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Liberation Theology: East and West
Fall, Winter and Spring quarters
Faculty: Ryo Imamura (FW), Jorge
Gilbert (FWS)
Enrollment: 50 (FW); 25 (S)
Prerequisites: None. Sophomore standing
and above.
Faculty Signature: No
Special Expenses: No expenses during
fall and winter quarters. Optional travel expenses spring quarter.
Internship Possibilities: Yes, with
faculty approval.
Travel Component: Optional study
trip to Chile spring quarter.
Within the past century the world's religions have grown in their
awareness of the ways in which faith calls people to action in
the world. This call has led to the emergence of two new and radical
theories of social involvement. The first, known as Engaged Buddhism,
emerged from the tragedy of the war that engulfed Vietnam in the
1960s and 1970s. The second, Liberation Theology (also called
"The Option for the Poor" by many priests), was developed within
the Roman Catholic Church amidst the suffering of the poor in
Latin America. While these theories of social involvement come
from disparate histories, geographical locations and scriptural
traditions, Engaged Buddhism and Liberation Theology nonetheless
share certain foundational principles. This program will explore
the scriptural, historical and political foundations of Engaged
Buddhism and Liberation Theology. It will trace these imperatives
through the social action theories developed by the two traditions
and investigate the common elements, which could be starting points
for dialogue between the two practices. During the spring quarter,
the program will offer interested students the opportunity to
travel to Chile, with the faculty team, to study and experience
firsthand the practices of Liberation Theology and also Buddhism,
which is enjoying growing popularity with the increased presence
and influence of Asian culture.
Credit awarded in: comparative religion,
cultural studies, Spanish, political economy, Buddhist studies,
peace and justice issues, Asian studies, Latin American studies,
social communication, cross-cultural psychology.
Total: 16 credits each quarter.
Planning Unit(s): Society, Politics,
Behavior and Change
Program is preparatory for: careers
and future studies in religion, sociology, international studies,
Spanish, social communication, Asian studies, Buddhist studies,
psychology, political science and Latin American studies.
Program
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a fall, winter, spring quarter offering, with optional travel
to Chile during spring quarter.
(11/19/02) Faculty Signature added.
(1/29/03) Please note that Ryo Imamura will not be in this
program for spring quarter. Jorge Gilbert will travel abroad
with the students in this program. Ryo will be assigned to
the Individual Contract Pool for spring quarter.
(3/4/03) Faculty Signature dropped.
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Life on Earth: Postcards
from the Edge
Fall, Winter/Coordinated Study
Faculty: Gerardo Chin-Leo, Paul
Butler, Paula Schofield
Enrollment: 69
Prerequisites: None
Faculty Signature: No
Special Expenses: Optional field
trips at the end of winter quarter: the Grand Canyon dory trip,
approximately $1,600; or the Eastern Washington, Sun Lakes trip,
approximately $250.
Internship Possibilities: No
The origin and evolution of life on earth, along
with changes in the earth itself, have always been sources of
fascination and controversy. This program will examine significant
events in the history of life, the large-scale geologic changes
that have occurred in earth's history and extreme habitats in
contemporary environments. Postcards suggest an image in time
and space. The Edge is our way of portraying unusual settings
where interesting things happened or happen geologically, biologically
and chemically. Our goal is to select illustrative case studies
from the dawn of life to the present day to illustrate the inextricable
links between life and the physical/chemical environment. We will
study the diversity of contemporary environments not only to learn
how environmental changes affect life, but how biologic changes,
in turn, alter the physical/chemical environment.
Fall quarter, we will study the origin of life, the evolution
of living systems and the causes of mass extinction. Our study
will include discussions of the evolution of the atmosphere, hydrosphere
and lithosphere; and of the diversity of life (taxonomy and metabolism),
all in the context of geologic time. Winter quarter, we will focus
on understanding the biology, chemistry and geology of extreme
environments, e.g., alpine glaciers, polar regions, deserts, coral
reefs and geothermal vents. In addition, we will examine current
environmental problems related to human activities, including
global climate change and pollution. The program will conclude
by examining what makes human presence on the planet sustainable.
Program material will be presented through lectures, seminars,
labs and field trips. In seminar, we will learn how to critically
read both popular and technical literature and learn about scientific
reasoning and writing. We will read various perspectives on the
origin and evolution of life and on mass extinctions. In addition,
we will consider science in a cultural context and examine the
ethical and societal implications of science.
In labs, we will learn basic skills in chemistry, geology, biology
and ecology, with emphasis placed on illustrating principles presented
in lecture. We will teach quantitative skills (algebra, estimation,
orders of magnitude, simple modeling) using Excel spreadsheet
software. We will also allow students to apply their knowledge
and skills through research projects that will examine pollution
in local environments.
Field trips will explore the local habitats of Budd Inlet, Mount
Rainier, as well as the (optional) distant habitats of Eastern
Washington or the Grand Canyon. The two optional field trips will
run concurrently at the end of winter quarter. Students interested
in the Grand Canyon trip should contact Paul Butler by November
20, 2002.
Credit awarded in: chemistry, environmental
biology, geology, quantitative methods and technical 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 environmental studies, chemistry, biology
and geology.
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Light and Terror: France
in the Age of Voltaire and Robespierre
New, not in printed catalog
Winter/Coordinated Study
Faculty: Stacey David
Enrollment: 25
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing.
Students who successfully completed the fall quarter program Image
Conscious: The Emergence of the Self in Early Modern Europe from
Shakespeare to the Enlightenment have registration priority.
Faculty Signature: No
Special Expenses: No
Internship Possibilities: No
This program will probe the links between the European Enlightenment
and the French Revolution. We will begin with a study of ancien
régime French society starting with the reign of Louis
XIV, then we will turn to Enlightenment critiques of the monarchy
and aristocratic society. Finally, we will explore the French
Revolution from the fall of the Bastille through the violent days
of the Terror and the rise of the Napoleonic Empire. Throughout,
our main question will be: to what extent did the political theory,
philosophy and literature of Voltaire, Rousseau and their more
humble “grub street” imitators influence the course
of the Revolution?
To aid our inquiries, we will read literature of all stripes,
from the lofty Persian Letters by Montesquieu to the sexual intrigue
of Laclos’ Dangerous Liaisons to the frankly bawdy popular
pamphlets satirizing the life of Marie-Antoinette. We will examine
the fine arts, including paintings from Watteau to David, as well
as architecture and decorative style. Finally, we will cement
our studies with a variety of historical texts, both secondary
works and primary sources, which will allow us to uncover the
lives and passions of common folk during this tumultuous time.
Although France will be our primary focus, we will also look at
related European trends from the Scottish Enlightenment to Kantian
philosophy and the British reaction to the French Revolution and
the Napoleonic wars.
Students will complete intensive reading and writing assignments,
lead seminars, and give oral presentations.
Credit awarded in: European history,
literature and art history.
Total: 16 credits.
Planning Unit(s): Culture, Text
and Language
Program is preparatory for: careers
and future studies in history, literature, art history, philosophy
and cultural studies.
Program
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Making of Modern America:
The Founding Period to the Present
Fall, Winter, Spring/Coordinated Study
Faculty: Jerry Lassen, David Hitchens,
Tom Grissom
Enrollment: 69
Prerequisites: None
Faculty Signature: No
Special Expenses: No
Internship Possibilities: No
This program charts the course of the development
of the United States from the Constitutional period to the present.
The battle between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson marked
the beginning of the debate over the shape of the politics and
the economics of the country for the next two centuries. Whereas
Jefferson wanted an independent citizenry based on land ownership
and agriculture, Hamilton advocated support for the development
of an industrial economy focused on manufacturing. This difference
was geographically significant in that the North became the center
of manufacturing activity while the South depended on agriculture
supported by the peculiar institution of slavery. Ultimately,
this conflict was resolved in the Civil War.
The Reconstruction period that followed the war was also a time
of unprecedented economic growth. The changes after the war inspired
reform movements that had a major impact on the country. Populism,
progressivism, prohibition and the suffrage movement all gained
momentum during the half century after the war. Additionally,
the United States became involved in World War I followed by a
period of remarkable growth during the 1920s. The prosperity was
short lived and the depression that followed was certainly the
most traumatic economic period in our nation's history. World
War II brought the economy out of the depression and the 50 years
following the war strengthened the position of the country both
domestically and internationally.
This program will explore three pivotal periods in the history
of the nation. Fall quarter we will examine the 17901877
period, winter quarter we will focus on 18771945 and spring
quarter we will study 1945 to the present.
Student's work will emphasize careful reading, seminar participation
and weekly writing assignments.
Credit awarded in: American history,
American literature, philosophy, political economy, history of
science, writing, economic reasoning and quantitative reasoning.
Total: 16 credits each quarter.
Planning Unit(s): Programs for First-Year
Students
Program is preparatory for: careers
and future studies in the humanities, social science, law, journalism
and science.
Program
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Marine Life: Marine Organisms
and Their Environments
Winter, Spring/Group Contract
Faculty: Erik Thuesen, Amy Cook
Enrollment: 50
Prerequisites: Junior or senior
standing, transfer students welcome; at least two quarters of
college chemistry and two quarters of biological sciences with
labs; an ability to work easily with numbers and equations; experience
using a personal computer.
