Advanced Management Topics:
A Few Good Managers Wanted
8 credits
Faculty: John
Filmer, ext. 6159, email: John Filmer
TuW, 6-10p
Prerequisites: Faculty signature, previous management
study, junior standing or above.
Enrollment: 30
CRN: 10191
This is a part-time option of the full-time program of the
same title. Refer to the online 2003-2004 Academic Catalog
for additional information on the full-time program. This
yearlong part-time option is designed for students who have
previously studied management and wish to engage in advanced
work in management related topics. The program will feature
a comprehensive analysis of the economic, cultural, political,
technological and legal environments in which entrepreneurial
organizations (for-profits and non-profits) compete. It will
showcase economic and community development and include team
building, small business development/startup and growth, organizational
communication, ethics, global issues management and strategic
and scenario planning. A major focus will be the consideration
of current events in management strategy. Seminars will emphasize
the development of critical reading and reasoning skills and
the formulation and effective articulation of definitive,
tightly reasoned positions on key management issues. Program
activities will include lectures, workshops, case studies,
field trips and group and individual research projects.
Students interested in the 12- or 16-credit option of the
full-time program (which involves some class time during the
day) should consult with the program faculty. For preliminary
management study, please see Introductory Management Topics:
A Few Good Managers Wanted.
Credit may be awarded in management strategy, communications,
community and economic development, and planning.
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The Age of Irony: 20th-Century
America
8 credits
Faculty: Sarah
Ryan, ext. 6720, email: Sarah Ryan, and Susan Preciso,
ext. 6011, email: Susan Preciso
MW, 6-9:30 and two Saturdays, 10a-4p, Oct 11 and Nov 1
Enrollment: 50
CRN: 10181
This yearlong program will be organized thematically, examining
turning points in American life and thought, especially the
development of our sense of irony, reflected in politics and
culture. Each quarter will have a distinct focus, but will
have clear interdisciplinary connections. Fall quarter's work
will focus on wars and their consequences-intended and unintended-concentrating
on World Wars I and II and the Vietnam War. During winter
quarter, we will concentrate on movements for social change,
beginning with the Progressive era and continuing through
the Civil Rights, Women's and Anti-War movements. During spring
quarter's study of culture and creativity, we will see how
these turning points were and are reflected in our cultural
lives. We will examine literature, film, music and the arts.
This is an all-level program, ideal for returning and transfer
students. It is a broad liberal arts program designed for
students who want to improve their historical knowledge and
(multi)cultural literacy. We will also work closely with Caryn
Cline to integrate film study into our work each quarter.
Credit may include 20th-century American history, labor history,
20th-century American literature, research skills and academic
writing. Our work over three quarters will meet some endorsement
prerequisites for the Master in Teaching Program in U.S. history,
political science and American literature.
For more information, please see http://academic.evergreen.edu/curricular/ageofirony/
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Art, Creativity and the Sacred
8 credits
Faculty: Ann
Storey, ext. 5008
MW, 6-9:30p
Special Expenses: $25 for art supplies and museum admission
Enrollment: 25
CRN: 10163
This program will examine the art and spirituality of two
exceptional periods of western culture. During fall quarter
we will focus our attention on the Medieval era, while winter
quarter will be devoted to the Renaissance. Central questions
will include: Why are these periods still so compelling? What
were the relationships between the art and spirituality? What
parts of these traditions continue to inspire us?
The idea that both mystic and artist were ‘seers’
–-seeing beyond the physical into the transcendent and
metaphysical-- impelled them into visionary realms. We will
learn about the mysticism of Hildegard of Bingen, Meister
Eckhart, and other charismatic figures during fall quarter,
as we see their visions expressed in superb mosaics, illuminated
manuscripts, stained glass, sculpture and architecture. We
will also explore the architecture, music and poetry of Islamic
Spain. During winter quarter we will study the ‘devotio
moderno’ of the Low Countries and see how this was expressed
in the exquisite oil paintings of Flanders. We will include
an exploration of the lives and work of creative Renaissance
women.
