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1.00 - 2.00 Credits
Rosen Method bodywork bridges the disjunction between mind and body to find peace where there has been troubled conflict. Students will learn how to exchange nonintrusive, hands-on bodywork and learn flexibility exercises that invite the relaxation of tension and the dismantling of body armoring. Students will also gain an understanding of posture and breathing patterns that can improve communication skills. As we gradually allow harmony among the different aspects of our inner being, we generate the potential for more peaceful relationships and action in the larger world.
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3.00 Credits
The mirror is an object that appears repeatedly in mythology, world religions, and spiritual traditions, and literature and visual arts. It has also played important roles in the development of psychology, science, and cosmology. This course will examine mirrors as symbols of divinity and power, implements of distortion and expansion, and tools for discovery and self-reflection. Course assignments will support students in their study of an aspect of the mirror in a cultural context of their choosing, and encourage them to apply it to their own culture and contemporary lives.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers a survey of the goddesses in the Indian tradition. The special aspect of this class is its reference not only to the "great" goddessesof the pantheon, but also to several important local and cult goddesses.
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3.00 Credits
This cultural history course explores the relationship of subaltern to dominant cultures. Students study the writings of Antonio Gramsci, a major Marxist theorist of the 20th century who stressed the significance of the cultural revolution that precedes and accompanies authentic political revolution; the Gnostic Gospels; Islamic mystical literature; Cathar literature; peasant heresies in folklore; Karl Marx as heretic and prophet; heresies and witchcraft in island and mountain enclaves of Italy; feminism as heresy. For the heresy of African origins and the African dark mother, students will read African and African-American theorists.
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3.00 Credits
Exercises and practice in toning, changing rhythm and drumming traditions, musicality, song, sound healing rituals, and various musical spiritual practices, both traditional and contemporary, will be shared. Students apply their knowledge to co-creating a final as a spring music and healing event for the community, where they will share their original creations.
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2.00 Credits
For millennia, artists in all cultures have created their works from a mythic consciousness of mindfulness and deep vision. We explore ways in which the creative process is accessible to us all, regardless of training or that social construct known as "talent." This is a studio art course,mainly experiential with relevant readings, focused on the creation of sacred art. Various media will be used, including drawing, painting, fiber arts, and other areas to be determined by class interest.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course begins with a close reading of Sappho's poetry, before moving to a consideration of her renown in Greek and Latin letters (Plato called Sappho "the tenth muse"). We will analyze a wide variety of texts produced by women from the Renaissance onward, all of which have incommon their connection with Sappho and the Sapphic tradition. As a cultural myth of extreme relevance in the Western imagination, the Greek poet has been written and rewritten by generations of artists. The course explores the uses of Sappho made by women writers, underlining recurring imagery and themes. At the same time, students will be introduced to contemporary feminist and queer theory and critical practice, and to the changing discourses on sexuality and gender in the Western world.
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3.00 Credits
A body of knowledge is progressively developing about societies past and present where women are respected at the center of culture, and where women and men collaborate to create balanced, sustainable societies. These societies show markedly different social customs, artistic expressions, and religious beliefs and practices, when compared with cultures where women are disrespected and excluded from leadership roles. The underlying assumptions, biases, and expectations of researchers investigating the beliefs, rituals, and social structures of societies- especially those in the distant past-influence the interpretation of data, often with dramatically different results.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
There has been a recent surge in interest among women scholars around the world in matriarchal studies, which focus on the one hand on the need to redefine the definition of matriarchy in anthropological studies, and on the other hand on the desirability of bringing ethnographic and historical research on matricentric, matrifocal, matristic, matriarchal, gender-balanced, and/or gender-equity cultures into the mainstream of academic studies. One of the leaders in this field is anthropologist Peggy Reeves Sanday, whose classic text Female Power and Male Dominance: On the Origins of Sexual Inequality served to promulgate an environmentally situated study of 156 contemporary tribal societies and their correlated features of inner/outer psychospiritual orientations, gendered distributions of power, worship of female and/or male deities, and the relative incidence of violence against women and children within the group. Sanday's long-term fieldwork among the Minankgabau of Sumatra in Indonesia (the largest existing matrilineal society in contemporary times) led to her redefinition of the term matriarchy in Cultures in Balance: Women at the Center: Life in a Modern Matriarchy. Her most recent work (in manuscript) is on the matriarchal cultural and symbolic elaboration of matrixial consciousness in regions such as ancient Ireland and Scotland, Greece, and the Phrygians of Anatolia. The work of Genevieve Vaughn on The Gift Economy is also an important part of this new area of studies, and of this course.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
The aim of this course is to explore feminist cultural history through a mother-centered and Africa-centered lens. This course is both a feminist and a Gramscian/Marxist study of the spiritual and political implications of recognizing the ultimately African mothers of everyone.
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