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Degrees: An Advanced Program for the Study of
Psychology 
Fall, Winter, Spring/Group Contract
Faculty: George Freeman
Enrollment: 25
Prerequisites: Seniors preferred; two years of study
in an interdisciplinary, liberal arts program.
Faculty Signature: Yes. Students complete an application,
obtained from the Program Secretary, The Evergreen State
College, Lab I, Olympia, WA 98505, beginning May 1,
and interview with the faculty by the Academic Fair,
May 16, 2001.
Special Expenses: Approximately $60 per quarter for
retreats, conference and travel to and from internship
sites.
Internship Possibilities: Yes
Travel Component: None
This program is for students interested
in studying human behavior with the intention of either
further study in counseling or an interest in the area
of social services. The program is not preparation to
become a counselor.
We will incorporate challenge and
experiential education as a means of studying group
dynamics and identity-the study of the self. Our work
will stem from the learning community. Students will
work in small collaborative groups. We'll study psychology,
as it is known through a contextual examination of the
history of psychology.
In fall we will examine ethics and
research methodology, focusing on diversity and oppression.
In winter and spring we will examine deeper studies
of personality theory and psychopathology and study
diversity and identity. Along with these three areas,
students will attend an internship of their choice.
Students must have a working knowledge
of the basic theories that shape psychology ranging
from cognitive psychology to social psychology. A working
knowledge means that if someone mentions B.F. Skinner
or Harlow's research with monkeys at a party, you'd
know they were talking about learning theory or attachment
and imprinting, respectively. Students should have an
understanding of human development and be familiar with
primary theorists such as Erickson, Piaget and Vygotsky-knowing
these theories and how they changed our understanding
of human development. What makes this an advanced-level
program is our work with theoretical models that are
unfamiliar to you and that require a foundation based
on those most often taught in introductory or general
psychology programs.
- Credit awarded in ethics, challenge and experiential
education, history and systems of psychology, internship
in the social services, personality theory, abnormal
psychology, research methods in psychology, group
process, studies in oppression and diversity.
- Total: 16 credits each quarter.
- Program is preparatory for careers and future studies
in counseling, the humanities, psychology and social
sciences.
Advanced
Topics in Organizations, Entrepreneurship and Management
Fall, Winter/Group Contract
Faculty: John Filmer
Enrollment: 25
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing, transfer students
welcome. This program is intended for continuing students
who have completed one of the part-time or full-time
management programs at Evergreen or elsewhere and desire
to learn more about management.
Faculty Signature: Yes. Students must submit a short
written statement describing their management background
and their expectations of this program. Send to John
Filmer, The Evergreen State College, SE 3127, Olympia,
WA 98505 or e-mail to trade@halcyon.com.
Special Expenses: No
Internship Possibilities: Yes
Travel Component: None
This group contract will be tailored to
the needs of students who would like further study and
exploration in management-related topics. The specific
content of the program will vary from quarter to quarter
depending upon the interests, expertise and preferred
direction of the students and faculty. We will study
nonprofit, for profit and government organizations.
Topics will include leadership, team building, entrepreneurship,
marketing, international commerce, communication, global
economics, global strategies and public and private
sector interaction. Program activities will consist
of lectures, workshops, seminars, case studies, field
trips, and group and individual research projects intended
to build upon the background and experience of the class
and of each student.
- Credit may be awarded in organizational management,
planning, international business, marketing, finance,
public policy, project management and public relations.
- Total: 8, 12 or 16 credits each quarter.
- Program is preparatory for careers and future studies
in public administration, nonprofit organizational
management and business management.
Destiny:
Welcoming the Unknown
Fall, Winter, Spring/Coordinated Study
Faculty: Kristina Ackley, Raul Nakasone(F), Corky Clairmont(W)
Enrollment: 48
Prerequisites: None. This all-level program will offer
appropriate support for sophomores or above ready to
do advanced work.
Faculty Signature: Kristina will require a signature
for spring quarter. The students must submit
independent project prosposal to Kristina. Faculty interview
required.
Special Expenses: Approximately $100 per quarter for
field trip expenses.
Internship Possibilities: Yes
Travel Component: None
This program is a part of the Native American
and World Indigenous Studies area. While the program
will not be a study specifically of Native Americans
we will explore Native American historical perspectives
and will look at issues that are particularly relevant
to Native Americans. We will concentrate our work in
cultural studies, human resource development and cross-cultural
communication. The program will examine what it means
to live in a pluralistic society at the beginning of
the 21st century. We will look at a variety of cultural
and historical perspectives and use them to help us
address the program theme. We will also pay special
attention to the value of human relationships to the
land, to work, to others and to the unknown.
We will ask students to take a very
personal stake in their educational development throughout
the year. Within the program's themes and subjects students
will pay special attention to how they plan to learn,
what individual and group work they want to do and how
they plan on doing it, and what difference the work
will make in their lives. Students will be encouraged
to assume responsibility for their choices. The faculty
and students will work to develop habits of healthy
community interaction in the context of the education
process.
- Credit awarded in Native American history, cultural
studies, philosophy and content areas dependent on
students' individual project work.
- Total: 16 credits each quarter.
- Program is preparatory for careers and future studies
in education, the arts, anthropology, multicultural
studies, tribal government and Native American studies.
- This program is also listed in First-Year Programs,
Culture, Text and Language, and Native American and
World Indigenous Peoples Studies.
