Available Classes

This course is designed to be an introduction to and immersion in the Critical Skills Classroom approach. Participants will explore the foundations of the Critical Skills Classroom, the creation and maintenance of the Collaborative Learning Community, and the integration of problem-based learning, experiential learning, collaborative learning, and standards-based learning. Students will develop problem-based experiential challenges, and techniques for feedback reflection, and assessment for use in their own classrooms and/or contexts. Particular attention is given to understanding strategies for developing and maintaining a collaborative learning community; setting and assessing standards for quality work; targeting and assessing critical skills and dispositions within curriculum frameworks. Students will utilize the experiential cycle as a framework for designing problem-based challenges that build community, teach classroom systems, introduce skills and dispositions, address subject area standards, and for guiding and coaching students' production and reflection processes. 

Restrictions: none

Instructors: Danika Tyminski & Allison Robinson

Delivery: Asynchronous online, June 25-August 2, 2025 with synchronous online meetings on:

Wednesday through FridayJune 25-27, 2025 at 12:30-4:30 and

Monday July 21, Wednesday July 23, and Friday July 25,2025 at 12:30-4:30

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

This course is designed to be an introduction to and immersion in the Critical Skills Classroom approach. Participants will explore the foundations of the Critical Skills Classroom, the creation and maintenance of the Collaborative Learning Community, and the integration of problem-based learning, experiential learning, collaborative learning, and standards-based learning. Students will develop problem-based experiential challenges, and techniques for feedback reflection, and assessment for use in their own classrooms and/or contexts. Particular attention is given to understanding strategies for developing and maintaining a collaborative learning community; setting and assessing standards for quality work; targeting and assessing critical skills and dispositions within curriculum frameworks. Students will utilize the experiential cycle as a framework for designing problem-based challenges that build community, teach classroom systems, introduce skills and dispositions, address subject area standards, and for guiding and coaching students' production and reflection processes. 

Restrictions: none

Instructors: Danika Tyminski & Allison Robinson

Delivery: Asynchronous online, June 25-August 2, 2025 with synchronous online meetings on:

Wednesday through FridayJune 25-27, 2025  at 12:30 - 4:30 and

Monday July 21, Wednesday July 23,  and Friday July 25,2025 at 12:30 - 4:30

Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England
2-credit at AUNE

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

This course investigates ways in which children’s nature play can be used to invigorate the writing process. Making forts, hunting and gathering, constructing small worlds, going on adventures, and fantasy play are children’s instinctive ways of being in the natural world and these activities can be used as the basis for curriculum. We’ll use the surrounding neighborhood and hills to reconnect with childhood play. Out of these natural world experiences, each participant will craft a finished piece of writing by the end of the week.

Restrictions: none

Instructors: Paul Bocko

Delivery: Asynchronous online, June 16- July 27, 2025 with additional face-to-face meetings at Glover’s Ledge, Langdon, NH on: 

Monday through Tuesday, July 14 - 15, 9:00-5:00 (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.

When children have access to free play in natural areas, they do the same things, around the country and around the world. They make special places, go on adventures, develop fantasy games, go hunting and gathering, and craft small worlds. These recurrent play patterns can be used as design principles to help structure engaging outdoor activities with children. During our days together, we'll recollect our own favorite childhood experiences and we'll spend time outside exploring some of these recurrent play patterns. We'll discuss the research on the relationship between childhood play in nature and environmental behavior in adults. Then we'll use these experiences to design new approaches to nature programming at schools, nature centers, and environmental programs.

Restrictions: none

Instructor: Aimee Arandia Ostensen

Delivery: Asynchronous online, June 16 - July 28, 2025, with additional face-to-face meetings at AUNE Annex in Keene, NH on:

Wednesday, July 16, 2025, 1:00-5:00 PM (ET) and 

Thursday through Sunday, July 17-  July 20, 2025, 9:00-5:00 (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.

Nature preschools, forest kindergartens and immersive outdoor elementary programs have a unique approach to curriculum, different than conventional indoor early childhood centers. This course will focus on the distinctive elements of outdoor programming for children aged three to eight. Topics will include the value of unstructured play, fostering independence, nature and language development, the balance of indoors and outdoors experience, interfacing with the conventional elementary curriculum in literacy, math and science, and connections to the community.

