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Students will identify and reflect upon their own cultural background and positionality, how they position others, and how self and others are situated within larger systems of power and privilege. Students will consider how issues of ability, identity, and equity are intertwined in pedagogy and assessment. The course will emphasize pedagogical and assessment practices to promote the academic achievement of learners from diverse and/or marginalized groups. Participants will examine methods by which educational and other professionals can develop more culturally relevant and responsive practices.

Restrictions: none

Instructor: Diane Ross

Delivery: Asynchronous online, 1/17/2025-4/25/2025 with scheduled online meetings on Mondays at 4:00-6:00PM ET 

Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England
Cost: Regular price $1,644., Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE) $1,000., AUNE Alumni: $822., Audit: (no credit) $990.

This course explores the three Es, equity, economy, and environment, in the context of the history and practice of sustainability education (SE). Climate change education (CCE) with a focus on solutions is included using the lens of a proposed fourth E, enough. We will study the nexus of CCE and sustainability education (SE) during the past century as we clarify the meaning of the terms, sustainability and solutions-based education. Beginning with a review of the historical initiatives and events that gave rise to CCE and SE, we will investigate the conceptual components of this field, while simultaneously considering our personal perspectives on them. We will then turn our attention to the strategies and guidelines applied in the practices of CCE with SE, gaining global perspective by researching their implementation in a variety of contexts.

Restrictions: none

Section A Instructor: Ming Wei Koh

Delivery: Asynchronous online, 1/17/2025-4/25/2025

Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New EnglandCost: Regular price $1,644., Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE) $1,000., AUNE Alumni: $822., Audit: (no credit) $990.

This course engages us in learning in ways that draw attention to how we are ourselves learning. There is a range of subject matters–some poetry, some math, some close natural observation, some physical phenomena, etc.  We attend to how we go about learning, and how our colleagues do, too. We also engage others in doing similar work.

1. One premise: Instead of construing teaching as instructing students towards predetermined end points, this course seeks to bring a liberatory and democratic approach to learning situations by valuing the learners’ experiences and insights. Rather than conceiving of teaching as explaining and learning as listening, this course looks at situations where teachers listen and learners do the explaining.

2. Another premise: A second premise is that every person can get involved with and enjoy and get good at every subject matter. We will consider the ways in which various subject matters–the materials of the world–can lend their own characteristic structures to learning situations. The course is designed to help educators think about engaging people in various subject matters, in order to help them think about engaging people in their own. 

As educators, our priorities are the challenge of engaging learners’ minds in exploring the subject matter that we would like them to learn about, and equally important is understanding how learners are exploring the materials they are engaging with. This combination of priorities has come to be called critical exploration. The course draws on the groundbreaking work of Eleanor Duckworth and colleagues in critical exploration (including her original Harvard T-440 course).

Restrictions: none

Instructor: Gopal Krishnamurthy

Delivery: Asynchronous, online, 1/17/ 2025 – 4/ 25/2025 with additional scheduled meetings on Saturdays1/25, 2/8, 2/15, 2/22, 3/1, 4/5, 4/19, and 4/26/25, 1:00–3:00 PM ET 

Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England

Cost: Regular price $1,644., Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE) $1,000., AUNE Alumni: $822., Audit: (no credit) $990.

Students are naturally interested in exploring their world and participating as active citizens on projects relevant to them. Place-based teaching and learning (PBTL) in schools and educational organizations offers local culture, the built environment, and nature as an integrating context for learning. This course will explore practical strategies for the implementation of place-based learning in order to meet PreK-12 curriculum standards and organizational goals. Students who participate in place-based education are more likely to have stronger ties with their community. Additional course foci will include the integration of social justice and PBTL, approaches to developing an interdisciplinary place-based curriculum, designing place-based learning experiences to fulfill school and organizational mission statements, and strategies for taking full advantage of the school campus and community as learning sites. Students in this course will design a place-based unit or project that integrates student choice, uses place as a context for learning, and develops school-community ties. 

Restrictions: none

Instructor: Paul Bocko

Delivery: Asynchronous online, 1/17/2025-4/25/2025

Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England

Cost: Regular price $1,644., Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE) $1,000. AUNE Alumni: $822., Audit: (no credit) $990.

This course is designed for practitioners who are ready to apply trauma informed principles to creating emotionally healthy work spaces and teams. Students will explore how to help team members care for themselves and others in ways that build positive relationships, allow for proactive problem solving and foster productive communication. Students will learn principles of building culturally responsive, resilient and relationship focused teams; expanding on the information required to be a trauma sensitive educator toward being a restorative leader.

Restrictions: none

Section A Instructor: Tammi (Jo) Slief
Delivery: Asynchronous online 3/3/2025-4/20/2025
Sponsoring campus: Antioch University New England
Cost: Regular price $1,644., Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE) $1,000., AUNE Alumni: $822., Audit: (no credit) $990.

