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This course builds upon the Foundational Theories course by extending learning to postmodern approaches to Marriage and Family Therapy practice. Theoretical foundations of social constructionism and constructivism will be covered, leading into in-depth coverage of postmodern models of Marriage and Family Therapy, such as solution-focused, narrative, and language systems-based approaches. Issues of social justice will be emphasized as a basis for critique of each model.

Restrictions: By permission of the academic department.

Section A Instructor: Krista Parker, MA, LMFT, PhD Candidate

Delivery: Asynchronous online from May 12 to August 22, with additional scheduled online meetings:

Wednesday, 5/21/25 7-9p ET (4-6p PT)

Wednesday, 6/18/25 7-9p ET (4-6p PT)

Wednesday, 7/9/25 7-9p ET (4-6p PT)

Wednesday, 7/23/25 7-9p ET (4-6p PT)

Wednesday, 8/6/25 7-9p ET (4-6p PT)

Wednesday, 8/20/25 7-9p ET (4-6p PT)

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.

Course Description: Culturally responsive strategies to address more common family clinical issues can include (but are not  limited to): family’s adjustment to coming out at any age, mixed orientation or gender identity in  romantic relationships, relational ambiguity, family planning, and parenting transgender children. This course will give students the opportunity to learn more about the experiences of trans, non binary, and gender expansive people within family contexts, this includes trans people as partners,  children, siblings, and extended family members. Using research, theory, and clinical knowledge, we  will focus on how trans, non-binary, and gender expansive people are located within family systems  and broader community contexts. Gender-affirmative therapists will know how to work with couples  and family systems when one or members of the system are trans, non-binary, and/or gender  expansive people. They will also understand how systems of power and oppression impact trans, non binary, and gender expansive family systems.  Please note: There is no residency requirement for this course.

Restrictions: By permission of the academic department.

Instructor: Coltan J. Schoenike, MS, LMFT (WI), LAMFT (MN), PhD Candidate

Delivery: Asynchronous online from May 27 to July 27, with additional scheduled online meetings on:

Friday, 5/30/25: 12PM - 2PM ET (9AM - 11AM PT)

Friday, 6/20/25: 12PM - 2PM ET (9AM - 11AM PT)

Friday, 7/11/25: 12PM - 2PM ET (9AM - 11AM PT)

Friday, 7/25/25: 12PM - 2PM ET (9AM - 11AM PT)

Sponsoring campus: Antioch University New England

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

This course will address grieving as a natural process for both adults and children, explore grief related to trauma, describe chronic grief accompanying on-going loss, and introduce a variety of methods for supporting adaptive and healing processes. The impact of loss on families and communities will also be included. CFT Section Focus: This course will address grief and loss as a natural process that impacts family systems. Various types of loss are discussed from individual, family and sociocultural perspectives. Information will highlight a biopsychosocial-spiritual lens, addressing theoretical frameworks, and systemic treatments and interventions of grief and loss. Attention is focused on life span development and the meaning of death and loss at different ages within families. Coping and resiliency in loss are explored, emphasizing the diversity of human responses and focusing on the significance of social groups in integrating loss.

Restrictions: By permission of the academic department.

Section CFT Instructor: Pia Alexander, MA, LMFT, PhD Candidate

Delivery: Asynchronous online from May 27 to July 27, with additional scheduled online meetings on:

Thursday, 6/5/25: 7PM - 9PM ET (4PM - 6PM PT)

Thursday, 7/10/25: 7PM - 9PM ET (4PM - 6PM PT)

Thursday, 7/24/25: 7PM - 9PM ET (4PM - 6PM PT)

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 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. CFT Section Focus: The course is designed to expand the theoretical foundation courses to explore trauma-informed practice with an emphasis on the importance of expressive therapies, creative arts modalities, mindfulness-based practices and body-mind approaches to trauma integration, resolution and recovery. The readings, assignments and discussions will include a thorough exploration of symptomology, evaluation, and treatment processes that are viewed as essential in working with clients that have experienced trauma. You will review current literature on trauma and experiential treatment in order to understand and practice evidenced-based treatment models.  You will learn to incorporate a strength-based approach, with a focus on integrating multimodal approaches in counseling practice. During the course, you will apply theory to co-construct and implement trauma-informed experiences with the goal of facilitating resilience and supporting positive growth. You will learn to engage their creative processes to support their work with clients and strengthen professional identity and growth.

