2004-2005 Catalog

Undergraduate Studies 2004-05

Evening and Weekend Studies

Evening and Weekend Class Listing

Summer Studies

Summer 2005 Class Listing

Graduate Studies

Graduate Electives

Master of Environmental Studies

Master of Public Administration

Master in Teaching

Program Descriptions Q to Z

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Ready Camera One Cancelled Spring quarter Faculty: Sally Cloninger Enrollment: 24 Class Standing: This program is designed for 50 percent freshmen and 50 percent sophomore students. Prerequisites: Two quarters of college-level work. Special Expenses: Approximately $50 for videotape and supplies. This program is designed for first- and second-year students interested in exploring visual literacy, video production and media criticism. Students will be introduced to both media deconstruction and media production skills through a series of lectures, workshops, seminars and design problems that focus primarily on studio video. We will focus our work on the development of a critical perspective on contemporary media. In both theoretical discussions and production workshops we will consider the parameters and influences of television, video art, video activism, music videos and video documentaries. We will investigate the politics of representation, i.e., who gets the camera, who appears on the screen and who has the power. Therefore, students who choose to enroll in this program should be vitally and sincerely interested in the issues and ideas concerning the representation of gender, race, ethnicity, class and sexual orientation in the media. Activities will include training in the multi-camera TV studio, instruction in basic digital field production and editing, an introduction to media research techniques and a survey of visual design principles. Credit awarded in: media studies, media literacy, communications and television production. Total: 16 credits. Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in media arts, humanities, social sciences and communications. This program is also listed under Expressive Arts.
Program Updates:	(4/29/04) Cancelled
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Reality Check: Indian Images and [Mis]representations New, not in printed catalog Spring quarter Faculty: Frances V. Rains, George Freeman, Jr. Enrollment: 37 Class Standing: Sophomore or above, transfer students welcome. This program will address the images and mis-representations of Indians in a variety of mediums. Indian images from films, team mascots and commercial interests will be deconstructed and analyzed for meaning, significance, power and representation. Euro-American colonialism, U.S./Indian history, geo-politics and economics will be decolonized through the lenses of Native resistance, Native sovereignty and Native political and economic issues. Essential to this exploration will be an investigation of the dynamics of “self” and “other.” Learning will take place through readings, seminars, lectures, films, workshops and guest speakers. Students will improve their research skills through historical document review, observations and critical analysis. Students will also have opportunities to improve their writing skills through written assignments. Students may be required to meet weekly with a writing tutor to strengthen their writing skills. Oral speaking skills will be improved through seminar discussions and through small group and individual presentations. Options for the final project will be discussed in the syllabus and in class. Credit awarded in: art, history, geography, political science, education, and Native American studies, media studies or psychology depending on the successful completion of the 8 credit or 16 credit option. Total: 8 or 16 credits. The 16-credit option includes an independent research project to be proposed by the student, that meets established criteria, APA style and deadlines in syllabus. Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in Native American studies, the humanities and social sciences.

Program Updates:

(02/01/05) New, not in printed catalog

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Religion, Race and Law in America

Cancelled
Fall and Winter quarters
Faculty: Lance Laird, Babacar M'Baye, José Gómez
Enrollment: 72
Class Standing: This all-level program will offer appropriate support for freshmen students as well as supporting/encouraging those ready for advanced work.

Prayer in the classroom, federal agents inside mosques, ritual peyote use, animal sacrifice, homosexuality, Roe v. Wade, polygamy, the Waco tragedy, the Christian Coalition, the Nation of Islam, the Faith-Based Initiative and the Patriot Act all have raised issues of what it means to live in a religiously plural, secular democratic nation. This program will introduce students to the historical religious diversity in what is now the United States and examine the ways that shifting constructs of religion, race and liberty have interacted dynamically in shaping culture, literature and politics. We will follow the major constitutional conflicts that have arisen from making real the First Amendment's guarantees of both freedom of religion and freedom from religion. To examine the entanglement of government and religious entities in a variety of contexts, students will analyze landmark cases, prepare legal briefs and present oral arguments.
We will also examine the historic and present role of religion among ethnic and racial groups and analyze the interaction of religion, racism and the movements for abolition, civil rights, social justice and equality under the law. Particular attention will be devoted to religion in the African American community and to American Muslims within the larger narratives of American religious and racial history. Through documentary, literary and ethnographic study, students will consider how American culture, law and racial classifications shape the practice and public presence of both dominant and non-dominant religious traditions. They will consider how these forces shape the various narratives of American national identity.
Credit awarded in: Constitutional Law, American religious history, legal advocacy, ethnography, comparative religion, American literature and expository and argumentative writing.
Total: 16 credits each quarter.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in religion, public policy, law, ethnic studies, literature, American studies and cultural anthropology.
Planning Unit(s): Freshmen Programs and Society, Politics, Behavior and Change.

Program Updates:

(12/2/03) Cancelled

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Self and Culture: Studies in Japanese and American Literature and Cinema

Winter quarter
Faculty: Harumi Moruzzi
Enrollment: 24
Class Standing: This all-level program will offer appropriate support for freshmen students as well as supporting/encouraging those ready for advanced work.
Special Expenses: Approximately $30 for a field trip.

