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16.00 Credits
Faculty: Carrie Margolin (cognitive psychology), Nancy Cordell (anthropology) Major areas of study include human biology (without lab), lifespan developmental psychology, research methodology, anthropology, human evolution and descriptive statistics. All credit is lower-division. Class Standing: Sophomores or above; transfer students welcome. Health and Human Development will build a background in human biology and psychology affording students the knowledge to make analytical choices in their own life. We'll look at life-span human development in the fall from prenatal to adolescence and in the winter, from adulthood through aging to mortality. Concurrently, we'll cover development and aging from both biological, psychological and cross-cultural perspectives, as well as human evolutionary development. Attaining good health is a multifaceted process, therefore our exploration of healthy lifestyles will include an exploration of biological, psychological and even financial health. Humans are spectacularly complex. An average adult's body contains roughly 10 trillion cells, each cell intricate enough to be an organism unto itself. The human nervous system alone contains hundreds of billions of cells, forming trillions of electrical connections. And this biological complexity is only the beginning. We live in highly intricate social units¡ªfamilies, tribes, political, ethnic and religious communities, etc. ¡ªeach with its own history and structure. In this interdisciplinary program, we will study how these complexities develop over time and interact in healthy human lives. The program format will include workshops, lectures, films, seminars, guest presentations and group and individual projects. We will focus on clarity in oral and written communication, quantitative skills and the ability to work across significant differences. Total: 16 credits each quarter. Enrollment: 50 Special Expenses: Approximately $80 to $100 for a privately obtained physical. Whether you will need to have a physical or not will depend on whether you select a project that requires the physical. Program is preparatory for careers and future studies in biology, psychology, anthropology, the health professions, human services and education. This program is also listed under Scientific Inquiry.
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16.00 Credits
Faculty: Virginia Darney (literature, American studies), Sally Cloninger (film, television) Major areas of study include film analysis and criticism, American film history and political economy, politics of representation, anthropology of visual communication, cultural studies and literature. Class Standing: This Core program is designed for freshmen. Prerequisites: Two quarters of an Evergreen coordinated studies program. Hortense Powdermaker, in her classic 1950 anthropological study of Hollywood, trenchantly observes that the Hollywood system "represents totalitarianism . . . In Hollywood the concept of man [sic] as a passive creature to be manipulated extends to those who work for the studios, to personal and social relationships, to the audiences in the theaters and to the characters in the movies." HOLLYWOOD will study and critique the 20th-century Dream Factory. We will explore the studio system, the star system and the films that they produced. Beginning with the first silent films, we will engage with specific moments that grew out of the Hollywood cultural and economic system, such as the politics of representation and the work of D. W. Griffith; the Production Code and the Screwball Comedies of the 1930s; the Cold War and science fiction; the "kitchen sink" drama and the House Un-American Activities Committee blacklist of the 1950s; gender politics and sexualized starlets and the casting couch. In addition, we will look at aspects of the American and international film industries that attempted to create alternatives to the Hollywood machine. Students should expect to analyze, discuss and write about film each week; read fiction, social science, film history and memoirs; complete a series of research projects in several media, from performance to multi-media; develop study guides and facilitate small seminar discussions of films; and conduct significant research on a program theme. Total: 16 credits. Enrollment: 46 Special Expenses: Approximately $50 for film research and analysis materials. Program is preparatory for careers and future studies in the arts and the humanities.
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16.00 Credits
Faculty: Greg Mullins (comparative literature) Major areas of study include human rights, political theory, literature and film. Class Standing: Juniors or seniors; transfer students welcome. Prerequisites: Two quarters of literary study. Faculty Signature: none required In what ways can the theory and practice of human rights enrich our understanding of literature, and how can literary studies broaden our understanding of human rights We will think about literature as an ethical and political project, and consider what relation, if any, literature has to conventional forms of human rights work. We'll question the emotional impact literature can have on readers, and whether emotions such as empathy have a necessary relation to justice. Finally, we will consider how narrative enables or disables memory, truth telling, and justice in the aftermath of atrocity. Among our selected human rights topics, we will study torture, disappearance, sexual and gender rights, and poverty. Our reading will focus on human rights issues in the United States, with some reading about Sri Lanka, Haiti, Grenada, and possibly South Africa. Among the authors we will probably study are Ondaatje, Danticat, Allison, Brand and Cuadros. Total: 16 credits. Enrollment: 25 Program is preparatory for careers and future studies in literature, human rights, politics, cultural studies, critical theory, law, education and human and social services. A similar program is expected to be offered in 2009-10.
