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Farm to Table: Topics in Local and Global Food Production
Spring quarter
Faculty: Martha Rosemeyer, Martha Henderson Tubesing
Enrollment: 48
Class Standing: This all-level program accepts up to 25 percent freshmen students.
Special Expenses: $75 per student for field trip, food and other program expenses.
Internship Possibilities: With faculty approval.
This program offers students a flavorful buffet laden with local and global food systems topics. Students will explore the U.S. food system, grow food at Evergreen's organic farm, investigate issues in agricultural and food system policy, compare Olympia food systems with urban food systems in Central America, and learn cooking skills at weekly program meals.
Students will participate in lectures, workshops, field trips, films, program meals and seminar. Students are expected to maintain a weekly activities journal, write several brief themes and complete a library research project resulting in an annotated bibliography and a seven- to ten-page paper.
Specific activities will include: local farm tours, visits to a farmers' market and community supported agriculture farm/s, composting and organic gardening workshops, a food preservation workshop, a U.S. farm policy workshop and weekly meals involving students' cooking, among others.
Credit awarded in: topics of community food systems and sustainable agriculture.
Total: 16 credits.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in community and urban food systems, food system policy and sustainable agriculture.
This program is also listed under Environmental Studies. |
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Faulkner and Friends
Spring quarter
Faculty: David Hitchens, Tom Grissom
Enrollment: 48
Class Standing: This all-level program will offer appropriate support for freshmen students as well as supporting/encouraging those ready for advanced work.
William Faulkner was one of many significant writers who emerged from the American South to prominence in the 20th century. Faulkner was noted for his creative, original work with language, time, consciousness and the influence of history upon humans. Many others populate the pantheon of Southern writers, such as Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor, Peter Taylor, James Weldon Johnson, Jean Toomer, Robert Penn Warren, Richard Wright, Tennessee Williams, Ralph Ellison, James Agee, Walker Percy and Shelby Foote. Faulkner and his "friends" offer the discerning reader important insights into the relationship between culture and art, and the lasting impact of the struggle for racial equality in the region.
We will conduct a close study of Faulkner and other selected Southern authors to see how the past has affected art and continues to influence American culture. While exploring such issues, we will use history, economics, sociology, literature, literary analysis and popular culture to help us understand the Southern contribution to national letters and its place in the last century. Students will be challenged to read closely, write effectively and develop projects to refine their skills and contribute to the collective enrichment of the program. A program-wide symposium at the end of the quarter will provide a means of rounding out our work and will provide students with valuable experience in public speaking and presentation.
Credit awarded in: U.S. social and intellectual history, American studies and American literature.
Total: 16 credits.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in the humanities and social science areas of inquiry, law, journalism, history, economics, sociology, literature, popular culture, cultural anthropology and teaching.
This program is also listed under Freshmen Programs. |
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Fiction and Nonfiction
New, not in printed catalog
This is an alternative to the cancelled Creative Nonfiction program.
Spring Quarter 2005
Faculty: Tom Foote, Evan Shopper
Enrollment: 50
Prerequisites: Sophomore or above, transfer students welcome. Successful completion of a Core program or the equivalent.
This program intensely examines the fundamentals of writing both nonfiction and fiction; at the heart of the program lies the writing workshop in which students and faculty offer constructive, critical feedback on student writing.
This program assumes that students cannot write description about something they are unable to see clearly. To that end, we begin by studying field research methodology in preparation for observational studies in the field designed to teach the difference between truly seeing and simply looking. Along with the field observations, students will read and discuss selected works of creative nonfiction, an exciting genre that allows and encourages the use of fiction writing techniques to report on factual events. We then move into fiction writing where we will read and discuss selected works of fiction focusing on elements such as technique, character, action and point of view. We may also view and discuss films to enhance our understanding of narrative structure.
In order to receive credit, students must submit their writing to literary journals. The nonfiction piece must be sent to journals in the fifth week, the fiction piece in the ninth week.
Credit awarded in: reading contemporary prose, field research, writing fiction and writing creative nonfiction.
Total: 16 credits.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in journalism and the humanities. |
| Program Updates: |
(12/02/04) New, not in printed catalog.
This is an alternative to the cancelled Creative Nonfiction program. Students who register for a program but do not attend the first class meeting may be dropped from the program. |
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Forensics and Mystery Writing
New, not in printed catalog.
Fall and Winter quarters
Faculty: Rebecca Sunderman, Evan Shopper
Enrollment: 48
Class Standing: This all-level program accepts up to 25 percent first-year students.
Prerequisites: A student must have the ability to use a calculator and perform mathematical operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division) with fractions.
Special Expenses: Approximately $85 for field trips.
This program will combine the exploration of forensics science with the development of writing skills in the mystery genre. We will explore aspects of science associated with crime scene analysis, witness testimony, evidence collection, evidence testing and interpretation of data. Students’ investigations in these areas will provide the necessary authenticity and authority for their subsequent writing. Students will also study fiction writing techniques—plot, character development, narrative structure, point of view, description, tension, etc.— to enrich their work.
This is a demanding program. Students are expected not only to meet mathematical prerequisites but to approach both the forensics and writing components with vigor and discipline.
Credit awarded in: creative writing, forensic science and forensic science lab.
Total: 16 credits each quarter.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in criminology, forensics, humanities and journalism.
This program is also listed under Culture, Text and Language and Scientific Inquiry. |
| Program Updates: |
(12/02/04) New, not in printed catalog. |
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Forests in Space and Time: Introduction to Environmental Studies
Fall and Winter quarters
Faculty: Paul Przybylowicz, Heather Heying
Enrollment: 48
Class Standing: This all-level program accepts up to 25 percent freshmen students.
Faculty Signature: The faculty will assess student eligibility to join the program. For information contact Paul Przybylowics, (360) 867-6476.
