Adagio represents the space of inner reflection between opening and closing movements of a cycle. In Western classical and contemporary dance, it is a central piece of movement that allows for individual expression of kinesthetic and emotional interpretation. In this program, students will experience and explore connections between musical and movement phrasing and analysis.

We will study African, Afro-American and Euro-American dance choreographers who challenged and changed rigid classical form to contemporary expressive form. We will listen to and critique major classical and contemporary musical compositions that were either written for or adapted to dance performance. The composers we will study include: Beethoven, Vivaldi, Stravinsky, Barber, Ellington, Gershwin and Jarrett. Students will choose from these composers, as well as others, to research musical selections used to create improvisational and faculty-choreographed work. The texts students will study and adapt to their individual research include: Nijinsky, Diaghilev, Massine, Laban, Wigman, Ailey, Dunham, Graham, Primus, Duncan, Limon, DeMille, Alonso, the Nicholas Brothers, Balanchine, Brown and Jamison. Students will also participate with guest artists who will explore dance forms as interpretations from their formal training (e. g. , trained Western classical dancers who interpret Japanese classical and contemporary dance forms, Hispanic flamenco dancers who have trained in classical Spanish dance, Afro-Cubans who have integrated traditional ritual dance with Euro-Western dance forms, and capoeira as a martial arts/dance form adapted to the Euro-Western body).

One component of this program will be the study of experiential and intellectual uses of dance, specifically movement in general, through the application of dance therapy and authentic movement. Student activities will include: viewing films and live performances, writing critical analysis in journals and meeting with noted guest artists to discuss their work.

During spring quarter, students will prepare for a public performance. Among the requirements will be attendance at a minimum of two dance and/or music performances each quarter.

What do chemists do? In answering this question, this upper-division chemistry program will further students' studies in chemistry and prepare them for graduate studies or a career in chemistry. In all aspects of the program, classroom studies will be connected with the applications chemists encounter in their everyday work. In the lecture component, we will explore topics in quantum mechanics, spectroscopy, descriptive inorganic chemistry and the chemistry of transition elements. Students taking quantum mechanics must be comfortable working with differential and integral calculus.

The laboratory portion of the program will demand a high level of independence from students. In the winter quarter, students will learn to use analytical instruments for chemical analysis. In the spring quarter, students working in small groups will conduct experiments in advanced inorganic and physical chemistry. Technical writing skills will be developed throughout both quarters. Career guidance for those interested in pursuing careers in chemistry will be an important aspect of the program.

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.

The research conducted by the student will generally last multiple quarters and function as a capstone to the student's academic work at Evergreen. Students can also take advantage of this opportunity to write a senior thesis. The following faculty are seeking advanced students to assist with their research projects.

Maria Bastaki studies the toxicity of chemical mixtures as representative of multiple exposures to environmental pollutants. Research projects include toxicological interactions among endocrine disrupters and genetic susceptibility to environmental exposures, and involve computer modeling of structure-activity relationships and laboratory methods using in vitro cell cultures. Students will learn how toxicological evidence is generated and the basis of remaining uncertainties.

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 ecology and physiology in the Intermountain West and southwest Washington. This work includes image analysis of tree roots, chemical and physiologic analysis of plant materials, species interactions, community ordination, elevation gradients, plant physiology, carbon balance, and restoration ecology. He also manages the evergreen ecological observation network project: (http://academic.evergreen.edu/projects/EEON/).

Martha Henderson studies rural Western landscapes as processes of geography and anthropology in Pacific Northwest areas of environmental stress and economic change. Research projects include Native American landscapes and environmental change, rural communities in a global perspective, and community leadership and decision-making. Students will engage in ethnographic and spatial data gathering and analysis including the use of geographic information systems. Local environmental histories, cultural diversity, and changing resource bases will be examined. Archival and field research is encouraged.