Entrepreneurship
and Organization
Fall, Winter, Spring/Coordinated Study
Faculty: Larry Geri (FWS), Dean Olson (FW), Visitor
(S), Janice White (Resource Faculty)
Enrollment: 50
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing, transfer students
welcome.
Faculty Signature: No
Special Expenses: Approximately $40 each quarter for
challenge courses and field trips.
Internship Possibilities: Yes, spring quarter with faculty
signature.
Travel Component: None
We will study what it means to be an entrepreneur.
While entrepreneurship as a concept is generally associated
with business ventures, it can be applied to innovative
efforts to create social change. Our assumption is that
there are knowledges, skills and attitudes that enable
highly motivated people to create innovative solutions
to complex problems, creating new ventures in the process.
But to make these ventures sustainable requires considerable
organizational skills. The program will examine the
process of creating and sustaining organizations in
both the business and nonprofit sectors. We will also
consider the implications for individuals and society
in which such innovation is encouraged.
The first two quarters of the program
will focus on an understanding of the critical issues
shaping business and nonprofit management, and the core
skills in those areas. We will address organizational
structure and behavior, finance and budgets, information
systems and strategic planning. Spring quarter we will
examine the entrepreneurial mindset, venture creation
and planning in the business and nonprofit sectors.
Weekly activities include seminars,
lectures and discussions, presentations by successful
entrepreneurs and workshops. Weekly seminar papers and
periodic workshop submittals will be required, as well
as a research paper in both fall and winter, and a venture
plan in spring. Two overnight retreats will incorporate
the challenge course's experiential-based activities
as a way of developing leadership skills.
Learning objectives include: understanding
and critiquing the concept of entrepreneurship in the
realms of business and social action; developing strategic
planning skills; refining small-group interaction skills;
writing clear and well-structured essays and reports;
listening actively and reading effectively; and learning
venture planning skills.
- Credit awarded in organizational behavior, strategic
planning, business policy, nonprofit management, information
systems, financial management and new venture creation.
- Total: 16 credits each quarter.
- Program is preparatory for careers and future studies
in business management and nonprofit organizations
and for starting new ventures in these fields.
Health
and Human Development
Fall, Winter, Spring/Coordinated Study
Faculty: Toska Olson(FWS), Cindy Beck(FWS), Heesoon
Jun(WS), Visitor(F)
Enrollment: 75
Prerequisites: Junior standing, transfer students welcome.
Faculty Signature: Yes
Special Expenses: $40 for program retreat.
Internship Possibilities: During spring quarter only.
Travel Component: None
This program will investigate the biological,
cultural, spiritual, psychological and social forces
that influence human development and behavior. We will
investigate the biological, social and psychological
forces that influence the development and the sense
of the "self," as an integration of mind,
body, emotion and spirit that grows and lives within
a cultural and social context.
Drawing from human biology, developmental
psychology, abnormal psychology, sociology, research
methods and communication theories, this program will
examine the interactions of culture, mind, body, emotion
and spirit in the facilitation of healthy human development.
Emphasis will be placed on physical, cognitive and emotional
development; perception; interpersonal, intrapersonal
and intercultural communication; mind-body interactions;
and the influences of nutrition, environment, gender
and culture on human health. In addition, we will examine
the assumption that health is dependent on units functioning
collaboratively as part of a larger system. Study topics
will include such areas as psychoneuroimmunology; pathogens,
genes and diseases; abnormal and developmental psychology;
and deviance and social control.
An early fall quarter retreat will
provide students an opportunity to begin forming a learning
community. During both fall and winter quarters, students
will develop skills and knowledge to support their selection
of a spring quarter project or internship. The program
will encourage development in reading, writing, self-awareness,
social imagination, research and communication, and
strategies to facilitate students' own health.
- Credit awarded in human biology, human development,
sociology, introduction to abnormal psychology, introduction
to theories of personality, introduction to quantitative
and qualitative research methods, developmental psychology,
communication (interpersonal, intrapersonal, intercultural),
foundations to understanding diversity, nutrition
and integrative writing.
- Total: 16 credits each quarter. Students with strong
background in science or those pursuing language study
may substitute a four-credit course with faculty signature.
- Program is preparatory for careers and future studies
in the health professions, human services, public
policy and education.
- This program is also listed in Scientific Inquiry.
International
Feminism
Fall, Winter, Spring/Coordinated Study
Faculty: Angela Gilliam, Ju-Pong Lin, Therese Saliba
Enrollment: 75
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing or above, transfer
students welcome.
Faculty Signature: No
Special Expenses: Approximately $100 each quarter for
field trips.
Internship Possibilities: Possibly during spring quarter.
Travel Component: None
This program offers a broad overview of
the contentious and problematic constructions of womanhood
and women's lived experiences all over the world. The
program also interrogates many approaches to feminism,
the contemporary methods for studying women's lives.
While much of bourgeois feminism has focused on sexual
liberation, women's struggles internationally are rooted
in the claim for economic, political and social, as
well as sexual equality.
Thus, this program will examine the
experiences of women, both in the United States and
abroad, through art, film, literature and cultural and
political analysis. The structural inequality between
men and women and the ways in which this inequality
has been eroticized across historical and geographical
contexts unites many women around the world. We will
explore how women's bodies function as signs and sites
of struggle and how women artists, filmmakers, writers
and activists produce resistant works that deconstruct
the historical coding of women's bodies.
