Available Classes

In the emerging field of positive psychology, the focus is shifting from what is wrong with people to what is right. Helping people identify and use their strengths can help relieve suffering and improve everyday functioning. Through a combination of lecture and hands-on positive psychology exercises participants will learn: the role of positive feelings, assessment of positive experiences, the latest research on happiness and life satisfaction, how to identify and use psychological strengths, the ‘three paths to happiness’, the powerful effects of optimism and how to develop it, and the role of positive psychology in health, families, and work.

Restrictions: By permission of the academic department (CE will seek permission when a student applies.)
Instructor(s): Dr. Melissa Boudreau
Delivery: Antioch University New England Classroom 269
When: Saturday and Sunday, October 1 & 2, 9:00am to 5:00pm (EDT)
Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England
Costs:  Regular price $548, Try-us-out discount (Only for the first course at AUNE) $333.33, AUNE alumni: $274, Audit (not for credit) $330

This course explores the contemporary influences of feminist theories on psychology and clinical practice. Emphasized will be postmodern feminist writings in the areas of feminist psychoanalysis, feminist epistemologies, and feminist practice. Students interested in exploring one approach to diversity conceptualization are encouraged to participate.

Restrictions: By permission of the academic department (CE will seek permission when a student applies.)
Instructor(s): Dr. Susan Hawes
Delivery: Antioch University New England Classroom 231
When: Saturday and Sunday, October 1 & 2, 9:00am to 5:00pm (EDT)
Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England
Costs:  Regular price $548, Try-us-out discount (Only for the first course at AUNE) $333.33, AUNE alumni: $274, Audit (not for credit) $330

This workshop considers the population of current and former sailors, marines, soldiers, and airmen to be a special population with a unique culture that merits understanding in order to care for these individuals competently. We will focus on understanding this culture and how this understanding can inform our work with military personnel with trauma-related mental health issues such as PTSD and military sexual trauma. The problem of suicidality among this population will be discussed. In addition, special emphasis will be on female sailors, marines, soldiers, and airmen and the mental health challenges they face. Therapies addressed in this workshop will include cognitive processing therapy and prolonged exposure.

Restrictions: By permission of the academic department (CE will seek permission when a student applies.)
Instructor(s): Dr. Brian Zuzelo
Delivery: Antioch University New England Classroom 269
When: Saturday and Sunday, November 5 & 6, 9:00am to 5:00pm (EDT)
Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England
Costs:  Regular price $548, Try-us-out discount (Only for the first course at AUNE) $333.33, AUNE alumni: $274, Audit (not for credit) $330

This course will provide an understanding of the structure and dynamics of marriage and other committed relationships, and families affected by addiction. The course will review theoretical perspectives of families and addiction through a systemic lens. Students will explore assessments and interventions through various family therapy approaches including behavioral, structural, strategic, and Bowenian therapy.

Restrictions: CFT Program Director approval (Cont. Ed will seek approval for you.)
Section A: Instructor TBA
Methodology: Online August 30-December 17 plus four synchronous zoom sessions throughout the semester. There is a virtual residency component Fall 2022, September 9/15-9/18- times TBD.
Credits: 3
Sponsoring campus: Antioch University New England
Costs: Regular price $1644
Try-us-out discount (Only for first course at AUNE) $1000
AUNE alumni: $822
Audit (not for credit) $990.

Utilizing gender-affirmative models of clinical practice, students will learn about foundational practices and principles of providing therapy to transgender individuals and their families. We will critically examine the cultural context, including systems of power and privilege, within which these practices have been discovered and constructed. A central focus will also be on self-of-the-therapist, ethical practice, and client advocacy.

Section A Instructor: Kim Sherva

Restrictions: CFT Program Director approval (Cont. Ed will seek permission when one applies.)

Delivery mode: Online Asynchronous

When: August 30- December 17; Additional 3-5 Zoom sessions throughout the semester  dates/times TBD by class. There is no residency for this class.
Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England
Costs:  Regular price $1644
Try-us-out discount (Only for first course at AUNE) $1000
AUNE alumni: $822
Audit (not for credit) $990.

This course introduces and explores a range of creative arts modalities as treatment approaches to clinical mental health counseling specific to the experience of trauma. An in-depth understanding of creative modalities as applied to current clinical practice contexts and populations is provided. There is an emphasis on case conceptualization and the formulation of treatment plans and interventions. Students will engage in experiential education through engagement with a semester-long creative journaling process. Creative Arts Approaches include art therapy, music therapy, dance/movement therapy, drama therapy, play therapy, integrated mind-body treatment and/or others to be determined.

