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  • : Performing Arts in the City

    16.00 Credits
    The Evergreen State College

    Faculty: Andrew Buchman (music), Stephanie Kozick (human development) Major areas of study include music, dance, performing arts and cultural studies. Class Standing: Sophomores or above; transfer students welcome. Have you ever wondered how living in a city changes a person's consciousness about arts and culture What is it about urban environments that can promote open, positive and creative attitudes, or burden people with alienation and fear How do artists grow and learn in cities What special advantages do they enjoy, and what special problems do they face Themes of this program include considerations of individual and group identity, the impact on the planet's ecology of urbanization (90% of which is currently occurring in the developing world), and the phenomenon Alan Lomax called "cultural grey-out." He argued that many art forms, languages and cultures are disappearing-unless we preserve them somehow in a rapidly changing world. Students in this program may find a mission, a research project, and/or a spring internship engaged in this vital work. As the pace of technological and social change has quickened, cities have become centers for migrants from elsewhere who come together to create new kinds of polycultural artistic forms, cuisines, communities, families and relationships. Old musics blend into new musics, dreams blend with realities, and dance is ever reinvented-all, often, in the cities. Why is this becoming a globe of urban dwellers How will inhabitants of cities retain their connections to the natural world and remain conscious of the need to conserve and protect it What aspects of the interrelated history of the arts and cities offer patterns for our own creative work and our own conceptions of a better world Thinking about cities engages interdisciplinary learning about history, urban studies, specific arts (movement, music, performance), literature, cultural studies and social movements. In weekly workshops, we will learn to use our voices, play instruments, stretch, move, compose, choreograph, write and perform dramatic scenarios and dialogues. Students will work regularly in small groups, collaborating to create a series of original performance projects (presented in class) reflecting themes from our studies. We will do lots of writing, too, including play scripts, musical compositions, dance scenarios, expository essays, observational field notes, and research assignments using maps, tables and graphs. In the fall, we will establish a common base of historical artists, genres, themes, styles and approaches to analyzing performances. Whether students have a little background in the arts or a lot, after this quarter's work they will have acquired new, interdisciplinary perspectives on the performing arts and culture. We will study the role of an artist's cultural time and place in their work, and how cities developed historically. We'll examine contemporary cities in both the industrialized and developing world. For example, we might examine various versions of the Orpheus myth, including contemporary performances set in Paris, New York and Rio de Janeiro. In the winter, we'll dive into serious studies of the myths and realities of life in Chicago and New York, via evocative works of art and ethnographic studies. We will study the arts and cultures of successive waves of migrants to North America. In addition to discussing exceptional artists, we'll be discussing the role of music and dance in people's everyday lives: in childhood, lifecycle rituals, work, play, worship and politics. In the spring, all students will be expected to pursue an arts and/or community internship, a major research project and continuing studies of artworks chosen by students as well as the faculty. Group or individual research might involve comparing the modern histories of Beijing and Shanghai, or Chicago and Berlin, or closer to home, examining the needs of Seattle and Portland. Total: 16 credits fall and winter quar
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  • : Performing Arts Laboratory

    16.00 Credits
    The Evergreen State College

    Faculty: Walter Eugene Grodzik (theater, acting), Ariel Goldberger (puppet theater, performance), and Ratna Roy (literature, dance). Major areas of study include experimental theatre, experimental performance, puppet theatre, Théatre d'Objet, traditional dance, and Orissi dance theatre. Class Standing:This all-level program accepts up to 25% freshmen. Prerequisites: None. However, students register for one of three options within this course. See registration information and Course Registration Numbers below. This all-level program accepts up to 25% freshmen. This program offers performance students the opportunity to study in one of three performance disciplines during two consecutive quarters, honing discipline specific skills. Students will select one of three tracks for intensive work. The Experimental Theatre track will offer students an opportunity to intensely develop technique that will enable them to create avant-garde theatre original work and text-based projects. The Experimental Puppet and Object Theatre track will offer students the opportunity to develop innovative performance approaches through a plan of study organized around parallel class components including body, text, performance, technique, theory, critiques, and seminar readings on contemporary and avant-garde performance. Students choosing the Orissi Dance Theatre track will study traditional Sanskrit dance theater and music, in order to create contemporary works on the theme of Art for Social Change. All three tracks will depart from traditional performance skills and vocabulary to develop innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to performance, and will have specific readings. The three tracks will meet weekly in joint interactive performance seminars. Students will choose which track they wish to follow, and register for that track. The CRNs are as follows: Experimental Theater: freshmen CRN: 10585; sophomore to senior CRN: 10586 Experimental Puppet and Object Theatre: freshmen CRN: 10587; sophomore to senior CRN: 10588 Orissi Dance Theatre: freshmen CRN: 10589; sophomore to senior CRN: 10590 This program welcomes enthusiastic and motivated students ready to do intensive work. Students should be prepared to apply their interest across the three tracks, and to invest long, wonderful fun hours outside of scheduled class times to rehearse and prepare for their performance projects. Fall quarter will culminate with in-class performances, and winter quarter with a public performance at the discretion of the faculty. Total: 16 credits each quarter. Enrollment: 72 Internship Possibilities: With faculty approval. Special Expenses: $150 student fees plus special expenses each quarter depending on the student's individual projects. Program is preparatory for careers and future studies in performing arts, theater, education.
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  • : Plant Ecology and Physiology

