Contemplative Studies Minor

The minor in Contemplative Studies provides students with the opportunity to explore contemplative traditions — such as mindfulness, meditation and prayer — critically and from multiple perspectives. Courses taken from within the department will enable students to understand contemplative traditions from historical, doctrinal, institutional and cultural perspectives. Courses from other units included in the program place contemplative traditions within scientific, sociological and experiential frameworks and also consider contemporary applications of such practices.

Total unit requirement for the minor is 20 units; 16 units must be upper-division.