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| Title | Offering | Standing | Credits | Credits | When | F | W | S | Su | Description | Preparatory | Faculty | Days | Multiple Standings | Start Quarters | Open Quarters |
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Amadou Ba
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Course | FR–SRFreshmen - Senior | 4 | 04 | Evening | Su 12Summer Session II | This class is an introduction to the Pulaar language spoken in northern Senegal. The class will focus on both language and the Fulbe tradition and culture. Students will learn greetings, introductions, family relationship, and the expressions for basic needs, as well as how to get by linguistically and culturally in cultural situations. Students will study standard Pulaar grammar, vocabulary, and spelling. Pulaar is a language of West Africa spoken by the Fulbe people of Senegal, Guinea, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon, and Chad. Pulaar is one of the most widely spread languages in Africa. This class is appropriate for students who are interested in studying linguistics, learning a new language, and traveling to West Africa. | Amadou Ba | Tue Wed Thu | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Summer | Summer | ||||
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Anne Ellsworth
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Course | FR–SRFreshmen - Senior | 4 | 04 | Day | F 11 Fall | In this course, students will learn finger-spelling, cardinal numbers, vocabulary, conversation sign, and ASL grammar. Introduction to deaf culture includes a reader and invitations to participate in Deaf Coffee and to attend the Deaf Club. Students from this section may continue in ASL II and ASL III in the 5:30-7:30 p.m. class in winter and spring quarters. | Anne Ellsworth | Tue Thu | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Fall | Fall | ||||
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Anne Ellsworth
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Course | FR–SRFreshmen - Senior | 4 | 04 | Day | W 12Winter | S 12Spring | In this two-quarter sequence of courses, students will learn finger-spelling, cardinal numbers, vocabulary, conversation sign, and ASL grammar. Introduction to deaf culture includes a reader and invitations to participate in Deaf Coffee and to attend the Deaf Club. In spring, students will focus on broadening their vocabularies and conversation skills and using appropriate and accurate ASL grammar with emphasis on the non-manual aspect of communication. There will also be continued study of deaf culture and invitations to deaf events in this area. Opportunities to study ASL III and IV are usually available in summer quarter. | Entry into the spring quarter requires proficiency equivalent to the successful completion of American Sign Language I. Contact the instructor for an assessment of proficiency. | Anne Ellsworth | Tue Thu | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Winter | Winter Spring | ||
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Anne Ellsworth
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Course | FR–SRFreshmen - Senior | 4 | 04 | Evening | F 11 Fall | W 12Winter | S 12Spring | In this year-long sequence of courses, students will learn finger-spelling, cardinal numbers, vocabulary, conversation sign, and ASL grammar. Introduction to deaf culture includes a reader and invitations to participate in Deaf Coffee and to attend the Deaf Club. As the year progresses, students will focus on broadening their vocabularies and conversation skills and using appropriate and accurate ASL grammar with emphasis on the non-manual aspect of communication. There will also be continued study of deaf culture and invitations to deaf events in this area. | Entry into the winter and spring quarters requires proficiency equivalent to the successful completion of American Sign Language I (for winter) or American Sign Language II (for spring). Contact the instructor for an assessment of proficiency. | Anne Ellsworth | Tue Thu | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Fall | Fall Winter Spring | |
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Anne Ellsworth
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Course | FR–SRFreshmen - Senior | 4 | 04 | Evening | Su 12Summer Full | In ASL III, students will focus on broadening their vocabulary and conversation skills while using appropriate and accurate ASL grammar with emphases on the non-manual aspect of communication and classifier development. There is a continued study of deaf culture. | Anne Ellsworth | Tue Thu | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Summer | Summer | ||||
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Anne Ellsworth
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Course | FR–SRFreshmen - Senior | 4 | 04 | Evening | Su 12Summer Full | In ASL IV, students will continue the study of the grammar of ASL, the functional application of ASL, classifiers, locatives, and vocabulary. The course will include an introduction to ASL idioms, multiple-meaning words in both ASL and English, and conceptual/contextual signing. Students will also work with ASL literature in an in-depth study. | Anne Ellsworth | Tue Thu | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Summer | Summer | ||||
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Joe Fahoum
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Course | FR–SRFreshmen - Senior | 4 | 04 | Evening | F 11 Fall | W 12Winter | S 12Spring | In this year-long sequence, students will learn to read and write in both classical and modern Arabic, the language spoken in all of the 22 Arab states and all Islamic countries. (All Muslims are instructed to pray in Arabic.) By the end of the year, students will be able to speak at a novice level. The objectives are to continually increase vocabulary; to learn suffixes, pronouns, and verbs for personalization; to learn to conjugate verbs; and to recognize proper and inverted sentences as well as those starting with infinitive verbs and indefinite nouns. Students are required to master verbs tenses, superlatives, sentence analyzing, and subject-verb agreement as well as all other areas of grammar. Students will also learn some songs, short poems, and stories while studying Arabic culture and learning some conversational Arabic. | Joe Fahoum | Mon Wed | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Fall | Fall Winter Spring | ||
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Steven Niva
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Program | FR–SRFreshmen - Senior | 8 | 08 | Day | Su 12Summer Session I | This course will introduce students to both written Arabic and basic conversational Arabic in order to provide the foundations for further study in the Arabic language. Students will learn Arabic script and basic grammar rules, expand their vocabulary, and practice conversational Arabic used in everyday encounters. They will also watch films, listen to music, and discuss cultural topics related to language use. This course prepares students for language-based area programs, and for first year Arabic language requirements. | Steven Niva | Tue Wed Thu Fri | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Summer | Summer | ||||
