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Foundations of Mythology
HM XXX........ 2 Units
Mythology reveals the complex metaphoric and symbolic nature of the human psyche in its embodied search for meaning. This course surveys theoretical foundations of mythology, providing students with a depth of understanding to apply various myth traditions to individual life experiences, career goals, and spiritual applications.
Mythology: Contemporary Inflections
HM XXX........ 2 Units
Expanding upon students' knowledge of mythology, this course examines interpretive approaches to the study of sacred narratives as they are expressed in text, oral traditions, and symbolic representation. Attention is given to our personal and collective mythological understandings as they bring form and meaning to personal, career, and spiritual enterprises.
Symbolism in Visual Art: Deep Mysteries of Life
HM 522........ 2 Units
Visual art emerges from the creative imagination of the world in subjective and cultural experiences, as well as through the natural order. Art is often replete with psychologically and spiritually significant metaphors and symbols that connect soul to the deep mysteries of life. This course will unfold the depth of feeling and connection through images, the capacity of symbols to bridge the conscious and unconscious, the impact of culturally embedded symbols, and the voice of the world soul speaking through the prisms of psyche's images.
Mythic Dimensions in Personal Transformation
HM 523........ 2 Units
Myths contain universal images and ideas of the human experience. This course identifies the mythological moments encountered in everyday rhythms, events, setbacks, and experiences in people's lives. The collective psyche, embodied in myth, meets and converses with the personal psyche , and serves it as guide and mentor. In this experiential course, students explore methods through which myth can stimulate personal reflection leading to transformation.
Mythic Patterns in Cinema
HM 622........ 2 Units
Overarching mythic patterns found in contemporary films are analyzed by means of depth psychological concepts. Film can inspire archetypal connections and reveal transformational themes. This subject includes explorations of shadow, the cinematic framing of reality, the inherent tendency toward wholeness, and the complex process of creating a story on film.
Archetypal Imagination: Folklore & Fairytales
HM 652........ 2 Units
Depth psychological understandings of the imagination are explored in archetypal character studies. Students examine mythic, philosophical, imaginal, and intellectual sources of psychic expression through folklore and fairytales. The nature of meaning in a multi-faceted, multi-cultural postmodern world is addressed through the above perspectives.
Transformational Polarities in Myth
HM XXX........ 2 Units
Drawing upon various elements of cultural myths such as time, space, language, rhythm, metaphor, and archetype, students explore life’s basic polarities which myths tend to mediate. Attention is given to interpretive schemes for finding meaning within explicit and implicit dualism, multiple perspectives, polytheistic imaginings, as well as inner and outer experiences.
Mythodrama
HM 605........ 2 Units
Character development, cultural foundations, and personal experience merge in dialogical encounters with mythic characters. Mythodrama is a facilitated group process, which expands our relationship with cross cultural myths and their archetypal figures. This process allows one to be better equipped to explore the reality of personal and collective myths.
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