Sacred music of each era will be explored and a field trip
each quarter to a museum and concert will be an important
part of our activities. Students will have an opportunity
for either creating art or completing a research paper for
their final project. If the student chooses to do an art project,
it could include studying and producing work in a media appropriate
to the era, for example, illuminated manuscripts or mosaics.
Credit will be awarded in art history and studio arts.
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Arts, Environment and the
Child
8 credits
Faculty: Nancy
Parkes, ext. 6737, email: Nancy A. Parkes,
and Hirsh Diamant,
ext. 6736,email: Hirsh Diamant
M, 6-9p, and Sa, Oct 4, 18, Nov 1, 15, Dec 6, 9a-5p
Enrollment: 50
CRN: 10153
Children begin life with a deep and joyous connection to the
arts and to the natural world. Later in life, this natural
ability to dance, paint and make things, along with a living
connection to ecology, is muted or lost. How? What can be
done to restore these essential connections for children and
adults? Students will become acquainted with the study of
child development, public education methods, alternative education
and practical applications of integrating both arts and environmental
studies within academic curriculum. Through experiences in
visual and performing arts, as well as experiential work with
children, students will gain an understanding of the importance
of both arts and connection to nature in the development of
the child. We will also study how more integrated curriculum
may lead children to develop richer adult lives.
Credit may be awarded in child development, expressive arts
and environmental education.
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Community Practice and
Digital Social Change
8 or 12 credits
Faculty: Doug
Schuler, ext. 6704, email: Doug Schuler
and Helena Meyer-Knapp,
ext. 6549, email: Helena Meyer-Knapp
All students will meet W, Oct 1, 22, Nov 12, Dec 10, 6-10;l
Sa, Oct 11, 25, Nov 8, 22, Dec 6, 9a-4p; Sun, Oct 26 and Nov
9, 9a-4p. In addition, students registered for 12 credits
will meet W, Oct 8, 15, 29, Nov 5, 19, Dec 3, 6-10p
Special Expenses: $25 for conference registration and
video tape
Enrollment: 50
CRN: 10159 (8 credits); 10185 (12 credits)
This yearlong program will consider how technology is used
in activist communities, commuities of interest and communities
of place. In general we will be exploring relationships between
communities in and outside our region. The basic themes for
the program are design and development of community tools,
pattern languages, participatory design, community informatics,
social networks and globalism. Over the course of the academic
year we will be working in partnership with various communities.
We will be constraining the guidelines in this program in
many ways. The first is that the faculty will be selecting
the project areas in advance. Also, students will be working
with public domain software (such as PHP, Apache, HTML, Linux
and MySQL) and/or video and other digital media. There will
be assigned readings, writings, and discussions related to
the use of computers in society. We will be attending a national
conference in Seattle one weekend in fall. Part of the focus
will be developing computer support for the Center for Community
Partnerships. There will be a 12-credit option.
Credit will be awarded in social science, technology studies,
participatory social action and technology development (e.g.
computer science). There will also be an opportunity to earn
an additional four credits in pattern language and software
development using PHP, MySQL and other public domain technologies
to help support community and civic projects. Students can
earn an additional four credits developing a short special
project using digital video, digital audio or both.
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Computing Across Academic
Disciplines
8 credits
Faculty: Barry Tolnas, ext. 6588, email: Barry Tolnas
TTh, 6-10p
Enrollment: 25
CRN: 10647
This is an introductory computer science program that approaches
computer science and programming as a tool for solving problems
in a wide range of disciplines from the sciences and engineering
to the arts and humanities. Each week students will write
computer programs based on examples in class which demonstrate
how computers can be used to visualize and process information,
and experiment with ideas by trying them out in computer simulations.
Credit will be awarded in computer science.
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Doing Science
8 credits
Faculty: Kevin
Hogan, ext. 5078, email: Kevin Hogan,
and Allen Olson, ext. 5485, email: Allen Olson
Sa, 9a-5p
Enrollment: 50
CRN: 10188
What is science? Is it an esoteric practice that's out of
the reach of ordinary mortals, or can anyone do it? We'll
discuss the scientific approach as one way of knowing the
world. What is "hypothesis testing"? What is the
role of statistics? Does science delivery absolute certainty?