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16.00 Credits
Faculty: Stacey Davis (French history), Marianne Bailey (French literature) Major areas of study include French cultural history, literature, language, visual arts and philosophy. Class Standing: Sophomores or above; transfer students welcome. This program focuses on the literature, art, history and culture of France from the Medieval, Renaissance and Classical eras. A tension of two world views marked intellectual and artistic works as well as French social life during these centuries. On one hand lay a traditional world view rooted in the material, the body and the seasonal cycle, a spirit which valued passion and intuition, communality and immanence. Philosophically Heraclitean, it saw the world as flux and becoming. On the other hand was a world view of platonic, ascending idealism, valuing the immutable over the fleeting, trumpeting reason and hierarchy. As we explore these tensions, our guiding metaphor will be the notion of "Illumination," which for the Medieval spirit glowed red-gold as the alchemist's athanor, or gems buried deep. By the 16th century, the crucial "Illumination" for French humanists was that of a mirror, whose reflection shed light on the age's inquiries into the inescapably fleeting but glorious human existence. Finally, in the 17th century, the neo-classical world turned its eyes upward: now the illuminating light of truth came from a new type of monarch, that of the reasoning mind. In this humanities program, we will concentrate our work in the disciplines of cultural history, literature, art history, symbology and philosophy, as well as French language. To a lesser extent, we will also study music and ritual. This program attempts what the French call the "Histoire des mentalités", and as an example and one of our working paradigms, we will use Michel Foucault's studies of sexuality, discourse and reason/unreason. To this end, we will learn about such phenomena as feudalism, chivalric traditions, the rise of courtly love, and the religious reformation and wars of religion which rocked 16th-century Europe. We will study peasant practice and myths as well as explore the conflicts between traditional family and community organization, notions of justice and identity, and the increasingly solidified social, political and religious hierarchies of the Catholic Church and French state as the Middle Ages gave way to the early modern era. We will practice close analysis of literary and philosophical texts (of and about or influenced by these eras); we will read secondary histories and primary texts to see how common people crafted their own identities in light of these changing world views; we will view and interpret imagery of occult, religious and secular traditions; and we will study music and performance rituals. Our readings will include folktales and their earliest transcriptions, including the cycle of the Grail, guest tales, and Marie de France's tales of the conflict between "amour-passion" and duty, or "devoir". Finally, of particular importance to our work will be the influences of the thought and images of these eras in more modern times, particularly for 19th-century authors like Hugo and Artaud, and 20th-century writers like Ionesco, Beckett and Camus. To cement this yearlong inquiry into French thought and culture, students will study the French language at one of four levels. Each quarter these language studies, as well as the reading of literature in French, will be an integral part of the program. In spring quarter, students will have the option to travel to France for ten weeks. There they will study in a Rennes, Brittany language school, visit Paris, and live for several weeks in Lyon (France's most important Renaissance city), as well as make side trips for research and pilgrimages of their own to some of the great French Medieval, Renaissance and early modern sites. Students who elect not to travel to France are invited to continue their studies in French, and to create a personal pr
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8.00 - 16.00 Credits
Faculty: Lin Nelson (environmental studies, environmental health policy) Major areas of study include environmental studies, community studies, public policy, social science; special focus-environment, health, community and sustainability. Class Standing: juniors and seniors; transfer students welcome. Prerequisites: faculty signature required (see below) Faculty Signature: To enroll, students must develop an Independent Learning Contract or Internship Contract in consultation with Lin Nelson. Interested students should send their draft proposal to Lin Nelson and arrange a meeting. For more information, contact Lin at 360-867-6056 or nelsonl@evergreen.edu. Contracts received well ahead of time (the Academic Fair before the quarter of interest) will be given priority. Qualified students will be accepted until the program fills. Independent Learning Contracts and Internships: Environment/Community Studies offers opportunities for advanced students to create their own course of study and research. Prior to the quarter, interested students or student groups need to consult with the faculty about their proposed projects. The project is then developed as an Independent Learning Contract or as an Internship, as appropriate. The faculty sponsor will support student research, learning and practice in a cluster of areas, linking environment, public health, community, local-to-global movements and sustainability. There will be strong support for students developing projects that feature connections to and applications in the region, from Olympia to neighboring communities. Lin Nelson will host these Learning Contracts and Internships through Evergreen's Center for Community-Based Learning and Action. CCBLA will serve as a support base for learning about, engaging with and contributing to community life in the region. Students-through individual or group projects-will be able to link up with regional government, agencies, organizations and movements that focus on environmental sustainability, public health and social justice. Total: 8 to 16 credits. Enrollment: 12 This program is also listed under Environmental Studies and Society, Politics, Behavior and Change