Special Expenses: Approximately $150 for overnight field trips in Washington and through Oregon and California to study western forests.
Why do forests look the way they do? What forces in current time and in history have shaped the forest ecosystems and the organisms within them? This program will examine these forces that operate on many different levels of scale-from landscape to organism. These include abiotic factors such as the underlying geology and climatic influences, as well as biotic factors such as competition, succession and resource availability. In addition, we will consider evolutionary forces that shape organisms and their behavior, both in plants and animals, and attempt to explain current observations in terms of evolution and adaptations. A wide range of forest ecosystems-from tropical to boreal-will be used as examples to explore various processes.
All of the world's forests have been impacted to varying degrees by humans. We will examine some of the underlying social and political forces that have shaped forests.
Credit awarded in: forest ecology, evolutionary biology, scientific writing and research, botany and zoology.
Total: 16 credits each quarter.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in field biology, evolution, ecology and other life sciences.
This program is also listed under Environmental Studies. |
| Program Updates: |
(11/17/04) A faculty signature has been added to this program. |
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Foundations of Performing Arts: Moving Moments
Fall, Winter and Spring quarters
Faculty: Rose Jang, Doranne Crable (FW), Kabby Mitchell
Enrollment: 50
Class Standing: Sophomore or above, transfer students welcome.
Prerequisites: One year of interdisciplinary studies program experience or equivalent.
Faculty Signature: The faculty will assess student eligibility to join the program. For information contact Rose Jang, (360) 867-6705.
Special Expenses: $50 for theater and dance tickets each quarter.
All performing arts are made of "moments" on stage, and every moment of performance is an active, continuous state of presence and movement. We will analyze and experiment with the mental and kinesthetic ingredients behind the series of moving moments in a performance. By "foundations," we refer to the building blocks of every performance. These are the artist's mental and physical abilities and tools such as the spatial and architectural considerations of each performance. They refer to a solid understanding of history and theory in performance studies, which, combined with a genuine care for contemporary society and one's community, make every moving moment on stage meaningful and identifiable for the audience.
We will study theater and dance as forms of artistic integrity as well as products of social and ethnographical phenomena. Through workshops and group projects, we will explore the body as the fundamental instrument for movement and performance. The ultimate goal is to strive for a close harmony between the body and the mind in the conscious arts-making process and to enhance every moving moment on stage. Through readings, writings, lectures and films, we will explore the historical and theoretical progression of theater and dance in different contexts. We will study groundbreaking performing and movement artists of the past as well as those who are presently shaping the landscape of performance throughout the world. We will attend to issues of race, class and gender in our exploration, giving special consideration to unique moments when artists have been faced with censorship and discrimination.
Credit awarded in: skill development in theater and dance, performing arts history and theory, multicultural studies, multicultural performance and expository and research writing.
Total: 16 credits each quarter.
A similar program is expected to be offered in 2005-06.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in theater, dance, performing arts and multicultural studies. |
| Program Updates: |
(11/18/04) A faculty signature has been added to this program.
(1/27/05) Doranne Crable will leave the program at the end of winter quarter. The enrollment limit has been reduced. This program will not accept new students for spring quarter. |
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Foundations of Visual Arts
Fall, Winter and Spring quarters
Faculty: Lisa Sweet, Jean Mandeberg, Joe Feddersen
Enrollment: 40
Class Standing: Sophomore or above, transfer students welcome. 50 percent of the seats will be reserved for students with sophomore standing.
Faculty Signature: Prospective students should talk with the faculty during the Academic Fair, Wednesday, March 2, 4-6 p.m.. Candidates will be interviewed at the fair. Students who cannot attend the Academic Fair should contact Lisa Sweet, sweetl@evergreen.edu or (360) 867-6763, prior to the fair to make alternative arrangements. A portfolio of drawings and a few examples of printmaking experience is preferred. Students must submit their portfolio consisting of 7 to 10 drawings.
Prerequisites: Students seeking to enroll for spring should have: 1) a basic foundation in art history (prehistory through the 20th century), 2) basic drawing and basic life drawing skills, 3) basic printmaking skills (monotype, woodcut, linoleum cut are examples of basic printmaking skills).
Special Expenses: $50 studio use fee per student, each quarter.
This program offers an intensive introduction to the making of two-dimensional and three-dimensional art forms, in conjunction with the study of aesthetics and art history. This program is designed for students who have a passion for art, the ability to take risks, stamina and patience to work hard for long hours, openness to new ideas, and a willingness to share their work and support others' learning. The program functions as a community of working artists, learning together and sharing ideas through intensive in-studio work.
In fall quarter, students will be assigned to either the two-dimensional component or the three-dimensional component for the quarter. In winter quarter, the groups will switch, so that by the end of winter, each student will have had an intensive introduction to drawing, 2-D and 3-D design. During all three quarters, students will write analytic papers and take exams about art history ideas and issues in contemporary art. Students will be expected to be in class and work in the studio at least 40 hours per week. Students will develop a visual vocabulary, seeing skills and an understanding of 2-D and 3-D composition. Students will complete weekly studio projects in mixed media, woodworking, metalworking, printmaking and drawing-from-observation.
In spring quarter, students will have the opportunity to deepen the technical skills they developed throughout the program and apply them to the creation of an extensive, thematic body of work. Art history will be covered through student projects and lectures and emphasis will be placed on skills in color theory and the exploration of a range of careers in the arts through lectures and workshops. Preparation of artist portfolio will also be addressed.
Credit awarded in: drawing, printmaking, 2-D and 3-D design, sculpture and art history.
Total: 16 credits each quarter.
A similar program is expected to be offered in 2005-06.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in art education and the humanities. |
| Program Updates: |
(5/11/04) 50 percent of the seats will be reserved for students with sophomore standing.
