PARP 6520 - The Ecosocial Vision

Institution:

California Institute of Integral Studies

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Description:

This course presents an overview of the emergent ecosocial, post-mechanistic analysis and vision, in the West, in the following areas: education (including participatory research); governance and law; economics (political economy); architecture, land use, and planning; critique of technology; health and healing; spirituality and religion; and culture and media. Ecosocial solutions to various crises of modernity are now moving into the mainstream, which may or may not result in a deep transformation of modern societies. At this moment in history, a grasp of the interrelatedness of disparate ecosocial developments is key. This course analyzes current events and the assumptions of modernity from the critical perspective of a relational worldview, an ecologically grounded postmodern (or "ecological postmodern") perspective, which holdsand furthers pragmatic visionary solutions and possibilities for ecosocial transformation. The goal of the course is for students to become knowledgeable about the major issues and about the rising counterforce constituted by ecosocial theory and practice.

Credits:

2.00 - 3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.ciis.edu

Phone Number:

(415) 575-6100

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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