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A People's Geography of American Empire

FallWinter
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 25
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Zoltan Grossman square
geography, Native American studies

This program will look at U.S. expansion, from Manifest Destiny and overseas imperial conquests, to present-day resource wars. It will focus on the place-making processes inherent in each stage of expansion, and on the imprints they have left on the human and physical landscape. It will examine imperial places that have been shaped by each era of expansion, and in turn have shaped each era.

We will examine the continuous historical arc of expansion, from the Indian frontier wars to colonialism in the Pacific and Caribbean, to occupations in Middle East tribal regions. This expansion comes full circle as immigrants arrive from formerly colonized lands, and wars at home are waged against occupied communities. In addition to the origins and rationales underlying each stage of expansion, we will explore how and to what extent the world's landscape reflects and helps to (re)produce imperial power.

The program will aim to interconnect global and local scales, foreign and domestic policies, and past histories and present-day legacies. It will examine the lasting imprints of imperial control on real local places, in particular the expanding network of U.S. military bases and counterinsurgency campaigns around the world.

As their fall-quarter project, students will focus on a single local-scale case study, writing separate essays on its past history, present-day landscape, and a resident interview (of activists, refugees, or veterans). Students will also turn in a weekly synthesis paper on their readings and other learning. A fall-quarter overnight field trip will introduce students to military installations and locations Indigenous-settler interactions. In the winter-quarter project, Joint Base Lewis-McChord and other Northwest military installations will be researched and documented as case studies of land acquisition, place-making, deployment, and dissent.

The program will make a geographical contribution to the study of American Empire by examining the making and remaking of imperial places, and using place-based approaches to examine hierarchies of race, nationality, class, and gender. Book and article authors include Cynthia Enloe, Catherine Lutz, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, David Vine, Howard Zinn, Patricia Limerick, Leslie Marmon-Silko, Dahr Jamail, Richard Drinnon, Jean Bricmont, Rinku Sen, Jeremy Scahill, Robert Kaplan, and Michael Ignatieff. While some of the histories of conflict and suffering may be difficult to learn, imperial places also offer stories of cooperation and resilience, healing, and hope.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

community studies, geography, and international studies.

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

$135 in fall for entrance to the Squaxin Island Museum and an overnight field trip to military installations.  $10 in winter for entrance to the Joint Base Lewis McCord Museum.

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 25
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - 9:30 am
SEM 2 D3109 - Seminar

Located in: Olympia

Abnormal Psychology (A)

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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psychology

This course is designed to help students examine abnormal and normal behavior and experience along several dimensions. These dimensions include the historical and cultural influences in Western psychology, current views on abnormality and psychological health, cultural differences in the approach and treatment of psychopathology, and the role of healthy habitat in healthy mind. Traditional classification of psychopathology will be studied, including theories around etiology and treatment strategies. Non-traditional approaches will be examined including the role of eco-psychology in abnormal psychology. This course is a core course, required for pursuit of graduate studies in psychology

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 6:00 pm
SEM 2 A2107 - Seminar

Advertised schedule:

Tue 6-10p

Located in: Olympia

Abnormal Psychology (B)

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

psychology

This course is designed to help students examine abnormal and normal behavior and experience along several dimensions. These dimensions include the historical and cultural influences in Western psychology, current views on abnormality and psychological health, cultural differences in the approach and treatment of psychopathology, and the role of healthy habitat in healthy mind. Traditional classification of psychopathology will be studied, including theories around etiology and treatment strategies. Non-traditional approaches will be examined including the role of eco-psychology in abnormal psychology. This course is a core course, required for pursuit of graduate studies in psychology

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, April 1, 2019 - 6:00 pm
SEM 2 A2107 - Seminar

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2019-03-13Second section of abnormal psych added for Spring

Abroad at Mondragon and Evergreen: A Collaborative Experiment?

Spring
Spring 2019
OlympiaStudy Abroad
Olympia +
study abroad option
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
25% Reserved for Freshmen
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Feminist Theory, Cultural Studies

How are two historically innovative and collaborative-based institutions of higher education dealing with current economic challenges, particularly the changes characterized as neoliberalism?   This program will use a field study approach informed by the digital humanities to explore and document first-hand one innovative model of collaboration—teampreneurship. We'll focus on teampreneurship as developed in Finland and used by Mondragon University’s MTA program, both at home in the Basque area of Spain and abroad--including with us at The Evergreen State College--as an antidote to the oft-reported “individualistic, empathy-lacking, and market-driven” character of entrepreneurship.  What will this real-life enterprise approach teach us about both the contemporary business and the original mission of education at Evergreen and Mondragon?

 

In addition to engaging in teampreneurship on campus with Mondragon’s visiting Team Academy of international students and staff, students will have an opportunity to study abroad to experience the cultural, political, and economic context of teampreneurship’s adaptation at Mondragon University. This three-week (15 May – 5 June) study abroad in the Basque area of Spain will include an introduction to Basque history and visits to the world’s largest corporation of cooperatives.  From the heartland of Guernica -- known around the world due to Picasso’s painting of the 1937 fascist market bombing -- to industrial coops and sheepherding, from the Guggenheim and Arizmendi Museums to a renewable energy coop and cooperative banking, we’ll immerse ourselves in Basque communities.  We’ll eat at a Txokos (traditional gastronomic society) and visit farming coops and farmers’ markets. Given that the sharing of good food is quintessential to Basque culture our experiment regarding Mondragon abroad and at home will include learning to prepare and share pintxos (small bites) at Evergreen.

 

Note: This program is part of a collaboration, providing opportunities for students to learn with Mondragon’s Team Academy at the Evergreen campus and to travel abroad to Mondragon. Other collaborating programs include: SOS: Food and Agriculture; Alternatives in and to Capitalism (AltCap); SOS: Team Entrepreneurship, Leadership, and Innovation; and Mondragon Team Academy. 

Study abroad:

Study abroad (with Alternatives in and to Capitalism program) from 15 May - 5 June to the Basque Area of Spain

Special Expenses: $800 airfare and $50 ground transport   (Estimated expenses students will cover themselves)

Required Student Fee:  $3350   (Fee covers group expenses for services organized by college)

Administrative Fee:     $400  (Nonrefundable deposit to cover administrative costs of running study abroad)

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Community Studies and Organizing, Education, Leadership and Innovation, Government and Non-Profits

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
25% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, April 1, 2019 - 9:30 am
SEM 2 E3109 - Seminar

Located in: Olympia

Adolescent Literature

Summer
Summer 2019 (Full Session)
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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literacy education

Learn how adolescent literature meets the developmental needs of middle and high school ages (grades 6-12). We’ll look at the literature in historical perspective, study young adult development in reading, and consider genres with representative authors and selection criteria. Participants will read and critique several genres, developing a knowledge base of a variety of current authors, themes, and classroom uses. Course credits contribute to minimum coursework expectations for teaching endorsements in middle level humanities and secondary English/Language Arts.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

teaching, education, library science

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, June 24, 2019 - 9:00 am
SEM 2 A3107 - Seminar

Located in: Olympia

Adornment: Tradition, Innovation, and Power

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Sophomore
Freshman–Sophomore
Class Size: 46
50% Reserved for Freshmen
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Kristina Ackley
Native American studies

Using the lens of history, visual studies, fine metalsmithing, and Native American studies, our program will explore the imaginative and physical ways that we attach meaning to adornment, framing our discussion around themes of materiality, memory, and Indigeneity. We will broadly consider theories of space, place, mobility, and identity to deconstruct the binary of tradition/innovation.

Students will work to better understand and critically evaluate the multiple relationships to materials and objects, while developing a variety of skills in visual literacy, historical analysis, research ethics, and fine metalsmithing. Program work throughout the quarter will require extensive reading and writing. Studio art techniques will include drawing from observation and memory, copper forming, silver soldering, riveting, building links for chain making, and simple jewelry mechanisms. Connections between studio work and reading and writing will reinforce student understanding of the fluidity of material knowledge.

History and memory, the politics of collecting and exhibition, and the changing role of museums are among the issues which will be covered. We will question and frame competing public narratives, particularly how Native people are portrayed in museum exhibits. We will consider how museums reveal the social and cultural ideologies of those who build, pay for, work in, and visit them. The unique political status of Native nations can be better understood by highlighting the strong indigenous connections to place, particularly in art and material culture. We will examine case studies such as Iroquois raised beadwork, wampum belts, and cedar hats. We will support our analysis with guest presenters, documentary films, museum exhibits, and field trips. By the conclusion of the quarter students will present research, writing, and two substantial adornment projects.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

public history, education, museum studies, and art.

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Fees:

$125 for entrance fees and supplies.

Freshman-Sophomore
Class Standing: Freshman–Sophomore
Class Size: 46
50% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - 9:00 am
SEM 2 C2105 - Workshop

Additional details:

On Saturday, October 6, 2018 there will be an all-day field trip to the Washington State History Museum in Tacoma, to attend the 23 rd Annual Northwest Jewelry and Metals Symposium.

Located in: Olympia

Advanced Research in Environmental Studies

FallWinterSpring
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 0
Variable
Variable credit.
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Taught by

Biswas-Abir
geology, earth science, biogeochemistry
Calabria, Lalita square
botany, phytochemistry, systematics
Gerardo Chin-Leo
oceanography, marine biology
forest and plant ecology
Carri LeRoy
freshwater ecology, quantitative biology, environmental education
Paul Przybylowicz
ecology, biology, mycology
Styring square
ornithology
2019-Thuesen,-Erik-4-square
marine science, zoology, ecophysiology
Pauline Yu square portrait
marine science

Rigorous quantitative and qualitative research is an important component of academic learning in environmental studies. This independent learning opportunity is designed to allow advanced students to delve into real-world research with faculty who are currently engaged in specific projects. The program will help students develop vital skills in research design, data acquisition and interpretation, written and oral communication, collaboration, and critical thinking skills—all of which are of particular value for students who are pursuing a graduate degree—as well as for graduates who are already in the job market.

Abir Biswas studies nutrient and toxic trace metal cycles in terrestrial and coastal ecosystems. Potential projects could include studies of mineral weathering, wildfires, and mercury cycling in ecosystems. Students could pursue these interests at the laboratory scale or through field-scale biogeochemistry studies, taking advantage of the Evergreen Ecological Observation Network (EEON), a long-term ecological study area. Students with backgrounds in a combination of geology, biology, or chemistry could gain skills in soil, vegetation, and water collection, and learn methods of sample preparation and analysis for major and trace elements.

Lalita Calabria focuses on biodiversity and conservation of bryophytes and lichens in temperate North America. As a broadly trained plant biologist, Lalita uses a multidisciplinary approach to investigating these topics, including floristic surveys, ecological studies, herbarium-based research, and phytochemical studies of plants. Current activities in her lab focus on assessing the impacts of fire on lichen and bryophyte communities of oak woodlands and prairies, estimating biomass and functional group diversity of bryophyte and lichen ground layers in Puget Sound prairies, and quantifying biological nitrogen fixation rates of moss-cyanobacteria symbiosis. Students with backgrounds in botany, ecology, or chemistry could gain skills in bryophyte and lichen identification, as well as field monitoring methods and studying symbiosis of bryophytes and lichens. Students participating in this program would engage with ongoing research in Lalita’s lab and may have opportunities to develop their own research projects.

Gerardo Chin-Leo studies marine phytoplankton and bacteria. His research interests include understanding the factors that control seasonal changes in the biomass and species composition of Puget Sound phytoplankton. In addition, he is investigating the role of marine bacteria in the geochemistry of estuaries and hypoxic fjords.

Dylan Fischer studies plant ecosystem ecology, carbon dynamics, and nutrient cycling in forests of Western Washington and the Southwest. This work includes image analysis of tree roots, molecular genetics, plant physiology, carbon balance, nitrogen cycling, species interactions, community analysis, and restoration ecology. He also manages the EEON project ( blogs.evergreen.edu/eeon/ ). See more about his lab's work at  blogs.evergreen.edu/ecology. Students in this program work closely with ongoing research in the lab, participate in weekly lab meetings, and develop their own research projects.

Carri LeRoy conducts research on linkages between terrestrial and aquatic environments. She is trained as a freshwater ecologist and primarily studies in-stream ecosystem processes and aquatic communities. She and her students study leaf litter decomposition in streams as a major input of organic material to aquatic systems. In addition, she conducts research on aquatic macroinvertebrate community structure, aquatic fungal biomass, and standard water-quality and hydrology measurements in stream and river environments.

Paul Przybylowicz   conducts research on fungi, mushroom cultivation, and other applications using fungi. He is particularly interested in bioremediation and biocontrol of soil diseases, along with practical mushroom cultivation methods for small-scale vegetable farmers. Current efforts are focused on isolating and screening fungi for bioremediation properties. 

Alison Styring studies birds. Current activity in her lab includes avian bioacoustics as well as avian monitoring and research in Evergreen’s campus forest and other nearby locations. Bioacoustic research includes field monitoring of local birds using audio recordings and microphone arrays and editing and identifying avian songs and calls from an extensive collection of sounds from the campus forest, as well as tropical forest sites in Borneo. Local research projects in the campus forest and nearby locations include Pacific wren mating and life-history strategy, cavity formation and use by cavity-nesting birds (and other cavity-dependent species), and monitoring long-term trends in bird populations and communities using a variety of standard approaches. NOTE: winter quarter only

Erik Thuesen conducts research on the ecological physiology of marine animals. He and his students are currently investigating the ecophysiological and biochemical adaptations of gelatinous zooplankton that live in the deep sea. Other research is focused on the biodiversity of marine zooplankton. Students working in his lab typically have backgrounds in different aspects of marine science, ecology, physiology, and biochemistry.

Pauline Yu studies the developmental physiology and ecology of marine invertebrates. She is interested in the biochemistry of the seawater-organism interface, developmental nutritional biochemistry and metabolic depression, invasive species, carbonate chemistry (ocean acidification), and cultural relationships with foods from the sea. Students have the opportunity to collaboratively develop lines of inquiry for lab and/or field studies in ecology, developmental biology, physiology, marine carbonate chemistry, and mariculture.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

botany, ecology, education, entomology, environmental studies, environmental health, freshwater science, geology, land use planning, marine science, urban agriculture, taxonomy, and zoology

Variable
Variable credit.
See below for more info.
Variable Credit Options: variable credit options available.
Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 0
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Located in: Olympia

Advanced Research in Environmental Studies with C. LeRoy

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 0
Variable
Variable credit.
See below for more info.

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Taught by

Carri LeRoy
freshwater ecology, quantitative biology, environmental education

Rigorous quantitative and qualitative research is an important component of academic learning in Environmental Studies. This independent learning opportunity is designed to allow advanced students to delve into real-world research with faculty who are currently engaged in specific projects. The program will help students develop vital skills in research design, data acquisition and interpretation, written and oral communication, collaboration and critical thinking skills—all of which are of particular value for students who are pursuing a graduate degree, as well as for graduates who are already in the job market.

Carri LeRoy conducts research on linkages between terrestrial and aquatic environments. She is trained as a freshwater ecologist and primarily studies in-stream ecosystem processes and aquatic communities. She and her students do fieldwork and labwork to understand organic matter processing, aquatic macroinvertebrate community structure, aquatic microbial community structure (algae, bacteria, fungi), hydrological variables, and water-quality measurements in stream and river environments. Students in this program will be involved in new research projects funded by the National Science Foundation at streams at Mount St. Helens and ongoing research in streams within the campus forest reserve. See Dr. LeRoy's website for more information: https://sites.evergreen.edu/carrileroy/.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

ecology and freshwater science.

Variable
Variable credit.
See below for more info.
Variable Credit Options: seat availability and credit options vary per quarter.
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 0
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

Located in: Olympia

Advanced Research in Environmental Studies with D. Fischer

FallWinterSpring
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 0
Variable
Variable credit.
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Taught by

forest and plant ecology

Rigorous quantitative and qualitative research is an important component of academic learning in Environmental Studies. This independent learning opportunity is designed to allow advanced students to delve into real-world research with faculty who are currently engaged in specific projects. The program will help students develop vital skills in research design, data acquisition and interpretation, written and oral communication, collaboration, and critical thinking skills—all of which are of particular value for students who are pursuing a graduate degree, as well as for graduates who are already in the job market.

Dylan Fischer  studies plant ecosystem ecology, carbon dynamics, and nutrient cycling in forests of western Washington and the Southwest. This work includes image analysis of tree roots, molecular genetics, plant physiology, carbon balance, nitrogen cycling, species interactions, community analysis, and restoration ecology. He also manages the EEON project (  blogs.evergreen.edu/eeon/  ). See more about his lab's work at   blogs.evergreen.edu/ecology  . Students in this program work closely with ongoing research in the lab, participate in weekly lab meetings, and develop their own research projects.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

plant ecology and physiology, field ecology, restoration ecology

Variable
Variable credit.
See below for more info.
Variable Credit Options:

seat availability and credit options vary per quarter.

Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 0
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Located in: Olympia

Advanced Research in Environmental Studies with G. Chin-Leo

WinterSpring
Winter 2019
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 0
Variable
Variable credit.
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Taught by

Gerardo Chin-Leo
oceanography, marine biology

Rigorous quantitative and qualitative research is an important component of academic learning in Environmental Studies. This independent learning opportunity is designed to allow advanced students to delve into real-world research with faculty who are currently engaged in specific projects. The program will help students develop vital skills in research design, data acquisition and interpretation, written and oral communication, collaboration, and critical thinking skills—all of which are of particular value for students who are pursuing a graduate degree, as well as for graduates who are already in the job market.

Gerardo Chin-Leo studies marine phytoplankton and bacteria. His research interests include understanding the factors that control seasonal changes in the biomass and species composition of Puget Sound phytoplankton. In addition, he is investigating the role of marine bacteria in the geochemistry of estuaries and hypoxic fjords.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

marine studies and oceanography.

Variable
Variable credit.
See below for more info.
Variable Credit Options: seat availability and credit options vary per quarter.
Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 0
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

Located in: Olympia

Advanced Research in Environmental Studies with L. Calabria

FallWinterSpring
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 0
Variable
Variable credit.
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Taught by

Calabria, Lalita square
botany, phytochemistry, systematics

Rigorous quantitative and qualitative research is an important component of academic learning in Environmental Studies. This independent learning opportunity is designed to allow advanced students to delve into real-world research with faculty who are currently engaged in specific projects. The program will help students develop vital skills in research design, data acquisition and interpretation, written and oral communication, collaboration, and critical thinking skills—all of which are of particular value for students who are pursuing a graduate degree, as well as for graduates who are already in the job market.

Lalita Calabria's research focuses on biodiversity and conservation of bryophytes and lichens in temperate North America. As a broadly trained plant biologist, Lalita uses a multidisciplinary approach to investigating these topics including floristic surveys, ecological studies, herbarium-based research and phytochemical studies of plants. Current activities in her lab focus on assessing the impacts of fire on lichen and bryophyte communities of oak woodlands and prairies, estimating biomass and functional group diversity of bryophyte and lichen ground layers in Puget Sound prairies and quantifying biological nitrogen fixation rates of moss-cyanobacteria symbiosis. Students with backgrounds in botany, ecology, or chemistry could gain skills in bryophyte and lichen identification, as well as, field monitoring methods and studying symbiosis of bryophytes and lichens. Students participating in this program would engage with ongoing research in Lalita’s lab and may have opportunities to develop their own research projects.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

 lichen, bryophyte, and plant ecology and herbarium-based research.

Variable
Variable credit.
See below for more info.
Variable Credit Options:

seat availability and credit options vary per quarter.

Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 0
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Located in: Olympia

Advanced Research in Environmental Studies with P. Przybylowicz

FallWinterSpring
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 0
Variable
Variable credit.
See below for more info.

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Taught by

Paul Przybylowicz
ecology, biology, mycology

Rigorous quantitative and qualitative research is an important component of academic learning in Environmental Studies. This independent learning opportunity is designed to allow advanced students to delve into real-world research with faculty who are currently engaged in specific projects. The program will help students develop vital skills in research design, data acquisition and interpretation, written and oral communication, collaboration, and critical thinking skills—all of which are of particular value for students who are pursuing a graduate degree, as well as for graduates who are already in the job market.

Paul Przybylowicz   conducts research on soil fungi, mushroom cultivation and potential uses for fungi. He is particularly interested in bioremediation and biocontrol applications of fungi, along with practical mushroom cultivation methods for small-scale vegetable farmers. Current efforts are focused on isolating and screening fungi for bioremediation properties. 

Variable
Variable credit.
See below for more info.
Variable Credit Options:

seat availability and credit options vary per quarter.

Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 0
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Located in: Olympia

Advertising and Social Media

FallWinter
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 50
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Jon Baumunk
environmental studies and business
cognitive psychology

Advertising and social media are ubiquitous and powerful forces that seduce us into wanting, seeking, and buying desired—and sometimes even unneeded—products and services, donating to charitable causes, and for better or worse, changing our lifestyle. What psychological processes are responsible for the effectiveness of advertising? Which advertising messages are received and why? Consumers and firms buy and sell products and services without necessarily understanding the reasons. This program explains how attention works, how consumers acquire and process information, how they can use their attention to focus on relevant information, and how they make choices.

Each year, companies commit considerable resources to advertising and social media campaigns. The digital revolution and rise of the internet have transformed the way we live and do business, making today’s business environment more competitive. Businesses can tap the power of social media to increase sales, cut marketing costs, and reach consumers directly. The art of selling has become more scientific. This program explores how companies use behavioral insights to attempt to connect products and services with people.

Consumers form attitudes toward brands that can affect purchase decisions. Firms use persuasion and other psychological techniques to change preexisting attitudes and beliefs and influence consumer behavior. Frequently, consumers’ brand preferences develop from attitudes about advertisements. How do advertising and social media cause consumer behavior to change? Because consumers generally try to avoid exposure to advertisements, firms use humor and other techniques to attract consumers’ attention. This program explores how advertising and social media affect memory and influence buying behavior.

One can gain different perspectives on society from critically examining themes in advertisements. For example, advertising may be based on a product’s benefits or appeal more to materialism. Has our culture become one of consumption for its own sake? If so, what does that say about our society? In addition, as ads become more interactive, privacy concerns will increase. Therefore, certain advertising and aspects of social media may result in negative outcomes, some with long-term consequences.

Social media can be used to empower participants, rather than make them passive receivers of information. Companies can use social media to listen to their customers and other stakeholders via more conversational forms of corporate communication, involving a broader range of stakeholders in dialogues, and patiently building relationships with consumers. This program explores how advertising and social media may be used to more effectively and ethically influence consumers and persuade them to change their buying behavior.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

business, management, leadership studies, economics, communication, and psychology.

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 50
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, January 7, 2019 - 9:00 am
SEM 2 A1105 - Lecture

Located in: Olympia

Africa Is Not a Country

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 50
25% Reserved for Freshmen
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Sarah Eltantawi square
comparative religion
Bradley Proctor
U.S. history, African American history, American studies

Africa has long been characterized as one “nation” or a “country” by uninformed outsiders. This interdisciplinary program will historicize and complicate totalizing narratives that position Africa as undiverse, undeveloped, and principally as an origin for natural and human resources. This program seeks to disrupt colonial narratives by analyzing Africa as a diverse place, exploring examples of different pieces of African history, culture, music, literature, and religion. Through lectures, seminars, books, articles, poetry, songs, and films, students will explore Africa--and, to a lesser extent, African descended people in the diaspora--through multivalent modes of inquiry. Potential readings include Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World; the novel Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; the Nigerian play Death of the King’s Horseman by Wole Soyinka; The Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, a primary source account of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade; and Shari'ah on Trial: Northern Nigeria's Islamic Revolution. In addition to weekly in-class writing exercises, students will be expected to develop one short (3-page) essay early in the quarter, and a longer (5-8-page) essay later. Students will end the quarter with solo presentations on subjects of their choosing in negotiation with faculty.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

International relations, ethnomusicology, religious studies, African studies, history, performance studies.

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 50
25% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, September 24, 2018 - 9:00 am
SEM 2 C1105 - Lecture

Located in: Olympia

Algebraic Thinking

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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physics, education

Algebraic Thinking is Evergreen's entry-point college-level math class. The course develops problem-solving and critical-thinking skills by using algebra to solve context-based problems. Problems are approached algebraically, graphically, numerically, and verbally. Topics include function notation and linear, quadratic, and exponential functions. Collaborative learning is emphasized.

Algebraic Thinking is designed for students who are considering areas of study such as education, science, mathematics, or economics and who have not completed previous college-level course work in mathematics or who have been away from math for quite some time. This course meets Evergreen's Master in Teaching college algebra requirement.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

education, mathematics, biology, chemistry, physics, health sciences, and other natural sciences.

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Special expenses:

A scientific calculator is required.

Fees:

$12 for printed copies of the text that will be provided to students during the first class

Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Thursday, September 27, 2018 - 6:00 pm
Purce Hall 6 - Classroom

Advertised schedule:

6-9:20p Thu

Located in: Olympia

Alternatives in and to Capitalism: Hands-on from Cascadian Grain to Basque Cooperatives

WinterSpring
Winter 2019
Spring 2019
OlympiaStudy Abroad
Olympia +
study abroad option
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 50
16
Credits per quarter

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Feminist Theory, Cultural Studies
 There are many problems with capitalism, but is an alternative economic system worth striving for? Is it feasible? After more than a century of theoretical studies and practical experiments, we know a lot about these questions, but the answers remain speculative. Is there a way to imagine economics not as a framework we’re destined to live in, but only as a constraint we can minimize in order to achieve a more humane world?
 
This advanced program will embrace economics, political economy, feminist cultural studies, community building, artisanship, and ecological sustainability. We'll use theory and history to examine capitalism’s initial basis in colonialism and the standardization of goods and livelihoods. We'll travel both locally–to the Cascadia Grain Conference–and internationally–to Mondragon cooperatives in the Basque region of Spain. Be prepared to take seriously diverse theoretical perspectives, including Marxist, anarchist, feminist, mainstream, Austrian, and community economics as well as to engage with real-world experience. Program work will include lectures, guest speakers, seminars, films, workshops, field trips, student presentations, and major research projects examining and imagining alternatives both in and to capitalism.
 
In winter quarter we will examine the nature of capitalism, and its relationship to urgent societal problems like inequality and ecological survival. Students will study introductory microeconomics in a broad context. Emphasis will be on students researching and imagining individual and community-based alternative economic projects within our existing system–including those which address the value of higher education in the current moment.
 
Spring quarter will be taught solely by Peter Dorman. The focus will shift to entire societies and even a globalized world. Are there alternatives to capitalism at the system level that can make possible much higher levels of individual fulfillment as well as collective, planetary well-being?  Students will extend their research from local to international case studies, including the opportunity to visit the Mondragon, the largest and most innovative cooperative system in the world.

Study Abroad: There will also be a three-week study abroad option at the Mondragon cooperative network in the Basque region of Spain. Credit equivalencies will be offered in comparative economic systems, political economy, and cultural studies.

Study abroad:

All questions regarding payment should be directed to the teaching faculty of this program.

1.             Special Expenses: $800 airfare and $50 ground transport   (Estimated expenses students will cover themselves)

2.             Required Student Fee:  $3350   (Fee covers group expenses for services organized by college)

3.             Administrative Fee:     $400  (Nonrefundable deposit to cover administrative costs of running study abroad)

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

social sciences, social justice advocacy and activism, public policy, cultural studies

16

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

 

Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Fees:

In Winter quarter- $140 for overnight transportation, accommodations, food, and entrance fees for Cascadia Grain Conference.

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 50
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, April 1, 2019 - 9:30 am
SEM 2 D3109 - Seminar

Located in: Olympia

May be offered again in:

Yes, in 2020-21 or as appropriate to meet student demand for the program, as well as our exchange relationship with Mondragon.

DateRevision
2018-11-27$140 fee for winter field trip
2018-11-26prerequisites requirement for winter removed

American Lives: Immigration History, Law and Community Media

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 50
16
Credits per quarter

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Immigration is a key issue of our times.  President Trump’s immigration policies—the travel ban on immigrants from majority Muslim countries, family detentions and separations, and the proposal to build an impassable wall at the Mexico/US border—have sparked passionate debates.  These debates echo recurring themes in U.S. history, as the nation has struggled to define who can enter, who qualifies for citizenship, and whose languages, culture and identity are valued. 

Historically, the U.S. has often depended on the labor of immigrant “guest” workers to build its railroads and work in its fields, while discouraging their attempts to become “American.”  Today, an estimated 12 million undocumented adults and children are working, attending school, and raising their families in the U.S.  Their presence, and the support of a growing movement of allies, constitutes one of the largest civil disobedience movements in U.S. history.

This program will examine immigration laws and policies past and present.  We will learn to listen to voices on both sides of the immigration debate: what are the forces that drive people from their homes to seek a better life?  How and why have anti-immigration policies gained popular support?  How can we separate reality from myths about immigrants and refugees?  What are the implications of current policy changes for U.S. identity, community and democracy?

Students will choose one of two workshops: Media Production (audio recording and photography) and Law and Policy Research.  Program readings will include historical texts, judicial decisions, art and literature.  We will track current media coverage of immigration policy and learn how those policies are impacting communities and how they are responding.  We will view films, engage in discussion, and take field trips to Seattle and Tacoma to learn about immigrant experiences and projects to memorialize their lives and struggles.  Students will commit 2-3 hours/week to community service with organizations serving immigrant members of the community; please check with faculty before finalizing your enrollment to ensure your schedule fits this commitment.  Students will write short weekly essays on the readings, keep a reflective journal of their volunteer experiences, do independent research, and collaborate on community-based projects. 

 

 

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

History, law, media, nonprofit/community work, government and public policy.

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

$30 for supplies and entrance fee

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 50
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - 9:00 am
SEM 2 E3105 - Workshop

Located in: Olympia

American Sign Language I at SPSCC

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 5
4
Credits per quarter

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This course introduces the two basic skills of American Sign Language (ASL): receptive and expressive communication skills. Students will study American Sign Language within its cultural context.  Credits awarded will be 4 Evergreen credits.

NOTE: Course meets at South Puget Community College, Main Campus, 2011 Mottman Road SW, Olympia, WA 98512, Mondays and Wednesdays, from 6:00 – 8:25 pm in BLDG 21, Room 286 - The first class will meet on Monday, September 17 (before Evergreen's start date) . Students must be registered by 5:00 PM on Thursday September 13th.

The textbook for this course can be purchased at SPSCC Bookstore. The text will be listed under the course ID ASL& 121, and can be found at this address: http://spscc.bncollege.com

Faculty: Kimberly Crites, kcrites@spscc.edu

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 5
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

Advertised schedule:

Mondays and Wednesdays, from 6:00 – 8:25 pm in BLDG 21, Room 286 - The first class will meet on Monday, September 17 (before Evergreen's start date) 

Course meets at South Puget Community College, Main Campus, 2011 Mottman Road SW, Olympia, WA 98512 - Course begins on September 17.

Located in: Olympia

Off-campus location:

Mondays and Wednesdays, from 6:00 – 8:25 pm in BLDG 21, Room 286 - The first class will meet on Monday, September 17 (before Evergreen's start date) 

Course meets at South Puget Community College, Main Campus, 2011 Mottman Road SW, Olympia, WA 98512 -  Course begins on September 17.

DateRevision
2018-06-06New Offering Added for Fall- at SPSCC

Anatomy and Physiology I

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Amanda Kugel
anatomy, physiology

The first of a three quarter sequence in human anatomy and physiology. This course covers anatomical terminology, levels of organization, primary tissue types, and systems of support and movement including the integumentary system, skeletal system and muscular system. Laboratory sessions include microscopy, histology, and the use of preserved bones and anatomical models for skeletal and muscle identification.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

human biology, health-related fields

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - 5:30 pm
LAB 1 1040 - Class Lab

Advertised schedule:

Tue 5:30-8:50pm

Located in: Olympia

Anatomy and Physiology II

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Amanda Kugel
anatomy, physiology

The second of a three quarter sequence in human anatomy and physiology. This course will examine control and regulation of the body through exploration of the nervous system, special senses and the endocrine system. This course will also cover the continuity of life related to the human reproductive system and development in utero. Laboratory sessions include histology, anatomical models and dissections (brain, eyeball).

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

human biology, health-related fields

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Prerequisites:

Anatomy and Physiology I or equivalent. Contact the faculty for clarification if needed. 

Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - 6:00 pm
LAB 1 1040 - Class Lab

Advertised schedule:

Tue 5:30-9:00p

Located in: Olympia

Anatomy and Physiology III

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Amanda Kugel
anatomy, physiology

The third of a three quarter sequence in human anatomy and physiology. This course will examine body fluids and transport including blood, the cardiovascular system, the lymphatic system and immunity. Discussion of environmental exchange will include the respiratory system, digestive system and urinary system. Laboratory sessions include histology, anatomical models, dissections (heart, kidney, fetal pig), blood typing simulation and a respiratory physiology module. 

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

human biology, health-related fields

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Prerequisites:

Anatomy and Physiology II or equivalent. Contact the faculty for clarification if needed. 

Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers 25 - 49% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 6:00 pm
LAB 1 1040 - Class Lab

Advertised schedule:

Tue 5:30-9:00p

Located in: Olympia

Anthrozoology

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
50% Reserved for Freshmen
16
Credits per quarter

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Michael (Mike) Paros
veterinary medicine

Why do humans keep pets and also raise animals for food? What are the psychological and moral complexities that characterize our relationships with animals? What is the impact of human-animal interactions on the health and well-being of people and animals? How do we assess the relative welfare of animals under a variety of circumstances? This program is an interdisciplinary study of human (anthro) and animal (zoo) interaction. This topic of inquiry will be used to study general biology, evolutionary biology, zoology, anthropology, and philosophy. Through field trips, guest speakers, reading, writing, and discussion, students will become familiar with the multiple and often paradoxical ways we relate to companion animals, animals for sport, zoo animals, wildlife, research animals, and food animals. We will use our collective experiences, along with science-based and value-based approaches, to critically examine the ever-changing role of animals in society.

We will begin by focusing on the process of animal domestication in different cultures from an evolutionary and historical perspective. Through the formal study of animal ethics, students will become familiar with different philosophical positions on the use of animals. Physiology and neuroscience will be used to investigate the physical and mental lives of animals, while simultaneously exploring domestic animal behavior. Students will explore the biological basis and psychological aspects of the human-animal bond. They will study the science of animal welfare and complete a final project in which they will apply their scientific and ethical knowledge to a controversial and contemporary animal welfare question. Students will finish the quarter with a multiple-day trip to the University of British Columbia, where they will visit with faculty and students doing active research in animal welfare science.

Students will be expected to read primary literature in such diverse fields as animal science, ethology, neurobiology, sociobiology, anthropology, and philosophy. Student success in this program will depend on commitment to in-depth understanding of complex topics and an ability to combine empirical knowledge and philosophical reflection.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

biology, neuroscience, anthropology, animal welfare, and veterinary medicine.

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Fees:

$200 for a multi-day trip to Animal Welfare Research Center at the University of British Columbia.

Upper division science credit:

A limited amount of upper-division science credit will be awarded to students based on exam scores and ability to read and interpret primary scientific literature.

Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
50% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, January 7, 2019 - 8:30 am
LIB 1412 - Workshop

Located in: Olympia

Applied Microbiology and Organic Chemistry

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 50
16
Credits per quarter

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biology, genetics, microbiology
organic chemistry, polymer chemistry, biochemistry

In this one-quarter upper division science program we will examine theoretical concepts within microbiology and organic chemistry and apply them to real world issues within the fields of health and medicine, and the environment.

In lecture and small group problem-solving workshops we will examine the broad variety of microorganisms so far identified, the biochemistry of these species, their varying cellular structures, and the key roles they play in the environment, and in health and medicine. In addition, we will study organic chemistry, learning the structure, reactivities, and mechanisms of reaction of some of the major functional groups – from small molecules to polymers and plastics. In seminar we will read literature in the areas of applied microbiology and environmental chemistry, focusing on themes within health and medicine (transmission of infectious disease, prevention and treatments) and also the environment (pollution, toxic organic chemicals, use of alternative materials, such as biodegradable plastics).

Laboratory activities will teach fundamental and modern methods of microbiology and organic chemistry. Class activities will include lecture, workshops, seminar, laboratories, and some field work. This program will prepare students for upper-division work in environmental sciences as well as upper-division laboratory-based biology.

 

Note: Students who have taken "Environmental Biology and Chemistry" (fall 2018- winter 2019) should not take "Applied Microbiology and Organic Chemistry," as it covers similar material.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Biology, chemistry, health and medicine, environmental science

16

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

Two quarters of general biology and two quarters of general chemistry, each with lab.

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.

Upper division science credit:

All 16 credits are upper division, and will include general microbiology with laboratory, applied microbiology, organic chemistry with laboratory, environmental chemistry.

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 50
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, April 1, 2019 - 9:00 am
Purce Hall 5 - Classroom

Located in: Olympia

Art of Helping

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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psychology
Doing well while doing good is a challenge. Whereas some kind of help is the kind of help that helps, some kind of help we can do without. Gaining wisdom to know the paths of skillful helping of self and others is the focus of this four-credit course. We will explore knowing who we are, identifying caring as a moral attitude, relating wisely to others, maintaining trust, and working together to make change possible.
4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - 6:00 pm
SEM 2 A3109 - Seminar

Advertised schedule:

Tue 6-9:50pm

Located in: Olympia

Arts and the Child: Early Childhood

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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Hir'
visual arts, Chinese studies, human development

All children enjoy singing, painting, and dancing. Yet, as we grow up, this natural ability becomes suppressed and often lost.  This course will reach out to the inner child in students and provide opportunities to support children in need of care and education in the community. Lectures, studio arts, research, field trips and volunteer work with children in the community will develop students’ competency as artists, parents, and educators. The course will also examine practices of education and self-cultivation from Eastern and Western perspectives. Our study will focus on children of preschool age, 0-6 years old.

Credit will be awarded in arts and human development.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

teaching, education, social work

4

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

$10 fee for art materials

Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Thursday, September 27, 2018 - 5:30 pm
SEM 2 B1105 - Lecture

Advertised schedule:

Thu 5:30-8:50pm

Located in: Olympia

Asian/American: Pop Culture Crosscurrents

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 25
16
Credits per quarter

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“Japanese jazz now hip-hop in home/At Seventh and Jackson, the microphone’s open.” — Blue Scholars, Seattle hip-hop duo (from “Evening Chai”)

From Bruce Lee to Harold & Kumar , henna to hip-hop, bulgogi to ph , manga to The Matrix , Asians and Asian Americans have left an indelible imprint on U.S. popular culture. As eloquently noted by Mimi Thi Nguyen and Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, “[f]ew of us are immune to popular culture’s intimate address or to its pleasures and affirmations, frustrations and denials” ( Alien Encounters: Popular Culture in Asian America) . It is, indeed, that lack of immunity and a restless hunger to understand those “pleasures, affirmations, frustrations, and denials” that will sustain us on our 10-week journey. We will begin the quarter with two fundamental questions—“What is an Asian American?” and “What is popular culture?"—that will lead us to (1) an exploration of the major historical, cultural, social, and political contours of the Asian American experience, and (2) an immersion in critical theoretical perspectives on culture in general, and popular culture in particular. We will devote the remainder of the quarter to an examination of the complex, and frequently vexed, ways in which Asians and Asian Americans have been represented in U.S. popular culture and, more importantly, how members of those communities have become active producers of popular culture. Our approach will be interdisciplinary, multilayered, and transgressive in its insistence on an intertextuality that moves beyond the commonly interrogated categories of race, gender, and class.

Students will read selected fiction, poetry, comics, graphic novels, scholarly articles, and other written texts. There will be weekly screenings and analysis of documentaries as well as fictional films, including martial arts and anime. We will also explore Asian American popular culture in music, photography, and other visual art; bodies (e.g., tattoos); and cuisine. Students will participate in weekly seminars and workshops, submit short weekly writing assignments, and produce a final project that will help them refine both their expository and creative nonfiction writing skills. Field trips may include visits to Pacific Northwest locations with Asian and Asian American historical and cultural connections, and to off-campus film, music, and other venues.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

American studies, Asian American studies, cultural studies, humanities, and education

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

$100 for museum entrance fees, concert admission, and/or movies

Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 25
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 10:00 am
SEM 2 E3107 - Seminar

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2019-04-05Variable credit added
2019-02-15This program is offered to Jr-Sr.

Audio Recording I

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 20
4
Credits per quarter

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This course will introduce students to the process and tools of modern recording and sound/music production. This three quarter sequence begins with the study of microphones, portable recorders, and mono/stereo editing. Analog and digital recording using audio consoles, multitrack software, and mixing/production techniques will be introduced as you gain proficiency in the Audio Lab and the audio mixing benches. Final projects will consist of collaborative production pieces completed in the labs. Classes will consist of lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on workshops. Students will maintain studio journals and complete weekly project assignments. Collaborative skills in studio work will be a focus.  This course is designed to provide anyone interested in audio production the fundamental skills needed to use modern technology to create music and other sound pieces. The only prerequisite is an interest in creating audio content and learning about sound production.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Audio Engineering and Design

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 20
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Wednesday, September 26, 2018 - 5:30 pm
Lib 1328 - 5.1 Mix Room

Advertised schedule:

5:30-9:20pm Wed

Located in: Olympia

Audio Recording II

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 20
4
Credits per quarter

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This course will introduce students to the process and tools of modern recording and sound/music production. This three quarter sequence begins with the study of microphones, portable recorders, and mono/stereo editing. Analog and digital recording using audio consoles, multitrack software, and mixing/production techniques will be introduced as you gain proficiency in the Audio Lab and the audio mixing benches. Final projects will consist of collaborative production pieces completed in the labs. Classes will consist of lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on workshops. Students will maintain studio journals and complete weekly project assignments. Collaborative skills in studio work will be a focus.  This course is designed to provide anyone interested in audio production the fundamental skills needed to use modern technology to create music and other sound pieces. The only prerequisite is an interest in creating audio content and learning about sound production.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Audio Engineering and Design

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Website:
Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 20
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Wednesday, January 9, 2019 - 5:30 pm
Com 110 - Perf and Prod Studio

Advertised schedule:

5:30-9:30p Wed

Located in: Olympia

Audio Recording III

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 20
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

This course will introduce students to the process and tools of modern recording and sound/music production. This three quarter sequence begins with the study of microphones, portable recorders, and mono/stereo editing. Analog and digital recording using audio consoles, multitrack software, and mixing/production techniques will be introduced as you gain proficiency in the Audio Lab and the audio mixing benches. Final projects will consist of collaborative production pieces completed in the labs. Classes will consist of lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on workshops. Students will maintain studio journals and complete weekly project assignments. Collaborative skills in studio work will be a focus.  This course is designed to provide anyone interested in audio production the fundamental skills needed to use modern technology to create music and other sound pieces. The only prerequisite is an interest in creating audio content and learning about sound production.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Audio Engineering and Design

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 20
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Wednesday, April 3, 2019 - 5:30 pm
Com 110 - Perf and Prod Studio

Advertised schedule:

5:30-9:30p Wed

Located in: Olympia

Becoming A Changemaker: Learning and Acting Locally and Globally

WinterSpring
Winter 2019
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Weekend
Weekend
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
8
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Don Chalmers
grantwriting

People locally and globally change people's lives every day.  The first part of a two-part program explores what is a Change Maker and how students can use the lessons of this global movement to address social change in their community.  We'll define and understand Change Makers through readings, in-class discussion, and researching local people and organizations who make a difference using social enterprises and other forms of organization to create positive change.  For example, students will be asked to identify one Change Maker from the readings and share information with the others including an update on that individual or organization.  Next, using lessons learned from Change Makers worldwide, we'll consider what individuals and groups need to do to prepare themselves to be effective as agents of change in our local community or one in which they want to work.  For instance, we'll explore community assessment in detail including community mapping of assets and needs. We'll also look at how best to organize to effectively address problems or opportunities the community assessment identified.  We'll learn about how to make these efforts sustainable both organizationally and through resource development like grant writing and fundraising.

By Week 3 students will develop in-program individual learning contracts or internships that will generate 4 of the 8 credits offered.  The in-program ILCs could focus on further research and reporting on the student's chosen Change Maker project.  An in-program internship would be with an area Change Maker based on work to be determined by the student, faculty and that Change Maker. These ILCs or Internships could be continued and/or modified in the Spring Term.

In Spring we'll build on the lessons we gained in Winter either by beginning to build a social enterprise identified in the student's internal ILC or continuing the work each student began in the internal internship.  Classes for the second part of the program will focus on implementation.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Social Enterprises including non-profit organizations, social and human services, social purpose corporations and LLCs, and related enterprises

8

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Internship Opportunities:

In-program internships focused on an area of social enterprise represent 4-credits of work per quarter.  Students can start the program with an internship in mind, but there will be time during the first two weeks of class to develop ideas and connect with organizations. 

Research Opportunities:

In-program ILCs focused on an area of social enterprise represent 4-credits of work per quarter.  Students can start the program with a research topic in mind, but there will be time during the first two weeks of class to develop ideas.

Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Weekend

Scheduled for: Weekend

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Saturday, April 6, 2019 - 10:00 am
SEM 2 C3107 - Seminar

Located in: Olympia

Between Certainty and Doubt: Logic and Knowledge

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
8
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Stephen Beck
philosophy

Is there anything that we can know for certain? Are there methods of thinking that can guarantee truth? If not, does this mean that when we form our beliefs about the world, “anything goes”?

In this program we will study formal deductive logic, a method of reasoning still widely held to be the “royal road” to knowledge and truth. We will study enough formal logic to come to appreciate both its value and its limitations.

Alongside our study of logic, we will inquire into theories of knowledge itself: What does it mean, really, to say that you know something to be so? Do we need certainty in order to know? Since uncertainty is ubiquitous in our lives, how can we cope with it while still being responsible critical thinkers?

A major emphasis of our work will be applying our studies of logic and theories of knowledge to practical matters, be they personal, political, or social. By developing skills of reasoning, we will learn how to support our positions and decisions and to develop a nuanced attitude to the confidence we have in those positions and decisions. This program will further students’ abilities to think critically and to communicate their ideas effectively. This program will provide an excellent foundation of skills for study of law, natural or social sciences, or any area of study or employment where precise reasoning and expression are crucial. 

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Education, Law, Psychology, Philosophy

8

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Prerequisites:

No previous experience in philosophy required.

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, April 1, 2019 - 6:00 pm
SEM 2 B2107 - Seminar

Advertised schedule:

Mon/Wed 6-10 pm

Located in: Olympia

Birds: Inside and Out

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 50
16
Credits per quarter

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biology, biochemistry
Styring square
ornithology

Birds are charismatic and conspicuous animals. They also serve as excellent models for understanding many biological concepts, including: evolution, physiology, behavior, and ecology. In this program we will study avian biology at the organism level (inside: physiological systems and adaptations of birds) as well as birds as components of ecosystems (outside: population and community ecology and avian social systems). Through lab and field work, students will gain a holistic understanding of avian biology and in the process will learn about birds commonly found in the Puget Sound area in springtime.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

biology, wildlife biology, and ecology.

16

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

Students must have successfully completed 8 credits of college-level biology.

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

$25 Entrance Fees

Upper division science credit:

Upper-division science credit may be awarded upon successful completion of the program. Upper-division credits will be given for upper-division work at the discretion of the faculty.

Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 50
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - 9:00 am
SEM 2 A1107 - Workshop

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-11-06$25 fee added for entrance

Botany: Plants and People

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
25% Reserved for Freshmen
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Frederica Bowcutt
botany, ecology, environmental history

This is a one-quarter program designed to support students learning introductory plant biology in an interdisciplinary format. Students will learn about plant anatomy, morphology, evolution, and systematics. Lectures based on textbook readings supplement the laboratory work. The learning community will explore how present form and function informs us about the evolution of major groups of plants such as mosses, ferns, conifers, and flowering plants. Students will get hands-on experience studying plants under microscopes and with the naked eye. This program also focuses on people's relationships with plants with special attention on medicinal botany. Several workshops on herbology will provide hands-on opportunities to learn various herbal medicine making practices. Students will also examine the cultural factors that shape our relations with plants. In our readings, we will particularly examine the significant roles gender politics has played in the teaching and practice of botany. Weekly workshops will help students improve their ability to write thesis-driven essays defended with evidence from assigned texts. Quizzes, exams, and weekly assignments will help students and faculty assess learning. 

Opportunities to earn credit in: Introduction to Plant Biology, Expository Writing, Cultural Studies in Botany and Introduction to Medicinal Botany.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

field plant taxonomy, field ecology, plant science, plant ecology, economic botany, agriculture, forestry, and environmental science.

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

$35 for workshops in herbal medicine.

Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
25% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, September 24, 2018 - 11:00 am
SEM 2 E2109 - Seminar

Located in: Olympia

May be offered again in:

2019-20

DateRevision
2018-04-23Fee added ($35).

Business Entrepreneurship Fundamentals

FallWinter
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 46
50% Reserved for Freshmen
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Dion Gouws square
strategic planning, business management and entrepreneurship, accounting

In this introductory 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, quantitative and critical analysis, ethics, sustainability, entrepreneurship, management, and leadership influence outcomes. Factors that are key to business success will be explored from different perspectives and stakeholder views. The program includes fundamental work in entrepreneurship, leadership, management, ethics, quantitative work, economics, accounting, income taxes, financial statement and ratio analysis, as well as the concept of time value of money. We will read texts such as Goldratt and Cox’s The Goal , Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In , and Levitt and Dubner's Freakonomics, as well as other fundamental business texts that will enhance the skills necessary for conducting business, as well as running nonprofits .

In fall quarter, 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, group projects, workshops, business plan and other 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.

During winter quarter, students will work in small groups on formally proposed, extensive independent projects focused on improving their analytic skills. They will be required to analyze a compelling problem or issue centered on our primary themes of economically successful businesses. The research includes the formulation of a business plan and will conclude with a multimedia presentation. Students will also cover forecasting, linear programming, decision analysis using tree diagrams, and queuing theory from the field of management science.

Upon successful completion of the program, students will be better equipped to understand how a successful business operates 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.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

business, management, and government service.

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 46
50% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, January 7, 2019 - 9:00 am
Purce Hall 3 - Lecture

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-05-30This program now accepts students of all class levels.
2018-04-30This program requires faculty approval to join in winter quarter.

Calculus and Analytical Geometry I

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Vauhn Foster-Grahler
mathematics, education, anthropological mathematics

Calculus and Analytical Geometry I, II, and III is a year-long sequence of courses that will provide a rigorous treatment of the procedures, concepts, and applications of differential and integral calculus, multi-dimensional space, series, introduction to differential equations, and concepts and procedures related to partial derivatives, and double integrals.  This year-long (Fall, Winter, Spring) sequence is appropriate for students who are planning to teach secondary mathematics or engage in further study in mathematics, science, or economics.

Calculus and Analytical Geometry I will be offered during fall quarter.  Calculus and Analytical Geometry I will include a rigorous study of limits, derivatives and their applications through multiple modes of inquiry and multiple (algebraic, graphical, numerical, and verbal) representations. Collaborative learning is emphasized.  If you have questions about your readiness to take this class, please contact the faculty.   A graphing calculator is required for the course.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

education, engineering, mathematics, science, and economics.

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - 7:30 am
SEM 2 A1107 - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 7:30 am - 9:00 am

Located in: Olympia

Calculus and Analytical Geometry II

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Vauhn Foster-Grahler
mathematics, education, anthropological mathematics

Calculus and Analytical Geometry I, II, and III is a year-long sequence of courses that will provide a rigorous treatment of the procedures, concepts, and applications of differential and integral calculus, multi-dimensional space, series, introduction to differential equations, and concepts and procedures related to partial derivatives, and double integrals.  This year-long (Fall, Winter, Spring) sequence is appropriate for students who are planning to teach secondary mathematics or engage in further study in mathematics, science, or economics.

Calculus and Analytical Geometry II will be offered during winter quarter.  Calculus and Analytical Geometry II will include a rigorous study of integral calculus including techniques and applications of integration.  The course will also introduce students to differential equations.  We will engage with the content through multiple modes of inquiry and multiple (algebraic, graphical, numerical, and verbal) representations. Collaborative learning is emphasized.  If you have questions about your readiness to take this class, please contact the faculty.    A graphing calculator is required for the course.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

science, education, mathematics, and economics.

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - 7:30 am
SEM 2 E1107 - Workshop

Located in: Olympia

Calculus and Analytical Geometry III

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Vauhn Foster-Grahler
mathematics, education, anthropological mathematics

Calculus and Analytical Geometry I, II, and III is a year-long sequence of courses that will provide a rigorous treatment of the procedures, concepts, and applications of differential and integral calculus, multi-dimensional space, series, introduction to differential equations, and concepts and procedures related to partial derivatives, and double integrals.  This year-long (Fall, Winter, Spring) sequence is appropriate for students who are planning to teach secondary mathematics or engage in further study in mathematics, science, or economics.

 Calculus and Analytical Geometry III completes the year-long sequence of courses that provides a rigorous treatment of the procedures, concepts, and applications of differential and integral calculus, multi-dimensional space, series, and introduce differential equations, partial derivatives and double integrals. This three-quarter-long sequence is appropriate for students who are planning to teach secondary mathematics or engage in further study in mathematics, science, or economics. Spring quarter topics include introduction to multi-dimensional space, lines and planes in space, coordinate systems, series, concepts and procedures with partial derivatives and double integrals. We will engage with the content through multiple modes of inquiry and multiple (algebraic, graphical, numerical, and verbal) representations. Collaborative learning is emphasized.  If you have questions about your readiness to take this class, please contact the faculty.    A graphing calculator is required for the course.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

teaching, science, economics, and mathematics.

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 7:30 am
SEM 2 E1107 - Workshop

Located in: Olympia

Caring for a Living Planet: Ecology and Ethics

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 50
8
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Stephen Beck
philosophy
ecology, plant biology

Why and how should we care for our planet? Should we care only about other human beings, or should we care about non-human animals as well? What about other organisms -- or even whole ecosystems? And what about people and other living things in the future? How does knowledge of living things help us to care about them and for them?

What do we need to know to understand, protect, and preserve human and non-human life and to maintain the integrity of ecological processes? We will study evolution and ecology to understand the variety and complexity of life.   We’ll learn ecological principles and quantitative analyses to assess ecosystem function, interactions among species, and sustainability of plant and animal populations. We will study philosophical ethics, specifically environmental ethics, and sharpen the critical reasoning skills we need to understand our ethical place in the world.

This program will help students to widen their understanding of how the natural world works, and how we as humans can live more thoughtfully, ethically, and sustainably in it.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

ecology, life sciences, humanities, public policy, government. 

8

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 50
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, September 24, 2018 - 6:00 pm
SEM 2 B1105 - Lecture

Advertised schedule:

Mon/Wed 6-10pm

Located in: Olympia

Cartography of Story

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Dawn Barron sqaure
writing, Native and Indigenous studies

This course explores the relationship between historical narratives, our own histories, and how cartography (mapping) can be an integral element to telling a story.  With a focus on writing, cartography, and indigenous culture in North America, students will create a mapped story generated from their own life, a period in history, a place, or an event of their choosing. It is intended to create discourse around the indigenous memoir and braided-essay as historical narrative in relationship to self, community, culture, and worldview. Students will craft their own written narrative, as well as a critical analysis of the course readings and seminars. The goal of the course is to identify voice, practice critical thinking through an indigenous lens, and cultivate clear, compelling writing as expression of self. The course is inclusive and any student interested in cartography, indigenous history, and writing is welcome. 

 

Native Pathways students register using CRN 20322.  All other undergraduate students register using CRN 20321. 

4

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Wednesday, January 9, 2019 - 6:00 pm
Purce Hall 7 - Classroom

Located in: Olympia

Ceramics: Hand-building

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 20
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

This course is intended as an overview of ceramic studio practices.  Students will learn a variety of hand-built ceramic techniques beginning with traditional methods and moving toward current ceramic technologies.  Functional pottery will be emphasized with technical demonstrations based on utility.  Thematic projects are designed to aide students toward the development of an informed and personal style while gaining solid foundation skills in both functional and sculptural work. Critical analysis of resulting work will be scheduled through written observations and through group discussions.  The course will introduce students to clay types, kiln firing methods, glazing and related surfacing techniques.   Presentations on the history and contemporary application of ceramic arts will contextualize studio work. 

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 20
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, September 24, 2018 - 5:30 pm
Art Annex 1100 - Ceramics Studio

Advertised schedule:

Monday 5:30 - 9:20 pm

Located in: Olympia

Ceramics: Sculpting the Human Form

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 20
4
Credits per quarter

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In this class students will sharpen their observation skills by rendering the human form using a live model. Topics discussed will include the ethics and implications of using the human form in art. Skills covered include construction of armatures, sculpting around an armature with solid clay, hollowing and reconstruction, and techniques for sculpting problematic areas like heads, hands, and feet. A variety of surface options will also be covered including fired and room temperature glaze.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

visual arts, museum studies, art criticism

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Special expenses:

Students will need to purchase their own clay and tools. Estimated cost for tools $16, for clay $15 depending on student driven projects. Clay is available for purchase at the studio.

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 20
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 6:00 pm
Art Annex 1100 - Ceramics Studio

Advertised schedule:

Tu/Th 6-8:30pm

Located in: Olympia

Ceramics: Wheel-throwing

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 20
4
Credits per quarter

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The goal of this course is to provide students with opportunities to concentrate on advanced wheel throwing techniques.  It is highly encouraged that students have previously taken a ceramics course and have the ability to center clay on a pottery wheel.  Students will learn to develop better control over their cylinders, create forms with walls of uniform thickness, improve handles, spouts, lids and trimming techniques.  Weekly demonstrations will include surface techniques, lidded forms, plates, large vases, double wall cylinders and teapots.  Students will work toward the development of a personal style while drawing from a library of historically celebrated ceramic design.

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 20
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, January 7, 2019 - 5:30 pm
Art Annex 1100 - Ceramics Studio

Advertised schedule:

Mondays 5:30-9:30 pm

Located in: Olympia

China and Japan: Traditional and Contemporary "Silk Roads"

FallWinterSpring
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Spring 2019
OlympiaStudy Abroad
Olympia +
study abroad option
Weekend
Weekend
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 50
812
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Hir'
visual arts, Chinese studies, human development
Tomoko Hirai Ulmer
Japanese language and culture

This program will introduce the history, culture, and philosophy of China and Japan. We will use the theme of the Silk Road in our examination of China as the heart of Asian civilization and Japan as a constant presence at the eastern end of the route. Our inquiry into Chinese and Japanese history will focus on periods in which foreign contacts were most influential, for example, when Buddhism traveled the Silk Road to reach Japan, and when Europeans reached and interacted with Asia via the sea and land routes. We will examine contemporary “Silk Roads” that incorporate new trends, technologies, and aspirations. The program also covers Asian philosophies, including Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Shintoism and their distinct time/space concepts. We will examine Chinese and Japanese ideographic languages and their embedded worldviews and aesthetic sensitivities as expressed in poetry and other artistic forms.

In fall quarter we will study Chinese and Japanese history up to the 12th to 13th century, in addition to Daoist philosophy, Buddhism, and Japanese aesthetics from the early to medieval period.

In winter, our history studies will move toward the modern period. Our cultural studies will examine spiritual, religious, and aesthetic traditions in depth. Students will take part in a three-day Lunar New Year celebration in early February. There will be an optional three-week study abroad trip to both China and Japan starting in Week 9 and extending into spring break. Four additional credits may be earned from this trip. Students who do not participate in the trip will remain in close contact with those on the trip and continue their research. All students register for 8 credits during winter and will re-register for 12 credits once the study abroad deposit is submitted. Speak with the faculty for additional details.  

During spring quarter our history study will cover the contemporary period. Students will continue the research started in winter quarter and complete a project connecting theory and practice. Credits will be given in Chinese and Japanese history and culture and in the area of the student’s research.

Program assignments include a weekly response paper or collage, an art journal, quarterly or bi-quarterly research presentations, and a quarterly integration paper. Students will post their responses and comment on each other’s work via Canvas throughout the week. Each class period typically starts with Tai Ji, a physical activity that embodies ancient Chinese spiritual traditions. Other program activities include field trips to the Chinese and Japanese gardens in Portland, Ore., a museum visit, calligraphy demonstrations and workshops, and studying Chinese tea culture and the Japanese tea ceremony.

Students are encouraged to take a Japanese or Chinese language course for 4 credits in addition to this program.

Study abroad:

1.            Special Expenses: $1950  (Estimated expenses students will cover themselves including airfare, visa fees, and misc food and transportation costs)

2.            Required Student Fee:  $2050   (Fee covers group expenses for services organized by college including housing, academic, and activity costs)

3.            Administrative Fee:   $400  (Nonrefundable deposit to cover administrative costs of running study abroad)

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Chinese and Japanese studies, Cultural studies, Silk Roads studies, arts, education, history

812

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers 25 - 49% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Fees:

$25 fall and spring, $10 in winter for entrance fees and art supplies.

Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 50
Weekend

Scheduled for: Weekend

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Saturday, April 6, 2019 - 9:00 am
SEM 2 B1105 - Lecture

Advertised schedule:

Saturdays, 9am - 4:50pm + a three day Lunar New Year Tai Ji seminar in Winter quarter, 2019

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-11-30Required fee for study abroad updated to $2050 (was $2043)
2018-09-06Costs for study abroad updated

Chinese - First Year I

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 20
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Lin Crowley
media and Chinese studies

This introductory Chinese course will emphasize the standard Chinese pronunciation and the building of useful vocabularies. Students with no or little prior experience will learn Chinese pinyin system and modern Mandarin Chinese through interactive practice and continuous small group activities. Learning activities may also include speaker presentations and field trips. Chinese history and culture will be included as it relates to each language lesson.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

International Relations, International business, Education, Cultural studies and practice, and Language studies

4

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 20
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - 5:30 pm
LIB 2619 - Mac Lab

Advertised schedule:

Tuesdays and Thursdays, 5:30 - 7:20 pm. 

Located in: Olympia

Chinese - First Year II

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 20
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Lin Crowley
media and Chinese studies

This Chinese course will continue to emphasize the mastery of standard Chinese pronunciation and the building of useful vocabularies. Students with some prior experience will learn to build on their knowledge of modern Mandarin Chinese through vigorous interactive practice and small group activities. The class is fast-paced with use of internet to accelerate the learning. Learning activities may also include speaker presentations and field trips. Chinese history and culture will be included as it relates to each language lesson. Both traditional and simplified Chinese characters will be introduced and practiced throughout the course.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

International Relations, International business, Education, Cultural studies and practice, and Language studies

4

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

Chinese First Year I or equivalent required

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 20
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - 5:30 pm
LIB 2619 - Mac Lab

Advertised schedule:

Tuesdays and Thursdays, 5:30 - 7:30 pm

Located in: Olympia

Chinese - First Year III

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 20
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Lin Crowley
media and Chinese studies

This third course in the introductory Chinese series will continue to emphasize the mastery of standard Chinese pronunciation and the building of useful vocabularies. Students with some prior experience will learn to build on their knowledge of modern Mandarin Chinese through vigorous interactive practice and small group activities. The class is fast-paced with use of internet to accelerate the learning. Learning activities may also include speaker presentations and field trips. Chinese history and culture will be included as it relates to each language lesson. Both traditional and simplified Chinese characters will be introduced and practiced throughout the course.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

International Relations, International business, Education, Cultural studies and practice, and Language studies

4

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

Chinese First Year II or equivalent required

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 20
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 5:30 pm
LIB 2619 - Mac Lab

Advertised schedule:

Tuesdays and Thursdays, 5:30 - 7:30 pm

Located in: Olympia

Cities and Suburbs: Advocacy and Writing for Social and Ecological Justice

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 23
812
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

creative writing, sustainability, public policy
Suzanne Simons square
poetry and literary arts, community studies/Middle East studies, journalism

 

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” –the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

 Racial, ethnic and class inequities are foundational to the founding and development of this country, and continue to fester in our neighborhoods. Far-reaching and systemic disparities, many built by continuing inequities in housing laws and policies, preclude equitable access to education, citizen engagement, healthy food, and environmental safety. In this one-quarter program with the option of 8 or 12 credits, we will explore questions such as what historical and contemporary patterns in the U.S. have created and perpetuated inequity in housing and neighborhoods? How have urban and suburban development and migration changed, and why it matters? How have literature – specifically poetry and spoken word, as well as other forms of literary arts – been used to document and raise awareness on inequity and how are they used today to foster change? What do we need to know and do to create more equitable and livable communities?

Like many burgeoning cities, the Thurston County area is experiencing unprecedented growth that will increase population 37.5 percent by 2040, according to the Thurston Regional Planning Council. Part of this program will focus on Olympia’s “Missing Middle Housing” initiative as a case study.  The emphasis is to develop a wider array of affordable housing downtown, and close to the city core, by changing zoning and addressing other laws and practices.  The aim is a balance of market rate and low-income housing. The initial framework has critics and supporters, as well as space for public engagement. We will also focus on the city’s plan for addressing homelessness, while working with all stakeholders—including the homeless, businesses, service providers, local artists, and residents who use downtown. Students will hear from a variety of policy makers, artists, and community members who are contributing research and working toward collaborative efforts in our community to achieve more equitable housing. We will deepen knowledge of how accessible housing can transform access to education and quality of life. We will examine the history of systemic inequities in cities and suburbs, and consider complex solutions. To do this, we will research and see first-hand how homelessness, food deserts, and needed service gaps are deepening.

 Students selecting the 12-credit option will have four Saturdays for a justice walking tour of downtown Olympia, and additional hands-on projects and work. Our focus will be initiatives for addressing homelessness and widening the “missing middle of housing,” as well as other ways to bring equity and social justice to housing. Additional online readings will be available for the 12-credit section.

By the end of the program, students will have developed a historical overview of housing-related poverty, segregation, homelessness, and service deprivation. They will also develop a foundation in researching successful best practices that address these complex problems rooted to housing. Students will gain skills in research, academic writing, creative writing, community planning, and advocacy.

Required texts will include Building Suburbia, Dolores Hayden; The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America,by Richard Rothstein; and Fire and Ink: Anthology of Social Action Writing.  Additional readings will be added by July.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Public policy, urban planning, nonprofit management, advocacy, education, communications, community-based arts.

812

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 23
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, September 24, 2018 - 6:00 pm
Purce Hall 5 - Classroom

Advertised schedule:

8 credit students: Mondays and Wednesdays 6 to 9:30 p.m. Also, one Thursday evening fall quarter from 6-9 p.m. for a community poetry event (this event is strongly encouraged, however, an alternate assignment will available for those who cannot attend).

12 credit students: Schedule above plus 4 additional Saturdays 10am-5pm (October 6th, October 20th, November 3rd and December 1st).

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-06-0112 credit option now available
2018-05-02Title updated (new information after colon), and additional description detail added.

Climate Justice

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 50
16
Credits per quarter

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feminist economics
climate justice, climate policy and politics, political ecology, environment and development

Climate justice has become the dominant discourse among civil society groups and grassroots movements that have mobilized around and beyond U.N. climate talks over the last two decades. But what exactly does it mean, and what are its implications for ongoing climate negotiations, policy-making, evolving power relations, and our lifestyle choices as citizens in a diverse and unequal world? Is climate equity a necessary condition for addressing the climate crisis? Is it sufficient? How are communities around the world envisioning equitable transitions to a low-carbon society? What do we mean by an equitable transition? If the burdens and benefits associated with burning fossil fuels are to be equitably distributed, what other transformational shifts in the underlying structures of oppression are necessary to move towards a more just world? Can we conceptualize a just transition to a low-carbon society without addressing the history of colonialism, capitalism and patriarchy? Would such transformations be independent of one another, or are they inherently connected? And how can we conceptualize a just transition in the historical context of uneven capitalist growth and development across the countries of the Global South and the Global North? Are the reformist goals for distributional justice and the radical goals for transformational change mutually exclusive or can they be pursued in tandem?

These are some of the overarching questions we would be asking in this program, while utilizing insights from the theoretical traditions of political economy, environmental justice, feminist theory, and postcolonial theory. Case studies of communities at the forefront of thinking about mitigation and transformation strategies will help us to parse out the complexities involved in a just and equitable transition. This program will introduce students to academic, policy, and activist communities that engage with climate justice. We will take a multidisciplinary, social science approach drawing from various areas of scholarship, including feminist political economy, environmental justice, global environmental politics, critical development studies, and political ecology, to unpack the complex and multifaceted discourse of climate justice. The environmental justice movement and political economy will provide the theoretical and conceptual basis of our explorations as we examine the synergies and contradictions undergirding the different approaches to climate justice. Students will gain a better understanding of inequities in the context of climate change, why they exist, and ways to address them.

Students will engage with the material through seminars, lectures, guest speakers, films, workshops, field trips, and written assignments.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

international development, non-profit organizations, teaching, state government, and environmental law.

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Fees:

$200 for an overnight field trip.

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 50
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 10:00 am
Purce Hall 7 - Classroom

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-04-24This program is offered to sophomores through seniors (formerly juniors through seniors).
2018-04-24Fee added ($200).
2018-04-24Savvina Chowdhury joins the teaching team; description has been updated.

Combinatory Play: Creative Writing, Mathematics, and Improv

WinterSpring
Winter 2019
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Sophomore
Freshman–Sophomore
Class Size: 46
50% Reserved for Freshmen
1216
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Brian Walters
mathematics, computer science, improvisational theater
Hendricks-Steven
book arts, literature, creative writing

Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought. — Albert Einstein

Literature is a combinatorial game that pursues the possibilities implicit in its own material...  — Italo Calvino

Creativity is not mysterious. While aesthetic traditions, genres, disciplinary assumptions, and even our personal idiosyncrasies often seem to conspire to limit the imagination, the spirit of play is always accessible to us. Perhaps surprisingly, it can take a little mathematics to remind us of it.

Borrowing from the mathematical study of combinations and permutations, the phrase "combinatory play" for us—as for Einstein and Calvino—suggests an approach to creativity in which chosen rules create the conditions under which the mind might escape received ideas and limitations. This strategy works for creative writers building plots and word-smithing, for improvisers developing the instincts necessary for spontaneous storytelling, and for mathematicians struggling at the abstract edges of reasoning. In literary works, such rules range from the strict formal conventions of sonnets to the central axiom of Perec's La Disparition, an entire novel written without using the letter e. Improv performers use audience suggestions, rules of conduct, and predetermined formats to pursue spontaneous invention and narrative discovery. Mathematical thinkers are most invested in the power of rules; formal conventions and a deep commitment to the search for truth lead to rigorous exploration and creative leaps of imagination. In each of these practices, combinatory play becomes a key strategy that drives the work forward. This program will study such strategies, both within and shared between different disciplines, allowing us to better understand the nature of creativity and develop new methods of problem solving, critical thinking, and creative expression.

The regular work of this program will include book seminars, critical writing projects, and weekly workshops in creative writing, mathematics, and improvisational performance. We'll have two overnight retreats to provide time for extended creative collaborations and community building. Credits awarded will reflect student learning and achievement in literary studies, creative and argumentative writing, critical reading, liberal arts mathematics, and improvisational performance.

Note: There is no math prerequisite for this program. It is well-suited for students who are uncertain of their mathematical skills, or who have had negative experiences with mathematics in the past and are ready for a different kind of mathematics experience. Students taking the program for 12 credits will negotiate with faculty an appropriate reduction in workload, but will still participate in learning activities in all content areas.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

creative writing, theater, literature, and mathematics.

1216

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

Note that there is no math prerequisite for this program. This program is well suited for students who are uncertain of their mathematical skills, or who have had negative experiences with mathematics in the past and are ready for a different kind of mathematics experience.

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

$125 in winter and spring for overnight field trips.

Freshman-Sophomore
Class Standing: Freshman–Sophomore
Class Size: 46
50% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, April 1, 2019 - 10:00 am
SEM 2 C3105 - Workshop

Located in: Olympia

Common Ground: Politics, Faith, and Community

FallWinter
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 46
50% Reserved for Freshmen
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

anthropology, education
Andrew Reece
classical art and literature

What do we mean by “community”? We speak of the LGBTQ community, communities of color, communities of faith, community service, even a community of nations – but what do they have in common? What brings people together, makes them open themselves to one another, causes them to make sacrifices for their common wellbeing? How do they agree upon, and express, the terms of the ties that bind them?

We explore these questions from the ground up, from the roots. Our study will be infused with the insights of anthropology and comparative studies of culture, as well as literary and other creative expressions (by, for example, Zora Neale Hurston and Louise Erdrich) about communities, and individuals in community, both in harmony and discord. Our inquiry brings together classic political theories from Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, and Locke; more modern social thinkers such as Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt, Clifford Geertz, and Robert Bella; religious authors including St. Benedict, the Dalai Lama, and Paul Tillich; constitutions from several nation-states; rules from monastic communities; and utopian visions. We will try to determine how an understanding of human nature, ideals of a good life, and values shapes the forms into which communities evolve (and from which they devolve). These forms are often constituted by laws, moral codes, customs, traditions, faiths, and rituals, and we will consider all of these.