(11/11/04) A faculty signature has been added to this program.
(1/27/05) This program will accept new students for spring quarter. |
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Framing Film
New, not in printed catalog
Spring quarter
Faculty: Caryn Cline, Virginia Darney
Enrollment: 46
Class Standing: This all-level program accepts up to 50 percent first-year students.
Special Expenses: Approximately $900 for a weeklong field trip to the Seattle International Film Festival
Framing film refers both to the film process, which "frames" our view of the world, and to the framing that we do as viewers and critics of film as we analyze them. This spring quarter program will introduce students to the phenomenon of filmmaking and to some of the great films produced in a century of cinema around the world. Ever since the Lumiere brothers introduced a portable camera/developer/projector and sent camera operators to many countries to take moving pictures and screen them for audiences, film production has been a global project. While the United States studio system provided a particularly successful example of the industrialization of filmmaking, many other countries, including Germany, Mexico, France, Japan, Britain, Argentina, Italy, Brazil, Russia, Sweden and Cuba, have had active film industries. Great film "movements" such as Soviet Montage, Italian Neo-Realism, the French New Wave, and Third Cinema, and genres such as the Western, Film Noir, Melodrama, and Memoir have inspired filmmakers all over the world. We will take a historical and global look at films and filmmakers, while developing our critical skills to read, write and talk about film.
Students will learn how to "read" film images and structures; understand the fine art and unique aesthetic codes from which film draws; become familiar with important filmmakers from around the world; read about, write about and discuss films using the vocabulary of historical and contemporary critical approaches to film; construct design problems and create projects that explore aspects of the filmmaking process; and attend one week of the Seattle International Film Festival.
Credit awarded in: film literacy, film studies and film theory.
Total: 16 credits.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in general humanities, media studies and media production.
This program is also listed under: Programs for First-Year Students; Culture, Text and Language; and Expressive Arts. |
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(6/7/04) New, not in printed catalog. |
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Geology and Art: Getting Grounded
Fall quarter
Faculty: Ken Tabbutt, Susan Aurand
Enrollment: 46
Class Standing: This is a Core program designed for freshmen students.
Special Expenses: Approximately $100-$150 for art supplies; $75 for field trip.
This program offers an introductory study of the Earth, through geology and art. Both scientists and artists rely heavily on skills of observation and description to understand the world, and to convey that understanding to others. Geologists use images, diagrams and figures to illustrate concepts and communicate research. Artists draw on scientific information to inform their artworks, and seek to communicate the implications of what science tells us about the world. This program will use both science and art to study geology, and to consider the relationship of geologic time and processes to our human experience of time and change in an individual life.
Geologic time and evidence of the Earth's dynamic past are recorded in the rock like an incomplete but never-ending book-a book that describes the paleogeography, climate, bio-diversity and tectonic evolution of a region.
To read this book and convey the information to others, an understanding of the language and how the language developed is needed. Students will be introduced to physical geology during several daylong excursions and an overnight field trip to central Washington.
Students will learn skills in drawing and watercolor and techniques for keeping an illustrated field notebook. They will also develop finished artworks, ranging from scientific illustrations to expressive works. In addition, students will have the opportunity to learn basic ceramics skills, including the digging and refining of natural clays, handbuilding skills and low-fire glaze and firing techniques.
Credit awarded in: introduction to physical geology, drawing and 2-D art, introduction to ceramics, writing and humanities.
Total: 16 credits.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in ecology, geology, art, art history and the humanities. |
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H2O
Cancelled
Talk to the Academic Advisors for options.
Winter and Spring quarters
Faculty: Ken Tabbutt, Andrew Brabban
Enrollment: 46
Class Standing: This is a Core program designed for freshmen students.
Special Expenses: $250 spring field trip fee must be paid by April 1, 2005.
Water is the universal solvent, essential for life, critical in geological cycles, and simply put, it makes Earth a unique planet. Throughout history, water has been used and abused with little thought for where it comes from and where it goes. It is one of the Earth's most important and endangered natural resources. This program will examine this simple compound in an integrated manner; introducing students to the scientific disciplines (chemistry, microbiology and hydrogeology) that are needed to grasp a fundamental understanding of water, as well as some of the public policies that govern the resource. This will be an applied study of water with a strong emphasis on experimental work. Students will be involved in a range of field and case studies from wetlands and riverine systems to groundwater contamination and remediation methods.
In winter quarter, several daylong field trips will examine water issues within Thurston County. Monitoring programs will be conducted in the campus' natural reserves. We will also focus on developing skills such as the use of field and laboratory analytical instrumentation. Quantitative analysis using computer applications will be stressed but a wide range of writing assignments will also be included to improve students' writing skills.
In spring, the program will build on winter's work, applying our understanding of water to a wide variety of topics. An extended field trip will focus on regional issues to allow students the opportunity to see first-hand, remediation methods at the Hanford site, acid mine-drainage in Idaho, hydrothermal systems in Yellowstone National Park, and water allocation by the Columbia Basin Project. The program will involve extensive in-lab analysis using samples drawn by the students from a variety of pristine and compromised bodies of waters collected on field trips.
Credit awarded in: introductory hydro-geology, aqueous chemistry, general biology, seminar, field methods, writing and public policy.
Total: 16 credits each quarter.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in environmental sciences, hydrology, chemistry and biology. |
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(11/10/04) Cancelled This program has been cancelled. Talk with the Academic Advisors to discuss options. |
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Health and Human Development
Fall and Winter quarters
Faculty: Carrie Margolin, Janet Ott, Nancy Cordell
Class Standing: Sophomore or above, transfer students welcome.
Faculty Signature: Yes. No new students. For program syllabus and scheduling information contact the faculty Carrie Margolin, (360) 867-6518; Janet Ott, (360) 867-6019 or Nancy Cordell, (360) 867-5305. All of the faculty prefer contact by e-mail.
