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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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Thomas Rainey and Geoffrey Cunningham
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Program | FR–SRFreshmen - Senior | 8 | 08 | Evening | Su 13Summer Session II | This program will explore, in detail, the causes, course, consequences, and legacy of the American Civil War and of the Reconstruction that followed. The Civil War and Reconstruction together caused the the greatest domestic crisis in the history of the United States of America. Indeed, the Civil War and Reconstruction were not only defing moments in American history but were also of world historical significance. Participants will consider and carefully study the war and its consequences as portrayed, mythologized, remembered, and interpreted in history texts, fictional accounts, personal memoirs, and films. The program will focus on the politics of two democracies at war, crucial battles and their consequences, questions of political and military leadership, the political and military significances of the Emancipation Proclomation, the reasons why the North ultimately prevailed over the South, and the failures of Reconstruction to protect the promised civil, social, and economic rights of the recently emancipated slaves. | Thomas Rainey Geoffrey Cunningham | Tue Wed Thu | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Summer | Summer | ||||
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Stephen Buxbaum
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Course | JR–SRJunior - Senior | 4 | 04 | Evening | F 12 Fall | Using case studies about infrastructure, affordable housing, and environmental projects and activities, this course explores how public programs, projects, and services are conceived, approved, funded, and financed. Students will learn about how resource allocation decisions are made, how public value is determined, and how levels of government work with and sometimes against each other as they take action to meet public needs. | Stephen Buxbaum | Mon | Junior JR Senior SR | Fall | Fall | ||||
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Brenda Hood
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Program | FR–SRFreshmen - Senior | 16 | 16 | Day | W 13Winter | What does it mean to be a successful entrepreneur? What does authentic success look like to the individual, to the organization, to the larger community, and to the economy? These logical questions arise after realizing traditional small business approaches which attempt to achieve excessive profits often fail socially, ethically and economically. Today's creative entrepreneurs may realize, far too late, they are doing something they really don't want with their lives, and to the world, in pursuit of some idealized vision of independence and wealth. How might we reconsider entrepreneurial success and economic progress in terms of having a purpose and quality of life: meaningful work within an empowering organizational culture that sustains us financially, community well-being, a healthy environment, and supportive, collaborative relationships?This program will build on the skills learned in fall quarter’s Entrepreneurship and Power program. The fall program focused on basic business principles, the process of how to start a business, understanding the business lifecycle, business finances, organizational behavior, marketing, and entrepreneurship within the larger context of systems dynamics. The winter program builds on this foundation to incorporate critical discussions around entrepreneurship with a purpose: social responsibility, economic development, principled leadership, and “good business.” Case analyses will investigate business ethics and strategic management. We will apply these concepts and skills toward building a dream business that identifies and explores key aspects of feasibility analysis, business planning, and strategic planning.The program will be foundational for forming business pathways to move toward greater cultural, economic, and environmental sustainability. Throughout the program we will ask: how might entrepreneurs innovate, challenge and transform their cultures and their environments as well as themselves? One of the goals of this program is to develop a set of competencies that will address this need, in an increasingly challenging economic and business climate, as we also engage in developing a well-rounded liberal arts education. You will be introduced to the tools, skills, and concepts you need to develop strategies for navigating organizations in an ever-changing environment. You will develop critical reading, writing, and thinking skills in the liberal arts, as we promote and implement concepts of social change, life-long learning, and personal and community enrichment. Class work will includes lectures, book seminars, projects, films, workshops, field trips, case studies, guest presentations, and group and individual assignments. By the end of the program, students will be expected to demonstrate competence in current business practices and concepts in innovation and entrepreneurship, economic development, environmental impact, sustainability, leadership decision-making, and distributive justice as ethical and social concerns. Expect to read a lot, study hard, and be challenged to think and communicate clearly, logically, and often. | Brenda Hood | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Winter | Winter | |||||
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Jose Gomez