John Longino studies insect taxonomy and ecology, with specific research focus on ants. His research program is a combination of field work in Costa Rica and collections-based research at the Evergreen campus. Students may become involved in local or neo-tropical fauna studies, with field- and/or collections-based activities.

Nalini Nadkarni is a forest ecologist and studies the ecological interactions of canopy-dwelling plants and animals in tropical and temperate rainforests. She is the president of the International Canopy Network, headquartered at Evergreen. She welcomes students who want experience in nonprofit organizations to work with her on communicating scientific information about forest canopies to other researchers, educators and conservationists. She is also interested in communicating her work to nonscientists and working with artists on collaborative ways of understanding trees and forests.

Lin Nelson studies and is involved with advocacy efforts on the linkages between environment, health, community and social justice. Students can become involved in researching environmental health in NW communities and Washington policy on phasing out persistent, bio-accumulative toxics. A major project students can work on -the impact of the Asarco smelter in Tacoma, examining public policy and regional health.

Alison Styring studies birds. She will sponsor research on bird-focused projects or projects incorporating natural history and observational methods. Three areas of special interest are natural history collections, with specimen-based research and collection curation and management; the Evergreen Ecological Observation Network (EEON) for field projects focusing on wildlife in the evergreen forest; and restoring monitoring in the Nisqually delta.

Erik Thuesen conducts research on the ecological physiology of marine animals. He and his students are currently investigating the physiological, behavioral and biochemical adaptations of gelatinous zooplankton to estuarine hypoxia. 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.

 

This program will explore the functional power of African and African diasporic storytelling traditions to heal and to restore individual, community and global well-being. It is grounded in the Pharaonic: 2780-330 BC (Classical African) mandate, which was to "restore that which was in ruin and make it more beautiful than before." From ancient Egypt to the Americas, peoples of African descent have used stories to reclaim and restore their traditions, communities and humanity.

Whether in the form of ancient Egyptian epics, African and African diasporic trickster tales (from West Africa to Chris Rock), African American blues women, African American veterans' narratives, or African American speculative fiction, African and African diasporic storytelling traditions have taught about the importance of making ways out of no ways; seeing order, justice and style amidst the chaos of the universe; and using humor as an emancipatory and transformative technique-in the words of Ralph Ellison, to "change the joke and slip the yoke."

The program will include a lecture and film series; compositional, performance and reflective practice workshops; seminars and field trips to cross-cultural storytelling venues. At the end of the quarter students will be expected to create and to perform an original story that demonstrates their learning about the African and African diasporic worldview, about multiple compositional forms, and about the performer-audience relationship. Students will perform these stories for audiences of campus peers, children and the elderly in preparation for their final presentation.

Alchemy was a scientific pursuit that integrated chemistry, astrology, art, metallurgy, medicine and mysticism. The philosophical and practical roots of alchemy span ancient China and India, classical Greece and Rome, Arabia during the Islamic Golden Age, and medieval Europe. Today alchemy is of interest mainly to historians of science. However, the metaphysical and spiritual aspects of alchemy continue to intrigue philosophers, theologians and artists.

In this program, we will explore the origins of both spiritual and chemical alchemy. We will look at the parallel development of these two strands and study their influences on modern science and philosophy. Part of our inquiry will focus on the chemical principles and processes discovered by early alchemists. In addition, we will learn how seemingly magical transformations are now the mainstay of today's chemical industry.

Program activities will include lectures, problem-solving workshops, laboratories, field trips, seminars and independent projects. Most of our readings and discussions will be concerned with the history of alchemy as it relates to modern philosophy and science. Students will undertake assignments focused on interpreting and integrating these themes. This work will emphasize critical and quantitative reasoning, as well as the development of proficient writing and speaking skills.