Special Expenses: Approximately $80 to $100 for a privately obtained physical. Whether you will need to have a physical or not will depend on whether you select a project that requires the physical.
Health and Human Development will build a background in human biology and psychology affording students the knowledge to make analytical choices in their own life. We'll look at life-span human development in the fall from prenatal to adolescence, and in the winter, adulthood through aging to mortality. Concurrently, we'll cover development and aging from both biological, psychological and cross cultural perspectives, as well as human evolutionary development.
In the fall, we plan to explore areas of nutrition and exercise to see which are healthy and which could use improving. Students will learn research methodology and design, statistical thinking, as well as nutrition and the biological organ systems that are involved in nutrient processing. In winter, we will continue to study the human body, learning more about organ systems and the aging processes.
The program format will include workshops, lectures, films, seminars, guest presentations and group and individual projects. We will focus on clarity in oral and written communication, quantitative skills and the ability to work across significant differences.
Credit awarded in: human biology (without lab), developmental psychology, nutrition, research methodology, anthropology, human evolution and descriptive statistics. All credit is lower division.
Total: 16 credits each quarter.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in biology, psychology, anthropology, the health professions, human services and education. |
| Program Updates: |
(2/13/04) Nancy Cordell has joined this program.
(5/13/04) This is a revised program description.
(11/11/04) This program will not accept new students. |
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Health in Biocultural Perspective
New, not in printed catalog
Spring quarter
Faculty: Nancy Cordell
Enrollment: 25
Class Standing: Sophomore or above (25% of seats reserved for sophomores).
Special Expenses: Some background in basic biology and anthropology will be helpful.
Health in Biological Perspective focuses on humans as bioculturally integrated beings and on populations as biocultural units of adaptation. This program will explore human health, and the inter-relationship between biology and culture, from an anthropological perspective. Modern humans are products of 6 million years of common evolutionary history that has been impacted by regional selection acting on small populations in different environments for less than 70,000 years. That relative isolation produces not only biological variation, but cultural variation as well. Humans occupy an enormous variety of habitats and climates, yet we all share about 99.9% of our genes. We are more similar to one another, genetically, than we are different. Yet when we look around, we are often more aware of our physical differences than our physical similarities. How and why do modern populations vary biologically? How and why do modern populations vary culturally? Do the forces that shape those aspects of being human always act in parallel? What are the mechanisms enabling humans to maintain homeostasis in extreme environments: high altitude, heat, cold, nutritional deficiency and radiation? What are the biological and cultural adaptive process operating at the levels of physiology, metabolism and population? How do different cultures view health and medicine differently from one another?
Students will explore these and other questions through readings, workshops, videos and seminar discussions. Each student will be required to complete two research papers: one that explores the biological differences between populations in select environmental situations, and one on cultural perceptions of health. Students will read original source literature from the major divisions of the field in preparing their research project. Library research and writing skills will be emphasized. At the end of the quarter, each student will do an oral presentation of one of the two papers each has written.
Credit awarded in: anthropology, medical anthropology and physiological anthropology.
Total: 16 credits.
Program is preparatory for:anthropology, sociology, health professionals, physiology and education. |
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(1/13/05) New, not in printed catalog
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How People Learn
New, not in printed catalog
Spring quarter
Faculty: Sonja Wiedenhaupt
Enrollment: 23
Class Standing: This is a lower-division program designed for freshmen and sophomores.
Who are we as learners? How does learning involve our physical, thinking, feeling, social and cultural selves? In this program we will actively explore what biology, developmental psychology, education and the politics of identity can contribute to our understanding of what learning looks like and requires. We will also actively use the program as a lab to observe our individual learning processes and to experiment with different ways to engage learning.
The program will involve reading, writing, visual representation, public presentation, collaborative group work and what ever other tools we discover that we need to fully understand what we set out to learn.
This program will be useful to folks who are thinking about teaching as a profession. It will also be a very useful program for folks who are wondering about how to nurture and maximize their learning as students. And of course, it will be useful to any parent or future parent who wants to support, bring joy and nurture a sense of empowerment to their child’s experience of learning.
Credit awarded in: psychology and education.
Total: 16 credits.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in teaching, educational policy, parenting, etc. |
| Program Updates: |
(1/26/05) New, not in printed catalog
This is an alternative to the cancelled program, Climate Change, Action and Influence.
(2/16/05) This program has been changed from a Core offering to a lower-division program designed for freshmen and sophomores.
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Illustrations of Character: Literary and Philosophical Studies
New, not in printed catalog
Spring quarter
Faculty: Nancy Koppelman, Andrew Reece
Enrollment: 48
Class Standing: This all-level program will offer appropriate support for first-year students as well as supporting and encouraging those ready for advanced work
Special Expenses:Up to $40 for class field trips and performances.
What is character but the determination of incident?
What is incident but the illustration of character?—Henry James, The Art of Fiction
Character is a person’s own god.—Heraclitus
How do we determine what to do when faced with hard choices? For that matter, how do we know what to do even when the choices seem trivial? Is our own happiness uppermost in our minds, or is something else—loyalty to a friend, say, or religious principles? How can we live with integrity in the face of temptation or tragedy? These are all ethical questions, and questions like these demand that we think carefully about character. Character comprises not only our distinctive qualities, but also our disposition to act in certain ways, for good or ill. Indeed, our word “ethical” derives from the Greek word for character, ethos, which, like our word, can refer to a literary figure (a character) or to one’s combination of qualities and dispositions.