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16.00 Credits
Faculty: Harumi Moruzzi (cultural studies, literature, film studies) Major areas of study include cultural studies, Japanese literature, American literature, film studies and expository writing. Class Standing: This all-level program accepts up to 25 percent freshmen. In this program, we will examine the concepts of individual, society and the interaction between the two through the critical exploration of American and Japanese literature, cinema and media. When the 18th-century Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard chose "that individual" as his own epitaph, he was proclaiming himself as an individual, the only concrete mode of human existence, though at the same time he was keenly aware of the consequence of such a stance: an unidentifiable feeling of dread and anxiety derived from being an individual as the sole responsible agent for what he was. However, in America, the conception of individuals as autonomous and free agents with an inalienable right to pursue happiness seems to have been accepted quite cheerfully, and indeed without much anguish, as a self-evident truism throughout much of its history, manifested variously in the self-acquisitiveness of Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard, to Thoreau's "rugged" self-reliance, to the Great Gatsby's misguided self-creation. True, at times such as the 1950s, some books like William Whyte's The Organization Man and David Riesman's The Lonely Crowd revealed the conformist tendencies of individuals belonging to some American communities; however, these books were written precisely to criticize the group orientation of certain segments of society, while reclaiming the value of individualism in America. Meanwhile, in Japan, which often appears to emphasize the opposite human values from the American ethos, the importance of group cohesion and harmony rather than, to the horror of most Americans, individual rights or happiness, has been stressed throughout much of its history. In fact, Japanese often seemed to consider themselves as the embodiment of concepts such as nationality, gender or family, rather than individuals. Certainly, the reality is not as simple as these stereotypical representations of two societies indicate; nevertheless, this dichotomized comparative frame presents an interesting context in which we can explore the concepts of individual, community/society and the dynamic relationship between these two concepts. Program activities will include lectures, workshops, book and film seminars as well as expository writing. Total: 16 credits. Enrollment: 24 Special Expenses: Up to $30 for a field trip. Program is preparatory for careers and future studies in cultural studies, literature, film studies and international relations. This program is also listed under Culture, Text and Language. top
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8.00 - 16.00 Credits
Faculty: John Filmer (business management, maritime studies) Major areas of study include management, business, maritime studies, non-profit development, international trade, ocean and inter-modal transportation. Class Standing: Sophomores and above; transfer students welcome. Prerequisites: Negotiated individually with the instructor. Faculty Signature: Students should contact John at 360-867-6159 to arrange an appointment. Students should bring to this meeting a written description of their proposed study including a bibliography. At that meeting faculty and student will determine the wording of the Individual Learning Contract. Please no email until after the initial meeting when appropriate details have been established and we have arrived at a consensus for your contract. Individual Learning Contracts traditionally offer students an opportunity to do advanced study in areas that are not usually possible through regular programs or courses at Evergreen and in which they already have established skills and/or background. John welcomes the opportunity to work with students interested in Maritime Studies including history, geography, sociology, literature, navigation and the technology of sailing vessels. He also can prove of great value to students interested in business and non-profit development, organizational management, project management, international business, financial analysis, international trade, maritime commerce, economics, inter-modal transportation and seaport management. John also sponsors legislative internships and internships with state and federal government agencies, ports, freight forwarders and other private sector organizations including freight forwarders, banks and financial houses. Total: 8 to 16 credits. Enrollment: 14 Internship Possibilities: Internships can be sponsored all quarters in the areas mentioned Program is preparatory for careers and future studies in business, agency administration, maritime industries. A similar program is expected to be offered in 2008-09. This program is also listed under Society, Politics, Behavior and Change
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8.00 - 16.00 Credits
Faculty: Bill Arney Major areas of study include the student's particular area of interest in the humanities or social sciences. Class Standing: Freshmen to seniors; anyone who is prepared to do good work Faculty Signature: Students interested in Bill Arney's sponsorship should email an individual learning contract to arney@evergreen.edu. Allow time for him to edit and return the contract. Students should read about individual learning contracts and obtain the contract e-form at: http://www.evergreen.edu/advising/Indiestudy/individualcontract.htm. Students may bring contracts to the Academic Fair, March 5, 2008, but Bill gives preference to students who submit contracts via e-mail prior to that time. Individual Study offers opportunities for students to pursue their own courses of study and research. Bill Arney sponsors individual learning contracts in the humanities and social sciences. Total: 8-16 credits Enrollment: 25 Program is preparatory for careers and future studies in cultural studies, literature, film studies and international relations. This program is also listed under Culture, Text and Language.
