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World Cultures & Consciousness
Why is it that some cultures seem to thrive
and expand while others seem trapped in
a noose of poverty and contraction? Is our
planet "going to the dogs" or are we on the
brink of an age of higher awareness? The World Cultures & Consciousness
degree
presents a yogic approach to history and
consciousness that examines individual
cultures as well as planetary cycles of growth
and decay. Students study such classes as
Current Events & the Emerging Higher
Age, World Cultures & the Search for
Higher Awareness, The Cyclical Model of
History, Vedic India, World Mythologies
& the Golden Age, Eastern & Western
Cosmology & Astronomy, Visions of
the Future & the Yugas, Global Shifts in
Consciousness, and World Consciousness
and the Arts. Individual projects are
encouraged. Students with a degree in
World Cultures & Consciousness are
guided towards a career in international
relations, teaching, consulting, business,
economics, politics and sociology.
STUDY ABROAD PROGRAM
As part of this degree program, students
spend considerable time in their junior
and senior years applying what they have
learned to an investigation and research
of world cultures supporting the cycles of
time. Students are encouraged to travel and
study in countries like India, Egypt, Peru,
Greece, Italy, Mexico, and more. These
countries provide a stage for students to
explore and document their findings for
future generations. Student programs can
range from the scholarly to the creative, with
the guidance of faculty well-versed in world
cultures and consciousness.
World Cultures and Consciousness (B.A.)
Course Requirements:
DB2 Mental Agility and Clarity
IA1a,b Creativity and Self-Awareness
IA2a,b The Art of Written Expression
IA3 The Art of Oral Expression
SC1a,b Cooperative Spiritual Living
SC2a,b Introduction to Education for Life
WC1 World Religions
WC2 Intuitive Reasoning and
Critical Thinking
YP1a,b Foundations of Eastern Philosophy
YP2 Foundations of Western Philosophy
YP3a,b The Art and Science of Raja Yoga
WC101a,b The Cyclic Model of History
WC102 World Mythologies and the Golden Age
WC103 Vedic India
WC104 Eastern and Western Cosmology
and Astronomy
WC105 The Global Shift in Consciousness:
1700 to the Present
WC106 Current Events and the Emerging Higher Age
WC107 Visions of the Future and the Yugas
WC108 World Cultures and the Search for
Higher Awareness
WC109 World Consciousness and the Arts
WC199 Individual Projects (can be repeated)
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"Ancient people around the globe
are well aware of the vast celestial
motion of the earth in relation to
the constellations of the Zodiac.
We know that precession was
familiar to the Egyptians, Greek,
Vedic Indian and Mayan people,
among others." - Lost Star of Myth and Time
by Walter Cruttenden |