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Program | SO–SRSophomore - Senior | 16 | 16 | Day | S 13Spring | Equality is an ancient ideal, yet at best the United States has embraced it ambivalently throughout its history. Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence that "all men are created equal," yet he owned slaves; the framers claimed to cherish equality, yet they chose not to enshrine it in the Constitution. Even the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of equal protection did not prevent the states from passing Jim Crow laws to maintain white supremacy or the Supreme Court from ruling that the amendment did not mean what it said. Women were denied the right to vote until the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. The struggle to secure equal rights for all Americans continues to this very day.We will begin by taking a critical look at the early cases in which the Supreme Court eviscerated the ideal of equality by circumventing the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments. Then we will study the many cases in the 20th and 21st centuries that have chipped away at Jim Crow and inequality. These involve struggles for equal rights in education, employment, public accommodations, housing, voting and university admissions. We will also examine the modern cases that have gone beyond race to fight discrimination based on sex, age, disability, indigence, alienage, wealth and sexual orientation.Working in legal teams, students will develop appellate briefs on real equal protection cases and will present oral arguments before the "Evergreen Supreme Court." Students will also rotate as justices to read their peers' appellate briefs, to hear arguments, and to render decisions. Students should expect rigorous study; the principal text will be a law school casebook. | Jose Gomez | Mon Wed Thu | Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Spring | Spring | ||||
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Laurance Geri and Peter Dorman
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Program | FR–SRFreshmen - Senior | 16 | 16 | Day | F 12 Fall | W 13Winter | In this program we will explore the interconnections between global finance, energy systems, and climate change. We will seek to understand the causes of the 2008 financial collapse, the complexity of energy systems and their relationship to changes in the climate, and the range of actions that would stabilize the national and global economies and reduce the risks associated with a warmer planet.The program will include an introduction to micro and macro economics, the study of energy systems, and the science of climate change. We will consider how international organizations influence national and global policies in the financial, energy and environmental spheres. Using these frameworks we will study the linkages between these phenomena and the actions we can take to speed the global energy transition and create a more stable and just international system.Program activities will include lectures, workshops, guest speakers, seminars on books and papers, films and possibly field trips. Credit may be awarded in micro and macro economics, international political economy, energy policy, and energy and climate change. | Laurance Geri Peter Dorman | Mon Wed Thu | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Fall | Fall Winter | |||
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Artee Young
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Program | FR–SRFreshmen - Senior | 8 | 08 | Day | Su 13Summer Session II | This goal of this course is to provide students with theoretical and pragmatic knowledge about how government and democratic systems function in the United States. The approach to this body of information focuses on national, state, and local branches of government. Themes include, but are not limited to, federalism, states' rights, and citizens' participatory governance and rights. In addition to the text, students are required to read assigned U. S. Supreme Court and Washington State cases. Students are also required to write short papers and to journal on the reading assignments in order to be prepared to participate in class discussions. Students will work in groups to complete a final project.Credit may be awarded in civics and government and contribute to minimum coursework expectations for various teaching endorsements. | Artee Young | Mon Wed Thu | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Summer | Summer | ||||
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Jennifer Gerend and Anthony Tindill
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Program | FR–SOFreshmen - Sophomore | 16 | 16 | Day | S 13Spring | In this program we consider the beloved urban spaces where people come to stroll, browse shops and restaurants, push a child in a stroller or walk a dog. In these places we meet friends, hold community festivals and more solemn events. Some spaces are always bustling, while others are largely avoided. Design plays a major part. What regulations guide the design of a space, and who is involved in the design process? How can communities participate? How are historically significant sites considered, and what is “worthy” of preservation? We will explore urban design principles and their application (or lack thereof) in communities throughout the Northwest and on our own campus.Students will gain an introduction to the fields of architecture, urban planning and historic preservation through the shared focus on urban design. We will read influential texts, examine images, and visit places with a critical eye on the individual components that comprise an urban setting.We will engage in careful readings of the texts, seminar discussion, case studies, writing assignments, and field trips. In studio workshop time, students will have an opportunity to explore design thinking and urban design principles in a theoretical design project. | Jennifer Gerend Anthony Tindill | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO | Spring | Spring | |||||
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Cheri Lucas-Jennings
Signature Required:
Winter Spring
