2004-2005 Catalog

Latin America in a Global Free Market

(12/07/04) New students who are interested in traveling to Chile during spring quarter are welcome. The faculty will assess student eligibility to join the program during the first week of class.
12/07/04) The faculty signature has been removed.

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Local Knowledge: Community, Media Activism, Public Health and the Environment

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Marching

New, not in printed catalog
Spring quarter
Faculty: Dan Leahy
Enrollment: 24
Class Standing: This all-level program will accept up to 25 percent freshmen; 25 percent sophomores and 50 percent sophomore or above.

People in the United States are continually marching. We march to prepare for war, to ask for peace, to show our pride, to demand our rights. We march on Washington, D.C. and we march to Miami. There’s the Million Man March, the Million Worker March and the March for Women’s Lives. Jesse Jackson has said that marching educates, marching galvanizes, marching builds confidence, marching expresses the will to fight and marching builds coalitions. We are going to explore the phenomenon of marching by examining the act of marching, as well as the purposes, strategies and tactics of historically famous marches in U.S. history. We’ll also talk with march organizers and drill sergeants and simulate our own marches.
Credit awarded in U.S. history, social movement theory and practice and organizational development.
Total: 16 credits.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in teaching, organizing, peace and war.
This program is also listed under First-Year Programs and Society, Politics, Behavior and Change.

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Marine Life: Marine Organisms and Their Environments

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Marxist Theory

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Masculinities and Femininities Across the Globe: Sex Is Fun, but Gender Is a Drag

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 like work, families, schools, and the media? 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?

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 cultures other than your own.

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Mathematical Origins of Life

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Matter and Motion

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Mediaworks: Experiments with Movement, Light and Sound

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Memory of Fire: Spain and Latin America

Fall, Winter and Spring quarters
Faculty: Nancy Allen, Alice Nelson, David Phillips (FW), Ethan Rogol (W), Steve Blakeslee (W)
Enrollment: 50
Class Standing: Sophomore, transfer students welcome.
Prerequisites: Some study of history or literature.
Faculty Signature: The faculty will assess student Spanish language skills to join the program. For information contact Alice Nelson, (360) 867-6629.
Special Expenses: Approximately $3,500 for optional spring quarter trip to Spain or Latin America.
Internship Possibilities: Spring quarter only.
Travel Component: Optional travel to Granada, Spain, and Santo Tom's, Nicaragua.

Memory of Fire, the title of Eduardo Galeano's historical/fictional trilogy on Latin America, captures the human need to create memories of the past in order to understand the present. The image of fire embodies the violent relations among ethnic and religious groups on the Spanish peninsula that led to the violence of the Conquest: fires of the Inquisition, fires of imperialism. Yet, the image of fire also embodies the brilliant enduring spirit of the convivencia among Muslims, Jews and Christians, which preceded the violence, and the creative religious fervor of a 16th-century Spanish mystic like Santa Teresa de Jesús. This image also conveys the ingenious spark of Latin American resistance in Guamán Poma's drawings, representative of many such actions by indigenous and mestizo people in the Americas past and present. The convivencia and resistance are works of the imagination.
In this program, students will engage in an intensive study of the Spanish language as well as study the literature remembered, imagined and recorded by Spaniards and Latin Americans in historical context. We will critically analyze selected literary texts from medieval times to the present. Every week will include seminars on readings in English translation, Spanish language classes, a lecture delivered in Spanish and a film in Spanish. Spring quarter will offer opportunities to study abroad in Santo Tomás, Nicaragua, or Granada, Spain, as well as internships with local Latino organizations for those who stay on campus. All classes during the spring will be conducted in Spanish.
Credit awarded in: Spanish, history and literature of medieval Spain, history and literature of colonial Spanish America, contemporary Latin American literature and culture, research, writing and additional equivalencies depending on students' projects completed during spring quarter.
Total: 16 credits fall and winter quarter; 8, 12 or 16 credits spring quarter.
A similar program is expected to be offered in 2006-07.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in languages, history, literature, writing and international studies.

