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This course focuses on professional orientation and ethical practice in counseling. Students will be introduced to the counseling profession through an extensive review of the American Counseling Association’s (ACA) Code of Ethics and licensure laws for the state in which they plan to practice. Students will understand the benefits of professional membership in counseling organizations (e.g., ACA and its divisions). Legal issues in counseling and the role of social justice and advocacy as they apply to ethics and the law will be introduced.

Restrictions: Priority to matriculated CMHC students, permission of the department. (Cont. Ed. will seek permission when one applies.)

Instructor: Various, TBA

Delivery:

ONLA, online August 26 to December 6, plus required weekly meeting via Zoom on Wednesdays from 12:00 – 1:30 PM EST 

ONLB, online August  26 to December 6,  plus required weekly meeting via Zoom on Tuesdays from 6:00 – 7:30 PM EST 

ONLC, online August 26 to December 6, plus required weekly meeting via Zoom on Wednesdays from 4:00 – 5:30 PM EST 

ONLD, fully asynchronous online from August 26 to December 6

Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England

Costs:  Regular price $1,644., Try-us-out discount (Only for the first course at AUNE) $1,000., AUNE alumni $822., Audit (not for credit) $990.

This course is especially relevant and timely in the context of regimes of conformity, compliance, and oppression, and an assault on educational freedoms. The course explores freedom and responsibility with regard to education, minds, cultures, and environments. An exclusively individualistic focus that ignores our actions in/with the world can sustain self-centeredness and a solely collectivistic focus that disregards our inner workings can perpetuate incoherent motivations, assumptions, and consequences. Therefore, this course attends to and interrogates both the ‘outer world’ and the ‘world within’. We will engage in experiential activities, shared inquiry, research in action, and contemplative dialogue. It is intentional and likely that the course leaves us with enduring questions rather than answers. Skeptical of both individual affirmation and cultural reification we consider what it means to challenge who we are, what we are with each other, and how we live in and affect the world. In these senses, the course explores the interrelationship of freedom and responsibility.

Restrictions: none

Faculty: Gopal Krishnamurthy                                                                                                        

Delivery: Asynchronous online from September 6 – December 7, 2024, with additional online synchronous meetings on: 

Saturday, September 14, 2024, 1:00-3:00 PM ET 

Saturday, September 21, 2024, 1:00-3:00 PM ET 

Saturday, September 28, 2024, 1:00-3:00 PM ET 

Saturday, October 5, 2024, 1:00-3:00 PM ET 

Saturday, October 12, 2024, 1:00-3:00 PM ET 

Saturday, October 26, 2024, 1:00-3:00 PM ET 

Saturday, November 2, 2024, 1:00-3:00 PM ET 

Saturday, November 9, 2024, 1:00-3:00 PM ET 

Saturday, November 16, 2024, 1:00-3:00 PM ET 

Saturday, November 23, 2024, 1:00-3:00 PM ET 

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.

The purpose of this course is to develop educator understanding for and application of high leverage practices and classroom tools that optimize academic, social emotional, and behavioral success for all learners including those who need additional and intensified support. With a focus on creating learning spaces where all students feel Rightfully Present with a deep sense of belonging, this course dives deeply into the constructs that will support the creation of positive, safe-enough-to-be-brave learning communities so that all students can successfully navigate their own and others’ Zones of Proximal Development. We will explore the underpinnings of relationship as the foundation of establishing healthy learning communities; explore the potential of technology to allow for new kinds of communities to be formed; and apply course constructs and ideas to support and engage marginalized populations including those students who experience disability.  Students will also reflect on teaching methods that fully engage learners in the content with the use of evidence-based teaching practices, focusing especially on those practices found within a collaborative problem based learning community – the Critical Skills Classroom. Participants will adapt and translate their seminar experiences to the work they will do in their own settings. 

Restrictions: none 

Faculty: Maura Hart                                                                                                                       

Delivery: Asynchronous online from September 6 – October 25, 2024

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 provides support for teachers working to build or deepen their pedagogical skills via individualized advising, coaching, research, implementation, and reflective practice. Participants will engage in a targeted cycle of inquiry around their classroom practice, setting data-informed goal, investigating, implementing and documenting relevant strategies, tools, processes and resources, reflecting upon new learning and emerging goals, and surfacing a new goal or goals for further study.

Possible areas of study may include: 

• Developing and maintaining the classroom as a strong, collaborative learning community,
• Setting and assessing standards for quality work,
• Targeting skills and dispositions within curriculum frameworks,
• Designing student-centered learning experiences that address subject area standards through a meaningful context for learning, and
• Using the Experiential Learning Cycle as a framework for understanding teaching and learning.

Restrictions: none 

Faculty: Laura Thomas                                                                                                                 

Delivery: Asynchronous online from September 6 – December 7, 2024 

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.

Weaving SEL into the classroom using Equity, Trauma-Informed Practices, and PBL. What does social-emotional learning look like if we think beyond packaged lessons or scripted curriculum? How might we authentically weave social and emotional awareness into our daily practice? And how do we ensure that SEL helps instead of harms? These are questions we will explore in this course, braiding together social-emotional learning, equity, and trauma-informed education.

Restrictions: none
Faculty: Alex Shevrin Venet                                                                                                         

Delivery:  Online, asynchronous from September 6 – December 7, 2024, with additional online synchronous meetings on: 

Tuesday, September 10, 2024, 7–8:30 PM ET

Tuesday, October 8, 2024, 7–8:30 PM ET

Tuesday, November 5, 2024, 7–8:30 PM ET

Tuesday, December 3, 2024, 7–8:30 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.

