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Graduate Degrees in Creatrix Studies
Ubiquity University is partnering with The Mago Academy to offer students an opportunity to earn postgraduate degrees (MA, PhD, MA/PhD) in Creatrix Studies.
The Mago Academy’s Certification Program in Creatrix Studies is designed for people who are called to pursue the fundamental questions of one’s life and the human life in general through systemic studies of the Cosmic Mother. By completing this program, students are qualified to earn an MA, a PhD, or a combined MA/PhD through Ubiquity University.
Students who pursue and complete the certificate program with The Mago Academy will qualify to apply for Ubiquity postgraduate degrees.
About The Program
Creatrix Studies is an academic field developed by Dr. Helen Hye-Sook Hwang which offers students a versatile lens through which to explore pivotal insights shed in primary and secondary source materials. These are available but largely marginalized, if not prohibited, in contemporary mainstream academic studies.
Dr. Hwang herself has spent the last two decades creating a scholarly field, which she has named Ceto-Magoism (the Whale-guided Way of the Creatrix. Mago is the Korean/East Asian word for the Cosmic Mother or the Creatrix. Dr Hwang maintains that Ceto-Magoism is the pre-patriarchally originated matrix bequeathed by Shaman Queen Mothers of the ancient world across cultures. It remains demonized, if not mystified, as the sea-monster/dragon/serpent in the world's major religions.
Students at graduate level are encouraged to create their own thesis through a transdisciplinary and/or comparative approach. They are invited to experience intellectual/spiritual guidance through the process of their own research activities, which can be applied in creative and innovative projects as well as self-healing and building self-identity. Creatrix Studies brings its researcher home within oneself.
We recommend that your program begins with Ubiquity’s Creative Journey to Dissertation course, which will give you the tools to shape, and eventually write, your thesis or dissertation. You will then continue your studies program with The Mago Academy, and return again to Ubiquity for the higher education credential.
This degree includes Ubiquity’s academic courses in addition to 4, 6-week core courses with The Mereon Academy.
Ubiquity’s Academic Courses
- Creative Journey to Dissertation Writing (all degrees)
- Great Books (only for PhD, MA/PhD combined students)
- Chartres Academy (only for PhD & MA/PhD Students)
Core Courses
Introduction to Creatrix Studies
This course surveys the three major pillars of Creatrix Studies, the Divine Feminine,, Mother Nature, and Matriarchal Societies. While these fields are often viewed independently or separately,they are brought together to build interconnections in restoring the Great Unity of ALL in the Creatrix.
Magoist Cosmology
Magoist Cosmology offers a window to the matriversal (or maternally perceived universe) reality of WE/HERE/NOW unfolded by the Ninefold Cosmic Music.The ever-present birthing, growing, and transforming process of each entity in the whole reality according to the principle of causal becoming washes away the linear-monolithic-dualistic worldview. The Magoist Cosmogony recounted in the first four chapters of the Budoji (Epic of the Emblem Capital City), the principal text of Ceto- Magoism , takes the mind to the Great Unity of ALL in the Creatrix, the matriversal origin of LIFE, and the Ceto-Magoist basis of modern civilization.
Ceto-Ecofeminist Spirituality
Cetaceans (whales) are traditionally venerated as the terrestrial divine, nurturing all planetary beings by way of their biological-sonic-aquatic behaviors. Through the lens of Ceto-Magoism , we will explore how restoring the matricentric human bond with the Natural World headed by whales, as it was in pre-patriarchal times, can stop the doomsday clock set by modern patriarchal drives. Demonized as sea monsters as well as dragons and serpents, whales hold the key to guide the Human World. The Magoist Cosmogony wherein the Cosmic Music is attributed to the creative force of the matriverse (maternally perceived universe) offers insights into how whale songs are cosmogenic.
Matriarchal Histories and Practices
The premise that the original form of human societies was a matriarchal confederacy, not a patriarchal monarchy, carved out to undertake the shamanic mandate of restoring the matriversal home on the planet, will be explored. In the mytho-history of Magoist Korea (People and State of Mago, the Creatrix), Goma, the pre-patriarchal Mudang Queen Mother who established and bequeathed Ceto-Magoist civilization, stands out for the nine-state confederacy of Danguk (State of the Living Tree Altar), a realization of the Ninefold Cosmic Music, the creative force of the Matriverse, in the human world. Ninefold symbols and customs we moderns inherited across cultures offer the lens to assess the unified front of matriarchal confederacies in pre-patriarchal times.
Ceto-Magoist Soteriology and Patriarchy
The legacy of Ceto-Magoism, although demonized as sea-monsters/dragons/serpents in world’s major religions, is indelible in modern lives across cultures. This course explores how returning to the Matriversal Origin means overcoming the two correlated planetary catastrophes; the dietetic conundrum (eating lifeforms for subsistence) and patriarchal advancement.
Methodology (Ethic Review, Plagiarism, Cultural Appropriation)
This course trains the scholarly mind with necessary and brilliant techniques in studying Creatrix Studies from interdisciplinary and/or comparative perspectives. While a broad reading is encouraged to contextualize one’s thesis, it is strongly recommended to engagewith the foundational questions and implications. Each student anonymously brings her/his paper (the whole or a part of it) to work with the instructor and classmates within a friendly, ethical, and critical environment. During this process, students will learn how not to commit inadvertent plagiarism and cultural appropriation.