In fall, we lay a groundwork of social and political ideas. We then study a range of examples of communities in our readings. We also lay a groundwork for developing skills in reading complex texts, composing interpretations in essay form, and critical thinking.  Students will begin an out-of-the-classroom exploration of contemporary communities, which they will develop into a substantial research project in winter. This project will apply the theories and models that we have learned to the understanding of the communities observed. In winter we will also deepen our knowledge of intentional communities such as religious orders, communes, and nascent states. Reading, writing, discussion, ethnographic study, and collaboration will be central to our work, with collaboration being at centermost. We read together, write together, and talk together, believing that a community of learners is always wiser than any one of its members. 

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

humanities, social sciences, and teaching

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 46
50% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - 9:00 am
SEM 2 C1107 - Workshop

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-12-14Now open to all level

Communicating Science in the Disinformation Era

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
25% Reserved for Freshmen
16
Credits per quarter

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Within the public sphere, in many ways and from many corners, the truth is under attack. The concept of expertise is reviled and opinions are often presented as being more important than facts. Unfortunately, these attacks come from both the political right and the political left. Regardless of their origin or their intent, they are doing serious damage to our social fabric and our ability to understand the world in which we live.

While science is but one way of accumulating knowledge, and while there are limits to the kinds of questions the scientific method is able to address, it is demonstrably the best way to learn about certain facets of the natural world. When scientific knowledge is ignored because it yields politically uncomfortable lessons and is replaced by “alternative facts,” or when science is attacked by post-modernists who declare that it is merely a social construct without any inherent value, the advances of the Enlightenment are being dismissed.

Within this context, this program has two broad goals.  First, the nature and methodology of science will be examined. Second, meaningful ways to present scientific ideas to the public, in both written and oral form will be explored. Case studies dealing with controversial topics, e.g., climate change, the evolution/creation debate; “treatment” of intersex individuals; and the nature of racism, will be discussed throughout the quarter. Students will learn the basics of science journalism and be expected to write regularly for a general audience. Class sessions will include seminar, writing workshops, oral presentations and lectures.

Readings will be drawn from writings of popular science writers such as Stephen Jay Gould, Michael Shermer, Alice Dreger, Richard Feynman and Steven Pinker.

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
25% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, January 7, 2019 - 9:00 am
SEM 2 D3107 - Seminar

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-10-30Program changed to All Level

Computer Science Foundations

WinterSpring
Winter 2019
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 75
25% Reserved for Freshmen
16Variable
Credits per quarter
Variable Credit Options Available

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Taught by

Richard Weiss
mathematics, computer science

In this program students will learn the intellectual concepts and skills essential for advanced work in computer science and beneficial for computing work in support of other disciplines. This program is introductory, yet rigorous. Students will have the opportunity to achieve a deep understanding of increasingly complex computing systems by acquiring knowledge and skills in mathematical abstraction, problem solving, and the organization and analysis of hardware and software systems. The program will cover material such as algorithms, data structures, computer organization and architecture, logic, discrete mathematics, and programming, in the context of the liberal arts. The program is compatible with the model curriculum developed by the Association for Computing Machinery's Liberal Arts Computer Science Consortium. The program content will be organized around four interwoven themes. The Computational Organization theme covers concepts and structures of computing systems from digital logic to the computer architecture and assembly language supporting high-level languages and operating systems. The Programming theme concentrates on learning how to design and code programs to solve problems. The Mathematical theme helps develop mathematical reasoning, theoretical abstractions, and problem-solving skills needed for computer scientists. A Technology and Society theme explores social, historical, or philosophical topics related to science and technology. We will explore these themes throughout the year through lectures, programming labs, workshops, and seminars. (Richard Weiss will teach winter only, Wan Bae and Sara Rose will teach winter & spring)

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

computer science, STEM education, information technology, data science, and computer security.

16Variable

Credits per quarter
Variable Credit Options Available

Variable Credit Options:

Options for 4 credits (Discrete Mathematics) and 12 credits (must include seminar) available with faculty permission. Contact the faculty for more information.

Fields of study: 
Prerequisites:

High school Algebra II

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 75
25% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, April 1, 2019 - 10:00 am
SEM 2 D1107 - Workshop

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-08-14description updated to reflect faculty teaching per quarter

Computer Science Internships

FallWinterSpring
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 3
81216
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Richard Weiss
mathematics, computer science

This program is the home for Evergreen computer science internships. Computer science internships provide advanced students with opportunities to gain deep knowledge of specific concepts and skills in the context of a tightly knit cohort who collaborate on developing academic and creative research agendas that parallel and are informed by their work as interns. Internships involve about 20 hours per week for 8 credits per quarter and are available in Physical Computing, Instructional Technology/Universal design, and Technology Support. Interns gain and strengthen instructional, technical, research, organizational, leadership, communication, and collaborative skills as they work with the supervising staff associated with each of these areas to support instruction,maintenance, and administration of facilities.

This program includes 4-8 credits of additional academic inquiry per quarter. Students meet weekly as a group with staff or faculty to share knowledge and skills. The program requires a yearlong commitment from fall through spring quarters.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

computer science and informational technology.

81216

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Prerequisites:

Students must have previous experience with computer science or related field. Specific prerequisites will vary based upon specific internship and academic component.

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.

Upper division science credit:

Between four and eight upper division science credits in computer science and related disciplines may be earned.

Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 3
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Located in: Olympia

Cons, Swindlers, and Cheats

FallWinter
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
25% Reserved for Freshmen
16
Credits per quarter

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Despite access to all sorts of information, people continue to be conned, swindled, and cheated out of their hard-earned money. Is it true anyone can be conned? How can we protect ourselves and our communities against cons who by their very nature make situations seem reasonable and socially compelling?

This program provides an overview of various schemes and trickery that fraudsters employ in the financial world and elsewhere. From the original Charles Ponzi and his schemes in the early 1900s to the current-day massive affinity fraud perpetrated by Bernie Madoff, we will look at the schemers and their victims. If an investment sounds too good to be true, it probably is. But the success of real-life swindlers shows how often this simple advice is ignored. We will explore what makes investors and others reach for the fool’s gold of seemingly foolproof and lucrative investment opportunities. We will also look at the psychology of fraudsters and try to determine what makes them operate outside the normal laws of society.

The program is designed for students with a strong interest in finance and investments or those interested in what drives the most basic of human instincts, greed. Spotting a con requires us to think critically about situations and to find a balance between trusting and self-preservation. By the end of the program, you should be able to think creatively about ways to protect yourself and society from fraudsters.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

business and finance.

16

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
25% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, January 7, 2019 - 9:00 am
SEM 2 D3109 - Seminar

Located in: Olympia

Consciousness, Dreams, and Everyday Life: Self, Other, World

FallWinter
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 50
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Cynthia Kennedy
leadership
physics, plant physiology

Did you ever wonder how you might better develop a sense of who you are, what you can do, and where you are going in your life? Did you ever long to couple this sense of knowing yourself with the ability to influence your communication, your emotions, and your behavior? Imagine what it might be like if you better understood how to influence yourself to lead the life you are planning to lead? This interdisciplinary program is designed to help you better understand what makes you you by exploring consciousness, dreams, and the power they have on your everyday life. It is for students who seek to explore and refine their core values and beliefs in a context in which they can act upon them with increasing awareness and integrity.

This two-quarter program will have a two-pronged approach. On the first prong, we will use a theoretical and research-oriented perspective. On the second, a strong experiential component will include keeping structured journals of first-person experiences, dreams, and beliefs, as well as engaging in weekly mind-body connection activities such as movement labs. Our work will help students learn to develop their capacity for clarity of communication, for taking action, articulating feelings, and creating meaning. Fall quarter will focus primarily on understanding ourselves as individuals; winter quarter we will connect this self-awareness to others and the larger world, including the natural world.

Students should expect to work about 48 hours each week (including class time) and to keep a detailed portfolio of their learning. Student work will sometimes be written papers, sometimes journal entries, and other times collaborative group work. Each week will include a movement lab where students will explore mind-body connection through dance, yoga or other modalities. A two-day weekend retreat will be required during winter quarter. With faculty guidance, students will be able to conduct research, relate it to program content, and give presentations of their findings. Students will also be given opportunities to design projects that explore topics central to the program’s themes, but also connected to their own personal motivations around creative, positive, and effective responses to the world in its current chaotic state. For humanity to take a step forward, we need fresh ideas and solutions on many levels: personal, political, and relational. It is a good time to be excited about what lies ahead for us and each of us will play a different role in the future.

Anticipated credit equivalencies for the program include leadership, mindful movement, psychology of dreams, multicultural studies, and independent research.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

leadership, consciousness studies, psychology, and cultural studies.

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

$15 in fall for art supplies.

$10 in winter for entrance fee. An additional $15 for art supplies only if you are joining the program in winter

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 50
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - 10:30 am
COM 323 - Workshop

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-11-09winter fees updated

Core Ballet (A)

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 22
2
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Catherine (Jehrin) Alexandria
dance, ballet, movement therapy

In this course, students will learn fundamentals of ballet and gain greater physical flexibility and coordination. In addition, we will practice developmental movement therapy, Beamish BodyMind Balancing Floorbarre and visualization exercises.  We will use them to achieve heightened awareness of self through movement both in and outside class.  Students of all dance levels are welcome. Students will need ballet slippers.

2

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Fees:

$31 for exercise tool

Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 22
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - 6:00 pm
CRC 116- Movement

Advertised schedule:

Tuesday 6:00-7:50pm

Located in: Olympia

Core Ballet (A)

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 22
2
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Catherine (Jehrin) Alexandria
dance, ballet, movement therapy

In this course, students will learn fundamentals of ballet and gain greater physical flexibility and coordination. In addition, we will practice developmental movement therapy, Beamish BodyMind Balancing Floorbarre and visualization exercises.  We will use them to achieve heightened awareness of self through movement both in and outside class.  Students of all dance levels are welcome. Students will need ballet slippers.

2

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Fees:

$31 for exercise tool

Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 22
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 6:00 pm
CRC 116- Movement

Advertised schedule:

Tuesday 6:00-8:00p

Located in: Olympia

Core Ballet (B)

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Weekend
Weekend
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 22
2
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Catherine (Jehrin) Alexandria
dance, ballet, movement therapy

In this course, students will learn fundamentals of ballet and gain greater physical flexibility and coordination. In addition, we will practice developmental movement therapy, Beamish BodyMind Balancing Floorbarre and visualization exercises.  We will use them to achieve heightened awareness of self through movement both in and outside class.  Students of all dance levels are welcome. Students will need ballet slippers.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Dance, Movement Therapy, Physical Education

2

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Fees:

$31 for exercise tool

Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 22
Weekend

Scheduled for: Weekend

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Saturday, September 29, 2018 - 10:30 am
CRC 116- Movement

Advertised schedule:

Saturdays 10:30am-12:20pm

Located in: Olympia

Core Ballet (B)

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 22
2
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Catherine (Jehrin) Alexandria
dance, ballet, movement therapy

In this course, students will learn fundamentals of ballet and gain greater physical flexibility and coordination. In addition, we will practice developmental movement therapy, Beamish BodyMind Balancing Floorbarre and visualization exercises.  We will use them to achieve heightened awareness of self through movement both in and outside class.  Students of all dance levels are welcome. Students will need ballet slippers.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Dance, Movement Therapy, Physical Education

2

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Fees:

$31 for exercise tool

Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 22
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Wednesday, April 3, 2019 - 6:00 pm
CRC 116- Movement

Advertised schedule:

Wednesdays 6-8pm

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-05-24Schedule changed to Wednesday evenings (was Saturdays)

Cornerstone: Foundations for Success

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Junior
Freshman–Junior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Wang-Wenhong
sociology and social statistics

Why are you going to college? What is the value of a liberal arts education? How do you make the best of your time at Evergreen? This 4-credit class is designed to help beginning and returning students make sense of their education, to develop skills and confidence to succeed in their college education as well as charting a course toward career goals and lifelong learning. Students will identify areas of academic interest, personal learning styles and align those with the unique Evergreen pedagogy. Class work will focus on strengthening students' reading, writing, speaking, quantitative reasoning and critical thinking skills in relation to Evergreen's Five Foci (Interdisciplinary Study, Collaborative Learning, Learning Across Significant Differences, Personal Engagement, and Linking Theory with Practical Applications). To bring everything together, students are going to research and write on a topic that is important to their education.

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Freshman-Junior
Class Standing: Freshman–Junior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Thursday, September 27, 2018 - 6:00 pm
SEM 2 B3109 - Seminar

Advertised schedule:

Thursdays 6-9:50pm

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-05-17New Schedule: Course now meets on Thursdays (was Tuesdays)
2018-03-02New Schedule: Class meets on Tuesdays (was Thursdays)

Cornerstone: Foundations for Success

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Junior
Freshman–Junior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Stephen Beck
philosophy

For beginning and returning students, this 4-credit class is designed to strengthen students' reading, writing, and critical thinking skills in relation to Evergreen's Five Foci (Interdisciplinary Study, Collaborative Learning, Learning Across Significant Differences, Personal Engagement, and Linking Theory with Practical Applications). Students will read, write about, discuss in seminar, and do workshops focused on a common theme. This quarter, the theme will be the role of a liberal arts education in our contemporary society. Students will also do research and writing on a topic of particular importance to them in their own college education. Through doing this work, students will sharpen the abilities needed to shape a strong Liberal Arts education at Evergreen. 

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Junior
Class Standing: Freshman–Junior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - 6:00 pm
SEM 2 B2107 - Seminar

Advertised schedule:

Tue 6-10pm

Located in: Olympia

Critical Indigenous Studies I

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
EveningWeekend
Evening and Weekend
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
8% Reserved for Freshmen
4
Credits per quarter

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This course is designed to explore the foundations of interdisciplinary study, critical thinking, close reading, research & methodologies, and the intersection of Euro-centric and Indigenous pedagogy (teaching method/practice), paradigm (worldview), and praxis (theory + action). Students will expand their academic writing through process and craft, as well as integrate research into their work.  Through the indigenous lens and framework of balancing academics through the medicine wheel: mind, body, heart, and spirit, students will examine their individual worldview to critically analyze text, film, art, and music. Course content will be indigenous and western to illustrate and foster cross-cultural learning. Students can expect to participate in a service-learning component to engage and implement community building, weekly writing reflections, practicing elements of research and academic writing, and exercise the tools of effective communication.

The course is an inclusive learning environment and open to all levels of students. This is a course for students interested in indigenous studies from a holistic educational foundation.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Critical Indigenous Studies I and/or Critical Indigenous Studies II (winter 2019) must be completed to register for Critical Indigenous Studies III (spring 2019). 

4

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
8% Reserved for Freshmen
EveningWeekend

Scheduled for: Evening and Weekend

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, September 24, 2018 - 5:30 pm
Purce Hall 7 - Classroom

Located in: Olympia

Critical Indigenous Studies II

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
EveningWeekend
Evening and Weekend
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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Critical Indigenous Studies II is a foundation course exploring through an indigenous lens research methodologies and methods, both western and indigenous, that a student needs to successfully complete research projects. CIS II applies the Medicine Wheel model for a holistic approach to academia, focusing on research skills, learned and practiced. Critical analysis through all stakeholder perspectives, seminars around topics of research, ethics, and storytelling (oral and written), and a community service learning project are components of this course. This is an inclusive course, designed for all students interested in learning about the epistemology of critical indigenous studies within the context of western education.

Native Pathways students register using CRN 20325. All other students register using CRN 20324. 

4

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

Critical Indigenous Studies I (fall 2018) and/or Critical Indigenous Studies II (winter 2019) must be completed to register for Critical Indigenous Studies III (spring 2019). 

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
EveningWeekend

Scheduled for: Evening and Weekend

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, January 7, 2019 - 6:00 pm
Purce Hall 7 - Classroom

Located in: Olympia

Critical Indigenous Studies III

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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Critical Indigenous Studies III is a course designed to explore the pedagogy and praxis of storied methodologies, and through the Indigenous lens, students will evaluate Indigenous and western epistemologies to mobilize the medicine wheel framework and operationalize Indigenous and cross cultural knowledge to build academic infrastructure and challenge discourses through which Indigenous peoples have been framed and known.

Native Pathways students register using CRN 30244. All other students register using CRN 30243. 

4

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

Critical Indigenous Studies I (fall 2018) and/or Critical Indigenous Studies II (winter 2019) must be completed to register for Critical Indigenous Studies III (spring 2019). 

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, April 1, 2019 - 6:00 pm
Purce Hall 7 - Classroom

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2019-03-19Signature requirement removed, but students still need to meet prerequisites

Critical Reasoning

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Stephen Beck
philosophy

In this intensive writing course, students will learn how to critically evaluate persuasive writing as well as how to write well-reasoned, persuasive writing of their own. Students will study informal reasoning and develop their own abilities to give good reasons in writing for their own views. Students will develop their reasoning and writing skills through sustained engagement with a particular theme. This quarter's theme will be the evaluation of online sources of information. 

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - 6:00 pm
SEM 2 B2109 - Seminar

Advertised schedule:

Tue 6-9:50pm

Located in: Olympia

Cuban Salsa (A)

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 20
2
Credits per quarter

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Salsa is a social dance form with inspired moves and fun, infection music. With origins in Cuba, Salsa is now danced around the world. In this course students will learn the rhythm, basic footwork, hip, and shoulder movements of Cuban Salsa. We will form “Una Rueda”, or circle, and dance in pairs with a caller calling moves and the rapid swapping of partners. Rueda is a fun and dynamic dance with fitness benefits like: cardiovascular endurance, improved balance and body awareness as well as memory and coordination. Cuban salsa is unique because of its extensive use of other popular and folkloric Afro-Cuban dance forms. Students will gain a deep appreciation and understanding of Cuban culture in this class. Come prepared to dance!

2

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 20
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Wednesday, January 9, 2019 - 6:00 pm
Com 209 - Dance Studio

Advertised schedule:

Wednesdays 6-8pm

Located in: Olympia

Cuban Salsa (B)

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 20
2
Credits per quarter

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Salsa is a social dance form with inspired moves and fun, infection music. With origins in Cuba, Salsa is now danced around the world. In this course students will learn the rhythm, basic footwork, hip, and shoulder movements of Cuban Salsa. We will form “Una Rueda”, or circle, and dance in pairs with a caller calling moves and the rapid swapping of partners. Rueda is a fun and dynamic dance with fitness benefits like: cardiovascular endurance, improved balance and body awareness as well as memory and coordination. Cuban salsa is unique because of its extensive use of other popular and folkloric Afro-Cuban dance forms. Students will gain a deep appreciation and understanding of Cuban culture in this class. Come prepared to dance!

2

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 20
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Thursday, January 10, 2019 - 6:00 pm
Com 209 - Dance Studio

Advertised schedule:

Thursdays 6-8pm

Located in: Olympia

Cultivating Voice: A Writing Tutor's Craft

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
2
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

2018-Yannone,-Sandra-1-S
writing theory and practice, poetry, women's/LGBT studies

This course combines a seminar with a practicum to prepare students to become peer tutors at Evergreen's Writing Center on the Olympia campus. In seminar, we will explore tutoring theories, examine the role of a peer tutor, develop effective tutoring practices, and address working with writers across significant differences. In the practicum, students will observe peer tutoring and graduate to supervised tutoring. This year the Writing Center is expanding our services to support and cultivate the strengths of Spanish-speaking writers. Therefore, we additionally welcome applicants who are bilingual in English and Spanish. 

Equivalencies:

2 - Writing or Education

Books:

ESL Writers: A Guide for Writing Center Tutors , Ben Rafoth and Shanti Bruce. Boynton/Cook. ISBN: 978-0867095944

Selected Articles from J-Stor and online sources, to be determined

2

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, April 1, 2019 - 4:00 pm
LIB 22302D - Lib 2302D

Located in: Olympia

Culture, Self, and Healing

WinterSpring
Winter 2019
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Sophomore
Freshman–Sophomore
Class Size: 46
50% Reserved for Freshmen
1216
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Toska Olson
sociology, gender studies
Stein square
cultural anthropology

NOTE: Students who have taken In Sickness and In Health in fall quarter are welcome to register for the second quarter of this program in Spring 2019

In this introductory program, students will explore cultural, social, and psychological approaches to the body and health. We will also cultivate foundational skills that are relevant across all careers and fields of study—observation, note-taking, analysis, researching, speaking, and writing—but that may be particularly helpful in social and human services, health care, and education.

Using the lens of medical anthropology, we will consider diverse practices around sickness and healing and develop an understanding of Western biomedicine as a complex cultural system. Using literature and film, we will explore how people across the globe understand sickness and engage in healing practices. Students will learn qualitative ethnographic techniques for documenting and analyzing cultural and social contexts. An exploration of happiness and well-being will lead us to readings and exercises in areas of the social sciences such as positive psychology, sociology, neuroscience, somatic studies, and contemplative practices.

Spring quarter will emphasize applied approaches to sickness and healing. We will explore models of community-based scholarship and practice in the U.S. and in the context of global health initiatives. Students will be able to take in-program internships with local community partners and develop research proposals for future programs.

Part of our curriculum will entail a shared lecture series and seminar readings (4 credits) with another introductory program: Unruly Bodies . This means that students will be part of a larger learning community with four faculty teachers during part of each week, examining interdisciplinary approaches to the body, health, power, and knowledge.

In addition, each quarter, students enrolled in the program for 16 credits will have the opportunity to choose from one of the following workshops (4 credits) offered by faculty of both programs:

  • Happiness:  What qualities are associated with strong and happy individuals, relationships, and communities, and how can we learn to build them? This workshop provides an in-depth, applied exploration of research on happiness and well-being. We will participate in text-based seminar discussions and in experiential workshops that aim to integrate mind, body, and spirit as we cultivate the positive qualities that scientists and practitioners have identified are useful for happiness, resilience, equanimity, and enduring well-being. This one-quarter workshop repeats both winter and spring quarters.
  • Human Biology: Anatomy and Physiology: What are human bodies made of? How do they work? Students will learn about the physiologic functioning and anatomic structures of the human body and have the option to observe and carry out dissections including the (non-human) heart, lungs, kidneys, brain and eye.  Lectures and laboratory sessions will explore cell and tissue structure and function, and will investigate body systems such as muscular, nervous, cardiovascular, immune, urinary, reproductive, and digestive systems, through examination of normal and abnormal (disease) states. This two-quarter workshop spans winter and spring quarters. Students entering in spring quarter will require previous course work in human biology.
  • Illness Narratives:  How do people generate stories about their experiences with illness and persistence? We will read scholarship about exchanges between healers and patients, and between storytellers and listeners. Students will engage in the listening process by recording illness narratives and presenting them at the end of the quarter in the form of audio podcasts. This workshop is available winter quarter only.
  • Cyborg Bodies: The cybernetic organism, or cyborg, has figured the contested boundary between humans and machines in theory and science fiction. Through viewing, reading, and analysis, we will meet famous cyborgs from film and television and explore what they can tell us about our conceptions of the organic body. We’ll think about cyborgs in relation to the materiality of media, and its evolution through the 20th and 21st centuries. This one-quarter workshop repeats both winter and spring quarters.
  • Community Based Learning and Action (Spring Only) : What kinds of practical engagements can address sickness and healing in our own communities? For this workshop, students will complete three credits of internship or volunteer work (8-10 hours/week), either individually or in small groups, with local or regional community organizations. Faculty will help students connect with various opportunities during the first two weeks of Spring quarter; these may include agriculture, food, and nutrition; youth mentoring; tutoring; or other possibilities broadly related to health and social well-being. In addition, students will attend a two-hour, one-credit seminar on half of the Wednesday mornings in spring quarter that considers theories and processes of community collaboration, and discusses ongoing experiences with the community based work.

Students taking the program for 12 credits will not take one of these workshops.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Social and Human Sciences, Health Care, Education

1216

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Prerequisites:

Students who completed "In Sickness and In Health" in fall quarter 2018 may enroll in the second part of "In Sickness and In Health" in spring quarter 2019.

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

$40 per quarter for entrance fees and supplies.

Internship Opportunities:

Students who demonstrate readiness may be able to complete part-time Spring Quarter internships with faculty approval.

Freshman-Sophomore
Class Standing: Freshman–Sophomore
Class Size: 46
50% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, April 1, 2019 - 9:30 am
SEM 2 B1105 - Lecture

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2019-02-27description updated

Current Economic Issues and Social Movements

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
25% Reserved for Freshmen
816
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Peter Bohmer
economics, political economy
Elizabeth Williamson
English literature, theater studies

We are living in an era of continual crisis, as the cracks in the global economic system become more and more visible. Our program focuses on analyzing these problems and developing skills to assess their impact, while highlighting different social movements that have mobilized popular resistance. We will examine proposed and actual economic and social policies and alternatives to capitalism. Given how quickly events on the ground are changing, the social movements covered will be determined by those events. The syllabus will include intersections between the U.S. and the global economy. We will also tackle climate justice, racial justice, gender justice, labor, immigration and refugee rights, and economic inequality.

We will attempt to address both the underlying causes of global economic crises and the principles that allow social movements to grow and flourish. Students will be introduced to competing theoretical frameworks and perspectives for explaining the causes of economic and social problems and their potential solutions (frameworks such as neoclassical economics, liberalism, Marxism, feminism, socialism, and anarchism). Our reading list will combine data-driven descriptions and theoretical analyses with first-person accounts. These readings will be supplemented by film screenings, guest presentations, faculty lectures, and student presentations in which participants will be encouraged to analyze particular case studies in greater detail, focusing on solutions proposed by policy makers, scholars, and grass-roots organizations. Class discussions will often be student-led and will be structured, in part, around a comparison of reform efforts and revolutionary movements. Students will also be encouraged to attend lectures and other events on campus and in the broader community. Regular writing and final project assignments will encourage students to think synthetically about issues covered, as well as possible solutions. All students will participate in film screenings, lectures, and seminars on core program themes. Students enrolled in the 16-credit section will have the opportunity to deepen their study of economics and to pursue independent research. 

This is our premise: The global economic system is designed to generate poverty, inequality, and injustice; but there are also opportunities for solidarity, resistance, and societal transformation. We welcome students of divergent political viewpoints, but will also be transparent about our own. All students should be expected to engage thoughtfully and generously in challenging conversations about structural oppression.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

community-based organizations, advocacy, public policy, education, alternative justice systems, graduate school in social science, history, geography, and political economy.

816

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
25% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 10:00 am
SEM 2 E1105 - Lecture

Located in: Olympia

Dangerous Readings

FallWinter
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 46
50% Reserved for Freshmen
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Stacey Davis
European history

What does it mean to read? How does reading shape one’s identity, and how does identity shape how one reads, and what one finds in those books? In this program, we will examine the intertwined developments of poetry and history, and the implications of those histories for a theory of reading. What is the function of the poem, how is it heard or read, and how do metaphors and syntax shape the way a people or person might think and feel? What is the traditional role of the historian, and how do historians produce texts that authorize their own truth? How do historical and poetical works—and the various epistemological claims made in their name—interact in the contemporary moment? What is the role of translation in the dissemination of literary texts and shaping of the historical imagination?

In the past, reading was deadly serious business. In this program, we’ll explore the relationship between illuminated manuscripts, medieval devotion, and power; how the advent of printed reading rocked Europe and sparked 100 years of war in the 16th century; links between political cartoons, scandalous pamphlets, and the terror of the French Revolution; the ways in which readers in the Romantic age fashioned a notion of themselves and their visions of a good life through their readings; and how the advent of post-structuralism in the 20th century has exploded the way we think of reading today.

From Homer and Thucydides forward, there has been a competition between poetry and history over the right way to read and remember. Readings will include Thucydides' The Peloponnesian Wars, Homer's The Iliad , Sappho's Poems , Plato's Republic, and St. Augustine's Confessions. We will also consider sections of Dante's Divine Comedy, Montaigne's Essays, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Reveries of a Solitary Walker, as well as, crucially, Marcel Proust's Swann's Way. We’ll delve into the cultural history of reading through texts such as Robert Darnton's The Great Cat Massacre and Dena Goodman's Marie Antoinette: Writings on the Body of a Queen. Contemporary writers and texts to be considered in light of the double imperatives of history and poetry include Marguerite Duras' The War , Alice Notley's The Descent of Alette , and Roberto Calasso's The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony.

Student activities will focus on reading, writing, and seminar participation.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

writing, history, and publishing.

16

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 46
50% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, January 7, 2019 - 10:00 am
SEM 2 C1105 - Lecture

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-06-07This program is now open to students of all class levels.
2018-02-28This program now is for first-year students (freshmen) only.

Data and Information: Computational Linguistics

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 75
25% Reserved for Freshmen
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Hastings-Rachel
linguistics, mathematics
Richard Weiss
mathematics, computer science

Although the human capacity for language is sometimes described as a computational system in the brain, it is surprisingly challenging to program actual computers to interpret, respond to, or generate written text or spoken language. We will explore intersections between linguistics and computer science with the general goal of understanding how we can use computers to analyze text, including for example, social media content. Although the task is complex and brushes against fundamental questions about language and intelligence, we will find that an understanding of the abstract structure and organization of human language provides guidance to the person who creates algorithms to mine texts for structure and meaning, and even to the human analyst who uses those tools.

This program covers introductory linguistic theory and computer science with the goals of gaining skills in linguistic analysis and computer programming, and explores the interaction between the two areas. In linguistics, this will include looking at the structure of words, sentences, and texts (morphology, phonology, syntax, and discourse) as well as their meanings (semantics and pragmatics). In computer science, students will learn to program in Python and study how computers are used to understand texts and data. In conjunction with studies in linguistics and computer science, we will read about the history and philosophy of both fields as well as current work in their intersection, and we will gain a deeper understanding of the relationship between computers and human intelligence.

The work in this program will include weekly assignments in linguistics and in programming, seminar reading and writing, lectures, workshops, computer labs, and a final group project. This program is good preparation for the Computer Science Foundations program and further work in computer science and linguistics.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

computer science, linguistics, and data science.

16

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 75
25% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, September 24, 2018 - 10:00 am
SEM 2 A1107 - Workshop

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-03-28Wan Bae has joined the program; Brian Walter has left the teaching team.

Democracy and Free Speech

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 25
16
Credits per quarter

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May protesters burn flags to express their opposition to government policy? May racists burn crosses, or march the streets with swastikas, to express their supremacist views? May the government ban what it deems obscene art, and who decides where the line is drawn? The First Amendment of the United States Constitution, viewed by many to be the heart of American democracy, remains most vulnerable to erosion when we fail to protect expression that some or even most Americans find unpopular, offensive, repugnant, indecent, subversive, unpatriotic, heretical, or blasphemous.

In light of this ongoing tension, this program will examine the history, the present, and the possible futures of the right to free expression in the U.S. We will ground our program in the study of the major U.S. Supreme Court free speech cases of the last 100 years, learning how to critically read and interpret those decisions, and how to do basic legal research to better understand these cases and their implications. From that foundation, we will further examine the social, cultural, political and economic context of the Court’s decisions, through non-fiction books and articles, journalistic pieces, literature, film and video, and in-class speakers. We also plan to spend time in the community to observe and reflect on the manner that free speech plays out on the ground.

While we will consider the full sweep of First Amendment jurisprudence, we will necessarily focus more deeply on particular controversies, including government suppression of radical political ideas, majoritarian attempts to censor what is perceived as obscene, the evolution of “corporate free speech”, and the impact of new technologies such as the Internet. Throughout the program, we will consider the impact of free speech jurisprudence on the broader democratic enterprise in the U.S.

Students will write very frequently, including weekly short essays, legal writing, opinion pieces, creative writing assignments, and a longer in-depth self-directed research paper. Students will be expected to actively participate in class, and will have assignments focused on developing strong oral advocacy and argument skills. Students will be expected to collaborate with each other throughout the program, and also will be responsible for a significant amount of peer review and feedback to others.

Note: this program is offered again in winter quarter. Students who take this program in fall should not take it again in winter.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

social sciences, law, education, journalism, public policy, political theory, American history and political science.

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 25
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - 9:00 am
SEM 2 A2107 - Seminar

Located in: Olympia

Designing for Social Good: Two-Dimensional Design and Board Games

FallWinter
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 31
12
Credits per quarter

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academic and creative nonfiction writing, community studies, analog game design
printmaking, drawing

Design and  design thinking  center on the transformation of ideas into purposeful objects and actions. Our focus in this two-quarter program, while we learn design processes and approaches, will be on making our ideas about the social good tangible. We will learn two-dimensional design skills, and also design and play analog card and board games, with the intent of stimulating and articulating our own thinking. At the same time, we will explore ways to inspire ideas and actions in those who engage with our work.

Games and two-dimensional images act as ‘texts.’ These texts describe and enact real-world dynamics, model structures and systems, and reveal visible and invisible cultural values. Students will learn skills in visual and experience design, visual literacy, research skills for image- and game-makers, planning processes for artistic projects, and strategies for using visual information and rule-bound actions to convey meaning. Learning activities will include weekly reading and writing assignments, seminars, and studio assignments addressing basic elements of two-dimensional design skills that will be used to design board games. Our focus on games will include studying historical games and fundamental components of game design, as well as uses of games to educate, empathize, and provoke. Students will discover ways that game design and  artistic design can be used to foster critical engagement with issues of equity and social good.

In fall quarter, students will explore intersectionality and the social good, as well as visual literacy and game design. Introductory  two-dimensional design skills, game analysis and design will accompany theoretical work. Winter quarter, students will employ their foundational knowledge and skills to design and prototype games collaboratively. Both quarters will include weekly academic reading and writing assignments, the completion of studio assignments outside of class, and completing game design exercises or tasks.  No prior drawing or artistic experience is necessary. We welcome those who may not identify as artists, gamers, or designers.  Willingness to learn technical and sequential artistic and game design practices is essential. We’ll present introductory skills and welcome upper-division students seeking breadth in their studies. Willingness to listen and learn across significant lived experiences will be an essential aspect of our work toward equity and the social good. Credit equivalencies of the program include: two-dimensional design, introductory game design: theory and practice, and writing.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

education, visual arts, and design.

12

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 31
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, January 7, 2019 - 10:00 am
SEM 2 D2105 - Workshop

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-11-15description updated
2018-05-01Title revised (formerly Designing for Social Good: Drawing and Board Games).
2018-04-30This program is offered for 12 credits.
2018-04-16This program is offered to Sophomores-Seniors.
2018-04-16This program is offered for 16 credits only.

Dimensions of Inequality: Social Science and Statistics

WinterSpring
Winter 2019
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 50
812Variable
Credits per quarter
Variable Credit Options Available

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physics, education

Concern over the rise of economic inequality has grown over the last several decades as the gap between upper-income Americans and everyone else has grown wider. Recent elections have illustrated dramatically how perceptions of unfairness can fuel American politics. This program seeks to look at the underlying trends in inequality that have fed these concerns and perceptions. Our approach is interdisciplinary, combining the lenses of economics, sociology, and political science with a strong focus on quantitative data and statistical analyses. We will see that constructing a narrative based on data is not easy and contains many complexities that resist easy solutions.

In winter quarter we will review recent work on economic inequality by leading economists while also exploring sociological research on other dimensions of inequality such as race, gender, immigration status, geography, education, culture, and family that interact with the economic dimensions and with each other. We will begin to think about how the trend of increasing inequality can be reversed. Students will practice statistical reasoning and learn to use spreadsheet software to collect and display data. Students registering for 12 credits will meet with faculty to decide on details for additional work which may include extra readings and study in a structured setting, research projects, or other project-based work

In spring quarter our focus will move toward policy proposals and the political process. We will explore specific options for reducing inequalities such as changes to taxes and budgets and laws prohibiting discrimination, as well as lawsuits and activist campaigns aimed at changing values. In addition to the main readings and discussion, students will have options for various levels of project work focused on research in the areas of their choice (economics, political science, sociology, and statistics). Students will develop proposals for this work during winter quarter, and different levels of credit are available in spring to accommodate projects of different intensity.

Students who successfully complete the full two-quarter program will complete studies and earn credits equivalent to a standard 4-credit, first-quarter statistics course. With these skills in hand, students can then begin to evaluate policy proposals that attempt to mitigate inequality from both an analytic and a political perspective. Credits equivalencies will be evenly split among economics, political science, sociology, and statistics; plus additional project credits in spring quarter.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

social work, government, and public policy.

812Variable

Credits per quarter
Variable Credit Options Available

Variable Credit Options:

In spring, students may register for 8-14 credits based on their project proposal. The standard program is 8 credits, and the project will be developed as an in-program learning contract for additional credit.

No signature is required to register for 8 credits. Students registering for more than 8 credits must meet with faculty to discuss credit options and get a faculty signature after co-developing a project proposal prior to the beginning of the quarter.

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Research Opportunities:

Spring quarter will provide options for advanced social science research and intermediate statistics projects.

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 50
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Wednesday, April 3, 2019 - 6:00 pm
SEM 2 B3107 - Seminar

Advertised schedule:

Mon/Wed 6-10pm

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-12-1712-credit option added for Winter
2018-05-30Schedule changed: Class now meets Mon/Wed (was Wed/Sat)

Diversity, Democracy, and Fake News: Making Our Way in the Time of Trump

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Sophomore
Freshman–Sophomore
Class Size: 46
50% Reserved for Freshmen
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

education
Laurie Meeker
film and video production, media theory

We all know that the media in all its forms provides us with information that shapes our ideas, attitudes, beliefs, and influences our actions. How do we become more critically conscious about our information sources? How do we diversify those sources and become better aware of a wider range of issues and ideas? What is “fake news” and why is “real news” important to the prospect of a functional democracy?

In this full-time program centered on media studies, journalism, and political economy, we will look at the way mainstream, corporate media is targeted as “fake news.” We will evaluate a variety of media platforms from the right to the left to see how they function along a spectrum from propaganda to reasonable, fact-based, accurate reporting. Students will briefly examine the history of propaganda in order to understand the way it functions in the current political climate. We will examine the 2016 election as a case study in leveraging misogyny, racism, and xenophobia to divide voters and will explore the role of traditional and social media in attempting to influence elections. We will draw on current examples in the media as we approach the national mid-term elections in November 2018.

As we do so, we will ask ourselves a number of probing questions: How do dominant media forms promote the status quo and cut out a more diverse range of voices? Are there any limits to free speech? How does hate speech operate to promote racism and intolerance in today’s society? Why does the current presidential administration target mainstream media platforms like CNN and The New York Times as purveyors of “fake news?” Meanwhile, how can we identify the real “fake news” on multiple platforms across both the political right and left?

We will look at alternative forms of citizen journalism and documentary production that give voice to multiple communities (i.e., women, labor, African-American, Latinx, Asian-American, Native American, LGBTQ, etc.) Students can expect to read and prepare response papers for seminars, engage in researching a variety of media sources, and write regular reports analyzing media sources and their political perspectives. In addition, students will learn basic media skills (photo, audio, and/or video) to make their own “real” news and forms of expression.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

media, journalism, politics, communications

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Sophomore
Class Standing: Freshman–Sophomore
Class Size: 46
50% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, September 24, 2018 - 10:00 am
COM 323 - Workshop

Located in: Olympia

Doing the Business of Nonprofits: Ideas to Realities through Grantwriting and Fundraising

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Don Chalmers
grantwriting

Students in this class will learn a lot about philanthropy in the United States and the role of nonprofits in contributing to healthy, sustainable communities. We’ll look at the historical role of charitable giving before and after contact and the evolving role nonprofits have played and are playing in the U.S.  As a part of this inquiry, we’ll consider what it takes to create a nonprofit and grow and sustain existing organizations.  We’ll also focus on Development Readinesstm     for these organizations and how using this approach helps ensure a sustainable organization that benefits, for example, from an empowered and engaged board and staff as well as contemporary and ongoing strategic planning. The ethics of nonprofit organizations will also be considered as will professional development and volunteer recruitment and management. We’ll learn about grant writing and fundraising for nonprofit, tax-exempt organizations. This portion of the course will also include effectively finding funding sources for organizations and their programs. Each student will be asked to identify and develop an organization and a project over the course of the quarter. The organization and project can be based on an existing nonprofit or one that is created for the purposes of the class. Credit equivalencies will be awarded in Organizational Development, and Grantwriting and Fundraising.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Non-Profit Development and Management; Art and Culture; Science and Scientific Research; Government; Small Business

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, September 24, 2018 - 6:00 pm
SEM 2 B2107 - Seminar

Advertised schedule:

Mon 6-9:30pm

Located in: Olympia

Doing the Business of Nonprofits: Ideas to Realities through Grantwriting and Fundraising

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Don Chalmers
grantwriting

Students in this class will learn a lot about philanthropy in the United States and the role of nonprofits in contributing to healthy, sustainable communities. We’ll look at the historical role of charitable giving before and after contact and the evolving role nonprofits have played and are playing in the U.S.  As a part of this inquiry, we’ll consider what it takes to create a nonprofit and grow and sustain existing organizations.  We’ll also focus on Development Readinesstm   for these organizations and how using this approach helps ensure a sustainable organization that benefits, for example, from an empowered and engaged board and staff as well as contemporary and ongoing strategic planning. The ethics of nonprofit organizations will also be considered as will professional development and volunteer recruitment and management. We’ll learn about grant writing and fundraising for nonprofit, tax-exempt organizations. This portion of the course will also include effectively finding funding sources for organizations and their programs. Each student will be asked to identify and develop an organization and a project over the course of the quarter. The organization and project can be based on an existing nonprofit or one that is created for the purposes of the class. Credit equivalencies will be awarded in Organizational Development, and Grantwriting and Fundraising.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Non-Profit Development and Management; Art and Culture; Science and Scientific Research; Government; Small Business

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - 6:00 pm
SEM 2 A2109 - Seminar

Located in: Olympia

Doing the Business of Nonprofits: Ideas to Realities through Grantwriting and Fundraising

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Don Chalmers
grantwriting

Students in this class will learn a lot about philanthropy in the United States and the role of nonprofits in contributing to healthy, sustainable communities. We’ll look at the historical role of charitable giving before and after contact and the evolving role nonprofits have played and are playing in the U.S.  As a part of this inquiry, we’ll consider what it takes to create a nonprofit and grow and sustain existing organizations.  We’ll also focus on Development Readiness tm   for these organizations and how using this approach helps ensure a sustainable organization that benefits, for example, from an empowered and engaged board and staff as well as contemporary and ongoing strategic planning. The ethics of nonprofit organizations will also be considered as will professional development and volunteer recruitment and management. We’ll learn about grant writing and fundraising for nonprofit, tax-exempt organizations. This portion of the course will also include effectively finding funding sources for organizations and their programs. Each student will be asked to identify and develop an organization and a project over the course of the quarter. The organization and project can be based on an existing nonprofit or one that is created for the purposes of the class. Credit equivalencies will be awarded in Organizational Development, and Grantwriting and Fundraising.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Non-Profit Development and Management; Art and Culture; Science and Scientific Research; Government; Small Business

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 6:00 pm
SEM 2 C2107 - Seminar

Advertised schedule:

Tuesdays 6-9:30

Located in: Olympia

Don't Make a Cake -- Redesign the Kitchen! Experiments in Theater and Music

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Arun Chandra
music composition, performance

This program's title comes from an attempt to look at the premises (the foundations) one uses when creating works of art.  What are the "foundations" of an art form? How can we take a new look at those foundations?

Some of our guiding questions: Does music  have  to have a beat?  Does theater  have  to have a plot?  Does music  have  to have tonality?  Does theater  have  to have characters?  What alternatives open up when such "foundations" are examined?  More importantly, can an intended message be delivered in a context in which the techniques of communication are radically altered?

And what should we do about the audience member who cries "But I don't  understand  it! You're an  elitist!  This is..."? --- But let's leave the poor fella alone.

In the program, we'll be reading plays in which the authors have attempted such things (such as Adrienne Kennedy, Caryl Churchill, David Greenspan) and listening to music by  Luigi Nono, Chaya Czernowin, and Helmut Lachenmann. We may attend live performances. Students will be asked to write short papers on the readings and the listenings. Students will also be asked to create three performances over the quarter, in which they attempt to address some aspect of the fundamentals of their medium.  There will be a public performance of student works at the end of the quarter. The emphasis will be on  live  performances of music and theater that  don't  involve electricity --- we're looking at the  roots  of the media!

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Performing ArtsMusicTheater

16

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

$100 for tickets for performances in Seattle and Portland

Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, April 1, 2019 - 10:00 am
Com 335 - Performance Rehearsal

Located in: Olympia

Drawing: Foundations

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 20
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Emily Adams
printmaking

This course is an introduction to principles and techniques in fine art drawing. Emphasis will be on learning to draw what you see through close observation in still life studies. Students will be introduced to a variety techniques that include sighting and measurement, scale and perspective, value and composition. Students will develop a context for their work through readings and research projects about influential artists. Students will keep a sketchbook throughout the quarter and complete regular drawing assignments outside of class. A final portfolio of completed assignments will be reviewed at the end of the quarter.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Visual Arts, Illustration, Graphic Design

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Special expenses:

Students will be required to purchase drawing materials from the Greener Bookstore. The estimated cost is $50.

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 20
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, September 24, 2018 - 5:30 pm
Art Annex 2104 - Critique

Advertised schedule:

Mondays 5:30-9:20pm

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-04-10Schedule updated

Drawing: The Human Form

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 20
4
Credits per quarter

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This course will focus on accurately rendering the human form through close observation of a live model. We will start by translating what we see onto paper and progress to using the figure to communicate content. We will deepen our understanding of what we are drawing by developing an understanding of how basic anatomy affects the shape of the body. Students will be required to keep a sketchbook throughout the quarter and complete drawing assignments outside of studio time each week. Students will also complete a research project about an influential artist. A final portfolio of completed assignments will be due at the end of the quarter. Some college level drawing experience is recommended.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

visual arts

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Special expenses:

Students will need to purchase drawing supplies. Estimated cost is $35.

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 20
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, April 1, 2019 - 6:00 pm
Art Annex 2109 - Drawing Studio

Advertised schedule:

Mon/Wed 6-8pm

Located in: Olympia

Drawing: The Portrait

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Weekend
Weekend
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 20
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Emily Adams
printmaking

This course is an introduction to principles and techniques for drawing the portrait. Emphasis will be on learning to draw what you see through close observation from life, master artists, and experimental approaches. This class will investigate why drawing is significant and how a portrait can be expressed. Students will be introduced to a variety of drawing materials and techniques as well as proportion, sighting, perspective, value and composition. Students will develop a context for their work through readings and research projects about influential artists. A final portfolio of completed assignments will be reviewed at the end of the quarter.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Visual Arts, Illustration, Graphic Design

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Special expenses: Students will be required to purchase drawing materials from the Greener Bookstore. The estimated cost is $50.
Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 20
Weekend

Scheduled for: Weekend

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Saturday, April 6, 2019 - 9:00 am
Art Annex 2104 - Critique

Advertised schedule:

Saturday 9am-1pm

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-04-10Schedule updated

EastWest Psychology: Destructive Mind/Emotion

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Weekend
Weekend
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Jamyang Tsultrim
Indo-Tibetan Buddhist studies, East-West psychology, philosophy of consciousness

Are destructive emotions innately embedded in human nature?  Can they be eradicated?  A growing body of Western research has examined these and other questions through the perspectives of Eastern psychology and philosophy which view destructive emotions, perceptions, and behaviors as the primary source of human suffering.  To alleviate this suffering, Eastern psychology has developed a rich and varied methodology for recognizing, reducing, transforming, and preventing these destructive forms of mind and emotion.  After examining the nature and function of the afflictive mind/emotions, students will choose one emotion to study in-depth and develop effective East/West interventions to transform this emotion/state of mind.

4

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Weekend

Scheduled for: Weekend

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Saturday, January 12, 2019 - 9:00 am
SEM 2 A1105 - Lecture

Advertised schedule:

Sat 9a-4:30p (January 12, 26, February 9, 23, March 9). 

Located in: Olympia

EastWest Psychology: Positive Mind/Emotion

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Weekend
Weekend
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Jamyang Tsultrim
Indo-Tibetan Buddhist studies, East-West psychology, philosophy of consciousness

In what ways do our positive emotions/perceptions enhance our ability to see reality? Are there effective methods for training the mind to cultivate positive thought/emotions? Students will analyze the nature of constructive emotion/thoughts, their influence on our mental stability and brain physiology, and methodologies for influencing and improving mental development and function. Students will explore the correlation between mental training of the mind and physiological changes in the brain. We will also examine the nature of the genuine happiness from Eastern and Western psychological models of mind/emotion as well as from a traditional epistemological model of cognition based on Indo-Tibetan studies.

4

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Weekend

Scheduled for: Weekend

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Saturday, September 29, 2018 - 9:00 am
SEM 2 A3109 - Seminar

Advertised schedule:

Alternating Saturdays from 9am-4:20pm: Sept 29, Oct 13, 27, Nov 10, Dec 1. 

Located in: Olympia

Ecological Agriculture: The Science, Justice, and Policy of Food Systems

FallWinterSpring
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 50
16
Credits per quarter

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food justice, social movements, urban agriculture, social inequalities
Rosemeyer-Martha
agricultural ecology, food systems

There are many competing visions for the future of our current food system. On one side is the global, industrial-based system that provides large quantities of inexpensive food with significant environmental and social impacts. A competing vision is a local, community-based system that produces higher quality, more expensive food while seeking to minimize environmental and social impacts. Other visions include ones that challenge systemic injustices in the food system by prioritizing equitable access to land, farmworker justice, and fresh food for historically marginalized communities while working in harmony with the earth. We will explore these visions from a critical perspective of social and ecological sustainability asking: How can a humane, socially just agricultural system that minimizes environmental degradation meet the food needs of the world? In what ways can farmers be stewards of the soil, biodiversity, and landscape? In what ways have poor people and people of color been historically dispossessed and marginalized in the food system?

This program will provide a broad, interdisciplinary study of agriculture that explores these competing visions from a critical perspective of social and ecological sustainability, grounded in a food justice framework. We will develop systems thinking and skills associated with community work, expository writing, and laboratory and library research. Lectures will focus on ecological principles applied to agroecosystems, soil science and fertility management, crop and livestock management, inequitable food access for low-income communities, as well as local to global food systems and political economy, and agricultural history. Labs will provide a hands-on introduction to soil ecology and fertility, with weekly seminars to support our inquiries. Multi-day field trips will allow students to visit farms working toward sustainability, meet key players in food system change, and attend meetings such as the Eco-Farm conference in California.

Fall: The agroecology portion will emphasize energy flow and biodiversity as applied to agricultural systems. A social science approach will focus on the role that ideas and institutions have played in shaping U.S. agriculture as well as the intersections of environmental and food justice issues by examining topics like food waste and environmental racism.

Winter: The agroecology focus will be soil science, soil ecology, and nutrient cycling. We will work with civic engagement as a way to move us toward our vision. A policy workshop focusing both on local and national policy such as the 2019 Farm Bill is planned. We will delve further into pertinent topics in the area of food justice such as farmworker struggles, historical dispossession of farmers of color, urban agriculture, and global issues in food sovereignty. Emphasis will be on lab exercises, critical analysis, library research, and expository writing.

Spring: We will study agroecology, traditional agriculture, and permaculture in a tropical context. The policy portion will study international agriculture and trade policy. We will pursue in-depth studies on food sovereignty movements at the grassroots level that are transforming the food system in a more just and equitable manner. Students will also have the opportunity to intern with organizations in the community working.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

farm, nursery and garden management; agriculture, food system and environmental consulting firms; state and county agricultural and natural resource agencies; farming internships abroad, Peace Corps service and agricultural and food justice non-profit organizations. This program can help students prepare for Practice of Organic Farming beginning in spring quarter.

16

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

High school general biology and chemistry course.

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Special expenses:

$200 in winter for food expenses during conference.

Fees:

$370 in fall and $860 in winter for overnight field trips and conference registration. $250 in spring for an overnight field trip.

Upper division science credit:

Upper division science credit may be awarded in agroecology in fall and soil science in winter upon successful completion of all work; upper division credit in spring depends on the foundations established in fall and winter.

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 50
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 9:00 am
SEM 2 D1105 - Lecture

Located in: Olympia

May be offered again in:

2020-21

DateRevision
2019-02-19New York trip has been removed from option and special fee section for Spring

Ecology of Grazing and Grasslands in the Pacific Northwest

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
25% Reserved for Freshmen
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Michael (Mike) Paros
veterinary medicine

This academically rigorous, field-based program will provide students with the fundamental tools to manage livestock and grasslands by exploring the ecological relationships between ruminants and the land. We will begin the quarter learning about the physiology of grasses and their response to grazing and fire. Practical forage identification, morphology, and production will be taught. Ruminant nutrition, foraging behavior, and digestive physiology will be covered as a precursor to learning about the practical aspects of establishing, assessing, and managing livestock rotational grazing operations. Ecological assessments of energy flow and nutrient cycling in grassland systems will be emphasized.

We will divide our time equally between intensive grazing west of the Cascades and extensive rangeland systems to the east. Classroom lectures, workshops, and guest speakers will be paired with weekly field trips to dairy, beef, sheep, and goat grazing farms. We will take overnight trips to the Willamette Valley, where we will study managed intensive grazing dairy operations and forage production, and Eastern Washington/Oregon, where students can practice their skills in rangeland monitoring and grazing plan development. Other special topics that will be covered in the program include co-evolutionary relationships between ruminants and grasses, targeted and multi-species grazing, prairie ecology and restoration, riparian ecosystems, controversies in public land grazing, interactions between wildlife and domestic ruminants, and analysis of large-scale livestock production systems.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

animal agriculture, ecology, conservation, rangeland management, animal physiology and behavior.

16

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Fees:

$250 for overnight field trips.

Upper division science credit:

Students seeking to earn upper division credit must contact the faculty to discuss options prior to the start of the quarter.

Website:
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
25% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 8:30 am
LIB 1412 - Workshop

Located in: Olympia

Ecology of Harmful Algal Blooms

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 25
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Gerardo Chin-Leo
oceanography, marine biology

Microalgae account for most of the photosynthetic biomass and production in aquatic systems. Currently coastal waters worldwide are experiencing an increase in the occurrence, distribution, and severity of harmful algal blooms (HAB). Blooms of toxic algal species (e.g. red tides) can cause direct mortality of fish and shellfish. Other organisms, including humans, can be indirectly affected through the consumption of contaminated seafood. Large blooms of non-toxic species can also have negative impacts on aquatic habitats by shading benthic plants and by interfering with the activities of other organisms. Furthermore, if these algal blooms are not grazed or diluted, their decomposition can deplete the dissolved oxygen in the water, causing the mortality of plants and animals.

We will study the ecology of harmful algal species; the environmental factors controlling the species diversity, abundance, and productivity of aquatic algae; and the possible role of human activities in causing the increase of HAB. In addition, we will examine the efforts of scientists and government agencies to monitor HAB, and to control their impact on fisheries and public health. The material will be presented through lectures, and seminar discussion of books and scientific articles. In labs we will learn methods in microscopy and seawater analysis as well as field work in local estuaries and lakes. Students will conduct two research projects: one will be a review of scientific literature on a specific HAB topic and the second will study the plankton and water quality of a local marine or freshwater habitat. Credits will be awarded in marine ecology and oceanography.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

environmental studies, ecology, and marine science.

16

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

One year of college-level biology.

Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 25
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - 10:00 am
SEM 2 E2105 - Workshop

Located in: Olympia

Electronics in Music : Collaborating With Machines

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 18
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

music technology and theory

In this course, students will explore methods for using technology as an active collaborator in the creation of music.  Students will develop compositions in the music technology labs while diving deep into modular synthesis, MIDI programming, creative mixing techniques and other topics.  We’ll take our conceptual and technical cues from pioneering electroacoustic composers and experimenters such as Pauline Oliveros, Brian Eno, Morton Subotnick, Laurie Spiegel, and others.  Students entering this course are expected to have some foundation in music technology, either through the “Introduction to Electronics in Music” courses or through equivalent experience.  Please contact the faculty for a course application. 

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 18
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Wednesday, September 26, 2018 - 6:00 pm
Com 346 - MTL

Advertised schedule:

6-10p Wed

Located in: Olympia

Electronics in Music : Compositional Processes

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 18
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

music technology and theory

From serialism to chance music, musical dice games to change-ringing, musicians have often found methods of creating music that rely on external processes.  In this course, students will work extensively with Max/MSP, a visual programming environment, to develop algorithms and generative processes for creating music.  Students will learn how musical ideas can be expressed and manipulated using numbers, simple math, and logic.  Students entering this course are expected to have some foundation in music and/or music technology, either through the “Introduction to Electronics in Music” courses or equivalent experience.  Preference is given to students continuing from the fall quarter of “Electronics in Music.”  Please contact the instructor for a course application. 

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 18
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Wednesday, January 9, 2019 - 5:00 pm
Lib 1328 - 5.1 Mix Room

Advertised schedule:

6-10p Wed.

Located in: Olympia

Electronics in Music : Projects

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 18
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

music technology and theory

The spring quarter of Electronics in Music is a chance for students to develop musical compositions and/or interactive projects centered around the use of technology.  Students will work closely with the instructor and classmates to develop concepts, tackle technical hurdles, and get critical feedback on their work.  Students will regularly present works in progress on route to a final composition, which will be presented at a public concert at the end of the quarter.  Students entering this course are expected to have a strong foundation in music technology, either through the “Introduction to Electronics in Music” courses or equivalent experience.  Preference is given to students continuing from the fall or winter quarters of “Electronics in Music.”  Please contact the instructor for a course application.

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 18
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Wednesday, April 3, 2019 - 6:00 pm
Com 346 - MTL

Advertised schedule:

6-10p Wed.

Located in: Olympia

Environmental Analysis

FallWinterSpring
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 50
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Biswas-Abir
geology, earth science, biogeochemistry
Robin Bond
analytical chemistry

Well-designed and accurate chemical, biogeochemical measurements are key to assessing the processes in natural ecosystems. This is a field- and laboratory-intensive science program designed for students with solid preparations in general chemistry, geology, and precalculus math, as well as biology, who want to pursue more advanced investigations of bio-geo-chemical systems. Students will study statistics, geochemistry, analytical chemistry, and GIS programming. Instrumental techniques of chemical analysis will be developed in an advanced laboratory. Program work will emphasize quantitative analysis, quality control procedures, research design, and technical writing. During fall and winter quarters (taught by Robin Bond and Abir Biswas), we will address topics in carbon and nutrient cycling in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, in addition to analytical chemistry, GIS, statistics, and instrumental methods of chemical analysis. Students will participate in group projects studying water quality, organic matter, and nutrient cycling processes of local watersheds. Analytical procedures based on EPA, USGS, and other guidelines will be utilized to measure major and trace anion and cation concentrations and weathering rates in natural systems, in support of studies of biogeochemical cycling of nutrients and metals through the environment. Computers and statistical methods will be used extensively for data analysis and simulation, as well as for work with GIS. Fall and winter credit equivalencies include analytical chemistry and instrumentation, aqueous geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and field methods in terrestrial biogeochemistry. In the fall we will take a weeklong field trip to collect natural waters from diverse geochemical regions. These samples will form the basis for testing and evaluating chemical analysis methods and for developing a quantitative assessment of the geochemistry of natural waters. In the winter students will collect and analyze samples from a suite of ecosystem compartments (e.g., soil horizons, leaves, woody debris, biota) to quantify nutrient storage and cycling on the landscape. Spring quarter (taught by Robin Bond) will be devoted to extensive project work building on skills developed in the fall and winter. Students will conduct hypothesis-driven experimental design, sample collection, analysis, and statistical interpretations prior to presenting their results in both oral and written form to conclude the year.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

hydrology, chemistry, earth sciences, chemical instrumentation, environmental analysis and environmental fieldwork.

16

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

General chemistry sequence (multiple quarters, ~16 credits), one quarter of college (physical) geology (~4 credits), and one year of college algebra or precalculus mathematics required. Background in biology and additional background in geology are recommended.

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

$600 for an extended overnight field trip in fall quarter.

Upper division science credit:

Up to 48 upper-division science credits may be awarded in the following disciplines: Analytical chemistry, aqueous geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and chemical instrumentation. Contact faculty for further details. 

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 50
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, April 1, 2019 - 9:00 am
LAB 2 3221 - Class Lab

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-08-14description updated to reflect faculty teaching per quarter
2018-08-10overnight field trip fee increased to $600

Environmental and Social Justice Successes: How to Grow Hope in the Dark

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
EveningWeekend
Evening and Weekend
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 17
12
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

creative writing, sustainability, public policy

In an era of despair, cynicism, and seemingly insurmountable challenges, how do we use environmental and social successes to cultivate determined action and optimism?   “Your opponents would love you to believe that it's hopeless, that you have no power, that there's no reason to act, that you can't win. Hope is a gift you don't have to surrender, a power you don't have to throw away,” says Rebecca Solnit in  Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities. We'll study vibrant ecological and social justice success stories being replicated nationally and globally. Students will find treasure troves of positive templates. We'll consider local programs like Garden Raised Bounty, and look at other organizations and efforts that have built victories. Students will examine the importance of celebrating victories, and other methods to build resilience as individuals and in movements. As a program, we will create a project of inspiration to motivate change for the Evergreen Community. In individual projects, students will write a journalistic profile of a community-based victory in righting social or environmental injustice. Students will gain introduction to developing coalitions for change; to persuading elected officials and other decision-making bodies, and to creating narratives of imagination and change to inspire others mired in the inaction caused by despair. Texts will include Solnit's  Hope in the Dark, as well as Senge's  Breaking through Gridlock: The Power of Conversation in a Polarized World. 

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Public policy, Journalism, Non-Profit, Environmental-related, Social Justice-related, Writing, Advocacy.

12

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 17
EveningWeekend

Scheduled for: Evening and Weekend

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, January 7, 2019 - 6:00 pm
Purce Hall 8 - Classroom

Advertised schedule:

Mon/Wed 6-9:30pm + Alternating Saturdays 10am-5pm ( 1/19; 2/2; 2/16; 3/9)

Located in: Olympia

Environmental Biology and Chemistry

FallWinter
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 50
16
Credits per quarter

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biology, genetics, microbiology
organic chemistry, polymer chemistry, biochemistry

In this upper division science program we will use topics and theoretical concepts within microbiology and organic chemistry to study how human activity, or anthropogenic pollution, has affected the environment.

In fall quarter, we will begin by examining the roles microorganisms play in the environment, their metabolism, and the broad diversity of ecosystems they occupy. We will also begin our study of organic chemistry, learning the structure, reactivities, and mechanisms of reaction of the major functional groups – from small molecules to polymers and plastics. We will also read primary literature in the areas of environmental biology and chemistry, focusing on major themes such as air, water and soil pollution from anthropogenic sources, and environmental clean-up.

In winter quarter, we will study microbial ecology to gain an overall understanding of the role of microorganisms in natural communities. We will examine ecosystems and their disruption, microbial metabolism, and biogeochemical cycling, specifically the C, N, and S cycles. We will continue our study of organic chemistry, and in addition, we will apply this knowledge to environmental chemistry, examining the fate of persistent anthropogenic organic chemicals, including pesticides, PCBs, dioxins, and plastics. We will also study their effect on a variety of organisms due to their general accumulation in the environment, as well as their bioaccumulation. In addition, we will examine methods of bioremediation to remove toxic chemicals, and human use of alternative materials, such as biodegradable plastics, designed to replace products produced from petrochemicals.

Throughout both quarters laboratory activities will teach fundamental and modern methods of microbiology and organic chemistry, all within relevant environmental themes. Laboratory activities will include culturing and the use genetic methods for the quantification of microorganisms in the environment, organic synthesis methods combined with green chemistry methods, and the use of scientific instrumentation. We will use Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) to analyze organic mixtures, and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (NMR) for structural analysis of organic compounds.

Class activities will include lecture, small group problem solving workshops, seminar, student presentations, instrumentation workshops, laboratories, and some field work.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

lab and field biology, chemistry, and environmental science.

16

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

two quarters of general biology and 2 quarters of general chemistry, each with lab.

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.

Upper division science credit:

All 32 credits are upper division, and will include environmental microbiology with lab, microbial ecology with lab, biogeochemistry, organic chemistry with lab (2 full quarters), environmental chemistry, scientific instrumentation, and seminar.

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 50
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, September 24, 2018 - 9:00 am
LAB 2 3216 - Class Lab

Located in: Olympia

Environmental Health, Public Health and Toxicology

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 50
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

biology, biochemistry
Carolyn Prouty
health science, public health, bioethics

This program will explore the molecular events that determine the biological activity and toxicity of selected xenobiotic molecules--chemicals not normally produced by the body. We will examine the physiologic systems that process these toxins in the body, and pathologic reactions they can cause. Using the tools of epidemiology, we will also investigate public health and environmental justice questions inherent in the unequal vulnerability of different populations to exposure to toxic substances.

Xenobiotic molecules include natural products, drugs and chemicals released in the environment by human activity. We will focus on specific xenobiotic molecules, which might include drugs like ethinyl estradiol (birth control pill), natural carcinogens like aflatoxin, and lead. For each molecule, we will examine in detail the molecular mechanisms by which they act on cellular or physiological processes. How do chemicals treat a disease or cause cancer? Are all people (or species) equally sensitive to these therapeutic and/or toxic effects? How are chemicals metabolized and what molecular targets does a xenobiotic molecule alter?

To help understand the biochemical actions of these molecules, this program will examine pathways used in their biotransformation. We will examine cellular signal pathways in detail, and induced perturbations of normal signal processes. We will also use tools from modern genetics and bioinformatics to examine how genetic differences can influence the effects of these chemicals.

We will explore the physiologic impact of xenobiotic molecules by examining the organ systems that are exposed to and process toxins, including the lungs, liver, and kidneys. Using tools of epidemiology and public health, we will examine how to use information about populations and the types of individuals affected to make decisions about the potential hazards of these materials. We will study how these tools have assisted vulnerable communities to document their unique toxic exposures.

We will emphasize data analysis and interpretation obtained from primary literature reports or agency databases. Quantitative reasoning will be a major component of class examples, workshop and homework assignments. This program will also include laboratory work that will measure the mutagenic properties of test molecules, toxicology on simple models systems, and dissection and histologic investigation of organ systems that are important in examining toxic impacts. Students will have the opportunity to examine a xenobiotic molecule of their choice, and its impact on a species or ecologic system. Embedded in these activities are principles of cell biology and biochemistry, physiology and epidemiology.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

biology, chemistry, public health, health professions, and environmental studies.

16

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

Entering students should have two quarters of general chemistry, and two quarters of biology that includes topics on cell structure, biomolecules, and molecular biology.

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.

Upper division science credit:

All work planned for this program is designed so that students successfully completing program requirements will earn upper division science in all program areas.

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 50
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, September 24, 2018 - 9:00 am
Purce Hall 7 - Classroom

Located in: Olympia

Environmental Science Foundations

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 69
50% Reserved for Freshmen
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Carri LeRoy
freshwater ecology, quantitative biology, environmental education
chemical oceanography, biogeochemistry, freshwater ecology
Melissa Nivala
mathematics

In this program we will learn introductory chemistry, introductory biology, and mathematics through the lens of aquatic ecosystems. A tiny fraction (less than 0.01%) of water on Earth is found in lakes and rivers, making our freshwater systems especially vulnerable to human impacts. An integrated knowledge of chemistry, biology, and math is necessary to understand how freshwater systems function, which is the first step necessary to preserve and/or restore these systems. Students will have the opportunity to earn 6 credits in Introductory Chemistry, 6 credits in Introductory Biology, and 4 credits in Algebraic Thinking.

Introductory chemistry concepts we will cover include: properties of aqueous solutions; atoms, molecules, and ions; chemical reactions and redox reactions; chemical bonding; physical properties of solutions; gases, chemical equilibrium; and properties of acids and bases. In introductory biology, we will study the diversity of life on Earth; taxonomy and phylogenetics; evolutionary processes; the function of biomolecules; cellular structure, function, and reproduction; photosynthesis and cellular respiration; introductory botany, zoology, and ecology. Concepts we will cover in mathematics will include: dimensional analysis, linear equations, exponentials, logarithms, power laws, introductory geometry, and introductory trigonometry. Field and lab experiences will integrate biology, mathematics, and chemistry concepts with freshwater ecology methods. We will use Evergreen's forest reserve and local field sites as natural laboratories to support our learning.

Through this program you will gain the fundamentals of chemistry, biology, and math that you will need to be successful in more advanced environmental studies programs. This program is intended for students wanting to explore the natural sciences prior to enrolling in Integrated Natural Sciences , as well as students who are interested in broadening their understanding of the natural sciences. This program will prepare you for advanced work in natural history and the winter/spring program Riding the Global Carbon Cycle from the Mountains to the Sea . However, this program will not provide you with the full sequence of general biology, general chemistry, or precalculus, which are generally required for upper-division programs like Molecule to Organism , Environmental Analysis , Marine Environments, Atoms, Molecules, and Reactions, and Field Ecology. Please talk with the faculty about your long-term goals to determine whether or not this program or a program like Integrated Natural Sciences (where you earn a full year of both general biology and general chemistry) would be better for you.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

 This program is intended for students wanting to explore the natural sciences prior to enrolling in Integrated Natural Sciences, as well as students who are interested in broadening their understanding of the natural sciences. This program will prepare you for advanced work in natural history and the winter/spring program Riding the Global Carbon Cycle from the Mountains to the Sea.

16

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

High school math through algebra II, high school biology, and high school chemistry are recommended.

Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Fees:

$13 fee for printed textbook

Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 69
50% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - 9:00 am
SEM 2 C1105 - Lecture

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-09-11$13 text book fee added
2018-03-06This program is for Freshmen-Sophomores (formerly all levels). Description has been updated.
2017-11-30Melissa Nivala joins the teaching team.

Epic Journeys: From Homer to Dante

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 50
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Steve Blakeslee
English, writing, literature
Andrew Reece
classical art and literature

When Dante opened his  Divine Comedy with a line about his progress along “our life's path," he was relying on a well-worn metaphor, but one that leads to a truth about the way we think about ourselves and tell our stories. We want to believe that our lives are going somewhere, that our stories will make sense, and that we will transcend the mundane run of our days. Philosophy tries to describe our purpose or destination; religion, perhaps, to prescribe it; literature shows the journey there: Odysseus striving homeward, Aeneas seeking Rome, Dante climbing from Hell's pit into the stars of Paradise.

In this program we will study works of literature, philosophy, and theology from antiquity and medieval times that consider the wayfarer, the vagabond, the exile, and the pilgrim. Epic poetry is especially well-suited to these characters, and we will meet them in Homer’s Odyssey , Virgil’s Aeneid , and the Comedy . We will also be reading prose accounts which, like the poems, depict a transient human journey alongside an eternal divine order, including Plato's Phaedo, the Exodus and the story of Jesus in the Bible, Augustine’s Confessions , and a sample from Thomas Aquinas. Note that the reading expectation is especially substantial. Throughout the program, we will work as both readers and writers to articulate the significance of these foundational works to modern lives and journeys, including our own.

The goals of the program include a knowledge of fundamental texts in world literature and philosophy; experience reading sustained and complex narratives; an understanding of the interplay between form and thought in various genres; greater facility with expository and creative writing; and hopefully, new and convivial intellectual and artistic traveling companions. Our class time will be devoted heavily to book seminars and will also feature lectures and writing workshops.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

the humanities.

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 50
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, April 1, 2019 - 9:00 am
SEM 2 C1105 - Lecture

Located in: Olympia

Ethics: An Introduction at SPSCC

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 5
4
Credits per quarter

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This introductory ethics course studies historical and recent views on such issues as the nature of good and evil, right and wrong, justice, rights, the rational grounds for moral responsibility and moral decision making, and the objectivity of moral values. Students will look at ethics through both a traditional and contemporary lens. 

NOTE: This class meets at South Puget Sound Community College, 2011 Mottman Road, SW, Olympia, WA 98512, in Building 21, Room 106, Monday and Wednesday evenings from 6:00-8:20 p.m.

IMPORTANT: This class begins BEFORE Evergreen’s Fall quarter, on Monday, September 17. Students must be registered by 5:00 PM on Thursday, September 13.

BOOKS: If a text is required students will need to purchase texts for this course from the SPSCC bookstore. The book list can be found on the bookstore website (http://spscc.bncollege.com) under the course PHIL102.   

Faculty Contact information: Steve Dickerson, sdickerson@spscc.edu

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 5
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

Advertised schedule:

Monday and Wednesday 6:00-8:20pm. This class meets at South Puget Sound Community College, 2011 Mottman Road, SW, Olympia, WA 98512, in Building 21, Room 0106

IMPORTANT: This class begins BEFORE Evergreen’s Fall quarter, on Monday, September 17. Students must be registered by 5:00 PM on Thursday, September 13. 