What does it mean to teach and engage our students in our modern world? How might we use principles of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics) to engage all students? How can we design and implement STEAM education and design thinking strategies building on our professional priorities (ie. the Critical Skills Classroom, nature based education, arts integration, etc.) as well as developmentally appropriate pedagogy? How do we help our students develop the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to situate them to be competitive in school, and later in their careers? How can we provide students with learning experiences that tap into their interests and passions? How can we use technology to support student learning? What’s the difference between STEM, STEAM, and STREAM? These questions will be explored in this online course designed to deepen understanding and inspire teachers to a new level of practice. Along with examining current trends, literature, and resources in this field, participants will design powerful learning experiences for these classrooms as well as formative and summative assessments. Students will work both on their own and collaboratively to explore and learn about these various topics for practical classroom implementation. Focus will also be given to modern tools to support STEAM learning in both face-to-face and virtual environments.

Restrictions: None

Faculty: Jackie Gerstein

Delivery: Asynchronous online from October 27, 2024 – December 13, 2024

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.

Compassion and compassionate action in education can be informed by a framework that points to a new and fresh understanding of the source of distress in oneself, one’s students and one’s colleagues. The framework is known as the eight worldly conditions and it posits a sequence of four opposite conditions that are ever changing and impersonal. These four opposites are: pleasure and pain, gain and loss, praise and blame, and fame and disrepute. Understanding distress from the perspective of this framework can help educators to recognize and to shape compassionate action as the most caring and useful response to distress. Through readings and presentations, this course presents the eight worldly conditions and three mindfulness-compassion practices that can help educators to directly connect with their own experience and to wise, compassionate action in the midst of their classrooms and educational contexts.

Restrictions: None

Faculty: April Brown          

Delivery: Asynchronous online from September 6, 2024 – December 7, 2024

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 purpose of this course is to apply systems thinking to designing and building school community partnerships. We will explore integrated systems within schools and organizations which enable them to serve community, and we will consider the larger municipal, national, and global systems in which they are embedded, including ecological, economic, and social systems. Children’s participation will be at the heart of the course as we investigate the implications of systems thinking and partnership for sustainability, climate change, and place-based education. Further attention will be given to structures ranging from those designed to manage interrelated institutional systems (heating/cooling, food services, water, and electrical) to broader green building, community development, and climate change initiatives. Applying what they learn to their own school or organization, students will formulate recommendations to improve systems, build community, and increase youth participation to promote sustainability and address climate change.

Restrictions: None

Faculty: Paul Bocko

Delivery: Asynchronous online from September 6, 2024 – December 7, 2024

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.

Philosophy of Education and Change looks at key philosophical influences on our American education system. This class helps students explore multiple perspectives in the quest to expand educational equity and opportunity for all, while respecting the uniqueness of each learner and the complexities inherent in institutional organization and change. As a result of this class, students will gain a better understanding of the antecedents of our current educational dilemmas and develop the capacity to more critically evaluate trends in the political and social context of education in the 21st century. Students will look at the impact of systems thinking and systemic change theory on educational institutions and will use this knowledge to help them in their work as change agents and leaders in their schools and communities. Online course.

Restrictions: None

Faculty: Alison Henry

Delivery: Asynchronous online from September 6, 2024 – December 7, 2024

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 will examine and critique a variety of human development theories and learning theories. Students will explore the intersection between their own development and the developmental range of learners as they apply developmental and learning theories to the construction of developmentally appropriate learning environments, curricula, and assessments. Students will consider how human development connects with and informs pedagogy and assessment.

Restrictions: None

Faculty:  Laura Eldridge   

Delivery: Asynchronous online from September 6, 2024 – December 7, 2024 

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.

Young children are natural storytellers, making sense of the world through imaginative, dramatic play. Young children are also inclined to move! They explore their surroundings and express ideas and feelings with their bodies. This course highlights the importance of story and motion in children’s daily lives and focuses on ways to use storytelling, story acting, and creative movement to enrich the early childhood classroom.

Restrictions: None

Faculty: Carla Beebe Comey

Delivery: Asynchronous online 10/1/24-12/13/24, with synchronous online meetings on:

Saturday, November 16, 2024, 9:30 AM-4:00 PM ET

Sunday, November 17, 2024, 9:30 AM-4:00 PM ET

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 interdisciplinary course provides an overview of and immersion in the emerging field of nature-based leadership. In a world in which people have increasingly disconnected from the healthy, generative, and renewing ways of nature, this course offers a framework and strategies by which to apply nature’s lessons to enhance your life and career.

The course recognizes and builds on contributions from ecology, indigenous wisdom, environmental studies, systems theory, complexity, biomimicry, eco-psychology, conservation psychology, and place-based education. Nature-based leadership draws on these and other disciplines to nurture leadership in all aspects of society, with the aim that people in all relationships—with themselves, others, and the Earth itself—contribute to a healthy, peaceful, and regenerative present and future.

The course takes a hybrid approach to instruction, including nature-based experiential activities in the outdoors, classroom discussions, online readings and commentary, and personalized projects.

Participants will leave with strategies for incorporating principles of nature-based leadership in personal and professional settings, including, and not limited to, home and family environments as well as business, education, non-profit organization, and health sectors.

Restrictions: None

Faculty: Cheryl Charles

Delivery: Asynchronous online from October 1 – December 9, 2024, with face-to-face meetings on the AUNE campus on:

Saturday, October 12, 2024, 9:00 AM – 5:30 ET

Sunday, October 13, 2024, 9:00 AM – 5:30 ET

Monday, October 14, 2024, 9:00 AM – 5:30 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.