Faculty Signature: Yes
Special Expenses: Up to $140 for
overnight field trips.
Internship Possibilities: No
This program focuses on marine organisms, the sea
as a habitat, relationships between organisms and the physical/chemical
properties of their environments and their adaptations to those
environments. Students will study marine organisms, elements of
biological, chemical and physical oceanography and field sampling
methods, with associated statistics and laboratory techniques.
Throughout the program, students will focus on the identification
of marine organisms and aspects of the ecology of selected species.
Physiological adaptations to diverse marine environments and comparative
anatomy will be also be emphasized. The class will study physical
features of marine waters, nutrients, biological productivity
and regional topics in marine science. Concepts will be applied
via faculty-designed experiments and student-designed research
projects. Data analysis will be facilitated through the use of
Excel spreadsheets and elementary statistics. Seminars will analyze
appropriate primary literature on topics from lectures and research
projects.
The faculty will facilitate identification of student research
projects, which may range from studies of trace metals in local
organisms and sediments to ecological investigations of local
estuarine animals. Students will design their research projects
during winter quarter and write a research proposal that will
undergo class-wide peer review. The research projects will then
be carried out during spring quarter. The scientific process is
completed when results of the research projects are documented
in written papers and students give oral presentations during
the last week of spring quarter.
Credit awarded in: marine biology*,
oceanography*, marine ecology* and research*. Although circumstances
may change, we anticipate that all credit will be designated upper-division
science for those students completing both quarters of the program.
Total: 16 credits each quarter.
Planning Unit(s): Environmental
Studies
A similar program is expected to be offered in 200405.
Program is preparatory for: careers
and future studies in marine science, environmental science and
other life sciences.
Program
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Masculinities and Femininities Across
the Globe: Sex is Fun, but Gender is a Drag
New, not in printed catalog
Spring quarter
Faculty: Toska Olson
Enrollment: 25
Prerequisites: Junior or senior
standing; transfer students are welcome.
Faculty signature: No
Special Expenses: Approximately
$75 for program retreat.
Internship Possibilities: Yes, with
faculty approval.
This program is a cross-cultural exploration of
gender, masculinity and femininity. We will examine questions
such as: How do expectations of masculine and feminine behavior
manifest themselves worldwide in social institutions such as work,
families and schools? How do social theorists explain the current
state of gender stratification? How does gender intersect with
issues of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation and social class
identity? In the first two weeks of the program, students will
examine how to conduct cross-cultural archival research on gender.
In addition, we will consider issues related to ethnocentrism
in cross-cultural and historical research. During the majority
of the quarter, we will study cross-cultural variation in women's
and men's experiences and opportunities within several different
social institutions. Lectures and seminar readings will provide
students with a common set of knowledge about gendered experiences
in the United States. Peer research presentations will provide
students with information about gender in other cultures. This
program involves extensive student-initiated research and puts
a heavy emphasis on public speaking and advanced group work. Students
will be encouraged to produce a research paper that represents
a culmination of their college writing and thinking abilities.
Credit awarded in: areas such as
sociology*, cultural studies*, anthropology*, public speaking
and library research.
Total: 12 or 16 credits.
Planning Unit(s): Society, Politics,
Behavior and Change
Program is preparatory for: careers
and future studies in the humanities and social sciences.
* Indicates upper-division credits
Program
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Mathematical Methods
Fall, Winter, Spring/Group Contract
Faculty: Don Middendorf
Enrollment: 25
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing,
transfer students welcome; two quarters of calculus.
Faculty Signature: No
Special Expenses: Texts and supplies
may cost over $300 and must be purchased by the second day of
class, October 1, 2002. Students will be required to subscribe
to two mathematical journals.
Internship Possibilities: No
This program will be a fun, intense adventure in
applied mathematics. One major outcome of this program will be
enhanced skills in model building and real-world application of
mathematics. Ordinary and partial differential equations will
be a major focus throughout the year including a treatment of
nonlinear systems and chaos theory. We will cover analytical and
numerical techniques. In addition to differential equations, we'll
study linear algebra, functional analysis, calculus of variations
and number theory. Although the emphasis will be on applications,
we will spend considerable time on the mathematical foundations
as well. A major theme will be the recent progress in the foundations
of mathematics based on cooperation between pure and applied mathematicians
and physicists. We'll examine the history and philosophy of mathematical
thought as well as the lives of mathematicians. We will ask questions
such as: What are some of the ramifications of embracing one model
instead of another? What are the basic foundations of mathematics?
How are mathematical innovations discovered or created? What role
do personal and cultural beliefs play in the development of mathematics?
Some of our texts will come with software and we'll use Mathematica
for an experimental study of mathematics. During fall quarter,
all portions of the program (ordinary differential equations,
numerical methods and linear algebra) will be linked, so students
must enroll for the entire program during fall quarter. (Students
who have earned credits in these subjects will be expected to
pursue other topics in mathematics or science as independent study.)
During winter quarter, the subject material will include partial
differential equations, number theory and the calculus of variations.
Students will have the option of focusing on any two of these
topics for full credit. Throughout the year, students will have
the opportunity to pursue topics of personal interest through
individual research projects and presentations. Please check the
Mathematical Methods Web page for more information on this program.
Credit awarded in: differential
equations*, linear algebra*, chaos theory*, numerical methods*,
calculus of variations*, number theory*, functional analysis*,
history and philosophy of mathematics*. Upper-division credit
is possible for all portions of the program contingent on upper-division
performance.
Total: 16 credits each quarter.
Students may enroll in a part-time option with faculty signature.
Planning Unit(s): Scientific Inquiry
Program is preparatory for: careers
and future studies in mathematics, teaching, physics, chemistry,
biology, engineering, economics and philosophy.
Program
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description, if you feel you have adequate preparation to
enter this program, please speak with the faculty before
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Matter and Motion
Fall, Winter, Spring/Coordinated Study
Faculty: Rob Knapp, Rachel Jameton
Enrollment: 50
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing,
transfer students welcome; strong critical thinking skills; proficiency
in pre-calculus and trigonometry. High school physics and chemistry
helpful but not required.
Faculty Signature: Yes
Special Expenses: No
Internship Possibilities: No
This program is designed for students with a keen
desire for a strong background in physics, chemistry and mathematics
of the kind needed for serious work in the physical and biological
sciences. The program's work will include lectures, readings (both
technical and general), calculations, labs, reports and seminar
discussion.
Program work will cover standard introductory topics in differential
and integral calculus, university physics and university chemistry.
We will attend to conceptual understanding as well as calculational
skill and practice in framing and solving problems. In addition
to work in the science subjects, the program will involve structured
and exploratory laboratories, which will teach standard scientific
techniques as well as how to determine successful approaches to
investigating physical systems.
Seminar readings and discussions will investigate the human dimensions
of discovery and cultural patterns within the physical sciences,
together with their abilities and limitations in contributing
to human affairs. Readings may be from classics in history/philosophy
of science, literature, journal articles or other sources.
Credit awarded in: general chemistry,
university physics, calculus and history, philosophy and cultural
studies of science.
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 medicine, engineering, physics, mathematics,
chemistry, environmental science and philosophy of science.
Program
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They will need two quarters of calculus, and the more first-year
physics and chemistry, the better. A significant portion,
perhaps half, of the program time will go to project work.
Continuing students will have formulated projects before the
quarter starts; incoming students should be ready to do this
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Mediaworks
Fall, Winter, Spring/Coordinated Study
Faculty: P. Ju-Pong Lin, Anne Fischel
Enrollment: 44
Prerequisites: Junior or senior
standing, transfer students welcome; successful completion of
college-level work involving critical reading and writing and/or
work in visual arts, media, music or performance.
Faculty Signature: Yes. Evergreen
students must submit a written application plus a copy of a faculty
evaluation and a self-evaluation of a coordinated studies program.
Transfer students should submit the application, a transcript
and two letters of recommendation that speak to the quality of
your academic work. Applications will be available by mid-April
and can be picked up from the Program Secretaries in COM 301 or
the Academic Advising office. Submit applications to P. Ju-Pong
Lin, The Evergreen State College, COM 301, Olympia, WA 98505.
In considering applications the faculty will look for evidence
of critical reading and writing skills, interest in the arts or
media, willingness to engage in intensive study and research,
commitment to nonfiction production and willingness to work collaboratively.
Special Expenses: Approximately
$100$300 each quarter for film and video materials and post-production
fees.
Internship Possibilities: Spring
quarter only.
Mediaworks is the entry-level program in film and
video production, history and theory. Our focus is on the nonfiction
image, a broad category that includes documentary, experimental
film, installation, video art, autobiography and mixed-genre work.
In Mediaworks, as in all moving image programs at Evergreen, we
stress the linkage of theory and practice through analyzing the
politics of representation and working to support each student's
development of a critical perspective on image-making.