Located in: Olympia

European Ethnobotany in Historical Context

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Sophomore
Freshman–Sophomore
Class Size: 46
50% Reserved for Freshmen
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Frederica Bowcutt
botany, ecology, environmental history
Stacey Davis
European history

This program examines early modern Western European botany in historical and cultural context, with some limited hands-on learning in herbology. We focus on key moments in the rise of Western botany particularly during the 16th through 18th centuries, which were also eras of intense religious, social, and political change, as well as centuries of worldwide colonial and imperial expansion. As we study the rise of botany as a profession, we couch this learning in a wider examination of Europeans' shifting understanding of their relationship with the natural and supernatural world during the Reformation, the scientific revolution, The Enlightenment, and the Age of Imperialism; and we explore the links between these intellectual and cultural changes and upheavals such as the advent of the Dutch Republic and the French Revolution. Our studies include analysis of changing artistic trends with the growing focus on nature and humanity in landscape painting, botanical illustration, and secular themes. The program also emphasizes the role of gender in botany, science, and society more generally from the 16th century witch-hunts to 18th century reassessments of women's social and political positions. Lectures and readings cover social and political history, art history, and colonial botany, as well as garden and medical history.

In hands-on practica students will learn to prepare salves, tinctures, decoctions, and infusions. Weekly workshops will help students improve their ability to write thesis-driven essays defended with evidence from assigned texts. Credit equivalencies for the program include expository writing, European history, European ethnobotany, and gender and women's studies.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

cultural studies, European history, gender studies, and writing.

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

$30 for supplies for several hands-on herbology workshops. 

Freshman-Sophomore
Class Standing: Freshman–Sophomore
Class Size: 46
50% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, April 1, 2019 - 10:00 am
SEM 2 A1105 - Lecture

Located in: Olympia

Evergreen Student Civic Engagement Institute

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Freshman
Freshman Only
Class Size: 0
Variable
Variable credit.
See below for more info.

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The Evergreen Student Civic Engagement Institute (ESCEI) , an intensive, residential, academic, pre-orientation program is designed to launch your successful career as a co-learner and leader at Evergreen. Our curriculum is rooted in the National Task Force (2012) framework definition of civic knowledge: “Citizens of communities need to know the cultural and global contexts in which a community exists, understand the historical and sociological relevance of important social movements, have exposure to multiple cultural and religious traditions, and understand how their political system works.” During our time together, we will break this definition down through a variety of texts, seminars, and workshops. We will apply this definition through activities that you will participate in and lead. Finally, you will synthesize your learned experiences in a personal narrative evaluation.We’ll hear from elected officials, non-profit leaders, community activists, educators, students, artists, and a spiritual leader. We’ll wrestle with real-world issues—both global and local. We’ll read and write, listen and speak. Most importantly, we’ll think.

 

Learning Objectives:

1. Each day you will be engaged in curriculum about civic engagement. The work is personal and your lived experiences will inform that work. Learning objectives are what you make of them and will differ from student to student.

2. At the end of each day, there will be scheduled journaling time where you will identify what you learned and relate it back specifically to the work we did. You will be asked to identify a minimum of three specific knowledge points you gained, how you learned them, and how you can use what you learned in academic or personal goals. These knowledge points will be entered online in CANVAS.

3. There is a daily requirement to pick one of the knowledge points you identified, and share it in the discussion section of CANVAS.

4. Collective Learning Outcomes: At the end of our institute, we will quantify the qualitative data you all provided through your narratives, connecting overarching themes to the Five Foci for a holistic understanding of learned outcomes.

5. Individual Learning Outcomes: At the end of our institute, you will combine your knowledge points into one comprehensive narrative evaluation to be submitted online.

Variable
Variable credit.
See below for more info.
Variable Credit Options:

60 seats at 2 cr.

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Freshman
Class Standing: Freshman Only
Class Size: 0
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

Advertised schedule:

September 12-18

Located in: Olympia

Evolutionary Processes from DNA to the Fossil Record

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 50
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Angelos Katsanis
ecology, entomology, agronomy
Pauline Yu square portrait
marine science

We will explore the richness of evolutionary and biological processes that have resulted in the biodiversity of life on planet Earth. For a theory that is a central tenet in the understanding of biology, evolution is also perhaps the most misunderstood, abused and contentious of theories. We will refine our understanding of evolutionary biology through the study of microevolution and macroevolution, appreciate the myriad processes by which evolution manifests and is realized in biology, all while paying close attention to the ways in which evolutionary theory is mis-applied socio-politically.

As we study microevolution, students will solidify their understanding of the molecular biological processes by which DNA, genes and chromosomes are modified within organisms and populations. We will investigate different concepts of "individuals" and "species," and their scientifically contentious understandings. After setting a foundation with concepts in population genetics, students will apply those ideas to biodiversity conservation. Processes in evolution that lead to morphological and behavioral change will be examined, and students will learn how those changes structure systematics, past and present. Finally, the macroevolutionary processes that contribute to our understanding of the fossil record will be examined through field trip experiences. Students will develop skills for quantitative and population genetics as well as observations of theme and pattern as reflected in systematics and taxonomy.

Field activities will include an overnight excursion to examine and collect fossil beds in Eastern Washington, and a day trip to visit research natural history and botanical collections.

Texts will include a conservation genetics text, an evolutionary biology text, and The Mismeasure of Man (S. J. Gould). Additional writings by Joan Roughgarden and the primary scientific literature will be a key part of this program.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

biological sciences, natural resources management, and wildlife management.

16

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

One year of General Biology or equivalent.

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

$265 for an overnight field trip and entrance fees.

Upper division science credit:

Upper division science credit is contingent on successful completion of program expectations.

Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 50
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - 10:30 am
SEM 2 A2105 - Workshop

Located in: Olympia

Existential Thought in Philosophy, Literature, and Arts

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 40
81216
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

literature, philosophy, and languages
Andrew Reece
classical art and literature

Existential thinkers focus on the existence of individual human beings. Modern Existential thought arises with discussion of Nietzsche’s death of God and Nihilism and horror of the world wars. No absolutes were left standing. This is the moment of great existential thinkers: Camus, Beauvoir, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Jaspers, Heidegger. But the human condition is not new to the 20th and the 21st centuries. In the 1500s, Montaigne, citing Seneca, wrote: "Philosopher, c’est apprendre à mourn," meaning, "to philosophize is to learn how to die."

We have asked since the Greeks what does it mean to exist, to be a thinking, valuing being in the midst of a world which precedes and follows us, and in the absence of any easy religious or ideological explanation? No two thinkers with whom we will engage offer the same philosophical stance; existentialists are nothing if not individuals, each unique. Each offers, however, a possible response to the human hunger for meaning: in the silence of gods and absolutes, each falls back on herself or himself. I am a valuing being; I must make my own meaning, over and over again, with each of a million choices I make, each step in my dance, as I become the person I will finally be at the moment of my death.

We will read philosophical literary and poetic texts, and consider visual and musical artists' responses to this same demand for meaning. Assignments include weekly analytical and creative writings. Each student will work in a group responsible for the presentation and analysis of one writer’s work. Students will submit a substantive portfolio of writings, including your personal statement as an existential thinker.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

advanced or graduate work in the humanities, philosophy, literature, and arts.

81216

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Prerequisites:

one year of college-level study in the humanities.

Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 40
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - 10:00 am
COM 320 - Workshop

Located in: Olympia

Experiments in Text

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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creative writing, poetics, aesthetics, media/performing arts

In what sense is creative writing an experiment? For one thing, writing is a process of discovery—it is not inert. “When it enters into an experience,” Joan Retallack asserts, it changes that experience, “creating a new, textual reality.” In that spirit, this course will explore the variety of ways we acquire new kinds of knowledge by writing—where, Retallack reminds us, the process of writing and process of scientific experimentation are not as different as we may think. Our work in this language laboratory will involve continually testing out our instrumentation (our senses), while remaining open to the possibility of getting results that surprise us. The focus will be on building fundamental writing skills that can be applied across academic disciplines, but we will do so by posing difficult questions about written forms in relation to the social worlds from which they emerge. We will study various modes of creative writing, including poetry, prose, and performance, and will read works by authors such as Gertrude Stein, Robert Duncan, and Cecilia Vicuna. Throughout the quarter, students will practice writing by composing a weekly short “experimental mini-essay” engaging with these works, as well as the work of their peers; other written assignments will invite students to experiment with the various creative forms they have been studying, such as writing poems or short fiction. In other words, this course will provide structured opportunities for connecting our work to the work of other writers, and to the social and political spheres that influence how and why we write—we’ll practice tuning in, as poet CAConrad urges, to “the creative viability of everything around us.”

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Arts, activism, graduate study

4

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - 6:00 pm
SEM 2 C2105 - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

Tue/Fri 6-7:50pm

Located in: Olympia

Film History at SPSCC

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 5
4
Credits per quarter

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This film history course introduces approaches to film history, including the study of periods, genres, directors, national cinemas, and critical theories. 

NOTE: This class meets at South Puget Sound Community College, 2011 Mottman Road, SW, Olympia, WA 98512, in Building 21, Room 130, Monday and Wednesday evenings from 6:00-8:25 p.m.

IMPORTANT: This class begins BEFORE Evergreen’s Fall quarter, on Monday, September 17. Students must be registered by 5:00 PM on Thursday, September 13.

BOOKS: If a text is required students will need to purchase texts for this course from the SPSCC bookstore. The book list can be found on the bookstore website (http://spscc.bncollege.com) under the course FILM117 

Faculty Contact information: jsalcedo@spscc.edu

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 5
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

Advertised schedule:

Monday and Wednesday 6:00-8:25pm. This class meets at South Puget Sound Community College, 2011 Mottman Road, SW, Olympia, WA 98512, in Building 21, Room 0130

IMPORTANT: This class begins BEFORE Evergreen’s Fall quarter, on Monday, September 17. Students must be registered by 5:00 PM on Thursday, September 13. 

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-06-25New offering added for Fall quarter (at SPSCC)

Film Production I at SPSCC

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 5
4
Credits per quarter

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This film production course explores advanced theories and skills for field video production, including producing, directing, camera operation, lighting, editing, audio techniques, and post-production techniques. Includes digital video art forms, storyboard development, media writing, interviewing, budgeting, and planning.

NOTE: This class meets at South Puget Sound Community College, 2011 Mottman Road, SW, Olympia, WA 98512, in Building 21, Room 106, Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 6:00-8:25 p.m.   Students must be registered by 5:00 PM on Thursday, March 28th. 

BOOKS: If a text is required students will need to purchase texts for this course from the SPSCC bookstore. The book list can be found on the bookstore website (http://spscc.bncollege.com) under the course FILMP201  

Faculty: Michael Gray, mgray@spscc.edu

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Prerequisites:

Students should have introductory experience with the basic theories and skills used in studio and field video production. Email the faculty (mgray@spscc.edu) if you have questions about your preparation. 

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

$85 film production fee

Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 5
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

Located in: Olympia

Financial Sustainability for Non-profit Organizations

WinterSpring
Winter 2019
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
8
Credits per quarter

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2019-Vu,-Thuy-1-square
economics, management, community organization

Social enterprises, commonly known as non-profit organizations, are defined as business enterprises with the primary mission of serving the common good of the society. They are the growth engines for building communities and implementing sustainable social changes. This two-quarter program will develop the financial management competencies required to become effective social entrepreneurs and to establish and run a sustainable non-profit businesses serving the common good of the community. Topics will include entrepreneurship and management, business finance and accounting, and basic skills needed for starting, operating, and promoting a financially sustainable non-profit business organization. 

This two-quarter program is for students interested in business management and finance, social equity and justice, community development and leadership. It will facilitate individual and group learning through active involvement in seminar discussions, workshop activities, writing, and oral presentations. Students will have the opportunity to design and implement individual and group projects, and do internship development work with local community-based social enterprise organizations. Students will explore issues, challenges, and opportunities that arise from working with various types of social enterprises and public organizations across the boundaries of cultural difference. 

In winter, the program will focus on the fundamentals of business finance, economics and business management, and on the guidelines for developing a non-profit organization. Topics discussed will cover basic financial accounting, costs and price setting for social enterprises' products, and general topics on micro and macroeconomics.

In the spring quarter, the program will discuss the socioeconomic issues and policies affecting the development and growth of the non-profit  sector. The program will also cover advanced work in entrepreneurship and business management, and will focus on issues related to the impacts of globalization and the resulting need for the development of international non-governmental organizations (INGO). Students will also have the opportunity of performing  in-program service learning projects with  local community-based organizations of their choice.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Public service management, financial management for non-profit organizations, community building, small business development

8

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, April 1, 2019 - 6:00 pm
SEM 2 A1105 - Lecture

Located in: Olympia

First Peoples Multicultural Scholars Program

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 30
2
Credits per quarter

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"The Scholars Program provided useful opportunities and supplied me with a network of people that I will have throughout my college experience."   —KaLehua KaApana (2013)  

This course is a 2-credit, week-long pre-orientation as part of the Multicultural Scholars Program . The program is facilitated by First Peoples Multicultural Advising in collaboration with faculty, staff, students, and community members passionate about multicultural student success. It is designed to strengthen the success and community of students of color, queer, and trans students at Evergreen by providing the opportunity to build community, skills, and resources to help you thrive before school even begins. This course will include a variety of learning opportunities such as diverse speakers, seminar, projects, wellness practices, film, readings, and writing.

 

2

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 30
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Advertised schedule:

roughly 8:30am-5:30pm (with optional additional evening programs) for the week of Wednesday, September 12 - Wednesday, September 19, 2018. The hours include instruction, seminar, field trips, wellness activities, films, community building, and community service project. The exact daily schedules varies.

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-07-30$250 Student fee removed

Flight of the Firebird: What Ignites Russia's Imagination in Literature and Culture

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 25
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Patricia Krafcik
Russian language and literature

Russia today is experiencing an upsurge in displays of nationalism and national pride--pride in its tumultuous imperial history, its rich culture, and its role on the world stage. How has President Putin inspired Russia to embrace this nationalistic fervor and how he has linked it to Russian patriotism, justifying internal and external political action based on historical precedent? We will explore this central question through readings in Russian history and literature, and will seek the sources of this trend in the literary, musical, and artistic culture of the pre-1917-Revolution Russian Empire from the mid-19th into the early 20th centuries.

We will discuss in seminar relevant literature of Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov, writers who in various ways defined Russian-ness. We will listen to the great music of world-class Russian composers who intentionally captured a national Russian folk sound in their compositions, among them Glinka, Mussorgsky, Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, and into the 20th century, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, and Shostakovich. We will study the magnificent realistic art of the Wanderers (Peredvizhniki) and the avant-garde art into the 20th century which also drew on folk imagery.

In all of this exploration, we will examine both the socially-conscious aspects of these creative works, as well as how they celebrate Russian identity, Russian Nature, and the Russian soul. As we continue to monitor the contemporary Russian political scene, we will view relevant films and documentaries to help us get under the surface of the culture. Finally, we will take an overnight fieldtrip to the Maryhill Museum, which houses Russian icons and historical items, and a Greek Orthodox women’s monastery where we will learn more about the historical significance of the Orthodox Church, inherited from Byzantium, in Russian history and especially in Putin’s Russia today. Students will write short papers and a research paper on a topic of their choice.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

international studies,; Russian, East European, and Eurasian area studies; literary studies; cultural studies; and history. 

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Fees:

$64 for an overnight field trip to the Maryhill Museum and Brooks Memorial Environmental Learning Center near Goldendale, WA.

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 25
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - 9:30 am
SEM 2 A2109 - Seminar

Located in: Olympia

Food Chemistry

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 50
50% Reserved for Freshmen
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Melissa Nivala
mathematics
Sunderman square
physical and inorganic chemistry

Food is a crucial part of everyday life. We prepare it. We ingest it. We apply chemistry on a regular basis, without even recognizing it. In this program we will explore topics in chemistry connected to food.  We will investigate answers to the questions: Why does popcorn pop? Why are so many low fat foods low in flavor? Why are some vitamins fat soluble while others water soluble: And why does that matter? What does gluten do?

Introductory concepts in general chemistry, organic chemistry, and biochemistry will be introduced and explored. We will study protein denaturation and make mozzarella. In the laboratory setting students will get exposure to and practice with measurements, spectrophotometers, lab safety, and work on general lab techniques. Statistics and algebraic thinking for science will be integrated throughout our studies: by analyzing lab data, quantifying nutritional profiles, critically comparing diets, etc. Math topics will include proportional reasoning and unit conversions, descriptive and inferential statistics, the algebra, geometry, and numerics of various families of functions (polynomial, exponential, logarithmic), and fractal geometry, with special emphasis in all areas placed on relating math to food. Societal issues connected to food will also be incorporated. Students will combine applied quantitative, writing, and oral communication skills in a quarter-long project related to food.

We will explore these topics through assignments, seminars, exams and quizzes, laboratory experiments, a field trip, and a project.

Note: this program will be repeated spring quarter. Students who take the winter quarter program should not take the spring quarter program.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

chemistry, life sciences, environmental sciences, health care, teaching, and agricultural studies.This is a Foundational program in the Integrated Biology and Chemistry Path's of Study.  This program satisfies the math prerequisite for Integrated Natural Science (INS).  This program meets the MIT requirement for statistics, college algebra, and either one of these three: chemistry with lab, physical science with lab, or applied chemistry.

16

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 50
50% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, January 7, 2019 - 9:00 am
LIB 1001 - Workshop

Additional details:

Wednesday's schedule will alternate between Lab and Seminar. Weeks 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 will be in the seminar spaces. Weeks 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 will be in the lab spaces.   The week 10 lab space needs to be in a food safe lab. Two potential field trips will be scheduled that involve a full day. Dates will be announced once they are known.

Located in: Olympia

May be offered again in:

Spring 2019, Winter 2021, and Spring of 2021

DateRevision
2018-11-07challenge course fee removed

Food Chemistry

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 50
50% Reserved for Freshmen
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Melissa Nivala
mathematics
Sunderman square
physical and inorganic chemistry

Note: this program is also offered winter quarter. Students who take the winter quarter program should not take the spring quarter program.

Food is a crucial part of everyday life. We prepare it. We ingest it. We apply chemistry on a regular basis, without even recognizing it. In this program we will explore topics in chemistry connected to food.  We will investigate answers to the questions: Why does popcorn pop? Why are so many low fat foods low in flavor? Why are some vitamins fat soluble while others water soluble: And why does that matter? What does gluten do? 

Introductory concepts in general chemistry, organic chemistry, and biochemistry will be introduced and explored.  We will study protein denaturation and make mozzarella. In the laboratory setting students will get exposure to and practice with measurements, spectrophotometers, lab safety, and work on general lab techniques. Statistics and algebraic thinking for science will be integrated throughout our studies: by analyzing lab data, quantifying nutritional profiles, critically comparing diets, etc.  Math topics will include proportional reasoning and unit conversions, descriptive and inferential statistics, the algebra, geometry, and numerics of various families of functions (polynomial, exponential, logarithmic), and fractal geometry, with special emphasis in all areas placed on relating math to food.  Societal issues connected to food will also be incorporated.  Students will combine applied quantitative, writing, and oral communication skills in a quarter-long project related to food.

We will explore these topics through assignments, seminars, exams and quizzes, laboratory experiments, a field trip, and a project.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

chemistry, life sciences, environmental sciences, health care, teaching, and agricultural studies.This is a Foundational program in the Integrated Biology and Chemistry Path's of Study.  This program satisfies the math prerequisite for Integrated Natural Science (INS).  This program meets the MIT requirement for statistics, college algebra, and either one of these three: chemistry with lab, physical science with lab, or applied chemistry.

16

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Fees:

$10 for registration fees.

Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 50
50% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, April 1, 2019 - 9:00 am
SEM 2 A1107 - Workshop

Located in: Olympia

May be offered again in:

Spring 2019, Winter 2021, and Spring of 2021

DateRevision
2019-04-08Variable credit CRN created

Forests and Farms: The Systems that Sustain Us

FallWinter
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Sophomore
Freshman–Sophomore
Class Size: 46
50% Reserved for Freshmen
16
Credits per quarter

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forest and plant ecology
Steve Scheuerell
ecology, botany, plant pathology

Learn to get your hands dirty in two globally important types of landscapes: forests and farms. We will use a systems thinking approach to explore environmental issues related to both landscapes, such as climate change and carbon sequestration. We will split our focus between an introduction to forests and forest measurements in the Pacific Northwest and an introduction to agricultural systems and ecological agriculture. Management of forests and farms are of central importance in global carbon budgets, and we will explore how both play a role in climate change. We will learn about the many stakeholders throughout society who are involved in forestry and farming issues and how science can inform policy and management decisions. Students will gain an introduction to basic nutrient cycling and soils concepts that are foundational to both ecological forestry and agriculture systems. We will learn the basic tools and techniques needed to account for forest and farm carbon and students will learn how to build basic carbon budgets based on forest and soil measurements. For the forestry component, students will learn to do basic forest measurements, inventory carbon sequestration in forests, understand ecological succession, and identify common trees. Students will learn how to use basic trigonometry and algebraic approaches to measuring forest dimensions and tree carbon storage. Weekly field labs will give students hands-on experience working with our local forests in Evergreen's forest reserve. In the agricultural component, students will learn basic agronomic principles, including the structure and function of annual and perennial crop plants; and how plants respond to water, nutrients, light, and heat. Using field trips and case studies, a variety of agricultural systems will be introduced, and students will learn how management practices impact climate change via energy-use efficiency and the carbon sequestration potential of soils and crops. Ecological agroforestry systems will be emphasized to show how perennial crops can be utilized to optimize carbon uptake, efficiently utilize inputs, conserve soil, and maintain food production. Both sections of the program will be integrated in a weekly lab where students will learn the basics of spreadsheet use to compile forest, soil, and farm data. Using data students collect themselves, we will build and explore carbon budgets in both forests and farms, and then apply data to our understanding of local eco- and agro-systems. (Steven Scheuerell will teach fall and winter, Dylan Fischer will teach Fall only)

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

agriculture, ecology, environmental studies, field studies, forestry, natural history, and sustainability studies.

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Freshman-Sophomore
Class Standing: Freshman–Sophomore
Class Size: 46
50% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - 9:00 am
SEM 2 E1105 - Lecture

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-11-16Closed winter enrollment to new students
2018-08-14description updated to reflect faculty teaching per quarter
2018-05-31Amarati Casper has left the teaching team.
2018-03-28This program is now fall-winter.

French - First Year I

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Judith Gabriele square
French language

This year-long sequence of courses in French emphasizes mastery of basic skills through a solid study of grammatical structures and focus on interactive oral activities.  Classes use immersion style learning and students are surrounded by authentic French from the start.  Student work encompasses all four language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing.  They will develop accurate pronunciation, build a useful vocabulary, work regularly in small groups and learn conversational skills.  Classes are lively and fast-paced with a wide variety of creative, fun activities including music, poetry, videos, role-play, and web sites.   Through aloud reading and discussions in French, students will acquire vocabulary proficiency, accurate pronunciation, fluidity, and dialogues.  Throughout the year, students use the Language Laboratory to accelerate their skills.

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Prerequisites:

No Prerequisites

Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - 7:00 pm
SEM 2 A3105 - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

7-8:50p Tue/Thu

Located in: Olympia

French - First Year II

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Judith Gabriele square
French language

This year-long sequence of courses in French emphasizes mastery of basic skills through a solid study of grammatical structures and focus on interactive oral activities.  Classes use immersion style learning and students are surrounded by authentic French from the start.  Student work encompasses all four language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing.  They will develop accurate pronunciation, build a useful vocabulary, work regularly in small groups and learn conversational skills.  Classes are lively and fast-paced with a wide variety of creative, fun activities including music, poetry, videos, role-play, and web sites.  Winter quarter themes focus on regional French traditions, cuisine, fables and poetry.  Through aloud reading and discussions in French, students will acquire vocabulary proficiency, accurate pronunciation, fluidity, and dialogues.  Throughout the year, students use the Language Laboratory to accelerate their skills.

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Prerequisites:

Equivalent of 1 quarter college French or 2-3 years High School French

Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - 7:00 pm
SEM 2 A3105 - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

7-9p Tue/Thu

Located in: Olympia

French - First Year III

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Judith Gabriele square
French language

This year-long sequence of courses in French emphasizes mastery of basic skills through a solid study of grammatical structures and focus on interactive oral activities.  Classes use immersion style learning and students are surrounded by authentic French from the start.  Student work encompasses all four language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing.  They will develop accurate pronunciation, build a useful vocabulary, work regularly in small groups and learn conversational skills.  Classes are lively and fast-paced with a wide variety of creative, fun activities including music, poetry, videos, role-play, and web sites.  Spring quarter themes focus on development of reading skills through tales, legends and viewing Francophone films from the Francophone world alongside grammatical study.  Through aloud reading and discussions in French, students will acquire vocabulary proficiency, accurate pronunciation, fluidity, and dialogues.  Throughout the year, students use the Language Laboratory to accelerate their skills.

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Prerequisites:

Equivalent of 2 quarters college French or 3 years High School French

Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 7:00 pm
SEM 2 A3105 - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

7-9p Tue/Thu

Located in: Olympia

French - Second Year I

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Judith Gabriele square
French language

This year-long course is designed for those who are in between First year to Second year Level or beyond.  It requires students to have had background in studies beyond Beginning level; a working knowledge of fundamental structures, particularly present and past tenses. Classes will be conducted entirely in French.  They are targeted to bring student skills up quickly with review and enhancement of first year structures, then moving quickly to more advanced grammar.   The primary objectives are communicative interactions in French through cultural studies, discussions and development of grammatical proficiency.  Students will practice all four language skills in small group interactive activities: listening, speaking, reading and writing. They will learn not only to express themselves in French, but to discover much they didn't know about themselves.  Fall quarter Students will particularly develop stronger reading skills through short stories, theater and poetry.   Throughout the year, students use the Language Laboratory to accelerate their skills.

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Prerequisites:

Equivalent of 2-3 quarters of college French or 3 years High School French

Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - 5:00 pm
SEM 2 A3105 - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

Tue and Thu 5-6:50pm

Located in: Olympia

French - Second Year II

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Judith Gabriele square
French language

This year-long course is designed for those who have a Second Year Level or beyond.  All classes are conducted in French and  are fast paced and interactive to bring up skills quickly and sharpen proficiency. Primary objectives focus on increasing communicative interactions through study of aspects of culture and theater.  Students will learn to express themselves clearly and expand their listening comprehension in discussions with native speakers. They will increase their knowledge of comedy, tragedy and absurdist plays, plus hone their verbal, reading and writing proficiency.  Through study of selected plays and literary excerpts, class activities engage students in lively practices and performances of selected scenes, plus watching videos to analyze mise en scene and characterization.  

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Prerequisites:

Equivalent of 2-3 quarters of college French or 3 years High School French

Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - 5:00 pm
SEM 2 A3105 - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

5-7p Tue/Thu

Located in: Olympia

French - Second Year III

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Judith Gabriele square
French language

This year-long course sequence is designed for those who have a Second Year level or beyond. All classes are conducted in French. Primary objectives focus on increasing communicative interactions, developing discussion skills with native speakers, and honing all four language skills. Through the lens of film, using numerous genre of Francophone films, students will study historical and contemporary culture, as reflected in issues of immigration, French identity, education and art.  Students will read a short novel alongside watching its companion film; and learn to analyze, compare, and write about aspects of film and literature while increasing their cinematic competence.  Students continue to use the Language Laboratory to accelerate their skills.

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Prerequisites:

Equivalent of 2-3 quarters of college French or 3 years High School French

Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 5:00 pm
SEM 2 A3105 - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

5-7p Tue/Thu

Located in: Olympia

Fundamentals of Coastal Design I

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Weekend
Weekend
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 25
2
Credits per quarter

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The goal of the class is for you to learn about how customary regalia has evolved to be used in modern context and to design an art piece reflecting your own culture (to be completed in Fundamentals of Coastal Design II in Spring Quarter). Students will select either a shawl style or for those with more experience, a larger robe/blanket. Historically at Evergreen, the shawls  are used as a form of graduation regalia by Native students. The shawls can easily be adapted to use for other ceremonial regalia. This course is open to all TESC students with priority for 9 seats for seniors in the Native Pathways Program.

This course will use a variety of methods, materials, and approaches to identify traditional practices and adapt those practices to create a personal contemporary ceremonial/warrior shawl reflecting their own culture.  While students will focus on identifying indigenous methodologies within the text, Robes of Power and other readings in the attached bibliography, it is expected that you can and should adapt design ideas to reflect your own cultural statement in your finished art piece.  We will look at examples of other types of regalia such as button robes, graduation shawls and even commemorative t-shirts used at memorials to reflect cultural identity. 

Native Pathways students register using CRN 20360, all other students register using CRN 20361. 

2

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Special expenses:

Students will need to purchase fabric for final project in Spring, or to create sample works. Cost will be dependent on the fabric chosen by students. Fabric is not provided by the program.

Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 25
Weekend

Scheduled for: Weekend

Final schedule and room assignments:

Located in: Olympia

Fundamentals of Coastal Design II

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Weekend
Weekend
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 25
2
Credits per quarter

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Students should have a complete design for a shawl or blanket and purchased the fabric and adornment elements (beads, buttons, fringe, etc.) they wish to use.

Building upon the readings and discussion of Coast Design I, students will devote class time to studio work to complete an individual art piece. In studio, students will learn how to create original applique designs and incorporate adornment elements such as bead work, buttons, fringe and other elements as desired to a shawl  or blanket/robe that will reflect your own cultural background.

In addition to completing an art piece, students will be expected to write a short artist statement about their work.

Open studio time with the faculty will be available during Spring Quarter outside the regular class hours.

  • Native Pathways Seniors use CRN 30343
  • Native Pathways Juniors use CRN 30345
  • Non Native Pathways Juniors and Seniors use CRN 30346
2

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

Fundamentals of Coastal Design I or faculty permission. Course is available for all students with 9 seats reserved from graduating Native Pathways Program students.

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Special expenses:

For a shawl, students can expect to purchase about $30.00 worth of fabric and $20-25 for adornment elements of their own choosing from a retailer of their choice.

Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 25
Weekend

Scheduled for: Weekend

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Saturday, May 4, 2019 - 4:00 pm
Fiber Arts 229

Located in: Olympia

Future History: Indigenous Speculative Fiction

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Dawn Barron sqaure
writing, Native and Indigenous studies

In this course we will explore our own identities, worldviews and writing styles, the stories we come back to again and again, and how the foundational elements of fiction help us (writers and readers) explain the world around us. Analyzing the readings will provoke critical thinking skills and thoughtful articulation of our findings. Individual writing projects will highlight your skills as a writer, as will peer workshops. This is a critical reading and writing course focused on exploring indigenous speculative fiction--what speculative fiction is, as well as how the indigenous worldview and writer creates a cultural and historical vantage point. Looking at the methods and themes that indigenous writers employ to write about the “future” world, we will analyze short stories through reading reflections and seminars. Students will be writing their own creative speculative fiction that, with peer feedback, will be made into an anthology. A key component to this course will be learning to deliver effective and compelling readings of completed work.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

creative writing, literature, Native American studies, communication, community studies, cultural studies, and history.

4

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Wednesday, September 26, 2018 - 6:00 pm
Purce Hall 7 - Classroom

Located in: Olympia

Gardens as Creative Non-Fiction

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
EveningWeekend
Evening and Weekend
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 42
12
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Marja Eloheimo square
ethnobotany, environmental and cultural anthropology, plant studies
academic and creative nonfiction writing, community studies, analog game design

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

--Marcus Tullius Cicero

This writing and field botany program will examine ways in which both gardens and writing embody intersections between human creativity and the facts--or “nonfiction”--of the environment.

In the writing portion of the program, we will be especially attentive to the following lines of inquiry and their implications: accurate observation, effective communication of sensory detail, and the creation on the page of the writer as a robust and multi-dimensioned narrator. We will draw on tools and methods of analysis from the fields of creative nonfiction writing and literature to undertake this work.  In the field botany portion of the program, we will engage with Evergreen’s Longhouse Ethnobotanical Garden, learning to identify and understand many of the plants; carrying out seasonal garden care; and examining how gardens—with their various contexts, intentions, designs, and dynamics—can function both as a metaphor for creative non-fiction and as a resource for writing it.

 One way we will link these two disciplines—writing and field botany—will be through the practice of creative nature journaling. Program participants will have abundant opportunity to develop the habits of mind of analytic, creative, and resilient thinkers, observers, writers, and “gardeners.” 

Books under consideration include  The Sweet Breathing of Plants  (edited by Linda Hogan and Brenda Peterson) and  Braiding Sweetgrass  (Robin Wall Kimmerer). Program participants must be willing to share their writing with all program members for their response, in person and in a program-only space online.

 

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

writing, education, and professions related to botany, ecology, and cultural studies

12

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Fees:

$45 for entrance fees plus art and garden supplies

Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 42
EveningWeekend

Scheduled for: Evening and Weekend

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Wednesday, April 3, 2019 - 6:00 pm
SEM 2 B1107 - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

Wednesdays 6-9pm & Saturdays 9:30am - 5pm

Located in: Olympia

Gateways for Incarcerated Youth: Critical Literacy and Critical Numeracy

FallWinterSpring
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 20
16
Credits per quarter

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This program offers Evergreen students an opportunity to learn together with juvenile males incarcerated in the Green Hill Academic School, a medium/maximum-security institution located in Chehalis, WA. It is high stakes work that demands deep and consistent engagement: approximately 12 hours a week in class on the Evergreen campus and 4-6 hours a week at Green Hill.

In the Gateways program, which has been running since 1996, the learning of Evergreen students fuels and is fueled by the learning of Green Hill students. We proceed from the premise that everyone is an expert in their own life. It will be our responsibility as co-learners in this program to accompany and empower each other in our studies. We will take advantage of the emergent theories and practices of liberation education to cultivate an environment where this learning together becomes possible. The itinerary of our inquiry will accordingly be shaped collaboratively: in part by the faculty's training and scholarship, in part by the interests of Evergreen students, and in part by the interests of Green Hill students. In this sense, the program combines elements of a typical coordinated-studies program with a student-originated studies program. Faculty and students alike will be responsible for determining the interdisciplinary readings, skills, and practices we will engage with as individuals, in pairs, in small groups, and in our learning community as a whole.

Three central questions will orient our inquiry:

  1. "How do we responsibly represent what we have experienced?"
  2. "What is the role of the person with knowledge?"
  3. "What needs to be the case for things to be otherwise?"

Critical and creative reading and writing will be consistent practices in our repertoire. This focus on literacy in all shapes and forms will be accompanied by a focus on numeracy conceived in a similarly wide scope (basic algebra, statistics, and probability at the very least). We will study hyperincarceration and the circumstances that make it possible in the first place (settler colonialism, structural racism, neoliberalism, etc.), as well as the knowledge traditions we are participating in and contributing to (such as popular education, the liberal arts, critical thinking, the Evergreen model, the Gateways model, etc.). Every Wednesday in the Green Hill classroom, groups of Evergreen and Green Hill students will collaborate on a variety of projects, and will assume responsibility for developing, delivering, and evaluating weekly workshops. Quantitative and qualitative research will inform our inquiry throughout—as will evidence from other areas of our experience.

An important foundational concept: effecting change does not mean saving other people or solving their problems—it means creating conditions that are welcoming and generative for genuine dialogue, and supporting each other to work towards our own solutions.

Students interested in enrolling in this program should be sure to familiarize themselves with the Gateways website before applying: http://www.evergreen.edu/gateways

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

prison education, critical theory, creative writing, juvenile justice, history, education, community work, social work

16

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

Participating students are required by the prison to pass a background check in order to work on site.

Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Fees:

$150 per quarter for overnight field trips.

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 20
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, April 1, 2019 - 10:00 am
Organic Farm - Workshop

Additional details:

Evergreen students will commit to either a Wednesday morning (10:45 to 1:15) or  a Wednesday afternoon (4:00 to 6:30) class at Green Hill. This does not include travel time to and from Green Hill (approximately 30-40 minutes each way).

Located in: Olympia

General Chemistry with Laboratory I

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
6
Credits per quarter

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Chemistry is the foundation for everything around us and relates to everything we do. General Chemistry I is part of a 3-part series. These courses provide the fundamental principles of general chemistry. They also provide the  prerequisites for advanced chemistry, health sciences, and medical offerings. These courses also provide a basic laboratory science for students seeking a well rounded liberal arts education.

General Chemistry with Laboratory I

This is the first course in a year-long general chemistry sequence. Topics covered in fall quarter include unit conversions, electron structures, and chemical bonding and will include related laboratory experiments.

General Chemistry with Laboratory II

General Chemistry II builds upon material covered in General Chemistry I. Topics covered in winter quarter include thermochemistry, chemical kinetics, chemical equilibria, and acid-base equilibria. Lab work will complement in-class learning.

General Chemistry with Laboratory III

General Chemistry III will continue with acid-base chemistry, pH, complex ion equilibria, entropy, and transition metals, as well as other related topics. This quarter also includes a lab section that will complement the course work.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

science, medicine

6

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, September 24, 2018 - 6:00 pm
SEM 2 D2107 - Seminar

Advertised schedule:

6-9:30p Mon; 6-10p Wed

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-04-23John Kirkpatrick removed as faculty. New faculty will be added later this summer.

General Chemistry with Laboratory II

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
6
Credits per quarter

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Chemistry is the foundation for everything around us and relates to everything we do. General Chemistry II is the second part of a 3-part series. These courses provide the fundamental principles of general chemistry. They also provide the  prerequisites for advanced chemistry, health sciences, and medical offerings. These courses also provide a basic laboratory science for students seeking a well rounded liberal arts education.

General Chemistry with Laboratory I

This is the first course in a year-long general chemistry sequence. Topics covered in fall quarter include unit conversions, electron structures, and chemical bonding and will include related laboratory experiments.

General Chemistry with Laboratory II

General Chemistry II builds upon material covered in General Chemistry I. Topics covered in winter quarter include thermochemistry, chemical kinetics, chemical equilibria, and acid-base equilibria. Lab work will complement in-class learning.

General Chemistry with Laboratory III

General Chemistry III will continue with acid-base chemistry, pH, complex ion equilibria, entropy, and transition metals, as well as other related topics. This quarter also includes a lab section that will complement the course work.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

science, medicine

6

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Prerequisites:

Winter course requires successful completion of the preceding course or equivalent. Contact the instructor for an assessment of proficiency.

Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, January 7, 2019 - 6:00 pm
SEM 2 D2107 - Seminar

Advertised schedule:

6-9:30p Mon; 6-10p Wed.

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-04-23John Kirkpatrick removed as faculty. New faculty will be added later this summer.

General Chemistry with Laboratory III

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
6
Credits per quarter

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Chemistry is the foundation for everything around us and relates to everything we do. General Chemistry III is the final course of a 3-part series. These courses provide the fundamental principles of general chemistry. They also provide the  prerequisites for advanced chemistry, health sciences, and medical offerings. These courses also provide a basic laboratory science for students seeking a well rounded liberal arts education.

General Chemistry with Laboratory I

This is the first course in a year-long general chemistry sequence. Topics covered in fall quarter include unit conversions, electron structures, and chemical bonding and will include related laboratory experiments.

General Chemistry with Laboratory II

General Chemistry II builds upon material covered in General Chemistry I. Topics covered in winter quarter include thermochemistry, chemical kinetics, chemical equilibria, and acid-base equilibria. Lab work will complement in-class learning.

General Chemistry with Laboratory III

General Chemistry III will continue with acid-base chemistry, pH, complex ion equilibria, entropy, and transition metals, as well as other related topics. This quarter also includes a lab section that will complement the course work.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

science, medicine

6

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Prerequisites:

Spring course requires successful completion of the preceding course or equivalent. Contact the instructor for an assessment of proficiency.

Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, April 1, 2019 - 6:00 pm
Purce Hall 6 - Classroom

Advertised schedule:

6-9:30p Mon; 6-10p Wed

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-04-23John Kirkpatrick removed as faculty. New faculty will be added later this summer.

Genes and Poems: Creating Form and Meaning

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 35
50% Reserved for Freshmen
16
Credits per quarter

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genetics, molecular biology
Suzanne Simons square
poetry and literary arts, community studies/Middle East studies, journalism

What is a gene? What is a poem? This program aims to investigate parallels and intersections between the basic units of life and language. What is the relationship between meaning and form? What elements do a gene and a poem need to be effective? What are the properties of translation, transcription, interpretation and rendering, and how do they affect access and meaning? How do we measure when a form is complete?

In this program we will explore genes and poems as separate and connected entities. In the process we will consider how we create meaning and connections through processes such as parallelism, allegory, and metaphor. In poetry this will include reading and writing of literary, spoken-word and experimental forms, including free verse and patterned poems ranging from rhymed couplets to the more intricate villanelles and sestinas. Revisions to our original poems will be heavily emphasized. We will also participate in local poetry events, such as spoken-word performances and literary poetry readings. In biology we will examine the history of the gene, a term that has changed its meaning from an abstract particle of inheritance, to a unit of DNA sequence encoding a protein to a script for synthesizing imagined new functions. We will introduce the principles of genetics and molecular biology and carry out experiments in the laboratory.

Program activities will include lectures, workshops, labs, field trips, guest speakers, and films. Student learning will be assessed by a program portfolio, writing assignments, exams, formal reading of original poems or spoken-word pieces, and a lab notebook. Credits equivalencies may be awarded in introductory biology and introductory poetry.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

biology, poetry and literary arts, and education.

16

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 35
50% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, April 1, 2019 - 9:00 am
SEM 2 C1107 - Workshop

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2019-03-15This program is now all level. CRN 30217 is now Sophomore- Senior

Geopolitics, Energy, Economics, and Stewardship of the Pacific Northwest

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 50
16
Credits per quarter

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political science, economics

This program examines the political, ecological, and energy-related foundations of the Pacific Northwest’s culture and economy. The unique mix of energy, natural resources, agriculture, manufacturing, military, high technology, and finance have created a diverse cultural and economic base. The regional economy, led by manufacturing, agriculture, forest products, and finance, served the region well during most of the 20th century, creating a variety of sources of employment and opportunities for families to achieve a high quality of life.

Changes in the late 20th and early 21st century present new challenges. As we explore these changes, our goals are to define a concrete vision of a sustainable economy in the Pacific Northwest that will account for employment, prosperity and preservation, and restoration of the environment; to examine the roles public policy and entrepreneurship can play to ensure it is achievable; and to understand why it is important to make the transition to a sustainable future. We believe innovation, creativity, and stewardship will help achieve the goals of this program.

Three overarching topics will be explored in depth. Pacific Northwest energy regimes—including natural gas, hydroelectric sources and emerging technologies of tidal, geothermal, and wind—will be examined. Energy is vital to the Pacific Northwest because of the comparative advantages on price the region has long enjoyed. We will examine the composition of, and changes in, the regional economy, including how to understand key economic relationships and how technology and other emerging sectors impact education, demographics, employment, wage structures, and demands for infrastructure and tax base. To fully understand energy and the regional economy, we will integrate considerations of how economics, governance, and ecology are now at critical turning points.

This program is organized around class work that includes lectures, workshops, book seminars, and field trips. Assignments will include seminar papers, field trip reports, briefing papers, individual and team research, and a final project and presentation.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

government, business, public policy, economic development, public administration and entrepreneurship.

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 50
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 1:00 pm
Purce Hall 7 - Classroom

Located in: Olympia

German - First Year I at SPSCC

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 5
4
Credits per quarter

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This beginning German course introduces the four basic skills of the language: listening, speaking, reading and writing. The language will be studied within its cultural context. Students receive Evergreen credits.  

NOTE: Course meets at South Puget Sound Community College, Main Campus, 2011 Mottman Road SW, Olympia, WA 98512, Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 6-8:25pm in BLDG 21, Room 287. First meeting is September 18, 2018 (this is one week prior to the Evergreen state date).  

BOOKS: If a text is required students will need to purchase texts for this course from the SPSCC bookstore. The book list can be found on the bookstore website (http://spscc.bncollege.com) under the course GERM&121 

Faculty: Dawn Williams, dwilliams14@spscc.edu

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 5
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

Advertised schedule:

Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 6-8:25pm in SPSCC BLDG 21, Room 287. First meeting is September 18, 2018 (this is one week prior to the Evergreen state date).   

Located in: Olympia

Off-campus location:

BLDG 21, Room 287 South Puget Sound Community College, Main Campus, 2011 Mottman Road SW, Olympia, WA 98512

DateRevision
2018-06-25New Fall quarter offering added (at SPSCC)

Global/Local Realities and Alternative Visions

FallWinterSpring
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Spring 2019
Tacoma
Tacoma
Daytime Evening
Day and Evening
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 200
16
Credits per quarter

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Peter Bacho
law, creative writing, literature
Paul Goldberg square
mathematics, 3-D modeling
sheppard square
sociology, cultural and media studies
Anthony Zaragoza square portrait
political economy
Mingxia Li
biology, Chinese cultural studies, molecular pharmacology

The world is undergoing massive transformations in the 21st century in its environment, economy, politics, culture, societal structure, aesthetics, and more. How can we understand these changes on both a local and global level? How can we respond to and help shape these changes? How do we view human migration around the world? How do we connect our neighborhoods to other parts of the world? How do we share resources equitably in an increasingly crowded and automated world? How do we relate to one another in an increasingly digitally mediated world? How shall we prepare ourselves and our children to face these new challenges? These are some of the questions this program will examine and explore. The global/local reality of the 21st century and beyond will be our intellectual playground and imagination laboratory. Drawing on an interdisciplinary perspective, we will consider various definitions and theories of globalism and humanism. By the end of the program we will be able to offer concrete recommendations to develop global and local connections that can overcome nationalism, sectarianism, and tribalism and help us to embrace alternative visions of global/local reality.

Our fall theme will be identifying the problem and clarifying the question. This quarter will be used to lay the foundation for the rest of the year, both substantively and in terms of the tools necessary to operate effectively in the learning community. We will explore the concept of connectivity, historically and in contemporary context, as it is explicated in theory and practice. In seminars we will read and analyze documents, artifacts, and secondary texts to decipher in what ways connectivity has existed and persisted throughout human history. Students will examine their personal experience with human connectivity by constructing an autobiographical memoir. Our work will be supplemented with a series of courses designed to assure literacy with words, numbers, and images. Students will have the opportunity to hone their skills in critical reasoning, research, and the use of multimedia and computers.

Our winter theme will be researching roots, causes, and potential solutions. We will look at specific contemporary societal issues in human connectivity from a variety of institutional perspectives, most notably in trade, migration/immigration, public health, law, education, government, and domestic and foreign politics. Students will investigate specific issues of interest with the purpose of identifying a particular problem, defining its dimensions, determining its causes, and establishing action plans for its remedy.

In spring the theme will progress to implementation. We will focus on the design and implementation of projects aimed at addressing the issues of global/local reality identified in winter. Seminar groups will combine their efforts to assist the community in facing challenges of the global/local reality. The projects may take the form of educational events, publications, multimedia presentations, or art installations to help the community find higher levels of connectivity with the rest of the world. Courses will assist in the successful implementation and evaluation of student group activities.

Topics include social and environmental justice, political and economic fairness, geography, foreign policy, public/global health, historical and artistic representations of various parts of the world including local regions in media, as well as concepts of equity, cultural competence, and diplomacy.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

community development, organizational development, law and public policy, education, social and human services, public administration, communication and media arts, environmental studies, and public health

16

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

To be formally admitted to the Tacoma Program, prospective students must meet the following criteria: 1) Complete a minimum of 90 transferable college credits or a transferable associate degree. You will start at the Tacoma Program as a junior or senior. 2) Complete an in-person intake interview at the Tacoma location. You can interview either before or after you begin the online application, but your application will not be processed until after your interview. To schedule an interview, call the student services coordinator at (253) 680-3005 or send an email to bufordv@evergreen.edu .

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

$10 per quarter for entrance fees.

Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 200
Daytime Evening

Scheduled for: Day and Evening

Tacoma

Located in: Tacoma

God(s): An Inquiry

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 25
16
Credits per quarter

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Sarah Eltantawi square
comparative religion

This comparative religion program will focus on the concept of God(s) and the theologies and cultures that surround this notion of the transcendent divine. We will cover, in order of appearance: Yoruba traditions, Shamanism, the ancient Greek world, ancient Chinese traditions (Confucianism, Taoism), Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Western philosophical critiques of the God concept, the New Atheist movement, and New Age movements.

Students should be prepared to engage with challenging primary and secondary texts from each religious tradition, watch and analyze relevant films, keep a journal of their process through this exploration, produce an academic research paper, and give an oral presentation of their findings at the end of the quarter.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

consciousness studies, history, religious studies, critical and cultural theory, philosophy, and further studies in the liberal arts.

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 25
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, January 7, 2019 - 10:00 am
SEM 2 D2107 - Seminar

Located in: Olympia

Health vs. Wealth

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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psychology
We will explore the intersection where valued health care meets paid health care. In the health care arena, good intent is plagued by paradox and can yield under-funding and a mismatch with initial intent. Paradoxes and costs haunting prevention, access, and treatment will be reviewed. The books Redefining Health Care and The New Health Care System  aid our journey as will the video series, "Remaking American Medicine", "Sick Around the World," and "Sick Around America". We will consider the path of unintended consequences where piles of dollars are not the full answer to identified need.
4

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 6:00 pm
SEM 2 A2109 - Seminar

Advertised schedule:

Tue 6-10pm

Located in: Olympia

History and Systems in Psychology (A)

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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psychology

The purpose of this course is to provide an overall view of the emergence of psychology as a field, its historical roots, its evolution within a broader sociocultural context, and philosophical currents running throughout this evolution. Attention will be paid to the interaction of theory development and the social milieu, the cultural biases within theory, and the effect of personal history on theoretical claims. This course is a core course, required for pursuit of graduate studies in psychology.

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - 6:00 pm
SEM 2 A2107 - Seminar

Advertised schedule:

Tuesdays, 6-9:50 pm

Located in: Olympia

History and Systems in Psychology (B)

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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psychology

The purpose of this course is to provide an overall view of the emergence of psychology as a field, its historical roots, its evolution within a broader sociocultural context, and philosophical currents running throughout this evolution. Attention will be paid to the interaction of theory development and the social milieu, the cultural biases within theory, and the effect of personal history on theoretical claims. This course is a core course, required for pursuit of graduate studies in psychology.

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, September 24, 2018 - 6:00 pm
SEM 2 A3107 - Seminar

Advertised schedule:

Mondays, 6-9:50 pm

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-09-14New offering added for Fall

Housing and Community Development

FallWinterSpring
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Weekend
Weekend
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 25
8
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Stephen Buxbaum
political economy, community development and planning

The design, condition and affordability of housing impacts every aspect of our society and culture. By studying how our society provides shelter for its people we can learn about our values, politics and beliefs. This program explores the evolution of housing policy and programs from a multi-disciplinary approach, using concepts from community psychology, urban planning and political economy.

During winter quarter we will examine the political, economic and social forces that drove the creation of federal and state housing programs from the depression years forward. Students will learn how analytical and political frameworks are used to create, evaluate and shape housing programs, projects and services.  We will examine how public housing policies and programs are used to provide shelter, stimulate the economy, protect the environment and support sustainable growth. We will examine the continuum of subsidies that are provided to everyone from high income earners and investors to people who are chronically homeless.

During spring quarter, we will focus on current approaches to solving housing affordability and homelessness in Washington State – including an examination of our state’s response to the needs of low-income individuals and families, homeless and special needs populations. We will be looking closely at different types of multi-family and single-family housing, and the policies that drive their development, as we consider how well the needs of individuals, families and communities are being met.

The program is crafted from a community development practitioner’s view of the design and implementation of housing and community development programs. Class sessions will be interactive, combining presentations by the instructor and guests with seminar style discussions and field trips. Learning objectives include a focus on developing critical thinking and writing skills.

This program is intended for students who are interested in the following career paths and issues: community and economic development, education, public administration, public policy, Washington State history and political science.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Public Administration, public policy, non-profit management, community development and urban planning.

8

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 25
Weekend

Scheduled for: Weekend

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Saturday, April 6, 2019 - 9:30 am
SEM 2 A1107 - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

Saturdays 9:30am-4pm

Some Saturday classes will include field trips to downtown Olympia and Grays Harbor County. Transportation will be provided for locations that are outside downtown Olympia .

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-11-01Updated description

How Do You Know What You Know?

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
EveningWeekend
Evening and Weekend
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 25
8
Credits per quarter

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Wang-Wenhong
sociology and social statistics

In this world of information explosion, we are constantly bombarded by new discoveries, surprising claims, as well as familiar statements, routine analyses, often backed by scientific evidence and numbers. So what is social scientific methodology? Why do we need it? What do we really mean by  scientific  research? What is the difference between scientific research and common sense? Can we really be objective in our research? What is the role of subjective judgment in research?  Is experimenting on human being ethical? What data can and cannot tell you? How to tell good research from bad research? Which approach is better, qualitative or quantitative, in what situations? What are the major methods for social scientific research? What role does statistics play in scientific research? How can you tell which numbers are used correctly and which are not? How can we use statistical tools to inform, to explore and to empower? And how do we know what we know? 

In this introductory research methodology program, we will look into the rationale of social scientific research, study the major methods in social sciences, and their pros and cons. We will learn to ask meaningful questions, practice research design, understand and evaluate research papers and last but not least, get our feet wet in the actual research practice. We are also going to study social statistics, including descriptive statistics and an overview of inferential statistics. Class activities will include workshops, lectures, seminars, and film screening. The students will demonstrate their learning through essays, group work, and a major research project involving statistical analysis.

The statistical component meets the prerequisites of Master in Teaching and Master of Public Administration. 

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Research in social sciences, social work, education, teaching, public administration

8

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

High school algebra

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 25
EveningWeekend

Scheduled for: Evening and Weekend

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Wednesday, April 3, 2019 - 6:00 pm
SEM 2 C3107 - Seminar

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2019-01-18Schedule change- class will now meet Wed/Sat, was Sat/Sun

Image, Object, Illusion: Photography and 3D Art

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 50
50% Reserved for Freshmen
16
Credits per quarter

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photography

In this program we will work hands-on in the photography and three-dimensional (3D) art studios, producing hybrid work that works within the worlds of objects and images simultaneously. This program will use the mediums of sculpture and photography as a means to ask ongoing questions within each field, and within the contemporary arts more generally. Some of these questions will regard the search for "proof" or "truth" within an object or image as well as the potency of craft and production in the rendering of illusions.

Students will learn to create their own images (color and black and white photos) and the basic requirements for building simple wood forms, among other materials. Students can expect to develop skills and precision in 2D and 3D techniques and materials through a number of projects designed to engage these techniques/materials in concert with one another. 

In this program, we will discuss how technological changes in photography, image editing, 3D modeling and manufacturing have changed our expectations for fidelity and accuracy in photos and objects.The program will require students to move between physical and optical illusions, and in some cases, understanding how each requires the other. We will work through concepts around optical illusions, some of which are obvious, and others not. Here, students will learn about the traditions of trompe l'oeil, tricenium (or three-way pictures), diptychs, triptychs, miniatures, forced perspective, Victorian "spirit" photography and other precedents for fooling the eye.

This program does not require any previous art, photography or metalsmithing experience. 

 

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Art, Art History, Design, Education

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Special expenses:

Depending on individual projects, students may choose to spend an additional $25 to $100 on materials.

Fees:

$150 for museum entrance fees and project supplies

Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 50
50% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 9:30 am
Art Annex 2103 - Art Studio

Located in: Olympia

In Sickness and In Health

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Sophomore
Freshman–Sophomore
Class Size: 46
50% Reserved for Freshmen
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Toska Olson
sociology, gender studies
Stein square
cultural anthropology

In this introductory program, students will explore cultural, social, and psychological approaches to the body and health and will build capacities for subsequent undergraduate studies. Using the lens of medical anthropology, we will consider diverse practices around sickness and healing and develop an understanding of Western biomedicine as a complex cultural system. Toward this aim, students will learn qualitative ethnographic techniques for documenting and analyzing cultural and social contexts. We will also consider how people generate stories about their experiences with illness and persistence; as part of this work, students will create interview-based audio podcasts.

An integrated social science exploration of health and well-being will lead us to readings and experiential exercises in areas such as positive psychology, sociology, neuroscience, somatic studies, and contemplative practices. We will participate in text-based seminar discussions and in workshops that aim to integrate mind, body, and spirit. Our intention will be to learn how to build the positive qualities that social scientists have determined are associated with strong and happy individuals, relationships, and communities. Students will cultivate foundational skills that are relevant across all careers and fields of study—observation, notetaking, analysis, researching, speaking, and writing—but that may be particularly helpful in social and human services, health care, and education.

Students who successfully complete the fall quarter program will be eligible to enroll in the second quarter of the expanded version of this program, Culture, Self, and Healing in spring 2019.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

social and human services, health care, and education.

16

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

$30 fee fall quarter for museum entrance

Freshman-Sophomore
Class Standing: Freshman–Sophomore
Class Size: 46
50% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, September 24, 2018 - 9:30 am
SEM 2 E1105 - Lecture

Located in: Olympia

May be offered again in:

Winter 2019

DateRevision
2018-07-20$30 required fee added for fall

Indigenous Identity Through the Arts

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Weekend
Weekend
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
2
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Gary Bigbear
visual art, indigenous studies

Through exposure to a wide variety of Indigenous art and music, this course will create opportunities for exploring personal identity through sketching and writing, drawing, design, oral storytelling, drum-making, drum-painting, and presentations. We will use an indigenous lens to examine the role of art within indigenous communities, as well as individual identity. Students will be crafting their own art and sharing their journey in a final presentation. 

2

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Fees:

$40 fee for drum kit materials and paints.

Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Weekend

Scheduled for: Weekend

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Sunday, November 4, 2018 - 2:00 pm
LONGHOUSE 1007A - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

Sundays November 4th and December 2nd: 2-4:50pm

Located in: Olympia

Inscribing the Body: Embodiment and the Performance of Identity in Creative Writing

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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In what ways is writing necessarily gendered? Or raced? Or seen through the lens of class?  This class will take up "the body" as a site of radical cultural production as expansively as possible, considering some of the forms in which bodies are othered through language, including through discourses of disability, gender performance, and other zones of often-felt difference and social dislocation. Though this is primarily a creative writing class, our writing will push itself outside its usual modes of expression. We will explore texts anthologized in the recent collection Troubling the Line, as well as in past collections, such as texts from The Black Arts Movement.  We will discuss and critique the rich tradition of "somatic" practices in the world of performance and live art and we will familiarize ourselves with important recent experiments in poetry and prose by authors such as kari edwards, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, and Renee Gladmann. Our end goal will be to curate a show and live reading that provides us a space to test out some of our textual experiments.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Arts, activism, graduate study

4

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - 6:00 pm
SEM 2 A2105 - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

Tue/Fri 6-8pm

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2019-01-02New Faculty: Lynarra Featherly

Integrated Natural Sciences (INS)

FallWinterSpring
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 100
25% Reserved for Freshmen
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

John Kirkpatrick
environmental chemistry, molecular biology and ecology, oceanography
neurobiology

This program integrates general chemistry, physical and environmental geology, and general biology, providing a rigorous and intensive foundation in the natural sciences. It is intended for students who are interested in pursuing more advanced coursework in biology, chemistry, and the earth sciences. Biological and chemical processes have shaped Earth over time: rock is the product of chemical reactions, the origin and evolution of life created an oxygen-rich atmosphere, and biogeochemical processes are the foundation of ecological function. This yearlong interdisciplinary program will focus on transformations of matter and energy in and between living and nonliving systems. This will provide an opportunity to gain an understanding of biological, chemical, and physical earth processes on a variety of scales. The nature of living organisms will be examined on molecular, cellular, and physiological levels within the context of their evolutionary history. Chemical topics of equilibria, thermodynamics, and kinetics will provide a framework to understand biological and ecological systems. Students will engage with these themes using an experimental approach to develop critical and quantitative reasoning skills. Fall quarter (taught by John Kirkpatrick, Nancy Murray and Kenneth Tabbutt) will integrate topics of biology, chemistry, and geology through the study of early Earth history. Earth materials (rocks and minerals) and processes that form and alter them will be examined. Molecular structure and properties will enhance our understanding of biological function at the molecular level. These will be covered through the study of genetics and inheritance, structure and synthesis of DNA and proteins, and how these molecules are integrated into cells. In winter quarter (taught by John Kirkpatrick, Nancy Murray and Kenneth Tabbutt) we will learn how fossil fuels and mineral resources are formed, as well as the impacts associated with their extraction and use (e.g., climate change). Chemical concepts of kinetics and equilibria will enhance our geological studies. Biology content will focus on a more organismal level by examining important concepts in animal developmental biology, reproduction, and physiology. In spring quarter (taught by John Kirkpatrick and Nancy Murray) we will examine equilibrium reactions in greater depth and begin our study of thermodynamics. We will further examine evolutionary processes on a macro level through the study of plants, diversification of life, and ecology. Program activities will include lectures, small group problem-solving workshops, laboratories, field work, and field trips. We expect students to end the program in spring with a working knowledge of scientific and quantitative concepts, the ability to reason critically and to solve problems, and with hands-on experience in natural science. Students will also gain a strong appreciation of the interconnectedness of biological and physical systems, and an ability to apply this knowledge to complex problems.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

chemistry, biology, geology, environmental science, and health sciences.

16

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

Students are expected to be proficient in math at the algebra II or precalculus level.

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 100
25% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 9:00 am
SEM 2 B1107 - Workshop

Located in: Olympia

May be offered again in:

2019-20

DateRevision
2018-08-14description updated to reflect faculty teaching per quarter

Intermediate Microeconomics

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 25
16
Credits per quarter

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This program is designed for students who are interested in critically studying economics beyond the introductory level. We will complete the equivalent of textbook intermediate microeconomics while critically assessing the boundaries of its usefulness and its ideological role in legitimating market solutions to complex social problems. 

We will survey two additional schools of economic thought: Marxist political economy and institutional economics. Our goal is not to choose the "right" school of thought. Instead, we will be guided by the belief that complex and diverse questions require diverse tools; no one school of thought will be sufficient. In the process, we will learn to be self-critical scholars, always asking of each approach: What does it illuminate and what does it obfuscate?

In seminar, we will emphasize the close reading of challenging texts by authors such as Thorstein Veblen, Jonathan Nitzan, Shimshon Bichler, Stephen Resnick, Richard Wolff, Deirdre McCloskey, Nancy Folbre, and Costas Lapavitsas. Program activities will include lectures, workshops, exams, short papers, and seminar.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

economics, political economy, history, public administration, and business.

16

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

principles of microeconomics, the equivalent, or winter enrollment in   Who Gets What?   : Political Economy of Income, Wealth and Economic Justice.

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 25
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 9:00 am
SEM 2 D3105 - Workshop

Located in: Olympia

Introduction to Digital Video Editing at SPSCC

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 4
4
Credits per quarter

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This course introduces post-production principles and procedures for editing digital video and audio. Students will examine the aesthetic, social, political, and cultural implications of editorial decision-making. 

NOTE: This class meets at South Puget Sound Community College, 2011 Mottman Road, SW, Olympia, WA 98512, in Building 21, Room 120, Monday and Wednesday evenings from 6:00-8:25 p.m.   Students must be registered by 5:00 PM on Thursday, March 28th. 

BOOKS: If a text is required students will need to purchase texts for this course from the SPSCC bookstore. The book list can be found on the bookstore website (http://spscc.bncollege.com) under the course FILMP115.    

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Prerequisites:

Students should have introductory experience with the basic theories and skills used in studio and field video production. Email the faculty (mgray@spscc.edu) if you have questions about your preparation. 

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

$85 digital video editing fee

Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 4
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

Located in: Olympia

Introduction to Electronics in Music I

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 18
4
Credits per quarter

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music technology and theory

In Introduction to Electronics in Music I, students will be introduced to the creative use of music technology from the perspective of the composer.  Students will create original compositions while developing technical skills in the studio.  We’ll contextualize our creative work by looking to early pioneers and experimenters of electronic music.  Students will develop proficiency in the music technology labs, using analog tape machines to create compositions while learning about signal flow, effective use of the mixing board, EQ, and effects.  No experience is required. Please contact the instructor for a course application.

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

$80 fee for magnetic tape

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 18
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - 6:00 pm
Com 343 - MTL Intro

Advertised schedule:

Tue 6-10p

Located in: Olympia

Introduction to Electronics in Music II

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 18
4
Credits per quarter

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music technology and theory

In Introduction to Electronics in Music II, students will continue to develop technical and creative skills in the music technology labs while exploring the music and ideas of early electronic music composers.  This quarter will focus on the fundamentals of sound synthesis and the creative use of the analog modular synthesizer.  Students will create compositions using the modular synthesizer, analog tape machines, and MIDI.  Students wishing to join in the winter quarter will be expected to complete a catch up assignment. Please contact the instructor for a course application.

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

$50 for electronic components.

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 18
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - 6:00 pm
Com 343 - MTL Intro

Advertised schedule:

Tue 6-10p

Located in: Olympia

Introduction to Electronics in Music III

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 18
4
Credits per quarter

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music technology and theory

In Introduction to Electronics in Music III, students will wrap up their year of creative exploration in the music technology labs.  Students will build upon the work of previous quarters and dive deeper into creative applications of the music technology labs.  Topics include digital audio workstations, composing with MIDI, developing electronic instruments using samples and synthesis, digital effect processing, and creative mixing.  

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

$20 for electronic supplies.

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 18
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 6:00 pm
Com 343 - MTL Intro

Advertised schedule:

Tue 6-10p

Located in: Olympia

Introduction to Environmental Studies

FallWinter
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Sophomore
Freshman–Sophomore
Class Size: 46
50% Reserved for Freshmen
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Calabria, Lalita square
botany, phytochemistry, systematics
Cook-Amy
ecology, vertebrate biology
Edward (Ted) Whitesell
geography, environmental studies
This program serves as an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of environmental studies, using natural and social sciences, as well as humanities to understand and address current environmental challenges. Students will engage in a variety of hands-on learning activities including field trips, case study and research projects; as well as labs, lectures, and seminars; with the central goal of advancing students' ability to think critically and in-depth about environmental challenges and solutions. Credit equivalencies of the program include introductory ecology, natural history, and environmental social science. Fall quarter (taught by Amy Cook and Ted Whitesell) will explore concepts in social science and ecology, including systems thinking, just sustainability, biocultural diversity, population biology and demography, community ecology, and ecosystem ecology. The study of fisheries, both for food and ornamentation, will bring together many of these concepts and allow us to examine both ecological and human communities around the world. Students will learn to examine the complex environmental consequences of the choices we make every day and will develop skills in analytical writing as practiced in the social and natural sciences. Readings will include both classic and contemporary environmental texts, scientific articles, and a novel. We will study scientific methods and statistics with a focus on hypothesis development and measures of central tendency (mean, median, and mode) and spread (variance and standard deviation).Winter quarter (taught by Ted Whitesell and Lalita Calabria) continues exploring local, regional, and global environmental issues with the added lenses of plant biodiversity and conservation, plus the environmental and cultural history of the Pacific Northwest. Students will gain experience and skills in the lab and field with plant identification, keeping a detailed field journal, and documenting and studying environmental change through the use of herbaria specimens and online biodiversity databases. We will study efforts to promote sustainable development and, through the use of political ecology, examine how the integration of social and natural science can lead to solutions that promote environmental quality and social justice. The program will explore the role that citizen science plays in strengthening both conservation and civil society. Students will be challenged to apply and more fully develop the skills and knowledge introduced in the fall quarter through in-depth research projects focusing on critical environmental problems and associated solutions and educating the public about these important issues in the form of a popular science blog post.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

ecosystem science, resource policy and conservation, and natural history.

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

$30 per quarter for entrance fees for museums, arboretums, cultural centers.

Freshman-Sophomore
Class Standing: Freshman–Sophomore
Class Size: 46
50% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - 10:00 am
Purce Hall 3 - Lecture

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-08-14Edited description to include faculty quarter distinctions

Introduction to Psychology

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Weekend
Weekend
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
25% Reserved for Freshmen
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Mark Hurst square
psychology

Scientific inquiry into human behavior and cognition is a dynamic and rapidly growing field that influences personal development and diverse careers. This course examines essential aspects of the human experience (neurology, sensation and perception, personality, learning, memory, cognition, emotion) and political, economic, and cultural influences. Contemporary trends and specific sub-disciplines (neuropsychology, childhood development, gerontology, organizational behavior, wellness, etc.) will be addressed. Those seeking underpinnings for work in mental health and social work, education, medicine, public policy, and law, will find this course indispensable. Students will demonstrate skill at applying theory to practice in “psychological notebooks”, integrative response papers and group activities.

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
25% Reserved for Freshmen
Weekend

Scheduled for: Weekend

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Sunday, September 30, 2018 - 9:00 am
SEM 2 A2105 - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

Sunday 9a-4:50p: 9/30, 10/14, 10/28, 11/11, 12/2

Located in: Olympia

Invertebrate Zoology

WinterSpring
Winter 2019
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 50
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Angelos Katsanis
ecology, entomology, agronomy
Pauline Yu square portrait
marine science

How do insects drive the evolution of flowers? How have marine organisms contributed to global carbon cycling? How has human history been influenced by insects? What ecosystems are engineered by invertebrates? How have the biological properties of invertebrates influenced materials, science, robotics, pharmacology, human history, and artificial intelligence?

In this two-quarter program, we will focus on learning the identity, anatomy, and evolutionary relationships of terrestrial and marine invertebrate organisms. Marine environments support the majority of invertebrate evolutionary biodiversity; all body forms (bauplan) and modes of living are represented among marine invertebrates. Arthropods constitute the majority of known animal diversity on Earth, and insects in particular are a vital part of both ecosystem health and influence on human society. Yet invertebrates are marginalized in Western culture as the ultimate "other;" as alien, as unpalatable, as unlovable, as inanimate.

The proximity of Evergreen's campus to various marine and terrestrial habitats provides excellent opportunities to study invertebrates. Evergreen's Organic Farm, neighboring agricultural areas, and local gardens provide an opportunity for hands-on experiences studying bees, wild and domestic. Evergreen's shellfish garden and aquaria will provide marine invertebrate husbandry experiences. The Evergreen Natural History Museum will also serve as a learning lab for this program. The local and global importance of invertebrate biodiversity in ecosystem structure, function, and relationships to human society will be explored. Emphasis will be placed on learning the taxonomy, natural history, and anatomy of regional fauna. Along the way we will excavate human misconceptions, bioethics, and phobias associated with invertebrate interactions. Are humans really so different?

Students will learn fundamental laboratory and field techniques and will be required to design and complete a group research project, scientific paper, and presentation utilizing the available microscopy facilities (light and scanning electron microscopes). Training in specimen preparation and digital photomicroscopy will be integral to the program curriculum. Scientific illustration and an arthropod collection will be required as part of portfolio work. This program will include extensive work in both the lab and field, including day trips and weeklong off-campus field trips. Extended field experience is a requirement of the program.

Main texts will be Invertebrates by Brusca and Brusca, and an entomology textbook to be selected; additional assigned materials will include primary scientific literature, field guides, and popular science books.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

environmental studies, natural resource conservation, entomology, marine science, and zoology.

16

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

Two quarters of college-level biological sciences with labs. General biology experience preferred.

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

$40 for winter for entrance fees. $695 in spring for museum fees and two weeklong field trips.

Upper division science credit:

Students completing all the work in this program at a satisfactory level will earn 32 upper-division science credits.

Research Opportunities:

Group research projects or capstone research will consist of utilizing multiple microscopy techniques to investigate invertebrate anatomy.

Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 50
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 9:30 am
Purce Hall 4 - Lecture

Located in: Olympia

May be offered again in:

Winter 2021

DateRevision
2019-04-16Variable added for Winter

Japanese - First Year I

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 30
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Tomoko Hirai Ulmer
Japanese language and culture

This first quarter of a year-long sequence covers Japanese language studies and is designed for complete beginners. 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.  Class activities will include presentations, watching film and TV clips, and discussion.  Japanese culture and life will be discussed throughout the course.

This is a good preparatory course for students interested in participating in Evergreen's exchange program with University of Miyazaki or University of Hyogo in Japan. 

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 30
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - 5:15 pm
SEM 2 B3105 - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

Tuesdays and Thursdays, 5:15-6:50 pm

Located in: Olympia

Japanese - First Year I at SPSCC

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 5
4
Credits per quarter

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This introductory Japanese language course is designed for complete beginners. The course will introduce the four basic skills of Japanese language: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The students will learn the language within a cultural context.

NOTE: This class meets at South Puget Sound Community College, 2011 Mottman Road, SW, Olympia, WA 98512, in Building 21, Room 294, Monday and Wednesday evenings from 6:00-8:25 p.m.

IMPORTANT: This class begins BEFORE Evergreen’s Fall quarter, on Monday, September 17. Students must be registered by 5:00 PM on Thursday, September 13.