Section A Instructor: Pel Boucher

Restrictions: CFT Program Director approval (Cont. Ed. Will seek approval when one applies.)

Delivery mode: Online Asynchronous

Course runs: August 30- December 17, This course has no residency component.
Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England
Costs:  Regular price $1644
Try-us-out discount (Only for first course at AUNE) $1000
AUNE alumni: $822
Audit (not for credit) $990.

This course focuses on professional orientation and ethical practice in counseling. Students will be introduced to the counseling profession through 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: Heather Warfield ONLA; Heather Warfield ONLB; Jamie Bower ONLC

When: ONLA, online August 29 to December 11 plus required weekly meeting via zoom on Tuesdays from 5:30 – 7:00 pm EST

ONLB, online August 29 to December 11 plus required weekly meeting via zoom on Thursdays from 10:00 – 11:30 am EST

ONLC, fully asynchronous online August 29 to December 11

Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England
Costs:  Regular price $1644
Try-us-out discount (Only for first course at AUNE) $1000
AUNE alumni: $822
Audit (not for credit) $990.

This course provides a critical overview of human development throughout the lifespan. The dominant Eurocentric and global perspectives are explicated with consideration to family and sociocultural contexts. The individual and family life cycles will be viewed as mutually interactive processes that are also affected by such factors as neurobiology, genetics, gender, race, class, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, acculturation, religion, as well as addiction, trauma, resiliency and wellness. The development of the individual through a systems perspective will be traced chronologically through major theoretical approaches and concepts as well as from a counseling lens. Emphasis on intersectionality and a critical analysis of application of theory will be applied and inform how development is viewed ethically when serving diverse groups, including minority and cultural groups.

Restrictions: permission of the department. (Cont. Ed. will seek permission when one applies.)
Instructor: Ali Corey ONLA; Sade Dunn ONLB; Debra Perez ONLC; Shanel Robinson ONLD

When: ONLA, online August 29 to December 11 plus required weekly meeting via zoom on Wednesdays from 10:00 – 11:30 am EST

ONLB, online August 29 to December 11 plus required weekly meeting via zoom on Wednesdays  from 2:00 – 3:30 pm EST

ONLC, online August 29 to December 11 plus required weekly meeting via zoom on Wednesdays  from 7:00 – 8:30 pm EST

ONLD, fully asynchronous online August 29 to December 11

Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England
Costs:  Regular price $1644
Try-us-out discount (Only for first course at AUNE) $1000
AUNE alumni: $822
Audit (not for credit) $990.

This course explores face-to-face and online community-building tools and strategies as well as the facilitation of learning experiences that support all learners, including those with special needs. We will explore the use of technology to allow for new kinds of communities to be formed, including those that connect learners across cultures and connect classrooms to external resources, both digital and human. We will also explore the use of social media in the classroom, what it means to be a digital citizen, and how to help students and teachers use technology safely, responsibly, and respectfully. Online Course.

Restrictions: none

Faculty: Maura Hart

Delivery: Asynchronous online 9/4/22-12/10/22

Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England

Costs:  Regular price $1644, Try-us-out discount (Only for the first course at AUNE) $1000, AUNE alumni: $822, Audit (not for credit) $990

What does it mean to teach and engage our students in our modern world? How might we use principles of STEAM to engage all students? How can we design and implement STEM 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 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. 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 and learning in both face-to-face and virtual environments. Participants will design powerful learning experiences for these classrooms as well as formative and summative assessments. Online Course.

Restrictions: None

Faculty: Jackie Gerstein

Delivery: Asynchronous online 9/4/22-12/10/22

Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England

Costs:  Regular price $1644, Try-us-out discount (Only for the first course at AUNE) $1000, AUNE alumni: $822, Audit (not for credit) $990

Teachers everywhere are being asked to support and teach a wider range of students than they ever have before. As classrooms become more inclusive, questions come up about how to best teach every student the mathematics they need to know. Teachers want all students to achieve to the highest levels and yet, knowing how to do that well can feel elusive.  This class will provide concrete methods and strategies teachers can use in mathematics classrooms; the strategies are manageable for teachers and engaging for students. This course is designed for teachers of Kindergarten through middle school. Campus(es): New England

Restrictions: None

Faculty: Polly Wagner and Jana Marie Sunkle

Delivery: Online, Asynchronous  9/4/22-12/10/22, with additional synchronous online sessions Wednesdays from 6:00-8:00 PM ET:  9/21, 9/28, 10/12, 10/19, 10/26, 11/2, 11/9, 11/16

Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England

Costs:  Regular price $1644, Try-us-out discount (Only for the first course at AUNE) $1000, AUNE alumni: $822, Audit (not for 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 directly connect with their own experience and to wise, compassionate action in the midst of their classrooms and educational contexts.

