People Power: Popular Education

This program will combine the study of a liberatory theory and practice of learning and study (Popular Education), with an interdisciplinary critical analysis of who's got what, how, why, etc. (Political Economy), with a methodology around moving our bodies, connecting them to our minds, cooperating with each other and playing games (Physical Education). That's PE times three!

This program is a series of interlinked classes where each quarter will feature one of these three P.E.s while the other two P.E.s offer support. Fall will focus on key ideas and methodologies of Popular Education while exploring Political Economy and movements both social and physical. See the winter program (focusing on Political Economy) here. And spring (focusing on Physical Education) here.

For our studies in fall, we’ll focus on Popular Education, exploring knowledge and various ways to share it with each other. You’ll be invited to think about the most significant things you’ve learned in your life. You’ll reflect on some of these, write about them, and process them in a variety of ways. As a core practice of popular education: we’ll learn about how to effectively, humbly and collaboratively share our knowledge with a broad audience. You will also gather tools, methods, and examples of popular education including games, group puzzles, and workshops. There will be a final knowledge essay and a popular education workshop that you design and deliver.

In this program everybody is welcome, and we will work together to enable maximum participation. The most important things you can bring to this program will be a spirit of cooperation, a desire to work with others, some skills of dialogue, active listening, and a desire to share joy, knowledge, and learning.

This program is coordinated with Greener Foundations for first-year students. Greener Foundations is Evergreen’s in-person 2-quarter introductory student success course sequence, which provides first-year students with the skills and knowledge they need to thrive at Evergreen. Students expected to take Greener Foundations should use CRN 10216 to register for a 2-credit Greener Foundations course in addition to this 14-credit program. 

First-year students who are not expected to take Greener Foundations or have been granted an exemption should use CRN 10215 to register for this program. Find more details about who isn't expected to take Greener Foundations on the Greener Foundations website.

Anticipated Credit Equivalences