BOOKS: If a text is required students will need to purchase texts for this course from the SPSCC bookstore. The book list can be found on the bookstore website (http://spscc.bncollege.com) under the course JAPN&121.

Faculty contact: asuzuki@spscc.edu

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 5
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

Advertised schedule:

Monday and Wednesday 6:00-8:25pm. This class meets at South Puget Sound Community College, 2011 Mottman Road, SW, Olympia, WA 98512, in Building 21, Room 294

IMPORTANT: This class begins BEFORE Evergreen’s Fall quarter, on Monday, September 17. Students must be registered by 5:00 PM on Thursday, September 13. 

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-06-25New Fall quarter offering added (at SPSCC)

Japanese - First Year II

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Tomoko Hirai Ulmer
Japanese language and culture

This second quarter of a year-long sequence covers Japanese language studies and is designed for beginners. 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.  Class activities will include presentations, watching film and TV clips, and discussion.  Japanese culture and life will be discussed throughout the course.

This is a good preparatory course for students interested in participating in Evergreen's exchange program with University of Miyazaki or University of Hyogo in Japan. 

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Prerequisites:
Japanese- First Year I or equivalent required
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - 5:00 pm
SEM 2 B3105 - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

Tuesdays and Thursdays, 5:15-7 pm

Located in: Olympia

Japanese - First Year III

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Tomoko Hirai Ulmer
Japanese language and culture

This third quarter of a year-long sequence covers Japanese language studies and is designed for students who have taken Japanese language studies previously. Students will learn how to function in Japanese in everyday situations by learning useful expressions and basic sentence structures. They will continue studying  kanji reading and writing. Class activities will include presentations, watching film and TV clips, and discussion.  Japanese culture and life will be discussed throughout the course.

This is a good preparatory course for students interested in participating in Evergreen's exchange program with University of Miyazaki or University of Hyogo in Japan. 

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Prerequisites:
Japanese- First Year II or equivalent required
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 5:00 pm
SEM 2 B3105 - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

Tuesdays and Thursdays, 5:15-7 pm

Located in: Olympia

Japanese - Second Year I

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Tomoko Hirai Ulmer
Japanese language and culture

This first quarter of a year-long sequence covers the beginning of 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. Student who have completed two years of Japanese may join this class and study at the third year level.

This is a good preparatory course for students interested in participating in Evergreen's exchange program with University of Miyazaki or University of Hyogo in Japan. 

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Prerequisites:
1 year or college level Japanese or equivalent required
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - 3:00 pm
SEM 2 B3105 - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3-4:50 pm

Located in: Olympia

Japanese - Second Year II

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Tomoko Hirai Ulmer
Japanese language and culture

This second quarter of a year-long sequence covers more advanced 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 video clips, and discussion. Students will have focused studies on conversation skills, reading, or kanji  in small groups.  Japanese culture and life will be discussed throughout the course.  The class is conducted primarily in Japanese. Student who have completed two years of Japanese may join this class and study at the third year level.

This is a good preparatory course for students interested in participating in Evergreen's exchange program with University of Miyazaki or University of Hyogo in Japan. 

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Prerequisites:
1 year or college level Japanese or equivalent required
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - 3:00 pm
SEM 2 B3105 - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3-5 pm

Located in: Olympia

Japanese - Second Year III

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Tomoko Hirai Ulmer
Japanese language and culture

This third quarter of a year-long 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 video clips, and discussion. Students will have focused studies on conversation skills, reading, or kanji.  Japanese culture and life will be discussed throughout the course.  The class is conducted primarily in Japanese. Student who have completed two years of Japanese may join this class and study at the third year level.

This is a good preparatory course for students interested in participating in Evergreen's exchange program with University of Miyazaki or University of Hyogo in Japan. 

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Prerequisites:
1 year or college level Japanese or equivalent required
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 3:00 pm
SEM 2 B3105 - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3-5 pm

Located in: Olympia

Jazz Ensemble - at SPSCC

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 10
2
Credits per quarter

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This class provides the instrumentalist with an opportunity to study, rehearse and perform selected jazz music, and is open to students who have the ability to play a wind instrument.  Students will develop skill in musical improvisation. Participation by “non-music majors” is highly encouraged. Students must have the ability to read music and have basic knowledge of music theory and ability to play a jazz instrument. College drums and piano will be used. Otherwise, students are expected to use their own instruments. If you’re uncertain whether your instrument is appropriate for this ensemble, contact faculty.  Students will be placed into different ensembles through an audition process.

 

Faculty: James Schneider jschneider@spscc.edu

 

NOTE: Course meets at South Puget Community College, Main Campus, 2011 Mottman Road SW, Olympia, WA 98512, Tuesdays  5:30-8:30pm in BLDG 21, Room 253-- The first class will meet on Tuesday, September 18 (before Evergreen's start date) . Students must be registered by 5:00 PM on Thursday September 13th.

The textbook for this course can be purchased at SPSCC Bookstore. The text will be listed under the course ID MUSC134, and can be found at this address: http://spscc.bncollege.com

2

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Fees:

$50 required Jazz Ensemble Fee

Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 10
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

Located in: Olympia

Off-campus location:

This class meets at South Puget Sound Community College, 2011 Mottman Road, SW, Olympia, WA 98512, Building 21, room 253

  IMPORTANT: This class begins BEFORE Evergreen’s Fall quarter, on Tuesday, September 18.

 

Jazz Ensemble - at SPSCC

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 10
2
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

This class provides the instrumentalist with an opportunity to study, rehearse and perform selected jazz music, and is open to students who have the ability to play a wind instrument.  Students will develop skill in musical improvisation. Participation by “non-music majors” is highly encouraged. Students must have the ability to read music and have basic knowledge of music theory and ability to play a jazz instrument. College drums and piano will be used. Otherwise, students are expected to use their own instruments. If you’re uncertain whether your instrument is appropriate for this ensemble, contact faculty.  Students will be placed into different ensembles through an audition process.

 

Faculty: James Schneider jschneider@spscc.edu

 

NOTE: Course meets at South Puget Community College, Main Campus, 2011 Mottman Road SW, Olympia, WA 98512, Tuesdays  5:30-8:30pm in BLDG 21, Room 253. Students must be registered by 5:00 PM on Thursday December 27th.

The textbook for this course can be purchased at SPSCC Bookstore. The text will be listed under the course ID MUSC134, and can be found at this address: http://spscc.bncollege.com

2

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Fees:

$50 required Jazz Ensemble Fee

Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 10
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

Located in: Olympia

Off-campus location:

This class meets at South Puget Sound Community College, 2011 Mottman Road, SW, Olympia, WA 98512, Building 21, room 253.

DateRevision
2018-06-25New Fall quarter offering added (at SPSCC)

Jazz Ensemble - at SPSCC

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 10
2
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

This class provides the instrumentalist with an opportunity to study, rehearse and perform selected jazz music, and is open to students who have the ability to play a wind instrument.  Students will develop skill in musical improvisation. Participation by “non-music majors” is highly encouraged. Students must have the ability to read music and have basic knowledge of music theory and ability to play a jazz instrument. College drums and piano will be used. Otherwise, students are expected to use their own instruments. If you’re uncertain whether your instrument is appropriate for this ensemble, contact faculty.  Students will be placed into different ensembles through an audition process.

 

Faculty: James Schneider jschneider@spscc.edu

 

NOTE: Course meets at South Puget Community College, Main Campus, 2011 Mottman Road SW, Olympia, WA 98512, Tuesdays  5:30-8:30pm in BLDG 21, Room 253. Students must be registered by 5:00 PM on Thursday March 28th.

The textbook for this course can be purchased at SPSCC Bookstore. The text will be listed under the course ID MUSC134, and can be found at this address: http://spscc.bncollege.com

2

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Fees:

$60 required Jazz Ensemble Fee

Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 10
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

Located in: Olympia

Off-campus location:

This class meets at South Puget Sound Community College, 2011 Mottman Road, SW, Olympia, WA 98512, Building 21, room 253.

Language, Power, Story

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 48
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Kristina Ackley
Native American studies
Hastings-Rachel
linguistics, mathematics

What is the significance of language within a community? How have marginalized peoples’ struggles for survival, autonomy, and identity been affected by language attitudes and policies? In this program we will explore the nature and structure of language and stories, and the ways in which they have been used in dominant and colonial structures. We will identify links between language and culture, examine case studies of language revitalization efforts, and consider the ways in which orality, literacy, and education intersect with cultural transmission and histories. We will use an interdisciplinary lens of Native American studies and linguistics as ways to explore these broad questions.

In addition to considering Northwest cultures and communities, we will study the role of indigenous languages in North American cultures, and in other parts of the world (such as Quechua in South America and Maori in New Zealand). We will examine educational practices, including assimilationist models, and links to immigrant experiences and language. We will use texts, lectures, workshops, seminar discussions, and films to investigate our program themes. We will critically evaluate the role of museums and public history. We will visit a local tribal museum as well as take day trips to other museums.

Through program workshops students will develop a variety of skills, including historical research, linguistic analysis, library research methods, and policy research and writing. We will help students learn to listen and observe attentively, gain awareness of the varieties of language we use and hear in our communities, do close and critical reading with challenging texts, contribute clear and well-developed writing, and acquire research skills in linguistics, history, and Native American studies.

 

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Native American studies, history, and linguistics.

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

$30 admission fees

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 48
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - 9:30 am
SEM 2 B1107 - Workshop

Located in: Olympia

Language, Power, Story

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 50
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Kristina Ackley
Native American studies
Hastings-Rachel
linguistics, mathematics

What is the significance of language within a community? How have marginalized peoples’ struggles for survival, autonomy, and identity been affected by language attitudes and policies? In this program we will explore the nature and structure of language and stories, and the ways in which they have been used in dominant and colonial structures. We will identify links between language and culture, examine case studies of language revitalization efforts, and consider the ways in which orality, literacy, and education intersect with cultural transmission and histories. We will use an interdisciplinary lens of Native American studies and linguistics as ways to explore these broad questions.

In addition to considering Northwest cultures and communities, we will study the role of indigenous languages in North American cultures, and in other parts of the world (such as Quechua in South America and Maori in New Zealand). We will examine educational practices, including assimilationist models, and links to immigrant experiences and language. We will use texts, lectures, workshops, seminar discussions, and films to investigate our program themes. We will critically evaluate the role of museums and public history. We will visit a local tribal museum as well as take day trips to other museums.

Through program workshops students will develop a variety of skills, including historical research, linguistic analysis, library research methods, and policy research and writing. We will help students learn to listen and observe attentively, gain awareness of the varieties of language we use and hear in our communities, do close and critical reading with challenging texts, contribute clear and well-developed writing, and acquire research skills in linguistics, history, and Native American studies.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Native American studies, history, linguistics

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

$20 for entrance fees to Squaxin Island Museum, WA State History Museum, Museum of Glass

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 50
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 9:30 am
SEM 2 E2105 - Workshop

Located in: Olympia

Languages of Unsaying: Islam, Secularism, and American Poetry

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 50
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Sarah Eltantawi square
comparative religion

The term "unsaying" refers to the mystery of needing a name to refer to a transcendent that defies all representation, including that of names. In response to this need Sufi poets, in both Arabic and other languages, have created one of the richest of mystical poetries in world culture, often in a dialectic with concepts of Law. Contemporary Arab poets have also asserted a humanistic and secular worldview in response to these traditions. These poets have in turn inspired a rich translation tradition in American culture, and an answering music in American poetry. The program seeks to uncover the cross-cultural currents running between Islam and the episteme of the American poem.

Through the poetics of the "every day", these poets often conversely ask larger questions of "civilization" and what it means or does not mean. Readings for this program include Ibn Arabi, Rumi, Atar, and Hafez (Persian), Ibn Hallaj, and contemporary Arab poets such as Adonis, Naomi Shiban Nye, Mahmoud Darwish, and Etal Adnan. American poets and writers to be considered include Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson, as well as contemporary poets such as Nathaniel Mackey, Joseph Donahue, and Fanny Howe. We will also consider the poetry and writing of the Spanish poet Frederico Garcia Lorca, himself an influence on many American poets, including Jack Spicer. Students pursuing the studies of literature, religion, cultural studies, and philosophy will find this program of interest; there will as well be opportunities to pursue creative writing projects from prompts that draw from the material. Learning objectives include the deepening of cross-cultural understanding, the sharpening of one's reading and writing skills, and the development of one's eye and ear for nuance and mystery.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

religious studies and writing.

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 50
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, April 1, 2019 - 9:00 am
SEM 2 D1105 - Lecture

Located in: Olympia

Leading and Managing in a Changing World

FallWinterSpring
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Weekend
Weekend
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
8
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Dariush Khaleghi
Leadership, Management, Organizational Psychology and Behavior, and Human Resources Management

The business world has entered a new normal characterized by relentless change, complexity and continuous disruptions. Emerging trends in globalization, technology, politics, environmental sustainability, social responsibility, demographics and multiple generations in the workplace have further complicated leadership and management roles and responsibilities in organizations. As a result, the business world is evolving and people are being recognized more and more as the source of business success and not a resource to it. Acknowledging the significance of people's individual and collective contributions to the success of an enterprise, many organizations have provided greater levels of delegation, participation and decision making to their employees at all levels, transforming the traditional roles of leaders and managers. To create a thriving and sustainable organizations, there is a need for conscious and authentic leaders who possess the appropriate competencies (i.e., empathy, collaboration, cultural affinity, flexibility, and interpersonal communication) and management skills (i.e., performance management, decision making, delegation, coaching, conflict management, and change management) to guide their organizations through the challenges of the 21 st century.

This program focuses on developing mindful and self-aware leaders who possess moral clarity, emotional intelligence and cognitive agility to inspire and engage others in building sustainable work communities. In this program, students will explore leadership, management, human resource and talent management and organizational psychology and behavior and gain insights into challenges and opportunities inherent in managing and leading people in tumultuous times. This program is highly interactive and collaborative. It teaches students critical concepts and skills to examine their values, purpose and passion to develop the foundation of their personal and professional leadership and the skills they need to be excellent people managers. This program provides students with the opportunity to reflect, collaborate, and learn through individual and group activities including self-evaluation, cases, discussions and seminars, field work, research and team projects.;

For the Fall quarter, the emphasis will be on organizational psychology and behavior (i.e., self-awareness, self-confident and self-efficacy) and developing self as a leader. The primary goal of this quarter will be to help student develop a sense of who they are, what their mission and purpose are, and how they can build a moral, psychological and cognitive foundation to become effective leaders and influencers.

In the Winter quarter, the focus will be on building skills and competencies to lead and influence others. To be an effective leader and people manager, students need to gain skills and competencies in team building, motivating and developing others, promoting diversity and inclusion, conflict management, risk taking, communication, goal setting, coaching and performance management.

In the Spring quarter, student will learn about leading and managing organizations in addition to gaining technical skills in human resource and talent management. Topics covered in this quarter will include strategic thinking and planning, problem solving, process improvement, creativity and innovation, change management, high emotional and cognitive intelligence, talent management and building resilient organizations.

8

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Weekend

Scheduled for: Weekend

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Saturday, April 6, 2019 - 9:00 am
SEM 2 A3105 - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

Saturdays 9:00am-1:50pm  + required online coursework

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-07-10Fall course fee removed
2018-03-09Schedule update: Class is now Saturdays only (was Thu + Sat)

Liberal Education in the College Bubble: Crossing the Political and Cultural Divide

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
25% Reserved for Freshmen
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Michael (Mike) Paros
veterinary medicine

“The only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing what can be said about it by persons of every variety of opinion, and studying all modes in which it can be looked at by every character of mind” - John Stuart Mill

One purpose of a liberal education is to free or liberate students from narrow perspectives, limited thinking, partisanship, and categorical rhetoric in order to obtain knowledge. Affirmations of absolutes should give way to identification and clarification of ambiguities of complex topics. This can best be achieved in an environment where we are confronted with our preconceived notions of the world and are encouraged to engage in the dialectic: the rational exchange of conflicting ideas in a common pursuit of truth. This demanding work can be challenging in a setting where diverse viewpoints are absent. Lecture, and seminar topics will address the questions of how, when, and why the human mind can be resistant to realities that run counter to strongly held convictions. We will explore how the values that bind us into cohesive groups of like minded people can also blind us to our weaknesses. This interdisciplinary course will draw upon such diverse fields as moral psychology, social science, statistics, and philosophy. We will extensively consult with leading national experts on these topics while using Evergreen as a case study on how colleges and universities might address contentious issues of political diversity, free speech, freedom of thought, and censorship. Students and faculty will begin the quarter by identifying their own personal intuitions on relevant contentious issues. We will then independently examine a controversial question which we feel most certain and passionate about, but from the opposite perspective than we currently possess. In addition, students will individually engage with communities who have identities, values and opinions dissimilar to their own, while reflecting upon these experiences through writing. Through weekly readings, critical thinking skills will be refined through careful quantitative and qualitative examination of evidence while analyzing underlying assumptions and biases. Students will learn to distinguish between conceptual, empirical, and value claims while becoming adept at identifying logical fallacies. As a class we will cultivate virtues of intellectual humility with the primary aim of pursuing knowledge and truth ahead of social and political action. All perspectives on issues are not only welcome, but strongly encouraged. However, students who require “ideological safe spaces” where particular viewpoints are considered offensive may want to seek a different program.

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.

Upper division science credit:

Students who have appropriate preparatory science background may have the opportunity to earn up to eight upper division science credits for critically evaluating an empirical claim through reading and analysis of scientific literature as part of an independent project component.

Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
25% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - 9:00 am
Purce Hall 8 - Classroom

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2017-08-23New description added.

Literary Arts Foundations

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 25
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Hendricks-Steven
book arts, literature, creative writing

This program will provide a supportive and challenging environment for you to grow as a writer and thinker in a learning community that combines rigor, creative play, and collaboration. Our study of literature will begin with a variety of 20th century modernist and postmodernist authors (Woolf, Carrington, Beckett, Borges, and Calvino), which will provide an historical backdrop for our exploration of contemporary literary fiction and poetry (Butler, Ishiguro, McCarthy, Bechdel, and Long Soldier); we'll also work carefully through readings on writing craft and literary theory.

By the end of the program, you will have learned close reading practices and how to build arguable claims about literary texts. You will develop “beyond beginning” skills in library research, research question development, and appropriate use of sources, which will complement the development of  formal writing skills that meet a variety of purposes. Creative writing assignments will push you to heighten your awareness of the craft and of your own creative process and will also enable you to better understand the work of others.

Literary Arts Foundations is an annually repeating program for students interested in building an emphasis in Literary Arts and includes creative writing practice, skill-building in close reading and literary analysis, and discussion of major concepts in literary thought and history that have special relevance to writers. While the syllabus changes each year, Literary Arts Foundations programs are specifically designed to be preparatory for Advanced, Capstone, and other upper division programs in creative writing and literary study. Find more information about Fall 2018 Literary Arts Foundations at http://blogs.evergreen.edu/hendrics/ . Other programs in 2018-19 include similar foundational experiences, for instance: Unmasking the Material World, The German Program, Dangerous Readings, Writing the Wild West, and Combinatory Play.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

writing, literature, editing, publishing, and the arts. 

16

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Prerequisites:

Strong, college-level reading and writing skills

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 25
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, September 24, 2018 - 9:30 am
SEM 2 C3109 - Seminar

Advertised schedule:

Mon 9:30am-3:00pm (lecture & seminar); Wed 9:30am-1:00pm (guest lectures series & research seminar); Thurs 9:30am - 4:00pm (workshop and seminar).

Located in: Olympia

May be offered again in:

Fall 2019

Literature, Literacy, and Disability

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 25
16
Credits per quarter

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“[D]isability has a funny way of popping up everywhere without announcing itself  as  disability.” (Michael Bérubé,  The Secret Life of Stories: From Don Quixote to Harry Potter, How Understanding Intellectual Disability Transforms the Way We Read )

This program is an opportunity for students to explore the nexus between literary studies and disability studies, while linking theory with practice through work on campus and in the Olympia community. In the Evergreen classroom, students will be introduced—through faculty presentations, guest speakers, seminars, film screenings, and creative writing workshops—to the world of intellectual disability. Beyond campus, students will participate as (1) tutors/mentors in the LEAD (Literacy and Education for Adults with Disabilities) program, a collaboration between Evergreen and Olympia-based Kokua Services, a non-profit, residential-support agency that serves adults with intellectual disabilities, and (2) co-learners at Hummingbird Studio, a Kokua-hosted inclusive community space where art is accessible to individuals of all abilities. Program requirements will include weekly seminar assignments, a journal of reflections on activities in the LEAD program and at Hummingbird Studio, and a creative nonfiction writing project. At the heart of our quarter-long journey will be an insistence that understanding intellectual disability not only transforms the way we read, but the very nature of how we make sense of the world around us.

Please note the following:

  • This program will meet on Tuesdays and Fridays from 10:00 to 11:50 a.m., and from 1:00 to 3:50 p.m. In addition, students should leave their Wednesdays open from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (at least through Week 1) for scheduling one or more quarter-long Hummingbird Studio sessions. Finally, weekly LEAD sessions will be scheduled according to the needs of Evergreen tutors/mentors and their learners. 
  • Students are expected to continue as LEAD mentors/tutors in spring quarter and will be eligible for Internship Learning Contracts (typically for 2 credits, but can be expanded to as many as 16 credits if the contract includes an academic component).

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

community studies, disability studies, cultural studies, humanities, and education.

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 25
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - 10:00 am
SEM 2 A2107 - Seminar

Located in: Olympia

Living Well: Psychology and Sustainability

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Freshman
Freshman Only
Class Size: 46
100% Reserved for Freshmen
16
Credits per quarter

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What can we learn from past and current cultures about how to best live on this planet? How have people throughout time met their basic needs, and what systems appear to produce both psychological health and community wellness? What are your own goals for positive mental health and sustainable living today?

This first-year program will provide an in-depth exploration of introductory psychology and anthropology, in the context of personal and communal wellness and sustainability.  From foraging cultures of the past, to off-the-grid communities or urban neighborhoods of today, we will explore psychological theories and cross-cultural approaches to life that demonstrate personal and collective engagement with our environment, and its limited resources, while maintaining thriving, healthy communities. Students will build vocabularies, analyses, and hands-on skills in the fields of psychology, anthropology and sustainability.

Following the theme of “living well,” the program will also look at how to apply psychology to the student's personal development. We will explore techniques of positive psychology that relate not only to "happiness" but also to "life satisfaction," and how these are shaped by culture and environment. 

Project work will include designing sustainable communities in teams to understand how psychological, economic, and environmental health are intertwined. Weekly writing workshops will support this project work.  The program will also include local field trips where students can interact with people building intentional, sustainable communities. We hope to travel to Port Townsend, for example, to visit the Port Townsend Ecovillage. Local field trips may include Fertile Ground, an urban sustainable demonstration site, or co-housing experiments such as the Woodard Lane Co-housing community, or other examples of intentional communities.  

Additionally, a community partnership with the Thurston County Food Bank will enable us to connect with local initiatives, apply our knowledge, and offer something to the community. We will spend some portion of each week helping to garden or process food for the local Food Bank.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

community development, sustainability, and anthropology

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

$200 for entrance fees, supplies, and overnight field trip.

Freshman-Freshman
Class Standing: Freshman Only
Class Size: 46
100% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - 9:30 am
SEM 2 E1107 - Workshop

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-09-07Ada Fetters added to the teaching team
2018-05-04This program's subtitle and description have been updated (formerly Living Well: The Anthropology of Sustainability). Class size has increased to 46.

Making Theatre, Making Dance

FallWinter
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 50
16
Credits per quarter

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modern dance, kinesiology

This program supports intermediate and advanced performing arts students, linking separate work in dance and theater with integrated work exploring intersections.

In Making Dance, coursework includes progressive study in the anatomical and kinesiological foundations of dance, rigorous daily practice in Nikolais/Louis-based technique, experimental theory/improvisation, dance composition, and performance. Fall quarter focuses on somatic awareness, technique, theory/improvisation, and methods of conceptualizing, generating, developing, and refining movement into dance compositions suitable for presentation on the proscenium stage. Intensive studio work is augmented with texts, films, and lecture-demonstrations on aesthetics and the sociocultural dimensions of dance and its relation to other arts. Each week emphasizes a clearly stated artistic premise explored technically, theoretically, and through student-centered problem-solving assignments in composition. Seminars include regular peer and faculty critique of work-in-progress, including strategies for presenting hybrid dance and theater works. We will culminates in fall and spring quarter dance theater concerts.

In Making Theater, students will experience training in acting, directing, movement, and vocal techniques in order to utilize these skills in a final performance. These productions will take place in fall and winter quarters, and may come from the realistic or experimental theater. The first seven to eight weeks of each quarter will be spent in rehearsal for the productions. Drawing upon the interdisciplinary nature of theater, this program involves primarily acting, but may also include dramaturgical work, dance, assistant directing, stage management, set and costume construction, publicity, and all the other areas related to successful play production. For example, a student will spend three quarters of program time in rehearsal, and the rest of the time working in the shop building the set or on some other aspect of the production. In short, every student will participate in more than one area of the production process.

In addition to focused study in theater and dance skills respectively, we will experiment with alternating, overlapping, and integrating the two forms into hybrid dance-theater works. Using the dynamics of movement and the content themes of theater, how do verbal and nonverbal communications support each other? Are some literary themes more amenable to the dance, and others more suitable for theater? How do we abstract aspects of reality into poetic movement and theater? What are the differences and similarities of the two art forms? How can they be used effectively and presented on stage using sets, props, costumes, and lighting?

Please note that there will also be four position in technical theatre, two in set construction and lighting, two in costuming.  Students with a strong interest in set design and construction, lighting, and costuming should apply got these positions.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

dance and theater.

16

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Prerequisites:

intermediate and advanced experience in the performing arts. 

Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Fees:

$100 for supplies and entrance fees in Fall. $100 for supplies and entrance fees in Winter.

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 50
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, January 7, 2019 - 9:00 am
Com 209 - Dance Studio

Located in: Olympia

Mapping for Change (A)

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Michael Ruth headshot
Geographic Information Systems (GIS), field deployment, workflow analysis

Maps are powerful tools for understanding the relationships between people and place.  They have been used to divide and unite, to expose environmental problems, to plan for peace, and to prepare for war.  If a picture is worth a thousand words, a map might be worth millions.

In this course, students will learn the basics of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for the production of digital maps using computer software.  We will study the elements of good cartographic design and apply those elements to produce meaningful maps with a purpose.  The first half of the quarter will be spent developing fundamental skills with GIS software.  The second half of the quarter will culminate in a project to produce a series of maps that illustrate a social or environmental problem, and which could be used to advocate for a change in policy or raise public awareness about an issue.

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Prerequisites:

Students who enroll should be comfortable using computers, have a knowledge of basic algebra, and some experience using spreadsheet software like Excel. Knowing how to navigate the Windows file/folder system in some depth will help you avoid a "double learning curve."  Both upper and lower division students are welcome.

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Wednesday, April 3, 2019 - 6:00 pm
LAB 2 1223B - CAL East

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2019-03-14Faculty Change: Course is now taught by Mike Ruth (was John Baldridge)
2018-11-16New offering added for Spring

Mapping for Change (B)

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Michael Ruth headshot
Geographic Information Systems (GIS), field deployment, workflow analysis

Maps are powerful tools for understanding the relationships between people and place.  They have been used to divide and unite, to expose environmental problems, to plan for peace, and to prepare for war.  If a picture is worth a thousand words, a map might be worth millions.

In this course, students will learn the basics of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for the production of digital maps using computer software.  We will study the elements of good cartographic design and apply those elements to produce meaningful maps with a purpose.  The first half of the quarter will be spent developing fundamental skills with GIS software.  The second half of the quarter will culminate in a project to produce a series of maps that illustrate a social or environmental problem, and which could be used to advocate for a change in policy or raise public awareness about an issue.

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Prerequisites:

Students who enroll should be comfortable using computers, have a knowledge of basic algebra, and some experience using spreadsheet software like Excel. Knowing how to navigate the Windows file/folder system in some depth will help you avoid a "double learning curve."  Both upper and lower division students are welcome.

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Thursday, April 4, 2019 - 6:00 pm
LIB 2617 - Windows / Linux Lab

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2019-03-14Faculty Change: Course is now taught by Mike Ruth (was John Baldridge)
2018-11-16New offering added for Spring

Matter and Motion

FallWinterSpring
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 50
25% Reserved for Freshmen
16Variable
Credits per quarter
Variable Credit Options Available

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Taught by

Dharshi Bopegedera
physical chemistry

This yearlong program is a rigorous introduction to the knowledge and skills students need to continue their studies in physics, chemistry, mathematics, and the natural sciences. We will cover key concepts in university physics, general chemistry, and calculus.

Modern science has been remarkably successful in providing understanding of how natural systems behave. Such disparate phenomena as the workings of cell phones, the ways in which we detect supermassive black holes in the galactic core, the use of magnetic resonance imaging in the diagnosis of disease, the effects of global carbon dioxide levels on shellfish growth, and the design of batteries for electric cars, are all linked at a deeply fundamental level. This program will introduce you to the theory and practice of the science behind these and other phenomena, while providing the solid academic background in mathematics, chemistry, and physics necessary for advanced study in those fields as well as for engineering, medicine, and biology.

There will be a strong laboratory focus during which we will explore the nature of chemical and physical systems in a highly collaborative environment. The key to success in the program will depend on commitment to work, learning, and collaboration.

The work will be intensive and challenging, but the material exciting; students should expect to spend at least 50 hours a week engaged with assignments and material during and outside of class. During fall we will focus on skill building in the laboratory and acquiring the basic tools in chemistry, physics, and calculus. By winter quarter students will increase their ability to integrate disciplines, moving between established models and experimental data to ask and seek answers to their own questions. A spring quarter component will be a library or laboratory research project and presentation of their findings to the public, allowing students to share their knowledge with a broad audience.

Credit equivalencies for the program include calculus (I, II, and III), general chemistry with laboratory, and university physics with laboratory.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

chemistry, physics, mathematics,  engineering, environmental science, medicine and health-care fields, and teaching.

16Variable

Credits per quarter
Variable Credit Options Available

Variable Credit Options:

Students who have already completed some portion of the program (e.g. chemistry) will be allowed to take other portions of the program (e.g. calculus and physics). For fall quarter there will be variable credit options in Calculus (4), Chemistry (6), and Physics (6). Contact the faculty for more information.

Fields of study: 
Prerequisites:

Students must pass an admission test that will be based on their knowledge of pre-calculus. A sample test will be emailed to all students who are registered for the program by late summer. Students must be prepared to begin learning calculus on the first day of class.

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

Spring: $15 Conference Registration Fee (only applies to students taking the Chemistry component)

Website:
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 50
25% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 9:00 am
Purce Hall 5 - Classroom

Located in: Olympia

May be offered again in:

2019/20

DateRevision
2019-03-15$15 fee added for Spring quarter

Media Internships

FallWinterSpring
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 8
1416
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

media arts, photography, visual studies
Laurie Meeker
film and video production, media theory

The Media Internship opportunity provides advanced students a dynamic, hands-on work and learning experience in which they develop professional and academic skills in a highly collaborative media production environment, under the guidance of staff supervisors and a faculty sponsor. As a cohort, the interns strengthen leadership, collaboration, communication, organizational and technical skills as a critical part of the Media Services team, supporting instruction, equipment and lab maintenance, oversight of media facilities, and campus productions. Per quarter, the program includes 12-14 internship credits in Animation and Film, Instructional Media, Audio and Music Technology, Video Production, or Producing, and 2-4 academic credits in which students pursue creative or research projects that parallel their work as interns and attend regular career development workshops. As students grow into professionals, they examine their own roles as producers, artists, technicians, teachers, and leaders through weekly reflective writing. Interns meet regularly with staff and faculty to share skills, seminar on readings and screenings, peer-review their writing, and collaborate on projects, productions, and cross-training in all Media Services areas.

The internship is housed within a 3-quarter, full-time academic program that requires a full academic year commitment, and averages a total of 40 hours of on-campus work per academic week, inclusive of internship and academic credit hours. Internships are paid for 19 hours per academic week.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

media arts, media production, media education, professional studio management, communications, and computer applications in media art

1416

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

Students must have successfully completed at least one quarters of an 8- or 16-credit interdisciplinary program and a minimum of one year of college-level coursework in media production relevant to the internship; prior completion of Evergreen programs or courses such as Mediaworks, advanced full-time media programs, Audio Recording, Introduction to Music Technology, or their equivalents count towards these course requirements, and are required. Eligible transfer students are welcome to apply and will need to outline equivalent prerequisites in their applications. 

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 8
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Friday, April 5, 2019 - 3:00 pm
Lib 1404 - MML Ada

Located in: Olympia

May be offered again in:

2019-20

DateRevision
2018-05-11Updates signature text.

Mediaworks: Animation, Documentary and Experimental Approaches to the Moving Image

FallWinterSpring
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 48
16Variable
Credits per quarter
Variable Credit Options Available

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Taught by

Hayes-Ruth
animation, media studies
Suree Towfighnia
documentary film

What does it mean to make media in this age of media proliferation, saturation and commodity culture? As media artists, how can we participate in public discourse and strengthen historically marginalized perspectives? How do we critically engage practice to push beyond traditional forms? How can we represent and authentically document our new ways of seeing and being seen? How can media respond to social and environmental crises and inform positive shifts in thinking and policy? What ethical challenges and responsibilities are at the core of our practice and work? How have other media artists addressed these questions? What type of media makers do we aim to become?

Students will engage with these questions as they define and cultivate their artistic voices. Working within broad definitions of nonfiction media, students will sharpen essential skills of observation, research, collaboration, reading and writing, design and production, critique and reflection. They will experiment with autobiography, documentary, cine-poems, soundscapes and audio-visual essays, gain technical skills, produce short works in animation, live-action, and audio, and weave together a media practice from a wealth of philosophical, cultural, historical, and material perspectives. Students will explore strategies of challenging dominant forms and stereotypes, and will develop fluency in media analysis and criticism.

The program begins by laying the theoretical and practical foundations essential to all media creators, with particular attention on how viewers interpret and make meaning. Students will engage in field observation, critical analysis, and research, and experiment with representing their observations in 16mm film, video, animation, and audio. Class sessions include lectures, screenings, conceptual and technical workshops, seminar, and critique. Students are expected to engage with substantial reading and writing as they learn to analyze and critique historical and contemporary films and texts. We will emphasize how to make images and sounds work together to represent identity and respond to social and environmental crises.

In winter, students apply practices of media to community collaboration. Working in cohorts to create animation and digital video produced in the field and the CCAM, Evergreen's high-definition studio, they will make works that support the goals of specific community groups. In spring, as a culmination of their year’s work, students will design and produce extensive self-directed, nonfiction media projects. They may work individually or collaboratively in the wide range of media and forms covered in previous quarters, producing single channel works, multimedia installations or performances, or serving in internships. Students will support their creative practice with weekly critiques, visiting-artist presentations, screenings, and technical workshops, and screen their productions publicly at the end of the year.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

media art, visual art, journalism, communication, education, and the humanities.

16Variable

Credits per quarter
Variable Credit Options Available

Variable Credit Options:

Contact the faculty to discuss options.

Prerequisites:

No prior production experience is required, but intermediate college level reading, writing and critical thinking skills are necessary. An additional prerequisite is successful completion of at least two quarters of college-level studies spanning multiple disciplines. This could be satisfied by Evergreen interdisciplinary programs or classes at Evergreen or elsewhere that provide breadth. Students must complete and submit an application in order to demonstrate that they have fulfilled these prerequisites.

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Special expenses:

Approximately $150 for art and film/video production supplies needed for winter and spring quarter projects, including an external hard drive.

Fees:

$350 in fall for supplies and an overnight field trip.

Internship Opportunities:

In spring quarter, students may choose to do an internship in a local or regional organization focusing on media production, media education, or a related subject. Students must complete an in-program Internship Learning Contract in consultation with the faculty and Academic Advising by the end of winter quarter. Please go to Individual Study for more information.

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 48
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, April 1, 2019 - 11:00 am
SEM 2 D1105 - Lecture

Located in: Olympia

May be offered again in:

2019-2020

DateRevision
2018-03-20Description updated.

Medicine of Community and Place

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Weekend
Weekend
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
25% Reserved for Freshmen
8
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Marja Eloheimo square
ethnobotany, environmental and cultural anthropology, plant studies

Community-based herbalism expands the concept of medicine from pharmaceutical drugs to a continuum that begins with food; from laboratory products to nourishment that takes place in the kitchen; from passive doctor visits to activities that include gardening, harvesting, and medicine-making; and from standardized prescriptions to cultural, family, and neighborhood knowledge and sharing. However, Western herbalism also needs to be challenged due to its colonization of healing traditions, plants, and places -- especially traditional Indigenous stewardship. This program lays a foundation for understanding these issues as well as addressing them. Our studies will draw from several disciplines including medicinal botany, community studies, cultural ecology, and US and Indigenous history. We will identify plants, make kitchen medicine, network with community herbalists and community gardens, engage in garden care and service learning; and consider our own ethnic and cultural traditions with plants. We will link with the local food movement with a view toward cultivating local medicine; we will commit to the hard work of decolonization; and we will engage with the Longhouse Ethnobotanical Garden as both resource and teacher. 

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Healthcare, herbalism, social justice, community development, ecology, botany, horticulture 

8

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Fees:

$50 for entrance to museum and garden tours, and equipment and supplies for garden and medicine-making workshops.

Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
25% Reserved for Freshmen
Weekend

Scheduled for: Weekend

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Saturday, September 29, 2018 - 9:30 am
SEM 2 B1107 - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

Saturdays, 9:30am-5:20pm

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-07-18Required fee reduced to $50 (was $65)

Medieval Mystics: Artistic Inquiry and Printmaking

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 22
16
Credits per quarter

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printmaking, drawing

Half of this program will be devoted to humanities-based research of medieval saints and mystics. The other half will explore research-based artistic practice. We will study the visions of mystics through texts including:   The Cloud of Unknowing , Anonymous,  Hildegard of Bingen  by Sabina Flanagan,  Revelations of Divine Love  by Julian of Norwich, selected chapters from  The Varieties of Religious Experience  by William James, and readings from Bernard McGinn’s series on Christian mysticism,  The Presence of God . Reading and writing will be central as we synthesize research for artistic expression through printmaking. Students will learn basic intaglio printmaking and woodcut printmaking (black and white), with an emphasis on collaborative production, and developing basic skills to design and create a small series of printed images based upon research.

Mysticism is intuitive, interior vision; a complex spiritual gift accompanied by paradisiacal visions or wracking pain, ecstasy, or torment. Visions experienced by Christian women were particularly empowering in the 12th through 16th centuries. Hildegard of Bingen's visions were published as  Scivias  ; Joan of Arc’s voices prompted her to lead the French army against British occupiers; Julian of Norwich described her visions as “showings;" Catherine of Siena became a Doctor of the Church; and the Rhineland Dominican mystics created their own devotional images to cultivate mystical experience. All experienced mystical visions or heard voices they perceived as divinely inspired. While possessing little or none of the education or status of men, their unique way of experiencing and communicating with God catapulted mystics and visionaries to acclaim and authority that women rarely held in the middle ages.

This will be an intensive inquiry requiring impeccable time-management and tolerance and respect for text-based research, Christian/religious beliefs, and the ways those beliefs have been experiences and described. Plan for a minimum of 40 hours of work each week completing readings and writing assignments, and engaging in seminars and studio practice. This program is an advanced art-and-humanities program; experience with close reading of academic and primary texts will be beneficial. Students with no prior artistic experience are welcome.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

visual arts and the humanities.

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

Approximately $100 for printing paper and copper plates.

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 22
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, April 1, 2019 - 10:00 am
LAB 2 2225 - Intaglio

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2019-01-24description updated

Miniature Worlds: Casting the Curiosity Cabinet

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 18
25% Reserved for Freshmen
1216Variable
Credits per quarter
Variable Credit Options Available

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In this intensive studio-art program, students will use small-scale three-dimensional (3D) casting processes to produce work that creatively considers the history of curiosity cabinets, public art collections, and natural history museums. We will investigate the effects that collecting, observing, and reproducing the natural world has had on historical and contemporary art and design.

All students are welcome to enter this program with 3D skills at any level. Beginners will be challenged, and students with more experience in 3D art and metalsmithing will have the opportunity to deepen skill levels and develop conceptual content. 

Using specimens from Evergreen’s Natural History Museum we will start by sketching and modeling from direct observation of flora and fauna. Students will learn how to carve miniature wax models, and then translate their two-dimensional observations into three-dimensional wax miniatures in preparation for bronze and silver alloy casting. Students will learn mold-making, and work in collaborative teams to execute centrifugal and vacuum casting methods. The use of organic matter as a casting medium will be discussed, and casting directly from botanical specimens will be demonstrated. By the end of the program students will produce a portfolio of critical and observational writings, annotated drawings, documentation of wax carving designs and technical notes, as well as multiple finished pieces in bronze or silver. Early in the quarter we will take a full-day field trip to visit collections, including the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle.

Weekly readings and seminars will examine the historical development of cabinets of curiosities, including the colonial implications of European natural history collecting. We will look at the cross-cultural use of floral and animal motifs in adornment and sculpture, and what jewelry can tell us about changing ideas about the human body as part of, or exterior to, the natural environment. We will consider the formal and aesthetic qualities of dissection and objects taken out of their environment, and the relationship between observing nature and the development of industrial production methods. 

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Art, Design, Education, Museum Studies

1216Variable

Credits per quarter
Variable Credit Options Available

Variable Credit Options:

Students can take this program for 12 or 16 credits. Students in this program should expect to spend a total (in class + independent work time) of 30 hours a week at the 12 credit level, or 40 hours a week at the 16 credit level. Students taking this program for 16 credits will engage in a more in-depth research and writing project related to program themes.

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Special expenses:

Additional materials will be available for individual purchase, and students may choose to spend $25 to $100, on average, to cover more extensive projects.

Fees:

$125 Student fee will cover museum entrance costs, and a basic kit of metals and materials to use in required projects throughout the quarter. 

Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 18
25% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - 9:30 am
SEM 2 E4115 - Critique

Located in: Olympia

Modeling Biological Systems

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 50
25% Reserved for Freshmen
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

biology, biochemistry
Richard Weiss
mathematics, computer science

This program focuses on patterns in biology, bringing together biology and quantitative reasoning. Biological systems can be modeled on many different levels, from the molecular to diverse populations of interdependent organisms. We will find and model patterns in nature, predict model behavior, and test how well our models explain biological data.

Students will learn and write about the ways in which modeling is done to answer practical questions, such as how many fish a body of water can support or the number of fish that can be taken without disrupting the population. In the process of modeling, students will survey several biological systems, such as how proteins are synthesized, how viruses and bacteria function, and how ecological systems achieve stability. The program will approach modeling from an elementary mathematical perspective, assuming only a basic understanding of high school algebra. Students will learn about simple functions and ways to approximate them.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

biology and computer science.

16

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

High School Algebra II

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.

Upper division science credit:

Students who have appropriate preparatory science background may have the opportunity to earn upper division science credits.

Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 50
25% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, April 1, 2019 - 10:00 am
Purce Hall 2 - Lecture

Located in: Olympia

Models in Biology

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 25
8
Credits per quarter

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ecology, plant biology

In biology, a model is a representation of the structure and function of a biological system, and may be concerned with any level of biology from molecules to ecosystems. Models allow us to test our understanding of particular systems and, if the models are good, to make predictions. This program will look at approaches to modeling different levels of biological processes, such as Michaelis-Menten analysis of enzyme kinetics, diffusion of carbon dioxide and water into and out of a leaf, population dynamics of plant and animal populations, and global climate models. Although we'll focus on mathematical approaches to modeling functions and processes over time, models of biomechanics and spatial processes (e.g., distribution of trees in a forest) could be considered.

The program will introduce modeling concepts and techniques, and students will have the opportunity to develop their own models. Students are not expected to have advanced-level experience in math or computing, and can expect to develop some basic skills in this program. Calculus experience is not required. A high level of engagement and initiative, and a willingness to think scientifically and quantitatively, is expected in this program. Upper-division credit is possible. Students willing to share their expertise in some area of biology, mathematics, or computing are encouraged to participate.

8

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.

Upper division science credit:

Upper division credit is possible by arrangement with the faculty.  Students will need to define what will make their work 'upper division', and to communicate with the faculty throughout the quarter to ensure that they are meeting expectations.

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, January 7, 2019 - 6:00 pm
LIB 2619 - Mac Lab

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-12-03Advertised Schedule Removed: Class meets Mon/Wed (Not Wed/Sat as catalog description mentioned)

Molecule to Organism

FallWinterSpring
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 50
16
Credits per quarter

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biology, virology, molecular biology
organic chemistry

This program develops and interrelates concepts in experimental (laboratory and field) biology, organic chemistry, and biochemistry, thus providing a foundation for students who plan to continue studies in chemistry, laboratory and field biology, and medicine. Students will carry out upper-division work in biochemistry, microbiology, cellular and molecular biology, field biology and organic chemistry in a yearlong sequence. This program will also give students many of the prerequisites needed for the following health careers: medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, naturopathy, optometry, and pharmacy.

The program examines the subject matter through the central idea that structure defines function, integrating a scaled theme from the "cell" to the "molecule" and "ecosystem" levels. We will start with the cell and proceed to the whole organism and ecosystem with the examination of structure-function relationships at all levels. We will examine organic chemistry, the nature of organic compounds and reactions and carry this work into biochemistry and the fundamental chemical reactions of living systems. As the year progresses, the scaled theme will continue through studies of cellular and molecular processes in biological systems.

Each aspect of the program will contain a significant laboratory component, some of which may be based on field experiments, involving extensive hands-on learning. Every week students will be writing papers and maintaining laboratory notebooks. All laboratory work, and approximately one half of the non-lecture time will be spent working in collaborative problem-solving groups. Group work will also include reading and discussion of topics of current or historical significance in science. This is an intensive program: The subjects are complex and the sophisticated understanding we expect to develop will require students to work for many hours each week, both in and out of class.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

laboratory and field biology, chemistry, education, medicine and health science

16

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

One year of college-level general biology with laboratory and one year of college-level general chemistry with laboratory.

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

$300 for an overnight field trip in Spring.

Upper division science credit:

Upper division science credits in biochemistry, microbiology, cellular and molecular biology, field biology and organic chemistry will be awarded to students who successfully complete all program requirements.

Internship Opportunities:

Spring, with faculty approval.

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 50
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Sunday, March 31, 2019 - 10:00 am
Purce Hall 6 - Classroom

Advertised schedule:

First class meeting: Tuesday, September 25th at 9:00AM (space TBD). 

Located in: Olympia

May be offered again in:

2019-2020

DateRevision
2018-08-10student fee for overnight field trip moved from Fall to Spring quarter
2018-04-23Fall signature text updated with link to application.

Mortality

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Weekend
Weekend
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 50
8
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Mark Harrison
theatre, opera, film, performance studies
Mark Hurst square
psychology

Perhaps the greatest certainty that comes with being alive is that we are mortal and someday we will perish. This is our fate. How does this unwanted circumstance influence the way we chart a path from birth to our ultimate end? In earlier times, this question was mostly the domain of religion and the arts. But with the dawning of the modern age and the advent of psychology and highly specialized medical care, we are now able to examine mortality from a variety of disciplinary perspectives to better understand how artists, scientists, and intellectuals have provided imaginative and penetrating insights into the phenomenon all living things have in common. 

In this one quarter, 8-credit program, we will examine the particulars of “self” and “narrative” that are true for each life. We will examine the psychology of mortality through empirical research, theoretical perspectives, and clinical practice. We will learn how humans have searched for and found meaning in mortality through theater, poetry, visual art, and music. Our readings will include plays, such as Angels in America and Wit , and writings by Atul Gwande, Thomas Lynch, and Roy Baumeister. In addition to critical reading and writing, students will demonstrate their interdisciplinary learning through creative projects (inspired by the work of Joseph Cornell) as well as a developmental map of their life. Finally, lectures, seminars, workshops that apply theory to practice, short videos and theatrical films, and guest speakers from oncology, hospice, and the arts, will round out the examination of program themes. The program may include a Seattle or Tacoma field trip to attend a gallery, performance event, or other activity relevant to our program theme. Credit equivalencies will be awarded in psychology and theater. 

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Performing arts, psychology, and many humanities and social sciences fields.

8

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

$25 for tickets to a live performance event.

Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 50
Weekend

Scheduled for: Weekend

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Saturday, April 6, 2019 - 10:00 am
SEM 2 C1105 - Lecture

Advertised schedule:

Saturdays & Sundays 10 a.m. - 5:00 pm (Apr. 6 & 7 , Apr. 20 & 21 , May 4 & 5 , May 18 & 19 , June 1 & 2)

Located in: Olympia

Multicultural Counseling

FallWinterSpring
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime EveningWeekend
Day, Evening, and Weekend
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 24
16
Credits per quarter

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psychology

If it is possible to genuinely meet and discover each other as persons—actually to empathize with and understand both the cultural beliefs and political views of each other—then I think the obscured future may be penetrated with some clear rays of light that we may realistically hope for a better world.   — Carl Rogers (1902-1987)

This program will engage in the study of multicultural counseling from theory, practice, and application. The practice of counseling, applied cultural competency skills, and evolving one's skills as a counselor will be developed throughout the yearlong program. Learning goals include acquiring a theoretical and applied understanding of psychological theory and practice from emotional, biological, cultural, and social contextual perspectives. Expressive-arts therapy practice and experience will be integrated in the program throughout the year. We will incorporate diverse pedagogical strategies including lecture, discussion, dialogue, seminar, films, counseling labs, and expressive-arts therapy laboratories.

During fall students will study personality theory and explore the relationship between personality theory and applied counseling skills. In winter, students will study ethics in the helping professions. During fall and winter quarters students will participate in visual and expressive arts studies in the evening to study cultural identity. In spring students will study abnormal psychology and diverse populations. During some spring weekends students will study applied mindfulness for clinical populations. Social justice, multicultural counseling theory, mindfulness-based practice, integrative health, and emerging therapy paradigms will be explored throughout the yearlong inquiry.

This is an intellectually and emotionally challenging program that best serves students willing to make a nine-month-long commitment that will require 40 hours per week of class time, homework, and an internship experience during winter and spring quarter.  In both winter and spring quarters, students will be required to complete 6-credit internships in local health care settings, providing opportunities to integrate theory and practice. The program work will help to prepare you for this internship. 

This program will combine with the evening program  Studio Arts for Expressive Therapy in fall and winter quarter.

In the spring, the Multicultural Counseling program will join a 4 credit Saturday program that I will team teach with Jamyang Tsultrim on Psychology and Mindfulness.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

psychology, social work, human services, and expressive arts therapies.

16

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

one year of college -level psychology or  12 credits in psychology

Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers 25 - 49% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Special expenses:

Students should expect to spend between $60- $80 on personal art supplies and clay in the fall and $40 in the winter.

Fees:

$100 in fall, $75 in winter, and $50 in spring for art supplies for ceramics, drawing, and expressive arts therapy.

Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 24
Daytime EveningWeekend

Scheduled for: Day, Evening, and Weekend

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Thursday, April 4, 2019 - 9:30 am
SEM 2 D3105 - Workshop

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-10-15Added the following sentance to the description. "In the spring, the Multicultural Counseling program will join a 4 credit Saturday program that I will team teach with Jamyang Tsultrim on Psychology and Mindfulness."

Multitrack Composition I

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 20
4
Credits per quarter

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Multitrack Composition is the study of audio technology and its role in changing the art of music composition and production. This three quarter long sequence is concerned with the use of modern recording technologies as instrument. The use of signal processing, tape/computer based manipulation, and the structure of multitrack recorders and audio consoles allow a great number of techniques to be created on the fly to generate, modify, and document musical sound. Multitrack Composition I (Fall quarter) will be spent reviewing operation, design and application of the campus facilities to gain common skill levels and technical knowledge, and complete proficiency in the Communications Building API1608 and Neve 5088 studios and associated facilities.

The course is for musicians and engineers who want to develop compositional, technical and collaborative skills in modern production. This is a lab course with limited (20) positions available. Please make sure you complete an application and speak with the faculty regarding your skills.  If you have any questions, please contact the faculty. 

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 20
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - 6:00 pm
Com 110 - Perf and Prod Studio

Advertised schedule:

Tue 6-9:50pm

Located in: Olympia

Multitrack Composition II

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 20
4
Credits per quarter

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Multitrack Composition is the study of audio technology and its role in changing the art of music composition and production. This three quarter long sequence is concerned with the use of modern recording technologies as instrument. The use of signal processing, tape/computer based manipulation, and the structure of multitrack recorders and audio consoles allow a great number of techniques to be created on the fly to generate, modify, and document musical sound. Multitrack Composition II (Winter quarter) will be spent completing the ESMP and 5.1 surround projects

The course is for musicians and engineers who want to develop compositional, technical and collaborative skills in modern production. This is a lab course with limited (20) positions available. Please make sure you complete an application and speak with the faculty regarding your skills.  If you have any questions, please contact the faculty.

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Website:
Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 20
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - 6:00 pm
Com 110 - Perf and Prod Studio

Advertised schedule:

Tue 6-10p

Located in: Olympia

Multitrack Composition III

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 20
4
Credits per quarter

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Multitrack Composition is the study of audio technology and its role in changing the art of music composition and production. This three quarter long sequence is concerned with the use of modern recording technologies as instrument. The use of signal processing, tape/computer based manipulation, and the structure of multitrack recorders and audio consoles allow a great number of techniques to be created on the fly to generate, modify, and document musical sound. Multitrack Composition III (Spring quarter) will be spent recording personal and group compositions and learning advanced production and post production techniques.

The course is for musicians and engineers who want to develop compositional, technical and collaborative skills in modern production. This is a lab course with limited (20) positions available. Please make sure you complete an application and speak with the faculty regarding your skills.  If you have any questions, please contact the faculty. 

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 20
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 6:00 pm
Com 110 - Perf and Prod Studio

Advertised schedule:

Tue 6-10p

Located in: Olympia

Music History: Mozart in Context and Practice

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 20
8
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Speights square
computer studies

Build a deeper understanding of W.A. Mozart through substantial reading, analysis, and performance of his works at your level of playing! We'll seminar on readings that establish the political, cultural and musical context in history for Mozart, using classic and recent scholarship. We'll survey his contemporaries and influences, developing aural skills for recognizing Neoclassical style markers and major works from across the period. We'll explore basic analysis techniques. We'll spend time at the piano every week, learning to play versions of Mozart's works at a comfortable level of difficulty. The goal is to practice learning about a composer, using academic resources to know the music at depth and in context.

8

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 20
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, January 7, 2019 - 6:00 pm
Com 308 - Media Classroom

Advertised schedule:

Mon/Wed 6-9:30pm

Located in: Olympia

Musicianship

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 20
25% Reserved for Freshmen
2
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Marla Elliot
performance, voice, community studies

Students will learn fundamentals of music literacy and piano technique, and develop free, healthy singing voices. This class emphasizes the value of live performance and collaboration with other musicians. At the end of the quarter, students will perform both vocally and on piano for other class participants and invited family and friends. This class requires excellent attendance and a commitment to practice every day. Credit will be awarded in Musicianship.

2

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 20
25% Reserved for Freshmen
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Wednesday, September 26, 2018 - 6:00 pm
Com 308 - Media Classroom

Advertised schedule:

Wednesdays 6 to 7:50 p.m.

Located in: Olympia

Musicianship

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 20
25% Reserved for Freshmen
2
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Marla Elliot
performance, voice, community studies

Students will learn fundamentals of music literacy and piano technique, and develop free, healthy singing voices. This class emphasizes the value of live performance and collaboration with other musicians. At the end of the quarter, students will perform both vocally and on piano for other class participants and invited family and friends. This class requires excellent attendance and a commitment to practice every day. Credit will be awarded in Musicianship.

2

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 20
25% Reserved for Freshmen
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Wednesday, January 9, 2019 - 6:00 pm
Com 308 - Media Classroom

Advertised schedule:

Wednesdays 6 to 8 p.m. 

Located in: Olympia

Musicianship

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 20
25% Reserved for Freshmen
2
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Marla Elliot
performance, voice, community studies

Students will learn fundamentals of music literacy and piano technique, and develop free, healthy singing voices. This class emphasizes the value of live performance and collaboration with other musicians. At the end of the quarter, students will perform both vocally and on piano for other class participants and invited family and friends. This class requires excellent attendance and a commitment to practice every day. Credit will be awarded in Musicianship.

2

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 20
25% Reserved for Freshmen
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Wednesday, April 3, 2019 - 6:00 pm
Com 308 - Media Classroom

Advertised schedule:

Wednesdays 6 to 8 p.m. 

Located in: Olympia

Native American Women Standing Strong for Justice

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
25% Reserved for Freshmen
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Native American studies, history, women's studies

Native American women have been erased from history. It is not that they did not exist; it is that they were made invisible , omitted from history. At the same time, stereotypes such as "squaw" and "princess" have plagued Native women since 1492. Ironically, the history of Native women reflects a different reality with a long tradition of standing strong for justice. Native women have stood to protect the lands and the natural world, their cultures and languages, the health of their families, and tribal sovereignty. But few learn about these Native women, who consistently defied the stereotypes in order to work for the betterment of their peoples and nations.

Drawing upon the experiences and writings of such women, we will explore the ways in which leadership is articulated in many Native American communities. We will critique how feminist theory has both served and ignored Native women. Through case studies, autobiography, literature, and films, we will analyze how Native women have argued for sovereignty and developed agendas that privilege community over individuality. We will explore the activism of 20th-century Native women leaders, particularly in the areas of the environment, the family system, and the law.

This program will implement decolonizing methodologies to give voice to some of these women, while deconstructing the stereotypes in order to honor and provide a different way of knowing about these courageous Native American women, past and present. Students will develop skills as writers, researchers, and potential advocates by studying scholarly and imaginative works and conducting research. Through extensive reading and writing, dialogue, art, films, and possible guest speakers, we will investigate important aspects of the life and times of some of these Native American women across the centuries.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Native American studies, women's studies, education, social sciences, U.S. history, law, leadership studies, social justice, sustainability, and political science

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
25% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, September 24, 2018 - 9:00 am
SEM 2 E3107 - Seminar

Located in: Olympia

May be offered again in:

Spring 2019

Native Pathways Program: An Indigenous Approach to History (Olympia)

Fall
Fall 2018
Tribal
Tribal
EveningWeekend
Evening and Weekend
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 12
12
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

writing, humanities, indigenous research methods

Fall quarter we will cover topics on cultural traditions, storytelling, history, literature, and federal policy. We will examine and analyze the stakeholders who create what we commonly refer to as history. By determining the lens through which history is transmitted, students deliberate and seminar on the concept of revisionist history. Critically exploring the cultural component of oral storytelling and the arts as viable modes of interpreting and disseminating history, as well as legal documents and historical narratives authored by native and non-natives, develops close reading and research skills. 

This program teaches from a Native-based perspective within the context of the larger global society and is designed for students who have social, cultural, or economic ties to tribes. The curriculum addresses three themes that rotate yearly. For 2018-2019, the theme is Foundations for Sustainable Tribal Nations. 

The five curricular elements of the program are Core Course, Integrated Skills, Strands, Integrated Seminar, and Independent Study. The Core Course is a 9-credit unit taught at all sites at the same time with the same readings and assignments, but allows for faculty/student innovation and site specification. Integrated Skills, including critical thinking and analysis, research and writing, public speaking, collaboration, personal authority, and indigenous knowledge, are taught across the curriculum, integrated into all teaching and learning at the sites and at Saturday classes. Strands, another element, are 2-credit courses taught on four Saturdays per quarter; these allow for breadth in the program and make it possible to invite professionals and experts in specific fields to offer courses that otherwise might not be available to students in the program. The Integrated Seminar, Battlegrounds , held on the same four Saturdays as the Strands, is a 1-credit workshop generally built around Native case studies. The program also includes student-initiated work through independent study.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

public administration, political science, social sciences, human services, education, law, and tribal administration and government.

12

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

This program is designed for students with strong social, cultural or economic ties to local tribal communities, on or off Indian reservations.  TO be formally admitted to the Native Pathways Program, prospective students must meet the following criteria:

  • Have 90 transferable college credits or the equivalent when entering teh program.
  • Complete an intake form.  To obtain the form, contact nativepathways@evergreen.edu .
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Internship Opportunities:

Internships are encouraged. Students pursuing this option must complete an in-program Internship Learning Contract in consultation with the faculty and Academic Advising. Please go to Individual Study for more information.

Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 12
EveningWeekend

Scheduled for: Evening and Weekend

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - 6:00 pm
Purce Hall 5 - Classroom

Advertised schedule:

All Tue/Thu 6-9:20pm 

Saturday, September 29: 10am-3:50pm

Saturday, November 3: 10am-6:50pm

Sunday, November 4: 10am-1:50pm

Saturday, December 1: 10am-6:50pm

Sunday, December 2: 10am-1:50pm

Tribal

Located in: Tribal

Native Pathways Program: An Indigenous Approach to History (Peninsula)

Fall
Fall 2018
Tribal
Tribal
EveningWeekend
Evening and Weekend
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 12
12
Credits per quarter

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Fall quarter we will cover topics on cultural traditions, storytelling, history, literature, and federal policy. We will examine and analyze the stakeholders who create what we commonly refer to as history. By determining the lens through which history is transmitted, students deliberate and seminar on the concept of revisionist history. Critically exploring the cultural component of oral storytelling and the arts as viable modes of interpreting and disseminating history, as well as legal documents and historical narratives authored by native and non-natives, develops close reading and research skills. 

This program teaches from a Native-based perspective within the context of the larger global society and is designed for students who have social, cultural, or economic ties to tribes. The curriculum addresses three themes that rotate yearly. For 2018-2019, the theme is Foundations for Sustainable Tribal Nations. 

The five curricular elements of the program are Core Course, Integrated Skills, Strands, Integrated Seminar, and Independent Study. The Core Course is a 9-credit unit taught at all sites at the same time with the same readings and assignments, but allows for faculty/student innovation and site specification. Integrated Skills, including critical thinking and analysis, research and writing, public speaking, collaboration, personal authority, and indigenous knowledge, are taught across the curriculum, integrated into all teaching and learning at the sites and at Saturday classes. Strands, another element, are 2-credit courses taught on four Saturdays per quarter; these allow for breadth in the program and make it possible to invite professionals and experts in specific fields to offer courses that otherwise might not be available to students in the program. The Integrated Seminar, Battlegrounds , held on the same four Saturdays as the Strands, is a 1-credit workshop generally built around Native case studies. The program also includes student-initiated work through independent study.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

public administration, political science, social sciences, human services, education, law, and tribal administration and government.

12

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

This program is designed for students with strong social, cultural or economic ties to local tribal communities, on or off Indian reservations.  TO be formally admitted to the Native Pathways Program, prospective students must meet the following criteria:

  • Have 90 transferable college credits or the equivalent when entering teh program.
  • Complete an intake form.  To obtain the form, contact nativepathways@evergreen.edu .
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Internship Opportunities:

Internships are encouraged. Students pursuing this option must complete an in-program Internship Learning Contract in consultation with the faculty and Academic Advising. Please go to Individual Study for more information.

Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 12
EveningWeekend

Scheduled for: Evening and Weekend

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Saturday, September 29, 2018 - 10:00 am
LONGHOUSE 1007A - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

All Tue/Thu 5-8:30pm at the Peninsula Location

Olympia Meetings: 

Saturday, September 29: 10am-3:50pm

Saturday, November 3: 10am-6:50pm

Sunday, November 4: 10am-1:50pm

Saturday, December 1: 10am-6:50pm

Sunday, December 2: 10am-1:50pm

Tribal

Located in: Tribal

Native Pathways Program: An Indigenous Approach to History (Quinault)

Fall
Fall 2018
Tribal
Tribal
EveningWeekend
Evening and Weekend
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 12
12
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Gary Arthur square
humanities

Fall quarter we will cover topics on cultural traditions, storytelling, history, literature, and federal policy. We will examine and analyze the stakeholders who create what we commonly refer to as history. By determining the lens through which history is transmitted, students deliberate and seminar on the concept of revisionist history. Critically exploring the cultural component of oral storytelling and the arts as viable modes of interpreting and disseminating history, as well as legal documents and historical narratives authored by native and non-natives, develops close reading and research skills. 

This program teaches from a Native-based perspective within the context of the larger global society and is designed for students who have social, cultural, or economic ties to tribes. The curriculum addresses three themes that rotate yearly. For 2018-2019, the theme is Foundations for Sustainable Tribal Nations. 

The five curricular elements of the program are Core Course, Integrated Skills, Strands, Integrated Seminar, and Independent Study. The Core Course is a 9-credit unit taught at all sites at the same time with the same readings and assignments, but allows for faculty/student innovation and site specification. Integrated Skills, including critical thinking and analysis, research and writing, public speaking, collaboration, personal authority, and indigenous knowledge, are taught across the curriculum, integrated into all teaching and learning at the sites and at Saturday classes. Strands, another element, are 2-credit courses taught on four Saturdays per quarter; these allow for breadth in the program and make it possible to invite professionals and experts in specific fields to offer courses that otherwise might not be available to students in the program. The Integrated Seminar, Battlegrounds , held on the same four Saturdays as the Strands, is a 1-credit workshop generally built around Native case studies. The program also includes student-initiated work through independent study.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

public administration, political science, social sciences, human services, education, law, and tribal administration and government.

12

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

This program is designed for students with strong social, cultural or economic ties to local tribal communities, on or off Indian reservations.  TO be formally admitted to the Native Pathways Program, prospective students must meet the following criteria:

  • Have 90 transferable college credits or the equivalent when entering teh program.
  • Complete an intake form.  To obtain the form, contact nativepathways@evergreen.edu .
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Internship Opportunities:

Internships are encouraged. Students pursuing this option must complete an in-program Internship Learning Contract in consultation with the faculty and Academic Advising. Please go to Individual Study for more information.

Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 12
EveningWeekend

Scheduled for: Evening and Weekend

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Saturday, September 29, 2018 - 10:00 am
LONGHOUSE 1007A - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

All Tu/Th 5-8:30pm 

Olympia Meetings: 

Saturday, September 29: 10am-3:50pm

Saturday, November 3: 10am-6:50pm

Sunday, November 4: 10am-1:50pm

Saturday, December 1: 10am-6:50pm

Sunday, December 2: 10am-1:50pm

Tribal

Located in: Tribal

Native Pathways Program: An Indigenous Approach to History (Salish Sea Olympia Hybrid)

Fall
Fall 2018
Tribal
Tribal
EveningWeekend
Evening and Weekend
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 12
12
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Fall quarter we will cover topics on cultural traditions, storytelling, history, literature, and federal policy. We will examine and analyze the stakeholders who create what we commonly refer to as history. By determining the lens through which history is transmitted, students deliberate and seminar on the concept of revisionist history. Critically exploring the cultural component of oral storytelling and the arts as viable modes of interpreting and disseminating history, as well as legal documents and historical narratives authored by native and non-natives, develops close reading and research skills. 

This program teaches from a Native-based perspective within the context of the larger global society and is designed for students who have social, cultural, or economic ties to tribes. The curriculum addresses three themes that rotate yearly. For 2018-2019, the theme is Foundations for Sustainable Tribal Nations. 

The five curricular elements of the program are Core Course, Integrated Skills, Strands, Integrated Seminar, and Independent Study. The Core Course is a 9-credit unit taught at all sites at the same time with the same readings and assignments, but allows for faculty/student innovation and site specification. Integrated Skills, including critical thinking and analysis, research and writing, public speaking, collaboration, personal authority, and indigenous knowledge, are taught across the curriculum, integrated into all teaching and learning at the sites and at Saturday classes. Strands, another element, are 2-credit courses taught on four Saturdays per quarter; these allow for breadth in the program and make it possible to invite professionals and experts in specific fields to offer courses that otherwise might not be available to students in the program. The Integrated Seminar, Battlegrounds , held on the same four Saturdays as the Strands, is a 1-credit workshop generally built around Native case studies. The program also includes student-initiated work through independent study.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

public administration, political science, social sciences, human services, education, law, and tribal administration and government.

12

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

This program is designed for students with strong social, cultural or economic ties to local tribal communities, on or off Indian reservations.  TO be formally admitted to the Native Pathways Program, prospective students must meet the following criteria:

  • Have 90 transferable college credits or the equivalent when entering teh program.
  • Complete an intake form.  To obtain the form, contact nativepathways@evergreen.edu .
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Internship Opportunities:

Internships are encouraged. Students pursuing this option must complete an in-program Internship Learning Contract in consultation with the faculty and Academic Advising. Please go to Individual Study for more information.

Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 12
EveningWeekend

Scheduled for: Evening and Weekend

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Saturday, September 29, 2018 - 10:00 am
LONGHOUSE 1007A - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

Online work plus required Olympia Meetings: 

Saturday, September 29: 10am-3:50pm

Saturday, November 3: 10am-6:50pm

Sunday, November 4: 10am-1:50pm

Saturday, December 1: 10am-6:50pm

Sunday, December 2: 10am-1:50pm

Tribal

Located in: Tribal

Native Pathways Program: An Indigenous Approach to History (Tacoma)

Fall
Fall 2018
Tribal
Tribal
EveningWeekend
Evening and Weekend
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 12
12
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Kendra Aguilar Square
public administration

Fall quarter we will cover topics on cultural traditions, storytelling, history, literature, and federal policy. We will examine and analyze the stakeholders who create what we commonly refer to as history. By determining the lens through which history is transmitted, students deliberate and seminar on the concept of revisionist history. Critically exploring the cultural component of oral storytelling and the arts as viable modes of interpreting and disseminating history, as well as legal documents and historical narratives authored by native and non-natives, develops close reading and research skills. 

This program teaches from a Native-based perspective within the context of the larger global society and is designed for students who have social, cultural, or economic ties to tribes. The curriculum addresses three themes that rotate yearly. For 2018-2019, the theme is Foundations for Sustainable Tribal Nations. 

The five curricular elements of the program are Core Course, Integrated Skills, Strands, Integrated Seminar, and Independent Study. The Core Course is a 9-credit unit taught at all sites at the same time with the same readings and assignments, but allows for faculty/student innovation and site specification. Integrated Skills, including critical thinking and analysis, research and writing, public speaking, collaboration, personal authority, and indigenous knowledge, are taught across the curriculum, integrated into all teaching and learning at the sites and at Saturday classes. Strands, another element, are 2-credit courses taught on four Saturdays per quarter; these allow for breadth in the program and make it possible to invite professionals and experts in specific fields to offer courses that otherwise might not be available to students in the program. The Integrated Seminar, Battlegrounds , held on the same four Saturdays as the Strands, is a 1-credit workshop generally built around Native case studies. The program also includes student-initiated work through independent study.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

public administration, political science, social sciences, human services, education, law, and tribal administration and government.

12

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

This program is designed for students with strong social, cultural or economic ties to local tribal communities, on or off Indian reservations.  TO be formally admitted to the Native Pathways Program, prospective students must meet the following criteria:

  • Have 90 transferable college credits or the equivalent when entering teh program.
  • Complete an intake form.  To obtain the form, contact nativepathways@evergreen.edu .
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Internship Opportunities:

Internships are encouraged. Students pursuing this option must complete an in-program Internship Learning Contract in consultation with the faculty and Academic Advising. Please go to Individual Study for more information.

Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 12
EveningWeekend

Scheduled for: Evening and Weekend

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Saturday, September 29, 2018 - 10:00 am
LONGHOUSE 1007A - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

All Mon/Wed 6-9:20pm in Tacoma

Olympia Meetings: 

Saturday, September 29: 10am-3:50pm

Saturday, November 3: 10am-6:50pm

Sunday, November 4: 10am-1:50pm

Saturday, December 1: 10am-6:50pm

Sunday, December 2: 10am-1:50pm

Tribal

Located in: Tribal

Native Pathways Program: Indigenous Sovereignty and Decolonization (Olympia)

Winter
Winter 2019
Tribal
Tribal
EveningWeekend
Evening and Weekend
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 12
12
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

writing, humanities, indigenous research methods

The emphasis of this program is on indigenous sovereignty and decolonization, with topics in tribal law, food sovereignty, cultural appropriation, local and global tribal/indigenous social movements, and tribal economics. We will survey the history of fighting for indigenous sovereign rights (inherent and acquired) of tribes/nations in North America, Canada, and South America. Students will study in-depth the Coast and Interior Salish peoples and their specific battles for sovereignty. Through an indigenous lens, students will examine and articulate what sovereignty is, and is not, and understand and analyze the complexities of the western framework sovereignty operates within. Deriving a holistic learning about sovereignty includes the cultural lens, and by using the medicine wheel teaching method of spirit, body, intellect, and emotional, student will create praxis of sovereignty - theory and practice. 