Restrictions: None

Faculty: Robert Black

Delivery: Asynchronous online 9/4/22-12/10/22

Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England

Costs:  Regular price $1644, Try-us-out discount (Only for the first course at AUNE) $1000, AUNE alumni: $822, Audit (not for credit) $990

This course will focus on a systems-thinking approach to the management (i.e. design and maintenance) of institutional facilities and school-community partnerships. Integrated systems within a school which enable it to function and serve its community will be explored in the context of larger ecological, economic, and social systems. Resource use, energy flow, waste management, and green buildings will be investigated. Applying what they learn to their own organization’s practices, students will formulate a collaborative community partnership to improve sustainable practice and meet desired learning outcomes. Cost-benefit analyses will be applied to facilities management and curriculum coordination. Learning from this course may be integrated with and applied to practica.

Restrictions: None

Faculty: Paul Bocko

Delivery: Asynchronous online 9/4/22-12/10/22

Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England

Costs:  Regular price $1644, Try-us-out discount (Only for the first course at AUNE) $1000, AUNE alumni: $822, Audit (not for 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: Tom Julius

Delivery: Asynchronous online 9/4/22-12/10/22

Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England

Costs:  Regular price $1644, Try-us-out discount (Only for the first course at AUNE) $1000, AUNE alumni: $822, Audit (not for credit) $990

Acting on the belief that everyone is a learner and can learn, teachers will explore theories of child and adult development and current research on brain development and human learning. They will use this information to examine their beliefs about students and learning and to critically reflect on their teaching practice, their work with colleagues, and their own professional growth. The course will specifically explore how cognitive, moral, and self-identity development should guide the organization of classrooms and learning experiences. The course will also explore the intersection of student and adult development in classrooms. Teachers are also on a developmental journey and our own level of self-awareness and our capacity to create learning environments that are emotionally safe, kind, and effective depend in part on understanding ourselves and the relationship between our developmental needs and the needs of the students we serve. This class will also explore this element of the intersection of teacher and student development.

Restrictions: None

Faculty: Susan Dreyer Leon

Delivery: Asynchronous online 9/4/22-12/10/22

Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England

Costs:  Regular price $1644, Try-us-out discount (Only for the first course at AUNE) $1000, AUNE alumni: $822, Audit (not for credit) $990

The Learning Environment as the Third Teacher is a fundamental concept of the Reggio Emilia Approach (REA). It is through the use of the learning environment that children are prompted to explore new materials, problem-solve new situations, and maintain a sense of wonder. Students enrolled in this course are exposed to environments that model this capability and are expected to critique the environment in which they work with young children.

Restrictions: Instructor permission required

Faculty: Beth Poronsky

Delivery: Asynchronous online, 10/23/22- 12/17/22

Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England

Costs:  Regular price $1644, Try-us-out discount (Only for the first course at AUNE) $1000, AUNE alumni: $822, Audit (not for credit) $990

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 10/1-12/8/22, with face-to-face meetings on AUNE campus and regional locations. S-MU 10/15-10/17/2022, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM ET

Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England

Costs:  Regular price $1644, Try-us-out discount (Only for the first course at AUNE) $1000, AUNE alumni: $822, Audit (not for credit) $990

Children enjoy learning that is challenging and adventurous, where they can reach beyond their abilities and test themselves. Nature readily provides such experiences. Being outdoors with children in all kinds of weather requires another level of risk management beyond fire drills and correct hand washing instructions, and teachers must prepare to provide it. Topics that will be considered in this course include hazard identification, appropriate planning for risk, what kinds of risky play to allow and which to discourage, and research on the relationship between nature play and overall health and development. The course will include opportunities to observe a nature-based early childhood program in action.

Restrictions: None

Faculty: Anne Stires

Delivery:  Online 10/23/22-12/20/22,  Asynchronous online with additional synchronous online sessions: Tuesdays, 6:30-8:00 PM ET: 10/25, 11/8, 11/22, 12/6/22

Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England

Costs:  Regular price $1,096, Try-us-out discount (Only for the first course at AUNE) $666.66, AUNE alumni: $548, Audit (not for credit) $660

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 9/17-10/24/22, with face-to-face meetings on AUNE campus: 9/17- 9/18/22, 9:00am- 5:00pm ET

Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England

Costs:  Regular price $548, Try-us-out discount (Only for the first course at AUNE) $333.33, AUNE alumni: $274, Audit (not for 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 for 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 9/10-10/24/22

Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England

Costs:  Regular price $548, Try-us-out discount (Only for the first course at AUNE) $333.33, AUNE alumni: $274, Audit (not for 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 a teacher.