Western science relies on mathematics as a powerful language for expressing the character of the observed world. Mathematical models predict the behavior of complex systems, within limitations. Modern computing has significantly magnified the power of mathematical modeling and helped shape new models that increasingly influence 21st-century decisions. This program will explore the ways mathematics and computing are used to construct the scientific models that express our understanding of the natural world. Students will explore computing, study mathematical abstractions and develop the mathematical skills needed to express, analyze and solve problems arising in the sciences. The common basis for the mathematics we know today arose from ancient Greek philosophies and the scientific revolution of the 17th and 18th centuries when the predictive power of science became a significant influence on the world. An historical component of the program will allow students an opportunity to develop the mathematical concepts and skills of today by expressing, analyzing and solving problems within the original historical contexts in which they arose in the natural sciences.

This program is intended for students who want to gain a fundamental understanding of mathematics and be exposed to computer science before leaving college or pursuing further work in mathematics, teaching or the sciences. The emphasis is on the development of fluency in mathematical thinking and expression while reflecting on the role and influence of mathematics in the history of science. Topics include college algebra and pre-calculus, introduction to modeling, history of science and introductory concepts in programming. This program is not intended for students who have had calculus or are otherwise ready to take calculus.

This two-quarter, interdisciplinary program explores the many aspects of nature and nurture that converge to create what we think of as Self. Science of the body, creativity of the mind and questing of the spirit form the foundation of our inquiry. Students will observe and study their own development of Self through lectures, readings, films, experiments, and guest speakers, as well as through expository writing, poetry and creative nonfiction prose. This process will require the coordination of observation, detailed note-taking, lab work, data recovery and quantitative analysis with these written genres to reach a range of audiences with the final results. Writing assignments and quizzes are designed to assess comprehension, to provide review and to prompt focused discussion in both large and small group sessions. We value careful inquiry, effective writing and statements backed with facts.

Areas of study include, but are not limited to, developmental biology, genetics, microbiology, nutrition, individual and community health; writing for science and for mainstream audiences; developmental psychology, cross-cultural sociology, anthropology, folklore and ethics. Students will study themselves and will further this study through the writing of poetry, essays, memoirs and research papers to determine their direction in college and to acquire skills for future academic work.

Democracy . . . is the rock upon which we toil, and we thrive or wane in the communication of those symbols and processes set in motion in its name. -Ralph Ellison

To educated Europeans around 1800 the new republic called The United States of America was founded on an incredible idea: that human beings could govern themselves. Uneducated Europeans only a few decades later were struck not so much by this odd idea as by the promise of a new start, the lure of opportunity. The numbers tell a story: the handful of visitors who came to America to see with their own eyes the new land and to witness self-government firsthand versus the 35,000,000 immigrants who crossed the oceans between the 1840s and the close of unrestricted immigration in the 1920s. When foreign observers such as Alexis de Tocqueville were finished looking around, they went home. The many millions, though, stayed here, and continue to come.

These complex comings and goings-of people and ideas-underlie Americans' fascination with democracy. Where, we will ask in this program, do these democratic ideas come from? How have they been contested and shaped in the harsh crucible of American history? What are their imprints in personal lives? What do our characters as Americans owe to the cultural traditions of racial, ethnic and religious groups who constitute the nation's citizenry? Focusing mainly on the mid-nineteenth century to the present, we will examine works by novelists, historians, ethnographers, essayists and filmmakers who, like Ralph Ellison, take fresh looks at American experience.

We will also explore reverberations of these ideas in the rest of the world. In finding "America" abroad, we will consider some of the contemporary manifestations of American presence and power in various locations. Using an anthropological lens, we will reflect on people's often ambivalent readings of American tourists and soldiers, American aid organizations and NGOs, Hollywood mediascapes, and American commodities. How, we will ask, ought we to understand American representations of foreign "others" in travel writing, cinema, or museum display?

