There will be seminars on Nepalese culture and society, women in Nepal, Hinduism, Buddhism, human rights in Nepal, environmental issues and Himalayan art and architecture. In addition to the seminars at the college site in Kathmandu, there will be day trips to Hindu and Buddhist sacred sites in the Kathmandu Valley with a full day workshop on Tibetan Buddhism at a Tibetan Buddhist monastery. Along with day treks into the foothills of the Himalayas with an overnight at the village of Dulikhel, there will be a five day field trip outside of Kathmandu to Pokhara at the foot of the Annapurna Range of the Himalayas and to Royal Chitwan National Park, on of Asia's finest wildlife preserves established to protect rhinos, tigers, elephants and over 40 other species of mammals and 400 species of birds. Future programs will offer field study trips to other destinations throughout the world. Six units of undergraduate or graduate academic credit is available to registered New College students.
All costs associated with travel are in addition to the usual per term tuition costs.
Education for Self-Empowerment B oth in the Interdisciplinary Humanities and in your academic emphasis, the approach to learning at the Weekend College encourages you to broaden your perspective. You clarify and express you values, explore alternative ways of looking at problems and reflect on your choices and actions. You learn to search deeply for the meaning of the knowledge you confront. You gain facility in thinking a problem through and expressing your opinions. This approach to education helps you expand your powers as a thinker and doer in society, and your power to create change.