This program teaches from a Native-based perspective within the context of the larger global society and is designed for students who have social, cultural, or economic ties to tribes. The curriculum addresses three themes that rotate yearly. For 2018-2019, the theme is Foundations for Sustainable Tribal Nations. 

The program is taught at all sites at the same time with the same readings and assignments, but allows for faculty/student innovation and site specification. Integrated Skills, including critical thinking and analysis, research and writing, public speaking, collaboration, personal authority, and indigenous knowledge, are taught across the curriculum, integrated into all teaching and learning at the sites and at weekends classes. 

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

public administration, political science, social sciences, human services, education, law, and tribal administration and government.

12

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

This program is designed for students with strong social, cultural or economic ties to local tribal communities, on or off Indian reservations.  TO be formally admitted to the Native Pathways Program, prospective students must meet the following criteria:

  • Have 90 transferable college credits or the equivalent when entering teh program.
  • Complete an intake form.  To obtain the form, contact nativepathways@evergreen.edu .
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Internship Opportunities:

Internships are encouraged. Students pursuing this option must complete an in-program Internship Learning Contract in consultation with the faculty and Academic Advising. Please go to Individual Study for more information.

Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 12
EveningWeekend

Scheduled for: Evening and Weekend

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - 6:00 pm
Purce Hall 8 - Classroom

Advertised schedule:

Students attend classes at the tribal sites and four Saturdays per quarter at the Longhouse.

Tribal

Located in: Tribal

Native Pathways Program: Indigenous Sovereignty and Decolonization (Peninsula)

Winter
Winter 2019
Tribal
Tribal
EveningWeekend
Evening and Weekend
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 12
12
Credits per quarter

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The emphasis of this program is on indigenous sovereignty and decolonization, with topics in tribal law, food sovereignty, cultural appropriation, local and global tribal/indigenous social movements, and tribal economics. We will survey the history of fighting for indigenous sovereign rights (inherent and acquired) of tribes/nations in North America, Canada, and South America. Students will study in-depth the Coast and Interior Salish peoples and their specific battles for sovereignty. Through an indigenous lens, students will examine and articulate what sovereignty is, and is not, and understand and analyze the complexities of the western framework sovereignty operates within. Deriving a holistic learning about sovereignty includes the cultural lens, and by using the medicine wheel teaching method of spirit, body, intellect, and emotional, student will create praxis of sovereignty - theory and practice. 

This program teaches from a Native-based perspective within the context of the larger global society and is designed for students who have social, cultural, or economic ties to tribes. The curriculum addresses three themes that rotate yearly. For 2018-2019, the theme is Foundations for Sustainable Tribal Nations. 

The program is taught at all sites at the same time with the same readings and assignments, but allows for faculty/student innovation and site specification. Integrated Skills, including critical thinking and analysis, research and writing, public speaking, collaboration, personal authority, and indigenous knowledge, are taught across the curriculum, integrated into all teaching and learning at the sites and at weekends classes. 

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

public administration, political science, social sciences, human services, education, law, and tribal administration and government.

12

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

This program is designed for students with strong social, cultural or economic ties to local tribal communities, on or off Indian reservations.  TO be formally admitted to the Native Pathways Program, prospective students must meet the following criteria:

  • Have 90 transferable college credits or the equivalent when entering teh program.
  • Complete an intake form.  To obtain the form, contact nativepathways@evergreen.edu .
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Internship Opportunities:

Internships are encouraged. Students pursuing this option must complete an in-program Internship Learning Contract in consultation with the faculty and Academic Advising. Please go to Individual Study for more information.

Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 12
EveningWeekend

Scheduled for: Evening and Weekend

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Saturday, January 12, 2019 - 10:00 am
LONGHOUSE 1007A - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

Students attend classes at the tribal sites and four Saturdays per quarter at the Longhouse.

Tribal

Located in: Tribal

Native Pathways Program: Indigenous Sovereignty and Decolonization (Quinault)

Winter
Winter 2019
Tribal
Tribal
EveningWeekend
Evening and Weekend
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 12
12
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Gary Arthur square
humanities

The emphasis of this program is on indigenous sovereignty and decolonization, with topics in tribal law, food sovereignty, cultural appropriation, local and global tribal/indigenous social movements, and tribal economics. We will survey the history of fighting for indigenous sovereign rights (inherent and acquired) of tribes/nations in North America, Canada, and South America. Students will study in-depth the Coast and Interior Salish peoples and their specific battles for sovereignty. Through an indigenous lens, students will examine and articulate what sovereignty is, and is not, and understand and analyze the complexities of the western framework sovereignty operates within. Deriving a holistic learning about sovereignty includes the cultural lens, and by using the medicine wheel teaching method of spirit, body, intellect, and emotional, student will create praxis of sovereignty - theory and practice. 

This program teaches from a Native-based perspective within the context of the larger global society and is designed for students who have social, cultural, or economic ties to tribes. The curriculum addresses three themes that rotate yearly. For 2018-2019, the theme is Foundations for Sustainable Tribal Nations. 

The program is taught at all sites at the same time with the same readings and assignments, but allows for faculty/student innovation and site specification. Integrated Skills, including critical thinking and analysis, research and writing, public speaking, collaboration, personal authority, and indigenous knowledge, are taught across the curriculum, integrated into all teaching and learning at the sites and at weekends classes. 

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

public administration, political science, social sciences, human services, education, law, and tribal administration and government.

12

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

This program is designed for students with strong social, cultural or economic ties to local tribal communities, on or off Indian reservations.  TO be formally admitted to the Native Pathways Program, prospective students must meet the following criteria:

  • Have 90 transferable college credits or the equivalent when entering teh program.
  • Complete an intake form.  To obtain the form, contact nativepathways@evergreen.edu .
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Internship Opportunities:

Internships are encouraged. Students pursuing this option must complete an in-program Internship Learning Contract in consultation with the faculty and Academic Advising. Please go to Individual Study for more information.

Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 12
EveningWeekend

Scheduled for: Evening and Weekend

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Saturday, January 12, 2019 - 10:00 am
LONGHOUSE 1007A - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

Students attend classes at the tribal sites and four Saturdays per quarter at the Longhouse.

Tribal

Located in: Tribal

Native Pathways Program: Indigenous Sovereignty and Decolonization (Salish Sea Olympia Hybrid)

Winter
Winter 2019
Tribal
Tribal
EveningWeekend
Evening and Weekend
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 12
12
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

The emphasis of this program is on indigenous sovereignty and decolonization, with topics in tribal law, food sovereignty, cultural appropriation, local and global tribal/indigenous social movements, and tribal economics. We will survey the history of fighting for indigenous sovereign rights (inherent and acquired) of tribes/nations in North America, Canada, and South America. Students will study in-depth the Coast and Interior Salish peoples and their specific battles for sovereignty. Through an indigenous lens, students will examine and articulate what sovereignty is, and is not, and understand and analyze the complexities of the western framework sovereignty operates within. Deriving a holistic learning about sovereignty includes the cultural lens, and by using the medicine wheel teaching method of spirit, body, intellect, and emotional, student will create praxis of sovereignty - theory and practice. 

This program teaches from a Native-based perspective within the context of the larger global society and is designed for students who have social, cultural, or economic ties to tribes. The curriculum addresses three themes that rotate yearly. For 2018-2019, the theme is Foundations for Sustainable Tribal Nations. 

The program is taught at all sites at the same time with the same readings and assignments, but allows for faculty/student innovation and site specification. Integrated Skills, including critical thinking and analysis, research and writing, public speaking, collaboration, personal authority, and indigenous knowledge, are taught across the curriculum, integrated into all teaching and learning at the sites and at weekends classes. 

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

public administration, political science, social sciences, human services, education, law, and tribal administration and government.

12

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

This program is designed for students with strong social, cultural or economic ties to local tribal communities, on or off Indian reservations.  TO be formally admitted to the Native Pathways Program, prospective students must meet the following criteria:

  • Have 90 transferable college credits or the equivalent when entering teh program.
  • Complete an intake form.  To obtain the form, contact nativepathways@evergreen.edu .
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Internship Opportunities:

Internships are encouraged. Students pursuing this option must complete an in-program Internship Learning Contract in consultation with the faculty and Academic Advising. Please go to Individual Study for more information.

Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 12
EveningWeekend

Scheduled for: Evening and Weekend

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Saturday, January 12, 2019 - 10:00 am
LONGHOUSE 1007A - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

Students attend classes at the tribal sites and four Saturdays per quarter at the Longhouse.

Tribal

Located in: Tribal

Native Pathways Program: Indigenous Sovereignty and Decolonization (Tacoma)

Winter
Winter 2019
Tribal
Tribal
EveningWeekend
Evening and Weekend
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 12
12
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Kendra Aguilar Square
public administration

The emphasis of this program is on indigenous sovereignty and decolonization, with topics in tribal law, food sovereignty, cultural appropriation, local and global tribal/indigenous social movements, and tribal economics. We will survey the history of fighting for indigenous sovereign rights (inherent and acquired) of tribes/nations in North America, Canada, and South America. Students will study in-depth the Coast and Interior Salish peoples and their specific battles for sovereignty. Through an indigenous lens, students will examine and articulate what sovereignty is, and is not, and understand and analyze the complexities of the western framework sovereignty operates within. Deriving a holistic learning about sovereignty includes the cultural lens, and by using the medicine wheel teaching method of spirit, body, intellect, and emotional, student will create praxis of sovereignty - theory and practice. 

This program teaches from a Native-based perspective within the context of the larger global society and is designed for students who have social, cultural, or economic ties to tribes. The curriculum addresses three themes that rotate yearly. For 2018-2019, the theme is Foundations for Sustainable Tribal Nations. 

The program is taught at all sites at the same time with the same readings and assignments, but allows for faculty/student innovation and site specification. Integrated Skills, including critical thinking and analysis, research and writing, public speaking, collaboration, personal authority, and indigenous knowledge, are taught across the curriculum, integrated into all teaching and learning at the sites and at weekends classes. 

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

public administration, political science, social sciences, human services, education, law, and tribal administration and government.

12

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

This program is designed for students with strong social, cultural or economic ties to local tribal communities, on or off Indian reservations.  TO be formally admitted to the Native Pathways Program, prospective students must meet the following criteria:

  • Have 90 transferable college credits or the equivalent when entering teh program.
  • Complete an intake form.  To obtain the form, contact nativepathways@evergreen.edu .
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Internship Opportunities:

Internships are encouraged. Students pursuing this option must complete an in-program Internship Learning Contract in consultation with the faculty and Academic Advising. Please go to Individual Study for more information.

Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 12
EveningWeekend

Scheduled for: Evening and Weekend

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Saturday, January 12, 2019 - 10:00 am
LONGHOUSE 1007A - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

Students attend classes at the tribal sites and four Saturdays per quarter at the Longhouse.

Tribal

Located in: Tribal

Native Pathways Program: Prospering in a Postcolonial World (Olympia)

Spring
Spring 2019
Tribal
Tribal
EveningWeekend
Evening and Weekend
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 20
12
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

writing, humanities, indigenous research methods

In this program we will examine sustainable movements, current sustainable practices, and elements that create surviving sustainability for native/indigenous communities within the contemporary world. This program will tackle the question of what postcolonial means on a personal, community, and world stage. Students will critically analyze sustainable movements and practices in education, health, food sovereignty, social justice, and tribal/indigenous economies. We will explore the concept of decolonization and what that means to indigenous survival and success in the contemporary world. 

This program teaches from a Native-based perspective within the context of the larger global society and is designed for students who have social, cultural, or economic ties to tribes. The curriculum addresses three themes that rotate yearly. For 2018-2019, the theme is Foundations for Sustainable Tribal Nations. 

The program is taught at all sites at the same time with the same readings and assignments, but allows for faculty/student innovation and site specification. Integrated Skills, including critical thinking and analysis, research and writing, public speaking, collaboration, personal authority, and indigenous knowledge, are taught across the curriculum, integrated into all teaching and learning at the sites and at weekends classes. 

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

public administration, political science, social sciences, human services, education, law, and tribal administration and government.

12

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

This program is designed for students with strong social, cultural or economic ties to local tribal communities, on or off Indian reservations.  TO be formally admitted to the Native Pathways Program, prospective students must meet the following criteria:

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

$25 to cover costs of a cultural meal

Internship Opportunities:

Internships are encouraged. Students pursuing this option must complete an in-program Internship Learning Contract in consultation with the faculty and Academic Advising. Please go to Individual Study for more information.

Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 20
EveningWeekend

Scheduled for: Evening and Weekend

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 6:00 pm
Purce Hall 8 - Classroom
Tribal

Located in: Tribal

DateRevision
2019-02-25$25 fee added

Native Pathways Program: Prospering in a Postcolonial World (Peninsula)

Spring
Spring 2019
Tribal
Tribal
EveningWeekend
Evening and Weekend
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 15
12
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

In this program we will examine sustainable movements, current sustainable practices, and elements that create surviving sustainability for native/indigenous communities within the contemporary world. This program will tackle the question of what postcolonial means on a personal, community, and world stage. Students will critically analyze sustainable movements and practices in education, health, food sovereignty, social justice, and tribal/indigenous economies. We will explore the concept of decolonization and what that means to indigenous survival and success in the contemporary world. 

This program teaches from a Native-based perspective within the context of the larger global society and is designed for students who have social, cultural, or economic ties to tribes. The curriculum addresses three themes that rotate yearly. For 2018-2019, the theme is Foundations for Sustainable Tribal Nations. 

The program is taught at all sites at the same time with the same readings and assignments, but allows for faculty/student innovation and site specification. Integrated Skills, including critical thinking and analysis, research and writing, public speaking, collaboration, personal authority, and indigenous knowledge, are taught across the curriculum, integrated into all teaching and learning at the sites and at weekends classes. 

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

public administration, political science, social sciences, human services, education, law, and tribal administration and government.

12

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

This program is designed for students with strong social, cultural or economic ties to local tribal communities, on or off Indian reservations.  To be formally admitted to the Native Pathways Program, prospective students must meet the following criteria:

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

$25 to cover costs of a cultural meal

Internship Opportunities:

Internships are encouraged. Students pursuing this option must complete an in-program Internship Learning Contract in consultation with the faculty and Academic Advising. Please go to Individual Study for more information.

Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 15
EveningWeekend

Scheduled for: Evening and Weekend

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Saturday, April 6, 2019 - 10:00 am
LONGHOUSE 1007A - Workshop
Tribal

Located in: Tribal

DateRevision
2019-02-25$25 fee added

Native Pathways Program: Prospering in a Postcolonial World (Quinault)

Spring
Spring 2019
Tribal
Tribal
EveningWeekend
Evening and Weekend
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 15
12
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Gary Arthur square
humanities

In this program we will examine sustainable movements, current sustainable practices, and elements that create surviving sustainability for native/indigenous communities within the contemporary world. This program will tackle the question of what postcolonial means on a personal, community, and world stage. Students will critically analyze sustainable movements and practices in education, health, food sovereignty, social justice, and tribal/indigenous economies. We will explore the concept of decolonization and what that means to indigenous survival and success in the contemporary world. 

This program teaches from a Native-based perspective within the context of the larger global society and is designed for students who have social, cultural, or economic ties to tribes. The curriculum addresses three themes that rotate yearly. For 2018-2019, the theme is Foundations for Sustainable Tribal Nations. 

The program is taught at all sites at the same time with the same readings and assignments, but allows for faculty/student innovation and site specification. Integrated Skills, including critical thinking and analysis, research and writing, public speaking, collaboration, personal authority, and indigenous knowledge, are taught across the curriculum, integrated into all teaching and learning at the sites and at weekends classes. 

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

public administration, political science, social sciences, human services, education, law, and tribal administration and government.

12

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

This program is designed for students with strong social, cultural or economic ties to local tribal communities, on or off Indian reservations.  To be formally admitted to the Native Pathways Program, prospective students must meet the following criteria:

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

$25 to cover costs of a cultural meal

Internship Opportunities:

Internships are encouraged. Students pursuing this option must complete an in-program Internship Learning Contract in consultation with the faculty and Academic Advising. Please go to Individual Study for more information.

Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 15
EveningWeekend

Scheduled for: Evening and Weekend

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Saturday, April 6, 2019 - 10:00 am
LONGHOUSE 1007A - Workshop
Tribal

Located in: Tribal

DateRevision
2019-02-25$25 fee added

Native Pathways Program: Prospering in a Postcolonial World (Salish Sea Olympia Hybrid)

Spring
Spring 2019
Tribal
Tribal
EveningWeekend
Evening and Weekend
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 15
12
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

In this program we will examine sustainable movements, current sustainable practices, and elements that create surviving sustainability for native/indigenous communities within the contemporary world. This program will tackle the question of what postcolonial means on a personal, community, and world stage. Students will critically analyze sustainable movements and practices in education, health, food sovereignty, social justice, and tribal/indigenous economies. We will explore the concept of decolonization and what that means to indigenous survival and success in the contemporary world. 

This program teaches from a Native-based perspective within the context of the larger global society and is designed for students who have social, cultural, or economic ties to tribes. The curriculum addresses three themes that rotate yearly. For 2018-2019, the theme is Foundations for Sustainable Tribal Nations. 

The program is taught at all sites at the same time with the same readings and assignments, but allows for faculty/student innovation and site specification. Integrated Skills, including critical thinking and analysis, research and writing, public speaking, collaboration, personal authority, and indigenous knowledge, are taught across the curriculum, integrated into all teaching and learning at the sites and at weekends classes. 

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

public administration, political science, social sciences, human services, education, law, and tribal administration and government.

12

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

This program is designed for students with strong social, cultural or economic ties to local tribal communities, on or off Indian reservations.  To be formally admitted to the Native Pathways Program, prospective students must meet the following criteria:

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

$25 to cover costs of a cultural meal

Internship Opportunities:

Internships are encouraged. Students pursuing this option must complete an in-program Internship Learning Contract in consultation with the faculty and Academic Advising. Please go to Individual Study for more information.

Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 15
EveningWeekend

Scheduled for: Evening and Weekend

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Saturday, April 6, 2019 - 10:00 am
LONGHOUSE 1007A - Workshop
Tribal

Located in: Tribal

DateRevision
2019-02-25$25 fee added

Native Pathways Program: Prospering in a Postcolonial World (Tacoma)

Spring
Spring 2019
Tribal
Tribal
EveningWeekend
Evening and Weekend
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 20
12
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Kendra Aguilar Square
public administration

In this program we will examine sustainable movements, current sustainable practices, and elements that create surviving sustainability for native/indigenous communities within the contemporary world. This program will tackle the question of what postcolonial means on a personal, community, and world stage. Students will critically analyze sustainable movements and practices in education, health, food sovereignty, social justice, and tribal/indigenous economies. We will explore the concept of decolonization and what that means to indigenous survival and success in the contemporary world. 

This program teaches from a Native-based perspective within the context of the larger global society and is designed for students who have social, cultural, or economic ties to tribes. The curriculum addresses three themes that rotate yearly. For 2018-2019, the theme is Foundations for Sustainable Tribal Nations. 

The program is taught at all sites at the same time with the same readings and assignments, but allows for faculty/student innovation and site specification. Integrated Skills, including critical thinking and analysis, research and writing, public speaking, collaboration, personal authority, and indigenous knowledge, are taught across the curriculum, integrated into all teaching and learning at the sites and at weekends classes. 

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

public administration, political science, social sciences, human services, education, law, and tribal administration and government.

12

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

This program is designed for students with strong social, cultural or economic ties to local tribal communities, on or off Indian reservations.  TO be formally admitted to the Native Pathways Program, prospective students must meet the following criteria:

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

$25 to cover costs of a cultural meal

Internship Opportunities:

Internships are encouraged. Students pursuing this option must complete an in-program Internship Learning Contract in consultation with the faculty and Academic Advising. Please go to Individual Study for more information.

Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 20
EveningWeekend

Scheduled for: Evening and Weekend

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, April 1, 2019 - 5:30 pm
TAC 206
Tribal

Located in: Tribal

DateRevision
2019-02-25$25 fee added

Native Women Standing Strong for Justice

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Junior
Freshman–Junior
Class Size: 25
25% Reserved for Freshmen
16
Credits per quarter

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Native American studies, history, women's studies

Native American women have been erased from history. It is not that they did not exist; it is that they were made invisible, omitted from history. At the same time stereotypes such as "squaw" and "princess" have plagued Native women since 1492. Ironically, the history of Native women reflects a different reality with a long tradition of standing strong for justice. Native women have stood to protect the lands and the natural world, their cultures and languages, the health of their families, and tribal sovereignty. But few learn about these Native women, who consistently defied the stereotypes in order to work for the betterment of their peoples and nations.

Drawing upon the experiences and writings of such women, we will explore the ways in which leadership is articulated in many Native American communities. We will critique the ways in which feminist theory has both served and ignored Native women. Through case studies, autobiography, literature, and films, we will analyze how Native women have argued for sovereignty and developed agendas that privilege community over individuality. We will explore the activism of 20th century Native women leaders, particularly in the areas of the environment, the family system, and the law.

This program will implement decolonizing methodologies to give voice to some of these women, while deconstructing the stereotypes in order to honor and provide a different way of knowing about courageous Native American women, past and present. Students will develop skills as writers, researchers, and potential advocates by studying scholarly and imaginative works and conducting research. Through extensive reading and writing, dialogue, art, films, and possible guest speakers, we will investigate important aspects of the life and times of some of these Native American women across the centuries.

 

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Native American studies, women's studies, education, social sciences, U.S. history, law, leadership studies, and political science.

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Junior
Class Standing: Freshman–Junior
Class Size: 25
25% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, April 1, 2019 - 9:00 am
SEM 2 C3109 - Seminar

Located in: Olympia

Nature and Nurture: Human Development and the Environment

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Freshman
Freshman Only
Class Size: 40
100% Reserved for Freshmen
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Paul Przybylowicz
ecology, biology, mycology

Only one land animal thrives from the Arctic tundra to the Saharan desert, from the Himalayas to the islands of Oceania. As humans, we shape our environments and these environments shape us. This introductory, one-quarter program will focus on how our environment affects our health and psychological development. We will use the twin lens of developmental psychology and human biology to examine the interaction between humans and our environments.

Using real-world examples, we will explore child development and the influence of environment on development. We will also study human anatomy and physiology and will use current disease and health challenges as an invitation to learn how the body and diseases function. At the end of the program students will be ready be for future studies in psychology, biology, and human health.

Topics will be covered through texts, workshops, seminars, lab exercises, field trips, and lectures. Students will be expected to research topics, write papers, and give presentations, both individually and in small groups. Student progress will be assessed through discussions, written assignments, exams, individual and group projects, and participation in program activities.

Note: This program will be repeated in spring. Students enrolled in the winter program should not enroll in spring.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

teaching, biology, psychology, and health-related fields.

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Freshman
Class Standing: Freshman Only
Class Size: 40
100% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, January 7, 2019 - 9:00 am
SEM 2 A1107 - Workshop

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-11-29seats changed to 40
2018-09-07Ada Fetters added to the teaching team

Nature and Nurture: Human Development and the Environment

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 50
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Paul Przybylowicz
ecology, biology, mycology

This program is a repeat of winter. Students enrolled in the winter program should not enroll in the spring offering.

Only one land animal thrives from the Arctic tundra to the Saharan desert, from the Himalayas to the islands of Oceania. As humans, we shape our environments and these environments shape us. This introductory, one-quarter program will focus on how our environment affects our health and psychological development. We will use the twin lens of developmental psychology and human biology to examine the interaction between humans and our environments.

Using real-world examples, we will explore child development and the influence of environment on development. We will also study human anatomy and physiology and will use current disease and health challenges as an invitation to learn how the body and diseases function. At the end of the program students will be ready be for future studies in psychology, biology, and human health.

Topics will be covered through texts, workshops, seminars, hands-on anatomy and yoga sessions, and lectures. Students will be expected to research topics, write papers, and give presentations, both individually and in small groups. Student progress will be assessed through discussions, written assignments, exams, individual and group projects, and participation in program activities.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

teaching, biology, psychology, and health-related fields.

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 50
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 9:00 am
SEM 2 E3105 - Workshop

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-09-07Ada Fetters added to the teaching team

Nietzsche: The Wanderer and His Shadow

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 25
1216
Credits per quarter

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literature, philosophy, and languages

Friedrich Nietzsche, artist-philosopher, first modernist, and first postmodern philosopher, called himself a "posthumous man" and said his readers were yet to be born. Nietzsche struggled physically to write, struggled financially to be published, and suffered the isolation of a self-exiled nomad. Born before his time, virtually unread in his lifetime, he and his writings have influenced nearly every interesting mind since his death. A consummate stylist, Nietzsche saw philosophy as an art form; under his pen philosophy danced over systematizing and rules of argumentation, becoming essay, epigram, aphorism, parable, performance, and puzzle.

Nietzsche's writings have intrigued artists and writers since his death in 1900. Today, more than ever, he speaks to us and shapes intellectual discourse. His Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music shaped both modernist experimentation in ritualized theater performance, and, through its establishing of the aesthetic tension of Apollonian and Dionysian forces, established a context for modernist aesthetic debate. His work placed the artist in the center of aesthetic metamorphosis; that is, the artist became a "work of art," shaping 20th century artists' self-conception. Finally, his philosophical annexation of issues of styles and language, his "dancing philosophy" and his self-description as "artist-philosopher" made possible the post-modern theories most influential today. We will consider major writers strongly marked by Nietzsche's work, including Rilke, Mann, Hesse, Yeats, Bataille, Foucault, Blanchot, Derrida, and Iriguaray, as well as visual and performing artists.

Students in this program will read, discuss, and write about Nietzsche's major works. Each student will be responsible for the formal oral presentation of a major Nietzsche interpreter and for a public reading and analysis of a passage from Nietzsche's work. Groups of students will create presentations/performances based on major concepts in Nietzsche's writings. Students must be prepared for difficult readings, sustained hard, independent work, and high expectations. Students will complete a body of creative or analytical work reflecting their encounter with Nietzsche, and with the works under study this quarter, submitted in their portfolio at quarter’s end.

Students who wish to take another course while taking this program may negotiate a 12-credit option in consultation with program faculty.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

aesthetics, literature, philosophy, the arts and humanities.

1216

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

previous college-level humanities study.

Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 25
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - 10:00 am
Purce Hall 6 - Classroom

Located in: Olympia

Not a Melting Pot: American Identities, Migrations, and Places

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 62
16
Credits per quarter

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Patricia Krafcik
Russian language and literature
Bradley Proctor
U.S. history, African American history, American studies
Sean Williams Square
ethnomusicology

What is American identity? Or, perhaps more accurately, what are American identities and how have they been shaped by immigration, internal migration, and place? Our program explores these questions over time and across ethnic groups, regions, and cultures. We consider both voluntary and involuntary migrations, fraught with episodes of pain, suffering, the sense of loss, and nostalgia, but also characterized by individual and group resilience--and all of this analyzed as history, woven into story, and remembered in song.

These migrations include the transatlantic slave trade, the waves of millions of European immigrants (Irish, Scandinavians, Slavs, Jews), the seasonal movements of farmworkers, the forced removal of Native Americans to reservations, the move of women from farm to factory, and more. Our premise is that all of these have contributed to the formation of American identities, and one of our goals is to understand how, specifically by analyzing the ways in which identity has been both acquired and constructed. We disentangle complicated webs of identity-making from multiple perspectives and examine the contemporary impulse that has inspired the search for roots through genealogical research, heritage tourism, and DNA testing. Using stories, music, film, food, folklore, and scholarly accounts, we interrogate race, class, and gender in multiple configurations. Probable readings include historical analyses of race, ethnicity, and immigration by Barbara Fields, Thomas Holt, and Douglas Baynton, as well as memoirs of immigrants and their children.

Assignments will include tracing local ethnographies, developing both creative and scholarly works based on oral histories and other primary sources, and sharing our research in presentations. We will take a fieldtrip to the Washington State History Museum in Tacoma, and visit with guest lecturers. Students will emerge with tools that facilitate a deeper and more nuanced understanding of American identities, as well as ways to challenge easy, totalizing narratives of a simplistic American identity. This program is designed for students interested in upper-division critical thinking in historical and cultural studies.

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 62
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, January 7, 2019 - 9:30 am
SEM 2 E1105 - Lecture

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-11-30Sophomore Section added

On Reading Well

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
25% Reserved for Freshmen
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Steve Blakeslee
English, writing, literature

This course will help students to develop clearer and more comprehensive understandings of literary texts, as well as to forge a more rewarding relationship with reading in general. In a supportive group environment, students will explore a range of reading strategies, including textual analysis, background research, response and summary writing, and recitation. Then they will apply these tools to an in-depth study of several works of nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature . Titles under consideration for Fall 2018 include Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights,  James Joyce's  Dubliners,  Virginia Woolf's  To the Lighthouse, and John Steinbeck's The Moon Is Down . Our overall goal is to become more resourceful, effective, and insightful readers.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

humanities and education

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
25% Reserved for Freshmen
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Wednesday, September 26, 2018 - 5:30 pm
SEM 2 B2107 - Seminar

Advertised schedule:

Wed 5:30-9:20pm

Located in: Olympia

Orchestra - at SPSCC

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 15
2
Credits per quarter

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This orchestra is comprised of students and community members.  Standard symphonic orchestral literature is studied and rehearsed.  Performances are scheduled near the end of each academic quarter.  Orchestra members are expected to be good music sight readers and to possess at least high school playing ability.  Participation requires an interview with the director and may also require an informal audition.  Students interested in enrolling must contact the director, Cameron May, cmay4@spscc.edu , for permission to register.

 

NOTE: Course meets at South Puget Community College, Main Campus, 2011 Mottman Road SW, Olympia, WA 98512, Thursdays 7:00-9:30pm in BLDG 21, Room 253-- The first class will meet on Thursday, September 20 (before Evergreen's start date) . Students must be registered by 5:00 PM on Thursday September 13th.

The textbook for this course can be purchased at SPSCC Bookstore. The text will be listed under the course ID MUSC160, and can be found at this address: http://spscc.bncollege.com

2

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Fees:

$50 required fee for Orchestra music

Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 15
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

Located in: Olympia

Orchestra - at SPSCC

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 15
2
Credits per quarter

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This orchestra is comprised of students and community members.  Standard symphonic orchestral literature is studied and rehearsed.  Performances are scheduled near the end of each academic quarter.  Orchestra members are expected to be good music sight readers and to possess at least high school playing ability.  Participation requires an interview with the director and may also require an informal audition.  Students interested in enrolling must contact the director, Cameron May, cmay4@spscc.edu , for permission to register.

 

NOTE: Course meets at South Puget Community College, Main Campus, 2011 Mottman Road SW, Olympia, WA 98512, Thursdays 7:00-9:30pm in BLDG 21, Room 253-- The first class will meet on Thursday, January 3 (before Evergreen's start date) . Students must be registered by 5:00 PM on Thursday December 27th.

The textbook for this course can be purchased at SPSCC Bookstore. The text will be listed under the course ID MUSC160, and can be found at this address: http://spscc.bncollege.com

2

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Fees:

$50 required fee for Orchestra music

Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 15
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

Located in: Olympia

Orchestra - at SPSCC

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 15
2
Credits per quarter

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This orchestra is comprised of students and community members.  Standard symphonic orchestral literature is studied and rehearsed.  Performances are scheduled near the end of each academic quarter.  Orchestra members are expected to be good music sight readers and to possess at least high school playing ability.  Participation requires an interview with the director and may also require an informal audition.  Students interested in enrolling must contact the director, Cameron May, cmay4@spscc.edu , for permission to register.

 

NOTE: Course meets at South Puget Community College, Main Campus, 2011 Mottman Road SW, Olympia, WA 98512, Thursdays 7:00-9:30pm in BLDG 21, Room 253. Students must be registered by 5:00 PM on Thursday March 28th. 

The textbook for this course can be purchased at SPSCC Bookstore. The text will be listed under the course ID MUSC160, and can be found at this address: http://spscc.bncollege.com

2

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Fees:

$60 required fee for Orchestra music

Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 15
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

Located in: Olympia

Painting: Representation and Abstraction

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 20
4
Credits per quarter

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This course is intended as an overview of painting techniques, concepts, and related history. It has been designed for a broad range of students to become competent with composition, perspective, brushwork and color application. It is highly recommended that students have some previous experience with college-level drawing courses. Projects will include still-life, landscape, and color field abstraction. Students will explore specific techniques through group activities which will provide the basis for individual exploration. Thematic concepts will be discussed as primers to aide students toward loosely narrative work. Class time will be devoted to studio work, presentations, demonstrations, and critiques. In addition, students will be expected to work outside of the designated class time to complete all required assignments.  

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

$15 for project supplies

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 20
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, April 1, 2019 - 5:30 pm
Art Annex 1114 - Visual Arts Lab

Advertised schedule:

Mondays 5:30-9:30 pm

Located in: Olympia

Pathways to Healthcare: A Clinical Practicum at Student Wellness Services

FallWinterSpring
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime Evening
Day and Evening
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 4
8
Credits per quarter

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Evergreen’s Student Wellness Services offers a medical assistant program that provides students with the necessary training to be licensed in Washington State as a Medical Assistant—Registered. Upon successful completion of this program students are eligible to take the National Certification Exam for Medical Assistants and become credentialed as a Medical Assistant – Certified.

Barbara Krulich, PA-C, Medical Assistant Program Director, provides the pre-fall quarter intensive training and the weekly in-services which are required for licensure.

This program draws upon the strengths of students with a strong background in the humanities, as well as the social, psychological, and biological sciences. “Pathways to Healthcare” provides an opportunity for students to gain valuable clinical experience, working closely with a variety of healthcare professionals in a supportive clinical setting. This is an excellent experience that can influence and inform decisions about future careers in healthcare.

The Pathways to Healthcare Medical Assisting Program is highly competitive. About 20 of the strongest candidates are interviewed in April. From those interviewed, 4 - 6 are selected for the following academic year's program and will be notified by the middle of May. If accepted to the program students must commit to a full academic year and work 16 -19 hours per week in the Student Wellness Center. 

Student Medical Assistants completing our program have entered a variety of healthcare fields. These include MD, DO, Physician Assistant, Nurse Practitioner, Nursing, Midwifery, EMT, Naturopathic, and Acupuncture programs.

QUALIFICATIONS

  • Students who will be juniors and seniors are eligible to apply. Outstanding sophomores may also be considered.
  • Required: at least 15 credits in each of college level math, English, and a science. If you have completed INS, M20, M&M or similar programs you have met the math requirement. Recommended but not required courses include biology, anatomy & physiology, microbiology, and chemistry.
  • Other important selection factors include at least six months of volunteer or community service work. This does not have to be in the medical field.
  • It is important to create a comfortable and safe environment for patients and to cooperate within the team of healthcare providers and staff. The applicant should possess poise, tolerance, strong people and communication skills, and the ability to work/focus in a busy environment with multiple distractions.
  • Previous medical experience is not required for application to the program. We provide all the training necessary to become a Student Medical Assistant (SMA).

APPLICATION AND TIMELINE

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE APPLICATION AND INTERVIEW PROCESS IS 8 WEEKS EARLIER THAN IN PAST YEARS.  Applications are available Feb 9th at Student Wellness Services or on-line at: http://www.evergreen.edu/health/studentmedicalassistant . Prospective students must apply (applications due April 18th) and be interviewed in April 2018 to have the opportunity to participate in the 2018-19 academic year.

COURSEWORK

  • Peer Health Education
  • OSHA Blood Borne Pathogen Safety
  • Immunizations
  • Crisis & Psychological Issues
  • STI Education
  • Medical Terminology
  • Front Office Procedures
  • Pharmacology
  • Applied Microbiology
  • Venipuncture
  • Clinical Skills

IF AN APPLICANT IS NOT ACCEPTED
Unfortunately there is limited space in the medical assisting program, which makes the application process rather competitive. Applicants not accepted are offered feedback and encouraged to apply the following year.

NEED FURTHER INFORMATION? CONTACT:
Barbara Krulich, PA-C Medical Assistant Program Director
Student Wellness Services Seminar I - 2110 (360) 867 – 6200
krulichb@evergreen.edu

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Health related fields including Medical Doctor, Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, Physician Assistant, Nurse Practitioner, Naturopathic Doctor, Acupuncturist, Registered Nurse

8

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Prerequisites:

1 year (15 credits each) college level math and English. For those who have taken programs such as INS, M20 or M&M the math requirement has been met.

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Special expenses:

$90 Department of Health Credential Application: Medical Assistant-Registered (Fall)

$75 National Heathcareer Association Tutorial and Assessment (Fall)

$115 Department of Health Credential Application: Medical Assistant-Certified (Spring)

$175 National Medical Assistant Certification Exam Fee (Spring)

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 4
Daytime Evening

Scheduled for: Day and Evening

Advertised schedule:

16-19 hours per week in the Student Health Center plus Wednesday and Friday in-services

Located in: Olympia

May be offered again in:

Fall 2019-20

DateRevision
2018-03-28Application deadline extended: new deadline is April 18th.

Performance: Theory & Practice

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 25
16
Credits per quarter

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In this one quarter program, students will form a company of artists who will collaborate and support each other over a wide-variety of artistic practices. These will include realism, experimental, musical, media and inter-arts performances.  Students will explore the various theories particular to different areas of rehearsal and performance, what will allow them to make make effective use of time and human resources in the composition of various types of performances.  Company members will also explore various techniques, which they will put into practice during the rehearsal and performance composition.  Performances will be given throughout the quarter.  Students should be highly disciplined and able to work independently but also in a highly collaborative environment. Particular emphasis will be placed on how to create, using a minimum of resources, without compromising the quality of one's artistic vision.         

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Performing, Visual, Media Arts, and Teaching 

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Fees:

$100 fee for artistic supplies

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 25
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, April 1, 2019 - 12:00 pm
SEM 2 D4107 - Workshop

Located in: Olympia

Photography: Beginning

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 24
25% Reserved for Freshmen
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Steve Davis
photography

This course emphasizes beginning-level skill development in camera use, lighting, exposure, black/white film and print processing. We will also briefly explore digital photography techniques. The essential elements of the class will include assignments, critiques and surveys of images by other photographers. Students of this class will develop a basic understanding of the language of photography, as a communications tool and a means for personal expression. Students must invest ample time outside of class to complete assignments.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

photography, media, communications, art

4

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Fees:

$140 for film and paper materials fee

Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 24
25% Reserved for Freshmen
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, September 24, 2018 - 5:00 pm
LIB 1326 - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

5-7pm Mondays and Wednesdays

Located in: Olympia

Photography: Digital

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 24
15% Reserved for Freshmen
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Steve Davis
photography

This course will introduce students to photographic practice through digital means. Building from students' existing photographic skills and vocabulary, we will explore image-making with digital cameras and work with computers, scanners, inkjet printers, and studio lighting.  A brief introduction to digital video may also be included.  Students will create work as exhibition-quality prints, and also create a photographic portfolio for the Web.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

photography, photojournalism, media, visual art, communications

4

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

Students should have a working knowledge of basic camera operation, with an understanding of ISO, aperture, shutter speed and metering. Additional support will be provided as necessary to assure your basic understanding of these fundamentals.

Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Fees:

$50 for printing and other project supplies

Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 24
15% Reserved for Freshmen
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, January 7, 2019 - 5:00 pm
LIB 1326 - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

5-7pm Mondays and Wednesdays.  Classes will take place in the classroom, Digital Imaging Studio, and Photo Studio.

Located in: Olympia

Photography: Documentary

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 18
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Steve Davis
photography

This class will explore how photography can be effectively used as a tool for creative documentation. You may work in any photographic mediums with which you are experienced-- analog B/W, color, or digital (most students opt for digital).  DSLR multimedia work is also an option for later in the quarter. Students will be expected to maintain an online blog/web gallery showing in-progress photography with appropriate text.  Final projects must address a particular topic (from your perspective) and clearly communicate your message to a broad audience.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

photography, photojournalism, visual art, media

4

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

previous college-level photography coursework and a portfolio

Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Fees:

$100 for film, paper, and inkjet materials

Website:
Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 18
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, April 1, 2019 - 5:00 pm
LIB 1326 - Workshop

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2019-02-26Conflicting schedule information removed. Class meets M/W as stated in Schedule Evergreen

Physical Systems and Applied Mathematics

FallWinterSpring
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 32
16Variable
Credits per quarter
Variable Credit Options Available

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Taught by

Brian Walters
mathematics, computer science, improvisational theater

This intermediate-to-advanced program builds on previous introductory work in calculus and calculus-based physics to deepen students’ understanding of nature, how it can be represented via physical models, and the powerful connections between mathematics and physical theories. We will integrate topics in physics (from classical mechanics, electromagnetism, and quantum mechanics) with topics in applied mathematics (from differential equations, multivariable and vector calculus, and linear algebra). We will also devote time to looking at our studies in a broader historical, philosophical, and cultural context.

We will integrate theory and experiment in a collaborative environment that mirrors practices of contemporary scientists. By studying classical and cutting-edge problems, we aim to ask increasingly sophisticated questions about the nature of physical reality and develop tools for answering those questions. Through readings, lectures, workshops, labs, and seminars, we will examine the principal models by which we describe and understand the physical world, expanding from the realms of our immediate senses out to many orders of magnitude of scale of distance, time, matter, and energy. We will emphasize understanding the nature and formal structure of quantitative physical theories, unifying the concepts and mathematical structures that organize different physical theories into a coherent body of knowledge. Mathematical skills will be developed as needed in the context of their use in the physical sciences. Quantitative problem solving will be emphasized, with computational tools used to gain insight into physical processes. The theoretical focus will be complemented with laboratory work.

Our theoretical and experimental investigations will integrate mathematically sophisticated and conceptually challenging subject areas, and will require, for well-prepared students, a significant time commitment of at least 50 hours per week, including mastery of prerequisite material, willingness to work in a learning community, practiced time-management skills, and experience balancing intensive work over extended periods of time. The result should be beautiful and mind-boggling insights into our breathtaking universe. Our goal is to provide students the opportunity to develop the conceptual knowledge and mathematical ability required to pursue further advanced work in physics and related disciplines.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

physics, mathematics, engineering, and math and science education.

16Variable

Credits per quarter
Variable Credit Options Available

Variable Credit Options:

Partial credit options are available for fall quarter. Please see program website (https://sites.evergreen.edu/psam1819/) for details.

Prerequisites:

Proficiency in one year of introductory calculus (including both differential and integral calculus, including multiple integrals) and one year of calculus-based physics (including introductory mechanics and electricity & magnetism).

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Special expenses:

Math and physics textbooks at intermediate and advanced levels are generally very expensive, and may be more than $600 total. However, those texts cover the entire year, and students will be required to have access to these texts for successful completion of the program. Students will also need to own or have easy access to computers with appropriate software. More information will be available by the beginning of spring quarter 2017 at the program website.

Upper division science credit:

Content will be equivalent to intermediate or advanced work in undergraduate mathematics (e.g. differential equations, linear algebra) or physics (e.g. classical mechanics, electromagnetism, quantum mechanics). Students who successfully complete program requirements will earn upper-division science credit in mathematics or physics in those areas.

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 32
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, April 1, 2019 - 9:00 am
LAB 2 1223A - CAL West

Located in: Olympia

May be offered again in:

This program or its equivalent will be offered again in 2020-21.

Physics I: Motion

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Weekend
Weekend
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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physics, education

How can we systematically describe and predict the motion of objects, from falling apples to orbiting moons? This course provides an overview of the physics of motion by focusing on the conservation of momentum and energy. Conceptual understanding will be emphasized with algebra and basic trigonometry as mathematical foundations. Laboratory exercises will involve some experimental design and will focus on developing skill in observation and analysis while reinforcing conceptual understanding. 

While there are no prerequisites for this course, prior experience in physical science is beneficial as is a general confidence in approaching mathematical information.

Taking this course as part of a sequence with Physics II: Electromagnetism and Physics III: Lightprovides the equivalent of a standard, non-calculus, first-year physics sequence.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

medicine, science education, and further studies in STEM fields.

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Weekend

Scheduled for: Weekend

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Saturday, September 29, 2018 - 9:00 am
LAB 2 2238 - Class Lab

Advertised schedule:

Sat 9am-12:50pm 

Located in: Olympia

Physics II: Electromagnetism

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Weekend
Weekend
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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physics, education

What is electricity? We use it for all sorts of things, but where does it come from? This course provides an overview of the physics of electromagnetism. Topics will include electrical circuits, static electricity, magnetism, and electromagnetic interactions. Conceptual understanding will be emphasized with algebra and basic trigonometry as mathematical foundations. Laboratory exercises will involve some experimental design and will focus on developing skill in observation and analysis while reinforcing conceptual understanding.

While there are no prerequisites for this course, prior experience in physical science is beneficial as is a general confidence in approaching mathematical information.

Taking this course as part of a sequence with Physics I: Motion and Physics III: Lightprovides the equivalent of a standard, non-calculus, first-year physics sequence.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

medicine, science education, and further studies in STEM fields.

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Weekend

Scheduled for: Weekend

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Saturday, January 12, 2019 - 9:00 am
LAB 2 2238 - Class Lab

Advertised schedule:

9a-1p Sat

Located in: Olympia

Physics III: Light

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Weekend
Weekend
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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physics, education

Is light a wave? Or is it a particle? This is one of the central mysteries of physics and our physical world. This course provides an overview of the physics of light. Topics will include oscillations, waves, and optics as well as an introduction to modern physics. Conceptual understanding will be emphasized with algebra and basic trigonometry as mathematical foundations. Laboratory exercises will involve some experimental design and will focus on developing skill in observation and analysis while reinforcing conceptual understanding.

While there are no prerequisites for this course, prior experience in physical science is beneficial as is a general confidence in approaching mathematical information.

Taking this course as part of a sequence with Physics I: Motion and Physics II: Electromagnetismprovides the equivalent of a standard, algebra-based, first-year physics sequence.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

medicine, science education, and further studies in STEM fields.

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Weekend

Scheduled for: Weekend

Final schedule and room assignments:

Advertised schedule:

9a-1p Sat

Located in: Olympia

Plants in Art, Word, and Healing

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
EveningWeekend
Evening and Weekend
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 50
8
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Marja Eloheimo square
ethnobotany, environmental and cultural anthropology, plant studies
Suzanne Simons square
poetry and literary arts, community studies/Middle East studies, journalism

Plants invite us into relationships. Relationships invite us into health. This program explores plant arts in contexts that support healing. Specifically, we will explore and cultivate skills related to (1) plant drawing and plant morphology; (2) creating color with plants as natural dyes; (3) poetry and its connections with plants, color, and healing –– tangibly and metaphorically –– including writing and revising our own poetry as well as reading, analysis, and critique of environmental poetry of place; and (4) botanical medicine through the lenses of body systems, medicine-making, and cultural perspectives on healing. These areas will be woven together through consideration of the relationships they foster –– relationships with each other, with the natural world of which we are part, and with ourselves.   Activities will include lectures and workshops on the nature of relationship; plant parts (morphology) and how to see and draw them; basic methods for dyeing with plants; selected body systems, relevant medicinal plants, and medicine-making techniques; and the craft of literary arts –– especially, poetry and spoken word –– using plants as texts, creating and revising free verse and formal patterned poems symmetrical to patterns in nature, and practicing literary techniques to heighten tension and deepen meaning in poetic works. We will also perform our poems at community poetry events, and engage with the Longhouse Ethnobotanical Garden website to post our poetry. Students will select one of the areas described above for a final project that –– among other possibilities including plant drawing, dyeing, medicine-making or cultural traditions of healing –– could consist of a collaborative poetry chapbook that includes research, presentation, and an explicit linking to the broader concepts of relationship and healing. 

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

education, environmental education, writing, botany, botanical medicine, health, community development, cultural diversity, visual arts, fiber arts

8

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Fees:

$65 for workshop supplies and performance entrance fees

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 50
EveningWeekend

Scheduled for: Evening and Weekend

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Wednesday, January 9, 2019 - 5:30 pm
SEM 2 A2105 - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

Wednesday evenings 5:30-9:30, Alternate Saturdays 9:30-5:30 (Jan 12, 26, Feb 9, 23, Mar 9, 16) plus One Thursday evening 6-9 p.m. for a community-based poetry field trip (this event is strongly encouraged, however, an alternate assignment will be available for those who cannot attend). 

Located in: Olympia

PLE Document Writing

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 30
468
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

creative writing, sustainability, public policy

Prior Learning from Experience allows people with significant professional and/or community-based experience to kick-start or accelerate a college degree.  Students receive significant support from peers and faculty in learning how to assemble a portfolio that shows the “college equivalent learning” they have gained through professional and/or community-based work.  Students earn credit through a combination of coursework and faculty evaluation of the completed essay.This separate and economical assessment and award of credit for prior learning speeds time to degree.  Students completing a PLE document generally describe the experience as “transformative,” helping them to understand the college level equivalence of their professional and community-based experience, as well as preparing them for future academic and professional work. The program has a prerequisite course, which you will find under “Writing from Life.”  You will also find further information, including a video, at https://www.evergreen.edu/ple .

468

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Writing from Life course and application to the PLE program
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 30
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - 6:00 pm
Purce Hall 8 - Classroom

Advertised schedule:

Tue 6-9:20pm

Located in: Olympia

PLE Document Writing

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 30
468
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

creative writing, sustainability, public policy

Prior Learning from Experience allows people with significant professional and/or community-based experience to kick-start or accelerate a college degree.  Students receive significant support from peers and faculty in learning how to assemble a portfolio that shows the “college equivalent learning” they have gained through professional and/or community-based work.  Students earn credit through a combination of coursework and faculty evaluation of the completed essay.This separate and economical assessment and award of credit for prior learning speeds time to degree.  Students completing a PLE document generally describe the experience as “transformative,” helping them to understand the college level equivalence of their professional and community-based experience, as well as preparing them for future academic and professional work. The program has a prerequisite course, which you will find under “Writing from Life.”  You will also find further information, including a video, at https://www.evergreen.edu/ple .

468

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Writing from Life course and application to the PLE program
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 30
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - 6:00 pm
Purce Hall 6 - Classroom

Advertised schedule:

6-10p Tue

Located in: Olympia

PLE Document Writing

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 30
468
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

creative writing, sustainability, public policy

Prior Learning from Experience allows people with significant professional and/or community-based experience to kick-start or accelerate a college degree.  Students receive significant support from peers and faculty in learning how to assemble a portfolio that shows the “college equivalent learning” they have gained through professional and/or community-based work.  Students earn credit through a combination of coursework and faculty evaluation of the completed essay.This separate and economical assessment and award of credit for prior learning speeds time to degree.  Students completing a PLE document generally describe the experience as “transformative,” helping them to understand the college level equivalence of their professional and community-based experience, as well as preparing them for future academic and professional work. The program has a prerequisite course, which you will find under “Writing from Life.”  You will also find further information, including a video, at https://www.evergreen.edu/ple .

468

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Writing from Life course and application to the PLE program
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 30
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 6:00 pm
Purce Hall 5 - Classroom

Advertised schedule:

6-10p Tue

Located in: Olympia

Poetry of Witness: Writing as Activism

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
5% Reserved for Freshmen
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Dawn Barron sqaure
writing, Native and Indigenous studies

Poet Bruce Weigel says, “Witnessing isn’t just looking at something, witnessing is seeing something and bringing it into your body and mind and heart and soul.” Poems of witness document atrocities and social injustices. There is an urgency and impetus to give voice to the ongoing and systematic oppression of marginalized people, even if one has not personally experienced such repression, for we live in a country, and a world, where we are all connected by the consequences of political actions.

In this course, you don’t have to be a poet (yet), as we investigate what it means to be a witness by discussing a group of contemporary poets who have refined and refreshed the genre, thereby continually providing examples of what it means to be a credible observer, an informed witness. Poetry of Witness is not political poetry, nor a place to perch upon a soapbox; it is to bear witness to a specific event or issue, writing from an individual, not collective mind-speak. By the very essence of witnessing, whether observing or participating, poets have the ability to wield language into poetic activism. We will arrive at our own work by close readings of those poets already situated as witnesses and interrogate our own worldviews to create work with integrity and power.

Native Pathways students register with CRN 30380, all other students register with CRN 30381. 

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
5% Reserved for Freshmen
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Wednesday, April 3, 2019 - 6:00 pm
Purce Hall 5 - Classroom

Located in: Olympia

Political Ecology of Land: Urban Planning, Property Rights, and Land Stewardship

FallWinter
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 25
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

political science, economics

This program will provide an interdisciplinary, in-depth focus on how land has been viewed and used by humans historically and in contemporary times. We will attempt to understand today’s built environments from a variety of perspectives and determine how they can accommodate new challenges, including environmental, economic, financial, and fiscal constraints. We will give special attention to the political, legal, economic, financial, and social/cultural contexts of land use. We will look at and evaluate efforts to regulate land uses and protect lands that have been defined as valuable by society.

To understand the purpose of land use policy and regulation, the following topics and disciplines will be used to evaluate the human relationship to land in the U.S.: the structure and function of American government; the history and theory of land-use planning; economic and community development; public policy formation and implementation; contemporary land-use planning practices; growth management; selected elements of environmental and land-use law; regional economics; and fiscal analysis for the provision of government services. Selected applications of quantitative research methods will be developed throughout the program. 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, public sector accountability, and resource management (eg. budgeting and annual reports).

The program will include lectures, seminars, guest speakers, workshops, field trips, and individual and group research projects and presentations. Students will acquire professional writing skills through instruction and practice in formats such as policy briefing papers. Students will develop an understanding of the political and economic history that brought about the need for land use regulation. This will include understanding the political, legal, economic, and financial context of the public sector. Students will apply these themes to contemporary applications and the professional world of land use planning, such as understanding the legislative and public policy processes in Washington State, major policies such as the Washington State Growth Management Act, The Shoreline Master Program, Historic Preservation, and economic development. During winter quarter, we will develop an in-depth understanding of budgeting and financial management in the public and nonprofit sectors, as well as the increasing importance of fiscal impact analysis. Students will leave the program with credits emphasizing land use planning, public policy, and public sector fiscal and financial management—excellent preparation for potential professional careers and the prerequisites for many graduate programs in land-use/urban planning, public administration, public policy, and private-sector work in consulting firms and non-governmental organizations.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

government, urban planning, architecture, non-profit sector, public/environmental policy, and economic development.

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 25
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - 1:00 pm
SEM 2 D1105 - Lecture

Located in: Olympia

Political Economy and Environmental and Social Movements: Race, Class, and Gender

FallWinter
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 50
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Peter Bohmer
economics, political economy
climate justice, climate policy and politics, political ecology, environment and development

We will examine the nature, development, and concrete workings of modern capitalism and how they intersect with race, class, and gender in historical and contemporary contexts. Recurring themes include the relationship among oppression, exploitation, social movements, reform and fundamental change, and the construction of alternatives to capitalism. We will examine how social change has occurred in the past, present trends, and alternatives for the future. Theoretical frameworks informing understandings of current U.S. and global political economy will include liberalism, neoclassical economics, Marxism, feminism, postcolonialism, and anarchism. We will apply these frameworks to analyze key issues including education, the media, climate change, hunger, debt, immigration, refugees, and the criminal justice system.

In fall, the U.S. experience will be our central focus. We will begin with the material and ideological foundations of the U.S. political economy, focusing on specific issues including the slave trade, racial, gender, economic, and environmental inequality, the labor movement and the western push to "American Empire." We will examine the linkages between the economic core of capitalism, political and social structures, and gender, race and class relations; how resource struggles and environmental inequities are implicated in efforts to oppress, dispossess, or otherwise control populations; and how contemporary social movements have mobilized in resistance. Foundational microeconomics principles from neoclassical and political economy perspectives will inform these examinations, focusing on topics such as the structure and failure of markets, work and wages, growing economic inequality, poverty, debt as a means of dispossession, and the gendered and racial divisions of labor.

In winter, we will examine the U.S. political economy in global context. As such, topics examined will include economic globalization, development, international migration, U.S. foreign policy, international relations, global environmental politics, trade agreements, the role of multilateral institutions; and alternatives to neoliberal capitalism. As such we will explore socialism, participatory economies, and community-based economies and study strategies for social change based on grassroots social movements in India, Mexico and Bolivia. Foundational macroeconomics principles will inform these explorations, focusing on topics such as austerity, economic instability, unemployment, and underemployment.

Students will engage with the material through seminars, lectures, guest speakers, films, and workshops. Written assignments include reflection papers, synthesis papers, argumentative essays, in-class and take-home examinations. In winter, students will write a research paper on a relevant political economy topic or pursue an internship in an organization or group whose activities are closely related to the themes of this program.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

political economy, economics, history, education, community organizing, labor organizing, global justice movement, law, development, and social work.

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Fees:

$25 in winter for overnight field trip.

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 50
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - 10:00 am
SEM 2 A1105 - Lecture

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2019-01-04signature requirement removed
2018-11-26winter fee reduced to $25

Political Economy of Public Education: History and Philosophy

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 50
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

education
Michael Vavrus
education, history, political economy

In this program students examine historical patterns and strengthen analytic reading, writing, and speaking skills to participate in the current political, philosophical, and economic debates about the purposes of education. Throughout U.S. history people have politically contested the nature and purposes of elementary and secondary education. To better understand this, students will be introduced to competing ideological perspectives on public education and the political and economic contexts in which schools exist. Students will investigate public education and schools by using both a broad macro social, political and economic lens, and a micro school-level lens.

Because schools are a human invention with a history, schools change form and adapt in response to social and political pressures. Therefore, students will examine significant philosophical, political, economic, and social tensions as to what the term “public” in public education means. Together, students will consider historical contexts from colonialism to contemporary neoliberal governance in order to relate historical patterns to the development of elementary and secondary education. This inquiry covers the locally controlled, Protestant Christian origin of public education and its effects on our contemporary, multicultural environment in an era of increasing privatization of education. Students will investigate the contemporary political and economic debates surrounding the expectations for public education to measure accountability by means of high-stakes standardized tests. Students will explore a history of the charter school movement and contemporary neoliberal interests in shifting public school funds to private charter schools and vouchers for private schools in relation to the various effects on young people and teacher autonomy.

At the micro level, students will study and analyze the effects of educational policy and school management practices pertaining to curricular decisions and student disciplinary policies on the life opportunities of children and youth. Students will have an opportunity to learn how social and political attitudes on race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class can have differential effects on the lived experiences of young people in and out of schools.

Each week students will expect to engage in text-based seminars, attend lectures, critically view documentary films and contemporary news reports, and participate in workshops. To prepare for seminars and workshops, students will be provided guidelines for writing brief preparation papers based on an assigned reading. Students will gain practice in writing papers that regularly integrate program material. Each student will write a summative project as a synthesis paper based on course materials and present key points to the class.

Anticipated credit equivalencies for this program include: introduction to a history of U.S. education, introduction to the political economy of education, introduction to the philosophy of education, and analytic writing.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

public policy, education, social services, and history.

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

$20 for supplemental booklet.

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 50
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, January 7, 2019 - 9:30 am
SEM 2 E1107 - Workshop

Located in: Olympia

Positive Psychology

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Weekend
Weekend
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Mark Hurst square
psychology

After spending years in World War II concentration camps, Viktor Frankl emerged to develop a psychology of hope and meaning that emphasized what Abraham Maslow later called the human momentum for "self-actualization". More recently, leading scholars have taken these ideas further. Since 1998, "positive" psychology has amassed an understanding of humans at their best. A worldwide collaborative effort now attempts to balance psychology's early focus on psychopathology with empirical science and sound practical strategies that promote wellbeing, quality of life, and resilience. Students will engage in active experiences related to gratitude, hope, savoring, altruism, etc. Objectives for this course are for students to develop a general body of knowledge (and experience) about the new social science regarding the more positive aspects of human existence, as well as specific strategies for change at the individual, social, and cultural levels. We will be “living” much of this material, so this information should be directly applicable to your personal and professional development.

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Weekend

Scheduled for: Weekend

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Saturday, September 29, 2018 - 9:00 am
SEM 2 A2105 - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

Saturdays 9am-4:50pm: 9/29, 10/13, 10/27, 11/10, 12/1

Located in: Olympia

Poverty: What, Why and How

FallWinter
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
EveningWeekend
Evening and Weekend
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 25
8
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Wang-Wenhong
sociology and social statistics

Many of us have seen the ugly face of poverty. But what is poverty? Why is poverty so prevalent? Who are the poor? What are the underlying causes of poverty? Why is poverty a disease of the whole society (not just the poor)? How is poverty manifested in people’s everyday life? Why are certain racial and ethnic groups more likely to fall into poverty? How do economic processes contribute to poverty? What are the goals and purposes of social welfare programs? What are the limits of policy? How can we act as a community to eliminate poverty? 

This program will explore poverty in the larger social context of increasing social inequality and use sociological theories to investigate various aspects of poverty and its particularities in the U.S. 

In the fall quarter, using poverty as our subject of inquiry, we will study sociological theories and key concepts and critically examine their applicability to social class and poverty-related issues. We will explore the intricate and complex relationship between social structure and individuals. Program activities will include lectures, guest speakers, seminars, workshops and field trips. Students will write seminar essays and self-reflection papers and will carry out a research project oriented toward action. Toward the end of quarter, the students will also finish an assignment preparing for a potential internship in winter quarter.

In the winter quarter, the program consist of two parts. Half of the work (4 credits) will be in class, devoted to deeper investigations of several major poverty related issues such as homelessness, childhood poverty, health care and public health issues, incarcerationand immigration. For the other half (4 credits), students have the choice to do either an internship with a local agency or organization working with low incomeas well as other under served populations in the community or conduct a major research project that is focused on a topic related to povertyor other pressing social issues. Our class activities will include workshops, seminars as well as substantial group work with students helping refine each other’s project under the guidance of the faculty.

This program provides variable credit options. Students can choose to take the full 8 credit program or just the 4-credit in class portion or the 4-credit internship or research component portion of the program. Students who just take the 4-credit internship or research project portion of the program are not required but strongly encouraged to find their own agency to work with or their own topic to do research on. In the beginning of the quarter, we will devote class time to help you develop your proposal of internship and research project.Students who just take the internship or research portion of the program will meet every other Saturday. 

Potential credit equivalencies will be in sociology of poverty, research methodology, social policy, community study.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Social work, education, counselling, public administration, social policy, community study

8

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Fees:

$15 each quarter for museum entrance fees

Internship Opportunities:

Four credit internship is optional in winter.

Research Opportunities:

Two credit of research project is required in fall quarter and 4-credit research is optional in winter quarter.

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 25
EveningWeekend

Scheduled for: Evening and Weekend

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Wednesday, January 9, 2019 - 6:00 pm
SEM 2 B3109 - Seminar

Advertised schedule:

Wednesdays 6-10pm and Alternating Saturdays 9:30am-5:00pm (Fall dates: September 29, October 13, 27, November 10, and December 8). 

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-12-05Signature requirement for winter quarter removed
2018-07-19Required fee lowered to $15 (was $30)
2018-05-16Schedule change: Program now meets Wed/Sat (was Sat/Sun)

Practice of Organic Farming

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 30
25% Reserved for Freshmen
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

David Muehleisen
sustainable agriculture, entomology

Do you want to know what it talks to produce food for yourself, your family, and others in your community? In the Practice of Organic Farming Program, students learn what it takes to grow food and feed yourself and others every day throughout the year? This three-quarter program will explore sustainable food production practices through an entire growing season, beginning in spring, through the summer and ending in the fall quarters), and how those practices are tailored for the Pacific Northwest climate in order to maximize production. Our focus will be on small-scale organic production, but we will compare and contrast that system to other production systems. This program focuses on the scientific underpinning of sustainable and organic food production, with an emphasis on theory to practice, critical thinking, and observation skills necessary to grow food using ecologically informed methods. In addition, we will explore the farm management and business skills necessary to operate a small-scale farm.

We will be studying and working at the Evergreen Organic Farm through an entire growing season, from seed propagation to harvest, and on to market. The farm includes a small-scale direct market stand and CSA, as well as a variety of other demonstration areas. All students will work on the farm every week to gain practical experiential learning. This program is rigorous physically and academically and requires a willingness to work outside in adverse weather on a schedule determined by the needs of crops and animals.

Spring quarter we will focus on soil science, nutrient management, and crop botany. Additional topics will include introduction to animal husbandry, successional crop planning, season extension, and the principles and practice of composting. In summer, main topics will be disease and pest management, which includes entomology, plant pathology, and weed biology. Water management, irrigation system design, maximizing market and value-added opportunities, and regulatory issues will be covered. Fall's focus will be on farm and business planning, successional crop planning, storage techniques, seed saving practices, and cover crops. Additional topics covered throughout the program will include record keeping for organic production systems, alternative crop production systems, techniques for adding value to farm and garden products, hand-tool use and maintenance, and farm equipment safety. We will also include communication and conflict resolution skills needed to work effectively in small groups.

Topics will be explored through on-farm workshops, seminar discussions, lectures and laboratory and field exercises, and field trips. Expect weekly reading and writing assignments, extensive collaborative group work, and a variety of hands-on projects. The final project in fall will be a detailed farm and business plan which integrates all the topics covered in the program. Books may include The Market Gardener by Fortier, Crop Planning for Organic Vegetable Growers by Theriault and Brisebois, Planning Workbook: Organic Whole Farm by Huelsman, and Building Soils for Better Crops 3rd ed. by Magdoff and van Es;

If you are a student with a disability and would like to request accommodation, please contact the faculty or Access Services Program Coordinator Steve Schmidt at L2153 or call (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 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 2018 to develop a financial aid plan that includes summer 2019.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

farm and garden management; nonprofits focusing on food, land use, and agriculture; edible education; state and county extensions; and state and federal regulatory agencies.

16

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

High school algebra, biology and chemistry, good communication skills, ability/willingness to adhere to a structured work schedule, follow detailed directions in a work environment, and resolve conflicts in a group setting.

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

$300 for overnight field trips to visit Northwest regional farms and for farm work supplies.

Internship Opportunities:

Possibility of In Program internships in Summer quarters.  Students must complete an in-program Internship Learning Contract in consultation with the faculty and Academic Advising. Please go toIndividual Studyfor more information.

Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 30
25% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 9:00 am
Organic Farm - Workshop

Located in: Olympia

Practice of Organic Farming: Culture and Agriculture (Fall)

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 30
25% Reserved for Freshmen
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

David Muehleisen
sustainable agriculture, entomology

Note: This is the third quarter of a spring-summer-fall program.

What does it take to run a farm business and market food to feed yourself and your community? Why are there fewer farmers, even as movements intensify for local food, Slow Food, community-supported agriculture, and food sovereignty? Do foods with labels such as organic, heirloom, local, free exchange, or terroir-laden have a taste you can savor? How are foods affected by how you care for your soil and the practices you use to grow them?

This three-quarter program (spring, summer, and fall) will explore organic food production systems using the three pillars of sustainability—economic, environmental, and social justice. We will focus on small-scale organic production, but will compare and contrast it to other production systems. We will cover the scientific and cultural underpinnings of sustainable and organic food production to develop the critical thinking and observation skills necessary to grow food using ecologically informed methods. We will explore the farm management and business skills necessary to operate a small-scale farm.

We will be studying and working at the Evergreen Organic Farm through an entire growing season, from seed propagation to harvest, and on to market. The farm includes a small-scale, direct-market stand and other demonstration areas. All students will work on the farm every week to gain practical, experiential learning. Students will reflect on this work in field journals and discuss agrarian literature in seminar. This program is rigorous physically and academically and requires a willingness to work both outside in adverse weather and on a schedule determined by the needs of crops and animals. During spring we will focus on soil science, nutrient management, and crop botany. Additional topics will include introduction to animal husbandry, successional crop planning, season extension, and the principles and practice of composting. In summer main topics will be water management, disease, and weed and insect pest management. Additional topics will include irrigation system design, maximizing market and value-added opportunities, and regulatory issues. Fall's focus will be on farm and business planning, crop physiology, storage techniques, seed-saving practices, and cover crops. Throughout the program, students will learn record-keeping practices, alternative crop-production systems, techniques for adding value to farm products, hand-tool use and maintenance and farm equipment safety.

Topics will be explored through on-farm workshops, seminar discussions, lectures, laboratory exercises, and field trips. The fall final project will be a detailed farm and business plan that integrates all the topics covered in the program. Books might include  The Market Gardener  by Fortier,  Crop Planning for Organic Vegetable Growers  by Theriault and Brisebois, and  Farm to Table  by Benjamin and Virkler. Students who need to request disability accommodation should contact the faculty or Access Services Program Coordinator  Steve Schmidt  (L2153, (360) 867-6348; or 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 field trip dates to allow time to arrange this.

 

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

farm and garden management; nonprofits focusing on food, land use, and agriculture; edible education; state and county extensions; and state and federal regulatory agencies

16

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

Students must have taken high school algebra, biology, and chemistry. They should possess good communication skills and the ability/willingness to adhere to a structured work schedule. They also should be able to follow detailed directions in a work environment, and resolve conflicts in a group setting.

Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Fees:

$300 in spring, $300 in summer, and $495 in fall for overnight field trips and supplies.

Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 30
25% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - 9:00 am
Organic Farm - Workshop

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-08-20description updated
2018-08-15Sarah Williams removed from faculty team

Precalculus I

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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Precalculus I begins an overview of functions used to model change. Problems are approached algebraically, graphically, numerically, and verbally. Topics include linear, exponential, logarithmic, polynomial, and rational functions . Collaborative learning is emphasized. Precalculus I is designed for students who have an interest in mathematical reasoning and for those who need a more substantial preparation for further study in business, the social sciences, math, or science. 

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

economics, education, and STEM fields.

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Prerequisites:

Successful completion of Algebra 2 in high school, or successful completion of a college intermediate algebra course designed as a prerequisite for precalculus (such as Algebraic Thinking ), or sufficient evidence of competency in the prerequisite material.

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Special expenses:

A scientific calculator is required.

Website:
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Thursday, January 10, 2019 - 6:00 pm
SEM 2 A1107 - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

6-9:30p Thu

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-11-19Required fee removed
2018-09-06Timothy Wilson added as faculty

Precalculus II

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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Precalculus II completes the preparation for calculus, continuing the study of functions begun in Precalculus I. Topics include trigonometric functions, vectors, polar coordinates, and parametric curves.Each area is approached algebraically, graphically, numerically, and verbally.  Collaborative learning is emphasized. Precalculus II is designed for students who have an interest in mathematical reasoning and for those who are preparing for further study in business and STEM fields.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

economics, education, and STEM fields.

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Prerequisites:

Successful completion of Precalculus I or equivalent.

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Special expenses:

A scientific calculator is required.

Website:
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Thursday, April 4, 2019 - 6:00 pm
SEM 2 A1107 - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

6-9:30p Thu

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-11-19Required fee removed
2018-09-06Timothy Wilson added as faculty

Printmaking: Intaglio Impressions with Figure Drawing

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 20
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Emily Adams
printmaking

In this introductory course, students will gain hands-on experience and technical skills in drawing and printmaking. Weekly sessions will provide instruction of drawing the human figure in an observational setting with a live nude model. Combining the traditional intaglio printmaking process with formal and experimental figurative drawing, this class will work directly with the printmaking plate in the drawing studio. Students will then create a body of print editions in the printmaking studio by using a variety of technical processes including hard-ground, soft-ground, and aquatint techniques. Students will present and participate in regular group critique to expand their critical observational skills and vocabulary.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Visual Arts, Graphic Design, Illustration

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Special expenses:

Students are expected to purchase materials such as a sketchbook for lab notes, printing paper, and copper. Depending on the individual scale and scope of each assignment, students should expect to spend between $50.00-$80.00. These items are available in the Greener Bookstore and the Printmaking Supply Store located in the classroom.

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 20
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, April 1, 2019 - 6:00 pm
LAB 2 2225 - Intaglio

Advertised schedule:

Mondays 6-9pm

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-10-22Course title and description updated to include Figure Drawing component
2018-10-12Course moved to Winter Quarter (was Spring)
2018-10-05Class Schedule Updated: Now meets 6-10 (was 5:30-9:30)
2018-04-10Schedule updated

Printmaking: Introduction to Multiple Techniques

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 20
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Emily Adams
printmaking

In this introductory course, students will learn an interdisciplinary approach to various printmaking techniques. Students will learn how to operate the printing presses and create work rooted in traditional practices of screen-printing, etching, and relief. In addition to the print work, students will be responsible for completing readings, concept drawings and lab notes. Students will present and participate in regular group critique to expand their critical observational skills and vocabulary.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Visual Arts, Illustration, Graphic Design

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Special expenses:

Students are expected to purchase materials between $50.00-$80.00. These items are available in the Greener Bookstore and the Printmaking Supply Store located in the classroom.