In this program, then, we study works of philosophy, history, drama, and fiction that illuminate our understanding of character. We enlist their aid in our exploration of the ways in which character affects, and is affected by, desire, deliberation, action, and suffering. Borrowing from the excerpt of James above, we are especially interested in literary and historical accounts of incidents that illustrate the character of people or a people. These incidents may be profound moral dilemmas, or they may be the day-to-day trials that are woven into the fabric of individual and communal experience. As we read, discuss, and write about these accounts, texts in ethical philosophy will challenge and, we hope, broaden our notions of character, particularly its relations to external goods, habit, happiness, friendships, and duties. They will also provide us with powerful interpretive tools and a highly refined vocabulary for grappling with the questions posed by our other texts. Authors will probably include Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles, Immanuel Kant, Soren Kierkegaard, Vladimir Nabokov, Edith Wharton, and Tayeb Salih.
Students joining this program should be highly motivated and intellectually ambitious. They should be prepared not only to think critically about what we read, but also to investigate their own beliefs and to submit them to rigorous analytical scrutiny, that is, to practice ethical thinking as well as study it. Writing will be central to that practice. Weekly writing workshops
will focus closely on matters of form. In addition, each student will complete a term paper on some dimension of character (in all senses of the word) drawing from the program’s texts.
Credit awarded in: classical studies, philosophy, literature, American history, and writing.
Total: 16 credits.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in the humanities, teaching, and law. |
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(1/14/05) New, not in printed catalog
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Image Conscious: The Emergence of the Self in Early Modern Europe
Cancelled
Spring quarter
Faculty: Stacey Davis, Hilary Binda
Enrollment: 50
Class Standing: Junior or senior, transfer students welcome.
Special Expenses: Approximately $50 for field trips and theater tickets.
What does it mean to be an individual? For most of us, our sense of ourselves as unique beings with special identities, goals and desires is one of the fundamental cornerstones of our existence. We spend much of our lives searching to define and redefine ourselves as individuals, looking to find, explain and explore that core of our being that sets us apart from the rest of the world. But, what if the notion of "self" we hold so dear was itself a creation of social and historical forces?
This program explores the ways that the modern sense of self emerged in Western Europe between the Reformation and the Enlightenment. In an era rocked by earth-shattering changes in religion, literature, art, philosophy, science and society, common people and intellectuals alike developed a new "image consciousness" that went hand-in-hand with both the "emergence of subjectivity" and the "discovery" of sexuality and sexual identity.
How do Shakespeare's plays highlight these new concerns about sexuality and identity? What does the very existence of the modern literary form owe to new ideas of the self? What does the new obsession with perspective in painting, with maps, grids and imperialism say about the rise of the "individual?" And how do new discoveries in science and new political and social realities tie into the early modern "image consciousness"?
We will trace the links between the religious Reformation and new styles of drama, literature and art. Students will complete substantial research projects as a capstone to their studies.
Readings might include Shakespeare's Cymbeline and The Winter's Tale, the poetry of John Donne, studies of Rembrandt, Rubens and Vermeer, and histories of gender and the body in early modern Europe. Students should expect to do close reading of works of literature and art and to weave a study of historical context into their investigations.
Credit awarded in: literature, Renaissance studies, literary criticism, art history, intellectual history, philosophy and history of science and early modern European history.
Total: 16 credits.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in literature, art history, history and writing. |
| Program Updates: |
(1/21/04) Cancelled
Refer to Women's Voices and Images
of Women: Studies in Literature and Cinema as an alternative. |
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Imagining the Past
New, not in printed catalog
Winter quarter
Faculty: Steve Hendricks, Virginia Darney
Enrollment: 46
Class Standing: This is a Core program designed for first-year students.
How do we use the past to know the world better? Because the past does not exist except through the telling of it, what happens to history when we approach it through fiction? What challenges do writers face when creating an imagined past from the historical record? Fiction and non fiction both attempt to create a reality that we can only imagine. This writing-intensive program looks at fiction, non fiction and film as ways of retelling the past.
Credit awarded in: literary analysis, fiction writing and film analysis.
Total: 16 credits.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in the humanities.
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Imperialism
New, not in printed catalog
Fall and Winter quarters
Faculty: Babacar M'Baye, Zahid Shariff
Enrollment: 48
Class Standing: This all-level program accepts up to 25 percent first-year students and offers appropriate support for those ready for advanced work.
Faculty Signature: No new students.
The encounters between Europe and the rest of the world, from the eras of explorations to those of conquests, radically transformed every major society of the world. These changes were implemented through policies and practices, and facilitated by certain ideologies, traditions, religious beliefs and knowledge.
In this program, we will examine the different ways in which the notions of imperialism and colonization can be understood broadly as well as in specific geographic and historical contexts. Focusing on the historical experiences of people of color in Africa, the Middle East, and the United States, we will explore the ways in which imperialism and colonization served as tools of conquest and domination, on the one hand, and subjugation and exploitation, on the other. We will examine the context in which these tools were, and continue to be, employed, and the resistance of different kinds with which they have to contend.
Our purpose is to both make distinctions and identify similarities between the imperialist practices of the past and those that are at work now. Exploring the role of image, representation, and knowledge-incentives for their production, the prospects for their distribution, etc.-will be an important part of the program; critique of orientalism will often guide us.
Required readings for fall quarter will include Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972); Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness and Other Tales (1903); Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth: A Negro Psychoanalysist's Study of the Problems of Racism & Colonialism in the World Today (1963), Edward Said, Orientalism (1978), David Stannard, American Holocaust , and Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism (1955); Noam Chomsky, Hegemony or Survival (2003); and Niall Ferguson, Empire: The rise and fall of the British world order and the lessons for global power (2003).
Total : 16 credits each quarter.
Program is preparatory for careers and future studies in: world history, literature, and culture studies; postcolonial studies; social sciences and international relations.
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(03/05/04) New, not in printed catalog.