Restrictions: By permission of the academic department.

Section CFT Instructor: Pia Alexander, MA, LMFT, PhD Candidate

Delivery: Asynchronous online from May 27 to July 27, with additional scheduled online meetings on:

Thursday, 5/29/25: 7PM - 9PM ET (4PM - 6PM PT)

Thursday, 6/12/25: 7PM - 9PM ET (4PM - 6PM PT)

Thursday, 6/26/25: 7PM - 9PM ET (4PM - 6PM PT)

Thursday, 7/17/25: 7PM - 9PM ET (4PM - 6PM PT)

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 is a foundational course in Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, covering the applications of the IFS model and exploring its use in various contexts, including families, couples, trauma, and addiction. Students will develop their understanding and skills for application of IFS principles through readings, discussions, experiential exercises, and reflections.

Restrictions: By permission of the academic department.

Section IFS Instructor(s): Starlin Astacio, PhD, LMFT, AAMFT Approved Supervisor

Delivery: Asynchronous online from June 30 to August 22, with additional scheduled online meetings on:

Friday, 8/15/25: 1 PM–5 PM ET (10 AM–2 PM PT)

Saturday, 8/16/25: 1 PM–5 PM ET (10 AM–2 PM PT)

Sunday, 8/17/25: 12 PM–2 PM ET (9 AM–11 AM PT)

Sponsoring campus: Antioch University New England

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

This course will provide students with a review of the theoretical, historical, and cultural bases for body movement observation and assessment. Students will become familiar with documenting, describing, and communicating body level and relational movement patterns through the use of movement classification frameworks. They will learn approaches to organizing and examining the relationships between and among qualitative and quantitative aspects of movement behaviors in adult populations, as well as evaluating observable movement patterns through developmental, psychological, behavioral, and sociocultural contexts. Ethical standards, issues related to age, gender, ethnicity, culture, language, and disabilities as they pertain to assessment, will be covered, including considering multicultural approaches to evaluation of nonverbal behavior. Students will continue to learn the applications of the Kestenberg Movement Profile (KMP) framework in clinical diagnosis and treatment of adults, for individuals and groups within a developmental psychological context.

Restrictions: By permission of the academic department. CE will seek permission upon student application. Student should have basic KMP knowledge. 

Section LR Instructor: Kara Serasis
Delivery: Asynchronous online from May 27 to July 27, with additional scheduled online meetings on: Wednesday, 6:30-8 pm (ET) 7/23; and residency at Keene State College, Keene, NH on 6/21 (1:30-5p), 6/22-24 (9a-5 p), 6/25 (9a-12p)

Sponsoring campus: Antioch University New England 

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

This course will introduce the student to the evolution of dance/movement therapy theory from its historical roots through current and progressive perspectives. DMT theorists their contributions, and the impact of historical, cultural, social justice, and societal trends on the emergence of the profession will be an ongoing emphasis through both experiential and didactic methods. The course will also build a beginning understanding of the contemporary intersection of dance/movement therapy with body/mind disciplines, psychology, and neuroscience. The relationship of the student as an individual, group member, and future dance/movement therapist to the material of the course will be an ongoing, underlying theme.

Restrictions:  By permission of the academic department. CE will seek permission upon student application. Should have dance/embodied practice. 

Section LR Instructors: Tomoyo Kawano, Candy Lo

Delivery: Asynchronous online from May 27 to July 27, and residency at Keene State College, Keene, NH on 6/21 (1:30-5p), 6/22-24 (9a-5p), 6/25 (9a-12p)  

Sponsoring campus: Antioch University New England

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

This course will introduce students to a range of models for working with couples, with a focus on empirically validated therapies. Students will be introduced to theoretical foundations underlying clinical work with couples as well as research on couple dynamics and power. Students will also have the opportunity to explore current issues in couple therapy.