The best forest kindergarten and nature-based preschool 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 children. Wildflowers, fungi, bugs and tadpoles are some of the topics considered, along with nature art, tracking, wild edibles, and using children’s literature as a vehicle to nature exploration. Seasonal events of autumn will serve as a model for how to discover nature’s surprises at any time of year. We’ll be outside regardless of the weather, and discuss ways to keep children engaged under cold and/or wet conditions. 

Restrictions: None

Faculty: Ellen Doris

Delivery (Section A): Asynchronous online from September 14 – October 25, 2024, with face-to-face meetings at the AUNE campus on:

Saturday, September 14, 2024, 9:00 AM- 5:00 PM ET

Sunday, September 15, 2024, 9:00 AM- 5:00 PM ET

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.

The best forest kindergarten and nature-based preschool 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 children. Wildflowers, fungi, bugs and tadpoles are some of the topics considered, along with nature art, tracking, wild edibles, and using children’s literature as a vehicle to nature exploration. Seasonal events of autumn will serve as a model for how to discover nature’s surprises at any time of year. We’ll be outside regardless of the weather, and discuss ways to keep children engaged under cold and/or wet conditions. 

Restrictions: None

Faculty: Ellen Doris

Delivery (Section B): Asynchronous online from September 7 – October 21, 2024 

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.

The natural world both invites and supports play and learning. This course focuses on how outdoor spaces can contribute to early childhood education. It uses site assessment, analysis and schematic design as tools to reveal the potential of a location for a nature-based early childhood program. Students will engage in a hands-on sequence of exploration together, imagining how an actual outdoor space can be transformed by using and modifying the existing landscape. Each student will apply understanding through creating a schematic design. Learn how to use boundaries, pathways, and destinations to support play and learning, how experiences in nature can support early childhood learning standards, and deepen your understanding of your role as teacher. 

Restrictions: None

Faculty: Andy Howard 

Delivery: Asynchronous online from September 21 – October 7, 2024 with synchronous online meetings on:

Saturday, October 5, 2024 9:00 AM-5:00 PM ET

Sunday, October 6, 2024 9:00 AM-5:00 PM ET

Monday, October 7, 2024, 2:00-5:00 PM ET
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.

Introduction to Humane Education explores the principle of doing the “most good and least harm” and applies this ethic with innovative thinking and action to the field of education. The course looks at humanity and the world through a historical lens and offers a vision for a better future that relies on reason, compassion, evidence-based optimism, and systems awareness to bring about positive long-term change. 

Restrictions: None

Faculty: Mary Pat Champeau

Delivery: Asynchronous online, from September 9 – December 13, 2024

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.

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

Faculty: Kristine Tucker

Delivery: Asynchronous online, from September 9 – December 13, 2024

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. 

Restrictions: None

Faculty: Mike Farley

Delivery: Asynchronous online, from September 9 – December 13, 2024 

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

Faculty: Vincie Ho Lam

Delivery: Asynchronous online, from September 9 – December 13, 2024

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

Faculty: Cynthia Trapanese

Delivery: Asynchronous online, from September 9 – December 13, 2024

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.

Just Good Food explores how contemporary food systems and individual food choices relate to human, animal, and environmental social justice issues. Just Good Food focuses on the connections between food systems and issues of hunger, poverty, animal protection, climate change, healthcare, sustainability, legislative policies, and corporate interests. The course surveys a broad range of food-related issues, with the opportunity for further study in a personal area of interest. The course also highlights solutions-focused organizations, practices, and policies. Students learn to think critically about how food choices affect all living beings and the planet and gain insight into food-related politics and policy. 

Restrictions: None

Faculty: Cynthia Trapanese

Delivery: Asynchronous online, from September 9 – December 13, 2024

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

Faculty: Dana McPhall

Delivery: Asynchronous online, from September 9 – December 13, 2024

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.

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

Faculty: Cynthia Trapanese

Delivery: Asynchronous online, from September 9 – December 13, 2024

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 choices we make in our lives. It is largely regarded as a personal and isolated decision and a natural rite of passage into adulthood. But how personal really is our decision about whether, when and with whom to have a child. Pronatalism—a set of socio-cultural, ethno-political, religious, and patriarchal pressures that encourage, incentivize, or coerce reproduction—remains largely absent from our ‘family planning’ discourse. Human population has doubled in the last 50 years, growing from approximately four billion in 1970 to eight billion currently. There is rising public awareness that overpopulation and rampant overconsumption are driving climate change, resource scarcity, and biodiversity collapse, yet it is a challenging issue to discuss. In this course, we will examine a range of cultural narratives and national policies used to manipulate fertility rates, and their implications for human rights and reproductive autonomy. There will be a special focus on the pervasive influence on pronatalism and human supremacy as drivers of population growth, as well as reproductive and ecological injustice. We will also examine the implications of the current reluctance in the international conservation and development community to address the population directly as a driver of multiple social and ecological crises. Participants will develop techniques for learning and teaching about these issues in a way that invites dialogue and positive solutions.

Restrictions: None

Faculty: Nandita Bajaj

Delivery: Asynchronous online, from September 9 – December 13, 2024

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, participants live like writers, thinkers, and creators of wisdom, cultivating and contemplating questions that matter. Through the medium of transformative language arts, students discover what it means to be earth-inspired, animal-inspired, and human-inspired, positioning and empowering words for personal and social change. Through an online retreat design, writers are immersed in readings, music, short films, mindfulness meditation, and experiential writing activities as a source of inspiration and a springboard for independent and/or collaborative writing projects. All genres are open for exploration. Writing circles meet online to share progress, inspirational tips, and resources. Online course.