(11/22/04) This program will not accept new students. |
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Indigenous Education, Ethnography and Art: The Power to Define and Represent
New, not in printed catalog
Fall, Winter and Spring quarters
Faculty: Frances V. Rains
Enrollment: 13
Class Standing: Junior or senior.
Prerequisites: Only Port Gamble site-based students are eligible to enroll in this program.
Faculty Signature: Port Gamble students should contact Francis Rains, (360) 867-6086. Qualified students will be accepted until the program fills.
Special Expenses: Up to $100 for art supplies and materials; travel expenses to Olympia and Lower Elwha; in addition, field trips to local and regional museums of history and art will be spread across three quarters.
This program is designed to move sequentially through history. The fall quarter will address the traditional systems of Indigenous education, as well as the Colonizers efforts to use formal systems of education as a means of oppression. Seminars will focus on issues of Native and Colonial/U.S. history, geo-politics, Colonialism, Native sovereignty, assimilation and Native resistance. An ethnography of a boarding school experience will be used to both better understand a particular boarding school experience, and also as a means of unpacking what an ethnography is all about. Readings from a variety of sources and films from Australia, Canada and the United States will also examine how education and "schooling" became intertwined for Indigenous peoples. In addition, the history of Indigenous art particularly from the Americas will be explored. Photos, murals, pottery, baskets, tools, jewelry and various historical artifacts will form the foundation of Indigenous art history. Seminars will focus on form, function and design elements, and comparative artistic work. A local artist will also teach how to weave a hat, as a means of connecting the past to the present.
In winter quarter, Indian education efforts of the late 20th century will be examined. This quarter the emphasis will be on movement towards Self Determination and its impact on Indian Education. Another ethnography will be read, with a two-fold emphasis: To examine another model of an ethnography, and also to explore how theory moves into practice related to Self Determination. The use of letters and early writings about Indian education will also draw attention to the use of historical documents in supporting ethnographic research. Readings and seminars will also focus on research methodologies and the meaning and power to define Indian education at the local tribal level. Students will begin the development and initiation of their student generated ethnographic research project that will be completed by the end of spring quarter. Continued study of Indigenous art will focus on the contemporary. Local artists will present and discuss their work. Also, students will explore design and function as it relates to contemporary elements of cultural life. Students will have a chance to interact with artists, as they begin their own artistic projects.
During spring quarter, contemporary efforts of Indigenous education efforts in Canada, Alaska and the United States will be explored. Students will work on ethnography projects. The Indigenous art component will continue to bring in local artists of both local and national fame to present their work and to interact with students. Observation, interviews, discussions and hands-on art opportunities will enrich student's ability to make connections between theory and practice.
Learning will take place through readings, seminars, lectures, mini-art workshops and through hands-on experience with ethnography. Students will improve their research skills through historical document review, observations and interviews. Students will have opportunities to create art projects. Students will also have opportunities to improve their writing skills through reading reflections, and through historical and ethnographic research projects. Oral speaking skills will be improved through seminar discussions, and through small group and individual presentations.
Credit will be awarded in: expressive arts, history, geography, political science, education, and Native American studies.
Total: 6-16 credits each quarter.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in the humanities, the arts and the social sciences. |
| Program Updates: |
(7/30/04) New, not in printed catalog
(9/10/04) This program is open to Port Gamble students only. The enrollment limit has been reduced to 13 students. |
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Individual Studies at Evergreen
New, not in printed catalog
Spring quarter
Faculty: Bill Arney, doranne crable, Virginia Hill, Ryo Imamura, Hiro Kawasaki, Jan Kido, Yvonne Peterson, Paul Sparks, Nancy Taylor, Setsuko Tsutsumi
Prerequisites: Negotiated individually with faculty.
Faculty Signature: Contact individual faculty to make arrangements.
Evergreen values providing students with the opportunity to engage in individualized study through Individual Learning Contracts and Internships. This option is designed primarily for students doing advanced work. Individual study is documented for one quarter at a time, although it is possible to conduct a study longer than one quarter by developing more than one contract that demonstrates progression of learning over a succession of quarters.
For students to engage in individual study, they must have the support of a faculty sponsor. Students interested in Individual Learning Contracts negotiate their course of study directly with the faculty sponsor. Internships need to be arranged through Academic Advising with the support of a field supervisor and a faculty sponsor. More information on Individual Learning Contracts and Internships (including how to find a faculty sponsor) is available at http://www.evergreen.edu/advising/individualContract.htm.
Each quarter, some faculty’s teaching assignment consists primarily of sponsoring individual study. During the spring, individual studies faculty are listed below. Other faculty and many staff may sponsor individual study on a space-available basis.
Bill Arney will consider any proposal. Students at any stage of their educational careers are invited to apply. He prefers to receive proposals via e-mail. Send a draft of your contract to him at arney@evergreen.edu.
doranne crable will consider sponsoring juniors and seniors who have completed at least one Evergreen full time program. She will support study in performance studies, theatre, dance, comparative literature, spirituality studies, Jungian studies applied to literature, visual arts, and spirituality. All of doranne's contract students must commit to meeting together once a week (Thursdays, 10:00 to 1:00) for a group seminar. Students interested in working with doranne should contact her via e-mail at crabled@evergreen.edu, by phone (867-6085) or meet her at the Spring Academic Fair on March 2.
Virginia Hill is willing to sponsor internships in public affairs, organizational research, public relations and public or private sector management. She will also consider sponsoring individual contracts in media theory, persuasion and propaganda, and mass communications.
Ryo Imamura will sponsor individual and group contracts in psychology, counseling, social work, Buddhism, Eastern spirituality, Asian culture, Asian-American studies, peace studies, nonprofit organizations, deep ecology, international studies, ethics, death and dying, midwifery and aging. He will consider sponsoring study in other areas on a space-available basis.
