This course differs from children’s literature to meet the developmental needs of middle and high school ages. Participants will learn about adolescent literature in an historical perspective, young adult developmentin reading and genres with representative authors and selection criteria. Participants will read and critique a variety of genres, developing a knowledge base of a variety of current authors, themes and classroom uses. Meets teaching endorsement requirements for middle-level humanities and secondary English/Language Arts.

We will explore in detail the major causes, the course, consequences and lasting historical legacy of this monumental civil conflict. We will specifically analyze how this defining moment in American history is interpreted, remembered and portrayed in history texts, fictional accounts and film.

Students continue developing vocabulary and grammatical foundations of ASL.

Students will work in expanding classifier uses, and the study of ASL and English Idioms.

When a mother of American anthropology, Edith Turner, published field notes about her sense of spirit, she concluded that anthropologists’ awareness of spirit is something of which they “do not talk.” Rudolph Steiner, the father of anthroposophy, left unfinished his spiritual anthropology of our sub- and supernatural senses. And the grandfather of philosophy, Philo, literally disappeared such feminine wisdom by translating Sophia into logos. Through discussion, painting, readings, participant-observation and ethnographic writing we’ll explore what constitutes this feminine divine in culture and ecology. Our field site is a workshop of ritual, lectures, and cosmic dances led by Dr. Robert Powell, movement therapist and author of The Sophia Teachings (www.sophiafoundation.org).

This course will cover the basics of programming in C++ and is especially suited to students who have programmed in another language and would like to learn C or C++. Students will develop an understanding of programming concepts such as object oriented programming, program design, problem solving and the syntax and structure of C++, as well as the basic control structures, including loops and conditional statements. As a final project, students will write programs for the Create mobile robot. More advanced students will do a project. Students may take either the robotics or C++ programming portions for 4 credits.

This course is designed to introduce students to both written Arabic and basic conversational Arabic in order to provide the foundations for further study in the Arabic language. Students will learn Arabic script and basic grammar rules, expand their vocabulary and practice conversational Arabic used in everyday encounters. They will also watch films, listen to music and discuss cultural topics related to language use. This course prepares students for language-based area programs, and for second year Arabic language requirements

Students will be introduced to hand bookbinding, letterpress printing, printmaking and several genres of artists’ books, completing an independently conceived project in one of these areas. Academic work will explore the poetics of the book form, artists’ books, graphic design concepts and the history of the book.

Stars & Stories: From sacred stories to fundamentals of astronomy, this intensive course will explore a variety of cosmological concepts from mythology, literature, philosophy and history, to an introduction to astronomy, archeo-astronomy and theories about the origins of the universe. We will employ scientific methods of observation, investigation, hands-on activities and strategies that foster inquiry-based learning and engage the imagination. Field trips include the Oregon star party, and visits to a planetarium or observatory. Contact instructor for
reading list.