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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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Zoe Van Schyndel and Glenn Landram
Signature Required:
Winter Spring
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Program | JR–SRJunior–Senior | 16 | 16 | Day | F 15 Fall | W 16Winter | S 16Spring | During this program, students will develop the skills and insight needed to conduct and understand the relationship between business and society and how business practices such as innovation, critical analysis, ethics, sustainability, management, and leadership influence outcomes. Factors that are key to business success will be explored from a number of different perspectives and stakeholder views. The program includes fundamental work in entrepreneurship, leadership, management, ethics, quantitative work, corporate finance, accounting, financial statement and ratio analysis, as well as the concept of time value of money. In the fall, the program includes four credits of basic undergraduate statistics, which will serve as a foundation for further work in advanced social sciences, including graduate programs (e.g., an MBA or MPA) requiring statistics. Through seminar texts, daily readings from the Wall Street Journal, independent research, movies, speakers, field trips, business simulations, group projects, workshops, and student presentations, students will examine business and finance from a variety of viewpoints. Seminar texts include books representing entrepreneurship, innovation, management science, finance, marketing, ethics, and management. We will read Goldratt and Cox’s , Sheryl Sandberg's , and Malcolm Gladwell’s During winter quarter, students will work in small groups on formally proposed, extensive independent projects focused on improving their research skills. They will be required to analyze and critique a compelling problem or issue centered on our primary themes of economically successful businesses. The research includes a term paper and will conclude with a multimedia presentation to the rest of the program. Students will also cover forecasting, linear programming, decision analysis using tree diagrams, and queuing theory from the field of management science.In the spring quarter, student teams will compete in an advanced business simulation. The simulation will require substantial student research, including analysis of quantitative and qualitative data. Students will finish the simulation with improved teamwork skills as well as a greater understanding of financial statement analysis, competitive strategy, marketing, operations, and business economics.Upon successful completion of the program, students will be better equipped to understand how a successful business is operated and to work with financial data and procedures in the conduct of business and public policy. They will also be better prepared for the quantitative requirements of businesses and governments. | Zoe Van Schyndel Glenn Landram | Junior JR Senior SR | Fall | Fall Winter Spring | |||
Robert Smurr
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Program | JR–SRJunior–Senior | 16 | 16 | Day | F 15 Fall | This program will examine the history, development, and business policies of the adventure travel and ecotourism industries. The United States introduced this new sphere of tourism to the international community in 1969, when three American climbers created the world’s first adventure travel company, Mountain Travel which took eager clients to the Himalayas. This company, and the thousands that soon followed worldwide, tapped into many tourists’ desire for more adventurous trips. Trekking, rafting, and climbing—most often in foreign countries—all became hallmarks of this new type of tourism. Exploring distinct cultures and diverse peoples in more natural settings, especially those far removed from cities, created an explosion of opportunities in the tourism business worldwide. In addition to learning the history and economic power of these industries, we will also examine specific business models in the program. All students, for example, will create at least two plans: the first will be a dream adventure travel destination; the second will be a dream ecotourism destination. Since each student will be the “owner” of a new adventure travel or ecotourism business for a period of this program, dream trips will need to make economic sense. You will need to understand your client base, their income, their desires, and your company’s special skills. Several guest speakers with long histories in adventure travel and ecotourism will give us added insight, as will numerous field trips. | Robert Smurr | Tue Wed Fri | Junior JR Senior SR | Fall | Fall | ||||
Andrew Buchman, Lee Lyttle and Jon Baumunk
