Senior Seminar

Your Evergreen degree is a mash-up of your individual brilliance with a set of academic and extracurricular choices. In this course we’ll focus on how you want to represent that mash-up in the Academic Statement and beyond. The Academic Statement is a graduation requirement, but it's also a storytelling opportunity. This is your chance to make meaning of all the work you've done to get to this point in your education and to tell the story of who you are as a learner. 

Our time in this course will be divided between three types of activities: discussing readings that pose hard questions about what education means in the 21st century; working on your Academic Statement; and workshopping the documents you'll need in the next phase of your academic and professional work (cover letters, graduate school statements, resumes). Those workshops will include options that allow you to focus on what's most useful to you, given your current goals. To prepare for writing the Academic Statement, we'll spend some time gathering materials and doing pre-writing. The document you submit to your transcript will then go through at least two rounds of revision to ensure that it is the best possible version of the story you want to tell.