Beginning with colonialist representations,
we will examine the uncomfortable intersection of ethnography,
pornography and Victorian medicine, and its effect on
women's lives and consciousness of self. These representations
of primarily African, Arab and Asian women laid the
foundations for the eroticization of inequality and
the medicalization of motherhood. Focusing on the politics
of mothering, we will explore the history of birthing
practices and neo-colonialist interventions in the mothering
process. We will also look at how the construction of
race and gender are interrelated; for example, how concepts
of "beautiful," "ugly," "exotic"
and "erotic" are used in relation to Black
women's hair, Asian women's eyes or veiled Arab women.
We will examine how performance artists and filmmakers
use their bodies as signifiers to deconstruct the power
of language as a tool of oppression.
Recent developments in the global
economy are reshaping the political and social terrain
of global feminism. Through case studies on the global
sex trade, women prisoners and female sweatshop workers,
we will examine the intersections of gender, class and
national and racial inequalities. In addition, we will
interrogate the tensions between women's search for
liberation as women and their often conflicted role
within cultural nationalist movements. From colonialism
to globalization, we will explore how migration and
transnational movements have shaped the identities of
women in the Diaspora, and how they represent their
identities in performance art, installation, film and
writing.
In workshops, students will develop
skills in video production, art installation, oral history
and creative nonfiction. During spring quarter, students
will work on individual or collaborative projects on
women's issues using these skills and/or intern with
a women's organization.
- Credit awarded in gender studies, international
studies, multicultural literature, media studies,
history and cultural anthropology.
- Total: 16 credits each quarter.
- Program is preparatory for careers and future studies
in women's advocacy, media, education, international
relations, art and writing.
- This program is also listed in Culture, Text and
Language and Expressive Arts.
Introduction
to Environmental Studies: Trees, Timber and Trade
Fall, Winter/Coordinated Study
Faculty: Paul Przybylowicz, Peter Dorman
Enrollment: 48
Prerequisites: This all-level program will offer appropriate
support for sophomores or above ready to do advanced
work. We expect that students will have reasonable facility
working with numerical data and that they can clearly
express themselves in a well-organized essay.
Faculty Signature: No
Special Expenses: Approximately $100 for two overnight
field trips.
Internship Possibilities: No
Travel Component: None
This two-quarter program is designed to
introduce students to the interrelationships between
the ecology and economy of specific locations with the
global market and environmental issues. The forest ecosystems
of the Pacific Northwest have provided numerous products
and services to both local and global societies-fresh
water, oxygen, salmon, timber, rich soils, recreation
and wildlife. We will examine the ecology of these ecosystems-both
economic and biologic-to understand the complex interactions
we have with our surroundings. By examining the products
and services forests provide and how we value and use
these services, students will gain an appreciation of
how humans and societies shape the ecology of specific
locales.
We will study forest ecology of the
Pacific Northwest, learn to identify many of the trees
and plants, look at how we manipulate these ecosystems,
and examine the underlying physiological processes that
allow trees and forests to work. Coupling this with
natural resource economics, we will explore timber policies,
treaties and international trade. Students will be introduced
to elements of forest ecology, forestry, botany, fieldwork,
micro- and macroeconomics, trade policies and the global
economy through lectures, workshops and a number of
field trips.
- Credit awarded in forest ecology, field botany,
introductory economics, ecological economics and statistics.
- Total: 16 credits each quarter.
- Program is preparatory for careers and future studies
in environmental studies, field biology and environmental
education.
- This program is also listed in First-Year Programs
and Environmental Studies.
Looking
Backward: America in the Twentieth Century
Fall, Winter, Spring/Coordinated Study
Faculty: David Hitchens, Jerry Lassen
Enrollment: 48
Prerequisites: None. This all-level program will offer
appropriate support for sophomores or above ready to
do advanced work.
Faculty Signature: No
Special Expenses: No
Internship Possibilities: No
Travel Component: None
The United States began the 20th century
as a second-rate military and naval power, and a debtor
nation. The nation ended the century as the last superpower
with an economy that sparked responses across the globe.
In between, we sent men to the moon and began to explore
our place in space. Many observers have characterized
the 20th century as "America's Century" because,
in addition to developing as the mightiest military
machine on the face of the earth, the United States
also spawned the central phenomenon of "the mass."
Mass culture, mass media, mass action, massive destruction,
massive fortunes-all are significant elements of life
in the United States, especially after the national
participation in World War I.
Looking Backward will be a retrospective,
close study of the origins, development, expansion,
and elaboration of "the mass" phenomena and
will place those aspects of national life against our
heritage to determine if the growth of the nation in
the last century was a new thing or the logical continuation
of long-standing, familiar impulses and forces in American
life. While exploring these issues, we will use history,
economics, sociology, literature, popular culture and
the tools of statistics to help us understand the nation
and its place in the century. At the same time, students
will be challenged to understand their place in the
scope of national affairs; read closely; write with
effective insight; and develop appropriate research
projects to refine their skills and contribute to the
collective enrichment of the program. There will be
program-wide public symposia at the end of fall and
winter quarters, and a presentation of creative projects
to wrap up the spring.
- Credit awarded in U.S. political and economic history,
U.S. social and intellectual history, American economics
and global connections, and American literature.
- Total: 16 credits each quarter.
- Program is preparatory for careers and future studies
in the humanities and social science areas of inquiry,
law, journalism, history, economics, sociology, literature,
popular culture, cultural anthropology and teaching.
- This program is also listed in First-Year Programs
and Culture, Text and Language.
Maids
and Madams
Spring/Group Contract
Faculty: Angela Gilliam
Enrollment: 25
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing.