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Contract | SO–SRSophomore - Senior | 16 | 16 | Day and Weekend | W 13Winter | S 13Spring | Individual studies offers important opportunities for advanced students to create their own course of study and research. Prior to the beginning of the quarter, interested individuals or small groups of students must consult with the faculty sponsor to develop an outline of proposed projects to be described in an Individual Learning Contract. If students wish to gain internship experience they must secure the agreement and signature of a field supervisor prior to the initiation of the internship contract.This faculty wecomes internships and contracts in the areas of environmental health; health policy; public law; cultural studies; ethnic studies; the arts (including acrylic and oil painting, sculpture, or textiles); water policy and hydrolic systems; permaculture, economics of agriculture; toxins and brownfields; community planning, intranational relations.This opportunity is open to those who wish to continue with applied projects that seek to create social change in our community (as a result of work begun in fall 2010 and winter 2011 "Problems to Issues to Policies;" to those begining internship work at the State capitol who seek to expand their experience to public agencies and non-profit institutions; and to those interested in the study of low income populations and legal aid. | American studies, art, communications, community studies, cultural studies, environmental field studies, gender and women's health, history, law and government and public policy leadership | Cheri Lucas-Jennings | Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Winter | Winter Spring | |||
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Timothy Marron
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Course | FR–SRFreshmen - Senior | 2 | 02 | Day | F 12 Fall | In this course, students will study the criminal justice system while learning about specific issues related to Evergreen and its police department. The course will provide an introduction to the resources available at Evergreen and explore ways to improve campus climate and safety. Evergreen police officers and other experts will provide information about various issues ranging from sexual assault and domestic violence to patrol procedures and constitutional law. | Timothy Marron | Mon | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Fall | Fall | ||||
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Sarah Ryan and Arleen Sandifer
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Program | FR–SRFreshmen - Senior | 8, 12, 16 | 08 12 16 | Weekend | F 12 Fall | W 13Winter | S 13Spring | Is justice a concept that is applicable to the workplace? In approaching this question, we’ll look at the history and legacy of immigration laws, labor law as set forth in the National Labor Relations Act, and civil rights/anti-discrimination law as written in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In addition to defining rights, these laws reflect the shape of power in society, and they can determine how workers and management interact. Their texts were written by lawmakers; but in another sense, they were written in the streets and workplaces during turbulent times. Class and racial biases exist in, and are reproduced by, the laws and their practices. In this class we’ll study the social movements and conditions that led to the passage of important bodies of labor, civil rights, and immigration law. We’ll ask how their history is important, how the struggles at their roots shaped the laws' forms, and how they affect the workplace today.Students will become acquainted with the critiques developed by scholars in Critical Race Theory and Critical Legal Studies, which help us think about power in the larger society and alternative possibilities for justice. Be prepared for fun, active, problem-solving and hard work. Students will learn to do basic legal and historical research. You will get a sense of the real work of attorneys and courts, but also the work of community activists and union stewards. Though there are no prerequisites, students should be prepared with some basic background in 20th century American history and should have the patience and persistence to read detailed histories, statutes, and legal cases. Students who are particularly interested in either labor, civil rights, or immigration issues are strongly urged to participate in the year-long program, as the connections between these histories and legal regimes are essential to understand. | law, labor organizing, history, social justice, public administration, management | Sarah Ryan Arleen Sandifer | Sat | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Fall | Fall Winter Spring | |
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Stephen Buxbaum
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Course | JR–SRJunior - Senior | 4 | 04 | Evening | S 13Spring | Washington State’s local governance system evolved out of a unique set of geographic and political circumstances leading to the creation of a web of over 60 different types of local governing bodies. This course explores how the state’s system of local governance influences the delivery of public services and helps to determine the investment of public and private capital. We will examine how the existing governance system serves to drive public policy and consider how economic and environmental issues and interests are testing the viability of our current system. We will use case studies and systems thinking exercises to probe the dynamic relationships between cities, counties, and special purpose districts as they struggle to deliver critical programs and services. | Stephen Buxbaum | Mon | Junior JR Senior SR | Spring | Spring | ||||
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Allen Mauney
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Course | FR–SRFreshmen - Senior | 4 | 04 | Evening | F 12 Fall | In a presidential election year, the public is flooded by the media with polls, projections, and political strategies used in various campaigns. The goal of this class is to offer students some basic tools to understand and critically evaluate aspects of the election process. Students will use descriptive statistics to create graphical representations of data and evaluate the information content in general graphics. In order to understand the basics of polling, students will use inferential statistics to see how polling data is collected and what the limitations of polling are. Voting theory is an active research topic and students will be introduced to some surprising current results in this field and get an overview of broadly used voting methods. Apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives is an ongoing, vital political process. Students will be introduced to its long, contentious history and the theory underlying current methods. By the end of the class, students will have some quantitative literacy that relates directly to engagement in democratic government. | Allen Mauney | Thu | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Fall | Fall | ||||