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Ariel Goldberger
Signature Required:
Spring
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Program | FR–SRFreshmen - Senior | 16 | 16 | Day and Evening | S 12Spring | This program will immerse students in studying the intense and lively cultural life of New York City, the most active arts production center in the United States, and perhaps the world. Sessions will meet weekly in different cultural institutions to participate in art events as active audience members, to develop an educated and critical appreciation of the richness, complexity and current trends of artistic production in New York.We will spend two weeks on campus doing preparatory research in areas of each student's interest in order to create the structure for an individual project or practicum. Students may choose to create a project by engaging in artistic work, research, or both. Students will be responsible for making all necessary arrangements for room and board, as well as budgeting for individual event tickets. All students will be expected to present a final report of their experience and project.After the initial two weeks of research and preparation, participants in the program will fly to New York City for six or seven weeks, where they will engage in group and individual activities, depending on each student practicum or project. Students will attend some events as a group and some related to their own projects. We will attend events in a wide range of sites, from established world-renowned institutions to emergent art spaces.Depending on the season, performance events may include events in places such as PS 122, La MAMA, The Kitchen, HERE Art Center, off-off-Broadway small theaters, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Broadway productions and Lincoln Center. Regular dance events may include modern dance performances, experimental works, festivals at the Joyce Theater, and more traditional ballet events in venues such as the New York City Ballet. Specific visual arts events may consist of trips to the gallery "scene" in Chelsea, PS1, MOMA, DIA Arts Center, The Met, under the radar spaces and other sites. We may attend poetry readings at places such as The Bowery Poetry Club, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, The St. Marks Poetry Project, The Academy of American Poets and The New York Public Library. The class will also endeavor to attend other culturally relevant institutions such as the Japan Society, the Asia Society, The Jewish Museum, The Schomburg Center, The Dwyer Cultural Center and El Museo del Barrio to experience a wide range of cultural diversity. Most weekly group activities will be followed by a discussion or seminar.We will spend the final week of the quarter back on campus in Olympia, completing final report presentations for the whole class. | architecture, community studies, consciousness studies, cultural studies, dance, field studies, language studies, literature, media studies, moving image, music, queer studies, somatic studies, theater, visual arts, and writing. | Ariel Goldberger | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Spring | Spring | ||||
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Marianne Bailey, Olivier Soustelle, Judith Gabriele, Steven Hendricks and Stacey Davis
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Spring
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Program | FR–SRFreshmen - Senior | 16 | 16 | Day | F 11 Fall | W 12Winter | S 12Spring | ...man is struck dumb...or he will speak only in forbidden metaphors... Friedrich Nietzsche, "On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense" Nietzsche's critique of traditional Western values--dismantling absolutes of God, Truth, Self and Language--opened up an abyss. "Only as an aesthetic phenomenon," Nietzsche argued, would "human life and existence be eternally justified." Meaning and Self would be individually crafted, as the artist crafts a work, in the space of a human existence. Life, as Rimbaud wrote, must be remade.Inspired by this notion of remaking life along aesthetic lines, we will study literature and creative writing, critical theory and philosophy, art history and music as well as French language. Students will participate in lectures, films and workshops, and choose between seminar groups in literature and critical theory or history. Each will develop a substantive individual (or group) project, and will be able to study French language at the Beginning, Intermediate or Advanced level.To better understand Modernist and Postmodernist avant-garde, we will focus on outsider works of art and ideas in 20th century France and the post-colonial world. Like the Decadents and Symbolists, modernist artists go in quest of a pure artistic language "in which mute things speak to me," as Hofmannsthal wrote, beyond concepts and representation, privileging passion over reason. This quest is influenced by worldviews and works from the broader French-speaking world, which refocuses art on its ritual origins, and on its magical potential. "Art", in the words of Martinican poet and playwright Césaire, "is a miraculous weapon."In fall and winter, we will study aesthetic theories and works from Primitivism and Surrealism to Absurdist Drama, Haitian Marvelous and Oulipo; and writers such as Mallarmé, Jabès, Artaud, Beckett, Blanchot, Derrida, Sartre, Irigaray and Foucault. We will look at historical and cultural change from WWI through the student riots of 1968 and the multi-cultural French-speaking world of today.Key themes will include: memory and the way in which it shapes, and is shaped by, identity; concepts of time and place; and the challenges and opportunities for French identity brought by immigration. We will focus on French social, cultural and intellectual history from the 1930's to the present, exploring the myths and realities of French Resistance and the Vichy Regime during World War II; the legacy of revolutionary concepts of "universal" liberty, equality and fraternity as France re-envisioned its role in Europe and the world from the 1950s to the present, including uprisings from 1968 through today; and the impact of the Franco-Algerian war on contemporary France and the post-colonial Francophone world.In spring, students have two options. They can travel to France, where they will participate in intensive language study, perform cultural and art historical fieldwork, and pursue personal research on a "quest" of their own. Alternatively, students may remain on campus to undertake a major personal project, springing from ideas, writers and artists in prior quarters. This is an excellent opportunity to complete a substantive body of creative or research oriented work, with guidance from faculty and peer critique. | Marianne Bailey Olivier Soustelle Judith Gabriele Steven Hendricks Stacey Davis | Mon Wed Thu | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Fall | Fall Winter Spring | ||