Faculty Signature: No
Special Expenses: No
Internship Possibilities: No
Travel Component: None
Maids and Madams is a group contract that will examine
the interlocking relationship between female domestics
and their female employers. Although we will look at
this theme in its international context, the primary
area of interest will be the United States.
As such, the contract will also investigate the social
construction of elite feminine manners as they relate
to demands on employment. Of particular interest will
be how such manners extracted specific labor demands,
especially as they were shaped in the private arena
of the home. In some former colonial plantation economies,
these social relationships emerged as a consequence
of slavery and the management of that female labor was
connected to the household rather than the field. Today,
the Latina population has become one of the principal
sources for contemporary household labor in the U.S.
Students will read texts such as Blanche on the Lam
by Neely; Between Women by Rollins; Mrs. Beeton's Guide
to Household Management by Beeton; Maid in the USA by
Romero; etc. A crucial component of the contract will
be the role of the media in popularizing the images
of working class women in general and domestics in particular.
As such we will also watch Imitation of Life, Gone With
the Wind, Stella Dallas, etc.
Total: 16 credits.
Political
Economy and Social Movements: Race, Class and
Gender
Fall, Winter/Coordinated Study
Faculty: Peter Bohmer, Dan Leahy
Enrollment: 50
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing and above, transfer
students welcome.
Faculty Signature: No
Special Expenses: No
Internship Possibilities: No
Travel Component: None
We will examine the historical construction
of the U.S. political economy, the role social movements
have played in its development, and future possibilities
for social justice.
A central goal is to gain a clear
understanding of how the U.S. economy has been organized
and reorganized over time, how it has been controlled
and who has benefited from it, the nature of racism
and sexism, and how social movements, particularly those
based on race, class and gender, have resisted and shaped
its direction. We will examine the current and future
direction of the U.S. economy and society, and how various
social movements are responding to the changing global
order, nationally and globally. The effect of the U.S.
political economy on other societies will be another
major theme of this program.
In fall we will focus primarily on
the historical development of the U.S.; and on learning
and critiquing various ideologies and frameworks such
as liberalism, various feminist theories, Marxism and
neoclassical economics. We will examine current economic
restructuring efforts and the reorganization of the
social welfare state. We will study key issues and topics
such as the growing inequality of income and wealth;
the changing nature of technology, work and unions;
poverty, public education, youth, immigration and prisons,
both historically and in the present. For each of these
topics we will examine the role of race, class and gender
including short- and longer-run solutions to the related
social problems.
In winter our work will center on
the interrelationship between the U.S. economy and the
changing global system. We will study the causes and
consequences of the growing globalization of capital;
the role of international organizations such as the
World Bank, the IMF and the World Trade Organization;
the meaning of various trade agreements and regional
organizations such as NAFTA and the European Union,
and the response of social movements and civil society
who oppose this emerging global order. We will pay particular
attention to the human consequences of globalization,
as well as resistance to it in some case studies in,
for example, Mexico and South Africa. We will look at
alternative ways of organizing society for the U.S.
and beyond.
We will use films throughout the program,
and there will be a substantial amount of reading in
a variety of genres. We will offer workshops throughout
the program in economics, writing and organizing for
social change. Fall quarter, students will write a series
of short, primarily analytical papers. Winter quarter,
students will complete a research project or participate
in a social change group or do relevant community service.
Students taking this program should have an interest
in economics and the social sciences, in theories of
social movements and in principles of organizing.
- Credit awarded in political economy, U.S. history,
sociology of racism, global studies, social movement
theory and feminist studies.
- Total: 16 credits each quarter.
- Program is preparatory for careers and future studies
in labor, community development, education, social
science, economics and research for social change.
Political
Economy of Noam Chomsky
Fall/Group Contract
Faculty: Larry Mosqueda
Enrollment: 25
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing, transfer students
welcome; students should have at least one full year
of college, preferably with political theory or U.S.
foreign policy. Seniors will have priority.
Faculty Signature: Yes. Students must submit a writing
sample and previous transcript or evaluations to Larry
Mosqueda, The Evergreen State College, SE 3127, Olympia,
WA 98505. Transfer students may e-mail Larry at mosqueda@evergreen.edu.
Interviews will be conducted May 7-16, 2001. To set
up an interview call (360) 867-6513. Students will be
informed of their acceptance at the Academic Fair, May
16, or by May 18, 2001.
Special Expenses: No
Internship Possibilities: No
Travel Component: None
Noam Chomsky is among the 10 most currently
cited sources in the social sciences-a field that includes
the Bible, Freud, Marx and Plato. The New York Times
has called Noam Chomsky "arguably the most important
intellectual alive" and then goes on to criticize
him for his criticism of U.S. foreign policy. Chomsky,
no stranger to controversy, has written devastating
critiques on the role of the Times in the "manufacture
of consent" of the American people.
Chomsky is a world-renowned linguist,
but the main focus of this class will be his political
economy work-his devastating critiques of U.S. foreign
policy in areas such as Southeast Asia, the Middle East
and Central America. He has written serious works about
the role of intellectuals as criminals justifying genocide,
and as resisters of those policies. This is a serious
class for serious people who desire an intellectual
foundation for social change. This is an advanced reading
class with lectures, films, seminars and a written journal,
that will chronicle our emerging understanding of this
important intellectual.
- Credit awarded in political theory, U.S. foreign
policy and international politics.
- Total: 16 credits.
- Program is preparatory for careers and future studies
in law, political science and international studies.
Rights
and Wrongs
Fall, Winter/Coordinated Study
Faculty: José Gómez, Priscilla Bowerman,
Alan Nasser
Enrollment: 75
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing, transfer students
welcome.
