Current Courses:
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Man & Nature in Whole Person Perspective (Spring 2026)

This course invites students to explore the evolving relationship between humanity and nature through interdisciplinary perspectives that integrate ecology, philosophy, systems thinking, and cultural reflection. Beginning with an examination of global and Chinese environmental challenges, students will investigate the deeper historical and worldview assumptions that underlie today’s ecological crisis. The course emphasizes a paradigm shift from industrial civilization to ecological civilization, encouraging students to rethink what it means to be human, to live well, and to build sustainable societies. Through field experiences, class discussions, and creative projects, students will connect conceptual learning with practical engagement. The capstone group project challenges students to collaboratively design visionary yet grounded proposals for transforming a domain of human society—such as education, economics, food, or media—in alignment with the principles of ecological civilization. Rather than solving isolated problems, students will explore how systems can be restructured to reflect interdependence, regeneration, and whole-person development.

Exploring Western Philosophy (Spring 2026) 

This course will explore fundamental ideas of the Western philosophical tradition from a historical perspective. Its objective is to enable students to analyze and think critically about Western philosophical thought on metaphysics, ontology, epistemology, politics, ethics, gender, the meaning of human life.

Eco-Process Theology (Spring 2026)

Eco-Process Theology is not an application of theology to ecological concerns but a fundamental rethinking of theology grounded in the universal relationality of reality. Drawing primarily on the process philosophies of Alfred North Whitehead and the evolutionary theology of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, this course explores ecology as a metaphysical, theological, and spiritual disclosure of a universe in process. The seminar situates eco-process theology in dialogue with contemporary ecological thought—including Indigenous cosmologies, ecofeminism, Deep Ecology, and Anthropocene theory—while critically reconstructing classical doctrines of God, creation, love, and salvation. Students will develop original constructive work addressing ecological crisis as an ontological, theological, and spiritual challenge.