Restrictions: By permission of the DMT Program director. CE will seek permission upon student application.

Section DMT Instructor: Rhiannon Beauregard

Delivery: Asynchronous online from May 27 to July 27, with additional scheduled online meetings on: Weekly on Wednesdays, 11:30-1:30 ET, except residency week: 5/28, 6/4, 6/11, 6/18, 7/9, 7/16, 7/23, 7/30

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
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.

This course will explore and analyze the historical and philosophical foundations of education, including curricular orientations, contemporary challenges, and reform efforts. Students will become familiar with a range of educational philosophies and will identify and articulate their own philosophy of education. Students will examine curricula as historically situated cultural systems that are influenced by: educational philosophies; social, moral, and political visions; aims for individuals and society; and/or other belief systems. Emphasis is placed on diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice.

Restrictions: none

Instructor: Laura Thomas 

Delivery: Asynchronous online, May 23 - August 2, 2025 

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

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

Instructor: Laura Eldridge      

Delivery: Asynchronous online, May 23 - August 2, 2025

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

As a teacher, teacher educator, or administrator, it is important to develop internal skills (an inner-net) that translate into successful interpersonal skills on the job. Mindful leadership introduces a new approach to leadership development that focuses on the inner world of a leader and "how" a leader works in the moment. Through readings and presentations, this course presents ten core principles and three mindfulness practices that help leaders to directly connect with their inner life and to bring out the best in themselves and others. 

Restrictions: none

Instructor: Kailyn Fullerton

Delivery: Asynchronous online, May 23 - August 2, 2025

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

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. 

All children benefit from outdoor play and learning, and a strong connection to the natural world can help each thrive. Ensuring that every child has opportunity to participate in nature-based programming is crucial work for early childhood educators, and requires thoughtful planning. Children identified as having special education needs may especially benefit from supportive approaches. This course applies the principles of inclusion to outdoor settings, introducing practices and perspectives to help teachers and school leaders provide equitable access to immersive nature-based experiences for diverse groups of young children, including those who work with physical, emotional, social, or learning challenges.  

Restrictions: none

Instructors:  Sue Ford and Laura Eldridge    

Delivery: Asynchronous online, June 14 - August 3, 2025 with additional face-to-face meetings at the AUNE Annex on:

Saturday - Sunday, July 12 - 13, 9:00am - 3:00pm 

and synchronous online meetings on:

Sunday, June 22 and Sunday, July 6, 2025 (times TBD with registered students)

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.

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. 

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

Instructor: Mary Pat Champeau

Delivery: Asynchronous online, May 12 - August 15, 2025

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

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

Restrictions: none

Instructor: Mike Farley (faculty of record is Laura Thomas)

Delivery: Asynchronous online, May 12 - August 15, 2025

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

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

Restrictions: none

Instructor: Cynthia Trapanese    

Delivery: Asynchronous online, May 12 - August 15, 2025

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

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

Instructor: Cynthia Trapanese    

Delivery: Asynchronous online, May 12 - August 15, 2025

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

The decision to have children or not is arguably one of the most important 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 (faculty of record is Laura Thomas)

Delivery: Asynchronous online, May 12 - August 15, 2025

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

This course will 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 is a short travel course for students to immerse in a new environment and experience the biodiversity of the Galapagos Islands, the culture, and the community. Students examine numerous ecosystems and do rapid ecological assessments, creating inventories of plants and animals. Focusing on ecosystem health and sustainability, students learn about cultural, economic, and political issues affecting the ecology of the Galapagos Islands. In addition, we experience environmental sustainability modeled by the local Indigenous cultures and support their work. Students participate in conservation projects, including habitat restoration, organic farming, and marine conservation initiatives. Creating a travel portfolio documenting each experience with videos and articles encourages ecological activism locally and globally. Topics covered on the trip: flora and fauna, ecology, geography, sustainable organic farming, conservation, religion, Indigenous rights, and traditions. 