The program will involve close readings of texts, writing, research, and ethnographic training. From mid-winter to mid-spring, students will undertake independent research projects either abroad or in the U.S. Projects in foreign countries will be community-based and will combine service learning with research on an aspect of American culture or on values and practices in another society. Faculty will assist students in identifying service opportunities, which include health, education, youth, agriculture, community development, women's empowerment, and human rights. Projects within the U.S. (locally or elsewhere) will be either community-based field research projects or text-based projects in history or literature. In the concluding weeks of spring, the class will review students' ten-week projects in light of the leading issues of our inquiry. The program will provide a strong, supportive context for independent projects, volunteering or internships, and senior theses.

This program involves both hands-on photography and a study of the American history that helped shape the way photographic images of the U. S. have looked from the 1850s to the present. We will begin with a short look at the birth of photography in Europe and then how it was used as a tool of documentation for major points in American history, such as the Civil War, the opening of the American West, the Roaring 20s, the Great Depression, World War II, and the 1950s.

In addition to looking at and learning to read photographs by others, we will learn to make photographs (black and white) ourselves as recording devices for our own lives and times. Subsequently, students will learn to become proficient in the use of 35mm cameras, how to correctly expose, develop and print film, and how to discuss images intelligently.

Our main text for the quarter will be American Photography by Miles Orvell. We will also read a number of novels including The Red Badge of Courage, The Jungle, The Great Gatsby, The Grapes of Wrath, On the Road, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

American Indians have a relationship with the federal government unlike that of any other ethnic or political group in the United States. They also have complex understandings of tribal sovereignty that contest all attempts to make them subordinate to colonial powers. In this two-quarter program, we will consider the various ways in which sovereignty has been understood and argued, taking as our broad starting points the two competing contexts of tribal knowledge systems and the U. S. Constitution.

The concept of sovereignty must be placed within a local, historical, cultural and global context. Through theoretical readings and discussion, we will move from nation building in America to Native forms of nationalism. We will examine the historical background and basic doctrines of federal Indian law, including the history of federal Indian policy, the foundations of tribal sovereignty, federal roles in Indian affairs and the complex interplay of federal, tribal and state authorities in Indian country. Students will learn about traditional tribal governmental structures, contemporary tribal governments and the areas in which they exercise authority and proposals for future self-determination. We will also examine the sources and limitations of federal power over Indigenous peoples and tribes, state and federal constraints on tribal authority, and state claims to power over both Indian tribes and non-Indians living or working in Indian country.

In the fall quarter, students will gain an understanding of the legal nature of the relationship between American Indians and the United States. Beginning with the American Constitution and the era of the early republic, the federal-Indian relationship will be discussed in terms of the developing American nation state. Central to this discussion will be an analysis of the retention of tribal sovereignty in the face of political and geographic encroachment justified with arguments over federalism and carried out through treaty making, Indian removal and systematic military campaigns. The origins of modern, legal tribal sovereignty will be contrasted with the implications of the plenary powers doctrine.

In the winter quarter, we will move from this foundational overview to topical issues that have emerged in the 20th and 21st centuries, including early attempts to appeal to international law, conservation efforts and their impacts on treaty rights, tribal interests and subsistence needs of Aboriginal people. We will also examine the rise of modern inter-tribal political organizing in the face of termination, treaty rights and tribal sovereignty. Finally, the emergence of land claims, social welfare issues and economic development as critical areas of study in the late 20th century will be contrasted with the rise in broad-based appeals to other global Indigenous people and the reclamation of traditional voice in a decolonization context in recent years.

In major projects during the fall and winter quarters, students will work on a contemporary issue within Washington state that is of particular interest to local tribes. This will culminate in writing appellate briefs and presenting arguments in mock court. Alternatively, students may research and write about tribal sovereignty through a case study.

Students will challenge post-colonial theory that merely deconstructs and move to a consideration of decolonizing practices. We will take as our basic premise in this program that those wishing to know about the history of a particular native group should learn about it with a purpose to be of support to these people today. Students will develop skills as writers and researchers by studying scholarly and imaginative works and by conducting policy research and fieldwork. We will require extensive reading and writing on these topics. There will be films and guest speakers that reflect important aspects of Indigenous experiences.

