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, 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 that consists 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- 8, 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-4:30 pm during Week Three (the week of July 6th, M-Th on campus and F off-campus field trip) 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. Students should plan to attend class sessions with their camera on and work collaboratively with the learning community. An academic component comprising 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.

Once registered, please contact faculty at sfirah.madrone@evergreen.edu to discuss your proposed project before the quarter begins. This course can be taken for 8-16 credits so when registering, please check that you have selected the correct CRN for the number of credits you would like to take.    

Anticipated Credit Equivalencies:

4 - Liberatory Frameworks for Community Care 

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