Applied Computer Programming I
8 credits
Faculty: Barry Tolnas, 867-5531, email: Barry
Tolnas
TTh, 6-9:30p
Prerequisite: High school algebra and some trigonometry
Enrollment: 25
CRN: 10231
Although computers are still a very new technology, they have already
become an indispensable part of a broad range of human endeavors. Applied
Computing introduces computer science by studying its application to disciplines
ranging from the arts and sciences to business and the World Wide Web.
Students will learn the fundamentals of programming by working to understand
and modify short computer programs from a number of disciplines. Credit
will be awarded in computer science, data structures and algorithms and
applied programming. Upper division credit may be available.
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Art, Words and Women: Masquerade and Metaphor
8 credits
Faculty: Ann Storey, 867-5008, and Joli Sandoz, 867-6850, email:
Joli
Sandoz
W, 6-9:30p, and Sa, 9a-1p
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or above
Special Expenses: $15 for museum admission and art supplies
Enrollment: 50
CRN: 10143
Using the primary metaphor of the "masquerade," this program
will take an in-depth, interdisciplinary and multicultural approach to
the study of 20th-century women's art and writing. Masquerade is an exciting
and appropriate theme because-since society constructs gender, in part
through femininity-masquerade is an inescapable part of female lives.
What are the ways that women express, defy, transform or challenge this
masquerade through their art and writing? How does women's resistance
help us transform ourselves? Moving from idea to creative response, we
will learn how to make masks to use in our performance art pieces. We
will also apply our study of metaphor and of feminist theory to such stereotypical
themes as mother goddess and witch, to gage their empowering or crippling
effects, and to objectifications of women in contemporary art, films and
advertising. Our overall goal will be to make useful knowledge from personal
experience, emotion, and theoretical/ conceptual material.
Credit will be awarded in feminist art history and feminist literary studies.
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Arts and the Child
8 credits
Faculty: Hirsh Diamant, 867-6736, email: Hirsh
Diamant
W, 5:30-9p, and every other Sat, Oct 9, 23, Nov 6, 20 Dec 4, 9a-5p
Special Expenses: Approx $15 for art supplies
Enrollment: 25
CRN: 10138
All children begin their lives singing and dancing, painting and making
things. Later in life, this natural ability becomes suppressed and often
lost. This class will nourish the inner child of the students and reach
out to children in the community. Through experiences in visual and performing
arts, students will understand the importance of the arts in the development
of a child. The fall quarter will be devoted to the pre-school child with
a special focus on puppetry and storytelling.
Two credits each will be awarded in child development and education, expressive
arts, puppetry and storytelling, and community service.
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The Authentic Self
8 credits
Faculty: Marcella Benson-Quaziena, 867-6593, email: Marcella
Benson-Quaziena, and Marla Elliott, 867-6096, email: Marla Elliott
Sa, Oct 2, 9a-5p, and SaSu, Oct 16, 17, Nov 6, 7, Dec 4, 5, 9a-5p
Prerequisites: Junior standing or above and access to the Internet
and a word processing program
Enrollment: 50
CRN: 10184
You are the most powerful and versatile tool you have. How can you use
your presence as an instrument of change? How do you know who you are
and what you evoke/provoke in others? How do you move in the world with
awareness of your authentic self? The ability to communicate and influence
is crucial to our effectiveness as we move through many systems. This
two-quarter program is designed for students who want to develop skills
of self-knowledge and "use of self" as an instrument of social
change.
We will use acting to assist us to observe carefully the nature of human
feeling and interaction, and to use our observations to create insight
in our audiences and ourselves; singing to make art out of breathing,
to literally tune ourselves to the subtlest vibrations our bodies are
capable of; songwriting to imagine words, rhythm, and melody together
and to put forth our imaginations into public space; and human development
theory to give us a frame for understanding self in context.
Credit will be awarded in arts and culture and psychology.
