it's raining again
Working on research for classes next fall. At evergreen, you take only one "program" or class. You have several professors, and are awarded credit in several areas. There are different types of activities in a week (including seminars, studio sessions, critiques, etc). But it's all one integrated thing that you sign up to take. Programs last between one term and the entire year, and it is incredibly important to choose well.
Therefore! I am starting early with my research, and I am totally enamoured with the whole thing.
Current perfect class = Madness and Creativity: The Psychological Link
Fall and Winter Terms, with a Russian Lit Prof, a Psych prof with a background in gender studies, and an art professor specializing in latin american art and painting
"Many of the world's greatest writers, artists and thinkers have been known to struggle with abnormal psychological conditions... We will read a broad selection of imaginative literature that describes abnormal psychological conditions... These may include works of Shakespeare, Goethe, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Poe, Nietzsche, Kafka, Woolf, Lessing, London and Plath...and visual artists such as Vincent Van Gogh and Jackson Pollack... This class is not intended to serve as therapy, but rather is a serious study of psychology, literature, art history and the drive to create."
Then for spring..
The Incisive Line
Printmaking history and technique, focusing on revolutionary ideas in printmaking, modern art and underground culture.
-OR-
Art of Conversation
Conversation is fundamental to our learning processes and our interpersonal interactions. In this program we will take a sociolinguistic approach to understanding the way conversation works, how it is organized, how it constructs our social reality, and why we have misunderstandings.
mmm, sociolinguistics..