It is often said that American and Japanese cultures represent the mirror images of human values. For instance, while American culture emphasizes the importance of individuals over groups, Japanese culture dictates group cohesion. Certainly, the reality is not as simple as these stereotypes indicate; nevertheless, this dichotomized comparative cultural frame presents an interesting context in which we can explore many human issues. Thus, in this program we will explore the concept of self through the critical examination of American and Japanese literature, cinema and popular media.
At the beginning of the quarter, students will be introduced to the major literary theories to familiarize themselves with varied approaches to literature. Then, students will examine representations of individuals and cultures in American and Japanese literature through seminars and critical writings. Films and seminars will accompany our study of literature, which will facilitate a deeper exploration of the topics and issues presented in the literary works. Students will also be introduced to the rudiments of film analysis in order to develop a more analytical and critical attitude to the film-viewing experience.
Credit awarded in: Japanese literature, American literature, cultural studies, film studies and expository writing.
Total: 16 credits.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in cultural studies, film studies and the humanities.
This program is also listed under Freshmen Programs.

Program Updates:

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Self Determination, Indian Education and Native Art in the 20th Century

New, not in printed catalog.
Winter quarter
Faculty: Frances V. Rains
Enrollment: 12
Class Standing: Sophomore or above.

This program will address the changes that take place in Indian education during the 20th century, beginning with 1928 and leading up to present day educational issues in Indian education. Seminars will focus on the complexities and subtleties affecting Native Nations wrought by 20th-century legislation, as well as issues of Native resistance and efforts to protect Native sovereignty as a means of delving into Indian education and issues of curriculum. The shifting federal Indian policies to deal with the “Indian problem” will be pivotal to our examination and critical reflection of the Native road to self-determination, especially affecting Indian education. Readings will guide us along that road, including the ethnographic study of the first tribally designed Indigenous school.

Additionally, throughout the quarter, the evolution of Indigenous art of the 20th century will be explored. Expressive and visual representations, as well as articles written by Native leaders, activitsts, artists and musicians will be the crux of this portion of the program. Examining the power of Native arts to reflect “continuity and change,” as well as acts of resistance and renewal through artistic expression and voice, including contemporary Native music and guest speakers will serve as a vehicle for critical reflection.

Learning will take place through readings, seminars, lectures, workshops and guest speakers. Students will improve their research skills through historical document review, observations and critical analysis. Students will also have opportunities to improve their writing skills through written assignments. Students may be required to meet weekly with a writing tutor to strengthen their writing skills through written assignments. Oral speaking skills will be improved through seminar discussions and through small group and individual presentations. Options for the final project will be discussed in the syllabus and in class.

Credit awarded in: expressive arts, history, geography, political science, education and Native American studies.
Total: 8 or 16 credits.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in education, expressive arts and Native American studies.

Program Updates:

(10/29/04) New, not in printed catalog.

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Seven Generations: 200 Years of Japanese and American Art

New, not in printed catalog.
Spring quarter
Faculty: Bob Haft, Makoto Okawahara
Enrollment: 20
Class Standing: Sophomore or above.
Special Expenses: $200-$300 for art materials

This program is designed for students with an interest in the arts and culture of Japanese and American societies. We will learn the art of textile dyeing from a master dyer from Japan. Makoto Okawahara, artist in residence, is the seventh generation dyer from Takamatsu on the island of Shikoku, who also has a master’s degree in art from the prestigious Kyoto Art University. His quarter-long workshops on “tsutsugaki”, rice-paste resist dyeing, will be one of the major components of our comparative study of Japanese and American art and aesthetics.

The Japanese are adept at wrapping things. Indeed, they have a piece of cloth (called a “furoshiki”) that is used to wrap and carry everything from eggs to watermelons. In addition to dyeing textiles, we will also address the idea of “wrapping” both literally and metaphorically. Just as our cultures wrap themselves around us, hiding and protecting us all at once, art too is a form of wrapping, taking an idea, a dream, or a feeling and enclosing or encoding it within a visual language. We will look at various forms of wrapping (clothing, architecture, packaging of merchandise, social interactions and idioms in language to name a few) in both Japanese and American societies.

In the course of the program we will study the aesthetics of both Japan and America, one country steeped in tradition and dealing with rapid social change, and one steeped in social change and desperately seeking tradition. More specifically, we will be discussing how the aesthetics of the two countries have manifested themselves differently in the two cultures during the past 200 years and how, on occasion, they have either run parallel courses or cross-pollinated one another.

We will also discuss the role that traditional arts and crafts play in the two countries and how, in the face of the contemporary world’s rapid pace of social change, they might survive or be transformed in the future.

Total: 16 credits.
Credit will likely be awarded in: art history, aesthetics, art theory and criticism, and individual research projects.
Program is preparatory for: careers or future studies in the Arts and the Humanities.

Program Updates:

(01/13/05) New, not in printed catalog.

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Shadowlands

Fall and Winter quarters
Faculty: Ariel Goldberger
Enrollment: 25
Class Standing: Sophomore or above.
Faculty Signature: The faculty will assess student eligibility to join the program. New students should contact Ariel Goldberger, (360) 867-6729 to discuss entrance to the program.
Prerequisites: New students must read Dream and the Underworld by James Hillman, Shamanism, a Reader, and Dancing in the Flames by Marion Goodman.
Special Expenses: Approximately $50 for workshop materials fee and $40 for theater tickets each quarter. Other expenses depend on specific student projects.

