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Vision
Evolve or collapse! That’s the challenge facing human society today. The crises spanning every aspect of our lives—including politics, economy, society, culture, environment, and climate change—amount to an existential threat for humanity and a poly-crisis for our civilization on a scale never encountered before. But this crisis also brings an opportunity for a transformative life. By putting our heads together on the imminent threats to modern society and preparing for the future, we can inspire the practical wisdom needed for a better life and a better world.
“Peace is more precious than triumph.”
Kyung Hee University System, which has pursued a peaceful world through academic research, is launching a program entitled ‘Advanced Studies for Holistic Engagement’ to prepare students for a creative journey into the society of the future. This program will explore new paths for peace and prosperity for humanity, the world, and our global existence, by undertaking the historic tasks of planning crucial solutions and putting them into practice. This program seeks to achieve the following educational objectives:
Kyung Hee University System, which has pursued a peaceful world through academic research, is launching a program entitled ‘Advanced Studies for Holistic Engagement’ to prepare students for a creative journey into the society of the future. This program will explore new paths for peace and prosperity for humanity, the world, and our global existence, by undertaking the historic tasks of planning crucial solutions and putting them into practice. This program seeks to achieve the following educational objectives:
- Learn a holistic epistemology that transcends the dichotomies of micro/macro, humanity/world, and life/universe, in a departure from the present system of knowledge characterized by methodological boundaries, reductionism, and academic silos.
- Contemplate existential issues that are rooted in our contemporary society and explore methods of analysis, forecasting, system design, and project management that can enable a sustainable future for humanity.
- Reinterpret the nature of the global crisis in the context of multilayered worlds and envision a cooperative order and new truths in the era of transition.
- Explore the transformative leadership required by a new kind of politics, economy, society, culture, environment, climate, and our multifaceted worlds.
- Expand practical capabilities as a future planner through research and fieldwork.
- Contemplate existential issues that are rooted in our contemporary society and explore methods of analysis, forecasting, system design, and project management that can enable a sustainable future for humanity.
- Reinterpret the nature of the global crisis in the context of multilayered worlds and envision a cooperative order and new truths in the era of transition.
- Explore the transformative leadership required by a new kind of politics, economy, society, culture, environment, climate, and our multifaceted worlds.
- Expand practical capabilities as a future planner through research and fieldwork.
Along with the objectives listed above, Advanced Studies for Holistic Engagement aims to provide a transformative platform for the kind of education, research, and praxis that will open new horizons for human civilization and world history.
Overview
Educational Objectives
Advanced Studies for Holistic Engagement is a professional training program that seeks to foster students’ practical knowledge and planning capabilities and equip them to shape the future of humanity. The program’s goal is to train planners who will join us on the journey of transforming modern civilization and society by redesigning the future of politics, economics, society, culture, and ethics.
Program Curriculum
[Step 1] Holistic Understanding of the World and Humans: Shift in Perception
Learn a practical methodology and a holistic epistemology that transcends the dichotomies of humanity/nature, science/philosophy, and civilization/universe in a departure from modern knowledge development in academic silos.
[Step 2] World Contexts: Phenomena Reinterpreted
Reinterpret through a holistic perspective the past, present, and future of the current values, arrangements, civilization, and world that humans have constructed.
[Step 3] Reclaiming the Future: Alternatives to Explore
Explore the future, value, and ethics of peace and coexistence within the multilayered junctures between humans and the multitude of life in nature and reclaim a sustainable future in our everyday lives.
[Step 4] Future Planning and Transformative Leadership: Reimagining Politics and Consciousness
Reflect on the horizons of global affairs at crossroads from a holistic perspectives, exploring a new paradigm of consciousness and politics for public engagement and global cooperation that will be needed in the days to come.
[Step 5] Practice for Future Planning: Reflection and Exploration
Participants engage in field research to identify problems and explore the opportunities of designing a transformative future.
Learn a practical methodology and a holistic epistemology that transcends the dichotomies of humanity/nature, science/philosophy, and civilization/universe in a departure from modern knowledge development in academic silos.
[Step 2] World Contexts: Phenomena Reinterpreted
Reinterpret through a holistic perspective the past, present, and future of the current values, arrangements, civilization, and world that humans have constructed.
[Step 3] Reclaiming the Future: Alternatives to Explore
Explore the future, value, and ethics of peace and coexistence within the multilayered junctures between humans and the multitude of life in nature and reclaim a sustainable future in our everyday lives.
[Step 4] Future Planning and Transformative Leadership: Reimagining Politics and Consciousness
Reflect on the horizons of global affairs at crossroads from a holistic perspectives, exploring a new paradigm of consciousness and politics for public engagement and global cooperation that will be needed in the days to come.
[Step 5] Practice for Future Planning: Reflection and Exploration
Participants engage in field research to identify problems and explore the opportunities of designing a transformative future.