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Program | FR–SOFreshmen–Sophomore | 16 | 16 | Day | F 15 Fall | W 16Winter | This program is designed for business and arts students with a strong interest in making a living as an entrepreneur, operating in the nonprofit art world, or making a career in creative industries, and bridging the conventional gaps between creativity, business sense, and social engagement. An artist or entrepreneur who understands the principles of a well-run organization and can deal effectively with management issues like economics, finance, business planning, marketing, negotiating contracts, legal issues such as free speech and fair use, applying for grants, and strategic planning, we'll find, is likely to gain more artistic and professional freedom. For-profit and nonprofit organizations are different, and we want to make sure students gain knowledge of the vast range of ways they can make a living in and around the arts. By examining art, music, and theatre worlds, we will discover structures that help foster vibrant artistic communities—but also basic business and entrepreneurship principles applicable in many other contexts, including the entertainment and media industries. We'll meet business and nonprofit leaders (often artists themselves) who bring artists and art lovers together. We'll cover concepts in economics, gain critical reasoning skills, and learn about entrepreneurship, how to start a business, and management as a profession. We'll cover topics like strategic planning, tax and copyright law, prices and markets, promotion and marketing, budgeting, fundraising, job-hunting using social media, and working with employees, customers, and boards of trustees. Financial accounting and budgeting, two skill areas covered in some depth in winter quarter, will use and develop your quantitative and symbolic reasoning skills.Activities in the program will include options for related independent creative work and research on working artists, workshops on how to create and read complex spreadsheets and budgets, career counseling, and a rich mix of critical and creative projects, including a series of visits to local arts organizations and with Evergreen alumni active in many creative endeavors, followed by further research, analysis, and critiques. Each quarter's work will include an optional week of travel and study to a big city in the United States: to New York City during the fall and Los Angeles during the winter. Students unable to travel to these cities can pursue related fieldwork in the Pacific Northwest. By the end of the program we expect you to have developed practical skills in financial literacy and career-building, be able to think creatively about ways to connect your own artistic and wage-earning work lives, have an impact on organizations in communities you care about, acquire firsthand knowledge of a diversity of successful arts initiatives, and communicate effectively in the languages of business and nonprofit administration. | Andrew Buchman Lee Lyttle Jon Baumunk | Tue Wed Thu | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO | Fall | Fall Winter | |||
Rebecca Chamberlain and Thuy Vu
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Program | FR–SRFreshmen–Senior | 8 | 08 | Weekend | S 16Spring | Nonprofit organizations, also known as social enterprises, are the growth engines for building communities and implementing social change. How do nonprofit agencies operate in American society? How do they interact with private and public agencies? What makes a nonprofit business successful, fiscally, socially, and ethically? How do nonprofits cultivate a culture of altruism, enrich communities, promote social services, and develop responsible goals and missions? How do nonprofit leaders use storytelling as a strategic tool to promote their vision, advocate for their mission, build community, and inspire generosity, both within and outside their agencies? How do nonprofits raise funds through grants, fundraising, and responsible business practices? How do nonprofit agencies promote personal, social, and economic sustainability on local and global scales? What can go wrong, and how do nonprofit organizations measure their effectiveness? How are nonprofit agencies working to shape the future of entrepreneurship, social service, human potential, sustainability, and creativity? Participants will address the challenges faced by nonprofits, and work to identify and develop the skills and competencies they need to understand, develop, manage, or operate a sustainable and successful nonprofit businesses. Program topics will focus on developing leadership and public presentation skills, and on identifying how leaders effectively tell stories. We will look at nonprofits that work nationally and internationally, and we will study local nonprofit agencies that are successful in advocating for social, cultural, arts, educational, and environmental programs. Students will have the opportunity to explore the issues, challenges, and opportunities that arise from working with various types of businesses across the boundaries of cultural difference. This program is for students with strong interests in business management, community development, organizational behavior, arts and cultural advocacy, writing and communications. The program is designed to facilitate interactive learning through seminar discussions and workshop activities. Students will develop leadership, writing, storytelling, and communication skills. They will have the opportunity to integrate their learning experience by means of developing business venture proposals or by doing in-service community internship projects. | Rebecca Chamberlain Thuy Vu | Sat Sun | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Spring | Spring | ||||
Stephen Buxbaum and Lester Krupp