Mediaworks is a flexible program that responds to current issues
in production and theory. We will investigate questions about
the relationship between art and social life, the politics of
representing ourselves and of those we perceive as "others,"
and the relationship between technology and ways of knowing. Our
work will emphasize both forms of documentary and experimental
film and video, including contemporary new media such as installation,
performance, mixed genre and interactive forms. The ethical and
aesthetic dilemmas that experimental image-makers historically
have faced will be at the forefront of our study. We will introduce
students to production in film, video and audio, using 16mm, digital
video, installations and performance techniques. Possible texts
include: Representation: Cultural Representation and Signifying
Practices, Stuart Hall, ed.; An Introduction to Film Studies,
Jill Nemes, ed.; New Media in Late 20th Century Art, Michael
Rush.
In fall and winter, we will introduce students to production skills
and students will produce short, primarily collaborative projects
in a variety of media. We will begin with composition and framing
through the manipulation of still images, then move on to pre-production
design, cinematography, lighting, film and video editing, sound
recording and post-production strategies. We will pay attention
to the process as well as the product of media production, with
emphasis on experimentation, screening work in progress, group
discussion and critique and the development of individual critical
and aesthetic perspectives. Students will also do extensive research
on a significant filmmaker or film movement and present their
research verbally and in writing. In spring quarter each student
will have the opportunity to produce an extended independent project
informed by the themes studied in the program.
Credit awarded in: film history,
film theory, film production, video production, installation art
and media arts history.
Total: 16 credits each quarter.
Planning Unit(s): Expressive Arts
A similar program is expected to be offered in 200304.
Program is preparatory for: careers
and future studies in media, visual arts and communications.
Program
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The Mexican Nation State:
History, Political Economy and Community
Spring, Group Contract
Faculty: Dan Leahy
Enrollment: 15
Prerequisites: Intermediate Spanish
fluency.
Faculty Signature: Yes. Students
must demonstrate facility in Intermediate Spanish, agree to participate
in a weekend orientation February 23 and 24, 2002, agree and sign
the program covenant.
Special Expenses: Students must
pay a $150 non-refundable program fee by February 4, 2001, and
payment of another $150 before we leave. Approximate cost above
tuition and $300 fee is $1,950 for round-trip airfare, hotels,
bus, food and books.
Internship Possibilities: No
Travel Component: Mexico: four week
travel to sites of the Mexican Independence and the Mexican Revolution;
four weeks residency in San Patricio, Jalisco.
Students will learn about the creation of the Mexican
nation state, its revolutionary history and current political
economy through travel, reading, lectures and community residence.
This program will travel together by bus for the first month,
visiting the important sites of Mexican Independence and the Mexican
Revolution. We will meet in Chihuahua in early April, retrace
the southward movement of Villa's army through Zacatecas, visit
Aquascalientes where the revolutionary forces met in 1914, stop
in Queretaro where the 1917 Revolutionary Constitution was signed,
spend a week in Mexico city and then visit Emiliano Zapata's home
state of Morelos.
In late April, we take up a four week residence in the small,
seaside village of San Patricio, Jalisco, where we live in Mexican
homes, participate in Mexican family life and possibly work on
community projects depending on the student's language fluency.
Students must complete all readings, maintain a journal and portfolio
of class materials, complete and present an analytical project
to the class, and write and present, in Mexico, an extensive evaluation
of your learning.
Possible readings include Bonfil's Mexico Profundo, Shorris' Under
the Fifth Sun: A Novel of Pancho Villa, Reed's Insurgent Mexico,
Womack's Zapata and the Mexican Revolution, Castellanos' The Book
of Lamentations, Poniatowska's Tinisima, Fuentes' Death of Artemio
Cruz, and Collier's Basta! Land and the Zapatista Rebellion in
Chiapas.
Credit awarded in: Mexican nation-state
history, revolutionary social movements, cross cultural analysis
and Mexican literature.
Total: 16 credits.
Planning Unit(s): Society, Politics,
Behavior and Change
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Molecule to Organism
Fall, Winter, Spring/Coordinated Study
Faculty: Jim Neitzel, Nancy Murray,
Donald Morisato
Enrollment: 75
Prerequisites: Junior or senior
standing, transfer students welcome; one year of college chemistry
required; and college general biology preferred.
Faculty Signature: Yes
Special Expenses: No
Internship Possibilities: Yes, spring
quarter only.
This program develops and interrelates concepts
in experimental (laboratory) biology, organic chemistry and biochemistry
by providing a foundation in experimental biology for students
who plan to continue studies in chemistry, field biology, laboratory
biology and medicine. The program includes organic chemistry and
upper-division work in biochemistry, microbiology, physiology,
cellular, molecular and developmental biology in a yearlong sequence.
The program integrates two themesone at the "cell" level
and the other at the "molecule" level. In the cell theme,
we start with the cell and microbiology and proceed to the whole
organism with the examination of structure/function relationships
at all levels including some anatomy and physiology.
In the molecular theme, we will examine organic chemistry, the
nature of organic compounds and reactions and carry this theme
into biochemistry and the fundamental chemical reactions of living
systems. As the year progresses, the two themes continually merge
through studies of cellular and molecular processes in molecular
biology, developmental biology and physiology.
Each aspect of the program will contain a significant laboratory
component. On a weekly basis, students will be writing papers
and maintaining laboratory notebooks. All laboratory work, and
approximately one half of the non lecture time will be spent working
in collaborative problem solving groups. The program will also
contain field trips to other laboratories and industries, as well
as reading and discussion of topics of current and historic scientific
interest and controversy.
Spring quarter will allow more flexibility for students who wish
to take part of this program in conjunction with other work.
Credit awarded in: physiology*,
cell biology*, molecular biology*, organic chemistry I, organic
chemistry II*, organic chemistry III*, biochemistry*, microbiology*
and developmental biology*.
Total: Fall quarter: 6, 10 or 16 credits;
Winter and spring quarter: 16 credits each quarter. During
fall quarter, students may register for organic chemistry or biology
as an 8-credit option/with faculty signature.
Planning Unit(s): Scientific Inquiry
Program is preparatory for: careers
and future studies in biology, chemistry, health sciences, environmental
studies and education.
Program
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Biology) has been added to the faculty team.
New credit options are available: 6, 10 or 16 credits.
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Morality
and Political Life: Classical vs. Modern Philosophies of Morality,
Social Life and Politics
Cancelled.
See the new program, Philosophy,
Society and Globalization: How We Got Where We Are as an alternative.
Fall, Winter/Coordinated Study
Faculty: Alan Nasser
Enrollment: 25
Prerequisites: Junior or senior
standing, transfer students welcome.
Faculty Signature: No
Special Expenses: No
Internship Possibilities: No
Have there always been "individuals,"
or are they a product of modernity? What are the appropriate concepts
of freedom, equality and justice in the classical and modern approaches?
How do these competing approaches understand the relations among
moral, social, political and economic life? To what extent can
moral life contain a rational element?
In this program we will examine the very different approaches
to the relations among morality, social life and political life
in classical and modern moral philosophy. Classical moral philosophy
is organized around the concepts of virtue, character and an organic
concept of the relation between "the individual" and
the community. This understanding of moral life generates corresponding
concepts of the good life, the good society, the good polity,
the relation between reason and desire, and the relation between
the so-called individual and the community. We will take as our
prime example of this type of moral-social-political theory the
Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle. We will examine this work
very carefully. Modern moral philosophy, on the other hand, is
organized around concepts of law, principle, universality, a fundamental
opposition between reason and desire, and an essentially antagonistic
distinction between the individual and society. The prototypical
modern moral philosopher is Immanuel Kant, and we will analyze
in some detail his Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics
of Morals.
The basic theme of the program is the tension between these very
different, and, we think, incompatible, orientations to moral,
social and political-economic life. Our own culture contains elements
of both these rival approaches, with the result that a certain
confusion and incoherence is endemic to our efforts to live morally,
socially and politically aware lives. We want to plumb the depths
of this paradox. There is one lively contemporary debate organized
around these very themes, namely the conflict between so-called
communitarian and liberal theories of moral, social, political
and economic life. Thus, we will study a number of modern and
contemporary philosophers who grapple with these issues.
Credit awarded in: Aristotelian
ethics, Kantian ethics and political theory.
Total: 16 credits each quarter.
Planning Unit(s): Culture, Text
and Language; Society, Politics, Behavior and Change
Planning Unit(s): Culture, Text
and Language; Society, Politics, Behavior and Change
Program is preparatory for: careers
and future studies in the humanities and social science.
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Multicultural Counseling
Fall, Winter, Spring/Group Contract
Faculty: Mukti Khanna
Enrollment: 25
Prerequisites: Junior or Senior
standing, minimum of one year of psychological course studies,
one year of study in an interdisciplinary liberal arts program.
Faculty Signature: Yes. Obtain an
application from Academic Advising. Email application to Mukti
Khanna, khannam@evergreen.edu.
Special Expenses: Approximately
$70 for art supplies.
Internship Possibilities: 16 hours
per week required winter and spring quarters.
As the world's people demand freedom and self-determination,
it is urgent that we learn how diverse communities of empowered
individuals, with freedom to construct their own stories and identities
might live together in mutual peace. Perhaps it is not a vain
hope that life in such communities might lead to the advance in
human consciousness beyond anything we have yet experienced.
--Maureen O'Hara, Past President of the Association for Humanistic
Psychology
In this yearlong program we will explore ways in which the field
of psychology can be of service in an increasingly diverse society.