The main goal of this exciting program is to investigate the nature of the Shadow, the Shadow archetype and journeys through the mythic Shadowlands, while simultaneously building a learning community of scholars and artists engaged in multidisciplinary studies. Our exploration will include the following questions: What can we learn about, and from, mythic journeys through the Shadowlands? What is the Shadow aspect of the human psyche? What does the Shadow reveal about our psyche and the human condition? How can we reveal and explore some of its nature through artistic and multidisciplinary projects?
In the fall, we will study the Shadow as it appears in literature, art, Archetypal and Jungian psychology and myth, through short projects and performances. Faculty and guests will offer demonstrations and workshops in shadow puppetry, design and technical issues. Students will develop skills in performance, shadow-puppet theater and other explorations of the artistic process. Individual and collaborative projects will offer opportunities for delving into individual interests related to the themes of the class.
Exploration of experimental performance and innovative materials, techniques, imagery and tools will be a primary focus. As part of the program, we will go on field trips to see relevant theatrical and performance productions in Seattle and Portland.
In the winter these skills will be directed toward the production of a large-scale experimental shadow puppetry performance. Expect a full workload and room for self-direction.
Credit awarded in: archetypal psychology, cultural studies, expressive arts, experimental art, Jungian psychology, myth studies, performance studies, performance, theater, puppet theater and shamanism, depending on student's independent work.
Total: 16 credits each quarter.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in archetypal psychology, cultural studies, expressive arts, experimental art, Jungian psychology, myth studies, performance studies, performance, theater, puppet theater and shamanism, and any career that requires imagination, collaborative skills, resourcefulness and cross-disciplinary skills.

Program Updates:

(11/10/04) A faculty signature has been added to this program.

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Slavery in Africa and the Americas

Spring quarter
Faculty: Babacar M'Baye, Michael Pfeifer
Enrollment: 50
Class Standing: Junior or senior, transfer students welcome.

Between 1619 and 1863, the "peculiar institution" of slavery profoundly shaped American cultural, social, economic and political institutions. Almost 244 years after the Dutch merchants brought the first African slaves to Virginia, African Americans transformed America's institutions by making the Civil War into a war for freedom, thereby compelling the Union Army and President Abraham Lincoln to recognize their emancipation. Perhaps slavery's most important legacy was how it shaped racial ideologies and racist notions and practices that have profoundly influenced American history. These ideologies and concepts of "race" are traceable to the transatlantic slave trade that radically transformed institutions and societies in the United States, Africa, the Caribbean, Europe and other places in the world.
Taking a comparative approach, we will study the history of American slavery through cultural and social lenses by examining West African cultures and history. We will explore the rise of the transatlantic slave trade and the Africans' experience of the Middle Passage, slavery in the northern and southern colonies, the formation of American racism, slavery in the American Revolution, slave folklore and cultural expression, slave resistance, the slave-holding class in Antebellum America, the abolitionist movement, and the process of the emancipation of the slaves. At times, we will also compare the experience of the African diaspora in slavery and emancipation in North America with that in the Caribbean and Latin America.
We will read intensively in historical studies, folklore, slave narratives and oral history, travel narratives and literary expression. Employing an approach that is thoroughly analytical and historically contextualized, we will discuss these readings and write about them. We will also listen to music that reflects the hybridity of the African American and American cultures that resulted from the encounter of African and European American cultures in slavery.
Credit awarded in: West African history, American history, African American literature, African American folklore and the history of American music. Upper-division Credit awarded: for upper-division work.
Total: 16 credits.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in the humanities, teaching, law and other professions.

Program Updates:

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Smart and Healthy

New, not in printed catalog.
Fall and Winter quarters
Faculty: Susan K. Finkel
Enrollment: 25
Class Standing: Junior or senior.
Faculty Signature: The faculty will assess student eligibility to join the program. New students should contact Susan Finkel, (360) 867-5345 to discuss entrance to the program.
Prerequisites: Ability to write.
Special Expenses: Possible theater trip each quarter.
Internship Possibilities: With faculty approval.

This program will cover topics in the fields of education and philosophy of education, psychology, education and health policy, and foods and health. Using original works in literature, psychology, philosophy and education by authors such as William James, John Dewey, Jean Piaget, Erik Erikson, B.F. Skinner, we will explore the connection between psychology and education through seminars, workshops and faculty and guest lecturers. A film series that explore food and society (e.g. Babette's Feast, Big Night, Mostly Martha), seminars, writings and readings will give us background to understand how food relates to the health, disease and well-being of different societies. Each student will be required to complete an in-depth research project on a topic of his or her choice in one of the above areas. Students are expected to participate fully in all parts of the program and develop and hone their critical reading, writing, research and analytical skills.
Credit awarded in: psychology, education, research skills and education and health policy.
Total: 16 credits each quarter.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in teaching, education, social work, health care, government policy and state and federal administration.

Program Updates:

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

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So You Want to Be a Psychologist?

Spring quarter
Faculty: Carrie Margolin
Enrollment: 24
Class Standing: This all-level program accepts up to 25 percent freshmen students.
Prerequisites: Knowledge of statistics is helpful but not required.
Special Expenses: Membership in Western Psychological Association (WPA) plus WPA convention registration fees total approximately $65 (payable to WPA before March 31, 2005. Contact Carrie Margolin for exact fees and deadline); shared hotel lodging at convention plus food, approximately $175.
Travel Component: Travel to WPA Annual Convention, Portland, Oregon, April 14-17, 2005.

