This course emphasizes beginning-level skill development in camera function, exposure, and black-and-white film development and printing, as well as an introduction to computer imaging. We will focus on photography’s role in issues of the arts, cultural representation and mass media. Students will have assignments, critiques, collaborations and viewing of work by other photographers. Each student will complete a final project for the end of the quarter.

This course will introduce students to photographic practice through digital means. Building from students’ existing photographic skills and vocabulary, we will explore image-making with both digital and film cameras, and work with computers, scanners and inkjet printers. Students will create work as exhibition-quality prints, and also create a photographic portfolio for the Web.

This course is designed to help students in the Prior Learning from Experience (PLE) program progress with their document writing. We will concentrate on writing essays that address the learning language in the knowledge areas identified in the Writing from Life course. Students will also create the structure of their document by writing the introduction, table of contents and synthesis of learning essay.

What is the purpose of education? What practices turn learning into schooling, and schooled experience into what Paulo Freire called the “restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and each other”? We will explore the foundational principles of progressive education through writers like John Dewey, W.E.B. Dubois, Myles Horton, bell hooks, Ira Shor, and others in the context of our own diverse educational histories. In addition, this course will address the learning needs of students making the transition from the requirements of a traditional system to Evergreen’s unique approach to learning.

This course will give students a broad overview of prose writing, and help them to broaden, deepen and improve their own writing practice. We will explore every step of the writing process, learning to brainstorm, structure, draft, critique, rewrite, polish and “share out” in ways large and small. The course will also address key principles of good writing, challenges such as procrastination and writer’s block, and ways to develop productive writing routines.

This course will begin to prepare students for calculus and more advanced mathematics. It is a good course for students who have recently had a college-level math class or at least three years of high school math. Students should enter the class with a good knowledge of supporting algebra. The course will include an in-depth study of linear, quadratic, exponential and logarithmic functions. Collaborative learning, data analysis and approaching problems algebraically, numerically, graphically, and verbally will be emphasized.

Exploring all areas of the Evergreen non-toxic printmaking studio, students will learn a variety of technical skills through two-week workshop-like sessions. Relief, intaglio, serigraphy, lithography and letterpress applications will be demonstrated. Proper paper handling and editioning practices will be stressed throughout the quarter. Students will learn the history and contemporary applications of all techniques through presentations and assigned readings. Students will work toward building a technical printmaking portfolio, highlighting both concept and craft.

Using an interdisciplinary approach combining the research and theories of psychology, sociology, gender studies and feminist theory, the course will investigate the psychological lives of men and women in the U.S. today through a gender lens. Topics covered include the gendered body, sexuality, emotions, power and mental health.