We live in a diverse community with growing and changing dynamics. Our ability to embrace and accommodate these changes will in part determine our success as managers and staff in a multicultural workplace. Winter quarter, students will explore the challenges and opportunities that arise from working with people of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds, in such critical areas as human resource management, team building, customer relations, and intercultural communications. This 8-credit program will have two components: a classroom learning component for 6 credits and a community internship component for 2 credits. As part of their community internship, students will have the opportunity to develop their interpersonal skills and increase their intercultural competence by working in a community-based service organization.

This two-quarter writing-intensive program focuses on the development and evolution of religion, and intersections with history, philosophy, politics and culture. Winter quarter will begin with study of origins of major Eurasian religions during the Axial Age (roughly 1000-200 BCE), and continue with the development of the three Abrahamic faiths (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) from their beginnings, through the Crusades and the Inquisition, to the 16th century Protestant Reformation. Spring quarter will focus on contemporary U.S. perspectives on religion. By examining U.S. religious history, we will further understand the place of religion in contemporary society - how religion frames political and cultural issues within the U.S., and how religion shapes our comprehension of events around the world. Students will deepen their understanding of religion in contemporary society through service learning with a local faith community. Students who successfully complete both quarters of the program will understand the development and the major tenants of several major religions, understand the roles of religions within historical and contemporary cultures, and be able to critically evaluate texts on religion as well as claims about the place of religion in public life.

This is a graduate course, offered through the Master of Public Administration program, which may be open to undergraduate students. See www.evergreen.edu/mpa/courseinfo.htm for more information.

At least since Plato, a central philosophical question has been, “How ought we to live?” Today, common ways of answering this question refer to our rights, to what is good for us, or to what is virtuous. In this course we will study some of these philosophical answers, and we will be particularly concerned with discovering how these answers frame the way that people in our society publicly justify actions, policies and laws.

This is a graduate course, offered through the Master of Environmental Studies program, which may be open to undergraduate students. For more information visit www.evergreen.edu/mes.

“We are all Romans,” Thomas Jefferson once said. The Founding Generation, in part, modeled the government of the United States on the ancient Roman Republic. The Greco-Roman cultural synthesis forms a vital core of our culture and civilization. This course will explore the history, culture, literature and legacy of ancient Rome. It will also consider some possible parallel historical developments between the Roman and American empires.

Students develop language skills at the intermediate level through intensive work on grammar, reading short stories and newspapers (including on-line sources), conversation and comprehension exercises. Class is conducted largely in Russian by a native-speaking instructor. Beginning students and those who have studied some amount of Russian are welcome to register, and will make arrangements with the faculty on the first day of class for special sessions separate from the intermediate students.

Students will continue their work from fall term developing language skills through intensive work on grammar, reading short stories and newspapers (including online sources), engaging in conversation and comprehension exercises. Class is conducted largely in Russian by a native speaking instructor. Students will memorize Russian poetry and learn songs to enhance their other work in the course.