(7/19/04) David Phillips has joined this program. He will provide Spanish language support in the program.
(11/15/04) A faculty signature has been added to this program. New students must have Spanish language skills commensurate with one of the three ongoing language levels in the program.
(12/14/04) Ethan Rogol has joined the program to provide Spanish language support.
(12/17/04) Steve Blakeslee has joined the program

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Methods of Applied Mathematics

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Molecule to Corporation

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Molecule to Organism

Students must be proficient in two quarters of college-level organic chemistry, biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology.
Faculty Signature:The faculty will consider exceptions on a case by case basis. For information, contact Donald Morisato, (360) 867-6026.
Internship Possibilities: Spring quarter with faculty approval.

This program explores the composition of organisms to gain insight into how they function. It's intended for students who plan to continue studies in chemistry, laboratory biology, field biology and the medical sciences. This program will include organic chemistry and upper-division work in biochemistry, cell biology, molecular biology and physiology in a yearlong sequence.
Molecule to Organism integrates two themes: one at the "organismal" level and one at the "molecular" level. In the organismal theme, we will start with cell and molecular biology and proceed to studying whole organisms. We will examine structure and 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 that carry this theme into biochemistry and the fundamental chemical reactions of living systems. As the year progresses, the two themes will merge through studying the cellular, molecular and biochemical processes in physiology and neurobiology.
Most aspects of this program will contain a significant laboratory component. Students will write papers and maintain a laboratory notebook. 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 reading and discussions of topics of current and historical 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: organic chemistry*, biochemistry*, molecular biology*, cellular biology* and physiology*. Up to 42 upper-division science credits.
Total: 6, 10 or 16 credits fall and winter quarters; 4, 8, 12 or 16 credits spring quarter.
A similar program is expected to be offered in 2005-06.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in biology, chemistry, health/medical sciences, environmental sciences and teaching.

(12/2/03) Lydia McKinstry has been added to this program. Lydia has a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry. Stu Matz will leave the program after winter quarter.
(4/5/04) Donald Morisato has joined this program.
(9/10/04) Stu Matz has left the program.
(11/11/04) This program will not accept new students.
(1/27/05) this program will not accept new students for spring quarter except under exceptional circumstances.

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Multicultural Counseling: An Innovative Model

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Nature/Image

Spring quarter
Faculty: Susan Aurand
Enrollment: 23
Class Standing: This is a lower-division program designed for freshmen and sophomores.
Special Expenses: Approximately $150-$200 for art supplies.

This program will focus on building skills at making images from our experiences of, and thoughts about, nature. Students will learn studio art skills in drawing, painting and other 2-D media, the natural history skills of observation and recording using a nature journal, and basic skills in scientific illustration. Over the course of the program, each student will build a body of images that investigates and responds to a particular aspect of nature; for example, a particular species, habitat or phenomenon.
Each student will complete a research project on his/her selected topic. Together, we will study how artists, writers and scientists have thought about and depicted nature in various times and cultures, how our own culture represents nature now, and the politics of those representations. This study will inform our own work as observers in nature and as artists and writers responding to nature.
Program activities will include lectures, seminars and group time, studio workshops, writing workshops and individual conferences. All students will complete weekly writing assignments, readings, a research project, a nature journal and a body of work on an aspect of nature of their choice.
Credit awarded in: 2-D studio art, art history, natural history, humanities and writing.
Total: 16 credits.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in art, art history, humanities, writing and ecology.

