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  • HMC 240: The Artist as Activist of Social Change

    3.00 Credits
    Pacifica Graduate Institute

    Artistic expression has always had the power to raise consciousness and contribute to social change. The photographs of Dorothea Lange which chronicled the tragic poverty of the Great Depression, Upton Sinclair's novel "The Jungle" which highlighted the corruption of the meatpacking industry at the turn of the 20th century, the documentary films of Michael Moore. In fact, art and artists have played a powerful role in many revolutionary movements: for example, Mexican muralism which arose in the 1930's in post-revolutionary Mexico, and the Black Arts Movement in the United States during the 1960's. Great works of art often open up taboo conversations: one recalls movies like "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" which used humor to explore interracial relationships, and "Brokeback Mountain" which used tragedy to challenge heteronormality. Through examples like these and more, this course explores the artist as activist and agent of social change. Working in groups, students will select a social issue of importance to them, and use various forms of creative expression to raise critical consciousness.
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  • HMC 250: Technology & the Psyche

    3.00 Credits
    Pacifica Graduate Institute

    From the alphabet to motion capture, technologies have been integral to human expression. Technologies shape the landscape of the physical worlds we inhabit as well as the stories and images of the human experience. The interchange between technology and the psyche stimulates the flow of creative thinking, influences our dreams, and is the gift from the gods that fires human enterprise. This gift brings with it light (literally, as in the case of Edison's invention of the light bulb) and shadow (literally, as in the case of the atomic bombs which covered Hiroshima and Nagasaki in a shroud of darkness). Students will consider how technology affects not only the way we live, but more specifically, the ways we create and what we create, and what's more, the ways we share what we create: a particular focus will be placed on the Internet and digital technologies as a democratizing force in human expression.
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  • HMC 260: Sustaining the Creative Life

    3.00 Credits
    Pacifica Graduate Institute

    We're all familiar with the reality of the starving artist, and we are equally familiar with the reality of star artists, those who make millions for their art and are bloated with fame and fortune. In contrast, most of us just hope to be somewhere in between, the working artist. The first half of this course examines through literature and film the psychological effects of being on either end of the spectrum, either a starving artist or a star artist. In the second half, students will explore together strategies for being a working artist, including applying for grants or fellowships, writing query letters and book proposals, getting an agent or representative, finding performance venues or galleries likely to be interested in one's work, creating a portfolio of sample works, writing an artist's statement, networking at events, using new media for self-promotion, developing a freelance business, marketing oneself and/or selling one's work on the Internet, and more, focusing on the specific career goals of the students in the class.
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  • HMC 270: Project Workshop 2: Express & Reflect

    3.00 Credits
    Pacifica Graduate Institute

    This course takes place at the end of the second year. Students will reflect upon what they have learned in the program, and will create a project or portfolio that expresses and relfects their learning. This may take the form of a performance piece, a series of photographs, a collection of essays or poetry, a digital media expression, collage work, sculpture, a film, etc. Students will share their work at the final residential session, and will turn into their instructor a written essay which summarizes their learning and growth while in the program. Pass/No Pass.
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  • ms 502: European Sacred Traditions

    2.00 Credits
    Pacifica Graduate Institute

    Medieval religious and spiritual life is the focus of this course. Grail lore, Celtic mythology, esoteric teachings, and nature-based traditions may be used for illustration.
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  • ms 503: Hindu Traditions

    2.00 Credits
    Pacifica Graduate Institute

    This course explores selected aspects and primary texts of Hindu traditions. Special attention is given to prominent myths and symbols in Indian culture, epic literature, and other primary texts, as well as influential philosophical systems such as Yoga, Sankhya, Vedanta, Tantra and Kashmir Shaivism. Depth psychological interpretations of key thematic issues, doctrines and practices will also be examined.
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  • MS 505: Greek & Roman Mythology I

    2.00 Credits
    Pacifica Graduate Institute

    This course explores the most important contemporary approaches to the study of classical mythology. It also looks at how the poets of ancient Greece reworked inherited mythic themes and plots. It engages in close readings of the cultic and bardic poems known as "The Homeric Hymns" and of the lyric poetry of Sappho. Dramatic poetry, both tragic and comic, of the 5th century Athens is also examined. Attention is given both to the role these myths played in their original historical context and to their ongoing archetypal significance.
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  • ms 506: African & African Diaspora Traditions

    2.00 Credits
    Pacifica Graduate Institute

    The myths and rituals of Africa are a rich legacy, still vital today. Moreover, they endure in adaptive form, in Vodou, Santeria and other religions of the African Diaspora. The course explores common mythic charecters, themes, rituals, symbol systems, and worldviews in Africa and traces their connection to New World Traditions.
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  • ms 511: Jungian Depth Psychology

    2.00 Credits
    Pacifica Graduate Institute

    Key Jungian concepts such as the collective unconscious, archetypes, and the individuation process are surveyed with attention to the evolution of these theoretical constructs. The influence of Jung's ideas on the arts, literature, and religious thought is explored.
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  • MS 514: Cultural Mythologies I

    2.00 Credits
    Pacifica Graduate Institute

    Psychological life is situated in the complexities of politics, media, architecture, technology, economics, and history. These courses draw on key theories from a range of disciplines to examine the underlying archetypal patterns influencing personal experience and the cultural institutions which, in turn, shape and display our quandaries, aspirations, and needs. Students take at least one of these courses during the three-year program. Repeatable for creidt depending on topic.
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