This class is designed for students with experience in sculpture as well as motivated beginners. Students will have the opportunity to refine their sculptural techniques and advance their skill level to further articulate their visual ideas. Woodcarving and metal working techniques as well as various finishing options will be demonstrated and taught. This session is devoted to the making of objects, experiencing the rhythm of work and the discovery of ideas found through the use of materials.

This class will focus on building the skills and techniques employed to render the figure in three-dimension. Participants will learn to craft permanent armatures, understand anatomy, and express gesture found in the human form. Working traditionally with clay and aluminum armatures, we will conclude the class by producing a waste mold and casting our final projects in Hydrocal.

How can Shakespeare help us see ourselves and our world? What do we need to know about his world in order to hear what he's telling us? In the midst of our studies, we will travel to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival to see how artists bring our era and Shakespeare's together. Texts will include Will in the World by Stephen Greenblatt. In Ashland we'll see and discuss Romeo & Juliet, As You Like It, and The Tempest.

From Beowulf and Blake, to the "Beats" and the Beatles, poets are skilled word artists that shape culture and society. This intensive course will ground both beginning and experienced writers in the study of major poets, poetic forms, and traditions. Working from a variety of forms and traditions, both traditional and modern, we will ask, "How are poems brought to life?" "How are they shaped?" "What is the art of word magic?" We will tap into word play- images, sounds, shapes, and rhythms- as we write and study poems. Our explorations will include narrative, lyric, and contemporary poetic forms. Students enrolled for 4 to 8 credits will have extra reading and writing assignments in addition to the added meeting times. Students taking the class for 8 credits will read, discuss in seminar and do additional activities from F. Nims, "Western Wind."

Oppression happens! This course will investigate the systemic oppression of women as it is both historically and currently perpetuated in the public sector (within the U.S. and internationally). Using feminist critiques, each student will choose where to apply their learning: a public policy, a public law or a public organization. Students can choose to focus on any number of topics such as the environment, health, welfare, peace, war, human rights, discrimination, poverty, hunger, administrative decision-making, organizational structures, mission statements, etc. The study is designed to enhance our body of knowledge through praxis: the dynamic interaction of theory and practice. The intent is to gain an understanding of the enduring issues of oppression from feminist perspectives through hands-on projects, readings, collaborative learning and applying critical analysis. We will also be forward-looking and assess the challenges and opportunities of feminisms in the future.

In this class students will learn greetings, introductions, make statements, colors, tell time and dates, likes and dislikes, family relationships, numbers to 100, daily activities, seasons, weather, leisure-time activities, home and furniture, chores, state locations and describe feelings, actions in progress as well as how to ask questions. To communicate these concepts in written and spoken form, students will acquire the following grammatical structures: use of the verb hay and gustar, conjugations of verbs in the present tense including stem-changing verbs and present progressive, ser and estar, conocer and saber, noun adjective agreement, subject verb agreement, as well as various idiomatic expressions.

This class is designed for students with at least one year of college-level Spanish or with two or more years of high school Spanish, or an equivalent to be assessed by the instructor. It will be taught entirely in Spanish and involves immersion in interactive conversation. Students will expand their vocabulary, learn advanced grammar structures and practice written composition extensively. Weekly writing assignments will include creative writing pieces and exercises from the textbook, Pasajes. Each student will do a research project and write a final essay on a topic of their choice as related to Hispanic cultures and society. This course is taught by a native Spanish speaker and is ideal for students with specific academic interests in social and environmental issues in Latin America.

This course will provide an overview of special education including history, legislation, characteristics of various disabilities and disorders, individualized education plans and teaching strategies for students with a wide range of abilities. The class is intended for preservice teachers, practitioners or people interested in working with individuals with disabilities.

This class is designed to introduce students to key elements of research design and basic statistical analysis. The course emphasizes the importance of developing clear research questions and the selection of statistical methods to evaluate data collected. We will cover selected descriptive and inferential statistical tests, including but not limited to sampling, normal distributions, probability, chi square, correlation and regression, and tests of hypothesis. The class emphasis is on understanding quantitative issues we often confront in the news, in literature and in research. The course is designed to develop a clear conceptual understanding of quantitative reasoning and the ability to work with data to correctly interpret findings. This course completes the prerequisite statistics requirement for the MES and MPA programs at Evergreen.