Faculty Signature: No
Special Expenses: No
Internship Possibilities: No
Travel Component: None
Many Americans regard the political and
civil liberties guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution
and its amendments as the foundation of American democracy.
Yet these rights are highly contested today. Freedom
of speech is confronted by those who advocate censoring
rock music lyrics and TV broadcasts. Schools argue over
"creationism" in the classroom and waffle
between secularizing religious holidays or celebrating
the holidays of all world religions. Search and seizure
laws and guarantees against self-incrimination are under
fire.
Americans may be denied the ability
to exercise their rights because of our political institutions,
economic practices and our interpretation and implementation
of government policies. Campaign finance laws can enable
many or just the rich to run for office. Election districting
can prevent or assure election of candidates of certain
ethnic backgrounds. And what does freedom of religion
mean if social policies contradict one's beliefs and
family practices or if religious education is available
only to the well-to-do?
Many constitutional contests have
arisen from tensions inherent in a document that protects
both individuals and collective entities and that provides
for majority rule while shielding the minority from
the tyranny of the majority. These contests continue
to define the boundaries between liberty and the legitimate
authority of government.
This program will examine the evolution
of rights in the United States. We will look at the
simultaneous emergence, in early modernity, of political/social/economic
individualist libertarianism and capitalism, and the
complex interdependencies between them. We will also
study the emergence of thinking about rights in Europe,
the writing of the U.S. Constitution and the amendments
to that Constitution which establish rights, and the
controversies over rights from the Founding Period to
the present.
Our study includes some of today's
contests over both specific rights and more general
philosophical questions about the problems inherent
in the very idea of rights. To give a practical grounding
to our study of contested rights, we will use case studies
of actual constitutional controversies that ended up
in the Supreme Court.
- Credit awarded in U.S. history, political thought,
constitutional law and philosophy.
- Total: 16 credits each quarter.
- Program is preparatory for careers and future studies
in social science, public service, law and business.
Science
of Mind
Fall, Winter, Spring/Coordinated Study
Faculty: David Paulsen(FW), Stuart Matz, Carrie Margolin
Enrollment: 75(FW), 50(S)
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing, transfer students
welcome; sophomore with permission.
Faculty Signature: No
Special Expenses: Optional trip spring quarter to the
Western Psychological Association Division meeting in
Irvine, California, for four days. Approximate cost
$65 for conference fee and $400-$500 for airfare and
student conference rate for hotel.
Internship Possibilities: No
Travel Component: Optional field trip spring quarter.
Philosophers, psychologists, neurobiologists,
computer scientists, linguists and anthropologists have
raised questions about the human mind. What is the structure
of the mind? What is the relationship of mind and brain?
Does the brain work like a computer: if so, what kind
of computer? How do culture and biology affect the development
of the mind? To what extent is the mind rational? A
"cognitive revolution" has transformed the
study of these questions.
Science of Mind will explore the nature
of this revolution. It will consider theories from past
and contemporary cognitive psychology and neurobiology,
issues in philosophy of science and mind, as well as
computer models of mental activity. Emphasis will be
placed on theories about the nature of perception, attention,
memory and reasoning and language as well as current
developments in the study of neural nets. The program
will cover basic cellular and system neurobiology, application
of neural network models, theory and practice of experimental
cognitive psychology, research design in psychology,
descriptive and inferential statistics with psychological
research applications, use of the computer for data
analysis and computer simulation mental activity.
Fall and winter quarters there will
be considerable work in statistics and research design,
as well as a survey of research in cognitive psychology,
neurobiology and related philosophical fields.
Spring quarter students will conduct
an extensive research project in experimental cognitive
psychology, neurobiology, computer modeling or library
research and reading in these areas or the philosophy
of mind.
- Credit awarded in cognitive science, cognitive
psychology, research methods in psychology, neurobiology
with laboratory, descriptive statistics, inferential
statistics, data analysis using the Statistical Package
for the Social Sciences and research project. (45
upper-division science credits).
- Total: 16 credits each quarter.
- Program is preparatory for careers and future studies
in psychology, medicine, biology, computer science
and philosophy.
- This program is also listed in Scientific Inquiry.
Social
Work Practice
Fall/Group Contract
Faculty: Justino Balderrama
Enrollment: 25
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing, transfer students
welcome.
Faculty Signature: No
Special Expenses: No
Internship Possibilities: No
Travel Component: None
This one quarter, upper-division group
contract explores the field of social work as an evolving
helping profession. We will examine the historical and
philosophical foundations of social work, as well as
the contemporary political-cultural issues that form
its field of practice. Thus, our focus is on the diversity
of social work professional roles and functions.
Students will be expected to participate
in a volunteer service learning project, assess current
research studies that inform social work practice, write
several response-essays, facilitate a seminar discussion
and complete a major scholarly essay on a student-selected
social work topic.
- Credit awarded in history of social work, social
work community practice, volunteer service learning
and human behavior in the social environment.
- Total: 16 credits.
- Program is preparatory for careers and future studies
in social work and human services.
- This program is also listed in Culture, Text and
Language.
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BEGINNING WINTER QUARTER
A
Study of Violence
Winter/Group Contract
Faculty: Justino Balderrama
Enrollment: 25
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing, transfer students
welcome.
Faculty Signature: Yes. In order to be considered for
enrollment, prospective students must submit a two-page
typewritten statement of interest. The statement of
interest should express clearly: (1) the degree of interest
in the program, (2) an assessment of reading and writing
skills and (3) evidence of the ability to work independently.