Restrictions: None

Faculty: Nancy Striniste

Delivery: Online 10/1-10/17/22 Asynchronous, with synchronous online meetings S- SU 10/15-10/16/22, 9:00 AM-5:00 PM ET, and M 10/17, 2:00-5:00 PM ET

Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England

Costs:  Regular price $548, Try-us-out discount (Only for the first course at AUNE) $333.33, AUNE alumni: $274, Audit (not for credit) $330

Drawing on children’s natural fascination with the world around them and their desire to make the world right, place-based education in the school setting offers an opportunity to develop a classroom into a living center of materials-based, community-related, cooperative learning, while fostering in children the attitudes, understandings, and skills of environmentally literate citizens. This course will explore the potential roles of place-based education in an integrated curriculum examining both environmental education content areas and teaching strategies for the elementary years. Additional course focus will include approaches to dealing with environmental issues, both in the classroom as a school community; strategies for taking full advantage of a school’s outdoor site; and techniques for promoting a working interrelationship with the community.

Restrictions: None

Faculty: Paul Bocko

Delivery: Asynchronous online 8/28/22-12/17/22, with face-to-face meetings on AUNE campus: Fridays  9/9, 10/7, 11/4, 12/2  from 2:30-5 pm ET plus synchronous online meetings: Fridays 9/30, 10/28, 11/11 4:00-5:30 pm ET

Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England

Costs:  Regular price $1,096, Try-us-out discount (Only for the first course at AUNE) $666.66, AUNE alumni: $548, Audit (not for credit) $660

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 10/22/22-12/17/22, with synchronous online meetings  S-SU 11/12 – 11/13/22, 9:00 am-5:00 pm ET.

Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England

Costs:  Regular price $548, Try-us-out discount (Only for the first course at AUNE) $333.33, AUNE alumni: $274, Audit (not for 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 9/12/22-12/16/22

Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England

Costs:  Regular price $1644, Try-us-out discount (Only for the first course at AUNE) $1000, AUNE alumni: $822, Audit (not for 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: Mike Farley

Delivery: Asynchronous online 9/12/22-12/16/22

Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England

Costs:  Regular price $1644, Try-us-out discount (Only for the first course at AUNE) $1000, AUNE alumni: $822, Audit (not for 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 9/12/22-12/16/22

Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England

Costs:  Regular price $1644, Try-us-out discount (Only for the first course at AUNE) $1000, AUNE alumni: $822, Audit (not for 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: Nandita Bajaj

Delivery: Asynchronous online 9/12/22-12/16/22

Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England

Costs:  Regular price $1644, Try-us-out discount (Only for the first course at AUNE) $1000, AUNE alumni: $822, Audit (not for 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 9/12/22-12/16/22

Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England

Costs:  Regular price $1644, Try-us-out discount (Only for the first course at AUNE) $1000, AUNE alumni: $822, Audit (not for credit) $990.

Building a Solutionary Practice is an exploration of information, tools, strategies, and skills necessary to reflect on the nature of knowledge and its power to affect positive change. This course helps students become confident researchers and presenters of information, two skills at the heart of being an effective humane educator. It also offers students an opportunity to deeply research and explore a problem of interest to them, then craft an article or essay weaving together strategies drawn from evidence-based optimism, elements of effective thinking, and appreciative inquiry that presents the problem and proposes a solution.

Restrictions: None

Faculty: Kristine Tucker

Delivery: Asynchronous online 9/12/22-12/16/22

Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England

Costs:  Regular price $1644, Try-us-out discount (Only for the first course at AUNE) $1000, AUNE alumni: $822, Audit (not for 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 9/12/22-12/16/22

Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England

Costs:  Regular price $1644, Try-us-out discount (Only for the first course at AUNE) $1000, AUNE alumni: $822, Audit (not for 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 9/12/22-12/16/22

Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England

Costs:  Regular price $1644, Try-us-out discount (Only for the first course at AUNE) $1000, AUNE alumni: $822, Audit (not for 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 9/12/22-12/16/22

Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England

Costs:  Regular price $1644, Try-us-out discount (Only for the first course at AUNE) $1000, AUNE alumni: $822, Audit (not for 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.

