- Our faculty is dedicated to providing personalized support to assist you in achieving your goals.
- Our interdisciplinary program integrates mind, body, and spirit and prepares you for graduate work and careers in such fields as counseling, coaching, business, teaching, health services, law, consulting, social work.
- Our fast-track option allows you to link your BA to an MA and accelerate graduate degree completion.
SPRING QUARTER COURSES
Beginning the week of March 31, 2008 The Shadow
3 units
The mysterious, the frightening, the unknown, the different: these can bring us to rethink our identity, to question the basis of our values, and to speculate about our prospects for the future. The course will explore the ways in which our worst fears about ourselves -- fears crystallized into images of horror, revulsion, and the inhuman -- can effectively bring us to a deeper understanding of what it means to be human. The threatening, dark aspects of the psycheC called by Carl Jung the ShadowC are widely taken to be potentially beneficial. As the poet Robert Bly describes his experience: "if any help was going to arrive to lift me out of my misery, it would come from the dark side of my personality." The theme of the Shadow will be approached through works in philosophy, literature, history, religion, and psychology. This course is designed as a foundation class for those choosing the Humanities emphasis in their Liberal Arts degree. Students from other areas of emphasis are entirely welcome. No previous work in Philosophy or Religion will be presupposed. Integral Psychology
3 units
Explores an integral approach to psychology, including the integral perspectives of Ken Wilber and Robert Kegan. Integrates the various psychological, social, and spiritual theories of human consciousness and development in a comprehensive framework. Childhood & Adolescence
3 units
Examines human development from birth to adolescence. Investigates all aspects of development: physical, emotional, cognitive, gender, sexual, language, moral, communal, and spiritual. Discusses the challenges, crises, and outcomes of different stages of growth.
