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May Trimester Courses
May-June-July-August 2016
Welcome to the Ubiquity University May Trimester courses
now being offered at BA, MA, MBA, EMBA, MSc, DMin & PhD levels.
Below is more information on Courses coming for May Trimester
Ubiquity continues to experiment with the optimal way to present our course material and
introduce you into a community of learning in which you have the opportunity to engage in academic study, develop your self mastery, and participate in collaborative missions with your peers on issues of common concern.
For our May trimester, we will be offering our
online
courses through a combination of Udemy and Facebook and will be providing directions on how to access and utilize these technologies when you
complete your applications and class registrations. We have chosen this format so that we can provide individual attention to each and every student throughout the course.
The Udemy-Facebook combination is a first simple version of our online programs so you will be one of the early innovators and well positioned to play a role supporting other students in the future if you choose. Our learning system will continue to evolve as we provide opportunities on our own social learning platform in the near future.
All courses and all Learning Journeys
are open to all students for credit toward their degrees and also for certificates.
If ready to register for specific courses,
BA & MBA courses are 3 credits. Wisdom courses are usually 2 or 4 credits.
For further information,
please contact
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COURSES BEGINNING IN MAY
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In today's rapidly changing world, learning to lead and design our communities and organizations to ride the turbulence creatively is critical to our ability to make a positive impact. This course covers the subject of evolutionary change, and the implications for us as individual leaders, as well as for our organizational cultures and structures. It combines intellectual rigor with personal challenge, collaboration with creative expression. Students engage with integrative maps of organizational and leadership development, as well as instantly applicable practices for becoming more effective and dynamic as individuals and collectives. This course will be 15 weeks in duration with video modules and quizzes on Udemy and class discussions, self mastery exercises, and collaborative missions offered through
Facebook.
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This
course
is a required course for all BA and MBA students.
It
is also a required course for the
Foundation and Advanced Certificates in Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship
and the
Certificate in Leadership in Complex Times
. All students take the same course together. What differs are the course requirements and Creative Assignment for the different degree
levels.
This is monthly class and if you are starting mid-year
ask the Registrar about price adjustment.
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The idea of a living universe is not a new invention. More than two thousand years ago, Plato said, "The universe is a single living creature that contains all living creatures within it." However, for the past three hundred years or so, science has viewed the universe as essentially non-living at its foundations and made up primarily of inert matter and empty space. A non-living view of the universe has led to resource and human exploitation, rampant materialism and global environmental degradation. To transform our planetary crises, we need to move past a paradigm of separation and exploitation and learn to live sustainably on the Earth, in harmony with one another, and in communion with the living universe. The mission of this course is to explore a vision of humanity's journey that has the breadth, depth, and reach to enable humanity to look beyond our many differences and galvanize our efforts in building a promising future, both personally and collectively.This course will be 15 weeks in duration with video modules and quizzes on Udemy and class discussions, self mastery exercises, and collaborative missions offered through
Facebook.
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This course is a required course for all BA students and an elective course for MBA students. It is also a required course for the Foundation and Advanced Certificates in Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the Certificate in Leadership in Complex Times. All students take the same course together. What differs are the course requirements and Creative Assignment for the different degree
levels.
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with Andrew Kornfeld
Rather than host a science class that attempts to merely survey different disciplines of science like physics, chemistry, ecology, and biology, this course is based around a common theme: the Mind. While physics and mathematics are foundational disciplines of science in the traditional sense, subjects like the brain, behavior, thought, cognition, and consciousness are the ground those disciplines build upon. The foundation emerges from the realization that the presence of these subjects that encompass the mind is required for all human interaction including: the study of science itself, the state of being awake, and even reading this passage. None of this would be possible without the mind. No one discipline can study the mind, which is why multiple disciplines must be understood and coupled together, using many lenses to examine this single foundational field of study.
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This course will be 15 weeks in duration with video modules and quizzes on Udemy and class discussions, self mastery exercises, and collaborative missions offered through
Facebook.
This
course is a required course for all BA students and an elective course for MBA students. All students take the same course together. What differs are the course requirements and Creative Assignment for the different degree levels.