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Laurance Geri
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Program | JR–SRJunior - Senior | 16 | 16 | Day | S 13Spring | “Third Sector” organizations that do not aim to create an economic surplus lie at the heart of the social and health services network in the U.S., and are also essential to the arts, advocacy, and religion. These organizations work within legal and managerial structures much different than those for business or public administration. Yet the rules of the game for nonprofits are in flux, and now place more emphasis on evaluation, accountability, and encouraging the trend toward professionalization of the sector. In this program students will be introduced to the purpose, size and structure of the nonprofit sector in the U.S. We will study the leadership, management, and governance issues making this sector unique, and how the sector is responding to its changing environment. We will also explore the philanthropic sector in detail, as well as the evolution of global civil society and the various forms that “nonprofits” take in other countries. In this program, students will gain: 1. knowledge of the nature of the nonprofit sector and the context within which it operates, including its role in public policy advocacy; 2. understanding of governance issues relevant to nonprofit organizations; 3. an improved understanding of essential management skills related to nonprofit organizations, including strategy, human resources, marketing, financial management, and fundraising; 4. understanding of the relationship between philanthropy and nonprofits; 5. an introduction to issues of global civil society and nonprofit forms used in other countries; and 6. improved analytical, writing and presentation skills. We will read a series of texts plus articles, governmental reports, and research studies, and discuss these in class. Lectures, films, guest presentations and workshops will be featured during our class sessions. Students will complete a series of written and research assignments, and will have the option of performing an internship with a local nonprofit. | Laurance Geri | Mon Mon Wed Thu Thu | Junior JR Senior SR | Spring | Spring | ||||
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Jennifer Gerend and Ralph Murphy
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Program | JR–SRJunior - Senior | 16 | 16 | Day | F 12 Fall | W 13Winter | This program will provide an interdisciplinary, in-depth focus on how land has been viewed and treated by humans historically and in contemporary times. We will give special attention to the political, economic, social/cultural, environmental and justice contexts of land use. We will also look at land ethics, concepts of land ownership, and efforts to regulate land uses and protect lands that have been defined as valuable by society.To understand the context, role and purposes of land use policy and regulation, the following topics and social science disciplines will be used to evaluate human treatment of land primarily in the United States: history and theory of land use planning; economic and community development; the structure and function of American government and federalism; public policy formation and implementation; contemporary land use planning and growth management; elements of environmental and land use law; economics; fiscal analysis of state and local governments; and selected applications of qualitative and quantitative research methods, such as statistics and GIS. Taken together, these topics will help us examine the diversity of ideas, theories and skills required for developing an in-depth analysis of land issues. Our goal is to have students leave the program with a comprehensive understanding of the complexity of issues surrounding land use planning, restoration, urban redevelopment, stewardship and conservation.The program will include lectures, seminars, guest speakers, films, research methods workshops, field trips in western Washington and individual and group research projects and presentations. Fall quarter will focus on developing an understanding of the political and economic history that brought about the need for land use regulation. This will include understanding the political, legal, theoretical and economic context. Winter quarter will continue these themes into contemporary applications and the professional world of land use planning, such as the Washington Growth Management Act, historic preservation and shoreline management. Students will leave the program with the foundation to prepare them for internships or potential careers in land use policy and management. | land use and environmental planning, policy development and fiscal analysis, environmental and natural resource management, and community development. | Jennifer Gerend Ralph Murphy | Junior JR Senior SR | Fall | Fall Winter | |||
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Michael Vavrus and Peter Bohmer
Signature Required:
Winter