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Judith Gabriele
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Course | FR–SRFreshmen - Senior | 4 | 04 | Evening | F 11 Fall | W 12Winter | S 12Spring | This year-long sequence of courses in French emphasizes mastery of basic skills through a solid study of grammatical structures and interactive oral activities. Students develop all four language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. Students will develop accurate pronunciation, build a useful vocabulary, and work regularly in small groups to develop conversational skills. The fall class is lively and fast-paced with a wide variety of fun and creative activities in music, poetry, videos, and work with Internet sites. By winter, the classes are conducted primarily in French. Work will focus on poetry and fables with additional themes including regional French traditions, cuisine, and contemporary issues in France and the Francophone world. In spring, students will view several Francophone films and read a book of short legends and tales from Francophone countries with basic discussions of them. Students will expand vocabulary proficiency and accurate pronunciation as they engage in oral reading, situational role-plays, and skits from the legends. Throughout the year, students use additional activities in the Community Language Laboratory to accelerate their skills. There is also a Mon/Wed section of the spring course available. See | Judith Gabriele | Tue Thu | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Fall | Fall Winter Spring | ||
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Judith Gabriele
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Course | FR–SRFreshmen - Senior | 4 | 04 | Evening | S 12Spring | This course covers the third quarter of first-year French and emphasizes mastery of basic skills through a solid study of grammatical structures and interactive oral activities. Students develop all four language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. Students will develop accurate pronunciation, build a useful vocabulary, and work regularly in small groups to develop conversational skills. Students will view several Francophone films and read a book of short legends and tales from Francophone countries with basic discussions of them. Students will expand vocabulary proficiency and accurate pronunciation as they engage in oral reading, situational role-plays, and skits from the legends. Students use additional activities in the Community Language Laboratory to accelerate their skills. There is also a Tue/Thu section of this course available. See . | Judith Gabriele | Mon Wed | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Spring | Spring | ||||
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Marianne Bailey
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Program | FR–SRFreshmen - Senior | 8 | 08 | Day | Su 12Summer Session II | This course is appropriate for beginners and for low and high intermediate students who wish to improve oral proficiency. All instruction is in French. Be prepared to work hard both in class and outside class, and to learn more French than you might imagine possible in a short five weeks. | Marianne Bailey | Mon Tue Wed Thu | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Summer | Summer | ||||
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Judith Gabriele
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Course | FR–SRFreshmen - Senior | 4 | 04 | Evening | F 11 Fall | W 12Winter | S 12Spring | This year-long sequence of courses in French is designed to reinforce, practice, and build upon previous skills. The class is fast paced, interactive, and focuses on continued review of grammatical structures, conversational skills with native speakers, discussion of video segments, music, poetry, Francophone themes, and Internet news clips. Students are expected to interact in French in discussions. Students will increase their reading and writing skills through study of selected literary excerpts or a short novel. Winter quarter will focus on theater with performances of short scenes. In spring, students will view a small selection of films and discuss questions of French identity, history, and culture while learning to analyse, compare, and appreciate certain aspects of film. | Judith Gabriele | Tue Thu | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Fall | Fall Winter Spring | ||
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Marianne Hoepli
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Course | FR–SRFreshmen - Senior | 4 | 04 | Evening | F 11 Fall | W 12Winter | S 12Spring | Komm und lern Deutsch! This year-long sequence of courses for beginning German students will cover basic grammatical concepts, vocabulary, and conversation. Students will develop basic skills in speaking, reading, translating, and writing standard high German. Students will also learn about culture, traditions, and customs of the German people, new and old. Through involvement in children’s stories, music, and activities in the language laboratory, students will also become familiar with idiomatic expressions. By the end of the year, students will improve their oral skills to the point of discussing short films and modern short stories and learning how to write a formal letter, a resumé, or a job application. Classes will use a communicative method and will move quickly toward being conducted primarily in German. | Marianne Hoepli | Mon Wed | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Fall | Fall Winter Spring | ||
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Harumi Moruzzi
Signature Required:
Spring
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Contract | FR–SRFreshmen - Senior | 12, 16 | 12 16 | Day | S 12Spring | This Individual Study offers opportunities for students who are interested in creating their own courses of study and research, including internship and study abroad. Possible areas of study are Japanese studies, cultural studies, literature, art and film. Interested students should first contact the faculty via e-mail (moruzzih@evergreen.edu) before the Academic Fair for spring quarter. | Japanese studies, cultural studies, international studies, literature and film studies. | Harumi Moruzzi | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Spring | Spring | ||||
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Diego de Acosta