This program is designed to be an exploration and preparation for those students planning a career in psychology or social work. We will cover typical activities of psychologists who work in academia, schools, counseling/clinical settings, social work agencies and applied research settings. We will look at the academic preparations necessary for these careers.
We will discuss ethical quandaries in psychology, and the ethics of human and animal experimentation. We will cover history and systems of psychology. Students will read original source literature from the major divisions of the field, covering both classic and contemporary journal articles and books by well-known psychologists. Library research skills, in particular the use of PsycINFO and Science and Social Science Citation Indexes, will be emphasized. Students will gain expertise in the technical writing style of the American Psychological Association (APA). The class format will include lectures, guest speakers, workshops, discussions, films and a field trip.
There's no better way to explore the range of activities and topics that psychology offers, and to learn of cutting-edge research in the field, than to attend and participate in a convention of psychology professionals and students. To that end, students will attend the annual convention of the Western Psychological Association, the western regional arm of the APA.
Credit awarded in: history and systems of psychology, social science ethics, career explorations in psychology, foundations of psychology, and one discipline within psychology (student’s choice to study either developmental, cognitive, social, or physiological psychology). All credit is lower division.
Total: 16 credits.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in psychology and social work.
This program is also listed under Society, Politics, Behavior and Change.

Program Updates:

(8/2/04) The credit equivalencies have been changed.
(11/12/04) Six seats have been reserved for sophomores.

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Student Originated Studies: American Studies and Humanities

Cancelled
Spring quarter
Faculty: David Marr
Enrollment: 25
Class Standing: Junior or senior or for sophomores prepared to carry out advanced study.
Faculty Signature: Students must draw up an Independent Learning Contract in consultation with David Marr. Contract proposals received between January 10 and March 1, 2005, will be given priority. For more information contact David Marr, (360) 867-6751, or The Evergreen State College, Lab II, Olympia, WA 98505.

Student Originated Studies (SOS) offers opportunities for advanced students to create their own course of study and research. Prior to the beginning of spring quarter, interested individual students or small groups of students consult with the faculty sponsor about their proposed projects. The project is then described in an Independent Learning Contract. The faculty sponsor will support students to do research in American literature, American history and American philosophy, as well as other area of the humanities.
Previous SOS projects by Evergreen students have been centered on such topics as Utopia, the Blues, comedy and tragedy, George Orwell, the sense of place in American writing, the concept of ideology, American pragmatism, the Harlem Renaissance and the Emerson-Ellison axis in American thought.
Credit awarded: will reflect the students' individual course of study and research.
Total: 16 credits.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future study in the humanities, American studies, teaching, law, business and the arts.

Program Updates:

(1/21/04) Cancelled

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Student Originated Studies: Humanities

Fall quarter
Faculty: Marianne Bailey
Enrollment: 25
Class Standing: Junior or senior.
Prerequisites: Students must be prepared to carry out advanced study or wish to write a senior thesis in the humanities.
Faculty Signature: Students must submit individual contract proposals to Marianne Bailey. Contract proposals received by May 10, 2004, will be given priority.
Additional contract proposals will be accepted until the program fills. For more information contact Marianne Bailey, (360) 867-6438, or The Evergreen State College, Lab II, Olympia, WA 98505.

Student Originated Studies (SOS) offers opportunities for advanced students to create their own course of study and research. Prior to the beginning of fall quarter, interested individual students or small groups of students must consult with the faculty sponsor about their proposed projects. The project is then described in an Independent Learning Contract. The faculty sponsor will support students to do research in world literatures (sponsor is expert in French, German, African and Caribbean literature and thought), continental philosophy, theater, comparative religions and mythology and ritual studies.
Credit awarded: will reflect the students' individual course of study and research.
Total: 16 credits.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in the humanities, theater, language and cultural studies, teaching, law, business and the arts.

Program Updates:

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Student Originated Studies: Humanities

New, not in printed catalog.
Winter and Spring quarter
Faculty: Nancy Taylor
Enrollment: 15
Class Standing: Junior or senior or for sophomores prepared to carry out advanced study.
Faculty Signature: Students must draw up an Independent Learning Contract in consultation with Nancy Taylor. Contract proposals received by Dec. 10, 2004, for winter quarter and March 1 , 2005, for spring quarter will be given priority. For more information contact Nancy Taylor, (360) 867-6398, or The Evergreen State College, Lab II, Olympia, WA 98505 (preferably by email).

Student Originated Studies (SOS) offers opportunities for advanced students to create their own course of study and research. Prior to the beginning of winter quarter, interested individual students or small groups of students must consult with the faculty sponsor about their proposed projects. The project is then described in an Independent Learning Contract. The faculty sponsor will support students to do research in three areas: Shakespeare and Early Modern England; women's history, particularly European and American; and in Victorian studies. Students will be expected to do some work in common and meet weekly in small groups, as well as work on their own individual projects.

Credit awarded: will reflect the students' individual course of study and research.
Total: 16 credits.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in the humanities, theater, cultural studies, teaching and the arts.

Program Update:

(7/12/04) New, not in printed catalog.

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Student Originated Studies: Media

Fall, Winter and Spring quarters
Faculty: Sally Cloninger (FS), Ruth Hayes (W)
Enrollment: 25
Class Standing: Junior or senior, transfer students welcome.
Prerequisites:This is an advanced media group contract. Students should have completed Mediaworks as well as have completed other more broadly interdisciplinary work.
Faculty Signature: This group contract will accept new students by faculty signature after submitting an application, portfolio and completing an interview with the faculty. For more information contact Sally Cloninger, (360) 867-6059, or The Evergreen State College, COM 301, Olympia, WA 98505.
Special Expenses: Depends upon project.
Internship Possibilities: With faculty approval.

