Farm to Table: Topics in Local and Global Food Production
New, not in printed catalog
Spring quarter
Faculty: Liza Rognas, Martha Rosemeyer
Enrollment: 48
Prerequisites: None. This all-level program accepts 25 percent first-year students.
Faculty Signature: No
Special Expenses: $75 per student for field trip expenses, food and conference registration.
Internship Possibilities: Yes, contact faculty. Students who participate in an internship should register for the 8 credit option only.

This all-level program offers students a flavorful buffet laden with local and global food systems topics. Students will explore their own food footprint, grow food at the Evergreen organic farm, participate in sustainable growing workshops (composting, seed saving), visit local food producers, investigate issues in farm-to-school programs, learn cooking skills and food preservation at weekly program meals, attend regional conferences, and compare what we learn with food systems and food production in Latin America. Farm to Table offers students an 8 or 16-credit option. Students with 8-credit internships are encouraged to enroll for the 8-credit program option. Program faculty will sponsor several internships. The 8-credit option requires students to participate in workshops, field trips, program meals and seminar. Students will also be expected to maintain a weekly activities journal. In addition to these activities, 16-credit (non-internship) students will participate in additional workshops, lectures, and seminars and complete a library research project resulting in an annotated bibliography and a 7-10 page paper. Students in this program will participate in the following activities: local farm tours, visits to farmers' markets, composting and seed-saving workshops, organic gardening methods, food footprint workshops, weekly meals, cooking and food preservation workshops, films, farm-to-school topics, Latin America community food issues, global food politics, USDA practices workshop, and attend local/regional food sustainability conferences. Students enrolled in the 16 credit option will also complete a library research paper.
Credit awarded in: basic principles in ecology, topics in community food systems, topics in agricultural history and topics in sustainable agriculture.
Total: 8 or 16 credits.
Planning Unit(s): Programs for First-Year Students; Environmental Studies.

Program Updates:

(11/22/02) New, not in printed catalog

Fiber Arts
Spring/Group Contract
Faculty: Gail Tremblay
Enrollment: 18
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing. Core program required, Foundations of the Visual Arts or work in the visual arts preferred.
Faculty Signature: No
Special Expenses: Students can expect to spend $50-$100 for materials and shop fees. Additional expenses for museum and special event fees.
Internship Possibilities: No

Students in this program will study techniques for weaving, felting, embroidery, needle arts and basketry. Students will weave a sampler on the four-harness loom, and design and make three pieces of art work each, and one collaborative project with other students in this group contract. Projects must use or incorporate at least three different techniques we are studying. There will be lectures and films about the history of 20th-century fiber art. All students are expected to do a research paper with illustrations and footnotes and a 10-minute slide presentation about the work of a contemporary fiber artist.
Credit awarded in: weaving, needlework arts, basketry and felting.
Total: 16 credits.
Planning Unit(s): Expressive Arts
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in the visual arts and textile design.

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Fiction and Nonfiction
New, not in printed catalog
Winter and Spring quarters
Faculty: Tom Foote, Evan Shopper
Enrollment: 48
Prerequisites: None. This all-level program accepts up to 50 percent first-year students.
Faculty Signature: Yes
Special Expenses: No
Internship Possibilities: No

This program intensely examines the fundamentals of writing both nonfiction and fiction during the winter quarter. In the spring, students will concentrate on their writing within these genres. A central focus of this program is the writing workshop in which students and faculty offer each other constructive, critical feedback on their writing. This program is designed around the central tenet that students cannot write and describe something they are unable to see clearly. To that end, we begin by studying field research methodology in preparation for observational studies in the field designed to teach the difference between truly seeing and simply looking. Along with the field observations, students will read and discuss selected works of fiction as well as creative nonfiction, an exciting genre that allows and encourages the use of fiction writing techniques to report on factual events. We then move into fiction writing, focusing on elements such as character, action, point of view and structure. We will continue our field observations as well as read short stories and novels. In order to receive credit, students must submit their writing to literary journals in winter and spring quarters.
Credit awarded in: reading contemporary prose, field research, writing faction and writing creative nonfiction.
Total: 16 credits each quarter.
Planning Unit(s): Programs for First-Year Students; Culture, Text and Language
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in journalism and the humanities.

Program Updates:

(11/20/02) New - Not in printed catalog (2/19/03) Unlikely to have space for new students in Spring. Speak with faculty to assess level of preparation.

