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3.00 Credits
This course will explore the leadership experience through film, biography, and case study. It examines the leadership experiences of individuals who have demonstrated a will to lead. A focus of the course will be to consider common experiences shared by those who choose to lead.
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
During the two years of coursework, the students meet twice a year in the Bay Area for five-to-seven-day residential intensives. Students have the opportunity to meet faculty and staff, and to get to know one another. There are workshops, presentations, advising, as well as introductions to coursework. The intensives are an essential aspect of the learning experience, and participation is mandatory.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides students with the opportunity to reflect on their understanding of leadership, their global and local context, and their vision of their role as leaders. Students develop and articulate a leadership philosophy, and situate it in the leadership literature. A selfassessment and 360-degree feedback process allows students to evaluate their strengths and weaknesses, and develop an action plan for ongoing growth.
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3.00 Credits
This 3-unit online seminar course concentrates on the relationship between power, influence, and responsibility, and how these might be applied to transformative leadership in the world today. The power invested in leadership, power arrangements within systems, and the play of power and influence within and between social groups all show up in different ways. Through selective historical and contemporary examples, together we will explore the ways power has been conceptualized over time in both East and West by important thinkers who closely studied both power and the various ways power has been used, as well as how these ideas might be applied today.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
Recent studies in cognitive science, including MRI comparisons, as well as decades of research in psychology have demonstrated that most female brains tend to register and process information in a more gestalt, associative, relational mode than do most male brains. A few women writers have focused on the challenge of expressing female consciousness (cognitive patterns) as authentic female voice on the page. We will study feminist literary analyses, as well as fiction by three pioneers (Dorothy Richardson, Virginia Woolf, and Katherine Mansfield), and works by several contemporary authors of short stories, novels, spiritual writing, and poetry.
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3.00 Credits
Stories about heroes and their quests fascinate us, because, whether we know it or not, each of us is a hero on a quest to fulfill our unique destiny. Mythologist Joseph Campbell said that a hero might wear any of a thousand faces. In this course, we are going to look not only at Campbell's Hero with a Thousand Faces, but also at seven different paths that a hero might take, seven choices that each of us might make for our own lives. Each such path is represented by a major character (or pair of characters) in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings: (1) Path of Curiosity: Merry and Pippin; (2) Path of Opposites: Legolas and Gimli; (3) Path of the Wizard: Gandalf; (4) Path of the King: Aragorn; (5) Path of the Tragic Villain: Gollum; (6) Path of Love: Sam; (7) Path of Transcendence: Frodo. The course is intended to help each of you find your own heroic path in life. You will be expected to have read The Lord of the Rings ( or at least watched all three movies) before taking the course.
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3.00 Credits
Through direct application of the partnership model, this course offers students the opportunity to broaden and deepen their understanding of Partnership and Partnership Studies and put it into greater practice in the larger community. Students may choose from possible projects and associations with nonprofit and community organizations where a relationship with the Transformative Studies concentration has been established (such as the Center for Partnership Studies) or, with the instructor's approval, may design a project of their own choosing. Sixty hours of community engagement are required. Format: Face-to-face intensive with continuation online.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
While more people are starting to talk about body and spirit together, their larger context of politics and economics is still generally ignored. Drawing from Riane Eisler's cultural transformation theory, we will explore how fundamental aspects of our lives are constructed very differently in a domination versus a partnership system. We will look at both sexuality and spirituality from this new perspective; examine what a caring economics would look like; and explore how the construction of gender and politics of the body are integrally connected to both national and international policies. We will form community connections as we share our own experiences, reflections, and future plans. The course is based on two of Eisler's books, Sacred Pleasure: Sex, Myth, and the Politics of the Body and The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics.
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3.00 Credits
In this team-taught introductory course, students are invited to explore the foundational concepts of Riane Eisler's cultural transformation theory and the partnership/domination template in both theory and practice. The learning community together will engage in a deep exploration of the significance of these models and the systems informed by them, as well as their practical application to daily life and work. We will address questions such as these: How might we shift to a new framing of how we think about human societies and our collective beliefs, behaviors, and policies How would our worldview be different if we were to change the lens through which we view ourselves and those with whom we inhabit our world How might these concepts be put into action for positive social change How can you become an effective partnership leader The emphasis of the course is on developing a thorough understanding of the theoretical dimensions and transformational possibilities of partnership through ongoing application and self-exploration/reflection.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Through selective readings, class discussion, and personal reflection, this course encourages students to put their spiritual values and beliefs into action in the larger community. Students have the opportunity of integrating their academic study with practical experience. Students may deepen and broaden their concepts of compassion, spirit, and activism, and explore their educational and lifework goals and visions through community engagement and service. Students are expected to take 1 unit in conjunction with 60 hours of in-service learning, volunteering with a nonprofit community organization.
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