Restrictions: None

Faculty: Kristine Tucker

Delivery: Asynchronous online 9/12/22-12/16/22

Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England

Costs:  Regular price $1644, Try-us-out discount (Only for the first course at AUNE) $1000, AUNE alumni: $822, Audit (not for 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? The 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

Faculty: Nandita Bajaj

Delivery: Online 9/12/22-12/16/22, Asynchronous

Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England

Costs:  Regular price $1644, Try-us-out discount (Only for the first course at AUNE) $1000, AUNE alumni: $822, Audit (not for 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.

Section B: Liz Willey and Dawn Murray
Times: Wednesdays, Aug 31 – Dec 14, 8:00pm – 9:00pm EST
Credits: 3
Delivery Method: Online Asynchronous, Wed evenings Online – Synchronous
Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England
Costs: Regular price $1644
Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE) $1000.
AUNE Alumni: $822
Audit: $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 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.

Section A: Christa Daniels
Offered November 6 – December 10
Credits: 1
Delivery Method: Online Asynchronous
Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England
Costs: Regular price $548
Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE) $333.
AUNE Alumni: $274.
Audit: $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.

Section A: Christa Daniels, October 2 through October 29
Credits: 1
Delivery Method: Online Asynchronous
Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England
Costs: regular price $548
Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE) $333.
AUNE Alum: $274.
Audit $330.

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.

Section A: Rachel Thiet
Thursdays, Sept 1– December 15, 8:00am – 11:00am EST
Delivery Method: In-person – On campus

Section B: TBA
Tuesday evenings, Aug 30 – December 13, 6:00pm – 9:00pm EST
Delivery Method: Online Synchronous

Credits: 3
Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England
Costs: Visiting student, $1644
Try-us-out (Only first courses at AUNE) $1000.
AUNE Alum: $822
Audit $990

This course employs a systems approach to understanding earth’s physical and biological environment by examining the large-scale components and processes of the earth system.  Understanding the interaction of these elements and their natural variability in space and time is critical for assessing the rates, drivers, and consequences of environmental change.  Content will emphasize climate change dynamics, biogeochemical cycles, and land use patterns and their feedback relationships with the atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, pedosphere and biosphere.

Restricted to ES students; others by permission. (Continuing Ed. Will seek permission upon students application.)

Section A: Jim Jordan
Fridays, August 28 – December 11, 8:00am – 11:00am EST

Section B: Jim Jordan
Fridays, August 28 – December 11, 1:00pm – 4:00pm EST

Credits: 3
Delivery Method: In-person – On Antioch University New England campus
Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England
Costs: Regular price $1644
Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE) $1000.
AUNE Alum: $822
Audit $990

This course will support, and build on, the 1 credit Summer intensive Earth Systems and Climate Change course. It will examine the linked interactions between and among the geologic, atmospheric, hydrologic (marine and terrestrial), and pedologic global-to regional- to local dynamics of environmental change, through a student-based focus on global and local bioregionalism.

Section A: Dawn Murray
Times: September 12 – December 4
*Optional Wednesday Zoom sessions 6pm – 7pm EST
Credits: 2
Delivery Method: Online Asynchronous, Optional Wednesday sessions Online Synchronous
Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England
Cost: regular price $1096
Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE) $666
Audit $660
AUNE Alumni $548

This course is a general introduction to the theories and practice of sustainable development the world, with a special focus on developing countries. It starts out with a brief review of the different concepts and meanings of development, with a special focus on sustainable development. Development has been a contested concept and has had its share of controversies. The fact that poverty and inequality in many poor countries has not reduced significantly, in spite of significant international effort, has posed both conceptual and practical problems. The recent focus on sustainable development has been a result of alarming environmental and climate degradation, but also because of a conscious effort in advocating and campaigning for this issue throughout the world. But there are its critiques too. This course will attempt to cover this debate from different angles, and look at some good and not so good practices from around the world. It will end with a capstone project of the students that will help put their learnings into action.

Instructor: Abi Abrash Walton
Times: Mon-Fri, Nov. 7-11 7pm-9pm EST
Sat, November 12 9am-1pm EST
Mon-Fri, November 14 -18 7pm-9pm EST
Sat, November 19 9am-1pm EST
Mon, November 21 7pm-9pm EST
Credits: 3 credits
Delivery Method: Online Synchronous
Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England
Costs: Regular price, $1644
Try-us-out discount (Only first courses at AUNE) $1000.
AUNE Alumni discount: $822
Audit: (not for credit) $990

Competency Area: ASJS-Required; CB, Cert, EE, SDCC, SDS – Methods; RMA – Elective
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 citizen’s, 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.