Restrictions: none

Instructors:  Eliza Minnucci   

Delivery: Asynchronous online, June 30 - July 27, 2025 with additional face-to-face meetings at Glover’s Ledge, Langdon, NH on:

M-F 7/7-7/11/2025, 9:00am-5:00pm

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. 

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.

Restrictions: none

Instructor:  Anne Stires 

Delivery: Asynchronous online, July 6 - July 27, 2025 with additional face-to-face meetings at the AUNE campus on:

Monday - Friday, July 14 - 18, 9:00am - 5:00pm 

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

This course will provide an overview of Waldorf school administration, leadership, and the karmic considerations of group work. The emphasis will be on understanding the various roles in a Waldorf school, including that of the teacher, parent, administrator and board member. A major focus of study will be on the parent-teacher relationship. Learning in this course is intended to support teachers in their non-instructional roles in a Waldorf school.

Restrictions: Instructor permission required

Instructor: Torin Finser

Delivery: Asynchronous online, July 3 - July 15, 2025 with additional synchronous online meetings on:

Tuesday through Thursday, July 1- July 3, 2025, 1:00 - 5:00 pm ET

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.

This course examines the flow of materials and energy through one’s home, business, and community. Students will learn sustainability concepts with regard to materials, energy, and tools that sustainability professionals use to track, manage, and measure the impact and economic costs (or savings) from the flow of materials and energy through any business or organization.

Students will learn the specific quantification and assessment skills to model beneficial changes in standard operating procedures, change in technology and/or change in production inputs that leads to a more sustainable utilization of resources and reduction in pollutants. Specific skills include learning how to map a system’s process flow, quantify inputs and outputs, translate proposed beneficial changes into avoided-cost, how to implement programmatic behavior change strategies for any business, organization, or institution, and reporting platforms the business community uses to communicate and document progress.

Section A Instructor: Peter Cooke

Times: Tuesday and Wednesday, June 24and 25,9:00am – 12:00pm & 1:00pm – 5:00pm
Delivery: In person on AUNE campus in Keene, NHCosts: Regular price $548., Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE) $333. AUNE Alumni: $274., Audit: (no credit) $330.

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: TBC
Delivery: Asynchronous online from June 30, 2025 to August 17, 2025.
Sponsoring campus: Antioch University Distance and Extended Education

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: TBC
Delivery: Asynchronous online from June 30, 2025 to August 17, 2025.
Sponsoring campus: Antioch University Distance and Extended Education

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

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

Restrictions: none

Instructor: Omar Parks
Delivery: Asynchronous online from June 30, 2025 to August 17, 2025.
Sponsoring campus: Antioch University Distance and Extended Education

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

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

Restrictions: none

Instructor: TBC
Delivery: Asynchronous online from June 30, 2025 to August 17, 2025.
Sponsoring campus: Antioch University Distance and Extended Education

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

This course introduces students to the purposes of and strategies for program planning in nonprofit organizations. The primary focus of the class is building the knowledge and skills required of program professionals.  Students explore and examine theories, concepts, approaches, and processes fundamental to program planning and evaluation.  Using research, reflection and practical application, students will explore the development, implementation, and evaluation of programs that aim to effect change and build capacity of individuals, families, and communities.

Restrictions: none

Instructor: TBC
Delivery: Asynchronous online from June 30, 2025 to August 17, 2025.
Sponsoring campus: Antioch University Distance and Extended Education

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

As the environment for nonprofits continues to change, the demand for measured and innovative nonprofit leadership and governance is at a premium. In this course, students explore the unique aspects of nonprofit board governance with a primary focus on roles and responsibilities of the board, executive leadership, staff, and volunteers; how governing boards function; and elements that contribute to the overall organizational effectiveness and mission achievement. 

Restrictions: none

Instructor: TBC
Delivery: Asynchronous online from June 30, 2025 to August 17, 2025.
Sponsoring campus: Antioch University Distance and Extended Education

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

This course 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: TBC
Delivery: Asynchronous online from June 30, 2025 to August 17, 2025.
Sponsoring campus: Antioch University Distance and Extended Education

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

This course examines characteristics of high performing teams, common challenges that prevent teams from realizing their full potential, and selected strategies for overcoming constraints on optimal team performance. Students explicitly explore the evidence-based characteristics, competencies, and practices exemplary leaders embody and employ to mobilize and maintain teams that thrive. Students will consider how team leaders proactively embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion to create a climate of belonging that enhances team performance.