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Program | SO–SRSophomore - Senior | 16 | 16 | Day | F 12 Fall | W 13Winter | We will examine the nature, development and concrete workings of modern capitalism and the interrelationship of race, class and gender in historical and contemporary contexts. Recurring themes will be the relationship among oppression, exploitation, social movements, reform and fundamental change, and the construction of alternatives to capitalism, nationally and globally. We will examine how social change has occurred in the past, present trends, and alternatives for the future. We will also examine different theoretical frameworks such as liberalism, Marxism, feminism, anarchism and neoclassical economics, and their explanations of the current U.S. and global political economy and key issues such as education, the media and the criminal justice system. Students will learn communication skills related to public debate and social change.In fall, the U.S. experience will be the central focus, whereas winter quarter will have a global focus. We will begin with the colonization of the U.S., and the material and ideological foundations of the U.S. political economy from the 18th century to the present. We will explore specific issues including the slave trade, racial, gender and economic inequality, the labor movement and the western push to "American Empire." We will carefully examine the linkages from the past to the present between the economic core of capitalism, political and social structures, and gender, race and class relations. Resistance will be a central theme. We will study microeconomics principles from a neoclassical and political economy perspective. Within microeconomics, we will study topics such as the structure and failure of markets, work and wages, poverty, and the gender and racial division of labor.In winter, we will examine the interrelationship between the U.S. political economy and the changing global system, and U.S. foreign policy. We will study causes and consequences of the globalization of capital and its effects in our daily lives, international migration, the role of multilateral institutions and the meaning of trade agreements and regional organizations. This program will analyze the response of societies such as Venezuela and Bolivia and social movements such as labor, feminist, anti-war, environmental, indigenous and youth in the U.S. and internationally in opposing the global order. We will look at alternatives to neoliberal capitalism including socialism, participatory economies and community-based economies and strategies for social change. We will study macroeconomics, including causes and solutions to the high rates of unemployment and to economic instability. We will introduce competing theories of international trade and finance and examine their applicability in the global South and North. In winter quarter, as part of the 16 credits, there will be an optional internship for up to four credits in organizations and groups whose activities are closely related to the themes of this program or the opportunity to write a research paper on a relevant political economy topic.Students will engage the material through seminars, lectures, films, workshops, seminar response papers, synthesis papers based on program material and concepts, and take-home economics examinations. | political science, economics, education, labor and community organizing, law and international solidarity. | Michael Vavrus Peter Bohmer | Tue Tue Wed Wed Fri Fri | Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Fall | Fall Winter | ||
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Howard Schwartz
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Course | FR–SRFreshmen - Senior | 4 | 04 | Evening | S 13Spring | Taxes are the quintessential political issue. They affect everyone but not equally. They are needed in order to pay for almost all government activities. They can be—and are—used as instruments of governmental policy sometime consciously, sometimes inadvertently. And they arouse furious passions. We will survey the kinds of taxes governments levy, how the tax burden and governmental benefits are distributed in the United States and elsewhere, and how tax systems are challenged and changed. Our learning objectives will be to understand how tax systems work and the interplay of quantitative and qualitative reasoning in political discussions about them: how numbers, ideology, and economic interest drive politics and policy. | Howard Schwartz | Thu | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Spring | Spring | ||||
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Myra Downing
Signature Required:
Fall Winter Spring
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Program | JR–SRJunior - Senior | 12 | 12 | Evening and Weekend | F 12 Fall | W 13Winter | S 13Spring | This program teaches course work from a Native based perspective within the context of the larger global society. Students at all reservation sites follow the same curriculum with opportunities to focus on local tribal specific issues. The overall theme provides students with a foundational knowledge base for tribal sustainability. In the broadest sense it includes: social, cultural, political, economic and environmental sustainability. At the end of the year, they will have a framework from which to explore restorative solutions and development for sustainability at the local, national and international levels. The theme for 2012-2013 is . In fall, students will review federal Indian law through study of historical and contemporary materials and case law. They will develop a foundation for understanding treaties, the trust relationship, legal precedents, sovereignty, threats to sovereignty, and Indian activism. Study of basic conflicts over jurisdiction, land rights, domestic relations, environmental protection and other areas will provide students with insight into court systems and the political will of governments.During winter, students will study the identity formation and politics of several US presidents and world leaders through the lens of race, class, gender, nationality, education and other differences that advance or inhibit an individual's pathway to a place of privilege and power. Forms of theater will be used to study human behavior and political communication. Students will critically analyze multiple perspectives of colonization and oppression through review of American democracy and other world governmental structures.Spring quarter, students will examine the intersection of social, environmental and economic practices on the sustainability of the planet's biological systems, atmosphere and resources using a variety of methods, materials and approaches to explore contemporary sustainability issues in tribal communities, the U.S. and abroad. Students will study social/cultural and environmental justice issues.Over the program year, students from all sites meet thirteen Saturdays on campus at the Longhouse. Through case study and other methods the curriculum is enhanced and supported. Students participate in workshop-type strands and an integrated seminar that increases writing skills and broadens their exposure to the arts, social sciences, political science and natural science, and other more narrowly defined areas of study. | public administration, political science, social sciences, human services, law, and tribal administration and government. | Myra Downing | Junior JR Senior SR | Fall | Fall Winter Spring | ||