Electives
- Encountering Ceto-Magoism (the Whale-guided Way of the Creatrix)
- Great Goddesses of the World Culture
- Female Divine in Myth, History, and Culture
- Embodied Thealogy
- Calendrics, Sonic Numerology, and Patriarchy
- Special Themes in Matricentric Cosmology
- Special Themes in Nature-based Spiritual Practices
- Special Themes in Matriarchal Societies
- Matricentric History and Culture
- Mother and Motherhood as Symbol for the Creatrix
- Menstruation and Culture
- Ceto-Magoist Origin of Korean Muism (Shamanism)
- Prerequisite: Encountering Ceto-Magoism (the Whale-guided Way of the Creatrix)
- Sea Monster/Whale/Dragon/Serpent in World Religions and Myths
- Matristics (Study of Historical Women Theologians)
- Maternal Gift Economy
- Dismantling Global White Supremacy
- Decolonialist Approaches to Creatrix Studies
- Spiritualities of Animals and Plants
- Reading the Budoji (Epic of the Emblem Capital City), the Principal Text of Ceto-Magoism
- Mago Whale Pilgrimages to Korea (virtual or actual)
- Feminist Critique of Patriarchal Religions and Myths
- Healing ALL beyond the Humankind
- Soul-centered Psychotherapy
- Matricentric Shamanisms of the World
- Magoist Perspective on K-Media and K-Culture
- Independent Study
Students who pursue and complete the certificate program with The Mago Academy will qualify to apply for Ubiquity postgraduate degrees.
Ubiquity’s Academic Courses
- Creative Journey to Dissertation Writing (all degrees)
- Great Books (only for PhD, MA/PhD combined students)
- Chartres Academy (only for PhD & MA/PhD Students)
Program outcomes
By the end of your Graduate Degree in Creatrix Studies, you will:
- Have gained insight of the Great Unity of ALL in the Cosmic Mother embodied in the pre-patriarchally originated teaching of Ceto-Magoism.the Creatrix.
- Have developed expertise in demonstrating how the consciousness of the Cosmic Mother has shaped a particular manifestation of modern civilization through mythic, cultural, and historic texts across cultures.
- Have found a wide, deep and tangible connection with a like-minded community of researchers, scholars, and advocates as well as non-human species.
Who Is the Program For?
Creatrix Studies is for those who are called to pursue the fundamental questions of one’s own life and human life in general through the systematic studies of the Cosmic Mother at graduate level. They are for people curious to understand what a pre-patriarchal world once looked like, and can look like again.
Program Completion Requirements
MA in
Creatrix Studies
The Mago Academy Coursework
Creative Journey to Dissertation
PhD in
Creatrix Studies
The Mago Academy Coursework
Creative Journey to Dissertation
Chartres Academy
Great Books
Combined MA/PhD in
Creatrix Studies
The Mago Academy Coursework
Creative Journey to Dissertation
Chartres Academy
Great Books
Electives (8 credits)
Pricing for Ubiquity’s Academic Courses
Note that these prices do not include the cost of partner coursework, Chartres in-person costs or costs of additional elective courses.
MA/MSc $5000
PhD $15000
MA/MSc/PhD $16600
Save up to
$830
paying full
Ubiquity offers a 5% discount for students that are able to make the full payment up front. That means you save $250 on a Masters/MSc, $750 on a PhD and $830 on MA/MSc/PhD.
Student Academic Journey
The duration of your student journey will vary depending on your degree pathway.
Ubiquity offers instalment plans for all degree students over an 18 month period.
About The Mago Academy
Mago Academy has developed feminist, matricentric, and matriversal (a maternally perceived universe) educational programs to promote the consciousness of Great Unity of ALL in the Cosmic Mother (Mago, the Creatrix). Creatrix Studies Graduate and Continuing Education Programs is the newest enterprise of Mago Academy. In addition to graduate programs with Ubiquity, Mago Academy hosts the S/HE Divine Studies Online Conference and the S/HE Divine Studies Online Forum periodically as well as courses (seminars, salons, and pilgrimages) and events (New Year Celebration and the Nine-Ninth Celebration according to the 13 month 28 day Lunar-Solar-Menstrual Calendar). As a branch of The Mago Work, Mago Academy supports sister Mago Work branches including the academic peer-review journal S/HE: An International Journal of Goddess Studies, the Mago Books, and the Return to Mago E-Magazine.
The Ubiquity Graduate Degree
The Ubiquity Graduate Program combines the US and European designs of graduate programs with a blend of taught learning with research and writing. The thesis or dissertation must demonstrate excellence at every level. It must show awareness of the history of the literature in your particular area; demonstrate careful analysis and understanding of the field in question; and, most importantly, show how your insight can be applied to the real world. The dissertation must be scholarly and utilize extensive bibliographical data and footnotes. It should, in other words, be an impeccable work of research.
The Creative Journey To Dissertation
It is a 1-week intensive designed by our Dean of Graduate Studies Dr. Gyorgyi Szabo. The course is a critical part of the dissertation writing process and is a requirement for all MA/PhD candidates.
Faculty: Gyorgyi Szabo
Great Books
Faculty: Gyorgyi Szabo PhD, Jim Garrison PhD
The Great Books course at Ubiquity University delves into literature that has shaped human thought. Students discuss, analyze, and connect historical themes to contemporary global challenges, deepening their understanding of enduring literary works.
Chartes Academy
Our Chartres Academy is intended as a gathering point for a contemporary wisdom community to come together through the very same learning system that Fulbert and Plato used — the seven Liberal Arts.
Support during your Graduate Program
During your graduate dissertation writing you will be supported by a Major Advisor of your own choosing, as well as optional writing courses and writing mentorship.
