Dafayan University of Science and Art

OOC:This is a work in progress and should not be seen as In-game untill this OOC message is removed. The school is being planned and founded by the artist/teacher Dafayo Vashmere in hopes to bring a new level of learning and teaching to mankind. This is part of a large campaign to make Eston the cultural and academical center of the known world. The university is not built yet and await the proper funding and consent of the good King Andrew of Eston. Dafayo hopes to become the founder of this university by becoming a local lord or by accepting the right to found the guild

The Dafayan University of Science and Art

The Dafayan University of Science and Art (The DUSA) offers courses in modern philosophy science and art.

Tuition

Amounts paid to this educational organization are needed to maintain a regular faculty and curriculum and has a regularly enrolled body of pupils in attendance at the place where its educational activities are carried on. Tuition is not tax deductible unless it is incurred by the King or Ruler of the land the University exists within.

Earning your degree

Advacing in rank translates into degree's earned within the school. Once a degree is obtained, the student has earn his legal and educational rights to teach or operate within such laws and issues of said course. The land supporting the University will not only recognize but also respect your degrees within the limits of the law.

Code of Conduct

DUSA is a university of high morals and professionalism. No student or member of faculty shall ever stand to lessen this image. To break any of the codes of conduct of DUSA (on or off campus) will first result in a verbal warning. A second offence will result in possible loss of degrees or demotion within DUSA. A third offence will result in Expulsion or sever demotion, depending of the manner of offence. All Students and faculty are expected to promote the image of professionalism and class. No Student or Faculty member is above the Code of conduct. Even the Head founder is held to such Code.

All offences will be looked on and voted on by the Faculty staff of DUSA and if needed, the Justicar of Eston for more serious offenses. The Code of Conduct is as follows.

• No Member of DUSA, being faculty or student, shall ever break the laws of Eston, as stated by the law system of Eston's Justicar and law. Serious offences may result in automatic removal from the university. DUSA stands to promote Eston's culture, education and its morals. All within DUSA must make a pledge to swear loyalty to the Crown, kingdom and people of Eston. Those who do not shall be seen as unworthy of education or teaching rights within its hollowed halls.

• No member of DUSA shall conduct themselvs is a vulgar or criminal manner. All men and women of DUSA are true examples of refined class, and in being so must be perfect Gentlemen and ladies of high moral and class.

• No member of DUSA will conduct business with spies, terrorists, criminals, cultists or enemies of Eston or its allies. Breaking of this code will result in being turned over to the Justicar of Eston's law, and reported to the King. DUSA will NOT tolerate any form of this action. Such actions are considered criminal and worthy of automatic expulsion and the full penalty of Eston's law.

• All members are to be clean, groomed and otherwise appear to be of upper class and hygiene. All Faculty and staff will be expected to wear the provided uniform of the school while on campus, unless visiting or otherwise not working or attending class.

Philosophy

phi·los·o·phy (fĭ-lŏs'ə-fē) n., pl. -phies.

• Love and pursuit of wisdom by intellectual means and moral self-discipline.

• Investigation of the nature, causes, or principles of reality, knowledge, or values, based on logical reasoning rather than empirical methods.

• A system of thought based on or involving inquiry.

• The critical analysis of fundamental assumptions or beliefs.

• The disciplines presented in university curriculums of science and the liberal arts, except medicine, law, and theology.

• The discipline comprising logic, ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, and epistemology.

• A set of ideas or beliefs relating to a particular field or activity; an underlying theory.

• A system of values by which one lives.

Critical examination of the rational grounds of our most fundamental beliefs and logical analysis of the basic concepts employed in the expression of such beliefs. Philosophy may also be defined as reflection on the varieties of human experience, or as the rational, methodical, and systematic consideration of the topics that are of greatest concern to humanity. Philosophical inquiry is a central element in the intellectual history of many civilizations. Difficulty in achieving a consensus about the definition of the discipline partly reflects the fact that philosophers have frequently come to it from different fields and have preferred to reflect on different areas of experience.

Art

Art: (ärt) n.

• Human effort to imitate, supplement, alter, or counteract the work of nature.

• The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colors, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the sense of beauty, specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or temporary medium.

• The study of these activities.

• The product of these activities; human works of beauty considered as a group.