Restrictions: none

Instructor: TBC
Delivery: Asynchronous online from June 30, 2025 to August 17, 2025.
Sponsoring campus: Antioch University Distance and Extended Education

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

This course employs a systems approach to understanding the intersection of business and nongovernmental organizations and the Earth system. The geosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere, and how they are interrelated, are explored with a focus on climate change. Systems thinking emphasizes relationships and interdependencies -- students learn to identify the connections between the planet and an organization by considering whole systems, rather than component parts, and discern systems within systems. Students apply systems thinking and their knowledge of the Earth system to analyze organizations and address sustainability challenges, including resource use, waste management, and climate change.

Restrictions: none

Instructor: TBC
Delivery: Asynchronous online from June 30, 2025 to August 17, 2025.
Sponsoring campus: Antioch University Distance and Extended Education

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

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

1. One premise: Instead of construing teaching as instructing students towards predetermined end points, this course seeks to bring a liberatory and democratic approach to learning situations by valuing the learners' experiences and insights. Rather than conceiving of teaching as explaining and learning as listening, this course looks at situations where teachers listen and learners do the explaining.
2. Another premise: A second premise is that every person can get involved with and enjoy and get good at every subject matter. We will consider the ways in which various subject matters--the materials of the world--can lend their own characteristic structures to learning situations. The course is designed to help educators think about engaging people in various subject matters, in order to help them think about engaging people in their own way. 

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

Restrictions: none

Instructor: Gopal Krishnamurthy Delivery: Asynchronous online from September 7 - December 8, 2025, with additional scheduled meetings on Saturdays  9/13, 9/20, 9/27, 10/4, 10/11, 10/25, 11/1, 11/8, 11/15 11:00am-1:00pm ET
Sponsoring Campus: Antioch University New England
Costs: Regular price: $1,644.00, Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE): $1,000, AUNE Alumni: $822.00, Audit: (no credit) $990.00.

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 7 - December 8, 2025
Sponsoring campus: Antioch University New England
Costs: Regular price: $548.00, Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE): $333.00, AUNE Alumni: $274.00, Audit: (no credit) $330.00.

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 8 - December 8, 2025 with additional online synchronous meetings on: 

Monday, September 8, 2025, 7–8:30 PM ET

Monday,  October 6, 2025, 7–8:30 PM ET

Monday, November 10, 2025, 7–8:30 PM ET

Monday, December 8, 2025, 7–8:30 PM ET

Sponsoring campus: Antioch University New England
Costs: Regular Price: $1,644.00, Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE): $1,000., AUNE Alumni: $822.00, Audit (no credit): $990.00

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 28 - December 13, 2025
Sponsoring campus: Antioch University New England
Costs: Regular Price: $1,644.00, Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE): $1,000, AUNE Alumni: $822.00, Audit (no credit): $990.00

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: Adam Moskowitz

Delivery: Asynchronous online from September 7 - December 8, 2025
Sponsoring campus: Antioch University New England
Costs: Regular Price: $1,644.00, Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE): $1,000, AUNE Alumni: $822.00, Audit (no credit): $990.00

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 that enable them to serve the 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: Erin Tanzer

Delivery: Asynchronous online from September 7 - December 8, 2025
Sponsoring campus: Antioch University New England
Costs: Regular Price: $1,644.00, Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE): $1,000, AUNE Alumni: $822.00, Audit (no credit): $990.00

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: Erin Tanzer

Delivery: Asynchronous online from September 7 - December 8, 2025
Sponsoring campus: Antioch University New England
Costs: Regular Price: $1,644.00, Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE): $1,000, AUNE Alumni: $822.00, Audit (no credit): $990.00

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:  Susan Dreyer Leon  Delivery: Asynchronous online from September 7 - December 8, 2025
Sponsoring campus: Antioch University New England
Costs: Regular Price: $1,644.00, Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE): $1,000, AUNE Alumni: $822.00, Audit (no credit): $990.00

This course provides outdoor-focused art methods for educators who work with young children.  Participants will learn how to facilitate process-oriented art activities, introduce mediums and tools, design outdoor art spaces, and use indoor art experiences to strengthen children’s connection to nature. Child development theory will be integrated with practical strategies for preparing materials, introducing basic techniques, and structuring invitations. Emphasis is placed on sensory exploration, creative process, and engaging children in both individual and collaborative experiences. This course equips educators to foster rich artistic engagement in outdoor learning environments.  