Hiro Kawasaki will consider students interested in the humanities and the arts. He is particularly interested in the areas of aesthetics, art, art history, Asian studies, cultural studies, Japanese studies and museum studies. Students may contact Hiro by e-mail, kawasakihiro@cablespeed.com.
Jan Kido is interested in sponsoring both internship and individual contracts. Internships in human services and education (public and private schools) are of particular interest. Individual contracts in cross-cultural communication, cultural studies, multi-cultural literature, social science endorsement areas for teacher education, and human development are areas Jan would be interested in supporting.
Yvonne Peterson focuses on Northwest Native American studies, history of Indian education, political science, and critical cultural thinking. She will also consider sponsoring students interested in working in other areas of the social sciences.
Paul Sparks has broad interest in the humanities and arts. He is willing to consider sponsoring individual study in the visual arts, and other areas on a space-available basis.
Nancy Taylor is willing to consider sponsoring individual study in the areas of English and European history; literature, particularly English Renaissance and Victorian studies; and women’s studies. She will consider other areas on a space-available basis. Because she is sponsoring legislative internships, she will only be able to sponsor a few contracts.
Setsuko Tsutsumi will consider sponsoring individual study in the areas of literature, film study, and Japanese studies. She will consider other areas on a space-available basis.
Credit awarded: will reflect the students’ individual course of study and research.
Total: 16 credits.
Program is preparatory for: careers and futures studies in the humanities, arts, sciences and social sciences.
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(02/16/05) New, not in printed catalog
(3/1/05) John Cushing will not sponsor individual contracts and internships for spring quarter. |
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Interrogating American Cultures through the Arts
Fall, Winter and Spring quarters
Faculty: Ratna Roy, Gail Tremblay, Marge Brown
Enrollment: 69
Class Standing: This Core program is designed for freshmen students.
Faculty Signature: This program will accept new students who are interested in theater and dance. For information contact Ratna Roy, (360) 867-6469.
Special Expenses: Museum, theater and gallery fees, approximately $20 for each field trip.
This program will examine the multiplicity of cultures in North America made up of both the indigenous peoples and the settlers from around the world and will interrogate the notion of "American culture." This study will also include issues of cultural hybridity and intercultural interaction and will involve the exploration of these topics through the study of history, literature, art history, visual arts, film, multimedia and dance theater.
Students will focus on individual communities through readings, discussions, reflective writing and hands-on projects. They will reflect on their selves and own ethnic identity, as well as influences from growing up in a diverse society, dealing with issues of identity, cultural hybridity and insider/outsider dynamics.
In winter, there will be research writing about cultures that have shaped the vitality of the American scene: Native American, South Asian American, Irish American, Japanese American, Armenian American, Appalachian, Chinese American, Mexican American and African American, as well as those of mixed cultural heritage. All students will be expected to participate in hands-on workshops in Orissi dance, mixed media art and/or multimedia production and to produce creative as well as written work on the themes of the program. They will also begin working towards multi-media performances.
In spring, students' multimedia, interactive performances and/or installations will be performed and shown on and off campus, in the community and in public schools.
Students will interact with visual artists, performing artists, media artists and Evergreen alumni in the arts. There will be field trips to cultural events in Seattle and Native American communities.
Credit awarded in: multicultural American history, visual arts, media studies, Orissi dance, theater, cultural studies, English composition and American studies.
Total: 16 credits each quarter.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in fine arts, performing arts and history. |
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(4/21/04) Ju-Pong Lin will be replaced by a visiting visual artist.
(5/14/04) Marge Brown has joined this faculty team.
(02/07/05) This program will accept new students who are interested in theater and dance. For information contact Ratna Roy, (360) 867-6469. |
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Introduction to Environmental Chemistry
New, not in printed catalog
Spring quarter
Faculty: Sharon Anthony
Enrollment: 23
Class Standing: This is a lower-division program designed for freshmen and sophomores.
This program will provide students with an introduction to chemistry using atmospheric issues as a motivating theme. We will use chemistry to understand environmental problems such as climate change, the ozone hole and acid rain. Students will be introduced to topics in chemistry primarily through workshops and small-group activities. Students will also gain some limited lab experience. Each student will choose an environmental problem as a topic for a research paper. Scientific writing is a focus of the program, and students will be required to meet weekly with a writing tutor to strengthen their writing skills.
Credit awarded in: introductory environmental chemistry, scientific writing and independent research project.
Total: 16 credits includes all aspects of the program; 8 credits includes only chemistry; 12 credits includes chemistry and writing or chemistry and project..
Program is preparatory for:careers and future studies in chemistry, environmental policy, environmental studies and science.
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(01/14/05) New, not in printed catalog.
This is an alternative to the cancelled program, Climate Change, Action and Influence.
(2/16/05) This program has been changed from a Core offering to a lower-division program designed for freshmen and sophomores. |
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Introduction to Environmental Chemistry: The Atmosphere
New, not in printed catalog.
Fall quarter
Faculty: Sharon Anthony
Enrollment: 25
Class Standing: Sophomore or above. Transfer students welcome.
This program will provide students with an introduction to chemistry using atmospheric issues as a motivating theme. We will use chemistry to understand environmental problems such as climate change, the ozone hole and acid rain. Students will be introduced to topics in chemistry primarily through workshops and small-group activities and will get some limited lab experience. Scientific writing is a focus of the program. Students will be required to meet weekly with a writing tutor to strengthen their writing skills. Additionally, each student will choose a regional environmental problem as a topic for a research paper.
Credit awarded in: introductory environmental chemistry, scientific writing and other topics depending on independent research project.
Total: 8 or 16 credits. The 8-credit option is only for the chemistry portion of the program.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in chemistry, environmental policy, environmental studies and science. |
| Program Updates: |
(8/17/04) New, not in printed catalog. |
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Introduction to Environmental Modeling
Winter quarter
Faculty: Robert Cole
Enrollment: 25
Class Standing: Sophomore or above.