We will develop skills in observation, sampling methods and
data analysis. Reading topics will include some history and
philosophy of science.
Credit may be awarded in the history and philosophy of science,
research methods, statistics and computing, and the discipline
of each student's project focus.
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Finding Your Voice: Advocacy
and Change
8 or 12 credits
Faculty: Marla
Elliott, ext. 6096, email: Marla Elliott,
and Char Simons,
ext. 6710, email: Char Simons
W, 6-9:30p, and Sa, Oct. 11, 25, Nov 1, 22, and Dec. 6, 9a-5p
Special Expenses: $10 for performance admission
Enrollment: 35
CRN: 10124 (8 credits); 10125 (12 credits)
Your voice-in your body and on paper-is a manifestation of
your truest self. People who can articulately and passionately
voice their deepest concerns nurture the whole community.
As Arlo Guthrie said, "If you want to end wars 'n stuff,
you gotta sing loud."
This skill-based program will help students develop both
oral and written eloquence and integrate them with each other.
Students will also improve research skills and apply them
to furthering a social/political cause. Specifically, each
student will explore a particular issue about which she or
he feels passionately through advocacy writing, speeches,
songs and chants.
Activities will include workshops on singing, songwriting,
chanting, speech writing and delivery, research, quantitative
reasoning, advocacy writing and editing. Readings will include
Freeing the Natural Voice; A Question of Values;
Community and the Politics of Place; and others. A
12-credit option will be available for students who want to
do community service. This will entail working with a community
group for 10 hours a week on an issue related to work the
student is doing for the eight-credit part of the program,
and an oral or written synthesis of the work at the end of
the quarter.
Credit will be awarded in speech, voice and expository writing.
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Gifts of the First People: Plants
as Medicine and Food
8 credits
Faculty: Marja
Eloheimo, ext. 6448, email: Marja Eloheimo,
W, 6-9:30 and Sa, Oct 4, 18, Nov 1, 15, Dec 6, 9a-5p
Prerequisite: Junior standing or above and faculty
signature. Letter of interest outlining relevant background
and current reasons for interest in the program. Students
should have substantial background in one or more of the following
disciplines: Native American studies, botany/plant ecology,
botanical medicine, ecological restoration, horticulture,
GIS, film/photography, Web design or business development.
Special Expenses: $25 activity fee
Enrollment: 25
CRN: 10128
cHabasHcH3d ti cH3la'ub3sh or "Gifts of the First People"
is the new name that Skokomish Traditional Leader, subiyay
- Bruce Miller, has chosen for a Tribal-Academic cooperative
project that has been underway on the Skokomish Indian Reservation
for several years. subiyay tells us that, according to Twana
belief, the trees and plants were the first created people.
Their gift to those who were created later was food, medicine
and materials for survival. This program will embrace the
medicinal plant studies included in the sayuyay Plant Project
as well as other aspects of the project, including habitat
demonstration gardens and edible plant cultivation and harvest.
This year, the project will focus on developing a cross-cultural
botanical medicine and edible plant study integrating Western
and Indigenous traditions. We will experience, refine and
formalize curriculum in botanical medicine, botany and ecology,
horticulture, harvest and plant product manufacture, business
and marketing, educational resource development, Native American
studies, environmental anthropology and community service.
Expect the unexpected as we join together to collaborate in
a real world project and learn from, about, and with the plant
people and each other.
Credit may be awarded in botanical medicine, environmental
horticulture, and Native American studies among others.