We will address concepts of mental health, the mental health system
and psychological counseling that are critical to the creation
and maintenance of healthy communities and a more just and peaceful
world.
This is a senior-level program involving internships and skills-based
training in counseling psychology, nonviolent communication and
person-centered, expressive arts therapies. The program will integrate
the study of personality theory, abnormal psychology, counseling
skills, multicultural psychology, healthcare systems, transpersonal
psychology, research methods of inquiry and professional ethics.
We will address theoretical and experiential aspects of multicultural
psychology in a U. S. context, as well as ways in which psychology
can contribute to the current United Nations Decade of Nonviolence.
Multimodal expressive arts therapies based on the work of Carl
and Natalie Rogers will be explored throughout the program. Students
need to be willing to explore their own self-knowledge through
engaging in expressive arts therapy laboratories, co-counseling
and cultural identity work. No previous art or movement experience
is required. Students will be working in psychological internships
throughout the Puget Sound area for six months for a minimum of
16 hours per week.
Credit awarded in: counseling skills,
personality theory, abnormal psychology, expressive arts therapies,
methods of inquiry, professional ethics, healthcare systems, multicultural
psychology and nonviolent communication.
Total: 16 credits each quarter.
Planning Unit(s): Society, Politics,
Behavior and Change
A similar program is expected to be offered in 200304.
Program is preparatory for: careers
and future studies in psychological counseling, clinical psychology,
social work, school counseling, conflict resolution and cross-cultural
studies.
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Music in Culture
Fall, Winter/Group Contract
Faculty: Andrew Buchman
Enrollment: 25
Prerequisites: Junior or senior
standing, transfer students welcome; two quarters in a coordinated
studies program or the equivalent.
Faculty Signature: No
Special Expenses: Approximately
$150 for a soprano recorder and tickets to performances.
Internship Possibilities: No
We will study several music cultures comparatively,
and explore the issues such studies inevitably raise, such as
differing definitions of music, tradition and pedagogy. Studying
music in this way is important because it forces one to reexamine
one's own assumptions about music and its cultural meanings. We
will learn to listen analytically and write papers about pieces
of music. We will explore various theories and histories of music,
read relevant novels and plays and watch films and documentaries
to gain creative insights into culture and music. We will try
various notation systems, but make fluency in standard music notation
a goal. Learning to read and write music, like becoming a sophisticated
reader, thinker and writer of words, opens up new ways of understanding
and experiencing the complex phenomenain this case, bound in time.
We will explore the world of musical instruments. We will study
the soprano recorder and learn tunes.
Having established a common vocabulary and knowledge base for
informed discussion, during winter quarter students will work
in groups on a music culture of their choice, sharing their research
with the rest of the program. We will continue comparative studies
(perhaps reframed around a vital issue, such as nationalism or
modernity) and explore one music culture together in more depth.
Credit awarded in: comparative musicology,
music theory, cultural studies, quantitative reasoning, independent
research and writing and recorder group lessons.
Total: 16 credits each quarter.
Planning Unit(s): Expressive Arts
Program is preparatory for: careers
and future studies in musicology, performing arts and cultural
studies.
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The Myth of Memory
Spring/Coordinated Study/Group Contract
Faculty: Stacey Davis, Lance Laird
Enrollment: 50
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing,
transfer students welcome; college-level expository writing skills.
Faculty Signature: No
Special Expenses: No
Internship Possibilities: No
Situated somewhere between fact and dream, memory
shapes our individual lives in countless ways each day. But memory
affects groups as well as individuals: just as the average French
citizen identifies with the crucial moments of a great Revolution
that occurred more than 200 years ago, so too are the identities
of African Americans today shaped by the "memories"
of slavery and the civil rights movement, even for individuals
who experienced neither firsthand.
This program will explore the links between collective memory
and group or national identity. How do collective memories, whether
"real" or constructed, help create and sustain a people's
self-image, values and goals? What happens to minority groups
who get excluded from the nation's collective memory? Does the
myth of memory shatter when contested? How can memory be used
as a weapon? And how do groups use the lack of memory, or shared
forgetting, to further their collective identity?
We will look at specific moments, myths and memories of the 20th
century, starting with the impact memories of the Holocaust have
had on Jewish identity, and how the selective memory of World
War II and the Franco-Algerian war of the 1950s has allowed modern
German and French citizens to ignore moments in their pasts which
might topple their national self-image. We will continue with
an in-depth study of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, focusing
on how the selective appropriation of religious symbols and stories
has helped shape Israeli and Palestinian memory and politics.
We will conclude with a study of the ways the civil rights movement
and the Vietnam War disrupted and reshaped the collective national
myth of Americans, and how monuments, memorials and holidays continue
to challenge or to rebuild those myths by shaping our memories.
Students will work both with primary source material and secondary
scholarly essays. They will complete intensive writing assignments,
lead seminars and conduct an oral history project.
Credit awarded in:comparative religion,
European and Middle Eastern history and cultural studies. Students
who complete upper-division work will earn upper-division credit.
Total: 16 credits.
Planning Unit(s): Culture, Text
and Language
Program is preparatory for: careers
and future studies in comparative religion, history and cultural
studies.
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Nature Writing: An Interaction Between
Humans and the Natural World
New, not in printed catalog
Fall/Coordinated Study
Faculty: Amy Cook, Priscilla Bowerman
Enrollment: 42
Prerequisites: None. This all-level
program accepts up to 12 first-year students.
Faculty Signature: No
Special Expenses: None
Travel Component: None
Natural history writing has been used as a way of educating and
inspiring people for over 150 years. Authors have varied from
professional writers and amateur naturalists writing about a favorite
organism or environment that they want to share with others to
professional biologists who want to write about the organisms
that they study outside of the rather restrictive format of scientific
writing. Books and essays have been written about environments
that range from the mountains of California to the lowly dungheap.
Writers have tried to give their readers insight into the lives
of whales as well as the lives of cockroaches. In some instances
natural history writing has been a powerful tool in conservation
biology. This program will introduce students to several types
and styles of natural history writing. It will focus on improving
students' writing and try to make them better observers of the
natural world. We will also examine the roll of scientific knowledge
in how we view nature and humans' place in nature. Weekly activities
include workshops aimed at teaching specific writing and observational
skills and seminars focused on a variety of natural history writings
including books and essays.
Credit awarded in: literature, natural
history and creative writing.
Total: 16 credits.
Planning Unit(s): Programs for First-Year
Students; Environmental Studies and Society, Politics, Behavior
and Change.
Program is preparatory for: careers
and future studies in writing, conservation biology, journalism,
social and environmental policy.
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Natural History and Conservation
of Shrubsteppe
New, not in printed catalog.
Spring quarter/Group Contract
Faculty: Steven G. Herman
Enrollment: 10
Prerequisites: Junior or senior
standing.
Faculty Signature: Yes. Students
must complete an application packet located outside Lab I 2012,
and in the Program Secretary Office, Lab I.
Special Expenses: Good binoculars
(subject to faculty approval). In order to qualify, new binoculars
will necessarily cost no less than $100. Students must have personal
camping gear (cookware and related materials will be provided
by the faculty).
Internship Possibilities: No
Travel Component: Transportation
and campground fees approximately $300.
NOTE: All field trips are mandatory.
No privately-owned vehicles allowed. Everyone will camp out, usually
on public land.
Natural history is the scientific study of plants and animals in
their natural environments. It is concerned with levels of organization
from the individual organism to the ecosystem, and stresses life
history, distribution, abundance and interrelationships. Aesthetic
values are an integral component of this discipline.
Shrubsteppe is a term that refers to the shrub/grass desert or near-desert
environments in the American West. Our experience will be with sagebrush/grass
forms of this ecosystem. Shrubsteppe is one of the richest and most
diverse landscapes in North America, and it has been under siege
by domestic livestock for more than a century. Grazing is one of
the most destructive and least appreciated agents of destruction
that affect natural landscapes. In Washington, the Departments of
Fish and Wildlife and Natural Resources both host huge numbers of
privately-owned livestock on our public lands. We will study the
remnant pristine sites in Washington and Oregon, and relate the
flora and fauna there with the same components on grazed lands.
We will also study and analyze the social and economic factors that
perpetuate this remarkable alliance of public servants and private
businessmen.
This field-oriented program has a long history at Evergreen, and
is designed to teach students the history and practice of natural
history, including especially identification skills. Working in
a variety of landscapes, students will learn how to identify wild
native vertebrate animals (with emphasis on birds) and major trees,
shrubs, grasses and wildflowers. The methods that naturalists use
to study these organisms (e.g., census techniques, bird netting
and banding, small mammal trapping and marking, vegetation survey
techniques, the importance of quantification) will also be covered.
The functional nucleus of the program will be the rigorous maintenance
of a field journal according to a system established by a pioneer
California naturalist, Joseph Grinnell. Lectures and seminars will
cover the history of natural history exploration, basic ecological
principles, taxonomic considerations and published descriptions
of landscape characteristics in the Pacific Northwest, as well as
the history and ecology of grazing animals, wild and domestic. Laboratories
and museum instruction will stress identification techniques.
Total: 16 credits, upper-division science.
Planning Unit(s): Environmental Studies
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The New
World Order
Cancelled. See the new program entitled
Liberation Theology: East
and West as an alternative.
