BE A PART OF THE

EXPLORING CONSCIOUSNESS LEARNING COMMUNITY

BY POPULAR DEMAND: COMING AGAIN IN THE SPRING 2003

THE DEPARTMENTS OF SOCIOLOGY/ANTHROPOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY ARE OFFERING STUDENTS THE OPPORTUNITY TO PARTICIPATE IN A LEARNING COMMUNITY DESIGNED TO EXPLORE THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL DYNAMICS OF HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS.

DR. CURTIS HOFFMAN AND DR. SUSAN TODD WILL BE OFFERING TWO LINKED COURSES, RUNNING BACK TO BACK AS A LEARNING COMMUNITY.

AN 404 CULTURE AND CONSCIOUSNESS TR 10:50 - 12:05

PY 345 PSYCHOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS TR 12:15 - 1:30

(STUDENTS PARTICIPATING IN THE LEARNING COMMUNITY MUST ENROLL IN BOTH COURSES)

Prerequisites: any one of PY 100 or PY 224 or PY 227, and any one of AN 110 or AN 111 or AN 307, are the only prerequisites for this Learning Community.

WHO ARE YOU WHEN YOU ARE DREAMING? WHEN YOU ARE AWAKE? ARE YOU SURE YOU KNOW? THE CHINESE PHILOSOPHER CHUANG TZU DREAMED HE WAS A BUTTERFLY, WHEN HE AWOKE, HIS DREAM HAD BEEN SO VIVID HE WAS UNABLE TO DETERMINE WHETHER HE WAS A MAN WHO HAD DREAMED OF BEING A BUTTERFLY, OR WHETHER HE WAS A BUTTERFLY WHO WAS NOW DREAMING IT WAS A MAN.

AS A LEARNING COMMUNITY, THESE TWO COURSES WILL COORDINATE TOPICS AND ACTIVITIES, PROVIDING STUDENTS WITH A REMARKABLE PERSONAL, ACADEMIC, AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE.  STUDENTS WILL RECORD THEIR PERSONAL DREAM EXPERIENCES, AND WILL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO EXPLORE AND EXAMINE THEIR DREAMS THROUGH A VARIETY OF METHODS, INCLUDING INDIVIDUAL WORK AND GROUP DREAM SHARING.

WE WILL EXPLORE CONSCIOUSNESS, INCLUDING IT EVOLUTION, AND STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS SUCH AS DREAMING, HYPNOSIS, MEDITATION, AND VISIONARY STATES FROM BOTH A CROSS-CULTURAL AND AN INTER-DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVE. THESE COURSES WILL ALSO EXAMINE THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF CONSCIOUSNESS STUDIES TO AN UNDERSTANDING OF PERSONALITY, PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, RECOVERED MEMORY, AND CREATIVITY, AS WELL AS HEALING OF THE SELF AND SOCIETY, MYSTICISM, PARANORMAL EXPERIENCE AND SHAMANISM.

BEGIN PLANNING YOUR SPRING 2003 SCHEDULE NOW!

DON'T MISS THIS CHANCE