Section A: Abigail Abrash Walton
Times: Thursdays, Sept 1 – December 15, 1:00pm – 4:00pm EST
Maximum: 16
Credits: 3
Delivery Method: Online Synchronous
Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England
Costs: regular price, $1644
Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE) $1000.
AUNE Alumni discount: $822
Audit (not for credit) $990

The denial of scientific evidence represents an increasingly serious problem. False information and conspiracy theories about climate change have confused the public and stalled support for mitigation policies, obfuscated peoples’ recognition of the biodiversity crisis and contributed to the success of far-right populist campaigns like Brexit. But why do people believe in conspiracy theories and/or anchor to misinformed beliefs even in the face of mounting scientific evidence to the contrary? What makes a person spread information that may have little basis in scientific fact or reason? This course examines the psychological factors (e.g., personality traits, cognitive biases) that make people vulnerable to misinformation and conspiracy theories. The course integrates psychological, political, and communications research to interrogate the causes, consequences, and tenacity of environmental misinformation and conspiracy theories (e.g., chemtrails, climate change, extinction denialism, renewable energies, etc.) and the strategies we can employ to combat it. We will examine how individuals’ susceptibility to information has been exploited, in part, by the media, political elites, and flawed information environments. Furthermore, we will assess the history and role of false information and misleading narratives in supporting the maintenance of structural inequality and power. The goal of this course is not to teach you what to think. Rather, the goal of this course is to teach you how to think about environmental/scientific information and the way it is (mis)represented.

Section A: Meaghan Guckian
Times: Tuesdays, September 6 – December 13, 5:00pm – 7:00pm EST
Credits: 2
Delivery Method: Online Synchronous
Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England
Cost: regular price $1096
Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE) $666
AUNE Alumni: $548
Audit (not for credit): $660

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.

Section A: Libby McCann
Thursdays, September 1 – December 15, 8:00am – 11:00am EST
Delivery Method: In person – On campus,
Section C: Instructor TBA
Thursday evenings, Sept 1 – December 15, 6:00pm – 9:00pm EST
Delivery Method: Online Synchronous

Credits: 3
Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England
Costs: Regular price, $1644
Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE) $1000.
AUNE Alumni: $822
Audit (not for 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 will be instrumental in class instruction.

Section A: Fash Farashahi
Time: Section A: Thursdays, August Sept 1 – December 15, 5:00 – 8:00 pm EST
Credits: 3
Delivery Method: Hybrid (Online/F2F)
Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England
Costs: Regular price, $1644
Try-us-out discount (First courses at AUNE only) $1000.
AUNE Alumni: $822
Audit (not for credit) $990

Indigenous Knowledge is the traditional knowledge of Indigenous peoples, a coherent knowledge system that, through cultural traditions and practices, fully integrates the arts and sciences with practical knowledge of conservation, agriculture, medicine, education, and other components of daily life. This course is not about the Indigenous knowledge of any specific people because that knowledge is passed down traditionally as intergenerational knowledge, but focuses on the interface between Euro-American knowledge systems and Indigenous knowledge systems (IKS). It is designed for students who are interested in learning about cross-cultural theories of knowledge and practice and serving in cross-cultural contexts in areas such as education, conservation, agriculture, and environmental sustainability. We will examine literature on the historical, cultural, and philosophical origins of IKS, indigenous education and research. We will also explore practical guidelines for learning about another culture, respecting intellectual property rights, and developing ethical protocol for working with Indigenous peoples.

Section A: Jean Kayira
Times: Thursdays September 1 – December 15; 1:00pm – 4:00pm EST
Credits: 3
Delivery Method: In person – On Antioch University New England campus, Limited online access with instructor permission
Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England
Costs: Regular price, $1644
Try-us-out discount (First courses at AUNE only) $1000.
AUNE Alumni: $822
Audit (not for credit) $990

What comes to mind when you think of a map? In a purely functionalist sense, a map is a conventional picture of the Earth’s pattern as seen from above. However, maps are more than representations. They can be tools for government (e.g. geopolitics) or a means for people who want to change the way we think about the world (eg. counter-mapping). Consequently, the ability to produce comprehensible and meaningful maps that include spatial, political, and socio-economic data is an increasingly important skill in a variety of fields from governance to social networking and advocacy.
This course will offer a comprehensive introduction to both the technical and the practical aspects of map-making, from using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to produce maps to Community-Based approaches for populating them. It will train students to think critically and creatively about visually representing our world through maps by exploring topics on spatial datasets, cartography, collaborative mapping, and basic GIS software, and learning how these skills can be leveraged to conduct effective Participatory GIS projects