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Business in a Global Context
8 credits
Faculty: Theresa Aragon, 867-6840, email: Theresa Aragon
W, Sept 29, 6-10p, and SaSu, Oct 16,17, Nov 6, 7, Dec 11, 12, 9a-5p
Prerequisites: Junior standing or above, Internet access and competence,
and at least one year of work experience or college-level management courses
Enrollment: 25
CRN: 10164
The world as we know it has changed immeasurably during the past ten years.
Our horizon has been expanded through the World Wide Web and quantum advances
in communication and computer technology. We are now members of a global
society and as such have an intellectual responsibility to attempt an
understanding of globalization. Globalization has created both opportunities
and challenges for international business and will serve as the organizing
framework for our study of business in an international context. We will
inform our understanding through the perspective of politics, economics,
social science, culture and history. Learning in this class will be interdependent
and dynamic. It will require everyone's best effort and full commitment.
Credit will be awarded in international business and government.
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Community Information Systems
8 or 12 credits
Faculty: Doug Schuler, 867-6704, email: Doug
Schuler, and Allen Olson, 867-5485, email: Allen Olson
W, 6-9:30p, and Sa, Oct 9, 16, 30, Nov 13, Dec 4, 9a-4:30p
Special Expenses: Conference fee
Enrollment: 40
CRN: 10168 (8 cr.); 10169 (12 cr.)
This yearlong program will develop Web-based software for communities
across the U.S. and the globe. Program themes will include participatory
design, community informatics, social networks, localism and globalism.
Although a range of projects will be available, all projects will utilize
the same software (including Linux, Apache, PHP and MySQL). For more information,
please see http://grace.evergreen.edu/cis/
Credit may be awarded in software design and development, project management,
PHP programming, database design, community informatics or other social
sciences, educational technology and other areas depending on the focus
of the project and the role of the student.
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In Search of Sustainability
8 credits
Faculty: Nancy Parkes, 867-6737, email: Nancy Parkes
and Marja Eloheimo, 867-6448, email: Marja Eloheimo
W, 6-9:30p, and five Saturdays, Oct 2, 16, 30, Nov 13, Dec 4, 9a-5p
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or above
Enrollment: 50
CRN: 10232
Is it possible to have a sustainable economy, sustainable healthcare and
ecological sustainability? To what extent can we, in the United States,
sustain ourselves and our diverse communities with our own hands, minds,
hearts and land? What knowledge, skills, practices, and wisdom are needed?
Throughout the year, we will examine these issues on our campus, in our
personal lives and communities, in collaboration with local Tribal members,
and on a more global scale. Our work will include both research and a
hands-on approach. From herbalism and gardening as paths of empowerment
and heart, to energy and water usage as paths of knowledge and accountability,
we will explore sustainability in action. These will include a sustainability
plan for the college, the Gifts of the First People Plant Project gardens
on the Skokomish Indian Reservation, and other projects proposed by students
in the areas of land use, transportation, building use, greenhouse gas
emissions, and energy use. We will also build quantitative "indicators"
that offer decision-makers information about the effects our usage has
on the environment. Finally, we will become familiar with the political
framework and institutions-governmental, cultural and corporate alike-that
influence and define development on both local and global scales. Students
will finish the program with important skills and deeper understandings
that they can apply to formulating solutions in other organizations as
well as living out commitments on the personal and community level. For
further information, e-mail either faculty.
Credit may be awarded in environmental studies, botanical studies (including
botanical medicine), natural resources policy, sustainability studies
and cultural studies.
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Justice at Work: Civil Rights, Labor Law and the Workplace
8 credits
Faculty: Sarah Ryan, 867-6720, email: Sarah Ryan, and
Arleen Sandifer, 867-5470, email: Arleen Sandifer
Sa, 9a-5p
Special Expenses: $20 for conference registrations
Enrollment: 50
CRN: 10140
No discussion about justice in the American workplace can ignore two sets
of laws: labor law as set forth in the National Labor Relations Act and
civil rights/anti-discrimination law as written in Title VII of the Civil
Rights Act of 1964. These laws define workers' rights, but they also reflect
the shape of power in society, and they can determine labor and management
strategies. Their texts were written by lawmakers, but in another sense,
they were written in the streets and workplaces during turbulent times.