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Program | SO–SRSophomore–Senior | 8 | 08 | Weekend | F 15 Fall | W 16Winter | S 16Spring | The communities of Grays Harbor will be our learning laboratory for our investigation into what makes communities work. We will use a multidisciplinary approach in the examination of how these communities evolved and the role that local schools and educational institutions played as the region grew and developed.This year-long program will help students develop the skills needed to assess their communities, capture their observations, and articulate them in a useful form. Students will work to improve critical thinking, research methods, analytical reading and writing, and understanding across differences of socio-economic class, race and ethnicity. This program will support students pursuing advanced degrees or careers in the field of education, government and non-profit service organizations.Students will work in teams as they learn research skills, participate in field activities, and keep a record of their progress through a variety of assignments, such as mapping, journaling, oral histories, and data analysis. One of the primary objectives of this program will be to give back to the communities we are studying by adding to historical internet archives and creating photo journals, stories, poems and published articles.Our contextual focus will be the formation of communities in the “Harbor” – generally speaking the geographic region that is connected to the communities of Aberdeen, Cosmopolis and Hoquiam. Special emphasis will be given to the evolution of the region’s public school system and to current educational issues from policy to classroom practice.Our examination of the history of the region will seek out answers to how past events inform the current issues in education and community development policy that the Grays Harbor region is facing now and in the future. Students will learn how to work with primary source material and conduct research as a means of learning skills that are transferable to a broad range of social science disciplines. | Stephen Buxbaum Lester Krupp | Sat | Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Fall | Fall Winter Spring | ||
Ralph Murphy
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Program | JR–SRJunior–Senior | 16 | 16 | Day | F 15 Fall | This advanced social science program examines the methods and applications of ecological and environmental economics for environmental problem solving. The major goal of the program is to make students familiar and comfortable with the methodologies, language, concepts, models, and applications of ecological and environmental economic analysis. The program does not assume an extensive background in economics; therefore it begins by quickly reviewing selected micro economic principles. We will study the models used in natural resource management, pollution control approaches, and sustainability as an empirical criterion in policy development. We will explore externalities, market failure and inter-generational equity in depth. Examples of case studies we will evaluate include: natural resources in the Pacific Northwest; management and restoration of the Pacific Salmon stocks and other marine resources; energy issues including traditional, alternative, and emerging impacts from hydraulic fracturing (fracking), oil trains and climate change; selected issues of environmental law; wetland and critical areas protection and mitigation; and emerging threats such as ocean acidification and low oxygen zones. We also will develop a detailed consideration of the theory and practice of benefit cost analysis. The program concludes by critically evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of using ecological and environmental economics to develop solutions to environmental problems.Program activities include lectures, seminars, research and methods workshops, field trips, quizzes, exams, and a research assignment. | Ralph Murphy | Tue Wed Thu Fri Fri | Junior JR Senior SR | Fall | Fall | ||||
Natividad Valdez and Theresa Aragon
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Course | SO–SRSophomore–Senior | 4 | 04 | Evening and Weekend | F 15 Fall | The course will review the major employment laws, including those dealing with discrimination, sexual harassment, disability, family leave, wage standards, and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act as well as and the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA). Students will learn how to apply these major laws to 'real-work' situations and will have a very good understanding of the major provisions. | Natividad Valdez Theresa Aragon | Tue Tue Sat Sat Sun | Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Fall | Fall | ||||
Cary Randow and Theresa Aragon
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Course | JR–SRJunior–Senior | 4 | 04 | Weekend | W 16Winter | This course studies the important components of managing total rewards (salaries, benefits and work/life environment) in a business. A “building blocks” approach will be utilized to learn compensation from the “ground up” enabling students to better integrate theory, concepts, and practices that build upon each other. Concepts, methods and issues are explored in such areas as determining job value, pay philosophies, pay delivery, surveying, typical tasks and strategic approaches to plans design and communications. Key learnings are accomplished through reading (text/handouts), lecture, research, in-class exercises and weekly questions and answers assignments taken from the text and handouts. The course concludes with student teams recommending and presenting a specific plan for a given business case scenario. | Cary Randow Theresa Aragon | Junior JR Senior SR | Winter | Winter | |||||