Foundations of Performing Arts
Fall, Winter, Spring/Coordinated Study
Faculty: Arun Chandra, Dance Visitor (F), Jeffrey Glassman (FWS) 4. Meg Hunt (W)
Enrollment: 72
Prerequisites: This all-level program accepts up to 50 percent or 36 first-year students.
Faculty Signature: Yes
Special Expenses: $30 per quarter to attend performances.
Internship Possibilities: No

Throughout history, the performing arts have embodied the central myths of culture and the shifts in a culture's values, politics and social organization. This program is an introduction to the basic concepts, skills and aesthetics of the performing arts. We will study the performing arts in various historical contexts, as well as in contemporary American culture. Through studying the history, we will be able to see what earlier cultures have thought about the fundamental questions of the human condition and gain a better understanding of the common concerns, hopes, fears and joys of our own time. We will pay particular attention to the reciprocal relationship between the arts and culturehow each shapes and reflects the otherand on the fundamental character of performance. We will examine the timeless, universal compact created between the performer and the audience. What is the essential nature of performance? How do the performer and audience collaborate in creating meaning? How do our life experiences become the material for new creative works?
In fall and winter quarters, this program will focus on the history and aesthetics of theater, dance and music, emphasizing a balance between theory and practice and the development of visual literacy and aesthetic judgement. Students will participate in weekly lectures, workshops, seminars, write papers and attend professional performances. Over the course of the year, students will have the opportunity to do introductory hands-on work in theater, music and dance and to participate in group projects that combine these three arts. Our work will culminate in spring quarter with the creation of an evening's performance, featuring dramatic scenes, musical and dance works.
Credit awarded in:the history, theory and performance of theater, music and dance.
Total: 16 credits per quarter.
Planning Unit(s): Programs for First-Year Students; Expressive Arts.
A similar program is expected to be offered in 2003­04.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in music, theater, dance, liberal arts and the humanities.

Program Updates:

(2/25/03) Faculty Signature added. Not accepting new students in Spring.

Foundations of Visual Art
Fall, Winter, Spring/Coordinated Study
Faculty: Susan Aurand, Bob Leverich, Gail Tremblay, Paul Sparks, Edward Wicklander
Enrollment: 40
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing, transfer students welcome; one year of a coordinated studies program or the equivalent.
Faculty Signature: Yes
Special Expenses: Approximately $300 per quarter for art supplies.
Internship Possibilities: No

This yearlong group contract offers an intensive introduction to the making of two-dimensional and three-dimensional artworks, combined with the study of art history and aesthetics. The primary themes of the program are: developing visual literacy; learning to use art materials to express one's seeing; and learning to make a sustained visual investigation of an idea or topic through work in series. The program functions as a community of working artists, learning together and sharing ideas through intensive in-studio work and art history study. This approach will allow students to develop skills and thematic content in their work more quickly than in simple skill-based classes in art. It will also make possible the cross-fertilization of ideas and the creation of collaborative works. This program is designed for students who have a passion for art, the ability to take risks, the stamina and patience to work hard for long hours, openness to new ideas and the willingness to share their work and support others' learning.
During fall quarter, students will build skills in working both two- and three-dimensionally. Students will learn drawing and design skills through working with a variety of drawing and sculpture materials. Students will develop a visual vocabulary, seeing skills and an understanding of two- and three-dimensional composition. Weekly work will include life drawing, studio projects, work with clay, plaster and wood, art history lectures and seminars. Students will have the opportunity to develop an individual body of work on a theme.
In the winter quarter, students will continue to combine two- and three-dimensional work, with the addition of skills in metals and fiber work. Students will learn basic color theory, continue to learn elements of two- and three-dimensional design and continue to study art history, in a way connected to their studio experiences.
Spring quarter will include skill-building work in painting and will focus on the development of thematic content in work, issues of presentation, contemporary aesthetics and criticism. The art history study in the spring will focus primarily on modern and contemporary periods.
During all three quarters, students will write analytical and research papers and take exams on the art history material introduced. Students will be expected to be in class and work long days in the campus studios. It is not a good choice for students with demanding work commitments outside of school.
Credit awarded in:drawing, sculpture, two-dimensional design, three-dimensional design, painting (possible printmaking in spring) and art history.
Total: 16 credits each quarter.
Planning Unit(s): Expressive Arts
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in art, education and the humanities.

Program Updates:

(2/18/03) Ed Wicklander (3-D artist) has been added to the faculty team

Freshwater Ecology
Fall/Winter - Coordinated Study
Faculty: Robert Cole, Heather Heying
Enrollment: 50
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing, transfer students welcome. One year of college biology, pre-calculus and facility with spreadsheets.
Faculty Signature: No
Special Expenses: $30 for field trip expenses.
Internship Possibilities: No

Fresh surface waters make up less than 0.1% of the total water on earth, but represent an enormously diverse array of ecosystems, a fact reflected in their disproportionate contribution to global biodiversity. Because of their extraordinary value to humans, freshwater systems are among the most intensively used and threatened ecosystems.
This one quarter program will combine study of the structure and function of streams and lakes with exploration of quantitative methods for analyzing these ecosystems. Topics will include hydrologic processes; stream channel and lake morphology; aquatic chemistry; cycling of materials and energy; biological community structure, including plants, invertebrates and fishes; population dynamics; and ecological interrelationships among organisms. Woven throughout the program will be discussion of how humans interact with and influence these systems.
Several field trips will emphasize methods for collecting data on water chemistry, physical habitat and aquatic organisms inhabiting streams and lakes. Additional lab time will be devoted to processing and analyzing data collected in the field.
Credit awarded in: limnology*, stream ecology* and ecological modeling*.
Total: 16 credits.
Planning Unit(s): Environmental Studies
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in biology, ecology and natural resource management.