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8.00 - 16.00 Credits
Faculty: Jorge Gilbert (sociology, international studies) and Tomas A. Mosquera (economics) Major areas of study include international economics, Latin American studies, history, geography, demography, political economy, political science, sociology and economics. Class Standing: Sophomores or above; transfer students welcome. Latin America has developed differently from North America, due in large part to the particular colonial structures of the Spanish conquerors and their interaction with the highly advanced indigenous civilizations already present when the Spanish arrived on their shores. This program will explore the historical and international context that produced the current situation of the region, including the colonial structure, the dependent state and the current neo-liberal model of governance through sociological and economic points of view.During fall, we will analyze Latin America's historical, cultural, economic, and political condition. This overview will help students understand the historical context that produced the current socio-political and economic conditions of the region. At the same time we will learn some basic economics. In particular, the economics part of the program will survey fundamental economic concepts such as economic markets, the firm's decision to produce, and consumer behavior. By the end of the quarter we will have learned how these concepts apply to present-day Latin American issues. During winter we will explore issues including dependency, poverty, unequal competition, migration, fair trade, capital flight, and Latin America's role in today's globalized world. Since each quarter's study will stand alone, completion of fall quarter is not a prerequisite for enrolling winter quarter.Students will be introduced to the basics of scientific studies and the foundations of social thought, completing an independent project pertaining to Latin America and Latinos in the United States. Students will gain proficiency with formulating research questions and demonstrate how to conceptualize and operationalize concepts and theories.During spring quarter, students will have the option to travel to Chile. Chile 2008 will focus on the study of different aspects of Chilean life. The main subjects will include the particular struggles and issues facing different sectors of the population under Chile's current neo-liberal model of economic development such as poverty, popular culture, artistic expression, women's issues and environmental concerns of the people. The studies will involve research, observation, and close collaboration with community organizations, cooperatives and public institutions. Total: 8 or 16 credits. The 8-credit option comprises weekend classes taught by both faculty members; the 16-credit option combines the weekend classes with an additional 8 credits of study on weekdays with Jorge Gilbert. Enrollment: 25 maximum for each credit option. Special Expenses: Approximately $3150 for an optional, spring quarter, four- to ten-week study abroad component in Chile. The cost includes transportation, including airfare, room and board, and field trip expenses. This program is also listed under Society, Politics, Behavior and Change and Culture, Text and Language
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16.00 Credits
Faculty: Sharon Anthony (environmental chemistry) Major areas of study include introductory environmental chemistry, scientific writing and student's independent research project. Class Standing: This lower-division program is designed for 50 percent freshmen and 50 percent sophomores. This program will provide students with an introduction to chemistry using environmental issues as a motivating theme. We will use chemistry to understand environmental problems such as climate change, the ozone hole and acid rain. We will investigate questions such as: What should we do about global warming Why does the ozone hole form in the Antarctic spring During fall quarter, we will focus on chemistry topics such as stoichiometry and molecular shapes; during winter quarter, we will move to equilibrium and chemical kinetics. Students will be introduced to topics in chemistry primarily through workshops and small-group activities and will also gain lab experience. Each student will choose an environmental problem as a topic for a research project. Scientific writing is a focus of the program, and students will be required to meet weekly with a writing tutor to strengthen their writing skills. Total: 16 credits each quarter. Enrollment: 23 Program is preparatory for careers and future studies in chemistry, environmental policy, environmental studies and science. This program is also listed under Programs for Freshmen and Environmental Studies.
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