Tragedy is an imitation of an action that is admirable, complete and possesses magnitude; in language made pleasurable, each of its species separated in different parts; performed by actors, not through narration; effecting through pity and fear the purification of such emotions. Aristotle, Poetics.

The genesis of tragedy cannot be explained by saying that things happen, after all, just as tragically in real life. Art is not an imitation of nature but its metaphysical supplement, raised up beside it in order to overcome it. Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

Zeus has led us on to know,
The Helmsman lays it down as law
that we must suffer, suffer into truth. the Chorus of Aeschylus' Agamemnon

Twenty five centuries ago, on a hillside in Athens, Greeks would gather excitedly to watch men and women murdered, maimed, and driven to madness on the stage. They did this in religious festivals dedicated to their gods. Tragedy was for these Greeks a spectacle, a rite, and a source of wisdom. It helped them figure out who they were: it showed them situated precariously between civilization and savagery, between the bestial and the divine. In the theater, Greeks confronted their aspirations for nobility and justice and their despair at their all too human fragility. Occasionally they saw themselves triumph, beyond all expectation.

Twenty five centuries later, on the other side of the world, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides still invite us to suffer into truth, alongside Orestes, Oedipus, Jason, and the other doomed heroes. The centuries have scarcely dimmed or softened the harsh light to which, and by which, we are exposed by theater's first masters.

This 8 credit satellite program of Knowing Nature is open to all interested freshmen and sophomores. In it we study these playwrights' tragedies partly in order to learn about ancient Greek views about fate, human nature, and divinity, among other themes. We also study them in order to face up to the hard teachings that the poets offer us about the same. We want to learn what tragedy is and what it can do for us. In these ambitions we will be helped by two profound interpreters of Greek tragedy, Aristotle and Friedrich Nietzsche.

Texts include Aeschylus' Oresteia; Sophocles' Antigone and Oedipus the King, Euripides' Medea and Bacchae, as well as Aristotle's Poetics and Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy. Students will participate in seminars on the readings, stage scenes, and write interpretive and imaginative responses to the tragedies.

This program will be a learning community dedicated to the creation of non-violent political events with imagination and artistic flair. Participants will be encouraged to incorporate interdisciplinary, interactive and hybrid approaches into their projects, as well as low-tech and readily available resources. Experimentation and thinking outside conventions will be highly encouraged. This program is committed to the idea that freedom of speech goes hand-in-hand with civic responsibility.

Students will be encouraged to explore the following issues related to the creation and presentation of politically minded artistic events. How do you disarm main narratives through subversive acts of imagination? How do you create art that moves people to act? How do you use your imagination to create art that asks difficult questions rather than preach? How can we design successful public events that compassionately bring attention to injustice or other political concerns? How do you bring imagination into political discourse? What are the legal ramifications of public actions? What are effective ways to engage in non-violent resistance?

The program will be centered on student-generated events developed over time and presented weekly to the class (or to the public), and examined with attention to technique, aesthetics, content, and originality. Faculty will present weekly movement and performance workshops and facilitate student-run seminars to discuss student work. Depending on student interest, we will attend events and performances relevant to the class.

The program requires self-direction, ability to work independently, capacity for effective work, and a commitment of 40 hours a week for class time and projects.

One way to look at both art and craft is that they have historically been held in the service of religion in order to capture the fleeting moments of ritual. How can we better understand religion by examining and making images and objects that reflect these rituals? How has visual art encouraged spiritual experience and religious practice?

Two examples of religious objects which have particular meaning and remarkable visual variety are Rosary beads and Torah pointers. Rosary beads are aesthetically considered and crafted objects used in the practice of prayer to help one keep track of the prayers already said. They are symbolic of the rose garden-roses being the symbol of Mary, the mother of Jesus, in the Christian religion. Torah pointers in Judaism are small sterling silver rods used to follow the reading of Torah and keep the reader from ever touching the sacred scroll. They are one of a number of objects, never merely utilitarian, designed to perform religious commandments in the most beautiful way possible. Rituals often make use of objects like these whose forms are constantly reinterpreted and created by artists.