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Getting to Know the One-Act Play
New, not in printed catalog
Spring quarter
Faculty: Rose Jang, Sandie Nisbet
Enrollment: 48
Prerequisites: Two quarters of coordinated studies. This all-level program accepts up to 25 percent first-year students. It is not necessary to have had previous experience in theater or play-writing.
Faculty Signature: No
Special Expenses: Admission fees for theater tickets.
Internship Possibilities: No

In this one-quarter program, students will study one-act plays. What are the traits of this genre? How do you write a one-act? What is unique to its staging and production? We will commit to careful reading and analyses of selected works, to exercises in different workshops and to staging some final performances open to the public. We will read new one-acts as well as plays by established playwrights Anton Chekhov, Lady Gregory, Tennessee Williams, J. M. Synge, Susan Glaspell, Arthur Miller and Dorothy Parker. What are characteristic sources of the genre's dramatic power, exigency and intensity? Students will do a series of playwriting experiments, applying their understanding of these characteristics. The final performances might consist of both published and original one-act plays directed and performed by students. To participate in this program, students must be amenable to and capable of dedicated, cooperative teamwork. The program structure will be strictly set. In weeks one through five, along with reading and seminar work, every student must participate in two theater workshops run by the faculty. The workshops, distinct but closely coordinated with each other, will guide students through different areas of acting and writing, aiming to prepare them for a full sense of performance. In weeks six through nine, the program will gradually shift to production mode, and the workshops will evolve into rehearsals ready for the final performance. In week nine, the final performance will take place in the Recital Hall. In week ten the students and faculty of Getting to Know the One-Act Play will focus on review and critique of the quarter's work. To earn full credit, students are required to attend all class meetings.
Total: 16 credits.
Planning Unit(s): Programs for First-Year Students; Expressive Arts

Program Updates:

(11/20/02) New, not in printed catalog

Globalization: Hidden Dialogues
New, not in printed catalog
Winter quarter
Faculty: Angela Gilliam
Enrollment: 25
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing and above, transfer students welcome.
Faculty Signature: No
Special Expenses: No
Internship Possibilities: No

This program is designed to address the different ways peoples of the world have been engaging each other in dialogue in the last 25 years. Special emphasis will be given to the newly-emerging world social forums (such as the European Social Forum) as a method in which the international conversations are being decentralized and globalized. As such, the program is structured to follow and accompany the developments at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, at the end of January, 2003—particularly the U.S. citizens' participation in this world discussion. These international dialogues are often hidden or under emphasized in the media. In addition to addressing the struggles at the United Nations and how these sometimes cannot prevent war, we will focus on three case studies: Brazil, United States and South Africa. Stress will also be placed on the ways that U.S. citizens are organizing to participate more openly in the new globalized cultural resistance. An intellectual journal, a group paper, a synthesis paper and student-led, pre-lecture discussions are required for credit. Evergreen staff will be likely participants in the weekly film discussions.
Total: 16 credits each quarter.
Planning Unit(s): Society, Politics, Behavior and Change

Program Updates:

(11/20/02) New, not in printed catalog

The Good Citizen
New, not in printed catalog
Spring quarter
Faculty: Charles Pailthorp, Maya Parson
Enrollment: 46
Prerequisites: None
Faculty Signature: No
Special Expenses: No
Internship Possibilities: No

Thomas Jefferson and Martin Luther King Jr., among others, tell us that it is the responsibility of good citizens to rebel against the things that we find unjust. Today, however, popular notions of good citizenship often emphasize following the rules rather than challenging them. This program asks: What does it mean to be a good citizen in the 21st century? To address this question, we will critically examine Western discourses of citizenship in both classic and contemporary texts. We will begin with classics of social contract theory (Plato, Rousseau, Locke) and then briefly trace the lived experiences of these ideas in the American founding period, Victorian America and contemporary U.S. society. We will ask: What is the social contract? Who is privy to it? What rights and responsibilities does citizenship entail? We will then expand our scope to consider how some contemporary social movements and theorists (e.g., feminist, anarchist, radical democratic) inside and outside of the United States are negotiating these questions. How do concepts like "cosmopolitanism" attempt to redefine notions of social responsibility in an increasingly globalized world? What kinds of alternative social contracts and definitions of citizenship might we imagine?
Credit awarded in: American history, political philosophy and cultural anthropology.
Total: 16 credits.
Program is preparatory for: Students interested in political philosophy and theory, American history and culture and social movements.
Planning Unit(s): Programs for First-Year Students

