Teaching Team

Faculty -

Thad Curtz, LAB II 3274, X 6731 - curtzt@evergreen.edu
Ju-Pong Lin, COM 362, X 6338 - jupong@home.com
David Paulsen, LIB 2600H, X 6603 - paulsend@evergreen.edu
Rachel Scherr, LAB II 2269, X 5055 - scherrr@evergreen.edu

Les Purce, our new president, will be participating in the program to the extent that he can find the time.

Core Connector (and Academic Advisor) -

Sara Rucker, LIB 1409, X6312 - ruckers@evergreen.edu

Writing Tutors -

Del Beaudry, LIB 3407, X 6420 - beaudryd@evergreen.edu
Nellie Bridge, LIB 3407, X 6420 - wynellebridge@hotmail.com
Alicia Lee, LIB 3407, X 6420 - redzinlove@hotmail.com

(From off campus, you can reach extensions directly by dialing 867 and the extension.)

Office Hours

Although the easiest way to talk to us individually is probably just to see us during the week and talk to us or ask us for an appointment, the faculty each have a regular office hour:

    Thad Curtz - Wednesday, 12-1
    The other three regular faculty - Thursday, 9:30-10:30

Overall Structure

Our plan involves four blocks - an introductory overview, followed by three historical case studies in Western history, focusing on inter-related changes in technology, society, psychology and education. (In these case histories, we'll look at the emergence of new means of representation, and at changes in the status of representation itself.) First we'll do orality and literacy. Then we'll look at "realistic" representation in the Renaissance and after, and some technological developments associated with it, like printing and perspective space.. Finally we'll look at the breakup of classical realism, focusing on claims about the effects of the development of electronic and digital media and hypertext.

Lab/Studios

We will also teach three repeating six week lab/studios - one in video, one in web text and images, and one in quantitative representation. Students will rotate through these groups, so each student will have worked with different faculty in three different lab/studios by the end of the program. We'll hand out information about them when they start, in Week 6.

Film series

We'll show a film each week on Thursday morning, followed by detailed analysis of its style and content.

Optional Lunch - Conversations about life at Evergreen

 On Friday at lunch there will be an informal opportunity for whoever's interested to talk together (with Thad and perhaps some guest or other) about some issue about studying and living at Evergreen. (We're planning to ask from week to week for suggestions of topics that might be interesting.) We don't have any particular agenda in mind - in a given week, the topic might be anything from study abroad options to homesickness. We just want to see if it's interesting or useful to have a regular opportunity outside of class to talk informally about whatever may be on people's minds about living and getting educated here.

Mid-quarter exams

The exams are designed to give you an opportunity to review and synthesize our work in the program as we go along, as well as to give you (and us) some sense of how well you're doing. In our experience, the best way to do this is to encourage students to work together on discussing some complex and open-ended questions about our work before they actually try to answer some of them by themselves. This quarter, we'll hand out a set of potential questions for the mid-quarter exam early in week five. You'll have until Friday morning of week five to think about them, review your lecture notes and readings, and discuss the questions with other students. On Friday, we'll hand out the actual questions, chosen from the previous set, and you'll have most of the rest of the day to work on writing your own answers to them.

Portfolio

You should get a notebook or portfolio in which you can keep all your work for the program as we go along; you and we will want to be able to look at it again and think about it as part of preparing for conferences and writing evaluations. It will be much simpler to keep track of it as we go along than to try to recover it and re-assemble it when you need it.

Credit and Evaluations

Credit and evaluations are discussed in the covenant.
 

Tentative Schedule - About 17 hours a week
 

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
--	9-11 General meeting  Lectures - LIB 1612	Each student writing group will meet for 2 hours each week,  probably sometime on Wednesday	11-2:30 Film Viewing & Discussion LIB 1612 (With lunch break)	10-12 Seminars LIB 1505,1507,1508,1509
--	--	--	--	Optional Lunch Discussion
--	12:30-2:30 Seminars LIB 1505, 1507, 1508, SEM 3161 2:45-5 Studio/Labs Longhouse 1007B-C	--	2:30-5 Small Group Workshops on Readings CAB 108	1-3 Studio/Labs LIB 1612, LIB 1505

Weekly Schedule

(The bookstore sends all the extra books back to the publishers in week six of each quarter, so you need to be sure you have all the books for the fall by then.)