Restriction: Permission of instructor. Contact instructor Dawn Murray, [email protected] for more information and permission. Students should have a recent background in Environmental Studies.

Section A instructor:  Dawn Murray

Times:  Travel dates: May 13^th – 23^rd

Delivery:  Online informational sessions during Spring semester, trip is In-Person on site. 

Trip fee: Cost estimate is $3,600 per student plus airfare and meals on travel days. Cost includes island food, transport, housing, excursions.

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

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.

This course will provide an overview of the aspects that make an organization operate efficiently and sustainably, within the context of a “triple bottom line” of profit, people, and planet. The course will introduce how to consider an organization as a system that has five primary focuses: supply chains, human resources, financial administration, communication and clients. Students will gain theory in team-building that allows a manager to effectively tap expertise in all aspects of an organization so as to meet social value goals and revenue projections. Skill development in project management is at the heart of the course, with communication and conflict management skills introduced. Project goal and objective setting, benchmarking, and time management will also be practiced.

Section A Instructor: Teresa Deveaux 

Time: May 4^th through June 1^st  

Tuesdays 7:00pm – 8:00pm EST  Synchronous meetings May 6^th, 13^th, 20^th & 27^th

Delivery: ONLINE asynchronous, with synchronous sessions Tuesday evenings

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

This course will introduce foundational scientific theorems that govern sustainability in all complex systems, natural, as well as, human. This will be investigated through lab, field and group processes. This foundational understanding will then have students walk through a process to investigate how such paradigmatic principles apply to any business organizational structure and operation. Specific theorems to be examined will include the law of limits to growth, the second law of thermodynamics, and the law of self-organization, as well as, the drivers of negative and positive feedback to system stability and change. An aspect of complexity will be the treatment of the emergence of system traits as one increases both temporal and spatial scales of inquiry. The students will be asked to consider efficacy of current approaches to organizational sustainability within this context.

Section A: Christa Daniels

Times: May 28^rd   6:00pm – 7:30pm Online

June 21^st    9:00am – 4:00pm

June 22^nd   9:00am – 4:00pm

June 23^rd   8:00am – 5:00pm Field Day

Delivery: In person on AUNE campus in Keene, NH

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

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: Doug Lynch
Delivery: Asynchronous online from May 5, 2025 to June 22, 2005.
Sponsoring campus: Antioch University Distance and Extended Education
Costs: visiting student price $1,228., Try-us-out $1,000. (Only for the first course at AU.)

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

Restrictions: none

Instructor: TBC
Delivery: Asynchronous online from May 5, 2025 to June 22, 2005.
Sponsoring campus: Antioch University Distance and Extended Education

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

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

Restrictions: none

Instructor: Geoffrey VanderPal
Delivery: Asynchronous online from May 5, 2025 to June 22, 2005.
Sponsoring campus: Antioch University Distance and Extended Education

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

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

Restrictions: none

Instructor: Nick Bergan
Delivery: Asynchronous online from May 5, 2025 to June 22, 2005.
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.

Instructor: Tera McIntosh
Delivery: Asynchronous online from May 5, 2025 to June 22, 2005.
Sponsoring campus: Antioch University Distance and Extended Education

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

Development (also often referred to as “advancement”) 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: Tera McIntosh
Delivery: Asynchronous online from May 5, 2025 to June 22, 2005.
Sponsoring campus: Antioch University Distance and Extended Education

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

Human Resource Management deals with a wide range of activities by which organizations (both profit and nonprofit) acquire, maintain, and utilize their workforces.  Adopting the perspective of a general manager, students will examine a number of key human resource “levers” or processes contributing to the development of an effective work system, including investing in people (training and development), measurement and incentives (compensation), and tapping potential employees (recruitment and selection) to better understand the complexities of managing people in organizations.

Restrictions: none

Instructor: 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