Fall, Winter/Group Contract
Faculty: Jorge Gilbert
Enrollment: 25
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing
and above.
Faculty Signature: No
Special Expenses: $15 for program
materials.
Internship Possibilities: Yes
The world has changed dramatically during the last
few years. The great confrontation between capitalism and socialism
that had started in 1917 with the Russian Revolution and which
continued through the Cold War, between the 1950s and the 1980s,
ended in 1989 with the toppling of the Berlin Wall. Today, the
conflict between the East and the West is over. The capitalist
world, mainly highly industrialized nations, are optimistic and
they talk about democratization, transition, and growing opportunities
for the Americas and the rest of world through neoliberal policies
and a free market economy.
This optimism is not shared equally among all people of the world.
Many of them claim that the world has approached the 21st century
with another crisis and confrontation. This time, between North
and South or between rich and industrialized nations from the
North and poor and backward nations from the South; that is, the
First and the Third World. In this vision, the existence of evil
terrorism, drug producers and traffickers, illegal massive immigration
to the North from the South, regional conflicts, and deep environmental
damage, are all products of the South, which jeopardize the existence
of the North. The September 11, 2001 attack on the US, the conflicts
with Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Middle East, the blockade of Cuba
another similar geopolitical problem are some examples of this
confrontation. Some nations, scholars and international political
analysts argue that, in light of these conflicts all presumptively
necessary violations of international law are justified, as are
violations of the rights to self-determination.
This program will study neoliberalism in a historical and international
level with an emphasis on the Americas. Revolutions in the region
will be analyzed and compared with the notion of terrorism, including
State terrorism. In addition, drug production and trafficking,
illegal immigration, ethnic minority conflicts, and environmental
issues in the Americas will be studied, analyzed and compared
within this so-called neoliberal context and its free market economy.
Total: 16 credits.
Planning Unit(s): Culture, Text
and Language
Program is preparatory for: careers
and future studies in the social sciences, political economy,
international studies, international relations, Latin American
studies, public administration, political sociology and Spanish
language.
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Organizations, Entrepreneurship
and Management: Advanced Topics in Management
Fall, Winter, Spring/Group Contract
Faculty: John Filmer
Enrollment: 25
Prerequisites: Junior or senior
standing, transfer students welcome; successful completion of
a management program at Evergreen or the equivalent.
Faculty Signature: Yes
Special Expenses: No
Internship Possibilities: No
This group contract will be tailored to the needs
of students who have previously studied management at Evergreen
or elsewhere and desire an opportunity for further study and exploration
in management related topics. The specific content will vary from
quarter to quarter depending upon the interests, expertise and
preferred direction of the group and faculty. Applications will
cover nonprofit, for-profit and government organizations. Topics
will include economic development, community studies, critical
analysis, leadership, team building, entrepreneurism, small business
development, marketing, project management, international commerce,
communications, global economics, global strategies and public
and private sector alliances. Program activities will consist
of lectures, workshops, seminars, case studies, field trips and
group and individual research projects.
Credit awarded in: organizational
strategy, community development, planning, international business,
marketing, public policy, decision-making, small business management,
communications, project management and public relations. Credits
may vary depending upon the structure, makeup and focus of each
quarter.
Total: 8, 12 or 16 credits each quarter.
Planning Unit(s): Society, Politics,
Behavior and Change
Program is preparatory for: careers
and future studies in public administration, non-profit organizational
management and business management.
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The Pacific
Northwest and Its Past
Cancelled.
Spring/Group Contract
Faculty: Michael Pfeifer
Enrollment: 25
Prerequisites: Junior or senior
standing, transfer students welcome.
Faculty Signature: No
Special Expenses: No
Internship Possibilities: No
Historians have argued that the Pacific Northwest
was a historical backwater: separated by great distance from cities
and markets and dominated by extractive industries (furs, timber,
fish, gold, oil). In recent decades, however, transportation and
technological advancements have radically altered the Pacific
Northwest's relation to national and world markets. Immigration
too, from Asia and Latin America, among other places, has dramatically
diversified the region's population.
We will be concerned with the cultural and social history of this
region, defined as Washington state, Oregon, Idaho, Alaska, British
Columbia and Yukon Territory. Class, ethnicity, race, gender,
sexuality and religion will be of particular interest in our analysis.
This history will seek to navigate common fault lines in the region's
understandings of its past: thus it will include that which transpired
both before and after white settlement, that which occurred east
of the Cascades as well as west of it, that which happened on
both sides of what became the American-Canadian border, and that
which occurred both in the Far North and "outside" of
it. We will intensively read, discuss and write about the central
works in the secondary historical literature (books and articles)
on the region, as well as key primary sources (which may include
musical, visual and oral texts, as well as written ones). Students
will write a major research paper on a topic in the region's social
or cultural history composed of original research in primary documents
synthesized with relevant secondary sources. Consultations with
faculty, with seminar, and in small groups will add a collaborative
dimension to the composition of the research paper.
Credit awarded in: Pacific Northwest
history* American history*, Canadian history* and American studies*.
Total: 16 credits.
Planning Unit(s): Culture, Text
and Language
Program is preparatory for: careers
and future studies in the humanities, teaching, law and other
professions.
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Paradise Outlaws:
Kerouac, Bukowski and the Beats
Cancelled. See Poetic
Justice and SOS:
American Studies as alternatives.
Spring/Group Contract
Faculty: Bill Arney, Craig Carlson
Enrollment: 48
Prerequisites: This all-level program
accepts up to 25 percent or 12 first-year students.
Faculty Signature: No
Special Expenses: No
Internship Possibilities: No
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Charles Bukowski, Diane
DiPrima, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and other Beat writers shared
a unifying vision of a better future, of the possibilities for
change in America. They are part of a libertarian tradition that
envisages an ideal, however romantic and unattainable, of the
individual embracing personal freedom while resisting institutional
values. They were outlaws aiming for Paradise.
The Beats shared a populist perspectivea view that art is unelitist,
antihierarchical, egalitarian. They professed to learn more on
the street than in the academy. They tried to be accessible and
honest. They were more concerned with the rawness of experience
than with trying to get into the museum of literary culture.
Students will study Beat politics, fiction and poetry. We will
examine American culture in the 1960s through the work of Robert
Frank, Hunter S. Thompson and others. We will read William Blake,
Howard Zinn and Paul Goodman, listen to a selection of 1960s jazz
and rock 'n' roll, and read/hear a selection of Beat writing.
We will follow Allen Ginsberg's advice:
The method must be purest meat and no symbolic dressing, actual
visions and actual prisons as seen then and now.
Credit awarded in: literature*,
American studies*, writing* and art*.
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, humanities, law school, nuclear
physics, sociology, history, American studies and poetry.
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Patterns across Space and
Time
Fall, Winter/Coordinated Study
Faculty: Ruth Hayes, David McAvity
Enrollment: 46
Prerequisites: None
Faculty Signature: Yes
Special Expenses: $150 for art supplies.
Internship Possibilities: No
In the physical world there
are patterns, forms and rhythms that can teach us about how the
universe is ordered. In this program, we will study many of these
phenomena and the physical laws that govern them. We will work
with static and dynamic forms in multiple dimensions: the linear,
the planar, the spherical and the temporal. We will analyze phenomena
that are similar in spite of their occurrence in different orders
of magnitude. For example, what are the similarities between the
spiral of a seashell and that of a galaxy? Does the rate of energy
loss in a bouncing ball mirror the rate of color loss in an autumn
leaf? How are the interference patterns of sound, light and ocean
waves alike? We will investigate cyclical patterns that occur
at both the cosmic and the personal level, such as planetary motion,
tides and our own circadian rhythms. As we analyze these and other
patterns, we will gain an understanding of their origins and the
forces that shape them.
Our approach will be from two perspectives, as scientists and
as artists, as we engage in quantitative reasoning and creative
expression. First we will address the question: What makes something
a pattern? Then we will engage in a variety of activities to explore
the nature and structure of different kinds of patterns. Students
will work to develop techniques of observation, measurement, documentation,
analysis and description. They will employ drawing, time-lapse
photography, motion analysis and animation to study and represent
phenomena they have observed. They will use clay to explore shape
and spatial relationships. They will learn to describe patterns
and change quantitatively and create mathematical models based
on the physical laws that shape them.
Part of our inquiry will focus on the differences between creative
and quantitative representations. We will explore the limitations
inherent in each approach and we will investigate the roles that
abstraction in science and art play in our understanding of reality.
Many of our lectures, readings and seminar discussions will be
about epistemology, or the history and theory of knowledge, as
it relates to our subject. The diverse ways humans employ and
recognize patterns are culturally and historically determined.
We will, therefore, also explore the perception, interpretation
and use of patterns in several different cultures, both ancient
and modern.
Credit awarded in mathematics, physics, history of science, epistemology,
drawing, animation, animation studies, expository writing, quantitative
reasoning, scientific methods and cultural studies.
Total: 16 credits each quarter.
Planning Unit(s):
Programs for First-Year Students
Program is preparatory for:
careers and future studies in the arts and sciences.