Students are invited to join this learning community of media artists interested in media production, design, writing, history or theory, and to collaborate with media faculty. Students will work with faculty during the first few weeks of fall quarter to design small group contracts, collaborative projects or critique groups that will be supported by this year's SOS program. In addition to the student-centered curriculum, we will explore different themes each quarter. In fall, our focus will be Building Media Communities. The theme for winter will be the Dynamics of Creative Processes. In spring, we will focus again on Building Media Communities in regard to audience and distribution.
This is not the place to do beginning studies in media. It should be seen as an opportunity for students who share similar skills and common interests to do advanced work that may have grown out of previous academic projects and programs. To be considered for this advanced program, you should have successfully completed Mediaworks (the entry-level program in media studies at Evergreen) or its equivalent (i.e., approximately one year of media skill training, media history and media theory), or completed another interdisciplinary media program at Evergreen, and submit a portfolio that includes copies of recent faculty evaluations and a VHS tape that contains two examples of your best work in film or video.
Credit awarded in: media studies and production.
Total: 12 or 16 credits each quarter.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in media arts.

Program Updates:

(5/25/04) Sally Cloninger will be in this program during fall and spring quarters.
(1/28/05) This program will accept qualified students for spring quarter.

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Student Originated Studies: Science and Education

New, not in printed catalog.
Fall 2004 quarter

Faculty: Dharshi Bopegedera
Enrollment: 25
Class Standing: Junior or senior. Sophomores ready for independent work.
Prerequisites: Interest in science education in K-12 is desired but not required. Ability to work in a general chemistry laboratory with minimal supervision will be an asset.
Faculty Signature: Interested students who have a project in mind must draw up an Independent Learning Contract and arrange for an informational discussion with Dharshi Bopegedera before the first week of the fall quarter. Students must submit a ten-week plan of their intended work. For more information contact Dharshi Bopegedera at (360) 867-6620, or The Evergreen State College, Lab I, Olympia, WA 98505. This learning contract is intended to provide opportunities for students who are interested in science teaching in K-12. Students may decide on science concepts they wish to investigate with the intention of teaching those concepts to schoolchildren, learn them thoroughly, and demonstrate their understanding of the concepts to the instructor. Students will then design hands-on science activities to be conducted in a classroom setting. Students need to demonstrate these activities to the instructor and fellow students. There may be opportunities to conduct the activity with local schoolchildren. Students are expected to meet with the instructor once a week to check progress and discuss any questions they may have. Students must keep complete records of all their work, which will be evaluated for awarding credit. Students can take this contract to help improve their laboratory skills and teaching skills. The faculty sponsor will support students interested in any area of science (chemistry, physics, biology, geology, etc.).

Credit awarded will reflect the students' individual course of study and research.
Total: 16 credits.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in education, natural sciences and environmental studies.

Fall quarter
Faculty: Frederica Bowcutt
Enrollment: 20
Class Standing: Junior or senior.
Faculty Signature: Students must submit a portfolio of botanical illustrations or graphic arts work, a writing sample, and a letter of recommendation or evaluation from their last Evergreen program to Frederica Bowcutt, or The Evergreen State College, Lab II, Olympia, WA 98505. Portfolios received
by May 5, 2004 will be given priority.
Special Expenses: Approximately $150 for field trips.

We will link theory and praxis in the creation of an arboretum on Evergreen's campus. We will reflect on the following questions: How might we increase the educational value of the "green fringe" around our buildings? How might an arboretum or botanic garden look that fosters values such as social justice and multiculturalism? To develop a historical context for understanding arboreta, we will consider the relationship between people and gardens, including the influence of Buddhism on Asian garden design; the influence of Persian gardens on Europeans; the impact of Christianity on garden design and land use; the link between imperialism and Renaissance collections of plants; the influence of Romanticism on European attitudes towards nature; the importance of social justice issues in relation to botanic gardens; and Native American approaches to gardening. To aid our inquiries, we will read about theory and praxis in landscape architecture, garden design and environmental education. We will visit local arboreta and botanic gardens, including Chinese scholar and Japanese gardens.
Students will learn about land-use planning for a public space. Each student will complete a major work in connection to the articulation of teaching gardens on Evergreen's campus. Students will present designs to the Campus Land-Use Committee for approval, give public oral presentations and help to publicize the opening of the teaching gardens. They will learn how to fund raise and write grant proposals. In addition, students will help to install the primitive plant garden or phase II of the water-wise pollinator garden.
Credit will be awarded in environmental education, garden design and history, and teaching garden practicum.
Total: 16 credits.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in environmental education, environmental art and landscape architecture.

Program Updates:

(4/21/04) The enrollment limit has been increased
(4/29/04) The enrollment limit has been reduced to 20 students.

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Teaching Through Performance: American Radical History

New, not in printed catalog.
Fall, Winter and Spring quarters
Faculty: Arun Chandra
Enrollment: 25
Class Standing: Sophomore or above, transfer students welcome. New students will be admitted each quarter.
Faculty Signature: The faculty will assess student eligibility to join the program. For information contact Arun Chandra, (360) 867-6077.

There are many important events in American History that never make it into our history textbooks, or are only mentioned in passing, thus remaining hidden from students in many high-school history classes. In this program, we will study these hidden histories, create performances of theater and music about them, and, if possible, perform them for local high-school history classes as an alternative method of teaching about historical events. Each quarter will be divided into three parts. First, we will research hidden histories, such as Margaret Sanger and the legalization of birth control; Jane Addams and the Women's Peace movement; William Z. Foster and the American Communist Party; the trials of Sacco and Vanzetti, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, and the Chicago Seven; the 1919 general strike in Seattle; and American involvement in overthrowing the democratically elected Chilean government. Second, we will compose scripts and music for short performances about these histories. Finally, we will rehearse and perform these events. If possible, we will perform in high schools in the local area. Each quarter, students will be expected to write a short paper about their historical research, write the scripts and music and help present the performances. Alongside the historical work of American political and social history, we will be reading plays and viewing operas from the 19th and 20th centuries that address and depict social problems. Some of the writers and composers we will examine include Bertolt Brecht, Bernard Shaw, Frank Wedekind, Alban Berg, Giuseppi Verdi, Ludwig van Beethoven, and W. A. Mozart. Each quarter will have its own cycle of research, composition and performance. New students can join the program in winter and spring quarters on a space-available basis.