Restrictions: none

Faculty: Kristine Tucker

Delivery: Asynchronous online, from September 9 – December 13, 2024

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.

Windows on Waldorf is designed as an introduction for those who want to learn more about the unique pedagogy of Waldorf education. Through presentations, artistic experience, personal reflection, and guided discussion, participants will be introduced not only to the historical and philosophical framework behind contemporary Waldorf education, but also the ways in which Waldorf pedagogy addresses the social, emotional, spiritual, and academic needs of children at different stages of their development. Though Waldorf early childhood and high school education will be touched upon, in brief, the primary focus will be on grades 1-8.

Restrictions: none

Faculty: Alison Henry                                                                                           

Delivery: Asynchronous online from September 3 – December 13, 2024, with additional online synchronous meetings on: 

Saturday, September 21 (10:30-4:30 ET)

Saturday, October 19 (10:30-4:30 ET)

Saturday, November 16 (10:30-4:30 ET)

This course will provide students with a foundation in advanced statistics and data management commonly used in the fields of ecology and natural resource management. The class will build upon knowledge learned in the first Environmental Data Analysis (EDA) class (ES 5190) for MS students, or the Research Strategies I class (ES 7270) for PhD students, either of which is a prerequisite to take this advanced course. Students are expected to already be familiar with using R, as well as be familiar with classical tests (t-tests), contingency tables, Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), and simple and multiple linear regression. Emphasis will be placed on understanding the appropriate statistical approach for the data and question at hand. Concepts will be applied in labs, which will use R software and real-world data sets. Course content will be given with the use of lectures, small group discussions, full-class discussions, and computer labs. Lectures will be used to present, explain, and exemplify course concepts, while labs will be used to provide hands-on experience working with real-world data. Students will also be working on a semester-long project and applying statistical techniques to their own dataset, or to a dataset provided by the instructors. We will cover advanced data management/manipulation, Generalized Linear Models (fitting response data to binomial, Poisson, Negative Binomial, Zero-inflated Poisson, Zero-altered Poisson, and Gamma distributions), and mixed-effects models (random effects). We will also cover Principal Components Analysis (PCA), and touch upon other multi-variate techniques and Generalized Additive Models (GAMs). We will introduce hierarchical occupancy and N-mixture models. Within these methodological frameworks, we will discuss model assumptions and data exploration, model fitting and evaluation, significance tests, variable/model selection, model prediction, and model validation. A number of specific analytical tools will be covered, including AIC, model averaging, data manipulation, model matrices, and p-value adjustments. All classes will be conducted over Zoom. Classes will also be video recorded on Zoom and posted on Sakai/Brightspace. Students will be highly encouraged to work together outside of class throughout the semester to better understand the course content.

Prerequisite: ES-5190 or ES-7270.

Instructor: section A, Mike Akresh

Delivery: Online Synchronous (at scheduled times)

Fridays, August 30 – December 13, 8:00 am – 11:00 am EST

Sponsoring campus: Antioch University New England

Cost: Regular price $1644., Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE) $1,000. AUNE Alumni: $822., Audit: (no credit) $990.

The course examines and applies ecological principles to each student’s local landscape, wherever they are in the world. Students will explore the ecology in their local environment, learn to observe patterns and processes, ask ecological questions, apply theory, complete field sampling, and share and compare results with their colleagues in an online forum. Students will explore the geomorphological template (e.g., latitude, climate, topography, ecoregion, geology, hydrology) and cultural processes (e.g., anthropogenic land-use history) that help to explain the species they see in their locations. Using citizen science-based tools like iNaturalist and eBird, students will learn the local flora and fauna of their landscape. We will study and apply ecological principles across ecological scales, from the genetic and organismic to the population, community, and ecosystem, and explore ecological theories at each of these levels of biological organization in ways that are transferable across environments.

Restrictions: None

Instructor: Section A, Amanda Suzzi-Simmons

Delivery: Online synchronous on Wednesdays, August 28 – December 11, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM EST

Sponsoring campus: Antioch University New England

Cost: Regular price $1644., Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE) $1,000. AUNE Alumni: $822., Audit: (no credit) $990.

Local and regional governments are leaders in climate change due to their unique position to make a wide range of decisions that can mitigate and adapt to our changing climate. Because they are on the frontline, many communities have conducted vulnerability assessments and engaged in adaptation planning. This module will enable participants to assess impacts to a business, community, or sector based on specific climate projections for a specific locale. This focuses on identifying what and who are most vulnerable to such impacts, which requires the ability to facilitate a stakeholder process to prioritize these identified vulnerabilities, including with respect to business supply chains, and actionable responses. This module will also provide you with an overview of planning for resiliency and adaptation at different scales. After this module, you should feel comfortable knowing what steps need to be taken to integrate resiliency recommendations and projects into community planning and policy processes.

Restrictions: None

Instructor: section A, Christa Daniels

Delivery: Asynchronous: October 28 – November 23 with additional scheduled online meetings: Mondays, November 4 & 18, 6:00 – 7:00 PM EST

Sponsoring campus: Antioch University New England

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

Local and regional governments are leaders in climate change due to their unique position to make a wide range of decisions that can mitigate and adapt to our changing climate. Because they are on the frontline, many communities have conducted vulnerability assessments and engaged in adaptation planning. This module will enable participants to assess impacts to a business, community, or sector based on specific climate projections for a specific locale. This focuses on identifying what and who are most vulnerable to such impacts, which requires the ability to facilitate a stakeholder process to prioritize these identified vulnerabilities, including with respect to business supply chains, and actionable responses. This module will also provide you with the overview of planning for resiliency and adaptation at different scales. After this module, you should feel comfortable knowing what steps need to be taken to integrate resiliency recommendations and projects into community planning and policy processes.