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Philosophy, Society and
Globalization: How We Got Where We Are
New, not in printed catalog
Fall and Winter quarters
Faculty: Alan Nasser
Enrollment: 25
Prerequisites: Junior or senior
standing, transfer students welcome. Political Economy or Economics
is recommended, but not required.
Faculty Signature: Yes. Students
should submit copies of all evaluations written of them by their
teachers, and samples of their most recent writing to Alan. 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
This class will trace the philosophical and historical background
of the currently dominant global ideology of "neoliberalism/globalization."
This term refers to the reliance by policymakers, in their attempts
to address important social, political and economic problems,
on a model of pure, market-driven capitalism. This model is now
being put into practice, for the first time in history, on a global
scale. Philosophy, political economy and history will be studied
to clarify the historical process leading up to neoliberalism/globalization.
We begin with the history of modern Western political philosophy,
including Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Adam Smith, Rousseau, J.
S. Mill, Hegel and Marx. Here we trace the development of the
notions of the modern individual, natural rights, liberty, the
modern State, democracy and the free market. We will relate these
notions to the emergence, in the 19th and 20th centuries, of industrial
capitalism and representative democracy. Capitalism and democracy,
once established, have evolved oddly since 1900: from pure capitalism
with no democratic welfare state (1898–1947), to capitalism
modified by democratic welfare-state policies (1947–1980),
back to pure capitalism and the dismantling of welfare-state democracy
(1980–the present). We will examine the historical dynamics
of these major political, economic, social and philosophical transformations.
This will involve an introduction both to the basic principles
of political economics and to some of the major political philosophers
of the 20th century, e.g. F. A. Hayek, John Rawls and Robert Nozick.
In the course of these studies, we will both describe in detail
the workings of contemporary neoliberalism/globalization, and
understand how and why it came about. This is a demanding, bookish,
analytical program concerned exclusively with the careful analysis
of challenging readings.
Credit awarded in: classical liberalism,
critiques of classical liberalism, fundamentals of political economy,
and 20th century political philosophy and globalization.
Total: 16 credits each quarter.
Program is preparatory for: careers
and future studies in teaching, economics, politics, government,
philosophy and history.
Planning Unit(s): Society, Politics,
Behavior and Change
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Physical Systems
Fall, Winter, Spring/Coordinated Study
Faculty: E.J. Zita
Enrollment: 25
Prerequisites: Junior or senior
standing, transfer students welcome; successful completion of
at least one year of college-level, calculus-based physics (such
as Matter and Motion); facility with integration and differentiation;
and good writing skills.
Faculty Signature: Yes. New students
should contact E.J. Zita, Email zita@evergreen.edu
or (360) 867- 6853.
Special Expenses: Expensive textbooks,
up to $500 total, required for the first week of class, to be
used all year.
Internship Possibilities: Yes
This program will examine the principal concepts
and theories by which we describe and understand the physical
world, from the realm of our immediate senses (classical physics)
to the very small (quantum mechanics) to the vast (astrophysics
and cosmology). We will emphasize understanding the nature and
formal structure of quantitative physical theories. We will focus
on the unifying concepts and common mathematical structures that
organize various physical theories into a coherent body of knowledge.
This program is necessarily mathematical; required mathematical
methods will be developed as needed and in the context of their
use in the physical sciences. The central role of mathematics
in describing nature is one of the core intellectual issues in
this program. Quantitative problem solving will be emphasized.
This program will be organized around the concepts of energy and
symmetries, with components in classical mechanics, quantum mechanics,
electromagnetism, thermodynamics, astrophysics and selected topics
in contemporary physics. Mathematical topics will include multivariable
calculus, linear algebra, differential equations. Computers and
computer graphics will be used as appropriate for obtaining numerical
solutions and for gaining qualitative insight into physical processes.
Laboratory investigations will also be undertaken.
Students will be responsible for library research on topics of
interest and for peer instruction in the classroom. Faculty and
student presentations will include lectures, seminars, hands-on
workshops and group problem-solving workshops.
Integrated seminars on history, literature, philosophy and cultural
studies of science will stimulate ongoing consideration of the
contexts and meanings of science knowledge systems and practices,
through history and across cultures. All students must participate
in seminar.
This program will constitute serious preparation for more advanced
work, including graduate study in physics, applied mathematics
or the physical sciences.
Credit awarded in: physics*, mathematics*,
numerical methods* and/or philosophy, history and cultural studies
of science.
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 physical sciences, engineering and applied
mathematics, and/or philosophy, history and cultural studies of
science.
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Picturing Plants
Fall, Winter, Spring/Coordinated Study
Faculty: Frederica Bowcutt, Lucia
Harrison
Enrollment: 48
Prerequisites: None. This all-level
program accepts up to 25 percent or 12 first-year students.
Faculty Signature: Yes
Special Expenses: In-state field
trips during fall and spring quarters, approximately $200 for
two, week-long field trips; up to $200 for art supplies.
Internship Possibilities: Yes, optional
six credits spring quarter only.
Plants play profound roles in our lives. Throughout
history, plants have been the focus of storytelling, mythology,
religious ceremony, healing, scientific investigation, material
culture and artistic expression. This program explores scientific,
cultural (folklore) and aesthetic (artistic) perspectives of plants.
We will ask: Why and how do we create meanings out of plants?
What actions can we take in the world to create ethical relations
with plants and the ecosystems they live in? How can we use plants
as points of departure for our own creative work?
Our exploration entails a highly integrative blend of art and
science as well as humanities-based thought. To develop the perspective
of a scientist, we will study plant-cell biology, evolution, anatomy,
physiology, taxonomy and ecology. The visual arts components of
the program will stress drawing from observation as well as an
understanding of how plants have inspired artistic expression
in different cultural traditions. We will study scientists as
natural observers and learn to keep fully illustrated field journals.
We will study artists who use plant forms as a point of departure
for introspection and abstraction. Students will gain technical
skills in drawing, botanical illustration, watercolor painting,
digital imaging and some beginning printmaking.
Although our focus will be on science and art, we will also study
the folkloric knowledge of herbalists, farmers, loggers, mystics
and environmental activists. We will explore how different forms
of knowing might inform one another, and how historical processes
shift our experience of plants.
Attendance at week-long retreats in fall and spring is required
of all students in the program.
Credit awarded in: art appreciation,
botanical illustration, drawing, painting, writing, ethnobotany,
field natural history, introductory botany, ecology* and plant
taxonomy*. Upper-division science credit will be awarded spring
quarter for students working at an advanced level in taxonomy
and ecology.
Total: 16 credits each quarter.
Planning Unit(s): Programs for First-Year
Students; Environmental Studies and Expressive Arts.
Program is preparatory for: careers
and future studies in art, botany, education, environmental studies
and natural resource management.
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physiology, diversity). The faculty want to see an evaluation
or transcript demonstrating the student has this background.
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Pillars of Fire: Jewish
Contributions to European and American Culture
Fall, Winter/Coordinated Study
Faculty: Ariel Goldberger, Carrie
Margolin
Enrollment: 48
Prerequisites: None. This all-level
program accepts up to 25 percent or 12 first-year students.
Faculty Signature: No
Special Expenses: Estimated $150
for art and media materials and theater tickets per quarter. Total
expenses depend on student projects.
Internship Possibilities: No
This interdisciplinary program will focus on the
study of the Jewish diaspora and Jewish contributions to the culture
of Europe and the Americas. We will explore some of the following
questions in areas such as philosophy, cultural studies, humanities,
sciences and art. Are there quintessentially Jewish ideas? What
Jewish ideas were co-opted by other cultures after the Roman sack
of Jerusalem in the year 70 CE? Which ones made it into the larger
culture? What are unique Jewish contributions to American culture?
We will study possible connections among avant-garde movements,
political movements and the Yiddish culture. We will investigate
Jewish contributions and connections to American popular culture
components such as Hollywood, Broadway, Tin Pan Alley, jazz and
TV. We will explore Yiddish theater and its surrounding culture
in Europe and America, including figures such as Gertrude Stein,
Paul Klee, Chaim Soutine, Marc Chagall, Alberto Giacommetti, Herman
Wouk, Steven Spielberg, Jackie Mason, Woody Allen, Leonard Bernstein,
Rodgers and Hammerstein.
We will look for possible connections among Jewish Messianic ideas,
laws and ethics, immigration, politics and the labor movement
in America and Europe.
As part of our studies of Jewish beliefs and mysticism we will
look into the oral and written law, the mystical tradition of
the Kabbalah and current Jewish thought about religion and mysticism.
We will examine Jewish rituals, cooking and life-cycle events,
and Jewish men and women's traditional roles. We will also explore
the changing role of Jewish women as Jewish feminist leaders exert
their influence on the culture.
An inevitable aspect of these studies will be a journey into the
dark abyss of the Holocaust. We will look at the Holocaust's impact
on the cultural life and arts of Europe and the Jewish world,
and emerging responses to the tragedy. We will also explore readings
and studies on Jewish views on religion and mysticism.
Credit awarded in: psychology, cultural
studies, Jewish studies, performance studies, writing, design,
theater, installation and individual project work.
Total: 16 credits each quarter.
Planning Unit(s): Programs for First-Year
Students; Culture, Text and Language; Expressive Arts; and Society,
Politics, Behavior and Change.
