The University of Holistic
Spirituality serves a select constituency. An applicant must
have established a career focus and demonstrated a capacity to benefit
from higher education to be admitted. Therefore, the curriculum has
been designed to expand, enrich, and integrate the knowledge and
awareness of these mature and accomplished individuals. Admission is
continuous and programs are designed for self-paced learning at a
distance.
The curriculum design is based on the following
assumptions:
Individuality
1. Each person is unique; each individual's
background provides him or her with a personal array of abilities and
interests which is different from any other's.
2. An individual's life experience is most
satisfying and productive if he or she can acknowledge and develop
this personal pattern of abilities and interests.
3. Education can and should be based on, draw
forth, and facilitate the development of that individuality.
4. It is a proper role of higher education to
enhance and refine this process for individuals, so that the
individual can expand professional productivity and acceptance, and
make personally meaningful career developments.
Integration
5. There are many aspects to an individual's life
experience; one's interest and activity at times focus on
considerations of health, family, recreation, spirituality, etc.
6. All aspects of an individual's life experience
can be integrated so that they mutually support and facilitate one
another.
7. Education can and should help an individual
develop this personal integration and support.
8. It is a proper role of higher education to
challenge the individual to develop more effective and comprehensive
integration of body, mind, and spirit, which are the significant
dimensions of personal life experience, so that the individual can
develop more clear and personally relevant goals and a lifestyle which
is more satisfying, healthful, and effective in supporting the
individual's movement toward those goals.
Independent
Study
9. The potential sources of ideas and information
relevant to an individual's interests may be many and varied.
10. An individual's activities can be most
satisfying and productive if that person can investigate these sources
effectively.
11. Education can, and should, provide guidance in
making such investigations broad in scope and efficient in process.
12. It is a proper role of higher education to
stimulate, guide, and acknowledge independent study, and intellectual
and experiential inquiry which is self-designed and self-motivated, so
that the individual can engage in self-designed and self-motivated
intellectual and experiential inquiry which is comprehensive in its
sources, efficient in its methods, integrated in its personal
involvement, and effective in its outcome.