Restrictions: none

Instructor: Section A: Christa Daniels

Delivery: Asynchronous online from October 3 through October 26 with additional online meetings scheduled on Mondays, October 7 and 21 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM EST

Sponsoring campus: Antioch University New England

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

Note: Attendance at all pre and post-trip meetings is mandatory. Enrolled students who do not drop the course one week before the first pre-trip meeting or who do not attend the first pre-trip meeting will be held financially responsible for the cost of the trip and will forfeit their seat in the class. Students on the waitlist are strongly encouraged to attend the pre-trip meetings, so that they may participate in the trip if an enrolled student drops the course unexpectedly. On this five-day trip, we will examine the geoecology of glaciated coasts in New England using Cape Cod as a model system. Course topics will include landscape to local-scale depositional and erosional processes as influenced by coastal climate and disturbance; barrier island dynamics and the ecological role of estuaries; salt marsh ecology and restoration; geological and climatic controls on coastal evolution; vascular plant succession and soil ecological processes on active dune systems; impacts of coastal development and other human impacts on physical and ecological processes; and management issues in New England coastal systems. In addition to tuition there is a cost of $350.00 which covers all travel, lodging, and food.

Restrictions: Permission of the program: CE will seek permission when the person applies.

Instructor: section A: Rachel Thiet

Delivery: Pre-trip meeting, Wednesday, September 11, 3:00 – 5:00 PM EST

Pre-trip meeting, Wednesday, September 25, 3:00 – 5:00 PM EST

Study Trip: Saturday – Wednesday, September 28 – October 2

Post-trip meeting Wednesday, October 23, 3:00 – 5:00 PM EST

Pre and post-trip meetings are on the Antioch campus in Keene, NH, and online; the trip is to Cape Cod, MA

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. In addition to tuition, there is a cost of $350.00, which covers all travel, lodging, and food.

This course examines the diversity of plant communities found in central New England with special attention to the impact of topography, substrate, and disturbance regimes on community composition and structure as a means to understand ecological community dynamics in any part of the world. As a largely field-based course, both qualitative and quantitative means will be used to describe community composition and structure, as well as the reasons for community placement. Ecocindicator species will be used to delineate specific topographic and edaphic sites, while evidence of various disturbances will be used to interpret successional patterns as a means for “reading the landscape.”  The course will have a strong grounding in concepts related to community ecology, including dominance, diversity, niche structuring, and succession.  Skills in plant community sampling, soil interpretation, and plant identification will also be developed. A number of outstanding representatives of community types in the central Connecticut River watershed will be visited.

Prerequisite: Being able to identify by bark the two dozen most common species of central New England trees (Suggested study guide – Wojtech, Michael. 2011. Bark:  A Field Guide to Trees of the Northeast. University Press of New England. Lebanon, NH. (Registration is open for training modules on Wednesday August 26.)

Instructor: Section A, Jeff Littleton

Delivery: Classroom at AUNE in Keene, NH, on Fridays, August 29 – December 13, 8:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST

Sponsoring campus: Antioch University New England

Cost: Regular price $1644., Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE) $1,000. AUNE Alumni: $822., Audit: (no credit) $990.

This course examines the biology underlying our attempts to conserve diversity at the level of genes, species, communities, and ecosystems. We will learn about the major issues and problems in conservation biology, and the tools biologists use to accomplish their conservation goals. We will apply qualitative and quantitative tools from population biology, and community and landscape ecology to learn how we can predict the vulnerability of populations and species to extinction. Example case studies and current events will allow us to explore issues such as reserve design and management, policy issues, reintroduction projects, and restoration efforts. Students will delve into the most recent conservation biology literature to become familiar with predominant debates and contentious issues in the field. The course is designed to help students develop a critical perspective, pertinent quantitative tools, and a vision of where the field of conservation biology came from and where it is headed.

Restrictions: none

Instructor: Section A, Rachel Thiet

Delivery: Classroom at AUNE in Keene, NH on Fridays, August 30– December 13, 1:00 – 4:00 PM EST

Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England

Cost: Regular price $1644., Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE) $1,000. AUNE Alumni: $822., Audit: (no credit) $990.

This course is based on a recognition that the rapid pace of societal change and ecological collapse can be personally overwhelming and challenging to many of our core beliefs and commitments. Spirituality has often been a source of meaning and, more crucially, transformation in times of change. Together we will explore and develop what an ecological spirituality might mean, and how it shapes our responses to current challenges and informs the ways that we live. The course will explore the role of spirituality in understanding, living (and dying) through, and responding to rapid societal change, ecological upheaval, and radical liberatory potential of both. Overall, this course intends to nurture our understanding of what ecological spiritualities look and feel like and to find ways of living, expressing and sharing them as we navigate rapid changes in our lives and in our human and more-than-human relationships.

Restrictions: None

Instructors: Section A: Julia Gibson & John Crockett

Delivery: Classroom at AUNE in Keene, NH, on Thursdays, August 29 – December 12, 1:00 – 4:00 PM EST, with 2 field days on Saturdays: September 14 and October 19, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM EST

Sponsoring campus: Antioch University New England

Cost: Regular price $1644., Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE) $1,000. AUNE Alumni: $822., Audit: (no credit) $990.

