Transpersonal Psychology (Campus-Based): Requirements

Every Bachelor of Arts degree candidate must complete Burlington College’s General Education requirements and must earn a minimum of 120 credits to achieve a degree. The following course requirements are specific to the Transpersonal Psychology major.

Major Requirements
36 credits past the 6 entry level credits are required. All courses are 3 credits unless otherwise noted. Other coursework may be substituted with permission of academic advisor.

Entry Level (100) 6 credits
• Introduction to Transpersonal Psychology
• Introduction to Psychology
Intermediate Level (200) 9 credits
• Life Span Development
• Theories of Personality
• Psychopathology

Upper Level (300–400) 12 credits
• Research Methods in Social Sciences
• Internship
• Degree Projects I & II (3 credits each)

Electives 15 credits
Need to address a minimum of 3 credits each in four of the areas of study presented below. All courses are three credits each unless noted otherwise. Each of the areas of study will have examples of a class that has been offered recently or in the next couple of years, but is not definitive of future course offerings. Individualized learning’s may be designed to address the following framework with advisor’s permission.
• Theoretical and Foundational Studies
–   Topics in Transpersonal Studies (2 credits)
–   Studies in Parapsychology
–   Buddhist Psychology
–   What New Paradigm?
• Consciousness and Depth Psychology
–   Visions of the Night
–   New Perspectives in Jungian Psychology
–   A Study of Shadows
–   Spectrum of Love
–   Holotropic Breathwork (1 credit workshop)
• Wisdom Traditions
–   Western Spiritual Traditions
–   Myths and Mysteries of Time
–   Jung and Steiner
–   Prophecy, Oracles, and Divination
• Spiritual, Religious and Cultural Traditions
–   Enlightened Living: Tibetan Buddhism
–   Shamanisms
–   Pilgrimages: Inner and Outer Journeys
–   Religions and Myths of India
–   Meditation (1 credit workshop)
• Mythological Traditions and Studies
–   Symbolism: Language of the Soul
–   Sacred Numbers
–   Myths and Mysteries of Greece
–   Myths and Mysteries of Egypt
• Transpersonal Studies
–   Creativity: Awakening the Imaginative Mind
–   Paths for Transformation
–   Quantum Mind
–   Writing Your Spiritual Autobiography
(1 credit workshop)
• Social and Historical Studies
–   Goddesses, Witches, Heroes, Saints
–   Death and Dying
–   Standing on Earth : Agrarian Vision of Wendell Berry
–   Arts and Social Change
• Application Studies
–   Psychology of Dreams
–   Introduction to Ecopsychology
–   Mandalas (1 credit workshop)
–   Moving Through Barriers (1 credit workshop)
–   Typology and Temperament (1 credit workshop)
• Mind/Body Psychology
–   Healing and the Mind
–   Our Shared Nature
–   Psychology of Forgiveness
–   Five Elements (1 credit workshop)
–   Body Language (1 credit workshop)

Total Credits Above Entry Level 36