Focus: Individualized Studies
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Laurel Tien
Laurel Tien’s PhD dissertation, in the Transformative Studies program at California Institute of Integral Studies, was focused on privileging emergence and relational learning as generative collective wisdom. Her teaching and research over the past fifteen years has focused on experiential, holistic, integral, and transformational approaches to education/wellness. Laurel earned a Master of Arts in SelfDesign…
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Master of Business Administration, Self‑Designed
Our Self-Designed MBA enables you to create a customized concentration that’s exactly right for you. Designed to maximize flexibility to best support your unique interests and educational goals, the concentration invites you to select any three courses from any of the other concentrations.
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EdD in Educational & Professional Practice, Self-Designed
The Doctor of Education in Educational and Professional Practice is intended for professionals who use educational practices in the service of social, economic and environmental justice, in schools and beyond.
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Individualized Studies
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Nathan Singer, PhD
Nathan Singer is a novelist, playwright, composer, and experimental performing artist. He is also the lead vocalist and guitarist for award-winning “ultra-blues” band The Whiskey Shambles. His published novels are the controversial and critically-acclaimed A Prayer for Dawn, Chasing the Wolf, In the Light of You, The Song in the Squall, Transorbital, and Blackchurch Furnace.…
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Gregory K. Belliveau, MFA
“I write on the board: WHY DO THE ARTS MATTER? I then draw a sweeping story arc right next to that with the written words at the bottom: YOU ARE BORN. I then proceed to have the students fill in the arc with the various plot points as we progress further along…” [Until we rewrite…