Summer 2026 Courses
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Magoist Cosmology (2 Credits) Detailed Course Information & Registration here
Course no: 102
Instructor: Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, Ph.D.
Time: 9AM to 1PM PT June 9-July 28 (Tuesdays, 4 hour-long 8 weekly sessions)
Description: Magoist Cosmology offers a window to the matriversal (of maternally perceived universe) reality of WE/HERE/NOW unfolded by the Ninefold Cosmic Music. The ever-presently birthing, growing, and transforming process of entities in the holistic reality according to the principle of causal becoming washes away the linear-monolithic-dualistic worldview. The Magoist Cosmogony recounted in the first four chapters of the Budoji (Epic of the Emblem Capital City), the principal text of Ceto-Magoism (the Whale-guided Way of Mago, the Creatrix), takes the mind to the Great Unity of ALL in the Creatrix, the matriversal origin of LIFE, and the Ceto-Magoist basis of modern civilization.
Perspectives on Mosuo Communities (1 Credit) Detailed Course Information & Registration here
Course No: 410
Instructor: Tami Blumenfield Ph.D., MLIS
Time: 8AM to 12PM PT May 5-May 28 (Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2 hour-long 8 sessions)
Description: When women are valued and respected as household authorities, what impact does that have on the broader society? How do men fare in places where women are equal partners? How do families work together to raise children, and what is it like to grow up as a child in a gender-balanced community? This course helps students explore these questions by examining the Mosuo community. Although their population is relatively small, the Mosuo people and their ways of life have had an outsized impact on the fields of anthropology and gender studies, because they are so unique. Through films, readings, and other media, prioritizing Mosuo people’s own voices wherever possible, students will gain an in-depth view of this special group. Comparisons with other groups will help contextualize the Mosuo experience and allow students to analyze similarities and differences with more familiar societies.
The Forgotten Bond with Whales, Dragons, Serpents, and Sea Monsters (0.5 Credit) Detailed Course Information & Registration here
Course no: 408
Instructor: Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, Ph.D.
Time: 9AM to 1PM PT on July 31 and August 7 (Two Fridays of 4 hour-long 2 weekly sessions)
This course explores bio-sono-aquatic-meteorological features of cetaceans (whales) and their symbols of the dragon, the serpent, and the sea monsters from a multidisciplinary perspective. Outsourcing scientific, biological, mythic, linguistic, cultural, architectural, and astronomical data yet to be known to the world, we aim to decode and tap into the anciently originated consciousness of the Cetacean Mother or Ceto-Magoism (the Whale-guided Way of Mago, the Creatrix). This course is potentially capable of engendering a tangible intellectual/spiritual force to be experienced by participants.
The Neolithic Matriverse: From Sacred Mother Worlds to Contemporary Erasure (0.5 Credit) Detailed Course Information & Registration here
Course No: 409
Instructor: Dr. Danica Anderson
Time: TBA August 3-August 24 (Tuesdays, 2 hour-long 4 weekly sessions)
Description: This course examines the Neolithic Matriverse—maternal-centered cosmologies, social systems, and symbolic structures documented in the archaeological work of Marija Gimbutas, with
emphasis on Joan Marler’s anthology honoring her work. The course traces how matriversal systems were dismantled through patriarchal conquest, militarization, religious domination, and economic extraction, and how these ruptures continue to shape contemporary violence against women, transgenerational trauma, chronic survival states, and collapsing birthrates. Using Kolo-Informed Trauma, the course integrates feminist archaeology, biopsychology, social epigenetics, and biosemiotics.
S/HE Forums Summer 2026 (0.5 Credit) Detailed Course Information & Registration here
Course no: 901
Instructors: Helen Benigni Ph.D., Helen Hye-Sook Hwang Ph.D., and Others
Time: May 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 the 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.