Restrictions: None

Faculty: Charlene Lutz

Delivery: Asynchronous online 10/18/25-11/22/2025, with one synchronous online meeting on: Saturday, November 15, 2025   9:00am-5:00pm ET
Sponsoring campus: Antioch University New England
Costs: Regular price: $548.00, Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE): $333.00, AUNE Alumni: $274.00, Audit: (no credit) $330.00.

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: Anne Stires

Delivery: Asynchronous online from September 29  - December 8,  2025, with face-to-face workshop meetings on:

Saturday, October 11, 2025, 9:00 AM - 5:30 ET

Sunday, October 12, 2025, 9:00 AM - 5:30 ET

Monday, October 13, 2025, 9:00 AM - 5:30 ET

Students who wish to attend the workshop weekend only (Saturday, Oct. 11th- Monday, Oct. 13th) for non-credit can register here.   

Sponsoring campus: Antioch University New England
Costs: Regular Price: $1,644.00, Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE): $1,000., AUNE Alumni: $822.00, Audit (no credit): $990.00.
Non-credit workshop only: $550, register here

Effective nature-based early childhood teachers are knowledgeable about young children and local natural history. This course will focus on learning the natural history of northern New England that most directly relates to being outdoors with 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 20 - October 27, 2025 with face-to-face meetings at AUNE campus on:

Saturday, September 20, 2025, 9:00am- 5:00pm ET

Sunday, September 21, 2025, 9:00am- 5:00pm ET
Sponsoring campus: Antioch University New England
Costs: Regular price: $548.00, Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE): $333.00, AUNE Alumni: $274.00, Audit: (no credit) $330.00.

Effective nature-based early childhood teachers are knowledgeable about young children and local natural history. This course will focus on learning the natural history of northern New England that most directly relates to being outdoors with 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 13 - October 27, 2025

Sponsoring campus: Antioch University New England

Costs: Regular price: $548.00, Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE): $333.00, AUNE Alumni: $274.00, Audit: (no credit) $330.00.

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: Laura Newman

Delivery: Asynchronous online from October 14 -  November 15, 2025, with synchronous online meetings on:

Saturday, October 25, 2025 9:00 AM-5:00 PM ETWednesday, November 5, 2025 3:00 PM-6:00 PM ET
Sponsoring campus: Antioch University New England
Costs: Regular price: $548.00, Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE): $333.00, AUNE Alumni: $274.00, Audit: (no credit) $330.00.

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 8 - December 12, 2025
Sponsoring campus: Antioch University New England

Costs: Regular Price: $1,644.00, Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE): $1,000., AUNE Alumni: $822.00, Audit (no credit): $990.00 

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

Restrictions: None

Instructor: Nandita Bajaj 

Delivery: Asynchronous online, from September 8 - December 12, 2025
Sponsoring campus: Antioch University New England
Costs: Regular Price: $1,644.00, Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE): $1,000., AUNE Alumni: $822.00, Audit (no credit): $990.00

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

Instructor: Mike Farley 

Delivery: Asynchronous online, from September 8 - December 12, 2025
Sponsoring campus: Antioch University New England
Costs: Regular Price: $1,644.00, Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE): $1,000., AUNE Alumni: $822.00, Audit (no credit): $990.00

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 8 - December 12, 2025

Sponsoring campus: Antioch University New England
Costs: Regular Price: $1,644.00, Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE): $1,000., AUNE Alumni: $822.00, Audit (no credit): $990.00

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 8 - December 12, 2025
Sponsoring campus: Antioch University New England
Costs: Regular Price: $1,644.00, Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE): $1,000., AUNE Alumni: $822.00, Audit (no credit): $990.00

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 8 - December 12, 2025
Sponsoring campus: Antioch University New England
Costs: Regular Price: $1,644.00, Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE): $1,000., AUNE Alumni: $822.00, Audit (no credit): $990.00