This program will be based in two visual art studios: printmaking and fine metalworking. Working back and forth between 2-D and 3-D, between image making and object making, we will study basic design, studio skills and art history. Our study of art will provide a lens through which we will look at world religions, focusing on Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Since the purpose of ritual is to repeat and rehearse stories, many of the artworks we will consider will be functional. We will examine the narratives printed in books, painted in frescoes, and carved in stone, as well as sacred images like those on a bishop's cope, a silver chalice, and a common gravestone. In most cases the effect is the same: to see and remember.

This program is designed for freshmen with an interest in studio art, art history, philosophy and religion who are interested in a focused and demanding combination of studio work, writing, reading and seminar discussion. Half of the students' time will be focused on artistic practice; half will be a rigorous study of art history and religion. We will invite visiting scholars in religious studies to complement our expertise in visual art. We hope to work as a community of artists to examine ideas that have a rich historical background as well as pressing contemporary significance.

This program is a one-quarter, interdisciplinary study of light. We will explore light in art, science, art history and culture. All students will do studio work exploring how light is depicted in art, the phenomenon of color, and light as a tool for creating photographic images. All students will also explore the interaction of light with matter in the classroom as well as in the laboratory. In addition, collectively, we will explore how light has been thought about and depicted in various times and cultures.

This integrated program is designed for students who are eager to explore both art and science in a hands-on way. Our weekly schedule will include studio and science labs, specific skills workshops, lectures and seminars. We will focus on helping students build basic skills in both art and lab science, as well as library research and expository writing skills. As part of our program work, students will have the opportunity to undertake an individual or collaborative interdisciplinary project on a topic related to the theme of light.

The challenge of sea and sail inspires ordinary people to do extraordinary things. It is truly a metaphor for life and it will open up exciting vistas of opportunity. Wisdom handed down through the generations by ancient mariners, explorers, merchant seamen, fishermen and all those intrigued by venturing out on open waters will provide the "mainstay" for all we do in this year long program. What they did and what you will learn comprise the "wisdom of the sailor" and an incentive to learn even more about the world and about yourself. Our waters define the history, ecology and economy of the region. Placing vessels and students into that environment helps us make a strong public statement about the centrality of the marine environment to our economy, our identity and our future. The excitement of sailing and the challenge of sea and sail focus the talents and energies of the students while building strong learning communities aboard the sailing vessels.

During fall quarter in the classroom, we will study the origins and patterns of world trade and exploration, U.S. and Puget Sound history and an introduction to nautical charts and the use of vector geometry in Coastal Navigation. Emphasis in our seminar discussions and in the writing assignments will be on critical reasoning and an articulate analysis of the issues. Students will be expected to develop and defend detailed responses to a series of sharply focused essay questions based on the readings.

In the winter quarter classroom, we will examine the role of international trade, seaports and the maritime industries as drivers of the economic engine of the Puget Sound region. We will continue our study of the principles of coastal navigation and maritime history. As always adherence to critical reasoning principles will be emphasized in our discussions and essay writing.

Spring quarter's class work will include material on navigational history, the physics of sail and the development and refinement of coastal navigation skills. Reading, seminar discussions and writing assignments will focus on understanding and developing team building and leadership strategies and their application in the teaching of seamanship and boat handling.

Every quarter while on board a well-tuned sail-training vessel, we will "plunge into the past" and learn to apply traditional sailing techniques. This is an opportunity to study power cruise and sail seamanship, become part of a working crew, learn The Rules of the Road, tides and currents, weather, coastal navigation and various sailor's arts including knots, splices, hitches, reefs and the correct use of lines. While hauling down on a halyard or hardening up on a sheet, you will find the ship comes alive and you become a part of her. More importantly, you will learn about yourself, overcome your fear, develop self-confidence, self-discipline, responsibility and self-sufficiency while also learning teamwork, management and leadership skills. You will be challenged both physically and mentally to do things you never thought you could do. All this will be closely coordinated with our classroom work.