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 20
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - 5:30 pm
LAB 2 2225 - Intaglio

Advertised schedule:

Tuesdays 5:30-9:20pm

Located in: Olympia

May be offered again in:

Fall 2019

DateRevision
2018-04-10Schedule updated

Printmaking: Photo Process

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 20
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Emily Adams
printmaking

In this advanced course, students will learn how to translate photo-based images into traditional printmaking processes. Students will learn simple and direct means of using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator as a part of developing their finished work. This is a studio-based class in which students will explore screen-printing and etching techniques. In addition to making art, students will create a technical journal documenting their discoveries and also develop a written artist statement. Throughout the session, students will present and participate in a group critique to investigate and support their accomplishments. Previous printmaking experience is required.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Visual Arts, Illustration, Graphic Design

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Prerequisites:

Minimum of one quarter in printmaking, transfer students must submit a portfolio via email to the faculty prior to registering.

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Special expenses:

Students should expect to spend between $70 - $100 for the printmaking supplies. These items are available in the Greener Bookstore and the Printmaking Supply Store located in the classroom.

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 20
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - 6:00 pm
LAB 2 2225 - Intaglio

Advertised schedule:

Tue 6-10pm 

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-10-05Class Schedule Updated: Now meets 6-10 (was 5:30-9:30)
2018-04-10Schedule updated

Printmaking: Print Stratum, Screen Printing and Collage

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 20
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Emily Adams
printmaking

In this intermediate course, students will push the boundaries of traditional techniques in screen-printing by applying alternative process to achieve unpredictable outcomes. Through experimentation of various approaches to this process, students will create a body of print editions and monotype suites. In addition to making art, students will apply critical thinking which is documented in a technical journal recording their observations. Throughout the quarter, students will present and participate in a group critique that investigates and support their accomplishments.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Visual Arts, Illustration, Graphic Design

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Prerequisites:

Previous printmaking experience is required, transfer students may submit a portfolio to the faculty prior to registration.

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Special expenses:

Students should expect to spend between $50 - $75 for the printmaking supplies required to complete the course assignments.

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 20
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 6:00 pm
LAB 2 2225 - Intaglio

Advertised schedule:

Tuesdays 6-10pm

Located in: Olympia

May be offered again in:

Spring 2020

DateRevision
2018-10-05Class Schedule Updated: Now meets 6-10 (was 5:30-9:30)
2018-04-10Schedule updated

Production, Profits, and People

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
25% Reserved for Freshmen
16
Credits per quarter

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The landscape of work is changing at breakneck speed. New technologies are having a drastic impact on the types of work we do, the skills we need and the way work is organized. Business strategy is taking advantage of digital technologies, globalization and the increasing irrelevance of government regulation to devise new systems of coordination and control that challenge our assumptions about what constitutes a firm or an employee. This program looks at the ways new technologies and management strategies are changing how work gets done, who is hired to do it, and how the very concept of employment is being redefined. We will look at these issues from three perspectives, the individual company, the individual worker and society overall. 

In this program we will examine some of the key issues emerging from the new world of work. These include outsourcing and the permanent use of temp workers, the rise of the gig economy, the challenge and promise of diversity, and the intensification of pay inequalities within and between firms. We will also look at how new technologies and the decline of unions have altered the way work is organized and managed. To view these issues from a business perspective, we will use a textbook in human resource management and other management-oriented readings, but we will also look at critiques that take into account economic and social consequences and hear from guest speakers with direct experience.

Student work will include weekly writing that responds to and integrates the readings and other program material. There will be a culminating assignment at the end of the quarter in which student teams will analyze how changes in employment systems have affected particular organizations in the Olympia area. By the end of the program, students will be prepared for further work in business studies, public policy and political economy.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

business management, public policy, political economy, sociology, and human resources.

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
25% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - 10:00 am
SEM 2 D3107 - Seminar

Advertised schedule:

Tuesday - Friday, 10 am until 1 pm (Wed., Thurs.), 3 pm (Friday) or 5 pm (Tuesday)

Located in: Olympia

Programming Language Theory and Practice

FallWinterSpring
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 50
816
Credits per quarter

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computer science, mathematics
Richard Weiss
mathematics, computer science

This program will explore what computers can do, how we get them to do it, and what they can't do. It is designed for advanced computer science students and students with an interest in both mathematics and computer science. The program covers topics selected from formal computer languages, computability theory, type theory, programming language design, and artificial intelligence. Students will also study a functional programming language, Haskell; learn the theoretical basis of programming languages; and do an in-depth comparison of properties and capabilities of languages in the four primary programming paradigms: functional, logic, imperative, and object-oriented. Topics are typically offered in three or four of the following threads of study: The Formal Languages thread extends for two quarters and covers the theoretical basis of language definitions, concluding with a study of what is computable. The Functional Language thread extends for two quarters and covers advanced programming techniques using the programming language Haskell. The Type Theory and Programming Language thread covers both the theoretical basis and practical implementation of types and programming languages and extends for two quarters. The Artificial Intelligence thread begins in winter and covers machine-learning and techniques for building intelligent programs, along with related topics in programming languages and computability. The spring topics are still under development. (Neal Nelson FW, Sheryl Shulman FS) 

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

computer science, mathematics, science, and education.

816

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Prerequisites:

Students must have completed Computer Science Foundations or equivalent: 10  credits of computer programming, 8 credits of discrete mathematics, and 4 credits of computer architecture.

Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.

Upper division science credit:

Students may earn up to 16 upper division science credits per quarter in computer science.

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 50
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, April 1, 2019 - 10:00 am
LIB 2610 - Mac Lab

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-11-30Richard Weiss added to faculty team for winter and spring at 4 credits
2018-08-31adjusted program description
2018-08-22updated program to reflect FWS quarters, and faculty teaching loads
2018-08-14Updated description to include faculty teaching distinctions per quarter

Projects in World Music Theater

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 75
25% Reserved for Freshmen
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Andrew Buchman
music composition
Patricia Krafcik
Russian language and literature
Sean Williams Square
ethnomusicology

In many cultures, performance is an interdisciplinary art, combining aspects of storytelling, image-making, theater, music, and dance. We'll compare and contrast histories and theories of the musical and opera, studying examples from around the world. Drawing from Chinese opera, Indonesian wayang puppet theater, Japanese kabuki , and traditions of performative processions such as Carnaval in Brazil and the Procession of the Species in Olympia, we will explore the nature of display, identity, and what it means to draw from the past to understand the present. Expect to study music theater works--not just watch them once through, but study key scenes repeatedly, analyzing them as one might analyze a written text in many academic disciplines. We'll study La Boheme and Rent,West Side Story, My Fair Lady,Wicked , The Cradle Will Rock , and related source texts, such as G.B. Shaw's play "Pygmalion" and the novel "Wicked" by Gregory Maguire. We'll explore the current trend of making stage musicals out of popular films, such as Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion , a recent original production at the Fifth Avenue Theatre in Seattle.

Each student will work on a creative research project focused on an artist or artwork, and work together in small groups to develop, refine, and present research and scenes from music theater works to the program. A public performance, a revue of original songs and scenes, will be scheduled towards the end of the quarter. We'll study the human voice as an instrument through practical exercises, and study songwriting and playwriting as crafts. While the faculty's central disciplines are ethnomusicology, music composition and theory, we will draw on our students' interests, skills, and previous studies as well to create and develop capstone senior projects within the program.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

music, theater, dance, technical theater, ethnomusicology, and arts history.

16

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

None. Previous experience onstage or behind the scenes in musical theater, and/or some previous academic work in ethnomusicology, cultural studies or anthropology, will be helpful.

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

$75 for entrance fees.

Website:
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 75
25% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, April 1, 2019 - 9:30 am
Com 107 - Recital Hall

Advertised schedule:

 
 

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-08-03Faculty member added, deleted the word "Advanced" from title, changed from Jr/Sr to "All Level" program, deleted prerequisite restrictions, added "none" to prerequisite section.

Protest in Sports and Media

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 40
25% Reserved for Freshmen
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

education
Laurie Meeker
film and video production, media theory

In this program students will explore protest in sports and media, including the political and economic forces that have shaped and influenced the proliferation of corporate sports in contemporary culture. Students will examine the rich history of sporting events as sites of political protest, including by participating athletes themselves, in association with the rich history of media as a tool for protest and social change.

Through a close examination of scholarly texts and media, including television, film, and various social media, the program will explore the following questions:

  • How are power relations both reproduced and resisted in and through sports and media?
  • Whose voices are and are not represented in the narratives and images portrayed through sports and mainstream media?
  • How do sports and mainstream media reproduce and reinforce issues surrounding sexual orientation, race, class, and gender identities?
  • How has sport spectatorship and sports “fandom” contributed to particular social and cultural values?

In order to develop credible responses to these questions, students will engage in close reading of texts and a variety of academic writing activities, including seminar preparation papers, current sports news summaries and reporting, and a synthesis paper drawing on program materials related to program themes. Students will make an oral presentation of their synthesis paper. In addition, students will learn basic media production skills (audio and video) to make a sports podcast and short documentary on local sports themes and issues. On designated Thursday afternoons, class members will play selected sports together in an “intramural” low-key competitive environment in order to develop and enhance the learning community.

Students can expect to leave this program having developed the skills in academic writing and analytical reading, basic media production, and oral presentation to participate in current political and economic debates about sports and media culture. 

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

journalism, communications, sports administration 

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 40
25% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, April 1, 2019 - 10:00 am
COM 323 - Workshop

Located in: Olympia

Psychology and Mindfulness

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Weekend
Weekend
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Jamyang Tsultrim
Indo-Tibetan Buddhist studies, East-West psychology, philosophy of consciousness

Mindfulness is the ability to fully attend to what is at hand and be in the present moment. Mindfulness is being applied to a variety of professional fields, including health care and education, to improve effectiveness and enhance well-being. The practice of mindfulness can increase our individual and collective resiliency to respond to changing personal and global situations in adaptive and creative ways. The course will focus on mindfulness through theory, practice, and its application in relation to abnormal psychology and clinical healthcare practice. We will explore such questions as how mindfulness can be applied to mental and physical health.

The course will focus on clinical applications of mindfulness. Mindfulness will be explored through theoretical, applied and expressive arts projects. 

Students will have an opportunity to learn in many ways using diverse modalities and multiple intelligences. We will integrate mindfulness practices into our studies, including movement, integrative health practices, and expressive art workshops (no prior experience necessary). We will participate in community readings, rigorous writing assignments, theoretical tests, and critical study of important texts. The program will include a full day mindfulness retreat.

This course meets with the 16-credit program Multicultural Counseling. 

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers 25 - 49% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Fees:

$75 for art supplies

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 25
Weekend

Scheduled for: Weekend

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Saturday, April 6, 2019 - 9:00 am
SEM 2 D1107 - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

Alternating Sat, 9a-4:30p

Located in: Olympia

Psychology Foundations: History and Systems in Psychology and Human Development

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Weekend
Weekend
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 25
8
Credits per quarter

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Psychology has a rich history from Ancient thought to modern times. This history has bracketed the systems of thought that dominate modern day psychology as well as those that runs counter to those dominant themes. Likewise, the science of human development demands a basic understanding of the questions asked, the manner used to ask them and how the answers help explain our experience of the world. These areas serve as the foundation for most traditional psychology majors and are important for understanding the impetus of discovery in psychology. Students engaged in this program will develop the skills necessary to critique current trends in psychology through an examination of historical thought and past and current research literature. Students will be able to more fully grasp how the depth of Western thought shaped our understanding of today's psychology and themes of inclusion and exclusion of marginalized identities. Students will develop an understanding of the theories that inform human development. In both cases, students will learn how to conduct a review of the literature and the research literature to explore past and present movements in psychology and human development. The focus of our work will be in the fields of clinical and counseling psychology. Students may be interested in pairing this program with the 8-credit program Psychology Foundations: Personality Theory and Abnormal Psychology. 

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Psychology, education, social services, graduate school

8

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 25
Weekend

Scheduled for: Weekend

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Saturday, April 6, 2019 - 9:00 am
SEM 2 B3105 - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

Saturday from 9:00-5:00

Located in: Olympia

Psychology Foundations: Personality Theory and Abnormal Psychology

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Weekend
Weekend
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 25
8
Credits per quarter

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This program's focus on personality theory and psychopathology explores two foundational areas of study particular to clinical and counseling psychology and applied settings such as clinics, mental health centers and educational settings. We will examine the Three Forces of psychology: psychodynamic theory, behaviorism and humanistic psychology. Our examination includes nontraditional and multicultural perspectives. We will examine the relationship of personality theories to abnormal behavior and develop an understanding of the DSM classification system and other diagnostic methods. Students completing this program will gain an understanding of how the Self is defined through the three forces of psychology and how they inform our understanding of abnormal behavior. Students will explore the various assessment systems used through personality theories to diagnose abnormal behavior. In addition, students will explore nontraditional perspectives of abnormal behavior and the impact of the diagnostic process on marginalized identities. Students engaged in this program will develop the skills necessary to critique current trends in psychology through an examination of theoretical models and current research literature including themes of inclusion and exclusion of marginalized identities. Students will learn how to conduct a review of the  research literature to explore past and present movements in personality theory and abnormal psychology.  Students may be interested in pairing this program with the 8-credit program Psychology Foundations: History and Systems and Human Development.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Psychology, education, social services, graduate school

8

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

$25 for art supplies to complete one or two art projects to represent the concept of self

Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 25
Weekend

Scheduled for: Weekend

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Sunday, April 7, 2019 - 9:00 am
SEM 2 B3105 - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

Sunday from 9:00-5:00

Located in: Olympia

Psychology: Professional Conference

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 100
2
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

cognitive psychology

This course involves travel to the annual convention of the Western Psychological Association (WPA). The convention attracts 3000+ students and professionals of psychology. It showcases the range of activities and topics that psychology offers, and highlights cutting edge research in all areas of psychology. Many events are specifically geared towards helping students network, and to learn what is needed to succeed in a career in psychology. The convention features invited lectures by notable psychologists, poster sessions of current research by students and professionals in broadly based disciplines within psychology, and psychology-related films in the Film Festival held during the Convention.

Requirements for the course are attending a planning meeting prior to travel, attending a minimum of 20 hours of presentations during the four days of the convention, and writing a short paper about your convention activities upon your return from the convention.

This year’s convention will be held in Pasadena, California from April 25-28, 2019, at the Pasadena Convention Center. Convention activities start at 8 am on Thursday April 25 and end at 12:30 pm on Sunday, April 28. To take advantage of all the special events, students need to arrive in Pasadena on Wednesday April 24   (anytime) and stay until Sunday afternoon (your flight home should be 4 pm or later). You can decide to stay over Sunday night for travel home on Monday if the additional cost of an extra night in the hotel is offset by the often-cheaper Monday flights.

Students who are taking So You Want to be a Psychologist or Research Capstone in Psychology should not register for this course.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

psychology, education, and social work

2

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Fees:

Approximately $329-$535  [these costs are estimated at this time] for travel to attend the WPA annual convention (exact amount depends on the type of accommodations students require). This includes WPA membership/registration fees and four nights hotel at the convention site. Transportation and food are additional and at student's own expense. (An extra night at the hotel is possible for an additional amount.)

Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 100
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - 1:00 pm
Purce Hall 4 - Lecture

Advertised schedule:

Convention activities start at 8 am on Thursday April 25 and end at 12:30 pm on Sunday April 28.  Please plan to arrive in Pasadena on Wednesday, April 24 and to leave anytime after 4 pm on Sunday, April 28.

Located in: Olympia

May be offered again in:

Spring 2020 (the convention location will be in San Francisco, California then)

Race, Crime, and the Crisis of Mass Incarceration

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 15
2
Credits per quarter

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Since the 1980s, rates of incarceration in the U.S. have risen precipitously. Our country now imprisons a larger percentage of its population than any Western democracy. Racial and ethnic minorities continue to comprise the large majority of those incarcerated. Some who study this issue believe our current system of criminal justice treats racial and ethnic minorities accused of crimes far more severely than whites. They argue that our legal system perpetuates the same racial injustices  Jim Crow laws in the early 20th century. Others assert that the disproportionate imprisonment of minorities, particularly African Americans, originates instead from social and economic conditions that foster higher rates of minority involvement in serious and violent crimes.

This course interrogates these and other perspectives on the crisis of mass incarceration in the U.S.. We will study the relationship between race, crime and the evolution of punishment between 1970 and 2020. The course emphasizes three goals for student learning. The first is deepening students’ understanding of the role of legal institutions in shaping society’s response to crime. The second goal is developing analytical skills in evaluating major theories of and research on the relationship between race, crime and law enforcement. Third, students will draw upon the readings and seminar discussions in formulating their own ideas about the role of race in our system of criminal justice, crime and its causes, and how our legal institutions respond to criminal behavior.

As part of the seminar sessions, we will review prominent historical, sociological and legal studies of crime and punishment, prepare and review written responses to weekly study questions, and actively participate in seminar discussions of the readings and theories considered.

2

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 15
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, September 24, 2018 - 6:00 pm
SEM 2 A2107 - Seminar

Advertised schedule:

Mondays 6-7:50pm

Located in: Olympia

Radio Practice and Politics

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
EveningWeekend
Evening and Weekend
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 21
8
Credits per quarter

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communication

This program is geared toward students who want to develop practical communication skills as well as gain insight into the political economy of media. As we learn the craft of radio production, we will explore questions like: What social, cultural, and political role does radio play in American society? How has radio been shaped by federal policy, market forces, and media activism?  Is there a viable alternative to cookie-cutter commercial radio?

No prior experience with media production is needed; however, a willingness to experiment with communication, technology, and collaboration is essential. The program will introduce students to speaking, writing, interviewing, recording, editing, and broadcasting skills that contribute to the production of high-quality audio programs.  Students will also learn about contemporary radio politics, economics, and aesthetics. Special attention will be given to non-commercial radio and podcasts in the U.S.  Assignments will include edited interviews and on-air DJ experience.  Some lessons will be taught by KAOS Staff Member, Ruth Brownstein. Students will gain knowledge and skills that will allow them to potentially host programs at KAOS Community Radio in the future.  Radio Practice and Politics  fulfills speech communication requirements for selected MIT endorsement areas.

8

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

$50 for Training for DJ Certification at KAOS Community Radio 

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 21
EveningWeekend

Scheduled for: Evening and Weekend

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Wednesday, January 9, 2019 - 6:00 pm
SEM 2 C2109 - Seminar

Advertised schedule:

Wednesday 6-10 pm; Saturday 9:30am-5pm Jan. 12, 26, Feb. 9, 23, Mar. 9

Located in: Olympia

Reality Check: Indian Images and [Mis]Representations

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
25% Reserved for Freshmen
16
Credits per quarter

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Native American studies, history, women's studies

This program will address historic and contemporary images and misrepresentations of Indians in a variety of media. Indian images from films, photographs, language, mascots, popular culture, and commercial interests will be deconstructed and analyzed for meaning, significance, power, representation, and issues of authenticity. Colonialism, U.S./Indian history, geopolitics, and economics will be decolonized through the lenses of Native resistance, Native sovereignty, and Native political and economic issues. Essential to this exploration will be an investigation of the dynamics of "self" and "other."

Learning will take place through readings, seminars, lectures, films, and workshops. Students will improve their research skills through document review, observations, and critical analysis. Students will also have opportunities to improve their writing skills through weekly written assignments. Verbal skills will be improved through small-group and whole-class seminar discussions, and through individual final project presentations. Options for the final project will be discussed in the syllabus and in class.

 

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

art, cultural studies, education, geography, history, media studies, Native studies, critical theory, and political science.

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
25% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, January 7, 2019 - 9:00 am
SEM 2 C3109 - Seminar

Located in: Olympia

Repair: Sustainability and Visual Arts as Social Practice

WinterSpring
Winter 2019
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 50
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Evan Blackwell
ceramic art, sculpture, visual studies
Gaul-Karen
anthropology

This program will engage our current political, social, and natural climate through community projects and visual art. Whether we fix a bike, design a community garden, build a public art project, or help to change policy, this program focuses our attention on positive responses to today’s world. How do we conceptualize and engage with global issues as agents of social change through design and visual art social practice? How do we create more sustainable and fulfilling communities? How do we weave various knowledge systems into a healthy vision for the world? What do we make with the abundance of material goods that fill our daily lives?

To address these questions, we will consider traditions of the past and present that demonstrate cultural responses to environmental limits and social possibilities. We will examine concepts of sustainability to develop creative solutions for environmental, economic, and social challenges. This will include a critical look at alternative and utopian models for living, and sustainability and justice movements already at work in our community. We will study the production of art and design and how artists respond to current social, political, and environmental issues. We will examine the ideologies of visual arts movements such as the modernist avant-garde, social sculpture, and art as social practice. These will be connected to environmental movements and current trends in visual arts, craft, and design such as new forms in public art, urban intervention, resurgence in handiwork, upcycling, and culture hacking. Yogic philosophy offers critical guidelines for sustainable living and we will explore the principles and practices of this tradition.

This program will challenge students to engage through readings, seminar discussions, field visits, research papers, and visual art projects and critiques. Students will participate in active projects that creatively shape spaces in our community. These may take the form of public art projects, sculptures, or installations that enhance public spaces such as community or school gardens or parks.

In winter we will build vocabularies and skills for thinking about sustainability and community transformation. Studio work in two- and three-dimensional design and ceramics will emphasize redesigning, repurposing, and reusing the proliferation of materials available all around us. Study and comparison of cross-cultural examples of sustainability practices will guide the development of our community work. Students will research and report on local and global sustainable communities. In spring we will continue to develop community projects and/or individual visual artworks while working with local organizations to develop applied projects.

Seats may be available for qualified sophomores. Please contact faculty for more information.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

community development, anthropology, education, visual arts, and applied sustainability.

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

$250 fee for overnight field trip, entrance fee(s), and supplies in Winter and $150 for transportation, entrance fee(s), and supplies in Spring

Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 50
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, April 1, 2019 - 1:00 pm
Purce Hall 7 - Classroom

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-12-14description updated
2018-12-14Title updated
2018-11-29$250 fee for Winter and $150 fee for Spring added
2018-11-29Description updated and sophomore CRN added

Research Capstone in Psychology

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 25
16Variable
Credits per quarter
Variable Credit Options Available

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social psychology, gender and women's studies

This program is designed to provide a capstone opportunity for juniors and seniors within psychology (or closely related social science disciplines such as sociology or cultural anthropology) to conduct independent research projects within a supportive intellectual environment of other researchers. Research projects may be inductive or deductive in their approach, and may utilize qualitative or quantitative methodology. Research may be aimed at testing a well-established theory, replicating a study, crafting an elegant psychological experiment, designing and executing a written survey, conducting interviews, or engaging in observational ethnographic research.

Students will form research groups within the program based on shared research interests (or methodological or theoretical interests). Faculty will provide structured support to these learning communities across all aspects of the research process. Students entering this capstone program should do so with a particular research project in mind, although faculty will work one-on-one with students to help shape the nature of their project in both practical and theoretically meaningful ways.

Students will attend the annual meeting of the Western Psychological Association (WPA) in Pasadena, Calif. April 25-28, 2019. This field trip will provide direct exposure to researchers in psychology, enabling students to talk with other researchers (many of whom are undergraduate or graduate students); find out about the latest trends in research psychology; and be intellectually stimulated by poster sessions, panel presentations, and talks from well-known scholars in the field.

Students who successfully complete this capstone program will have collected, analyzed, and written up their findings by the end of spring quarter 2019. This program is timed to correspond with the November 2019 deadline to apply to present research findings at WPA the following spring.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

psychology or related social sciences (sociology, cultural anthropology).

16Variable

Credits per quarter
Variable Credit Options Available

Variable Credit Options:

12 or 14 credit options available. Contact faculty for more information.

Fields of study: 
Prerequisites:

Students should have familiarity with empirical research methods in the social sciences, quantitative or qualitative analysis, and study design; significant previous study (16 credits or more) in psychology, sociology, political science, or anthropology; and a preliminary plan for a research topic. Most importantly, students should be academically, intellectually, and emotionally prepared for conducting an independent research project with other students who are similarly prepared. Students who apply to participate in this program should take their intellectual life seriously, be prepared for critical thinking, and be able to engage in constructive collaboration with other students.

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Special expenses:

Students will need to arrange and purchase their own transportation to Pasadena, California, as well as four days of meals during the Western Psychological Association conference.

Fees:

$20 for poster printing costs, and approximately $329-$535 for a field trip to attend the WPA annual convention (depending on the type of accommodations students require). The field trip fees include WPA membership/registration fees and a four-night hotel stay at the convention site. Transportation and food are additional and at the student's own expense. Students who do not stay at the convention site hotel will be charged only the $20 poster printing fee plus $75 for registration/student membership to attend WPA.

Research Opportunities:

This is a capstone opportunity within psychology (or closely related social science disciplines such as sociology or cultural anthropology).

Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 25
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 10:00 am
LIB 2617 - Windows / Linux Lab

Located in: Olympia

Riding the Carbon Cycle from the Mountains to the Sea

WinterSpring
Winter 2019
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 50
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Gerardo Chin-Leo
oceanography, marine biology
chemical oceanography, biogeochemistry, freshwater ecology

Carbon is an essential element in all life processes and plays an important role in global climate regulation. The goal of this program is to understand the carbon cycle using the approaches of ecology and biogeochemistry. We will examine the chemical transformations of carbon compounds and nutrients as they are transported by water from mountains to the sea, using the Puget Sound region as a natural laboratory. The role that organisms in various ecosystems play in these transformations through the production and utilization of organic matter will be emphasized. Winter quarter will develop introductory concepts and methods in ecology and biogeochemistry and will apply them to studying various themes such as the role of nutrients in determining the productivity of aquatic ecosystems and how changes in carbon fluxes result in global climate change and ocean acidification. In spring we will apply the material developed in winter to examine current research in aquatic ecology and on past and present global climate change. In addition, students will conduct faculty-designed research projects in the field.

In addition to lectures, the material will be developed through seminar, laboratory exercises, and fieldwork. Seminar will focus on examining current environmental issues and on developing skills to critically read and analyze scientific literature. Lab and fieldwork will teach survey and sampling methods in freshwater and marine environments, microscopy (to study organisms), and water quality analysis (e.g. inorganic nutrients, oxygen, carbon, turbidity, etc.). Students will also learn basic statistical tests to analyze their data. We will take field trips to the Evergreen campus streams, shores of Puget Sound, and the Nisqually watershed (including the Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge), to explore freshwater and marine ecosystems. Students will develop their writing and presentation skills through writing and presenting results of their studies. Spring research projects will study local aquatic habitats, applying the methods and concepts developed in the program. Credit equivalencies in this program include ecology, chemistry (biogeochemistry), and research methodology in aquatic sciences.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

biology (ecological fields in freshwater and marine sciences) and environmental chemistry (environmental consulting, water quality analyses).

16

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

1) Two quarters of introductory biology and two quarters of introductory chemistry, or 2) the fall quarter program Environmental Science Foundations: Aquatic Systems .

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.

Upper division science credit:

In spring quarter, upper division science credit may be awarded in ecology and/or biogeochemistry upon completion of an independent research project.

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 50
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 10:00 am
SEM 2 A1105 - Lecture

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2019-03-21Spring opened to new students via signature
2018-11-26winter field trips updated in description
2018-11-19Winter Fee deleted

Senior Seminar

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Senior-Senior
Senior Only
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Stephen Beck
philosophy

If you are in your last year of undergraduate study at Evergreen, this course will help you to reflect on your education – its overall shape, and its significance both for yourself and for the world you will live in. You will engage in a series of reflective workshops and exercises to help you to reveal and articulate the shape of your education. Seminar readings will be largely drawn from texts that have been central to students' own studies.  Through this work we will explore connections among each others' studies and consider what it means to have a liberal arts education. You will also write and revise with care your Academic Statement, which you may include in your transcript. 

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Senior-Senior
Class Standing: Senior Only
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 6:00 pm
SEM 2 B2107 - Seminar

Advertised schedule:

Tue 5:30-9:30pm

Located in: Olympia

So You Want to Be a Psychologist

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
25% Reserved for Freshmen
16
Credits per quarter

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cognitive psychology

Students will investigate theories and practices of psychologists to enhance their understanding of counseling, social services, and the science of psychology. We will cover history and systems of psychology. Students will read original source literature from major divisions of the field, including both classic and contemporary journal articles and books by well-known psychologists. Students will explore careers in psychology and the academic preparations necessary for these career choices. We will cover the typical activities of psychologists who work in academia, schools, counseling, and clinical settings; social work agencies; and applied-research settings.

Among our studies will be ethical quandaries in psychology, including the ethics of human and animal experimentation. Library research skills, in particular the use of PsycINFO and Science and Social Science Citation Indexes, will be emphasized. Students will gain expertise in the technical writing style of the American Psychological Association (APA). The class format will include lectures, guest speakers, workshops, discussions, films, and an optional field trip.

There's no better way to explore the range of activities and topics that psychology offers—and to learn of cutting-edge research in the field—than to attend and participate in a convention of psychology professionals and students. To that end, students have the option of attending the annual convention of the Western Psychological Association (WPA), the western regional arm of the APA. This year's convention will take place April 2019 in Pasadena, California.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

psychology, education, and social work.

16

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Special expenses:

Approximately $329-$535 for an optional field trip to attend the WPA annual convention (depending on the type of accommodations students require). This includes WPA membership/registration fees and a four-night hotel stay at the convention site. Transportation and food are additional and at the student's own expense.

Fees:

The approximate cost of the OPTIONAL field trip fee is between $329 and $535, depending upon the type of accommodations students require; this includes WPA membership/registration fees and four nights hotel at the convention site. Transportation and food are additional, and at student's own expense.

Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
25% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, April 1, 2019 - 9:00 am
SEM 2 B2105 - Workshop

Located in: Olympia

Social Entrepreneurship and Development: Management, Sustainability and Finance

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Weekend
Weekend
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 50
8
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Don Chalmers
grantwriting
2019-Vu,-Thuy-1-square
economics, management, community organization

Social enterprises, also commonly known as non-profit enterprises, are the growth engines for building vibrant communities and implementing social change. The objective of this program is to develop the knowledge and competencies required to establish and run a social enterprise organization. Program topics will focus on exploring the organizational, resource development, economic, financial and management skills needed for operating a successful, sustainable and effective non-profit organization. Students will have the opportunity to explore issues, challenges and opportunities that arise from working with various types of social enterprises across the boundaries of cultural difference.

This program is for students with strong interests in business management, community development, organizational behavior and finance. The program is designed to facilitate learning through active involvement in seminar discussions, workshop activities, writing, and oral presentations. Students will integrate their learning experience through research and in-service program learning with local community-based social enterprise models. 

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Non-profit organizations, entrepreneurship, business management, government service and volunteering

8

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 50
Weekend

Scheduled for: Weekend

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Saturday, September 29, 2018 - 9:00 am
SEM 2 A1105 - Lecture

Advertised schedule:

Saturdays 9am-4:50pm

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-11-02This program has been cancelled for Winter and Spring. Students may be interested in two alternative programs: Becoming a Changemaker OR Financial Sustainability

Spanish - First Year I

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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law, Spanish, bilingual/ELL education

This year-long sequence of courses covers the first year of Spanish. 

Have you wanted to learn Spanish so you can communicate face-to-face when you take that long-dreamed of trip to the sunny beaches of Mexico, Central or South America?   Have you noticed that you hear more Spanish being spoken in the various community locations you frequent such as grocery, hardware and department stores?   Are you curious about the culture of the people that now constitute the largest ethnic minority in the United States?  Have you come to the conclusion that being able to communicate in Spanish would greatly increase your professional or academic flexibility and value?  Has it been a while since you studied Spanish, or have you always wanted to study the language but not had the opportunity?  Maybe you have had the opportunity of informal exposure to the language but lack any formal instruction. Perhaps you had the opportunity to study Spanish during a previous educational experience but have forgotten some of what you learned, and want to recover and build on that previously-acquired knowledge. Any of these situations make Spanish - First Year the perfect place for you to begin or continue your journey.

Classes are highly interactive, safe environments to practice your new skills.   A wide range of learning activities is provided so that students learn to read, write, speak and understand the language.   Students use a written text and workbook for self-study.   An online learning vehicle is also used so that students are immersed in the various components of the language.   Students have access to a language lab that incorporates Rosetta Stone for additional practice.   Cultural activities are integrated into the classes so that students learn not only the language but also the major cultural values and traditions of countries where Spanish is spoken.   A culminating language fair is held during spring quarter in conjunction with other language classes and provides language students with opportunities to display their own learning as well as learn about the other cultures represented by those languages.   Come join us and begin expanding your world – present and future!

The following is a short description of the material covered in each of the First Year Spanish classes:

First Year Spanish I: First Year Spanish I students acquire the skills to understand written and oral language and to express themselves in written and oral language about the following: greetings, introductions, expressions of courtesy, academic life, days of the week, schedules, family, identifying and describing people, professions and occupations, leisure activities, sports, asking for and giving directions within a city or campus, travel and vacation arrangements and activities, months and seasons of the year and weather.    Students acquire the following grammatical structures: use of the verbs hay and gustar , conjugation of verbs in the present tense including stem-changing verbs, ser and estar , noun/adjective agreement, subject/verb agreement, and various idiomatic expressions related to the topics studied.

First Year Spanish II: First Year Spanish II students acquire the skills to understand written and oral language and to express themselves in written and oral language about the following: vacations and other free time activities, months of the year, seasons and weather, clothing and shopping, negotiating a price and buying, colors, daily routines and time expressions, food and meals.   Students acquire the following grammatical structures: use of the reflexive mood and preterit tense, including verbs ser and ir in the preterit, demonstrative pronouns, direct and indirect object pronouns, and various idiomatic expressions related to the topics studied.

First Year Spanish III: First Year Spanish III students continue to build their knowledge base of the foundational communicative structures, including: use of reflexive verbs, indefinite and negative words, preterite of irregular and stem-changing verbs, double object pronouns, the imperfect tense, contrasting uses and meanings of preterite and imperfect tenses, familiar and formal commands, and the present subjunctive.   These structures are acquired while communicating about the following: describing one’s daily personal hygiene and life routines, shopping for and describing food and preparing meals, parties and celebrations, family relationships and stages of life, identifying parts of the body and symptoms and medical conditions to obtain medical assistance and daily domestic chores and routines.

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, September 24, 2018 - 6:00 pm
SEM 2 C2109 - Seminar

Advertised schedule:

Mon/Wed 6-7:50pm

Located in: Olympia

Spanish - First Year I at SPSCC

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 5
4
Credits per quarter

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This beginning Spanish course introduces the four basic skills of the language: listening, speaking, reading and writing. The language will be studied within its cultural context. This course requires that students have regular access to high-speed internet, login to the publisher's website (subscription included with purchase of a new textbook), and complete online assignments. Students receive Evergreen credits.  

NOTE: Course meets at South Puget Sound Community College, Main Campus, 2011 Mottman Road SW, Olympia, WA 98512, Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 6-8:25pm in BLDG 23, Room 122. First meeting is September 18, 2018 (this is one week prior to the Evergreen state date).  

BOOKS: If a text is required students will need to purchase texts for this course from the SPSCC bookstore. The book list can be found on the bookstore website (http://spscc.bncollege.com) under the course SPA&121. 

Faculty: Brian David, beggleston@spscc.edu

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 5
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

Advertised schedule:

Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 6-8:25pm in SPSCC BLDG 23, Room 122. First meeting is September 18, 2018 (this is one week prior to the Evergreen state date).   

Located in: Olympia

Off-campus location:

BLDG 23, Room 122 South Puget Sound Community College, Main Campus, 2011 Mottman Road SW, Olympia, WA 98512

DateRevision
2018-06-25New Fall quarter offering added (at SPSCC)

Spanish - First Year II

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

law, Spanish, bilingual/ELL education

This year-long sequence of courses covers the first year of Spanish. 

Have you wanted to learn Spanish so you can communicate face-to-face when you take that long-dreamed of trip to the sunny beaches of Mexico, Central or South America?   Have you noticed that you hear more Spanish being spoken in the various community locations you frequent such as grocery, hardware and department stores?   Are you curious about the culture of the people that now constitute the largest ethnic minority in the United States?  Have you come to the conclusion that being able to communicate in Spanish would greatly increase your professional or academic flexibility and value?  Has it been a while since you studied Spanish, or have you always wanted to study the language but not had the opportunity?  Maybe you have had the opportunity of informal exposure to the language but lack any formal instruction. Perhaps you had the opportunity to study Spanish during a previous educational experience but have forgotten some of what you learned, and want to recover and build on that previously-acquired knowledge. Any of these situations make Spanish - First Year the perfect place for you to begin or continue your journey.

First Year Spanish II may be the best class for you if you have fairly recent or familial experience with the language and a good grasp of the fundamentals of grammar such as conjugation of verbs and the appropriate use of ser/estar. If you have any questions about whether this class is the best one for you, one of the Spanish language faculty can assist you in finding the right class for your needs.  

Classes are highly interactive, safe environments to practice your new skills.   A wide range of learning activities is provided so that students learn to read, write, speak and understand the language.   Students use a written text and workbook for self-study.   An online learning vehicle is also used so that students are immersed in the various components of the language.   Students have access to a language lab that incorporates Rosetta Stone for additional practice.   Cultural activities are integrated into the classes so that students learn not only the language but also the major cultural values and traditions of countries where Spanish is spoken.   A culminating language fair is held during spring quarter in conjunction with other language classes and provides language students with opportunities to display their own learning as well as learn about the other cultures represented by those languages.   Come join us and begin expanding your world – present and future!

The following is a short description of the material covered in each of the First Year Spanish classes:

First Year Spanish I: First Year Spanish I students acquire the skills to understand written and oral language and to express themselves in written and oral language about the following: greetings, introductions, expressions of courtesy, academic life, days of the week, schedules, family, identifying and describing people, professions and occupations, leisure activities, sports, asking for and giving directions within a city or campus, travel and vacation arrangements and activities, months and seasons of the year and weather.    Students acquire the following grammatical structures: use of the verbs hay and gustar , conjugation of verbs in the present tense including stem-changing verbs, ser and estar , noun/adjective agreement, subject/verb agreement, and various idiomatic expressions related to the topics studied.

First Year Spanish II: First Year Spanish II students acquire the skills to understand written and oral language and to express themselves in written and oral language about the following: vacations and other free time activities, months of the year, seasons and weather, clothing and shopping, negotiating a price and buying, colors, daily routines and time expressions, food and meals.   Students acquire the following grammatical structures: use of the reflexive mood and preterit tense, including verbs ser and ir in the preterit, demonstrative pronouns, direct and indirect object pronouns, and various idiomatic expressions related to the topics studied.

First Year Spanish III: First Year Spanish III students continue to build their knowledge base of the foundational communicative structures, including: use of reflexive verbs, indefinite and negative words, preterite of irregular and stem-changing verbs, double object pronouns, the imperfect tense, contrasting uses and meanings of preterite and imperfect tenses, familiar and formal commands, and the present subjunctive.   These structures are acquired while communicating about the following: describing one’s daily personal hygiene and life routines, shopping for and describing food and preparing meals, parties and celebrations, family relationships and stages of life, identifying parts of the body and symptoms and medical conditions to obtain medical assistance and daily domestic chores and routines.

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Prerequisites:

Completion of Spanish I or equivalent required.

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, January 7, 2019 - 6:00 pm
SEM 2 C2107 - Seminar

Advertised schedule:

Mon/Wed 6-8p

Located in: Olympia

Spanish - First Year III

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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law, Spanish, bilingual/ELL education

This year-long sequence of courses covers the first year of Spanish. 

Have you wanted to learn Spanish so you can communicate face-to-face when you take that long-dreamed of trip to Mexico, Central or South America whether to visit cultural sites, take a much-needed vacation or possibly reconnect with family?   Have you noticed that you hear more Spanish being spoken in the various community locations you frequent such as grocery, hardware and department stores?   Are you curious about the culture of the people that now constitute the largest ethnic minority in the United States?  Have you come to the conclusion that being able to communicate in Spanish would greatly increase your professional or academic flexibility and value?  Has it been a while since you studied Spanish, or have you always wanted to study the language but not had the opportunity?  Maybe you have had the opportunity of informal exposure to the language but lack any formal instruction. Perhaps you had the opportunity to study Spanish during a previous educational experience but have forgotten some of what you learned, and want to recover and build on that previously-acquired knowledge. Any of these situations make Spanish - First Year the perfect place for you to begin or continue your journey.

If you have recent and extended or intense study of the language, whether through real world or academic experience, you may be ready to tackle the more advanced grammatical concepts presented in First Year Spanish III.  By registering in Beginning Spanish III, you will experience a faster pace of instruction and more advanced production of language in all areas.  You also may expect the opportunity to greatly increase your ability to communicate more expressively and accurately by appropriate use of preterit and imperfect tense, reflexive verbs, commands and the subjunctive.  If you have any questions about whether this class is the best one for you, one of the Spanish language faculty can assist you in finding the right class for your needs.  

Classes are highly interactive, safe environments to practice your new skills.   A wide range of learning activities is provided so that students learn to read, write, speak and understand the language.   Students use a written text and workbook for self-study.   An online learning vehicle is also used so that students are immersed in the various components of the language.   Students have access to a language lab that incorporates Rosetta Stone for additional practice.   Cultural activities are integrated into the classes so that students learn not only the language but also the major cultural values and traditions of countries where Spanish is spoken.   A culminating language fair is held during spring quarter in conjunction with other language classes and provides language students with opportunities to display their own learning as well as learn about the other cultures represented by those languages.   Come join us and begin expanding your world – present and future!

The following is a short description of the material covered in each of the First Year Spanish classes:

First Year Spanish I: First Year Spanish I students acquire the skills to understand written and oral language and to express themselves in written and oral language about the following: greetings, introductions, expressions of courtesy, academic life, days of the week, schedules, family, identifying and describing people, professions and occupations, leisure activities, sports, asking for and giving directions within a city or campus, travel and vacation arrangements and activities, months and seasons of the year and weather.    Students acquire the following grammatical structures: use of the verbs hay and gustar , conjugation of verbs in the present tense including stem-changing verbs, ser and estar , noun/adjective agreement, subject/verb agreement, and various idiomatic expressions related to the topics studied.

First Year Spanish II: First Year Spanish II students acquire the skills to understand written and oral language and to express themselves in written and oral language about the following: vacations and other free time activities, months of the year, seasons and weather, clothing and shopping, negotiating a price and buying, colors, daily routines and time expressions, food and meals.   Students acquire the following grammatical structures: use of the reflexive mood and preterit tense, including verbs ser and ir in the preterit, demonstrative pronouns, direct and indirect object pronouns, and various idiomatic expressions related to the topics studied.

First Year Spanish III: First Year Spanish III students continue to build their knowledge base of the foundational communicative structures, including: use of reflexive verbs, indefinite and negative words, preterite of irregular and stem-changing verbs, double object pronouns, the imperfect tense, contrasting uses and meanings of preterite and imperfect tenses, familiar and formal commands, and the present subjunctive.   These structures are acquired while communicating about the following: describing one’s daily personal hygiene and life routines, shopping for and describing food and preparing meals, parties and celebrations, family relationships and stages of life, identifying parts of the body and symptoms and medical conditions to obtain medical assistance and daily domestic chores and routines.

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Prerequisites:

Completion of First Year Spanish II or equivalent required. 

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, April 1, 2019 - 6:00 pm
SEM 2 C2107 - Seminar

Advertised schedule:

Mon/Wed 6-8p

Located in: Olympia

Spanish - Second Year I

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Hugo Flores
Spanish language

The Spanish Intermediate 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 selected 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.

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Prerequisites:

Entry in fall quarter requires the equivalent of one year of college-level study of Spanish language.  

Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, September 24, 2018 - 6:30 pm
SEM 2 A2109 - Seminar

Advertised schedule:

Mon/Wed 6:30-8:20pm

Located in: Olympia

Spanish - Second Year II

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Hugo Flores
Spanish language

Spanish Second Year II is designed for students with conversational Spanish language skills. Coursework focuses on intensive conversation, reading, and writing, as well as practice of selected grammatical structures. Review and use of the Subjunctive mode in the present and past tenses will be introduced using a series of writings and articles about Latin American societies and Hispanic cultures. Another goal is to build upon previous work to strengthen communication skills and fluency in Spanish. This is in preparation for spring where 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.

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Prerequisites:

Completion of Spanish, Second Year I or equivalent required. Contact the instructor for an assessment of proficiency.

Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, January 7, 2019 - 6:30 pm
SEM 2 A2109 - Seminar

Advertised schedule:

6:30-8:30p Mon/Wed.

Located in: Olympia

Spanish: Conversación y Composición

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Hugo Flores
Spanish language

Conversación y composición is designed for students who are interested in learning and practicing advanced-level Spanish reading and essay writing strategies. For the Spring quarter, students will read short plays from Latin American writers in Spanish. In addition to this, students are expected to actively participate in seminar-like activities talking about grammatical topics of interest as well as analyzing the play's form and content. Students will write several short response papers and a final essay and may be expected to act some of the play content. 

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Prerequisites:

Students need to have completed the equivalent of Spanish Second Year II. Contact the faculty for an assessment of proficiency if needed. 

Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, April 1, 2019 - 6:30 pm
SEM 2 A2109 - Seminar

Advertised schedule:

Mon/Wed, 6:30-8:30 pm.

Located in: Olympia

Statistics I

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Alvin Square
statistics
This course is an introduction to statistics for students with limited mathematical skills, little if any formal exposure to data and data analysis, and no experience with statistics.  This class will introduce the student to the statistical process, including data collection, ways of organizing data, an introduction to data analysis, and an opportunity to learn how practitioners present their findings.  We will examine several case studies, explore how data is used in explaining common events, and develop a more critical understanding about how statistics allows us to understand the world around us.  (Note: Please bring a calculator.)

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Environmental Policy and Science, Public Administration, Education, Scientific Research

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, January 7, 2019 - 6:00 pm
SEM 2 A1107 - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

6-10p Mon.

Located in: Olympia

Statistics I

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Alvin Square
statistics
This course is an introduction to statistics for students with limited mathematical skills, little if any formal exposure to data and data analysis, and no experience with statistics.  This class will introduce the student to the statistical process, including data collection, ways of organizing data, an introduction to data analysis, and an opportunity to learn how practitioners present their findings.  We will examine several case studies, explore how data is used in explaining common events, and develop a more critical understanding about how statistics allows us to understand the world around us.  (Note: Please bring a calculator.)

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Environmental Policy and Science, Public Administration, Education, Scientific Research

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, April 1, 2019 - 6:00 pm
SEM 2 A1107 - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

Mon 6-10p

Located in: Olympia

Statistics I (A)

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Alvin Square
statistics

Ever feel the urge to question the reams of data that swirl around us every day? Want to develop tools that make you a more powerful presenter? Statistics is what you need! This course is an introduction to statistics for students with limited if any formal exposure to data and data analysis, and no experience with statistics. This class will introduce the student to the statistical process, including data collection, ways of organizing data, an introduction to data analysis, and an opportunity to learn how practitioners present their findings.  We will examine several case studies, explore how data is used in explaining unusual events, and develop a more critical understanding about how statistics allows us to understand the world around us.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Environmental Policy and Science, Public Administration, Education, Scientific Research

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - 6:00 pm
SEM 2 A1107 - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

Tue 6-9:50pm

Located in: Olympia

Statistics I (B)

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Alvin Square
statistics

Ever feel the urge to question the reams of data that swirl around us every day? Want to develop tools that make you a more powerful presenter? Statistics is what you need! This course is an introduction to statistics for students with limited if any formal exposure to data and data analysis, and no experience with statistics. This class will introduce the student to the statistical process, including data collection, ways of organizing data, an introduction to data analysis, and an opportunity to learn how practitioners present their findings.  We will examine several case studies, explore how data is used in explaining unusual events, and develop a more critical understanding about how statistics allows us to understand the world around us.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Environmental Policy and Science, Public Administration, Education, Scientific Research

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Thursday, September 27, 2018 - 6:00 pm
SEM 2 A1107 - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

Thur 6-9:50pm

Located in: Olympia

Statistics II

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Alvin Square
statistics

Our greatest challenge every day as decision-makers is making choices based on limited information. In this class we will explore exactly that challenge, using the concepts of inferential statistics. The class will discuss probability in the context of the likelihood of events occurring, and move on to testing hypotheses about these events. In this context, the class will work with several distributions, such as t, chi square, F as well as the normal distribution, and work with ANOVA and multiple regression. The class will finish with an introduction to non-parametric statistics. In addition, the students will consider journal articles and research concepts, and will prepare a small presentation using the concepts from the class.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Environmental Policy and Science, Public Administration, Education, Scientific Research

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Wednesday, January 9, 2019 - 6:00 pm
SEM 2 A1107 - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

Wed 6-10p

Located in: Olympia

Statistics II

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Alvin Square
statistics

Our greatest challenge every day as decision-makers is making choices based on limited information. In this class we will explore exactly that challenge, using the concepts of inferential statistics. The class will discuss probability in the context of the likelihood of events occurring, and move on to testing hypotheses about these events. In this context, the class will work with several distributions, such as t, chi square, F as well as the normal distribution, and work with ANOVA and multiple regression. The class will finish with an introduction to non-parametric statistics. In addition, the students will consider journal articles and research concepts, and will prepare a small presentation using the concepts from the class.

4

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Wednesday, April 3, 2019 - 6:00 pm
SEM 2 A1107 - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

Wed 6-10pm

Located in: Olympia

Student Originated Studies: 3D Art, Craft and Design

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 10
812
Credits per quarter

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This program is for advanced students working primarily in three-dimensional (3D) art, craft, or design. Working together in a shared studio space, students will design and execute their own independent creative projects and research. Successful students will have prior college-level art training, and be proficient in their material area of interest. Students should expect to work in campus studio spaces, which require advance scheduling. 

In addition to independent work, students and faculty will meet weekly to review work in progress, discuss professional practice topics, and seminar on a communally developed list of critical readings. Students will have the opportunity to develop in-program internships. Workshops, field-trips, and interactions with the local arts community will be facilitated through the Creative Arts Incubator pilot. Writing practices will include short critical responses, and the development and completion of academic and artist statements. At the conclusion of the quarter, students will present their work and research through a structured critique, a multimedia presentation, or an interactive demonstration.

812

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Special expenses:

Material costs will be individually determined by the student and the requirements of their planned project. Students can expect to spend in the range of $100-$300.

Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 10
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Wednesday, January 9, 2019 - 9:00 am
SEM 2 E4115 - Critique

Located in: Olympia

Student Originated Studies: Linguistics and Native American/Indigenous Studies

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 15
16Variable
Credits per quarter
Variable Credit Options Available

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Taught by

Kristina Ackley
Native American studies
Hastings-Rachel
linguistics, mathematics

In this student-originated studies program, students will pursue independent research projects in Linguistics and Native American/Indigenous Studies with the support of faculty and a learning community of students working in these areas. 

The cohort will meet once weekly on Wednesdays, partly in conjunction with the program  Language, Power, Story. These sessions will offer discussion, some shared readings, and collaborative work on stages of the research process including identifying sources, refining the topic and thesis, peer-review of drafts, and presentations of findings. 

Students should enter the program with a research topic and/or research questions in mind, and they will work with faculty and peers to produce a substantial research paper by the end of the quarter.  The scope of the final project will be tailored to reflect the topic, the student's experience level and goals, and whether the student has registered for 8, 12, or 16 credits.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Linguistics, Native American Studies, History, Education, and related fields.

16Variable

Credits per quarter
Variable Credit Options Available

Variable Credit Options:

15 seats total at 8, 12, 16 credits.

Prerequisites:

One quarter of Linguistics and one quarter of Native American and Indigenous Studies

Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Research Opportunities:

This SOS will involve a significant research project designed and carried out by each student.

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 15
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Wednesday, April 3, 2019 - 10:00 am
LONGHOUSE 1002 - Cedar Room

Located in: Olympia

Student-Originated Studies: Collaborative Learning for Social Change

Winter
Winter 2019
OlympiaStudy Abroad
Olympia +
study abroad option
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 20
16Variable
Credits per quarter
Variable Credit Options Available

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Feminist Theory, Cultural Studies

Is there something you want to make happen that will do good?  “Good,” perhaps, in opposition to the solely financial motives of contemporary capitalism? Or, good as in the Mondragon collective’s motto of serving people, planet, profit and spirit? Here’s an opportunity to collaborate with others, in order to articulate shared values and act on them. 

This Student-Originated Studies (SOS) program will explore the "Teampreneur" approaches of Spain’s Mondragon University and Finland’s Tiimiakademi in order for highly motivated students to pursue their passions while developing skills in organizational and project management; historical and comparative perspectives on market-based analysis; equity-oriented academic reading, writing, and research; creativity, innovation and teamwork; empathy; and digital communication technologies.

Students will spend the first two weeks of the quarter developing an in-program ILC, including a plan for up to 12 credits of weekly project-based work in teams. The project could include an internship, apprenticeship or field study, but whatever the project, students will be required to collaborate with other students, a field supervisor and/or a subcontractor.  Students can opt to combine project and structured activities, such as: a) campus lecture series (Food and Agriculture or Art Lecture Series); b) weekly campus Entrepreneurial Initiative activities; or c) collaboration with the "Alternatives in and to Capitalism" program activities (lecture and film series, field trips).

In addition to their independent projects, students must participate in project workshops on Monday afternoons (1-3 PM) with the "Alternatives in and to Capitalism" program.  All students will design and maintain individual WordPress websites to document their work and then present this work collaboratively at the end of the program.

 

Note: This SOS will collaborate with the program "Alternatives in and to Capitalism" and possibly the 2019 cohort of Mondragon Team Academy students. Field trip opportunities include the Cascadia Grain Conference: Revitalizing the Local Grain Economy (January19), Tulalip Tribe’s Quil Ceda Village (February 12) and the Port of Skagit Bayview Business Park (February 13). With appropriate spring quarter registration, successful students will be well-positioned for a three week end of year study abroad with the Mondragon collectives in the Basque Area of Spain (15 May – 3 June).

Study abroad:

Students in this SOS are encouraged to plan to participate in the spring quarter study abroad 15 May-3 June at the Mondragon collectives in the Basque area of Spain with the program Alternatives in and to Capitalism.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

education, social sciences, social justice advocacy and activism, entrepreneurship, public policy, cultural studies

16Variable

Credits per quarter
Variable Credit Options Available

Variable Credit Options:

Students may register for 4-16 credits according to the options detailed in the program description.  Interested students should c ontact the faculty (williasa@evergreen.edu and dormanp@evergreen.edu) with questions and to discuss registration options.

Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Fees:

$140 for overnight transportation, accommodations, food, and entrance fees for Cascadia Grain Conference.

Internship Opportunities:

Faculty will work with students to identify and cultivate internship, apprenticeship and field study opportunities in keeping with the Teampreneur approach.

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 20
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - 9:30 am
SEM 2 C3105 - Workshop

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2019-01-03Fee section updated

Student-Originated Studies: Community-Based Learning and Action

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 25
16
Credits per quarter

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This Student-Originated Studies (SOS) program is intended for upper-level students with a general background and interest in social science, community organizing, public policy, social movements, and social justice. It is offered to students who are making (or have made) solid arrangements with community-based organizations or agencies to shape an internship and students who are prepared to do an individual project in community-based learning, organizing, research, and participation. Students will have strong links to organizations, regional social movements, community mentors, and partners who will be the students' guides and hosts in their work.

A combination of internship and academic credit will be awarded. Students may arrange for an internship for up to 35 hours a week. Academic credits will be awarded for seminar work on community-based studies, social science, and participatory action research. Students with less than 8 credits of internship may supplement their project with accompanying research, reading, and writing associated with their community work. The program includes a weekly program meeting that will focus on discussion of readings in social science, community studies, and participatory research. There will be other meetings as needed and in connection with community life and events.

Occasionally seminars may be replaced with relevant campus and community workshops and events. Students will be doing extensive writing, both as analysis of readings and as field-based journals and reflection. Students will organize small interest/support groups to discuss issues related to projects and to collaborate on a presentation at the end of the quarter. Students will submit weekly journals to the faculty sponsor.

The program is connected to Evergreen’s Center for Community-Based Learning and Action (CCBLA), which supports learning about, engaging with, and contributing to community life in the region. As such, this program benefits from the rich resource library, staff, internship support, and workshops offered through the center. Students must have all of the contacts for their internship or project plans done before the quarter begins in late September 2018.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

social science, education, community organizing, and social change.

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 25
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-03-12This SOS has been cancelled. Interested students should look at the similar SOS in winter and spring quarters.

Student-Originated Studies: Community-Based Learning and Action (CCBLA)

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 15
16Variable
Credits per quarter
Variable Credit Options Available

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This Student-Originated Studies (SOS) program is an opportunity for students to do intermediate or advanced work that links theory and practice through engagement with in-depth academic research and writing, as well as participation in community-based activities. This program is connected to Evergreen's Center for Community-Based Learning and Action (CCBLA), a partnership of academic programs, students, and faculty with community organizations. CCBLA aims to meet mutually agreed-upon community needs to strengthen and enhance student learning through critical engagement. As such, this program benefits from the rich resource library, staff, internship support, and workshops offered through the center.

Students will have an opportunity to intern with a wide range of agencies and programs, including Gateways for Incarcerated Youth (its Academic Mentoring Program), GRuB (Garden-Raised Bounty), the Thurston County Food Bank, the LEAD (Literacy & Education of Adults with Disabilities) program, SideWalk Homeless Services, Stonewall Youth (programs for LGBTQ+ youth), and TUPAC (Tacoma Urban Performing Arts Center). Students should visit potential internship sites as soon as possible during the summer and, once they have finalized their choice of location, secure a commitment from a site supervisor to oversee the 10-week internship and provide an end-of-quarter assessment of the student's performance.  

Although the bulk of this SOS work will be conducted independently, all students will be required to participate in some group activities. Students will meet, as a group, every Tuesday from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., to discuss readings and current events related to their research, provide project progress reports and, perhaps most importantly, to build community and support each other's work. A combination of academic and internship credit will be awarded in this SOS. The total number of possible internship credits awarded will depend on the number of weekly hours (up to 30) that students spend at their internship sites. Academic credit will include those for participation in weekly group meetings, the production and presentation of final projects, and a journal of reflections on students' overall internship experiences.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

community service, nonprofit work, education, social justice movements

16Variable

Credits per quarter
Variable Credit Options Available

Variable Credit Options:

Students can register for less than 16 credits. Contact the faculty for more information.

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 15
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - 10:00 am
SEM 2 D2109 - Seminar

Located in: Olympia

Student-Originated Studies: Community-Based Learning and Action (CCBLA)

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 25
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Laurie Meeker
film and video production, media theory

This program is connected to Evergreen's Center for Community-Based Learning and Action (CCBLA), a partnership of academic programs, students, and faculty with community organizations. CCBLA aims to meet mutually agreed-upon community needs to strengthen and enhance student learning through critical engagement. As such, this program benefits from the rich resource library, staff, internship support, and workshops offered through the center.

This is a community-based and on-campus learning experience for students who have made formal arrangements to carry out a quarter-long work/study (30 hours a week) with a community center, workshop, agency, organization, or school. The community-based component is carried out through internships, community projects, mentoring situations, or apprenticeships that support community development. The range of academic/community situations suited to this program include: working in an official capacity as an intern at a community agency, organization, or school; working with one or more community members (elders, mentors, artists, teachers, skilled laborers, community organizers) to learn skills that enrich the community as a whole; or designing a community action plan or case study in collaboration with an agency aimed at solving a particular community challenge or need.

The on-campus academic component includes a required Monday program meeting with a focus on media studies, examining the way various forms of media support community organizations. The Monday sessions will include collaborative workshops, short readings, screenings, and seminar. Students will also be required to write and share weekly Internship Reports that include descriptions of weekly activities and reflective writing on their learning for that week. Students can earn 12 credits for community work and 4 credits for the academic component. The weekly on-campus meeting offers opportunities to discuss the larger context of community work in terms of community asset building, problem solving, and media support. Students may increase the academic credit earned with additional research, reading, writing, and project work associated with their community work if they have an internship for less than 12 credits.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

education, community organizing, group leadership, non-profit organizations, cooperatives.

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 25
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, January 7, 2019 - 10:00 am
COM 323 - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

Mondays 10-12 COM Building Media Classroom
Mondays 1-3 COM Building Screening Room COM 326

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-03-12This SOS is now taught by Laurie Meeker.

Student-Originated Studies: Environmental Community-Based Learning and Action

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 25
16Variable
Credits per quarter
Variable Credit Options Available

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Taught by

Edward (Ted) Whitesell
geography, environmental studies

This Student-Originated Studies (SOS) program is intended for upper-division students, with a background in community-based learning, who have made arrangements to carry out a focused internship within an organized community center, workshop, agency, organization, or school setting. The range of work suited to this program includes working on environmental/sustainability issues in an official capacity at a community agency, organization, or school; working with one or more community members to learn about a special line of work or skills that enriches the community as a whole; or designing a community-action plan aimed at solving a particular community challenge.

Students in this program will work together as a team to identify common learning objectives and activities, including readings about community-based learning and relevant social and environmental issues, with associated seminar papers; skill-building workshops to enhance the effectiveness of community internships; guest appearances by community leaders; and site visits to internship locations.

A combination of internship and academic credit will be awarded. Students may arrange an internship of up to 36 hours a week for a 12-credit internship. Internship credits will be awarded for full compliance with in-program internship contracts, and internship credit equivalencies will be tailored to the nature of each internship. 4 academic credits in the theory and practice of community-based learning will be awarded to students who (a) come to all weekly seminars prepared to discuss reading assignments; (b) submit assigned seminar papers; (c) post daily journal entries; (d) submit a brief, summative essay at the end of the quarter about their community experience; and (e) fully participate as part of the SOS team. Additional academic credit will be earned by some students in compensation for lower internship hours, according to work plans prepared individually at the beginning of the quarter, in consultation with the faculty member.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

This student-originated studies program will provide knowledge, contacts, and essential experience for students interested in working on a wide variety of community issues in the future.

16Variable

Credits per quarter
Variable Credit Options Available

Variable Credit Options:

12-16 credit option available; contact the faculty for more information.

Prerequisites:

Students must have a background in community-based learning and must make arrangements to carry out a focused project within an organized community center, workshop, agency, organization, or school setting.

Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 25
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Wednesday, April 3, 2019 - 9:00 am
Purce Hall 8 - Classroom

Located in: Olympia

Student-Originated Studies: Food and Agriculture

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 20
16
Credits per quarter

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Feminist Theory, Cultural Studies

Do you have a project that engages interdisciplinary and applied education for just and sustainable food systems or agricultural practices? This Student-Originated Studies (SOS) will support students to pursue individual or small-group projects through on-farm internships, food-related apprenticeships, field studies, research, or community-based service learning projects. Whether on campus, downtown, across the country, or around the world, students should expect to link theory with practice, activism with reflection, and critical thinking with hands-on experience.

Students will document their projects, using WordPress to create pages that correspond with learning objectives, activities, and outcomes, including a weekly post of activities with image and text; a log of weekly and cumulative hours; a map of location(s); a bibliography of resources; and multi-media options for videos, podcasts, audio files, slide shows, and photo galleries. All students will work with a field supervisor, subcontractor, or mentor with expertise regarding their particular project. For students on or near campus, 4-8 credits may be earned through common work designed to build an intentional learning community, which may include a weekly check-in, lecture or film, a reading-based seminar, and events in collaboration with the Practice of Organic Farming program. All students will be required to create mid-quarter and final self-evaluations as well as a final presentation. Appropriate alternatives for the final presentation requirement will be negotiated with students who are off-campus or overseas.

This SOS is ideal for self-motivated students who have an interest in food and agriculture, and a passion for transformative education, combining research with experiential learning or political action with community-based service learning. This program also is ideal for students who have completed a food- or agriculture-related program and want more real-world, hands-on experience or who want to pursue a food-related passion (e.g., nutrition, animal-crop interaction, permaculture, food sovereignty). In addition to worldwide opportunities through organizations such as Willing Workers on Organic Farms and Slow Food International, national conferences such as EcoFarm, Permaculture Convergence, Heirloom Expo, and Biodynamic Conferences, many farms in the Olympia area and on-campus organizations provide opportunities for food, public health, and agriculture-related internships, apprenticeships, field studies, research, or community-based service learning projects.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Farm and garden management; working with nonprofit organizations focusing on food, land use, and agriculture; state and county extension offices; and state and federal regulatory agencies; K-12 and adult education; culinary professions

16

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

One year of Evergreen’s foundation food and agriculture programs ( Ecological Agriculture ; Food, Health, and Sustainability ; or Practice of Organic Farming ) or the equivalent.

Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Internship Opportunities:

Students will be encouraged and supported to locate internships and apprenticeships with food and agriculture related organizations.

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 20
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - 11:00 am
SEM 2 C2109 - Seminar

Located in: Olympia

Student-Originated Studies: Food and Agriculture

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 25
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

David Muehleisen
sustainable agriculture, entomology

Interested in learning more about agriculture and/or food? Got an individual agriculture/food related project that you’d like to complete? This Student-Originated Studies (SOS) will support students pursuing individual work in agricultural and food related topics. Topics may include on-farm internships and/or research projects. Up to twelve credits of this SOS will focus on individualized learning goals. The remaining four or more credits will be earned through common work and a required weekly group meeting to help form a peer support group for your ILC. This program is ideal for self-motivated students with an interest in agriculture and/or food systems.

Students will hold in-program internships or research projects that will be 25-30 hours per week in scope. All students will come together as a class once a week to discuss each student’s progress on fulfilling their designated contract learning objectives. The common work will potentially include a group meeting one day a week, maintenance of a detailed field journal to capture research, field and on-farm learning, weekly readings and seminar, group discussion papers, mid-quarter presentation, and a final paper and presentation. In the required weekly group meetings, students will explore timely issues relevant to small scale, local, and direct market farming, and food related topics. Topics may include, but are not limited to, appropriate scale technology, nutrient cycling, soil quality analysis and management, water use and law, food production regulations, finances, farm and crop planning and farm business planning, sustainable production practices, plant propagation techniques, and other timely and relevant issues in the agricultural and food disciplines. Students’ individual projects/internships will provide the foundation for exploring relevant food and farming topics and give a richer and broader basis for discussion.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

agriculture and farming; sustainability and edible education; food systems

16

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

One year of Evergreen’s foundation food and agriculture programs ( Ecological Agriculture ; Food, Health, and Sustainability ; or Practice of Organic Farming ) or the equivalent.

Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Website:
Internship Opportunities:

Students will be encouraged and supported to locate internships and apprenticeships with food and agriculture related organizations.

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 25
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - 10:00 am
Organic Farm - Workshop

Located in: Olympia

Student-Originated Studies: Food and Agriculture

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 25
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Steve Scheuerell
ecology, botany, plant pathology

Do you have a project that engages interdisciplinary and applied education for just and sustainable food systems or agricultural practices? This Student-Originated Studies (SOS) will support students to link critical thinking and hands-on experience through individual or small-group projects such as on-farm internships, food-related apprenticeships, field studies, research, or community-based service learning projects. This program also is ideal for students who have completed a food- or agriculture-related program and want more real-world, hands-on experience or who want to pursue a food-related passion (e.g., nutrition, animal-crop interaction, permaculture, food sovereignty) at a more advanced level.

Upper-Division Science Credit. Advanced science students may earn up to 12 upper-division science credits through project work. Students interested in this option should come to the first class meeting with a typed project proposal that includes a project description, 10-week project timeline, description of necessary resources to be successful, expected project outcomes, and a list of coursework they have successfully completed that demonstrates readiness for upper division science work in the proposed project area. Faculty will need to approve individual study plans for earning upper-division science credit, and will only award upper division science credit for student work that meets all standards set forth in the program syllabus.  

Entrepreneurship Project. Another exciting option for students on or near campus is to work with program faculty on a large-scale social entrepreneurship project and an additional food or agriculture project. This will develop cooperative team leadership and project management skills. To do so, we will collaborate and learn with another Evergreen program and international visiting students and coaches from Mondragon Team Academy (MTA World), a global community of social innovation ecosystem labs. Students who choose to participate will learn how to work with others to start an organization or business that seeks to solve problems within our current food and farming systems. Students committed to this option should plan on meeting for program and team activities weekly on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9-4.  In addition to project coaching and work, students can also elect to participate in food and agriculture related field trips, and lecture/workshops on research skills, project documentation, website design, branding, marketing, tax law, accounting,   understanding the UN sustainability goals related to food and agriculture, analysis of home economics via kitchen labor, produce, and recipes, and historical/economic perspectives on  cooperative and collaborative alternatives to capitalism. 

Program Requirements.  Whether working with faculty within the team entrepreneurship collaboration or on their own project, students will document their projects using a WordPress template we provide to create pages that correspond with learning objectives, activities, and outcomes, including a weekly post of activities with image and text; a log of weekly and cumulative hours; a bibliography of resources; and multi-media options for videos, podcasts, audio files, slide shows, and photo galleries. Students that create in-program ILCs will talk with faculty every other week about their learning and project progress. All students will work with a field supervisor, subcontractor, or mentor with expertise regarding their particular project. All students will be required to create mid-quarter and final self-evaluations as well as a final presentation. Appropriate alternatives for the final presentation requirement will be negotiated with students who are off-campus or overseas.

 

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Farm and garden management; working with organizations and businesses focusing on food, land use, and agriculture; state and county extension offices; and state and federal regulatory agencies; K-12 and adult education; culinary professions

16

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

One year of Evergreen’s foundation food and agriculture programs ( Ecological Agriculture ; Food, Health, and Sustainability ; or Practice of Organic Farming ) or the equivalent.

Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.

Upper division science credit:

Students seeking to earn upper division credit should carefully read the program description and contact the faculty (scheuers@evergreen.edu) to discuss their project goals and readiness prior to the start of the quarter. Wait listed students seeking upper division science credit options should contact faculty before the start of the quarter and will have priority for enrolling if space permits at the start of Spring quarter.  

Internship Opportunities:

Students will be encouraged and supported to locate internships and apprenticeships with food and agriculture related organizations.

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 25
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, April 1, 2019 - 1:00 pm
SEM 2 A3109 - Seminar

Located in: Olympia

Student-Originated Studies: In Search of Asian/Pacific Islander America

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 10
16Variable
Credits per quarter
Variable Credit Options Available

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This Student-Originated Studies (SOS) program is an opportunity for students to do intermediate or advanced work in Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies. Students will be expected to conduct in-depth academic research and produce strong writing assignments, and—if appropriate to their particular projects—to link theory and practice through participation in community-based activities involving Asian/Pacific Islander Americans.

Research and community-based projects in this field might examine the following: (1) the historical, cultural, artistic, and other dimensions of the Asian American and Pacific Islander American experiences, (2) the intersections—within those experiences—among race, class, gender, sex, (dis)ability, and other markers of identity, and (3) social justice issues and political activism in Asian/Pacific Islander America.

Although the bulk of this SOS work will be conducted independently, all students will be required to participate in some group activities. Students will meet, as a group, each Wednesday from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., to discuss readings and current events involving Asian/Pacific Islander Americans, to provide project progress reports and, perhaps most importantly, to build community and support each other's work. All students will produce final projects which may take a number of different forms, including research papers, creative writing, multimedia projects, or a combination of those forms.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

education, cultural studies, American studies, ethnic studies

16Variable

Credits per quarter
Variable Credit Options Available

Variable Credit Options:

Students can register for less than 16 credits. Contact the faculty for more information. 

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 10
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Wednesday, September 26, 2018 - 10:00 am
SEM 2 D3105 - Workshop

Located in: Olympia

Student-Originated Studies: Literature, Philosophy, Myth/Religion and Writing

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 25
16Variable
Credits per quarter
Variable Credit Options Available

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literature, philosophy, and languages

This program supports students who are prepared to do advanced creative and research projects in the humanities. In the first week of the program, each student will prepare a project proposal and reading list. Students will then complete that project over the course of the quarter. The program will have weekly class sessions to discuss progress, share work-in-progress, conduct peer reviews, and get advice and guidance. Students must attend and participate in these sessions. Each student must meet individually with Dr. Bailey weekly. Students will maintain and submit regularly a process portfolio and reading journal. We will have in-class student readings/presentations of work at the end of the quarter. All other project obligations will be worked out individually with the faculty member.

faculty member Bailey has particular expertise in the following topics: philosophy and literature, and studies in symbology, ritual, mythology and comparative religions, particularly of French and francophone and Germanic traditions, as well as classical studies. This is an excellent opportunity for senior thesis work, capstone, or any student’s ambitious project in myth, literature, philosophy and writing, whether creative or analytic.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

writing, languages, literature, philosophy, and teaching.

16Variable

Credits per quarter
Variable Credit Options Available

Variable Credit Options:

8-, 12-, or 16-credit options available. Credits will reflect your individual project of research/writing.

Prerequisites:

Students need not have extensive experience in a chosen field of work, but they must have sound writing skills and the willingness to accept and apply critiques of their process and work.

Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 25
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 9:00 am
LAB 1 3064 - Seminar

Located in: Olympia

Student-Originated Studies: Music

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 12
121416
Credits per quarter

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Sean Williams Square
ethnomusicology

This Student-Originated Studies (SOS) program is designed for students who already have completed prior work in music; it creates a space for more advanced independent work in the areas of music performance, ethnomusicology, music theory, ecomusicology, music history, music composition, and music therapy. Each student will develop a proposal -- including a personal syllabus with scheduled activities that include reading, listening, and practicing -- in the first week. Each week thereafter will include a lecture, a faculty-led seminar on a common reading and/or listening assignment, and an opportunity to present that week's individual and small-group work through performances and presentations. Credit equivalencies will be determined by the subjects that students work on individually, but are likely to include music history, ethnomusicology, performance practice, and research and writing.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

music and performing arts.

121416

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 12
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - 10:30 am
Com 117 - Music Rehearsal

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-08-16Seats capped at 13

Student-Originated Studies: Music

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
25% Reserved for Freshmen
16
Credits per quarter

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This Student-Originated Studies (SOS) is designed for students who have an interest in advanced work in music topics that have grown out of previous academic programs. Students may present proposals in the areas of music performance, music and science, ecomusic, music history, music composition, or music theory. Students will work with faculty throughout the program to create collaborative working groups and critique groups that will allow students to support each other's work. Student work will also be supported each week by faculty-led seminars and workshops. Credit equivalencies will be determined based on student projects. Areas in which credit may be awarded include music performance, ecomusic, music history and literature, music composition, music theory, and research and writing.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

music

16

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Website:
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
25% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 10:00 am
Com 308 - Media Classroom

Located in: Olympia

Student-Originated Studies: Mycology

WinterSpring
Winter 2019
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 6
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Paul Przybylowicz
ecology, biology, mycology

This program is an opportunity for students to do intermediate or advanced work in mycology with the support of a peer group. Students will work independently or in small groups to carry out in-depth research projects or study specific topics. This work may include an internship if the student has already identified an outside agency and potential field supervisor for the internship. Priority will be given to students with well-defined questions or objectives. 

Students will meet weekly as a group with faculty to problem solve and support group members' work. Weekly meetings will include seminar readings and discussion, along with workshops or support training as needed. The exact content of the shared portion will be determined during the first class meeting. 

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Mycology, environmental microbiology, agriculture 

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.

Upper division science credit:

Students seeking to earn upper-division science credit must contact the faculty to discuss options prior to the start of the quarter.

Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 6
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Thursday, April 4, 2019 - 1:00 pm
LAB 1 3041 - Class Lab

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2019-03-01Spring Quarter Added

Student-Originated Studies: Printmaking

FallWinter
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 10
Variable
Variable credit.
See below for more info.

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printmaking, drawing

This SOS is a semi-structured opportunity for intermediate and advanced students interested in artistic inquiry, printmaking and drawing to develop prints and drawings in an artistic community.  There will be no formal printmaking instruction . Students are expected to enroll with existing college-level instruction and proficiency in the printmaking form they will pursue: etching, drypoint, monotype, lino-cut or woodcut. Group and individual critiques, collaborative learning, and concise writing assignments will ground students' independent research and studio practice. A major learning objective will include organizing and presenting one's original artistic research and work through a formal lecture presentation to the group. Students interested in printmaking linked to illustration, graphic design, graphic arts, graphic novels or related forms are welcomed to apply, as are sculptors, woodworkers, and metal artists interested in pursuing their ideas in two dimensions. This offering may serve as an intermediate-level opportunity to explore focused two-dimensional artistic inquiry for a quarter or two, or an advanced capstone opportunity for those preparing to graduate with a mature portfolio of work. 

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

art history and visual arts.

Variable
Variable credit.
See below for more info.
Variable Credit Options:

8 - 12 credit options available. Contact the faculty for more information.

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Special expenses:

Materials costs will vary according to students' projects and the scale of work. Major expenses will include: printmaking matrices (copper, wood or linoleum) and printing paper.  Printmaking materials costs could range from $100 to $300 per quarter.

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 10
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Friday, January 11, 2019 - 9:00 am
LAB 2 2225 - Intaglio

Located in: Olympia

Student-Originated Studies: Science and Environmental Writing for the General Public

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 25
16
Credits per quarter

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This student-originated studies program will provide participants with the opportunity to undertake extended writing projects. Each student will select a topic of personal interest, one in which they have appropriate background acquired via previous college-level academic work. The goal will be to craft a written document designed for a non-technical audience that will explore all aspects of the topic. Preference will be given to students working on scientific and/or environmental topics. Although students will work independently, weekly workshop sessions will help ensure that that progress is being made and that writing and interpretative skills are being honed. Weekly seminars will also explore examples of popular science writing. For those interested, the program can serve as a culminating experience to a college career.

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 25
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 10:00 am
SEM 2 C2107 - Seminar

Located in: Olympia

Student-Originated Studies: Science Writing in the Public Forum

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 25
16
Credits per quarter

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From evolution to climate change, scientific discovery has often been followed by a battle for public opinion. This is no less true in the social media landscape of our digital age. Effective writing about scientific and/or environmental topics is more important than ever to informing the public, swaying lawmakers, or changing industry practices.

This student-originated studies program is designed for students with previous experience in science and/or environmental studies who want to hone and improve their writing. Through extended writing projects, each student will select a topic of personal interest, one in which they have appropriate background acquired via previous college-level academic work. The goal will be to craft a written document designed for a non-technical audience that will explore all aspects of the topic.

Although students will work independently, weekly workshop sessions will help ensure that that progress is being made and that writing and interpretative skills are being honed. Weekly seminars will also explore examples of popular science writing. For those interested, the program can serve as a culminating experience to a college career.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

science, biology, environmental studies, and writing.

16

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

This program is designed for students with previous experience in science and/or environmental studies who want to hone and improve their writing. Students should have successfully completed at least one quarter of science or environmental studies coursework. Students should also  be proficient writers. Questions can be directed to the instructor via email ( mz@evergreen.edu ).

Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 25
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

Located in: Olympia

Student-Originated Studies: Theater

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 8
25% Reserved for Freshmen
16Variable
Credits per quarter
Variable Credit Options Available

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Elizabeth Williamson
English literature, theater studies

Seats in this SOS are reserved for students who will be performing in, or providing technical support to, a production of Kenneth Lonergan’s This is Our Youth.  Depending on their role in the production, students will earn credit in acting for the stage, directing, stage managing, technical theater, or dramaturgy. Students will meet weekly with faculty to discuss their progress on the various individual projects associated with their role in the production; students will meet extensively with each other for rehearsals and production meetings. 

 

 

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Theater

16Variable

Credits per quarter
Variable Credit Options Available

Variable Credit Options:

8 seats at 4-16 credits

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 8
25% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, April 1, 2019 - 10:00 am
Com 332 - Performance Studio

Located in: Olympia

Studio Arts for Expressive Arts Therapy: Developing Cultural Competence

FallWinter
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 16
8
Credits per quarter

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psychology

Studio Arts for Expressive Arts Therapy: Developing Cultural Competence will offer an introduction to ways of working with ceramics, drawing, interactive theater, and journaling with the dual purpose of deepening understandings of students’ personal cultural contexts as well as providing foundational skills for seeing how these processes could work with clients in a multicultural context. The focus of this work is to begin to a lifetime professional commitment to developing cultural competency to be able to work in health care, education and other community based settings.

In the fall, students will explore the expressive potential of functional ceramic forms. Techniques will include hand building, wheel throwing, alteration of thrown forms, and surface decoration. There will also be a basic introduction to ceramic processes, formal elements of art, and critique. In the Winter, students will explore principles and techniques in drawing.  Emphasis will be on learning to draw what you see through close observation. Students will be introduced to a variety of drawing materials and techniques as well as proportion, sighting, perspective, value and composition.  Art assignments will encourage exploration of identity, experimentation with materials, practicing embodiment, and development of the skills required to communicate effectively through objects.  Along with these skills, integrative assignments will combine cultural identity competency, psychology, and intermodal expressive arts therapy processes. This two-quarter program of study is preparatory for careers and further study in psychology, fine arts, expressive art therapy, education and cultural studies.

This program will be a hybrid with a daytime offering entitled Multicultural Counseling . If you are interested in a more in depth three quarter, full-time Psychology course during the day with internships in local counseling/mental health settings in Winter and Spring, please apply to that program. This 8 credit evening program will include the students from the daytime Multicultural Counseling program and the Evening and Weekend Studies Studio Art for Expressive Art Therapy program.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

expressive art therapy, visual art, community mental health

8

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers 25 - 49% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Special expenses:

Students will need to purchase their own clay in the fall. Estimate $25 depending on projects and if the student recycles their own clay.

Fees:

$75 for Fall and $20 for Winter for project supplies

Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 16
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - 5:30 pm
Art Annex 2109 - Drawing Studio

Advertised schedule:

Tu/Th 5:30-9:30pm

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-11-26Signature requirement added for Winter quarter

Studio Projects: Land and Sky

FallWinterSpring
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Sophomore
Freshman–Sophomore
Class Size: 46
50% Reserved for Freshmen
16
Credits per quarter

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Robert Leverich
visual arts, architecture
Alex McCarty
3D studio art

This theme-based, foundational visual arts program is designed for students who want to gain skills and understanding through focused 2D and 3D studio work and its supporting reading, research, and writing. We will focus on the relationship between artists, cultures, and landscape this boundary plane we inhabit between earth, sea, and air. The root of the word landscape refers to the shape or condition of the land. How do different cultures define and shape landscapes, and how do landscapes in turn shape peoples lives and what they make? What is the role of an artist in the landscape as an observer, participant, and shaper? How do studio work and work outdoors inform each other? How do an artist’s tools mediate experience of the landscape? We are uniquely situated here in the Pacific Northwest to consider a variety of landscapes and seascapes, as well as a variety of cultures with strong ties to both.

Program work and learning will be centered in the studio. Projects will focus on expanding 2D skills (drawing, printmaking) and 3D skills (sculpture, craft, environmental art). We will spend time working in the field, as well as in the studio. We will engage landscapes as means to express personal and cultural narratives and as forms of exchange within larger communities. We will address questions of authority and authorship in working with landscapes, their inhabitants, imagery, and stories. As the program progresses, each student will be asked to develop more personal and focused work about the landscape for a final exhibition.

Studio work will be grounded by readings, seminars, and work discussions and reviews, as well as research and writing efforts, to address dimensions of landscape from ecology and material sources to place and politics. We will survey landscape-based art forms as principle cultural tropes, and consider the changing responses of artists to environments and the communities vested in them. Field trips and guest lectures will expand our awareness of regional landscapes, cultures, and artists.

Students should plan to commit at least 40 hours a week to program work and the studio learning community. Dedicated students will advance their art-making and writing skills, build a strong portfolio of personal work, and develop a fuller understanding of landscape in contemporary art and cultural contexts, and in their own work.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

visual arts and design, architecture, landscape architecture, and environmental studies.

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Fees:

$110 per quarter for supplies and overnight field trips.

Freshman-Sophomore
Class Standing: Freshman–Sophomore
Class Size: 46
50% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 9:00 am
Art Annex 0110 - Atrium

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2019-03-08Signature requirement added for Spring

Studio, Archive, Field: Advanced Projects in Media and Visual Art

FallWinterSpring
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 17
1216
Credits per quarter

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painting, drawing, art history
media arts, photography, visual studies

In this program students who are prepared for intensive study of the theory and practice of contemporary art and media will pursue capstone projects in film, video, sound, installation, and 2-D and 3-D visual arts in a directed and supportive learning community. The program will support students as they forge their own research-based artistic practice that combines creative and critical methods. Students will develop their projects in the context of this program's specific focus on the site, shape, and significance of iteration, duration, and structured experimentation in the creative process; in particular, we will consider the studio , the archive , and the field (or site-specificity) as three distinct but interrelated locations and methodologies of art-making that require different ways of thinking, working, and being in relationship to one’s materials, communities, and contexts. Students with a significant background in media theory or art history who wish to engage in an arts-based practice or academic project such as museum studies, curatorial and archival practices, or an arts-related internship are also welcome.

In fall we will establish our own workspaces on campus and at home. We will study artists whose practice is based in archival research and fieldwork. We will then explore the archive and the field as spaces for our own artistic research as students complete collaborative and individual assignments by working in local archives and pursuing observational and other site-based practices in the field.

In winter we will deepen our understanding of the ethics, stakes, and politics of the archive, fieldwork, and site-specificity, and students will organize into groups and create a shared syllabus for weekly meetings. Students will plan and complete an individual creative project, creating an individual syllabus that outlines research in the archive and the field. They will maintain a creative practice in their studios and acquire new skills in workshops, as needed.

In spring students will expand their winter project or complete a new project, based in archival and field research and studio practice. We will consider the question of exhibition and audiences as students collaboratively design and host a final conference and exhibition of their work. Students will also attend workshops on professional practices and protocols, discuss the job and graduate school search, prepare for the application process, and consider the world of grant funding.

Throughout the year students will present their work and engage in extensive discussion and critique at each stage of their process. Students will share skills and provide support on their peers’ projects. Students will attend lectures, screenings, and workshops as well as the Artist Lecture Series, participate in group critiques, read and discuss research material, complete writing assignments, lead seminar, present their research, and learn how to effectively document and reflect critically on their working methods and processes.

We will take several day and overnight field trips. We will also spend time in local or regional archives and establish a site-based practice in winter and spring. While travel is not required in winter and spring, our program will accommodate short trips as part of students’ site-based practice.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

visual and media arts, art history, visual studies, media studies, humanities, and education

1216

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

Students must have both the academic breadth and depth to do advanced work in the arts. Students must have 1) a broad liberal arts foundation indicated by at least 32 credits of an Evergreen interdisciplinary program or the equivalent study in areas outside of the arts; 2) at least 32 credits of Mediaworks , Studio Projects , or the equivalent in-depth study of the history, theory, and practice of visual and/or media arts; and 3) upper-division college-level reading, writing, and critical-thinking skills. Students who have successfully completed research projects, long-form essays (20+ pages), and/or individual and collaborative self-directed creative projects are likely to be well-prepared for this program. All students must be prepared to commit to a regular studio and research practice, collaborative as well as individual creative projects, and academic research and writing.

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Special expenses:

Students editing video should expect to spend $100–$200 on an external hard drive. 

Fees:

$330 in fall for entrance fees, an overnight field trip, and art supplies. $390 in winter for overnight retreat, entrance fees and art supplies. $40 in spring for entrance fees and art supplies.

Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 17
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, April 1, 2019 - 9:30 am
Art Annex 2104 - Critique

Located in: Olympia

May be offered again in:

2019-2020

DateRevision
2019-03-13Not accepting new students in Spring

Study Abroad Consortium Partnerships

FallWinterSpring
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Spring 2019
OlympiaStudy Abroad
Olympia +
study abroad option
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 0
Variable
Variable credit.
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A consortium is a formal relationship with other institutions to increase travel abroad opportunities for Evergreen students. More than 300 destination programs are offered through consortia, and financial aid can be used to pay for approved program costs. Evergreen students pay the consortium's tuition and fees; they do not pay Evergreen tuition or fees when enrolled in consortium, with the exception of a $400 Consortium Enrollment Fee for each semester of enrollment. Enrollment is recorded at both the consortium and at Evergreen; Evergreen students register at Evergreen with a special Course Record Number created specifically for the designated consortium and retain their student status. Consortium credits transfer back to Evergreen with relative ease provided the student earns grades of C or higher; C- or lower does not earn credit. Consortium credits also override the normal transfer limits of 90 lower-division and 45 upper-division credits due to the Evergreen registration process. To learn more, visit https://www.evergreen.edu/studyabroad/consortiumpartnerships .

Alliance for Global Education (AGE) offers interdisciplinary study programs in China, India, and Israel. In India students can focus on issues of public health, Indian studies, development, or the environment, in programs located in Manipal, Pune, and Varanasi. In China students can focus on issues of globalization, development, business, politics, social change, and Chinese language, in programs located in Beijing or Shanghai. In Israel students can focus on identity, diversity, religion, and business studies in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv. Internship opportunities are available in all countries, with full semester and summer options. Students earn 15 semester credits (22 quarter credits).

American Institute for Foreign Study (AIFS) provides study abroad programs in conjunction with multiple university sites in Africa, Europe, Latin America, and Australia/New Zealand. Students can choose from a wide variety of disciplines, with programs taught in English. Students earn 15-18 semester credits (22-27 quarter credits).

American University in Cairo (AUC) is a premier, full-service, English-language university founded in Cairo, Egypt in 1919. Students can focus on a wide range of disciplinary studies through the semester or summer options as study abroad, non-degree students, or they can focus on intensive Arabic language through the Intensive Arabic Program. Credits will vary by individual enrollment, but typically range from 15 to 18 semester credits (22 to 27 quarter credits).

Through the Arava Institute , located near the Israeli-Jordanian border at Kibbutz Ketura, students join together to study diverse environmental fields and engage in peace-building and environmental leadership dialogue. Students earn university-level environmental studies credit through Ben Gurion University of the Negev. The student body is typically comprised of international students, Arab students from the region, and Jewish students, as all examine natural resource and sustainability issues that affect every regional stakeholder. Internships are available.

Budapest Semester in Mathematics (BSM) is a renowned and academically rigorous program for motivated undergraduates who wish to study math or math education in Budapest, Hungary. Classes are taught in English, with the program devoted to problem solving and student creativity. Course offerings combine standard upper-level courses with courses in areas of traditional strength of Hungarian mathematics, such as combinatorics, number theory, and probability theory. Many courses are offered at intermediate and advanced levels. Class sizes are kept small, with ample opportunity for individualized instruction from faculty. Credits vary from 12 to 18 semester credits (18-27 quarter credits).

Butler University's Institute for Study Abroad , operated through Butler University in Indiana, connects students with multiple university sites in England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Czech, Spain, Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Peru. Students enroll in regular university course offerings, with opportunities for internships as well. Fluency in Spanish is required for most Latin American studies programs, with some options for students with lower-level Spanish skills. Students earn 15-18 semester credits (22-27 quarter credits). Summer programs also available.

Center for Ecological Living and Learning(CELL) offers programs in Iceland, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Honduras, and Scotland that focus on sustainability, environmental issues, experiential learning, and close connection to local communities. Students earn 15 semester credits (22 quarter credits).

Center for Global Education and Experience (CGEE) provides a set of interdisciplinary study abroad programs sponsored by Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minn. Students can focus on issues of gender and social change, international business, migration, globalization, or social work in Mexico; sustainable development and social change in Central America; or nation building, globalization, and decolonization in Namibia. Language study and internships, as part of or in addition to the programs, are available. Students earn 16 semester credits (24 quarter credits).

Council on International Educational Exchange  (CIEE) provides study abroad programs in conjunction with multiple university sites in Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Australia. Students can choose from a wide variety of disciplines, with programs taught either in English or the local language or both. Students earn 15-18 semester credits (22-27 quarter credits).

Danish Institute for Study Abroad (DIS) offers 14 coordinated programs in Architecture and Design, Biomedicine, Child Diversity and Development, Communication & Mass Media, European Culture & History, European Politics and Society, Global Economics, International Business, Justice & Human Rights, Medical Practice & Policy, Migration & Identity/Conflict, Pre-Architecture, Psychology, Public Health, and Sustainability in Europe. All programs and courses are taught in English, with the exception of Danish language and culture studies. Students earn 15-18 semester credits (22-27 quarter credits).

Educational Programs Abroad arranges internship placements in several European countries: England, Scotland, Germany, Belgium, and Spain. Students typically intern 30-35 hours per week, with one or two supplemental classes. Adequate fluency in the language is often, but not always, required. Students earn 16 quarter credits. 

International Partnership for Service Learning offers programs that combine language, area studies, and community service placements in a number of countries: Ecuador, Colombia, Guatemala, Argentina, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Cambodia, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, South Africa, and Tanzania. Students gain valuable experience serving in a variety of community organizations. Semester and summer programs available. 15-18 semester credits (22-27 quarter credits).

School for International Training offers a wide variety of interdisciplinary programs in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East that focus on the arts, cultural expression, global health, identity and globalization, environmental issues, post-conflict transformation, social movements, human rights, and sustainable development. Programs entail language, thematic studies, independent study projects, internships, and close connection to local communities. Students earn 16 semester credits (24 quarter credits). Summer programs are also available.

School for Russian and Asian Studies offers programs throughout the European, Central Asian, and Siberian regions of the former Soviet Union on a wide variety of topics: Central Asian Studies, Acting in Russia, Russian Studies Abroad, Translation Abroad, Art in Russia, The Russian Far East, The Russian Psyche, Museums and Art Restoration, Kyrgyz Adventure, Politics and International Relations, Internships and more. Students earn 15-18 semester credits (22-27 quarter credits).

SEA Education Association offers unforgettable programs that focus on ocean exploration, documenting change in the Caribbean, oceans and climate, sustainability in Polynesian island cultures and ecosystems, and energy and the ocean environment. Students spend the first part of the semester in Woods Hole, Mass. preparing for the second part of the semester when they embark on tall-masted research ships to continue studies at sea and among island communities. The program offers both Atlantic and Pacific routes. Students earn 16 semester credits (24 quarter credits). Options for upper-level credits are available. Summer programs offered as well.

Studio Arts Centers International in Florence, Italy offers undergraduate options for study in more than 20 studio art and design programs, art history, art conservation, and Italian language and culture. Graduate-level studies are also available. Students earn 15-18 semester credits (22-27 quarter credits).

University of Arizona - Russia offers the opportunity to study Russian language and culture in Moscow during the academic year, with summer options in St. Petersburg. Students receive 20-30 hours of instruction per week, depending on their level placement. The program takes place at the GRINT Language Center at the Moscow Humanities University. Options for internship placement in Moscow also exist. Students earn 15 semester credits (22 quarter credits).

University of Washington's Jackson School of International Studies offers Evergreen juniors and seniors a chance to spend one year in the program, focusing on one of 14 regional study areas: Africa, Canada, China, Comparative Religion, European, International, Japan, Jewish Studies, Korea, Latin America and Caribbean, Middle East, Russia-Eastern Europe-Central Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia studies. Students earn 12-18 quarter credits each quarter, depending on class selection. Evergreen can only recommend a small number of students to this program, so it is competitive, with applications due each March for the following year.

Wildlands Studies offers programs through a number of environmental field projects in several countries: Australia, Belize, Canada, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Nepal, New Zealand, Norway, Panama, Peru, Scotland, South Africa, Sweden, Thailand, and Zambia. Wildlands' domestic U.S. programs are not eligible for consortium status. Students are engaged in field studies for seven-week periods typically, and many include cultural studies, since communities are part of local environmental systems. Students earn 10 semester credits (15 quarter credits) in upper division science and cultural studies, issued through Western Washington University. Note: Only one enrollment in Wildlands Studies is permitted while at Evergreen per Academic Dean directive.

Study abroad:

Destination and duration vary. In addition to a $100 application fee, there is a $400 non-refundable fee for administrative costs. For details on study abroad, visit   www.evergreen.edu/studyabroad   or contact Michael Clifthorne at   clifthom@evergreen.edu  .

Variable
Variable credit.
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Variable Credit Options:

seats and credits vary.

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 0
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Located in: Olympia

Study Abroad Exchange Partnerships

FallWinterSpring
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Spring 2019
OlympiaStudy Abroad
Olympia +
study abroad option
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 0
Variable
Variable credit.
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An exchange program is a formal relationship with an overseas university that allows Evergreen and that institution to exchange students and faculty on a one-for-one basis. Evergreen currently has five “sister schools” that allow for Evergreen to send two students per year for overseas study, and for the sister school to send two students per year to Evergreen. Alternatively, Evergreen might send four students for a single semester or receive more students for a single quarter. Evergreen students pay their home tuition rate to Evergreen and receive a tuition waiver at the overseas school. Students are still responsible for cost-of-living expenses, travel costs and some smaller fees at the sister school. Evergreen students register either with a special Course Record Number created specifically for the designated exchange, or in the case of the Japan programs, through an Individual Learning Contract process.

More information and Evergreen application materials can be found at this link:  http://www.evergreen.edu/studyabroad/exchangeprograms

 

China: Xing Wei College Exchange : The exchange program with Xing Wei College is one of our newer partnerships, established in 2016. Students can elect to study either fall or spring semesters, or for an entire academic year from August through June. Xing Wei takes a unique approach among universities in China in that its curriculum is offered to all students entirely in English, meaning its courses will be easily accessible for Evergreen students. Evergreen students can also arrange to study Mandarin Chinese at Xing Wei College in addition to other course work. Xing Wei is designed in a way that gives students a high level of input into the administration of the College, utilizing student committees to carry out many of its functions. Students select from a range of course work in the Humanities, Social Sciences or Sciences. There are also opportunities to arrange individualized study, not only for Chinese language instruction, but many other disciplinary areas as well. Xing Wei operates on a semester system; students can take up to 18 semester credits per term, which converts to about 27 quarter credits after transcript review. In many ways, Xing Wei College was intentionally modeled after Evergreen, thus allowing considerable flexibility in modes of learning. Xing Wei College is located on a beautifully manicured campus that spans both sides of the local river. For more information in English, see this link: http://en.xingwei.edu.cn/

As with all exchange programs, Evergreen students continue to pay their home tuition rate to Evergreen and will receive a tuition waiver at the host university. However, students will be responsible for all other travel and living expenses, as well as certain fees that may be assessed by the host institution. Estimated costs for an academic year on the Xing Wei College Exchange are $9,700, plus Evergreen tuition expenses.

 

Denmark: Roskilde University Exchange : The exchange program with Roskilde University was established in May 2014 and is one of Evergreen’s newest partnerships. Roskilde, like Evergreen, was founded on the principle that effective, meaningful, alternative approaches to learning exist beyond the traditional models. Group Project work at Roskilde is the central element in the learning model, comprising 50% of a student’s learning experience. Groups of students tackle various local, national, or international problems and bring various disciplinary perspectives to proposed solutions. Many of the Group Project options are in English, essentially a second language in Denmark. The other 50% of course work involves taking two or three individual content courses that support the project investigation. Students generally enroll for 30 ECTS credits per semester, which converts to 18-22 quarter credits, depending on class hours. Roskilde is located about 19 miles west of Copenhagen, with a population of about 49,000. For more information in English, see this link: http://www.ruc.dk/en/international-students/rucs-practical-guide/

As with all exchange programs, Evergreen students continue to pay their home tuition rate to Evergreen and will receive a tuition waiver at the host university.  However, students will be responsible for all other travel and living expenses, as well as certain fees that may be assessed by the host institution.  Estimated costs for an academic year on the Roskilde University Exchange are $13,370, plus Evergreen tuition expenses.

 

Japan: University of Hyogo Exchange : The exchange program with the University of Hyogo is over 30 years old. Students study from April through March using three Evergreen Individual Learning Contracts to structure their studies. Students typically focus on Japanese language study, cultural studies of all types, and a self-designed research project. Students arrange for an Evergreen faculty sponsor or sponsors over the course of their three contracts, self-designing their goals and activities with faculty guidance. Students utilize credit-bearing and audited course work at Hyogo, such as Japanese courses and more, to give structure to their study. They also conduct their independent project study within the contract. Each of the three contracts is valued at 12-16 credits per Evergreen quarter.

As with all exchange programs, Evergreen students continue to pay their home tuition rate to Evergreen and will receive a tuition waiver at the host university.  However, students will be responsible for all other travel and living expenses, as well as certain fees that may be assessed by the host institution.  Estimated costs for an academic year on the University of Hyogo Exchange are $12,250, plus Evergreen tuition expenses.

 

Japan: University of Miyazaki Exchange : The exchange program with the University of Miyazaki is over 30 years old. Students study from October through August using three Evergreen Individual Learning Contracts to structure their studies. Students typically focus on Japanese language study, cultural studies of all types, and a self-designed research project. Students arrange for an Evergreen faculty sponsor or sponsors over the course of their three contracts, self- designing their goals and activities with faculty guidance. Students utilize credit-bearing and audited course work at Miyazaki, such as the multi-level intensive Japanese program and more, to give structure to their study. They also conduct their independent project study within the contract. Each of the three contracts is valued at 12-16 credits per Evergreen quarter.

As with all exchange programs, Evergreen students continue to pay their home tuition rate to Evergreen and will receive a tuition waiver at the host university. However, students will be responsible for all other travel and living expenses, as well as certain fees that may be assessed by the host institution. Estimated costs for an academic year on the University of Miyazaki Exchange are $10,400, plus Evergreen tuition expenses.

 

South Korea: Daejeon University Exchange : The exchange program with Daejeon University in Daejeon, South Korea is one of Evergreen’s newer partnerships. Students may choose to study Fall Semester (Sep-Dec) or Spring Semester (Mar-June) or for the entire Academic Year. Students typically focus on Korean language and cultural studies through the Korean Language Education Center, but other options include participation in the ASEAN Exchange Program (with approval), or for students with sufficient Korean language skills, integration into on-going academic courses, again, with approval. The university has about 12,000 students and nearly 600 faculty and staff, seven undergraduate schools with 50 majors, three graduate schools, research centers and more. For more information in English, see this link: http://www.dju.ac.kr/foreign/eng/html/main.htm

As with all exchange programs, Evergreen students continue to pay their home tuition rate to Evergreen and will receive a tuition waiver at the host university. However, students will be responsible for all other travel and living expenses, as well as certain fees that may be assessed by the host institution. Estimated costs for an academic year on the Daejeon University Exchange are $8,700, plus Evergreen tuition expenses.

Study abroad:

Destination and duration vary. There is a $100 non-refundable fee for administrative costs.

Variable
Variable credit.
See below for more info.
Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 0
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Located in: Olympia

Sustainability Accounting: Can Accountants Make the Planet Safer?

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 25
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Jon Baumunk
environmental studies and business

What is sustainability accounting? This emerging field extends accounting beyond just economic performance. It may include a whole range of issues, including environmental impact, labor practices, product responsibility, human rights, and community involvement. Today's world has increasingly complex and serious environmental and social issues. Business managers of today need to respond to regulatory requirements as well as demands for social responsibility.

Contemporary accounting information systems will need to contribute to solving environmental and social problems through enhanced disclosure and credibility. Sustainability accounting provides a framework for developing measures of environmental and social performance, assessing their reliability, assisting business managers in strategic and operational decisions that affect risks and costs, and reporting results to various stakeholders.

This program will provide students with a comprehensive overview of sustainability accounting in business organizations, with a focus on accountability, accounting, and reporting within mandatory (e.g., Securities and Exchange Commission filings) and voluntary (e.g., free-standing sustainability reports) frameworks.  Students will examine triple bottom line reporting, which highlights the economic, environmental, and social performance of an organization.  Students will learn how sustainability issues are identified; how their economic, environmental, and social effects are measured; and how these impacts are communicated to external stakeholders.  In addition, students will examine the sustainability reporting process, regulation of sustainability reporting, and the role of third-party verification in providing external assurance of sustainability reports.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

various career paths within accounting and other business careers

16

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Prerequisites:

A general knowledge of the underlying theory and application of financial and managerial accounting concepts. Students who have taken programs such as Business Entrepreneurship Fundamentals or Financial Heartland, or college-level financial and/or managerial accounting, will be well prepared for this program. Familiarity with Microsoft Excel or other spreadsheet software is recommended.

Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 25
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, April 1, 2019 - 9:00 am
SEM 2 D2105 - Workshop

Located in: Olympia

Symbiosis

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 50
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Calabria, Lalita square
botany, phytochemistry, systematics
2019-Thuesen,-Erik-4-square
marine science, zoology, ecophysiology

Symbiosis can be defined as "the living together of differently named organisms". This upper-division science program will look at the biology, ecology and physiology of symbiotic associations through lectures, readings, laboratory, fieldwork, and seminar topics taken from the primary scientific literature. We will explore the defining aspects of mutualistic symbioses including plant-animal, fungus-plant, animal-animal, bacteria-plant, bacteria-animal, and protozoa-animal symbioses at the organismal, physiological, cellular, biochemical, molecular, and ecological levels. We will also examine parasitic symbioses. We will investigate the characteristics that define the integration between the host and symbiont of specific associations through hands-on fieldwork and experimental laboratory sessions. A multi-day field trip to Sun Lakes-Dry Falls State Park in eastern Washington will provide students with an opportunity to examine and compare symbioses between different Pacific Northwest ecosystems and to gain skills in field data collection. Laboratories will include experimental work such as determining plant host specificity of nodule-forming bacteria, examination of the contribution of zooxanthellae to animal respiration in marine invertebrates, and molecular determination of symbiont identity in lichens using DNA barcoding techniques. Students will develop scientific communication and research skills including maintenance of a lab notebook, writing of lab reports based on multi-week experiments and oral presentations. Student learning will be assessed based on the quality and completeness of written work and oral presentations, weekly quizzes and a cumulative take-home examination.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

the life sciences.

16

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

Two quarters of college chemistry with labs and two quarters of college biology with labs are required. These prerequisites will be verified the first day of class. 

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

$290 for an overnight field trip to Sun Lakes-Dry Falls State Park.

Upper division science credit:

Up to 16 upper division science credits will be awarded in symbiosis, symbiosis seminar, ecological physiology, and symbiosis laboratory.

Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 50
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 10:00 am
SEM 2 E1107 - Workshop

Located in: Olympia

Teaching English Language Learners: Culture, Theory, and Methods

FallWinter
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 50
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Huerta-Grace
educational policy studies, qualitative research methods
2019-Morales,-Maria-4-square
latinx studies, cultural studies, education

In this program we will explore the role of family and community in language acquisition and identity formation among K-adult English Language Learners (ELLs). We will examine how certain contextual factors such 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 study language acquisition theory, teaching methods, curriculum design, and implementation of theory to instructional practice relevant to Washington K-12 English Language Development standards as well as TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) standards for adult ELLs in local and international settings.

These ELL concepts will be analyzed through readings, group collaboration, workshops, student-led seminars, lectures, and multimedia/video. Students will lead discussions, complete reflective writing activities, conduct teaching demonstrations, and create a community ethnography project. Writing and research workshops will also be a focus of this program.

In fall the program will survey the history of second language education in the U.S., while introducing central issues in language acquisition research. We will also discuss the role of dominant and minority communities and culture in identity formation of English language learners, their lived experiences, and how knowledge of both family and community can inform school policies, curriculum, and instruction. We will begin our research and tutoring activities in local K-12 settings.

In winter the program will focus on study of language as a system with an emphasis on linguistic, literacy, and content-area K-adult instructional strategies. Among 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 continue our K-12 ELL tutoring practices in the local schools with an emphasis on content-area instruction and academic-language development.

Reading topics will include the history of ESL/bilingual education, immigrant learners in the public schools, introduction to ESL/ELL teaching methods, language acquisition theory, literacy and linguistics for ELLs, assessment, sheltered instruction, as well as the practice of culturally relevant pedagogy.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

K-12 teacher preparation (Masters in Teaching) and ESL/ELL state endorsement, cross-cultural/international teaching of ESL K-12 and adults, and adult ELL literacy instruction in community-based organizations. This program fulfills K-12 ELL teaching endorsement equivalencies in literacy, language acquisition theory, linguistics for educators, multicultural education, ELL methods & program models, ELL assessment, practicum and qualitative research methods.

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Fees:

$50 in winter for entrance fees for museum and film admissions.

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 50
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, January 7, 2019 - 10:00 am
SEM 2 C4107 - Workshop

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-11-08Winter fees reduced to $50 and will be used for museum and film admissions
2018-08-07Removed ALL fees for Fall
2018-07-24Fall fee reduced to $250 (was $400)

Teaching through Performance

FallWinter
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 50
50% Reserved for Freshmen
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Arun Chandra
music composition, performance
Elizabeth Williamson
English literature, theater studies

Our program is focused on some of the historical events not often taught in high school classrooms. We are particularly interested in the decades between 1920 and 1960, which saw the suppression of unionism, the rise of both the American Communist Party and the American Nazi party, the beginnings of the Civil Rights movement(s) during the many anti-lynching demonstrations, the invention of propaganda as a means for social control, anti-hydrogen bomb demonstrations, the empowerment of women during World War II, and the McCarthy trials during the late 1940s and 1950s. These were all precursurs to the rebellions of the 1960s, rooted in the activism of these earlier times.

We will study this time period using texts such as Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, and others. Each quarter students will be asked to write a research paper on a subject of interest to them from this time period. From these papers, groups of students will work together to write a script (involving both theater and music) that attempts to teach to an audience what the creators learned of this period in American history. These performances will then be given for our class (during the first quarter) and then at local high schools (during the second quarter). Alongside our historical work, we will study plays and operas that provide different models of how to represent social problems.

Our program will attempt to make a strong link between the intellectual study of a subject and its realization as a musical/theatrical project; the purpose of these research-based projects is the creation of an art that attempts to teach what the teachers have learned. In other words: We believe that our research is a key component of our creativity. Students should expect to devote about half of their time to analytical work (library research and writing) and the other half to composition and rehearsal. Students should also be prepared to engage in thoughtful and occasionally challenging conversations about issues of identity, particularly around race and class.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

education, theater/performance studies, and community organizing.

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

$50 per quarter for performance tickets.

Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 50
50% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, January 7, 2019 - 10:00 am
Com 110 - Perf and Prod Studio

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-12-03Seats adjusted to 50 with opening of enrollment to Fr-Sr
2018-11-26enrollment opened to Fr-SR
2018-09-07Ben Kapp added to the teaching team
2018-04-23Fee increased (from $40 to $50).

Teachings of the Tree People: Culture Matters

FallWinterSpring
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 63
25% Reserved for Freshmen
16Variable
Credits per quarter
Variable Credit Options Available

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Taught by

Rebecca Chamberlain
literature, writing, storytelling
Gary Peterson
social work
education, Native American studies, political science

This program is intended for students committed to environmental stewardship; understanding the laws, policies, and lived experiences of American Indians; and identifying ways to create a sustainable Earth. As we work to understand the past, act in the present, and develop a vision for the future, we will draw upon the works of diverse cultural leaders, scholars, writers, and artists. We will ask: How do we cultivate creativity and resiliency in times of transformation and change? Once thriving communities and ecosystems have been disrupted, how can cultural patterns based on diversity, reciprocity, and respect be restored?

As we explore multiple ways American Indian culture matters, we will pose essential questions to understand the current state of the world, and how to survive as individuals and as peoples. We will study world history, U.S. history, and regional histories in terms of the doctrine of discovery, sovereignty, self-governance, land and economics, education and socialization of children, and liberation theory. We will learn from tribal and community members as we study local history, natural history, salmon enhancement, water resources, environmental and social justice, and traditional arts. A diversity education model is central to this program, as we explore issues of cultural diversity within the context of Native American studies.

Each quarter we will investigate a new theme and participate in community events based on sustainable relationships between people and place. In the fall theme, River of Culture: History Template, we will highlight laws and policies that affect the lived experience of American Indians and Indigenous peoples. We will explore the role of ancestral wisdom, language, story, and the arts to make meaning and create community. In the winter theme, Creating a Sustainable Earth, we will investigate current events and explore relationships between cultural teachings, creative practices, diverse education models, scientific knowledge, and ecological understanding. We will conduct interviews and explore case studies. In the spring theme, Wisdom and the Future: Gathering Camas and Braiding Sweetgrass, we will explore cultural knowledge, ecological and social justice, and develop a vision and action plan for the future.

Students will learn to conduct ethnographic interviews, oral histories, and community action fieldwork to highlight personal and biographical stories. They will develop reciprocal relationships in the community as they interview tribal leaders, activists, government officials, and others. Responding to essential questions and issues that continue to deprive American Indians of land, economic opportunities, treaty rights, natural resources, religious freedom, access to and protection for sacred places, they will look at the history behind current headlines and political policies and track contemporary resistance and phenomenon like DAPL (Dakota Access Pipeline)/Standing Rock. Students will learn about the importance of language and oral history; write personal, biographical, and expository essays and articles; participate in collaborative presentations and projects; read a variety of texts; watch films and documentaries that tell stories of how culture matters in a personal way; and participate in experiential workshops based on culture, education, and the arts, native flora, fauna, and foods, and connections between science, wisdom, and the future.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

education, social work, political science, writing, communications, visual arts, indigenous culture, history, community service, activism, law, ecology, sustainability and justice.

16Variable

Credits per quarter
Variable Credit Options Available

Variable Credit Options:

8-12 credit options available.

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

$100 per quarter for entrance fees to museums, cultural centers, required conferences, and supplies.

Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 63
25% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, April 1, 2019 - 9:00 am
LONGHOUSE 1007B - Workshop

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-07-25Change in program title

Team Entrepreneurship, Leadership and Innovation: MTA Evergreen LEINN Change Maker Lab

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Dion Gouws square
strategic planning, business management and entrepreneurship, accounting

“The world has not been given to us to contemplate but to transform and we do it as team-entrepreneurs learning by creating in teams”

Now you have the opportunity to become a team-entrepreneur and experiment the magic of LEINN and Mondragon Team Academy’s (MTA World) “ team learning by creating ”.

This program is designed around a set of unique ingredients that seek to promote and empower the entrepreneurial spirit of its participants. It offers a time and space for people from all around the world to work on real projects together thanks to the presence of exchange team-entrepreneurs from MTA’s LEINN International, features a faculty team that combines Evergreen’s knowledge and understanding of local realities with Mondragon’s experience, and introduces tools and resources to support the development of entrepreneurial foundations.

Team-entrepreneurs will attend seminars, learning modules, lunchtime speaking events, field trips, guest lectures and team activities. As a participant, one may supplement knowledge by attending certain supplemental workshops and lectures. There will also be some opportunities for optional international and local travel.

Topics covered in learning modules will include for example: Accounting Record Keeping; Internet Marketing, Cloud Computing and Search Engine Optimization; Business and Corporate Law; Income Tax, Retirement and Fringe Benefit Planning; Graphic Design and Branding.

The program has been designed by a shared team of faculty members from MTA Travelling University & The Evergreen State College. Thanks to this strategic collaboration, it is the first time that students from the United States will experiment Mondragon Team Academy’s methods.

Mondragon Team Academy (MTA World) is a global community of social innovation ecosystem labs using the Mondragon’s Worker Cooperative Experience roots & TiimiAkatemia’s Finnish Educational methods.

MTA was created in 2008 to rebirth and transfer the team-entrepreneurial spirit and creating capacity of Mondragon by developing an open and international community of team-entrepreneurs co-operating on a multi-generational, multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary level worldwide.

As of January 2019, MTA is an international community of 1,547 team-entrepreneurs " team learning by creating " in 11 MTA Labs where MTA programs run: Irun-San Sebastian, Onati (Mondragon Valley), Madrid, Bilbao, Barcelona, Valencia, Maastrich (Netherlands), Shanghai (China), Pune (India), Queretaro & Puebla (Mexico), Seoul (South Korea).

Faculty Members and Roles: 

  • Dion Gouws                   Evergreen Faculty                       MTA Evergreen Team Coach   
  • Yujiao Xia                      MTA China, Visiting Faculty          LEINN International Team Coach
  • Jose Maria Luzarraga      MTA World, Visiting faculty          Program Coordinator
  • Petra Arbayo                  Evergreen Senior                       MTA Evergreen Assistant Team Coach
  • Christopher Kai               Evergreen Senior                      MTA Evergreen Assistant Team Coach
  • Martin Fe de Labastida    LEINN International                   MTA Assistant Team Coach
  • Rhian Peterman              Evergreen Staff                         MTA Evergreen Assistant Team Coach
  • Ane Beitia Salaberria       LEINN International                   MTA Assistant Team Coach
  • Nataly Salguero              Evergreen Staff                         MTA Evergreen Assistant Team

For detailed information about the faculty members, read more at  https://sites.evergreen.edu/entrepreneurship/teamentrepreneurs/

 

*This program has an optional continuing component in summer quarter. See the catalog listing ( https://my.evergreen.edu/offerings/edit/22906 ) for registration information*

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Entrepreneurship and Management, Management Consulting, Marketing, Organizational Leadership, Human Resource Management, Team Leadership and Change Management

16

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

Students will have completed introductory entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial endeavors, Financial Heartland, Business Fundamentals or other programs where business plans were developed. Students that own Not for Profit organizations or existing Businesses may also apply.

Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Special expenses:

$70 for for incorporation fees. Students are responsible for their own travel and any activities related to the development of their business over the course of this program.

Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 9:00 am
SEM 2 C4107 - Workshop

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2019-03-13Yujiao Xia added to faculty team
2019-03-08Special Fees added

The Age of Irony: U.S. History in the 20th Century

FallWinterSpring
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 34
12
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Susan Preciso
English literature
Sara Ryan
labor studies/history, industrial relations

Irony describes the emotion, whatever it is, occasioned by perceiving some great gulf, half-comic, half-tragic, between what one expects and what one finds . — Paul Fussell, My War: How I got irony in the infantry

We will frame this study of 20th Century American history, literature, and culture by looking at the ways that the U.S. emerged as a global power and the social movements that shaped the nation at home. The whole century presented a “great gulf” between what Americans expected at the beginning of the century and the reality that we found by century's end. Building on our earlier studies of  WWI, and WWII, progressivism, and the civil rights movement, we will focus during spring quarter on the history of the Vietnam War and its “wartime” and on second wave feminism. The historical context will inform our understanding of American cultural artifacts, including novels, poetry, and films.  

We will think historically about a variety of topics and learn to  do  history by practicing historical research, analysis, and interpretation, culminating in students' own projects. Students may write articles based on their research and publish them in a program web-zine or may undertake a creative project connected to our historical studies. 

All students will participate in an online, real time, text based seminar each week. The online component will require approximately 4 hours of work each week.

Our Spring reading will include bell  hooks’  Feminist Theory: from Margin to Center , Vietnam and America: The Most Comprehensive Documented History of the Vietnam War , Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse
Five,
and Sigrid Nuñez’ A Feather on the Breath of God.

This is an all-level program, ideal for returning and transfer students, especially those pursuing the Upside Down program. It is a broad liberal arts program designed for students who want to improve their historical knowledge, research skills, and (multi)cultural literacy.

Anticipated credit equivalencies include American history, American literature, cultural studies, and research and writing.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

teaching, public policy and administration, and advanced studies in humanities.

12

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers 25 - 49% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Fees:

$15 fee per quarter for entrance fees.

Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 34
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Wednesday, April 3, 2019 - 6:00 pm
SEM 2 D2105 - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

Wednesdays, 6-9:30 and five Saturdays per quarter, 10a-5p, plus 4 hours online weekly. Fall quarter Saturday s: October 6, Oct 20, November 3, November 17, and December 1

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2019-02-25Description Updated
2018-11-19Description Updated

The Authentic Self: Becoming an Instrument of Change

FallWinterSpring
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Weekend
Weekend
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 50
812
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Marcella Benson-Quaziena
human and organizational systems
Marla Elliot
performance, voice, community studies

You are the most powerful and versatile tool you have. Do you know who are you and what you stand for?  Is that who you want to be? How can you use your presence as an instrument of change? How do you know what you evoke/provoke in others?  How do you move in the world with awareness of your authentic self? The ability to communicate and influence is crucial to our effectiveness as we move through many systems.  This program is designed for students who want to develop skills of self-knowledge and “use of self” as an instrument of social change.

Students will be asked to develop goals for using their learning in their own work or life settings and to examine how we internalize our theories of influence into our stance as agents of change.  There will be opportunities to show our individual presence and to experience the impact of that presence on others.  Together these art forms facilitate both self-knowledge and social change. By combining theory and practice, students in The Authentic Self will develop powerful skills in communications, empathy, and group dynamics.

Fall Quarter

We will use acting to assist us to observe carefully the nature of human feeling and interaction, and to use our observations to create insight in our audiences and ourselves; singing to make art out of breathing, to literally tune ourselves to the subtlest vibrations our bodies are capable of; songwriting to imagine words, rhythm, and melody together and to put forth our imaginations into public space; and human development theory to give us a frame for understanding self in context.

Winter Quarter

We will focus on how we present our authentic selves to the outside world. We will use maskmaking, performance work, and presentation skills to explore exterior expressions of our interior selves. A major focus of this quarter will be to explore how we use ourselves to influence change.

Spring Quarter

We will focus on two person and dyadic systems as we assess ourselves in intimate communities. How do we form and sustain primary relationships?  How do we take care of each other? How do we connect in friendships, relationships and colleagueship?  At the interpersonal level of system, boundaries are drawn between pairs: individual/individual, individual/subgroup, and individual/group. The goal of work at this level is to clarify the nature of the boundary, to understand the boundary between self and other, to define how often and with whom interaction takes place, and to notice how exchanges of influence and information occur across that boundary.

*Spring quarter students taking the program for 12 credits will engage in an additional 4 credit project related to working with dyadic systems. The project will include a research paper and a creative project using performing, media, and/or visual arts. 

Possible Texts:

Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly.  Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience.   1991: HarperCollins; ISBN: 0060920432

Gergen, K. (2009) The Relational being: Beyond self and community . Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN: 0195305388

Smith, Anna Deavere. Twilight: Los Angeles . 1994: Anchor; ISBN: 0385473761

Sotomayor, Sonya. (2013) My Beloved World . Vintage. ISBN: 9780345804839   

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Psychology and social work; visual and performing arts

812

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers 25 - 49% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Fees:

Fall: $35 for theatre tickets

Winter: $15 for art supplies

Spring: $10 for theatre tickets

Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 50
Weekend

Scheduled for: Weekend

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Saturday, April 6, 2019 - 10:00 am
SEM 2 B2105 - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

Alternating Saturday and Sundays 9a-5p. Fall quarter dates: Sept 29, Oct 13/14, Nov 3/4, and Dec 1/2. 

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-08-15Student fee has been changed- now $35 in Fall (was $12)

The Burden of Representation: Photography and What We Show

FallWinter
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 22
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

photography

We make and consume photographic images in an infinite loop. In images, we make what we have already seen. By and large, what we have seen in images is predicated upon a lineage of representation that extends far beyond the 19th century development of photography. However, for the purposes and focus of this program, we will look especially close at the histories of representation in photographic images starting in Europe and the U.S. during the middle of the 19th century, when superstition, science (pseudo and otherwise), commerce, sexuality and race formed an immutable new form of "drawing" that was as full of treachery as it was full of promise. Modern means of photographic image production differ from photography's earliest forms in terms of material and time but our current methods of making photographs are as problematic and promising as ever.

This intermediate to advanced photography program will ask students to consider the broader implications of what we show in photographs and how we show those things. The program will be a substantially broad platform from which students can operate formally and conceptually. Both film and digital formats will be available (but neither required) for students to use. This includes all black and white and color darkroom work, as well as digital editing and printing. Students will be required to produce several bodies of images during each quarter and present those images at class critiques.

The program will require rigor on the part of students in both the conceptualization and execution of their images. For fall quarter, students will be expected to come to the program with considerable knowledge of basic camera, darkroom and digital editing skills. However, students will also have the opportunity to learn and explore any number of new processes that may prove important to their work. In fact, students will be encouraged to explore and experiment with ideas and processes that are outside their current field of knowledge. Students will be coming into the program at a variety of different experience levels and students can expect to have the ability to pursue their work at their individual level.  

During winter quarter, students can expect to build on learned skills from fall quarter as well as be introduced to new processes and materials as needed on a student by student basis.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

photography and visual arts.

16

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

Previous experience in using SLR cameras in either film or digital formats. Students must also have experience with color and/or black and white darkrooms as well as basic digital editing experience, such as Photoshop or Lightroom.

Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Special expenses:

Students can expect to spend $200-300 per quarter on materials.

Fees:

$60 per quarter for entrance fees.

Internship Opportunities:

Internship position for each quarter. Intern will help with student needs in DIS, darkrooms, lighting studio, critiques and in student work documentation. 

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 22
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, January 7, 2019 - 9:00 am
LIB 1326 - Workshop

Located in: Olympia

The Essential Ingredients of Intercultural Competence

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
25% Reserved for Freshmen
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Cynthia Kennedy
leadership

This one-quarter, all-level program is designed to expand the worldviews of both Evergreen students and Korean students from Daejeon University, in South Korea. The program’s study of cultural competence will include small intercultural group work that will ask students to examine multiple identity formation, privilege and oppression, thinking patterns, styles of intrapersonal and interpersonal communication, and dialogical and dialectical discourse.

Students will explore how familial, communal, institutional, and cultural spheres of influence construction of self and others through introspective writing to specific questions.  This introspective writing, when written without censoring, will lead students to access their ingrained values and beliefs.  Students will learn how these ingrained values and beliefs manifest in their interpersonal and intrapersonal relationships (e.g., ethnocentrism, implicit biases, ingroup favoritism, etc.). Mindfulness activities (e.g., calligraphy, mind-body connection activities), program content-based workshops, and community service learning will enable students to build trust and learn to work collaboratively despite cultural differences.

Weekly in-depth processing of program content in small groups, creative project responses to seminar readings, uncensored writings, and weekly consciousness logs will facilitate development of qualitative, reflective, analytical, and creative modes of inquiry. Seminar response essays and giving and receiving peer feedback on the integration essays will foster integrative, independent, and critical thinking.

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

$30 for entrance fee at Mt. Rainier 

Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
25% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, April 1, 2019 - 9:00 am
Com 110 - Perf and Prod Studio

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2019-03-08a fee of $30 added

The Evergreen Singers

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 50
2
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Marla Elliot
performance, voice, community studies

No auditions are needed for this continuing singing ensemble.  We learn the basics of good voice production and master songs from a wide range of musical idioms. Members of the Evergreen Singers should be able to carry a tune, learn their parts, and sing their parts with their section.  This class requires excellent attendance and basic musicianship skills. Credit will be awarded in Chorus. 

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Music

2

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 50
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - 6:00 pm
Com 117 - Music Rehearsal

Advertised schedule:

Tuesday 6-7:50pm

Located in: Olympia

The Evergreen Singers

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 50
2
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Marla Elliot
performance, voice, community studies

No auditions are needed for this continuing singing ensemble.  We learn the basics of good voice production and master songs from a wide range of musical idioms. Each year in winter quarter, members of the Evergreen Singers learn American traditional Shape-Note Singing from The Sacred Harp , attend the Pacific Northwest Sacred Harp Convention, and in turn produce the annual Olympia All-Day Singing event.  Singers should be able to carry a tune  and sing in parts.   This class requires excellent attendance and basic musicianship skills. Credit will be awarded in Chorus. 

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Music

2

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 50
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - 6:00 pm
Com 117 - Music Rehearsal

Advertised schedule:

Tuesday 6-8pm

Located in: Olympia

The Evergreen Singers

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 50
2
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Marla Elliot
performance, voice, community studies

No auditions are needed for this continuing singing ensemble.  We learn the basics of good voice production and master songs from a wide range of musical idioms. Members of the Evergreen Singers should be able to carry a tune, learn their parts, and sing their parts with their section.  This class requires excellent attendance and basic musicianship skills. Credit will be awarded in Chorus. 

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Music

2

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 50
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 6:00 pm
Com 117 - Music Rehearsal

Advertised schedule:

Tuesday 6-8pm

Located in: Olympia

The Fungal Kingdom

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 50
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Calabria, Lalita square
botany, phytochemistry, systematics
Paul Przybylowicz
ecology, biology, mycology

From mushrooms, antibiotics, and high-fructose corn syrup to yeasts, “acid-washed” jeans, and bioremediation, humans have been using fungi for thousands of years. Fungi play fundamental roles in terrestrial ecosystems as recyclers of organic matter and as partners with plants and algae to form mycorrhizae and lichens. This upper-level program will focus on understanding these unique and pivotal organisms through exploring the taxonomy, ecology, biology, and physiology of fungi and lichens.

Our program time will consist of fieldwork, laboratory work, lectures, workshops, and seminars. We will take one-day field trips and two multi-day field trips. There will be an emphasis on learning relevant field methods to assess biodiversity of lichens and fungi, along with developing laboratory skills to identify lichens and fungi using microscopic, chemical and genetic techniques.

We will expect students to research topics in the primary scientific literature and to summarize and share their findings with the entire class. Students will have opportunities for independent directed work, both individually and in small groups. Students will also have the chance to further their skills in technical writing, library research, critical thinking, and public presentations. Credit equivalencies for the program include mycology, lichenology, lichen taxonomy, fungal taxonomy, and scientific writing.

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.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

ecology, biology, natural history, education, and environmental studies.

16

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

8 credits of general biology and 4 credits of ecology/natural history.

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

$450 for multi-day field trips.

Upper division science credit:

Up to 16 credits of upper-division science may be earned by students who successfully meet all the program learning objectives.

Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 50
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, September 24, 2018 - 9:00 am
SEM 2 B1107 - Workshop

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-08-30Fee changed from $420 to $450
2018-02-21Fee increased (from $385 to $420).

The German Program: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Cultural Studies, and Social Psychology

FallWinterSpring
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Spring 2019
OlympiaStudy Abroad
Olympia +
study abroad option
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 75
25% Reserved for Freshmen
41216
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

social psychology, gender and women's studies
Kathleen Eamon
aesthetics and philosophy, critical theory, psychoanalysis
Vuslat Katsanis
writing, comparative literature, film and visual culture

This interdisciplinary program will integrate materials from German studies with philosophy, cultural studies, social psychology and psychoanalysis. We will investigate the foundations of humanism in German thought; questions about the emergence of capital, industry, and the German nation-state in Europe; the notion of the modern individual in morality and ethics; the rise of fascism (both in the early 20th century and in its 21st century guises); the debates surrounding national community and multiculturalism during the German reconstruction after WWII; the so-called Turkish turn in German studies; and the social psychology of the individual (or self) within social context. All students in the program will study the German language and many of our texts within philosophy will come from German-speaking authors such as Kant, Hegel, Marx, Freud, Adorno, Lewin, and Buber. In addition to these texts, the program will introduce students to a wide variety of film, literature, and visual and cultural productions from and about Germany.

In fall (taught by Kathleen Eamon, Laura Citrin, Marianne Hoepli and Lynarra Featherly), our philosophical focus will be on the emergence of individualism in Kantian philosophy and Hegel’s radically historical and social rethinking about what it is to be a human, followed by Marx and Freud’s respective responses. Those historical anchors will be paired with reading the classic works in social psychology, a subfield of psychology that was largely developed by Kurt Lewin, a German Jew who fled Hitler’s Germany in the 1930s for the U.S. Early social psychological research focused on the relationship between the mass and the individual, asking questions about conformity, obedience to authority, groupthink, cognitive dissonance, persuasion, social judgment, stereotyping, stigma, and prejudice. Students will apply their understanding of these topics to view and assess a range of cultural productions, including early experiments in narrative film (from the silent era through the end of WWII), the German Expressionist tradition in art, and the Frankfurt School of critical theory. This quarter will provide the theoretical foundation in an interdisciplinary context the winter and spring work.

In winter (taught by Kathleen Eamon, Laura Citrin, Marianne Hoepli and Vuslat Katsanis), our philosophical focus will shift to an examination of critical theory and translation studies, focusing on German-Jewish and German-Turkish studies. Beginning with New German Cinema and the efforts of Fassbinder, Kluge, Herzog, and others, we will examine the slow move to untangle the national community from the heimat tradition. We will then study the literary and artistic experiments in a multicultural Germany through the works of Turkish-German filmmakers, artists, and intellectuals. Our social psychological work will move toward investigating the social psychology of the Holocaust, examining the key questions about human nature that the Third Reich and the Shoah (or Holocaust) raised. We will look to the role of Jewish thinkers and writers in the German cultural context, as well as theoretical, experiential, and fictional attempts to understand the Shoah. A special focus will be on the work of Primo Levi, an Italian Jewish Holocaust survivor, whose work we will read and unpack to understand issues of German shame and guilt, highly social and moralizing emotions, through a social psychological lens. We will then turn to both primary and secondary work from and on contemporary German-Turkish authors and cultural influences.

Spring quarter offers two unique options, taught by Kathleen Eamon in Berlin or Vuslat Katsanis on-campus in Olympia. Students who elect to continue in the program through study abroad, will travel to Berlin (with excursions to surrounding German-speaking areas) for nine weeks of study abroad and language study. There they will continue to engage these lines of study, with an additional emphasis on Germany’s memorial culture, its emerging multiculturalism and contemporary politics, as well as Berlin’s unparalleled art, music, drama, and architecture. The trip will include a weekend in Prague and a final two weeks of independent travel according to students’ choice.  Note: students enrolled in the fall quarter Nietzsche program who also study German language will be eligible to join this program in the winter and spring quarters and to join us for study abroad in the spring to Berlin. Students who elect to continue the program on-campus will work on a final self-designed research and/or creative project that incorporates aspects of the program’s cultural studies emphasis. The project will develop through a series of faculty and student driven workshops, critique sessions, and will conclude in a final exhibition of work. The quarter will also include seminars, art lectures, and one or two day trips to nearby cultural events 

Students interested in the German language portion of this program may register for 4 credits during fall and winter quarters. Students who register for 12-credits will not take the language component.

Study abroad:

This is an option for students in the Spring quarter. All questions regarding payment should be directed to the teaching faculty of this program.

1.            Special Expenses: $3,742   (Estimated expenses students will cover themselves)

2.            Required Student Fee:  $4,800   (Fee covers group expenses for services organized by college)

3.            Administrative Fee:   $400 (Nonrefundable deposit to cover administrative costs of running study abroad)

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

psychology, the humanities, and international studies.

41216

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

$90 in fall and winter for museums and events.

Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 75
25% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, April 1, 2019 - 10:00 am
Com 308 - Media Classroom

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2019-04-05variable CRN added
2019-01-29Marianne Hoepli added to Spring teaching team
2018-11-14Spring description updated
2018-08-21Enrollment restrictions updated for Winter and Spring quarters
2018-08-20added Lynarra Featherly to teaching team
2018-08-14Description updated to reflect faculty teaching per quarter
2018-05-16additional credit options added (4, 12 or 16).
2018-03-14This program is now open to students of all levels.
2017-11-16Vuslat Katsanis joined the teaching team.

The Making of Global Capitalism, 1500-1914

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 25
16
Credits per quarter

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Working together primarily in a seminar format, students and faculty will establish a historical, theoretical, and analytical understanding of the birth of capitalism in the crisis of 16th century European feudalism, its rise and consolidation in the late 18th and 19th centuries, the development of the global political economy, and its first systemic crisis accompanied by a major burst of imperial expansion in the late 19th century. We will find this topic to be steeped in controversy.

Capitalism has transformed the world materially, socially, and ecologically. We will consider the interrelationships among these three categories as capitalism developed and changed through its formative period. Major analytical categories will be imperialism, colonialism, and globalism, the accompanying ecological transformations, and the rise of social classes in support of, and resistance to, these developments. We will study the rise of liberalism in its historical context as well as its counterparts, conservatism and socialism. Understanding the trajectory, deep history, and logic of historical capitalism will provide students the insights and tools necessary to assess the current historical moment.

The program will require close and careful reading and discussion as well as considered and well-grounded writing. Our work will be conducted at an upper-division level, so students should have significant experience in close analytical reading, critical thinking, and research writing.

As this is an integrated program, it is expected that students will receive a full 16 credits, and they should register with that intent. In some cases, the research component may not be completed, resulting in 12 credits. Several areas in which credit equivalencies are expected to be awarded are political economy of historical capitalism, historical sociology, and conceptualizing historical research.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

history, political economy, political science, historical sociology, graduate school, and informed citizenship.

16

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

Students should have previous experience with college-level work in history and political economy.  Students must have well-developed skills in close analytical reading, critical thinking, and research writing.

Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 25
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - 9:00 am
SEM 2 B3107 - Seminar

Located in: Olympia

The Practice of Writing

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
25% Reserved for Freshmen
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Steve Blakeslee
English, writing, literature

This course will give students a broad overview of prose writing and help them to broaden, deepen, and improve their own writing practice. We will explore every element of the writing process, learning to brainstorm, structure, draft, critique, rewrite, polish, share, and reflect. The course will also address key principles of good writing, challenges like procrastination and writer’s block, and ways to develop productive writing routines.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

... everything

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
25% Reserved for Freshmen
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Thursday, January 10, 2019 - 5:30 pm
SEM 2 B2107 - Seminar

Advertised schedule:

Thu 5:30-9:00pm

Located in: Olympia

The Spanish-Speaking World: Cultural Crossings

FallWinterSpring
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Spring 2019
OlympiaStudy Abroad
Olympia +
study abroad option
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 50
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Alice Nelson headshot.
Spanish language, Latin American studies
Catalina Ocampo
Spanish language, Latin American literature
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Spanish Language

Spain and Latin America share not only the Spanish language, but also an intertwined history arising from dynamic, sometimes violent encounters, shaped by uneven power relationships and vibrant resistance. In this program, students will engage in intensive language study and explore cultural production by Spaniards and Latin Americans in historical context. Each week includes seminars on readings in English, Spanish language classes, a lecture or workshop in Spanish, and a film. Writing assignments include seminar responses, synthesis essays, and some creative work. Note: Spanish language classes are integrated into the program—students do not have to register for them separately. We welcome students with any level of Spanish, from beginner to advanced. Fall quarter (taught by Alice Nelson, Catalina Ocampo, Eli Velasquez-Estrada, and Ethan Rogol) will explore cultural crossings in the Spanish-speaking world before the 20th century and examine cross-linguistic and cross-cultural negotiation. We will study the coexistence of Jews, Christians, and Muslims in medieval Spain and the suppression of Jewish and Muslim communities during the Spanish Inquisition. We will focus on encounters and clashes between Indigenous and European cultures after the arrival of Europeans on the American continent, and resistance by Africans forcibly brought to the Americas as slaves. Finally, we will turn to Latin America's struggles for independence and analyze to what extent they changed or reproduced colonial institutions.Winter quarter (taught by Alice Nelson, Catalina Ocampo, Eli Velasquez-Estrada, and Ethan Rogol) will turn to the 20th and 21st centuries, considering multiple perspectives on iconic historical and cultural events. We will compare the experiences of Spaniards in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War with Chile’s democratization in the wake of the Pinochet dictatorship. We will examine the roles of cultural forms for posing complex questions about collective memory and self-determination. Another issue is the status of Spanish vis-à-vis local languages in Spain and Latin America, as societies continue to grapple with the linguistic legacy of colonization. We will also explore how, as a result of sometimes-violent displacements and globalization, migrants from across the Americas have developed complex border cultures. In each of these situations, marginalized groups have challenged “the official story” and seized opportunities to create counter-narratives through literature and film. In winter students may choose between a research project and community work. The research option allows students to investigate an area of interest, preferably connected to their spring quarter plans. The community work is intended to build cross-cultural skills. Spring quarter (taught by Alice Nelson, Catalina Ocampo, and Eli Velasquez-Estrada) offers two options for study abroad, and an internship option for those who stay on campus. The Santo Tomás, Nicaragua, option is coordinated with the Thurston-Santo Tomás Sister County Association and its counterpart in Nicaragua and is open to four to eight intermediate/advanced language students. The Mérida, Mexico option is coordinated with HABLA Language and Culture Center, and is open to 15 or more students of all language levels. For students staying in Olympia, the program will have an on-campus core of Spanish classes and seminars focused on Latinx communities in the U.S. and the opportunity for student-originated projects and/or internships. All classes during spring quarter, in Olympia and abroad, will be conducted entirely in Spanish.

Study abroad:

1.            Special Expenses: ____   (Estimated expenses students will cover themselves

2.            Required Student Fee:  $4,900 (Mexico) & $3,800 (Nicaragua)   (Fee covers group expenses for services organized by college)

3.            Administrative Fee:   $400  (Nonrefundable deposit to cover administrative costs of running study abroad)

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Latin American and international studies, literary and cultural studies, Spanish language, politics, history, education, film studies, writing, and human and social services.

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

$150 per quarter for overnight field trips.

Internship Opportunities:

Students remaining on campus spring quarter may intern with organizations serving local Latinx communities. Students must complete an in-program Internship Learning Contract in consultation with the faculty and Academic Advising. Please go to Individual Study for more information.

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 50
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 9:00 am
SEM 2 D2107 - Seminar

Located in: Olympia

May be offered again in:

2020-2021

DateRevision
2018-11-30variable credit added
2018-09-19Elizabeth Velasquez-Estrada added to teaching team
2018-08-14description updated to reflect faculty teaching per quarter
2018-07-13Diego de Acosta has left the teaching team. Catalina Ocampo has joined the program.

Theme and Variations in Music and Biology

FallWinter
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 50
25% Reserved for Freshmen
16
Credits per quarter

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genetics, molecular biology

How do we define a theme? What counts as a variation? How does the creation of a piece of music parallel the evolution of a new biological form?

We will begin our study of music by considering components of sound, elements of music, and the ways that they are manipulated in the creation and performance of specific musical works. During fall quarter we will work to develop fluency with technical language, notation of music, and approaches to listening. As the program progresses we will move into an examination of formal structures, their variations, and impact on receivers and producers of sound. As music is ultimately an experiential art form, students will be expected to participate in singing, moving, and creation of music throughout the program.

Complementing our study of music, we take a biological approach to understanding how we perceive and respond to music. In fall, we focus on auditory perception and interpretation, beginning with brain anatomy, proceeding onto the logic of auditory processing, and concluding with an examination of the specialized neurons and molecules involved in transducing sound waves to electrical signals. In winter we play with the idea of mutation or variation, exploring how genetics can be used to dissect complex processes and provide an entry point for understanding how the symbols and notation of genetic language can encode components of the nervous system.

Throughout the program we turn to literature as a third strand, not only to study how music and biology are depicted in fiction, but also to examine how different works of literature offer imaginative variations on themes of nature or on other works of art. Authors that we read may include Richard Powers, Shirley Hazzard, Thomas Mann, Goethe, James Joyce, Michael Cunningham, E.M. Forster, Zadie Smith, and Haruki Murakami.

Program activities will include lectures, workshops, labs, field trips, and guest speakers. Student learning will be assessed by a program portfolio, writing assignments, performances, exams, and a lab notebook. Credits equivalencies may be awarded in music fundamentals, introductory biology, and writing and literature.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

biology, music, and performance

16

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

$30 per quarter for concert entrance fees.

Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 50
25% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, January 7, 2019 - 9:00 am
SEM 2 C1107 - Workshop

Located in: Olympia

Theories of Personality (A)

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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psychology

The major personality theorists will be presented sequentially within their cultural and historical contexts. This will provide the students with a broader understanding of the evolution of ideas concerning human nature. Exploration of theories will be limited to those that apply specifically to the practice of counseling. Attention will be paid to the interaction of the individual with the social milieu, the cultural biases within theory, and the effect of personal history on theoretical claims. This course is a core course, required for pursuit of graduate studies in psychology.

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - 6:00 pm
SEM 2 A2107 - Seminar

Advertised schedule:

Tuesdays, 6-10 pm

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-12-05(A) indicator added to title when second section of course added

Theories of Personality (B)

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

psychology

The major personality theorists will be presented sequentially within their cultural and historical contexts. This will provide the students with a broader understanding of the evolution of ideas concerning human nature. Exploration of theories will be limited to those that apply specifically to the practice of counseling. Attention will be paid to the interaction of the individual with the social milieu, the cultural biases within theory, and the effect of personal history on theoretical claims. This course is a core course, required for pursuit of graduate studies in psychology.

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, January 7, 2019 - 6:00 pm
SEM 2 A2107 - Seminar

Advertised schedule:

Mondays 6-10pm

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-12-05Second section of Theories of Personality added for winter quarter

Theory and Practice of Painting

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 25
16
Credits per quarter

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Osha-Shaw
visual arts, painting, drawing

This program offers both theory and practice around the value of painting as a vital medium in contemporary visual studies. Students can expect a rigorous curriculum that includes conceptual and technical skills in painting and drawing through instruction, assignments, critique, and an integrated overview of critical visual studies. The emphasis will be on thinking with the materiality of the medium of painting (its temporal, bodily, and formal attributes) in relation to its social, historical, and contemporary visual contexts that include current discourses around the complexities of representation. There will be lecture, reading, seminar, and writing along with studio production and critique. We will attend the Art Lecture Series where a range of interdisciplinary artists, writers, and scholars present their work, process, and research. Students can expect to gain aptitudes in visual literacy in regards to the interdependence of form and content, painting and drawing skills, a general understanding of art historical concepts in contemporary context, verbal critique, essay writing, and critical reasoning. There will be an overnight field trip to Seattle or Portland to visit artists' studios and museum and gallery exhibitions.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

visual and media arts, art history, visual studies, museum studies, media studies, humanities, and education.

16

Credits per quarter

Prerequisites:

Students must have both the academic breadth and depth to do advanced work in the arts. In addition to a broad liberal arts foundation, students must have some background in at least one of the following areas: media studies, visual art, art history, or visual studies. All students must be prepared to commit to a regular studio and research practice, collaborative as well as individual creative projects to work on college-level academic reading, writing, and critical-thinking skills.

Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Special expenses:

Expect to spend $150-$250 on painting supplies

Fees:

$270 for an overnight field trip to Seattle or Portland to visit artists' studios and museum and gallery exhibitions.