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 8 - December 12, 2025Sponsoring campus: Antioch University New England
Costs: Regular Price: $1,644.00, Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE): $1,000., AUNE Alumni: $822.00, Audit (no credit): $990.00

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 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

Instructor: Nandita Bajaj

Delivery: Asynchronous online, from September 8 - December 12, 2025
Sponsoring campus: Antioch University New England
Costs: Regular Price: $1,644.00, Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE): $1,000, AUNE Alumni: $822.00, Audit (no credit): $990.00

Environmental change agents face a daunting task—and opportunity--to address climate change in ways that foster dialogue and motivate positive action in our communities and personal lives. This task is particularly daunting in light of the scientific complexity combined with socio-political and cultural contextual issues. Climate change education and communication strategies have come a long way in the past decade, though dissonance and misrepresentations abound while climate impacts unfold across the globe. This course is relevant to anyone working in climate change arenas, including educators, scientists, policymakers, advocates, citizens and community members. Course content explores theory and practice of climate change education and communication in various contexts. We will investigate different aspects of communicating climate change, including psychological and social perceptions, barriers to action, and questions of justice. We will highlight and apply effective programming and communication strategies to engage learners across the lifespan in different contexts (non formal settings, communities, non- profits, classrooms, mass media, etc.). We will also explore questions like: how do we address climate grief among youth and adults? How can we best leverage research in practice to address immediate risks and mitigation yet also move toward long-term adaptation and transformation? How do we foster hope, resilience and coping strategies amid climate impacts? Interactive course design along with guest speakers, case studies and student projects explore the challenges, opportunities, skills and motivations necessary to be effective leaders, educators and communicators of climate change and positive actions at multiple scales—personal, communal, and ecological.

Restrictions: None
Instructor:  Meaghan Guckian
Delivery: In person – On AUNE Campus, Thursdays,  August 28 – December 11;  1:00pm –4:00pm
Costs: Regular Price: $1,644.00, Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE): $1,000., AUNE Alumni: $822.00, Audit (no credit): $990.00

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:  Peter Palmiotto
Delivery: In person – On AUNE Campus, Fridays, Aug 29, – December 12, 2025  1-4pm EST
Costs: Regular Price: $1,644.00, Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE): $1,000., AUNE Alumni: $822.00, Audit (no credit): $990.00

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:  Dawn Murray
Delivery: Online Synchronous, Wednesdays, Sept 3 – December 10, 2025, 1:00 – 4:00pm EST
Costs: Regular Price: $1,644.00, Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE): $1,000., AUNE Alumni: $822.00, Audit (no credit): $990.00

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.

Restrictions: None
Instructor:  Abigail Abrash Walton
Delivery: Online Synchronous, Thursdays, Aug 28 – December 11, 2025, 1:00 – 4:00pm EST
Costs: Regular Price: $1,644.00, Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE): $1,000., AUNE Alumni: $822.00, Audit (no credit): $990.00 

How can digital and social media be used to educate, advocate, bridge social divides, and change environmental policies and behaviors? How are such technologies suitable to these purposes? How can we be inclusive in our use of online communication when the majority of the world’s population has limited or no access to computers? What are appropriate technologies for various instructional needs in an era of globalization? This course covers current issues in educational technology and practical applications of 21st century technological skills essential for environmental leaders and educators in our increasingly digital age. Participants will explore innovative approaches to the use of technology in Environmental Education and Environmental Communication. Students will become familiar with strategies to use technology effectively in various environmental studies contexts. This course will enable participants to:

• Communicate effectively via video and other electronic presentations
• Know what technologies are appropriate for particular situations
• Be able to analyze which communication tactics work best with different audiences
• Have an appreciation for the challenges in reaching those groups and individuals who don't have access to 21st century digital technology and how best to mitigate those challenges
• Understand how to develop an environmental communications plan for an organization or group

Restrictions: None
Instructor:  Meaghan Guckian
Delivery: Online Synchronous, Mondays  September 8 – December 8, 2025,  5-7 pm EST
Costs: Regular Price: $1,096.00, Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE): $666.00., AUNE Alumni: $548.00, Audit (no credit): $660.00

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
Instructor:  Libby McCann
Delivery: In person – On AUNE Campus, Thursdays Aug 28 – December 11, 2025,  8-11am EST
Costs: Regular Price: $1,644.00, Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE): $1,000., AUNE Alumni: $822.00, Audit (no credit): $990.00 

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.

