Available Classes

Nature preschools and forest kindergartens are special kinds of places, different from conventional early childhood programs. Parents, caretakers and community members, who may not be familiar with the aims and practices of nature-based programs, can benefit from education. Families may need to be prepared to provide appropriate outdoor clothing, do regular tick checks, and think about children’s learning in new ways. They may also be called on to volunteer in the school and to help with promotion and fundraising. We’ll consider how to partner with families and forge links to the wider community. Communication is central to our work: we’ll hone our skills as we participate in mock parent conferences, examine and create materials that describe programs to families, and practice working with parents who have questions or concerns.

Restrictions: none

Instructor: Erin Tanzer

Delivery: Asynchronous online, 3/24/2025-4/21/2025 with face to face meetings on Saturday 4/5 and Sunday 4/6/2025

Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England

This course will build a foundational understanding of land use and community and urban planning concepts. The course will begin with exploring the current paradigm of land ownership and private property, and how this dominant way of looking land shapes society today. We will consider alternative views on land, and explore how to impact existing policies, regulations, and land use planning within our current paradigm.  As part of this course, community planning techniques that are used within municipalities (rural and urban) to avoid and mitigate impacts from land use decision will be introduced.  Multiple scales will be addressed in regards, to land use decision-making and protection, from regional/basin-wide interventions down to individual parcel development. 

Natural systems will be described within a planning context and framed within the concept of sustainable development. This knowledge will, in turn, inform decisions by watershed managers, land trusts and planning organizations which are appropriate land use and resource management policies to implement regarding equity, climate resilience, sustainability, conservation and even transformation of land use in any specific location.  The course will necessarily take into account projected impacts stemming from a changing climate in the context of a changing landscape.

Section A: Christa Daniels

Times: Tuesdays 6:00 pm -7:30 pm   Jan 21^st, Feb 11^th, March 25^th, April 8^th

Delivery:  Online synchronous

Cost: Regular price $1,098, Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE) $666., AUNE Alumni: $548., Audit: (no credit) $660. 

Human Resource Management deals with a wide range of activities by which organizations (both profit and nonprofit) acquire, maintain, and utilize their workforces.  Adopting the perspective of a general manager, students will examine a number of key human resource “levers” or processes contributing to the development of an effective work system, including investing in people (training and development), measurement and incentives (compensation), and tapping potential employees (recruitment and selection) to better understand the complexities of managing people in organizations.

Restrictions: none

Instructor: Kirsten Frey
Delivery: Asynchronous online from March 3, 2025 to April 20, 2025
Sponsoring campus: Antioch University Distance and Extended Education

Costs: visiting student price $1,228., Try-us-out $1,000. (Only for the first course at AU.)

This course introduces leadership theory and managerial roles to plan, organize, implement, monitor, and evaluate organizational change efforts. Strategic communication plays a critical role in the change-management process, and students will examine best practices in organizational leadership and change management. The course thus introduces leadership theory and some best practices of change leadership such as to scan, focus, align, mobilize, and inspire. The course will focus on several key areas such as: why leaders need to guide staff through periods of change and help transform organizational culture, why formal and informal leadership behaviors are needed at many levels of an organization, and why multiple intelligences are needed not only to manage and lead change, but also to predict and address resistance, anxiety, and the forces of inertia that can sabotage even small change efforts.

Restrictions: none

Instructor: Ken Baker
Delivery: Asynchronous online from March 3, 2025 to April 20, 2025
Sponsoring campus: Antioch University Distance and Extended Education

Costs: visiting student price $1,228., Try-us-out $1,000. (Only for the first course at AU.)

This course explores the role of ethics in organizational management and the inherent dilemmas facing leaders in private, public or nonprofit organizations.  Students will examine various strategies, approaches and models of reasoning about ethical issues and explore how personal values and positional power impact decision-making.  

Restrictions: none

Instructor: TBC
Delivery: Asynchronous online from March 3, 2025 to April 20, 2025
Sponsoring campus: Antioch University Distance and Extended Education

Costs: visiting student price $1,228., Try-us-out $1,000. (Only for the first course at AU.)

Every organization must successfully address opportunity, challenge, and change — or wither. Usually, there is no shortage of ideas and passionate perspectives. How does an organization adapt and evolve, develop forward-looking futures for itself, and decide its best course of action? Strategy, innovation, and resilience constitute the “how,” and are the bedrock of a vibrant, sustainable organization. Students will study current and emerging theories of organizational strategy, innovation, and resilience. Drawing on content from this and previous courses, students will apply, evaluate, and develop approaches to leading effective strategic thinking and execution, and in fostering innovation and resilience — including the integration of environmental, human, and financial sustainability in businesses and NGOs. Readings and resources will lean strongly toward what working practitioners require and find most useful in their work.

Restrictions: none

Instructor: Bob Lazzarini
Delivery: Asynchronous online from March 3, 2025 to April 20, 2025
Sponsoring campus: Antioch University Distance and Extended Education

Costs: visiting student price $1,228., Try-us-out $1,000. (Only for the first course at AU.)

This course focuses on the practical application of financial statement analysis and the use of financial information.  Students will explore financial definitions, concepts and structure of financial accounting, standard financial statements, and basic tools for interpreting financial information.  Ultimately, students will develop confidence in reading and interpreting the financial position of an organization and use financial statements, along with knowledge of an industry and information about the marketplace, to make informed business decisions.