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 25
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, September 24, 2018 - 10:00 am
SEM 2 E4115 - Critique

Located in: Olympia

Time Past: Earth Processes and Human History

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 50
50% Reserved for Freshmen
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Krotscheck, Ulrike
classics, archaeology

Our understanding of the ancient past is based on physical evidence that has survived the destruction of time. Archaeologists and geologists strive to reconstruct the past with an incomplete record of artifacts and evidence from the rock record. Theories are developed, refined, or discarded as new evidence comes to light or analytical tools enable new information to be gleaned. Reinterpretation is an ongoing process and paradigm shifts are common.

This program will introduce students to the fundamentals and current theories of archaeology and geology, focusing on the deductive process that these disciplines employ and the interpretation of the evidence of past events. Geologic processes, particularly catastrophic events, have allowed the preservation of artifacts from past cultures, and past cultures have, in some cases, had a profound impact on the earth. Time will be a critical dimension in this program: hundreds, thousands, millions, and even billions of years ago.

Students will learn the methods and practices of archaeology, focusing on the history of the Pacific Northwest region. Data collection and analysis using quantitative methods will be integrated with the theory and Excel will be used for analyzing and displaying data. Seminar readings will focus on topics relevant to the program, and regular assessment of learning will take place through quizzes and seminar papers. Field trips will provide opportunities to observe geologic features and artifacts, including a multi-day field trip around the Olympic Peninsula, day-trips to the Burke Museum in Seattle and the Qwu?gwes archaeological site. The program will include multiple modes of teaching so that students can gain an understanding of the foundations of geology and archaeology; become more responsible for their work; improve their collaboration and communication skills; and enhance integrative, independent, and critical thinking. 

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

science, social science, geology, and archaeology.

16

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

$305 in spring for an overnight field trip around the Olympic Peninsula.

Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 50
50% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, April 1, 2019 - 9:00 am
SEM 2 B1107 - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

Monday 9 – 12 Lecture & Workshop
Tuesday 9 – 12 Data Analysis Lab
Tuesday 1 – 4 Seminar
Wednesday 9 – 12 Lecture & Workshop
Thursday 9 – 12 Labs & Field Trips

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2019-03-19Jr-Sr CRN added and seat capacity adjusted in Fr and So levels.
2019-03-19Changed to all level

Topics in Science

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
12
Credits per quarter

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Sunderman square
physical and inorganic chemistry

This program will provide you an opportunity to improve your writing, academic reading, mathematics, library research skills, and help you navigate Evergreen. All of these things will be accomplished through an exploration of multiple current topics in science, with a focus on chemistry. We will learn about some of the science behind each topic and delve deeper into how science connects to both issues in society, and issues in social justice. Many of our topics will be viewed as questions to explore. A few examples of topics we may cover include the following: What nerve agent poisoned the Russian ex-spy that was living in England? Why is it so hard to view polar bears with thermal imaging cameras? Are scientists detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement? Can vaccines be made to fight against addictive drugs?

Lectures, workshops, seminars, and both individual and group projects will be a part of this program.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

sciences, social sciences, humanities, education, health care, and mathematics.

12

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, September 24, 2018 - 9:00 am
SEM 2 B2109 - Seminar

Advertised schedule:

The first class meeting will be Monday, the 8th of October, at 9:00 AM.

Located in: Olympia

May be offered again in:

Fall 2019

DateRevision
2018-08-07Fall Fee Deleted

Tradition and Innovation in Indigenous North American Fiber Arts

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
25% Reserved for Freshmen
16Variable
Credits per quarter
Variable Credit Options Available

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Native American peoples from Indigenous Nations in Canada, the United States, and Mexico have developed a rich tradition of woven and twined textiles. They have used a wide variety of fiber arts techniques to design and make objects like baskets, clothing, bags, tools and buildings out of plant and animal fibers so that they can create their art and material culture. In this program, students will explore the history and traditions of Indigenous fiber artists, and the ways that contemporary First Nations artists both maintain and innovate on those traditions. Students will learn the vocabulary and techniques required to make a number of the objects whose art history they are studying, then design and create art using the techniques they learn. In the process, they will develop a sophisticated understanding of this art and master the weaving and other fibers techniques required to design and make their own artworks. In addition, students will learn about the political and cultural contexts in which contemporary Indigenous art is made, and develop a deep understanding of the place of fiber arts in the contemporary Native American art movement.

This program coincides with the opening of the new Indigenous Fiber Arts Studio, where our studies and project work will take place. Everyone will attend a major exhibit associated with the studio opening, and study the objects in that exhibit and the way the exhibit is installed. Students interested in learning more about curating and installing art will have the opportunity to talk with the people who chose the objects and to help with the exhibit installation, as well. Everyone will also have the opportunity to meet and work with an amazing group of Indigenous fiber artists from New Zealand and from Indigenous communities across the United States. Students will support the various events at the opening ceremonies, and will have the opportunity to sign up to help artists attending to set up materials for their demonstrations. In addition they will be able to watch them teach their workshops.

For their final project, each student will do research on an Indigenous fiber artist or a traditional fiber arts practice that interests them. They will then design a project that is inspired by their study. At the end of the quarter, students will exhibit this project, along with the artwork they made over the course of the quarter and create an artist statement and labels for their work. They will also prepare a short PowerPoint presentation that will inform their program colleagues about the things they learned. All full time students will also be required to take two field trips, one to Seattle and one to Tacoma, to study museum collections and sources for materials to create a variety of fiber arts. Finally everyone will be required to attend a panel on Tradition and Innovation in the Work of Contemporary Indigenous Basket Makers.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

fiber arts techniques, Indigenous North American art history, museology, and various other fields related to working in the arts in ways that benefit art museums and other exhibit spaces in American Indian reservation communities or public Museums and Institutions around the United States that exhibit Indigenous Art.

16Variable

Credits per quarter
Variable Credit Options Available

Variable Credit Options:

4-12 credit options may be available.  Contact the faculty for more information.

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

$150 for entrance fees and materials.

Research Opportunities:

Students will do a research project on an Indigenous North American Fiber Artist or a Native American Weaving Tradition, and put together a ten to fifteen minute PowerPoint Lecture for colleagues in the program.

Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
25% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - 11:00 am
Fiber Arts 229

Located in: Olympia

Transnational Identities, Migration, and Unequal Childhoods

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 25
16
Credits per quarter

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2019-Morales,-Maria-4-square
latinx studies, cultural studies, education

"Some newspapers announce the arrival of undocumented children as a biblical plague would be announced: Careful! [...] these menacing children with toasted skin, with slanted eyes and obsidian hair [...] They will invade our schools, our churches, our Sundays [...] And if we let them stay here, they will reproduce. We wonder if the reactions of the people would be different if, for example, these children were of a lighter color, if they were of 'better' nationalities and more 'pure' genetics. Would they treat them more as people? More like children? (Luiselli, 2016, p. 21)."

What does it mean to be a child? What does childhood look like and feel like? That narrative of childhood is often associated to innocence, play, and creativity. This, as we will explore in this program, is a dominant narrative of childhood that is not the experience of many children; childhood is not one of innocence for unaccompanied migrant children. Although children migrating to the United States from México and Central America alone (without parents or adults) has been occurring for many years, in 2013 and 2014, the numbers of children migrating alone reached a historic high. Between October of 2013 and June of 2014, the number of children migrating reached close to 80 thousand. By August of 2015, more than 102 thousand children arrived to the border. The upsurge in numbers was framed as a “crisis” in the media, legal, and political spectrums.

In this program, we will critically interrogate the phenomenon of unaccompanied children migrants (primarily from Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador). We will examine the dominant framing of “crisis” as an incomplete narrative that faults children and families but does not interrogate the political and economic roots that push children to take the arduous and dangerous journey north. After a historical and socioeconomic framing of this phenomenon, in this program students will question the implications of this experience on children’s everyday lives and in particular ask: How do these experiences shift the dominant narrative of childhood and how does this relate to global capitalism? Lastly, students will explore the intersection between migration and identity and interrogate the notion of transnational identities. What does it mean to be transnational? In society? In schools?

This program will use cultural studies, critical race theory, and narrative inquiry to engage students with the theory and the stories of migration.

Areas of focus: Education, Children Studies, Latinx Studies, Cultural Studies, Migration Studies

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

$25 for day trip to Seattle

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 25
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 9:00 am
SEM 2 B1105 - Lecture

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2019-03-22$25 added as a required fee for the day trip to Seattle
2018-09-04Pathway updated

Tutoring Math and Science Across Significant Differences

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
20% Reserved for Freshmen
2
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Vauhn Foster-Grahler
mathematics, education, anthropological mathematics

The class is designed to help add to your skills working with diverse learners. A significant amount of time in the course explores how power and privilege impact the teaching and learning of math and science.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Teaching or tutoring mathematics and science.

2

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
20% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Wednesday, April 3, 2019 - 7:30 am
SEM 2 E1107 - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

Wed 7:30a-9a

Located in: Olympia

Undergraduate Projects in Critical and Creative Practices with J. Sandoz

FallWinterSpring
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 0
Variable
Variable credit.
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academic and creative nonfiction writing, community studies, analog game design

This is an opportunity for students to work on faculty-driven scholarly and creative projects. By working with faculty in a studio and research “apprentice” model, students will gain hands-on experience in visual arts studio practices, film/media production practices, the creative writing workshop focused on craft, critical research and writing, library and archival research practices, and much more.

Joli Sandoz (creative nonfiction) directs scholarly research focused on critique and/or the writing of creative nonfiction, or critique and/or design of analog games.  This opportunity is open to people nearing the end of their Evergreen education, who may wish to pursue a major research project, senior thesis, or capstone project in their particular relevant interest. Projects of this type bring together theory and application in the critical and creative pursuit of knowledge new to the researcher.  Outstanding creative and critical projects add value to graduate school and job applications, and can enhance skills in synthesis, analysis, and creative thinking and practice. Sandoz specializes in personal and lyric essays, and in board and card games; she does not sponsor projects centered on autobiography, memoir, or computer games (interesting as those topics are).

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

creative writing, education, and the humanities.

Variable
Variable credit.
See below for more info.
Variable Credit Options:

seat availability and credit options vary per quarter.

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 0
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Located in: Olympia

Undergraduate Research and Projects in Critical and Creative Practices with Shaw Osha

FallWinter
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 0
Variable
Variable credit.
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Taught by

Osha-Shaw
visual arts, painting, drawing

This is an opportunity for students to work on faculty-driven scholarly and creative projects. By working with faculty in a studio and research “apprentice” model, students will gain hands-on experience in visual arts studio practices, film/media production practices, the creative writing workshop focused on craft, critical research and writing, library and archival research practices, and much more.

Shaw Osha (visual art) works in painting, photography, drawing, writing and video. She explores issues of visual representation, affect as a desire, social relationships and the conditions that surround us. She is currently working on a project based on questions of soul in artwork. Students working with Shaw would have opportunities to learn about artistic research, critique, grant and statement writing, website design, studio work and concerns in contemporary art making.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Art, art history, art administration

Variable
Variable credit.
See below for more info.
Variable Credit Options:

seat availability and credit options vary per quarter.

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 0
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Located in: Olympia

Undergraduate Research in Scientific Inquiry with A. Biswas

FallWinter
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 0
Variable
Variable credit.
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Biswas-Abir
geology, earth science, biogeochemistry

Rigorous quantitative and qualitative research is an important component of academic learning in Scientific Inquiry. Research opportunities allow science students to work on specific projects associated with faculty members’ expertise. Students typically begin by working in an apprenticeship model with faculty or laboratory staff and gradually take on more independent projects within the context of the specific research program as they gain experience. Students can develop vital skills in research design, data acquisition and interpretation, modeling and theoretical analysis, written and oral communication, collaboration and critical thinking. These are valuable skills for students pursuing a graduate degree or entering the job market.

Abir Biswas  (geology, earth science) studies nutrient and toxic trace-metal cycles in terrestrial and coastal ecosystems. Potential projects could include studies of mineral weathering, wildfires, and mercury cycling in ecosystems. Students could pursue these interests at the laboratory scale or through field-scale biogeochemistry studies, taking advantage of the Evergreen Ecological Observation Network, a long-term ecological study area. Students with backgrounds in a combination of geology, biology, or chemistry can gain skills in soil, vegetation, and water collection and learn methods of sample preparation and analysis for major and trace elements.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

geology and earth sciences.

Variable
Variable credit.
See below for more info.
Variable Credit Options:

seat availability and credit options vary per quarter.

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 0
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Located in: Olympia

Undergraduate Research in Scientific Inquiry with C. Dirks

WinterSpring
Winter 2019
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 0
Variable
Variable credit.
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biology, virology, molecular biology

Rigorous quantitative and qualitative research is an important component of academic learning in Scientific Inquiry. Research opportunities allow science students to work on specific projects associated with faculty members’ expertise. Students typically begin by working in an apprenticeship model with faculty or laboratory staff and gradually take on more independent projects within the context of the specific research program as they gain experience. Students can develop vital skills in research design, data acquisition and interpretation, modeling and theoretical analysis, written and oral communication, collaboration and critical thinking. These are valuable skills for students pursuing a graduate degree or entering the job market.

Clarissa Dirks (biology) conducts research in many areas of microbiology and ecology. Her recent work in microbiology has focused on the biodiversity and distribution of tardigrades in different ecosystems. She also aims to better understand the evolutionary principles that underlie the emergence, spread, and containment of infectious disease by studying the co-evolution of retroviruses and their hosts. Lastly, she is conducting snail surveys to better characterize the species in Washington state, something that hasn’t been done in many decades. Depending on the project, students will gain experience in molecular biology techniques, microbiology, field ecology, genetics, bioinformatics, and tissue culture.

Variable
Variable credit.
See below for more info.
Variable Credit Options: seat availability and credit options vary per quarter.
Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 0
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2019-04-02Spring section and variabel credit added

Undergraduate Research in Scientific Inquiry with D. McAvity

FallWinterSpring
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 0
Variable
Variable credit.
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David McAvity
mathematics, physics

Rigorous quantitative and qualitative research is an important component of academic learning in Scientific Inquiry. This independent learning opportunity allows advanced students to delve into real-world research with faculty who are currently engaged in specific projects. Students typically begin by working in apprenticeship with faculty or laboratory staff and gradually take on more independent projects within the context of the specific research program as they gain experience. Students can develop vital skills in research design, data acquisition and interpretation, written and oral communication, collaboration, and critical thinking that are valuable for students pursuing a graduate degree or entering the job market.

David McAvity (mathematics) is interested in problems in mathematical biology associated with population and evolutionary dynamics. Students working with him will help create computer simulations using agent-based modeling and cellular automata and analyzing non-linear models for the evolution of cooperative behavior in strategic multiplayer evolutionary games. Students should have a strong mathematics or computer science background.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

theoretical biology, computer science, mathematics.

Variable
Variable credit.
See below for more info.
Variable Credit Options:

seat availability and credit options vary per quarter.

Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 0
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Located in: Olympia

Undergraduate Research in Scientific Inquiry with J. Caraher

FallWinterSpring
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 0
Variable
Variable credit.
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John Caraher (physics, mathematics) has research interests in quantum optics and atomic, molecular and optical (AMO) physics. He would like to work with students with strong backgrounds in mathematics and physics and who have interests in lasers, optics, quantum mechanics, and/or developing computer interfaces for the control of optics experiments. Of particular interest to him are experiments exploring the properties of entangled photons.

Variable
Variable credit.
See below for more info.
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 0
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Located in: Olympia

Undergraduate Research in Scientific Inquiry with J. Neitzel

FallWinterSpring
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 0
Variable
Variable credit.
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biology, biochemistry

Rigorous quantitative and qualitative research is an important component of academic learning in Scientific Inquiry. Research opportunities allow science students to work on specific projects associated with faculty members’ expertise. Students typically begin by working in an apprenticeship model with faculty or laboratory staff and gradually take on more independent projects within the context of the specific research program as they gain experience. Students can develop vital skills in research design, data acquisition and interpretation, modeling and theoretical analysis, written and oral communication, collaboration and critical thinking. These are valuable skills for students pursuing a graduate degree or entering the job market.

Jim Neitzel  (biochemistry) uses methods from organic and analytical chemistry to study biologically interesting molecules. A major focus of his current work is on fatty acids; in particular, finding spectroscopic and chromatographic methods to identify fatty acids in complex mixtures and to detect changes that occur in fats during processing or storage. This has relevance both for foods and in biodiesel production. The other major area of interest is in plant natural products, such as salicylates. Work is in process screening local plants for the presence of these molecules, which are important plant-defense signals. Work is also supported in determining the nutritional value of indigenous plants. Students with a background and interest in organic or analytical biochemistry will contribute to this work.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

biochemistry, alternative energy, health sciences.

Variable
Variable credit.
See below for more info.
Variable Credit Options:

seat availability and credit options vary per quarter.

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 0
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Located in: Olympia

Undergraduate Research in Scientific Inquiry with N. Murray

FallWinterSpring
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 0
Variable
Variable credit.
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neurobiology
Nancy Murray’s background is in neurobiology and cell physiology. She is currently working in the emerging field of synthetic biology, which combines the disciplines of molecular biology and engineering. Potential projects allow students to work to solve real-world challenges by building genetically engineered biological systems with standard, interchangeable parts.
Variable
Variable credit.
See below for more info.
Variable Credit Options:

Seat and credit availability varies.  Contact the faculty for more information.

Fields of study: 
Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 0
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-09-14CRNS added, CIP Code added

Undergraduate Research in Scientific Inquiry with P. Schofield

FallWinterSpring
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 0
Variable
Variable credit.
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organic chemistry, polymer chemistry, biochemistry

Rigorous quantitative and qualitative research is an important component of academic learning in Scientific Inquiry. Research opportunities allow science students to work on specific projects associated with faculty members’ expertise. Students typically begin by working in an apprenticeship model with faculty or laboratory staff and gradually take on more independent projects within the context of the specific research program as they gain experience. Students can develop vital skills in research design, data acquisition and interpretation, modeling and theoretical analysis, written and oral communication, collaboration and critical thinking. These are valuable skills for students pursuing a graduate degree or entering the job market.

Paula Schofield (organic, polymer, materials chemistry) is interested in the interdisciplinary fields of biodegradable plastics and biomedical polymers. Research in the field of biodegradable plastics is becoming increasingly important to replace current petroleum-derived materials and to reduce the environmental impact of plastic wastes. Modification of starch through copolymerization and use of bacterial polyesters show promise in this endeavor. Specific projects within biomedical polymers involve the synthesis of poly (lactic acid) copolymers that have potential for use in tissue engineering. Students with a background in chemistry and biology will gain experience in the synthesis and characterization of these novel polymer materials. Students will present their work at American Chemical Society conferences.

Variable
Variable credit.
See below for more info.
Variable Credit Options: seat availability and credit options vary per quarter.
Fields of study: 
Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 0
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Located in: Olympia

Undergraduate Research in Scientific Inquiry with R. Sunderman

FallWinterSpring
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 0
Variable
Variable credit.
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Sunderman square
physical and inorganic chemistry

Rigorous quantitative and qualitative research is an important component of academic learning in Scientific Inquiry. Research opportunities allow science students to work on specific projects associated with faculty members’ expertise. Students typically begin by working in an apprenticeship model with faculty or laboratory staff and gradually take on more independent projects within the context of the specific research program as they gain experience. Students can develop vital skills in research design, data acquisition and interpretation, modeling and theoretical analysis, written and oral communication, collaboration and critical thinking. These are valuable skills for students pursuing a graduate degree or entering the job market.

Rebecca Sunderman (inorganic/materials chemistry, physical chemistry) is interested in the synthesis and property characterization of new bismuth-containing materials. These compounds have been characterized as electronic conductors, attractive activators for luminescent materials, second harmonic generators, and oxidation catalysts for several organic compounds. Traditional solid-state synthesis methods will be utilized to prepare new complex bismuth oxides. Once synthesized, powder X-ray diffraction patterns will be obtained and material properties such as conductivity, melting point, biocidal tendency, coherent light production, and magnetic behavior will be examined when appropriate.

Variable
Variable credit.
See below for more info.
Variable Credit Options:

seat availability and credit options vary per quarter.

Fields of study: 
Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 0
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Located in: Olympia

Undergraduate Research in Scientific Inquiry with R. Weiss

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 0
Variable
Variable credit.
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Taught by

Richard Weiss
mathematics, computer science

Rigorous quantitative and qualitative research is an important component of academic learning in Scientific Inquiry. Research opportunities allow science students to work on specific projects associated with faculty members’ expertise. Students typically begin by working in an apprenticeship model with faculty or laboratory staff and gradually take on more independent projects within the context of the specific research program as they gain experience. Students can develop vital skills in research design, data acquisition and interpretation, modeling and theoretical analysis, written and oral communication, collaboration and critical thinking. These are valuable skills for students pursuing a graduate degree or entering the job market.

Richard Weiss  (computer science, mathematics) has several ongoing projects in computer vision, robotics, and security. There are several opportunities for students to develop cybersecurity games for teaching network-security concepts and skills within a project called EDURange. In robotics, he is looking for students to develop laboratory exercises for several different mobile robotic platforms, including Scribbler, LEGO NXT, and iRobot Create. This would also involve writing tools for image processing and computer vision using sequences of still images, video streams, and 2.5-D images from the Kinect. In addition, he is open to working with students who have their own ideas for projects in these and related areas, such as machine learning, artificial intelligence, and analysis of processor performance.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Computer Science and Mathematics 

Variable
Variable credit.
See below for more info.
Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 0
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

Located in: Olympia

Undergraduate Research in Scientific Inquiry with Robin Bond

FallWinterSpring
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 0
Variable
Variable credit.
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Taught by

Robin Bond
analytical chemistry

Rigorous quantitative and qualitative research is an important component of academic learning in Scientific Inquiry. Research opportunities allow science students to work on specific projects associated with faculty members’ expertise. Students typically begin by working in an apprenticeship model with faculty or laboratory staff and gradually take on more independent projects within the context of the specific research program as they gain experience. Students can develop vital skills in research design, data acquisition and interpretation, modeling and theoretical analysis, written and oral communication, collaboration and critical thinking. These are valuable skills for students pursuing a graduate degree or entering the job market.

Robin Bond    (analytical chemistry) studies toxic and/or redox-active chemicals and how they interact with microbes, primarily in aquatic (freshwater & marine) as well as terrestrial environments. Potential projects could include: creating or refining detection methods for chemicals that are hard to measure by existing techniques, field or laboratory studies that examine metal or nutrient cycling, and laboratory modeling or field analog studies related to astrobiology. In addition to improving laboratory bench skills and critical thinking processes, students can become proficient in data analysis and the use of major or minor instrumentation.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

laboratory-based chemistry and related disciplines.

Variable
Variable credit.
See below for more info.
Variable Credit Options:

variable credit options available.

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.

Upper division science credit:

Students seeking to earn upper division credit must contact the faculty to discuss options prior to the start of the quarter.

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 0
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-09-14CRNs added

Undergraduate Research in Scientific Inquiry with Yu

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 0
Variable
Variable credit.
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Taught by

Pauline Yu square portrait
marine science

Rigorous quantitative and qualitative research is an important component of academic learning in scientific inquiry. Research opportunities allow science students to work on specific projects associated with faculty members’ expertise. Students typically begin by working in an apprenticeship model with faculty or laboratory staff and gradually take on more independent projects within the context of the specific research program as they gain experience. Students can develop vital skills in research design, data acquisition and interpretation, modeling and theoretical analysis, written and oral communication, collaboration, and critical thinking. These are valuable skills for students pursuing a graduate degree or entering the job market.

Pauline Yu (marine science) studies the developmental physiology and ecology of marine invertebrates. She is interested in the biochemistry of the seawater-organism interface, developmental nutritional biochemistry and metabolic depression, invasive species, carbonate chemistry (ocean acidification), and cultural relationships with foods from the sea. Students will have the opportunity to collaboratively develop lines of inquiry for lab and/or field studies in ecology, developmental biology, physiology, marine carbonate chemistry, and mariculture.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

environmental studies,  marine science, and zoology.

Variable
Variable credit.
See below for more info.
Variable Credit Options:

variable credit options available.

Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.

Upper division science credit:

Students seeking to earn upper division credit must contact the faculty to discuss options prior to the start of the quarter.

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 0
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-08-08Pauline Yu

Undergraduate Research in the Humanities

FallWinterSpring
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 0
Variable
Variable credit.
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Taught by

Stacey Davis
European history

Students of the humanities who are nearing the end of their Evergreen education may wish to pursue a major research project, senior thesis, or capstone project in their particular field of interest. Often, the goal is to construct an original argument around a particular body of literature, set of ideas, or historical events. These kinds of projects develop advanced research skills in the humanities, including the ability to read deeply and critically in a particular field, and to discover and engage with important theoretical writings in that field. Students will also gain valuable skills in reading, analyzing, synthesizing, writing, and editing long pieces of complex prose. The best kinds of this work will be invaluable for graduate school applications and will be an asset to those entering the job market directly following graduation.

Stacey Davis (European history) specializes in French history from the 18th century to the present, as well as the history of French colonies in North and West Africa. Students who wish to study European social, cultural, political, intellectual, or religious history from the Middle Ages to the present, including topics in the history of gender and sociocultural aspects of the history of art, are welcome to propose research projects. Students are welcome to work with Dr. Davis on her ongoing research projects on 19th-century political prisoners, notions of citizenship and democracy in modern Europe, memory, and the history of aging. 

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

literature, history, and the humanities

Variable
Variable credit.
See below for more info.
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 0
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Located in: Olympia

Undergraduate Research in the Humanities with S. Davis

FallWinterSpring
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 0
Variable
Variable credit.
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Taught by

Stacey Davis
European history

Students of the humanities who are nearing the end of their Evergreen education may wish to pursue a major research project, senior thesis or capstone project in their particular field of interest. Often, the goal is to contruct an original argument around a particular body of literature, set of ideas or historical events. These kinds of projects develop advanced research skills in the humanities, including the ability to read deeply and critically in a particular field, and to discover and engage with important theoretical writings in that field. Students will also gain valuable skills in reading, analyzing, synthesizing, writing and editing long pieces of complex prose. The best kinds of this work will be invaluable for graduate school applications, and will be an asset to those entering the job market directly following graduation.

Stacey Davis (European history) specializes in French history from the 18th century to the present, as well as the history of French colonies in North and West Africa. Students who wish to study European social, cultural, political, intellectual or religious history from the Middle Ages to the present, including topics in the history of gender and sociocultural aspects of the history of art, are welcome to propose research projects. Students are welcome to work with Dr. Davis on her ongoing research projects on 19th-century political prisoners, notions of citizenship and democracy in modern Europe, memory and the history of aging.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

literature, history and the humanities.

Variable
Variable credit.
See below for more info.
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 0
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Located in: Olympia

Undergraduate Research in the Humanities with T. Speller

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 0
Variable
Variable credit.
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Taught by

Speller Trevor
British literature

Students of the humanities who are nearing the end of their Evergreen education may wish to pursue a major research project, senior thesis or capstone project in their particular field of interest. Often, the goal is to contruct an original argument around a particular body of literature, set of ideas or historical events. These kinds of projects develop advanced research skills in the humanities, including the ability to read deeply and critically in a particular field, and to discover and engage with important theoretical writings in that field. Students will also gain valuable skills in reading, analyzing, synthesizing, writing and editing long pieces of complex prose. The best kinds of this work will be invaluable for graduate school applications, and will be an asset to those entering the job market directly following graduation.

Trevor Speller (British/anglophone literature) specializes in British and Anglophone literature from the 17th century to the present, including colonial and postcolonial literatures. Students are encouraged to propose research projects, capstone projects, and senior theses on topics in literature and literary theory from the Middle Ages to the present. Past student projects have included studies of Virginia Woolf, Romantic women writers, and travel writing. 

Dr. Speller is especially looking for one or two students to assist with ongoing research projects. These studies are investigating the 18th century novel, illustration, and cartography. Students can expect to hone their editing skills, sharpen their research abilities, and become familiar with the academic publication process. Great experience for those headed to graduate school or careers in writing/editing! Prior coursework/ experience with research and writing in fields such as literature, history or the humanities is preferred. Variable credit, ILC and internship options are available. Please contact the faculty via email for more details.

 

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

writing, editing, research, literature, history and the humanities.

Variable
Variable credit.
See below for more info.
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 0
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Advertised schedule:

To be determined by faculty and student.

Located in: Olympia

Unmasking the Material World: Discovering Objects as Stories

FallWinter
Fall 2018
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 46
50% Reserved for Freshmen
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Kris Coffey
creative writing, historical fiction, ethnic american literature
Krotscheck, Ulrike
classics, archaeology

Everything people make and use expresses values. Quilts, soap, furniture, tableware, tools, and jewelry can illustrate meaning in one’s life and the time period in which they lived. While some objects are necessary for life and have “everyday use,” others have mythical or symbolic meanings, and some seem to have little meaning at all. However, more importantly than the objects themselves are the stories they tell. From the latter half of the twentieth century through current day, we have witnessed a tremendous pop-culture interest in items categorized as vintage or antique, inspiring a profitable market. As we pull those items out of thrift stores, off EBay, and from picker’s lots and integrate them into our lives, we carry with them the stories of the past and discover connections between how people of the past lived and what’s meaningful to us today. How can unmasking the material world change the way we think about and understand our relationship to the things we buy, make, trade, gift, use, reject, cherish, and interpret? 

This program employs an interdisciplinary approach to expose the stories, values, meanings, and practices found in objects. If material artifacts are products of human conflicts, culture, values, and creativity, then it is possible, through them, to understand the dynamics that are otherwise invisible to us. During the first quarter, this program will examine how objects and values mutually construct each other. By reading works of ancient history, historical fiction and myth, students will learn to appreciate individual and collective undercurrents which can be masked by the material habits that constitute a culture. 

We will take day trips to museums, historical sites, cemeteries, thrift shops, the local shopping mall, and the local garbage dump and recycling center to learn about the stewardship of objects as cherished artifacts, coveted consumer goods, donations, and waste. Each student will write several short critical essays and creative pieces that build towards developing a proposal and writing sample for a term paper to be completed in the winter: either a work of historical fiction or a research article based in historical or archaeological material culture. Students will also be completing weekly seminar assignments. Winter quarter work will focus on each student’s individual project. Students will complete a series of outlines, drafts, revisions, and edits, culminating in a final paper presented in the final week of the program. Students interested in how materiality shapes our world, and how we construct stories from examining those discoveries, will benefit from this program. 

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

history, archaeology, creative writing, and the humanities.

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Fees:

$50 in Fall for museum and site visit entrance fees.

Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 46
50% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - 10:00 am
SEM 2 D2105 - Workshop

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-11-02Winter enrollment is closed to new students
2018-08-10Description updated
2018-07-18Required fee reduced to $50 (was $100)
2018-06-11This program now accepts students of all class levels.
2018-03-29New opportunity added.

Unruly Bodies: Health, Media, Biology, and Power

WinterSpring
Winter 2019
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Sophomore
Freshman–Sophomore
Class Size: 46
50% Reserved for Freshmen
1216
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Carolyn Prouty
health science, public health, bioethics
Julie Russo square
media studies, gender & women's studies, sexuality and queer studies

In this program, we will use the concept of “unruly bodies”—whether human, organic, unified, or otherwise— as the gateway for our learning about power, knowledge production, representation, social order, ideas of health, and human biology.  Our bodies are not as disciplined and controlled as we may think. They defy classification and containment. They violate scientific orthodoxies and cultural boundaries. Students and faculty will take an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the human body and human health.

Over the course of the program, we’ll learn about public health, and its social, political, and epidemiological dimensions. We’ll learn about queer and gender theories. We’ll examine media representations of sex in relation to race, gender, and disability. We’ll take into consideration a range of cases and contexts, as well as social, cultural, and historical configurations of power and knowledge. We’ll also focus on building foundational skills in academic writing, close reading, research, and interdisciplinary critical thinking, which will be strong preparation for a broad range of later studies.

Part of our curriculum will entail a shared lecture series and seminar readings (4 credits) with another introductory program: Culture, Self, and Healing . This means that students will be a part of a larger learning community with four faculty teachers during part of each week, examining interdisciplinary approaches to the body, health, power, and knowledge.  

In addition, each quarter, students enrolled in the program for 16 credits will have the opportunity to choose from one of the following workshops (4 credits) offered by faculty of both programs:

  • Human Biology: Anatomy and Physiology: What are human bodies made of? How do they work? Students will learn about human anatomy and physiology, and have the option to observe and carry out dissections including the (non-human) heart, lungs, kidneys, brain and eye.  Lectures and laboratory sessions will explore cell and tissue structure and function, and will investigate body systems such as muscular, nervous, cardiovascular, immune, urinary, reproductive, and digestive systems, through examination of normal and abnormal (disease) states. This two-quarter workshop spans winter and spring quarters; students entering in spring quarter will require previous course work in human biology.
  • Happiness: What qualities are associated with strong and happy individuals, relationships, and communities, and how can we learn to build them? This workshop provides an in-depth, applied exploration of research on happiness and well-being. We will participate in text-based seminar discussions and in experiential workshops that aim to integrate mind, body, and spirit as we cultivate the positive qualities that scientists and practitioners have identified are useful for happiness, resilience, equanimity, and enduring well-being. This one-quarter workshop repeats both winter and spring quarters.
  • Illness Narratives:  How do people generate stories about their experiences with illness and persistence? We will read scholarship about exchanges between healers and patients, and between storytellers and listeners. Students will engage in the listening process by recording illness narratives and presenting them at the end of the quarter in the form of audio podcasts. This workshop is available winter quarter only.
  • Cyborg Bodies: The cybernetic organism, or cyborg, has figured the contested boundary between humans and machines in theory and science fiction. Through viewing, reading, and analysis, we will meet famous cyborgs from film and television and explore what they can tell us about our conceptions of the organic body. We’ll think about cyborgs in relation to the materiality of media, and its evolution through the 20th and 21st centuries. This one-quarter workshop repeats both winter and spring quarters.
  • Community Based Learning and Action (Spring Only) : What kinds of practical engagements can address sickness and healing in our own communities? For this workshop, students will complete three credits of internship or volunteer work (8-10 hours/week), either individually or in small groups, with local or regional community organizations. Faculty will help students connect with various opportunities during the first two weeks of Spring quarter; these may include agriculture, food, and nutrition; youth mentoring; tutoring; or other possibilities broadly related to health and social well-being. In addition, students will attend a two-hour, one-credit seminar on half of the Wednesday mornings in spring quarter that considers theories and processes of community collaboration, and discusses ongoing experiences with the community based work.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Health-related fields, biology; gender, media, arts; social justice and non-profit careers. 

1216

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

$21 for winter text course pack

$35 for course pack

Freshman-Sophomore
Class Standing: Freshman–Sophomore
Class Size: 46
50% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, April 1, 2019 - 9:30 am
SEM 2 E1105 - Lecture

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2019-03-18Spring fee reduced from $120 to $35
2019-02-28readings added to Spring registration
2019-02-27description updated
2019-01-07$21 fee for winter quarter added
2018-12-06$20 Winter fee removed
2018-03-14This program will be offered in winter-spring (formerly year long).

Utopian Dreams, Dystopian Nightmares

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 50
8
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Stephen Beck
philosophy
Steve Blakeslee
English, writing, literature

Sometimes we dream of a perfect social world; sometimes we imagine a nightmarish and miserable social order. And sometimes, what one person regards as a perfect society is regarded by others as perfectly horrifying. In this program we will delve into both literary and philosophical treatments of utopias and dystopias, seeking to understand both their shared impulses and their manifold differences. Our philosophical studies will center on in-depth readings of Plato’s Republic and of selections from Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan; our literary selections will range from the political “fairy story” of George Orwell’s Animal Farm to the feminist utopias and dystopias of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, respectively. Through these and other readings, we will explore the values that such visions of society embody, and what they may tell us about what to seek or avoid in our social interactions. In addition, we will consider what these utopian and dystopian visions may reveal to us about our own hopes, fears, desires, and motivations.

Our program will include lectures, seminars, workshops, and film screenings; the faculty will provide students with explicit guidance and support in developing their skills as readers, writers, and critical thinkers. Students will document their new understandings by means of written responses, philosophical treatments, independent reading, bibliographic writing, and synthesis essays. Please note that the assigned reading for this program is both intellectually and emotionally demanding.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

humanities, literature, and philosophy.

8

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 50
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, January 7, 2019 - 6:00 pm
SEM 2 B3105 - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

Mon/Wed 6-10p

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-11-14Description Updated

Veterans' Next Mission: Crossing the Bridge Between Military and Academic Life

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
2
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Rafael Lozano
military history, communications, veterans affairs and policy
This course is designed to assist veterans in transitioning from the Military to the Higher Educational environment. This course will utilize a seminar format to discuss issues that are particular to Veterans, Active Duty, and Dependents in their entrance into higher education. Students will gain experience in public presentation and research techniques. Various departments will visit the class to discuss the assistance available to aid students during their time at Evergreen. Workshops in writing, quantitative reasoning and research will be provided.  In addition, the class will read “The Four Agreements” and produce a critical analysis report on the book. This class will be worth 2 credits in expository writing.
2

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - 5:30 pm
LIB 1412 - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

Tuesdays 5:30-7:50 pm

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-05-17New Schedule: Course now meets on Tuesdays (was Thursdays)
2018-03-23Course is now offered for 2 credits (was 4)

Veterans' Next Mission: Crossing the Bridge Between Military and Academic Life

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
2
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Rafael Lozano
military history, communications, veterans affairs and policy
This course is designed to assist veterans in transitioning from the Military to the Higher Educational environment. This course will utilize a seminar format to discuss issues that are particular to Veterans, Active Duty, and Dependents in their entrance into higher education. Students will gain experience in public presentation and research techniques. Various departments will visit the class to discuss the assistance available to aid students during their time at Evergreen. Workshops in writing, quantitative reasoning and research will be provided. In addition, the class will read “The Four Agreements” and produce a critical analysis report on the book. This class will be worth 2 credits in expository writing.
2

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - 6:00 pm
LIB 1412 - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

6-8p Thu

Located in: Olympia

Veterans' Next Mission: Crossing the Bridge Between Military and Academic Life

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
2
Credits per quarter

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CANCELLED

Taught by

This course is designed to assist veterans in transitioning from the Military to the Higher Educational environment. This course will utilize a seminar format to discuss issues that are particular to Veterans, Active Duty, and Dependents in their entrance into higher education. Students will gain experience in public presentation and research techniques. Various departments will visit the class to discuss the assistance available to aid students during their time at Evergreen. Workshops in writing, quantitative reasoning and research will be provided.  In addition, the class will read “The Four Agreements” and produce a critical analysis report on the book. This class will be worth 2 credits in expository writing.
2

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 6:00 pm
LIB 1412 - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

6-8p Thu

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2019-03-22Course cancelled. Students will have another opportunity to register for this course in Fall 2019
2018-03-23Course is now offered for 2 credits (was 4)

Visual Literacies

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Hir'
visual arts, Chinese studies, human development

Visual literacy skills enhance communication, advance learning, and expand thinking. They are essential for effectively navigating today's social and cultural environment. In this course we will explore Western and non-Western approaches to art while focusing on how we see, how we learn, and how visual information can be used generally in communication and specifically in education. Our study will be enhanced by weekly art and media workshops which will include work with digital photography, Photoshop, animation/video, and presentation software.

4

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

$15 for admission to the Seattle Art Museum

Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Thursday, April 4, 2019 - 5:30 pm
SEM 2 A1105 - Lecture

Advertised schedule:

Thu 5:30-9:00p

Located in: Olympia

Washington State Legislative Internships

WinterSpring
Winter 2019
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 14
16Variable
Credits per quarter
Variable Credit Options Available

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Taught by

Information on the Legislative Internships and the application process is available online (  www.leg.wa.gov/internships  ) and through Academic and Career Advising.  Applicants are interviewed in person and assessed through a writing exercise. Internships are awarded by the Capitol Senate and House of Representatives Education Program staff, and students informed of acceptance by late November each year.

Information sessions with past interns and staff are held on the Olympia and Tacoma campuses in May. Check for dates and locations  http://www.evergreen.edu/advising/advisingworkshops . Academic and Career Advising support Evergreen's applicants and offer small group mock interviews. We provide the interviews to all students (Olympia & Tacoma) who submit a completed application to the internship program. Contact Academic Advising for more information. The academic, career, and internship advisors all assist students (Olympia and Tacoma) with providing more information on the internship program.

Students accepted into the Legislative Internships register for academic credit for Winter or Winter and Spring Quarters. Though the internship demands 40 hours per week working in the office of a legislator as assigned, students may register for 16 credits or fewer each quarter of the legislative session. 

Taking advantage of Evergreen's proximity to the capital of Washington state, this internship presents the opportunity to observe firsthand the development of public policy in that arena. Drawing from the social sciences and systems and change theory, students explore the evolving systems of law, regulation, and governance. Students will learn about proposed legislation on a variety of contemporary policy issues. They will reflect on the dynamics of the legislative process as a means for making change.

Each student will work as an intern with a legislator and her or his staff for a regular 40-hour work week during the 2019 legislative session. Internships during the legislature's 105-day session are full-time but may be taken for either one academic quarter or two, winter or winter/spring. Juniors as well as seniors are encouraged to apply for the internship.

Intensive staff-apprenticeship activities include conducting legislative research, drafting policy and other documents, bill tracking, and constituent communications. Responsibilities also include attendance at guest presentations, seminars, workshops on budget, and media panels. Students accepted as legislative interns will develop an internship learning contract, profiling legislative responsibilities and linkages to their academic development.

Each intern will keep a weekly journal that is submitted to the faculty sponsor regularly and a portfolio of all materials related to legislative work submitted upon faculty request. During regular in-capitol seminars, Evergreen interns will confer with colleagues and the faculty sponsor to address challenges and reflect upon their experiences. Each intern will translate his or her activities in the internship into analytic and reflective writing about what they are learning and implications of the work by producing a minimum of three short essays per quarter. Students will also write a self-evaluation at the end of the quarter. At the conclusion of the legislative session, interns will produce a substantial integrative essay and meet with colleagues in person to review and reflect upon their legislative internship experience.

Student performance for the internship is evaluated by the faculty sponsor, field supervisors, and legislative office staff.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

community studies, government, law, political science, public interest advocacy, public policy and social issues.

16Variable

Credits per quarter
Variable Credit Options Available

Variable Credit Options:

For spring quarter, students may continue full time until the legislative session ends which will be sooner than the end of spring academic quarter. Students can design a contract for that shorter period of time for a proportionate share of credits, or pursue an area of interest, ideally but not necessarily related to public policy making, for a number of credits between 8 and 16, pending faculty approval. 

Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 14
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Advertised schedule:

Interns meet with Evergreen faculty and internship peers on alternating weeks on the capitol campus. Time tbd.

Located in: Olympia

Off-campus location:

Students work on the state capitol campus in legislators' offices.

DateRevision
2018-11-09updated the winter enrollment requirements and description

Web Design and the Connected Society

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
8
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Speights square
computer studies

This program is a repeat of the program in spring quarter.  Students who take the program in fall should not register for the spring quarter program.

What does it mean to have a voice on the internet? How should we understand new structures of privacy, sociability, and responsibility in a radically connected society? We'll develop these questions, discussing current scholarship on society and communication in the internet connected age. And we'll learn the fundamentals of web development, using HTML and CSS, along with some very basic programming, to visually shape discourse on the web. We'll emphasize designing for generated content like blogs. We'll also work on writing for internet messages. The program will emphasize the persistence of communication through adaptation and advocacy.

This program will be repeated in spring quarter. Students who take this program in fall should not register for the spring quarter repeat.

8

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, September 24, 2018 - 6:00 pm
LIB 2619 - Mac Lab

Advertised schedule:

Mon/Wed 6-9:30pm

Located in: Olympia

Web Design and the Connected Society

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
8
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Speights square
computer studies

This program is a repeat of the program in fall quarter.  Students who took the program in fall should not register for the spring quarter program.

What does it mean to have a voice on the internet? How should we understand new structures of privacy, sociability, and responsibility in a radically connected society? We'll develop these questions, discussing current scholarship on society and communication in the internet connected age. And we'll learn the fundamentals of web development, using HTML and CSS, along with some very basic programming, to visually shape discourse on the web. We'll emphasize designing for generated content like blogs. We'll also work on writing for internet messages. The program will emphasize the persistence of communication through adaptation and advocacy.

8

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, April 1, 2019 - 6:00 pm
LIB 2619 - Mac Lab

Advertised schedule:

Mon/Wed 6-9:30pm

Located in: Olympia

What Are Trees For? Forest Ecology and Resource Conflicts

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
EveningWeekend
Evening and Weekend
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 50
0% Reserved for Freshmen
8
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

communication
ecology, plant biology

In this program we will study forest-related conflicts from scientific, economic, cultural, and conflict management perspectives.

Forests have long been a central part of the economy in the state of Washington. They also help provide us with clean air and water, protect against erosion, and serve as wildlife habitat. Consequently, economic incentives favor harvesting forest trees, while environmental concerns argue for preservation. Similar competing interests exist in forests throughout the world.

Students will learn about the role of forest resources in complex economic and cultural systems to aid understanding of competing goals, relations of power, and politicized debates about forest policies.

We’ll study basic principles of forest ecology and the environmental consequences of harvesting forest trees. Understanding fundamental processes of tree growth will contribute to understanding the role of forests in carbon, water, and nutrient cycles. We’ll assess the possible role of forests in ameliorating climate change, and consider potential conflicts with local and indigenous land use rights.

Understanding basic principles of conflict mediation will contribute to understanding the challenges and limits of decision-making processes in forest management.

8

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

$25 fee to cover field trip entrance fees

Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 50
0% Reserved for Freshmen
EveningWeekend

Scheduled for: Evening and Weekend

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Wednesday, April 3, 2019 - 6:00 pm
SEM 2 C1107 - Workshop

Additional details:

Every Wednesday 6-10 pm and Sat. 9am-5pm (4/6, 4/20, 5/4, 5/18, 6/1)

Located in: Olympia

Who Do You Think You Are?

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Weekend
Weekend
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 25
8
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Mark Hurst square
psychology

At adulthood, a human has already spent decades defining and characterizing attributes, beliefs and preferences of the individual they call “ME”. Where do I get the ideas I have about “who I am”? Am I more nature or nurture? Is the self malleable or fixed? The concept of self can be beneficial as an ally, or a confounding negative force—but how can we know which it is to be?

In this one-quarter program, we will examine the psychological research over the last 60 years, that helps describe, explain, predict and modify aspects of the self. We will examine topics such as theory of mind, self-concept, self-esteem, self-awareness, self-efficacy, identity, social comparison and impression management, self-deception, self-serving biases, escaping the self, self-control, and the contemporary dilemma of “self as a value base”. We will also discover implications for essential functions of the self in the domains of work, love, play, and service to others, as well as Eastern and Western perspectives on the self. Finally, we will Skype with many prominent researchers who have examined “the self” over the last 50 years, after reading their work.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

Psychology, Education, Government, Medicine, Public Policy, Law

8

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 25
Weekend

Scheduled for: Weekend

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Saturday, January 12, 2019 - 9:00 am
SEM 2 C2105 - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

Sat/Sun 9am-4:30pm: January 12/13, January 26/27, February 9/10, February 23/24, March 9/10

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-11-19Signature requirement added to program

Who Gets What?: Political Economy of Income, Wealth, and Economic Justice

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 50
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

feminist economics

Why does the average person in the U.S. enjoy a higher level of economic welfare than the average person in Mexico or India? Why do men earn a higher wage for doing the same work as women? Why do whites have higher wealth levels than People of Color? Why are people poor, sometimes even if they have full-time jobs? Why are many workers in the U.S. undocumented, and have less access to employment and benefits? Are these differences just? These will be our guiding questions as we explore the current state of economic inequities across nations, race, gender, and class.

We will begin by developing the tools to understand the current state of income and wealth distribution. We will learn how to describe and analyze income distribution by class and nation, the gender wage gap, and the racial wealth gap. We will work to develop the analytical sophistication needed to see the complex intersections of these systems of power that may privilege white men, for example, but still produce poor white men and rich women of color.  

In the process we will build our understanding of how we distinguish between unequal outcomes that are fair from those that are inconsistent with our values of justice and fair play. We will examine instances in which government actions have reinforced inequitable outcomes, such as the financial bailout of the banks after the 2008 financial crisis that resulted in thousands of homeowners losing their homes. We will also examine instances in which government actions have worked to reduce inequalities, such as the current move to increase the minimum wage.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

economics, political science, political economy, gender studies, history, and public policy.

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 50
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - 9:00 am
SEM 2 E2105 - Workshop

Located in: Olympia

Who Gets What?: Political Economy of Race, Class and Gender

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Sophomore
Freshman–Sophomore
Class Size: 46
75% Reserved for Freshmen
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

feminist economics

Why are some countries rich and some poor? Why does the average person in the U.S. enjoy a higher level of economic welfare than the average person in Mexico or India? Why do men earn higher wages for doing the same work as women? Why do whites have higher wealth levels than People of Color? Why are people poor, sometimes even if they have full-time jobs? Why are many people compelled to leave their homes and migrate, in order to escape poverty? Are these situations just? These are the questions that will guide us.

Our primary focus will be the historical evolution of capitalism that produced the inequalities by nation, race, class, and gender that we see today. We will begin with European expansion into the Americas, Asia, and Africa as colonial empires were built, resulting in a global economy that transferred wealth and resources from the colonies to Europe. We will build our understanding of how capitalism developed inequalities by race, class, gender, and nation through a study of European peasant displacement, urban impoverishment, slavery, and mass migrations as the poor were compelled to find work abroad. We will explore the political philosophies that justify these inequalities and the continued economic dominance of the Global North, whites, men, and the rich.

Through our exploration, we will be introduced to political economy, a theoretical approach that illuminates economic hierarchies, power, and inequalities. Workshops will focus on some fundamentals of mainstream economics (e.g., how markets work), feminist economics (which uses gender as a lens to look at the economy) and international economics (e.g., the trans-Atlantic trade triangles and ongoing international migration of workers and their families).

By the end of this program we will be in a solid position to examine current economic inequities and explore possible reforms that could lead to more just outcomes.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

economics, political science, political economy, gender studies, history, and public policy. This program will be good preparation for the winter program, Who Gets What?: Political Economy of Income, Wealth and Economic Justice.

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees:

$120 for an overnight field trip.

Freshman-Sophomore
Class Standing: Freshman–Sophomore
Class Size: 46
75% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - 9:00 am
SEM 2 A1105 - Lecture

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-05-18Program is now open to Sophomores
2018-04-23Fee added ($120).

Woodworking: Casework for Storage

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 16
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

John Shattuck Square
woodworking

Students will engage in the foundational skills necessary to produce a piece of artisan furniture safely. Study will include a cultural survey of casework constructed for storage (chests, cabinets, tansu), elements of design, joinery and fabrication methodology including coopering (optional), machine and hand tool skills, the working properties of wood species, assembly techniques, finish types and their application, fabrication of hardware, mixed media furniture, and an introduction to artisan furniture as a means of personal expression. Given the basic materials necessary to produce a storage chest, tansu, coopered storage container, or book case, students will develop design options within the parameters set by the volume and species of wood to be used, develop necessary fabrication skills, and produce a simple piece of furniture using basic joinery techniques.

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Fees:

$80 fee to cover project materials

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 16
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - 5:30 pm
Art Annex 0110 - Atrium

Advertised schedule:

Tuesdays 5:30-9:30pm

Located in: Olympia

Woodworking: Seating, Chairs, Stools and Benches

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 16
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

John Shattuck Square
woodworking

Students will engage in the foundational skills necessary to produce a piece of artisan furniture safely. Study will include elements of design, joinery and fabrication methodology, machine and hand tool skills, the working properties of wood species, assembly techniques, finish types and their application, hardware and mixed media furniture, and an introduction to artisan furniture as a means of personal expression. Given the basic materials necessary to produce a simple side chair, stool, or bench, students will develop design options within the parameters set by the volume and species of wood to be used, develop necessary fabrication skills, and produce a simple piece of furniture using basic joinery techniques.

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Fees:

$80 fee to cover project materials

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 16
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 5:30 pm
Art Annex 0110 - Atrium

Advertised schedule:

Tuesdays 5:30-9:30pm

Located in: Olympia

Woodworking: Tables and Lighting

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 16
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

John Shattuck Square
woodworking

Students will engage in the foundational skills necessary to produce a piece of artisan furniture safely. Study will include elements of design, joinery and fabrication methodology including coopering, machine and hand tool skills, the working properties of wood species, assembly techniques, finish types and their application, fabrication of hardware, mixed media furniture, and an introduction to artisan furniture as a means of personal expression. Given the basic materials necessary to produce a small table, floor lamp, desk lamp, or hanging lamp, students will develop design options within the parameters set by the volume and species of wood to be used, develop necessary fabrication skills, and produce a simple piece of furniture using basic joinery techniques.

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • No Required Online Learning - No access to web tools required. Any web tools provided are optional.
Fees:

$80 fee to cover project materials

Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 16
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - 5:30 pm
Art Annex 0111 - Woodshop

Advertised schedule:

Tuesdays 5:30-9:20pm

Located in: Olympia

Writing and Speaking in the Workplace and Beyond

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 50
8
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Steve Blakeslee
English, writing, literature
communication

This program will help students develop valuable skills in both writing and public speaking that will enhance their current and future effectiveness in the classroom, the workplace, and the broader community. As writers, students will develop the clarity, coherence, focus, and style necessary to good factual communication. Specific writing assignments will include descriptions, analytical outlines, detailed instructions, business correspondence, newsletter articles, short reports, résumés, and job descriptions. As speakers, students will learn to control speech anxiety, compose several well-organized presentations, and develop the performance skills necessary for effective public speaking. We will also explore contemporary and traditional rhetorical theory in relation to persuasive and invitational speaking goals. All students will receive individualized feedback and coaching in order to identify challenges, expand skills, and gain confidence in their ability to speak and write at their best. This program satisfies prerequisite credits for selected MiT (Master in Teaching) endorsement areas.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

business, communication, humanities, public speaking, and writing.

8

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 50
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - 6:00 pm
SEM 2 B2105 - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

Tu/Th 6-9:50pm

Located in: Olympia

Writing for Your Life

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 50
25% Reserved for Freshmen
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Sara Huntington square
writing, research, and information systems

Lively writing: that’s our measure of student success this quarter. Writing is a sure antidote to the deadeningness of our hyper-busyness, to our device-mediated alienation, to anxiety (both the more or less well-grounded sort and the free-floating varieties), and to other social and psychological snares of our times. Our touchstone for this work is a group of four writers, all “Catholic writers,” from the middle decades of the 20th century: Flannery O’Connor, Walker Percy, Thomas Merton, and Dorothy Day. They wrote their ways through the Great Depression, WWII, racial segregation and the struggles for civil rights, assassinations of major political leaders, wars and other violences large and small, as well as through personal troubles, diseases, and doubts, but in their own ways they all kept their spirits alive. Starting with the four-person collective biography, The Life You Save May Be Your Own by Paul Elie, we’ll follow these folks to see where they might point us in our times. We’ll read many kinds of writing from our four principals and from their contemporaries and others: James Baldwin, Simone Weil, Malcom X, D. T. Suzuki, Martin Luther King Jr., Leonard Cohen, Alice Walker, and Ta-Nehisi Coates, all of whom also kept their spirits alive. Our writing textbooks are Coates's We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy and Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness.

In addition to our common readings, every student will pursue an independent study of an author or a theme of their choice. Students should anticipate devoting 10 hours each week to their independent work. Jointly authored projects are welcome.

We’ll write a lot. We’ll learn how to know when we’re writing well. We’ll support one another in and through our writing. Students will learn to edit others’ work. Students will participate in peer group meetings each week so that everyone, regardless of class level, gets what they need. It could be an enlivening time.

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Fees: $10 for the spring 2018 issue of The Atlantic (50th anniversary of MLK's death)
Research Opportunities:

Students will pursue an independent study of a particular author or a theme. Students will devote 10 hours per week to this work. They may work in groups and submit joint projects. 

Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 50
25% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - 12:00 pm
SEM 2 C1105 - Lecture

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-07-25$10 fee added for the spring 2018 issue of The Atlantic

Writing from Life

Fall
Fall 2018
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

creative writing, sustainability, public policy

The Writing from Life class serves two distinct groups of students -- those planning to earn credit through Prior Learning from Experience, and those who want to build their skills in creative writing.

Prior Learning from Experience Prerequisite (CRN 10266):  Students will have the chance to kick-start, or accelerate, a college career by documenting professional and/or community-based experience. With significant support, they will learn to write essays that show the "college equivalent learning" they have gained through professional and/or volunteer work in community. Writing from Life is the springboard to this highly supportive learning community, where adults work together to ensure one another's success.  Students headed toward PLE will receive significant faculty support, both one-on-one, and in class.  We will also focus on academic skills that will help students to succeed in Prior Learning and in other academic courses and programs at Evergreen.  Students earn four credits for this course, and may take up to 16 further credits in the Prior Learning from Experience Program. You can find further information, including a video, at  https://www.evergreen.edu/ple

Creative and Effective Writing (CRN 10267): Students will concentrate on autobiography, essays, and writing of choice. They will participate with future Prior Learning from Experience students in reading and seminars on texts and essays, as well as writing workshops.  Students must be highly capable of independent work. 

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Thursday, September 27, 2018 - 6:00 pm
Purce Hall 8 - Classroom

Advertised schedule:

Thur 6-9:20pm

Located in: Olympia

Writing from Life

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

creative writing, sustainability, public policy

The Writing from Life class serves two distinct groups of students -- those planning to earn credit through Prior Learning from Experience, and those who want to build their skills in creative writing.

Prior Learning from Experience Prerequisite (CRN 20315):  Students will have the chance to kick-start, or accelerate, a college career by documenting professional and/or community-based experience. With significant support, they will learn to write essays that show the "college equivalent learning" they have gained through professional and/or volunteer work in community. Writing from Life is the springboard to this highly supportive learning community, where adults work together to ensure one another's success.  Students headed toward PLE will receive significant faculty support, both one-on-one, and in class.  We will also focus on academic skills that will help students to succeed in Prior Learning and in other academic courses and programs at Evergreen.  Students earn four credits for this course, and may take up to 16 further credits in the Prior Learning from Experience Program. Please attend the academic fair for the quarter you would like to attend (contact Admissions), and/or contact Nancy A. Parkes at  parkesn@evergreen.edu . You will also find further information, including a video, at  http://www.evergreen.edu/ple

Creative and Effective Writing (CRN 20316): A group of up to ten students will concentrate on autobiography, essays, and writing of choice. They will participate with future Prior Learning from Experience students in reading and seminars on texts and essays, as well as writing workshops.  Students in this section don't require a faculty signature to register, but must be highly capable of independent work.

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Thursday, January 10, 2019 - 6:00 pm
SEM 2 B3109 - Seminar

Advertised schedule:

6-10p Thu

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-12-04Signature requirement removed from PLE CRN. Students should still contact faculty to determine fit but do not need a signature to register.

Writing from Life

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
4
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

creative writing, sustainability, public policy

The Writing from Life class serves two distinct groups of students -- those planning to earn credit through Prior Learning from Experience, and those who want to build their skills in creative writing.

Prior Learning from Experience Prerequisite (CRN 30338) :  Students will have the chance to kick-start, or accelerate, a college career by documenting professional and/or community-based experience. With significant support, they will learn to write essays that show the "college equivalent learning" they have gained through professional and/or volunteer work in community. Writing from Life is the springboard to this highly supportive learning community, where adults work together to ensure one another's success.  Students headed toward PLE will receive significant faculty support, both one-on-one, and in class.  We will also focus on academic skills that will help students to succeed in Prior Learning and in other academic courses and programs at Evergreen.  Students earn four credits for this course, and may take up to 16 further credits in the Prior Learning from Experience Program.  Please attend the academic fair for the quarter you would like to attend, and/or contact Nancy A. Parkes at  parkesn@evergreen.edu . You will also find further information, including a video, at  https://www.evergreen.edu/ple .

Creative and Effective Writing (CRN 30339) : A group of up to ten students will concentrate on autobiography, essays, and writing of choice. They will participate with future Prior Learning from Experience students in reading and seminars on texts and essays, as well as writing workshops.  Students in this section don't require a faculty signature to register, but must be highly capable of independent work. 

4

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 25
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Thursday, April 4, 2019 - 6:00 pm
Purce Hall 7 - Classroom

Advertised schedule:

6-10p Thu

Located in: Olympia

Writing Out Loud: Journalism and Personal Essay Writing

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Evening
Evening
Sophomore-Senior
Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 17
12
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

creative writing, sustainability, public policy

How do we, as writers, cut through the overload of information confronting everyday people in order to get them thinking and acting on critical issues? This one-quarter program is suited to students interested in affecting public policy and educating the broader public about complex issues. As writers, how do we educate ourselves and others in order to break through “confirmation bias,” or the human tendency to interpret any information as affirming one’s pre-conceived perspective? We will gain understanding of foundational concepts of writing the longer journalistic feature, as well as a personal essay that is primarily intended to educate.  We will leave the “rant zone,” and learn to layer writing that informs and allows readers room to adjust seemingly hardened points of view.  Students will gain skills in interviewing, research, layering, and using creative writing techniques that make journalistic feature pieces and essays more engaging.  We will have a basic introduction to adding quantitative information to make writing clear. Students will write and substantially revise two major pieces, including a journalistic feature and an essay/personal essay.  We will read several examples of excellence to ground us in learning structures and techniques. This program will be useful to students interested in communications, writing, advocacy, and non-profit work.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

communications, writing, advocacy, and non-profit work

12

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Hybrid Online Learning - This offering delivers < 25% of its instruction online, rather than via face-to-face contact between you and your instructors.
Sophomore-Senior
Class Standing: Sophomore–Senior
Class Size: 17
Evening

Scheduled for: Evening

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, April 1, 2019 - 6:00 pm
Purce Hall 8 - Classroom

Advertised schedule:

Mon/Wed 6-9:30 p.m. + Alternating Saturdays 10am-5pm (4/13; 4/27; 5/11, 5/25)

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-03-30Program is now 12 credits (was 8)

Writing the South

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Freshman-Senior
Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 50
25% Reserved for Freshmen
16
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Kris Coffey
creative writing, historical fiction, ethnic american literature
Bradley Proctor
U.S. history, African American history, American studies

“The past is not dead, in fact, it’s not even past.” - William Faulkner

The American South is often conceptualized as the birthplace of most American culture, a pinnacle of American inequality and the strongest embodiment of systems of oppression, as well as--perhaps counter-intuitively--the birthplace of the values and practices that have critiqued those systems. Racism and civil rights, poverty and music, soul food and violence, slavery and freedom, cotton and blood: these historic themes of the South grapple with contradictions and seek to make sense of a region that seems stuck in time yet constantly in change.

The American South looms largely in American writing and its historical context continues to be rich subject matter to many writers and scholars today. Writers from or fascinated with the South have created some of the most important works in American literary fiction and works of American history. But, why, exactly, are there so many stories to tell about this region of the country? What can examination of historical documentation (both in fiction and non-fiction) tell us that paints a whole picture of the region so influential to American culture?

Students will gain skills through interrogation of a wider scope of canonical U.S. Letters, to familiarize students with a deeper critique of a monolithic Southern narrative. This interdisciplinary program of literature and history will introduce students to some of these notable works but, more importantly, allow students to write about the South themselves. Together we will grapple with what it means to be southern, ask what defines the South (geographically, culturally, and politically), and how to interrogate the effects of regional myths about the South on larger American popular culture. These questions are especially intriguing to ask here in Washington, a place outside of the South but home to many similar conditions of poverty and wealth, urban and rural communities, white and non-white people.

Students will gain experience in different kinds of intensive reading, research, and writing practices, including first-hand, primary source research and learning how to analyze fictional writing, nonfiction historical narratives, and nonfiction historical analysis. We will examine four time periods of the American South:

  • Inception of U.S.& American Revolution
  • Antebellum Era & Confederacy
  • Reconstruction & The “New South”
  • Modernity & Jim Crow

Students will be required to produce works of both historical fictional and historical analysis throughout the quarter. Students will complete a final capstone writing project from the research performed over the quarter. This final project, a work of either historical fiction or historical analysis, will be based in research and stand as a student’s opportunity to write their own South.

This offering will prepare you for careers and advanced study in:

creative writing, history, education, literature, and American studies.

16

Credits per quarter

Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Freshman-Senior
Class Standing: Freshman–Senior
Class Size: 50
25% Reserved for Freshmen
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, April 1, 2019 - 12:00 pm
SEM 2 C2105 - Workshop

Located in: Olympia

Writing Well: Making Your Statement (A)

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 15
246
Credits per quarter

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Taught by

Sara Huntington square
writing, research, and information systems

If you are in or nearing your last year of undergraduate study at Evergreen, this course is an opportunity to develop and refine your writing skills. It will help you polish a portfolio of your written work, including your final academic statement. If you are developing a capstone project, senior thesis, independent research, an internship, or other culminating assignment, these skills will help you improve your final product.

The aim of the program is to help you become an independent writer capable of both reading and revising your own writing. We will aim for professional competence that will serve you now and beyond Evergreen. Because writing is a social act, you will participate in lively group critiques, complemented by individual support of your goals. We will integrate our work with your other academic commitments, including programs, projects, ILCs, courses, and your academic statement.

246

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 15
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, January 7, 2019 - 9:00 am
LIB 3301

Advertised schedule:

9:00-12:00 Mondays Lib 3301

Located in: Olympia

DateRevision
2018-11-29Variable CRN added

Writing Well: Making Your Statement (A)

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 15
24
Credits per quarter

Compare offerings and share your lists with others.

Taught by

Sara Huntington square
writing, research, and information systems

This course is a repeat of the course in winter quarter. Student who take the course in winter should not register for the spring course.

If you are in or nearing your last year of undergraduate study at Evergreen, this course is an opportunity to develop and refine your writing skills. It will help you polish a portfolio of your written work, including your final academic statement. If you are developing a capstone project, senior thesis, independent research, an internship, or other culminating assignment, these skills will help you improve your final product.

The aim of the program is to help you become an independent writer capable of both reading and revising your own writing. We will aim for professional competence that will serve you now and beyond Evergreen. Because writing is a social act, you will participate in lively group critiques, complemented by individual support of your goals. We will integrate our work with your other academic commitments, including programs, projects, ILCs, courses, and your academic statement.

24

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 15
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Monday, April 8, 2019 - 9:00 am
LIB 1540 - Workshop

Advertised schedule:

9:00-12:00 Mondays Lib 3301

Located in: Olympia

Writing Well: Making Your Statement (B)

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 15
246
Credits per quarter

Compare offerings and share your lists with others.

Taught by

Sara Huntington square
writing, research, and information systems

If you are in or nearing your last year of undergraduate study at Evergreen, this course is an opportunity to develop and refine your writing skills. It will help you polish a portfolio of your written work, including your final academic statement. If you are developing a capstone project, senior thesis, independent research, an internship, or other culminating assignment, these skills will help you improve your final product.

The aim of the program is to help you become an independent writer capable of both reading and revising your own writing. We will aim for professional competence that will serve you now and beyond Evergreen. Because writing is a social act, you will participate in lively group critiques, complemented by individual support of your goals. We will integrate our work with your other academic commitments, including programs, projects, ILCs, courses, and your academic statement.

246

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 15
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Wednesday, January 9, 2019 - 9:00 am
LIB 3301

Advertised schedule:

9:00-12:00 Wednesdays Lib 3301

Located in: Olympia

Writing Well: Making Your Statement (B)

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 15
24
Credits per quarter

Compare offerings and share your lists with others.

Taught by

Sara Huntington square
writing, research, and information systems

This course is a repeat of the course in winter quarter. Student who take the course in winter should not register for the spring course.

If you are in or nearing your last year of undergraduate study at Evergreen, this course is an opportunity to develop and refine your writing skills. It will help you polish a portfolio of your written work, including your final academic statement. If you are developing a capstone project, senior thesis, independent research, an internship, or other culminating assignment, these skills will help you improve your final product.

The aim of the program is to help you become an independent writer capable of both reading and revising your own writing. We will aim for professional competence that will serve you now and beyond Evergreen. Because writing is a social act, you will participate in lively group critiques, complemented by individual support of your goals. We will integrate our work with your other academic commitments, including programs, projects, ILCs, courses, and your academic statement.

24

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 15
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Wednesday, April 10, 2019 - 9:00 am
LIB 3301

Advertised schedule:

9:00-12:00 Wednesdays Lib 3301

Located in: Olympia

Writing Well: Making Your Statement (C)

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 15
246
Credits per quarter

Compare offerings and share your lists with others.

Taught by

Sara Huntington square
writing, research, and information systems

If you are in or nearing your last year of undergraduate study at Evergreen, this course is an opportunity to develop and refine your writing skills. It will help you polish a portfolio of your written work, including your final academic statement. If you are developing a capstone project, senior thesis, independent research, an internship, or other culminating assignment, these skills will help you improve your final product.

The aim of the program is to help you become an independent writer capable of both reading and revising your own writing. We will aim for professional competence that will serve you now and beyond Evergreen. Because writing is a social act, you will participate in lively group critiques, complemented by individual support of your goals. We will integrate our work with your other academic commitments, including programs, projects, ILCs, courses, and your academic statement.

246

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 15
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Friday, January 11, 2019 - 9:00 am
LIB 3301

Advertised schedule:

9:00-12:00 Fridays Lib 3301

Located in: Olympia

Writing Well: Making Your Statement (C)

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 15
24
Credits per quarter

Compare offerings and share your lists with others.

Taught by

Sara Huntington square
writing, research, and information systems

This course is a repeat of the course in winter quarter. Student who take the course in winter should not register for the spring course.

If you are in or nearing your last year of undergraduate study at Evergreen, this course is an opportunity to develop and refine your writing skills. It will help you polish a portfolio of your written work, including your final academic statement. If you are developing a capstone project, senior thesis, independent research, an internship, or other culminating assignment, these skills will help you improve your final product.

The aim of the program is to help you become an independent writer capable of both reading and revising your own writing. We will aim for professional competence that will serve you now and beyond Evergreen. Because writing is a social act, you will participate in lively group critiques, complemented by individual support of your goals. We will integrate our work with your other academic commitments, including programs, projects, ILCs, courses, and your academic statement.

24

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 15
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Friday, April 12, 2019 - 9:00 am
LIB 3301

Advertised schedule:

9:00-12:00 Fridays Lib 3301

Located in: Olympia

Writing Well: Making Your Statement (D)

Winter
Winter 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 15
246
Credits per quarter

Compare offerings and share your lists with others.

Taught by

Sara Huntington square
writing, research, and information systems

If you are in or nearing your last year of undergraduate study at Evergreen, this course is an opportunity to develop and refine your writing skills. It will help you polish a portfolio of your written work, including your final academic statement. If you are developing a capstone project, senior thesis, independent research, an internship, or other culminating assignment, these skills will help you improve your final product.

The aim of the program is to help you become an independent writer capable of both reading and revising your own writing. We will aim for professional competence that will serve you now and beyond Evergreen. Because writing is a social act, you will participate in lively group critiques, complemented by individual support of your goals. We will integrate our work with your other academic commitments, including programs, projects, ILCs, courses, and your academic statement.

246

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 15
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Friday, January 11, 2019 - 1:00 pm
LIB 3301

Advertised schedule:

1:00-4:00 Fridays Lib 3301

Located in: Olympia

Writing Well: Making Your Statement (D)

Spring
Spring 2019
Olympia
Olympia
Daytime
Day
Junior-Senior
Junior–Senior
Class Size: 15
24
Credits per quarter

Compare offerings and share your lists with others.

Taught by

Sara Huntington square
writing, research, and information systems

This course is a repeat of the course in winter quarter. Student who take the course in winter should not register for the spring course.

If you are in or nearing your last year of undergraduate study at Evergreen, this course is an opportunity to develop and refine your writing skills. It will help you polish a portfolio of your written work, including your final academic statement. If you are developing a capstone project, senior thesis, independent research, an internship, or other culminating assignment, these skills will help you improve your final product.

The aim of the program is to help you become an independent writer capable of both reading and revising your own writing. We will aim for professional competence that will serve you now and beyond Evergreen. Because writing is a social act, you will participate in lively group critiques, complemented by individual support of your goals. We will integrate our work with your other academic commitments, including programs, projects, ILCs, courses, and your academic statement.

24

Credits per quarter

Fields of study: 
Online learning:
  • Enhanced Online Learning - This offering requires access to web-based tools, but use of these tools does not displace any face-to-face instruction.
Junior-Senior
Class Standing: Junior–Senior
Class Size: 15
Daytime

Scheduled for: Day

Final schedule and room assignments:

First meeting:

Friday, April 12, 2019 - 1:00 pm
LIB 3301

Advertised schedule:

1:00-4:00 Fridays Lib 3301

Located in: Olympia