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Undergraduate Classes

Seminar Requirements

In the core seminars, students build the foundation for upper-level classes in their chosen major and begin to develop skills for taking their learning into their work in the world.

Cultural and Historical Studies Courses

Cultural and Historical Studies courses examine complex cultural practices—the meaning and practices of everyday life—and their relationship to power in historical and contemporary contexts. The curriculum explores a range of diverse cultural experiences while building understanding and respect for profound political and social differences.

World Wisdom Traditions

Through courses in World Wisdom Traditions, students inquire into the wisdom that resides in the traditions of many different human communities. They investigate the relationship between their own experience and ancient teachings, exploring the relevance of those teachings to contemporary life. Students develop knowledge of the diverse history, lineages, sacred texts and cultural contexts of world religions and indigenous wisdom traditions.

Graduate Classes

Counseling Psychology

• Social and Cultural Foundations of Counseling

Environmental Leadership

• Environmental Justice
• New Science and Cultural Applications

Religious Studies

• Conflict and Diversity
• Interreligious Dialogue
• Group Process II: Cultivating the Sacred
• Spiritual Models of Social Action
  

Somatic Counseling Psychology

• Social and Multicultural Foundations

Summer Writing Program recent workshops include:

• Poethics and Black Consciousness as Pertaining to All-America
• Escribir en piedra/To Write in Stone (taught in Spanish)
• Exploring Haibun
• Dakini Poetics
• Reading and Writing Across Cultures
• Translation as Art and Metaphor: What Chinese Poetry Offers to World Literature
• The Morphing Texts: Translation, Transformation
• Everything a Translation, Some of it from Japan
• Action of Poetics of Latin America (taught in Spanish and English)
• Cultural Duty
• Writing Outside ‘United States’: Writing, Self and Empire
• Translations and Transcreations, from English and Other Foreign Languages

Transpersonal Counseling Psychology

• Multicultural Issues in Therapy: Contemplative Approaches

Writing and Poetics

• Literature Seminar: Tracks Along the Left Coast
• Trends in Contemporary Literature: Introduction to Feminist Theory
• Creative Reading and Writing: Cross Cultural Practices