Theresa Aragon, Cary Randow and Natividad Valdez
Signature Required:
Winter
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Program | JR–SRJunior–Senior | 12 | 12 | Weekend | F 15 Fall | W 16Winter | The success of organizations depends on the human beings that enable organizations to achieve their objectives. An organization’s human resources are its most critical assets. The management of human resources is a specialization in management that encompasses several functions including the recruitment, selection and maintenance of a qualified, motivated, smoothly functioning and productive workforce. This two quarter program is designed to provide an introduction to human resource fundamentals as well as detailed overview of six specific areas of human resource management: All areas of the program are designed to provide conceptual understanding through readings and case analyses while developing skills through practice, role plays, and simulations.Fall quarter focuses on the first three areas. We will cover the basics of human resource management including strategic planning, recruitment, orientation, retention, job design, and organizational development. We will also review aspects of labor law including the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and major employment laws including those covering discrimination, sexual harassment, disability, family leave, wage standards, and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act as well as and the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA). Students will learn how to apply these major laws to 'real-work' situations and will have a very good understanding of the major provisions. 8 credits will be awarded in Fundamentals of Human Resource Management and 4 credits will be awarded in Employment LawWinter quarter will focus on human resource development and training, performance management, and total compensation. We will cover a number of training and development topics including needs analysis and instructional design and evaluation while distinguishing between leadership development and skills development. We will also examine the components of a total compensation program: salary, benefits, and workplace environment. Specific topics will include pay philosophies, determining job value, and strategic approaches to communication. 8 credits will be award in Employee Training and Development and 4 credits will be awarded in Employee Compensation. | Theresa Aragon Cary Randow Natividad Valdez | Tue Sat Sat Sun Sun | Junior JR Senior SR | Fall | Fall Winter | |||
Dariush Khaleghi
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Course | FR–SRFreshmen–Senior | 4 | 04 | Weekend | Su 16 Session II Summer | With many firms now implementing full employee self service functions and subcontracting other traditional Human Resources roles and responsibilities, it appears that the HR role and its impact is diminishing. This course explores the emerging position of HR and the core competencies required to create a high-performance HR function that can add significant value to the bottom line and sustainability of their organizations as business partners and strategic contributors. The primary objective of this course is to discuss and learn the emerging HR competencies that allow HR professionals meet the emerging needs of their organizations and make a difference in the lives of those whom they support. This course provides students with the opportunity to practice critical thinking, reflecting, collaborating, researching and learning through individual and group activities, discussions and seminars, and team projects. The course structure is hybrid; 50% face-to-face (i.e., seminar, group discussion, and class projects) and 50% online (i.e., readings, researching, assessment, videos, discussion forums). | Dariush Khaleghi | Sat Sat Sat | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Summer | Summer | ||||
Theresa Aragon
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Program | JR–SRJunior–Senior | 12 | 12 | Weekend | S 16Spring | The world as we know it has changed immeasurably over the past ten years. Our horizon has been expanded through quantum advances in communication and computer technology. We are now members of a global society and as such have an intellectual responsibility to attempt an understanding of globalization. Globalization has created both opportunities and challenges for international business and will serve as the organizing framework for our study of international business. We will inform our understanding through the perspective of politics, economics, social science, culture and history. Learning in this program will be interdependent and dynamic. It will require everyone’s best effort and full commitment. Credits will be given in globalization and international business. | Theresa Aragon | Sat Sun | Junior JR Senior SR | Spring | Spring | ||||
Thuy Vu and Dariush Khaleghi