Students will be introduced to the language and conversion factors utilized in the analysis of electrical generation and conservation. With this foundation students will be trained in calculating energy use from observed appliances, fixtures and standard operating procedures within an organization. This will be supplemented with guidance in how to conduct level-two energy audits. Subsequently, each student will be asked to complete such an audit for both their own living space. Skills will be introduced and practiced so to determine greenhouse gas emissions both from internal operations of an organization, as well as from the source of electricity from the utility provider. Students will also be introduced to social marketing techniques that will aid them within an organization, as well as within their community, to target unsustainable energy use behavior and subsequently build a commitment to improving such behavior. Each student will be able to apply such techniques within the context of their own workplace or community.

Restrictions: None

Instructor: section A, Clay Mitchell

Delivery: Online synchronous (at scheduled times) on Wednesdays, September 11, 18, 25, October 9, 16, 23, 30, 5:30 – 6:30 PM EST 

Sponsoring campus: Antioch University New England

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

All environmental professionals, from conservation biologists to environmental educators, from climate adaptation professionals to resource managers, need to understand the essentials of effective advocacy. Advocacy has been core to effective environmental outcomes for generations. We will learn through advocacy-based case studies, debates about the ethical role of advocacy relative to one’s career, and exploration of one’s personal relationship to advocacy. Our inquiry into the essentials of advocacy will draw from international scholarship on the nature and efficacy of advocacy. We will also consider how a range of actors, including scientists, environmental professionals, educators, and citizens, engage in effective advocacy for the promotion of positive environmental behavior, resilience, social justice, and sustainability outcomes. We will explore possible scenarios for advocacy in course participants’ own professional and civic engagement and in the organizations, communities, professional and personal networks, and polities with which they engage.

Restrictions: none

Instructor: Section A, Abigail Abrash Walton

Delivery: Online on Thursdays, August 29 – December 12, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM EST

Sponsoring campus: Antioch University New England

Cost: Regular price $1644., Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE) $1,000. AUNE Alumni: $822., Audit: (no credit) $990.

The overall goal of the course is to introduce students to the principles of financial administration as applied to the management of organizations. This course is designed for students with little or no financial background. There is an emphasis on governmental and nonprofit organizations. The course has the objectives for the student to: become familiar with the language of finance, essential for those who will play a role in managing the financial resources of an organization; understand the basics of the financial system and its components; learn the principles of preparing an annual and capital budget; gain experience in setting up and using spreadsheets; develop skills in the analysis, interpretation, and use of financial information; become familiar with the principles of time value of money; review the principles of investment and retirement accounts; and become familiar with the key components of an annual financial audit and systems of internal control. The course will focus on gaining competency in financial management skills as directed towards running an organization. It will briefly expose the students to accounting/book-keeping, primarily for the purpose of gaining an understanding of the language and the principles of accounting. Spreadsheet programs will be utilized as a primary tool in analyzing and presenting financial information. Several case studies will be used to illustrate the principles of effective financial management.

Restrictions: none

Instructor: Section A, David Greco

Delivery: Online on Tuesdays 7:00 – 8:00 PM EST

Sponsoring campus: Antioch University New England

Cost: Regular price $1644., Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE) $1,000. AUNE Alumni: $822., Audit: (no credit) $990.

This course will provide a broad overview of the Environmental Education movement by constructing a working definition of its goals and the various manifestations of those goals within local, regional, state, national and international organizations. We will explore the personal values that drive people to choose environmental education as a profession and look at the implications of that choice on lifestyle, civic participation, relationships and work-life. Students will predict possible future scenarios for environmental educators and their role in the organizations that support their efforts.

Restrictions: none

Instructors: section C: Libby McCann & Shannon Walz

Delivery: Online on Thursdays, August 29 – December 12, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM EST

Sponsoring campus: Antioch University New England

Cost: Regular price $1644., Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE) $1,000. AUNE Alumni: $822., Audit: (no credit) $990.

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are increasingly used for policy-making, scientific, administrative, educational and recreational purposes. Proficiency with spatial concepts and data is sought-after by employers and necessary for effective environmental and policy leadership. This class will provide a basic overview of GIS and their use in capturing, analyzing, and communicating spatial information. Students will gain skills in working with and displaying spatial data, as well as an appreciation for the diverse ways that GIS may be applied to problems associate with their specific area of interest (e.g., land use planning, conservation planning, environmental and human health and management). By the end of the course, students will understand technical GIS vocabulary, understand the role of GIS in management processes and research projects, manipulate and work with most spatial data models, carry out basic spatial analysis and create professionally looking cartographic outputs and web maps. Furthermore, students will gain hands-on experience with ArcGIS, the most popular GIS platform. Classes will include lecture material, online modules and hands-on lab work. AU classroom learning platform, Sakai/Brightspace will be instrumental in class instruction.

Restrictions: Permission of academic department

Instructor: section A, Fash Farashahi

Delivery: Hybrid, online synchronous and in person, on campus in Keene, NH on Thursdays, August 29 – December 12, 5:00 – 8:00 pm EST

Cost: Regular price $1644., Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE) $1,000. AUNE Alumni: $822., Audit: (no credit) $990.