Indeed, the title of this program is no accident. A sailor's wisdom covers a plethora of subjects from weather to engineering and from geography to philosophy and marine ecology. A sterling example is how vector analysis is an essential part of the science of piloting (Coastal Navigation). This is a discipline you will actually come to enjoy even if you have previously despised mathematics.

The program will be ambitious and demanding both intellectually and physically. The development of leadership, teamwork and critical reasoning skills will be a constant focus throughout the year. Sailing will likely consume a full day of your time each week. It is on board ship that the work done in the classroom finds practical and sometimes urgent application. Naturally all U.S. Coast Guard and Department of Homeland Security regulations, as required by law on commercial vessels will be observed for your personal safety and protection. Nevertheless you will not be coddled and must be willing to work hard, study hard and of course, dress warmly.

In Astronomy and Cosmologies, we will learn beginning-to-intermediate astronomy through lectures, discussions, interactive workshops, and observations. We will use naked eyes, binoculars, and telescopes. We will build simple astronomical tools such as spectrometers, motion demonstrators, and position finders. We will learn about the structure and evolution of our universe and celestial bodies. Students will research a question that interests them, share research with classmates, and publish their work on our program Web page. We will also discuss cosmologies: how people across cultures and throughout history have understood the universe and our place in it. We will study creation stories and world views, from those of ancient peoples to modern astrophysicists. We will learn ways in which human understanding and knowledge are constructed.

Students are invited to help organize an optional field trip to a location with clear skies. Students must be willing to work in teams and to use computer-based learning tools, including the Internet. We may have some online seminars using chat-room software. Look for program details and updates on the Academic Program Web page, linked to the professor's homepage.

Our greatest challenge is how to live a humane existence in inhuman times — Joseph Campbell

Awakening the Dreamer, Pursuing the Dream is designed to help students meet this challenge. To do so, we will focus on the individual's relation to self, society, leadership and the creative process. This program is intended for students who seek to explore and refine their core values in a context where they can act upon them with increasing awareness and integrity.

The faculty recognize that the social and psychological challenges of every era have required people to live their lives in the face of hardships and, often, in the midst of chaos. Therefore, the program will begin by focusing on how people in the past have worked to create a meaningful relationship between themselves and the world around them. We will trace music, dance, stories and images of many creative practices and spiritual traditions, from ancient to modern times. We will examine these in an attempt to discover which of them are relevant to our own lives. As students gain knowledge and skills in these areas, they will develop their own multifaceted approaches to prioritizing and pursuing their dreams.

Throughout the year, the program will make use of cognitive and experiential approaches to learning. Students will engage in their own practice of music, movement (such as dance or yoga), writing, drawing, or theater in order to cultivate the senses as well as the imagination. These practices will help us explore the deeper aspects of the human experience, which is the source of self-leadership, intentional living and change. Students will read mythology, literature and poetry while exploring ideas that continue to shape contemporary culture. We will also look to Indigenous cultures to deepen our appreciation of often-overlooked wisdom and values such as social justice and sustainability. We will seek to develop a broader understanding of contemporary culture as a stepping stone to thinking critically about how today's dreams can become tomorrow's reality.

During fall quarter, we will look at how people have drawn on diverse resources from personal to global in scale including intuition, mythology, psychology, religion, the arts, and nature, in order to be guided to richer, more meaningful lives. We will use a combination of lectures, seminars, collaborative and individual projects, research presentations, critical and creative writing, expressive presentations, and service learning. Weekly workshops will include music, movement and somatic practices. We will also make use of the water and islands of the Puget Sound through field trips, including day and overnight sailing trips. There will be an overnight retreat during week three at which we will work with Native arts practitioners. These activities are designed to help us know ourselves better, to build real-world skills, to develop leadership within small groups, and to intentionally create community within the program.