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Program | FR–SRFreshmen–Senior | 8 | 08 | Weekend | F 15 Fall | W 16Winter | In order to understand issues emerging in international business and globalization, a good appreciation for the interconnection between international finance and ethical leadership is a must. This two-quarter program will focus on the issues faces by the leadership of multinational corporations in dealing with international financial systems, organizational culture, communications and ethics. In addition to international business policy issues, this program will discuss globalization, international monetary systems, cross-cultural leadership, business cultures and ethical management practices. The class will help students move toward a better understanding of the concepts of business sustainability and social responsibility at the domestic and international levels.In Fall quarter, we will focus on developing the skills necessary for understanding the key issues in international business, how international trade has evolved for the past century and what has changed with the emergence of new economic powers. Our study will include learning about the importance of organizational culture and ethical leadership in developing and promoting successful international business practices. In Winter, we will learn about the evolution of the global monetary system and its impacts on the international financial sector. The program for Winter quarter will also cover the important area of intercultural communication, international marketing and leadership development for local and global businesses.This program is for students interested in learning about international finance, economic globalization and marketing, ethical leadership and socially responsible business management. We will be using lectures, case studies, seminars and workshops to build up the students' understanding in these areas. | Thuy Vu Dariush Khaleghi | Sat Sun | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Fall | Fall Winter | |||
Theresa Aragon
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Program | FR–SRFreshmen–Senior | 8 | 08 | Weekend | Su 16 Session I Summer | This course is based on the premise that conflict is both inevitable and beneficial in successful organizations. We will provide a foundation for our work through a brief overview of conflict resolution theory and practice. We will examine interpersonal conflict, the role of organizational culture in conflict resolution and the impact of diversity on conflict. Skill development in conflict management and resolution will be based on a collaborative approach involving team work, case analysis, role plays and theatric expression. Students will develop an understanding of the role of organizational culture and diversity in conflict management, learn to identify and analyze conflict situations, and understand their personal role(s) in generating and/or resolving conflict. | Theresa Aragon | Sat Sun | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Summer | Summer | ||||
Glenn Landram
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Course | FR–SRFreshmen–Senior | 4 | 04 | Evening | Su 16 Session I Summer | Personal finance and investing can sometimes be daunting to initiate. Yet long-term investing in the stock market can yield significant results with relatively low risk. We will examine the benefits of systematic investing and how to initiate a low-cost, long-term plan. We will work from the critically acclaimed by Burton G. Malkiel. This class is for the novice who would like to take charge of their own lifetime savings as well as those that have some understanding of finance and would like to learn more. We will also examine typical personal finance issues such as compounding, insurance, credit cards, student loans, the buy-vs.-lease auto decision and other personal finance areas as identified by students. Emphasis will be on in-class exchanges with like-minded investors. | Glenn Landram | Tue Thu | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Summer | Summer | ||||
Joli Sandoz and John Baldridge
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Program | FR–SRFreshmen–Senior | 8 | 08 | Evening | F 15 Fall | W 16Winter | Games, simulations and conceptual workshops are scripts for experience, small worlds of meaningful engagement with information and ideas, and with problems and solutions. This two-quarter academic program is intended to introduce participants to the design and effective use of interactive learning activities in education, in management, and in efforts toward social change and civic engagement. New students are very welcome in Winter quarter. In the fall, program members learned and applied game design theory while playing, analyzing, and assessing a variety of games. Students also developed simple learning games individually and in groups, before completing a major game modification project. We will be reading an introductory design text during winter, to develop a shared knowledge base with new program participants. We also will continue our engagement with research, theory, and game design, through reading and participation in collaborative activities – including the application of theory to play and analysis of existing learning, management and social change games. Program participants will form design groups to support each other as teams and individuals develop serious games (games with a purpose) on a topic of their choosing. During this process, each design team or individual will complete and present during a P2L Game Jam at least one major revision to their game. By the end of winter quarter, we will have enjoyed opportunities to acquire broadly-based literacy in design thinking, and in basic planning, design, evaluation, reviewing and selection of games for learning and change -- and will understand the qualities of games and simulations that make these activities effective as tools. Through design work and accompanying assignments, including completion of an independent research project in a subject area selected by each participant, students may earn up to four credits in a specialty area such as management, education, social justice, recreation leadership, or social history. | Joli Sandoz John Baldridge | Mon Wed | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Fall | Fall Winter | |||
