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A Distinctive Liberal Arts and Sciences College in the Pacific Northwest the Evergreen State College Is Designed for Students Who Are Curious About Real Life A distinctive liberal arts and sciences college in the Pacific Northwest The Evergreen State College is designed for students who are curious about real life. Evergreen is a public, four-year liberal arts college, located in the Pacific Northwest, offering a curriculum that focuses on problems, themes and experiences in the world. The faculty is dedicated to teaching and working closely with students—in the classroom, the lab and the field. Evergreen students work with faculty to set their own academic goals, chart their progress, evaluate their achievements, and shape their studies to explore specific areas of interest. When they graduate, Evergreen students understand how their studies relate to people, events and issues. Faculty at Evergreen have transformed traditional education into an unmatched learning experience. Instead of taking four or five separate, unrelated classes each quarter, you’ll take one program that unifies these classes around a central theme, taught by two or three faculty from different academic disciplines. Since you do all of your academic work in one program, your faculty team will know how much work is being assigned to you, so there’s no possibility of two tests on the same day or having to choose between a field trip and a conflicting class. This interdisciplinary approach sets learning at Evergreen apart from other colleges. Many Evergreen programs continue for two or three consecutive quarters. This allows you to build specific skills to produce highly sophisticated work, even in introductory offerings. You’ll work most often in small groups with your faculty, beginning your freshman year. At Evergreen, you’ll be encouraged to voice your opinion. Your background, ethnicity, social class and preferred lifestyle will add to the multicultural perspectives here. You will find that attention to diversity, in the broadest sense, runs throughout our curriculum. Because your learning is too important to be reduced to an arbitrary number or letter grade, you’ll receive narrative evaluations from your faculty. Faculty will detail your accomplishments, list subject areas you studied and assign the credits you earn toward your bachelor’s degree. Narrative evaluations give graduate schools and employers a comprehensive picture of your undergraduate education. 3 • “Faculty really take a personal “Evergreen is about empowerment and independence. As a student interest in you. Because you are given a lot of choices and possibilities for learning and all of faculty write an evaluation, them are exciting and worthwhile. The faculty are knowledgeable, rather than use a formula to supportive and fascinating teachers.” give you a grade, they watch —Clare Davitt, sophomore, Maine you the whole quarter to learn your strengths and weaknesses. I think that makes a huge difference at Evergreen.” —Lisa Green, alumna, Ph.D., physical chemis- try, University of California, Berkeley “I love to see students developing their own work, which doesn’t mean finding a major. It’s more than that. It’s being able to understand what’s really important for you to study and to pursue it.” —Sam Schrager, Ph.D., Folklore At Evergreen the curriculum is organized around interdisciplinary programs that are newly designed each year. To illustrate how programs at Evergreen are presented, you’ll see some recent examples on the following pages. Go to evergreen.edu/studies to review all of the Fields of Study offered. You can choose a Featured Fields of Study and review an academic pathway, too. EVERGREEN PROGRAMS INCORPORate THE FOLLOWING TRADITIONAL DISCIPLINES: Anthropology Geography Performing Arts Art—Visual and Media Geology Dance Biology Health Music Theater Botany History Philosophy Business and Management Humanities Physics Chemistry International Studies China Political Science Communications France Pre-Law Community Studies Ireland Pre-Medicine Computer Science Japan Psychology Cultural and Ethnic Studies Latin America Social Sciences African American Mediterranean American Middle East Sociology Asian Languages Sustainability Studies Hispanic/Mexicano French Agriculture Latin American Japanese Design Native American Russian Energy Ecology Spanish Writing Economics Literature Zoology Environmental Studies Marine Science Film and Media Arts Mathematics Gender and Women’s Studies Media Studies Explore topics in environmental policy, ethics, sustainability, ecology, botany, biodiversity, chemistry, agriculture, hydrology, biology, marine biology and ornithology in the environmental studies. “Look in the pools that are really, really hot—they look blue because they’re reflecting the sky. There’s effectively nothing growing in them. Can life exist at pH1 or pH2? Can