Class and racial biases exist in, and are reproduced by, the laws and
their practices. How is their history important? What social movements
and conditions brought the National Labor Relations Act and the Civil
Rights Act into being? How did the struggles at their roots shape the
laws' forms? How do they affect the workplace today? Are they effective,
and for whom?
This two-quarter program will look at civil rights and labor legislation
through the lenses of history and sociology, from perspectives in legal
studies and labor studies. We will examine some of the controversies surrounding
these laws today-around issues like union organizing, affirmative action
and employment discrimination. Students will become acquainted with the
critiques developed by scholars in critical race theory and critical legal
studies, which help us think about power in the larger society and alternative
possibilities for justice.
Be prepared for fun, active problem-solving and lots of hard work. Students
will learn to do basic legal and historical research, to research and
interpret historical events and the law together, and to understand larger
social issues and future implications of cases and legislation. Students
will get a sense of the real work of attorneys and courts, but also the
real work of activists and union stewards. Students should be prepared
with some basic background in 20th-century American history and should
have the patience and persistence to read detailed history, statutes and
legal cases. The class will be particularly useful for those interested
in careers in law, labor organizing, history, social justice, public administration
and management.
Credit will be awarded in American history, including labor and African
American history, and legal studies.
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Politics and the Media
8 credits
Faculty: Howard Schwartz, 867-6723, email: Howard Schwartz,
and Char Simons, 867-6710, email: Char Simons
W, 6-9:30p, and Sa, Oct 2, 16, 30, Nov 13, Dec 4, 9a-5p
Prerequisites: Some college-level work in politics, history, sociology
or comparable study
Enrollment: 50
CRN: 10144
Fall quarter will focus on national elections and the media. We will develop
an understanding of the media as a political actor by considering the
following topics: the history of U.S. media, understanding how news is
created and disseminated, critically analyzing news coverage of various
kinds of media (print, broadcast, Internet) and understanding the strengths
and weaknesses of various types of media. We will study several theories
of how public opinion is formed, how they influence politics and policy
makers, and how political actors strive to mold public opinion. Students
can also expect to improve their understanding of basic quantitative measures,
such as polling frequently used by the media, and their proficiency in
academic writing.
Credit will be awarded in political science, media theory, public policy
and expository writing.
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Quantitative Methods for Effective Management
8 credits
Faculty: Neil Delisanti, 867-5486, email: Neil Delisanti
Sa, Oct 2, 9a-4:30p, and SaSu, Oct 23, 24, 30, 31, Nov 20, 21, Dec 4,
5, 9a-4:30p
Prerequisites: Junior standing or above, access to Internet and
Excel software. Students should have college-level management, business
or accounting and/or some management or supervisory experience
Enrollment: 25
CRN: 10159
Managers of any organization are constantly required to make decisions
in pursuit of the organization's goals. To arrive at the best decisions,
effective managers need a wide variety of information that reflects all
aspects of an organization. This course is designed to familiarize students
with the utilization of quantitative information for the management of
organizations. Students will study the fundamental concepts and principles
of quantitative analysis, financial accounting, managerial accounting
and organizational finance. Subjects covered will include budgeting, organizational
analysis and evaluation, cost accounting, time value of money, cost-benefit
analysis and cash flow management. Students will also become familiar
with the Excel spreadsheet and learn how to design and implement analytical
and decision-making models. The emphasis throughout the class will be
on the utilization of quantitative data and the understanding of quantitative
analysis procedures and processes for the implementation of management
decisions in an organization.
Four credits each will be awarded in managerial accounting and financial
analysis.