Program Updates:

(11/26/02) New, not in printed catalog

The Good Life
Fall, Winter/Coordinated Study
Faculty: Bill Arney, Nancy Koppelman
Enrollment: 48
Prerequisites: None. This all-level program will accept up to 25 percent or 12 first-year students.
Faculty Signature: Yes
Special Expenses: No
Internship Possibilities: No

Phillip Rieff ends his The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith After Freud with this observation: "That a sense of well-being has become the end, rather than a by-product of striving after some communal end, announces a fundamental change of focus in the entire cast of our culture." We have turned inward, and the mark of the good life nowadays is merely this "sense of well-being." His conclusion raises a number of questions. Is contentment an adequate measure of a good life? On what bases do we judge our lives? What are the conditions we look for in a "good life"? When we make the judgment of a good life, what do we mean? Why are these questions, and our responses to them, important to ponder at this time?
To gain some sense of the sort of "communal end" we have lost in the shift described by Rieff, we will begin this two-quarter program with Lee Hoinacki's Stumbling Toward Justice: Stories of Place. Hoinacki will help us locate our study of possible contemporary meanings of "the good life" in everyday events and decisions in our lives. Other authors may include Ivan Illich, Richard Rorty, Martha Nussbaum and Hannah Arendt. Through their work, we will enter into the debates and conversations about a "good life" and come to understand the social ideas and historical forces that have shaped our thinking and, likely, our experience.
Credit awarded in: philosophy, sociology, anthropology, literature and writing.
Total: 16 credits each quarter.
Planning Unit(s): Programs for First-Year Students; Culture, Text and Language
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in teaching and other public and scholarly professions.

Program Updates:

Rita Pougiales will not teach in the program. Nancy Koppelman joins the program.

The Good Life in the Good Society: Modern Social and Political Philosophy from Machiavelli to Marx
Spring quarter
Faculty: Alan Nasser
Enrollment: 25
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing, transfer students welcome.
Faculty Signature: Yes. Students should submit copies of Evergreen evaluations and writing samples to Alan Nasser at the Academic Fair, March 5, 2003. Transfer students can send transcripts and writing samples to Alan Nasser, The Evergreen State College, SE 3127, Olympia, WA 98505. For more information call (360) 867-6759.
Special Expenses: No
Internship Possibilities: No
We will carefully and analytically examine the major issues in social and political theory that define the tradition of classical modern social and political philosophy. We will focus on the works of Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, John Stuart Mill, Rousseau and Marx. We will also read articles and chapters from selected books on central issues arising from these philosophers' writings. Our objective will be to understand the historical, theoretical and philosophical developments that set the stage for the emergence of a political, economic and social culture dominated by the interests of corporate business and the subordination of the interests of working people to the demands of the business community. We will see how the classical tradition of social and political philosophy contributed to the present dominance of born-again capitalism. Among the issues we will examine are the rise of individualism, the role of self-interest in human motivation, the historical emergence of capitalism and its distinctive notions of freedom and liberty, the alleged conflict between liberty and equality, the role of the State and its relation to the economy, the constraints placed on democracy by the new global market culture and the implications of all these developments for the nature of work in the modern world.
Credit awarded in: political philosophy, social philosophy and history of capitalism.
Total: 16 credits.
Planning Unit(s): Society, Politics, Behavior and Change
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in social science, law, philosophy, political philosophy and ethics.

Program Updates:

Great British and Irish Moderns: Poetry and Fiction
Winter/Group Contract
Faculty: Charles McCann
Enrollment: 25
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing, transfer students welcome.
Faculty Signature: No
Special Expenses: No
Internship Possibilities: No

We will read seven of the principal figures of the modern period in England and Ireland: the collected poetry of Yeats, Eliot and the "English" Auden; and three books each by Conrad, Lawrence and Joyce. Each student will read a different seventh figure in independent study. During poetry seminars each student will deliver one 10- to 15-minute oral presentation per week. Evaluations will focus on the presentations, the student's general contributions to seminar discussion, a paper resulting from independent study and an examination on the novels.
Credit awarded in: modern English poetry, modern English fiction and independent study (all upper-division credit).
Total: 16 credits.
Planning Unit(s): Culture, Text and Language
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in the humanities and literature.

Program Updates:

Health and Human Development
Fall, Winter, Spring/Coordinated Study
Faculty: Stu Matz, George Freeman, Jr., Rachel Brem, Susan Finkel
Enrollment: 100
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing, transfer students welcome.
Faculty Signature: Yes
Special Expenses: Approximately $45 per quarter for retreats, conferences and travel to and from internships.
Internship Possibilities: Yes, winter and spring quarters with faculty approval.