Block 1 - Introduction

Week 1

Tuesday, September 26
    9:00-11:00 General Meeting - LIB 1612
         Introductions (9:00-9:45)
         Lecture - David Paulsen, Comments About Seeing Voices (9:55-11:00)

    12:30-2:30 Seminars - LIB 1505, 1507, 1508, SEM 3161
         Sacks, Seeing Voices,through Part 2 (p. 125)

    2:45-5:00 Studio/Labs - Longhouse 1007B-C
         Film & Discussion - Truffautís The Wild Child

Thursday, September 28
    11:00-2:30 Film & Discussion - LIB 1612
         Herzogís The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser (Every Man For Himself and God Against All)

    2:30-5:00 Workshop on Readings - CAB 108
         Thad Curtz and David Paulsen, Linguistics and ASL

    EVENING - Dessert potluck party, Thad Curtz's house

Friday, September 29
    10:00-12:00 Seminars - LIB 1505, 1507, 1508, 1509
         Exercise 1 DUE
         Sacks, Seeing Voices,Part 3
         Jordan article, ìNobody Mean More to Me Than You And the Future Life of Willie Jordanî

    12:15-1:00 Life at Evergreen (Optional)
         General conversation about life so far

    1:00-3:00 Studio/Labs LIB 1612
         Lecture - Thad Curtz, Review and Overview

Week 2

Tuesday, October 3
    9:00-11:00 General Meeting - LIB 1612
         Lecture - David Paulsen, Language and Communication in Humans and Animals (with Kanzi video segments)

    12:30-2:30 Seminars - LIB 1505, 1507, 1508, SEM 3161
         Paper 1 DUE
         Savage-Rumbaugh & Lewin, Kanzi

    2:45-5:00 Studio/Labs - Longhouse 1007B-C
         Lecture/Writing Workshop - Thad Curtz, Jungís Theory of Types and College Writing

WEDNESDAY, October 4 -
    We may meet the writing groups briefly between 9 and 12, before we leave on retreat.

    RETREAT
     Leave for Fort Flagler
     We'll arrange a short individual conference with each of the people in our seminars sometime during the retreat.
     Afternoon Lecture - Thad Curtz and Ju-Pong Lin, Language of Film

Thursday, October 5 - RETREAT
      Morning workshop on ape language debate
      Afternoon Workshop - Ju-Pong Lin, Diversity and Education

Friday, October 6 - RETREAT
      Cleanup and return to Evergreen - back early afternoon

Week 3

Tuesday, October 10
    9:00-11:00 General Meeting - LIB 1612
         Lecture - David Paulsen, A Short History of Cognitive Science: How Scientists Have Thought About Thinking (9:00-10:00)
         Panel - How We Think About Thinking (10:15-11:00) - David Paulsen, Ju-Pong Lin, &...??

    12:30-2:30 Seminars - LIB 1505, 1507, 1508, SEM 3161
        Paper 2 DUE
        Cole and Scribner, Culture and Thought
        Workshop/Exercises with Cole and Scribner

    2:45-5:00 Studio/Labs - Longhouse 1007B-C
        Workshop - Thad Curtz and Rachel Scherr, Psychology and Teaching:
             Assessing Piagetís Conservation Experiments and Their Critics - Educational Implications

Wednesday, October 11
    Writing Groups Meet

Thursday, October 12
    11:00-2:30 Film & Discussion - LIB 1612
        Herzog, Where the Green Ants Live

    2:30-5:00 Workshop on Readings - CAB 108
        Exercise on journal research
 

Friday, October 13
    10:00-12:00 Seminars - LIB 1505, 1507, 1508, 1509
         Exercise 2 DUE
         Stories about cross-cultural encounters

