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Culture, Text and Language Charles McCann, the founding president of the college, spoke about teaching and learning at Evergreen in the following way: "This college has collected scholars who, insofar as they inquire in their fields of interest, will by their presence here together form a living link between our present society and the past, a source of power with which to help us all meet the future. Students will work as colleagues with faculty and others, and together these people will TRY (that word is emphasized because it involves all of the college's people in continual change) to create a place whose graduates can as adults be undogmatic citizens and uncomplacently confident individuals in a changing world." The faculty members in the Culture, Text and Language area share these views and offer programs in which faculty and students alike engage in scholarly inquiry of our social world. Programs in this area focus on questions related to knowledge and interpretations of the social world. Those questions are explored with content and strategies from the humanities, integrating perspectives from the social sciences, practices in the arts and the natural and physical sciences. The faculty members in Culture, Text and Language invite students to join them in the programs they offer and together create "living links" between both our past and present society and the urgent questions still before us. This area is distinguished in that its members' backgrounds and interests span the full breadth of the liberal arts, including humanities, sciences, arts and social sciences. As such it offers intermediate and advanced interdisciplinary programs relevant to all students at the college. Culture, Text and Language offers programs in language and culture, area studies, cultural studies, philosophy and psychology. In the language and culture offerings, students have an opportunity for intensive, challenging, interdisciplinary study. The study of language at Evergreen is integrated fully with the study of culture. Because we believe that learning languages is the key to understanding other cultures (and vice versa), we teach them together. That is, we teach language through the study of history, literature, philosophy and art; and culture through the study of language. The area also offers programs in cultural studies with emphases in anthropology, sociology and psychology. The focus of these programs includes ethnography, popular culture, media studies and cultural theory. In these programs current issues, events and practices offer foci for exploring relevant historical and philosophical traditions. The area regularly offers programs that inquire critically into European history and philosophical traditions. Programs are organized around rigorous study of key texts such as Plato's Republic or Hanna Arendt's The Human Condition. Program emphases include philosophy, history, political theory and literature. |