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Negotiating Cultural Landscapes: Money, Music, Citizens and Stories

Fall and Winter quarters
Faculty: Toska Olson, Andrew Buchman, Jan Kido
Enrollment: 69
Class Standing: This is a Core program designed for freshmen students.
Prerequisites: New students should have completed one quarter of college-level work previously, but not more than five quarters.  New students will be expected to have read chapters 1-3 and 4.1 in Statistical Reasoning by Bennett et al.; chapters 1-4 in Sociology by Newman (5th edition); chapters 1-6 in Culture and Social Behavior by Triandis; chapters 1-4 in Soundscapes by Shelemay (and accompanying CD selections); sections 1-13 in The Everyday Writer by Lunsford; and all of the novel The Color Purple by Alice Walker before the first day of winter quarter.  Most texts are available now at the college bookstore.  Buy a copy of Walker at any bookstore (used copies are fine).  New students should bring completed answers to the odd-numbered homework assignments from Bennett and a writing sample (preferably a research paper) to the first class meeting.
Faculty Signature: No. For more information, contact Andrew Buchman, (360) 867-6391.
Special Expenses: $100 per quarter for workshop supplies, event tickets and retreat expenses.

How do we imagine and understand American culture? As a melting pot, a gorgeous mosaic, a patchwork quilt, a salad mix, a dominant, "mainstream" culture with subsidiary streams or a loose union of rugged individuals? What are the strengths and limits of each of these metaphors? We live in a dynamic era of almost instantly accessible mass media, global networks, rapidly changing technologies and many uncertainties about the future. How do we negotiate this landscape? Should we construct and maintain a unique identity in a culturally diverse world? How do we uphold our ethical duties in a world of divergent experiences and opportunities?
We will examine these and other questions in an attempt to understand our culture through our experience as producers and consumers, our social structures and institutions, our music, and the stories we tell in person, in print and in the media.
Students will participate in a series of skill-building workshops related to writing, quantitative methods, computer skills, music literacy and storytelling.
During fall quarter, we will develop theo-retical perspectives derived from musicology, sociology, economics and communication, with an emphasis on understanding individual behavior. In doing this, we will be interested in concerns about fairness and justice in social interaction and social organization. During winter quarter, we will apply these theoretical models to issues related to race, ethnicity, gender and social class, and our focus will be on groups within society.
Beginning the Journey is a 2-credit component of this 16-credit program. It will introduce students to the tools, practical skills and connections needed to do college-level work, and increase their likelihood for success, well-being and persistence at Evergreen. The planned activities will enhance students in four key areas: (1) academic skills, (2) support services awareness, (3) life skills, and (4) community connectedness. The program will begin Orientation Week, and continue through the first five weeks of the Fall Quarter, with follow-up weekly workshops in the four areas listed above. Students will be required to participate in selected Orientation Week activities and events, and attend all subsequent workshops and activities to earn the allotted 2 credits within the program. More information about Beginning the Journey.
Credit awarded in: communication arts, musicology, statistical reasoning, sociology, economics, expository writing, cultural studies and developmental psychology.
Total: 16 credits each quarter.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in social sciences, humanities, education, law and expressive arts.

(2/13/04) Bill Bruner has left this program. The Enrollment limit has been lowered.
(11/16/04) New students should have completed one quarter of college-level work previously, but not more than five quarters.  New students will be expected to have read chapters 1-3 and 4.1 in Statistical Reasoning by Bennett et al.; chapters 1-4 in Sociology by Newman (5th edition); chapters 1-6 in Culture and Social Behavior by Triandis; chapters 1-4 in Soundscapes by Shelemay (and accompanying CD selections); sections 1-13 in The Everyday Writer by Lunsford; and all of the novel The Color Purple by Alice Walker before the first day of winter quarter.  Most texts are available now at the college bookstore.  Buy a copy of Walker at any bookstore (used copies are fine).  New students should bring completed answers to the odd-numbered homework assignments from Bennett and a writing sample (preferably a research paper) to the first class meeting.

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Nietzsche: Life, Times, Work

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Old and New Worlds: The Making of the Western Tradition

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Organizing for Democracy: Problems and Possibilities in the 21st Century

(3/11/04) Dan Leahy has left this program.
(3/19/04) Martha Schmidt has joined the faculty team.
(7/2/04) Enrollment has been reduced for fall quarter to avoid overenrollment when Jeanne Hahn leaves the program beginning winter quarter.
(11/10/04) A faculty signature has been added to this program.