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Program | FR–SRFreshmen - Senior | 16 | 16 | Day | F 11 Fall | W 12Winter | This two-quarter program explores the fascinating world of languages. What do you know when you know a language? How do you get that knowledge? Are there properties that all languages share? How do languages change over time? Why are half of the world's languages now under threat of extinction? How are communities held together or torn apart by the languages they speak? How does the way we classify the world through words circumscribe our relationships with others? We will consider these questions and others through the lens of linguistics. Topics to be examined include: phonetics and phonology, language change, the history of English and English dialects, language and gender, orality and literacy, wordplay, and swearing. We will look at well-known languages and lesser-known languages and discover why they matter in our lives today. Through the course of the program students will learn a variety of conceptual and empirical techniques, from analyzing speech sounds to interpreting the rationale behind current language policy. This program will be an intensive examination of topics requiring a significant amount of reading as well as regular problem sets and essays. You will be expected to spend at least 40 hours per week on the program. | linguistics, communication, and education. | Diego de Acosta | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Fall | Fall | |||
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Diego de Acosta
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Program | FR–SRFreshmen - Senior | 16 | 16 | Day | S 12Spring | What do you know when you know a language, and how do you get that knowledge? Are there properties that all languages share? How do languages change over time? Why are half of the world’s languages now under threat of extinction? How are communities held together or torn apart by the languages they speak?This one-quarter program explores the fascinating world of languages through the lens of linguistics. Topics for the quarter include: the structure of languages (phonology, morphology, and syntax); the history of English and English dialects; language attitudes and language policy in monolingual and multilingual communities; and methods for documenting languages. We will look at well-known languages and lesser-known languages and discover why they matter in our lives today. Through the course of the program, we will develop a variety of conceptual and empirical techniques, from analyzing speech sounds to interpreting the rationale behind current language legislation. This program will be an intensive examination of topics requiring a significant amount of reading as well as regular problem sets and essays. Students who took in fall-winter may not enroll in this program. | Diego de Acosta | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Spring | Spring | |||||
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Sean Williams
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Course | FR–SRFreshmen - Senior | 4 | 04 | Day | Su 12Summer Session I | Sean Williams | Tue Thu | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Summer | Summer | |||||
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Harumi Moruzzi and Tomoko Hirai Ulmer
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Winter
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Program | FR–SRFreshmen - Senior | 16 | 16 | Day and Evening | F 11 Fall | W 12Winter | Japan is a vital, energetic and dynamic society that is constantly reinventing itself even while struggling to maintain a semblance of cultural and social continuity from the long lost past. Meanwhile, the conception and image of Japan, both in Japan and the West, has varied widely over time mostly due to Japan’s changing political and economic situation in the world. In the late 19th century when Japan re-emerged into Western consciousness, Lafcadio Hearn, the Greek-Irish-American writer who later became a Japanese citizen, thought of Japanese society and its people as quaintly charming and adorable, whereas Americans in the 1940s viewed Japan as frighteningly militaristic and irrational. While the French semiotician Roland Barthes was bewitched and liberated by Japan’s charmingly mystifying otherness during his visit to Japan in 1966, when Japan began to show its first sign of recovery from the devastation of WWII, the Dutch journalist Karel Van Wolferen was disturbed by the intractable and irresponsible system of Japanese power in 1989, when Japanese economic power was viewed as threatening to existing international power relations. As is clear from these examples of how Japan was viewed by Westerners in the past, the idea and image of Japan is highly dependant on the point of view that an observer assumes. This is a full-time interdisciplinary program devoted to understanding contemporary Japan, its culture and its people, from a balanced point of view. This program combines the study of Japanese history, literature, cinema, culture and society through lectures, books, films, seminars and workshops, with a study of Japanese language, which is embedded in the program. Three levels of language study (1st, 2nd, and 3rd-year Japanese) will be offered for 4 credits each during the fall and winter quarters. The language component is offered by Tomoko Ulmer in the evening. In fall quarter we will study Japan up to the end of American occupation. We will emphasize cultural legacies of the historical past. In winter quarter, we will examine Japan after 1952. Special emphasis will be placed on the examination of contemporary Japanese popular culture and its influence on globalization. Although this program ends officially at the end of winter quarter, students who are interested in experiencing Japan in person can take Japanese language classes in Tokyo through Harumi Moruzzi’s Individual Study: Japanese Culture, Literature, Film, Society and Study Abroad in spring quarter. | Japanese literature and culture, film studies, cultural studies and international relations. | Harumi Moruzzi Tomoko Hirai Ulmer | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Fall | Fall Winter | |||
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Tomoko Hirai Ulmer
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Course | FR–SRFreshmen - Senior | 4 | 04 | Evening | F 11 Fall | W 12Winter | S 12Spring | This yearlong sequence covers the second year of Japanese language studies. Students must be familiar with basic verb forms and elementary kanji letters. Students will build on previous skills and learn new grammar and vocabulary so they can function in a variety of situations. Classroom activities include presentations, watching film and TV clips, and discussion. Students will continue their kanji studies at their own levels in small groups. Japanese culture and life will be discussed throughout the course. The class is conducted primarily in Japanese. | Tomoko Hirai Ulmer | Tue Thu | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Fall | Fall Winter Spring | ||