This course is designed for students who are willing to critically analyze the concept of global citizenship in an increasingly connected world full of social, political, and environmental challenges. We will draw on recent research on this topic and examine the importance of certain skills for global cultural awareness, literacy and education, and subsequently focus on cross-cultural communication skills as part of being a globally oriented citizen of the 21st century. This course will help students appreciate the complexity and dynamics involved in globalization and the legacies of Western imperialism, enhance students’ self-reflection of their own culture in relation to other cultures, and develop a cross-cultural understanding of other societies. Additionally, the multidisciplinary nature of this course provides opportunity for multilevel discussions and interventions. Students are encouraged to be reflexive and self-interrogative, and they are challenged to relate to their own national, cultural, and personal context. Particular ideas and specific wishes from the students are, of course, largely respected.

Restrictions: None

Instructor: Section A: Jamila Gaskins

Delivery: online on October 13 – December 7, Tuesdays from 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM EST

Sponsoring campus: Antioch University New EnglandCost: Regular price $548., Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE) $333., AUNE Alumni: $274., Audit: (no credit) $330.

Leadership for change is the art of structuring organizations and collaboration, building morale and vision, and facilitating group deliberation and decision-making to guide effective policy-setting and organizational work that makes a positive difference at the individual, interpersonal, organizational, field, and societal levels. This course will help students develop the skills and understandings that support leadership that is adaptive, inclusive, participatory, collaborative, culturally competent, and effective. Participants in this class will be challenged to explore 1) personal leadership competencies and styles; 2) group dynamics, inclusion, and team facilitation; 3) strategies for engaging diverse stakeholders; and 4) the capacity of creative leadership to facilitate large-scale systemic change

Section A Instructor: Jason Rhoades

Section A Delivery: Classroom at AUNE in Keene, NH on Fridays, August 30 – December 13, 8:00 – 11:00 AM EST

Section B Instructor: Abi Abrash Walton

Section B Delivery: Online on Saturdays & Sundays 1:00 – 5:00 PM EST on September 7,8, October 5,6, November 2, 3, 16, 17 

Restrictions: None

Sponsoring campus: Antioch University New England

Cost: Regular price $1644., Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE) $1,000. AUNE Alumni: $822., Audit: (no credit) $990.

Program evaluation is an essential (& marketable) skill among environmental education and conservation professionals. Evaluation can help stakeholders make informed decisions, gain insights into the merit of a given initiative and contribute to continual program improvement. Students design an evaluation of their choosing and work together to complete an evaluation with an external client. This course will also explore such topics as: evaluation purposes, using logic models to inform evaluation strategies, design considerations, data sources and collection, limitations and bias in evaluation, data analysis, interpretation and use of evaluative findings. 

Restrictions: None

Instructor: section A, Libby McCann

Delivery: Classroom delivery at AUNE in Keene, NH, on Fridays, August 30 – December 13, 1:00 – 4:00 PM EST

Sponsoring campus: Antioch University New England

Cost: Regular price $1644., Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE) $1,000. AUNE Alumni: $822., Audit: (no credit) $990.

Vertebrate Ecology: Ornithology explores the class Aves and the diversity, behavior, annual cycles, morphology, habitat relationships, conservation, speciation, and reproduction strategies of birds. We will also cover sampling techniques, identification, citizen science, and data management and analysis. Although we will examine birds throughout the world, we will emphasize species found in New England. We will investigate topics through a combination of lectures, class discussions and debates, student presentations, field trips, hands-on lab exercises, assignments, and readings in textbooks and in the scientific literature. Throughout the semester, students will plan, implement, write, and present an avian research or management project. We will have two full-day (including driving) field trips.

Restrictions: None

Instructor: section A, Mike Akresh

Delivery: Classroom at AUNE in Keene, NH on Thursdays, August 29 – December 12, 8:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST with additional field trips on Thursday, September 26, 6:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST and Saturday, October 5, 6:30 AM – 12:30 PM EST

Sponsoring campus: Antioch University New EnglandCost: Regular price $1644., Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE) $1,000. AUNE Alumni: $822., Audit: (no credit) $990.

This course will focus on management activities and their effects on forested ecosystems. In particular, habitat for wildlife populations, more specifically forest birds and mammals. The course will also address timber, water, aesthetics, carbon, and forest certification. Topics covered include NRCS methodology for preparing a forest management/wildlife habitat management plan, wildlife habitat inventory techniques, habitat requirements of game, song, and other non-game birds, and upland and wetland game and fur-bearing mammals, and the integration of game and non-game species management with forest product harvesting.

Restrictions: none

Instructor: Section A, Peter Palmiotto

Delivery: Classroom at AUNE in Keene, NH, on Thursdays, August 29 – December 12, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM EST

Sponsoring campus: Antioch University New England

Cost: Regular price $1644., Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE) $1,000. AUNE Alumni: $822., Audit: (no credit) $990.

This course will provide students with an understanding of how to assess the system dynamics associated with materials generation and composition, internal collection and storage and eventual set out, transfer, recovery and/or disposal. Concurrently students will be introduced to the concept of a circular materials economy and investigate what the Achilles heel may be that limits the recovery of targeted materials from disposal. Skills will be developed in accounting and mass-balance tracking of materials flow across embedded system boundaries; as well as, being introduced to best management practices that can reduce or avoid non- product material releases beyond the organization’s boundaries. This will be supplemented on how best to develop protocols in purchasing so to impact waste minimization up a supply chain, while concurrently developing strategies that allows producers to avoid environmental impacts from their choice of product design and intended use. Students will be able to prioritize alternative production processes through both a lens of carbon emissions avoidance and return on investment calculations.