    16.00 Credits
    The Evergreen State College

    Faculty: Dylan Fischer (forest ecology) Major areas of study include plant ecology, plant anatomy, plant physiology, plant community ecology and technical writing. Class Standing: Juniors or seniors; transfer students welcome. Prerequisites: One year of college-level science. How do plants and plant communities function How do plants differ in function above ground and below ground We will closely examine the ecology and physiology of plants and current methods in plant ecology. Our studies will be divided between those that focus on individual plants, on the interactions among plants and with the abiotic environment. Topics will include plant anatomy, physiology, competition ecology, plant water use, photosynthesis, plant growth and form, plant rooting, and the potential effects of large scale disturbances such as global warming on plant communities. We will apply what we learn about plant ecology to better understand current research in the broader field of ecology in general. Our readings will be divided between current widely used texts in plant physiology and ecology and current research papers from technical journals. Day trips, workshops, labs and a multiple-day field trip will allow us to observe field research on plant physiology, restoration, the plant ecology of diverse environments, as well as conduct student-driven research on plant ecology and physiology. Communication skills will be emphasized, particularly reading scientific articles and writing for scientific audiences. We will also practice skills for communicating to a broader public using non-fiction and technical writing found in major botanical journals. Total: 16 credits. Enrollment: 25 Special Expenses: $250 for field trip costs. Program is preparatory for careers and future studies in forest ecology, botany, biology, education, environmental sciences and ecology. A similar program is expected to be offered in 2009-10.
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  • : Poetics and Power

    16.00 Credits
    The Evergreen State College

    Faculty: Leonard Schwartz (poetics, creative writing), Steve Niva (international politics, political philosophy) Major areas of study include poetics, poetry, literature, political science, cultural studies and creative writing. Class Standing: Sophomores or above; transfer students welcome. Prerequisites: Faculty signature required (see below). Faculty Signature: Students must submit a portfolio of seven to ten pages of poetry or critical writing to the faculty. For information, contact Leonard Schwartz, (360) 867-5412 or schwartl@evergreen. edu or Steve Niva, (360) 867-5612 or nivas@evergreen. edu. Portfolios received by the Academic Fair, May 16, 2007, will be given priority. Qualified students will be accepted until the program fills. To what extent is political power created, transmitted and/or resisted through language How do poetry and fiction negotiate with power, reinforcing it or changing its flow How do linguistic conventions shape political and economic policies, and how can they be challenged This two-quarter program will examine these and other questions as it explores the function of the written word as a masking agent and a mediator of history, power and violence in a variety of different genres and political contexts. Poetics and Power will include an examination of 20th-century poetry and poetics in the shadow of world wars, genocide and decolonization, beginning with the visionary poetics of Arthur Rimbaud and critical responses by Paul Celan and Theodore Adorno. We will address the strategies of avant-garde and radical poetics and evaluate several contemporary approaches, including the contemporary "Poets Against the War" project. We will examine realist and anti-representational forms of fiction for their political effects, including the writings of Franz Kafka, J. M. Coetzee and Arundhati Roy. We will also examine how political events and public policies are constituted by various postcolonial discourses, including how "Orientalist" representations of the Middle East as backwards and violent shape U. S. foreign policy, and how the discourse of "underdevelopment" has guided Western economic policies towards the Third World. The work of the program will be analytical as well as creative. In addition to intensive reading and theoretical analysis, students will be expected to experiment in creating poetry, prose poetry, metafiction and nonfiction. Total: 16 credits each quarter. Enrollment: 50 Program is preparatory for careers and future studies in the humanities, social sciences, cultural studies, poetry, journalism and politics.
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  • : Poetry New York