• High quality of conception or execution, as found in works of beauty; aesthetic value.

• A field or category of art, such as music, ballet, or literature.

• A nonscientific branch of learning; one of the liberal arts.

• A system of principles and methods employed in the performance of a set of activities: the art of building.

• A trade or craft that applies such a system of principles and methods: the art of the lexicographer.

• Skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation: the art of the art.

• Skill arising from the exercise of intuitive faculties: “Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice” (Joyce Carol Oates).

• Arts Artful devices, stratagems, and tricks.Artful contrivance; cunning.

• Printing. Illustrative material.

Art Theory

A object or sound experience consciously created through an expression of skill or imagination. The term art encompasses diverse media such as painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing, decorative arts, caligraphy, and installation. The various visual arts exist within a continuum that ranges from purely aesthetic purposes at one end to purely utilitarian purposes at the other. This should by no means be taken as a rigid scheme, however, particularly in cultures in which everyday objects are painstakingly constructed and imbued with meaning. Particularly in the modern century, debates arise over the definition of art. Figures such as Dafayo Vashmere have implied that it is enough for an artist to deem something “art” and put it in a publicly accepted venue. Such intellectual experimentation continued throughout the modern century in movements such as conceptual art and Minimalism further challenging traditional definitions of art.

Science

Sci·ence: (sī'əns) n.

• The observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of phenomena.

• Such activities restricted to a class of natural phenomena.

• Such activities applied to an object of inquiry or study.

• Methodological activity, discipline, or study.

• An activity that requires rational study and method.

• Factual Knowledge, especially that gained through experience.

Science

In common usage the word science is applied to a variety of disciplines or intellectual activities which have certain features in common. Usually a science is characterized by the possibility of making precise statements which are susceptible of some sort of check or proof. This often implies that the situations with which the special science is concerned can be made to recur in order to submit themselves to check, although this is by no means always the case. There are observational sciences such as astronomy or geology in which repetition of a situation at will is intrinsically impossible, and the possible precision is limited to precision of description.

A common method of classifying sciences is to refer to them as either exact sciences or descriptive sciences. Examples of the former are physics and, to a lesser degree, chemistry; and of the latter, taxonomical botany or zoology. The exact sciences are in general characterized by the possibility of exact measurement. One of the most important tasks of a descriptive science is to develop a method of description or classification that will permit precision of reference to the subject matter.

The Scientific Method

The scientific method has evolved and has now come to be described in terms of a well-recognized and well-defined series of steps. First, information is gathered by careful observation of the phenomenon being studied. On the basis of that information a preliminary generalization, or hypothesis, is formed, usually by inductive reasoning, and this in turn leads by deductive logic to a number of implications that may be tested by further observations and experiments. If the conclusions drawn from the original hypothesis successfully meet all these tests, the hypothesis becomes accepted as a scientific theory or law; if additional facts are in disagreement with the hypothesis, it may be modified or discarded in favor of a new hypothesis, which is then subjected to further tests. Even an accepted theory may eventually be overthrown if enough contradictory evidence is found, as in the case of false mechanics, which earn acceptance to be an approximation of truth when in truth they are falsehoods.

Branches of Specialization

Degrees can be earned in the following braches of science.

Science may be roughly divided into the physical sciences, the earth sciences, and the life sciences. Mathematics, while not a science, is closely allied to the sciences because of their extensive use of it. Indeed, it is frequently referred to as the language of science, the most important and objective means for communicating the results of science.

The physical sciences

• The physical sciences include: Physics, chemistry, and astronomy

The earth sciences

• The earth sciences (sometimes considered a part of the physical sciences) include: Geology, paleontology, oceanography, and meteorology

The Life sciences

• Life sciences include: All the branches of biology such as botany, zoology, and medicine.

Each of these subjects is itself divided into different branches—e.g., mathematics into arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and analysis; physics into mechanics, thermodynamics, optics, acoustics, energy and magnetism, and subatomic physics. In addition to these separate branches, there are numerous fields that draw on more than one branch of science, e.g., astrophysics, biophysics, biochemistry, geochemistry, and geophysics.