Restrictions: none

Instructor: section A: Michael Simpson

Delivery: Online on Tuesdays, September 10, 17, 24 and October 1, from 5:00 – 6:30 PM EDT

Sponsoring campus: Antioch University New England

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

Businesses and non-governmental organizations today are evolving rapidly from a focus solely on their financial bottom line to a higher level of environmental and social responsibility and action — where profitability intersects with the common good to build thriving organizations and communities. This course provides a foundational understanding of the mutual importance of people, planet, and profit in creating and leading successful, sustainable organizations — referred to as the Triple Bottom Line (TBL) approach. Students will apply their knowledge to analyze and evaluate TBL frameworks, formulate the business case for sustainable approaches to organizational development and growth, and illustrate the benefits and competitive advantages that result from TBL thinking.

Restrictions: none

Instructor: TBA

Delivery: Asynchronous online from August 26, 2024 to October 13, 2024

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 marketing and communication strategies as an essential business component within an organization. Students will develop both an intellectual and hands-on understanding and appreciation of essential marketing and communication concepts, and how those concepts can be applied to the growth, development, and long-term success of an organization. Marketing and communication strategies, models, and tactics will be addressed through the lens of branding, the classic “Four Ps” of marketing (Product, Price, Place (distribution), and Promotion), messaging, integrated marketing communication, and tactical application. 

Restrictions: none

Instructor: TBA

Delivery: Asynchronous online from August 26, 2024 to October 13, 2024

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 provides insights on accounting concepts related to both financial and managerial accounting. Introduction to the study of accounting dealing with the preparation and analysis of the balance sheet, income statement, and related accounting records will also be covered. An extension of traditional managerial accounting to the emerging measurement systems of sustainability accounting is made with investigations of Sustainability Accounting Standards, the Global Reporting Initiative, and best practices in managing and measuring in a triple bottom line context will also be covered.

Restrictions: none

Instructor: TBA

Delivery: Asynchronous online from August 26, 2024 to October 13, 2024

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 is designed to investigate present models of international economics and its relationship to corporations, social ventures, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO’s), and nonprofit organizations around the world. It will also evaluate these systems’ impact on sustainable development and economic influence. Students will learn various models of political economy, ecological and behavioral economics, and the role of world trade and international financial organizations. 

Restrictions: none

Instructor: TBA

Delivery: Asynchronous online from August 26, 2024 to October 13, 2024

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 examines the organization through which social welfare and social services are delivered. Using systems theory perspective, students will develop a more nuanced perspective on the structure and functioning of complex social service organizations. Topics will include the history of social service agencies, adapting to changes in the social environments, how to grow and develop services, and how to navigate socio-political relationships.

Restrictions: none

Instructor: TBA

Delivery: Asynchronous online from August 26, 2024 to October 13, 2024

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.)

Development (also often referred to as “advancement”) is what empowers and supports nonprofits in doing the work of fulfilling their stated missions. If you think of a nonprofit organization’s programs as the essence of what it does for its cause or community, the work of development is that of garnering the resources necessary to make that good work possible. For many (though not all) nonprofits, the key component to resource development is fundraising. This course, therefore, focuses primarily on the fundamentals of fundraising, from preparing a fundraising plan through acknowledging and recognizing donors appropriately for their support.

Restrictions: none

Instructor: TBA
Delivery: Asynchronous online from August 26, 2024 to October 13, 2024
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: TBA

Delivery: Asynchronous online from August 26, 2024 to October 13, 2024

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 the 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: TBC

Delivery: Asynchronous online from August 26, 2024 to October 13, 2024

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.)

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: TBA

Delivery: Asynchronous online from October 21, 2024 to December 8, 2024

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: TBA

Delivery: Asynchronous online from October 21, 2024 to December 8, 2024

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 October 21, 2024 to December 8, 2024

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: TBA

Delivery: Asynchronous online from October 21, 2024 to December 8, 2024

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: TBC

Delivery: Asynchronous online from October 21, 2024 to December 8, 2024

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: TBC

Delivery: Asynchronous online from October 21, 2024 to December 8, 2024

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.)

Among the many types of organizations that exist, what is a nonprofit? Are they an aberration in a capitalist economy or an intentional counterpoint? What impels people to establish them and support them? Is it to fulfill a need in society, or in themselves? And are they worth the effort and resources people put into them? This course will explore all these questions as it surveys the development of the nonprofit sector and examines some of the theories that attempt to explain its existence and purpose in the American social and economic context. 

Restrictions: none

Instructor: TBA

Delivery: Asynchronous online from October 21, 2024 to December 8, 2024

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.)

Law and public policy shape the relationships between business firms and the environment, including the climate. The primary goal of this course is to learn to think critically about (1) the relationship between business and the natural environment including the climate; (2) the existing legal and policy framework of environmental and climate protection, particularly in the U.S. and its effects on what business managers are charged to do; and (3) the potential of business professionals to affect change in that legal and policy environment. The course will provide a grounding in the foundational concepts of sustainability and how those concepts have, and have not been incorporated into business strategy, environmental law, and business policy. As we address different topics in environmental law and sustainability policy, we will examine a series of case studies in which law, policy, and business intersect.

Restrictions: none

Instructor: TBC

Delivery: Asynchronous online from October 21, 2024 to December 8, 2024

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 first course in the Individualized Research Project helps students develop a research proposal. Through this course, students will explore the fundamental components of research, including theoretical frameworks, methodology, methods, research questions, hypotheses, and ethical considerations.

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

Restrictions: Graduate level

Instructor: Michael Maser

Delivery: Asynchronous online, Fall A Session from 8/26/24 – 10/13

Sponsoring Campus: School of Education / Individualized Master of Arts

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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, Fall B Session from 10/21 to 12/8/24

Sponsoring Campus, School of Education / Individualized Master of Arts

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