    12:15-1:00 Life at Evergreen (Optional) - Sexual harrassment at Evergreen

    1:00-3:00 Studio/Labs LIB 1612
         Evaluating Cross-Cultural Research

Week 4

Tuesday, October 17
9:00-11:00 General Meeting - LIB 1612
     Lecture - Thad Curtz and Rachel Scherr, The Medieval World & the Early Modern World I

12:30-2:30 Seminars - LIB 1505, 1507, 1508, SEM 3161
    Paper 3 DUE
    Crosby, The Measure of Reality, pp. TBA
    (We're postponing Messaris's Visual Literacyto the beginning of Winter Quarter.)
2:45-5:00 Studio/Labs - Longhouse 1007B-C
     Lecture - Thad Curtz and Rachel Scherr, The Medieval World & the Early Modern World II

Wednesday, October 18
    Writing Groups Meet

Thursday, October 19
    11:00-2:30 Film & Discussion - LIB 1612
     Time and Space in Structuralist Film

    2:30-5:00 Workshop on Readings - CAB 108
         Lecture - Thad Curtz, Medieval and Early Modern Spatial Representation

Friday, October 20
    10:00-12:00 Seminars - LIB 1505, 1507, 1508, 1509
    Exercise 3 DUE
    Crosby, The Measure of Reality,pp. TBA

12:15-1:00 Life at Evergreen (Optional) - Topic to be announced.

1:00-3:00 Studio/Labs LIB 1612
    Review and Exam Preview

Week 5

Tuesday, October 24
    9:00-11:00 General Meeting - LIB 1612
        Lectures - Ju-Pong Lin, Technology and Art
                       Rachel Scherr, Science and Technopoly

    12:30-2:30 Seminars - LIB 1505, 1507, 1508, SEM 3161
        Paper 4 DUE
        Postman, Technopoly

    2:45-5:00 Studio/Labs - Longhouse 1007B-C
        Workshop on reading Technopoly
       Hand out exam questions

Wednesday, October 25
    Writing Groups Meet
 

Thursday, October 26
    11:00-2:30 Film & Discussion - LIB 1612
        Film TBA (Blade Runner?)

    2:30-5:00
        More Exam Study Time - Individual conferences with faculty

Friday, October 27
    10:00-12:00 Seminars - LIB 1505, 1507, 1508, 1509
        Exercise 4 DUE?
        Hand out exam questions - no seminar discussion today

    12:15-1:00 Life at Evergreen (Optional) - Cancelled for exam

    1:00-3:00 Studio/Labs LIB 1612
        Cancelled for exam - due at 3:00

Week 6

Tuesday, October 31
    9:00-11:00 General Meeting - LIB 1612
        Lecture - Thad Curtz, From Homeric Greece to Plato

    12:30-2:30 Seminars - LIB 1505, 1507, 1508, SEM 3161
        Paper 5 DUE
        Homer. The Odyssey (Lattimore translation)

    2:45-5:00 Studio/Labs - Longhouse 1007B-C, Mac Lab, TBA

Wednesday, November 1
    Writing Groups Meet

Thursday, November 2 & Friday, November 3

    The faculty will be gone for the annual faculty retreat, at which we plan new programs, and talk about how we might
    make the college even better. There will be special guest faculty for these two days. There may be a writing exercise due Friday.

Week 7

Tuesday, November 7
    9:00-11:00 General Meeting - LIB 1612
        Lectures - Thad Curtz and David Paulsen on Socrates and Plato

    12:30-2:30 Seminars - LIB 1505, 1507, 1508, SEM 3161
        Paper 6 DUE
        Plato, Five Dialogues (trans. Grube).

