Improve your singing and music literacy by taking part in this fascinating American folk choral tradition. Shape-note singing has been described as “hauntingly beautiful”; the sheer pleasure of singing this music has kept it alive for two hundred years. Shape-note singing, also called Sacred Harp singing, combines a unique notational system, musical style and set of participatory practices. We will learn the history and traditions of this practice. We will also develop our own strong voices and sight-reading abilities.

Somatics is the field of study dealing with the subjectively felt experience of living in a human body. This course will examine the history of somatic study, somatic psychology and many somatic practices, identifying their commonalties and fundamental principals. Movement and sensory awareness will be a strong component of our study. This course is especially applicable to psychology, education, movement and consciousness studies. Come prepared to engage all levels of self in a dynamic interchange.

In this course, students will gain a basic foundation in Spanish vocabulary and grammar. The course work will focus on verbal, written and reading exercises to acquire essential vocabulary and develop communication skills. Many aspects of Latino and Spanish culture and society will be presented throughout. The course is taught primarily in Spanish and involves work in affinity groups.

Designed to introduce students to key elements of research design and basic statistical analysis. The course emphasizes the importance of developing clear research questions and the selection of statistical methods to evaluate data collected. We will cover selected descriptive
and inferential statistical tests, including but not limited to sampling, normal distributions, probability, chi square, correlation and regression and tests of hypothesis. The class emphasis is on understanding quantitative issues we often confront in the news, in literature and in research, and is designed to develop a clear conceptual understanding of quantitative reasoning and the ability to work with data to correctly interpret findings. This course serves as a statistics prerequisite.

This course provides a concentrated overview of the statistics and research methodology required for the GRE and prerequisites for graduate schools in psychology, education and other social sciences. We emphasize hands-on, intuitive knowledge and approach statistics as a language rather than as math alone; thus this course is gentle on “math phobics.” No computer skills are required. You will become an informed and savvy consumer of information, from the classroom to the workplace. We will cover descriptive and inferential statistics, research methodology and ethics.

This is an academic and travel-based study of life and the arts in urban settings. This full session 10-week program begins with three weeks of urban studies on campus followed by six weeks of travel field study in student chosen cities. The program concludes with two weeks of field study presentations on campus. Cities, as centers of culture and the arts, offer an array of field study options: architecture, business, languages, social change, museums, music, tourism and environmental concerns, to name a few.

This course is designed to introduce students to the art of film through screenings, readings, writing and instruction in Super-8mm filmmaking techniques. We will examine film form through a series of screenings, considering first the classical narrative, then examining alternative film practices with a focus on documentary and experimental forms. Students will shoot film weekly to develop skills in cinematography and learn the properties of film stocks, lenses and basic Super-8 film editing.

Taught entirely in the field. We will travel two days through excellent birding country to a tented camp on Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge in south-central Oregon. We will spend the next two weeks netting, processing, banding and releasing 800 to 1,000 small birds of about thirty species. We will balance the in-hand work with field identification and behavioral observations. The last week we will tour Steens Mountain and the Malheur area. After this summer, we will have banded more than 18,000 birds. This course routinely yields upper division credit.

This is an intensive, hands-on program for students of all skill levels who wish to learn the basics of the 35mm camera (or larger format), darkroom techniques, aesthetics and a short history of photography. A final project involves production of a book of photographs; each student will receive a copy at quarter’s end. Emphasis is placed on learning to see as an artist does, taking risks with one’s work and being open to new ideas. Note: Demand for this program is always high and the class size is limited to 18. Students failing to attend the first day of class will risk being dropped.

This program will investigate the synergistic forces that create and bring about social change for at-risk youth through community development projects. Includes classroom lectures, guest speakers and seminars around topics of at-risk youth mentoring, sustainability, community development, leadership, food security and program implementation. Mornings will be spent at Evergreen in class settings. Afternoons will be spent at Growing Places Farm and Energy Park in Centralia, Wash.