All of these areas of study might be called pure sciences, in contrast to the applied, or engineering, sciences, i.e., technology, which is concerned with the practical application of the results of scientific activity. Such fields include mechanical, civil, aeronautical, architectural, chemical, and other kinds of engineering; agronomy, horticulture, and animal husbandry; and many aspects of medicine. Finally, there are distinct disciplines for the study of the history and philosophy of science.

History

All offered courses are of Atamara's history as of now.

his·to·ry (hĭs'tə-rē) n., pl. -ries.

• A usually chronological record of events, as of the life or development of a people or institution, often including an explanation of or commentary on those events.

• A formal written account of related natural phenomena: a history of volcanoes.

• The branch of knowledge that records and analyzes past events: “History has a long-range perspective”

History

History, in its broadest sense, is the story of humanity's past. It also refers to the recording of that past. The diverse sources of history include books, newspapers, printed documents, personal papers, and other archival records, artifacts, and oral accounts. Historians use this material to form coherent narratives and uncover linked sequences and patterns in past events. Most histories are concerned with causality, that is, why certain outcomes happened as they did, and how they are linked to earlier events.The concern with separating fact from fiction and legend must be upheld to graduate and work within the historic socieities of man

Historic class

There are several different ways of classifying historical information:

• Chronological (by date)
• Geographical (by region)
• National (by nation)
• Ethnic (by ethnic group)
• Topical (by subject or topic)

Historical records

Historians obtain information about the past from various kinds of sources, including written or printed records, coins or other artifacts, buildings and monuments, and interviews (oral history). Different approaches may be more common in the study of some periods than in others, and perspectives of history (historiography) vary widely.

Historical records have been maintained for a variety of reasons, including administrative (such as censuses, tax records, commercial records), political (glorification or criticism of leaders and notable figures), religious, artistic, sporting , genealogical, personal (letters), and entertainment.

'Atamara's combined historic information can be found and studied in Atamara's Wiki. A endless wealth of fact and fiction is to be found there.'

Occult Study

oc·cult: (ə-kŭlt', ŏk'ŭlt')

• Of, relating to, or dealing with supernatural influences, agencies, or phenomena.

• Beyond the realm of human comprehension; inscrutable.

• Available occult lore.

• Occult practices or techniques: a student of the occult.

Occult

The word occult comes from the word "occultus" (clandestine, hidden, secret), referring to the 'knowledge of the secret' or 'knowledge of the hidden' and often popularly meaning 'knowledge of the supernatural', as opposed to 'knowledge of the visible' or 'knowledge of the measurable', usually referred to as a form of science. The modern term's meaning is often imprecisely translated and used as a term for 'secret knowledge' or 'hidden knowledge', in the sense of meaning 'knowledge meant only for certain people' or 'knowledge that must be kept hidden'. For most practicing occultists, however, it is simply the study of a deeper spiritual "reality" that cannot be understood using pure reason or physical sciences.

Occultism

Occultism is the study of supposed occult or hidden wisdom. To the Occultist it is the study of Truth, or rather the deeper truth that exists beyond the surface: 'The Truth Is Always Hidden In Plain Sight'. It may be considered by some to be a 'grey' area, perhaps larger than any other in the realm of religion. It can deal with subjects ranging from talismans, magic (alternatively spelled and defined as magick), sorcery, and voodoo, to ESP (Extra-sensory perception), astrology, numerology, lucid dreams, or many religions.

The word "occult" is somewhat generic, in that most everything that isn't claimed by any of the major religions (and many things that are) is considered to be occult. Many authors have added insight to the study of the Occult by drawing parallels between different disciplines.

Study

Direct insight into or perception of the occult is said not to consist of access to physically measurable facts, but is arrived at through the mind or the spirit. The term can refer to mental, psychological or spiritual training. It is important to note, however, that many occultists will also study science (perceiving science as a branch of Alchemy) to add validity to occult knowledge in a day and age where the mystical can easily be undermined as flights-of-fancy. An oft-cited means of gaining insight into the occult is the use of a focus. A focus may be a physical object, a ritualistic action (for example, meditation or chanting), or a medium in which one becomes wholly immersed. The previous examples are just a few examples of the vast and numerous avenues that can be explored.

This course will not teach Occult ritual or practice. It simply is the study of such science and mythos.

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OOC: Secret projects.