    2:45-5:00 Studio/Labs - Longhouse 1007B-C, Mac Lab, TBA

Wednesday, November 8
    Writing Groups Meet

Thursday, November 9
    11:00-2:30 Film & Discussion - LIB 1612
        Dead Poets' Society

    2:30-5:00 Workshop on Readings - CAB 108
        Reading a Platonic Dialogue

Friday, November 10
    10:00-12:00 Seminars - LIB 1505, 1507, 1508, 1509
        Exercise DUE
        Ong, Orality and Literacy,pp. TBA

    12:15-1:00 Life at Evergreen (Optional) - Topic to be announced.

    1:00-3:00 Studio/Labs LIB 1612, Mac Lab, TBA

Week 8

Tuesday, November 14
    9:00-11:00 General Meeting - LIB 1612
        Lectures - TBA

    12:30-2:30 Seminars - LIB 1505, 1507, 1508, SEM 3161
        Paper 7 DUE
        Achebe, Things Fall Apart

    2:45-5:00 Studio/Labs - Longhouse 1007B-C, Mac Lab, TBA

Wednesday, November 15
    Writing Groups Meet

Thursday, November 16
    11:00-2:30 Film & Discussion - LIB 1612
        African film TBA

    2:30-5:00 Workshop on Readings - CAB 108
        Workshop on Scribner and Cole's research in Liberia on literacy and cognition

Friday, November 17
    Exercise DUE
     Presidential Inauguration Activities

Thanksgiving Vacation

The college is closed for the week of November 20 - 24.

Week 9

Tuesday, November 28
    9:00-11:00 General Meeting - LIB 1612
        Lectures on Hurston - TBA

    12:30-2:30 Seminars - LIB 1505, 1507, 1508, SEM 3161
        Paper 8 DUE
        Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God,pp. TBA

    2:45-5:00 Studio/Labs - Longhouse 1007B-C, Mac Lab, TBA

Wednesday, November 29
    Writing Groups Meet

Thursday, November 30
    11:00-2:30 Film & Discussion - LIB 1612
        Daughters of the Dust

    2:30-5:00 Workshop on Readings - CAB 108
        Workshop on Daughters of the Dust

Friday, December 1
    10:00-12:00 Seminars - LIB 1505, 1507, 1508, 1509
    Exercise  DUE
    Brice-Heath, Ways With Words, pp. TBA

    12:15-1:00 Life at Evergreen (Optional) - Topic to be announced

    1:00-3:00 Studio/Labs LIB 1612, Mac Lab, TBA

Week 10

Tuesday, December 5
    9:00-11:00 General Meeting - LIB 1612
        Lectures on Ways With Words -TBA

    12:30-2:30 Seminars - LIB 1505, 1507, 1508, SEM 3161
        Paper 9 DUE
        Brice-Heath, Ways With Words, pp. TBA

    2:45-5:00 Studio/Labs - Longhouse 1007B-C

Wednesday, December 6
    Writing Groups Meet

Thursday, December 7
    11:00-2:30 TBA- LIB 1612

    2:30-5:00 TBA - CAB 108

Friday, December 8
    10:00-12:00 TBA - LIB 1505, 1507, 1508, 1509

    12:15-1:00 Life at Evergreen (Optional) - Topic to be announced

    1:00-3:00 Studio/Labs LIB 1612
 

Week 11 - Evaluation Week

    We'll be doing informal mid-program evaluation conferences the week of December 11-15, probably on the 13th through the 15th. Do not plan to leave for vacation before the 15th without consulting your seminar leader.

Winter Break begins December 18; we reconvene at 9 AM on Tuesday, January 9.

Winter Plans -

We still plan to divide the second half of the program into two case studies. First, we'll do a block on issues about "realism" in representation, including work on the print revolution, the rise of modern science, and perspective space. Then we'll do a block on the breakup of those modes of representation, including work on photography, electronic media, digital media and hypertext. The only book we've definitely chosen for the winter at this point is Messaris's Visual Literacy.You should not start looking at this point for any of the books listed as tentative winter possibilities in the draft handouts; we expect to select the actual readings for the second quarter once we have a chance to work with all of you for a few weeks and get to know you and your interests better. (We'll consult with you about the possibilities as we work them out.)