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Ornithology
New, not in printed catalog

Spring quarter
Faculty: Steven G. Herman
Enrollment: 20
Class Standing: Junior or seniors; transfer students welcome.
Prerequisites: Basic biology, developing identification skills.
Faculty Signature: Students must interview with the faculty prior to enrolling in this program. Contact Steve Herman, (360) 867-6063.
Special Expenses: $180 for field trip expenses throughout the quarter (approximately 22 days afield in eastern Washington and southeastern Oregon).

This field-based program will explore the class Aves generally, with emphasis on the avifauna of the Pacific Northwest. In lecture, field and laboratory, we will learn techniques of maintaining field records (the Grinnell system), ordinal characters, how to prepare scientific study skins of birds, topography, anatomy, and basic information about bird biology, behavior, communication, systematics and distribution. We will have weekly, local and regional field trips that will take us to a variety of habitat types. We will visit nearly wild landscapes on our major field trips and we will learn something of all landscape components we encounter, including especially plants.

Credit awarded in: ornithology, field ornithology, northwest natural history, field botany and field journal maintenance.
Total: 16 credits.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in natural resources agencies, non-governmental groups, conservation and zoology.

(12/10/04) New, not in printed catalog.

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Patience

This program is for students who already have a research topic in mind, as well as for those who would like to learn how to do research in a student-centered environment. Students will be exposed to research methods, writing workshops, computer literacy, library workshops, educational technology and the educational philosophy that supports this program.

In fall, we hope to state our research questions. In winter, we plan to individually, or in small study groups, develop the historical background for the chosen question and do the integrative review of the literature and data collection. In the first part of spring quarter, we will write our conclusions and prepare for a public presentation. The last part of spring will be entirely dedicated to presentations. Research topics will be related to the program theme of how to live in a pluralistic society and a globalized world under humanistic standards for social justice, freedom and peace.

Students will use and explore Bloom's Taxonomy , the theory of multiple intelligence, the relationship among curriculum, assessment and instruction, quantitative reasoning, self- and group-motivation, communication, e-mail, resources on the Web and Web crossing, and develop skills in interactive Web pages and independent research.

Credit awarded in: history, philosophy, cultural competency, communication, writing, political science, cultural anthropology, literature, indigenous arts, technology, indigenous studies, Native American studies, education and individual project work.

Total: 16 credits each quarter.

Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in education, anthropology, the arts, multicultural studies, social work, human services and the humanities.

(1/20/04) New, not in printed catalog
(4/21/04) Gary Peterson has joined this program. The enrollment limit has been increased.
(11/11/04) A faculty signature has been added to this program.
(2/1/05) This program will not accept new students for spring quarter.

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Perception, Language and Reality

“Does experience or reason lie at the foundation of human knowledge?” This question has been central in Western philosophy for two and half centuries, and the discussion shows little sign of abating. A central element has been a critique of the nature of human perception, particularly vision. When we perceive the world around us, what is the actual object of our awareness? Is it things that physically exist, or is it something in our mind, and perhaps only in our mind?

These questions arose with new force as the power of natural science became increasingly evident. Modern science did not describe the world as we encounter it in our daily lives, and that disparity has grown as contemporary sciences propose increasingly unimaginable realities. This will be our central concern: how to understand, and rethink, the complex relationships between science, perception and reality.

For the first four weeks, we will develop the historical background in which these issues arose and were given new shape. Our first reading will be Descartes’ Discourse on Method (1637, Paris), which will be followed by selections from both Hume’s Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1738, London) and Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (1787, Riga).

In the weeks remaining, we will turn to seminal works of the 20th century. These will include G. E. Moore’s “A Defense of Common Sense”, Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, W. V. O Quine’s “Two Dogmas of Empiricism,” and “Ontological Relativity,” Wilfrid Sellars’ “Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man” and “Being and Being Known.” These philosophers turned their attention, increasingly, from mind to language, and we will follow this shift with some care.