Restrictions: None
Instructor: Abi Abrash Walton
Delivery: Online Synchronous, Saturdays & Sundays 1:00pm – 5:00pm:
Aug 23^rd & 24^th , Sept 20^th & 21^st ,  Oct 18^th &19^th , Nov 15^th &16^th
Costs: Regular Price: $1,644.00, Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE): $1,000., AUNE Alumni: $822.00, Audit (no credit): $990.00 

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 a full-day (including driving) Saturday field trip.

Restrictions: None
Instructor: Mike Akresh
Delivery: In person – On AUNE Campus, Thursdays Aug 28 – December 11, 2025,  8-11am EST.
*Additional note: Thurs Sept 25^th 6:00 am – 12:00 pm EST @ Glover’s Ledge.
Saturday, Oct. 4^th  6:30am-12:30pm EST in the field, location TBD.
Costs: Regular Price: $1,644.00, Try-us-out discount (Only first course at AUNE): $1,000., AUNE Alumni: $822.00, Audit (no credit): $990.00 

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: Ken Baker

Delivery: Asynchronous online from August 25, 2025 to October 12, 2025

Sponsoring campus: Antioch University Distance and Extended Education

Costs: Regular Visiting Student price: $1,228.00, 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: TBD

Delivery:  Asynchronous online from August 25, 2025 to October 12, 2025

Sponsoring campus: Antioch University Distance and Extended Education

Costs: Regular Visiting Student price: $1,228.00, 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: TBD

Delivery:  Asynchronous online from August 25, 2025 to October 12, 2025

Sponsoring campus: Antioch University Distance and Extended Education

Costs: Regular Visiting Student price: $1,228.00, Try-us-out: $1,000. (Only for the first course at AU.)

This course is designed to investigate present models of international economics and their 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: TBD

Delivery:  Asynchronous online from August 25, 2025 to October 12, 2025

Sponsoring campus: Antioch University Distance and Extended Education

Costs: Regular Visiting Student price: $1,228.00, 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: TBD

Delivery:  Asynchronous online from August 25, 2025 to October 12, 2025

Sponsoring campus: Antioch University Distance and Extended Education

Costs: Regular Visiting Student price: $1,228.00, 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: Russel Thornhill

Delivery:  Asynchronous online from August 25, 2025 to October 12, 2025

Sponsoring campus: Antioch University Distance and Extended Education

Costs: Regular Visiting Student price: $1,228.00, 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: TBD

Delivery: Asynchronous online from October 20, 2025 to December 7, 2025

Sponsoring campus: Antioch University Distance and Extended Education

Costs: Regular Visiting Student price: $1,228.00, 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: TBD

Delivery: Asynchronous online from October 20, 2025 to December 7, 2025

Sponsoring campus: Antioch University Distance and Extended Education

Costs: Regular Visiting Student price: $1,228.00, 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: TBD

Delivery: Asynchronous online from October 20, 2025 to December 7, 2025

Sponsoring campus: Antioch University Distance and Extended Education

Costs: Regular Visiting Student price: $1,228.00, 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: TBD

Delivery: Asynchronous online from October 20, 2025 to December 7, 2025

Sponsoring campus: Antioch University Distance and Extended Education

Costs: Regular Visiting Student price: $1,228.00, Try-us-out: $1,000. (Only for the first course at AU.)

This course provides students with a practical understanding of old and new concepts, techniques and theories of nonprofit/human service organization resource development. Students will think creatively about resource generation and learn how to build a story to express organizational need. The course includes a substantive section on the preparation of an effective grant application and exploration of frequent issues like knowing one’s capacity to “get the job done” or creating and implementing outcomes and ensuring realistic expectations and infrastructure for implementation success. The course concludes by highlighting the power in developing non-monetary resources through collaborative partners and building coalitions in order to be more successful systems of financial independence. 

Restrictions: none

Instructor: TBD

Delivery: Asynchronous online from October 20, 2025 to December 7, 2025

Sponsoring campus: Antioch University Distance and Extended Education

Costs: Regular Visiting Student price: $1,228.00, Try-us-out: $1,000. (Only for the first course at AU.)