This course is designed to provide a concentrated overview of the statistics and research methodology required for entrance to graduate schools in psychology, education and other social sciences. The emphasis is on hands-on, intuitive knowledge. By providing a thorough working knowledge of statistics and research methodology, it is an ideal preparation for the GRE. We will approach statistics as a language rather than as math alone; thus this course is gentle on "math phobics." No computer skills are required. The course will provide you with essential tools to become an informed and savvy consumer of information, from the classroom to the workplace. We will cover descriptive and inferential statistics, research methodology and ethics. This course serves as a prerequisite for upper-division work and graduate school admission.

This class is intended as an introduction to the concepts of statistics. We will learn skills in the discipline by developing an understanding of descriptive 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 is, how the practice of statistics relates to the real world, and the use of statistics in the natural and social sciences.

This class is intended as an introduction to the concepts of statistics with a focus on the importance of statistics in the world of public policy. We will learn skills in the discipline by developing an understanding of descriptive 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 is, and how the practice of statistics relates to the real world.

Attend the Northwest Stone Sculptors Association Symposium at Camp Brotherhood, near Arlington, Washington. This is a full-time workshop with housing and meals provided. Daily class sessions teach beginning and advanced stone carving and finishing skills using hand and power tools, as well as drawing, design and presentation skills. Learn to identify, safely move and work with a variety of stones. Plan to produce sculpture, drawings, a technical journal and a self-evaluation. Work study available. For more information, visit nwssa.org, or contact Bob Leverich.

The course will explore the role that movement, poetry, visual art, music and media can play in problem solving and in the resolution of internalized fear, conflicts or blocks. Students will discover sources of imagery, sound and movement as tools to awaken their creative problem solving from two perspectives-as creator and viewer through a variety of hands-on activities, field trips, readings, films/video and guest speakers. Students interested in human services, media and education will find this course engaging. This course does not require any prerequisite art classes or training.

This course is designed to introduce students to the art of film through weekly screenings, readings, writing and instruction in Super-8mm filmmaking techniques. For all you image makers who want to get your hands on celluloid, this is the opportunity to carry a Super-8 camera around for five weeks and learn the properties of film stocks, lenses, and the moving image. Students will shoot film weekly to develop skills in cinematography and will have the opportunity to edit Super-8 film as well. We will examine film form through a series of screenings, considering first the classical narrative, then examining alternative film practices with a focus on documentary and experimental forms. Analyzing films will contribute to the development of our own filmmaking practice. Cameras are available through Media Loan - but it would be great to start looking for your own at thrift stores and garage sales! You can achieve some beautiful visual quality with the Super 8mm format. Primary texts include: Shot by Shot - A Practical Guide To Filmmaking, Cantine, Howard, Brady (2000,Third Edition) and FILM ART: An Introduction, David Bordwell, McGraw-Hill College; 8th edition (December 16, 2006) ISBN: 0073535060

Welcome to writers and hikers at all ability levels. We will deeply examine our connection to place in the context of personal creativity, and in relationship to natural and built environments. Through readings, intensive writings and invigorating hiking, we will join physical pursuit and discovery to the written word. This program welcomes "want to be writers" as well as writers of poetry, fiction, essays, and/or creative non-fiction. Students can participate in hikes to places such as Klahhane Ridge in the Olympics, Paradise River and Mazama Ridge at Mt. Rainier, Mount St. Helens, and the Hoh Rainforest/Ruby Beach areas of the Olympics. Monday evenings will be for individual meetings with faculty and/or critique groups. Wednesday evenings will be for lecture and themed genre workshops. For slideshows of potential hikes via e-mail, or further information, please contact Nancy A. Parkes at parkesn@evergreen.edu

This three-week bird course is taught entirely in the field. We will leave campus on July 23, travel through some of the best birding country in Oregon and meet the advance party two days later in a tented camp on Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge in south-central Oregon. We will spend the next two weeks netting, processing, banding and releasing 800 to 1,000 small birds of about 30 species at this site and others in the Great Basin. We will focus on aspects of banding protocol, including net placement, removing birds from nets, identification, sexing, ageing and record-keeping. We will balance the in-hand work with field identification and behavioral observations, and during the last week we will tour Steens Mountain and the Malheur area. Our meals will be prepared for us and we will sleep in tents. Evergreen students and faculty have banded more than 14,000 birds in the 25 years this course has been taught.

This intensive session is designed for students of all skill levels. Through workshops and critiques, students will learn the basics of 35mm (or larger) cameras, methods and materials involved in making black and white photographic prints, aesthetics and a short history of the medium. Emphasis will be placed upon learning to see the world through the eyes of a photographer, taking risks with one's work and being open to new ideas. Because of the intensive nature of the course, attendance and participation at all sessions is essential.