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Human Spirituality & Life Purpose
AC 408 credits
Spirituality is an essential element of the human experience. Whereas religion evokes an organized, bureaucratic image in most minds, the broader field of spirituality understands that even agnostics and atheists have a relationship to the concept in defining themselves as against it. This AC explores how individuals develop spiritual understanding across a variety of religions and locate themselves and their experiences along the range, identifying and exploring spiritual hungers that are cross-cultural, multi-religious, and without borders. Students analyze their gifts and talents, find the commonality of all spiritual hungers, define their relationship to higher purpose and higher power, develop life purpose planning skills, begin orienting toward principles for a life of purpose and meaning, explore service and contribution, and help others do the same. No prerequisite.
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