Credit awarded in: 19th- and 20th-century American history, music composition, creative writing and performance.
Total: 16 credits each quarter.

Program Updates:

(4/29/04) New, not in printed catalog. This program is an alternative for the cancelled program Time Rhythm Music Theater.
(11/17/04) A faculty signature has been added to this program
(2/7/05) This program will accept new students on a space available basis. New students should talk with faculty about make-up reading material. For information contact Arun Chandra, (360) 867-6077.

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Telling the Truth

Fall and Winter quarters
Faculty: William Ray Arney, Sara Huntington (FW.5)
Enrollment: 36
Class Standing: This all-level program will offer appropriate support for freshmen students as well as supporting/encouraging those ready for advanced work.
Faculty Signature: No new students.

Telling the truth is a matter of craft. Students will learn an approach to writing and reading (and talking and editing) that is guided by the idea that writing is a persuasive act. They will develop skills through constant practice and will strive to master well-defined rhetorical techniques and forms. We will ground our work in the conflicting ideas of truth in Aristotle and Plato. We will explore standards of discourse in fiction, history, and science, examining how realism has become the style most associated with truth, whether embedded in facts or narrative or synthetic analysis. We will confront the truth in different literary forms, from comedy and satire to science and sociology. Of every piece of writing, we will ask, How was this put together?
We will work against romantic notions of "voice"-which wrongly assume that there is a latent, essential self-and "inspiration"-which requires a heavy-breathing higher power-and against the Western metaphysics of truth. Students' writing will aim, simply, at telling the truth. In achieving mastery of rhetorical forms and developing their individual style, students will learn to fail well. They will know that telling the truth is hard work-more difficult than target practice, or other stochastic activities, and more exacting than self-analysis, or other therapeutic indulgences-and that notable failures are valuable. Students in this program may, at times, feel good about their work, but that will happen only when they have done work that everyone knows is good-because they have told the truth. Successful students will never again have to write a single word that is not their own.
We're not kidding around here. We are offering an un-ironic invitation to students who want to know what it takes to write well and thus to join serious conversations about truth, conversations that are guided by the idea that, even though it's not much, language is all we've got so it makes sense to use it well. If you're tough and smart and determined, we want you to join us in telling the truth. If you're longing for a life beyond relativistic maundering, sign up!
Credit awarded in: writing, rhetoric, philosophy, and sociology.
Total: 16 credits each quarter.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies that require telling the truth.
This program is also listed under Freshmen Programs.

Program Updates:

(12/11/03) Sara Huntington has reduced her time in the program to half-time status and the enrollment limit has been reduced to 36 students (9 freshmen) (27 Sophomores-Seniors).
(11/15/04) This program will not accept new students.

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The American Civil War in Modern Memory

Spring quarter
Faculty: Jerry Lassen, Tom Rainey
Enrollment: 48
Class Standing: This all-level program accepts up to 25 percent freshmen students.

The American Civil War of 1860-65, was the first modern war in which an economically mightier, more populous, and more technologically advanced section of the country would overwhelm the other in a grinding war of attrition. It was a defining moment in the history of the United States. Indeed, it was a world historical event of such magnitude that it is still difficult for us to understand it even with the benefit of retrospect. Had the Southern states won the war, the history of the world would surely have developed very differently. The victorious Northern states went on to establish the economic and political foundations of the United States as a world power.
The war is of such historical significance that it still fascinates historians and lay people alike. Each year there are a multitude of books and articles written about the war. In addition, there are a number of excellent movies and documentaries that have recently been produced. Through historical texts, films and literature this program will explore the historical roots, the major causes, the long-term consequences and the enduring mystique of this great conflict.
Credit awarded in: American history, American economic history and American literature.
Total: 16 credits.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in the humanities and social sciences.
This program is also listed under Society, Politics, Behavior and Change.

Program Updates:

(02/10/2005) Tom Rainey has joined this program.

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The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Power, Narrative and Resolution

New, not in printed catalog

Spring quarter
Faculty: Steve Niva
Enrollment: 25
Class Standing: Sophomore or above, transfer students welcome. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict encompasses many dimensions: identity, religion, land, water and historical injustices both within Europe, and as a result of European colonialism. It has become a complex conflict between contending narratives; primarily the Jewish/Zionist narrative of return and response to European anti-Semitism and the Arab/Palestinian narrative of continuity and anti-colonial self-determination. This program will seek to provide a thorough introduction to this 100 year conflict through a specific focus on these contending narratives-myths, attitudes, histories and facts-while recognizing that there are a diversity of views within each side. The first half of the program will examine the key historical claims to the land made by each side and learn about the key historical turning points in the conflict. We will also examine the religious, political and ideological composition of each side. The second half of the program will examine the contemporary nature of the conflict since 1967, focusing on the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, the rise of Palestinian nationalism, the Israeli search for security and prospects for a peaceful resolution to the conflict. We will conclude by considering the role of the U.S. in the conflict, as well as the broader nature of U.S. foreign policy in the region. Students will write several historical and analytical papers, develop and perform classroom debates and role-plays, and undertake creative work in order to explore various dimensions of the conflict.