This program explores the intersection of human health and society. Each quarter we will examine this relationship through content-related themes and experiences to help us understand the fundamentals of human biology and psychology.
Our learning community will grapple with the age-old questions regarding the nature/nurture controversy and how it serves as one foundation of modern biological science. More specifically, we will use the broader themes of our program to engage questions of how we navigate our way through the world. How do we build healthy relationships? What myths guide our decision making regarding health? What barriers prevent us from achieving a more wholesome lifestyle? What is our role in building an effective community? Along with these questions we will study the particulars of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and class and religion affiliation/identity as predictors of achieving health and well-being. We'll also examine these characteristics in terms of their social construction and the creation of a multicultural, democratic society.
We take seriously the five foci of the college's curriculum. As such, we value content, process and skill development and see them as essential elements of a good liberal arts education. Our program will focus on clarity in oral and written communication, quantitative skills, the ability to work across significant differences, and the development of an aesthetic sensibility. Students are expected to engage in their learning through their work in the learning community itself.
Students completing this program will come to a stronger understanding of their personal lives as situated in a variety of contexts. They will develop strategies for engaging in a range of settings to promote social change, in-depth personal development, increased self-awareness, critical commentary and analysis, and practices that promote health and well-being. They will come to understand themselves as a member of multiple communities and as having a responsibility to these communities.
Credit awarded in: human biology, human development, abnormal psychology and personality theory, community psychology, educational theory and design, multicultural studies, writing and quantitative skills.
Total: 16 credits each quarter.
Planning Unit(s): Scientific Inquiry; Society, Politics, Behavior and Change.
A similar program is expected to be offered in 2003­04.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in the health professions, the social services, public policy and education.

Program Updates:

(11/22/02) Faculty approval is required prior to registering. Susan Finkel joins the program. Rachel Brem (Biophysics) has been added to the faculty team. (2/19/03) Faculty Signature added. Not accepting new students in Spring.

Hispanic Forms in Life and Art
Fall, Winter, Spring/Coordinated Study
Faculty: Alice Nelson, Nancy Allen
Enrollment: 50
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing, transfer students welcome. Core program or equivalent; some study of history or literature.
Faculty Signature: Yes
Special Expenses: Approximately $3,500 for optional spring quarter trip to Spain or Latin America.
Internship Possibilities: Yes, spring quarter only.

This program explores the inextricable cultural, historical and linguistic links between Spain and Latin America. During fall and winter quarters, students will be involved in intensive Spanish language classes and seminars conducted in English on the history and literature of Spain and Latin America. Spring quarter, all program work will be done in Spanish, and students will have the opportunity to study in Spain or Latin America, or to do internships in Olympia-area Latino communities.
The program is organized around points of contact between Spain and Latin America, beginning with the Spanish Conquest. During the first weeks of fall quarter, we will explore the medieval period in Spain to gain an understanding of cultural interactions among Christians, Muslims and Jews, and of the ideas and institutions growing out of the Christian "Reconquest" of the peninsula. We will attempt to relate the Reconquest world view and the rise of the Inquisition to the subsequent conquest of the Americas. In our study of the conquest, we will analyze the perspectives from which indigenous people and Spaniards viewed their contact, and the ideas and cultural practices of both groups during the Conquest and the colonial period. For the rest of the quarter, we will explore Spain's decline as an empire in the 17th century and Spanish American struggles for independence in the 19th century.
Winter quarter, we will turn to issues facing Spain and Latin America in the 20th century, primarily as expressed in literary texts. Topics may include: collective trauma and memory after the Spanish Civil War and after dictatorships in the Southern Cone; struggles against U.S. imperialism and for self-determination in contemporary Nicaragua; cultural, economic and political resistance within Andean communities; or ways that transnational migration has impacted Spain and the Americas.
Spring quarter, students may opt to study abroad. In Spain, students will attend language school and explore various questions related to that country's present-day view of America and its own imperial past. In Latin America, students will live with host families, attend language school and study contemporary resistance movements.
Those students staying in Olympia during spring quarter will have the opportunity to do internships with local Latino community organizations. In addition, the on-campus history-culture seminar will focus on issues affecting Latino communities in the United States. All seminars will be held in Spanish.
Credit awarded in: Spanish language, history and literature of medieval Spain, history and literature of colonial Spanish America, contemporary Latin American literature and culture, research and writing, and additional equivalencies depending on the country of travel and students' projects or internships completed during spring quarter.
Total: 16 credits each quarter.
Planning Unit(s): Culture, Text and Language
A similar program is expected to be offered in 2004­05.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in languages, history, literature, writing and international studies.

Program Updates:

(11/22/02) Faculty approval is required prior to registering. (2/28/03) Will accept new students in Spring, with faculty permission. New students should have intermediate Spanish language skills at minimum (2 quarters college level).

