CUL 308 – Creativity: The Integral Journey
Everything we create has a culture that communicates meaning at some level. This course challenges students to examine culture not as an expression of regionalism or ethos, but as distinct, universal patterns of awareness: archaic, magical, mythic, mental, culminating in the integral experience. Following this theoretical purview of cultural philosopher Jean Gebser (1905–1973), we will explore the creative impulse behind these patterns through an examination of art, ritual, and poetics as cross-cultural communicative modalities. Creativity thus becomes a form of ontogenesis: vital, psychological, conceptual – adaptable to structural changes within a holistic sense of integral unity. (3 credits)
Everything we create has a culture that communicates meaning at some level. This course challenges students to examine culture not as an expression of regionalism or ethos, but as distinct, universal patterns of awareness: archaic, magical, mythic, mental, culminating in the integral experience. Following this theoretical purview of cultural philosopher Jean Gebser (1905–1973), we will explore the creative impulse behind these patterns through an examination of art, ritual, and poetics as cross-cultural communicative modalities. Creativity thus becomes a form of ontogenesis: vital, psychological, conceptual – adaptable to structural changes within a holistic sense of integral unity. (3 credits)