Credit awarded in: political science, history and cultural studies.
Total: 16 credits.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in international politics, diplomacy and conflict resolution, Middle Eastern studies and cross-cultural communication.

Program Update:

(5/25/04) New, not in printed catalog.

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Novel, The: Life and Form

Winter quarter
Faculty: Thad Curtz
Enrollment: 25
Class Standing: Junior or senior, transfer students welcome.
Prerequisites: Two years of college,
including some work in literature.

From its beginning in the 1700s, the novel has aspired to give the effect of real life, to serve as a mirror of reality. For almost as long, perhaps because of this ambition, sophisticated readers and novelists have felt dissatisfied with its artificiality-its exhaustion and imminent death have been proclaimed again and again. Nonetheless, its aspirations and its features have made it the literary form in which central issues about how to live modern life-issues of morality and politics and money and love-have been most extensively explored. In fact, some argue that novels have helped invent and shape our changing impulses about those issues.
In this program, we'll trace the history of the form by reading a major novel a week, including works by Defoe, Austen, Dickens, Eliot, James and Woolf, as well as looking closely at technique in selections from others. Novels are often long, and we will also be paying some attention to their social and historical contexts; students should be prepared to read relatively large amounts each week. However, a good deal of our attention will be devoted to careful analysis of short passages. We'll expect to spend at least as much time looking at and carefully discussing the language through which the stories create their worlds as we talk about what happens to the "people" in them.
Credit awarded in: literature, history and art history.
Total: 16 credits.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in the humanities, social sciences, psychology, business, law and teaching.

Program Updates:

(5/14/04) Hilary Binda has left the program. Enrollment limit has been reduced.

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Theatre Intensive: Stage Production

Cancelled. Walter Grodzik has joined the Puppet and Object Theater program for spring. Please see Puppet and Object Theater as an alternative choice.
Spring quarter

Faculty: Walter Eugene Grodzik
Enrollment: 24
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.
Faculty Signature: Admission by interview. Interviews will be conducted at the end of winter quarter (watch for notices.) For information contact Walter Eugene Grodzik, The Evergreen State College, Seminar 2 C4106, Olympia, WA 98505. This program will consist exclusively of participating in a faculty-directed stage production of a play chosen by the instructor. The audition, rehearsal and production work will follow an academic/professional theater model that students can expect in any Off-Broadway or regional theater. The play will be chosen from the realistic/avant-garde theater canon. This will allow us to work with acting and directing techniques that were specifically developed for each type of theater. For example, these techniques could include Stanislavski's sense memory, Michael Chekhov's psychological gesture, Meyerhold's biomechanics, or Bogart's viewpoints. Students will experience a rigorous training in movement and vocal techniques and will learn to utilize these techniques in the performance of the play. Participation in the production involves acting in the play, dramaturgical work, assistant directing, stage management, set, costume, lighting and sound design, set and costume construction publicity, and all the other areas related to a successful play production. For example, after a successful audition, a student will be cast in the play, she will spend maybe half to three quarters of her time in rehearsal, and the rest of the time she might work in the shop building the set. A student might present a portfolio of his lighting design, and he will become the lighting designer for the production as well as the publicity coordinator. In short, every student will participate in more than one area of the production process. While the production will be directed by the faculty, the process will be an interactive collaboration among all participants. The program will spend the first eight to nine weeks in rehearsal, and it will culminate in a fully mounted site-specific production or a production in the Experimental Theatre. In addition to rehearsals and production work, the program will meet at least once a week for an all-program seminar concerning dramaturgical matters closely related to the production. For example, if the production is a play by a 20th-century avant-garde writer, the seminars will deal with other plays by the same author, scholarship, and the social, political, economic and cultural environment of the play, and so on. Those weekly seminars will help us to understand the world of the play, as well as the world of the author.

Credit awarded in: acting, directing, design, stage management, dramaturgy, costuming, lighting, sound, and publicity according to which function the individual student specializes in, and also in theater history, critical theory and dramatic literature for the seminar preparation and participation.
Total: 16 credits.
This program is also listed under: Programs For First-Year Students and Expressive Arts.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in teaching and theatre and the arts and humanities.

Program Updates:

(4/30/04) New, not in printed catalog.
(2/22/05) This program has been cancelled. Walter Grodzik has joined the Puppet and Object Theater program for spring. Please see Puppet and Object Theater as an alternative choice.

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Women's Voices and Images of Women: Studies in Literature and Cinema

Spring quarter
Faculty: Harumi Moruzzi, Stephanie Kozick
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.

This interdisciplinary program is designed for students who are interested in the cross-cultural exploration of the concept of woman and her voice/selfhood.
The heterogeneity of women that we encounter in literature, art and cinema, as well as in our daily lives, often makes us wonder if there is any such an entity as the universal woman. Each woman seems to possess her individual identity, even when she appears to conform to the socially prescribed women's role. We will explore the concept of woman and her selfhood by examining the voices of women in literature, art and philosophy, while comparing them with the images of women presented in cinema and media. These explorations will be conducted through lectures, workshops, film viewing, book and film seminars and through critical writings. Our study will adopt an international perspective, which will add breadth and depth to our investigations of women as autonomous human beings living in substantial social contexts.
Credit awarded: human development, gender studies, cultural studies, literature, film studies and expository writing.
Total: 16 credits.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in human development, gender studies, cultural studies, film studies and literature.
This program is also listed under Freshmen Programs.