Program is preparatory for: careers
and future studies in Judaic studies, cultural studies, performance,
writing and literature.
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Poetic
Justice
Cancelled.
Spring/Group Contract
Faculty: Greg Mullins
Enrollment: 25
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing,
transfer students welcome; college-level expository writing ability.
Faculty Signature: No
Special Expenses: No
Internship Possibilities: No
What special relation, if any, does poetry have
to justice? We commonly think of "poetic justice" as
an ironic reversal of an injustice. Does poetry speak in other,
more profound ways to those political and social struggles, legal
structures and moral philosophies that establish justice in a
given society? We will pursue these and related questions through
intensive study of 20th-century American poets. We will read some
theoretical work on the meaning of justice, but the majority of
our time will be spent reading, writing about and talking about
poems. We will read poets like Gwendolyn Brooks, who write explicitly
about social injustice, and poets like Frank O'Hara, who seem
disinterested in justice. By reading closely a diverse array of
poets, we will gain some leverage on the difficult question of
whether great poetry is necessarily a private, interior, abstract
genre whose aesthetic concerns distance it from political and
moral engagement, or whether those aesthetic concerns express
a specific relation to justice.
Poets and non-poets are welcome. Poets should keep in mind that
you will not be writing poetry for credit in this group contract.
Our focus will be on writing critical essays about poetry. Previous
studies in literary criticism and literary theory will be helpful.
Students will gain a comprehensive overview of 20th-century American
poetry (especially useful for future English teachers), an enhanced
capacity to understand, analyze and write about literature, and
an enhanced capacity to think carefully, critically and creatively
about language and justice.
Credit awarded in: 20th-century
American literature*, literary history* and literary criticism*.
Students who complete advanced work in these areas will earn upper-division
credit.
Total: 16 credits.
Planning Unit(s): Culture, Text
and Language
Program is preparatory for: careers
and future studies in literature, education, law, politics, social
services, for-profit and nonprofit management, and any other field
that demands precise writing, critical thinking and verbal analysis.
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Political Economy and Social
Change: Globalization and Resistance
Fall, Winter/Coordinated Study
Faculty: Peter Dorman, Grace Chang
Enrollment: 50
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing,
transfer students welcome.
Faculty Signature: Yes
Special Expenses: No
Internship Possibilities: No
This is a two-quarter introduction to the study
of political economy at Evergreen. The subject matter is global
capitalism: its structure and trajectory, the forces that shape
it, the effects it has on people in this country and elsewhere,
and the movements that have arisen to challenge it. Methodologically,
this program is interdisciplinary and encompasses multiple perspectives.
Capitalism is viewed through the lenses of political and economic
theory, both mainstream and critical, as well as cultural studies.
Throughout the program, theoretical approaches will be combined
with detailed case studies, so that topics can be viewed from
both "outside" and "inside" vantage points.
Specific content areas will include: political theory (democracy,
the state in capitalist society, international political economy),
economics (micro- and macroeconomics), cultural theory (the culture
industry, critical analysis of discourse and representation, post-colonialism),
social hierarchies (race, gender, class) and the dynamics of movements
for social change. The program will also provide an introduction
to radical traditions, such as Marxism, anarchism, and the "new"
social movements. Program work will include readings, seminars,
lectures, workshops, films and a major research-and-writing project.
Credit awarded in:political science,
economics, cultural studies, international political economy and
modern history.
Total: 16 credits each quarter.
Planning Unit(s): Society, Politics,
Behavior and Change
A similar program is expected to be offered in 200304.
Program is preparatory for: careers
and future studies in economics, political economy and international
relations.
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Postbellum
Winter/Group Contract
Faculty: Michael Pfeifer
Enrollment: 25
Prerequisites: Junior or senior
standing, transfer students welcome.
Faculty Signature: No
Special Expenses: No
Internship Possibilities: No
An odd historical era ensued between the convulsion
of the American Civil War and the dramatic technological advances
and world warfare of the second decade of the 20th century. Those
Americans who looked back from the perspective of the 20th century
saw a quainter, quieter, simpler time, one that lacked major wars,
divisive politics and the full panoply of "modernity."
Yet the Postbellum period was one of vast social and cultural
change. Rapid industrialization, immigration and urbanization
created large if somewhat ill-defined and fragmented middle classes
and working classes. White southerners, forced by the war's result
to make a new negotiation with African Americans no longer held
in bondage, used violence and law to sustain the prerogatives
of white supremacy. The U.S. army shifted from the preservation
of Union to a new duty, the subjugation of First Peoples in the
lands from the plains to the Pacific. Transcontinental railroads
then brought immigrants from back East and elsewhere to fill out
the West. Farmers and laborers at certain moments challenged the
predominance of capital, monopoly and the two-party political
system.
We will investigate the American period from 18651915 through
historical, literary, musical and visual texts. This will include
intensive reading in the key works of the secondary historical
literature on the period (books and articles), as well as primary
sources of many kinds. We will thoroughly consider the implications
of ethnicity, class, religiosity, gender, race and sexuality for
historical experience. In our seminar discussions and our short
and long essays, we will be most concerned with what was old and
new in this ambiguous era, and its legacy for us.
Credit awarded in: American social
and cultural history, American studies, and the history of music.
Total: 16 credits.
Planning Unit(s): Culture, Text
and Language
Program is preparatory for: careers
and future studies in the humanities, teaching, law and other
professions.
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Postcolonial Literature
New, not in printed catalog
Spring/Coordinated Study
Faculty: Therese Saliba, Babacar
M'Baye
Enrollment: 48
Prerequisites: None. This all-level
program accepts up to 25 percent or 12 first-year students.
Faculty Signature: No
Special Expenses: No
Internship Possibilities: No
The concepts "postcolonialism" and "neo-colonialism" often describe
the enduring effects of colonialism and imperialism on formerly
colonized nations. This program will examine the works of major
African and Arab writers and how they represent the social, political,
cultural and economic conditions of their nations since the era
of independence in the 1950s. We will explore the historical and
political realities that have influenced Arab and African literary
production through the study of anti-colonialist essays, postcolonial
theory, fiction, poetry and film. Crossing linguistic and geographic
barriers, the program will emphasize the dualisms, inequalities
and contradictions that have shaped African and Arab nations as
they search for freedom, sovereignty and development in a world
that is becoming increasingly diverse, heterogeneous and global.
Using a bottom-up historical approach, we will engage with the
works of writers, artists, politicians and underprivileged groups
who have sought to address inequalities of race, ethnicity, class,
gender and sexuality within their societies, even as they struggle
to redress colonial legacies of power. Above all, this program
is designed to help students refine their skills in writing, literary
analysis and cultural studies, as they develop a more complex
picture of Africa and the Arab world that challenges the stereotypical
images promoted by the Western media.
Total: 16 credits.
Planning Unit(s): Programs for First-Year
Students; Culture, Text and Language
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Postmodernity and Postmodernism:
Barth, Pynchon, DeLillo, Murakami and World Cinema
Fall/Group Contract
Faculty: Harumi Moruzzi
Enrollment: 25
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing,
transfer students welcome.
Faculty Signature: No
Special Expenses: Up to $30 for
a field trip.
Internship Possibilities: No
The 19th century was a heady century for the West
and Japan. In Europe and North America, the Enlightenment ideology,
which was theorized in the 18th century at the wake of the science
and technology nexus, was set in motion, causing some segments
of humanity to embrace the utopian notion of perfectibility of
human society. Meanwhile in Japan, where the "Meiji Enlightenment"
was necessitated by the Western powers that used the threat of
technologically enhanced violence (a fleet of gun-boats) to engage
Japan in trading relationships, many people were nevertheless
ecstatic about its newly discovered sense of human equality and
progress. By the beginning of the 20th century, however, this
giddy sense of human perfectibility was severely diminished by
iconoclastic ideas, such as Freudian psychoanalytical theory,
Einstein's theory of relativity and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.
For instance, in 1921, W. B. Yeats wrote in "The Second Coming":
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold,
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The bloom-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
The sense of confusion, anarchy and dread expressed in this
poem is strikingly similar to that of our time, which suffers
perhaps a more radical and real disillusionment regarding the
humanity and its future through its experience of the Nazi holocaust
and the atomic bomb explosions in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Our
time, at the dawn of the 21st century, is generally and vaguely
called the postmodern time or postmodernity. But, what is postmodernity?
What is postmodernism?
We will examine the state of our contemporary world as manifested
in the literary works of John Barth, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo
and Haruki Murakami, as well as in the films directed by Godard,
Bunuel and other contemporary filmmakers, as well as the significance
and implications of such literary and cinematic works through
the study of Baudrillard, Lyotard, Jameson, Habermas and the like.
Credit awarded in: literary theory,
cultural theory, Japanese culture, Japanese literature, American
literature, film studies, psychology and sociology.
Total: 16 credits.
Planning Unit(s): Culture, Text
and Language
Program is preparatory for: careers
and future studies in literature, cultural studies, film studies
and sociology.
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Protecting Washington
Wildness
Fall, Winter, Spring/Group Contract
Faculty: Ted Whitesell, Oscar Soule,
Benjamin Shaine
Enrollment: 50
Prerequisites: Junior or senior
standing, transfer students welcome; advanced college-level writing
skills and equivalent of one year of introductory college biology.