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Cynthia Marchand-Cecil
Signature Required:
Fall Winter Spring
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Program | JR–SRJunior - Senior | 12 | 12 | Evening and Weekend | F 12 Fall | W 13Winter | S 13Spring | This program teaches course work from a Native based perspective within the context of the larger global society. Students at all reservation sites follow the same curriculum with opportunities to focus on local tribal specific issues. The overall theme provides students with a foundational knowledge base for tribal sustainability. In the broadest sense it includes: social, cultural, political, economic and environmental sustainability. At the end of the year, they will have a framework from which to explore restorative solutions and development for sustainability at the local, national and international levels. The theme for 2012-2013 is . In fall, students will review federal Indian law through study of historical and contemporary materials and case law. They will develop a foundation for understanding treaties, the trust relationship, legal precedents, sovereignty, threats to sovereignty, and Indian activism. Study of basic conflicts over jurisdiction, land rights, domestic relations, environmental protection and other areas will provide students with insight into court systems and the political will of governments.During winter, students will study the identity formation and politics of several US presidents and world leaders through the lens of race, class, gender, nationality, education and other differences that advance or inhibit an individual's pathway to a place of privilege and power. Forms of theater will be used to study human behavior and political communication. Students will critically analyze multiple perspectives of colonization and oppression through review of American democracy and other world governmental structures.Spring quarter, students will examine the intersection of social, environmental and economic practices on the sustainability of the planet's biological systems, atmosphere and resources using a variety of methods, materials and approaches to explore contemporary sustainability issues in tribal communities, the U.S. and abroad. Students will study social/cultural and environmental justice issues.Over the program year, students from all sites meet thirteen Saturdays on campus at the Longhouse. Through case study and other methods the curriculum is enhanced and supported. Students participate in workshop-type strands and an integrated seminar that increases writing skills and broadens their exposure to the arts, social sciences, political science and natural science, and other more narrowly defined areas of study. | public administration, political science, social sciences, human services, law, and tribal administration and government. | Cynthia Marchand-Cecil | Junior JR Senior SR | Fall | Fall Winter Spring | ||
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Michelle Aguilar-Wells and Chad Uran
Signature Required:
Fall Winter Spring
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Program | JR–SRJunior - Senior | 12 | 12 | Evening and Weekend | F 12 Fall | W 13Winter | S 13Spring | This program teaches course work from a Native based perspective within the context of the larger global society. Students at all reservation sites follow the same curriculum with opportunities to focus on local tribal specific issues. The overall theme provides students with a foundational knowledge base for tribal sustainability. In the broadest sense it includes: social, cultural, political, economic and environmental sustainability. At the end of the year, they will have a framework from which to explore restorative solutions and development for sustainability at the local, national and international levels. The theme for 2012-2013 is .In fall, students will review federal Indian law through study of historical and contemporary materials and case law. They will develop a foundation for understanding treaties, the trust relationship, legal precedents, sovereignty, threats to sovereignty, and Indian activism. Study of basic conflicts over jurisdiction, land rights, domestic relations, environmental protection and other areas will provide students with insight into court systems and the political will of governments.During winter, students will study the identity formation and politics of several US presidents and world leaders through the lens of race, class, gender, nationality, education and other differences that advance or inhibit an individual's pathway to a place of privilege and power. Forms of theater will be used to study human behavior and political communication. Students will critically analyze multiple perspectives of colonization and oppression through review of American democracy and other world governmental structures.Spring quarter, students will examine the intersection of social, environmental and economic practices on the sustainability of the planet's biological systems, atmosphere and resources using a variety of methods, materials and approaches to explore contemporary sustainability issues in tribal communities, the U.S. and abroad. Students will study social/cultural and environmental justice issues.Over the program year, students from all sites meet thirteen Saturdays on campus at the Longhouse. Through case study and other methods the curriculum is enhanced and supported. Students participate in workshop-type strands and an integrated seminar that increases writing skills and broadens their exposure to the arts, social sciences, political science and natural science, and other more narrowly defined areas of study. | public administration, political science, social sciences, human services, law, and tribal administration and government. | Michelle Aguilar-Wells Chad Uran | Junior JR Senior SR | Fall | Fall Winter Spring | ||
