The founding of Spiritual Heritage Education Inc. (SHEN) is intimately related to the grave human and environmental problems humanity faces today. Modern science and technology have reduced the world to a global village where people travel far and wide to live in pluralistic communities and communicate across the globe with the speed of light, but the human mind is still a prisoner of the past when we lived in isolated and often conflicting communities. The human mind is way out of sync with the reality on the ground.

Living together may be necessary to broaden the horizon, but it is not enough to join our hearts and minds to relate as human beings. Strong feelings of "us" against "them" prevent us from living in harmony as equal members of the human race enjoying our commonwealth. On the contrary, our feelings fragment humanity into conflicting interest groups based upon identities limited by faith, religion, culture, language, nationality, region, race, gender, gender orientation, the colour of the skin, and so on. The strong are hogging most of the resources and the weak are starving because of our lack of the capacity to share. There are feelings of injustice and inhumanity all around us. There are problems galore because of our fragmentation.

SHEN was founded to help humanity, through insightful education, rise above our limited identities in favour of a global human identity. It is hoped that this will better prepare humanity to face the grave human and environmental crises that it currently faces.

New Cohort and Coursework Scheduling

 

Ubiquity University requires a SHEN coursework certificate worth 16 credits for their MASc degree, 24 credits for a combined MASc/PhD, and 13 credits beyond MASc for a PhD degree, a credit being one hour of engagement for a 15-week semester. 

To understand how SHEN plans for you to qualify for various SHEN Coursework certificates, you need to understand the following:

  1. SHEN divides a calendar year into three 10-week academic terms, 
  2. The academic terms begin on the third Monday of January, April, and September, 
  3. An academic term is followed by a free period,
  4. New students are admitted three times a year in the three academic terms, 
  5. Participating students take a minimum of one 3-hour/week course in each term (2 credits), 
  6. A course is scheduled for three hours per week, usually in one continuous session,
  7. MASc level certificate requires 8 30-hour  courses,
  8. Combined MASc/PhD level certificate requires 12 30-hour  courses,
  9. PhD level certificate requires 5 30-hour courses and 1 45-hour course after their MASc.
  10. The maximum number of participating terms required to qualify for a MASc level certificate is 8, for a combined MASc/PhD level certificate is 12, and for a PhD level certificate is six after obtaining a MASc level certificate. 

Here is a pictorial view of the above coursework scheduling description.

 

New Cohort and Course Scheduling