Faculty Signature: Yes. Faculty
will assess college-level writing skills and degree of knowledge
and commitment to research and writing about the protection of
wildness in Washington state. Contact Ted Whitesell at (360) 867-6768
or whiteset@evergreen.edu.
Special Expenses: Up to $200 per
quarter for approximately 12 overnight trips to field stations
throughout Washington, roughly during weeks two, four, six and
eight of each quarter.
Internship Possibilities: No
This three-quarter group contract is designed to
produce a book, tentatively titled Picking Up the Pieces: Protecting
the Remnant Wildness of Washington State, to be written by
the students, edited by the faculty and published by a major publisher.
Most of Washington's designated wilderness areas owe their existence
to citizens who worked hard to gather and disseminate information
about the importance of these areas and the threats they faced.
More remains to be done to preserve and restore other wild areas,
yet there is currently no comprehensive guide to wild Washington.
To meet this need, students and faculty will produce a book about
the status of wild Washington, options for additional wilderness
designations throughout the state, plans of government agencies
and citizen groups and legal and political tools for wilderness
preservation.
Educational activities will include fieldwork and instruction
in natural history, geography, environmental history, conservation
biology and writing. Not all students will become authors of book
chapters, due to limitations of space. The program coordinator
will judge manuscript submissions primarily on writing quality
and contribution to the book's content. Manuscripts not selected
for the book should contribute to public education as articles
in conservation journals or through other media.
Credit awarded in: natural history,
geography, environmental history, conservation biology, environmental
policy and writing.
Total: 16 credits each quarter.
Planning Unit(s): Environmental
Studies
Program is preparatory for: careers
and future studies in conservation, land use planning and management,
geography, natural history and writing.
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been added to this program for winter quarter only. Steve
Herman will not be teaching the program spring quarter. Enrollment
has been lowered to 25 for spring.
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Power and Limitations of
Dialogue
New, not in printed catalog
Fall, Winter/Coordinated Study
Faculty: Patrick Hill, Angela Gilliam
(F)
Enrollment: 25
Prerequisites: Junior or senior
standing, transfer students welcome. At least two years of college-level
study of the humanities and social sciences. Prospective students
must read and agree to the program Covenant before admission to
the program.
Faculty Signature: Yes. Contact
Patrick Hill, (360) 867-6595 or The Evergreen State College, L
3220, Olympia, WA 98505, for signature information.
Special Expenses: No
Internship Possibilities: Embedded
in the winter quarter.
The United States is an extremely diverse society.
In some areas, like music or food, we seem to revel in that diversity.
In other areas, like organized religions, we merely tolerate the
diversity as a civic obligation. And in still other areas we downright
avoid our differences, polarizing and segregating them, unless
forced to do otherwise. This program explores the power and limitations
of dialogue through a study of a variety of dialogues, including
our most difficult and most avoided ones.
In the Fall quarter, the more theoretical of the two quarters,
the emphasis is on models of human differences, on the variety
of dialogues (beyond the overemphasized face-to-face conversation)
and on dialogical skills, strategies and expectations. Particularly
instructive dialogues, such as men and women, environmentalists
and loggers and blacks and whites, will be introduced. The Winter
quarter will focus on two or three dialogues, emphasizing interracial
issues, particularly reconciliation and reparation.
Throughout the program, close attention will be paid to the development
of the wisdom and personal skills that could maximize our own
contributions to the limited power of dialogue. While a major
focus of the program is on the more or less genuine dialogues
of American society, these dialogues are being approached not
as exhaustive studies of, e.g., racism or sexism, but as case
studies for understanding the power and limitations of dialogue.
Each student will sense over the course of the program that he/she
can internalize the dialogical skills as add-ons to one's already
existing strategies of survival; and/or as the adoption of fundamentally
de-polarizing habits of mind and heart now widely seen as vital
to a pluralistic age in need of a more functional understanding
of our differences.
This program might well be described as a six-month experiment
in understanding, in unprecedented, radical or respectful listening.
Such an experiment is one of a few crucial prerequisites to both
assessing the power and limitations of dialogue and to improving
our own dialogical skills and wisdom. As a consequence, the program
will require an unusually strong Covenant. While the instructors,
in their parts of that Covenant, will guarantee that no student
will be intentionally embarrassed or forced to participate in
any dialogue that is seriously discomforting, each student will
be required to commit for six months (at least during class hours!)
to listening with non judgmental, philosophically cleansed ears
to each and every classmate no matter how off-the-wall those opinions
might previously have been judged to be. But no student will be
allowed to dominate the seminars or to use them as a platform
for proselytizing. The full Covenant, addressing all student and
faculty expectations, will be available on the program's Web page
and at the Academic Fair. Prospective students must read and agree
to it before admission to the program.
In a normal two-week period, there will be two–three lectures,
one–two films or videos, one book-seminar and one integrative
seminar. Students will in the Fall quarter be required to write
response-papers for the assigned books, take a comprehensive mid
term exam, compose an end-of-quarter paper on her/his personal
assessment of the powers and limitations of dialogue and maintain
a journal and program portfolio. Winter quarter assignments will
be more tailored to the dialogues upon which the class focuses.
Sample texts: Tannen's You Just Don't Understand, Brown's
In Timber Country, Hacker's Two Nations, Senge's
The Fifth Discipline, Dyson's I May Not Get There With
You: the True Martin Luther King, Jr., Tutu's No Future
Without Forgiveness and Rittner's Living With Our Differences.
Credit awarded in: Philosophy, anthropology,
sociology (contemporary and American society), political economy
and the theory and practice of interpersonal communication.
Total: 12 or 16 credits each quarter.
Planning Unit(s): Culture, Text
and Language; Society, Politics, Behavior and Change.
Program is preparatory for: careers
and future studies in mediation, educational, business and governmental
administration, teaching, anthropology, philosophy and ethnic,
cultural and gender studies.
Program
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Faculty approval is required prior to registering. Details
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The
Practice of Sustainable Agriculture
Cancelled - See:
Farm To Table: Topics in Local
and Global Food Production as an alternative.
Spring, Summer, Fall/Group Contract
Faculty: Pat Moore
Enrollment: 18
Prerequisites: Junior or senior
standing, transfer students welcome.
Faculty Signature: Yes. Students
must fill out a questionnaire to assess motivation, maturity,
communication and writing skills and background in environmental
studies. Transfer students must include a description of college
courses taken, related work experience and letters of recommendation
and mail them no later than February 28, 2003. To apply, contact
Pat Moore, The Evergreen State College, Lab I, Olympia, WA 98505,
or moorepat@evergreen.edu or the Academic Advising Office, (360)
867-6312. Submit the completed application to the faculty prior
to or at the Academic Fair, March 5, 2003. Students will be informed
of acceptance by March 7, 2003.
Special Expenses: Field trips, approximately
$60-$80.
Internship Possibilities: No
This program will provide upper-division students
with direct experience in the practices of sustainable agriculture.
There will be weekly lectures, occasional field trips and an emphasis
on practical skill development in intensive food production at
the Organic Farm. Students can expect instruction in soils, plant
propagation, greenhouse management, composting, green manure,
the use of animal manure, equipment operation, small farm economics,
pest control, livestock management, weed control strategies, irrigation
system design and management, basic horticulture, machinery maintenance,
vegetable and small fruit culture, marketing and orchard systems.
Because spring and summer studies provide the foundation for fall
quarter, no new students will be admitted fall quarter.
Credit awarded in: horticulture,
soils, greenhouse management and agroecology.
Total: 8 credits spring and fall quarters
and 12 to 16 credits summer 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 agriculture, horticulture and outdoor education.
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Puppet and Object Theater
Spring/Group Contract
Faculty: Ariel Goldberger
Enrollment: 24
Prerequisites: None. This all-level
program accepts up to 25 percent or 6 first-year students.
Faculty Signature: No
Special Expenses: $150 for art and
media materials and theater tickets.
Internship Possibilities: No
The main goal of this program is to create a learning
community of students interested in investigating the nature of
puppet theater and object theater through performance. Experimentation,
risk-taking, self-directed work, design process and learning how
to tackle unknowns will be emphasized. Participants will be encouraged
to write or devise their own script or storyboard and required
to research puppet techniques, design the puppets and the production
and perform. Exploration of new and innovative materials and tools
will be encouraged. The faculty will facilitate student-originated
work. The program will require weekly showing of works-in-progress
to emphasize learning about all participants' different artistic
processes. Weekly presentations will focus on issues related to
contemporary puppetry, technical issues and/or manipulation techniques.
Depending upon student demand, a movement workshop will be offered.
Some possible puppet masters studied may be: Philippe Genty, Henk
Boerwinkel, Bruce Schwartz, Julie Taymor, Theodora Skipitares,
Janie Geyser, Roman Pasca and notable emerging American puppeteers.
Credit awarded in: puppet and object
theater, performing arts, performance, design and other subjects
depending on student work.
Total: 16 credits.
Planning Unit(s): Programs for First-Year
Students; Expressive Arts.
Program is preparatory for: careers
and future studies in fields that require facility with collaborative
processes, imagination, creative writing, research skills, artistic
processes, intuitive and visual thinking, design and performing
arts.
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