Prerequisites: Good math skills through pre-calculus.
This program will present a broad survey of environmental and ecological systems that lend themselves to modeling methods. This rapidly expanding field is becoming an essential component of environmental restoration projects, wildlife management and enhancement, understanding biogeochemical cycles, designing sustainable resource economic systems, and developing better tools for ecological management. We will use a series of case studies to illuminate the process of building and modifying mathematical models of the environment. Topics will include population models such as competition and predation models; metapopulation analysis; energy flows; hydrologic phenomena; primary production; and pollution models. The tools we will develop can be applied to a wide variety of settings, including the study of chaos and chaotic behavior in biological and ecological systems. This program will be excellent preparation for any advanced environmental program.
In workshops, we will develop many of the mathematical tools and computer skills necessary to understand the models we'll investigate, such as calculus, which will be offered as a modular part of the program and the Stella modeling software. No prior background in computing is assumed. Students should, however, be willing to learn new software and apply new mathematical techniques to a variety of situations and case studies. Students will be expected to complete an independent or group project and present it to the class at the end of the quarter.
Credit awarded in: environmental modeling, calculus, research topics in environmental modeling* and mathematical ecology*.
Total: 16 credits. Students who have completed a first course in calculus may enroll for 12 credits.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in environmental science, natural resource management, environmental policy, hydrology, medicine and the physical and biological sciences. |
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Introduction to Environmental Studies: Communities and Their Environment
Fall and Winter quarters
Faculty: Amy Cook (F), Tom Rainey (FW), David Milne (W), Bret Weinstein (FW)
Enrollment: 72
Class Standing: This all-level program accepts up to 25 percent freshmen students.
Prerequisites: High school algebra assumed.
Local communities can have a tremendous influence in the protection or development of their local environments, both urban and rural. This program will examine the range of ways that communities become involved in conservation and in doing so, explore the relationships among science, policy and community. Grass-roots organizations generate a voice and are a vehicle for involvement; they are an important link between the individual and the community. This program will use a series of case studies to explore this topic, paying particular attention to grassroots organizations and their influence in environmental enhancement.
In fall quarter, the program will focus on biotic systems. Ecology and conservation biology will be the general themes. A variety of issues including salmon ecology and marine protected areas will be addressed. In winter quarter, the focus will shift to environmental chemistry and issues consistent with aqueous chemistry, biogeochemical cycles and atmos-pheric pollution. The cause of acid rain, global warming and nitrogen loading will be covered as will the policies regarding these problems and the role of community involvement.
This program is designed to introduce students to the principles of ecology, public
policy and community development. Our studies will serve as a foundation for more advanced work in environmental studies. This is an excellent entry point for transfer students interested in gaining a broad, integrated introduction to environmental studies.
Credit awarded in: ecology, conservation biology, community studies, introductory environmental chemistry and writing.
Total: 16 credits each quarter.
A similar program is expected to be offered in 2005-06.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in environmental science, environmental policy, community development, planning and environmental education.
This program is also listed under Environmental Studies. |
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(4/5/04) David Milne has joined this program for winter quarter.
(4/13/04) Tom Rainey has joined the faculty team for fall and winter quarters.
(8/17/04) Bret Weinstein has joined this program. The enrollment limit has been increased to 60 for sophomores or above.
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Introduction to Natural Science
Fall, Winter and Spring quarters
Faculty: Nancy Murray, Paula Schofield, Kevin Frances, Mario Gadea
Enrollment: 96
Class Standing: This all-level program accepts up to 25 percent freshmen students.
Prerequisites: New students must have two quarters of college-level biology (specifically cell and molecular) with lab; two quarters of college-level chemistry with lab; precalculus; and one quarter of college-level physics with lab.
Faculty Signature: The faculty will assess student eligibility to join the program. New students should contact Nancy Murray, (360) 867-5497 to discuss entrance to the program.
This program will offer students a conceptual and methodological introduction to biology, chemistry, math and physics. As an organizing theme, we will examine the cycles and transformations of matter and energy, at a variety of scales, in both living and non-living systems.
As appropriate, we will use quantitative methods to gain additional insights into these processes.
In addition to studying current scientific theories, we will examine the methods used to generate these theories and consider the historical, societal and personal factors that influence our thinking about the natural world. We will also examine the impacts on societies of changes in science and technology. During spring quarter, small student-groups will be able to conduct an independent, scientific investigation designed in collaboration with the faculty. Program activities will include lectures, small group problem-solving workshops, laboratories, field trips and seminars. Students will learn to describe their work through scientific writing and public presentations.
The program is designed for students who want to take their first year of college science. Students who simply want to get a general feel for science will find this program quite demanding and should consult the faculty before the program begins. Overall, we expect students to end the program in the spring with a working knowledge of scientific and mathematical concepts, with the ability to reason critically and to solve problems, and with hands-on experience in natural science.
Credit awarded in: biology, chemistry, mathematics, physics and scientific writing.
Total: 16 credits fall and winter quarters; 12 or 16 credits spring quarter.
A similar program is expected in 2005-06.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in physical and biological sciences, medicine and health sciences and environmental sciences.
This program is also listed under Scientific Inquiry. |
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(3/5/04) Kevin Francis has joined this program. The enrollment limit has increased.
(4/14/04) Mario Gadea, (mathematics), has joined this program.
(11/11/04) A faculty signature has been added to this program.
(1/27/05) This program will accept new students during spring quarter provided the student has successfully completed two quarters of college-level biology (specifically cell and molecular) with lab; two quarters of college-level chemistry with lab; precalculus; and one quarter of college-level physics with lab. |
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