Continuing Evergreen students also should attach a copy
of a previous "Faculty Evaluation of Student Achievement."
Send to Justino Balderrama, The Evergreen State College,
COM 301, Olympia, WA 98505, any time up to or during
the Academic Fair, November 28, 2001. Students will
be notified of acceptance into the program by November
29, 2001. If any questions exist, contact the faculty
who is happy to respond, (360) 867-6051.
Special Expenses: No
Internship Possibilities: No
Travel Component: None
In this upper-division, one-quarter group
contract we will explore the socio-cultural meaning
of violence: we address the critical question, what
is the social reality of violence in the United States?
Thus, we examine how the institutions, symbols, beliefs,
attitudes and everyday social practices found within
the United States create and sustain violent behavior.
We critically investigate the cultural connections between
violent crime, media, literature, art and the United
States' "culture of violence." Our approach
is interdisciplinary using sources from both the social
sciences and the humanities that inform our study of
violence. Also, we will explore the social work and
human services intervention models that inform successful
violence prevention programs.
- Credit awarded in social psychology, cultural studies,
aesthetics of violence, philosophy of violence, literature
of violence, criminology, social work and human services.
- Total: 16 credits.
- Program is preparatory for careers and future studies
in the humanities and social sciences.
- This program is also listed in Culture, Text and
Language.
Power
in American Society
Winter/Group Contract
Faculty: Larry Mosqueda
Enrollment: 25
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing, transfer students
welcome.
Faculty Signature: No
Special Expenses: No
Internship Possibilities: No
Travel Component: None
This group contract focuses on the issue
of power in American society. In the analysis we will
investigate the nature of economic, political, social,
military, ideological and interpersonal power. The interrelationship
of these dimensions will be a primary area of study.
We will explore these themes through lectures, films,
seminars and short papers.
Our analysis will be guided by the
following questions, as well as others that emerge from
discussions: What is meant by the term "power?"
Are there different kinds of power and how are they
interrelated? Who has power in American society? Who
is relatively powerless? Why? How is power accumulated?
What resources are involved? How is power utilized and
with what impact on various sectors of the population?
What characterizes the struggle for power? How does
domestic power relate to international power? How is
international power used? How are people affected by
the current power structure? What responsibilities do
citizens have to alter the structure of power? What
alternative structures are possible, probable, necessary
or desirable?
- Credit awarded in American government, history
(founding period, civil war, 20th century), studies
in U.S. foreign policy and power studies.
- Total: 16 credits.
- Program is preparatory for careers and future studies
in law, political economy, history and political economy.
OFFERINGS
BEGINNING SPRING QUARTER
Alternatives
to Capitalist Globalization: Radical Theory and
Practice
Spring/Coordinated Study
Faculty: Peter Bohmer, Steve Niva
Enrollment: 50
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing, transfer students
welcome; students should have background in political
economy.
Faculty Signature: No
Special Expenses: No
Internship Possibilities: No
Travel Component: None
At the end of the 20th century, the dominant
ideology expressed by global and national elites and
institutions is that there are no alternatives to capitalist
globalization. The world must be restructured according
to "free market" principles that open up countries
to the products and investment of multinational corporations,
reduce social relations to commercial transactions and
impose Western development models on diverse cultures.
In this program, we will examine different social movements
and thinkers who are actively resisting neoliberalism
and are offering alternative visions and models for
social relations and meeting human needs.
We will examine the dominant ideology
of neoliberal economic development as well as alternative
approaches to development and challenges to the very
concept of development itself as a universal goal. We
will also explore different theories and strategies
of resistance to global capitalism that have arisen
in diverse locations around the world, including those
influenced by socialist, anarchist, ecological, feminist
and postcolonial perspectives. The program will devote
considerable time to researching case studies based
on the interests of the students and faculty. Possible
case studies may include worker cooperatives in Mondragon,
Spain; Zapatista resistance to neoliberalism in Mexico;
ecological and anarchist movements in Europe and North
America; and anti-corporate movements in the Third World.
Students will form research groups, write and present
their case studies to the class.
- Credit awarded in comparative social systems, political
theory and international political economy.
- Total: 16 credits.
- Program is preparatory for careers and future studies
in political theory, Third World studies and international
solidarity work.
- This program is also listed in Culture, Text and
Language.
Bridges,
Not Walls: Culture and Communication
Spring/Group Contract
Faculty: Betsy Diffendal, Jan Kido, Llyn DeDanaan
Enrollment: 48
Prerequisites: None. This all-level program will offer
appropriate support for sophomores or above ready to
do advanced work.
Faculty Signature: No
Special Expenses: Students should expect to spend approximately
$20 on special student-selected program events.
Internship Possibilities: No
Travel Component: None
One of the functions of culture is to
provide humans with a set of lenses that serve as a
highly selective screen between the individual and the
outside world. Culture, therefore, designates what we
pay attention to and what we ignore. Today we live in
a world of increasing intercultural and international
contacts. Sometimes these interactions are on an interpersonal
level; sometimes they occur in organizational settings.
We know that intercultural interactions can include
moments of conflict, friendship, hatred, romance, dominance
and cooperation. This quarter we will explore the question,
How can we develop competence in dealing with the increased
cultural complexity of the 21st century? In lectures,
workshops and seminars we will explore the importance
of understanding "context" as a way of making
sense of the unfamiliar. Our purpose is to work toward
a self-awareness of our own cultural perspectives and
to develop strategies for approaching cultural differences
effectively.