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Tomoko Hirai Ulmer
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Course | FR–SRFreshmen - Senior | 4 | 04 | Evening | F 11 Fall | W 12Winter | S 12Spring | This yearlong sequence covers the first year of Japanese language studies. Students will learn how to function in Japanese in everyday situations by learning useful expressions and basic sentence structures. Both hiragana and katakana letters as well as elementary kanji characters will be introduced. Japanese culture and life will be discussed throughout the course. | Tomoko Hirai Ulmer | Tue Thu | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Fall | Fall Winter Spring | ||
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Tomoko Hirai Ulmer
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Course | FR–SRFreshmen - Senior | 4 | 04 | Evening | F 11 Fall | W 12Winter | This course is for students who have taken two years of college-level Japanese. Students will review important grammar, increase their vocabulary and strengthen their reading and writing skills. The class is ideal for students who are preparing for the Japanese Language Proficiency Test. Students will improve their overall proficiency through a variety of activities such as watching film/TV clips, discussion, and presentations. Japanese culture and life will be discussed throughout the course. The class is conducted primarily in Japanese. | Tomoko Hirai Ulmer | Mon Wed | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Fall | Fall Winter | |||
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Grace Huerta
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Program | JR–SRJunior - Senior | 8 | 08 | Evening | F 11 Fall | W 12Winter | In this program, we will explore the role of family and community in language acquisition and identity formation among English language learners (ELLs). We will examine how such factors as history, political climate, school policies, and curriculum impact the education of language learners from adults to students in grades K-12. We will also examine curricular designs and implementation of theory to instructional practices relevant to the Washington state English language and TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Language) standards. These ELL concepts will be analyzed through readings, group collaboration, workshops, lectures, multimedia, and seminars. Students will lead discussions, complete reflective writing activities, conduct teaching demonstrations, and complete a community ethnography project. Writing and research workshops will also be a focus of this program. In the fall, the program will survey the history of second language education in the United States while introducing the central issues in language acquisition research. We will also discuss how knowledge of English language learners' lived experiences and community can inform school policies, curriculum, and instruction. In the winter, the program will focus on the study of language as a system with an emphasis on linguistic, literacy, and content-area instructional strategies. Among the topics addressed will be English phonology, morphology, and syntax as well as implications for teaching the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. We will also examine teaching strategies for the instruction of academic language and content. | education, linguistics, teaching English | Grace Huerta | Mon Wed | Junior JR Senior SR | Fall | Fall Winter | ||
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Andrew Buchman, Wenhong Wang, Rose Jang and Mingxia Li
Signature Required:
Winter
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Program | FR–SRFreshmen - Senior | 16 | 16 | Day | F 11 Fall | W 12Winter | S 12Spring | We'll study Chinese history, poetry, visual art, theatre and music in fall and winter, then spend an optional month at the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts in Beijing in the spring. Extra financial aid is available for this study abroad program for qualified students. We'll study Chinese civilization from ancient to contemporary times, comparing it with Western cultural models. As Ai Weiwei's case demonstrates, artists continue to be agents of social change in Chinese society today. We'll look at artists' lives as well as their work throughout China's history. To appreciate the central Chinese artistic tradition of depictions of and meditations on nature, we'll study the natural history of China, a country the size of the U.S. with remaining wilderness, despite its large population and burgeoning economy.Workshops on mythology, poetry, folk songs, martial arts, theatrical movement, ritual and secular music, and calligraphy will bring cultural legacies alive for us. In lively, interactive Chinese language lessons, students will create new works of poetry, music, and theatre inspired by Chinese model. We will study Chinese language in order to approach the Chinese world, since, as Heidegger put it, it is from language that "we receive the soundness of our roots" – that is, become intimate with the linguistic idioms, shapes, and sounds that color Chinese culture. Students will study language at their own levels and their own pace, as part of a holistic, supportive, inspiring curriculum.Although there are no prerequisites in performance, arts, Chinese language or aesthetics, interests or previous study in any of these fields will be useful. Expect plenty of reading and writing, creative workshops featuring small group work, and independent research and creative projects that will increase in size as the year progresses. Students will have ample opportunities to develop their individual artistic and academic interests.During fall quarter, we will survey the poetry and art of pre-modern China, from ancient texts and excavated musical instruments to recurrent images in Chinese folklore. We'll address the mythological and philosophical subtexts of these works as well, such as aspect of gender and class. We'll focus on works that continue to be enacted and reinterpreted by contemporary poets, performers and artists. We'll examine vital controversies around competing approaches to the tradition.Winter quarter will take us into the modern era. We will study important writers, poets, musicians, performers, visual artists and filmmakers from the late 19th and 20th centuries, including some from the Chinese global diaspora who helped to create and shape a new vision of China as a republic. We will analyze how processes of cultural transformation and modernization within the last century are reflected in departures, in content and form, from classical models and traditions. Students will finish a research paper and teach the rest of the program what they've learned through individual or group presentations.In spring quarter, we'll get to know some prominent contemporary Chinese artists and literary figures, and explore the blossoming artistic scenes in many Chinese cities. During the second half of the quarter, interested students will have the opportunity to go to Beijing to study Chinese language and culture first-hand. These students will also study and practice the beauty of Chinese theatre arts with professional teachers in small, intimate workshops. Students who elect not to study abroad will pursue a major research project, and/or ethnographic fieldwork in an Asian community in the United States, and/or pursue internship opportunities. Update on Scholarships for Study in China: Students who receive the Federal Pell Grant should apply for a Gilman Scholarship by the October 4, 2011 deadline. For more information, go to "http://www.iie.org/en/Programs/Gilman-Scholarship-Program", or contact Michael Clifthorne on campus at 360-867-6421. | Chinese-American joint ventures, arts-related fields, English teaching in Asia, travel and tourism, and cultural studies. | Andrew Buchman Wenhong Wang Rose Jang Mingxia Li | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Fall | Fall Winter | ||
