THE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE ~ OLYMPIA ~ WASHINGTON ~ 98505
Tel. 867 5078 (hogank [at] evergreen edu)
Tentative
syllabus
This schedule is tentative and subject to change, and always will be. We prefer to maintain some flexibility in order to respond to the direction of the program and the interests of the group. Check regularly for updates - we will assume that you've seen them.
Read - you should have read the assignment by the date for which it is listed.
Activity - things that we will do in class that day. Come prepared.
Seminar - we will discuss the reading that day. Post your seminar paper to Moodle 24 hours before class.
Due indicates assignments to be turned in that day.
1: Wednesday 27 September
Activity Introductions
•Syllabus Memory-archiving
•Covenant – handout
•Content: Hevolution and plant adaptations – Karen
•Questions applied in
many situations – Helena
Saturday 30 September
Adaptation -- Ourselves and Plants
•
Activity Field workshop on stress
and resilience in plants, populations, and communities 11-12, 1—3
•
Activity Disaster prediction
and response --The
Lessons of Valujet 592 – with Wildavsky 3.45 – 5.30
•
Activity Group issues camping
together -- evening fun – darkness walk, trust game, grading game
• covenant signing
Sunday 1 October
Adaptation – disasters in
• Read
Science Magazine handout
on disasters
2: Wednesday 4 October
Diversity of organisms
•Project Outline and Timeline
•
Activity Education Project Intro
Schools and Resilience
•
Read What makes a good school?
Size, natural light, Miracle in
East Harlem
(Mathews1994.pdf HMK computer) Catholic Schools (HMK pdf)
• Read
Why Zebras Don’t Get
Ulcers (Seminar)
• Project Outline and Timeline
• Education
• How to Read Story of Life Karen
3: Wednesday 11 October
Basic Ecology -- evolution
•
Activity multi-generation workshop
• Read
Story of Life selections
(Seminar)
• Hood Canal
Saturday 14 October
Nature/Culture
•
Activity New Orleans Students
report
•
Activity Journalism and Sensation
•
Read Control of Nature
(‘Atchafalaya’)
and Acts of God I (Seminar)
• Katrina
4: Wednesday 18 October
Housing, Floods and the 9th Ward
• Activity: Carri Jacobs on housing
•
Activity:
the 9th Ward
•
Read Acts of God II selections
(Seminar)
5: Wednesday 25 October
Globalization, disaster response, war
•
Activity: Plant physiological
ecology and vegetation succession (Karen)
•
Activity: Peacekeepers
•
Read Beyond Jihad vs.
McWorld (Seminar)
Saturday 28 October
Development, acclimation and plasticity, Health
•
Activity UN Millenium Development
Project, Ashoka
•
Activity Biological consequences
of climate change (Karen)
•
Activity — acclimation
and plasticity
•
Read The After Death Room
(Seminar)
6: Wednesday 1 November
Climate Change and local weather crises
•
Read Guns/Germs —
intro pages (Seminar)
• Read Politicians Attack, But Evidence
for Global Warming Doesn't Wilt
7: Wednesday 8 November
Monitoring and Risk
•
Activity presentation: sex offender
tracking — DVD
•
Activity workshop GIS, Sampling
and the Census bio-monitoring our own group
•
Research Paper due
Saturday 11 November
War and Peace
•
Activity Memory, Reconciliation
and Reconstruction (Helena)
•
Activity Genetics/brain biochemistry
(Karen)
• Veterans day events??
•
Read Pattern Language,
Dangerous Peace-making (Seminar)
• Research Methods reports from Projects
8: Wednesday 15 November
9: Wednesday 29 November
Authority and Ethics
•
Activity Who is in charge?
Government, Brain,
Hara, Heart, Gaia, Creator
•
Read American Ground
(Seminar)
Saturday
2 December
•
Activity Project Findings
•
Read Acts of
God part three (Seminar)
•
Activity Thinking about Prediction/
Chaos, Newton, Nature/nurture
•
Activity Presentations on Hood
Canal, Katrina, Education, Health and War/Peace
10: Wednesday 6 December
•Final
Exam
•
Activity Understanding our own
reactions to stress, and finding resilience