    12.00 - 16.00 Credits
    The Evergreen State College

    Faculty: Leonard Schwartz (poetics, creative writing) Major areas of study include creative writing, poetics, performance studies, literary criticism, American literature and exile literature. Class Standing: Sophomore or above; transfer students welcome. Prerequisites: Faculty signature required (see below). Faculty Signature: To obtain a faculty signature, students must submit a ten page portfolio of poetry or critical writing and interview with the faculty. To make an appointment, contact Leonard Schwartz, (360) 867-5412 or schwartl@evergreen. edu. Portfolios received by the Academic Fair, March 5, 2008, will be given priority. Qualified students will be accepted until the program fills. The goal of Poetry New York will be to immerse students in an intense and various writing community, both as writers of poetry themselves and as critical writers. It is hoped that this daily contact with practicing writers, poets, translators, and publishers will advance each student's writing horizons and range of reading possibilities, demystifying the practice and profession of writing while inspiring students to advance in their own art. This field study program features an immersion in New York City's poetry, literary and publishing worlds. We will spend two weeks on campus preparing for our trip by way of various readings in New York's literary history and in The New York School of Poets. The program will then fly to New York City for six weeks, where we will take up classroom residency at The Bowery Poetry Club, on Manhattan's Lower East Side. By arrangement with the Club we will use its space as a classroom for daily meetings, as a venue for our own readings and as locale for attending readings. The Bowery Poetry Club is a caf, classroom and stage space that currently serves as the center for numerous literary scenes in NYC, including those of an experimental tradition, a spoken word and performance tradition, and various ethnically identified writing scenes. Students will pursue their own writing, write critical pieces on the poetry they hear, read, interview poets they meet, and be required to attend at least one event a day (or night) across the city: The Bowery Poetry Club, The St. Marks Poetry Project, The Academy of American Poets, The New York Public Library, and so on, are all options for students to pursue their writing. Local projects might include working on poems to appear in public spaces in the city, working collaboratively on translations of poets in town writing in other languages, or compiling a journal of field notes. Field trips will also be arranged to the offices of various publishers of the instructor's acquaintance to study, close up, the way in which literature is made. Some of these publishers might include: New Directions Publishing Company, The New York Review Of Books, Archipelago Books, Seven Stories Press, etc. The final two weeks of the quarter will be spent back on campus in Olympia, debriefing, finishing poems and essays, and producing an anthology of our work. Total Credits: 12 or 16 credits. Enrollment: 25 Special Expenses: Approximately $2,000 for airfare to New York City, food and lodging for six weeks, in addition to some ticket fees for special events. The instructor will have suggestions about living arrangements. Program is preparatory for careers and future studies in writing, art, editing and publishing. top
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  • : Political Economy and Social Movements

    16.00 Credits
    The Evergreen State College

    Faculty: Peter Bohmer (political economy), Dan Leahy (social movement theory and practice) Major areas of study include economics, U. S. social history, political economy, economics, studies in race, class and gender, theory and practice of social movements, globalization and Latin American studies. Class Standing: Sophomores or above; transfer students welcome. Political Economy and Social Movements is designed to introduce students to major concepts in neoclassical economics, Marxism and anarchism, and to provide a foundation for more advanced work in political economy and the social sciences. A central goal of this program is to gain a clear understanding of how the U. S. economy has been organized and reorganized over time, how it has been controlled and who has benefited from it, the nature of racism and sexism, and how social movements, particularly those based on race, class and gender, have resisted and shaped its direction. We will examine the historical construction of the U. S. political economy, the role social movements have played in its development and the future possibilities for social justice. We will also examine the current and future direction of U. S. society, and how various social movements are responding to the changing global order, nationally and globally. We'll look at key issues and economic trends and how they are being addressed in the context of the 2008 Presidential elections. In particular, our work will center on the interrelationship between the U. S. economy and the changing global system. We will study the causes and consequences of the growing globalization of capital, the role of institutions such as the World Bank, the IMF and the World Trade Organization, the meaning of various trade agreements and the resistance and alternative models being organized by international social movements and nation states, with particular attention paid to Latin America. Films will be shown throughout the program and there will be a substantial amount of reading in a variety of genres. There will be workshops throughout the program in economics and organizing for social change. Students will write a series of short, primarily analytical papers. Total: 16 credits. Enrollment: 50 Program is preparatory for careers and future studies in labor and community organizing, education, economics, politics, public policy, U. S. history, political economy, Latin American studies and labor studies.
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  • : Political Economy of Power In American Society