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Elena Smith
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Course | FR–SRFreshmen - Senior | 4 | 04 | Day | F 11 Fall | W 12Winter | S 12Spring | In this year-long sequence of courses you will learn how to decipher the mysterious-looking Cyrillic alphabet; read, write, and construct sentences; and eventually express yourself in Russian. Constant exposure to the authentic Russian language, literature, history and culture will enable you to better understand Russian grammar, develop vocabulary, and improve your communication skills. By spring quarter, you will have been exposed to advanced structures, grammar patterns, and vocabulary as well as various Russian idioms. A variety of activities including staging skits, acting out true-to-life situations, viewing Russian films, and listening to a variety of Russian music will help you strengthen your comprehension skills and build the necessary confidence in using Russian. | Elena Smith | Tue Thu | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Fall | Fall Winter Spring | ||
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Elena Smith
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Course | FR–SRFreshmen - Senior | 4 | 04 | Evening | F 11 Fall | W 12Winter | S 12Spring | This year-long sequence of courses in second-year Russian will help students move forward in their mastery of Russian pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary. Class is conducted largely in Russian. Students will continue strengthening their language skills through intensive work on grammar, reading short stories and newspaper articles, and engaging in conversation and comprehension exercises. They will also memorize Russian poetry, learn songs, act out true-to-life situations, and participate in thematic discussions to strengthen their comprehension and speaking skills and build the necessary confidence in using Russian. Students will deepen their knowledge of Russian culture by watching the best of Russian films, reading authentic Russian stories, and listening to a variety of Russian music critical for understanding the mystery of the Russian soul. | Elena Smith | Tue Thu | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Fall | Fall Winter | ||
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Trevor Speller
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Course | FR–SRFreshmen - Senior | 4 | 04 | Day | Su 12Summer Session II | This all-level summer program offers students an opportunity to study the works of Shakespeare in the context of Elizabethan literature. We will read plays, poems, fiction, and non-fiction by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, and we will look at different productions of Shakespeare’s works on film and on stage. A significant part of the program involves traveling to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Aug 13-16) to see two contemporary productions of Shakespeare’s plays, which may include , , and .Over the course of five weeks, we will try to understand who Shakespeare was through a close reading of his works. Students will read and write, converse and research, and watch films in seminar and lecture. We will consider whether Shakespeare is deserving of his reputation, in part by comparing his works to those of his peers in Elizabethan England.Interested students are encouraged to contact the instructor via email. | Trevor Speller | Mon Wed Thu | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Summer | Summer | ||||
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Joseph Alonso
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Course | FR–SRFreshmen - Senior | 4 | 04 | Day | Su 12Summer Session I | This course covers the first quarter of the first year of Spanish. Students will gain a basic foundation in Spanish vocabulary and grammar and will focus on speaking, listening, writing, and reading activities to acquire essential vocabulary and develop communication skills. The course is taught primarily in Spanish and involves work in small groups. Many aspects of Latino and Spanish culture will be presented throughout. Some homework activities require Internet access. Courses to complete the first-year of Spanish will be available throughout the following academic year. | Joseph Alonso | Tue Thu | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Summer | Summer | ||||
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Arleen Sandifer
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Course | FR–SRFreshmen - Senior | 4 | 04 | Evening | S 12Spring | This course covers the first quarter of the first year of Spanish. Students will gain a basic foundation in Spanish vocabulary and grammar and will focus on speaking, listening, writing, and reading activities to acquire essential vocabulary and develop communication skills. The course is taught primarily in Spanish and involves work in small groups. Many aspects of Latino and Spanish culture will be presented throughout. Some homework activities require Internet access. Courses to complete the first-year of Spanish will be available throughout the following academic year. | Arleen Sandifer | Mon Wed | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Spring | Spring | ||||
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Arleen Sandifer
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Course | FR–SRFreshmen - Senior | 4 | 04 | Evening | F 11 Fall | This course covers the first quarter of the first year of Spanish. Students will gain a basic foundation in Spanish vocabulary and grammar and will focus on speaking, listening, writing, and reading activities to acquire essential vocabulary and develop communication skills. The course is taught primarily in Spanish and involves work in small groups. Many aspects of Latino and Spanish culture will be presented throughout. Some homework activities require Internet access. Students from this section will need to join section A or B to continue learning first-year Spanish in winter and spring quarters. | Arleen Sandifer | Mon Wed | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Fall | Fall | ||||