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

Effective nature-based early childhood teachers are knowledgeable about young children and local natural history. This course will focus on learning the natural history of northern New England that most directly relates to being outdoors with young children. Seasonal events of winter will be explored as a model for how to discover nature’s surprises at any time of year. An additional focus will be on keeping children active and warm during cold and changing weather. This course can be taken independently of, or in addition to, the fall Natural History for Early Childhood course. We’ll be outside whatever the weather, so dress accordingly.

Restrictions: none

Section A Instructor: Anne Stires
Delivery: Asynchronous online 2/1/2025-2/28/2025, with additional face-to-face meetings at AUNE campus in Keene, NH on: Saturday – Sunday, February 1-2, 2025, 9:00am-5:00pm

(Make-up dates, in case of weather cancellation: 2/8-2/9/2025)
Sponsoring campus: Antioch University New England
Costs: Regular price $548., Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE) $333. AUNE Alumni: $274., Audit: (no credit) $330.

Starting a nature-based early childhood program requires business savvy and financial planning. This course will address the nitty-gritty planning necessary to get a program up and running. We’ll focus on the creation of business plans, including: simple market analyses, promotion, site and facility needs, staffing requirements and options, the crucial income and expense projections, fundraising options and basic risk management issues. Participants will draft a three-year budget for their operation, rough out a promotional flyer and/or website, and prepare and practice persuasive verbal descriptions and “sales pitches” for their school. We’ll allocate plenty of time to share your own experiences and ideas, and will take a close look at existing models that have proven successful in the United States.

Restrictions: none

Section A Instructor: Amanda McMickle

Section B Instructor: Diona Williams
Delivery: Asynchronous online, 1/21/2025 – 3/31/2025
Sponsoring campus: Antioch University New England
Cost: Regular price $1,098, Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE) $666., AUNE Alumni: $548., Audit: (no credit) $660.

This course offers students the opportunity to build their own solutionary practice as humane educators, improve their capacity for solutionary thinking and action, and gain skills for educating others to be solutionaries. Students will put into practice a rigorous solutionary process based on the Solutionary Guidebook. This process includes problem identification; research; critical and systems thinking; stakeholder investigation; devising and evaluating solutions; planning; implementation; presentation; and evaluation.

Restrictions: none

Section A Instructor: Mary Pat Champeau

Credits: 3

Delivery: Asynchronous online, 1/13/2025 – 4/18/2025

Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England

This course explores the humane education principle of doing the most good and least harm (MOGO) and applies this ethic, coupled with solutionary thinking and action, to the field of education. The course looks at humanity and the world through an historical lens and offers a vision for a better future that relies on reason, compassion, and strategic-, creative-, critical- and systems-thinking to create positive solutions to problems.  

Restrictions: none

Instructor: Mary Pat Champeau

Delivery: Asynchronous online, 1/13/2025-4/18/2025Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England
Cost: Regular price $1,644., Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE) $1,000., AUNE Alumni: $822., Audit: (no credit) $990.

Creative Activism offers a study of literary, performance, and visual artists who focus their work on one or more facets of comprehensive humane education—human rights, animal protection, and environmental stewardship. In addition to studying solutions-focused art and artists, students will examine their own experience with the creative process, design original and collaborative work, and practice integrating art for social change into their own lives, teaching, and/or community outreach. Educators, activists, artists, writers, visionaries, and anyone curious about creative activism will discover ways to cross the bridge from despair to action with the support of a dynamic learning community. 

Restrictions: none

Instructor: Cynthia Trapanese

Delivery: Asynchronous online, 1/13/2025-4/18/2025Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England
Cost: Regular price $1,644., Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE) $1,000., AUNE Alumni: $822., Audit: (no credit) $990.

Environmental Ethics addresses some of the most pressing environmental issues in the world. Topics include climate change, endangered species, pollution, habitat destruction, environmental racism, and resource depletion. The course offers a solutions-oriented approach that balances analyzing problems with identifying strategies to create sustainable and restorative systems. It also examines how we might learn and teach about environmental issues in a way that encourages people to focus on solutions that work for all people, animals, and the Earth. 

Restrictions: none

Instructor: Nandita Bajaj
Delivery: Asynchronous online, 1/13/2025-4/18/2025

Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England
Cost: Regular price $1,644., Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE) $1,000., AUNE Alumni: $822., Audit: (no credit) $990.

This course explores issues of human rights by analyzing critical challenges and envisioning possible solutions. Specific issues include modern slavery, child labor, human trafficking, racism, gender inequity, poverty, power, and privilege. The course also examines acts of human courage, collaboration, conscious consumerism, systemic change, and global citizenship. It invites students to find in themselves and others sources of deep humaneness and to develop models of compassion, integrity, and courage. Coursework helps students learn to educate in ways that address conflict effectively and eliminate oppression.

