This course explores the role movement, visual art, music and media play in problem solving and the resolution of internalized fear, conflicts or blocks.Through hands-on activities, field trips, readings, films/video, writing and guests, students discover sources of imagery as tools to awaken creative problem solving from two perspectives: creator and viewer. Students interested in human services, media and education will find this course engaging. No prerequisite art classes or training required.

What’s your passion? Music, food, film, theater, books, video games? In this course, you’ll pursue that passion by learning the art of writing reviews. You’ll develop writing skills transferable to other courses and a wide range of careers. You’ll also develop a specific skill and a portfolio
you can use to approach editors about becoming a reviewer. This is an online course. Activities will include reading and writing reviews, editing others’ reviews and participation in discussion forums and chat room “webinars.”

Manual competence and the stance it entails toward the built, material
world is an ideal that has fallen out of favor in modern culture. This course will examine that ideal through the making and mastering of woodworking hand tools. We will, as Alexandre Kojeve says, recognize our own product in the world that has actually been transformed by our hands.

This course is designed for particularly inquisitive and adventurous students. Explore the history, culture, geography and politics of Central Asia. Two weeks of Evergreen coursework will be followed by three weeks of foreign travel. In Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan we will explore Silk Road oasis cities including Samarkand and Bukhara for one week, and then backpack for two additional weeks amongst the isolated Pamir-Alai Mountains of Kyrgyzstan (an incomparable range visited by only a handful of westerners). This is a physically challenging trip, requiring students to be physically fit.

Who was the historical Jesus and why did he capture the imaginations of those who encountered him? How can we know what he really said or did and what it meant to those who met him? How did his teachings evolve into an institutional religion after his execution? Why did the nascent movement fracture so quickly after his death, and what helped it survive to become Rome’s official religion in less than 300 years and a dominant influence on Western culture for two millennia? This course will explore these and other questions through careful reading of New Testament texts, using the interpretive tools of literature, history and the social sciences to strengthen understanding of the social and political realities of the first-century Mediterranean world.