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Dawn Williams
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Course | FR–SRFreshmen - Senior | 4 | 04 | Evening | W 12Winter | S 12Spring | This two-quarter sequence of courses covers two-thirds of the first year of Spanish. Students will gain a basic foundation in Spanish vocabulary and grammar and will focus on speaking, listening, writing, and reading activities to acquire essential vocabulary and develop communication skills. The course is taught primarily in Spanish and involves work in small groups. Many aspects of Latino and Spanish culture will be presented throughout. Some homework activities require Internet access. The final quarter of first-year Spanish will be available in fall quarter and may be offered during summer quarter. | Dawn Williams | Mon Wed | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Winter | Winter Spring | |||
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Sheila Gilkey
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Course | FR–SRFreshmen - Senior | 4 | 04 | Evening | F 11 Fall | W 12Winter | S 12Spring | This year-long sequence of courses covers the first year of Spanish. Students will gain a basic foundation in Spanish vocabulary and grammar and will focus on speaking, listening, writing, and reading activities to acquire essential vocabulary and develop communication skills. The course is taught primarily in Spanish and involves work in small groups. Many aspects of Latino and Spanish culture will be presented throughout. Some homework activities require Internet access. | Sheila Gilkey | Mon Wed | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Fall | Fall Winter Spring | ||
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David Phillips and Scott Saunders
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Course | FR–SRFreshmen - Senior | 4 | 04 | Evening | F 11 Fall | W 12Winter | S 12Spring | This year-long sequence of courses covers the first year of Spanish. Students will gain a basic foundation in Spanish vocabulary and grammar and will focus on speaking, listening, writing, and reading activities to acquire essential vocabulary and develop communication skills. The course is taught primarily in Spanish and involves work in small groups. Many aspects of Latino and Spanish culture will be presented throughout. Some homework activities require Internet access. | David Phillips Scott Saunders | Tue Thu | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Fall | Fall Winter Spring | ||
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Joseph Alonso
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Course | FR–SRFreshmen - Senior | 4 | 04 | Evening | F 11 Fall | W 12Winter | This two-quarter sequence completes the first year of Spanish language study. Students will gain a basic foundation in Spanish vocabulary and grammar and will focus on speaking, listening, writing, and reading activities to acquire essential vocabulary and develop communication skills. The course is taught primarily in Spanish and involves work in small groups. Many aspects of Latino and Spanish culture will be presented throughout. Some homework activities require Internet access. Students seeking to continue in second-year Spanish after this sequence will have to wait until summer or the following fall to begin the intermediate Spanish sequence. | Joseph Alonso | Tue Thu | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Fall | Fall Winter | |||
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Scott Saunders
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Course | FR–SRFreshmen - Senior | 4 | 04 | Day | Su 12Summer Session II | This course allows beginning Spanish students to extend their skills. The course is taught primarily in Spanish and involves work in small groups. The course work will focus on speaking, listening, writing, and reading activities to acquire essential vocabulary and develop communication skills. Many aspects of Latino and Spanish culture will be presented throughout. Student access to internet is required; activities, assignments, and practices will be posted on-line throughout the quarter. Students entering the course with two quarters of college-level Spanish should be ready for Intermediate Spanish I by the end of the summer. | Scott Saunders | Tue Wed Thu | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Summer | Summer | ||||
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David Phillips
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Course | FR–SRFreshmen - Senior | 4 | 04 | Evening | F 11 Fall | This course covers the final quarter of the first year of Spanish. Students will build on their foundation of Spanish vocabulary and grammar and will focus on speaking, listening, writing, and reading activities to acquire essential vocabulary and develop communication skills. The course is taught primarily in Spanish and involves work in small groups. Many aspects of Latino and Spanish culture will be presented throughout. Some homework activities require Internet access. Successful completion of this course serves as preparation to take Intermediate Spanish I in winter quarter. | David Phillips | Tue Thu | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Fall | Fall | ||||
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David Phillips
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Course | FR–SRFreshmen - Senior | 4 | 04 | Evening | W 12Winter | This course is designed for students who have developed conversational Spanish language skills. Communication in class takes place entirely in Spanish. These courses build upon previous work to strengthen communication skills and fluency in Spanish. Coursework focuses on intensive conversation, reading, and writing, as well as practice of grammatical structures. Group conversations and written work will focus on practical themes as well as on many topics related to Latin American societies and Hispanic cultures. After completing this course, students may move on to work with Hugo Flores in the spring course titled Spanish, Intermediate II and III. | David Phillips | Tue Thu | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Winter | Winter | ||||
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Hugo Flores