David Muehleisen
Signature Required:
Spring
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Program | FR–SRFreshmen–Senior | 16 | 16 | Day | S 16Spring | Have you ever wondered what it takes to be successful at farming? The Practice of Organic Farming, formerly the Practice of Sustainable Agriculture, is a 3-quarter long program (spring, summer and fall quarters) that can help you answer this question and more. This program will explore the knowledge and skills needed to be successful in organic farming and food production systems using the underlying sciences as a framework. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of agriculture, the various topical threads (plant science, soils, horticulture, animal husbandry, organic regulations, business etc.) will be presented throughout all three quarters, and our primary focus will be on small-scale, direct market, organic production. We will emphasize the scientific underpinning and practical applications critical for growing food using ecologically informed methods, along with the management and business skills appropriate for small-scale production.We will be studying and working on the Evergreen Organic Farm through an entire growing season, from starting seed to the sale of farm products, to preparing the farm for winter. All students will work on the farm every week to gain practical experiential learning (1 day/wk. in spring, 2 days/wk. in summer and fall). This program is rigorous both physically and academically and requires a willingness to work outside in adverse weather on a schedule determined by the needs of crops and animals raised on the farm.The topics will follow the activities on the Farm throughout the growing season. During spring quarter, our primary focus will be exploring soil and plant sciences, gaining quantitative skills, and developing a working knowledge of the yearly planning documents that guide the Organic Farm. Beginning with the organic system plan and the farm crop plan, we will study the documents and recordkeeping systems needed to guide our work throughout the growing season. In summer, the main focus will be integrated pest management for insects, weeds, and diseases. Marketing, water management, irrigation system design, and regulatory issues will also be covered. Fall quarter's focus will be on farm and business planning and cover crops.The farm practicum provides students with the opportunity to integrate theory with the practice of farming. Students will learn the various elements and systems of the Farm and hands-on skills throughout the growing season. These skills and topics will include: livestock care, greenhouse management, crop establishment and management (seeding, transplanting, irrigating, weeding, harvesting, marketing), monitoring for pests/diseases, equipment maintenance/repair, and composting, Students will also learn how to market produce through a Community-supported agriculture (CSA), as well as a market stand.If you are a student with a disability and would like to request accommodations, please contact the faculty or the office of Access Services (Library Bldg. Rm. 2153, PH: 360.867.6348; TTY 360.867.6834) prior to the start of the quarter. If you require accessible transportation for field trips, please contact the faculty well in advance of the field trip dates to allow time to arrange this.Students planning to take this program who are receiving financial aid should contact financial aid early in fall quarter 2014 to develop a financial aid plan that includes summer quarter 2015. | David Muehleisen | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Spring | Spring | |||||
John Baldridge
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Program | FR–SRFreshmen–Senior | 8 | 08 | Evening | S 16Spring | From the to the to the , modern-day shipwrecks have captivated us all. But what can we learn from these disasters? Students in this program will study not only the specifics of these and other maritime tales of loss and woe, along with their pop-culture fallout in music, film, and other media, but also the lessons they offer for effective management in business, military, and other high-stakes "mission-based" projects in structured social environments. The captain on the bridge of a ship shares many commonalities with the manager of a health care team, the owner of a business, a union leader, a military officer, the head of a household, or anyone else in a leadership position. If you want to hone your leadership skills--or better understand the ways in which social organizations can succeed or fail--then this class is for you. Modern shipwrecks will constitute the metaphorical lens through which we consider these matters, and numerous case studies of maritime failure will be our main focus. In addition, we will review nautical history, geography and cartography, navigation, some basic physics, and study the evolution of maritime