life exist at 90-degrees? Here at Yellowstone, it’s [about] living at those extremes.” –Andrew Brabban, Ph.D., Genetics and Microbiology (left) Sina Sonn listens to a lecture at the Norris Geyser Basin. (above) Faculty Ken Tab- butt and Andy Brabban take a group of students to the Norris Geyser Basin. Photographs by Shauna Bittle ‘98 As a student of the arts at Evergreen you can work on refining your visual, performing and media arts skills from the beginning. You will be advised to choose an interdisciplinary program that features the arts in a broader context. Social justice, environmental studies, philosophy and even the sciences will influence your performance, film production, sculpture or writing. Science and mathematics are essential components of the modern liberal arts curriculum. Evergreen faculty emphasize the application of both lab and field-based science—you will use scientific principles to solve real-world problems. You will be able to find computer science, chemistry, biology, physics, mathe- matics and the history of science in a variety of inte- grated programs. “Good evaluations are like having 20 letters of recommendation.” — Trish Towanda, senior, Colorado Your learning is more important than a letter grade. Evergreen’s noncompetitive atmosphere fosters collaboration and allows students to truly reflect on what they have learned. You will confer with your faculty one-on-one, exchange evaluations and plan for your future at the end of the program. “Narrative evaluations support collaborative work because students are not compared to each other. I find evaluations particularly useful when I talk to very strong students who would get an easy ‘A’ to push them to take intellectual risks.” —Virginia Darney, Ph.D., American Studies The faculty identifies the courses and assigns a credit amount for the work completed by the student as a part of the narrative evaluation. Life on Earth was offered over two quarters and culminated in a total of 32 credits. This is an example of how credits were awarded: 5 – Introduction to Historical Geology 4 – Writing and Seminar 5 – Introduction to Evolutionary Biology 4 – Quantitative Reasoning 5 – Introductory Chemistry 4 – Grand Canyon Natural History 5 – Earth Science Laboratory 32 – Total Quarter Hour Credits “Letter grades are meaningless—is a ‘B’ good or bad? Did an ‘A’ “I can look back and see my academic path, the projects and readings student slip or a ‘C’ student stretch? Evaluations are especially I’ve undertaken all year. Evaluations help me to understand myself and valuable to graduate schools because they specifically address the my learning, and to clarify what I want to do.” student’s ability to carry out independent research and describe how —Heidi Haberbush, senior, Cheney, WA well they perform the practical, hands-on side of their subject.” —Nancy Murray, Ph.D., Neurobiology “The whole year of work has been a process and a grade wouldn’t reflect the progress I made. I’d like an employer to read my evals, so I could be hired on what I’ve learned and the ability to apply what I know.” —Josh Giuntoli, junior, Walla Walla, WA “Evaluations are one more piece of teaching. They can also be a wake-up call. The conference around the evaluation is very powerful, getting to talk to students about their progress.” —Lisa Sweet, M.F.A., Printmaking “It would be a huge mistake to underestimate Evergreen’s academic rigor because unlike most traditional institutions in this country you don’t have to just have to prove that you got an ‘A’ or a ‘B,’ you have to warrant an evaluation that is of quality. Our evaluation system really allows for a higher level of critique to take place because it’s descriptive and nuanced. It’s far more challenging in many ways than just taking a test and getting a grade.” — Karl Anderson, junior, West Virginia “Evergreen provides an opportunity to create your own challenges instead of doing what you’re told to do. Take advantage of the situation. College is an opportunity to experiment and discover, to wonder ‘what if,’ and to push the envelope of what’s possible. Don’t do what you think you should do or what seems safe. Do what sounds like fun and pursue what challenges you.” —Jeff Jacoby, Media Producer, Emmy Award winner, Bethany, CT Dan Black is lead producer at Microsoft Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn is a recording for Xbox video game authoring and artist with K Records, and released her production. thirteenth album (a)spera in 2009. Lynda Weinman founded the web’s Bre Pettis has hosted Make magazine’s premier software and digital media Weekend Projects podcast; his company training site – Lynda.com, and is a MakerBot Industries, produces a 3-D leading author on web design and printer that creates objects in hard plastic computer graphics. from computer rendered 3-D designs. Miles McEvoy is deputy
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