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Course | FR–SRFreshmen - Senior | 4 | 04 | Evening | F 11 Fall | W 12Winter | S 12Spring | This year-long sequence of courses is designed for students who have developed conversational Spanish language skills. Communication in class takes place entirely in Spanish. These courses build upon previous work to strengthen communication skills and fluency in Spanish. Coursework focuses on intensive conversation, reading, and writing, as well as practice of grammatical structures. Group conversations and written work will focus on practical themes as well as on many topics related to Latin American societies and Hispanic cultures. By spring, students will be working with complex and abstract ideas in their reading of selected short stories and current news from different sources and in their writing of papers based on specific questions.In spring, students in this course meet concurrently with students in Spanish, Intermediate II. | Hugo Flores | Mon Wed | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Fall | Fall Winter Spring | ||
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Hugo Flores
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Course | FR–SRFreshmen - Senior | 4 | 04 | Evening | S 12Spring | This course is designed for students who have developed conversational Spanish language skills. Communication in class takes place entirely in Spanish. These courses build upon previous work to strengthen communication skills and fluency in Spanish. Coursework focuses on intensive conversation, reading, and writing, as well as practice of grammatical structures. Group conversations and written work will focus on practical themes as well as on many topics related to Latin American societies and Hispanic cultures. Students will be working with complex and abstract ideas in their reading of selected short stories and current news from different sources and in their writing of papers based on specific questions.Students in this course meet concurrently with students in Spanish, Intermediate III. | Hugo Flores | Mon Wed | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Spring | Spring | ||||
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Ariel Goldberger
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Fall
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SOS | SO–SRSophomore - Senior | 16 | 16 | Day and Weekend | F 11 Fall | This is a program for students seriously interested in study-related or research projects involving an individually designed journey or travel. There is a long and revered tradition of humans embarking on journeys for the purpose of learning to develop self-awareness, get to know the world outside of what is familiar, engage in a spiritual quest, or expand the student's sense of what is possible. Travel has been a powerful academic, experiential and research component in the life of many scholars, artists, writers, mystics and scientists. For thousands of years, humans have developed intercultural awareness, valuable communication skills, resourcefulness, spiritual awareness, cultural understanding, and a sense of the relativity of their personal views by engaging in it. Travel can be deeply transformative. This program is an educational offering designed for self-directed students who desire to benefit from engaging in educational travel as part of their learning at Evergreen. Students interested in registering must have a project in mind that requires travel as a central component of their learning. Individual projects should involve or prepare for some form of travel for the purpose of learning, research, interdisciplinary studies, writing, volunteering, learning languages, studying historical events at their source, studying spiritual quests, understanding or studying other cultures, learning about a culturally relevant artifact or artistic expression at its source, developing a career in the leisure or tourism industry, or any combination thereof. Serious, self-directed and responsible students are encouraged to register. Students will spend the first one or two weeks finishing intensive preparatory research on their specific destinations, to acquaint themselves with the historical and cultural context of their place of destination, understand cultural norms, and study any relevant legal issues. Participants will prepare plans to be ready for emergencies or eventualities as well, since students will be responsible for making all necessary arrangements for their travel, room and board, as well as budgeting for individual expenses related to their projects. Once the initial preparation is completed, participants in the program will embark on their travel-related practicum or project, and report regularly to the faculty using a procedure negotiated in advance. Participants will be required to document their experience effectively in order to produce a final report. Participants will return to Olympia by week 10 to present the final report of their experience and project to the class at the Olympia campus, unless specifically arranged in advance with the faculty by week two. Please Note: This program is a Study Abroad academic offering. Those students who have demonstrated academic progress and who have projects that take more than a quarter are advised to negotiate an ILC with Ariel Goldberger to accommodate their learning needs. | the humanities, consciousness studies, cultural studies, arts, social sciences, and the leisure and tourism industry. | Ariel Goldberger | Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Fall | Fall | ||||
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Dina Roberts and David Phillips
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Winter
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Program | JR–SRJunior - Senior | 16 | 16 | Day | W 12Winter | The tropics are the cradle of the world's biodiversity. This program will focus on Costa Rica, emphasizing biological richness, field ecology, the physical environment, statistical analysis of field data, conservation biology and Latin American culture. The first seven weeks of the program will be held on the Evergreen campus, followed by a three-week field trip to Costa Rica. The on-campus portion will include lectures and labs on global patterns of biological diversity, quantification and analysis of ecological diversity, an overview of major taxa of Neotropical plants, insects and vertebrates, and discussions of the physical environment of tropical regions. This material will be integrated with classes in introductory statistics and conversational Spanish.During the Costa Rica field trip, we will visit four major field sites, including coastal habitats, tropical dry forest, cloud forest and lowland rain forest. Students will learn about common plants and animals in each area, dominant landforms and ecological processes, conservation issues and current biological research activities. Students will also learn techniques of field research by participating in quantitative field labs, both faculty and student led. In the evenings there will be a series of guest lectures by research scientists. The field trip will require rigorous hiking and backpacking in remote locations. | environmental studies, ecology, conservation biology, evolutionary biology and Latin American studies. | Dina Roberts David Phillips | Junior JR Senior SR | Winter | Winter |