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Colleen Almojuela
Signature Required:
Fall Winter Spring
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Program | JR–SRJunior - Senior | 12 | 12 | Evening and Weekend | F 12 Fall | W 13Winter | S 13Spring | This program teaches course work from a Native based perspective within the context of the larger global society. Students at all reservation sites follow the same curriculum with opportunities to focus on local tribal specific issues. The overall theme provides students with a foundational knowledge base for tribal sustainability. In the broadest sense it includes: social, cultural, political, economic and environmental sustainability. At the end of the year, they will have a framework from which to explore restorative solutions and development for sustainability at the local, national and international levels. The theme for 2012-2013 is .In fall, students will review federal Indian law through study of historical and contemporary materials and case law. They will develop a foundation for understanding treaties, the trust relationship, legal precedents, sovereignty, threats to sovereignty, and Indian activism. Study of basic conflicts over jurisdiction, land rights, domestic relations, environmental protection and other areas will provide students with insight into court systems and the political will of governments.During winter, students will study the identity formation and politics of several US presidents and world leaders through the lens of race, class, gender, nationality, education and other differences that advance or inhibit an individual's pathway to a place of privilege and power. Forms of theater will be used to study human behavior and political communication. Students will critically analyze multiple perspectives of colonization and oppression through review of American democracy and other world governmental structures.Spring quarter, students will examine the intersection of social, environmental and economic practices on the sustainability of the planet's biological systems, atmosphere and resources using a variety of methods, materials and approaches to explore contemporary sustainability issues in tribal communities, the U.S. and abroad. Students will study social/cultural and environmental justice issues.Over the program year, students from all sites meet thirteen Saturdays on campus at the Longhouse. Through case study and other methods the curriculum is enhanced and supported. Students participate in workshop-type strands and an integrated seminar that increases writing skills and broadens their exposure to the arts, social sciences, political science and natural science, and other more narrowly defined areas of study. | public administration, political science, social sciences, human services, law, and tribal administration and government. | Colleen Almojuela | Junior JR Senior SR | Fall | Fall Winter Spring | ||
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Dorothy Flaherty
Signature Required:
Fall Winter Spring
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Program | JR–SRJunior - Senior | 12 | 12 | Evening and Weekend | F 12 Fall | W 13Winter | S 13Spring | This program teaches course work from a Native based perspective within the context of the larger global society. Students at all reservation sites follow the same curriculum with opportunities to focus on local tribal specific issues. The overall theme provides students with a foundational knowledge base for tribal sustainability. In the broadest sense it includes: social, cultural, political, economic and environmental sustainability. At the end of the year, they will have a framework from which to explore restorative solutions and development for sustainability at the local, national and international levels. The theme for 2012-2013 is . In fall, students will review federal Indian law through study of historical and contemporary materials and case law. They will develop a foundation for understanding treaties, the trust relationship, legal precedents, sovereignty, threats to sovereignty, and Indian activism. Study of basic conflicts over jurisdiction, land rights, domestic relations, environmental protection and other areas will provide students with insight into court systems and the political will of governments.During winter, students will study the identity formation and politics of several US presidents and world leaders through the lens of race, class, gender, nationality, education and other differences that advance or inhibit an individual's pathway to a place of privilege and power. Forms of theater will be used to study human behavior and political communication. Students will critically analyze multiple perspectives of colonization and oppression through review of American democracy and other world governmental structures.Spring quarter, students will examine the intersection of social, environmental and economic practices on the sustainability of the planet's biological systems, atmosphere and resources using a variety of methods, materials and approaches to explore contemporary sustainability issues in tribal communities, the U.S. and abroad. Students will study social/cultural and environmental justice issues.Over the program year, students from all sites meet thirteen Saturdays on campus at the Longhouse. Through case study and other methods the curriculum is enhanced and supported. Students participate in workshop-type strands and an integrated seminar that increases writing skills and broadens their exposure to the arts, social sciences, political science and natural science, and other more narrowly defined areas of study. | public administration, political science, social sciences, human services, law, and tribal administration and government. | Dorothy Flaherty | Junior JR Senior SR | Fall | Fall Winter Spring | ||