Hype and Hucksters: Media Campaigns as Popular Culture
Fall, Winter, Spring/Group Contract
Faculty: Virginia Hill, Susan Fiksdal
Enrollment: 48
Prerequisites: None. This all-level program accepts up to 30 percent or 15 first-year students.
Faculty Signature: Yes
Special Expenses: No
Internship Possibilities: Yes, spring quarter.

Media campaign hype and those who create it will occupy our attention in this program. Public campaigns presented in the mass media are so common we scarcely notice them, yet they have a profound effect on the way we think, on the way public life is conducted, and on our national aspirations. They exhort us to believe this person but not that one, to adopt one habit and break another, to give one person our vote or to buy a company's product. They tint one idea or way of life with glamour and goodness, while they tar others as wicked or unsavory. Public campaigns are exercises in managed communications, informed by principles of advertising and public relations.
Campaigns are also a form of propaganda, something we will consider in depth, using seminar books, case studies, discourse analyses, research projects and media workshops. We will study how campaigns are created, how they are managed, and how they do their persuasive work. We will carefully examine the ways in which language shapes our understanding of information, as well as the interplay of language and images. In fall, we will focus on public campaigns, including the upcoming fall political campaigns; in winter, we will shift our attention to commercial campaigns. In spring, students will undertake media-related internships to see those principles and practices from fall and winter in operation.
Credit awarded in: persuasion and propaganda, mass communications and society, linguistics, writing, campaign management, introduction to advertising, principles of public relations, principles of marketing and multimedia presentation.
Total: 16 credits each quarter. Spring quarter students will enroll in media-related internships for 12 or 16 credits.
Planning Unit(s): Programs for First-Year Students; Culture, Text and Language.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in mass communications, law, marketing, advertising, public relations and campaign management.

Program Updates:

(2/19/03) Faculty Signature added. Not accepting new students in Spring.

Imaging the Body
Fall, Winter/Coordinated Study
Faculty: Lisa Sweet, Paul Przybylowicz
Enrollment: 46
Prerequisites: None
Faculty Signature: No
Special Expenses: There will be three overnight, three-day field trips in Eastern and Western Washington. Approximate cost will be $45 for transportation to be paid by the beginning of the quarter.
Internship Possibilities: No

Imaging—to form a mental picture of; to make a visible representation of. This program will integrate distinctly different models for examining the human bodyanatomy and physiology, figure drawing and yoga. We will explore the intersections between these disciplines and discover how these different ways of knowing the body informs and deepens one's experiences.
Students will be introduced to basic drawing skills and art appreciation and have a unique opportunity to engage the body artistically, informed by an understanding of anatomy and movement. A larger goal will be to demystify the creative process. We will emphasize research, critical viewing and thinking, and continually refine ideas in all aspects of the program. Students will learn basic drawing techniques and apply them to the human figure, while they are introduced to the principles of human anatomy and physiology. We will study historical and contemporary works of art employing figurative themes. We will examine the body primarily from the western scientific viewpoint, but will also introduce other models for imaging the body. We will explore current topics in physiology and examine them critically. Yoga will integrate the knowledge from the other portions of the program. We will study alignment and movement as a way to explore anatomy and to make art with our bodies.
Credit awarded in: basic drawing, art appreciation, introduction to anatomy and physiology, yoga and expository writing.
Total: 16 credits each quarter.
Planning Unit(s): Programs for First-Year Students
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in art and biology.

Program Updates:

Individuals vs. Societies: Studies of American and Japanese Society, Literature and Cinema
Spring/Group Contract
Faculty: Harumi Moruzzi
Enrollment: 24
Prerequisites: None. This all-level program accepts up to 25 percent or 6 first-year students.
Faculty Signature: No
Special Expenses: Up to $30 for a field trip.
Internship Possibilities: No

In this program we will examine the concepts of the individual and society, and the interaction between the two, through the critical exploration of American and Japanese literature and cinema, as well as popular media.
When the 18th-century Danish philosopher, Soren Kierkegaard, chose "that individual" as his own epitaph, he was proclaiming himself as an individual, the only concrete mode of human existence, although he was keenly aware of the consequence of such a stance. In America, however, the concept of individuals as autonomous and free agents with an inalienable right to pursue happiness seems to have been accepted quite cheerfully, and indeed without much anguish. This is manifested variously from the self-acquisitiveness of Benjamin Franklin's character, Poor Richard, to Thoreau's "rugged" self-reliance to "the Great" Gatsby's misguided self-creation. Books such as William Whyte's The Organization Man and David Riesman's The Lonely Crowd revealed conformist tendencies of individuals belonging to some American communities. These books were written to criticize the group orientation of certain segments of society, while reclaiming the value of individualism in America.
Meanwhile, in Japan, which often appears to emphasize the opposite human values, the importance of group cohesion and harmony rather than the individual right to happiness, has been stressed throughout much of its history. In fact, Japanese often seemed to consider themselves as the embodiment of concepts such as nationality, gender or family rather than individuals.
Certainly, the reality is not as simple as these stereotypical representations of two societies indicate. This dichotomized comparative frame presents an interesting context in which we can explore the concepts of the individual and community/society, and the dynamic relationship between these two concepts. Throughout the quarter we will focus on the ideas of the individual and community/society and their interrelationships.
Credit awarded in: Japanese culture, Japanese literature, American literature, psychology, sociology, literary theory and film studies.
Total: 16 credits.
Planning Unit(s): Programs for First-Year Students; Culture, Text and Language.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in literature, psychology, sociology, cultural studies, film studies and international relations.

