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Apr 18, 2024
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HOD-851 Comparative Wisdom Traditions4 semester credits
Throughout history, different cultures have developed wisdom traditions and legacies that today form a spectrum of paths for personal growth, maturation, and leadership development. These wisdom traditions usually linked philosophy, religion, and ethical teachings that today represent resources in our collective histories that can be sources of inspiration and guidance for our time. The cultures of Asia, African, Indigenous American, and Western traditions, ancient and modern, provide resources for appreciative and comparative exploration and research across time and cultures. Selective exploration of different traditions and paradigms for personal growth and maturation. Some wisdom paradigms emphasize deep connection with nature, others deep social and communal relationships, while others emphasize more transcendental notions of value and the sacred. Comparative appreciation of different paradigms and cultures provide opportunity to consider contemporary options and possibilities for the development of wisdom among adults. This course compares cultural traditions and ritual cultures comparatively to understand the formation of adults via socialization, education, ethical, and religious formation, comparatively. Considering specifics of different cultures like values, practices, heroes, ideals, and forms of status reward, students will engage in descriptive work and comparative analysis.
Delivery Method: Online
Grading Default: Letter
Learning Outcome(s):
- Demonstrate understanding of different cultural paradigms and approaches to wisdom by comparative analysis.
- Critically analyze how cultural traditions and ritual cultures impact the formation of adults.
- Write succinctly and scholarly about complex ideas, philosophies, and paradigms.
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