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Program Overview
The Minor Program in Paradigms and Archetypes at New College attracts a mix of students from the humanities, sciences and social sciences who share common interests in cross-disciplinary enquiry, and provides an opportunity for students to identify, analyze and critically examine patterns in human discourse that are often taken for granted. The Program urges a radical questioning of the structure and dynamics of ‘paradigms’: archetypal narratives, assumptions, myths, fantasies, and the analytical protocols and methodologies which govern the conduct of disciplines in every field and all cultures. In this way the Program aims to complete and enrich the separate discipline based programs of its students.
Paradigms and Archetypes challenges students to break out of traditional modes of thought by inviting them to question the way in which we as human beings make sense of our world and of our experience in it. Models for organizing thought and experience into stories, dilemmas and analogies (as suggested in the titles of the core courses), and models for understanding consciousness and the archetypal dimensions of human experience (as posited by analytical psychology) are brought together to show the power of such organizing principles and to enable students to develop critical distance that they can carry with them into all their academic work and beyond.
Classes are small and there is generally a great deal of discussion. The learning experience is enhanced by both the diversity of the student participants and the intimacy and openness all instructors foster in the class environment. The syllabus in each course is changeable and various, but all texts provide a touchstone to accessing, through comparative analysis, the structure and dynamics of paradigms and archetypes by which we construct human identity and experience. Students (and instructors) engage primary texts directly from whatever disciplinary perspective they bring in order to access the roots of theory by allowing specific texts to raise the kinds of questions that generate theories as proposed answers.
Paradigms and Archetypes aims to equip students with the tools of critique out of which new knowledge can emerge.
Program Requirements
4.0 full courses, or their equivalent, are required:
1. NEW209Y1
2. NEW301Y1 or NEW304Y1
3. One full course equivalent from:
NEW301Y1 (if not chosen in #2 above), NEW302Y1, NEW303H1, NEW304Y1 (if not chosen in #2 above), NEW306H1, NEW308H1, NEW402Y1, NEW403H1, NEW404H1
4. One full course equivalent from:
HPS201H1, HPS202H1, HPS210H1, HPS211H1, HPS250H1; NMC101Y1, NMC185Y1, NMC201Y1; RLG101Y1, RLG204Y1, RLG205Y1, RLG206Y1, RLG211Y1, RLG231H1; any NEW courses listed in #3 above.
Jungian Studies Courses
In 1999, the generous gift of Dr. Marion Woodman and Professor Emeritus Dr. Ross Woodman supported the addition of two courses in Jungian Studies (NEW303H and NEW412H), to augment NEW302Y, first offered by New College in 1996. These courses are currently taught by Dr. Ann Yeoman and explore a variety of topics from an interdisciplinary and psychological perspective.
Dr. Marion and Professor Ross Woodman's gift also supports the Marion and Ross Woodman Speakers Series, Dialectics: Body/Mind, the inaugural event of which took place in October, 2001.The second annual event, The Role of the Unconscious in a Global Society, was held on Saturday, November 2002 with speakers Marion and Ross Woodman, and Dr. Victor Mansfield, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York. The third event was held on Saturday, November 6, 2004, with Dr. Rupert Sheldrake.
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