Cornerstone is designed to support students who are new to Evergreen, whether you are transferring, returning to college, or new to the whole endeavor. If you’re apprehensive, we will work to convert that into excitement. If you’re worried about academic re-entry, we’ll work to support that process while reminding you about the strengths and experiences that you are coming in with. If you are not sure what is at stake for you, we’ll talk about that. We want to convert what you might frame as the ‘demands’ of college into invitations and ‘assignments’ into opportunities for enjoyment, meaning-making, and progress. We will ask: What do you want from your time in college? What does it mean that Evergreen is a liberal arts college? What skills will you develop to make the most of your education here? How can you connect what you are doing at Evergreen with your interests, experiences, big questions, and goals? In a social and active space, we will work on strengthening close reading skills, academic writing, note-taking, seminar conversations, and critical reasoning. Students will identify and develop areas of academic interest and need, and we will work on plans for pursuing those areas in the future.
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The metaphor of a "Cornerstone" comes from traditional building, where it means the first stone laid for a structure, and it marks the geographical location by orienting the building in space. This course will be about helping you orient yourself and lay the foundation to happily and successfully pursue the projects that are important to you.