Meet the
6
Expectations of an Evergreen Graduate
Freshman Year
EXPLORATION
Sophomore Year
CONNECTIONS
Junior Year
FOCUS
1. Articulate and assume responsibility for your • Talk with faculty, staff and students about your
own work
areas of interest. Figure out what you want to do by
talking to Academic Advisors; visit the Academic Fair
and Mentoring Days. Seek out feedback for your
goals or the lack thereof.
• Learn how to learn.
• Choose programs and courses that interest
you. Find out what other areas you want to
explore.
• Keep connecting with faculty, advisors,
students individually and at events.
2. Participate collaboratively and responsibly in • Connect with student groups and activities in your
our diverse society
areas of interest inside and out of class.
• Think about what social or cultural issues interest
you and what you want to learn about them.
• Reach out to build understanding and solve • Challenge your own biases about social
problems. Take the initiative; seek and offer and cultural issues and articulate your
constructive feedback.
understanding.
• Investigate social and cultural issues.
3. Communicate creatively and effectively
• Build college-level skills in reading and writing.
Reach out to faculty, advising, and the Writing
Center for writing support if you need it.
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Progress in producing college-level
presentations and written work.
4. Demonstrate integrative, independent and
critical thinking
• Consider what you already know about your fields 
Explore different lines of thought,
of interest.
theories, and research about your field of
interest in a synthesis or analysis paper or an
independent project within a program.
5.1 Demonstrate ability to use qualitative
modes of inquiry
• Build college-level skills in qualitative analysis.
5.2 Demonstrate ability to use quantitative
modes of inquiry
• Build college-level skills in quantitative reasoning. 
Accumulate at least 4 credits in math,
statistics, engineering, computer science,
logic, laboratory science or in a field science
that involves significant statistical or
quantitative analysis or symbolic reasoning.
5.3 Demonstrate ability to use creative modes
of inquiry
• Explore visual, performing or media arts, creative
writing, or other forms of creative expression.

Demonstrate your ability to identify,
organize, describe and interpret evidence or
primary sources of information and produce a
research project or paper.
• Determine the area(s) of emphasis or
patterns of focus that have emerged in your
studies. Decide how you will further these
studies while broadening your education.
• Find mentors.
Senior Year
TRANSITIONS
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Summarize your education. Show what
you’ve accomplished and what it means.
Include highlights, for example, a senior
project, an independent study, or an
internship.
• Describe how you have collaborated with
others, fostered understanding, tutored others,
built bridges between group members or
different groups.
• Describe whether you have developed or
implemented any strategies to address social
or cultural issues.
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Convey ideas effectively in speech and • Convey your understanding of concepts with
clarity, creativity, and command of the content.
writing and demonstrate a clear
understanding of assignments.
• Show how you have applied analysis,
problem-solving, argumentation in major
research projects or papers.
• Demonstrate that you address the value of
evidence or the lack thereof.
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Describe your content mastery and
integrative, independent, critical thinking skills
by, for example, showing the limitations of
modes of inquiry, ability to assess your own
work, successfully completing original work,
developing strategies for tackling problems,
and integrating materials from more than one
program in an ILC or internship.
• Show your ability to use different
qualitative research methods to
demonstrate your ability to gather, organize,
describe, and interpret evidence or primary
sources.
• Show how you have productively challenged
conventional thinking.
• Demonstrate originality in the design and
implementation of an analytical framework.
Discuss the implications and relevance of
findings.

Show your ability to use quantitative
modes of inquiry through, for example,
scientific tests, statistics or data analysis,
solving quantitative design issues in media or
art projects). List concrete examples.

Describe several examples of significant
quantitative work or a systematic use of
quantitative modes of inquiry that show
cumulative skills development.

Accumulate at least 4 credits in a

Show that you have completed several 
Describe a senior thesis in the expressive
creative discipline, or complete any work that significant examples of creative work.
arts or complete sustained studies that
has explicit creative merit.
culminated in an advanced original creative
project work that demonstrating mastery of
technique.
5.4 Appropriately apply modes of inquiry to
theoretical and practical problems
• Consider where and how you want to apply your
learning.
5.5 Appropriately apply modes of inquiry across • Think about taking several interdisciplinary
disciplines
programs.

Complete labs, studio course
work/programs, practica and internships.

Show one example of work or one
extended project that combines at least 2
disciplines.
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6.1 Demonstrate depth of learning
• Complete programs in your area of interest.
6.2 Demonstrate breadth of learning

Take programs and courses to broaden your
education.
6.3 Demonstrate synthesis of learning

Decide how you want to progress through your 
study at Evergreen, for example, multi-quarter
program work, ILC, INT, Senior Project.

Think of what is important to you, what you 
value, as well as what is important in our society.
6.4 Demonstrate ability to reflect on the
personal and social significance of her/his
learning.

Describe several examples or an
extended field or lab research project,
internship, primary research, project,
creative project, or site-based work that
demonstrated theoretical understanding.

Show that you have completed work
that synthesizes material from several
disciplines.
Work with one body of knowledge at a sophisticated level for at least 3 quarters.

Complete 12 or more credits in at least 3 of the 5 divisions: natural science,
mathematics/comp. science, social sciences, humanities, arts.
Progress from less advanced to more advanced work. Apply concepts and skills from
prior courses or programs to solve problems or complete projects in current ones.
Consider the personal or social significance of what you are learning.

Describe your field or lab research,
internship, primary research, creative project,
or site-based work that draws extensively on
theoretical understanding and has significant
positive public impact.

Show how you have applied information
from one discipline to enhance or refine work
in another discipline. Describe original work
that draws on interdisciplinary connections.

Describe your area of emphasis or the
pattern that has emerged through your
studies.
• Show that you have integrated knowledge
across at least 3 different disciplines.

Show how you have integrated theory
and practice in a project or contract..

Demonstrate a complex reflection on the
personal and social significance of your
learning.