Program Updates:

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Working the Waters: Leadership Under Sail

New, not in printed catalog
Spring quarter

Faculty: Cynthia Kennedy
Enrollment: 20
Class Standing: This all-level program accepts up to 25 percent first-year students.
Prerequisites: No sailing experience required. Two quarters of college-level academic writing recommended.
Special Expenses: One- to two-week sailing voyage, plus field trips in the college vans. Up to $800 for boating and field trip expenses.

This boat-based program will have a two-pronged focus. The first prong will explore the economic and social history and current conditions of the maritime trades and industry in the Pacific Northwest. Beginning with a brief introductory history to Puget Sound as an economic resource, we will then focus deeply on the contemporary economic and work climate in the maritime industries and trades with emphasis on the Northwest region. We will use the disciplines of economics, sociology, race and gender studies, as well as reading and analysis to gain an understanding of the nature of today’s maritime work and economy. An extended sailing expedition will include visits to a variety of maritime businesses, tribal communities, historical locales and ports where economic development issues are evolving. The second prong will focus on the experience of working as crew, the development of leadership within small groups and the creation of an intense and powerful learning community. Using systems thinking, current ideas in organizational behavior, and the personal experience of our sailing expedition, students will finish this program with a strong appreciation for the complex, dynamic power of working in a group. Students should expect to read and write extensively throughout the expeditions as well as at home. Workshops and practical application will develop students’ skills in mathematics, basic geometry, map reading and weather.

Credit awarded in: economics, leadership, math, Pacific Northwest cultural maritime studies and nautical science.
Total: 16 credits.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in economics, management, science, math, literature, maritime studies and trade.
This program is also listed in Programs for First-Year Students and Society, Politics, Behavior and Change.

Program Updates:

(11/12/04) New, not in printed catalog

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World Beyond: The Illusional and Grotesque in Japanese Literature, Cinema and Animation

New, not in printed catalog
Fall and Winter quarters
Faculty: Setsuko Tsutsumi
Enrollment: 25
Class Standing: Sophomore or above.
Prerequisites: Core program or equivalent.
Faculty Signature: No new students.

Japanese literature tends to appreciate refined emotions in daily life, limiting itself within the range of daily realism. There are, however, some works, that strike us with brilliant imagination and illusions. They set us free from the limitation of time and space and let us play freely in the illusionary world. And yet, they show us profound depth of truth in life. This program will explore major fantasy works in Japanese literature, cinema and animation and analyze their nature and characteristics to understand their historical contexts.
In fall, we will examine works related to the pre-modern period, such as the apparition Noh plays, grotesque literature in Edo period and works of Izumi Kyoka. In winter, we will focus on the theme of urban fantasies in contemporary society. The demonic, grotesque and nonsense nature of megacities are well-reflected in contemporary literature, film and various genres of animations. We will examine the metamorphosis of literary themes in animation with increased eroticism and occultism.
Credit will be awarded in: themes and aesthetics of Japanese literature, Japanese film and animation, Japanese popular culture and Japanese history.
Total: 16 credits each quarter.
Program is preparatory for: careers and future studies in Japanese studies, Japanese literature, Japanese history and Japanese popular culture.

Program Updates:

(1/5/04) New, not in printed catalog
(11/11/04) This program will not accept new students.

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You may browse the catalog program descriptions, in alphabetic order, using these links:
A to E, F to J, K to P, Q to Z

Please contact Academic Advising if you have any questions: Library 2153, (360) 867-6312.

2004-2005 Catalog

Undergraduate Studies 2004-05

Evening and Weekend Studies

Summer Studies

Graduate Studies

Program Descriptions Q to Z

Ready Camera One

Reality Check: Indian Images and [Mis]representations

Religion, Race and Law in America

Renaissance Studies: Literature and Identity

Russia: Empires and Enduring Legacies

Rhythmic Meditations

Russia: Empires and Enduring Legacies

Science of Fat

Science Seminar

Seeing the Light

Seeing the Light

Self and Culture: Studies in Japanese and American Literature and Cinema

Self Determination, Indian Education and Native Art in the 20th Century

Seven Generations: 200 Years of Japanese and American Art

Shadowlands

Slavery in Africa and the Americas

Smart and Healthy

So You Want to Be a Psychologist?

Student Originated Studies: American Studies and Humanities

Student Originated Studies: Humanities

Student Originated Studies: Humanities

Student Originated Studies: Media

Student Originated Studies: Science and Education

Student Originated Studies: Visual and Media Arts

Sustainable Design: Green Furniture

Sustainable Design: Green Means

Sustainable Development Imperative, The: From Local to Global and Back Again

Teaching Gardens

Teaching Through Performance: American Radical History

Telling the Truth

The American Civil War in Modern Memory

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Power, Narrative and Resolution

Novel, The: Life and Form

Theatre Intensive: Stage Production

Thinking Straight

Time Rhythm Music Theater

Transformational Literacies

Tribal: Reservation-Based/Community-Determined

Turning Eastward: Explorations in East/West Psychology

Uncertain World, Uncertain Knowledge

Undergraduate Research in Scientific Inquiry

U.S. Foreign Policy: Terrorism and the New American Empire

Visualizing Ecology

Water: The Universal Solvent

Waste and Want: The Science, Psychology and Business of Consumption

What Are Children For?

Women's Voices and Images of Women: Studies in Literature and Cinema

Working the Waters: Leadership Under Sail

World Beyond: The Illusional and Grotesque in Japanese Literature, Cinema and Animation