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3.00 Credits
The ancient mysteries of the Mother and Daughter Goddesses of Greece were expressed through poetry, artwork, architecture, philosophy, and drama. We trace the evolution of the religious festival at Eleusis from the Bronze Age through the Archaic and Classical eras into the early Christian era. Related rituals of the Thesmophoria and the Lesser Mysteries, that invoked and celebrated fertility, sexuality, and new life, will be discussed, as well as the roots of these rites in the Goddess-and-God-centered culture of ancient Crete. Texts include the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Plato's Symposium, and Aristophanes Lysistrata.
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3.00 Credits
In ancient Crete, the central divinity was a Nature Goddess or Goddesses, who shared powers in partnership with a Nature God or Gods. We question how Crete's nature religion influenced this extraordinary culture, including the following: gender relations of women and men and the social roles each sex played in family, economic, political, and religious life; the naturalistic and exuberant artwork; and expressions of relative harmony and peace in contrast to violence and warfare in neighboring cultures. Using methodologies of archaeology, mythology, history of religion, and archaeomythology, we trace evidence for ritual activity and for Goddesses and God iconography in Neolithic and Bronze Age Crete from c. 7000 BCE to c. 1100 BCE. Interrelations are situated in the specific eras of cultural history on the fabled isle of Crete.
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1.00 - 2.00 Credits
Through the use of the female image in painting and poetry, student artists create symbolic language for self-discovery, and for telling our stories. Searching for deeper understanding in its purest form is a passionate effort to find the essence of life.
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3.00 Credits
This course retrieves and highlights the philosophical wisdom and spiritual insight of women in many cultures, including ancient Egypt, Classical Greece; Sophia/Wisdom writings of the Hellenistic era; early and medieval Jewish, Christian, and Islamic eras; and modern and postmodern voices of women spiritual teachers, philosophers, thealogians and theologians. Spiritual and philosophical teachers and sources may include Makeda, the Queen of Sheba, the unknown author of Thunder Perfect Mind, the play Lysistrata, Diotima, Mary Magdelene, Hypatia, Rubia, Hildegard of Bingen, Sor Juana, Simone Weil, and contemporary authors such as Amma, Marcia Falk, Judith Plaskow, Karen Baker-Fletcher, Rita Nakashima Brock, Charlene Spretnak, Carol P. Christ, Starhawk, Paula Gunn Allen, and Dhyani Ywahoo, among others.
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2.00 Credits
This class is designed to provide insight into women's sacred arts and to explore their impact on cultural transformation. We will gather and assemble fragments in an internal search that will enable us to release and increase our own creativity, even as we focus on the work of contemporary artists who choose to express sacred themes and transform cultural attitudes. Our ability to learn about our self is much enhanced if we become the participant and observer in our own experience, so we will bring our own rich traditions into the cultural mix as we begin a personal exploration of the spiritual creativity inherent in our conscious and unconscious Being. The collective work of an artist constitutes an autobiography of sacred art, and our objective will be to connect the meaning to the symbolism of art, even as we search areas of our existence, and collage together its different influences. We will do all this while we focus on letting our art be its own vehicle for discovery, for art is not a vague, transitory, and isolated production, but a power that must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul. It leads to the appreciation of one's spirituality, and to profound cultural transformation. Artists have a duty to their art and to themselves: They must search deeply in their souls and tend them so that their art has something to say.
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3.00 Credits
What is development What have been the cultural, ecological, and political impacts of development What are the intersections between colonization, development, modernization, and globalization How can we engender development This course engages a discursive analysis of development, its deconstruction, and reframing within postcolonial and feminist contexts. What are the distinctions between development processes in the global South and the North as mediated by power, class, gender, race, culture, nation, and rural/urban issues Drawing on post-1950 experiences from Africa, Asia, and Latin America, this course examines the historical and contemporary challenges toward prioritizing concerns of marginalized communities, especially women, in development processes.
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
M.A. and Ph.D. students are taught the basics for writing a good thesis or dissertation proposal. Institute and program guidelines for the thesis and dissertation-as articulated in the "Proposal Rubric," Institute and WS program policies and procedures, the Human Research RevieCommittee application, conscientious work relations and timelines, committee chair and membership, technical review, library requirements, and graduation requirements-will be discussed.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course is being taught at a critical time in world history. The perspective of the course will be that of living in a world of differences without resorting to violence; epistemic equality; Simone Weil, philosopher of war and peace and the need for spiritual roots; a gift economy to replace the profit paradigm leading to endless wars; transformational women's movements, particularly in the south of the globe; and building a peaceful revolution.
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
The advanced student's researching and writing of a thesis or dissertation progresses with the mentorship of, and in close consultation with, one's chair and thesis or dissertation committee. Prerequisites: PARW 6900; advancement to candidacy.
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3.00 Credits
This course for all Ph.D. students surveys disciplinary and multidisciplinary Women's Spirituality research methodologies for each of the six areas of specialization in Women's Spirituality: Body Wisdom, Women, and Healing; Cultural History, Archaeomythology, and Ecosocial Anthropology; Feminist and Ecofeminist Philosophy; Justice, Community, Sustainability/Peace and Partnership Studies; Women and World Religions; and Women's Mysteries and Sacred Arts. Students will compare and contrast two types of research methodologies for relevance vis-à-vis particularresearch topics. Methods considered may include women's spiritual ways of knowing; feminist epistemologies; religious studies methodologies; philosophical reasoning; action research; organic inquiry/heuristic/narrative research; cultural history; ecosocial anthropology, archaeology, and archaeomythology; literary criticism; and the creative processes of the arts. This course is also strongly recommended for M.A. students electing to write a thesis.
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