Instructor(s): Steven Lamonde
Times: Tuesdays, Sept 6th, 20th, 27th & Oct 4th, 18th 5:00pm – 7:00pm EST
Credits: 1 credit
Delivery Method: Online Synchronous
Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England
Costs: regular price $548
Try-us-out discount (First course at AUNE only) $333.
AUNE Alumni: $274.
Audit (not for 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: Jason Rhoades
Fridays, August 28 – December 11, 8:00 – 11:00 am EST
Delivery Method: In person – On campus

Section B: Abi Abrash Walton
Saturdays Sept 24, Oct 22, Nov 12, Dec 3 1:00pm – 5:00pm EST
Sundays Sept 25, Oct 23, Nov 13, Dec 4 1:00pm – 5:00pm EST
Delivery Method: Online Synchronous
Credits: 3
Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England
Costs: Regular price, $1644
Try-us-out discount (First courses at AUNE only) $1000.
AUNE Alumni: $822
Audit (not for credit) $990

Section A: Jason Rhoades
Fridays, August 28 – December 11, 8:00 – 11:00 am EST
Delivery Method: In person – On campus

Section B: Abi Abrash Walton
Saturdays Sept 24, Oct 22, Nov 12, Dec 3 1:00pm – 5:00pm EST
Sundays Sept 25, Oct 23, Nov 13, Dec 4 1:00pm – 5:00pm EST
Delivery Method: Online Synchronous
Credits: 3
Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England
Costs: Regular price, $1644
Try-us-out discount (First courses at AUNE only) $1000.
AUNE Alumni: $822
Audit (not for 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.

Section A: Peter Cooke
When: Sat & Sun, October 1-2, 9:00am – 12:00pm EST
Monday, October 3, 6:30 – 8:30pm EST
Sat & Sun, October 15 – 16, 9:00am-12:00pm EST
Monday, October 24, 6:30 – 8:30pm EST
Credits: 1
Delivery Method: Online Synchronous
Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England
Costs: regular price $548
Try-us-out discount (First course at AUNE only) $333.
AUNE Alumni: $274.
Audit (not for credit) $330.

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.
Section A: Michael Simpson
Times: Monday, September 12, 6:30pm – 8:30pm EST
Sat & Sun, September 17 – 18, 9:00am-12:00pm EST
Monday, September 19, 6:30pm – 8:30pm EST
Sat & Sun, September 24 – 25,, 9:00am – 12:00pm EST
Credits: 1
Delivery Method: Online Synchronous
Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England
Costs: regular price $548
Try-us-out discount (First course at AUNE only) $333.
AUNE Alumni: $274.
Audit (not for credit) $330.

The United Nations Secretary-General called the 6th IPCC report “an ear-splitting wake-up call to the world. It confirms that climate change is running faster than we are – and we are running out of time” (United Nations Secretary General, 2018). But how do individuals take action beyond reducing their own carbon footprint? How can we advocate for the policies that will help solve this global crisis? While there is growing awareness in the U.S. Congress that action must be taken, federal legislators have little incentive to act unless there is focused engagement by constituents. This course will provide participants with step-by-step skills in utilizing the tools of democracy to take meaningful civic action on climate change. Participants will learn the levers for building political will and the essentials of climate change communication. You will apply your learning by taking action in collaboration with a local environmental organization, and further your learning with your peers via Antioch’s online learning platform and optional one-on-one meetings with the instructor.

Section A: Abi Abrash Walton

Times: September 6 – November 29   Tuesdays 12:00pm – 1:15pm EST

Credits: 1

Delivery Method: Online Synchronous

Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England

Costs: regular price $548

Try-us-out discount (First course at AUNE only) $333.

AUNE Alumni: $274.

Audit (not for credit) $330.

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. In conjunction with these practical applications, this course will explore such topics as: evaluation purposes, using logic models to inform evaluation strategies, design considerations, data sources and collection, limitations and sources of bias in evaluation, data analysis, interpretation and use of evaluative findings. Having such expertise sets the stage for success by enhancing course participants’ ability to make informed evaluative decisions in a variety of contexts.
Section A: Libby McCann
Time: Fridays, September 2 – December 16, 1:00 – 4:00 pm EST
Credits: 3
Delivery Method: In person – On Antioch University New England campus
Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England
Costs: Regular price, $1644
Try-us-out discount (First courses at AUNE only) $1000.
AUNE Alumni: $822
Audit (not for 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.

