring quarter.
03.06.2008: This program has been revised to reflect spring quarter entry requirements.

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