We welcome first-year students ready
to be seriously engaged in their studies and offer strong
support to upper-division students.
- Credit awarded in applied anthropology, intercultural
communication and human behavior in the social environment.
Upper-division credit is available for those whose
background preparation and program work demonstrate
its appropriateness.
- Total: 16 credits.
- Program is preparatory for careers and future studies
in anthropology, education, business, law, communications,
human services, psychology and community development.
vThis program is also listed in First-Year Programs.
Cultural
Resource Management: Scope and Promise (cancelled)
Spring/Group Contract
Faculty: Llyn DeDanaan
Enrollment: 40 undergraduate students; 10 graduate students
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing, transfer students
welcome; graduate standing for graduate credit.
Faculty Signature: No
Special Expenses: No
Internship Possibilities: No
Cultural resource management, as a field of study, calls
upon knowledge of federal and state law, archeology,
conservation, anthropology, curation, oral history,
preservation and museology. We will spend 10-weeks surveying
treaties, legal issues, case studies and current controversies
that impact sacred sites, sacred places and the gathering
of plant resources. We will study the National Historic
Preservation Act as amended, the American Indian Religious
Freedom Act of 1978, and The Native American Cultural
Protection and Free Exercise of Religion Act of 1994,
as well as study model programs and government-to-government
collaboration in management. Our work will incorporate
issues of treatment of cultural resources including
storage, preservation, interpretation and theory in
modern museology. We will interrogate the role of anthropology
and archaeology as well as the role of National Parks
Service and National Forest Service in the development
and definition of the field of cultural resource management.
Students can expect library research projects and weekly
written assignments. Tentative book list includes: Sacred
Sites, Sacred Rites by Andrea Lee Smith; Guidelines
for Evaluating and Documenting Traditional Cultural
Properties; Texts of United States Cultural Protection
Legislation (including Native American Grave Protection
and Repatriation Act and Executive Order 13007 concerning
the protection and preservation of Indian religious
practices); and Cultural Resources Archaeology: An Introduction;
An abridged student edition of Practicing Archaeology.
Seminar books may include: Indians, Fire and the Land
in the Pacific Northwest ed. Robert Boyd; Religious
Freedom and Indian Rights: The Case of Oregon v. Smith
by Carolyn Long; and Native American Spirituality: A
Critical Reader, ed. Lee Irwin.
Total: 8 credits for undergraduate students; 4 credits
for graduate students.
This program is also listed in Native American and World
Indigenous Peoples Studies.
The
Good Life in the Good Society: Moral, Social
and Political Philosophy from Hobbes to Marx
Spring/Group Contract
Faculty: Alan Nasser
Enrollment: 25
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing, transfer students
must have junior standing.
Faculty Signature: Yes. The faculty will conduct an
interview at the Academic Fair, March 6, 2002. During
the fair interested students must submit a writing sample
and past faculty evaluations. Acceptance decisions will
be made at the Academic Fair, based on the interview
and application materials.
Special Expenses: No
Internship Possibilities: No
Travel Component: None
This program is an examination and assessment
of classical modern moral, social and political philosophy.
It will include the work of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke,
John Stuart Mill, G.W.F. Hegel and Karl Marx. We will
examine the work of these philosophers in their historical
and cultural contexts.
We will examine in detail the concepts
of the individual, individual natural rights, private
property, liberty and freedom, the modern state, the
decline of moral thinking based on the notion of character,
and the rise of moral philosophies based on rules and
principles, among others. We will pay particular attention
to the influence of these philosophers on the contemporary
neoliberal orthodoxy and to the meaning and function
of these concepts in the context of a world structured
in accordance with the requirements of capitalism and
modern science.
This is an advanced program with an
exclusive focus on the careful analytical examination
of challenging readings, requiring a considerable degree
of motivation and self-discipline.
- Credit awarded in political philosophy, social
philosophy and history of capitalism.
- Total: 16 credits.
- Program is preparatory for careers and future studies
in social science, law, philosophy, political philosophy
and ethics.
Making
a Difference: Doing Social Change
Spring/Group Contract
Faculty: Larry Mosqueda
Enrollment: 25
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing, transfer students
welcome; at least one full year of college with programs
such as Political Economy and Social Change, sociology
or community work and demonstrated work in a social
change organization.
Faculty Signature: Yes. Faculty will assess college-level
writing skills and degree of interest in social change
organizations. Students must submit a plan for social
change-contact faculty for details. Interviews will
be conducted February 25 to March 6, 2002. To set up
an interview call (360) 867-6513. Students will be informed
of their acceptance at the Academic Fair, March 6 or
by March 8, 2002. Transfer students may e-mail Larry
at mosqueda@evergreen.edu.
Special Expenses: Depends on student's project.
Internship Possibilities: No
Travel Component: Depends on student's project.
Even a casual observation of society indicates
that serious social change is necessary. The question
is: What are the most effective ways to make a significant
change that will be long lasting and sustainable?
In this group contract, students will
not only study methods of change, but also participate
in local, regional, national or international groups
that are making a difference, and have significant promise
of continuing to do so in the future. Students will
determine the area where they wish to work, and come
together to study theories of social change and test
those theories in their work throughout the quarter.
Our seminars will examine not only the readings for
the week, but also the work each of us is engaged in
for the quarter.
- Credit awarded in political theory, theories of
social and political change and specific student projects.
- Total: 16 credits.
- Program is preparatory for careers and future studies
in law, political science and community organizations.