Section A: Peter Palmiotto

Time: Fridays, September 2 – December 16, 1:00pm – 4:00pm EST

Maximum: 16

Credits: 3

Delivery Method: In person – On Antioch University New England campus

Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England

Costs: Regular price, $1644

Try-us-out discount (First courses at AUNE only) $1000.

AUNE Alumni: $822

Audit (not for credit) $990

This course will focus on gaining competency in the three phases of the grants process: planning, research, and writing. Students will research and explore public and private funding sources appropriate to the human services and environmental fields. The criteria for selecting potential funding sources, the basic elements of a proposal, and developing successful collaborative efforts will be emphasized. Students will interactively engage in each phase of the process and will demonstrate their learning through the development of a funding proposal that is relevant to their area of concentration or research. Effective project management tools and skills (such as tracking personnel, budget spread sheets, use of Gantt charts, etc.) will be discussed and explored through case studies and classroom applications. *Additional contact hours will be met through on-line readings, discussions and assignments.
Section A: Julia Gibson
Time: September 10-11, October 8-9, November 4-5, December 9-10
Saturdays, 1:00pm – 5:00pm EST
Sundays, 8:00am – 12:00pm EST
Maximum: 16
Credits: 3
Delivery Method: In person – On Antioch University New England campus
Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England
Costs: Regular price, $1644
Try-us-out discount (First courses at AUNE only) $1000.
AUNE Alumni: $822
Audit (not for credit) $990

Amphibians and reptiles are among the most vulnerable taxa on earth, and 41% of amphibians and 21% of reptiles are considered threatened by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Throughout the northeastern states, many species of amphibians and reptiles are of conservation concern, and they are the focus of both broad-scale and local conservation efforts. In this course, we will review the ecology, phylogeny, morphology, biogeography, and habitat and spatial needs of amphibians and reptiles and learn and implement methods used to study these animals in the field. We will use this information to investigate threats facing amphibians and reptiles in the Northeast, evaluate conservation and monitoring efforts currently underway, and investigate the potential for amphibians and reptiles to direct landscape-scale conservation.
Section A: Liz Willey
Time: Thursdays, September 1 –December 15, 1:00pm – 4:00pm EST
(Plus 2 Saturdays in Sept. TBD 8:00am – 3:00pm EST)
Credits: 3
Delivery Method: In person – On Antioch University New England campus
Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England
Costs: Regular price, $1644
Try-us-out discount (First courses at AUNE only) $1000.
AUNE Alumni: $822
Audit (not for credit) $990

If your professional trajectory is to work with any landscape-scale oriented organization, such as a watershed, river or lake association, a regional planning agency, state or federal governmental organizations focused on water resources, or NGOs, such as Trout Unlimited or Clean Water Action, this is a necessary course to secure the job and effectively ensure watershed scale decisions maintain and restore the ecosystem services upon which society depends.
You will be provided with specific skills to determine the impacts to the health of a watershed from land use decisions and natural resource utilization. Students will master rapid field assessment procedures that are used as the first step in a response strategy that narrows the focus in order to conduct more in-depth, targeted analysis. These field techniques will be complemented by developing computer-based skills in modeling water related impacts resulting from potential changes in a watershed’s land use. Students will become familiar with mitigation approaches to avoid water resource degradation, including the use of green infrastructure, state-of the art water conservation approaches, implementation of low impact development design and restoration of natural ecosystem services on the landscape.
Section A: Michael Simpson
Time: Thursdays, September 1 – December 10, 1:00pm – 4:00pm EST
Plus Saturday/Sunday, Aug 28 -29, 9:00am-1:00pm EST, and Saturday, Sept 17,, 9:00am-3:00pm EST
Credits: 3
Delivery Method: In person – On Antioch University New England campus
Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England
Costs: Regular price, $1644
Try-us-out discount (First courses at AUNE only) $1000.
AUNE Alumni: $822
Audit (not for credit) $990

Enhancing your leadership identity takes strategy and cultivation. This course provides opportunities to develop your change-making skills, resiliency strategies, and civic knowledge through skill development and theoretical understanding of various modes of social change.

Restrictions: None
Start date: 09/12/2022 for seven weeks.
Sponsored by: Antioch University Online
Delivery mode: Online (Asynchronous)
Instructor: Anissa Stewart, Ph.D.
Cost: $1200

Register for this Antioch University Online course