    16.00 Credits
    The Evergreen State College

    Faculty: Lawrence Mosqueda (political economy) Major areas of study include U. S. history, U. S. government, U. S. foreign policy and political economy. Class Standing: Sophomores or above; transfer students welcome. This program focuses on the issue of power in American society. In our analysis, we will investigate the nature of economic, political, social, military, ideological and interpersonal power. The interrelationship of these dimensions will be our primary area of study. We will explore these themes through lectures, films, seminars, a journal and writing short papers. The analysis will be guided by the following questions, as well as others that may emerge from our discussions: What is meant by the term "power" Are there different kinds of power How are they interrelated Who has power in American society Who is relatively powerless Why How is power accumulated What resources are involved How is power utilized and with what impact on various sectors of the population What characterizes the struggle for power How does domestic power relate to international power How is international power used How are people affected by the current power structure What responsibilities do citizens have to alter the structure of power What alternative structures are possible, probable, necessary or desirable In this period of war and economic, social and political crisis, a good deal of our study will focus on international relations in a systematic and intellectual manner. This is a serious class for serious people. There will be a good deal of reading and some weeks will be more complex than others. Please be prepared to work hard and to challenge your and others' thinking. Students who are looking for political economy and social change content may want to take this program and then take the spring program, Political Economy and Social Movements. Total: 16 credits. Enrollment: 25 Program is preparatory for careers and future studies in government, public policy, history and advanced political economy. A similar program is expected to be offered in 2009-10. top
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  • : Practice of Sustainable Agriculture

    16.00 Credits
    The Evergreen State College

    Faculty: David Muehleisen (entomology, sustainable agriculture) Major areas of study include practical horticulture and organic farming practices. Class Standing: Juniors or seniors; transfer students welcome. Prerequisites: Faculty signature required (see below). Faculty Signature: Application and interview are required. To apply, contact Melissa Barker, Organic Farm Manager, (360) 867-6160 or barkerm@evergreen. edu or mail to The Evergreen State College, Organic Farm Manager, Lab I, Olympia, WA 98505, or contact the Academic Advising Office, (360) 867-6312. Applications received by March 5, 2008, will be given priority. Qualified students will be accepted until the program fills. This program integrates the theoretical and practical aspects of small-scale organic farming in the Pacific Northwest throughout the spring, summer and fall quarters. Each week includes eight hours of classroom instruction and twenty hours of hands-on work at Evergreen's Organic Farm. This program is designed to compliment the broader and ecological systems focus of the Ecological Agriculture program. Students will explore basic farm management, which will include seasonal crop production, nutrient management, animal husbandry, irrigation, plant breeding for seed production, weed and pest control, as well as direct and wholesale marketing. Working with state-of-the-art facilities, this program will introduce students to vermiculture, composting and biodiesel production. These topics will provide a framework and foundation for more specific concepts to be explored each season. In spring, the program will focus on soils, practical horticulture, greenhouse management, crop rotation and equipment maintenance. In summer, students will explore their personal agricultural interests through a research project. The program will also visit a wide range of diverse alternative and conventional organic farms. Summer topics will include reproductive crop biology, fruit production and food preservation, as well as outbuilding construction, with basic workshops on plumbing and electricity. In fall, we will focus on winter crop production, cover crops, entomology and plant pathology, genetics and seed saving, compost biology, food storage and farm business planning. After completing the Practice of Sustainable Agriculture program, students will have an understanding of a whole systems approach to small-scale sustainable farm management in the Pacific Northwest. Total: 16 credits. Enrollment: 25 Internship Possibilities: Agriculture related with faculty approval. Special Expenses: $100 each quarter for field trips. Program is preparatory for careers and future studies in sustainable agriculture, horticulture, farming, environmental studies and environmental education. A similar program is expected to be offered in 2008-09.
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  • : Rainforest Research