This short list touches only on some of the important work in this area of philosophy. In addition to our work in common, each student will be asked to complete an independent study of something important we have ignored. Students will present this independent work to their peers during the quarter. Evaluations will focus on contributions to seminar discussion, presentations and an essay resulting from independent study.

(This curriculum parallels but does not presuppose or replicate Language and Mind, which I taught in Spring quarter, 2004.)

Credit awarded in: the philosophy of language and mind, the history of philosophy and credit that reflect the students’ individual course of study and research.

Total: 16 credits.

(10/12/04) New, not in printed catalog
This program has 8 seats reserved for sophomores only.

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Photo Projects
New, not in printed catalog

Spring quarter
Faculty: Steve Davis
Enrollment: 25
Class Standing: Sophomore or above.
Prerequisites: Basic photography experience.
Faculty Signature: Admittance into this program will be based on a brief interview and a portfolio of no more than 15 prints, slides, or CD-ROM. It should reflect basic conceptual and technical skills in photographic and/or digital practices. Submit portfolios to Steve Davis, daviss@evergreen.edu room L1340 by March 2, 2005.
Special Expenses: $250 for film, paper and related materials.

This course is geared towards the development of individual photography projects. Through assignments, research and critiques you will develop a personal photographic project, complete with electronic and/or slide portfolio. Areas covered in regularly scheduled workshops may include digital image editing, fine printing, studio lighting, matting and presentation. You will have a wide variety of options in theme, technology, and stylistic approach. Expect to produce a professional and public exhibition at the program’s end.
Credit awarded in: photography
Total: 16 credits each quarter.
A similar program is expected to be offered in 2006 - 07.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in photography and art.

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Plant Ecology and Taxonomy

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Poetics and Power

(1/8/04) New, not in printed catalog
(11/17/04) A faculty signature has been added to this program.

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Political Ecology of Land

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Political Economy, Social Change and Globalization

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Pooled Sovereignty and Corporate Management: The Impact of Globalization on American Business Strategy

Faculty: Dean F. Olson
Enrollment: 25
Class Standing: Junior or senior, transfer students welcome.
Faculty Signature: Students should make an appointment for an interview. Call or e-mail Dean Olson, (360) 280-0115 or (360) 867-6433.

This program examines the impact of broad changes in global trading and investment patterns, regional integration agreements, and the export-oriented policies of less developed countries on business strategies and government policies in the United States. For example, seminar texts will examine the implication of expansion of the European Union to 25 countries with a total population of over 450 million and a GDP nearly as large as the United States. China's entry into the WTO in 2001, India's adoption of export oriented policies and liberal market regimes over the past decade, and regional trade agreements in North America and elsewhere will also be examined. We will explore attempts by less developed countries, now joined by China, to press WTO members for greater access to markets in developed countries. Cases will be used whenever possible to design and discuss implementation of corporate strategies to confront these challenges, to explore government trade policies and attempts by special interest groups to shape these policies. Written assignments will include several case reports and a 25-30 page term paper.

Credit awarded in: business management, economics, international trade and political science.
Total: 16 credits.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in business, political economy and international relations.

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Popular Economics

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Postmodernity and Postmodernism: Barth, Pynchon, DeLillo, Murakami and World Cinema

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Power in American Society

(12/30/03) This program does not continue into winter quarter. It will repeat during winter quarter. Students must enroll for one quarter only.

(9/21/04) This program requires a faculty signature. Students who were on the wait list for fall quarter will be given priority.

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Practice of Sustainable Agriculture, The

Credit awarded in: history, philosophy, cultural competency, communication, writing, political science, cultural anthropology, literature, indigenous arts, technology, indigenous studies, Native American studies, education and individual project work.

Total: 8, 12, or 16 credits, includes a four- or eight-credit internship option.

Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in agriculture, horticulture, community development and sustainability.

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Protected Areas?

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Puppet and Object Theater

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