Maritime
Entrepreneurship
Spring/Group Contract
Faculty: John Filmer
Enrollment: 11
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing, transfer students
welcome. This program is intended for students with
a business or management background who have an interest
in the maritime industries.
Faculty Signature: Yes. Students must submit a one-page
summary of their goals, objectives and their expectations
of the program to John Filmer, The Evergreen State College,
SE 3127, Olympia, WA 98505 or e-mail trade@halcyon.com.
Special Expenses: Appropriate foul weather gear for
daylong sailing trips.
Internship Possibilities: No
Travel Component: None
We will examine some of our state's most
interesting waterfront communities, their culture, history,
economy and politics, while focusing on the entrepreneurial
spirit and the resulting economic development that has
made these communities viable. Of primary interest will
be the maritime industries: fishing, shipbuilding, marine
transportation and seaport operations. We will trace
the changing nature of these communities as smoke-stack
and resource-based industries have gradually given way
to newer technologies. Early American and Northwest
history will provide an essential context for our inquiry.
While exploring Puget Sound, we will
occasionally conduct classes on the Resolute, one of
the last of the original Annapolis 44's, or we may sail
on the Seawulff, a 38-foot wooden cutter built at Evergreen.
Students will have an opportunity to learn power, cruise
and sail seamanship, become part of a working crew,
learn "The Rules of the Road," tides and currents,
weather, boating safety and regulations, Coastal Navigation
(not Celestial) and various sailor's arts including
knots, splices, hitches, reefs and the correct procedures
in docking and undocking. Experiences on the water will
provide a useful context for much of our work.
Students will conduct independent
research on a local community, focusing on the current
economic climate in cultural and historical perspective.
Through field trips to seaports, industries and organizations
we will learn how Puget Sound entrepreneurs participate
in the free market and in the global economy to create
jobs for themselves and others. Students will be expected
to observe appropriate protocol on the field trips.
We will read, seminar and write response papers to our
readings and to the field trips.
- Credit awarded in economics, sociology, history,
entrepreneurial studies, community research and sail
seamanship.
- Total: 16 credits.
- Program is preparatory for careers and future studies
in business, management and the maritime industries.
Social
Gerontology
Spring/Group Contract
Faculty: Justino Balderrama
Enrollment: 25
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing, transfer students
welcome.
Faculty Signature: Yes. In order to be considered for
enrollment, prospective students must submit a two-page
typewritten statement of interest. The statement of
interest should express clearly: (1) the degree of interest
in the program, (2) as assessment of reading and writing
skills and (3) evidence of the ability to work independently.
Continuing Evergreen students should attach a copy of
a previous "Faculty Evaluation of Student Achievement."
Send to Justino Balderrama, The Evergreen State College,
COM 301, Olympia, WA 98505, any time up to or during
the Academic Fair, March 6, 2002. Students will be notified
of acceptance into the program by March 7, 2001. If
any questions exist, contact the faculty who is happy
to respond, (360) 867-6051.
Special Expenses: No
Internship Possibilities: No
Travel Component: None
This upper-division, group contract introduces
the field of social gerontology. We address the fundamental
question: what is aging? We will study the socio-cultural
processes that define and describe the social phenomena
of aging. We will explore and critically examine the
leading theoretical perspectives, research studies and
socio-political issues that inform the social construction
of aging in the United States. We will examine the social
work and human services intervention models that have
informed improvements in the quality of life for the
aging population.
- Credit awarded in social gerontology*, social psychology*,
volunteer service learning*, social work* and human
services*.
- Total: 16 credits.
- Program is preparatory for careers and future studies
in the humanities and social sciences.
- This program is also listed in Social Science.
Transatlantic
Revolutions
Spring/Coordinated Study
Faculty: Jeanne Hahn, Thomas Rainey
Enrollment: 50
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing only, transfer
students welcome; college-level European or early American
(to 1820) history or political economy.
Faculty Signature: No
Special Expenses: No
Internship Possibilities: No
Travel Component: None
Today's globalism is only the latest phase
of the 500-year process of the political, economic and
social development and expansion of capitalism. This
program will focus on globalism's foundations as they
were laid in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
In an effort to comprehend globalism's current phase
we will investigate both critical turning points in
and resistance to this historical process.
This program will probe capitalist
expansion throughout the transatlantic world through
its primary engine, English imperialism. We will study
the relationships among colonialism, slavery and British
free-trade imperialism that together knit the transatlantic
region into a global trading system, fueling Britain's
industrial revolution as well as stimulating resistance
and revolution. We will also investigate the role and
consequences of other colonial powers active in the
Caribbean trade, both in humans and cheap commodities.
Imperialism and economic expansion
precipitated political and social revolutions and the
foundations of new governments that experimented with
liberal democracy. These revolutionary changes fueled
conflict, resistance and further political revolution.
In studying these changes we will look specifically
at the political, economic and social consequences of
three of these revolutions: the revolution of the North
American settler-colonists, the slave revolution in
the sugar colony of Haiti, and the French revolution
and its emancipatory spirit. Throughout, we will endeavor
to understand the articulation of these many impulses
as they join to undergird an emerging capitalism that
forms the first major phase of the globalization process.
Students will be expected to draw on their previous
work in history and political economy and to engage
in serious written and oral investigation.
- Credit awarded in North American founding, political
economy, early capitalism, mid-18th- to mid-19th-century
European history: France and Great Britain.
- Total: 16 credits.
- Program is preparatory for careers and future studies
in history and political economy.
- This program is also listed in Culture, Text and
Language.
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