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Course Criteria
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
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.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course is about cultivating a "practice of emancipatory subjectivity." Learning how to work with the challenging dynamics of cross-culturalalliance building requires more than an acquisition of information about the other. Human capacities and qualities such as discernment, courage, fierce compassion, playfulness, and self-awareness are essential. These capacities empower us and enable us to see and work with the ways in which cultural conditioning has affected us. In this course, students and teachers will build an "experience worthy" container necessary foraddressing issues of race, class, gender, and other forms of social oppression.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course examines the interface of modernity and religion, taking as a case study the Roman Catholic Church's modernizing of the symbolic, mystical, and cosmological aspects of the spiritual presence of the Virgin Mary. The historical emergence of the modern worldview will be presented, as well as the eventually corresponding diminution of the religious sense of Mary as the Maternal Matrix, expressed in art, music, and architecture (many examples will be shown from various historical periods). The course will note the continuity between elements in Mary's biblical narrative, and also in grassroots devotion, with the rich lineage of indigenous goddesses who preceded her in various Catholic cultures, including emergence of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Various religious responses to Mary will be discussed.
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1.00 Credits
Throughout the course, our primary focus will be a creative exploration and dialogue, as it inspires the students' own creative visual artmaking in drawing, painting or clay, writing, poetry and/or multi-media of one's choice. We will seek to transcend our individual experiences to communicate our emotions, concerns, and spiritual insights through the arts. A dialogue between the unconscious and consciousness will supply the fuel for our creativity. Thus, it is not simply a matter of making original works of art; it is the discovery linking the past to the future in a continuing cycle of growing self-awareness.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course explores poetry and fiction that address, challenge, and correct the Western philosophical perceptions of a radical discontinuity between humans and nature, between body and mind, between self and the world, and between immanence and transcendence. The selected literature succeeds in various approaches to expressing human experience as embedded in, and indeed constituted by, subtle processes of the Earth community and the entire cosmos. Aspects of orality and literacy are covered. Some of the authors, such as traditional Native Americans, speak from cultures that have never perceived the Western discontinuities. Others create characters who experience a sudden dissolution of false boundaries or gradually find their human-focused consciousness absorbed by and expanded to the far larger dimensions of the cosmological whole.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course explores the work of Luce Irigaray, who is perhaps the most important contemporary feminist philosopher. It focuses on Irigaray's fruitful explications, in both analytical and poetic terms, of the myriad ramifications and creative possibilities of acknowledging sexuate difference, as well as her insights into the fertile dynamics that are lost to a culture when it denies sexual difference by insisting on the assumption that the male is the norm. Instead, Irigaray advocates developing a culture of intersubjectivity (between the sexes) as well as a culture of female subjectivity (among women). The coursework is organized in the following areas: philosophy, linguistics, spirituality, art, and politics.
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1.00 - 2.00 Credits
While reviewing feminist critiques in various fields, this course focuses primarily on creative alternatives, grounded in female perspectives, to problematic aspects of the status quo. Topics covered will include differences between the sexes, theories of early cultural development, language and literary expression, time, the visual arts, spirituality and religion, process philosophy, cosmology, and the ecofeminist vision. Students will be encouraged through the creativity of their papers to contribute to the ongoing mission-and sacred calling-of the women'movement.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
In the ecosocial arena, women often find replications of the same destructive patterns they seek to change in the world at large. How several feminist leaders have addressed this challenge will be the focus of this course. We will orient our exploration by reading an essay by Luce Irigaray and articles by female leaders at local, state, national, and international levels of ecosocial activism. We will have guest speakers from different types of organizations and campaigns, including (1) the coordinator of grassroots groups for Code Pink; (2) a veteran of scores of ecosocial campaigns and organizations, including the state and national levels of the Democratic Party; and (3) a community organizer/activist from the Bay Area. They will share their experiences, observations, and approaches, reflecting on women's ways of doing political work. We will study female leaders' experiences in both women-only and mixed-gender organizations, in countries of both the Northern and the Southern hemispheres, and in both alternative and mainstream venues.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course looks at several leading voices of Native American spirituality, carefully exploring their words and the context out of which these spiritual teachings and invocations emerge.
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1.00 - 2.00 Credits
In Indian Country there are no goddesses, although there are a number of orders of supernaturals. Those who in Western thought would be called goddesses, we refer to as Grandmothers: Beings such as Spider Grandmother or Nikomis (a.k.a. the Woman Who Fell from the Sky) populate our traditions, today as of yore. We are going to think about living traditions. What this adds to discussions about long-dead traditions about which we can only speculate is worth pondering, as is the question of how our modern mode of consciousness might distort or even rewrite ancient practice.
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