Restrictions: none

Instructor: David Greco
Delivery: Asynchronous online from March 3, 2025 to April 20, 2025
Sponsoring campus: Antioch University Distance and Extended Education

Costs: visiting student price $1,228., Try-us-out $1,000. (Only for the first course at AU.)

Skillful leaders foster workplace culture, practices, and relationships that support learning, satisfaction, and strong performance among employees.  Employees, in turn, commit their knowledge, skills, and energy to the organization’s success. Through the interdisciplinary lens of human resource development, students explore the value and benefits of developing people and performance in diverse and inclusive work environments. Theories related to training, organizational development, performance improvement, and systems create the landscape for students to explore the practical aspects of organizational culture and systems that support the development and well-being of employees and organizational stability. 

Restrictions: none

Instructor: Teresa Deveaux
Delivery: Asynchronous online from March 3, 2025 to April 20, 2025
Sponsoring campus: Antioch University Distance and Extended Education

Costs: visiting student price $1,228., Try-us-out $1,000. (Only for the first course at AU.)

The focus of this course is on development of the individual leader, mindful of how one’s leader identity is socially constructed, deconstructed, and reconstructed by self and others. Specific attention is given to the identity and development of leader as mediator. Students examine selected theories, practices and mental models that inform the leader’s capacity for constructively engaging conflict toward transformative ends, within a context of complex and interdependent human systems.    

Restrictions: none

Instructor: Bob Lazzarini
Delivery: Asynchronous online from March 3, 2025 to April 20, 2025
Sponsoring campus: Antioch University Distance and Extended Education

Costs: visiting student price $1,228., Try-us-out $1,000. (Only for the first course at AU.)

Sustainable business strategies leverage the integration of economic, environmental, and social aims into a firm’s goals, activities, and planning, with the aim of creating long-term value for the firm, its stakeholders, and the wider society. Decision makers have to balance these goals, but often have difficulties seeing how their decisions contribute to sustainable development at the system level. This class will give leaders the tools to formulate and execute strategies to meet the current needs of the firm and its stakeholders while protecting, sustaining, and enhancing all resources that will be needed in the future.

Restrictions: none

Instructor: TBC
Delivery: Asynchronous online from March 3, 2025 to April 20, 2025
Sponsoring campus: Antioch University Distance and Extended Education

Costs: visiting student price $1,228., Try-us-out $1,000. (Only for the first course at AU.)

In this course, students will actively engage in the comprehensive execution of their research projects, utilizing the skills and insights acquired in the initial course. They will not only conduct thorough research but also articulate and document their findings effectively through a comprehensive write-up. By the conclusion of this course, students will have honed their research capabilities, demonstrating a mastery of advanced research methodologies and the ability to proficiently communicate their discoveries in a scholarly manner.

Students completing Introduction to Research Fundamentals (RSH5300) and Advanced Research Project (RSH6300) will receive a completion certificate from Antioch University Continuing Education. 

Prerequisite: RSH 5300 Introduction to Research Fundamentals 

Instructor (s): Michael Maser

Delivery: Asynchronous online, Spring B Session from 3/3/25 to 4/20/25
Sponsoring Campus, School of Education / Individualized Master of Arts

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Through this course, students will gain appreciation for the short story form through writing their own stories as well as through analyzing short story literature. Students will be expected to create a well-crafted short story by doing multiple drafts, which will provide experience in developing story ideas, characters, plot, setting, theme and dialogue as well as in story writing techniques such as pace, voice, tension, and description that can be applied to creating fiction of any length.

Restrictions: none

Instructor(s): Greg Belliveau

Delivery: Asynchronous online from March 3 to April 20

Sponsoring campus: Distance and Extended Education

Costs: visiting student $1347, Try-us-out $700

This course involves the analysis of conflicts between individuals, inside of families, and within small groups and organizations due to relational dynamics between individuals. It also involves researching the social and psychological dimensions of how conflicts between individuals emerge.

Restrictions: none

Instructor(s): Chad Sloss

Delivery: Asynchronous online from March 3 to April 20

Sponsoring campus: Distance and Extended Education

Costs: visiting student $1347, Try-us-out $700

This course explores the location of Black writers in literature. Oral traditions, folklore, and literature as definition for culture and as documentation and validation are stressed. Concentration is on 20th and 21st century writers.

Restrictions: none

Instructor(s): Tania Douglas

Delivery: Asynchronous online from March 3 to April 20

Sponsoring campus: Distance and Extended Education

Costs: visiting student $1347, Try-us-out $700

In this course, students explore global environmental justice issues and effective means of advocacy. Students examine environmental justice and injustices through case studies documenting fair/unfair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies. Students critically examine marginalized/vulnerable communities with respect to race, ethnicity, immigration status, lack of land ownership, formal education, political power or other characteristics. In addition, students investigate grassroots initiatives, climate resilience, risk, mitigation, and adaptation strategies.

Restrictions: none

Instructor(s): Running Grass

Delivery: Asynchronous online from March 3 to April 20

Sponsoring campus: Distance and Extended Education

Costs: visiting student $1347, Try-us-out $700