    16.00 Credits
    The Evergreen State College

    Faculty: John T. Longino (biology) Major areas of study include tropical field biology. Upper-division science credit will be awarded. Class Standing: Juniors or seniors; transfer students welcome. Prerequisites: Temperate Rainforests or Tropical Rainforests or the equivalent. Faculty signature required (see below). Faculty Signature: Students enrolled in Tropical Rainforests should include a statement in their application regarding interest in the Rainforest Research program. Tropical Rainforests students will be given preference but new students may enroll. New students wishing to enroll should contact John Longino, (360) 867-6511 or longinoj@evergreen. edu for an interview. Students applying prior to the fall Academic Fair, November 28, 2007, will be given preference. Qualified students will be accepted until the program fills. This program is a logical successor to the Temperate Rainforests and Tropical Rainforests programs. Students will carry out an independent scientific research project in tropical rainforest biology. Proposals for projects will have been developed during the earlier Tropical Rainforests program, or through direct consultation with the faculty. Projects will involve extensive field work, and may be located in a variety of possible sites in Costa Rica. Students will gather and analyze their own data, write a technical research report and present their results in a symposium at the end of the quarter. Students will have weekly consultation with faculty via e-mail, and will meet with the faculty twice during the quarter at the La Selva Biological Station, once early in the quarter for project development, and at the end of the quarter for final report writing and the symposium. Examples of previous studies include insect attraction to bioluminescent fungi, foraging behavior of nectar-feeding bats and effect of canopy position on epiphyte drying rates. Total: 16 credits. Enrollment: 24 Special Expenses: Students should be prepared to finance their own travel, daily living expenses and project needs. For example, complete room and board for ten weeks at La Selva Biological Station is about $1,800. Airfare to Costa Rica is often about $700. Ten days of joint meetings at La Selva Biological Station will be required and should be factored in to your living expenses ($250 or $340, depending on long-term or short-term status at La Selva). There is a $150 study abroad fee payable to Evergreen. Program is preparatory for careers and future studies in environmental studies, ecology, conservation biology and evolutionary biology. This program is also listed under Environmental Studies. A similar program is expected to be offered in 2009-10. top
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  • : Rehearsal and Performance: Theatre

    16.00 Credits
    The Evergreen State College

    Faculty: Walter Eugene Grodzik (theater, acting) Major areas of study include acting, directing, theatrical design, stage management, dramaturgy, costuming, lighting, sound, publicity, theatre history, critical theory, and dramatic literature. Class Standing: Class Standing: Sophomore and above; transfer students welcome Faculty Signature: Admission by interviews/auditions. Interviews/auditions will be conducted at the end of winter quarter and at the Academic Fair, March 5, 2008. For more information, contact Walter Eugene Grodzik, 867-6076 or grodzikw@evergreen.edu, before the auditions and academic fair. Qualified students will be accepted until the program fills. Rehearsal and Performance: Theatre will consist exclusively of participating in a faculty-directed stage production of a play chosen by the instructor. The audition, rehearsal, and production work will follow an academic/professional theater model. The play will be chosen from the realistic or avant-garde theater canon. This will allow us to work with acting and directing techniques that were specifically developed for each type of theater. For example, these techniques could include Stanislavski's Sense Memory, Michael Chekhov's Psychological Gesture, or Ann Bogart's Viewpoints. Students will experience rigorous training in movement and vocal techniques and will learn to utilize these techniques in the performance of the play. Participation in the production involves acting in the play, dramaturgical work, assistant directing, stage management, set, costume, lighting and sound design, set and costume construction, publicity, and all the other areas related to a successful play production. Every student will participate in more than one area of the production process. While the production will be directed by the faculty, the process will be an interactive collaboration among all participants. The program will spend the first seven to eight weeks in rehearsal, and will culminate in a fully mounted site-specific production or a production in the Experimental Theatre. In addition to rehearsals and production work, the students will examine dramaturgical matters closely related to the production. For example, if the production is a play by a twentieth century avant-garde writer, students will study other plays by the same author, scholarship, and the social, political, economic and cultural environment of the play. This will help us to understand the world of the play, as well as the world of the author. Total: 16 credits Enrollment: 25 Program is preparatory for careers and future studies in education, theater, the arts and humanities.
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