Description:
As a part of the Spring quarter SOS, “Commodification Processes and Alternatives”, the student plans to spend a majority of their time doing an Internship learning about Ecology Restoration through the Joint Base Lewis-McChord Fish & Wildlife Program. At this Internship, the student will have the ability to gain new skills and knowledge, including refreshing their knowledge on native plants, habitats, wildlife, and overall restoration work. The student will have many areas of work to focus on, including gaining and strengthening skills in workshop, machinery, and a wide variety of outdoor tasks.  The student will do mostly hands on work and projects during the week, including helping out with the Thurston County Food bank. This will result in a variety of tasks, but will mostly include field trips to elementary schools, working with students to help provide nutrition information. Textbooks in program will include, Who Really Feeds the World? by Vandana Shiva, (read during Spring break), The Lives of Animals by J.M. Coetzee, and other in progam reading, which will be reflected during in class seminar, on Tuesdays. They will complete 35 hours a week split between Internship, volunteer, Weekly seminars and tasting labs to receive their full 14 credits for Spring 2017 quarter.

 

Name	Class Standing	Term
Alana Mousseau	Senior	Spring 2017
Program Title	Project Title	Mode
Student-Originated Studies: Commodification Processes and Alternatives	Ecology Restoration & Working Food Systems	Undergraduate In Program Individual Learning Contract
Credits	Sponsor Name
14	Sarah Williams

Learning Objectives:	Activities that will help me to attain this objective:	What my sponsor will evaluate:
Tuesday in-class program	– Tasting Labs -Seminar (Reading includes: Who Really Feeds the World? by Vandana Shiva, The Lives of Animals by J.M. Coetzee, etc.)	Reflections on tasting labs, seminar papers on website and a final PowerPoint presentation.
Participate in Ecology Restoration, at the Joint Base Lewis-McChord Fish & Wildlife Program.	There will be a variety of projects and tasks done through the internship, some of these posibilites include: – Habitat mapping – Mammal population monitoring – Native Seed Collection – Ecology Research	This will be reflected through weekly articles, written on my personal website. Hours will be tracked for each week. Photos will be included. Possibility of making videos.
Volunteer at the Thurston County Food Bank	– Sorting and repackaging food – Stocking produce – Helping set up food distributions – Assist customers (if working active food bank hours) -Attend school field trips to elementary schools -Participate in cooking and providing food nutrition through school programs	This will be reflected through weekly articles, written on my personal website. Hours will be tracked for each week. Photos will be included. Possibility of videos or interviews included.

Evaluation of Work:
The student will complete all assignments as described on the syllabus, including weekly documentation on the Project pages of the SOS program website. Because the student’s in-program ILC project requires–or would benefit from–a field supervisor (required for internships), subcontractor (required for upper division science credit), or mentor, the student will provide the faculty with a field supervisor, subcontractor, or mentor’s descriptive assessment of in-program ILC work completed with their guidance, expertise, or supervision by Thursday noon of week 10. This assessment should be discussed between the student and the field supervisor, subcontractor, or mentor, then provided on profession letterhead or email with current contact information directly to the faculty through email ( williasa@evergreen.edu ). The student will complete comprehensive mid-quarter and final narrative self-evaluations and submit them to faculty prior to mid-quarter and final end of quarter student-faculty conferences.  For the final documentation on Project pages, each student will post, and present in class on Tuesday or Wednesday of week 10, a 10-minute PowerPoint Presentation of 10-15 slides with text that demonstrates the highlights of the student’s in-program ILC Project.  As a “best of the student’s Project pages,” this presentation will not be about the creation of new material, but rather the final PPT-based presentation will assemble and tell the story of existing material regarding the student’s SOS in-program ILC project.