From community and pirate stations to internet podcasting, “radio” offers a flourishing venue for grassroots, independent media. Making Radio will offer hands-on experience to anyone interested in producing informative audio: from those with no experience to those working on established radio projects. We’ll share information about equipment, interviewing, editing, and distribution, offer each other feedback, and discuss examples of audio brought by participants. One goal is to create a collection of material to make publicly available. This course will build students’ communication, critical thinking and media skills.

Credits awarded: 4 credits in either communication, media studies or audio production

Focusing on the strengths of individuals rather than fixing weaknesses is a shift in thinking for most managers. It can impact how managers define themselves and how they formulate employee development plans. This class is designed for managers to identify and work with their own strengths, designing action plans to apply in their work groups. Participants will learn and demonstrate teambuilding techniques for creating a strength based culture within their work groups.

Credits Awarded: 2 credits in management

This course for graduate students and advanced undergraduates examines all aspects of marine mammal biology. Marine mammals are a diverse group of animals representing several evolutionary pathways that have evolved to deal with common challenges of the marine environment with a wide variety of strategies. We examine some of the recent research that has been conducted as well as become familiar with how to identify and the natural history of marine mammals in this region. This course provides in-depth examination of the marine sciences with a focus on research.

Credits awarded: 6 credits in marine mammal biology; 2 credits in research methods

Marketing in the 21st Century is an exciting new approach to selling products, services, and ideas in our competitive marketplace. In this five-week immersion into the contemporary world of marketing, fundamental marketing principles are combined with savvy, advanced, and resourceful techniques for effectively reaching audiences. The course is applicable to all who are interested in acquiring sharp, up-to-date marketing skills, including students pursuing careers in the non-profit sector. This course prepares students for upper division courses in administration, management and graduate programs, such as MPA.

Credits awarded: 4 credits in marketing

Mass media have tremendous influence over how we think about the Middle East. By examining how the Middle East is portrayed in the online English-language press of the Middle East, the U.S. and other regions, we will explore the relationship between the media and public policy makers, influences of the media on the public, differences in approaches to reporting on the Middle East among the mass media of various geographic regions, and the roles of think tanks and the specialty press. This course is the first of a two-part summer offering grounded in cross-cultural communication and peace-building. Students may enroll in the Olympia-based course first session, a faculty-led field course in Egypt and Jordan second session, or both. This course will give a solid introduction to international journalism and research methods.

Credits awarded: 4 credits in Middle East media studies

This course is for individuals interested in learning the mathematics required for an elementary education teaching certificate. We will cover topics in algebra, geometry, reasoning and proof, number and operation, mathematical representation and mathematical communication. We will also explore the history and early form of these fundamental ideas when they first arose. This course is in support of the Masters in Teaching and the Masters in Education programs at Evergreen.

Credits awarded: 6 credits in mathematics

We will design and construct models in plaster, clay and wax. Students will experience the major processes of green sand molding and casting in aluminum, plaster molding, wax fabrication, investing and lost wax casting in bronze. We will visit an art foundry and have one guest artist/demonstrator. Please note that this class meets for six weeks, and is open to all levels of experience. This course provides credits toward upper division Art.

Credits awarded: 8 credits in metal casting: sculpture

This class will explore three of the most recent popular revolts in Mexico within the historical context of Mexico’s indigenous civilization, its 20th century social revolution and the NAFTA-driven political and economic restructuring of the 1990s. We’ll structure our discussion around seminars,
videos, lectures and guest speakers. Students will choose one of the three modern revolts to examine more closely and report on to the class.

Credits awarded: 4 credits each in history of the Mexican revolution and political economy of the United States

Lecture and workshops will explore growth, metabolism, physiology, and genetics of microorganisms, especially bacteria, viruses, and parasites related to human health and disease. Laboratory emphasizes aseptic technique, control of bacterial growth, and bacterial identification and physiology using a variety of growth media and staining techniques. This program should provide the microbiology prerequisite for allied health fields such as nursing dental hygiene.

Credits awarded: 6 credits in microbiology

Microeconomics focuses on the behaviors of firms and consumers. We will cover the fundamentals of microeconomics with particular emphasis on the determinants of price in the economy. This course fulfills a prerequisite requirement for many graduate schools and upper division work.

Credits awarded: 4 credits in introduction to microeconomics

This offering provides internships for undergraduate and graduate (MES only) students at Mt. Rainier National Park. The focus of the internships changes each year but recently has included aquatic ecosystems, (amphibians, fishes, lakes and streams) and vegetation. Internships include a stipend and housing at the park. Contact Carolyn Dobbs at dobbsc@evergreen.edu for application information and a list of projects for 2008.

Credits awarded: 8 graduate or 16 undergraduate credits in environmental studies.

This program will focus on applied plant identification and field research in alpine field ecology in the Washington Cascades. Topics will include basic plant taxonomy, biology, pollination dynamics, plant growth, trophic dynamics, herbivory effects, ecological interactions, reproduction biology and human impacts on ecosystems. The field trip will form the core of this intensive course with hands-on identification, student projects, field methods training, and analysis and scientific writing. This course will help students with graduate school applications and prerequisites with field experiences in botany and applied ecology.

Credits awarded: 4 credits each in plant biology and field ecology

This class is an in-depth study into movement and its role in the organization of the human brain. Students will learn to recognize normal neurological organization by studying specific developmental milestones as well as recognize gaps and abnormalities in brain development and how they impact growth, learning and psychological well-being. This class will be deeply experiential as well as theoretical. Come prepared to move.

Credits awarded: 2 credits in dance

This program provides instruction in the use of digital and analog recording studio equipment, microphone design and placement techniques, mixing console design, signal flow, monitoring techniques, room acoustics, and signal processing. Written assignments will be based on readings in Huber’s Modern Recording Techniques, and students will present research on topics related to audio production. Students will do at least 90 hours of recording and familiarization work in recording studios. They will record local musicians and produce finished mixes of the sessions. This course fulfills the prerequisites for advanced offerings in Audio Production.

Credits awarded: 16 credits in beginning audio engineering and record production techniques

As software and musical instruments merge, it becomes more important to understand the basics of how computers are built and work together. This program will familiarize students with computer based MIDI soft and hardware and synthesizers, and will cover some of the technical ‘mysteries’ critical to comprehending use. This program is mostly about exploring the musical production process. Class structure will consist of lecture/workshop sessions, individual studio times and consulting times. This course will teach students how to gain perspective in how technology facilitates creative and arts-oriented processes.

Credits awarded: 4 credits each in music composition and computer applications in media