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Government and the Economy
(at Grays Harbor College)
8 or 12 credits
Faculty: Howard
Schwartz, ext. 6588, email: Howard Schwartz,
and Tomas Mosquera, ext. 6588
Sa, 9a-4p, at Grays Harbor College in Aberdeen; first class
meets on the Olympia campus
Prerequisite: Junior standing or above
Enrollment: 35
CRN: 10169 (8 credits); CRN: 10170 (12 credits)
The type of economy we have and the way it performs is the
result of centuries of governmental policy making. This program
examines the basics of the U.S. market economy and the governmental
framework within which it works. We will study the constitutional
and political framework within which policy decisions are
made and look specifically at the tools governments at all
levels use to steer economic decision making. In the process,
we will ask some fundamental questions about democracy, equity
and governmental effectiveness and will introduce some fundamental
macroeconomic concepts to understand how economic factors
respond to government policies. Finally, we will attempt to
place the U.S. economic system in a comparative perspective
to see why the United States differs from market economies
in Europe and elsewhere on many essential points.
Credit will be awarded in politics, public administration
and economics
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Introductory Management
Topics: A Few Good Managers Wanted
8 or 12 credits
Faculty: Theresa
Aragon, ext. 6840, email: Theresa Aragon,
and Neil Delisanti,
ext. 5486, email: Neil Delisanti
Intensive weekends, Oct 4, 18-19, Nov 1-2, 15-16 and Dec 6-
7, 9a-4p
Prerequisites: Faculty signature, junior standing or
above, Internet access and one year's work experience.
Enrollment: 35
CRN: 10192 (8 credits); 10193 (12 credits)
This yearlong program will assess management and leadership
in the context of contemporary technological advances and
globalization. We will examine organizations as interdependent
within their economic, political and social environment. Organizational
development and management strategies will be analyzed in
terms of current and future utility. Traditional elements
of management programs such as decision-making, strategic
planning, organizational behavior and conflict management
will be incorporated throughout the program. Application of
theory and enhancement of critical thinking and research skills
will occur through developing solutions to problems and case
study analysis. Assignments will place a heavy emphasis on
developing analytical, verbal, written and electronic communication
skills through dialogue, critical essays and case study analysis
and presentation. Fall quarter emphasis will be on managerial
self-assessment and skill development. Students interested
in the 12-credit option should consult with the program faculty.
For advanced management study, please see Advanced Management
Topics: A Few Good Managers Wanted.
Credit will be earned in leadership and managerial skills
development.
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Sport and Society: Separating
Hype from Reality
8 or 12 credits
Faculty: Marcella
Benson-Quaziena, ext. 6593, email: Marcella Benson-Quaziena,
and Joli Sandoz,
ext.6850, email: Joli Sandoz
Sa, Oct 4, 9a-5p, and three intensive weekends, Oct 25-26,
Nov 8-9, Dec 6-7, 9a-5p
Special Expenses: Attendance at two sports events of
student's choice
Enrollment: 50
CRN: 10111 (8 credits); 10646 (12 credits)
Sport can serve as a rich resource for the study of U.S. life,
in all of its diversity and drama. Questions we will examine
include: What do we mean by sport, and what is its role in
higher education? How do sport participation and non-participation
affect us? How does competitive athletics shape ideas about
gender, work, achievement, aggression, violence, class inequality,
race and ethnicity, individualism and collaboration, and fun?
We'll rely on approaches and ideas from social psychology
and critical sociology to guide our work.
Three credits each will be awarded in sociology and social
psychology, and two credits in social research.
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Understanding Your
Food: Chemistry and Biology of Nutrients
8 credits
Faculty: Peter
Pessiki, ext. 6892, email: Peter Pessiki, and Cindy Beck,
ext. 5942, email: Cindy Beck
MW, 6-10p, and Sa, Oct 4, 25, Nov 15, 9a-5p
Special Expenses: $20 lab fee
Enrollment: 48
CRN: 10154
From the world of molecules and cells to the domain of food
science, nutrition can be understood from many perspectives.
This two-quarter introductory science program will develop
skills needed to understand the chemical composition and nutritional
values of food. Fall quarter will focus on molecules and chemical
bonding, utilizing a mix of general and organic chemistry.
Paralleling this, physiology and nutrition will allow students
to appreciate the minute detail of nutrients on a cellular
level.
Credit will be awarded in chemistry, biology and nutrition.
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