UNIVERSITY OF WALES, LAMPETER
The Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture at the University of Wales, Lampeter, offers opportunities for post-graduate research and teaches the on-line, distance-learning MA in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology. Students study at home and there is no requirement to come to Lampeter.

The Centre’s academic goals are 'to pursue research, scholarship and teaching in the relationship between astrological, astronomical and cosmological beliefs and theories, and society, politics, religion and the arts, past and present' and to 'to undertake the academic and critical examination of astrology and its practice'.

The Centre’s wider goal is stated in its title – to ‘study cosmology in culture’. This enables us to tackle a wide range of topics, from Egyptian sky religion and Babylonian astrology, to astronomy in surrealist painting, astrology in contemporary culture, UFO abduction and the politics of the space race. We also examine such issues as whether our relationship to the sky can be understood through ideas of myth, divination and Max Weber’s theory of enchantment.

Modules in the MA include

An Introduction to Cultural and Astronomy and Astrology (compulsory)
Research Methods: Ethnography and Fieldwork (compulsory)
History of Astrology
The Medieval Cosmos
New Age and Pagan Cosmologies
Stellar Religion
Psychological Perspectives
Sacred Geography
Science and Scepticism

Students may also study for the lesser qualifications of Postgraduate Diploma (PGDip) or Postgraduate Certificate (PGCert). Associate Students may register as ‘occasional students’, for one module only.

Tutors on the course include Bernadette Brady MA, Dr Patrick Curry and Dr Liz Greene.

By joining the Sophia Centre you will be part of a lively, vibrant scholarly community.

For enquiries please contact the course director,

Dr Nick Campion,
Director, Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture,
University of Wales,
Lampeter,
Ceredigion,
Wales, SA48 7ED,
UK.
E mail n.campion@lamp.ac.uk