Restrictions: none

Instructor: Vincie Ho 

Delivery: Asynchronous online, 1/13/2025 – 4/18/2025

Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England

Cost: Regular price $1,644., Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE) $1,000., AUNE Alumni: $822., Audit: (no credit) $990.

In this course, students explore issues of intersectionality, racism, and racial justice within the specific context of veganism. Through structured conversation as well as research, reflection, and practical application, students learn how to educate effectively and seek solutions that address overlapping systems of racial injustice and animal exploitation. 

Restrictions: none

Instructor: Dana McPhall

Delivery: Asynchronous online, 1/13/2025 – 4/18/2025

Sponsoring campus: Antioch University New England

Cost: Regular price $1,644., Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE) $1,000., AUNE Alumni: $822., Audit: (no credit) $990.

Culture and Change explores the many ways in which cultural norms influence ideas, beliefs, and actions; and how change making happens. Covering social psychology, consumerism, media, economics, and politics, this course provides a foundational overview for understanding the ways in which people are shaped by their cultures. Coursework focuses on critical analysis of cultural systems, the role of cultural conditioning in our lives, and strategies for educating effectively and creatively about these issues. By recognizing the ways in which our thoughts and behaviors are molded by culture, students gain the ability to live and educate more mindfully, and to help bring about transformative cultural change.

Restrictions: none

Instructor: Cynthia Trapanese

Delivery: Asynchronous online, 1/13/2025-4/18/2025

Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England

Cost: Regular price $1,644., Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE) $1,000., AUNE Alumni: $822., Audit: (no credit) $990.

Animal Protection covers a wide range of issues including animal agriculture, experimentation, hunting and trapping, companion animals, and animals used in entertainment. The course explores different philosophies regarding the inherent rights of sentient animals to be free from exploitation and abuse and encourages students to grapple with and determine their own ethics regarding nonhuman animals. The course further examines ways in which we can protect humans, animals, and ecosystems for the good of all. Coursework helps students develop techniques for learning and teaching about complex issues in a manner that invites dialogue and solutions. Online course.

Restrictions: none

Section A Instructor: Mike Farley

Delivery: Asynchronous online, 1/13/2025-4/18/2025

Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England

Cost: Regular price $1,644., Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE) $1,000., AUNE Alumni: $822., Audit: (no credit) $990.

The decision to have children or not is arguably one of the most important decisions we make in our lives. It is largely regarded as a personal decision and a natural rite of passage into adulthood. But how personal really is our decision to have a child? Human population has doubled in the last 50 years, growing from approximately four billion in 1970 to almost eight billion currently. This is no surprise given that we are adding about one million new humans every five days. There is rising public awareness that overpopulation and rampant overconsumption are driving climate change, resource scarcity, and biodiversity loss here and abroad, yet it is a challenging issue to discuss. Together we will explore the concept and roots of pronatalism, its intersectionality with overpopulation, and its impacts on our identity, on other humans, animals, and the environment. Participants will develop techniques for learning and teaching about these issues in a way that invites dialogue and positive solutions.

Restrictions: none

Section A Instructor: Nandita Bajaj

Credits: 3

Delivery: Asynchronous online, 1/13/2025 – 4/18/2025

Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England

Cost: Regular price $1,644., Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE) $1,000., AUNE Alumni: $822., Audit: (no credit) $990.

This course will introduce both the language and construct of any organization’s financial framework. This foundational knowledge will allow you to be invited to the table when budgets are created that address complex challenges on the landscape.

Students will be introduced to the core three aspects of financials administration: 1) financial sustainability or an organization, reflected in the income statement (profit/loss statement) 2) the Achilles Heel of cash flow that can be the death of any organization 3) the factors informing financial management decisions for investing in new sustainable practice, including the discount rate, opportunity costs, and impact to supply chains and product demand. Related to these topics will be how to set up an internal enterprise fund to build upon initial financial success.

Section A: David Greco

Times: Thursdays, 7pm – 8pm; April 3^rd, 10^th & 17^th

Delivery: Online; Synchronous

Sponsoring campus: Antioch University New England

Costs: Regular price $548., Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE) $333. AUNE Alumni: $274., Audit: (no credit) $330.

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. 

What are the techniques we use to assess wildlife? What are the components of a well-rounded inventory? We will use winter snow and spring melt conditions to investigate the methods of detecting fur-bearers, amphibians, and birds. We will review the basics of developing investigation plans, base mapping, and map & compass use, and then begin our field sampling of wildlife sign, calls, and sightings. Lecture and field time will be combined to provide an in-depth review of line intercept, transect and point count methods.

Assessments will be derived from quantitative data in order to provide guidance for management purposes.

Section A: Mike Akresh

Time: Fridays, 8:00 am– 11:00 am January 10 – May 2

Delivery: In person, on AUNE campus in Keene, NH

Sponsoring campus: Antioch University New England

Cost: Regular price $1,644., Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE) $1,000., AUNE Alumni: $822., Audit: (no credit) $990.

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

Click here for more information on pricing and a link to register.

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