Program Updates:

Insects and Plants of Washington
Spring/Coordinated Study
Faculty: Paul Przybylowicz, John Longino
Enrollment: 48
Prerequisites: This all-level program accepts up to 25 percent or 12 first-year students.
Faculty Signature: No
Special Expenses: There will be three overnight, three-day field trips in Eastern and Western Washington. Approximate cost will be $150, to be paid by April 4, 2003.
Internship Possibilities: No

After this program, insects and plants will never look the same to you. We will spend the quarter alternating between field and lab, learning basic botany and entomology, with an emphasis on learning the common plants and insects of Washington. We will also study the ecology and evolution of insects and plants, and their interactions. Insect identification will focus on orders and major families, and the skills needed to key out any insect to family. Students will also learn to identify the major divisions of plantsfrom liverworts to flowering plants.
There will be three overnight field trips to different parts of Washington, and these will alternate with laboratory-based studies using existing collections and new collections from field trips. Evaluations will be based on lab practicals, exams and a field journal.
Credit awarded in: introductory botany, introductory entomology and writing.
Total: 16 credits.
Planning Unit(s): Programs for First-Year Students; Environmental Studies.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in botany, entomology, field biology and environmental science.

Program Updates:

Intimate Nature: Communication Older than Words
Fall, Winter, Spring/Coordinated Study
Faculty: Laurie Meeker, Sarah Williams, Sean Williams
Enrollment: 72
Prerequisites: None. This all-level program accepts up to 25 percent or 18 first-year students.
Faculty Signature: Yes
Special Expenses: $75 per quarter for media production; $40 per quarter for Yoga or Liangong; $100 for overnight field trips.
Internship Possibilities: No

Is our engagement with a sparrow's song, an Irish poem, an abstract film, a yoga pose a matter of remembering and unlearning? Could it also become a practice of intuitive knowing? How can we respond to a friend's grief, the destruction of the salmon, the horror of a clear-cut forest, and our own ineffectiveness in the face of such problems?
As human beings our encounters with ourselves, with other species and lands are often in languages older than words. We feel these encounters in the body first, perhaps at a 'heart' level; then, we process them through our intellectual and cultural filters. Our individual filters are shaped by our childhood, our language and culture, our encounters with the media, arts, environment and our experiences as thinking and feeling adults. We are interested in how these filters become shields that block and cut us off from older, indigenous, intuitive, non-anthropomorphic and more sustainable forms of communication.
This program will explore the intimate nature of the relationship between our experiential realities and the intuitive and intellectual processes of understanding them. We want to create a learning community that serves as a refuge. We see this as an experiment that attempts to balance intellectual processes with body and spirit and embraces emotion in the classroom. Silence, sitting in circles for discussion, reflection in natural settings, the creation of artworks, musical practice, retreats and movement workshops are ways in which we intend to balance our reading and research.
Using films, texts, music, movement and fieldwork, we will intentionally create opportunities to engage in remembering and awakening our practices of intuitive knowing. We will study lives and the work of artists, naturalists and scientists who are interested in the politics of interspecies communication and who have found ways to engage older ways of knowing. We will use ethnographic studies, autobiographies, fiction, poetry and field journals to connect with our own intimate natures.
Credit awarded in: anthropology, cultural studies, feminist theory, media, ethnomusicology and women's studies.
Total: 16 credits each quarter.
Planning Unit(s): Programs for First-Year Students; Culture, Text and Language and Expressive Arts.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in the performing arts, media arts, cultural studies and women's studies.

Program Updates:

(11/19/02) Faculty Signature added. (3/3/03) Students should speak with the faculty at the Academic Fair, Wednesday, March 5th, 4 to 6 p.m.

