There are seven indigenous salmon and trout of the genus Oncorhynchus in Washington. Their habitat extends from small inland streams to the vast North Pacific Ocean. Within this geographic range, the salmon exhibit a variety of life history patterns while making vital contributions to wildlife and landscape functions that maintain certain Pacific Northwest ecosystems. In the fall, many northwest streams become filled with spawning salmon. With an emphasis on field observations and literature review, this program will examine the complex behaviorisms of spawning and the freshwater and estuarine rearing ecology of juvenile salmon. Other topics include adult migrations and homing, habitat requirements, historical perspectives of land management and commercial fisheries and their effects on salmon populations, and freshwater ecology as it relates to salmon productivity.

Course Web site: http://www2.evergreen.edu/mckinnon/

As works of culture, films reflect, expose and often challenge our human values, which tend to go unexamined in daily life. In this course, we will foreground the question of human values through the lens of science fiction, which regards the question of what it means to be human, and of human values, as central to its meanings. We will also pose the question, "Whose human values?" since issues we take to be universal are often less inclusive than we think. We will therefore interrogate these films through the valences of sex, race, class and gender to arrive at the human values on offer. We'll also critically examine the sci-fi genre: its history, thematics conventions and iconography. Students will gain confidence and skill in analyzing and writing about films and other visual media by sharpening their visual literacy and decoding skills.

This class will introduce you to the study of language in a rigorous and scientific manner, ultimately preparing students to evaluate and perform research in this exciting field. We will focus initially on levels of linguistic description (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics). Participants will become familiar with the terminology and argumentation associated with linguistic analysis. The course will also focus on identifying and describing the various contributions of innateness and environment to our knowledge of language. This is the second in a series of three courses on human language and communication. The courses may be taken individually or as a series.

Course Web site: http://www2.evergreen.edu/mckinnon/

In this course, we will read, discuss and write about physics, astronomy, and/or cosmologies. We will explore observations and ideas about the nature, history, philosophy and implications of science. We investigate questions such as: How is knowledge created or discovered? How can new ideas develop into testable theories? How does scientific understanding change? We assume no background in science or math. Details are available online at http://192.211.16.13/z/zita/scisem.htm.
Learning goals will include improved critical thinking, deeper qualitative understanding of science, and improved communication skills, both oral and written. Seminar students will work together with science students to prepare before each seminar. Students will participate in one or two seminars each week and complete short essays and online assignments.

As the internet and other image-intensive media become more important vehicles of information exchange, the ability to encode and decode visual information becomes more and more essential. We will generate and then visually represent statistical information and decode visual information that we find around us.

This course will create a place for Evergreen seniors to reflect on their education, think about their academic experience, and make connections. We will read and discuss Riches for the Poor: The Clemente Course in the Humanities by Earl Shorris. We will talk about the reading and reflect on and write about students' own educational experience. Students will put together a portfolio to include what they can find from their undergraduate work so that they can map their college journey. Our work will also include presentations of each student's most meaningful work. Finally, each student will write a Summative Self-Evaluation to be included in her or his Evergreen transcript.

This course will examine the simple act of telling graphic stories with pictures and words. We will study the history of related comics, early film, and animation as well as story structure, character development and storyboarding. This course will be a great preparation for anyone interested in developing ideas for short films or illustrated stories based on personal experience, vision and style.

In course, students will learn to communicate about several aspects of their lives and lay a sound foundation for further language acquisition. Latino culture and examples of literature, poetry, films, art and history from Latin America and Spain will be introduced. The course will use a communicative method and be conducted primarily in Spanish.

In the second quarter of this yearlong course, students will learn to communicate about health, dining out, shopping, travel and holidays. This course is student centered, taught primarily in Spanish with a communicative approach, and is rich in learning about Hispanic cultures. In class, students will practice memorization, writing, reading and conversation in partner groups. Students will learn verbs in past tenses, prepositions, object pronouns, and many other essential structures of grammar.

This course will focus on practical themes of everyday life, personal relationships, travel, political issues and diverse aspects of Latin American cultures and society. Students will collaborate and participate actively in group-centered conversation and partner practices, and will acquire a substantial vocabulary. Written work includes creative writing and textbook and workbook exercises. Grammar will include the subjunctive, commands and more.

This course is designed as a comprehensive review of selected grammatical topics, such as ser - estar , preterito - imperfecto and more. The main objective is to prepare students for conversational activities using several audio-visual and reading materials to engage them in conversation. In Sec. A, songs from Latin America will introduce vocabulary.

This course is designed as a comprehensive review of the subjunctive mode and other selected grammatical topics. The main objective will be to prepare students for conversational activities using several audio-visual and reading materials to engage them in conversation. Songs from Latin America will be used to introduce vocabulary.

This course is designed as a comprehensive review of the subjunctive mode and other selected grammatical topics. The main objective will be to prepare students for conversational activities using several audio-visual and reading materials to engage them in conversation. Songs from Latin America will be used to introduce vocabulary.

This class will be an introduction to the concepts of statistics. We will learn skills in the discipline by developing an understanding of what are referred to as descriptive and inferential statistics. The class assumes that the student has no prior background in the study of statistics. With that in mind, the class will present the basic ideas of what statistics are, how the practice of statistics relates to the real world, and how the subject of statistics is different from mathematics. The class will give a comprehensive introduction to the use of statistics in collecting, organizing, analyzing and presenting data.

Statistics provides the tools that allow us to study environments and populations that we cannot understand in any other way. Using the concepts of statistical significance and hypothesis testing, disciplines in both the natural and social sciences have made stunning progress in the pursuit of understanding phenomenon over the past one hundred and fifty years. This course will reinforce the basic ideas of statistics and extend them to statistical tests (including student t, chi-square and confidence intervals), estimating parameters and stating hypotheses.

Strength. How is it part of women's lives? What happens when women use their experience as a place of knowing and action? What happens when females display types of strength usually considered inappropriate for women? We will explore strong women through their own words and related writings, films and images. Reflection on personal, family, and cultural understandings of strength—as shaped by sexuality, ability, class, race, ethnicity and religion—will be an important focus. Course participants will be required to post papers online for response by others enrolled in this course.

This advanced, interdisciplinary science course will allow students the opportunity to research and perform experiments on topics relevant to their studies and interest. Initial activities will include selecting a project by defining the question to be answered, then designing and performing the needed experiments to achieve results. Students will work individually or in small groups and participate in weekly class discussions related to problems and progress encountered in their lab work. Evaluations will be based upon participation, weekly progress reports in a lab notebook, and a presentation to their peers. There will also be a lecture series.

In this program, we will learn how to work more effectively in businesses and organizations with an understanding of systems theory, and explore systems within mechanistic-scientific and living systems frameworks, dynamics of internal and external forces, and technical and social systems of human organizations. We will examine systems dynamics at play in organizations from small family-owned businesses to large corporations, community organizations to governments. Linking theory with practice, we will work with cases from studentsÕ experiences to observe system dynamics, then imagine and anticipate possible interventions and consequent systemic effects.