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Faculty will be on hand to read and comment on your current Academic Statement. Bring a hard copy of your Academic Statement with you.

Featuring accomplished Evergreen alumni who have taken seemingly unconventional career paths, this panel will demonstrate that success comes in many forms, timelines, and progressions. These alumni will illustrate how your Evergreen education prepares you to be a flexible, nimble professional who can adapt to the changing landscape of career, business, and creative pursuits.

Interested in studying business? Join faculty in an informal discussion of opportunities in Evergreen’s business curriculum. We’ll also discuss how the business education field offers a myriad of professional possibilities.

Curious about becoming a K-12 educator? Considering teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) locally or abroad? We’ll help connect your interests with what’s available at Evergreen. Faculty will field questions about undergrad programs and our Masters in Teaching program, and provide information about state requirements and course prerequisites.

Explore undergraduate research opportunities that allow you to work closely with a faculty member in their lab. This session will help students better understand: (1) how faculty select research students, (2) some of the expectations faculty may have of students undertaking research, (3) and what students may expect to learn through this process.

Learning a foreign language opens the door to an enriching experience and to a better understanding of one’s own culture. Effectively navigate language study opportunities at Evergreen, including: Spanish, French, Russian, German, Japanese, ASL, and Chinese.

Interested in applying media analysis and production skills in interdisciplinary contexts? Do you want to explore the politics of representation in relation to power, race, class, and gender? Faculty will explore Evergreen’s unique approach to media studies and production, and discuss upper division curriculum, including the yearlong, foundational Mediaworks program.

We’ll answer questions about music and performing arts offerings at Evergreen and how to approach studying them in a liberal arts context. We’ll discuss the relevance of research, writing, and interdisciplinary coursework to artistic development. We will also discuss ways in which students can study various levels of music and performing arts, including advanced work.

Planning on getting a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) at Evergreen? Interested in a particular subject area in lab science or math and/or computer science? What are the requirements? Learn what programs you can take and how to fulfill prerequisites for upper division programs.

This session will explore psychology at Evergreen, including programs and internships. We’ll also discuss the various areas of psychology represented by Evergreen faculty (clinical, cognitive, social, developmental, health psychology, research), how to prepare for master’s programs in counseling psychology and social work, and research-oriented doctoral programs in the psychological social sciences. 

New to Evergreen? Do you want to find out more about how you can make Evergreen work for you? Faculty and students will explain Evergreen’s interdisciplinary programs and the learning possibilities that you can take advantage of. We’ll discuss what it means to take responsibility for your education and how to be a vital member of a learning community.

Entrepreneurship and Evergreen go hand in hand. These alumni will illustrate how your Evergreen education prepares you to be a flexible, nimble professional who can adapt to the changing landscape of career, business, and creative pursuits. Come see the Six Expectations being applied in inventive ways.

How do you practically prepare for careers in the arts? What will help you as an emergent working artist or as one employed in the business or non-profit sector until your art fully supports you? We’ll discuss the business, creative, and non-profit/governmental skill sets that are important to cultivate while at Evergreen.

Prepare yourself for graduate-level environmental studies at Evergreen and beyond. We’ll answer questions about typical career paths for grad students in a wide variety of fields, including research, natural resource management, ecological restoration, environmental education, non-profit conservation work, and environmental justice organizations.

Discover how summer classes can benefit you, whether you want to speed ahead to graduation, take a prerequisite for advanced or graduate work, or pivot and try something completely new. Five- or ten-week sessions. Day, evening, and weekend schedules—you can mix learning, work, and relaxation. Learn how financial aid works in the summer and how to get the most out of your award or benefits.

Individual Learning Contracts (ILC) and internships give students the chance to do extensive project and pre-professional work and study advanced topics not available in the regular curriculum. This session walks you through the process of deciding if an ILC or internship is right for you and how to pursue one.

We will identify humanities offerings for advanced students, and talk about how to do advanced work in fields such as literature, history, philosophy, etc. We’ll talk about graduate school: preparing to apply, the nature of graduate work in the humanities, and what an advanced degree in the humanities can prepare you to do.

Learn a variety of strategies and tactics for note-taking (both in the classroom and out of it). We’ll reflect on how we cultivate our notebooks and use them when writing essays, and the various heuristics we use when annotating the texts we read (and re-read).

What can you do with an MPA degree? We’ll give examples of career pathways for those interested in public, nonprofit, tribal governance, and higher education administration. Students will leave knowing how to prepare for Evergreen’s MPA program.

We’ll explore how your academic preparation as an undergraduate enables you to select and finance graduate school in the biological and physical sciences, and where that education will lead you in your career. There will be small group conversations for students to ask questions about specific fields of study (including chemistry, physics, marine biology, genetics, and molecular biology).

Many students describe studying abroad as the most pivotal part of their undergraduate experience. We’ll discuss the options for travel available at Evergreen, how studying abroad fits with the broader expectations and philosophies of the college, and what sorts of post-baccalaureate internships, work, or graduate study is possible.

Interested in sustainability and justice? How can you gain the background, skills, and vision to make change in areas that count—food systems, climate change, cultural survival, racial and economic justice, media and communications, green business, community and international studies? Create mind maps with us to navigate academic pathways through Evergreen’s curriculum.

Evergreen faculty will gather in a common space to answer questions and distribute materials for their spring quarter program or course. Students have the chance to ask faculty questions, pick up materials such as the course syllabus and evaluate their choices.

Evergreen faculty are eager to help you make the most of your education. Please join us for All-Campus Mentoring Day!