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It has been often said that the pen is mightier than the sword. This is because books have moved the world far more powerfully than kings and generals. Books like the Bible, Koran, Upanishads, Dhammapada, and Analects have shaped entire civilizations. Books from Shakespeare, Jalaludin Rumi, and Lao Tzu have inspired countless generations with their poetic beauty and penetrating insight into human nature. Great books are books that endure over time and across cultures. They express noble themes and have a transformational impact on readers and societies. Great books change lives and shape the world.
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In this course, we consider two books per trimester, meeting once a month for a lecture and discussion using Zoom technology and then carrying on our dialogue on a private Facebook p
age.
In course is a required course for all BA students and an elective course for MBA students. All students take the same course together. What differs are the course requirements and Creative Assignment for the different degree levels.
This is a year-long monthly course. If starting during the year
ask Registrar for price adjustment.
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2016 LEARNING JOURNEYS
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Our Learning Journeys are open to all students for credit in all degree programs. They provide unique opportunities to travel together to sites of spiritual and historical interest.
CHARTRES, FRANCE (JULY 3 - 9)
Musica: Healing the Soul, Awakening the Spirit
Each year, the Wisdom School of Ubiquity University convenes in Chartres to study at the cathedral there, called the "mother of cathedrals" because of its extraordinary stained glass windows and architectural design. Each year, we examine one of the Seven Liberal Arts developed initially in ancient Egypt, refined by the Greco-Roman civilizations, and then developed into their highest form in Chartres by the Chartres
Academy, founded in 1006, which also built the magnificent cathedral that still stands there
today.
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This year, we will be studying the Fourth of
the Liberal Arts, called Musica, which is about the transformative power of music. Our featured
faculty will be Gary Malkin, Emmy Award winning composer-
musician-song writer. Our other featured guest is sound-healer
Ruth Cunningham
who will be improvising to connect us with music's healing and spiritual power.
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DAMANHUR, ITALY (JULY 10 - 16)
Exploring the Confluence of 21st c. Science, Spirituality & Shamanism
Nestled in alpine foothills north of Piedmont, Italy, between Turin and Aosta, is a truly magical place called Damanhur, established in the 1980s. It is here that an extraordinary vision of sacred temples, excavated by hand and built within the mountain itself, came into being
(click image for tour) - together with the unique, ecologically-sound and self-sustaining community that has grown around it.
In a 15-kilometer area surrounding the lush,
green valley of Valchiusella lives Damanhur's active, multilingual community of 600 people. Damanhur is a resilient Federation with its own Constitution, culture, art, music, currency, schools and uses of science and technology.
Leading the learning journey will be Will Taegel, Dean of the Ubiquity University Wisdom School of Graduate Studies -
with Esperide Ananas from the
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MOUNT KAILASH, TIBET (AUGUST 5 - 28)
A Pilgrimage of a Lifetime
There are mountains and there are mountains with sacred power-mountains that have come to symbolize humanity's deepest aspirations for spiritual enlightenment. Singular among these rarest of mountains stands Mount Kailash in Tibet. Topographically, Kailash forms the spire of the "Roof of the World" as the Tibetan plateau is called. Kailash stands completely isolated in the center of the Trans Himalayan Range and it is thus possible to circumnavigate it within a few days. Its shape is so regular that it looks like the dome of a temple. At its southern base are two sacred lakes.
Kailash is called Mount Meru in the most ancient Sanskrit texts, the Axis Mundi of the world. To the Hindus, Kailash represents the seat of the god Shiva, to the Buddhists, it represents a gigantic mandala of Dhyani-Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, the "Mandala of the Highest Bliss." Buddhists also refer to Kailash as Kang Rinpoche-"precious jewel in the snows." And to the Jains, it is known as Mount Asthapada, where the first Jain prophet gained enlightenment.
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Mt. Kailash is thus considered the most sacred
spot in Asia, analogous to Mecca for Islam and Jerusalem to the Abrahamic religions. As far as anyone knows, it has never been climbed, such is its sacredness across cultures and over time. Those who have gone to Kailash, have gone not to conquer its heights but to cleanse their
soul.
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All courses and all Learning Journeys
are open to all students for credit toward their degrees and also for certificates.
If ready to register for specific courses,
BA & MBA courses are 3 credits. Wisdom courses are usually 2 or 4 credits.
For further information, please contact
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