Registration Spring 2026 Courses

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Introduction to Creatrix Studies (2 Credits) Registration here

Course no: 101
Instructor: Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, Ph.D.

Time: 9AM to 1PM PT Jan 13-March 3 (Tuesdays, 4 hour-long 8 weekly sessions)

Description: Creatrix Studies is born as a modern revival of the pre-patriarchally originated Ceto-Magoism (the Whale-guided Way of Mago, the Creatrix), which largely remains demonized as sea-monsters/dragons/serpents today. Chiseled by Goma better known as Ungnyeo (Bear/Head Woman) among Koreans, the Magoist Mudang Queen Mother in the early fourth millennium BCE, the matriversal (of maternally perceived universe) consciousness to be revived transforms feminist spirituality into its destination, Matriversal Soteriology. We restore the bond between the natural world headed by cetaceans/whales and the human world bequeathed by our matricentric ancestors across cultures. The core course topics (Magoist Cosmology, Ceto-ecofeminist Spirituality, Matriarchal Histories and Practices, and Ceto-Magoist Soteriology) will be discussed.

Female Divine in Myth, History and Culture (0.5 Credit) Registration here
Course no: 405
Instructor: Helen Benigni, Ph.D.

Time: 9AM to 11 PM PT March 2-March 23 (Mondays, 2 hour-long 4 weekly sessions)

Description: This course traces the evolution of the basic archetypes of the Goddesses of Life, Death and Regeneration outlined by Marija Gimbutas as they evolve from the Paleolithic Era to the Bronze and Iron Ages. Focus on the Creatrix and Regeneration Goddesses in Western Europe and the Mediterranean reveals attributes in the matricentric cultures that allowed all forms of the Goddess to flourish as part of an expression of the Female Divine in myth, history and culture.

Creatrix and Mothers: Thealogies of Birth (0.5 Credit) Registration here
Course no: 403
Instructor: Nané  Jordan, Ph.D.

Time: March 30-April 20 (2 hour-long 4 weekly sessions)

Description: Thealogies of birth explores the birthing-potentiality of the divine female/feminine and Great Mother in connection to women’s birth-giving power. Reflecting on thea-logy, as in study of Goddess, through an embodied, eco-spiritual feminist lens that holds birth, those who give it, and all being born as sacred, we inquire into matricentric (mother-centred) understandings of birth and qualities of experience. Weaving meaning with Earth-honouring thea-perspectives, we explore interconnecting threads of goddesses and mothers—write large and small—at the centre of birthing agency, care, and spirituality, and potentials of such in our lives.


Mago Halmi Creation Folklore and Toponymy Part 1 (0.5 Credit) Registration here

Course no: 301
Instructor: Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, Ph.D.

Time: 10AM-Noon PT April 3-24 (Fridays, 2 hour-long 4 weekly sessions)

Description: This course introduces a plethora of primary sources of folklore and place-names concerning the “creation” of Mago Halmi (the Great Mother), documented, translated, and interpreted by Dr. Hwang within the context of Ceto-Magoism (the Whale-guided Way of Mago, the Creatrix). We will examine actual stories and relevant landscapes (mountains, megaliths, villages, seas/bodies of water, and shrines) and discuss such salient themes as Mago’s names, the methods of “creation, whales/dragons/snakes, the Ninefold Cosmic Music, Goma (Heavenly Savior), Mu (Magoist Shamans), and Seons (Magoist Immortals).

S/HE Forums Spring 2026 (0.5 Credit) Registration here

Course no: 901
Instructors: Helen Benigni Ph.D., Judy Grahn Ph.D., Helen Hye-Sook Hwang Ph.D., Danica Anderson Ph.D., or others

Time: January through August (Second and/or Fourth Sat of the month, 16 hours)

Description: The S/HE Forum is a collective teaching course prepared and facilitated by forum organizers (0.25 credit for each forum section). Each of forum organizers will lead 4 hours of either one or two sessions in a month for the duration of four months. Each facilitator/teacher leads a class focusing on the topic of her own expertise by inviting 2-4 guest speakers who will speak on the topic salient to the forum theme. For a degree program student, you are required to submit a research paper.

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