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Renee Swan-Waite
Signature Required:
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Program | JR–SRJunior - Senior | 12 | 12 | Evening and Weekend | F 12 Fall | W 13Winter | S 13Spring | This program teaches course work from a Native based perspective within the context of the larger global society. Students at all reservation sites follow the same curriculum with opportunities to focus on local tribal specific issues. The overall theme provides students with a foundational knowledge base for tribal sustainability. In the broadest sense it includes: social, cultural, political, economic and environmental sustainability. At the end of the year, they will have a framework from which to explore restorative solutions and development for sustainability at the local, national and international levels. The theme for 2012-2013 is . In fall, students will review federal Indian law through study of historical and contemporary materials and case law. They will develop a foundation for understanding treaties, the trust relationship, legal precedents, sovereignty, threats to sovereignty, and Indian activism. Study of basic conflicts over jurisdiction, land rights, domestic relations, environmental protection and other areas will provide students with insight into court systems and the political will of governments.During winter, students will study the identity formation and politics of several US presidents and world leaders through the lens of race, class, gender, nationality, education and other differences that advance or inhibit an individual's pathway to a place of privilege and power. Forms of theater will be used to study human behavior and political communication. Students will critically analyze multiple perspectives of colonization and oppression through review of American democracy and other world governmental structures.Spring quarter, students will examine the intersection of social, environmental and economic practices on the sustainability of the planet's biological systems, atmosphere and resources using a variety of methods, materials and approaches to explore contemporary sustainability issues in tribal communities, the U.S. and abroad. Students will study social/cultural and environmental justice issues.Over the program year, students from all sites meet thirteen Saturdays on campus at the Longhouse. Through case study and other methods the curriculum is enhanced and supported. Students participate in workshop-type strands and an integrated seminar that increases writing skills and broadens their exposure to the arts, social sciences, political science and natural science, and other more narrowly defined areas of study. | public administration, political science, social sciences, human services, law, and tribal administration and government. | Renee Swan-Waite | Junior JR Senior SR | Fall | Fall Winter Spring | ||
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Cheri Lucas-Jennings
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SOS | JR–SRJunior - Senior | 16 | 16 | Day and Evening | W 13Winter | S 13Spring | This is an opportunity to explore the broad conditions that shape legislation. We will examine models, evidence and debates about the sources, causal connections and impacts of evolving systems of law, regulation, governance and a broad array of community response. Each student will be learning through work as an intern with a legislator and her or his staff. This will involve intensive staff-apprenticeship activities, especially legislative research and draft development, bill-tracking and constituent correspondence.Students apply to become interns for the 2013 Washington State Legislative session in the fall of 2012. Information sessions will be held spring quarter and in early October. The Academic Advising Office will inform students about the process, with applications due mid-to-late October. Applications are available online through . Two copies of the complete application, including personal essay; a letter of reference from faculty (discussing research and writing skills), and a personal (character, work-habits) reference are due on October 26th by 5:00 pm to the Office of Academic Advising, Olympia campus Students will interview and and be informed of acceptance by late November.Each student accepted as an intern will develop an internship learning contract, profiling legislative responsibilities and linkages to academic development.In regular in-capitol seminars, each student intern will translate her or his activities in the Legislature into analytic and reflective writing about the challenges, learning and implications of the work; students will make presentations about their learning and participate in various workshops. Each intern will keep a journal, submitted to the faculty sponsor on a regular basis, and a portfolio of all materials related to legislative work. Drawing broadly from the social sciences, we will explore relationships between elected officials, legislative staff, registered lobbyists, non-governmental organizations, citizen activists and district constituents. Students will learn through a range of approaches - responsibilities in an 8:00-5:00 work-week, guest presentations, seminars, workshops on budget, media panels and job-shadowing regional officials and activists of choice. Interns will participate in a final mock hearing floor debate on current legislative issues.The 2013 session will involve student-interns for both winter and spring quarters. Each quarter will comprise a different 16-credit contract. In spring quarter, students can develop an 8-credit Legislative Internship Contract, augmented by another 8-credit project or program involving specific post-session research and writing. Student performance for the two-quarter internship is evaluated by the faculty sponsor, field supervisors and legislative office staff. | Cheri Lucas-Jennings | Wed | Junior JR Senior SR | Winter | Winter |
