Student Originated Studies: Healing Justice Lineages and Futures

This Student-Originated Studies (SOS) program is designed for students who have an interest in pursuing advanced work in community-based psychology and liberatory frameworks for individual and community healing. Students may present proposals in the areas of liberation psychology, the role and promotion of critical consciousness in collective wellbeing, abolitionist approaches to mental health and social service systems as well as the interrogation of carceral logic in current service models, transformative justice, and historic and contemporary models for the provision of community-based care. Students are encouraged to pursue projects that search for possible answers to the question, "What will get us all free?" 

Students will work with faculty throughout the program to create collaborative working groups or individualized plans for study and praxis. An academic component comprised of readings, film viewings and discussion posts will provide a theoretical foundation and shared language to discuss shared themes across individual and group projects. Student work will also be supported each week by faculty-led seminars and workshops. This program can be taken for variable credit- 12 or 16 credits depending on the scope of the individual student work. 

Students are required to participate in a week-long in-person colloquium to meet daily 10 am to 4:30 pm during Week Three (the week of July 6th) as well as to meet online weekly (Wednesdays 10:00-2:00pm) throughout the program for additional instruction and to create collaborative working groups or individualized plans for study and praxis. An academic component comprised of readings, film viewings and discussion posts will provide a theoretical foundation and shared language to discuss shared themes across individual and group projects.  This program can be taken for 12 or 16 credits. Students will be expected to document their learning activities and share progress on their project with the class at regular intervals throughout the quarter. To earn full credit in this online class, students must plan to participate meaningfully in all class sessions with their camera on. 

Student groups or individual students should submit a proposed course of study for faculty review prior to Week 10 of Spring quarter, qualified students will be accepted until the program fills and will be notified of admission through their Evergreen email accounts. Contact faculty at sfirah.madrone@evergreen.edu for more information.

Anticipated Credit Equivalencies:

4 - Liberatory Frameworks for Community Care 

4, 8, 12- credit award to be determined based on student project proposal