Introduction to Environmental Studies
Fall, Winter/Coordinated Study
Faculty: Lin Nelson, Sharon Anthony, Martha Rosemeyer
Enrollment: 75
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing, transfer students welcome.
Faculty Signature: No
Special Expenses: Approximately $100 each quarter for overnight field trips.
Internship Possibilities: No

What are some of the major environmental issues facing the world today? How can we use science, social science and knowledge of community issues to study these environmental problems? Introduction to Environmental Studies serves as the foundation for more advanced work in environmental studies. In particular, we will examine the general relationships among science, policy and community, as we explore the development of campaigns and solutions for dealing with climate change, resource use, environmental hazards and water pollution. Students will gain strong preparation in environmental chemistry as a science and in examining chemistry in relationship to industrial production, pollution assessments, environmental health and public policy.
We will dedicate substantial time to examining global and U.S. patterns of population, development, consumption and energy use. This will involve study of models, data systems, debates and public policy. We will also focus on the global conditions of climate change, ozone depletion and environmental health. In looking at these, we will draw on environmental science, particularly chemistry, social science and public policy.
We will also turn our attention to the relationship of global to regional to local conditions. One of our areas of concern will be watershed health and water quality; this will allow us to work from laboratory to field application and to explore water policy, public education and citizen advocacy. Regional and community studies will be a significant component of our work, involving selective study of and visits to area communities facing environmental challenges.
Class time will include lectures, labs, workshops, field applications, field trips and consultations with regional environmental scientists and advocates. There will be a strong emphasis on developing proficiency in the lab and field, writing, research methods, community applications, discussion of texts and student development of projects.
Credit awarded in: environmental chemistry, environmental social science, environmental policy, environmental health, research methods (quantitative and qualitative), community and regional studies.
Total: 16 credits each quarter.
Planning Unit(s): Environmental Studies
A similar program is expected to be offered in 2003­04.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in environmental science, environmental policy, community development, social science, planning, environmental education and environmental studies.

Program Updates:

Martha Rosemeyer joins the program.

Introduction to Natural Science
Fall, Winter, Spring/Coordinated Study
Faculty: Dharshi Bopegedera, Andrew Brabban, Catherine French
Enrollment: 75
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing, transfer students welcome; high school algebra. All students are required to pick up an advisory letter from the program secretary prior to registering. Contact Pam Udovich at (360) 867-6600, or udovichp@evergreen.edu, or The Evergreen State College, Lab I, Olympia, WA 98505.
Faculty Signature: Yes. Freshmen will be accepted into the program provided they interview with the faculty first.
Special Expenses: No
Internship Possibilities: No

This program is designed to provide a basic conceptual and methodological background for students who want to continue in the natural sciences, but who do not have the necessary mathematical preparation to take the calculus-based science in Matter in Motion. Students will learn about the key concepts in physics, chemistry and biology, necessary to prepare them for more advanced study in chemistry, physics, biology, environmental or health sciences.
The program activities will include lectures, laboratories, workshops and seminars. Seminars will explore controversial topics in science, and students will engage in these debates.
At the end of the program, students will have completed one year of general chemistry, physics and biology.
Credit awarded in: general physics, general chemistry and general biology.
Total: 16 credits each quarter.
Planning Unit(s): Scientific Inquiry
A similar program is expected to be offered in 2003­04.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in chemistry, physics, biology, environmental sciences and graduate and professional studies in health sciences and medicine.
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Program Updates:

(11/22/02) Catherine French (Mathematics) has been added to the faculty team. (2/20/03) Faculty Signature added. Not accepting new students in Spring.

Japanese Language and Culture
Fall, Winter, Spring/Group Contract
Faculty: Setsuko Tsutsumi, John Cushing, Yukio Rikiso (FW)
Enrollment: 50
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing, transfer students welcome.
Faculty Signature: Yes
Special Expenses: Optional six- to eight-week trip to Japan during spring quarter is approximately $5,500, including airfare and personal costs.
Internship Possibilities: No

This program will explore various aspects of Japanese civilization, aesthetics and philosophy, values and morals, and the sense of community and individual, which vary from period to period, reflecting the changing times and circumstances in the stream of history. We will identify the elements of continuity in the midst of significant changes in Japan's long and distinguished history.
In fall, we will concentrate on pre-19th century, exploring the literary and aesthetic traditions that constitute the backbone of modern Japan. In winter, we will pay special attention to significant topics, especially following World War II, such as changes in the structure of society and family, loss of self-identity and the changing status of women. In spring, we will conduct an optional field trip to Japan. The trip is contingent upon the number of students and home stay availability. Materials will be drawn from literature, history, politics and films appropriate to the topics under consideration.
The Japanese language course will run throughout the year to enhance the learning of each subject, as well as to draw a whole picture of the culture.
Credit awarded in: Japanese history, Japanese literature, Japanese film, Japanese language (beginning and intermediate).
Total: 16 credits each quarter.
Planning Unit(s): Culture, Text and Language
A similar program is expected to be offered in 2003­04.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in Japanese studies, Japanese literature, Japanese history and Japanese language.

Program Updates:

(11/22/02) John Cushing and Yukio Rikiso (F,W only) have been added to this program. (2/19/03) Faculty Signature added. New students must have at least 2 quarters of Japanese language at college level (12 credits) and have a solid individual project plan related to Japanese subjects.