In the winter, we will begin to build students' skills in incorporating these resources into their own lives. We will continue to draw upon poetry, literature, philosophy, science, music, dance, meditation, and creative collaborations between the students. We will also engage in leadership development activities and other means to investigate ways in which students can define and pursue their own dreams. By spring quarter, students will develop individual projects for presentation in the many communities of which they are members. These might include (but are not limited to) internships with local support services, working on the "Procession of the Species" (a local artistic pageant where community members celebrate their relationships with each other and with the natural world), volunteering to help various organizations or needy individuals, or creating opportunities for public presentation of art works that reflect the concepts that were contained in the program materials. Possible study materials include works by Joanna Macy, Gabrielle Roth, Margaret Wheatley, David Whyte, Beethoven, W. A. Mathieu, Steven Nachmanovitch, bell hooks, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Joseph Chilton Pierce and John Cage.

The real voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust

Awareness-a program devoted to exploring the complementarity of ascetical and critical studies-has been offered in various forms for the past three years. It has raised questions for the college, faculty and students: What is the value, or the virtue, of contemplative education in modern institutions of higher education? Can we reclaim the virtues of Evergreen's mascot or animal totem-the geoduck's predisposition for stillness (hesychia) and letting it all hang out-as we contemplate anew what is extolled when we sing our alma mater, "Omnia Extares!" at graduation ceremonies? Our collective inquiry will involve a look back-through important texts, student work and evaluations, institutes and retreats, programs at other institutions-to help answer these questions. Join us as we assess, appreciate, and incorporate within our own work together the best of what has been learned about the influence of this curriculum on learning communities as well as on collegiality at the college. In addition to this core work for everyone in the program, students also will design their own learning experiences. These field studies, which will constitute up to half the work of the quarter, can be anything: walking, reading, sailing, midwifery, writing, gardening, Aikido, hospice care, welding, cooking, meditation, etc. (These may seem mundane activities but any independent work will be undertaken knowing that your work, reflections and study will be conducted in light of the bookish and somatic inquiries of the program. ) Each person will answer these questions: What do you want to learn? How are you going to learn it? How are you going to know when you have learned it? How are you going to show others-faculty and colleagues-that you have learned it? And, what difference will it make?

Learning happens when you have an experience and then reflect on it. Our focus will be on the craft of reflection. Our interest is the relationship between conscious reflection-awareness-and learning.

As a learning community we will participate in mind-body practices, as well as bookish study, that facilitate and enhance our ability to reflect on our current situation in historical, cross-cultural and gendered contexts.

Attend. Paying attention to how events, people, the big wide world in all its tiny manifestations-how they all appear, how they mean anything, how they engage us-that's what we'll do. We'll attend to the terms of our engagement, the costs, the ways we renounce in order to have a modicum of freedom-a freedom that turns out to be so strikingly different from the freedom that we think about, carelessly, as living beyond restraints, limits, duty. The freedom that is the effect of careful craft, discipline and practice-that's what we want to focus on. We'll write a lot, not as a means of self expression, not to find a voice or a self, but to pay attention, to study, commit, love. "Creative writing requires a dual love of language and life, human and otherwise. The storyteller then sculpts these raw loves with acute observation, reflection, creative struggle, allegiance to truth, merciless awareness of the foibles of human beings, and unstinting empathy toward human beings even so" (David James Duncan).

Our inquiry requires attention to ascetic as well as critical practices. We will all participate in mind-body practices, lectio and other communal reading, community service and bookish study. Writing may include socio-historical inquiry, reportage, annotations, comedy, antilamentations, jeremiads, humor, fictionings of the present, manifestoes, confessions, statistics-based scandals, rants, incautious cautions, sightings or prayers, but no poetry, plays or, especially, plans.

Students should attend this class for two quarters. This program provides continuity for those students enrolled in previous quarters of Awareness.