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Sex, Gender and Evolution
8 credits
Faculty: Kevin Hogan, 867-5078, email: Kevin Hogan, and
Lori Blewett, 867-6590, email: Lori Blewett
Sa, 9a-5p
Enrollment: 50
CRN: 10173
This two-quarter program will examine sex and gender from several perspectives,
including biology, evolution, sociology, and anthropology. In the first
quarter we will focus on prevailing theories of evolution and gender.
What is sex for? In sexual species only half of the individuals produce
offspring, so they should be at a competitive disadvantage relative to
asexual species. Yet sex is virtually ubiquitous in biology-what is its
evolutionary function? Human societies have developed many ways to mark
and accentuate sexual differences. How and why have social constructions
of gender varied over time and across cultures? What role has scientific
discourse played in the development of gender roles and attitudes? In
the second quarter we will focus on contemporary controversies around
sexual orientation, sex roles, biology and gender identity.
Credit will be awarded in evolutionary biology and gender studies.
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Work and the Human Condition
8 credits
Faculty: Susan Preciso, 867-6011, email: Susan Preciso,
and Stephen Beck, 867-5488, email: Stephen Beck
MW, 6-9:30p and one Saturday per quarter
Enrollment: 50
CRN: 10160
In this year long program, we will examine the nature and place of work
in human life and culture. Studying literature, philosophy and history,
we will develop an understanding of work that goes well beyond the concept
of work as a way to pay the bills. We will consider important questions:
Why is work important in a complete human life? What roles can it play
both for an individual and for the whole social system? What ways of working
should a person strive to practice? Who does what work? Our primary lens
will be Western; however, we will make some important connections and
comparisons to other traditions as well.
During Fall Quarter, we'll study ideas about the place of work in the
human condition, beginning with some ancient foundational texts and continuing
to the 18th century. Our reading fall quarter will include passages from
the Bible, the Koran, Aristotle, Plato, the Stoics, and Aquinas. We'll
read The Odyssey, The Pilgrims' Progress and other selected
texts.
Winter Quarter's work will move to a study of ideas about work and working
as they evolved during the Industrial Revolution and continue to the present.
We'll study Marx and Adam Smith, Walden, Ruskin, Elizabeth Gaskell's North
and South, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and Hannah Arendt's The
Human Condition.
During Spring Quarter, students will read contemporary ideas about the
values and challenges of work and working. They will also learn from people
about the work they do, interviewing and taking oral histories and documenting
work and working through photography. Martin Kane, the official college
photographer, will be teaching in the program during the spring.
Credits will be awarded in literature, history, and philosophy.
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New Tools for Community Transformation (at Grays Harbor College)
8 or 12 credits
Faculty: Joe Tougas, 867-5052, email: Joe Tougas, and Arlen Speights,
867-5076, email: Arlen Speights
Sa, 9a-4p, at Grays Harbor College in Aberdeen; first class meets at Olympia
campus
Prerequisite: Junior standing or above
Enrollment: 35
CRN: 10175 (8 cr); 10176 (12 cr)
What does it take for communities to flourish in the face of economic,
social and environmental challenges? Can the technological changes that
often drive these challenges also provide tools for overcoming them? How
can communities tap the power of computers and the Internet while staying
true to their core values and traditions and dealing responsibly with
the risks of changing times? In this two-quarter program, we will explore
theoretical answers to these questions while providing hands-on experience
with applying digital technology to testing those answers in our own communities.
Fall quarter will focus on identifying and clarifying core values within
communities and community-based organizations. Students will learn to
identify value conflicts, communicate effectively about them, and build
consensus and collaboration in pluralistic social networks. We will explore
ways the Internet is being used by other communities to share resources
and ideas which nurture and strengthen local core values and visions-and
we will learn how to do it ourselves.
Students registered for 12 credits will do additional community research
and learn some specialized web design skills in support of the application
project.
Credit will be awarded in social and political philosophy, community development,
web site development and design, mathematics and risk management.
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