Evergreen Programs

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Academic Programs 2007 - 2008 Academic Year

Destinations

• Costa Rica
• British Columbia, Canada
• Chile
• France
• Japan
• Peru
• United States

America Abroad

Fall, Winter and Spring

Faculty: Sam Schrager (American studies), David Marr (American studies), and Eric Stein (anthropology).

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.

Special Expenses: $90 for three day fieldtrip. Approximately $1,500 to $3,000 for students studying abroad from mid-winter to mid-spring.

Family: Inspiration of Significant Others

Fall, Winter and Spring

Faculty: David Rutledge (education, Native American studies), Yvonne Peterson (education, Native American studies), Raul Nakasone (education, Native American studies, Latin American studies, Spanish, Peruvian history)

This program is for students who have a research topic (with a major focus on family) in mind, as well as for those who would like to learn how to do research in a student-centered environment. Students will be exposed to research methods, ethnographic research and interviewing techniques, writing workshops, computer literacy, library workshops, moving River of Culture Moments to documentary, educational technology and the educational philosophy that supports this program. Yvonne Peterson will offer a special series of workshops to support the particular academic needs of first- and second-year students.

Students whose research could be enriched by being immersed in a foreign culture will have the opportunity to live in Peru for five weeks or more during winter quarter. Our access to rural communities on the Peruvian northern coast offers students the opportunity to experience volunteer community work by learning in a safe and healthy pueblo environment. Learning about Latin America through Peru will expand the concept of Native American and Indigenous peoples.

Special Expenses: Approximately $2,000 for an optional five-week study abroad trip to Peru during winter quarter. Cost includes transportation, room and board. A $150 non-refundable deposit must be paid by September 28, 2007. For information about the study abroad component, contact Raul Nakasone, (360) 867-6065 or nakasonr@evergreen. edu.

Illuminations: French Arts, Thought and Cultural History of the Medieval, Renaissance and Early Classical Eras

Fall, Winter and Spring

Faculty: Stacey Davis (French history), Marianne Bailey (French literature)

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.

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.

Special Expenses: Approximately $6,000 to $6,500 for optional ten-week trip to France during spring quarter. A $250 deposit is due November 1, 2007.

International Policy and Business: Latin American Reality

Fall, Winter and Spring

Faculty: Jorge Gilbert (sociology, international studies) and Tomas A. Mosquera (economics)

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.

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.

Japanese Language and Culture

Fall, Winter and Spring

Faculty: Setsuko Tsutsumi (Japanese literature, history and language)

This program will explore the political and cultural development of Japanese civilization from early times to the evolution of the modern era. We will clarify what makes Japanese culture unique by examining major historical changes over time. We will identify the elements of continuity through the significant changes in Japan's long and distinguished history. Materials will be drawn from literature, history, politics and film. We will have weekly film sessions to complement, illustrate or contrast our weekly program theme. The Japanese language course will be offered in two levels throughout the year to develop insight into the culture.

Special Expenses: Approximately $100 for four field trips during fall and winter quarters. Optional study abroad to Japan during spring quarter, approximately $4,000 for transportation including airfare, room and board, meals, museum and theater fees. Study abroad payment deadline is February 29, 2008.

Native Decolonization in the Pacific Rim

Fall and Winter

Faculty: Frances V. Rains (Native studies, U. S. history), Zoltán C. Grossman (geography, Native studies)

This program examines the dynamics of settler colonization and Native decolonization in a comparative framework, using the Pacific Rim as a geographic focus. By concentrating on a larger region, students will have an opportunity to broaden Indigenous studies beyond the 48 states, and show common processes of Native decolonization in different settler societies.

In the fall quarter, we will emphasize the complexities and intricacies of Native decolonization by concentrating on a particular region, in this case the First Nations of British Columbia, Canada. These Aboriginal peoples did not sign treaties with the Canadian state, and are today in the forefront of defining and mapping their land base.

Special Expenses: Up to $500 for a field trip to Canada. Students must have a current, valid passport

Rainforest Research

Spring quarter

Faculty: John T. Longino (biology)

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.

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.

Tropical Rainforests

Winter quarter

Faculty: John T. Longino (biology), Paul Butler (geology)

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.

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.