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Dates: May 29 – July 3, 2024
Times: Wednesdays, 4:00 – 5:30 PM Pacific

Course Summary

This six-session course explores visions of ecological civilization, drawing upon process-relational understandings of the cosmos, ecological movements, and central ideas and practices in diverse human communities and fields of thought. The purpose is to gather and build upon practical wisdom, seeking to dive deeply into crises and possibilities. Practical wisdom has power to transform the downward spiral of ecological destruction and to foster movements for protecting, healing, and regenerating our broken planet.

Course Description

This course explores visions of ecological civilization, drawing upon process-relational understandings of the cosmos; the history of ecological struggles and movements; and central ideas and practices that have emerged in philosophical, scientific, economic, artistic, religious, and activist communities of reflection. The purpose is to gather and build upon practical wisdom that has power to transform the downward spiral of ecological destruction and to foster movements for protecting, healing, and regenerating our broken planet. The course is an invitation for participants to travel into the midst of crises and seek possibilities for ecological justice and wellbeing.

Over the course of six sessions, we will identify and analyze dominant assumptions about the human and more-than-human natural world, critiquing and reshaping them from the standpoint of process-relational and other traditions of thought. We will explore these assumptions through case studies, readings and videos, presentations by experts, student projects, and probing conversations.

Course Outline

The course centers around six themes:

  • Session 1: Crisis & Possibility – Historical & Process-Relational Analyses
  • Session 2: Philosophical & Scientific Propositions
  • Session 3: Economic Realities & Possibilities
  • Session 4: Aesthetic Prehensions of Land & Water
  • Session 5: Wisdom Traditions
  • Session 6: Wisdom In Communities of Action

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