technology, which has allowed for both extraordinary advances and colossal blunders. We will also consider and critique the ways in which modern shipwrecks have been included in popular culture, from Gordon Lightfoot's emblematic "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" and James Cameron's , to the plight of the small boat pleasure-cruiser in Robert Redford's . But the broader theme of the program will be not only understanding how and why certain modern shipwrecks have come to pass, but what specific "breakdowns" in social coordination help to explain them, and how one might avoid similar breakdowns in a range of environments, at sea or otherwise. Ships' captains and their crews have long stood as metaphors for other structured social undertakings. This program will offer a rich theory-to-practice study plan relevant to anyone hoping to assume a leadership role in a mission-driven social environment, and wanting to better understand how mission-driven social organizations can succeed--or fail--in reaching their goals. Credits may be awarded in Maritime Studies, Organization & Management, History, and Anthropology. | John Baldridge | Mon Wed | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Spring | Spring | ||||
Robert Knapp and Helena Meyer-Knapp
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Program | FR–SRFreshmen–Senior | 16 | 16 | Day | S 16Spring | This program will bring together students with a variety of talents and backgrounds—visual, design-based, technical, psychological, organizational—in ways that develop their skills and enrich their understanding of how to use them effectively in real-world situations. Issues of management, energy, sensory perception, ecology, and politics all weave together to make the fabric of work and workplaces, and we will attend to all these strands. The program will be genuinely all-level, and will share some activities with the graduate elective, Brave New Workplace. The topic calls on personal experience, societal patterns, and physical arrangements in ways that are rarely studied at any level. The concepts and methods will require good thinking but not extensive previous background. All students will find challenge; they will also find that their previous work experience and future work intentions are relevant raw material to our inquiry. Between studio time and required research and readings, students should expect to spend a full 40 hours per week on program work, in or out of class.We will have a class schedule of a steady kind. There will be meetings on campus for a mixture of seminars, design labs, lectures, films and workshops. The studio will be open for student access outside class times, throughout the entire quarter. | Robert Knapp Helena Meyer-Knapp | Freshmen FR Sophomore SO Junior JR Senior SR | Spring | Spring | |||||
Kathy Kelly
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Program | JR–SRJunior–Senior | 8 | 08 | Evening and Weekend | F 15 Fall | W 16Winter | In this two quarter program, students will consider how to earn a living in a way that aligns with their values, develops their talents, and brings satisfaction through creative business endeavors.We will explore the role played by business from an economic and societal perspective. We will study major global trends in business, identifying opportunities for business that capitalize on those trends. We will study the social and environmental responsibility of business, and models of governance and operations in light of corporate responsibility, and we will look at a variety of entrepreneurial endeavors that inspire our imaginations and illuminate the qualities possessed by those who innovate and create, considering individuals' strengths and deepest longings in light of the economic demands made on our lives.In fall quarter, students will be introduced to the creation and management of business, and essential functions including strategic planning, operations, marketing, human resources, finance and accounting. Students will develop business plans for their ideas for new business ventures. In the process, they will conduct market research and feasibility studies, and create start-up budgets and projections for operational revenue and expenses for the first few years of their proposed business. We will explore different ways of raising capital and the costs related to each option. Students will consult and advise with colleagues; and those wishing to do so may submit their projects for the Business Plan Competitions sponsored by the University of Washington.In winter quarter, continuing students may further their work on their business plans or mentor incoming students for a business venture. We will follow the state legislative process to gain an understanding of the issues related to creating a healthy business environment in Washington state. We will study the state's incentives for community and economic development including public infrastructure, research, and economic concessions. We will learn a framework called ecological economics (Daly, et al) that values the assets in our bioregion for consideration in public policy and business decisions.Throughout the program, students will learn key concepts of systems theory and develop skills in group process and collaboration.Resources will include Osterwalder, Wheatley, Meadows, Ries, Blank, Thiel, Friedman, Diamandis, and others. | Kathy Kelly | Sat | Junior JR Senior SR | Fall | Fall Winter |