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Class number:
1025
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Title: Fortune Cookie |
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Department: Religious Studies |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Seminar |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: No |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 1.00 |
| Enrollment limited to 19 |
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Current enrollment: 17 |
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Available seats: 2 |
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Start date: Tuesday, January 2, 2024 |
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End date: Friday, January 19, 2024 |
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Mode of Instruction: Remote |
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Schedule: MTWRF: 1:00PM-4:00PM, N/A |
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Instructor(s): Kerekes, Susanne |
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Prerequisite(s): None |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities and Global Requirements |
Course Description:
In this 13-session crash course, students will engage in both theory and praxis of Eastern astrology and divination. The course will provide an overview of the history, social status, and practice of various astrological and divinatory systems of several Asian societies, specifically China, Korea, Japan, Thailand, and India. We will learn how astrology, within certain periods and certain cultural spheres, was consulted by monarchs, the elites, or sponsored by the state, even up to the present day. In terms of praxis, students will analyze how to read their own birth chart according to one of the Eastern systems. Prior to a survey of these various Eastern systems, the course will briefly introduce students to one Western system, traditional (Hellenistic) astrology, as a point of comparison. |